Farmer who lost everything in Syrian war looks to set new roots in NL

I would assume you've already "cross referenced" this, haven't you? Since, after all, you said the stats were damning. That must mean you know the stats.

Tell me how the average IQ of a nation translates into how "refuges get stuck in at the bottom and they generally never get out".

You made a concrete claim. What percentage of refugees are "stuck at the bottom"?

I see what you're getting at, I really do. But you made the claim, I didn't. I asked you to back up the claim. If you can't point right to the data or connect the dots yourself, all that tells me is that you made the claim without knowing the data, without having a source. A baseless claim.

Let me help you out, so next time you decide to comment on something like this you at least have a general idea what the "damning stats" have to say.

*"The IRCC document — made public through an access to information request and shared with the Sun — states that Canada welcomed 46,321 refugees in 2016. This represents a 136% increase over the previous year.

The document includes a November 2016 impact evaluation of the Syrian refugee settlement program, based on a sample of recently-arrived Syrian refugees.

The survey found that 53% of privately sponsored Syrian refugees had been able to find work in Canada, compared to just 10% of government sponsored refugees."*

(http://www.torontosun.com/2017/06/11/privately-sponsored-syrian-refugees-more-likely-to-find-work-document)

Like I said before, it's too early to say much in certainty about how these refugees will fare in the long term. They pretty much just got here. But that is the result of an impact study done on the matter that suggests they are struggling with language and transfering their credentials, but at the very least over half of the privately sponsored refugees are finding work.

Obviously the federally sponsored crowd isn't doing as well.

There you go. The next claim you make, instead of being unfounded and presumptuous, can be that "half of the 2016 refugees aren't even working yet". THAT is a claim that you can back up with the results of this study.

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