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fascinating how our minister of immigration blames the media for us not bringing
over the poor dislocated people who are now in europe.
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might be some repeats, but ppphhhtttt
darn harper's lying gov't.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/immigration-m...pens-1.2672727
want to contact your mp etc?
http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compi....aspx?Menu=HOC
sorry i have taken up a page by myself, but geee
we have brought over about 1,200 of these migrants, germany is on tract for 800,000!
how embarrassing to seem to not care as a rich country, who has a hell of a lot of room.
these people are dying trying to save them selves and their families
this is what is happening, for those who don't know
http://static3.nydailynews.com/polop...y-migrants.jpg
aylan was 3 years old and on his way to a new life in canada, he drowned as did his brother
and mom
shutting up, i can't handle finding or looking at any more info, damn shoot,
why isn't our country doing anything?
September 3, 2015 6:28 am
Chris Alexander, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Conservative candidate for Ajax, is suspending his re-election campaign.
Alexander is returning to Ottawa to focus on the migrant crisis in Europe.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2201172/ch...b787f4aaef7903
Amid what has been called the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War, the immigration minister says Canada has taken in "approximately 2,500" Syrian refugees to date.
"The numbers grow quickly through private sponsorship and government assistance. We also have brought over 20,000 Iraqi refugees," Chris Alexander said on CBC's Power & Politics Wednesday.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chri...ives-1.3213514
For those who want to help
https://lifelinesyria.ca/
https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/s...67195639005184
Just to point out, Mulcair voted to keep Canada out of this conflict. Now he is saying we arent doing enough...what a hypocrite
Canada is in North America last time I checked. Anyone remember how many Vietnamese refugees Canada took in 1976? yes over 100k
Here is the funny thing, if the country as it is now isn't tolerant of visible minorities (people can deny it all they want online), how on earth would they put up with taxpayer dollars housing and feeding an influx of refugees? Yes, this is a question that needs to be answered first. The amount of times I have heard in passing people making xenophobic comments about immigrants...and to think their parents / grandparents / great grandparents were once immigrants to this country.
Germany - plans to take in 300k
Sweden (country of 8 million people) - plans to take 100k
UK (country of over 60 million) - plans to take 5k
https://twitter.com/TarekFatah/statu...88764012662784
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Mother of The Boy: "I don't want to blame the Canadian govt" for the tragedy. "I blame the whole world..." Yet reporters keep pushing her.
10,00 Icelanders offer their homes to Syrian refugees
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Ten thousand Icelanders have offered to welcome Syrian refugees into their homes, as part of a Facebook campaign launched by a prominent author after the government said it would take in only a handful.
After the Icelandic government announced last month that it would only accept 50 humanitarian refugees from Syria, Bryndis Bjorgvinsdottir encouraged fellow citizens to speak out in favour of those in need of asylum. In the space of 24 hours, 10,000 Icelanders – the country’s population is 300,000 – took to Facebook to offer up their homes and urge their government to do more.
• EU countries 'should have their funding cut if they do not take their fair share of migrants'
• Britain, France and Germany urge EU to set up migrant reception centres
"I'm a single mother with a 6-year-old son... We can take a child in need. I'm a teacher and would teach the child to speak, read and write Icelandic and adjust to Icelandic society. We have clothes, a bed, toys and everything a child needs. I would of course pay for the airplane ticket," wrote Hekla Stefansdottir in a post.
UKIP candidate blames greedy Syrian parents for child's death
A Twitter account seemingly run by Peter Bucklitsch, who ran as a Ukip candidate for Wimbledon in May, shocked followers this afternoon with the message: “The little Syrian boy was well clothed and well fed. He died because his parents were greedy for the good life in Europe. Queue jumping costs.”
Mr Bucklitsch, who has been approached by the Standard for comment, apparently followed up the controversial tweet with the message: “Predictable unthinking outrage. Turkey is not a place where the family was in danger. Leaving that safe place put the family in peril.”
Tragic photographs of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach yesterday shocked the world.
Mr Bucklitsch, a former Lib Dem candidate in Nigel Farage's target seat of South Thanet, was beaten in this year's election by incumbent Tory Stephen Hammond.
https://twitter.com/VassyKapelos/sta...92993657909248
In other words Harper is not responsible for Aylan's deathQuote:
Tima Kurdi says application she made to Cdn govt (one that was rejected) was for her OTHER brother Mohammed, not Abdullah & his fam #cdnpoli
Hit a w instead of a t there.
I meant NOT responsible
Taoiseach says ‘not realistic’ to set figure for refugees
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Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said it is “not realistic” to set a figure immediately on the number of refugees Ireland can take.
