This is your typical Leftist ploy—start spreading a number around (like 20,000) and then 5,000 will sound like a reasonable compromise to the gullible!
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair has some explaining to do. http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/13/ndp-fails-to-explain-parliamentary-money-spent-on-party-employees-2
OTTAWA — The New Democrats and Liberals are pushing the federal government to swing open the doors and let in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to Canada.
The Commons foreign affairs committee released a new report Friday with 14 recommendations for Canada’s response to the ongoing Syria crisis, including a call the Conservative government to “examine” its commitment to take in 1,300 Syrian refugees by the end of the year.
However, the two main opposition parties say Canada should go a lot further.
“The Government of Canada should significantly increase its commitment to Syrian refugee resettlement beyond the current pledge of up to 1,300, accelerate processing of Syrian refugees coming to Canada, and expedite family reunification for Syrian refugees who have relatives in Canada,” said the NDP in its comments.
The Liberals went even further in their supplementary report, quoting one witness who said “20,000 is very reasonable” as the total number of Syrian refugees that Canada could accept.
A report in March, here, says Canada had only taken 10 (ten) Syrians at that point. Like the US, something is holding up the flow—-is it because of security concerns? Most of the “refugees” are Muslims.
Interesting! Is the NDP Party trying to divert attention away from its own problems, here. They must be following the Obama play book—when scandals emerge, change the subject!
Addendum: This is our 132nd post in our Canada category, here.
As is the case with all of Syria’s neighbors, the migrants pouring out of Syria are straining the economies and stressing out the citizens of those countries. Now, some political leaders in Lebanon want formal camps built preferably in safe zones on the Syrian side of the border. It strikes me as a good idea too!
Syrian families arrive in Lebanon. http://www.unhcr.org/504dab686.html
Supposedly millions of mostly Muslims have left Syria and frankly it is silly to think that sending a few thousand to western countries is going to do anything to relieve the strain. And, those who come here or to Europe, Australia or Canada will never go home.
The camp concept would also allow the Syrians to stay in their own cultural zoneuntil the war is over and they can go home.
BEIRUT: Establishing camps is the only way to solve the refugee crisis in Lebanon, Health Minister Wael Abu Faour said Monday, reiterating warnings that the influx of more refugees would have severe repercussions for the country.
“There is no solution to the continuous influx of refugees other than establishing refugee camps,” Abu Faour said during a conference about the economic repercussions of the Syrian refugee crisis.
“We’ve even decided on locations for such camps, but unfortunately, a number of political forces opposed this solution, arguing that [establishing camps] could destabilize the country’s security,” he said.
Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas said over the weekend that the government and the United Nations had been mulling the possibility of establishing camps for refugees. The Cabinet is currently pressuring the international community to build camps in “safe zones” inside Syria or along the borders.
The United Nations has already conducted a technical survey of areas across Lebanon that could be amenable to setting up “modest formal settlements,” and presented its findings to the Social Affairs Ministry for approval. However, the government maintains that formal camps, if established, should not be entrenched within Lebanese communities.
Let the camps be built inside the Syrian border and the UN can protect the people.
Turkey was home to less than 200,000 Syrian refugees at the start of 2013, but the patience of many Turkish citizens is running thin as that figure hovers around 700,000. With no sign of the conflict in Syria abating, that number is expected to more than double this year.
Read on.
And, here we learn that Turkey is building a wall on the Syrian border.
Still no sign of the thousands of Syrians that US resettlement contractors like the US Conference of Catholic Bishops are lobbying for!
And, none of them are beating up Obama as they did Bush on admitting Iraqi refugees. Or, maybe they are behind the scenes and the lazy and biased mainstream media isn’t picking it up.
If Israel says it doesn’t want to welcome any more Palestinians, the world is outraged, but here we learn that Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey don’t want them either! Why is it that these Muslim countries don’t like their fellow Muslims?
My message to Chris Gunness of the special UN agency JUST FOR PALESTINIANS—take them in yourself! Gunness: Israel bad! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7835050.stm
Lebanon has placed prohibitive restrictions on the entry of Palestinians fleeing Syria, making it almost impossible for them to take refuge in the small Mediterranean country.
New measures mean Palestinians fleeing Syria will not be given visas at the border, while those who are already in the country will not have their visas renewed.
In a statement posted on his Facebook page Thursday, Interior Minister Nuhad al-Mashnouq said no visas will be issued at the main Masnaa border crossing.
Palestinians living in Syria who wish to enter Lebanon must first request a visa at the Lebanese embassy in Damascus. The request will be processed by the Lebanese General Security agency.
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Human rights activists say Palestinians in Syria, who once numbered 500,000, have been targeted by both sides in the conflict, making them one of the country’s most vulnerable groups.
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Turkey and Jordan, which also host large numbers of refugees from Syria, have barred entry to Palestinians.
