Skip to main content

Replies sorted oldest to newest

Syrian refugee uses wish to thank Justin Trudeau

Marwa Harb arrived in Canada last year after spending 3 years in Jordanian refugee camp

CBC News Posted: Dec 19, 2017 6:25 AM AT, Last Updated: Dec 19, 2017 6:25 AM AT, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...in-trudeau-1.4455444

A teenage girl from Halifax met with Justin Trudeau yesterday to pass on a special message.

The Children's Wish Foundation flew 16-year-old Marwa Harb to Ottawa so she could thank the prime minister for saving her life. 

"When I first ... came to Canada here, I was asking, 'Who's helping us? Who's this man, who make this happen? Who saved my life? Who bring my life back?' Everyone told me, Justin Trudeau," she said. "He give me a better life and new future."

Parliament tour

Harb said Trudeau gave her a tour of Parliament and she was able to thank him. 

Last year, Harb, her parents and seven siblings came to Canada as refugees after fleeing war in Syria.

Harb had spent three years living in a tent in a refugee camp in Jordan, a difficult situation made all the more challenging due to her scoliosis. She had a manual wheelchair but could barely walk and found it hard to get around. 

Plans to give back

In Canada, she was able to get the surgery she needed on her back as well as a new motorized wheelchair.

She said she now wants to study to become a lawyer so she can give back to her new country.

Marwa Harb Marwa Harb came to Canada in 2016 and says she wanted to thank Justin Trudeau for giving her a new life. (CBC)

Mohammad Harb, Marwa's father, said moving to Canada has changed his family's life for the better.

"I'm very happy today because my daughter had this wish," he said. "It was a very nice day."

"My family and I was very happy when I came to Canada because a new life, a new future, a new everything — everything good. The people was very kind, the Canadian people."

With files from CBC's Idil Mussa

FM
Mitwah posted:
kp posted:

I came when your daddy Burnham was in Power in the 70 s

You are a loser. Just take a look  at all your other buddies in the Insurance business in Guyana and how well they are doing. Shame on you for calling another human a retard. Does your son who is a Doctor know about your atrocious behaviour? 

I never sold insurance! I have done bigger and better things with my life in North America, of which you are yearning to know. so keep on guessing. When I was your age and younger I retired, can you say that of yourself. Slave yourself at Milvan Dr, I understand things are bad but with your attitude it will get worst, Merry Xmas.

K
Prashad posted:

Many Canadian immigrants and refugees of color are pissed off because they see these Syrian refugees being given special treatment by the Canadian government because they are white Arabs.  The bottom line has to do with increasing the white race in Canada.

Would you say the same thing when Canada admitted Somalian Refugees?

FM
Mitwah posted:
kp posted:

I came when your daddy Burnham was in Power in the 70 s

You are a loser. Just take a look  at all your other buddies in the Insurance business in Guyana and how well they are doing. Shame on you for calling another human a retard. Does your son who is a Doctor know about your atrocious behaviour? 

Mits, keep the man son out of this. It is the decent and right thing to do.

FM
Dondadda posted:
Mitwah posted:
kp posted:

I came when your daddy Burnham was in Power in the 70 s

You are a loser. Just take a look  at all your other buddies in the Insurance business in Guyana and how well they are doing. Shame on you for calling another human a retard. Does your son who is a Doctor know about your atrocious behaviour? 

Mits, keep the man son out of this. It is the decent and right thing to do.

You have not been following. He brought his son in. You are rather silent when he refers to my family.  What do you think about him calling someone a retard? 

Mitwah
Mitwah posted:
Dondadda posted:
Mitwah posted:
kp posted:

I came when your daddy Burnham was in Power in the 70 s

You are a loser. Just take a look  at all your other buddies in the Insurance business in Guyana and how well they are doing. Shame on you for calling another human a retard. Does your son who is a Doctor know about your atrocious behaviour? 

Mits, keep the man son out of this. It is the decent and right thing to do.

You have not been following. He brought his son in. You are rather silent when he refers to my family.  What do you think about him calling someone a retard? 

If he did that then he is wrong also. Calling a fellow human being a retard is nasty, distasteful and outright insulting. I have heard of people with disabilities referred to as retard. Even if that is the case, people need to remind themselves that each one of us have some form of disability and we just don’t know it.

FM
Dondadda posted:
Prashad posted:

Many Canadian immigrants and refugees of color are pissed off because they see these Syrian refugees being given special treatment by the Canadian government because they are white Arabs.  The bottom line has to do with increasing the white race in Canada.

Would you say the same thing when Canada admitted Somalian Refugees?

Even Somalis are telling me that these Syrians are getting help that they never had from the Canadian government because these people have white skin.

