The Dim-Sum Pipeline

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 29 April 2011 04:51

*The Dim-Sum Pipeline* "Canadian Embassy officials in Beijing have turned up the heat on Chinese nationals posing as chefs to fraudulently obtain visas to enter Canada under a provincial work programme. The so-called Chinese *dim sum* and gourmet cooks use phony letters they claim are from Canadian restaurants offering them a job because of their skill. The letters are given to embassy officials to obtain a visa under a *provincial nominee programme* since there is a demand for the cooks in Ontario. [Under the programme, provinces admit foreign fry cooks and other 'desperately needed' workers who would not qualify under the points system and fast track citizenship]. 'Beijing has experienced a consistent incidence of fraud for cases submitted under the provincial nominee category,' said a report that was drafted by immigration official, *Francesca Imperato*. The April 2010 '*Fraud in the Provincial Nominee Programme in Beijing*' report said, in 2009, about 129 cases were refused visas due to misrepresentation. 'The most common occupation where fraud was identified was that of cooks with a total of 36 fraudulent cases,' Imperato said. The report said visa officers in Beijing were busy in 2009 by intercepting eight bogus welders, six fake electricians and three phony business managers, many of whom had letters of employment promised by some Ontario firms that did not exist. 'In 2009 the misrepresentation was determined as a result of field investigations and or by telephone verifications,' the report said, adding the remaining fraudulent cases involved lower skilled occupations. The immigration scam involving phony chefs first surfaced *in 1998* when Canadian Embassy staffers in Bejing began encountering a rash of fraudulent cooking certificates. Many of the chefs arrive here and claim refugee status or head to the U.S., officials said. ... About 1,000 foreign workers are brought to work yearly in Ontario under the nominee programme. Canada also requires police officers, journalists, machinists, truck drivers, secretaries, dressmakers and accountants, according to the 2011 national occupations list." (*Toronto Sun*, March 9, 2011) So, we're recruiting for police overseas while young, Canadian-born Caucasian men cannot even wangle an interview here. Is Canada really suffering a shortage of homegrown journalists? Accountants? Truck drivers? Are we supposed to believe that this 13-year-old dim-sum dodge -- phony letters from phony Chinese restaurants in Canada -- is beyond us? Makes you wonder what the fee for a phony offer of employment from a real Chinese restaurant is. [This article appears in the April, 2011 issue of the *CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE*. Published monthly, the *CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE* is available by subscription for $30 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to *CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE*, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.]

 

Fromm Sites “Personal Reason” for Running Against Kenney

Written by Paul Fromm

Wednesday, 27 April 2011 04:10

Elect Paul Fromm in Calgary Southeast April 28, 2011 *For Immediate Release* * * *Fromm Sites “Personal Reason” for Running Against Kenney* “Why I’m running against Jason Kenney is personal,” says Western Block Party candidate Paul Fromm who is challenging the minister in Calgary Southeast. “In 2007, he got me banned from the precincts of Parliament. I’d now like to be able to walk in the front door by right.” .On a motion by Jason Kenny, then Multiculturalism Minister, House of Commons passed an order October 17, 2007 banning Mr. Fromm and his associate Alexan Kulbashian from the precincts of the House of Commons for the duration of the Parliamentary session., They had booked a half hour press conference in the Parliamentary Press Gallery to criticize the Canadian Human Rights Commission's assault on free speech on the Internet. “Apparently, Kenney told the party House leaders that we might use our press conference to spread hate,” Mr. Fromm recalls. “In fact, our press conference was about freedom of speech and the tyranny of the Canadian Human Rights Commission in its efforts to censor the Internet. Fromm and Kulbashian worked for the Canadian Association for Free Expression and had defended a number of the commission’s victims before human rights tribunals.” “I was flabbergasted,” Mr. Fromm states. “I’d held numerous press conferences previously, without complaint or incident.” “The ironic thing,” Mr. Fromm adds, “is that the next year, over 90 per cent of those present at the Conservative Party’s Winnipeg policy convention voted to abolish Sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. That’s the Internet censorship section. And that’s exactly what we were advocating at our press conference which had to be held away from the Parliament Buildings.” “Mr. Kenney represents the increasingly dictatorial nature of the Harper government, which has even started ordering press releases to refer to it as the ‘Harper Government,’ not the ‘conservative Government’ or the ‘Government of Canada,’ Mr. Fromm adds. ** *--30—* * * *Paul Fromm is a radio journalist and is your Western Block candidate in Calgary Southeast. Mr. Fromm holds a B.A., B.Ed., and M.A. in English. The editor of The Canadian Immigration Hotline, he is Canada’s best known immigration critic and is in demands as a lecturer across Canada, the U.S. and in Australia and New Zealand. He served some years ago as a school trustee.** Phone: 403-542-8426; E-mail **[email protected]* <[email protected]>*; Facebook Paul Fromm for MP In Calgary Southeast; Western Block Party – ** www.westernblockparty.com* <http://www.westernblockparty.com/>** * *

