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The Politics of Immigration in Canada
Canada's geographical position has protected it against many of the events that have made immigration such a contentious issue in other countries. We weren't, we're not as close to Syria. And so that protected or that distance does from the downstream consequences of the Syrian conflict. Not just the Syrian conflict, the economic travails of the continent of Africa. You know, coming through Libya, you can come through. People just arrive in boats. The European authorities that, you know, that deploy the cost guards are confronted with, do you let these fellow human beings die or do you rescue them and bring them in? "I don't think you've seen something like that in Canada," he says