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“Paris changes everything.”

That was the call sent out by some after last week’s massacre of innocents in the French capital. After that bloody horror, how could the Trudeau Liberal government possibly still hold to its pledge of bringing 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of the year?

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That call — which, by the way, came mostly from those already previously opposed to the plan — targets the desperate souls fleeing those same terrorists.

A Syrian passport was found next to one of the Paris attackers who blew himself up. The document, if authentic, was used earlier at the Greek border by someone among the massive human train of misery rolling out of the warzone and into Europe.

Canada is fortunate. We lie an ocean away from the conflict, and our refugees won’t be arriving on foot but rather by jet, enabling the inflow to be more controlled and orderly.

The Liberals haven’t yet made public their plan specifics, but the ranks of overseas Canadian immigration and security officials were already being bolstered during the recent election campaign after all the major parties began pledging to boost the Syrian refugee numbers.