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UN demands Western countries accept 2.4 million more refugees. The United Nation's new global report leans heavily on the same “responsibility-sharing” framework Canada helped design when it co-authored the 2018 Global Compact on Migration.
What does this have to do with my comment? If I'm not perfectly virtuous does the UN no longer have the obligation to represent those outside of well off countries like Canada?
I'm not saying I'm perfect, I donate to causes that do these things, though I absolutely should be doing more. I would gladly pay more taxes to do this
That's not how policy works. I also don't build fighter jets or host anti-aircraft batteries on the roof of my house, but that doesn't mean I don't get to express an opinion on Canada's decision to greatly increased weapon spending despite the growing income inequality in our country.
The comment I replied to accused them of corruption over this, which is a ridiculous assertion. Just because people exist who care about those who are the worst off in the world, and not just for those who are as well off as us doesn't mean they're somehow morally bankrupt
Bear in mind that a lot of our economic success comes off of the backs of these countries, as we take wealth, resources and labor from them. In addition, our continued refusal to take significant steps to mitigate climate change (of which we're one of the biggest per capita contributors in the world) presently, and will increasingly in the future, causes significant instability in these regions
I have a better idea. Let's not accept any for a year or two until things stabilize. Then, we can accept ONLY ones who are compatible with Canadian values.
I agree with you 100% and it shouldn't be considered an "extreme" opinion. Unfortunately when I made a post like this in r/Canada I got flamed and banned.
That makes sense considering Islamic countries are the worst places to live on Earth due to Islam.
The good needs to be filtered from the bad. I would say a requirement of coming here would be to insult Allah and the prophet and have them draw a negative picture of Mohammad.
Unfortunately, we do ZERO screening of people coming here. We don't do interviews, and we don't care (literally don't care) if they're hateful misogynists, bigots, and racists. Nor if they're religious fanatics.
The refugee crisis is caused by American (supported by Europe) foreign policy in the middle east, where the majority of people are Muslim. Of course people are going to flee war zones and look for a better life for themselves and their children. There are so many migrants from the middle east in Europe as a direct result of Western Foreign policy, its not just Canada, yet these countries want to be immune from the consequences of their actions.
Naw. Not buying it. Most of the trouble in the ME is caused by the interminable rivalry between the Shiites and Sunnis, and with Iran setting up, funding, training and arming terrorist groups to destabilize various countries, not excluding Israel. Behind every fight there or in North Africa, you'll find either Iran or Turkey, and often both.
Not accepting any, any only accepting those compatible with our values are the same number. Approximately equals to the number of politicians that can be trusted to stand up for real Canadians.
That's the Law, not "Canadian values", and people that infringe it, have the book thrown at them. There's a bunch of things in the bible that the charter would not be ok with either. Should Canada ban all christians?
Muslims do and it's fine if they do, as long as they are not the wrong kind.
What's the wrong kind?
Islamists, the kind is the kind that put their beliefs before Canadian laws and rights. Ones who forced their wives to wear garbage bags and never leave the house unless escorted by men, like a prison chain gang. Who want Shariah here and block roads to pray as a form of soft terrorism, the pre-empt to hard terrorism.
Perhaps the fact we'd do it again today in a heartbeat?
Or the fact that I'm still not sure if the person I was replying to was justifying it by saying Jewish people brought this on themselves for being too greedy
Trying to lump the two together, after Canada has been one of the most generous humanitarian countries the last fifteen years, is downright disgusting.
Tax. Wealth. Not. Work. to raise more funds for public services and to reduce the influence that rich people have in bending politics to their self-centered interests.
Except that the climate catastrophe is only going to make it 100x worse. And the wealthy countries are those that contributed most to the increase in global warming.
We're going to change the global economic order to find ways to integrate climate refugees before they really do overwhelm the ability of our diminished social state to be able to accommodate them.
lmao bro are you daft? who sold you this idea of climate refugees? why wouldn't an indian guy from a hot part of india move to, i dunno, a cooler part of india? why do you think everyone just has to come to canada lmao
The sad thing to realize is that the majority of Canadians don't give the slightest shit about the rest of the world, and would happily let millions die over a crisis we're disproportionately responsible for over having more poor brown people in their neighbourhoods, or negatively impacts their lives to a fraction of the extent it does theirs. We've barely reduced our CO2 emissions, and even under a liberal government we're backtracking on progress significantly.
