kelownabomberfan

My question wasn't really rhetorical. It would be nice to know what this is costing Canadian taxpayers. Is there not an option to turn over illegals to US immigration if they are caught trying to sneak into the country? Instead of bringing them to Winnipeg? Again not a rhetorical question.

and how much are these illegal "refugees" costing taxpayers? Does anyone care?

ok - well that's interesting. Are any being returned to the US after vetting? Just curious.

A couple of questions though: 1. What is a "refugee" - if you are in the US legally, and then your permit or visa expires, and instead of going home as you swore that you would do after your visa expired, you stay illegally in a country, and when said country enforces its laws and sends ICE people to your door to escort you to the airport, and then you run across the border of another country, in my view you are not a "refugee". You are a criminal. 2. Doesn't this set a dangerous precedent? The US has 11 million undocumented illegals, according to what I've read. Now what if thanks to our weak PM welcoming them north, millions of people just walk across our border? Are they all "refugees"? I don't agree with that label. In Canada we're sheltered by the fact that these illegals want to stay in the US, but what happens when they start flooding Canada? Will we just accept them all? For me it's about precedent. You can't just show up here if you are illegal, and call yourself a refugee.

please elaborate. I respect you a lot Mark, so I am open to more info from you on this topic. I honestly don't agree with anyone just being able to walk across our border and being given asylum with no vetting, but perhaps there is more to the story and I trust you to give me that knowledge. Thanks.

and I'm offended by your ignorant and foolish statements. Look, I'm on thin ice here with Rich as I've had too many battles with SJW's and always ended up getting the blame, and we are only 10 days from kick-off from the first Bomber exhibition game and don't want a ban-hammer as I value this site 99% more on the Bomber info I get (given I am a long way away from Winnipeg and need every scrap of info I can get to stay informed on the team I have loved since 1975) so I'm just going to say that you and I will NEVER agree on this topic. I respect Mark a lot and I would appreciate if he could enlighten me a bit on how he thinks that people can just walk across our border and be allowed to stay here and it be totally cool, but you and I are totally done. I think you're ignorant and foolish, and you can think the same of me, but we're done.

sigh, I should have known the always offended would wade in here and start insulting anyone with a different opinion that isn't right out of a social justice training seminar. I have no problem with legal refugees being vetted and allowed into Canada. That's exactly how my mother and grandmother came to this country, and I wouldn't deny that opportunity to anyone else. What I don't get are people crossing illegally at Emerson, from the US where they've lived for years, and now claim to be "refugees", and they are allowed in to Canada. Turn them around and send them right back. And my weak prime minister comment was directly related to Trudeau's foolish tweet.

I am talking about the ones crossing at Emerson. They are illegal. Totally illegal. And I don't agree with illegal immigration being tolerated. http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/caught-on-camera-manitoba-u-s-border-sees-record-weekend-for-illegal-crossings-1.3333321

time to hit the panic button? see if we can get Coehoorn out of retirement?

I'd say it's time to look at curling but he'd probably fall and break his leg.

Corey Watson 2.0

I agree. It's been a bone of contention with me for a long time. I hate seeing guys languishing on NFL practice rosters making more than stars in the CFL. It's just not right. I wish the NFL would wake up to the development potential of the CFL and dump several mil a year into this league ($1 million or more per team) and allow 75% to be spent on salaries and 25% on marketing. Time to bump up salaries big time. Guys shouldn't be retiring at 25 years old to run water companies.

the word "refugee" has lost all meaning now. My mom and grandma came to Canada as refugees from Europe, because they were displaced by the Germans during the war and had no where else to go. But they came here legally. A lot of the "refugees" that are entering Canada it appears are coming from places in Africa that while are crappy, I admit, they aren't oppressed either. I get that they want a better life and I can't argue with that, but there are avenues to apply for citizenship legally. A lot of these people seem to be just exploiting public opinion and a weak prime minister to get around the system instead of going through the legal means to get a golden ticket into the country. At that point, why have a border at all? And I have no idea what people trying to enter a country illegally has to do with abortion. None whatsoever. Seems to be taking things a bit extreme.

other than Waggoner and Smith....

The Bruins used Rick Flair.

thanks. That was right after the 2015 election while the country was still in the throes of the love affair with the selfie king. Has there actually been evidence of scientists being unmuzzled? The whole scientist muzzling thing during the Harper years just stank like fake news. Especially when it went public that a Canadian scientist was getting death threats from enviro-nutbars for saying that Fukishima wasn't that big of a deal. Why wasn't he muzzled? Anyway, not a big fan of this Andrew Scheer move by the Conservatives, looks to me like a repeat of the Stanfield years in the 1970's - close but not quite good enough to unseat Trudeau.

looks like Richards is hurt again....

Nichols wins games. That's all I care about.

how could he deny that the climate is changing? It's always changing. Not sure what that is even about. As for the rest, as this was written by what is obviously an incredibly biased source, I don't give it much credibility, and file it with all of the anti-Harper fear-mongering and out-right lies that were spread about him prior to the 2011 and 2015 elections. How many muzzled scientists have we heard from recently BTW?

Rather use a Winnipeg example than a Hamilton/Rider guy.

or the Trudeau years (first iteration). Yuck.

I think this was posted in the wrong thread?

so you are saying that you planned and executed a coup on the Big Blue Booster Crew. Interesting....

We don't need to do this per the ratio, unless they are thinking Flanders takes the starting job from Harris? (Just kidding)