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10 hours ago
Diogenes of the Lamp
I guess helping our own people first isn't quite as exciting nor politically correct.
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9 hours ago
Diogenes of the Lamp
Just two articles below this one on CTV's website there is an article that says 38% of Canadians struggles to make ends meet month to month. Why is the focus on spending so much money on so few Syrians while the average Canadian taxpayer is struggling to pay the bills? Why isn't the government helping Canadians? Are the Liberals purposely trying to anger the taxpayers? Very divisive!
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9 hours ago
Chris in Manitoba
Such excitement, take a good look at what has happened in Britain and other European countries before you go to overboard !!
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10 hours ago
Mike
I'm not excited about the arrival of refugees. We have down on luck Canadians to look after before giving these individuals priority.
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9 hours ago
Dilys
We still have people starving here children, seniors and the homeless where were you all the then? Why not put your energies into helping pur own citizens not enough pats on the back? This do gooding is so very misplaced we should take care of our own people.


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10 hours ago
jordi
"Barely contained excitement"!  Stop trying to insult our intelligence!  Reality check please.
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9 hours ago
enoughisenough
If there are currently hundreds of thousands of refugees waiting to be relocated and Canada is taking in 25K-35K, I have to think that there will be more than enough families to fill our quota without taking the'single men' population.  Or will the Liberal government do another turn around and again increase the number of refugees to justify this? My head is spinning from the number of about turns
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9 hours ago
Caper
More like fear than excitement .
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10 hours ago
Pro Hard Work
I guess I would be excited like all these Government employees if I was going to make a killing in overtime and paid time off. How much for the national three day conference alone off hundreds of people in Hamilton. The private sector volunteers will be paid nothing working side by side with Government employees who will be paid handsomely.
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10 hours ago
Ed
"Excitement builds ahead of refugee arrivals"

"Security concern builds ahead of refugee arrivals"

FIFY.


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7 hours ago
Diane
200,000 homeless in Canada and this is what they do. No refugees to Canada. Thank-you
Charity begins at HOME
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8 hours ago
Vanwest
Borrowing money to pay for all of this frankly doesn't get me very excited. Something tells me the deficits will be bigger and take much longer to eliminate than we were promised.
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3 hours ago
rp
The Deficit will never be eliminated now not in you grand children's lifetime
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9 hours ago
Mama
If only we were so excited to help our own victims. 1 in 3 children live in poverty in Manitoba but nobody gives a rats behind because the refugees need taking care of first and foremost. Erks me.
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8 hours ago
Gilbert
Federal government employees will have to work through the holidays. They'll get lots of overtime pay, so taxpayers will pay a fortune. The Liberal Party is great at spending money!
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5 hours ago
Brian in BC
Not to worry, we will recoup part of that through taxes.
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9 hours ago
ECM
We have a huge country with lots of room and we need a population 10X that of what we have now. BUT, we need Immigrants who can contribute to growth over a period of years, not a lot of so-called refugees who won't fight for their own countries but will happily drain our resources. We should be spending those millions to help our own needy people of  whom there are a vast number.
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4 hours ago
Arly56
Families whose homes and town are destroyed  won't fight for their own country?  These are civilians, not soldiers!

