Any success with Syrian immigration to Canada begins with ensuring that the new arrivals are either homosexuals, orphans with relatives in Canada or families. 
While these qualifications well reported at the time that the Canada-is-Back program began, it's never mentioned now. 
Today the contrast between Syrian immigration in Canada and the chaos of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people in Europe focuses on virtue and goodness and never deals with the stark difference in requirements for immigration. 
It's quite probably the major difference yet it's never mentioned.