[Newsbot]

Title: Pass the refugee reform bill
Category: Political
Posted By: tritium
Date: 2010-06-03 11:34:47
Canadian

[KorbenDeck]

Better way to save money and time is to not accept any refugees at all

[andyt]

KorbenDeck KorbenDeck:

Better way to save money and time is to not accept any refugees at all

That's pretty heartless. I have no problem taking our share of UN certified refugees. The ones that land here and the claim refugee status should scrutinized far more severely and have much less rights to file appeals. This bill goes a step toward that, but could do more.

[KorbenDeck]

andyt andyt:

KorbenDeck KorbenDeck:

Better way to save money and time is to not accept any refugees at all

That's pretty heartless. I have no problem taking our share of UN certified refugees. The ones that land here and the claim refugee status should scrutinized far more severely and have much less rights to file appeals. This bill goes a step toward that, but could do more.

The ones that land here should be shipped right back out, IF we take any they must be accepted before they enter Canada. Even then I wouldn't like to see more than a thousand refugees a year accepted.

[kenmore]

I am all for a zero admit for refugee status, admit none! and stop immigration period from the south east asian middle east.. enough is enough. At least until the world is more stable.

[Wada]

This great country, of which you seem so proud, was built on immigration. Offering a hand up to those in dire need has been a Canadian tradition and must remain so if we are to maintain our culture.

[KorbenDeck]

Wada Wada:

This great country, of which you seem so proud, was built on immigration. Offering a hand up to those in dire need has been a Canadian tradition and must remain so if we are to maintain our culture.

That's funny because right now immigration from the middle east is the biggest threat to our culture. Also Canada was built on colonialism from European powers, than we started having immigration from European nationals. There is a huge differences between immigrants from Europe and places like the middle east, the single biggest one is religion. Like it or not there are religions that cannot coexist with other religions or ideas (free speech being one of those ideas).

[Freakinoldguy]

Wada Wada:

This great country, of which you seem so proud, was built on immigration. Offering a hand up to those in dire need has been a Canadian tradition and must remain so if we are to maintain our culture.

It may have been built by refugees, but if you consider being shipped 3000 miles from point of entry on a one way train, to a barren grassland with no other option than to build a sod dugout to live in while attempting to plant a crop so you don't starve or freeze to death, being given a hand up, then by all means give these new immigrants the same hand up our ancestors got.

Until then, immigrants should be vetted as to what Canada needs and wants, not what the UN or any other non Canadian agency says we should take.

[andyt]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Until then, immigrants should be vetted as to what Canada needs and wants, not what the UN or any other non Canadian agency says we should take.

I agree with your sentence up to the comma. The UN nor any other non Canadian agency tells us what to take in immigrants. It's our own insanity that makes us take in 250,000 of them every year, whether we need them or not.

The UN vets refugees (ie not immigrants) as having a genuine case - ie usually those in camps that have fled civil war etc. I see nothing wrong with taking in a reasonable amount of those. Even the ones that claim refugee status once they get here, we could take some of them. We should just be a lot harder for them to get admitted, and be a lot quicker to get rid of the ones found not to have a case - no more endless appeals.