Justins refugee headache

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Will Canada have 25000 before end of the year. Better be cautious.

Germany imposes surprise curbs on Syrian refugees

Angela Merkel has performed an abrupt U-turn on her open-door policy towards people fleeing Syria’s civil war, with Berlin announcing that the hundreds of thousands of Syrians entering Germany would not be granted asylum or refugee status.

Syrians would still be allowed to enter Germany, but only for one year and with “subsidiary protection” which limits their rights as refugees. Family members would be barred from joining them.

Related: Germany receives nearly half of all Syrian asylum applicants

Germany, along with Sweden and Austria, has been the most open to taking in newcomers over the last six months of the growing refugee crisis, with the numbers entering Germany dwarfing those arriving anywhere else.

However, the interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, announced that Berlin was starting to fall into line with governments elsewhere in the European Union, who were either erecting barriers to the newcomers or acting as transit countries and limiting their own intake of refugees.

“In this situation other countries are only guaranteeing a limited stay,” De Maiziere said. “We’ll now do the same with Syrians in the future. We’re telling them ‘you will get protection, but only so-called subsidiary protection that is limited to a period and without any family unification.’”

The major policy shift followed a crisis meeting of Merkel’s cabinet and coalition partners on Thursday. The chancellor won global plaudits in August when she suspended EU immigration rules to declare that any Syrians entering Germany would gain refugee status, though this stirred consternation among EU partners who were not forewarned of the move.

Thursday’s meeting decided against setting up “transit zones” for the processing of refugees on Germany’s borders with Austria, but agreed on prompt deportation of people whose asylum claims had failed.

Until now Syrians, Iraqis and Eritreans entering Germany have been virtually guaranteed full refugee status, meaning the right to stay for at least three years, entitlement for family members to join them, and generous welfare benefits.

Almost 40,000 Syrians were granted refugee status in Germany in August, according to the Berlin office responsible for the programme, with only 53 being given “subsidiary” status. That now appears to have ended abruptly.

An interior ministry spokesman told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees is instructed henceforth to grant Syrian civil war refugees only subsidiary protection.”

De Maiziere described the new regime as “a win for security and order for Germany”.

Related: Winter is coming: the new crisis for refugees in Europe

But the suddenness of the move by the country that has been pivotal in the EU’s biggest ever immigration crisis will ripple across the region with unknown consequences, particularly in the transit countries of the Balkans and central Europe through which hundreds of thousands have been trekking towards Germany.

The German curbs will encourage these countries to establish barriers of their own to the refugee wave. Merkel is also pressing countries such as Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia to establish “reception centres” or camps where refugees can be processed and screened before they reach Germany. The countries are resisting because no one knows what to do with those who are screened and do not pass muster for passage to Germany.

Berlin is the most powerful advocate of sharing the refugee burden across the EU, but has also frustrated and angered several countries with a series of unilateral decisions that have had major knock-on effects across the union.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/germany-imposes-surprise-curbs-on-syrian-refugees/ar-CC2Bcm

[prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil]

Repeat but slightly edited:

"He didn't care one iota about the First Nations people before, but now he uses General Dynamics as fodder to attack anything liberal. It's so obvious, I feel embarrassed for him."

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The group said they had two key demands — that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visit Attawapiskat immediately

Last time Trudeau met with the Chief of Attawapiskat he was accused of a publicity stunt and photo op.

http://community.ebay.ca/t5/Canada-Town-Square/Justin-meets-with-quot-Idle-No-More-quot-Chief-Spence...

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Guess that's why he stayed away today?

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Stephen Harper's son has penned a column criticizing the fiscal policies of Justin Trudeau and his father.

Benjamin Harper's op-ed piece for the Ottawa Citizen, published Wednesday, takes aim at the Trudeaus' stimulus spending and deficits.

The column is co-authored by fellow Queen's University student Ethan Vera. The two write that, "like a defibrillator applied to a patient who hasn’t experienced a heart attack, fiscal stimulus used improperly has negative consequences."

"Under Pierre Trudeau’s governments of the 1970s and 1980s, the country experienced growing deficits, slowing growth, rising unemployment and rising inflation," the two write, adding that the previous Conservative government's use of stimulus spending during the 2008 financial crisis was "appropriate."

Read the full column

Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose tweeted out Harper's column and worked in a dig at the prime minister.

"Here's the son of a former PM, but this one knows economics," she wrote Thursday.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/harpers-son-writes-column-criticizing-trudeaus-spending/ar-BBrL...

[prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil]

An article by Harper's son? Seriously? He just became eligible to vote. Tell him to come back when he's actually lived a life. Did you know that last election all media was informed by the PMs office that only photos of Harper with his children would be allowed. The kids had to be in all the photos! The whole family is a joke. 

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ATTAWAPISKAT, ONT.—A young man in the troubled First Nation of Attawapiskat asked the federal indigenous affairs minister on Monday why his community was living in Third World conditions, while Canada is greeting refugees with open arms.

“Why is it so easy for the government to welcome refugees and offer them first-class citizenship in our country? When will Canada wake up and open its eyes to First Nations communities?”

Bennet takes it in the ear. But didn't or couldn't answer that one. 

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/carolyn-bennett-challenged-over-%e2%80%98third-world%e2%80%99-c...

[prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil]

It's pathetic when some people who dislike Natives and dislike immigrants decide to pit one against the other in order to hopefully discredit the new government while silently praising the little dictator Harper. What did Harper do while in power > NOTHING! But did his supporters say a thing against him then? NO.Why? Because they're cowards.

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Ontario Liberals promise $1-billion for Ring of Fire

Ontario’s Liberal Party has recommitted to spending $1-billion to build a highway to the province’s remote, northern Ring of Fire region, regardless of federal government spending.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-liberals-promise-1-billion-for-ring-of-fire/art...

Wynne needs to get after Justin and get this done. It would open up the ring of fire area rich in precious minerals and provide work for several native reserves.

[pierrelebel]

I am confused.  You start a thread about "Justin".  I guess you mean our Prime Minister the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau.

Now you refer to the provincial government and the Ontario Premier.

You lost both elections.

Move on.

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It has nothing to do with the recent elections and everything to do with Justin managing the 8.4 billion set aside for indigenous people.

Do you not agree that opening up the ring of fire would be a useful project to help the natives in that area, Attawapiskat included?

Wynne can't do it alone.

Did you look at the map in my post?

[prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil]

He's an old man and a lost one with nothing in his life but bigotry and hatred. He has no real purpose.

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Refugee” men now “students” in NB school, “hitting on 14-15 year old girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrXc05jpB9s

Access to freedom of information revealed the truth.

"a proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Jean Chretien

[prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil]

The pathetic excuse for a reporter is Faith Goldy (and that's not even her real name). Ex-reporter for Sun media, or in other words her reports belong in a suitable place, the bottom of a bird cage.

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Some just don't want to believe that when "a proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Jean Chretien

[pierrelebel]

Keep digging Valve. 

You may find a Chinese immigrant who killed a Canadian somewhere, an Italian immigrant who ran a scam, an American who robbed banks, etc... Based on your logic, should we ban all immigration?

Then what should we do when Canadians commit crime? treat them differently because they were born here?

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Pierre, do you believe the information that the school provided Faith with? Yes or no please as there is no in between here either you do or you don't. You would have had to watch the whole video to see the proof provided. Did you? 

Do you wonder why the CBC has not reported this or is it too politically incorrect to do so?

Wonder if the local Liberal MP is aware of this stuff. McCallum wouldn't want this stuff to get out but it has. The Rebel can be a thorn in the side of politicians when they bring out the whole story and truth. The Liberals should be providing a separate teaching venue for these older male Syrians IMO.

Your questions are way off topic and are absurd requiring no response except this one. 

[prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil]

When I was in school we had a group of 'immigrants' arrive. I won't mention the countries they came from but they were all countries that are admired by our people. We even saved them during WW2. They decided they wanted to take over everything. The boys/men spoke their own language and made comments about the girls at school and it was obvious that they were, followed by laughter or hand expressions which showed obviously what they meant. Then the other group and parents decided they were taking over the whole area. They bought more and more land....forced themselves into both political and other areas of the local society. They even attempted to have the historical church torn down in order to build what they wanted. (luckily it was give a historical designation and that ended that idea). But that's just the people I remember.

Go back further to another era when people came to Canada and not only did they steal the land but they took the children of the people who already lived here and they put them into schools to be tortured and terrorized which affected them their whole lives. These immigrants who did these things to these Native families and children were of English and French nationalities. The bottom line is a) NO ONE has clean hands and b) you will always find the 'bad' in any group if you really want to look and look and look and you can be guaranteed that the racists and the bigots will make sure they point them out while they themselves have the same DNA.