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(AP) - Canadian Immigration Minister Monte Solberg responds to questions from the opposition during Question Period in the House of Commons Friday, June 9, 2006 in Ottowa, Canada. Canada has long prided itself for opening its doors wider than any nation to immigrants and asylum-seekers, but that tradition is coming under intense scrutiny, at home and across the U.S. border, after the arrests of 17 men from Muslim immigrant families in an alleged terror plot. ‘We’re standing by our policies,’ said Lesley Harmer, spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Monte Solberg. The department hopes to admit the full quota of immigrants this year _ roughly 255,000 _ to help address a labor shortage, she said. (AP Photo/CP, Fred Chartrand)