It's Time We Talk About Canada's Own Immigration Ban

While the world is outraged, and rightly so, by recent policies south of its border, we are quick to forget that not too long ago the Canadian government imposed its own ban of sorts, one that aimed to restrict entry into the country of a specific group of people fleeing persecution.

It did so on the premise that these people were "bogus refugees" undeserving of Canada's protection and explicitly targeted them as "criminals."