How Many People Enter Our Country Each Day...

.....and do so without incident. There is no question that the experience might not be pleasant but it is no better or worse than you would experience at your local supermarket or big box store. It would be a real experience if border guards could be goodwill ambassadors as well as our protectors. The fact that some of they might fail in both areas is something we have to live with.......

Muddying Canada's reputation
Our political leaders are leading us in a direction we don't want to go

By ANGELO PERSICHILLI


Canada is not "the best country in the world" as our politicians like to repeat like parrots in their weekend banquet hall cliche speeches. However, there is no doubt we are among the best.

Unfortunately, it's the politicians who are destroying the image of this country in the eyes of Canadians, and worse, worldwide.

Few Canadians would be surprised to see images of a Polish immigrant being killed at an airport in a third-world country run by a dictator, but not at the allegedly civilized Vancouver airport.

Another immigrant from Italy died in the hands of Quebec police on Sept. 23 and still, despite pressure from the family and the Italian embassy, we don't know how or why he died.

Former KGB agents had a better public relations department.

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