Myth # 4 "But we need immigrants"
The neo-con argument is that our population is shrinking and aging
(and no doubt, shrinking as it ages), and that immigrants will cheerfully
shell-out for our pensions when the time comes.
A recent study in the US suggests that immigrant populations will hear
of no such thing. As of September '97, Canada's
Liberal government is launching a major public relations campaign to
soften us up for an over all 10% reduction in Canada's old-age benefit,
as well as nearly doubling (by 73%) the amount of CPP extracted at source.
The concept of state-care for the elderly is unheard of in the Third
World. Indeed, since June of 1996, wealthy Singapore has had a Tribunal
for the Maintenance of Parents. The body merely requires children to
care for aged parents. "Officials were surprised at the numbers of
neglected parents" according to the New York Times.
Thanks to multiculturalism, recent arrivals are not only encouraged
to do things the 'old' way, but force-fed a steady drip of anti-white rhetoric
once they settle in. Canada is currently experiencing an exodus of wealthy
Chinese returning to a less-taxed Hong Kong where, among the 1/2 the population
that is actually required to pay taxes, the maximum taxation rate is just
15%. Liberal-types insist that immigrants pay more than their fair share
of taxes - GREAT! - assuming that a completely revised infrastructure to
accomodate the needs of recent arrivals didn't cost anything.
The "Common Sense Revolution"
means to address chronic government over-spending. Hooray! Among a population
which achieved zero population growth way back in the 70's -- exactly WHERE
has the money been going? The government's chief actuary for the Unemployment
Insurance Commission forecasts a bonanza of $12.8-billion in surplus funds
by year's end. The feds mean to use the windfall to address the deficit
(rather than paying it out to the unemployed who were forced to pay into
it) -- yet another tax-swindle.
Rather than simply replacing the standing population and consistantly
compromising Canadian expectations to accomodate recent arrivals, responsible
government would implement programs to upgrade our own skills and stop
importing them from countries which need those skills desperately. Moral
government would encourage the growth of Canadian families with incentives,
tax breaks, discounted mortages and assistance with schooling and associated
costs of raising Canadian children. Our managable little problems have
ballooned into massive bloated imponderables which we are not allowed to
discuss. Case closed.