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Criteria: Hot-Button Issue and Front Door

criteria: But Mulroney said that unnecessary. "We have a good process now, according to CTV. People don't just walk in the front door here," he told reporters after delivering a speech at the University of Calgary on Tuesday. "They have to meet certain criteria and I think if they meet those criteria, that should be OK." Mulroney, who was the Progressive Conservative prime minister from 1984 until 1993, also diplomatically waded into U.S. politics, where immigration has also been a hot-button issue. "This is a most unusual choice that Americans have to make." He said he knows both Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican opponent Donald Trump personally. Ontario MP Kellie Leitch has floated the idea of applying such a test to potential immigrants as a way to make sure their views on issues like gender equality are aligned with Canadian values. He said his children know Trump children and "anybody who can raise wonderful children like that has got something going for him." But he said in the end, Clinton has more going for her in terms of experience. "Who the more qualified Obviously because of her background, Hillary. But Trump, he said, has "caught a wave" with his hardline stance on immigration, particularly from Mexico and Muslim countries -- a view Mulroney said he doesn't share. She spent her whole life in public policy," he said, predicting that the outcome of the election will turn on who does better in the televised debate in about two weeks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.