• HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    “Put simply, the United States is not safe for many refugees,” Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock, two former cabinet ministers, wrote in October, arguing the Safe Third Country Agreement is unconstitutional.

    Exactly. I don’t want my nation to resemble America in this way. We should be investing far more money in accepting and caring for refugees than we currently do.

    Maybe something like raising taxes on, and removing loopholes for, rich people would help. Unfortunately our leadership chooses not to do logical things to help others.

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      those in power are too narrow minded, focused on money now and setting themselves up for success at the expense of millions of lives. They do not care one iota about the country, it’s inhabitants, land, air quality, or wildlife.