 

Michelle Erstikaitis Update: If You're Little Bad, You're Punished; If You're Big Bad

Written by Paul Fromm

Tuesday, 26 April 2011 06:03

*Michelle Erstikaitis Update: If You're Little Bad, You're Punished; If You're Big Bad, You're Privileged* ** For two years now, CAFE has backed Michelle Erstikaitis faced with a "Dangerous Offender" designation, we believe, largely for her White Nationalist political beliefs. Yes, in her late teens she committed several crimes. She was severely punished. Since then, her offences have been two minor assaults. That's in the past. On April 11, Michelle had paid her debt to society and was free with certain conditions. Within 24 hours, she had signed up as a volunteer with Toronto Centre Conservative candidate Kevin Moore. Articulate, attractively dressed and presentable, she was an instant hit. She canvassed with the candidate, manned the phones and stuffed envelopes. Planning to get a job and return to school,Michelle was doing everything society said a person rehabilitating herself should do. This morning, her efforts to contribute were thwarted because of the meddling of the anonymous smearmongers at a nasty website called Anti Racist Canada Blogspot [or is it blot spot?]. When she reported for a day of office work -- unpaid, we might add -- she was called into a meeting with candidate Moore and campaign manager David Gentile and unceremoniously "fired" from her volunteer position. Apparently, this morning someone had posted the ARC smear of Michelle on the Kevin Moore website. Yes, that foul odor was the diarrhoea of fear filling up the adult diapers of the Tories. Michelle was told: "It's about those assault charges against you. You've been fanatastic here. We hate to do this, but you cant work for the campaign anymore." This is wrong and evil on so many levels. First, that would-be Tory "leaders" would take the word of anonymous leftist smear artists is disgusting. That's like calling people for dates based on "Call Laura for a good time" scratched on washroom walls. It isn't even good old fashioned political whoring. No ARC leftists are likely to be voting Tory. Secondly. Michelle has behaved impeccably on the job. Isn't reform and a second chance what society wants of her? Thirdly, she'd paid her debt to society. Now the web scribblings and fearmongering of the politically correct ARC hit squad is to rob her of a chance to contribute. Some might argue that the Tories must be cleaner than clean and have to get rid of their new volunteer. Perhaps, but how does one explain the unsavoury connections of some of Harper's Big Boys? Take, for instance their Tamil candidate in Scarborough Southwest Ragavan [now remodelled for the election as "Gavan"] Paranchothy. He "played host [on his television programme] last November. which honoured Tamil Tiger 'heroes' and 'freedom fighters' killed in the group's separatist war in Sri Lanks. The Conservatives listed the Tigers as a terrorist group in 2006." (*Globe and Mail*, April 25, 2011) But Stephen Harper stoutly defends his bad boy candidate. Then, at the other end of the country in Vancouver South, the Tory candidate, one Wai Young, is cozy with a man acquitted of participating in the Air India bombing in 1985: "Liberal candidate Ujjal Dosanjh is calling on his Conservative rival to explain why she’s enlisted a man into her campaign who is linked to individuals involved in the Air India bombings. Dosanjh has also filed an election complaint, alleging that Conservative candidate Wai Young and Ripudaman Singh Malik are violating election laws by using the Khalsa School of British Columbia in Vancouver to mount campaign attacks against him." (*CBC News*, April 22, 2011) The millionaire Malik initially managed to stick the Canadian taxpayers for millions of dollars for his defence. So, hobnobbing with the unsavoury Malik passes muster in Stephen Harper's regime. Malik may contorl some Sikh votes in them thar hills. And then there's Bruce Carson -- the 66 year-old gentleman with several ex-call girl girlfriends over the years.The blog *Impolitic* (March 22, 2011) asked: "How did Bruce Carson, 66, come to be appointed as the executive director of the Canada School of Energy and Environment, a federally-funded think-tank that links academics from the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge? How did Carson come to be named, only this January, to the Alberta government's "expert panel," which is supposed to create a world-class environmental monitoring system for Alberta's oilsands? Carson, after all, was sentenced to 18 months in jail in the 1980s for theft and fraud in relation to the misappropriation of funds from both his law firm