PM Stephen Harper's advancement to the level of inhumanity

[FrankGSterleJr]

Prime Minister’s office delayed intake of Syrian refugees, report says

Issue of Syrian refugees explodes back on Canadian election campaign following report that Conservatives delayed intake of vulnerable people.

OTTAWA — The issue of Syrian refugees exploded back on the election campaign Thursday following a report that the Conservatives delayed the intake of vulnerable refugees from war-torn Syria in the spring after the prime minister’s office got directly involved in processing immigration files.
The Globe and Mail reported Thursday that the Prime Minister’s Office intervened in the processing of Syrian refugees and declared that all applicants referred by the United Nations would require Harper’s approval.
The file is normally handled by Citizenship and Immigration officials, but the newspaper reported that staff in the Stephen Harper’s office got personally involved in vetting applications.
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair angrily denounced Harper’s involvement, calling it “abject” behaviour that stalled Canada’s assistance to most vulnerable people.
“We learned this morning that Mr. Harper personally interfered in order to prevent the arrival of Syrian refugees,” the NDP leader said during a campaign stop in Toronto. “That is abject behaviour on the part of a Canadian prime minister. It is a shame on Canada and Stephen Harper should apologize.”
Mulcair accused Harper of hypocrisy, noting that how the Conservative leader spoke with emotion earlier in the campaign about the death of Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian boy, who drowned with his brother and mother as his family joined other migrants in sailing to Greece from Turkey. They had aspirations of settling in Canada.
“Now we learn it was Stephen Harper himself who prevented the arrival of Syrian families into Canada in the worst Syrian refugee crisis since World War II.”
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said the revelations were further proof of Harper’s meddling and said it was another reason to toss the Conservatives out of government in the coming election.
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander on Saturday announced that Ottawa would speed up plans to settle 10,000 Syrian refugees in Canada by next September, earlier than first promised.
The announcement comes after public and political pressure on the Conservatives to do more to respond to the unfolding crisis that has seen millions of Syrians take flight from the violence in their homeland.
In a statement, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said that intake of refugees was paused so the government could ensure that security was not being compromised.
“Starting a new refugee resettlement program in a volatile conflict zone poses particular challenges,” Alexander said in a statement provided to Torstar News Service.
“In order to ensure that the appropriate referral and screening procedures were in place, an audit of the first tranche of Syrian Government Assisted Refugees was undertaken,” Alexander said.
He called this a “prudent” step to ensure the integrity of the refugee system.
“The processing of Syrian government assisted refugees resumed only after there was confidence that our procedures were adequate to identify those vulnerable persons in most need of protection while screening out threats to Canada,” Alexander said.
Both Mulcair and Trudeau have accused Harper of using security as an excuse for not doing more to assist refugees fleeing the violence in their homeland.
And Mulcair hit that theme again Thursday, saying that Harper is presenting “fake, false” choices between the country’s security and the intake of refugees.
“These bogus arguments have been served up to the Canadian public for far too long,” Mulcair said.
He said that Canada has the capacity to ensure the proper screening of refugees.
Harper has said that demands by the NDP and Liberals to bring in more refugees from war-torn Syria are “reckless” because such a rapid increase in asylum seekers would ignore the need to screen out possible terrorists trying to sneak into Canada.
Loly Rico, president of the Canadian Council of Refugees, said the Prime Ministers’ Office does not have the necessary expertise to vet and select refugees. But Rico said the PMO’s involvement could explain why Canada has been slow to accept refugees fleeing the civil war-torn country.
“Now, it’s understandable how low numbers on the resettlement will come in this year, because they delayed the process of selection, and also they’re selecting what type of refugees they (want),” Rico told Torstar. “When Canada signed the (UN refugee) convention, it wasn’t what kind of refugees do you want, it was more what refugees need more protection.”
Rico said she believes Canada’s refugee process has increasingly become politicized, and she believes that has largely been driven by the Conservatives’ ideology rather than Canada’s duty to the United Nations. She also believes that the Conservatives’ stated goal of accepting refugees from religious minorities in the Iraq and Syria is discriminatory against Muslim claimants.
“The UNHCR was looking to the government of Canada to do the selection based on the need, not on the religion,” Rico said. “And that’s why you also (see they are) a small number of UNHCR referrals to Canada, because Canada is selecting these type of refugees. And that’s discrimination.”

(October 8, 2015, Torstar)

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The Globe and Mail reported Thursday that the Prime Minister’s Office intervened in the processing of Syrian refugees and declared that all applicants referred by the United Nations would require PM Stephen Harper’s approval …
… “We learned this morning that Mr. Harper personally interfered in order to prevent the arrival of Syrian refugees,” NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair angrily denounced Harper’s involvement, calling it “abject” behaviour that stalled Canada’s assistance to most vulnerable people. “That is abject behaviour on the part of a Canadian prime minister. It is a shame on Canada and Stephen Harper should apologize” …
Canadian Immigration Minister Chris Alexander’s response: “The processing of Syrian government assisted refugees resumed only after there was confidence that our procedures were adequate to identify those vulnerable persons in most need of protection while screening out threats to Canada.”


PM Harper is a widely recognized ardent rogue theocrat who, as one who reads his Bible daily, years ago assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo! that—regardless of the latter’s military’s smart-bombing to smithereens tens of thousands of Palestinians in the latest turkey-shoot “war”, not to mention the confiscation of their lands—any enemy of Netanyahoo!’s thus Israel’s is an equal enemy of his own as Canada’s PM and by extension his government’s ministries as well as all Canadians (and according to some very accurate hearsay, Harper was said to have concluded his abovementioned bootlicking with the final declaration, “… and any Canadian, regardless of race or colour or creed, who doesn’t like it can go back to Syria!”). Then huge puzzle pieces came together less than two years ago when PM Harper was begged—but to no avail, whatsoever—by some Canadian pediatricians and pediatric surgeons to allow a large number of seriously ill and badly injured Syrian children to come to Canadian hospitals where they can be properly treated, all of course who’d eventually be returned to their parents and country; Harper refused, saying that the doctors will just have to make due with whatever equipment they have in the active war zones, however devastated. Why the hell not? Perhaps from Harper’s perspective a Syrian child is but a small Syrian, the latter which by extension is a potential adult Syrian thus terrorist that may attempt a strike against Israel (or even perhaps Canada), someday, somehow.
One thing’s for certain: Canada’s PM has definitely advanced, or a.k.a. regressed, to the level of inhumanity to which some allocate the acronym SPS—Sick Puppy Syndrome.


Frank Sterle Jr

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Actually the US should be taking ALL of them, along with all the terrorists that are no doubt seeking 'refuge' as well. It caused this shit with its meddling and invading. How nice, to have the world over-run with angry, embittered, de-homed muslims who hate the West for fucking up their lives.

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[The Inglorious One]

What the hell does the OP have to do with philosophy of religion?