Canada is set to unveil plans to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year - but the offer could be limited to women, children and families, it has been claimed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is due to announce his plan today and says all ten of Canada's provincial premiers support the numbers he is suggesting.

Details of exactly how the refugees will be brought over and where they will be housed are expected to be announced Tuesday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (pictured with students at a school in Ottawa) is due to announce his plan today and says all 10 of Canada's provincial premiers support the numbers he is suggesting

There are claims unaccompanied male refugees will not be part of the program amid ongoing concerns over security and that the intake will only include women, children and families

But CBC News says it has learned that unaccompanied male refugees will not be part of the program amid ongoing concerns over security and that the intake will only include women, children and families.

The Globe and Mail says plane loads of refugees will start landing in Canada as early as next week with as many as a thousand a day arriving in Toronto and Montreal over the next few weeks.

Trudeau hasn't backed down from a pledge to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by December 31 despite pushback by some following the deadly attacks in Paris.

'Everyone agrees that Canada must do more and must welcome 25,000 refugees,' Trudeau said after meeting with provincial leaders late Monday.

Tuesday's announcement is sure to raise alarm in the U.S. where many Republican governors have said they don't want any Syrian refugees.

Trudeau said robust security screening continues to be a high priority.

Quebec Premier Phillipe Couillard said accepting refugees and immigrants is part of Canadian tradition.

Trudeau (pictured with Barack Obama) hasn't backed down from a pledge to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by December 31 despite pushback by some following the deadly attacks in Paris

'There was no one sitting at the table that is not interested in seeing refugees come,' Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said.

Immigration Minister John McCallum said he spoke to Canada's big city mayors about how they can help resettle the refugees.

Canada has long prided itself on opening its doors wider than any nation to asylum seekers.

In times of crisis in decades past, Canada resettled refugees quickly and in large numbers. It airlifted more than 5,000 people from Kosovo in the late 1990s, more than 5,000 from Uganda in 1972 and resettled 60,000 Vietnamese in 1979-80. More than 1.2 million refugees have arrived in Canada since World War II.

Former Conservative Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who lost the October 19 election to Trudeau, had declined to resettle more Syrian refugees, despite the haunting image of a drowned three-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach that focused global attention on the migrant crisis stemming from the civil war.

The boy had relatives in Canada and the refugee crisis became a major campaign issue.

Brad Wall, the Conservative premier of Saskatchewan province, said he has problems with the deadline of December 31 for security reasons, but believes Canada should welcome the refugees.