Ezra has a posting up that indicates Tamils who have obtained refugee status have or plan to return to Sri Lanka for vacations. Boy is Canada a chump country!!

Those aren't vacations so much as publicity tours -- as in "hey guess what, there is a free lunch."

And we're it.

Ok when they want to be pulled out like in Lebanon I have a rubber duck I will donate.

Just consider them as more Liberal voters.

Kady O'Malley discovers context!

I wonder how long that will last?

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/08/in-praise-of-context-a-little-background-on-that-secret-government-survey-of-successful-tamil-refuge.html

Tamils tried for thirty years to carve a colony out of Sri lankan territory. this in spite of the fact they already have their own state( Tamil Nadu) just across the water in south India.
Now we are the lucky recipients of over 600,000 of them, we can only hope they choose the GTA as their next colony. the Mohawks have effectively annexed Caledonia, to the tamils, Mcginty's Ontario must look ripe for the picking

Unlike Liz J., who is going to withhold her vote if the CPC doesn't toughen the laws, I entirely blame the damned Liberal$ for this situation: They enabled lax and irresponsible immigration laws in Canada utterly for their benefit. They could have cared less about the well-being of Tamil "refugess," real or bogus. They just wanted Tamil votes.

Prime Minister Harper's government, in a minority situation, can't just change the immigration laws because they need to be changed or because they know that's the right thing to do. Only Parliament can, and unfortunately, it's clear that the Opposition parties are gleeful at the impasse the CPC are facing. The Liberal$, Dippers, and Blockheads don't care a whit about Tamil refugees or the burdens these boatloads of freeloaders impose upon hard-working Canadians. They care only for their narrow, self-interested agendas.

So, it's going to be interesting to see how the CPC deals with this. I have every confidence that Prime Minister Harper and his Ministers are working on this issue to benefit average Canadians and will do whatever they're able to, to minimize the damage to our country these "refugees" and their Tamil Tiger instigators are doing.

Minority governments are a real bitch. 'Too much game playing which benefits special interest groups and not the majority of Canadians.

Refugees would normally flee to the nearest safe place. Canada is not the nearest place for refugees from any country except the U.S. and Greenland. I don't hear of much persecution in either of those two places. We should simply refuse any claims on that basis alone.

He's right.

Solution, let's send a huge pile of BC rocks to Sri Lanka so they can rock climb BC rocks without the high cost of human traffickers bringing them here on a not so nice boat.

Iggy says that the world is an open country. Everyone is a citizen of the world.

Canada is not a border.

The truth is...Iggy needs votes and he will get them at taxpayer's expense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T21UkIBBpE&feature=player_embedded

Stan at August 22, 2010 5:46 PM, I left a comment at that CBC page. I hope they let it through.

It would certainly be nice,if Kady the Krusader were as diligent in tracking down what Judy Sgro pulled off with her little scheme.Oh,yeah,Judy's a Lib..sorry.

Yann Martel, if memory serves correctly, said that Canada was "the best hotel in the world". He, who sent books for Harper to read. I just hope Harper sent him back dry and boring policies to review.

We have a great country, and there is room for more - but selfishly, I think we should choose, and not have the choices made for us.

Simple solution: anyone granted asylum who returns to the country they are "fleeing" has their asylum immediately and permanently revoked.

People who immigrate illegally and 'jump the qeue' by arriving here without applying are given extraordinary social benefits at taxpayers expense. A lot of them never show for their immigration hearings, but just fade into the woodwork or sneak across the border into the US. Canada has a legal process for immigration, those who seek to immigrate illegally only make it more difficult for the honest ones. I prefer that Canada use one of the offshore islands as an immigrant processing center much like Australia has done. They can stay in tent camps on the island till their claims are processed. Impound the ships, tow them out to sea and sink them. Those who fail to meet immigration standards should be put on a plane with a one way ticket back to where they came from. I don't abide by those who try to cheat the system and I don't like my tax dollars supporting illegals.

JOhn Galt - and you should add "charge the captains and crews with human trafficking". That should severely increase the difficulty in finding folks willing to man the vessels.

I object to the queue jumping, where immigrants can, instead of applying legally, which means externally, to come to Canada for legal immigration, instead come without such an application. They tear up their passport on arrival and claim refugee status.

They are instantly given welfare, health care, legal aid and housing - none of which are available to a legal immigrant. The laws put in place by the Liberals, laws with one and only one agenda - Liberal votes - prevent the govt from refusing their refugee application.

They are assessed but these same laws require that they be released into the community while their application is processed; in many cases, they disappear.
Then - if they are refused - the law sets up an appeal process that takes years and is useless.

I object to the queue jumping, I object to the abuse of our immigration and genuine refugee system.

And I object to the Tamils continuing their fight for a 'homeland' here in Canada, taking over our highways, holding us hostage and demanding our govt 'sanction' Sri Lanka.

add "charge the captains and crews with human trafficking".
Agreed, and make the punishment for human trafficking harsh. Not just a slap on the wrist and a vacation at a Canadian luxury jail. Cutting off their thumbs would be a good start.

The people on this boat are not 'refugees',they are not 'migrants',they are the ones fleeing after a long and vicious civil war. They are from the losing side,the TERRORISTS and their families.

Smarten up Canada. Winners don't run away.These people are the connected ones.The ones who called the shots.The ones who benefitted from monies collected overseas,and planned for a possible loss. This is an expensive journey.

