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As a Canadian citizen, I would like to offer my sincere
apologies to the American people for the recent remarks made by
the ignoramus running the show up here. A collective
cringe rippled through the Great Not-So-White North when Prime
Minister Jean Chrétien mused aloud to a reporter in Spain last
week that Canada may offer sanctuary to thirteen Palestinian
terrorists who had been involved in the standoff at the Church
of the Nativity in Bethlehem. It's no wonder an Ipsos-Reid
poll finds that more than three-quarters of Americans believe
potential terrorists have slipped into the US through Canada. Our
Prime Minister's PR tactics aren't exactly helping the
situation.
Let me reassure my dear American friends and neighbors that the
thoughtless remarks and views of our leader do not represent the
sentiments of the majority of Canadians--not by a long shot. Chrétien
came to power in the last federal election with only 25% of
eligible voter support. To make matters worse, our
Embarrassment in Chief is headed for a third term in office
because opposition to his government is so badly
fractured--making Canada, in effect, a one-party state.
How could granting asylum to card-carrying terrorists possibly
be of benefit to Canada or the USA? It's bad enough
that they're terrorizing Israel; the last thing we need is for
them to be running around over here, right next door to the
USA--Israel's best friend and ally. In attempting to
make himself out to be a proponent of peace by offering to take
the terrorists away from the thriving Jewish community where
they professionally practice their craft, Chrétien has risked
perpetuating the unfortunate and already pervasive notion of
Canada as a terrorist haven.
Perhaps Chrétien didn't catch the recent CBS "60
Minutes" episode that portrayed Canada as an easy place for
terrorists to hang out and collect welfare while they plot
attacks against the USA. The Canadian Security
Intelligence Service--or CSIS--says it is investigating about 50
terrorist organizations and 350 individual terrorists operating
in Canada. A 1999 report by CSIS Director Ward Alcock
found that Canada's immigration system is vulnerable to
exploitation and abuse because it is so open and accessible. The
report, entitled "Exploitation of Canada's Immigration
System: An Overview of Security Intelligence Concerns",
found that "in most cases, [terrorists] appear to use
Canadian residence as a safe haven, a means to raise funds, to
plan or support overseas activities or as a way to obtain
Canadian travel documents which make global travel easier -- or
they combine any or all of these activities".
The main problem is that Canada makes it far too easy for
refugees to claim asylum. Anyone can simply show up
at the Canadian border with or without documentation and request
refugee status, which is granted even in the flimsiest of cases. The
person will then be allowed into the country to bum around,
collect welfare, and plot the mass destruction of the Western
World until such time as a refugee hearing rolls around a year
or more later. By then, the person may have
disappeared underground or--like convicted "Millenium
Bomber", Ahmed Rassam--attempted to cross into the USA with
the intent of carrying out a mission of mass destruction.
With a system like this in place, I would like to see Washington
grab Chrétien by the scruff of the neck (much like Chrétien
did to an anti-poverty protester a few years ago) and give him
no choice but to change Canada's terrorist-friendly immigration
policy--as a matter of national security. Former CSIS
Chief of Strategic Planning, David Harris, claims the Canadian
government is making a tidy political profit by stuffing our
country full of immigrants and refugees. Maybe in Chrétien's
warped view, every terrorist who comes into Canada under the
Liberal government's lax immigration policy is just another vote
for the Liberal Party. Meanwhile, the US Immigration
and Naturalization service is proposing provisions that could
restrict tourists--Canadians included--to a maximum 30 day stay,
down from the current six month limit.
A more institutionalized, deeply integrated North American
community must become a reality soon, for the sake of national
security in both Canada and the USA. Canadians are
constantly whining about how such a move would jeopardize
Canadian sovereignty and our national identity, but the reality
is that most Canadians are simply fooling themselves. They're
in denial of the fact that the differences between Canadians and
Americans are negligible. And these differences
certainly don't outweigh the importance of ensuring security and
economic viability within the two countries.
Canada's immigration policies must change drastically. Anyone
who can afford a $2,000 plane ticket to Canada but who somehow
can't afford to go through the proper immigration channels
should not be allowed into the country, period. If
you happen to arrive in Canada without your documentation
because you ditched it on the ride over, the airline that
brought you to Canada should be legally mandated to take you
right back to wherever it is you came from. And it
should be held 100% responsible for you until such time as
you're deported.
As a Canadian citizen, I want to be able to travel and work
freely throughout the USA without having to wade through miles
of red tape imposed by the INS as a result of my government's
immigration policy. I would like to eventually see a
completely unguarded Canada-US border, an EU-style common
currency, and the completely free exchange of goods and services
between the two countries. According to an Ipsos-Reid
poll, 30% of Americans already think of Canada as just another
state anyway, so why not? And, finally, I would like
to see Canada and the USA (along with Mexico) set up a security
perimeter to guard against attacks from abroad--thereby making
the concept of "Fortress North America" a reality. But
nothing of the sort is going to happen as long as the roof is
off the "fortress" and our Prime Minister is
indirectly supporting terrorist activity by making it so easy
for terrorists to set up camp on our turf.
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