Saturday, July 14, 2018

"IRRESPONSIBLE, DIVISIVE, NOT CANADIAN"

  A meeting between Canada's federal and provincial immigration ministers ended bitterly Friday, with federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen openly criticizing the Ontario government for what he called a dangerous and un-Canadian approach to the issue of asylum seekers.
  Hussen criticized Ontario's Minister of Children, Community and Social Services Lisa MacLeod — who is also responsible for the immigration file — for walking away from discussions between the other immigration ministers and for refusing to sign the official communique issued after the meetings.
  The ministers responsible for immigration from the governments of Ontario and Saskatchewan refused to sign the meeting's communique on Friday, stating that the inflow of asylum seekers to Canada is the result of "federal policy decisions."
   MacLeod: "I have a large provincial ministry to run that includes children with autism, it includes children in care, it includes women fleeing domestic violence, It includes human trafficking," she said.   "It keeps me up at night when I think of the resources that I have to expend elsewhere and I can't help those people as well. I am simply asking them to fix the problems that they have created with their federal policies."

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