Posted on 06/29/2018 11:32:53 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for refugees rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump: Canada will take you.
He also intends to talk to Trump about the success of Canada’s refugee policy.
Trudeau reacted to Trump’s ban of Muslims from certain countries by tweeting Saturday: “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada.”
Trudeau also posted a picture of him greeting a Syrian child at Toronto’s airport in late 2015. Trudeau oversaw the arrival of more than 39,000 Syrian refugees soon after he was elected.
A spokeswoman for Trudeau said Trudeau has a message for Trump.
“The Prime Minister is looking forward to discussing the successes of Canada’s immigration and refugee policy with the President when they next speak,” Trudeau spokeswoman Kate Purchase told The Associated Press.
Trudeau is expected to the visit the White House soon.
The prime minister has refrained from criticizing Trump to avoid offending the new president. More than 75 percent of Canada’s exports go to the U.S.
Toronto Mayor John Tory also weighed in, noting that the city is the most diverse in the world.
“We understand that as Canadians we are almost all immigrants, and that no one should be excluded on the basis of their ethnicity or nationality,” Tory said in a statement.
Trump signed a sweeping executive order Friday that he billed as a necessary step to stop “radical Islamic terrorists” from coming to the U.S. Included is a 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen and a 120-day suspension of the U.S. refugee program.
Trump’s order singled out Syrians for the most aggressive ban, ordering that anyone from that country, including those fleeing civil war, are indefinitely blocked from coming to the United States.
The Syrian refugee crisis became a major issue in Canada’s election in late 2015 because of the haunting image of a drowned 3-year-old Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach. The boy had relatives in Canada.
Trudeau’s tweet quickly received more than 150,000 likes. “Welcome to Canada” trended in Canada.
SEnd your jets, Justy!
canada’s death warrant
We’ll send ya a few million today Nancy boy. Get ready.
And then they’ll cross the border to the US.
Load them on buses and ship them straight to Montreal.
Good, you can take all the Mexicans and Central Americans we’re holding in those camps. We can put our homeless veterans there instead and work on getting them back into society. Let me call the charter bus company.
They’re hosed.
So. In order to stop terrorists, we will need a wall on the Canadian border.
Gonna need another wall.
Here is an opportunity to hold him to his own
rhetoric.
Trumped!
Awesome! I wondered what we were going to do with all of them!
Problem solved!
Good. Canada is larger than the US so take our millions and enjoy. They’ll come back as soon as they find out that they put gravy on fries.
To stop all the Canadians fleeing south! Who you pick as leaders really does matter!
Canada has an election coming up. Justin’s short a few voters.
Woohoo! Problem solved. The welfare’s better up there, too. Let the wagon trains roll!
Okay, fine by us.
His policy might be successful for a sparsely populated region. But we have 330,000,000 people. We’re the third most populous nation in the world.
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