Canadian minister apologizes for saying immigrants better at creating jobs

The veterans affairs minister in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet apologized Sunday for saying immigrants “are better at creating new businesses and new jobs than people born in Canada.”

After being pummeled on social media all day, Seamus O’Regan confessed: “Well, that was foolish…Poor choice of words on my part…I met last week with an entrepreneur who rightly felt put out by what I’d said.”

O’Regan’s initial tweet had passed almost without notice, until conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel commented on the post Saturday night. That prompted a social media mass rejoinder on Sunday that continued until the Trudeau minister tweeted his apology.

Rempel tweeted: “Can of worms: opened.”