build and manage large work camps, mostly oilsands and site C dam related. They were hot to trot locally as their normal business dried up with low oil prices last winter. It didn’t have anything to do humanitarian, just lining up at the trough.
Our family farm has a Syrian family of 5 working on it since last spring (not now, demand for igloos is down). They aren’t uncommon in our area as every church group adopted Syrians.