Many of these people arriving have skills and can work.  Prepare to be surprised.
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2 hours ago
kimmysan
No otherwise they would not need skills training...ESL,  .. What does it matter they got a job without even trying massive compaines offered jobs to them before Canadians already. Not one ever asked our government did they have skills at all?! Not part of the process.
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2 hours ago
kimmysan
Government ignored the needs already of TFW skilled workers who are studying to get their liscense to Canadian standards and working/paying taxes too. tell me why we need more immigrants/refugees when their is a waiting lists  for skilled trades in Canada? We have kids who are burdened to get these skills and major youth employment on low paying jobs after getting a degree.
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7 hours ago
Mike Burger
All this is about is the Liberals bringing in a voter base for the Liberals. Clearly nothing else matters.
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7 hours ago
Jim Perry
This gov't is playing a dangerous game with this and wasting OUR tax dollars instead of taking care of Canadians first. They are going to regret this action.
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5 hours ago
Sandy
 They don't care, they will just keep bringing in more people to vote for them.
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6 hours ago
Mike
Why wouldn't these great men stay in Syria and fight for their homeland?
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5 hours ago
Snarf
Not everyone is cut out to fight.  Some have had the fight beaten out of them.  If everyone you loved was killed while you watched, you would likely swing to either the "retaliate" or "leave" end of the pendulum.  Hard to honestly say which - the nightmares might sway the decision.
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4 hours ago
Mike
So I guess none of these warriors are cut out to fight?
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4 hours ago
enoughisenough
Given the barbaric type of warfare being waged even I (the harsh critic that I am) can't blame the young men from turning and running - there is no dying with dignity in that part of the world - reminds me of the horrors that were the WW11 concentration camps
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5 hours ago
Sean
Just a few statistics   1out of 7 Canadian Children , 967,000 live in poverty in our country.
38,2 % children in Ontario of single parents live in poverty.  WOW. Our gov't pledged to end poverty among children 25 years ago. But Who Cares? We are a versatile country, we take in 25,000 refugees who are putting us at risk and forget about our own. of course that's a lot of votes next election????
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5 hours ago
Snarf
Yup.  Poverty exists in Canada.  Very few taxpayers, and even fewer conservatives, are willing to let their taxes be used to help others get out of poverty.  Fact is, if we wanted to, we could eliminate poverty, could eliminate involuntary homelessness AND take in these refugees, with no problem.   Are you willing to help?
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5 hours ago
enoughisenough
And most of these refugees will end up on welfare as well

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8 hours ago
Vanwest
I'll be excited so long as we can maintain our status as the most respected country in the world attained during the Harper years. That means proper security checks and actually delivering on promises rather than trying to grab headlines.
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6 hours ago
enoughisenough
So, you haven't been reading the headlines; the libs have more than compensated for headline grabbing attention.  Too bad none of the headlines are positive towards the Canadian population.
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9 hours ago
Vanwest
"For the first time in more than a decade, we have a government committed to refugee protection," Bond said.

