King Abdullah of Jordan in Ottawa on Monday

King Abdullah of Jordan arrives at an economic conference seeking billions of dollars in investment that brings together hundreds of business executives and foreign leaders, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Friday, March 13, 2015. (AP / Hassan Ammar)

Jordan's King Abdullah is in Ottawa on Monday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be meeting the king of Jordan in Ottawa. It's the king's fifth visit to Canada in his twenty years on the throne of the Middle Eastern country. The Prime Minister's Office says the leaders will discuss the partnership between Canada and Jordan and promote diversity and counter violent extremism. They'll also discuss ongoing regional security concerns, exacerbated in recent weeks by the repeated violation of a ceasefire in the Syrian civil war.  Upwards of 660,000 Syrians have sought shelter from the conflict in neighbouring Jordan, and thousands of them have resettled in Canada.

In 2015, Trudeau promised to bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada and it is four years ago this month in Jordan that the Liberal government kicked off a multi-billion-dollar program that would eventually see nearly 40,000 Syrians arrive here.