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Opening Syrian refugee 'floodgates' too risky for Canada: Harper
CTV News ^ | September 8, 2015 | Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press

Posted on 09/08/2015 8:33:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Stephen Harper cited security concerns on Tuesday for his refusal to commit to doing more to help refugees from the Middle East.

As provinces pledged their own funds to help alleviate the crisis, Harper deflected a question about whether he would send more staff to the region to help an already over-stretched bureaucracy.

Security is paramount and every potential refugee needs careful screening, Harper said.

"We cannot open the floodgates and airlift tens of thousands of refugees out of a terrorist war zone without proper process," Harper said in a Facebook question and answer session. "That is too great a risk for Canada."

Screening refugees is partially done through data such as digital photographs, fingerprints and other biometric data. Visa officers in Beirut began using biometrics in November 2014 but struggled to get going, according to documents obtained under Access to Information....

(Excerpt) Read more at ctvnews.ca ...


TOPICS: Canada; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; banrefugees; canada; egypt; facebook; iran; israel; jordan; lebanon; refugees; refuserefugees; russia; syria; syriarefugees
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To: LongWayHome

I love Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. And I have always wanted to visit the former republic of Yugoslavia.


41 posted on 09/08/2015 9:46:14 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: lulu16

Another tragedy from the “do gooders” was the breakup of Yugoslavia.


42 posted on 09/08/2015 9:46:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lulu16

I went to Europe once, buy it was a quick trip through England, France & Italy....must say Rome was amazing. Especially going to the Colosseum.


43 posted on 09/08/2015 9:48:30 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Secret Agent Man

I didnt mean “you” personally. I should have pointed that out.


44 posted on 09/08/2015 9:51:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

That’s alright. You brought up a valid point. Anyone who does this needs to take into account their ability to protect themselves.....lol, I’m too over the hill to leave at this point.


45 posted on 09/08/2015 9:56:26 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Canada already has too many Muslims and he knows it.


46 posted on 09/08/2015 9:58:27 PM PDT by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Canada has too many Muslims, and by the time Obama is done, we’ll have way too many.


47 posted on 09/08/2015 9:59:28 PM PDT by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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To: Bulwyf

Western separatist since the 90’s. If Americans knew about Canada’s real DIRTY SECRET of it’s existence in the form of equalization payments, they’d make a mockery of the country. Hell, I was born in Sask. God if You knew how much i prayed that QC would secede in 95 so it would be over with...


48 posted on 09/08/2015 10:01:56 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: dfwgator

The Balkans as one sage said, maybe it was Lawrence Durrell, were like trying to balance kittens on a tray.

I tried to get into Croatia once, but they could not guarantee the air space was safe. I think I lost that pocket of time once again. Yugoslavia, I hardly knew ye.


49 posted on 09/08/2015 10:07:49 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: LongWayHome

The work of the Romans, show they were titans among men.


50 posted on 09/08/2015 10:08:52 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: lulu16
Even the UN is admitting that 75% of these "refugees" are men, military age by the videos and not all from conflict zones. Lots of black africans rioting in Italy.

This is a manufactured "crisis" just like our southern border only the consequences are worse.

51 posted on 09/08/2015 10:10:55 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: lulu16

Rome was my favorite city. Love Paris & London of course.


52 posted on 09/08/2015 10:11:39 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: lulu16

That reminds me that Trump likes to present himself as a tough guy but he has not mentioned how he will handle the UN should he become POTUS. He will probably kiss UN ass as U.S. presidents since Truman have done.


53 posted on 09/08/2015 10:30:51 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: lulu16

>I had a girlfriend move there, Australia, this spring, their winter. She became pregnant with twins....<

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I would definitely not have admitted that.


54 posted on 09/08/2015 10:36:06 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stephen Harper aka Captain Obvious. The ISIS leadership on numerous occasions have stated they would use these migrants as both a psychological weapon against the west and to sneak through their operatives. It’s almost like the people who were shocked when Hitler did everything he said he would do. The same deal with Iran and its stated intentions. I for one won’t be shocked when they do exactly what they said they will do. They aren’t western politicians who do the opposite of what they say.


55 posted on 09/08/2015 11:23:55 PM PDT by JohnCorvinus
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To: LongWayHome

If I thought I could have the self-defense ability I have here, I’d consider it. Course I have family here that kinda needs me.


56 posted on 09/08/2015 11:26:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Will be a disaster for the US as well. It's a European problem, if refugees are a serious problem they should take military action to stabilize the region.

57 posted on 09/09/2015 6:54:50 AM PDT by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I read the article, but I want them ALL moved out!!

I don’t want muslims, mexicans, latinos, venzies....

I only want people who went thru the American classes to pass the citizenship test and take the oath to become and uphold American way of life...

That life being, getting a job, buying or renting a place to live, using public transportation if they can’t afford a car of their own...having their own health insurance for them and their families...

If they can’t do that, then stay out of America...this is the way it’s always been done, this is the way it should be done...if you want to come to our schools, become a citizen first, graduate then go into the field you have graduated from and live like normal American citizens...or leave..

We do NOT cave into your ideas if you don’t like this or you don’t like that...its OUR country, you live here because it is OUR country or you leave...simple....

So pack your bags free loaders, spongers, uninvited scum and leave, we don’t want you here!!!


58 posted on 09/09/2015 7:21:45 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("It's the hard working, tax paying citizens of the United States that are suffering..."Go TRUMP 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mark Steyn on talk radio this morning said that this wave of 'refugees' is nothing like after WWII where whole families moved. Mark said that the numbers now show that 75% of those flooding into Europe are young males.
59 posted on 09/09/2015 7:29:03 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t the Chi-coms have entire cities that stand empty? Send ALL the “refugees” there. They need the population.

On the other hand, I don’t know if people in the west would like the I-Phones they would build.....with the built in time bomb thingy.


60 posted on 09/09/2015 8:29:49 AM PDT by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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