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James Bissett was once head of Immigration Canada. In today's Post he gives a pretty clear view on how to fix the asylum mess. Namely, get rid of the damn lawyers and the appointed refugee boards and turn the job over to professionals like other countries do. We provide a far greater access to our legal system than other countries, including paid legal advise, than the UN charter requires. We've also hugely expanded our definition of 'refugee', well beyond the UN definition. It is not necessary to have a quasi-judicial body such as the Immigration Refugee Board adjudicate refugee claims. These decisions should not be delegated to a board of politically appointed members responsible only to themselves, and who may, or may not, have the experience, training, or knowledge to render quality decisions about who is or is not a refugee. Furthermore, because it allows unlimited access to its deliberations, it has suffered with backlog problems from its inception and the current crisis is just another example. In most countries asylum decisions are made by professional refugee officers or judges. They have the background and expertise necessary to make quality decisions quickly. They can be located in various parts of the country thus improving and speeding up the asylum process. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/how-canada-can-actually-fix-the-migration-mess-on-its-borders

He sure did....Hillary and her "supporters" (including the rubes in Canada)....were very stupid in 2016.

So what ? "2016" is still having an impact on "current acts", and will continue to do so. Dishonesty has served many U.S. presidents well. Donald Trump is an incumbent U.S. president, just like all the rest. The losers are still acting superior to Trump and his enthusiastic deplorables...that's how he won the first time.

Trump has plenty enough "support" from Americans to win again. It's just another U.S. election to be played again...with winners and losers. America does this every four years, like clock work...no matter what. Some folks still can't get over the fact that Trump won the presidency in 2016, and if they continue to act like that stick is still up their butts, they will lose again.

Then these people are stupid. Because only a moron would care if they went up to a gov rep for services and they had a turban or a hijab or a cross on. It doesn't affect services, it's stupid. A niqab or burka is a bit different, it affects social relationships and communication between people. Quebec pretends to make it about secularism, but then they want the crucifix in their gov chamber to hang. It's just dumb intolerance. If you're going to be intolerant, at least make it stand for something that matters.

No, there is a growing consensus that the Dems have nothing to offer, and are heading for another loss. For example, from this morning on CNN- Absurd Lewandowski hearing raises doubts about Dems strategy Their broader strategy of (Dems) using their House majority to slowly build a pattern of presidential abuse of power and obstruction of justice has yet to reach a critical mass. On the evidence of Tuesday, it may never do so. It was a great day for the White House, however.

Incorrect. His supporters don't care if he lies towards those who deserve it.

I’m sure Iranians are disappointed and outraged. Why should you be.

Yet, when its pointed out that it was the "far-right evangelicals" who went looking, you suddenly change your tune: Did you break anything, changing direction so fast like that? I mean, other than your credibility.

Really the piece of legislation which is your nemesis, is called; Section 33 The Notwithstanding Clause, which is by far and away the worst legislation in the history of Canada. The Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms is Orwellian, it is full of poison pills which make it a weapon of repression rather than a shield against.

Crombie to Toronto is in many ways like Bill Davis was to Ontario, a kind of Marcus Aurelius sage politician. Places like Crombie Park were incredible civic gestures that showed what a well planned city could be. It certainly appealed to Jane Jacobs, the ultimate urbanist who chose to make Toronto her home. Crombie like Davis considered himself conservative, but he was very much a centrist.

That their women (mostly immigrants) are rarely well-educated and don't tend to work is also a function of Islam. And you left off the second paragraph. I might add we really don't have any local statistics about criminality since we don't take them, but in other countries Muslims have indeed shown a marked criminality. Now you could say this was a result of the hardscrabble, rough and violent cultures most of them come from, especially since most are refugees. I would point out that a large part of the reason why those nations are rough, violent and backwards is because of Islam.

The carbon tax is just another cash grab. The Liberals spend like fools so they have to start selling marijuana and taxing everything in sight just to keep the deficit to a casual $15B. Most of the money that goes into carbon tax is wasted on the bureaucracy to collect it and manage it.

They have released lots of plans. Even environmental plans Abies. They wouldn't do their best to destroy our resource sector, they wouldn't run up $60B in debt, Scheer wouldn't call the Japanese PM Chinese twice, he wouldn't invite a terrorist to dinner in India and then blame India, he wouldn't kick bitches out of his caucus just for having integrity, he wouldn't criticize the former PM for the number of staff he has and then hire 3 nannies, he doesn't pontificate about misogyny and then say that the broad he groped "just remembers it differently", wouldn't publicly admire China's basic dictatorship, etc.

I pointed out that unemployment rates are not unicorns and rainbows in all provinces...in fact in 3 provinces the unemployment rates have increased...Where harpers record comes in is in the interest rates, check the source, there is lots of them out there, interest has almost doubled, in Justins days, the how and why is mout, the fact is the have increased...by almost double GDP numbers have not been over 3.7 since jul 2017 check out the little chart.......last years GDP growth was 3.7 %, 2019 growth is only clocked at 1.6....here is an interest fact the Average growth rate is 3.14...if thats average what is 3.7....booming, don't think so....once again the numbers don't lie....they are not liberals. Under Harper GDP growth was 2.6 in 2014....under Justin in 2015 GDP falls to .9, 2016 1.5 and it has been climbing ever since, but those were different times hard to compare apples to apples.... everything taken into account nothing supports your position of a booming economy....better than average at most maybe.

Shit those figures are left over from Harpers days, I mean if we can blame everything else on him , lets give credit where credit is due..... unemployment numbers are not all unicorns and rainbows across the country....in fact in 3 provinces they have risen not fallen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_by_unemployment_rate Interest rates in 2014 were 1 % and falling, today they are 1.75 and rising... https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/interest-rate GDP rates are in positive territory but they are not booming......in fact they are some what flat... https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/gdp-growth-annual Not sure what to tell you, the numbers don't lie....Justin and his merry band of liars and thugs, will take your money faster than a hooker in the city.

first there are other options other than CONS, but lets stick with your poison, Climate change is important to you, but what is the liberal policy anyways, oh I got it tax the shit out of fuel products, which will of course drive the cost of everything up, food, services, stuff.... making you think twice about driving...well thats good if you live in a city...I don't I have to drive to work, in a 4x4 because the roads are not kept plowed all the time, and if I miss a day , I miss a days pay....the Liberals have said they will return that tax to me, in a rebate on my income tax....again what they lied to you about is they have only costed their plan to get to 50 % of the climate change needed according to the Paris accord numbers...now climate Barbie says they will increase that after 2022.. Now their plan lacks any vision, any major investment into climate change R&D, any investment into rebates for more climate friendly buildings , such as solar, wind power, even thermal heat pumps....god knows what ever other tech is out there....instead they are going to return that money back to you in a income tax rebate...and hope that you use less carbon....Nice plan....sounds like a half plan to me....lacking of any vision, or research...And thats after declaring a climate emergency.... As for destroying any climate change plan, you don't know that for sure, anything can change , priorities can change...and even if everything changes Canada is only responsible for 1.5 % of the worlds carbon ….this needs to be fought on a global scale to make an impact...Canada can not do it alone...

Hey Z... if one takes the time to study this man they would be surprised what a progressive open minded guy he was and how he was ahead of himself. He is one of my favourite Canadian politicians. He was a classic progressive moderate smack dab in the middle of the political spectrum. I love these moderates smack dab in the centre who balance all kinds of issues. He was always ahead of the day. Its too bad his heart disease and connected medical conditions prevented him from going further.