“Put simply, the United States is not safe for many refugees,” Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock, two former cabinet ministers, wrote in October, arguing the Safe Third Country Agreement is unconstitutional.
Exactly. I don’t want my nation to resemble America in this way. We should be investing far more money in accepting and caring for refugees than we currently do.
Maybe something like raising taxes on, and removing loopholes for, rich people would help. Unfortunately our leadership chooses not to do logical things to help others.
deleted by creator
those in power are too narrow minded, focused on money now and setting themselves up for success at the expense of millions of lives. They do not care one iota about the country, it’s inhabitants, land, air quality, or wildlife.
Canada’s housing and healthcare infrastructure is unable to keep up with even the current population. There are current issues with record high wait times for ERs and surgery, etc. as well as a homelessness crisis.
Not to mention the current issues with imported organised crime, such as foreign extortion gangs that are currently a huge problem in BC and Ontario. If you keep up on the Canadian news at all, you’ll know that many members of such a gang was recently arrested, all of whom suddenly claimed refugee status so that they then conveniently couldn’t be deported for their crimes without literal years of legal proceedings. And this was reported by the CBC, which is about as left-wing as a news source gets in Canada, so its not a case of the National Post or the Sun pushing right wing propaganda.
It is commendable to want to help people, but the fact of the matter is, unchecked record high immigration has led to more than a few problems over the last decade that are now coming home to roost. Canada simply doesn’t have the capacity to absorb these people without it further exacerbating domestic issues, not to mention that the Liberal Party’s record-high immigration numbers and TFW-related employment issues are wildly unpopular politically. They are a large part of the reason that the conservatives were on track to win a majority in the last election after Trudeau was forced to resign, before Donald Trump’s 51st state comments and tariffs sent a wave of anti-american sentiment through Canada (and thus, anti-anything Trump-like voter sentiment, and Trump is a US conservative) and cost them that lead - but that only goes so far.
If Canada tries to absorb all the migrants trying to go there now over the USA due to America’s current political climate, there will eventually be a large backlash that pushes Canada far closer to the current US political climate than anyone wants.