RichMole:
In your partisan and optimistic perspective on the Syrian refugees, you miss the troubling point of a country where government imposed taxation and central bank fueled house price inflation work fiercely against natural population increase.  It it persists, that dynamic will affect the Syrian refugees in "years to come."  So, what then?  Another round of mass immigration via refugees from another war into which Canada sold weapons, and taxpayer funded resettlement programs that, by your own account, will have positive impact on only some of the refugees?