Canadian Immigration Hotline

Number 101 March, 1998

White Males Are Mounties' Lowest Priority

Blind ideology now governs RCMP hiring policy which blatantly discriminates against white males. The ideology states that the Mounties must accurately reflect the ever changing population makeup, whether or not there are qualified or interested applicants. Further, if diverse groups don't end up with similar scores on a test, it must be a result of some sort of built-in bias. Thus, "the RCMP entrance exam is being rewritten after some aboriginals and other visible minorities scored lower than other potential recruits, says a report on federal employment equity. 'Aboriginal applicants to the RCMP tend to have significantly less formal education than applicants from other groups,' the report says. 'For some visible minorities there are also likely second-language issues in addition to educational ones.' ... The report cited concerns over subtests involving written composition, logic and computation." (Toronto Star, January 5, 1997) Aboriginal and visible minority applicants scored less well than others in logic, composition and computation. In a word, they are less qualified.

The solution: jigger the tests to produce "equal" results. Don't, for heaven sake, suggest that would-be applicants upgrade their skills! The report continued: "'We have to try to design tests that meet the requirements of the kind of people we're looking for,' said Sergeant Mike Gaudet, an RCMP spokesperson in Ottawa.." If you're unfortunate enough to be a White male, you'd better understand, the Mounties aren't looking for YOU. "The employment equity report said the RCMP's recruitment priorities are in descending order: visible minorities, aboriginals, women and Caucasian men." Apparently, the RCMP raises no objection to benefitting from taxes paid by Caucasian males or, in provinces like B.C., where fanatic Mounties harass speeders, while heroin floods into North America from Asia, they'll still collect speeding fines from Caucasian males.

Immigration Mess: The Numbers Tell the Story

Of illegals, the self-identified "refugees", a full "60 per cent now enter the country with fake papers" -- a real indicator of their respect for the laws of their prospective homeland! Columnist Douglas Fisher notes "the increasing numbers of new immigrants unable to function in either one of the official languages (up from 5 per cent in the '70s to 41 per cent in the '90s). (Ottawa Sun, January 18, 1998) "For the 1997-98 fiscal year, Ottawa is paying $95.6-million for adult language instruction through a programme called Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada, plus $63.3-million more in related programmes. ... Ontario ... spent $97.6-million for English and French programmes for children who spoke neither language, School boards chipped in $138.6-million. (Globe and Mail, January 20, 1997)

Rush to Judgment on Immigration Report But Still Time to Speak Up Interested Canadians may have their best opportunity to speak up to try to shape the immigration policy of this country for years to come. On January 6, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Lucienne Robillard made public a three-person report entitled Not Just Numbers: A Canadian Framework for Future Immigration. A Government of Canada press release states: "Mme Robillard intends to hold, beginning February 27, 1998, five consultation days. ... These consultations will be taking place on February 27 in Vancouver, March 2 in Winnipeg, March 3 in Toronto, March 6 in Montreal and March 9 in Halifax." It seems that the prairies have been forgotten. "All individuals and organizations wishing to be heard must communicate in writing by February 6. All individuals and organizations wishing to present written submissions or opinions have until March 9 to send the documents to:

Between the day of the press release and the deadline for written submissions there is barely two months. Outside the immigration industry, few Canadians even know this opportunity exists. A brief summary of the report is contained in the next item. However, while, if it were accepted in total, it might slightly improve the situation, it fails to deal either with the source or numbers of immigrants. Recommendation 14 says that for both immigrants and refugees, "in the interim, numbers should be maintained at approximately the current level." (p.14) However, with 1.4-million Canadians out of work, with many major companies like Macmillan Bloedel slashing their workforces, unemployment seems intractable. To continue to import 225,000 or more people a year is downright immoral! Even Immigration Minister Robillard admits that this present system is a junker, As we reported in Hotline #98, "she noted ... the 'absorptive capacity' of the country has been reached." (Calgary Herald, October 24, 1997) She further said immigration could not be increased "while so many people already in Canada cannot find jobs. She also said increased pressure by immigrants on social services in urban centres is a concern." (Globe and Mail, October 24, 1997) To continue the same level of immigration is the equivalent of slapping a coat of new paint on a wrecked car.

