Canadians prevented a terrorist attack on Montreal-Toronto yesterday. It’s good to see Canadians finally not snooze through things.
Of course, not even this will force Canada to revise its weird immigration / border control policies.
What do you think about the practice of privileging immigrants who claim to be persecuted for religious reasons (like Tsarnaevs, for example)? To me it seems weird that self-declared religious fanatics would be admitted much more readily than normal, rational people.
And of course it is impossible to know whether there is any truth to these claims if religious persecution. I remember how some former relatives of mine ridiculed the “stooopid Americans” for believing their stories of being persecuted for religious reasons in the Ukraine of the 1990s.
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My favorite story was from Switzerland a couple of years ago where over a thousand people waiting on their asylum decisions went on vacation…. to the countries they claimed to be fleeing from.
The whole asylum thing has largely become a racket and/or and a method for stealth immigration by those who bring no positive qualities to the table. If you’re not that educated (and don’t want to be) and nt hard-working (and don’t want to be) and have no real hope of becoming a non-burden on a country you wind up in then claim the moral highground of persecution and suckle at the government teat – bring as many extended family members over to commiserate with on how unpleasant the people paying for your upkeep are.
I’m sure there are real cases of need but they seem to be a smaller and smaller minority.
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” If you’re not that educated (and don’t want to be) and nt hard-working (and don’t want to be) and have no real hope of becoming a non-burden on a country you wind up in then claim the moral highground of persecution and suckle at the government teat – bring as many extended family members over to commiserate with on how unpleasant the people paying for your upkeep are.”
– People can downvote this comment all they want but this is exactly what almost the entirety of immigration from the FSU countries is like. Good, hard-working, culturally curious and law-abiding people from the FSU countries, in the meanwhile, find it nearly impossible to emigrate. This happens precisely because those who are honest can’t make themselves lie and pretend that somebody is persecuting them for non-existent religious reasons. Maybe it would help if immigration bureaucrats got some training in the cultures of people whose dossiers land on their desks.
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Iranian Al Qaeda???? Are they kidding me?
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In Canada, a few years ago, there was an interview with a refugee in a magazine : the guy was receiving welfare under several fake IDs, everything in his home was stolen goods including the clothes he wore. At the end of the interview the guy said that in his country there was a lot of fraudsters and many come to Canada and that Canadians are very naive and it was a sad thing that Canada accept people like him.
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