I think that I, along with a lot of other people, had a lot more confidence that Jason Kenney was going to come away from his Australian fact-finding mission with a little more bread and butter than the limp offering he’s dishing up:
The federal government has come up with a plan to deal with “mass arrivals” of asylum seekers from places like Sri Lanka, the country of origin for 492 people who arrived here last month on a barely seaworthy vessel. The “tough new rules” to deter human smugglers are based on designating a new class of asylum seeker in order to differentiate between a single claimant and the mass arrivals.
So what do these new hard-hitting rules entail? What sort of sweeping changes have been made to deter these human smugglers from crash-landing in the ports of British Columbia with boatloads of would-be beneficiaries of Canadian health care and welfare?
Kenny got a 2 week vacation in Australia. I guess they don’t have email or fax there. He had to go in person.
Let’s face it, the Conservative MPs have lost their way. Remeber when they were against pensions, first class plane tickets, travelling junkets and limousines. Now they are in government they enjoy all that largesse.It is so disheartening as a voter to be fooled again.
I knew this weasel was not going to do anything. Him and his useless manipulative,boss are no better than the alternatives on offer. They just talk the talk and think that’s all they need to do to get their sheeple in line.
“Let’s face it, the Conservative MPs have lost their way.” Yeah, true dat. I’m going to the revolutionary school of reality at this point, and giving props to Nikolai Chernyshevsky.
“The Worse The Better.”
Harper needs to go. Let the doofus unreconstructed Liberals screw things up for a while and maybe an honest, courageous, and fiscally sane, alternative might yet arise. And if not it’s still better than this collection of timid time servers.This Government is running on fumes and the only things it can seemingly fiddle with are the census and guns. Hard decisions — not so much.
Iffy and his coalition of losers will vote down any real change to our abuse-friendly refugee system.
The only way Paul Martin could be torn away from ‘doing fund raising lunches’ with the Tamil Tigers, was to kick him and his thug hugging government to the curb.
Lib-Dip-Bloc MPs attend rallys and marches in sympathy for their votes.
The govt will never get even one of the coalition of losers parties on side for real immigration/refugee/citizenship change.
I think the real reason is that our elites love cheap and desperate labour and they welcome these happenings that the middle class pay for. There is no incentive to stop the ‘boat people’ so it isn’t going to happen unless the public gets really pissed off about it.
We should be operating on the “KISS” theory with these boat people. Load them back on the boat they came in fuel it up and explain how simple it would be to sink them if they come back again. Very simple no confusion and easy to accomplish if they try to come back.
The thing about your theory Bob, in the past, the smugglers have or have threatened to toss the refugees over board.
They don’t get paid if they don’t deliver, so they don’t care.
The prime minister also does not appear terribly serious:
“Prime Minister rejects proposal to detain ‘mass arrival’ refugee claimants
Stephen Harper wants new policy to focus on ringleaders of human smuggling, rather than migrants”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/prime-minister-rejects-proposal-to-detain-mass-arrival-refugee-claimants/article1717639/
Mark
Ottawa