Nice Read

www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/08/15/...let_them_in_now.html

New book tells harrowing, ultimately happy refugee stories ;

— from a freed slave in the war of 1812 to a gay man from Guyana —  :-[

Canada only has a little more than 400,000 sq. km of arable land. The US has four times as much land for farming.
The US's most conservative anti internationalist will end up losing their battle because the population growth is decreasing. As women become more and more educated the less the number of children they have as a whole group. The same goes for Canadian women.
Therefore, Canada will need to grow their population just to ensure young adult workers to support aging elderly who receive pensions.

We only have 35 million people !

Room for quite a few million more : our refugee numbers should be increased.

We can take all of Palestine as an example and :

and put them to farm in Saskatchewan....

I am with a volunteer group that coaches new refugees :

on how to assimilate ....it is great fun