Donald Trump.

Canada also detains migrant children, sometimes for months at a time

 

Shiney.

 

I wonder, these days if any of the reporters have been to school at all. The grammar and spelling is atrocious sometimes. ''The news'' is not news at all quite often, just a whole lot of opinions from people who don`t appear to know what they`re on about.

 

Did you actually read the whole article - directly copied and pasted...

" In some cases, detained asylum seekers have lived in the country without status for years. In detention, they are given the option of keeping their Canadian-born children with them or sending them to live with extended family or in the custody of provincial youth protection services. "

Your president's lousy choice and then chest puffing now he has reversed this action and he did so because of the pressure from moral and ethical pushback, seems like shoving a kid in the pool and then wanting a medal for rescuing it.

I think it is terrible of you @redstar, to defend your country by trying to smear another.

And it also came out this week that you export more steel and aluminum to us than we do to you. Talk about twisted!

 

Not defending my country to smear another. Just showing that it happens in other countries. We have asylum seekers here also which are treated different than those that sneak into USA.

 

Very interesting post @shiney. it is amazing how words can be manipulated to mean different things. Who would think there is a world of a difference between smoked Scottish salmon and Scottish smoked salmon. It's almost an art form how people can massage the truth with some carefully crafted words

 

But it doesn't happen in my country. The only "kids" detained without parents here, are because their psrents made that choice or they are unaccompanied and most likely victims of sex slave trade. Something which has been a problem in every country.

You did your best to post "fake"news and unfortunately you don't seem to regret that error in judgement. I feel sorry for you. And I feel sorry for most Americans. I had been advised by many people in the travel industry to be sure to wear something to identify myself as a Canadian because our accents are fairly similar. They had my best interests at heart and didn't want me to be mistaken for an American and perhaps treated differently. I am so glad I got this advice because the minute people knew I'm a Canuck, the smiles appeared and genuine expressions of welcome followed. Sad. Really sad that I needed to clarify from what North American country I am native. The changes were fairly subtle but defintely made an impression.

I don't think DT is helping the US image much.

 

So I posted "fake news" about Canada. Ok, wonder how many news releases of USA are believed that are also "fake".

 

But I did not post them here. Mega media did the nasty work. I did not post any fake news links. You did. I suggest you fully investigate, or at least read the entire article before posting sensational headlines. It is poor manners to point. Particularly when one is doing it to ridicule on false grounds.

There are a lot of things said about Trump that I don't believe for one moment and I took the time to investigate a little and dismiss them. I'm sure somewhere someone has said that he eats babies for lunch and we all know that is silly. But most of us don't repeat it. All but a very few it seems...

 

That's quite sad really. I'm aware of a case where a child was deliberately abandoned on a motorway - in the knowledge that they would be picked up and cared for by the local Council. The child in question couldn't understand English - how desperate must a parent be to risk their child on a busy road in the hope that they would be picked up by the Council?

This does go on - I've seen it happen - yet austerity continues.

 

This wasn't about child abandonment, it was about how various immigration authorities deal with detention.

But you are right, it is sad. I knew a fellow whose mother left him and his little brother at a busy street corner in downtown Toronto. They were only 3 and 4 at the time. I don't believe the feeling of "not being wanted" ever left him. Even to his death bed.