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The government will resettle only about 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year, or less than half the 25,000 promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the election campaign.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship officials revealed the shortfall on Tuesday, as they presented the government’s plan for bringing the Syrian refugees to Canada. The entire 25,000 won’t arrive in Canada until the end of February, the officials said. The effort will cost as much as $678 million over six years.

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The revelation represents the Liberal government’s first unfulfilled promise since the election. Trudeau had pledged to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year during the campaign, after pictures of three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s body on a Turkish beach made the Syrian refugee crisis a major campaign issue.

Numerous refugee groups and other civil society organizations had warned in recent weeks that the promise was unrealistic, while some provincial and municipal leaders had called on the government to take its time because of security concerns. But Trudeau and his ministers had stood by the plan – at least until Tuesday.