“While other countries reject or threaten to reject people fleeing conflict, the new Liberal government airlifted 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada,” wrote Ibbitson. “In a world of closing doors, Canada is embracing inclusion,” a Globe and Mail headline declared. We needn’t apologize for that, but to gloat about it as if we cracked humanity’s Caramilk Secret? Flying Syrian teenagers to Canada will not instantly cure them of unacceptable behaviours, whether culturally or trauma-based or both. Witness Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s reaction when parents, many of them Muslim, demanded the withdrawal of a new sex-ed curriculum.

Source: National Post July 05, 2016 22:18 UTC