I wish our prime minister, the quarterback, and his receivers could get their heads together and quit embarrassing our country.
According to a 10-year-old world map I have, Pakistan should have a population of around 140 million people. The embarrassing offer of $2 million in aid to the flood victims works out to 1.43 cents per person.
According to the papers and TV there are 20 million people in the flood area. Using only the 20 million people needing immediate help, that $2 million offer works out to 10 cents per person.
Now, the offer is $33 million dollars and this works out to $1.65 per person and more trouble coming to the region.
Now we have 492 Tamils that have arrived illegally and we are going to spend $60,000 per person to check them out, feed them supply them with homes, medical and money. This totals up to $29,500,000, and possibly double or triple this amount — for someone that doesn’t belong here.
These people cheated in every way and spent just about as much to get here — and we are supposed to accept them unconditionally? Not me!
The people who arrived on the ship should be flown back to Sri Lanka immediately, the captain jailed for about 10 years and the crew jailed for about five years and the ship destroyed.
This action would send a message that the only way to come to Canada is the legal way, and would leave us with over $25 million-plus of our taxpayers money, which we can use to help the real needy like the Pakistanis that have had their homes, crops and many of their animals destroyed by the floods.
They are going to need much more help — and likely for years to come — to recover from this mess.
Tom Skoreyko
Red Deer