Time To Protest: Another Case of Out-of-Control Bureaucracy Spying on Canadians Aug

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 16 August 2012 05:59

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://ymlp228.net/zNOtI7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time To Protest: Another Case of Out-of-Control Bureaucracy Spying on Canadians August 11, 2012 Graham Fraser has decided that he wants to finish his term with a blast (before he’s kicked off his well-paid position next October) and spend whatever money he can lay his hands on. So, as per his usual style, he’s going to unleash his army of spies on eight airports across the country. Lorne Gunter on Charles Adler’s show, SunTV, decided to use the opportunity to talk about the bilingualism fiasco being launched by our Language Commissar at the cost of $90,000. Graham Fraser must have a very generous budget to be able to be so free with our hard-earned tax dollars. Here’s the link to that fabulous show: http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/1780459813001 ( http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/1780459813001 ) After listening to Lorne Gunter and Brigette Pellerin, maybe you’ll be angry enough to write to the esteemed Language Commissar at the following address: Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages Head Office 344 Slater Street, 3rd Floor Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T8 Tel: 1-800-880-1990 ( tel:1-800-880-1990 ) or 613-996-6368 ( tel:613-996-6368 ) Fax: 613-993-5082 ( tel:613-993-5082 ) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] or [email protected] ------------------------- While you’re at it, also send a note to PM Harper, Min. James Harper and your own MP in the Conservative government that you will NO longer be sending them any more money if the Office of the Official Languages Commissioner is not cut back drastically!!! ------------------------- http://www.edmontonsun.com/2012/08/09/bilingualism-cops-what-a-waste ( http://www.edmontonsun.com/2012/08/09/bilingualism-cops-what-a-waste ) Bilingualism cops: What a waste! BY LORNE GUNTER QMI AGENCY AUGUST 10, 2012 Edmonton Sun Graham Fraser is sending spies to eight Canadian airports. Fraser is the Official Languages Commissioner. And he is not sending agents to thwart an al Qaeda plot or crack down on international drug smugglers. He's sending undercover bureaucrats to Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver to ensure airport bookstores have enough French titles on their shelves and TV screens in departure lounges and that baggage carousels are tuned equally to French and English channels. Seriously. We are recovering from one of the worst recessions in 80 years. Unemployment isn't as high as it is in the United States, but it's still too high. And yet the official languages commissioner thinks spending tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to check to see whether airport greeters use both French and English is a worthwhile expenditure. The real farce here is that bilingualism has been an expensive failure — a very expensive failure. Nearly 45 years after Pierre Trudeau's government imposed the Official Languages Act on the country there aren't many more fluently bilingual Canadians than there were in 1969. According to a study by Vancouver's Fraser Institute released this past January, Ottawa spends $1.5 billion a year ensuring federal government offices, federal courts and federally regulated industries such as airlines, banks and telecoms are sufficiently bilingual. The provinces spend nearly another $1 billion despite the fact that only two provinces — New Brunswick and Quebec — have unilingual minorities that make up more than 1% of their populations. When bilingualism became the law of the land, nearly all fluently bilingual Canadians lived in a thin ribbon of land known as the "bilingual belt" – a strip that began in Ottawa, followed the St. Lawrence through Montreal and Quebec City and ended in northern New Brunswick. Most still do. Official bilingualism may have succeeded in getting more federal services provided in both French and English, but it has not moved the needle more than a few notches in making individual Canadians bilingual. Thirty-five percent of Canadians speak two languages, but only about 17% speak both French and English. The other 18% speak either French or English and a non-official language, such as Mandarin or Punjabi. And the claim by 17% of Canadians that they are fluent in French and English is widely believed to be inflated since language skills are self-reported on the census. No one comes to your home to test your competence. Statistics Canada merely takes your word for it. To illustrate how little personal bilingualism has penetrated ordinary Canadian society, consider that in Ontario 97% of workers claim to use English nearly all the time at work. That is down from 98% when the Official Languages Act was passed and that includes the tens of thousands of federal workers in the nation's capital whose jobs demand two-language proficiency. Even in Manitoba, which has the largest francophone population outside the bilingual belt, 97% of workers claim to use English almost exclusively in their daily lives. The biggest change in the past 40 years has been in Quebec, where the percentage of employees using English "most often" at work has dropped from nearly one-quarter to just over 17%. But even those numbers mask the fact that nearly a quarter of Quebec workers admit to using English "regularly" — basically unchanged from the heady days of the late 1960s. Clinging to the notion that bilingualism is a valuable common goal is an expensive parlour game. It is one of those national-identity myths our cultural and political elites have convinced themselves is vital to our survival. Mr. Fraser, keep your spies at home and save working Canadians the cost of your "investigation." ------------------------- Lowell Green spent most of his two-hour show yesterday talking about the failure of the Official Languages Act, which after over 40 years and many billions of dollars, has not increased bilingualism in any substantial amount but has totally failed in its primary function of creating a more united country. The initial reason for this policy was to make French-speaking Quebecers feel more at home right across the country but we have seen that this has not happened. Many callers to Lowell’s show referred to the fact that this policy has done more to create animosity between the two language groups than anything else. In Quebec, the Separatists are just as determined as ever to push for more autonomy, more power, as well as more financial “compensation” from English-speaking Canada, while showing them how much they resent & hate the English-speakers for having dominated them a long, long time ago. To listen to Lowell talk to the callers on his show, link to: : http://devel.autopod.ca/chum/43/podcasts/ ( http://devel.autopod.ca/chum/43/podcasts/ ) and download the show dated August 10, 2012. ------------------------- On Sunday at 10:40 am, Beth Trudeau will be on the air!!! Here’s her message: Hi all, I will be on SUN NEWS at 10:40 AM on Sunday, live, talking about how Official Languages Commissar Graham Fraser doesn't get enough complaints to sustain his job so he has to waste MORE of our tax dollars hiring spies to report on any FRENCH problems at airports. He refuses to meet with Canadians for Language Fairness, who represent the VICTIMS of forced bilingualism. Make sure to tune in...just for 5 minutes, though, then back to Sunnyside Nick's show on CFRA. Cheers! Beth Trudeau Official Spokesperson for Canadians for Language Fairness Embrun, Ontario --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEE YOU AT THE BBQ THIS AFTERNOON. 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China's Rent-A-Wives And Delegates

