Goodale spoke with Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson on Friday about the plans to accept the refugees by the end of the year.
Even as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with premiers on Monday to discuss climate change and Syrian refugees, provincial finance ministers are already building a federal-provincial agenda of their own.
He told reporters that if the training of ground forces in Iraq isn't done right then it won't matter where bombs drop.
Brussels entered a security lockdown Saturday as the Belgian government warned of a serious and imminent terrorist attack.
Herman Deparice Okomba says while the current threat of radicalization in Canadian prisons isn't serious, it has the potential to be.
The new government's gloomier forecasts Friday prompted opposition critics to ask: which parts of the platform are the Liberals planning to ditch to meet their budgetary promises?