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

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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.

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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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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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