Chqr Calgary: Lorne Gunter

Legitimate Refugees Dept: ROB BREAKENRIDGE , 770 CHQR Calgary: We can certainly sympathize if not directly relate to those who are fleeing persecution in their homelands, and wish to come here as a refugee. Canada, of course, is quite welcoming of legitimate refugees as we should be. However, we do not want to see our generosity abused and our country exploited. In order to prevent that from happening, we may need to take a much tougher stance than we re currently prepared to take, according to The Star. LORNE GUNTER , Edmonton Journal : At the end of the day, then, it will be too hard to tell the good guys from the bad. And the risk of guessing wrong is too great for Canada. So we have no choice but to send them back, quickly and jOHN MOORE , Newstalk 1010: As the countries of origin of our newcomers became more diverse, each new wave was regarded as lazy, grasping, unwashed and unwanted. Trace your family s roots and not only are you guaranteed to find an immigrant but also likely an ethnic or cultural community that was denigrated in its time. And how soon we forget it. DAVID WARREN , Ottawa Citizen : The poor souls aboard the Sun Sea were unlikely to have much, if any understanding of the Canadian circumstances into which they were projecting themselves. Nor can they be blamed for receiving all kinds of material assistance at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer, for which they did not specifically ask. Their own interests are immediate, and exclude those of their new host nation; after all, their first choice for landing was Australia. Yet the whole process by which they were delivered was a cynical manipulation, of an immigration system designed to be cynically manipulated. As reported in the news.
@t refugee canada, newstalk 1010