A former Axis nation, the very crowded Germany still managed to take in almost 80,000 refugees last year.
By contrast, Canada, a former Allied nation, is both big and empty - 35 million people spread over 3.5 million square miles.
In 1956, with less than half as many people (only 16 million people) it still took in almost 40,000 Hungarian refugees.
In 2015, that would mean it would need to take in 80,000 Syrian refugees to match its 1956 effort.
So far, in total, over this entire multi-year refugee crisis, Canada has taken in just 1,000.
Admittedly, the Syrians are not white Anglo Saxon Protestants, so they're hardly Canadian PM Stephen Harper's personal choice as new Canadian neighbours.
But I doubt that an earlier Canadian (also a white Anglo Saxon Protestant), Martin Henry Dawson, would have just sat back and watched little kids drown trying to come into Canada.....
Showing posts with label 1956 revolution. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...