text: Running a lottery and flying in 40000 winners from their homelands on the opposite of the world to a country in which they do not speak the language, do not agree with the culture and in which they have none of the skills required to make their lives here a success is simply an incredibly poor use of the billions of dollars that we spend on these programs each year. 
  We would make far more of an impact by using half of that money more efficiently to improve the lives and futures of large numbers of refugees within the camps and to use the other half to help the 35000 Canadians who are homeless, the thousands of Canadians who have no clean drinking water, our veterans who are not being properly supported, and to provide the adequate services that our sick, our youth, our elderly and working poor are desperately in need of.