More comic opera absurdity from our leaders. The U.S. Senate hearing is entitled “Canada’s Fast-Track Refugee Plan: Unanswered Questions and Implications for U.S. National Security.” The Senate has shown no similar concern, as far as I know, over the Obama Administration’s assurances that all refugees will be thoroughly “vetted,” despite the impossibility of doing so. Meanwhile, Canadian officials decline to appear at this Senate hearing on their shortcomings, and assure us that “We have put in place layers of security activity to ensure that our refugee initiative with respect to Syria can be successful.” But is there any way to ensure that jihadis will be prevented from entering Canada, any more than they can be prevented from entering the United States? No. The whole thing, from the American “vetting” to the Canadian “layers of security activity” to the Senate hearing, is a huge charade. In reality, the Islamic State has directed its operatives to appear to be secular and even non-Muslim. They recruit people who don’t have criminal records. There is no way either the U.S. or Canada can distinguish such people among peaceful refugees, however much both countries pretend that they can.
“Canada rejects U.S. security concerns over Syrian refugees,” AFP, January 28, 2016:
Canada rejected Wednesday U.S. security concerns over its fast-tracked resettlement of thousands of Syrian refugees, as the Senate in Washington prepares to hold a hearing on the repercussions for America.
“We have put in place layers of security activity to ensure that our refugee initiative with respect to Syria can be successful,” Canadian public safety minister Ralph Goodale told parliament.
“The program is working well and indeed it will resolve in something that Canadians can be very, very proud of,” he added in response to questions about why the Ottawa government declined an invitation to appear before the US Senate hearing.
The U.S. congressional panel is meeting next Wednesday to consider “Canada’s Fast-Track Refugee Plan: Unanswered Questions and Implications for U.S. National Security.”
It is scheduled to hear from a Toronto immigration lawyer who has criticized Canada’s Syrian refugee plan, calling it unrealistic, border officials and others.
Goodale said U.S. officials have been fully briefed on Canada’s refugee resettlement “and they understand exactly the layers of security screening that are in place,” including U.N. assessments of asylum seekers, collection of biometrics and checks against security databases.
A spokeswoman for Canada’s foreign affairs minister added, “We have emphasized and will continue to emphasize the integrity and robustness of our approach to the selection and screening of the Syrian refugees under consideration.”
Canada’s new Liberal government pledged to take in 25,000 Syrian refugees – more than double the U.S. intake – by the end of February….

Atheist7 says
Let us assume that there are no “radical” Islamists or ISIS operatives or Jihadists in the multitudes of refugees that are pouring into Europe and North America. But what are they bringing in that is so dangerous? Answer: It is the doctrine of Islam itself. There will be a percentage of Muslims that will not stop of the peaceful verses of the Koran and will move on to the more violent passages. I claim that the doctrine of Islam is self-radicalizing for at least a small percentage of those who read it. And how many radicalized Muslims does it take to bring down the Boston Marathon. And how badly did that attack hurt us economically. Economic attack is also the way of Muhammad.
Sweden has taken a step in the right direction to be a bit more selective in the people that are allowed into Sweden, but the damage is done. Over the next 30 years we will see a gradual implementation if Sharia Law into the government of Sweden. When Muslims have a majority in the population and the government is a democracy, what do you think will happen.
Peter Charles says
Abrogation applies. Mohammad said the later verses abrogated the earlier verses, earlier verses were sort of peaceful, later verses were and are conquest, domination, killing slavery etal. So that is what applies to the “modern” Mohamaden.
WorkingClassPost says
As a European, I feel duty bound to remind you, in the US, that your northern border is probably harder to police and secure than is the EU’s, and you see what problems we are having now.
What happens when Canada becomes an existential threat?
Angel Warrior says
Working classpost…
As a European…you probably don’t know much about Canada……
The Northern Border is not an open border as there are in Europe. It is much more difficult to get over the border between Canada and the United States. Lots of terrain ( forests and mountains ) that one can get lost quite easily in if they do not know their way through. Then there are the farmers in the Prairies that keep an eye out for such trespassers on their land. There are Border crossings also ( many of them!) that one would have to steer clear of, and they would also have to know where the cameras are positioned in the other areas that have been known to be traffic ways for such activity. Then there also are the drones that the USA uses to watch out for anyone stealing across the border.
You have the problem with refugees coming into your European countries as you do not have the same legislation that Canada does regarding refugees.