and his clients. (The thinktank website boasts of Carson's two legal degrees, without mentioning that he was disbarred by the Upper Canada Law Society in 1980.) More to the point, perhaps, Carson is a former senior policy adviser to Stephen Harper, and a federal Conservative campaign strategist who has been instrumental in structuring the federal government's prooilsands PR strategy, and in serving as an adviser to CAPP, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. He was appointed to the federally created, federally-funded think-tank in 2008 while he was actually working in Harper's office, and he continued to do campaign strategy work and policy consultation for the Conservative party and the Harper government even after he was named the school's executive director. It's a degree of political consanguinity that undermines the credibility and academic integrity of the think-tank, which is supposed to be positioning Alberta as a world leader in "green" energy development. Then, this January, Rob Renner, Alberta's environment minister, named Carson as one of the 12 experts hand-picked to come up with a way to monitor environmental impacts of the oilsands. How a person convicted of theft and fraud, who was also advising CAPP and the federal government on how to put a positive "spin" on oilsands development, was to add credibility to Alberta's environmental monitoring practices isn't clear. monitoring practices isn't clear." Initially Stephen Harper defended Carson's appointment saying that his fraud and other crimes had occurred long ago. It' hard not to conclude that if you're a lowly volunteer there's one set of rules; if you're a candidate or mover and shaker, there's another set of rules. Tory cowardice is despicable. So too are the anonymous smearmongers of political correctness who seek to cost people jobs and ruin lives. Here's the trashy Anti Racist Canada posting: Michelle Erstikaitis Working on Conservative Campaign<http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2011/04/michelle-erstikaitis-working-on.html> You know, the Conservative Party doesn't seem to do a very good job of vetting their aids<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tory-ministers-office-hired-niece-of-carsons-girlfriend-in-2008/article1990590/>or learning about the people who they accept endorsements from<http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gx57ts5R3VWAWiow3T4Dv8pkNSJQ?docId=6647410> . Latest example. The lovely Michelle Erstikaitis<http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/971234--female-paul-bernardo-fan-named-dangerous-offender>, who we have written about on a number of occasions<http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/search/label/Michelle%20Erstikaitis>on this blog as a result of Paul Fromm's efforts to have her considered as a White Nationalist political prisoner and who has a Facebook profile under the pseudonym "Michelle Lisson"<http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NBoRYvPp9U8/TaZ9S0Ls6MI/AAAAAAAAEok/DT1TxupH0jw/s1600/Michelle+speaks+1.jpg>, appears to be working the phones for a Conservative Party candidate in Toronto: <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zVdrgf_SWlU/TbUQskqsPDI/AAAAAAAAEpA/IvSXAy8nwHU/s1600/michelle+working+on+conservative+campaign.jpg> It is difficult to see, but the sign that appears behind the Canadian flag reads, "Moore." The only Moore we could find is Kevin Moore<http://www.kevinmoore.ca/>who is running in Toronto Centre against Bob Rae. Interestingly, Mr. Rae was also the victim of vandalism when the tires of his car were slashed<http://www.thestar.com/news/article/979602--election-vandalism-spreads>. Ms. Erstikaitis isn't playing a pivotal role in the the campaign of Kevin Moore. In fact, it's doubtful if Moore, who doesn't seem to want get himself messy by attending candidate forums<http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/305855>, will do better than third place. Given her history and her current links to Paul Fromm though, well, we just thought that we would share this little bit of information with our readers. Call it a fun fact. That said, we wonder how Paulie, who is running against Conservative Jason Kenney in Calgary, feels about Michelle working on the enemy's campaign? *UPDATE: Our friend BCL<http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/2011/04/your-daily-nazi-conservatives-pick-up.html>found Michelle's Twitter account<http://twitter.com/#%21/MichelleLisson/status/57976628902510592>which appears to confirm the information above. * <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fZKwKON3Mxw/TbWmR5VdEzI/AAAAAAAAEpE/WPh05xRbVpo/s1600/Twitter.jpg>