Take the Poll: So Far 94% of Canadians Agree With Ban on Niqabs During Citizenship Ce

Written by Paul Fromm

Monday, 17 December 2012 07:01

*Take the Poll: So Far 94% of Canadians Agree With Ban on Niqabs During Citizenship Ceremony* The Canadian Government is taking solid steps to maintain what is left from the nation's dignity. Immigration Minister Jason Kenny recently announced a decision to ban "niqab" (face covering) from citizenship oath sessions. As always, CBC is posting a follow-up poll to collect opinion about this decision. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO ENSURE THE SILENT MAJORITY IS HEARD. Please vote "Yes" (should veils be banned during oaths of citizenship) * http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/12/should-veils-be-banned-during-oaths-of-citizenship.html * And then Forward to others so they may vote, too. * * *Should veils be banned during oaths of citizenship?* by Community Team Posted: December 12, 2011 11:29 AM Last Updated: December 12, 2011 1:29 PM Read 439 comments439 Categories: Canada Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has announced a ban on face coverings, such as niqabs, for people swearing their oath of citizenship. A Muslim woman wearing a niqab attends a protest against islamophobia in Bern on Oct. 29. (Michael Buholzer/Reuters)The ban, announced Monday, is effective immediately. As a result, Muslim women will have to remove their niqabs or any other face-covering garments, such as burkas, before they can recite the oath of citizenship to become Canadians. Kenney said he's had complaints from MPs and citizenship court judges that it's hard to tell whether people with their faces covered are actually reciting the oath of citizenship, which he says is a requirement to become Canadian. "We cannot have two classes of citizenship ceremonies. Canadian citizenship is not just about the right to carry a passport and to vote," Kenney said. Do you agree with the ban on veils for citizenship oaths? Let us know in the comments below. Thank you for voting! Yes. 94.22% (492,913 votes) No. 5.44% (28,459 votes) I'm not sure. 0.34% (1,795 votes) Total Votes: 523,199

 

Turkish Delight

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 16 December 2012 01:31

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp262.net/zjsdoG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRIME WATCH Turkish Delight "When Reha and Ecehan Ozcelik landed at Montreal’s Trudeau airport on Sept. 17, they they told the border officer who questioned them they were permanent residents of Canada and lived in Montreal. And, yet, they couldn’t answer basic questions about the city where they claimed to reside. Like ( http://www.facebook.com/frederick.fromm.3 ) · · Share ( http://www.facebook.com/ajax/sharer/?s=2&appid=2305272732&p%5B0%5D=100004687473766&p%5B1%5D=126388 ) On Wednesday, the Canada Border Services Agency announced the Court of Quebec had fined the Turkish couple $120,000 for immigration fraud. ... The hefty penalty is the first to be trumpeted by the government since Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced on Sept. 10 the government was investigating thousands of people suspected of residency fraud. [That is], newcomers suspected of maintaining no more than a fictitious presence in Canada. After arriving as immigrants, they return to their home countries. But they try to convince Canadian immigration authorities they have been living in Canada all the while. ... The CBSA has been paying closer attention to some permanent residents when they return to Canada from abroad. Officers are quizzing them to make sure they are familiar with Canada, and looking for indicators of fraud, such as cheat sheets that some carry to help them fake their way through immigration screening. ... Mr. Kenney said last month his department had identified more than 10,000 people suspected of committing residency fraud. Nearly 5,000 hold permanent resident status and 'have been flagged for additional security should they attempt to enter Canada or obtain citizenship,' he said. Another 3,100 are naturalized Canadians who are now being stripped of their citizenship for residency fraud, he said. An additional 2,500 cases have been flagged for 'concerns,' the minister added. Many of those involved in the scams are living in the Middle East and are either unwilling to leave lucrative overseas jobs or want an escape hatch in the event of instability in their home countries, according to government documents. In effect, they want the benefits of status in Canada but don’t want to actually live in Canada. [Cost to taxpayers to evacuate Canadians of Conveniencefrom Lebanon in 2006 - $100-million. The new protocols may all sound very tough, but typically, we fall at the first hurdle:] Court records show that on Sept. 19 and 21, the Ozceliks pleaded guilty and were fined $30,000 for each count — a total of $120,000. In addition, they could be stripped of their permanent resident status and removed from Canada. 'Normally, if we prove that there’s a failure to respect the residency obligation, a person can or might lose his permanent residency and be removed afterwards,' [Veronique Lalime, CBSA spokeswoman for Quebec] said." (National Post, October 3, 2012) What part of "cheat" and "fraud" do we not get? Are we really so desperate for immigrants that we would seriously consider giving convicted scamsters a second chance? _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp262.net/ugmjhqsqgsgbbqghwsgguewwmw Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

