The illegal intruders , economic migrants, were not escaping from persecution and oppressive US authorities, did not have to cross mine fields , slip past border guards shooting at them, to enter Canada.

Early settlers to Canada were given felling axes to fell trees to clear the land and to build timber cabins for themselves, they were given a hoe, a spade, a plough ....if they are to remain, perhaps that tradition should be revived....it is how modern Canada came about.