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) said Thursday that, “since 9 am no Palestine refugees from Syria have been allowed to cross into Lebanon”.
Agency spokesman Chris Gunness appealed to Lebanese authorities not to block those in need of sanctuary.
It has been all over the alerts this week. The new state-of-the-art UN refugee camp is open! Camp Azraq will house 130,000 Syrian refugees when it reaches capacity.
When I saw this news, the answer for how to stop the illegal migration of mostly Syrian Sunni’s into Europe (camping in Paris parks!) became apparent. Send them to Azraq where they will live in their own cultural zone until the civil war is over. Sweden should send its whiners there too!
If every illegal alien Syrian was immediately flown to Azraq you can be sure the Syrian migrant tide plaguing Europe would stop immediately. After all, the UN-built camp cost western countries $63 million dollars, might as well get some bang for the buck!
Below is a photo and caption that appears in a Canadian whine-fest op-ed about how Westerners are so mean to Syrians. Is it meanness or just that some Westerners have wised-up to the pattern: Muslims fighting among themselves, become “refugees,” we resettle them for theirsafety, we give them welfare, and they never go home.
A general view of the new Syrian refugee camp of Azraq, which stretches for 9 miles (15 kilometers), and lies 55 miles (90 kilometers) from the Syrian border in Jordan, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Jordan opens a third refugee camp in the middle of the desert for tens of thousands more Syrians expected to flee their country’s civil war, highlighting the staggering effect the refugee problem is having on Syria’s neighbors. The new, sprawling facility complete with solid caravans and a supermarket, is designed to accommodate up to 130,000 people and potentially become the world’s second largest refugee camp. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh) Photograph by: Raad Adayleh , AP
Oh brother! We haveSweden literally destroying itselfwith its wide open borders and these Syrian young men are whining about their miserable lives there.
One of Sweden’s Syrian refugees—how would you like some like him in your home town? A “young professional” for Casper or Gillette Wyoming perhaps? Photograph: Matilde Gattoni
From The Guardian—cold comfort indeed. (Hat tip: ‘pungentpeppers’ who pretty much wrote this post!):
Salah Debas, 23 struggled to arrive in Sweden (smuggled in the luggage hold of a bus), but complains how unhappy he is in Sweden now that he’s there:
“I feel I am just throwing away another year of my life.“Here, on a farm-turned-residential-complex for asylum-seekers, Debas clearly struggles to adapt. “I feel like shit,” he says. “Life here is just pressure, pressure and more pressure.”
There are no jobs for Syrian young men:
The majority of those who make it [to Sweden] are young single men, whose main goal is to quickly find a job and send money to their families back in Syria. This massive movement of people has created a severe housing backlog, forcing Arbetsförmedlingen, the Swedish government’s employment agency (which also assists recent arrivals in finding accommodation and subsidises their rent) to allocate newcomers to remote and isolated villages in the north. Conditions here are tough and work hard to come by.
Big cultural differences between Europe and Syria. (Warning for Wyoming, you want “young professionals”? Don’t look to get them from Syria.):
Many of the young Syrians who arrive here are successful professionals – architects, academics and businessmen – who held a prominent place in Syrian society and, unlike economic migrants, would not have left their country if it wasn’t for the war. “They had a very good position in Syria and they want the same position here. But they will not get it,” explains Elias Kasgawa, a 47-year-old Syrian from Hassake who has lived in Sweden since 1970. Sweden and Syria are worlds apart in terms of food, weather, political systems, gender relationships and the way society is organised. “Syrians are raised in a more hierarchical way. You always have a leader figure, your parents, your relatives or your teacher,” continues Kasgawa, who lives with his family in Sweden and works as in hotel construction. “In Sweden, you don’t have many guidelines. You must develop yourself.”
Bleak outlook:
After an adventurous trip through Greece and Italy that lasted more than a month and cost him around €16,000, Giwara finally settled in Helsingborg, where he now shares a hostel with 10 other immigrants. “We have only one kitchen and one bathroom. Some of these guys have stayed in this place for 15 years,” he says. His face leaves no doubt that he fears the same fate.
‘Pungentpeppers’ directs us to a commenter at The Guardian who said this:
C’mon its not enough to simply give them a free wage, shelter, healthcare, education and citizenship. Sweden has to give them private bathrooms and kitchens in Stockholm and fulfill their career dreams.
Editor’ comment: Here is what I don’t get about these men—why the h*** didn’t they just stay in Syria and fight for whichever side they believe in in their civil war? Someone used a phrase to me the other day in regards to the State Department not holding hearings this year, and I shouldn’t really repeat it in light of my admonition to commenters about foul language. But, this makes one want to swear—these men are “chickens***s!”
We have a huge archive on Sweden (click here). My bet is on Sweden to be the first European country to crash from the immigrant invasion of Europe. Others have their money riding on the UK or France.
