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Canada and U.S. National Security

: Sometimes it feels as if the U.S. has us over to their place only when the two sides of the House are fighting, and one side, left or right, thinks Canada will back it up, according to Globe and Mail. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone It happened again this week at the U.S. Senate Homeland Security meeting, leadingly entitled Canada Fast-Track Refugee Plan: Unanswered Questions and Implications for U.S. National Security. From time to time our esteemed neighbours to the south will say they’d love to see us again, and Canada will say Sure! But then we get there – it just awkward. One imagines Peril From the North: Attack of the Abominable Snow Refugees was at least considered. There sat Canada, metaphorically pushing its food around the plate while arguments flew from both sides of the table, basically all of them ending with: You’re with me on this, right, Canada We’re used to this, of course. Our government sensibly declined to attend this show-inquiry, choosing instead to send a letter outlining our exhaustive refugee-screening process, but needless to say our nation, as a notion, was very much present. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.