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Morality Play: Drowning Victims

Rising Tide Dept: Or to play politics with it. Or do nothing and allow more migrants to reach our shores on dilapidated boats, and one day wash ashore as drowning victims when a ship capsizes, according to The Star. Just ask the Australians, who have watched human smuggling operations ramp up to more than 100 boats so far this year and it s tempting to turn Canada s latest refugee debate into a morality play. Either way, the rising tide of refugees sailing across the Pacific won t turn back by itself. No matter how much refugee advocates pretend there isn t a problem or that it s a miniscule and manageable problem doing nothing is an invitation to human smugglers to profit from our policy paralysis. As reported in the news.
@t policy paralysis, human smugglers