Prashad
Last edited by Prashad
Prashad posted:
Dondadda posted:
Prashad posted:

Many Canadian immigrants and refugees of color are pissed off because they see these Syrian refugees being given special treatment by the Canadian government because they are white Arabs.  The bottom line has to do with increasing the white race in Canada.

Would you say the same thing when Canada admitted Somalian Refugees?

Even Somalis are telling me that these Syrians are getting help that they never had from the Canadian government because these people have white skin.

Did they not tell you how they rent one another children to collect more welfare?

Mitwah
Mitwah posted:
Prashad posted:
Dondadda posted:
Prashad posted:

Many Canadian immigrants and refugees of color are pissed off because they see these Syrian refugees being given special treatment by the Canadian government because they are white Arabs.  The bottom line has to do with increasing the white race in Canada.

Would you say the same thing when Canada admitted Somalian Refugees?

Even Somalis are telling me that these Syrians are getting help that they never had from the Canadian government because these people have white skin.

Did they not tell you how they rent one another children to collect more welfare?

Prashad posted:
Dondadda posted:
Prashad posted:

Many Canadian immigrants and refugees of color are pissed off because they see these Syrian refugees being given special treatment by the Canadian government because they are white Arabs.  The bottom line has to do with increasing the white race in Canada.

Would you say the same thing when Canada admitted Somalian Refugees?

Even Somalis are telling me that these Syrians are getting help that they never had from the Canadian government because these people have white skin.

The majority of them are on welfare and are drug pushers in the Etobicoke area. Who do you think use to give Rob Ford drugs. 

FM

A mosque in North York offered a few Serians to prepare Taxes for the community @ $ 14. Per hour . They requested to be paid cash , the mosque refused and the Serians quit ... claiming they are better of at the hotel that the government offer . Their backside on welfare and we the tax payers have to pay for this . 

last summer , the Serians community request the city council to ban the air shows over Lake Ontario , claiming it reminds them of their war country . 

FM

Mitwah I should not have called you a retard,maybe something else.                                                       These refugees  were granted landed status as soon as they arrived and are making demands such as in house English classes,free housing ,free transportation  ,free health care ,free babysitting  , and a fat welfare cheque. If there is peace in their homeland they will never return.

K
kp posted:

Mitwah I should not have called you a retard,maybe something else.                                                       These refugees  were granted landed status as soon as they arrived and are making demands such as in house English classes,free housing ,free transportation  ,free health care ,free babysitting  , and a fat welfare cheque. If there is peace in their homeland they will never return.

Who !! Mit pandit Ji , he is not a proud Canadian any more .. call he backside any thing 

These Serian people has a better life than us and I man struggling to put bread on the table.

i considering moving to New England by Bro Djanjo neighbourhood  ... no crime , peaceful life and the money grows on tree .

FM
Prashad posted:

The Syrian community in Canada paid Canadians to go to the refugee camps in the foreign countries such as Jordan that have Syrian refugees and educate the Syrian refugees on how to live in Canada.  That is how affluent and powerful the Syrian community is in Canada.

I have a Syrian friend that is versatile on the Tabla and sing Hindi songs. He mentioned that most of those refugees are very affluent. Once they are settled they will move their wealth. In my village there were quite a few Syrians who sold silk and other fabrics.

Mitwah
Mitwah posted:
Prashad posted:

The Syrian community in Canada paid Canadians to go to the refugee camps in the foreign countries such as Jordan that have Syrian refugees and educate the Syrian refugees on how to live in Canada.  That is how affluent and powerful the Syrian community is in Canada.

I have a Syrian friend that is versatile on the Tabla and sing Hindi songs. He mentioned that most of those refugees are very affluent. Once they are settled they will move their wealth. In my village there were quite a few Syrians who sold silk and other fabrics.

On the West Coast of Demerara and on the Georgetown ferry there always be Syrians salesmen selling dress length and pants length, I remember they would put lighter fluid and scratch a match and the fabric would not burn, but when you wash the cloth it would shrink, long pants become short pants.They were good salesmen, everything they say just come off the boat.

K
Prashad posted:
Dondadda posted:
Prashad posted:

Many Canadian immigrants and refugees of color are pissed off because they see these Syrian refugees being given special treatment by the Canadian government because they are white Arabs.  The bottom line has to do with increasing the white race in Canada.

Would you say the same thing when Canada admitted Somalian Refugees?

Even Somalis are telling me that these Syrians are getting help that they never had from the Canadian government because these people have white skin.

The Somalis want everything handed to them. They have taken over the welfare housing projects. They do not want to integrate into society. They prefer to live off of the welfare system. The Donald will fix this soon. The people in St. Cloud MN don't want them there, claiming that they do not contribute to the city and they are there to only collect public assistance. 

FM

Add Reply

×
×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×
×