Spare me the “Team Canada” approach. This is Trudeau’s fault
Nine years ago, newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flung Canada’s doors wide open. He drastically increased the number of legal immigrants Canada welcomed each year, and started with a marque campaign promise to admit 50,000 Syrian refugees in just two months’ time.
The pledge was reckless, and the results were predictable.
Trying to recruit tens of thousands of migrants in the midst of a civil war where ISIS terrorists easily mixed amongst fleeing families was an impossible task. Very bad people took advantage of the situation and made their way into Western countries – causing unbelievable carnage against civilians and plotting more terrorism.
As I outlined in my 2016 best-selling book Losing True North, the Trudeau government’s immigration efforts were met with one blunder after the next.
Against the wishes of level-headed civil servants in the Immigration Department, Canada skipped important national security screening steps. There were also no values tests to ensure newcomers would be compatible with Canadian culture and society. We didn’t check if they were sympathetic to ISIS, we didn’t care if they hated Jews or opposed same-sex marriage. We just let them all in.
Canada even welcomed Ibrahim Ali, a 27-year-old male who, within 18 months of being welcomed to Canada with open arms, raped and murdered 13-year-old Marissa Shen in broad daylight in Burnaby, BC.
That was just the beginning.
PM Trudeau tells reporters he had a phone call with US President-elect Trump after Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on all Canadian products.
Trudeau says he has also been in touch with premiers to address this issue. pic.twitter.com/06boFKsEuv
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) November 26, 2024
When Donald Trump was elected and took office in 2017, he quickly took action to prevent a rush of radical Islamists trying to enter the United States. He introduced a ham-fisted executive order to ban the entry of migrants from seven terrorist-harbouring countries.
Our reactive Prime Minister went onto social media and told the world’s migrants that “Canada would welcome” them. Canada then saw the largest surge of illegal border crossings in our nation’s history.
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