A new low in journalism

[trimmer21]

You guys may think I've completely lost it,but,I still think when all is said and done,there will be a right wing backlash against the NDP and Liberals. We can only hope. Honestly,what are the chances of the entire nation having a giant brain fart all at once?

[Waftrudnir]

You guys may think I've completely lost it,but,I still think when all is said and done,there will be a right wing backlash against the NDP and Liberals. We can only hope. Honestly,what are the chances of the entire nation having a giant brain fart all at once?

this election will be a mess. no matter how you slice it or on what side one is on. we are going downhill and all we try to control is the pace that this is happening.
well if things start to get seriously out of hand (something we have not really experienced yet), you'll see left and right wing parties to pop up. they will never get into government (at least that's what you should hope for!), but you need them to set the centre straight.
right now, we are talking about voting the lesser evil - that's already a pretty sad approach.
if things continue, we will debate in a few years if we should vote ultra-right or ultra-left or just give our vote to the usual parties again (expecting a different result, by continuing what we have always done).

[DaleK]

My only hope is that the majority of Canadians enjoy playing mind games with pollsters as much as I do.

[dutchhunter]

I have one question ,,,Why re all the people that are fleeing there country not taking up arms and fighting the terror threat in there own land ,why are thy running away instead of standing up and fighting for there freedom to live in there won land ,Dutch

[Hunter John]

I have one question ,,,Why re all the people that are fleeing there country not taking up arms and fighting the terror threat in there own land ,why are thy running away instead of standing up and fighting for there freedom to live in there won land ,Dutch

Great question Dutch. I have said it before that if these people cant police there own patch the west doesn't stand a chance.

[rick_iles]

You guys may think I've completely lost it,but,I still think when all is said and done,there will be a right wing backlash against the NDP and Liberals. We can only hope. Honestly,what are the chances of the entire nation having a giant brain fart all at once?

The chances are pretty good there Trimmer !!! After all, look what happened here in Ontario !!!

[bushman]

I have one question ,,,Why re all the people that are fleeing there country not taking up arms and fighting the terror threat in there own land ,why are thy running away instead of standing up and fighting for there freedom to live in there won land ,Dutch

Our young brave courageous soldiers leave their wives and children to go there and try to improve life.

They leave their wives and children in the middle of a war and flock to other countries.

Somthing drastically wrong with this picture.

[Fisherman]

Our young brave courageous soldiers leave their wives and children to go there and try to improve life.

They leave their wives and children in the middle of a war and flock to other countries.

Somthing drastically wrong with this picture.

Exactly, but they're a bunch of cowards. Just wait until they have been here for a few years and then they will all leave and go back to their sand castles and goat herds.

[Dythbringer]

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...e-applications

How much coaching from an Ant-Harper reporter do you think it took for this low life to blame Canada? This coward sent his family across a sea in an unsafe and overloaded dinghy and they drowned. The fact that he came from a war torn country being destroyed by Muslim extremists and that he hadn't even applied for sanctuary here doesn't even register with this biased media. How could we refuse a non applicant? And how entitled is this guy thinking somehow his family supercedes the tens of thousands of other victims seeking asylum ahead of him. Do people really think that an application in this crisis stands out? "if" it had been done properly it would have been a grain of sand on the beach. Canada is in an election so of course Stephen Harper is responsible for the savagery of ISIS that is happening on the other side of a planet in a country that mostly hates all non muslims. This POS father should have left years ago if he really cared for his family. It wpouldn't take ISIS flattening my home and abducting my female family members to convince me to get the hell out. Out of all 3 Federal candidates Harper is the only one who would fight the enemy militarily. Mulcair would turn and run and throw blankets to the dieing masses. Trudough doesn't know what he would do. Gawd we are screwed.
And people wonder why Harper hates the media and avoids them?

I have to disagree with you terrym. The question (Do you blame anyone for the deaths of your family) was asked by a German reporter and Abdullah Kurdi answered he blames the Canadian authorities for not accepting his application. I can't see how a German newspaper would be biased against Harper. The German newspaper has no skin in the Canadian election. The story in The Post actually makes no link between Harper's tightened rules (in response to people whose refugee status was questionable) and Abdullah's family (it does the older brother however).

Now onto this tragic situation. I haven't commented on this but I feel the need to now. Abdullah hadn't even had a formal application entered into the system (the older brother's application had been refused based on an incomplete form), yet Abdullah states he had five families willing to support his family in Canada. So my question is why didn't one of the five families start a formal sponsorship of the Kurdi's? How about ISIL which started this entire thing? It seems the father isn't willing to put any of the blame on them. If they hadn't started this fight, perhaps this family would still be living in peace in their home country. Abdullah used money provided by his sister to get his family from Turkey to Greece. He was safe in Turkey, perhaps not the very best of conditions according to him but he could have stayed there until the refugee process over here was started. He could have used that money provided to him to buy food, shelter and clothing but he used it to get out of Turkey. He gambled and his family paid a price. Yet he doesn't shoulder any of the responsibility of making that decision.

As for Trudeau and Muclair (or anyone for that matter) making political hay of all of this situation, I have to say it is pretty low. Trudeau made the comment about Chris Alexander ("you don't get to suddenly discover compassion in the middle of an election campaign"), I just have to wonder how much compassion Trudeau has exactly shown. Has he gone out and started a sponsorship form to sponsor an Iraqi refugee family or even suspended his campaign and used his "star power" for fundraisers to donate money for refugees? If Alexander doesn't get to "discover compassion" about this situation, neither does Trudeau(the same rules have to apply to Trudeau) and he certainly doesn't get to insist the government up it's refugee numbers based on compassion.

Dyth

[MarkB]

So, do I understand this right.

Abdullah's 2 children drowned. His sister in BC, applied to sponsor Abduallah's brother, Mohammad, and that application was denied.
The plan was that Mohammad would go to Canada and then at some point Abdullah would immigrate to Canada, but no application was submitted by Abdullah.

Abduallah is saying because Mohammad's application was denied, he decided to flee to Greece instead. So, did he speculated that because Mohammad did not have his application approved, he would stand no chance, and decided to go another route?

I feel sorry for the guy, and I do believe the world needs to get better with humanitarian aid, but I'm not sure it's even feasible for our government to investigate cases like this to this degree. There has to be a process or chaos will erupt, and then things just get worse for everyone including the migrants. It is upsetting that things are so bad in Syria that he thought he had no choice but to flea, but I can't see how Canada can be blamed for that.

One thing I read is that they didn't have enough money to pay for life jackets, which would have made a huge difference (kids could have survived). What are the illegal migrant ships charging for life jackets?? They paid something like a few thousand euro for the trip. A life jacket costs $30 over here, probably could get them for $10 or less for humanitarian issues like this. I know this is too late, but the point is all these decisions are not in Canada's control, and although I hate what I'm seeing, I don't think it's right to put all this on Canada.