If there is an existential threat…it won’t be coming from Canada per se…but from the United States, who is allowing and has allowed terrorists in through their Southern border and in through their Airports. Obama recruited many to be mercenaries for ISIS…training them and giving them US Military weapons from Yemen……
Canada is not the threat you seem to believe it is.
jan says
I am canadian and I know a lot about Canada.Canadians are dormant fellows that prove to be fools as well when they voted for The insipid of the new prime minister… what a shame!
So stop being so patriotic muslim that you are, better go to mosque and pray to you stupid allah ballah
Ken Finlayson says
I formally ranched in southern Saskatchewan The border fence was a rusty ole three wire fence. I could have hauled the White House across and nobody would have noticed. In fact we did have several hundred cattle stray across more once. Nobody noticed them leaving and nobody noticed when we brought them back. I also understand certain Indian bands do a pretty good business hauling cigarettes across (semi loads). If you think this northern border is secure you are woefully misinformed! Frankly I think our porous border is something we can proud of! Hopefully if we vet these refugees properly it can continue to be. Unfortunately I don’t have that kind of faith in our present government.
Linde Barrera says
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Michelle Norris says
And whatever Canada freely let’s in can freely walk right across the border into America or go on over the Great Britain. SERIOUSLY IRRESPONSIBLE!
Angel Warrior says
Michelle……
Seriously???? SMH!
Dan says
The freaking fact that our government is treating Omar Khadr like a victim of U.S. persecution should be all America needs to know about the Canadian refugee vetting process.
America needs to understand, and understand FAST, that Justin Trudeau HATES America every bit as much as his card carrying communist, Castro/Mao loving father, Pierre did.
One thing Americans at least can take solace in, is that they no longer have the dumbest leader on the planet.
Mary says
Nearly everyone I know reacted the same way when they heard the results. A resigned sigh, followed by “well, at least he is photogenic”.
Evildoctor says
As I’ve noted elsewhere:
1. Trudeau in Canada
2. Obama in the US
3. Possibly (probably?) Crone Clinton in ’16
In French:
Nous sommes bien fucké
Dave says
As the eIite lie and fail to respond to the reality confronting them I keep hearing this words in my mind, learned long ago, written long ago, relevant everyday…
“…When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security…”
BW022 says
Look at the permanent residency waiting periods for Canada. Most people take three or more years to get into Canada and these are from countries which have modern computer systems, stable governments, access to trusted police records, and the ability to have investigators on the ground to perform actual checks.
With an American applying for permanent residency, you can run their name against FBI records, visit their house, phone their boss, look at their bank records, ask for their income tax returns, ask for pictures of their family, lookup their marriage in the state records, talk with neighbours, etc. You can also hire private investigators, credit check companies, etc. Yet, even Americans can take a year or more.
We already know that such things are much more difficult in most refugee source countries. You can’t hire private investigation companies in Somalia, you don’t have access to government records (nor can you trust them) in Rwanda, you don’t have banking records in the Sudan, you can’t send someone to interview people in Burma, etc. Which is why such countries such often have waiting periods of three or more years.
That someone can provide any type of background check on someone from Syria within weeks or months defies belief. How? What records do they have access to? Who is there on the ground verifying this?
In the 1980 Canada ended up with both the Air India bombings, families of Somali warlords in the 1990s, and families like the Kadhars. The PR vetting process was repeatedly changed to the point where processing times were three, four, or even five years. Someone needs to be an idiot, or Citizenship and Immigration Canada needs to explain its crystal ball vetting machine, if they think one can vet 25,000 from a war-torn region with no access to records and no Canadian staff or investigators on the ground.
Worse… we *know* that large numbers of non-Syrian are drying to get in. We *know* a large percentage of the Syrian and Iraqi population are ISIS and Jihadi fighters. We *know* ISIS members have said they would and have come in as refugees.
Angel Warrior says
BW022…..
“That someone can provide any type of background check on someone from Syria within weeks or months defies belief. How? What records do they have access to? Who is there on the ground verifying this? ”
Canada has the Canadian Intelligence Agency (CSIS) over in Jordan and Turkey…who are processing ( vetting) the refugees who have submitted forms to be refugees. The CSIS Agents are following the legislated protocols and procedures and following the Criteria that they were following under the Harper Government. CSIS is also getting a hand with this from the Israeli Agency and others when asked to help provide information. So…there are Canadian investigators on the ground.
