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This sounds like a horrible idea... Kick out the foreigners is not something I would expect to hear on HN.

morkalork 3y ago
Between backlash to the Century Initiative and the looming climate refugee crisis, I'm not surprised. Canada is set to take a hard right swing towards populism and its gonna be wild and ugly.
- ChumpGPT 3y ago
  That is the danger. Remember when 300 Sri Lankan's showed up on the West Coast? People were demanding they be sent back out to sea and some were calling on sinking the vessel. What happens when 30k show up everyday fleeing climate change, hunger, poverty and war crashing ships on Canadian shores? It is the worst scenario but a possible one.
  - VancouverMan 3y ago
    Given Canada's location, geography, and its present borders, the only places where legitimate refugees could potentially come from are quite limited: the United States, St Pierre and Miquelon, Greenland, and possibly Iceland. At the current time, there's generally no legitimate reason for people from those places to be seeking asylum in Canada. Legitimate refugees will be seeking immediate safety far closer their points of origin, rather than ending up in Canada, of all places. Sri Lanka, to use your example, is over 12000 km (7500 miles) away from Canada, in either direction. At the time of the incident you mention, there were numerous safer countries that were much, much, much closer to Sri Lanka than Canada was. Those are the countries where those people should have ended up, if they were truly seeking immediate safety as legitimate refugees.
    - morkalork 3y ago
      >no legitimate reason for people from those places to be seeking asylum in Canada >there were numerous safer countries that were much, much, much closer >Those are the countries where those people should have ended up >legitimate refugees Yeah, I expect to hear these talking points a lot more in the future. Not that I'm one of those open-borders wingnuts, just pointing out the inevitable slide towards populism in the face of crushing economic and ecological realities.
      - VancouverMan 3y ago
        Those aren't "talking points". They're merely facts, and they're independent of politics.

Between backlash to the Century Initiative and the looming climate refugee crisis, I'm not surprised. Canada is set to take a hard right swing towards populism and its gonna be wild and ugly.

ChumpGPT 3y ago
That is the danger. Remember when 300 Sri Lankan's showed up on the West Coast? People were demanding they be sent back out to sea and some were calling on sinking the vessel. What happens when 30k show up everyday fleeing climate change, hunger, poverty and war crashing ships on Canadian shores? It is the worst scenario but a possible one.
- VancouverMan 3y ago
  Given Canada's location, geography, and its present borders, the only places where legitimate refugees could potentially come from are quite limited: the United States, St Pierre and Miquelon, Greenland, and possibly Iceland. At the current time, there's generally no legitimate reason for people from those places to be seeking asylum in Canada. Legitimate refugees will be seeking immediate safety far closer their points of origin, rather than ending up in Canada, of all places. Sri Lanka, to use your example, is over 12000 km (7500 miles) away from Canada, in either direction. At the time of the incident you mention, there were numerous safer countries that were much, much, much closer to Sri Lanka than Canada was. Those are the countries where those people should have ended up, if they were truly seeking immediate safety as legitimate refugees.
  - morkalork 3y ago
    >no legitimate reason for people from those places to be seeking asylum in Canada >there were numerous safer countries that were much, much, much closer >Those are the countries where those people should have ended up >legitimate refugees Yeah, I expect to hear these talking points a lot more in the future. Not that I'm one of those open-borders wingnuts, just pointing out the inevitable slide towards populism in the face of crushing economic and ecological realities.
    - VancouverMan 3y ago
      Those aren't "talking points". They're merely facts, and they're independent of politics.