Hey Justin I am a Canadian who cannot find a job ,along with 1,000,000 plus other Canadians .Your government just allowed 27,000 unknown Syrian refugees into Canada .Meanwhile Canadians are homeless ,living on the streets and short of food .You are paying $375 a month for rent to people on Welfare .You have just brought in refugees while Canadians are suffering and there is an affordable housing crisis .What ? Are you going to do for Canadians ?
jessica
+Stone Pestal
there's not really a reason why we have to choose between helping existing canadians and getting people out of a situation of imminent genocide. i don't want to stop the flow of refugees, but i would like to see more resources put into subsidized housing.
the thing you have to understand, though, is the way the division of powers in the country works. it's not 100% a provincial responsibility. but, it's about 90% a provincial responsibility. trudeau can basically do one thing, here, and it's write a check. if you're concerned about the low level of assistance, or the shoddy state of subsidized housing, you need to contact your mpp and your local city council representative.
jessica
+Karl Hans
if the refugees we're admitting were in support of sharia law, they'd have stayed in the region.
the governments of syria and iraq, pre-catastrophe, were both secular. organizations that outlawed groups that supported sharia law. you could be executed for joining the muslim brotherhood, which is actually relatively moderate.
the historical roots of the assad and hussein regimes were in atheistic socialism, not islamic fundamentalism. this has been the conflict in the region for decades.
the refugees are more likely to be communists than fundamentalists.