The New Canadian Insensitivity - Refugees - Election 2015

This time, it's refugees fleeing a war.  A war, I might point out, that has it's roots in Western meddling and indifference in the Middle East, policies that go back decades and that have involved supporting and arming a number of tyrants over the years.  We just can't ignore or deny our complicity.  To the issue of what Canada should be doing, there could be more support of humanitarian efforts in refugee camps, where they exist, and helping to take in at least some refugees.

Unfortunately, the Harper Conservatives are doing neither, to any serious extent, seemingly satisfied with painting children and their families as potential terrorists and intolerable drains on the public purse.  Shame on the government.  Security is pretty much a red herring and appeals only to people's fears and the xenophobia of a vocal minority, but not reality.  

There have been many articles published on the refugee story:

• Reality Check - Are Refugees an Economic Burden? from Global
• Let Them in and Let Them Earn from the Economist
• Terrorism is a Pathetic Excuse for Doing Little About Refugees from iPolitics
• Calling Bullshit on the Anti-Refugee Memes.... from Vice.com
• Stephen Harper's Abhorrent Record on Refugees & Immigration from the Broadbent Institute

Government inaction on another front, climate change, will ultimately come back to bite us as climate refugees begin to leave uninhabitable parts of the world.  It's shameful, incompetent and dangerous to pretend either of these issues aren't serious problems that need competent action, and yet that is exactly what the Harper Conservatives have been doing.  Is this the Canada we've become?