Thus, we recommend:

  1. An immediate five-year moratorium on all immigration and refugee intake. A solid majority of Canadians agree. A Forum Canada Research poll in 1995 found 58.9 per cent of Canadians backed a five-year moratorium. (Toronto Sun, May 16, 1995)
  2. A full national study and debate, with access to television and radio for all points of view;
  3. This would be followed by a binding national referendum to set immigration policy.

What the Report Says

Here are some of the highlights of Not Just Numbers: A Canadian Framework for Future Immigration:

The report recommends two separate pieces of legislation: one to cover immigration and the other to deal with refugees, or, as they term it, the Protection Act. The first recommendation is sensible and seems to put Canada first. The report calls for "explicit recognition of active participation in Canadian society as a requisite for citizenship." [Recommendation 1] Thus, merely parking here for three years will not qualify someone for citizenship. The Canada-first theme is carried on at first among the objectives of the new immigration legislation.

The first is to "facilitate the entry ... of those persons who will contribute to Canada's prosperity and to the economics well-being of Canadians." [Recommendation 4(a)] Sadly, this is quickly marred by the insulting suggestion that immigration should "enrich the culture of Canadians" [Recommendation 4 (d)], as if Canadians are some culturally-deprived losers., hungering for the enrichment of reggae or purdah.

Also on the right track is the proposal that the new class of "self-supporting" immigrant will have to meet minimum core standards in "education, official language ability and self-sufficiency." [Recommendation 47] The requirement that immigrants be able to function in one of our two official languages is long overdue. "The core standard for official language ability should be proficiency (meaning a level of fluency sufficient to enter the Canadian labour force) in at least one of the two official languages. This should be demonstrated through formal, standardized testing." [Recommendation 49] "There should be an objective test ... for the accompanying family members of Self-Supporting Class immigrants ... to assess basic proficiency in at least one official language.

A supplementary fee should be charged for each such person unable to meet the required standard to offset the future cost of language training." [Recommendation 64] Another worthwhile proposal would deal with the frequently flawed Immigrant Investor Programme. "The mechanism should be a five-year interest-free loan to the federal government." [Recommendation 60] The feds would then distribute the money, according to an agreed-upon formula, to the provinces. "As well as making a specified financial commitment, investor immigrants should have to meet" the following "core standards: education, official language ability and self-sufficiency." [Recommendation 59]

Goody Two Shoes Canada wants to scour the world looking for refugees. The report wants "Canada to take leadership in the international community to better organize the sharing of responsibility for the identification of and the provision of assistance to those who require protection." [Recommendation 5 (a)] A tip of the hat to the immigration lobby: "The Minister should establish a working group with organizations representing the interests of clients to examine the rationale for the right of landing fee." [Recommendation 17] Who will represent the taxpayers and non-"clients"?

If fees offer some threshold of eligibility, another recommendation quickly cancels it: The new legislation "should allow for loans to help with the payment of immigration-related fees for spouses and dependent children." [Recommendation 18] Does the Canadian government lend its own citizens money to pay their licence fees? The family class definition will be stretched to include same sex couples. Instead of a Canada-first policy, the report want the family class to "reflect the principle that the definition of family is evolving over time and differs among cultural and ethnic communities." [Recommendation 34] So what? The Majority Canadian definition should rule! A spouse will now be defined as "a partner in an intimate relationship, including co-habitation of at least one year in duration." [Recommendation 32] The Family Class can now include "close personal acquaintances of the sponsor's choice." [Recommendation 40] Most bizarre is the proposal that for refugees "there should be no requirement that applicants be likely to establish themselves successfully in Canada." [Recommendation 88] Nor would there be a language requirement.

