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Mark Steyn on Canada's reaction...
  • We know, after all, what Canada's official response to its reported role in Tuesday's events is. "Our concern isn't who may have left the country," said Colette Gentes-Hawn of Canada Customs. "It is the people that are coming in."

    Almost right, Colette. Canada's concern isn't who may have left the country or who may have entered the country. Canada isn't concerned either way. We stand on guard at neither end. When an Ahmed Ressam is stopped by a canny U.S. Customs officer en route to bomb LAX, Ms. Gentes-Hawn and her colleagues go into make-believe mode, beefing up security on the 49th parallel to promote a false equivalence -- that Canada is at as great a risk from those entering from America as America is from those entering from Canada.

    But the moment passes and normal service is resumed: If you're a self-proclaimed terrorist, if you can get here, you can stay here. Should our easy-come-easy-stay immigration policy be found to have played any part in what happened, we should be ashamed, and at the very least discover some limits to our much vaunted "tolerance." (Mark Steyn, National Post)
    Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2001-09-13
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