To change pace a bit, I am interested in people’s opinions on this.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/invasi...ants-1.6726638
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People are being asked to supply their social media accounts, details about scars and other marks on their bodies, information on everyone they are related to — including through marriage — and every passport they have ever had.
The questions are creating anxiety for families who worry their loved ones might have trouble answering after three months largely without internet access, electricity, or even adequate food or drinking water, said Calgary immigration lawyer Yameena Ansari. She lobbied for the program as a member of the Gaza Family Reunification Project.
"It's almost impossible to get these answers when you're talking about people that are running away from their homes," she said in an interview.
The questions are also extremely painful because they suggest that families desperate to flee the violence in Gaza are suspected terrorists, she said.
"This is not a list that we would ask somebody who was coming to Canada on a humanitarian basis," Ansari said.
"To me, these are the questions I would ask somebody if I thought that they were terrorists or a combatant."
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On one hand I feel it’s good we are offering an expedited means to help alleviate the problem refugees from Gaza are facing. However, on the flip side I think this should be standard operating procedure for most immigration - even expedited. The risk is we have no intelligence on these individuals and need to know we are not bringing in radicalized people who can create problems down the road.