It would be even more exciting if people like Professor Bond could keep the politics out of this and focus on the issues. The reality is that the CPC had a very generous refugee policy which the Liberals appear to be maintaining.
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7 hours ago
Rangerfan1
I have no problem helping out the less fortunate. I do it myself all the time. What I do resent is this government who are forgetting about its own citizens who need help and focussing in so much on the refugees. Ontario has cut medical benefits for seniors and have delisted OHIP funded procedures but are ponying up millions so that Wynne can impress Justin.
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7 hours ago
jkyytam1 .
We are spending money we don't have on people we don't know. I feel sorry for all those homeless people on the street, especially in cold weather. Where is our government's compassion for our own?
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5 hours ago
Brian in BC
That is the jurisdiction of our new military, The Salvation Army and they are out on their annual "kettle drive" this week.
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5 hours ago
Elsbeth
What about the one in three children in Manitoba who live in poverty or the elderly who have to choose between medication or food?
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3 hours ago
kimmysan
One homeless man already died in BC Sunshine Coast last week. While all headlines gave them free places to stay, free medical, free education, free furnshings, free donations of warm clothes, food, jobs it is sad...
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8 hours ago
MG
100 million dollars can go a long way creating jobs for native Canadians. I'm tired of my tax dollars being spent bringing immigrants/refugees into our country who will take some of the few jobs available from us. Doesn't seem right. Instead of immigration more should be done to help native Canadians have larger families.
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(edited)6 hours ago
Williams
I wouldn't worry about native Canadians....Trudeau's got their vote locked up with that promise to call an enquiry...maybe?.
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9 hours ago
Lauren Chen
Let's build a new Syria in Canada, problem solved.......
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7 hours ago
Williams
That's what France did...now look at what's been happening....if you don't have jobs for your own population where are you going to find jobs for these refugees?.
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5 hours ago
Sean
They will have $1200.00 month free plus child tac credits etc/ etc.
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5 hours ago
Sean
No glory in helping out here at home, don't get your picture on TV or interviews of how wonderful and charitable they are. No money for the VON  this organization has been around for 100 years and they are closing offices. Old age pension that Canadians paid for 50 + years paying $564.87 a month. Disgraceful. What happens to all the CPP that is never paid out as people die before they can collect?
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4 hours ago
Johnny B
They  are  called  actuarial  tables  which  account  for  average  life  expectancy .  What  amount  would  you  suggest  for  an  old  age  pension ?
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3 hours ago
rp
They deserve a lot more than what they are getting
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3 hours ago
kimmysan
They aren't even giving any other Charity barely a mention for raising awarness for homeless or people trying to help them, or the children, who need help right now. You really have to look for them, especially if it's about Canadians helping their own. Poor single mom's house burnt down in Winnipeg she lost everything. Another lost a custom wheelchair for her disabled child. It's so sad.
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8 hours ago
NB Guy
Well some someone, anyone tell us what the real guidelines are?  Apparently the ministers and the person supposedly in charge (I assume that is what the special co-ordinator is) are not on the same page.
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5 hours ago
Les
Can our poor family's that have nothing , looking for their next meal, apply for refuge statue so they can get the same as the refuges coming into our country, I don't think native Canadians in need would get the red carpet treatment .
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6 hours ago
ron@vic
No single males will be coming, wait yes maybe, wait yes single males will be coming, is Mulcair's method of governing catching on with Trudeau. Maybe Trudeau's camp should start thinking about notifying United Nations and red Cross about what it is they are going to do. It would be challenging and electrifying if there was no plan. Trudeau's way of doing business.
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9 hours ago
KiSom
Sorry to burst the Cons Fear Factor club, but it has been proven that females can be terrorist too, so it's not just men.
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7 hours ago
Rangerfan1
Nice try. We all know that the vast majority of terrorists are single men of a certain age.
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3 hours ago
rp
So you are saying we have twice as much to worry about thanks for nothing
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4 hours ago
Coolio Dude
The Libs will donate 100 million dollars to the UN...what for? Our people need that money for public transportation, hospitals, schools and so on. This Liberal government did warn that they'll be going on deficit for a while and they are keeping their promise. Who on earth voted for a government that wants to spend spend spend and then print more money. GST and other taxes will go up.
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9 hours ago
Mike
What great move. Sarcasm
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5 hours ago
Doug Melvin
Merry Christmas Canada!
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6 hours ago
Gary Belleville
Wow, the hatred, fear and ignorance in these comments is astounding. How un-Canadian. Shame on you all.
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5 hours ago
Elsbeth
No it isn't. It is frustration that many Canadians are suffering and Trudeau is not announcing anything to alleviate their struggles including: Children who go to school hungry, the elderly who can't afford their medication, First Nations without clean drinking water, the unemployed, the homeless etc.
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5 hours ago
Sprocket
Oh please. 3 months ago those people now crying "Think about the starving children and the homeless!" were all too happy to whine about social assistance being a form of wealth redistribution.

