Trudeau has no shame
Talk about closing the barn door after the horses have left.
The federal Liberals finally acknowledge they need to be tougher in dealing with our border mess.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has instructed the Canada Border Services Agency to speed up the removal of failed refugee claimants.
That agency now has a new target to remove 10,000 failed refugee claimants by March and 10,000 annually until backlogs are processed – as much as a 35% over current deportation levels.
Our newly tough-on-refugees Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who’s been at odds with ordinary Canadians over his mishandling of the “irregular migrant” crisis, now in an election year suddenly believes border integrity matters.
“Justin Trudeau says the government has been looking at ways of speeding up these cases to ensure Canada’s immigration system remains an integrated system that functions properly,” Canadian Press breathlessly reported.
We’d call for a laugh track to be played at this point if the joke wasn’t more sad than funny.
Because the problem isn’t the failure of the “system” to function properly. It’s that Trudeau and his front bench have let it fall apart.
In addition to speeding deportations up, Trudeau needs to actually address the border problems he created.
Trudeau’s irresponsible #WelcomeToCanada Tweet from Jan. 2017 misled thousands of desperate people worried about being deported from the U.S. into believing they could find safe haven in Canada.
And as thousands poured illegally across our border (Trudeau still won’t use that word), they were warehoused and shuttled from temporary camps to temporary shelters and in some cases to hotel rooms.
Our system to process refugee claims was overwhelmed.
Trudeau then saddled municipalities and provinces with hundreds of millions in new costs associated with housing and caring for those he welcomed into the country.
That’s what undermined our previously admired immigration system, which required potential migrants to meet stringent criteria and pass security and other screening.
Now tens of thousands who traveled here looking for haven and welcome will be turned away.
Goodale’s election-year step to speed up processing is, unfortunately, a necessary step to deal with the mess at our border.
But it’s far cry from doing right by those who turned to us for help and won’t restore the integrity of our battered immigration system.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/edit...EucWsxFpUPMtI7wES8-b-WKqlniXwmYuPhog#comments
Talk about closing the barn door after the horses have left.
The federal Liberals finally acknowledge they need to be tougher in dealing with our border mess.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has instructed the Canada Border Services Agency to speed up the removal of failed refugee claimants.
That agency now has a new target to remove 10,000 failed refugee claimants by March and 10,000 annually until backlogs are processed – as much as a 35% over current deportation levels.
Our newly tough-on-refugees Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who’s been at odds with ordinary Canadians over his mishandling of the “irregular migrant” crisis, now in an election year suddenly believes border integrity matters.
“Justin Trudeau says the government has been looking at ways of speeding up these cases to ensure Canada’s immigration system remains an integrated system that functions properly,” Canadian Press breathlessly reported.
We’d call for a laugh track to be played at this point if the joke wasn’t more sad than funny.
Because the problem isn’t the failure of the “system” to function properly. It’s that Trudeau and his front bench have let it fall apart.
In addition to speeding deportations up, Trudeau needs to actually address the border problems he created.
Trudeau’s irresponsible #WelcomeToCanada Tweet from Jan. 2017 misled thousands of desperate people worried about being deported from the U.S. into believing they could find safe haven in Canada.
And as thousands poured illegally across our border (Trudeau still won’t use that word), they were warehoused and shuttled from temporary camps to temporary shelters and in some cases to hotel rooms.
Our system to process refugee claims was overwhelmed.
Trudeau then saddled municipalities and provinces with hundreds of millions in new costs associated with housing and caring for those he welcomed into the country.
That’s what undermined our previously admired immigration system, which required potential migrants to meet stringent criteria and pass security and other screening.
Now tens of thousands who traveled here looking for haven and welcome will be turned away.
Goodale’s election-year step to speed up processing is, unfortunately, a necessary step to deal with the mess at our border.
But it’s far cry from doing right by those who turned to us for help and won’t restore the integrity of our battered immigration system.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/edit...EucWsxFpUPMtI7wES8-b-WKqlniXwmYuPhog#comments