WTF TORY

Discussion over at Disqus.

The Conservative Party of Canada regularly does things that makes us think, "WTF?" This site attempts to catalogs things.
In 1986, local fishermen came to the rescue of 154 Sri Lankans found floating off in lifeboats off the coast of Newfoundland. Those people were not subjected to what McLeod called “the political frenzy that’s occurring today,” suggesting that in the intervening two decades Canada’s policing of its borders has become progressively more exclusionary and reactionary. This fear was solidified on November 2, when Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, after accepting the fewest refugees in 10 years, dramatically cut the 2010 target number of refugees to be accepted by more than half. Opposition MPs assert that “by steeply dropping the targets, refusing to appoint Refugee Board members for 2 years, cutting $4 million in the department and allowing for board appointments not based on merit, Harper’s Conservative government is deliberately creating a crisis in the refugee system. The crisis is then used as an excuse to bring in draconian measures to close the door to the most needy and vulnerable. run like the wind » The Ocean Lady: Rethinking “Illegal” Migration in Canada
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Rick’s Rant - Harper is a Genius (via MercerReport)

We should have been linking to Rick Mercer ages ago.

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RMR: Pierre Poilievre (via MercerReport)

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