This sounds like a horrible idea...
Kick out the foreigners is not something I would expect to hear on HN.
Kick out the foreigners is not something I would expect to hear on HN.
At the current time, there's generally no legitimate reason for people from those places to be seeking asylum in Canada.
Legitimate refugees will be seeking immediate safety far closer their points of origin, rather than ending up in Canada, of all places.
Sri Lanka, to use your example, is over 12000 km (7500 miles) away from Canada, in either direction. At the time of the incident you mention, there were numerous safer countries that were much, much, much closer to Sri Lanka than Canada was. Those are the countries where those people should have ended up, if they were truly seeking immediate safety as legitimate refugees.
>there were numerous safer countries that were much, much, much closer
>Those are the countries where those people should have ended up
>legitimate refugees
Yeah, I expect to hear these talking points a lot more in the future. Not that I'm one of those open-borders wingnuts, just pointing out the inevitable slide towards populism in the face of crushing economic and ecological realities.