What are the policies you would like to see to help the citizens of your own nation?
I've posted it before in other refugee threads, but I would rather see the same help being provided to refugees be provided to people in Canada.
The refugees get priority housing and healthcare. How about priority housing for homeless Canadians?
How about programs to voluntarily relocate directionless suicidal aboriginal teenagers?
Or building infrastructure to and in their reserves so there is more opportunity than to huff gasoline.
Keep open veterans affairs offices. The closure of them is imo an embarrassment.
Addictions treatment gets very little funding, and goes hand in hand with homelessness.
Hell, I'd even support a national drug insurance for everyday citizens before supporting more refugees.
There's plenty of shit we should be resolving at home before getting in on resolving the rest of the world's shit.
And like others have mentioned, refugees should want to get to go home once it's safe. If they are wanting citizenship they are immigrants and should imo be subject to the same competitive process as any other foreign national.
I've gone to school with two very good people, a Mexican and a Venezuelan. They both wanted to make new lives here but could only obtain student visas. They have both since been returned to their home countries. I'd rather see them get their citizenship first.