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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Again, according to you less than 1% are causing issues. Do you have any statistics regarding how many applicants are being turned away due to safety concerns or are you satisfied with jumping to conclusions based on partial information?
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The stats are readily available here (note this is refugee claims and not the normal immigration process)
https://irb.gc.ca/en/statistics/prot...ges/index.aspx
Eritrea has a very high acceptance rate of refugee applicants. It's very easy to claim refugee status from such a totalitarian state, but I would hazard it's much harder to authenticate the validity of their claims, for such a state I would expect immigration to side on the humanitarian side.
https://irb.gc.ca/en/statistics/prot...DStat2017.aspx
Eritrea 1,150 803 43
2023 so far has 100% acceptance rate of processed applications.
Eritrea 143 64
https://irb.gc.ca/en/statistics/prot...DStat2023.aspx
Compare to the United States who gets 100% refusal (LOL the number of refugee claimants after Trump won the election is sad), these numbers from 2017
United States of America 869 -- 147 25 4
The number of refugees from Eritrea is quite small, as it's very difficult for persecuted Eritreans to escape the country. According to the 2021 census we have approximately 36,290 identified Eritreans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritre...n%20government.
A group of 150 Eritreans fighting out of a total of 36,290 in the whole country gives you 0.4% just for this specific incident of a couple of hours in the 4th largest metropolitan city in Canada. Add the Toronto and Edmonton incidents and suddenly the 1% may actually be a a conservative number as this population number includes children and elderly.
For such a small population size, such a level of melee and violence is simply troubling and does warrant scrutiny, especially if refugees are being accepted when their claim may not be legitimate.
I do think our refugee program is rather robust, just giving real stats and real info versus throwing hyperboles around purely for grandstanding purposes (not sure the meaning of 1% to begin with or how that is a threshold, but since you are throwing this number around...)