Calgary Catholic Immigration Society and Canada

Fairborz Birjandian: There hardly a group of immigrants or refugees on earth less likely to bring sympathy for IS to Canada than families who have been the victims of the depredations wreaked by the vicious terrorists on their home country As Calgary Catholic Immigration Society CEO Fairborz Birjandian pointed out in an interview with the CBC, if potential terrorists enter Canada from other countries -- and there are bound to be some, for that is the price we pay for living in an interconnected world -- they are far more likely to arrive with visas as students, tourists or people doing business, according to Rabble. Moreover, some potential religious terrorists here in Canada are certain to be home grown, and not all of those will be members of the same religion. But cynical exploitation of this issue for partisan ends by conservative politicians like Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, who certainly knows better, is something else entirely -- deeply mischievous in the darkest sense of that word. As noted, Wall and other conservative politicians who wish to exploit the tragedy in Paris for partisan reasons are well enough informed to understand the truth of this perfectly well. Gregg Abbott said Monday, although his time would be better spent working on measures to keep the refugees safe from heavily armed Texan civilians through sensible gun-control measures. Wall, it is said here, is practicing the same kind of politics of division as did former prime minister Stephen Harper in the lead up to the October 19 federal election, and as the gaggle of Republican governors south of the Medicine Line who say their states will refuse to take refugees from the violence in Syria, as is the generous tradition in both the United States and Canada. "We are working on measures to ensure... that Texans will be kept safe from those refugees," Texas Gov. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.