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University study attacks government over treatment of children of illegal immigrants

By Russell Grenning - posted Tuesday, 24 July 2018


This is the first time that Mr Trudeau has used the term "border crisis" which is a million miles away from his January 2017 statement that everybody was welcome in Canada.

In January last year, the National Council of Canadian Muslims called on the government to declare January 29 as a "National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia". This is the day in 2017 when a shooting at a Quebec mosque left six dead and nineteen wounded.

Mr Trudeau's government passed a Motion in Parliament to have the Parliamentary Heritage Committee – which the government controls – to undertake a study into how the government could develop a strategy on how to cope with religious discrimination including Islamophobia. When it delivered its report on 1 February this year it supported the National Day proposal.

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Mr Trudeau very carefully has not ruled the idea out but neither has he ruled it in. His eventual decision about this may well be influenced by the fact that Muslim organisations bitterly attacked his decision to establish the Department of Border Security and Organised Crime Reduction as "racism". A petition calling on the government to reject the idea has gained and continues to gain massive support.

The political realities of government and the consequences of not dealing previously with illegal immigration have forced Mr Trudeau to finally, even if reluctantly, to appear now to be doing something.

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Russell Grenning is a retired political adviser and journalist who began his career at the ABC in 1968 and subsequently worked for the then Brisbane afternoon daily, The Telegraph and later as a columnist for The Courier Mail and The Australian.

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