What games are Harper Conservatives playing with refugees?

The futures of the vote-rich immigrant communities in Canada depend on having a respectful, non-discriminatory and peacefully multicultural Canada where refugees and immigrants are not used as instruments of wedge politics to win elections.

Is there any justification for the vicious attack ads by the Harper Conservatives claiming the opposition is in favour of human smuggling and implying that they are in favour of immigrant queue jumping? The Conservatives are promising to bring back Bill C-49 the human smuggling legislation if the...

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