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Originally Posted by fredr123
All of this costs the Canadian government a lot of money (how much? jolinar thinks it's a lot, others think it's less).
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Bogus refugee claims are costly--Kenney says processing just one claim sets Canadian taxpayers back $29,000.When these claims clog up the system, wasting time, money and human resources, it means that legitimate refugee claims get backlogged and take that much longer to deal with. That's patently unfair to those in dire need of help
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http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/vi...273/story.html
I am also trying to find a story that has a very important tidbit in it. Basically is says that there are no safe countries in the world from a refugee perspective. Most democracies have a list of other countries that they don't take refugees as the countries are deemed to be a safe environment. Canada has no such list.
Here it is....
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On the basis of widely used international standards, nations that receive refugees for permanent resettlement have drawn up lists of humane countries from whose nationals they refuse to even consider a refugee claim. Other countries, for example, will not allow a U.K. citizen, a Canadian or a Swede to lodge a refugee claim. The reason is obvious: These are democratic jurisdictions with good human rights records and do not persecute their citizens. In refugee parlance, they are described as “safe countries of origin.”
When the legislation establishing the IRB came into effect, however, the refugee lobby was successful in pressuring the government into not declaring any other countries to be “safe.” The objective was to ensure that our door would be left as wide open as possible. As a result, our refugee-determination system has been constantly clogged, and at times overwhelmed, by thousands of claims from people whom no other country would permit to register an asylum application.
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So perhaps it is time to make a "safe" list and alleviate, instantly, any refugee claims from those countries.