PM Justin Trudeau defends 'racism' jab at critic bringing up costs to Quebec

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Francophone heckler apparently didn't get the overhead whoosh that the job of a government is to save the world or at least maintain a proper salvation-correct international image, not put the welfare and burdens of its citizens / provinces at high priority.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45250920

EXCERPT: . . . Since 2017, some 30,000 migrants have crossed the border illegally into Canada, where they turn themselves over to police in order to make asylum claims. Both the provinces of Quebec and Ontario are asking the Trudeau government to foot the entire bill for the costs related to the asylum seekers. [...] The Canadian Press reported that Ontario's Immigration Minister, Lisa MacLeod, said on Monday that the prime minister "debases the debate that we're having" on asylum seekers in responding to critics by calling them racist or un-Canadian.

A video of the altercation, which took place last Thursday, has been widely shared online. The clip shows a woman yelling from the back of the crowd at Mr Trudeau. She asks whether the federal government will pay back the province of Quebec for the millions of dollars it has spent to handle thousands of asylum seekers that have crossed into the province over the past 18 months.

The woman, speaking in French, repeatedly asks Mr Trudeau when he will refund "your illegal immigrants". [...] The back and forth continues before the prime minister snaps that "intolerance towards immigrants has no place in Canada". She then asks whether he is tolerant of the "Quebecois de souche" (old-stock Quebecers) [...] he tells her that "your racism has no place here".....

MORE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45250920
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So national self-interest is a bad thing in Canada. Well, when you elect a complete fop...
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