What is really despicable of the above mentioned situation, is how certain media players are using the tragic death of a young boy for political gains. The comments of disdain aimed at our current Prime Minister in the above article are unwarranted. It is not PM Harper’s fault as some media tries to frame. It is the rise of evil from ISIS that is the problem. Our current Conservative government has opened the arms to receive refugees while at the same time trying to destroy that evil movement that wants to kill and destroy. The Conservative Government must use caution in letting in more refugees for the sake that maybe ISIS will creep in under the guise of a refugee and set up terrorists camps in our own land. So the freelance columnist is wrong on this one and his premise off base.

The media wouldn’t have any opportunity to use this issue for political gains – if that would actually be the agenda of the media – if Harper would set aside undue fear and paranoia and simply admit refugee women and children first and as quickly as possible. In other words – suffering families! Young single men (except for the very old) can be made to wait a bit longer.

What has happened to our reputation of being a compassionate country? It is indeed high time for a change!

Yet another article (if you can call it that) with little to no fact, full of left wing political BS and verbal diareah . This site is really going down hill fast. So unfortunate.

But on the bright side, we’ve learned that Cheetos now come in blue.

Oh Bill are you putting 20 grand up front? Who does the selecting? Who decides how many? So you think there should be no security checking? Why just Syria?

So Bill I ask you how many, what’s the cut off?

Ya some article.

Bill Phillips sure lets his feelings for Harper cloud his judgment, and it reflects poorly on your little article. Could you be any more biased?

Bill Phipips:-” It always amazes me that in parts of the world that have no economy and where you can’t get a glass of clean water, you can get an AK-47, rocket launcher, and armoured vehicles.”
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It’s all about having ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ in the countries that provide those things, Bill. Really no different from in the grand old days of the British Raj in India, where a shirt made in Lancashire could be had in the bazaars of Bombay or Calcutta for a fraction of the price an Englishman would pay for it in the same town where it was made. And when even that fraction of a price is too much for some poor beggar to afford, well, turn the shirt factory into making the munitions of war and we can give the entire output away free gratis to whomever we choose to receive it. And if they won’t pretend they’re buying these things from us, we can just drop them on them. So long as it keeps people working, and working under control ~ and it does, admirably ~ everything in the (financial) garden is rosy.

It is the rise of evil from ISIS that is the problem

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No, the problem is actually the removal of dictators from within the region. While these people were detestable and their actions oftentimes abhorrent, they were able to control the radical factions in the region and stop them from becoming a bigger problem.

With the dictators out of the picture, it has created a power void and an opportunity for groups like ISIS to try and seize control and exert their agenda. This, of course, could be worse for the west than what was there before.

The fantasy that we’re going to roll into the middle east, drop some bomb and magically convince an entire society to change to a western style democracy is pure lunacy. What’s even crazier is that we have leaders who appear willing to double down on that strategy.

Usually I have to agree with you NMG but in this case you are wrong , sort of . The civil unrest and revolution is a symptom . The real cause is climate change that destroyed farming in the region with a drought that drove the people off the land and into Darra where the slaughter began . We can all thank the Koch brothers and our carbon release into the atmosphere . This is only the beginning . Just wait till the oceans displace a billion or more people . We will see refugees from the USA coming in waves . Most of Florida will be gone before the turn of the next century along with most of New York etc.

Excellent post NMG!!! There are too many political vacuums left when a region with people of many cultures have been under some semblance of political control for an extended period is destabilized by the removal of that control.

Ataloss …. climate change?

I do not understand why people have forgotten the primary cause – world population increase. Hitler called it Lebensraum – room to live, room to survive.

With Ancient Rome, the British Empire, the Spanish Empire and all the other European countries conquering land and people and creating colonies it certainly had nothing to do with climate change. It was all about homeland expansion to access goods and export people to other lands, especially the ones one did not want because of their beliefs.

Any kind of population stress will eventually cause a major shift in population through increasing ostracism, genocide, wars, etc.

As far as the City of New York under water, Heide Cullen’s book about the world’s climate 40 years from now predicts a sea level rise of 3 feet by then.

With respect to the Borough of Manhattan, the Staten Island Ferry Terminal at the southern tip is at around 3 feet and would be affected, as would several water front developments along the edge of Manhattan.

Moving further north, Washington Square Park at 4th St. in Greenwich Village is 24 ft above sea level. By the time you get to Madison Square Garden at 31st it is 35ft. and it rises the further one moves to upper Manhattan.

Whether oceans will rise or not, you have seen too many science fiction movies.

BP wrote: “Stephen ‘I-want-to-be-Commander-in-Chief’ Harper:.

If that is true, then he needs to apply to become Governor General or change the Constitution.

Good luck.

In 2014 Canada admitted just over 64,000 refugees as reported by the World factbook. That is 0.183% of the population of Canada.

In the same year, Germany took in over 172,000 which is 0.213% of the population of the country.

Here is a breakdown of country of origin for Canada for numbers of 5,000 and over.

16,428 Colombia
13,231 China
10,745 Sri Lanka
8,613 Pakistan
8,422 Haiti
6,762 Mexico

For Germany it was
41,167 Iraq
40,994 Syria
27,814 Afghanistan
22,242 Turkey
18,814 Iran
11,917 stateless persons
9,294 Serbia and Kosovo

I used Germany as a representative of an EU country and to show the difference of the origin of the largest groups of refugees in different parts of the world. We do not see refugees from the Middle East here in the quantities that European countries see. In fact, first world countries do not see the number of refugees that third world countries in the immediate area surrounding regions in conflict see.

Harper has repeatedly made false statements about the number of refugees we take in. He has stated that on a per capita basis of the population of Canada, we take in more than any other country in the world. In fact, we are about 30th or so on that list based on UN figures.