(Doug Ford is Trump's man) Ford government is ending co-operation with Ottawa on resettlement of

[applegrove]

asylum-seekers

By ROBERT BENZIE at the Toronto Star

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestar.com/amp/news/queenspark/2018/07/05/ford-government-is-ending-cooperation-with-ottawa-on-resettlement-of-asylum-seekers.html

"SNIP........

Blaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for creating “a mess,” Premier Doug Ford’s new Progressive Conservative government has withdrawn Ontario’s co-operation with Ottawa over asylum-seekers.

But Trudeau emerged from a 40-minute meeting with Ford at Queen’s Park suggesting the rookie premier does not understand the complexities behind the migrant crisis currently straining Toronto shelter resources.

........

“It didn’t seem to me that the premier was quite as aware of our international obligations to the UN Convention on Refugees as he might have been,” the prime minister told reporters Thursday, after the leaders’ first official meeting.

“So I spent a little time explaining how the asylum-seeking system works and how our system is supposed to operate,” said Trudeau.


........SNIP"

These are refugees.

[applegrove]

1. I hope Conservatives who were immigrants or refugees, or who know anyone who is,

see the writing on the wall and dump them.

[True Dough]

2. This is from the comments section of the CBC online version of the story

Kent Worthy:

Give 'em hell Doug. I'd vote for Doug if he decided to run for PM of Canada. This is the person we've needed in this country for years.

7 hours ago 

When I pasted this, that comment had 84 upvotes and 48 downvotes. It was the third highest number of upvotes.

SIGH!!!

[applegrove]

3. Meanwhile Crystia Freeland shows what leadership really means: knitting the country together.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tonight, <a href="https://twitter.com/canadianmv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@canadianmv</a>’s dinner, I reiterated our unwavering support for the Muslim-Canadian community. We will continue to stand up against xenophobia targeted at Muslims, at home and abroad. Diversity is our strength. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CdnPoli?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CdnPoli</a> <a href="https://t.co/J08PKhhcni">pic.twitter.com/J08PKhhcni</a></p>— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) <a href="

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Saviolo]

4. I'll be honest, I didn't vote for her

(I voted NDP) but I'm pretty happy that Chrystia Freeland is my MP. She's doing a good job in a very hard role. She's had to stand up against the Trump protectionist machine and has kept her poise in the face of strong resistance to cooperation.

[Saviolo]

5. Dougie is purely small time.

He's using lines from a playbook that works on the city level, but now he's punching above his weight class. I don't think it's going to go well for him.