{"id":5501,"date":"2009-09-02T21:51:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T01:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2009-09-02T21:51:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T01:51:55","slug":"the-pwrdf-and-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-pwrdf-and-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"The PWRDF and Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican PWRDF (Primate\u2019s World Relief and Development Fund) never misses an opportunity to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwrdf.org\/stories\/all-stories\/stories\/?no_cache=1&amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=578\" target=\"_blank\">whine<\/a> about any government that is further to the right than Fidel\u2019s Cuba. Thus Canada \u2013 and in particular Stephen Harper \u2013 are selected for opprobrium for being insufficiently munificent in welcoming refugees \u2013 bogus or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Laughably, Syria is cited as a model of generosity to which Canada might aspire; the PWRDF neglects to mention that Syria\u2019s human rights record is among the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_rights_in_Syria\" target=\"_blank\">worst in the world<\/a>; systematic torture, corruption and oppression are rampant \u2013 that must be why so many refugees are lining up to get in.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The arguments posed by Minister Jason Kenney are that our asylum system is too easily abused and that there are many \u201cbogus\u201d refugee claims.\u00a0 The Minister\u2019s declarations and actions are misleading. He is trying to convince Canadians that Canada is too generous.<\/p>\n<p>Inaccuracies like, &#8220;We accept more refugees per capita than any other country in the world,&#8221; as reported in a National Post editorial on August 11, are confusing and encourage an erroneous message from the government. According to Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) Executive Director Janet Dench, \u201cJordan has an acceptance ratio of 1:9, Syria 1:11, Lebanon 1:12.\u00a0 Canada? 1:459.\u201d These stats are taken from the World Refugee Survey 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would like to know how enthusiastic the PWRDF would be to accept Brandon Huntley\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=1955917\" target=\"_blank\">refugee claim<\/a> in the face of South Africa\u2019s protests. Not very, I suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican PWRDF (Primate\u2019s World Relief and Development Fund) never misses an opportunity to whine about any government that is further to the right than Fidel\u2019s Cuba. Thus Canada \u2013 and in particular Stephen Harper \u2013 are selected for opprobrium &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-pwrdf-and-refugees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[2236],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-pwrdf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}