"Canada's Refugee Policy is a joke and the laugh's on the honest Canadian taxpayer"

I for  one totally agree. Something is broken somewhere. Refugees coming illegally into the country are costing the taxpayers millions of dollars and the Conservative govt. tries to keeps all that under wraps.

Trevor Lautens writing at NorthShoreNews: ...Having set foot on our soil, they are immediately entitled to full charter rights - a ridiculous ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada. Right away, these "refugees" naturally had to be housed and fed. Restaurants were reported to be providing them with their native foods. Within six months, the Toronto Sun calculated, the taxpayers' bill for the Sun Sea passengers was $25 million. Quite a bit more than a few shells fired from our warships.

This humbug has been going on for years. In 1994, the RCMP estimated that in the first half of the year, about one in six refugee applicants had been charged with or convicted of a crime. Bitter ideological (if not racial) disputes have divided the Immigration and Refugee Board, such as when its approval rate soared from 55 to 68 per cent after appointment of a deputy chairman who had been president of the Canadian branch of Amnesty International.

Gaming the system is commonplace even in the "legitimate" channels. Only in January the tough-talking Stephen Harper government confirmed that 22 per cent of Chinese applicants for skilled employment in Canada misrepresented their credentials or experience.

To be fair, allow Brownie points for the Conservatives' attempt to put some steel into our must-be-compassionate approach to anything where the word "rights" can be injected. Surprise: All opposition parties opposed it.

Why this travesty? The vested interests are huge. The bureaucracies thrive. Almost two years after the Sun Sea's arrival, three men have been charged after a vast, costly RCMP international investigation. Recently, Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave Thailand $12 million to combat such smuggling operations.

It's a joke, and the laugh's on the honest Canadian taxpayer......

via: CIReport