If you need to know how this is being done…..you can always go to the Canadian Government website. It will also show you at the website exactly how many Syrian refugees that have arrived already in Canada and also how many more are being vetted and expected to come in. BTW….they don’t have another 25,000! That is just more BS from the Liberal party.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/outside/index.asp
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/welcome/overview/security.asp
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/welcome/sponsor.asp
Sponsorship in general
Refugee sponsors agree to provide refugees with care, lodging, settlement assistance and support. Normally, this is for 12 months starting from the refugee’s arrival in Canada or until the refugee becomes self-sufficient, whichever comes first. Sponsors are required to demonstrate their ability to meet the required financial obligations of sponsorship.
Private sponsors also normally support the sponsored refugees by:
•providing the cost of food, rent and household utilities and other day-to-day living expenses;
•providing clothing, furniture and other household goods;
•locating interpreters;
•selecting a family physician and dentist;
•assisting with applying for provincial health-care coverage;
•enrolling children in school and adults in language training;
•introducing newcomers to people with similar personal interests;
•providing orientation with regard to banking services, transportation, etc.; and
•helping in the search for employment.
Before any application can be accepted, the sponsored persons must undergo a medical examination and a security check or background screening to ensure the safety and security of Canadians.
The Blended Visa Office-Referred program
Under the Blended Visa Office-Referred (BVOR) program, Canada matches refugees identified for resettlement by referral agencies such as the UN Refugee Agency with private sponsors in Canada. Under the BVOR program, launched in 2013, the federal government provides six months of federal income support for refugees, which is matched by six months of private sponsorship support. The sponsor is also expected to provide social support for the full 12-month period.
The Government of Canada has expanded the BVOR program so that G5 and CSs can also access Syrian refugee files currently in the inventory as part of this program.
CIC is also making more refugee profiles available earlier in the process so that sponsors can be identified for Syrian refugees. In order to expedite the process, profiles will only be available for 14 days. If no sponsor has been identified, the refugee application will continue to be processed through Government-Assisted Refugees Program.
Sponsorship Agreement Holders, G5s and CSs interested in sponsoring a Syrian refugee through the BVOR program should contact the Refugee Sponsorship Training Program at info@rstp.ca. For sponsors in Quebec, please visit refugee sponsorship in Quebec.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/welcome/donate.asp
Get involved: Volunteer in your area…..http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/welcome/volunteer.asp
Angel Warrior says
BW022……
CSIS agents are doing the vetting of Syrian Refugees…they are over in Jordan and Turkey and that is where we are taking refugees from. Canada is also sending over Canadian forces personnel to screen refugees prior to coming into Canada…this was a news story by Global News on November 24, 2015.
CSIS also gets help from the Israeli Intelligence agency when they need a better verification on individuals. Jordan also knows who is in the refugee camps and so does Turkey….they don’t really want any ISIS members in their country either. ISIS did threaten the Jordanian King!
If you really want the inside scoop on how vetting is being done….you would need to at least know someone who is part of this circle….otherwise telling everyone exactly the ins and outs would be silly. You really don’t want everyone to know…especially Obama and his ISIS buddies!
Here is some info on the refugees…. To come to Canada as a refugee, you must be:
•referred by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) or another designated referral organization, or
•be sponsored by a private sponsorship group.
You cannot apply directly for resettlement to Canada at any embassy or a visa office.
people who are not eligible:
You are not eligible to resettle to Canada as a refugee from outside Canada if:
•you have another durable solution for protection, such as an offer to be resettled in another country;
•you become a citizen of another country and have the protection of that country;
•you choose to return to live in the country you had left; or
•the reasons for your fear of persecution no longer exist.
Turdeau won’t get his 25,000 refugees in by or before March 1st. It just isn’t feasible! CSIS will not go against the legislation that is already in place just because turd-boy wants it to be so! If you go to the Canadian government website, you can see exactly how many have already been admitted and how many are pending…..there are not 25,000 to be had! http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/welcome/index.asp?utm_source=canada-eng&utm_medium=canada-features&utm_campaign=refugees2015
There are only 20,910 refugees who have arrived in Canada or who have been approved but have not yet travelled to Canada
There are…. 6,126 refugee applications have been finalized, but they have not yet travelled to Canada
Canada has allowed in…. 14,784 Syrian refugees have arrived in Canada…under the Harper Government, including those that arrived in December.
SoCalMike says
The US has security concerns over Syrian refugees?
Since when?
Angel Warrior says
LOL! Exactly my thought when I read this article! I glad that Canada didn’t tell them exactly how or what we were doing to ensure that refugees were not terrorists in disguise!
The USA (DHS) can’t find over 500,000 that have entered the USA on visa’s and have over extended their stay! Can we safely say that most are probably a security risk? You betchya! Then they are so worried about Canada’s refugees crossing the Northern border! PFFT! Many have already crossed over the Southern Border undetected!!! Many have been given a safe haven by Obama, militarily trained as mercenaries for ISIS and equipped with Military weapons from Yemen!
