Friday Post

A recent poll suggests that sixty percent of Canadians believe Tamil migrants who arrived off the coast of British Columbia should be returned:

Send them home and use the Navy if necessary is the message coming from a new poll on the Tamil boat people issue.

By a margin of five to one, Canadians say the government shouldreject the almost 500 would-be refugees from Sri Lanka who arrived last week.

The Leger Marketing poll of 1,500 people, released exclusively to QMI Agency, was conducted from Aug. 2 to Aug. 4 as the ship travelled towards the British Columbia coast.

Asked which statement best described their own opinion on what should be done with the ship, which may include members of the banned Tamil Tiger terrorist group, 60% agreed with the statement: "They should be turned away - the boat should be escorted back to Sri Lanka by the Canadian Navy."

Just 17% agreed with the statement: "They should be accepted into Canada as political refugees."

A significant number, 20%, said they did not know which answer to choose and 4% did not answer.

Alberta ranked highest with 74% of respondents there saying send the boat back and just 11% saying let them stay, while Quebec was the second highest with 64% opting to send the boat back and 15% saying the passengers should stay.

One pundit quips:

There’s a poll out that shows Canadian have turned into hard-hearted, immigrant-hating SOBs.

The poll, which you can read about here, found that Canadians, by a margin of five-to-one, would take the 490-odd Tamils who floated up on the MV Sun Sea a week ago and fire them straight back to Sri Lanka. Overall, 60% agreed with the statement, “They should be turned away – the boat should be escorted back to Sri Lanka by the Canadian Navy.”

So intense is the anti-Tamil sentiment that people in Alberta and Quebec actually agreed on something, for the first time since … well, I’m trying to think of something they’ve ever agreed on, and I’m drawing a blank, so maybe this is the first time ever. Anyway, Alberta topped the Tamil-hate list with 74% of respondents urging they be shipped home (against just 11% willing to let them stay), with Quebec in second place (64% anti-Tamil bigots, 15% compassionate Canadians.)

Clearly this is a profound moment. The traditional notion of Canada as a caring, open-hearted country has died and we’ve turned into east Texas. Get the rope, boys, we got here that needs stringin’ up.

What inflammatory nonsense! Perhaps Canadians are tired of an immigration system that fails its citizens and the people for whom the system is meant to protect. The article goes on to extrapolate the current wave of discontent but even the beginning of the article is inflammatory. How can caution be racist? Would we be willing to turn back an individual proven to be a criminal after he has been living in the country for years? How much good will would that generate for the next legitimate immigrant when he arrives?


Americans still associate Islam with violence. What would give them that idea?


China, the un-paragon of current environmentalism, believes popular ideas of "carbon footprints" and the like are hooey. China is also a filthy country. Discuss.


If Rob Ford's past bad behaviour is appalling, he should definitely be the new mayor of Toronto. After all, George Smitherman is always a jerk and jerks and Toronto seem to go hand-in-hand.


(and no, I'm not apologising for this. Yes there are some tremendous people in Toronto and there are also total jackholes and the stench of vile bleeding-heart liberalism and all the muck that goes with it. Visit Alberta and Tennessee.)


When dogs won't do the trick, bears will.


The ambulance-chaser after Ezra Levant (RE: HERO, CAPE, AWESOME) has been ordered to turn over the computer with which he created false personae in attempts to entrap people with whom he disagreed:

A judge has ordered anti-hate lawyer Richard Warman to turn over a laptop computer he used to create false personas on far-right websites, so that an independent expert can search it for evidence that Mr. Warman authored a racist comment against a Canadian senator.

In a ruling stemming from Mr. Warman’s libel suit against free-speech activist Ezra Levant, Master Donald E. Short of the Ontario Superior Court ordered that a “mirror image” of the computer’s hard drive be searched for any data about the names “Pogue Mahone,” “Axetogrind,” “Lucie,” “Mary Dufford” and “Dave McLean,” names Mr. Warman gave when registering with controversial websites to monitor online racism and prepare complaints of hate speech.

“Lucie” refers to Lucie Aubrac, a hero of the French Resistance. Pogue Mahone means “kiss my arse” in Gaelic.

The computer must also be searched for a list of words taken from the racist comment, posted on Freedomsite.org in 2003 by a person identified as 90sAREover.

Mr. Warman denies writing it and hired an expert whose analysis concluded that he did not. Mr. Levant criticized that report over the choice of search terms.

Parenting at its finest:

A Texas teenager who broke curfew is headed for a reluctant adventure in babysitting.

Robert Rausch placed an advertisement offering his daughter's free babysitting services in the community newspaper in Southlake, a wealthy suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth that is home to business leaders and professional athletes.

The advertisement names Rausch's 16-year-old-daughter and says, "Want a FREE BABYSITTER for a night out?" It explains that she is in trouble for missing her curfew and offers 30 hours of free babysitting, KXAS-TV reported.

Rausch says he wanted to discipline his daughter and help others at the same time. And it appears his daughter has already learned a lesson. She says she won't violate curfew again or throw any more late-night parties.

That's how it's done.