Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2018-01-12 1:35 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Friday, January 12, 2018 at 6:35:09 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> >> Canada fast tracked thousands of Lebanese to citizenship because of
> >> conflict at home. A few years back, when Israel pounded Lebanon, we had
> >> 55,000 "Canadians" who were screaming to be evacuated from Lebanon.
> >> They were mostly those who had come here for citizenship and then
> >> returned to their homeland. We spent millions to rescue those citizens
> >> of convenience and shortly after things settled down back in Lebanon
> >> most of them went back there to their real homes.
> >
> > Sounds like your country is doing the right thing.
> >
>
>
> Really?? By taking refugees from a war torn country and fast tracking
> them for citizenship so that they can turn around and go back to the
> country from which they had sought refuge?? Nuts to that. Allow them in
> with extended visas or as permanent residents and give them citizenship
> only after an extended period of crime free self sufficiency. This
> government is actually reduced the the time required to obtain
> citizenship. I have difficulty with the idea of them needing citizenship
> if they aren't living here.


Would you have told that to Anne Frank or Natan Sharansky...???


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Greg