EU justice ministers will meet to discuss the migration crisis on September 14th.
“The past experience is that countries will not measure up if they’re asked to do so purely voluntarily,” said Mr Kenny. “So it may well be that they are going to have to work out a formula here to say what numbers are appropriate for each individual country, and then get on with having a plan and a strategy that can deal with that catastrophic human situation.”
Mr Kenny said he instucted Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald “to go to the meeting with a flexible mind here. We’ve got to be realistic in what we can contribute. We’re not within the protocol, but we are opting in because of our personality and tradition.”
Speaking after meeting with President Francois Hollande in Paris, Mr Kenny said the photograph of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi lying dead on the beach at Bodrun was “absolutely shocking.”
“Any parent could see that child in their own arms. Here’s a body of a young boy; a life lost, potential wasted, washed up on a beach like driftwood. That picture more than any I’ve seen of all the tragedies may well shock political processes into taking action here, in terms of the stream of migrants and the causes that underlie that.”
https://twitter.com/NeilJEdmondson/s...22229802237956
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unhcr.org/4c31cd236.html UN: Canada, USA, Australia take over 90 percent of all resettled refugees. #elxn42
Of course, the fraction of Harper's supporters that are self righteous bigots (not all supporters CPC of course), are freaking out that Canada might help.
Gotta love those Northern Foundation types.
I don't like to think of myself as a bigot, I'm an atheist and religious extremists do frighten me. While most of these refugees are likely just people trying to get their families to safety, there is the danger that extremists will hide amongst them and make their new home here. We have no way to vet these people so I think opening the doors wide open and welcoming everyone is a recipe for disaster. Religious extremism is a major reason for the upheaval going on across the Middle East right now that has killed hundreds of thousands, and I do not want it here. I would be happy for Canada to let in a million refugees from there if I knew it would be safe for us to do so. But how can we know that?Quote:
Originally Posted by anisa
:zip:
I said the the bigots are freaking out. I didn't say that everyone who is cautious about refugees is a bigot.
If you aren't a bigot, I wasn't speaking about you. No need to be so sensitive, sheesh! :)
I thought it would be pretty clear when I mentioned the Northern Foundation.
Thank you, I appreciate your restraint. It's not race with me though, it's religion. If some massive disaster hit Asia and a million Chinese needed to come here I'd welcome them in a heartbeat - we have the space and we can support them until they can get on their own feet and become part of our society. Religion is what worries me. Canada is a tolerant country, it's one of the best things about us. Some people from some faiths are not tolerant, however. Some are not tolerant to the point of violence. This is what worries me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mia001
The family of the 2 boys had their previous refugee claim rejected. Now they are offered instant citizenship, which they have declined considering the circumstances.
They were likely never considered a terror/security threat, yet the refugee claim had been denied. Why?
FYI, Syria is Asia.
The question is not where is Canada in this equation but where the hell-o are the Arab nations?
Actually that is not the factual. It turns out it was the OTHER brother of the woman who lives in B.C. who's family applied for Citizenship, but they were denied because their paperwork was incomplete. The man that suffered the loss of his 2 boys and his wife had never applied for Citizenship.Quote:
Originally Posted by anisa
I was watching the news reports all day and I too saw the man in agony sobbing over the caskets of his family, but from what I read later on along the " crawl " was he was actually NOT offered immediate citizenship. Sometimes the media goes too far in wanting to get the story out first as well as blame someone, and it was really insulting to Canada to suggest that those report were true.
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politi...ily-government
The media did a very poor job of reporting this and was way too quick to assign blame. The mother of the dead child even said she didn't blame Canada, while reporters kept trying to get her to do soQuote:
Originally Posted by walkonby
Turkey has taken 1 millionQuote:
Originally Posted by Patty Smyth
Lebanon has over 1.3 million
Libya has 50,000 while Egypt has 140,000
Why Syrians do not flee to Gulf states
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As the crisis brews over Syrian refugees trying to enter European countries, questions have been raised over why they are not heading to wealthy Gulf states closer to home.
Although those fleeing the Syrian crisis have for several years been crossing into Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey in huge numbers, entering other Arab states - especially in the Gulf - is far less straightforward.
Officially, Syrians can apply for a tourist visa or work permit in order to enter a Gulf state.
But the process is costly, and there is a widespread perception that many Gulf states have unwritten restrictions in place that make it hard for Syrians to be granted a visa in practice..
https://twitter.com/TarekFatah/statu...96312384684032
Representatives of the Canadian Kurdish community have expressed anger and outrage at the liberals and NDP for using this issue for political gain and have called Minister Alexander a great friend of the Kurdish Commnity