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Thinly-Disguised Attack: Refugee Policy and Minister

thinly-disguised attack: It was there when Conservative leadership contender Kellie Leitch called for immigrants to take a so-called Canadian values test, according to Toronto Star. The refugee policy is back in the forefront and Ontario Premier Doug Ford is facing off against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It was there when former prime minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government passed the infamous Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act, a thinly-disguised attack on Muslims. Rene Johnston / Toronto Star In 2016, Canadians congratulated themselves on their generosity after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government admitted thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing civil war. Now refugee policy is back in the forefront. Yet even then, an Angus Reid poll showed that 44 per cent of Canadians opposed the move. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.