The obvious point is that the policy is to be seen as welcoming refugees without the difficulty of actually accepting them:
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"Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says he doesn't want "to stop legitimate refugee claimants." But then how does one square the casual shooing away of Sri Lankans afloat with the the fact that the Immigration and Refugee Board continues to buy their claims of persecution at an 85% clip? The only conceivable takeaway messages there are that (a) the IRB is making the wrong decisions, in which case addressing that should be a shrieking policy priority, or (b) or we just flat-out don't want refugee claimants from Sri Lanka, or any other country whose citizens need visas to come to Canada. In which case we'd be left with a system that, in the first six months of this year, accepted as refugees 39 Israelis, 12 South Koreans, 12 Czechs, eight Bulgarians, six Brazilians, three Italians, two Americans and a German, but that wouldn't even hear Sri Lankans out. You can call that success if you want. I sure wouldn't"
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