Another bad suggestion would add more competition to our already frequently underemployed, native-born university graduates, as well as taking some of the educated brain power so desperately needed in Third World countries. The new legislation "should allow foreign students who have successfully completed a course of post-secondary studies in Canada to apply for landed immigrant status in Canada, if they have an acceptable, permanent job offer." [Recommendation 81] Also open to abuse is a proposal that self-styled "refugess" who "cannot show satisfactory identity documents should be granted temporary protected status, and they could apply for landing after three years." [Recommendation 109]

War Crimes

Sadly, the report endorses the present situation where, while unable to find some 1,250 criminal desperadoes who have been ordered deported, the government spends millions hunting and seeking to denaturalize aged Germans and East Europeans for alleged actions more than half a century ago outside Canadian jurisdiction against people, in wartime, who were not Canadian citizens. No statue of limitations for these people, says the report. It recommends that the new act have a provision so "that revocation of citizenship should result, without appeal rights, in loss of all status in Canada and subsequent deportation where there had been (a) a criminal conviction for war crimes or crimes against humanity committed before citizenship was granted." [Recommendation 137] Many such convictions were handed down by communist "people's courts".

The same loss of citizenship would occur if there were "a finding that the person was a war criminal or had committed crimes against humanity." A finding by whom? Finally, a person could be stripped of his citizenship because of "fraud because of membership in an organization involved in war crimes or crimes against humanity.": Shouldn't there be proof of individual responsibility, rather than mere guilt by association? Who would determine whether an organization had been involved in war crimes. Germans and East Europeans of a certain generation have once against been set up for harassment and victimization.

Immigrants Should Know English or French, Poll Finds

A viewer poll conducted January 11 on CBC Newsworld found overwhelming support for requiring immigrants to be able to speak either English or French. A solid 68 per cent backed this proposal, while only 32 per cent opposed it. (On the Line With Patrick Conlon)

Asians Show No Pity for Fellow Asian Refugees

Dotty babyboomers who fancy that the flood of Asian and other Third World immigrants will work hard -- that is, if they have a job -- and dutifully pay taxes to provide pensions and medicare for an aging European population inhabit a fantasy world. They had better look at the way these people treat one another in their hour of need. Now that croneyism, corruption, nepotism and Western gullibility have humiliated the Asian tigers -- it's time to get serious. "In Thailand and Malaysia, the expulsion of millions of migrant labourers is now being organized. In South Korea, many companies have achieved the same result by refusing to pay their foreign workers. (South China Morning Post, January 20, 1998) One hopes in vain that this kind of "charity" might alert Canadians to our own prospects for a peaceful old age, but immigration 'specialists' know a good thing when they see it and may yet bring even MORE economic opportunists to Canada.

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, ethnic Chinese arriving via Vietnam fare no better, "Payment in advance for the care and maintenance of Vietnamese migrants was being suspended, the Secretary for Security said. ... Refugees will be required to pay rent to live in the Pillar Point Detention Centre, while medical services in the camp are to be scrapped. [There are about 1,200 'Vietnamese' refugees at the Centre] ... A Western diplomat said that the SAR's motivation for abolishing the policy was clear - to avoid a wave of ethnic Chinese Vietnamese asylum seekers flooding across the border from the south of mainland China. ... Liberal Party Chairman, Allen Lee Peng-fei said 'fleets or boats of newly arrived Vietnamese should be dragged out to sea to deter them from flooding into Hong Kong.'" (South China Morning Post , January 9, 1998)

