Somali refugee says living in Canada "like torture"

Here's a Canadian story that doesn't seem to get much publicity in Canada. I'd not heard of this until I stumbled upon it at Al Jazeera today.

Maybe that's because it doesn't jive with what we might call the Canadian consensus, namely that we are an unimpeachable font of virtue on the world stage. The idea that an affordable community in the nation's capital, a mostly immigrant community which happens to be 90% non-white, would be bulldozed to make way for more profitable housing just doesn't square with our smug sense of superiority.

So we ignore it.


A heads-up to the Border Patrol office in Champlain; keep an eye on Roxham Road. If too many people find out what it's really like to be a refugee in Canada, the traffic will soon be heading the other way.