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You're stereotyping an entire region of people. People with good skills and education that allow them to work in Canada will often succeed no matter where they're from. and people without good skills and education will not succeed. I know Muslims from the ME that are poor, and I know Muslims from the ME in Canada that have done very well. Stop painting these people with a broad brush.

If you think better interviews is going to fix this issue, you have way too much faith in interviews to weed out bad applicants. There is no screening process which will eliminate all the bad apples, it is wishful thinking to believe otherwise. Misplaced faith in the immigrant screening process, especially in cultural values tests, is leading to some silly conclusions about how easy it is to fix problems with immigration, many around here want there to be an easy answer, but there isn't. Canada already has merit based immigration, and refugees are not a large proportion of immigrants to the country, we have a better screening process than most and already take more the good apples and less of the bad apples, it's not like no one in Canada has thought of trying to take in more good immigrants and less bad immigrants, that's already in place and has been for quite a while. People who think that any bad apples getting through is just a sign that they haven't come up with a better screening process are fooling themselves, thinking the government is capable of doing something that it will never achieve or come close to achieving.

Once in awhile someone posts immediately after you do to prove your point.

Israel is a racist Zionist state that must ge opposed. If Israel is destroyed there will be peace in the Middle East. The ZOG in the USA must also be destroyed.

Thank you for the first sentence. Whatever true direction it comes from East or West so to speak, it has the same intent...but you are dead on. I probably took the bait. Thank you for that.

We, as individuals, are protected from the power of the State. IMV, Trudeau Snr was correct to do this. I'm amazed that he did.

We need to balance "hard-line condemnation" with compassion. You can't be too much one or the other. You can and should be tough, but you can't be completely heartless to the point that you infringe on people's rights. For instance, the Harper gov basically let Khadr rot in Gitmo. He should have been rotting in a Canadian prison, where he was free from torture and other inhumane treatment while also being punished and kept from the public for safety reasons. Being too tough can be dangerous, but so can too much compassion. It's the same when raising a child or a pet: don't be too harsh, but don't spoil them either. Always remember: Good medicine turns poisonous when the dose is too high.

Not shaking a woman's hand is not antisocial. What's the big deal? I insist you touch my hand or you're a bad person? Hey, Jews don't touch either. Yikes.

Ask the Israelis. Apparently they disdain all the pretty (and largely ineffective) tech toys the Americans use to try to keep terrorists off their planes. They train their people in how to read people, in what to ask, in what to look for in behaviour and statements. They're apparently very, very good at it.

The Khadr family is the poster child for "Entitled Refugees". They used the benefits of Canadian citizenship, all the while denigrating the country and all Canadian citizens and using our country as a home base to terrorize int he name of their religion. They are an embarrassment to our country. How some people can defend them is beyond me.

I agree with G's position on Kadr but I am not sure how it relates to the thread. The defficiency in our laws as to how to deal with terrorists and child terrorists is a very real and complex issue. Banning innocent Muslims coming to Canada or hating all Muslims won't resolve it. I have yet to hear anyone provide criteria to screen out what they feel are undesirables.