Cry some more crocodile tears, but arguments like yours have nothing to do with helping the homeless, or First Nations, and everything to do with attacking Trudeau.
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3 hours ago
kimmysan
Seriously... These stats have been atrocious for decades.... Healthcare, poverty, homeleness, seniors, veterans, youths, jobs etc etc...It's about our government not fixing these problems and making them worst, cutting programs, cutting essentials ....They have allowed it to get this bad and now throwing it in Canada's face by doing 1 priority immediately REFUGEES! Shameful!
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4 hours ago
Johnny B
Wow  ......  the  very  issues  Conservative  had  NOTHING  to  say  about  in  the  election  campaign .  OK , now  give  us  a  list  of  your  recommended  social  programs . No  Conservative  has  a  suggestion  to  date  ......
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3 hours ago
kimmysan
Nor has NDP/PCP/ LIBERALS none of these parties wanted to fix any of these problems.... GEEZ!
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3 hours ago
kimmysan
A choice between food in their kids belly/roof over their heads/clothing/bills/gas for work if they have a job anymore meds, basics of living... not once have a heard these bleeding heart really give a hoot about the Canadians, they rather defend strangers instead for our fellow Canadians.
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5 hours ago
enoughisenough
Clearly you have the funds required to be a REAL Canadian?
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3 hours ago
rp
Your political correctness means nothing to the hunger or the homeless or the sick or me
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3 hours ago
Michelle Grixti-Little
You are so right so many mean people assuming the worst. .I have volunteered my time as a translator for these human beings who bleed the same color as you or i
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10 hours ago
Swifthawk
I'm actually excited for their arrival too.  I just can't imagine the fear and hardships these people have had to go through up to this point and to finally be at the end of it?  I can't imagine the relief they would feel to finally get here and way from there.
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9 hours ago
Diogenes of the Lamp
Especially with their cell phones after living in Jordan far from the war zone, right Swifthawk?
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6 hours ago
enoughisenough
Yup - cell phones - and who will be paying for the long distance time on those when they are here - and the extended families are still over there.
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7 hours ago
enoughisenough
Is that after they learn what -30C feel like?  I think most will be finding safe harbours in warmer climes....Vancouver comes to mind for it's moderate temps.
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5 hours ago
DugGo
Hardships?? No charger for the smart phone no service area oh the pain of it all
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3 hours ago
haveaniceday
Can you imagine the howling from the progressives and media if the government was bringing in loads of devout demonstrative Christians who proclaimed their intention to promote their faith in Canada.
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3 hours ago
Cameron52
The goalposts move yet again.
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8 hours ago
AM
I don't care what sexuality they are or what their family situation is - will they assist in bettering the thing we call Canada? If so, I don't care about anything else.
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6 hours ago
enoughisenough
It still remains to be seen what skill sets are coming; none have worked for approx. 2 years and their trade skills may not be up to our standards and will need re-training and re-certifying, I suspect.
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3 hours ago
rp
First a lot will have to learn English or french then go to school for who knows then trade school Yes a big help to the economy.. Our graduates now have no jobs and companies can not get out of Canada fast enough. Now with the carbon tax coming the power rates sky rocketing we have some bad times on the way.
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9 hours ago
Swifthawk
All of you people complaining about how Canadians are being ignored here, where have been the last 100 years?  Homelessness and seniors facing hardships is not a new thing in this country and has been going on for quite sometime.  However, these refugee's are new and we bear some responsibility to help them.  So, where have you been all these years, why are you only speaking up now?
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7 hours ago
jjjoverthere
Well Swifthawk, maybe you haven't been paying attention but people have been speaking out about those things for a long time. Maybe it's time we got excited about helping our seniors and homeless Canadians instead of people from foreign countries. That's something I'd be proud of fixing.
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3 hours ago
kimmysan
That is true I can pull up articles from since 1990 and data stats and YES, I donate as much, as I can every year to these people suffering in Canada. It's the least I can do for them when they helped me., a long time ago, as a refugee.
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5 hours ago
Ginger
I think that the issue of so many refugees coming in a short span of time has made people speak up. I know that many of us have been helping the less fortunate for many years by volunteering, giving clothes/food to the homeless. I personally do not have funds to help with housing so if the government has all this money to help support refugees, people feel that our homeless should also be helped.
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9 hours ago
Lauren Chen
Where?
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10 hours ago
Johnny B
There  will  be  a  lot  of  happy , refreshing  stories  of  Canadians  extending  warmth  and  kindness  to  the  less  fortunate .  It  will  be  the  true  Canada - not  the  Canada  projected  by  a  few  bitter  Conservatives  who  are  anxious  to  mine  all  the  anti Liberal  rhetoric  they  can  fabricate.
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9 hours ago
Cornuts
Whose the one with the bitter rhetoric?
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4 hours ago
Johnny B
No  bitterness  here .  You  are  the  one  unhappy  with  Canada.  You  see  only  gloom . I  am  in  the  appreciative  camp.  Time  to  lift  the  veil  of  negativity.
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8 hours ago
Vanwest
Give it a rest please. Canada was the most respected nation in the world under Harper. Hopefully we don't slip too badly.
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10 hours ago
Just Sayin'
As a Canadian I proudly support what our new government is doing to help the crisis. These refugees just want to have a normal life where they don't have to live in fear everyday. How can we as Canadians disagree with that...when did some Canadians become so selfish!
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8 hours ago
Justin
Canadians have a long proven legacy of having helped in many situations and you have no right to guilt or shame Canadians for their perspectives on this particular issue.
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5 hours ago
enoughisenough
Do you mean refugees like the pregnant woman and her family who tried to 'reclaim' refugee status after already claiming status as a refugee in the states - but found out that health care was free here  - and would have to pay for the same care there??? Even border services didn't fall for the scam!
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7 hours ago
Mom_To_2
Yes, many of us are struggling economically, but it is RIDICULOUS for us to compare ourselves to Syrian refugees. Shame on those who do. Try walking a day in their shoes. I have to wonder how many people who post on here are children or grandchildren of refugeesimmigrants. It's a good thing the public opinion wasn't against your family coming in, eh?
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6 hours ago
enoughisenough
Refugees with cell phones; if they have nothing where are they getting the money for air time?

