Canada remains committed to taking in 25,000 Syrian refugees but will only welcome 10,000 of them by year’s end, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government said Tuesday, according to AFP.

The Liberal government, which had pledged to take in the full number of refugees this year, said another 15,000 would now arrive in 2016, by the end of February.

The delay follows criticisms that Ottawa was moving too fast amid security concerns in the aftermath of deadly attacks in Paris.

“Canadians have said do this right and if it takes a little longer to do it, then take the time,” Immigration Minister John McCallum told reporters.

“And so essentially this is what we are going to be doing,” he added.

McCallum’s announcement follows a report on Monday that, in an apparent attempt to respond to the major concerns that Islamic terrorists will infiltrate the ranks of the 25,000 Syrian migrants being resettled in Canada, the Canadian government will not allow single Syrian males.

No less than 900 migrants a day are planned to be flown in, mostly to Toronto and Montreal. They will initially be kept in military bases, as well as hotels and abandoned hospitals. The sites won’t be called “camps” by the government, and likewise tents will not be used.

Sources have confirmed the resettlement plan will cost Canadian taxpayers a full $876.7 million for the first year alone, and the total cost over six years will be $1.2 billion.