Refugee Targets: Refugees and Canada

leadership candidates: That embrace speaks to the worst of Canadian politics, right, centre or left, according to Globe and Mail. Playing politics with the Islamophobia motion in the House of Commons is as mean-spirited as it is self-destroying. What many of the present Conservative leadership candidates seem keen to do is embrace the territory of divisive, wedge politics and seek support of the minority of folks who, whether because of fear, anger or resentment, may live there. There is a risk, if Tories continue to play it badly, that they need not run candidates in most of the urban ridings they lost to the Liberals in 2015. The next election needs to be, both for Canada and for the Conservatives, one about economic choices, foreign and defence policy, reducing the gap between the richest and the poorest and the relevant policy choices Canadians have. Trifling with a motion opposing Islamophobia means keeping one's options open on the bigoted tactical option for the next election plain and simple. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.