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3 hours ago
kimmysan
Every other countries who paid billions in donations in aid to help them and to battle for their freedom.. Guess we know how that was paid back to the country host that welcomed them and took them in.
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6 hours ago
Elsbeth
Shame on those who do not acknowledge or care that one in three children in Manitoba live in poverty, or children across Canada continue to go to school hungry, or many seniors cannot afford their medications or must choose between this or food. as to "family coming in", mine has been here for over 300 years and built and paid for this country.
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3 hours ago
kimmysan
Not so ridiculous when you see some of these children walk in cold with barely decent shoes to keep their feet warm, or homeless who have no where to go some are seniors/veterans on those streets, or single parents that go hungry to make sure their kids have food, or FN with no clean drinking water for over 15 yrs, When are seniors are being mistreated in hospital care or barely eating.. OMG
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3 hours ago
kimmysan
Hey I came here that way...But it never detered me from helping the Canadians it's called RESPECT for the country who tries to help you show back to the kindness of that country . They come first in my mind and I sat in a refugee camp for 3 yrs and my parents got not once of help but from our sponsors for 1 yr.  These refugees are no more special than anyone else suffering in the world.
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8 hours ago
Lucky
granted a lot of "our own people" live in poverty.  However, they will survive and have not been displaced by war.  This is not about countries vs countries.  Humanity is the theme here.
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6 hours ago
enoughisenough
I guess you haven't heard about 'the war on poverty' that wreaks havoc all over the world.
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8 hours ago
Aaron in Waterloo
Welcome to all Sriyan refugees. We know most of you have witnessed a horrible war. You are leaving your birth place to start a new life here in Canada. Please leave the hatred behind, let your children enjoy Canada and contribute in a positive way for Canada. Good luck and welcome to Canada.
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3 hours ago
Scott Thomas
Women and Children yes, single men no!
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3 hours ago
John Parkinson
someone has to look after all the families without a husband or a single female
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4 hours ago
kimmysan
"We want to provide them with protection as soon as possible."

Implying something?
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7 hours ago
Sheri MacDonald
A few refugees are coming and all of a sudden everyone cares about the homeless and our seniors - where was any of this empathy 6 months ago?
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5 hours ago
Ginger
The empathy and help by volunteering, donating clothes/food has always been there for the homeless, but most of us do not have the funds to help house them. So if the government has all this funding available for refugees, we are asking why not also help our homeless to get on their feet.
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3 hours ago
kimmysan
It's been going on forever the empathy if you bothered to read and google it..The call for HELP has come unheeded for decades upon decades... Open your door and look around it's been facing people every minute of the day of your existence!
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8 hours ago
Saskboy
I find it kinda funny about complaints about helping our people first when for years they have been ignored. No one was saying raise my taxes then.  But now every second poster is bringing them up. All three major parties made promises on bringing them in on their platforms. But that was before Paris. Now people are afraid and looking for excuses to cover up that fear with excuses
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6 hours ago
enoughisenough
Who says we have ignored....I don't know about you but I'm just about tapped out on trying to support and fund the homeless, seniors, single parent families, etc., etc...Speak for yourself, Sask boy.
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3 hours ago
kimmysan
WOW have you looked at all taxes in 20 decades ...Are people that non chalant or just not bothering to see how much our taxes have grown and the gap between classes and the issues are getting worse...v