His parents Afraa and Muhammad Bilan came to the country as refugees via Lebanon from war-ravaged Damascus with their two older children last year.

'It was actually very good, it was amazing. I can't believe that I met the Prime Minster Justin Trudeau,' Afraa told the Daily Mail.

'He held [the baby] and he said, "This is Justin-Trudeau," and then he says, "I appreciate that you named him after my name".'

"We love this man, we appreciate him," she told the Toronto Star earlier this year.

"He helped a lot of refugees. He’s the reason we are in Canada."

She said that he was the first Canadian in the family - and that the rest are working on getting citizenship.

Canada agreed to accept tens of thousands of Syrian refugees after the country's 23rd Prime Minister took office.

In November, another Syrian refugee family in nearby Red Deer, Alberta, also named their son Justin to honor Trudeau.