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After newly-elected Ontario Premier Doug Ford this week suggested Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should pay for the immigration “mess” he’s made, Trudeau as is his habit hopped onto a soap box.

“It didn’t seem to me that the premier was quite as aware of our international obligation to the U.N. Convention on refugees as he might have been,” Trudeau lectured after meeting with Ford. “So I spent a little time explaining how the asylum-seeking system works and how our system is supposed to operate,” he said.

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Turns out though Canadians think Trudeau is the one who doesn’t get how our immigration system is supposed to operate.

A new national poll by Dart Insight found 70% of Canadians don’t believe Trudeau’s government has a clear plan to deal with the flood of refugees, economic and illegal migrants crossing our border and 58% don’t believe Ottawa has handled the situation well.