Government eases rules on Syrian refugee claims

But the warm words of support are all that Gretzky can do for the Conservative leader – as a long-time resident of the United States, it is highly unlikely the hockey legend will be allowed to vote in the upcoming election. While your government has been juggling numbers, it is lives that are at stake in a callous calculation that has choked the route to Canada through needless red tape and the failure to provide adequate staffing to process the applications of refugees and the groups who have offered to sponsor them. Only rarely does the strategy go sideways and expose the party to the anti-immigrant sentiment of their traditional political base.

In the last election in 2011, Conservatives easily won the riding, earning 10,000 more votes than the NDP. “I think that’s something that new and existing and old stock Canadians agree with”.

Meanwhile, the Liberals have said Canada should take in 25,000 Syrian refugees before next year. The duo spent most of the time talking hockey, and not politics, during the question and answer-style event.

Choo says Canada has been seen as one of the most desirable places to live in the world, and has benefited incredibly from the contributions of immigrants, many who become Canadian. They are so caring and compassionate, unlike that mean Harper.

But in explaining this purge to the affected riding associations, the party was very careful in the language it used to criticize the resolutions. I really find that unfair.

In recent comments in newspaper and TV programs, our prime minister is taking a lot of flack from opposition parties on the handling of the refugee crisis.

Queenie Choo is CEO of S.U.C.C.E.S.S., an organization that helps immigrants settle into Canada.

Harper’s precise role in building this anti-immigrant core is not known but he was one of just two people Manning trusted with key decisions – the other being pro-Apartheid activist and senator Stan Waters.

Under NDP premier Tommy Douglas, Saskatchewan had 18 balanced budgets, while under Harper, Canada has lost 450,000 manufacturing jobs, D’Eith added.

The $2,000 tax credit would translate into up to $300 a year in reduced income tax for almost 1.6 million single seniors who have private pension income beyond CPP and OAP.

“Any attempt to bring back the long-gun registry, as Mr. Mulcair advocates, would cost billions of dollars and be no more effective than the previous Liberal plan“, said the prime minister.

Of course Stephen Harper was not involved in that campaign but 10 years later when he was helping Preston Manning found the Reform Party he found in the NCC the closest of fellow travellers.

Independent candidate Steve Ranta said much of Canada’s deficit results from a shift away in the 1970s to using the Bank of Canada to fund infrastructure projects at zero per cent. He cited the Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform, which wants to return to that.