From August 4, 2015 to The Vancouver Sun: Daphne Braham (Compassionate Canada has lots its way) is right: this is no longer the Canada we love and thought we knew. In 1970 I left a country (USA) that was conflicted internally and going around the world deposing democratically elected presidents and installing dictators. I chose Canada, tranquil internally and known as a neutral peacemaker internationally. I drove to the border and presented my credentials. Immigrants needed 50 points: so many points for a university education (check), so many for a job offer (I was going to a $200/month plus room and board job), so many for being married (the marriage was over, but I still had the license), cash (I had about $200, just enough to prove I wasn’t indigent), and so on. In an hour I was a Landed Immigrant, and in five years, a Citizen. How different now, when people arriving at the border, just like I did, are thrown in jail by the boatload, and immigration has declined to a trickle, even as the need escalates exponentially! Braham quotes former Senator Pat Carney writing to Immigration Minister Chris Alexander suggesting that we “bring in 100,000 of them [Syrian refugees] to Canada immediately,” of the 4,088,078 registered by the United Nations. Canada is a big land with few people and lots of resources. From 2002 to 2006 I worked in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan assessing the impact of 1.4 million refugees that had fled Kuwait in 1990 when Iraq invaded. They came to a country, about the size of British Columbia, with virtually no natural resources, that was still struggling to integrate an influx of about 2.1 million Palestinian refugees after the 1967 and 1973 wars. During 2003, I watched droves of Iraqis fleeing the war debark from the Baghdad–Amman busses, adding another 200,000 to Jordan’s stressed population. By August 2014, some 608,000 Syrian had crossed into Jordan. Their main refugee camp near Mafraq was a pastoral paradise when I saw it last in 2006, shepherds grazing their goats, sheep and camels in a sea of grass. If tiny Jordan, bereft of natural resources, can take in so many millions of desperate people, how can Canada not follow Carney’s advice and accept at least 100,000 immediately, as a first start?