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Originally Posted by chemgear
Pretty much everybody I saw or read about in Canada were legitimately concerned and brought up reasonable points about how the government wasn't giving details, muzzling and not listening to people in the process, and blindly locked into an artificial date for whatever reason.
I'm glad our government thought the process through, listened to the experts that their artificial deadline wasn't realistic, that they're still going to meet their target and commitment in a reasonable short time, and responded to the concerns of the Canadian public. Frankly, they should have done it sooner. It's damn good we're going to be able to bring in 25,000 refugees - we're damn blessed to be in a situation to be able to do it. Perhaps once we fulfill this commitment, we can look and evaluate to see if we can expand the program and the refugee numbers.
The instant banshee wails of "you're a racist", "you hate muslims", "Brad Wall is a ######bag" were GD embarrassing. Sane, rational Canadians bringing up legitimate concerns doesn't equate to burning muslims at the stake or slamming our borders shut.
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Being sane or giving off the air of rationality does not preclude one from xenophobia and racism. Painting a picture of the majority just being "good ole boys" meaning well is misleading, you know that.
As for the bolded I'd be curious about where that occurred (considering the Liberal government has been strongly opposed to any hint of 'muzzling' experts), or how a new government would collect available information from reputable sources through the noisy mix of rationality and racism and use it to restructure their policy in less than a month.