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Jamie Sarkonak: Chief justice says existence of Canada's border is discrimination
The Supreme Court says low-cost public daycare must be given to asylum seekers, too — and Richard Wagner wants to go further
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Anyone in the world who shows up in Canada and makes an asylum claim is entitled to free subsidized daycare if citizens get it too, said all but one judge of the Supreme Court on Friday. They framed their decision as a matter of social justice — seemingly ignorant that their words degraded the value of Canadian citizenship by extending our social safety net, which we pay for, to unvetted foreigners.
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The case came about because Quebec had excluded unvetted, unapproved asylum claimants from its already generous subsidized daycare program, which is open to citizens as well as permanent residents, work permit holders, foreign students and government-approved refugees.
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