60. That's the percentage of 1500 Canadians polled by Leger Marketing earlier this month, who believe the MV Sun Sea should have been turned back by the Canadian Navy and not allowed to disgorge its cargo of Tamil "refugees".
Only 17% of those polled thought the Tamils should be accepted into Canada as political refugees. So what the government of "Call Me Steve" Harper has done is bow to the wishes of the vocal minority.
That minority includes, of course, the many Tamils and other Sri Lankans, Indians and Pakistanis already in Toronto. Many of them are voters, after all!
And let's not forget the liberal media, determined as they are to be politically correct, even when public opinion in their own "comments" and "talk back" columns is running 5 or 10 to 1 against their editorial opinion.
Click here to watch a video clip from Sun TV, featuring commentary by Ezra Levant. Mr. Levant feels that the "notwithstanding clause" in the Canadian constitution should be invoked to suspend for, say, five years, the "rights" of bogus refugee claimants under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Even Pierre-Elliot Trudeau, whose vision of a café-au-lait Canada full of Liberal voters is responsible for this mess, foresaw that situations might arise in which "rights" have to give way to the best interests of the majority. This is one such situation.
What's needed now is for Mr. Harpoon's government to grow a set and do what the majority of Canadians think must be done.
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