Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for refugees rejected past times U.S. President Donald Trump.
Canada volition accept you, Trudeau says.
He too intends to speak to Trump close the success of Canada’s refugee policy.
Trudeau reacted to Trump’s ban of Muslims from for sure countries past times tweeting Saturday:
“To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians volition welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our pull #WelcomeToCanada.”
Trudeau too posted a moving-picture demonstrate of him greeting a Syrian pocket-size fry at Toronto’s aerodrome inward piece of cake 2015. Trudeau oversaw the arrival of to a greater extent than than 39,000 Syrian refugees before long later on he was elected.
A spokeswoman for Trudeau said Trudeau has a message for Trump.
“The Prime Minister is looking frontward to discussing the successes of Canada’s immigration as well as refugee policy amongst the President when they adjacent speak,” Trudeau spokeswoman Kate Purchase told The Associated Press.
Trudeau is expected to the catch the White House soon.
The prime number government minister has refrained from criticizing Trump to avoid offending the novel president. More than 75 per centum of Canada’s exports larn to the U.S.
Toronto Mayor John Tory too weighed in, noting that the urban essence is the most various inward the world.
“We sympathize that equally Canadians nosotros are almost all immigrants, as well as that no ane should endure excluded on the footing of their ethnicity or nationality,” Tory said inward a statement.
Trump signed a sweeping executive fellowship Fri that he billed equally a necessary pace to halt “radical Islamic terrorists” from coming to the U.S.
Included is a 90-day ban on move to the U.S. past times citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Republic of Yemen as well as a 120-day pause of the U.S. refugee program.
Trump’s fellowship singled out Syrians for the most aggressive ban, ordering that anyone from that country, including those fleeing civil war, are indefinitely blocked from coming to the United States.
The Syrian refugee crisis became a major effect inward Canada’s election inward piece of cake 2015 because of the haunting paradigm of a drowned 3-year-old Syrian man child washed upwards on a Turkish beach. The man child had relatives inward Canada.
Trudeau’s tweet apace received to a greater extent than than 150,000 likes. “Welcome to Canada” trended inward Canada.
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