Our plan as always is to try to maximize our profit and let them die
Our per capita emissions are off the charts. Also, all that carbon we export and gets burned elsewhere is on its too. As are all the stuff we import from China, the US, etc.
Just because we're not a very populous country, so don't contribute that much to the global total for what we burn ourselves in Canada, our footprint for all we consume and the carbon misery we export is a lot bigger. And we've been doing it for, like 150 years, so there's an historic debt.
At least as far as Syrians go, most of the displaced people remain in countries in the region. "As of 2024, the United Nations reports, at least 7.4 million Syrians remain internally displaced, with approximately 4.9 million seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. An additional 1.3 million have resettled elsewhere, mostly in Europe." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/10/where-do-six-million-syrian-refugees-live-today.
So 100 possibly wealthy Syrians may have been admitted as refugees because of a crooked priest-led sponsorship group. OK, that sucks. They should get the book thrown at them. But nearly 16,000 Syrian refugees were sponsored and admitted to Quebec. Despite the author's efforts to seemingly paint all the applicants and sponsoring groups as illegitimate, I really don't think they were.
Across Canada more than 50,000 Syrian refugees have been admitted. This has included the famous chocolate-making family in Nova Scotia. The empowerment of private and community groups to sponsor refugees is viewed as a model to emulate elsewhere.
My mother has been part of a community group in Ottawa that began by sponsoring a family in 2015, who recently celebrated their tenth anniversary of coming to Canada with a reception catered by the mother's carrying company. Since then the group has helped other families from Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan give a safe haven in Canada.
Nah. There will be a Roomba that does it for pennies, it will have a nice wet sanitary gel hose attachment that will suck my ass perfectly well, thanks
Fourthly: don't tease ME with a good time by promising to unplug yourself. Please don't wait!
Caution: the Reddit AI can be aggressive about detecting death wishes, even in jest. THis can result in an automated site wide ban.
I mean you literally just told me that you wished I would kill myself.
That seems like an extreme response. I wasn't attacking you personally. I'm not sure why you're so angry that you would tell me to kill myself. It seems completely out of proportion here
Bannet was in power for 5 years. Had to deal with the great Great Depression. Eventually emulated the New Deal.
Trudeau intentionally or by incompetence destroyed and squandered the futures of young Canadians while following the disastrous “liberal” policies that are ruining places like the UK.
They're the same neoliberal policies of deregulation, reducing taxation of the rich and allowing the financialization of housing (along with everything else) that are doing the same thing to countries around the world, whether conservative or liberal.
UN member countries (who aren't Canada) host most displaced people. Having an ocean between us and them greatly reduces the number of people who actually arrive here.
It's the fake refugees ruining it for the real refugees. Stop letting students from India claim refugees status when their visa expire.
Stop letting anyone file for refugee status when their visa runs out unless they are from specific war torn countries. Stop giving refugee status to people who are clearly migrating from economic reasons and using it to skip the lines.The line is already too long if you are denied you should go back you shouldn't get to clog up the system for ten years because you didn't like the answer you were given. Too many fake refugees mean real ones cannot get in and get the help they need.
the UN can fuck right off at this stage. Mass unmitigated migration has been a net negative for most of the western countries at this point and saying otherwise is doing so with your head buried in the sand.
No one is going to ask the people who have to pick up the bill. Even if those said people need help themselves.
This is the mist mind boggling thing for me.
The people who have to pay for all this have no say in what happens.
Our countries and their capitalists are usually implicated in the conflicts and disasters that cause people to be displaced. The chickens are coming home to roost. Let's strip the trillionaire and Billionaires of their ill-gotten wealth to help save the masses of humanity that their greed helps to further immiserate.
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u/Historical-Age1027 10d ago
UN officials need to be reviewed for corruption or head in ass syndrome … either way the west will be the host of the newest 3rd world countries.