Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Gary Doer

Minister Harjit Sajjan: This will be far less laudatory, judging from the list of witnesses invited to testify before the committee next Wednesday: most have already publicly challenged Canada plan to quickly accept 25,000 refugees, according to Huffington Post Canada. The Canadian embassy had also been invited to testify but declined, said ambassador Gary Doer, citing a long-standing practice of avoiding appearances in that partisan domestic political chamber. It sent a note to members of a powerful U.S. Senate committee that has scheduled a meeting next week titled, "Canada Fast-Track Refugee Plan: Unanswered Questions and Implications for U.S. National Security." Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne pose with newly arrived Syrian refugees at Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ont. and the fact that the refugees would be non-citizens for years, and couldn't travel to the U.S. without visas. "Rest assured that no corners, including security screening, are being cut in order to achieve the government objectives," Doer wrote in the letter, sent last week. "Rather, the government has devoted significant resources to this effort." "We're not naive enough to suggest that there not a lot of politics in this." Doer concluded the letter by addressing a long-standing canard that repeatedly surfaces about the 9-11 attacks, noting that the congressional committee that studied the catastrophe concluded none of the hijackers came from Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.