Can anyone else see the absurdity of this? The many fear mongering articles about Canada’s refugees in the past month is craziness! It’s the USA’s policies that Canada should be questioning and we should be afraid of! Obama gave ISIS drones to use in Yemen….most of those have probably been shipped in Containers and are now sitting on some American dock just waiting for the ISIS members already in the USA to plan their attack! Turdeau though won’t ruffle Obama’s feathers by taking him to task about this. So…Canada will be the sitting ducks for the American backed ISIS terrorists!
Laurence says
‘Meanwhile, Canadian officials decline to appear at this Senate hearing on their shortcomings, and assure us that “We have put in place layers of security activity to ensure that our refugee initiative with respect to Syria can be successful.”’
And here in Canada each time the government ministers are questioned, and asked to describe these various “layers of security”, they typically provide nada, nothing in way of detail. But they do like to talk, regardless whether they have anything “meaningful” to expound. Apparently they just want others to trust them and take them at their word, all the while just giving more airy assurances that all is quite safe, etc., blah, blah, blah.
Mary says
If you go to rebelmedia.ca Ezra Levant has done a great job asking the questions that we all want answered. He has been stonewalled.
There must be a lot of frustration in the ranks though, because he did say that mosques are being built on bases in Canada. This is probably making Obama jealous. Trudeau is sinking Canada in just weeks. Took Obama years to do the same kind of damage.
Angel Warrior says
Laurence…..
Do you really think that telling everyone how and What the layers of security are that Canada has is a good idea? Especially considering that Obama is helping ISIS? Do you really want them knowing?
BTW…..the layers of security that are in place have been there for quite some time already! They are the same ones that Harper was using!! Turdeau has not changed any legislation yet!
Mary….. Don’t believe everything that Ezra puts out either! I saw his video about the RCMP having all women ( not just muslim women) in the force wearing hijabs with their uniforms…..something that can’t be done and won’t be done without voting on it in the House of Commons. I can see many women RCMP actually suing the government for taking away their rights as women to choose.
Neil says
The current Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau is the son of a once popular Prime Minister from Quebec.
Outside of that affiliation to leadership, Justin’s real life experience previous to his parliamentary career was as a part time high-school drama teacher. To date, no exceptional talent has been shown to us by this individual . Although it appears that he is known to be a decent sort – he sure smiles a lot, shakes many hands, kisses babies, and quips snappy little tag-lines. It is becoming painfully obvious that Justin is totally unable to manage anything important within our own country. God help us all when it comes to his understanding and involvement with international affairs.
Angemon says
A once popular Communist Prime Minister.
Dana says
Popular enough to get elected too often, by fools, but still despised by many level headed Canadians.
Byron Montz says
Canada has taken stupid pills, with its new government. Poor Canada! Keep all sharp knives, hatchets, pressure cooker bombs, and bomb vests, etc. hidden from the Muslim invaders.
Mark A says
Canada’s new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is an Islamophile and has openly and repeatedly stated his support for Muslims.
Justin Trudeau is also an intellectual lightweight.
Don’t expect any serious action on security issues while Justin is Prime Minister.
mortimer says
The Canadian Liberals are determined not only to betray their American friends, but also the people who voted for them.
This group of professional liars have a long history of bait-and-switch. Their words and promises are worth nothing. Canadians love being duped by True-Dupe-True-Dope.
Dana says
Watching the election night results was one of the crappiest nights of my life. How so many people thought that this would be a good idea, boggles the mind. trudeau’s voice grates on my nerves even more than obama’s voice does. What a pathetic little turd he is.
Matthieu Baudin says
These monkeys are playing with our lives.
Arthur says
all but Trump: Ben Carson knows the score, better than Trump I think.
Dana says
But Ben can’t win. I hope that someone really schools Trump about islam before he becomes the next U.S. President.
terry says
tens of thousands of murders and rapes are fairly good schooling for anyone wiling to listen…
Clare maloney says
Hey look a squirrel!
Mary says
Speaking of squirrels, did you know that a shipment of invaders arrived at a U.S. port at the same time as the Paris/Bataclan shootings were dominating all headlines? Methinks this was no coincidence.
Pretty sure the story was on the conservative treehouse website.
ninetyninepct says
What mental / intellectual problems manifest themselves in the way the Trudeau junior speaks? It seems that his thought processes are quite restricted which affects his ability to think clearly and rationally. His speech impediment is a classic example of lesser intelligence. Intelligent mentally stable people can speak clear uninterrupted sentences whereas Trudeau is almost unable to speak a continuous clear sentence without -um, ah, ah — ah.
