Many, many countries with far fewer resources and far less wealth have accepted more of those in need than Canada. We can do better.

Ask any person of colour how they feel the day after a terrorist attack. My friends tell me the hate is palpable. We are a much less civil society than we like to think. These are troubled times and tolerance is on the run. To think that we are immune to barbarism is naïve, myopic and dangerous. And journalists are a fundamental safeguard against such a descent. We must recognize them as such.

It would be amusing if the consequences weren’t so terminally profound.

As desperate refugees' lives are caught in limbo, a sense of moral urgency seems to be sorely lacking.