Mar 13th 2016, 21:20:41
on hax's point - I guess I never followed up, but about half of Canada's migrants come from India/China/Philippines. And they are generally not Muslims. Of the next 5 largest source countries you have France, Pakistan, UK, USA, and Iran. Relatively few muslims come to Canada. Of those that come very few are refugees. Most come because they are skilled and we want them, or because they have family here already.
And of those refugees that do come(rarely more then a few thousand a year, though we have taken in 25k from Syria in the last year), almost half come on private sponsorship. That means that private citizens and organizations put up their own money(I believe the price is around $40k/family of 5) and take responsibility for accommodations for the first year and helping new refugees integrate into the community.
Finally, everyone is too tense about this all. People aren't bigots because they don't want refugees. But change is scary. And it isn't always good. I totally get why Germans are nervous about a million refugees. But Canada is surrounded by three oceans and the United States. We have had the luxury of choosing and controlling our immigration for a long time. And we long ago decided that allowing about 1% a year of controlled immigration is totally groovy. That a tenth of that percent will come from Syria worries most people not at all.
anyways, I should stop. A saying about arguing on the internet and the special olympics comes to mind.