There have been instances where he simply failed to respond to a simple question, instead looking far off in the distance while his brain tried desperately to form a response. He simply failed to respond and the media either failed or refused to catch that.
robert says
as a senior canadian i agree with my american friends that are worried about the muslim influx into canada. i am afraid this is going to be bad news for both countries. i only hope trump is elected to be your next president and can deal with this threat. we have a bunch of airheads leading canada now–.god help us all.
UNCLE VLADDI says
JUST-IN TURDEAU WILL DO ANYTHING TO PROVE HE’S “NOT A RACIST!”
Angel Warrior says
Actually…..Canada does have a very good vetting process! Refugees are being vetted by the CSIS according to the protocols and procedures and criteria that has been in place for decades!
The Trudeau government has not changed any the legislation regarding how refugees will be brought into Canada! They have a pot filled pipe dream of bringing in those 25,000 by March 1st! CSIS will not be hurried to do their job vetting these refugees! Trudeau wanted them in by the end of December and had to back track on that promise because….it just couldn’t be done and the only ones that came in December were the refugees that were already vetted and destined to come to Canada under the Harper Government!
The fear mongering of Canada and it’s refugees, by the USA and Americans is simply astounding! No Legislation has been changed by the Trudeau government as of yet! All the refugees are being vetted the same as usual…just not the same as the USA is doing it. Canada is not bringing in single men but families…..most of our refugees are families…..most are Christian, Jewish, Yazidi, Kurd and a few other Syrian minority groups that are being hunted by ISIS mercenaries that Obama trained in the USA and given US Military weapons from Yemen.
It would be a suggestion that folks actually do their research on how Canada is vetting before posting such a story.
Atheist7 says
Angel Warrior, Your post seems reasonable except for: “… are being hunted by ISIS mercenaries that Obama trained in the USA”. Do you have any references to support that?
Angel Warrior says
Google it! There are many to choose from….even youtube videos….
Here’s a couple to get you started… http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/officials-u-s-trained-isis-at-secret-base-in-jordan/
ISIS and the CIA Connection | sharia unveiled
https://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/isis-and-the-cia-connection/
Key members of ISIS it now emerges were trained by US CIA … mercenaries are reportedly in ISIS including … ISIS and the CIA Connection …
USA: Did Obama just admit to training ISIS!?
The United States is training forces from the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militant group, US President Barack Obama said as he spoke from Washington on the … http://youtu.be/RNha3nabZeI
Obama admin trained ISIS jihadists in 2012
It turns out that ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), the militant jihadists wreaking havoc in Iraq and against whom the Obama administration dispatched “combat equipped” troops to protect the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, had been trained by none other than the Obama administration.
https://cofda.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/obama-admin-trained-isis-militants-in-2012/
Angel Warrior says
Athiest7…..
if you google ” US trained mercenaries for ISIS”…you will find many! Sorry though for saying “IN” that should have been “BY”…… though I do know that many ISIS terrorists have made the USA their home away from home…..
Blowback! U.S. trained Islamists who joined ISIS
~ Syrian rebels who would later join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/officials-u-s-trained-isis-at-secret-base-in-jordan/#PHdHXOcbae6izRIV.99
And this:
In fact, there is a direct link between those terrorists and the U.S. foreign policy. Last year, Spiegel declared that Americans were training the Syrian rebels in Jordan to oust Assad.[8] But the evidence went back to 2012:
“Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials.
“The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The officials said the training was not meant to be used for any future campaign in Iraq.”
Mainstream media outlets such as the Daily Beast are indirectly saying the same thing. “As ISIS takes over town after town in Iraq, they are acquiring money and supplies including American made vehicles, arms, and ammunition.”[9]
The plot thickens. By supporting and training terrorist groups, the United States of America has progressively become a terrorist state itself. In other words, the United States can magically create terrorist groups out of thin air and fight them later at your expense.
Angel Warrior says
MP……
Under Canadian legislation…. all immigrants and refugees are given a pamphlet which states right on the front that Canada does not allow Child marriages, multiple marriages, honor killings, Female Genital Mutilation, and other barbaric practices. If they are caught doing any of these…..they can be sent back and have been under the Harper Government….we’ll have to wait and see if that will be the case for Turdeau. For honor killings…it is considered murder and they will do the time for their crime. Sharia Law has already been voted on a few years ago in the House of Commons and all parties unanimously voted with a resounding NO.