Side show it is too.
The Harper Conservatives tried to hide behind the "vetting issue" to disguise their racism. What they don't tell you is, those 25,000 refugees we are going to accept and which the Harping Harpers have been in the que since before this war began. They create an idea that it's total chaos, no one has ID etc. The truth is if you don't have a passport, you stay. Further, the international aid communities do a pre-screening and turn over anyone suspected of being a real terrorist.
The process can take ten years, in this case there are refugees waiting for a home who have been without for over five years.
So, for the Harperites to be right about a "threat" here is what would have to happen. The terrorist would have had to obtain a working false passport that will survive scrutiny from the best. They will have to have been trained in terrorist techniques as well as working as a mole, and then begin a wait that could last ten years, with no guarantee he would hit a his intended host host country.
Based on historical fact, the greatest threat to Canada's national security of any ethnic community it would have to be the Sikh population, as the Air India bombing by Punjab separatists in 1985 claimed 329 lives. 286 Canadians died in that episode, perhaps we forget they were Canadians because they were Sikhs.
Today, the Hon. Harjit S. Sajjan is Canada's top cop; a former soldier wounded for his Canada in Kandahar. He volunteered to put his life on the line in service to his Canada. I know few Canadians so inclined, very few.
In 30 years, "they" have gone from being feared like we now fear Islam, to one of them our chief guardian and protector
