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Old 07-15-2009, 04:33 PM   #116
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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan View Post
The Czechs are retaliating:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/...c-visa015.html
Can we call this a fiasco yet?
I'm not sure about the Czech Republic portion of this story but if you look at the refugee claimant figures for the 2004-2007 period, there has been an increase in the neighbouhood of 50% per year of the number of claimants from Mexico over that period. If you accept the 10000 figure that Kenny gave for the 2008 number, that's another 50% increase - every year for five years. These kinds of increases aren't sustainable, regardless of the portion of the total number.

I think that the problem lays with how generous and open to potential abuse the Canadian system is but the Conservatives would be painted as racist xenophobes if they ever attempted to restrict the system to solve the same problem.
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