Stephen Harper and Europe North America

American Canadian-occupied Iraq Afghanistan: As thousands continue fleeing war and persecution in a desperate attempt to find safety in Europe and North America, media and NGOs alike have improperly termed the daily stories of suffering, heartbreak and death at sea a "refugee crisis." Such language improperly places blame on those seeking asylum, and shifts attention from what even Stephen Harper ventured earlier this month were the "root causes" behind the mass movement of humanity, according to Rabble. Harper ill-fated journey into the world of sociology -- he blamed ISIS for everything and then claimed bombing people was the answer -- was as off-track as blaming Martians for climate change. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. He never mentioned the brutal Assad regime in Syria, the torture chambers of American and Canadian-occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, the bombing of Libya , the racist government of Hungary , and many other far more significant factors. On a larger scale, Canadian economic, climate, military and corporate policies are contributing to intolerable conditions around the globe, whether it mining companies terrorizing Central American Indigenous communities with armed mercenaries, supplying weapons to the world most brutal regimes , tar sands exploitation leading to climate catastrophe, or propping up dictatorships like the regime in Egypt. Root causes If we are to look at root causes, the often horrific images filling our Facebook feeds and daily newspapers should force us to look at the real crisis: our discriminatory and unfair immigration and refugee system, and the many ways in which global barriers are created through xenophobic laws, border walls with barbed wire, and a discriminatory discourse that frames refugees as security risks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.