Campaign focus remains on refugee crisis

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The Liberal campaign will head to Hamilton for the first time this weekend, and Justin Trudeau may make a stop at Supercrawl on Sunday. But the political focus remains on Syrian refugees, as the pressure mounts on Canada to do more.
Campaigning in Winnipeg, NDP leader Tom Mulcair made an announcement about youth unemployment, but the focus of the visit quickly shifted to the migrant crisis overseas.

Mulcair is promising to bring more Syrian refugees into Canada as soon as possible if his party forms the next government. At the same time, he accuses Stephen Harper of using security concerns as an excuse for what he calls “in-action” on the Syrian refugee crisis. However, harper suggested his party is working on a refugee plan.
When a reporter asked Mr. Harper to elaborate on the security concerns posed by Syrian refugees, Harper replied “the short answer to that is no. You know the public it does not take much to figure out given the nature of the conflict in the Syrian/ Iraqi region, the nature of the very serious security threats that this poses”

Thomas Mulcair offered his own comments on Stephen Harpers position. ”You can not allow that to be an excuse for inaction and that is exactly what Stephen Harper is doing. He is using that as an excuse for inaction. Canada can and should be doing its fair share as requested by the United Nations. All countries are going to have to deal with the security issue. We will make it a top priority to meet Canada’s international obligation to bring in 10-thousand Syrian refugees between now and the end of this year. And we will respect what the United Nations has asked us to do which is to bring in 46-thousand refugees over the next 4 years. ”

As for Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, he’s arguing Canada needs to do more to ease the suffering of refugees, but must still help train Iraqi fighters to battle Islamic militants in the fight against ISIS. “We know that there is a role for military engagement in the fight against the terrible terrorists that are ISIS. But we also know that there is a real need for Canada to do more in addressing the humanitarian catastrophe befalling so many in that region.”