WHAT GOES on in Ottawa is cnough to put a prize bull
off sex, and the farce in which a known terrorist w
given landed immigrant status is typical of the Wonders

of Wimpland.

“Mr.’ Mahmoud Muhammad
{Issa Mohammad, as some
newspapers respectfully call him,
was sentenced to 17 years in a
Greek jail for being too keen on
hijacking and killing. He was
guilty of wilful manslaughter,
meaning murder, and was also
found to be on the wrong side of
arson and the use of explosives.

Released to Spain in some sort
of trade-off of which the Greeks
should be ashamed, but are not,
this ‘‘Mister’' had no trouble im-
migrating to Canada, complete
with his loving family.

And why not? Aren’t we the
casicst touch in the world for
terrorists? Don't we encourage
Chinese and Vietnamese gangs to

setup practice here? Arem't we a
Shangri La for crooks, fiars and
bums from all over?

Monty Python would have
loved this skit, Qur security
forces, ha ha, knew that
Mahmoud and his brood were
on their way in by plane. A full
alert was sounded. Alas, at the
airport it was time for Canada
Customs and other gtardians of
our security fo switch shifts. Or
perhaps they had bogged aff for
coffee. So it was a case of ‘This
way, sir, Welcome to Canada,
sir, Anything to declare, sir? We
thought not, sir.’

Imagine what it must be like
when only half an alert is sound-
ed instead of a full one.

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Don't watch re-runs of the
Keystone Cops or the Lavender
Hill Mob on TY, folks. Just
tread the papers.

The laughs come thick and
fast. [mmigration Minister
Benoit Bouchard comes on the
tube saying that Mahmoud is a
landed immigrant and has his

Y - beidas,

famous refugee lover and im-
migration booster.

Hadn't Mahmoud Hed to the
immigration authorities, asked
Ed? Wasn't that an offence?
Why hadn't this man been
semoved from our sacred soil?

td was being a trifle selective.
One doubts that he would have
performed so well for the
cameras if Mahmoud had been a
Jew. The NDP has lots of Jews
in its ranks, you see, but is short
on Arabs. There are also fots of
Jews in Montreal whose votes
and moncy Ed is anxious to
gain. So it was OK to kick the
can,

Led by John Nunziata, the
Liberals were also snorting like a
lot of ancient hacks on the home
straight. This one was safe for
them, too.

Next thing you know, the im-

[ n the Canadian book, terrorists can be
refugees too, you see. Anyone can be a refugee.

rights, Couldn't we understand

that?

Pretty soon, the hapless func-
tionary is singing a different
tune. For who should rise in the
House, cyes flashing and arms
waving in public indignation but
Big Brother Ed of the NDP,

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Muhammad. But wait! The bird
in question seems to have an
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to do to stay here is to claim he
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In the Canadian book, ter-
rorists can be refugees too, vou
see, Anyone can be a refugee.

Those who created this state
of affairs include the very people
who are doing the shouting. For
Big Ed and the John Turner
crowd, all systems have been
40,0"

At this very moment the
Liberals in the Senate are
holding up new rules that would
make it a bit easier to keep the
phony refugee flood off our
turf, So what are their comrades
in the Commons shouting about?

Was it nasty of me to point
out that there would have been
fess fuss if Mohanimad had been
a Jew? Consider: in 1986 there
was no comparable fuss when
Jecry Weiner the junior immigra-
tion minister announced that
Abraham Finkel would be
granted landed isimigrant status.

Finkel had 20 convictions
behind him, including armed
robbery. But Weiner backed him
even though two former im-
migration ministers had turned
him down for being ‘‘inad-
missable under the act.”

In the present case, Weiner
squeals that ‘the full force of
the law’’ will be applied.

What law? The question is not
whether Mohammad will stay,
but whether he will land a seat in

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