The Liberals must really be struggling to find fault with the Harper government if this is the best shot they can come up with.

As if the immigration dept gives a shit if someone's gay or straight.

This has to be one of the most desperate attempts to get noticed that I've ever seen.

Obviously, this MP is trying to remind gays that the CPC is going to force them all to wear a pink triangle, re-introduce homosexuality to the Criminal Code, and send "soldiers with guns" to clean out Toronto's Church Street neighbourhood.

That leaves the question;

What are the Liberals going to scare the gay community with when the same sex marriage vote has been held and defeated and Harper declares it a dead issue?

As long as Liberals are wasting time coming up with shit like this, I think Conservative rule will be long and happy!

   

You gotta hand it to the lieberals. They know full well that the bureaucrats are influenced very little by the sitting Minister. That each department has a life of its own and the true power broker is the Deputy Minister. With this knowledge they know the media will try to spin it as anti-Harper and will leave the reader with the impression that back bench Conservative MPs are out there rifling through the paperwork stamping reject on suspect applications.

I don’t agree with it but you have to admit the lieberals know the system and know how to work it.

   

I didn't realize the government was directly involved in approving visa's. Don't they have government employees that do that?

   

Indeed they do. The entire decision-making process ultimately lies with bureaucrats -- most of the current bunch were hired by the Liberals.

   

The decision-making process is frequently overruled in many countries.

"NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union today released new documents that indicate the government is broadly interpreting and using a controversial Patriot Act power known as the 'ideological exclusion' provision to block people from entering the country. The ACLU is concerned that the provision is increasingly being used to target foreign scholars and others whose politics the government disfavors."

Full story at: http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/26 ... 60712.html

   

At least it beats the "Harper is chubby" or "he hates our poppies" type of stories. I find this unbelieveable because I doubt that there is a "sexual preference" check box on the visa form.

MC is right, just another "secret agenda" scare.

   

Actually people can use their sexual orientation to claim refugee status if they are in Canada. If their home country can be shown to be harshly discriminatory towards homosexuals, they can apply for and receive refugee status.

So, if the government doesn't want this to happen it would make sense that they would refuse them entry, since once they are here they can apply for refugee status.

   

And how many of these foreign scholars whose politics the government disfavours

go around ranting about how the US is the worlds prime evil and needs to be destroyed or converted to islam.

If the US was truly trying to destroy academic oposition they would just have to arrest Noam Chomsky and Norman Finklestein

   

You may want to get better acquained with the practices of Canada's immigration department.
The decisions regarding visas and immigration are made by the bureaucrats in the department's employ, and are usually eventually "rubber-stamped" by the minister himself.
The minister is, of course, responsible for setting administrative policy. But administrative policy has little (more like nothing) to do with deciding who gets into the country and who doesn't.
This has little to do with the Conservative government, and more to do with government bureaucrats, the bulk of whom were hired by -- you guessed it -- the Liberal party.
If I were as paranoid as all those people who are trying to kill me, I would suggest that there has been some collusion in this case between the Liberal party and those who they hired. But because I cannot support this with evidence, I'm going to dismiss it.

   

It would be reasonable to think that "Coming to compete in Outgames" amounts to a sexual preference checkbox.

   

Then I suppose the Liberals must have hired some bureaucrats who are hostile to gays.