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Apparently that irony is lost on those obsessed with Canada but living in a country with a huge statue at the entrance to it's eastern facing major harbour with basically the same expressed words on a plaque at it's base.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Any and all could be forgiven for thinking those words would by default include those "masses" mentioned by Trudeau.
What Trudeau said, and what some Americans are now making of it, are two different things.....but they already know this.
First of all it's "harbor." Second of all a statue is not government policy. Anyone with half a brain knows that the poet Emma Lazarus was regarded as a near-subversive.
First of all it's "harbor." Second of all a statue is not government policy. Anyone with half a brain knows that the poet Emma Lazarus was regarded as a near-subversive.
You're funn'n with me now jb........ I know it.
You also know me well enough by now to know I'm fully aware of the history behind the sonnet.
My point was Trudeau's words regarding asylum seekers were/are being used out of context just as one could accuse me of using Emma's excerpt from "The New Colossus" sonnet out of context.
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