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Bigtime · 11-12-2015, 07:07 AM

So how did our smaller country (population wise at the time) manage to take in those 50,000 Vietnamese boat people in '79 and '80? Surely at our larger population now we can take 1/2 that amount of Syrians?

11-12-2015, 07:07 AM	#39
Bigtime Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Calgary Exp:	So how did our smaller country (population wise at the time) manage to take in those 50,000 Vietnamese boat people in '79 and '80? Surely at our larger population now we can take 1/2 that amount of Syrians?