To further underscore, because somehow there is a perception.... We could be doing public education in the other direction. Every human being is a human being, as General Dallaire says. When we truly believe that every human being is a human being, their status is secondary to their need for protection and their need to be heard.
If a person comes to this country.... I hate to disagree with my learned colleague here, but we are not the only country in the world that allows people in simply because they claim protection. That is the convention. The convention is about
non-refoulement until it is decided whether the person needs our protection or not.
Hundreds of thousands of people stream across borders in very poor countries, asking for protection. We do security checks up front now. Before a person can go through the system, there is a security check. So this constant bandying about of “terrorist” is a scare tactic to scare people. It's not true that we don't check people. We check them up front.