The people aboard are not true refugees in any way shape or form.They are fleeing prosecution from crime,more specifically,war crimes. Real war crimes,not the BS that some are trying to put on our soldier's backs. Mike,Jack,Why are you so quiet?

Kady says leaked info about climate change,bad. Kady says leaked info about Afghanistan,good.

Two legs good,four legs bad,for now.

Kady's one confused kid.

No Canadian context that she can see that relates to Climate Gate, when we -- and the CBC -- have our very own Kooki Suzuki, Mr. Carbon-Footprint-Global Warming Dude jumping out at us from TV ads and posters on the TTC? This is the same guy that owns more than two domiciles, flies all over the world to climate change/global warming conferences -- tiny carbon footprint, right? -- and uses the CBC as his personal distributor of the myriad "scientific" materials he's put together.

Connect the dots, Kady, connect the dots. Oh, sorry, I forgot: You live inside the Parliament Hill/CBC/MSM bubble, so you wouldn't be able to do that, would you?

Svend Robinson got away with jumping the queue when he brought his little Cubanette into Canada, because, he claims, gays are discriminated against in the worker's paradise of Cuba. Still he spent his holidays there. Bet he wouldn't spend them in Zimbabwe or half a dozen other countries in Africa.

Mind-blowing, straight-faced hypocrisy.

When Adrian pointed out that the media didn't even mention the huge story of the Hadley/CRU emails for two weeks, O'Malley justified it this way:

"I think that for journalists what does become the question when you're looking at a story like this is I think you actually do have to look at the context in which this material - because it's not like this material found its way into the public domain in a conventional fashion; it wasn't even that it was leaked, it's not like you can call this a whistle blower, it was taken from people who are probably not that thrilled about it and put out there, which doesn't mean its not a story but it does mean that we as journalists have to kinda look at it and say, 'okay, what was the motivation here, what's about the timing, why is it being put out right now, how is it being framed and shaped?', and I think that might be , you know, perturbing some bloggers and actually some columnists and some papers and some people who think it's not getting the attention they (sic) deserve, but I think it is kind of important to look at the full story and that means looking at the context as to how this information came out as well as everything else."

Moments later, the guests were asked for their picks for Website of the Week:

"I'm going withWikileaks.org, which has been described as the virtual brown envelope for the entire planet. It just takes in - if you've got a document that you want to leak, you put it up there and they will add it, they'll protect your privacy and they'll make it available to the world."

Gee, all of a sudden the timing of leaks, the *motivation* of the leakers, and the fact that there are people - soldiers, the families of soldiers, Afghan informants, military officials - "who are probably not that thrilled" about the information being leaked is not any kind of a problem whatsoever, and in fact she's *promoting* Wikileaks on national TV.

Kady is the fairest of all CBC 'personalities',excepting Rex Murphy.On her blog at cbc.ca,she actually allows people to disagree with the 'progressive' voice of Canada,not always,but sometimes.

Tell me again why we pay a billion or so for this network?

Rex used to work for CBC but he was the only one speaking out against the AGW hogwash and they 'turfed' him. He now works for the National Post, and does the occasional 'guest editorial' for CBC.
CBC toes the Lieberal Party Line when it comes to issues like AGW, gun control, gays, disaster aid, etc.
Most of the comments on the CBC news website are against giving aid to Pakistan, but you won't hear that on the CBC TV news.
It galls me that my tax dollars pay for parroting Lieberal propaganda.

"No Canadian connection"?

Canadian blogger and worldwide voice of reason Steve McIntyre predicted the contents of these emails with uncanny accuracy. If the CRU hadn't confirmed the accuracy of the emails, one could be forgiven for believing that McIntyre wrote them.

Why do we have the CBC anyway? CTV delivers all the content I need to be Canadian.

Honestly, why does it exist at this point?

I have never seen a more biased political output in my life.

Cooooon-text, konnn-text, Con-text - gee Kady isn't that a brand of cosmetic that lady journolisters use to cover factual blemishes?

Kady doesn't see a "direct Canadian connection" to the climategate emails?

Greenhouse gases, Alberta oil, carbon taxes , "cap and trade" not enough I gess.

She needs a career change, say something involving a stripper pole......

"Kady doesn't see a "direct Canadian connection" to the climategate emails?"

STEVE MCINTYRE !!!!! is a CANADIAN !! Kady o. He is the biggest reason the fraud was exposed at the CRU.

And she the gall to say there is no direct Canadian connection to climategate and hence she was not obliged to cover it.

She is (pick one):
- lying
- stupid
- out to lunch
- agenda driven
- under editor's direction
- hopeless

EBD August 22 at 11:06 pm:

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Ron... Kayyyydee just sucks for liberals. It's blows for the rest of us. I didn't realize till viewing that video the she appears to be tying for that "Wendy M" look of a few seasons ago.

Kady O'Munster ? I just can't take anything she says seriously. She looks and sounds like a cartoon character... A kind of Bart Simpson, Dennis the menace, who rides around Parliament Hill on a skate board with a sling shot hanging out of her back pocket. As an answer to Ron in Kelowna's observation on Kady O'Munster's ability to rationalize... she is a liar, she is stupid, she is (Liberal) agenda driven, she is under her editors Liberal agenda, and clearly, O'Munster is a hopeless Liberal shill. Get rid of the CBC!!