Haitians Take the Prize for Relatives Scam

Canada's refusal rate for potential immigrants from Haiti runs to 40 per cent. According to Canada's ambassador in Port-au-Prince, the difficulties arise from the fact that "their hastily written papers are filled with false claims about relatives in Canada. ... [Gilles Bernier] said he was surprised by the tactics that Haitians used in seeking visas. 'They're very audacious.' ... Canada's Immigration Department uses genetic testing as a last resort when immigrants want to bring relatives to Canada but have no proof of their relationship. ... Bernier said Haitian applicants don't hesitate to spend $350 for DNA testing by which they hope to prove their kinship claims. [A bit of a problem here: shouldn't $350 be a king's ransom to a desperate Haitian? Wouldn't they know it was a fool's errand -- or have they heard about Canada's forensic labs? ] 'In 31 per cent of the (testing) cases, it's a failure,' he said. 'The failure rate for DNA testing is the highest in the world.'" (Ottawa Citizen, December 31, 1997 Haitians may renew their efforts since "a strike by hospital workers has turned the capital's general hospital into a house of horrors with corpses left sprawled on its floors. ... A visitor to the hospital on Wednesday saw three babies' bodies on the cement floor in front of the morgue.

The bodies of at least two adults lay in a corridor. ... Workers' union leader Jean-Baptiste Fleurant [said] ... 'We have appealed to the Public Health Minister and got no response. This is the only way to get the government's attention." (South China Morning Post, January 9, 1998)

More Minorityitis: Asians Escape Inspection of Herbal Remedies

Last month we asked what the cultural concessions to the country's 120 other distinct societies will eventually cost Canadians. "When the federal government announced a few months ago that it would start testing and regulating herbal remedies (the same way it deals with more mainstream medicines), the Chinese-Canadian community got angry and, got organized. Last week, Ottawa seemed to listen, announcing the regulations, which were to take effect next January 1st, had been scrapped. (Pacific Rim Report, CBC Newsworld, January 4, 1998) Just around that time, Health Canada issued a warning to consumers regarding "Sleeping Buddha capsules, a traditional herbal remedy manufactured in China, which have been found to be contaminated with prescription drugs." (Vancouver Sun, December 27 1997) "Herbal" medicines are just as likely to incorporate bits of domestic and foreign animals.

Many, like the tiger, already seem doomed. Confronted by the rapacious "impotence" trade, Canada's wildlife and customs officials appear to be functionally impotent themselves. There had been some faint hope that additional legislation would put teeth into policing. "The herbal medicine announcement came just two days after the asset disclosure decision was made public. In this case, Ottawa decided to delay -- for at least a year -- a requirement that Canadian residents declare virtually all of their worldwide assets over $100,000. Two big issues in the Chinese community! Two major policy reversals by the federal government!

Recycled from Justice to Health portfolio, Alan Rock is only now attempting to make 'democratic' noises: "Canadians should have the broadest range of options available to them. Politics in the larger sense, is about listening to people, learning, and trying to do the right thing. So sure it's a political move, but there's nothing wrong with that." (Pacific Rim Report, CBC Newsworld, January 4, 1998) Mr. Rock's egalitarian tendencies were not in evidence during his relentless campaign to disarm Canadians.

CRIME WATCH

Crooked Immigration Officials Finesse Entry By Illegals

"The RCMP have arrested a former Canada Immigration officer and two others after documents of illegal Korean nationals were allegedly stamped with government seals to make them legal in Canada. It marked the second time in a week that a former immigration officer has been charged by the RCMP on corruption-related offences. Const. Michele Paradis said a warrant has also been issued for Toronto businessman Suck Hwan Kim, 57, who may be outside the country. Paradis said about 50 people from 20 families paid up to $15,000 a family to have their documents stamped with an immigration seal which gave them unauthorized status here. Richardo Rodriguez, 38, of Caracas, Venezuela, a former 10-year Pearson immigration examination officer before resigning a month ago, has been charged with conspiracy to utter forged documents. Also charged are Frank Yoo, 35. ... and his sister Christina Yoo, 39." (Toronto Sun, January 18, 1998)

