I'm a little disappointed that the 25,000 actually includes 10,000 being privately sponsored. I was under the assumption that the government figure of 25,000 was over and above what private sponsors were doing.
A little basic number crunching, we've been told that to privately sponsor a family of 4 for the year would be about $25,000 (obviously will vary based on where they get settled). So take that 10,000 figure and just assume it's all families of 4. That's 2500 families times $25,000 for the year (that private groups must have in a trust for them) and you get $62,500,000.
That's pretty damn impressive coming from ordinary Canadian citizens. Makes me proud.
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