Posted on 06/29/2018 11:32:53 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for refugees rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump: Canada will take you.
He also intends to talk to Trump about the success of Canada’s refugee policy.
Trudeau reacted to Trump’s ban of Muslims from certain countries by tweeting Saturday: “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada.”
Trudeau also posted a picture of him greeting a Syrian child at Toronto’s airport in late 2015. Trudeau oversaw the arrival of more than 39,000 Syrian refugees soon after he was elected.
A spokeswoman for Trudeau said Trudeau has a message for Trump.
“The Prime Minister is looking forward to discussing the successes of Canada’s immigration and refugee policy with the President when they next speak,” Trudeau spokeswoman Kate Purchase told The Associated Press.
Trudeau is expected to the visit the White House soon.
The prime minister has refrained from criticizing Trump to avoid offending the new president. More than 75 percent of Canada’s exports go to the U.S.
Toronto Mayor John Tory also weighed in, noting that the city is the most diverse in the world.
“We understand that as Canadians we are almost all immigrants, and that no one should be excluded on the basis of their ethnicity or nationality,” Tory said in a statement.
Trump signed a sweeping executive order Friday that he billed as a necessary step to stop “radical Islamic terrorists” from coming to the U.S. Included is a 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen and a 120-day suspension of the U.S. refugee program.
Trump’s order singled out Syrians for the most aggressive ban, ordering that anyone from that country, including those fleeing civil war, are indefinitely blocked from coming to the United States.
The Syrian refugee crisis became a major issue in Canada’s election in late 2015 because of the haunting image of a drowned 3-year-old Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach. The boy had relatives in Canada.
Trudeau’s tweet quickly received more than 150,000 likes. “Welcome to Canada” trended in Canada.
I laughed.
Enjoy! you can keep them. Have fun!
I’m confused. He was just here in the USA (or one of the Canadian representatives was here) asking for our border states to reduce the number of refugees running into Canada.
This was just last week. Yet he continues with the open doors policy. Keep going then. Getting closer to Merkel-Madness every day.
All aboard.
Trudeau is a moron. It seems to run in that family.
Hell yeah! 40 million coming your way!
Wow, what a fool.
Problem solved.
Get to it.
Every sane Canadian, both of them, just got a sickening, sinking feeling.
Hope they like those trucks of tolerance.
When Nixon was talking to Mao he said, “Will you allow immigration to the US?” Mao smiled and said, “Sure. How many would you like? Three million, four, five?”
Well, grab yourself some eyebrow glue, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and sit tight. They’re coming your way.
‘Diversity is our strength’, said no one with any sense. Ever.
WINNING!!!!!
:)
In other words, "We'll buy your lies and tall tales, hook, line and sinker...Canada will welcome you regardless of your criminal background, jihadism, gang membership, and communicable diseases. Diversity is the death knell of Canada."
#WelcomeToCanada...#WeLoveTakingItUPThePoopShoot.
That’s a scholarly looking bunch.
Enjoy the jihadis, dipstick.
Might want to look at Germany and Sweden before you move on that thought, buddy. It makes you feel good, sure thing, and yet ....
Beep beep beep virtue-signal engaged by Trudeau. It’s going to pay off bigly for Canadians right?
Just take your own illegals back, that will do the trick.
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