Toronto, Nov 23 (EFE).– The Canadian government’s plan to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees in the coming weeks is to be open only to women, children and families, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported Monday.

Single males are excluded based on security concerns, according to the CBC network.

Details of the plan will be revealed Sunday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Trudeau and his Liberal Party won the Oct. 19 general elections with a platform that included the resettlement before the end of the year of 25,000 Syrians seeking asylum.

CBC said that, in order to achieve that objective, Ottawa will launch an airlift between refugee camps in the Middle East and Canada that will bring in 900 refugees a day.

For the past six weeks, Canadian authorities have been investigating 100 people a day in Lebanese refugee camps in order to select 25,000 exiles.

The refugees, who will be flown to Toronto and Montreal, will initially be given shelter at military bases, hospitals and vacant schools, as well as in hotels.

The cost of resettling the Syrian refugees is estimated at some 1.2 billion Canadian dollars ($900 million) over the next six years.

On Monday, Trudeau is meeting with the premiers of Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories to discuss, among other matters, the distribution of Syrian settlements.

The most populous provinces – Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia – are already committed to accepting thousands of refugees. EFE