Tucked away at the back of the article is a big piece of wisdom the Trudeau government ignored in its rush to fulfill a political promise to bring in 25.000 Syrian refugees:

"it’s not as simple as announcing a resettlement target and buying those individuals plane tickets to Canada. He emphasized the need to ensure services are in place to successfully resettle refugees, including affordable housing, medical care and language training."

We had refugees stuck in hotels for months, refugees who could not access language training, women who did not have child care so that they could also access language training, etc. Especially for government-sponsored refugees, there are no advocates or friends who can ease the new arrivals into a very different world.