[Mike Darancette]

F!?k the CBC.

[RC one]

compassion is a lot easier when it’s paid for by someone else. We’ll see how long Canada’s lasts now.

[clearcarbon]

"Canada needs to come to terms with the migration crisis Trump is creating"

Right, just like Canadians should come to terms with the mess migrating Canadian Geese make.

[anton]

Best election ever.

[BigEdLB]

Prime Minister Mini Me is whining

[T-Bird45]

Winning and grinning here - and a big bowl of Schadenfreude for the CBC!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Canadian officials are too hypocritical and pusillanimous to enforce Canadian law, therefore: Trump’s fault!

Notice the lamestream in the US isn’t covering this because WINNING!

We’ve been hectored and lectured for decades by Canada’s bien pensants. Now that the shoe is on the other foot it’s, blame America first.

[jmacusa]

Suck it up you Canadian hosers, eh?

[jerod]

Also - Notice the inability of CBC readers to comment on this story.... They know that Neil and his commentary would get walloped with way too many comments calling Neil out and blaming Trudeau for Canada’s refugee crises. Cowards!

[Mark17]

Trump and his cohort are shameless.

Yes, we are shameless deplorables. Guilty as charged. I wear their scorn like a badge of honor, and stick it right back up their collective keisters.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

In summary a smug,self righteous, America hating Canadian “journalist” is complaining that potentially a hundred thousand haitian and honduran immigrants are leaving the US for Canada. What’s the problem Neil? Where is your compassion? What’s wrong with immigrants voluntarily fleeing to wonderful Canada from heartless, racist America? Is it because its going to cripple your oh so generous immigration system? Maybe its because they are BLACK! Why does Neil MacDonald hate black people? RACIST!

[LostPassword]

Summary if you don’t want to waste time reading

1) Obama was a saint for inviting Haitian migrants
2) Trump is like Hitler for not wanting then
3) We want Canada to be looked at like Obama as extremely compassionate to migrates
5) But they cause trouble so we don’t want them (but we want you to focus on Trump making them self-deport, not on us wanting them to stay out)

[sphinx]

Meanwhile, of course, they set down roots, found jobs, began new lives and started new families, as human beings do.

Yes. Haitians are hard workers, and they start small businesses. I would swap the residents of our typical urban housing project for an equivalent number of Haitians any day.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The US takes in 20 + percent of the worlds refugees.
End of argument.

[OttawaFreeper]

And he drags Cubans into his diatribe (probably because he can not figure why such people would reject that leftist paradise). CBC people are very petty and small and shallow people as demonstrated by Mr. Macdonald here, needing my tax dollars because there would be no other way they could survive in the real world and marketplace of ideas and dialogue.

[Savage Beast]

"Shameful. Utterly, debasingly, shameful."

So what's Macdonald complaining about? Does he advocate Canada's being as "shameful. Utterly, debasingly, shameful" as the U.S.A.?

If so, he has no legitimate gripe.

If not, he has no legitimate gripe.

Canada has more land than any other nation on earth--and plenty of room for all the world's refugees!

Why not take in them all?

[Savage Beast]

"Canada, sensibly, has invited those Haitians originally granted temporary refuge to apply for permanent residence on compassionate or humanitarian grounds, and has granted most such requests."

So what's the complaint?

Issue an invitation also to all those "celebrities" who vowed to immigrate to Canada if Trump were elected. He was. Take them in.

[Savage Beast]

'a dreadful political quandary is taking form: give the arriving Haitians a free pass, even if they're all just as deserving of compassionate/humanitarian treatment as those who came to Canada after the quake, and Ottawa will only incentivize hundreds of thousands more arrivals at our border.

"If you do an amnesty, if you open that door, you open it to everyone," says Dislodges.'

So what? To do otherwise would be "shameful. Utterly, debasingly, shameful."

[Drew68]

Wait, didn't Prime Minister Trudeau make a big whoop de doo earlier this year over Canada's willingness tot are all he refugees that evil Trump was closing the door on?

What happened to #welcometocanada?

[Savage Beast]

"Since the beginning of the year, some of those people have been showing up at the Canadian border, where they're led to believe there's more hope."

You mean there isn't?

How shameful. Utterly, debasingly, shameful!