Another Drug Pusher Slips Through

"New Westminster police are wondering how an illegal immigrant and suspected drug dealer slipped throught he cracks. On November 7, police arrestred a man going by the name Benjamin Rivas for allegedly selling crack cocaine to an undercover cop. Rivas had apparently just immigrated and police suspected he was using a phoney name on his Canadian immigration document. .. In court on November 24, Rivas, who had no crimnal record, pleaded guilty to trafficking, but the plea was stricken by the judge because of concerns over the effect it would have on his immigration status, police said. The case was adjourned to December 1 but Rivas failed to appear and a bench warrant was issued. Police have since learned his real name is Louis Jose Granados, 36, a U.S. citizen with a criminal record. Police said the case is another example of their growing frustration with the administration and judicial systems. ... 'There's a frustration with Canadian immigration from people all across the country about the lack of rules,' police chief Peter Young said." (The Province, December 21, 1997)

HEALTH WATCH

Please, That's Hansen's Disease!

Who makes these decisions for us? Unseen and unsuspected, tuberculosis, malaria, and rampant hepatitis have stealthily insinuated themselves among us. "About 75 per cent of all Chinese people carry the hepatitis B bug, said Professor Lai Ching-lung." (South China Morning Post, January 13, 1998) In 1986, following a blood transfusion, a Manitoba woman died of chagas' disease, a blood parasite "prevalent in Central and South America." (Ottawa Citizen, July 25, 1997) The public health 'backlash management technique', developed over the course of the AIDS crisis, now serves Toronto's leper population. Numbering 180 cases, the city has one of the largest caseloads in the western world. Here, lepers are neither stigmatized nor consigned to the 'rejected enclosures' favoured by nations where public welfare takes precedence over hurt feelings. "'Patient confidentiality is really important,' says [Dr. Kevin Kain] the director of the tropical disease unit at Toronto Hospital. 'We don't want them to be social outcasts.' ... The incubation period -- the time between exposure to the bacteria and development of the disease -- ranges from five to 15 years.

Once it takes hold, nerve damage can occur rapidly and is not reversible. It's believed to be most commonly spread by discharge of the nasal lining. Open skin plays a role. ... It prefers to infect cool parts of the body. The skin, the nerves, nose, ear lobes, hands, fingers, feet and toes are commonly affected. ... The disease can be fairly limited -- only a small area of the skin might break out in sores -- and present little risk of infection, or it can be widespread, less visible in its early stages and somewhat more infectious. ... At Toronto Hospital, two-thirds of leprosy patients are men. Most were born or spent significant time in India or Southeast Asia." (Toronto Star, January 9, 1998) More chilling, the Star notes that new cases continue to be reported, "nearly all among immigrants." NEARLY? Are native-born Canadians beginning to contract this mediaeval scourge? Buddhists believe that leprosy is punishment for misdeeds in a past life. Among non-Buddhist Canadians, it must be regarded as punishment for voting foolishly during this incarnation.

Asians Scam Their Way to Australia to Fleece Health Care System

Not so long ago, the prospect of decent health care would have seemed a far-fetched motive for immigration. Well, goodbye to all that. "Thousands of people from the Asia-Pacific region are fraudulently claiming to be refugees in efforts to secure free health care and jobs, according to [Australian] Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock. There are reports of people seeking to come here for a temporary period, then putting in a claim for a protection visa in order to have a surgical operation carried out at taxpayers' expense. ... Last year more than 11,000 applications for refugee status were submitted to the Department of Immigration, compared to just 500 in 1987. ... The Immigration Department said yesterday that around 85 per cent of the applications for refugee status were eventually rejected. However, applicants can stretch out the process for several years [is someone handing out scripts?] by providing only sketchy details in their applications and then appealing against the decision to the Refugee Review Tribunal.

Mr. Ruddock said that often the people involved withdrew their application or left Australia of their own accord once they had their operations." (South China Morning Post, January 13, 1998)