What is Good for Tim Horton’s Is Often Not Good for Canada

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 16 December 2012 01:23

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp262.net/zg6kW6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT IS GOOD FOR TIM HORTON’S IS OFTEN NOT GOOD FOR CANADA Canadian employers and some governments continue to whip up hysteria that Canada has a worker shortage. This, they claim, will increase dramatically over the next decade. However, even a quick glance at what is going on should make any sensible person skeptical of these claims. Tim Horton’s is one of the employers taking advantage of the hysteria. Between 2007 and 2012, it received permission to bring close to 15,000 Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW’s) to Canada. Many other employers have done the same thing. Together, Tim Horton’s and other employers were allowed to bring in about 400,000 TFW’s in 2012. The big question that has to be asked is this: Was this good for Canada? Here are a number of important things that have to be considered : (1) Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program has to be monitored much more carefully and limited to a tiny number of occupations in order to prevent TFW’s from over-staying­-as they have in other countries. The fact that 400,000 Temporary Foreign Workers are now employed here indicates that our government will have serious difficulty in ensuring that these workers leave Canada when their contracts expire. For example, according to Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Tim Horton’s coffee and doughnut shops received permission to import 14,195 workers between January 1, 2007 and August 31, 2012, a number that will probably increase to 15,000 by the end of 2012. This number will shock most Canadians even though it is a small part of the total number of TFW’s. But the point is that many similar fast-food outlets and like businesses are doing the same thing. Together, they constitute a significant percentage of the TFW’s allowed to work here. The big question is this : Why have employers like this been allowed to import so many workers to industries that are probably of little, if any, benefit to Canada? (2) Like Canada’s regular immigration program, Canada’s TFW program is being used to flood the labour market and to cause wage stagnation or wage depression. Most of the Tim Horton’s TFW’s (10,888) came from the Philippines. It is likely that these Filipinos are displacing Canadians who are looking for entry level jobs. It is also likely that the Filipinos hope to stay in Canada, are unskilled, and will compete for jobs with unskilled Canadians. Such low-wage jobs which will not pay for the services these people will absorb. (3) Most of the countries from which Canada is taking TFW’s are countries such as the Philippines where high unemployment is entrenched and where people are desperate for any job. In the 2007 to 2012 period, the countries which sent the second and third highest number of TFW’s to Tim Horton’s were Mexico (565) and India (248), also bastions of unemployment and low wages. Less significant source countries were Jamaica (112), Ukraine (84), Sri Lanka (62), Nepal (38), Pakistan (37), El Salvador (37) and Fiji (34). These countries are not known as world models for working people. The strangest source country was North Korea which sent seven TFW’s. We use the word “strange” because North Korea is an impoverished police state which does not allow its people to leave. (4) Our intake of TFW’s is not helping Canada. According to Statistics Canada, our national unemployment rate fell slightly in November, but it remains almost institutionalized around 7.2%. According to a number of critics, the real unemployment rate is much higher. In particular, the youth unemployment rate is officially around 14%, but it too is under-estimated and is probably well over 20%. Nobody in any country should ever have to ask whether employers and governments have a responsibility to employ their own citizens and to ensure that citizens are not treated as disposables. But in Canada, the shameless, corrupt behaviour of many employers and of governments has shown that the question has to be asked. (5) In order to maintain Canada’s high TFW intake, employers and our governments have engaged in deceit. For example, in the past month in British Columbia, both employers and the provincial government argued that Canada had to import Mainland Chinese miners because Canada supposedly did not have any miners qualified to do those jobs. The uproar that followed has revealed that Canada does have miners able to do those jobs. If it doesn’t have enough, it can train them. In spite of the deceit practiced by both Mainland Chinese mine owners and the B.C. government, another truth has come out : that the Mainland Chinese owners of the mines intended to pay the Mainland Chinese miners significantly less than they would have been required to pay Canadian miners. This was the real reason for importing Mainland Chinese TFW’s. (6) The Chinese TFW miner incident has revealed the age-old problem of using labour from China and other over-populated, low-wage countries : such labour has always arrived at the expense of Canadian workers. In China’s case, the damage required the Canadian government to enact Head Taxes and a Chinese Labourer Exclusion law to correct the messes that low-wage labour businesses created. Like in-sourcing Chinese labourers to Canada 100+ years ago, out-sourcing jobs to China in the past 20 years, has been a disaster for workers in most western countries. China has used western out-sourcing to make billions. To add insult to injury, it has been taking the billions it has made on its low-wage labour and used it to go on a massive, world-wide, resource-buying spree. In dealing with China on in-sourcing TFW’s and issues like China’s purchase of Canadian energy giant Nexxen, Canada should have reflected on the damage done by both out-sourcing and in-sourcing and then asked one key question : Would China have allowed Canada to buy a part of China? The answer is a clear “NO!!” Therefore, it was foolish for our government to have just allowed China to buy Canadian energy giant Nexxen and its oil lands in Canada. What is good for Tim Horton’s (and many other businesses) is often not good for Canada. (Immigration Watch Canada, ,Posted on December 7, 2012) _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp262.net/ugmjhqsqgsgbbqghhygguewwmw Powered by YourMailingListProvider