Harper's Rx for election victory: keep taxes low and towelheads out

Looks like Big Steve isn’t about to alienate his base by showing weakness in the face of the unprecedented clamouring of Canadians at large that he “do something” to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees.

He is doing something. He’s announcing, over and over, that Canada will admit up to 10,000 Syrians over a period of years, provided they pass strict security screenings. That’s essential to keeping Canadians safe, of course, when these folks are coming from a country that features literally thousands of armed terrorist gangs.

And even more importantly, that’s almost impossible to do. After all, how do you do an exhaustive background check on somebody who has lived in Aleppo all their life till three months ago? What were they doing six months ago? If they were Assad supporters… well, we wouldn’t want that sort welcomed in Canada, would we?

And if they were against Assad, they were probably in cahoots with some terror outfit like al Nusra Front or, God forbid, ISIL itself! We obviously can’t let that lot in either!

But in spite of these obstacles, we are making progress. With two hundred thousand Syrians dead, two million in refugee camps, and four million displaced from their homes, Canada has already provided security clearance for nine Syrian refugees.

That’s not nine thousand, that’s nine.

Yet still those braying socialist Harper-haters claim the man lacks compassion…