text: Rex,
  
  Canada has generally avoided reactionary pronouncements and actions against the former third world countries and this will serve Canada well as China, India, etc., etc. rise economically and geopolitically in the future.
  
  The alternative of trying to stand against and exclude the large majority of the world's population and productive capacity is demeaning to our true self-regard, will not impede the rise of those nations in question and is contrary to Canada's long term interests.