Progressive Conservative

: Add to this news from abroad about the rising tide of desperate people, 60 million now, internally displaced in their homeland or refugees from the IS, civil wars or cruel dictators, flooding Europe and other places, according to Brandon Sun. Then mix in climate change, high unemployment in some places , a quadrupling of the planet population in just 100 years, unstable economies and the shift in wealth so one per cent of the world population has as much as everyone else added together. The increasing strictures imposed by the Harper government are causing a spate of heart-rending stories in the media, bringing the topics to public attention. And don’t forget the flame-fanning ubiquity of the Internet. Successive governments, whether Progressive Conservative, Liberal and now Conservative, have gradually changed the immigration tone. You haven’t been able to sponsor your relatives as immigrants to Canada for more than 20 years, unless they are within a nuclear-family definition Is this a recipe for more revolutions, as experienced in Europe beginning in 1789 Is democracy itself threatened as fewer voters participate, as governments such as Canada make it harder to qualify for citizenship . Is Canada strategy the right one as we gradually raise the drawbridge, making Canada less welcoming to migrants It didn’t begin with the Harper government. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.