{"id":266,"date":"2015-12-02T05:40:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T05:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2015-12-02T05:40:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T05:40:57","slug":"frances-national-front-leader-calls-canadas-refugee-plan-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"France’s National Front Leader Calls Canada’s Refugee Plan ‘Madness’"},"content":{"rendered":"
France’s National Front Leader<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Calls Canada’s Refugee Plan ‘Madness’<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
by Lisa Mayor, CBC News<\/div>\n
November 28, 2015<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/<\/span>france-le-pen-canada-refugees-<\/span>1.3340209<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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French National Front Leader Marine Le Pen talks to the CBC’s Mark Kelley.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
More from the interview tonight on the fifth estate. (CBC)<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Marine Le Pen, the controversial leader of France’s far-right National Front, is scoffing at Canada’s plan to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees with open arms, calling it “madness.”<\/p>\n

“There. I’ve said it. Madness,” she said in an interview with the fifth estate<\/em>. “There are other ways to do it,” she went on, adding that the “danger is real \u2014\u00a0false passports.<\/p>\n

“A real passport given to Islamic fundamentalist in the influx of immigrants to enter the country with the intent to commit terrorist attacks. It’s a danger. And that’s what happened in Paris,” she claimed.<\/p>\n

Le Pen \u2014\u00a0roundly criticized by many in France for what are seen as thinly-veiled racist positions \u2014\u00a0sat down with the fifth estate’<\/em>s Mark Kelley as part of a special report that airs tonight called “Aftermath: How Paris Changed the World.”<\/p>\n