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 16 August 2012 05:55

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://ymlp228.net/zyTKub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- China's Rent-A-Wives And Delegates "Federal officials say they've intercepted a smuggling ring whose members would sneak Chinese nationals into Canada through rent-a-wife and fake tourist delegation schemes. Phoney visitors from China are placed by smugglers in delegations of tourists, performers or martial artists who visit Canada, Canadian diplomats in Beijing claim. Once here, the fake visitors, who can pay up to $70,000 for the trip, file refugee claims to remain in Canada. The intelligence is part of a 'Fraud in China' report that was released last April through an Access to Information request. The document was prepared for Ottawa by the Canadian embassy in Beijing, with input from other consulates in China. The report is being circulated to help border officials ahead of the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games. [The Parapan Am Games are a showcase for disabled athletes and follow the Pan American Games]. It said frontline officers are also on the lookout for men in delegations who may be trying to sneak women into the country posing as their wives. 'One applicant obtained visas to travel abroad on five occasions, each time with a different wife until he was detected,' the diplomats said. 'The 'wives' all made refugee claims.' The report said smugglers' require a legitimate invitation from Canadian companies to bring a delegation here. 'Accompanying delegates are added to the group for a fee and subsequently make refugee claims upon arrival in Canada,' officers said in the report. 'Non-genuine individuals are added to groups of tourists, performers and martial artists.' The diplomats claim unscrupulous agents create biographies for students to travel to Canada. They are sold to students, who only have to substitute their photographs when they apply to come to Canada. 'The same profile may be used for many cases until the fraud is discovered,' the document stated. 'Two applications were submitted in the same name with the same dates of births and the same parents but with different photos.' An immigration survey showed that 27% of the applications of students contained some sort of fraud. [That would be 27% in which some sort of fraud was detected!] Canadian officers also found 'substitutes' [that's ringers to you] being paid to take English language tests required for some immigrants to travel here. 'To facilitate the use of substitutes, the agents recruit individuals with good English language skills who resemble the applicant,' said the report. The report noted fake marriages are common and attributes one such marriage to 30 alleged family members being sponsored to Canada. Immigration lawyer Richard Kurland, who obtained the document, said the scams are quite likely still ongoing." (QMI Agency, May 21, 2012) No doubt! We have certainly seen identical stories for the last decade. [This article appears in the July, 2012 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.] _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp228.net/ugmjhqsqgsgbbqgjyqgguewwmw Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

China's Rent-A-Wives And Delegates

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 16 August 2012 05:51

*China's Rent-A-Wives And Delegates* "Federal officials say they've intercepted a smuggling ring whose members would sneak Chinese nationals into Canada through rent-a-wife and fake tourist delegation schemes. Phoney visitors from China are placed by smugglers in delegations of tourists, performers or martial artists who visit Canada, Canadian diplomats in Beijing claim. Once here, the fake visitors, who can pay up to $70,000 for the trip, file refugee claims to remain in Canada. The intelligence is part of a *'Fraud in China'* report that was released last April through an *Access to Information* request. The document was prepared for Ottawa by the Canadian embassy in Beijing, with input from other consulates in China. The report is being circulated to help border officials ahead of the *Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games. [The Parapan Am Games* are a showcase for disabled athletes and follow the *Pan American Games*]. It said frontline officers are also on the lookout for men in delegations who may be trying to sneak women into the country posing as their wives. 'One applicant obtained visas to travel abroad on five occasions, each time with a different wife until he was detected,' the diplomats said. 'The 'wives' all made refugee claims.' The report said smugglers' require a legitimate invitation from Canadian companies to bring a delegation here. 'Accompanying delegates are added to the group for a fee and subsequently make refugee claims upon arrival in Canada,' officers said in the report. 'Non-genuine individuals are added to groups of tourists, performers and martial artists.' The diplomats claim unscrupulous agents create biographies for students to travel to Canada. They are sold to students, who only have to substitute their photographs when they apply to come to Canada. 'The same profile may be used for many cases until the fraud is discovered,' the document stated. 'Two applications were submitted in the same name with the same dates of births and the same parents but with different photos.' An immigration survey showed that 27% of the applications of students contained some sort of fraud. [That would be 27% in which some sort of fraud was detected!] Canadian officers also found 'substitutes' [that's ringers to you] being paid to take English language tests required for some immigrants to travel here. 'To facilitate the use of substitutes, the agents recruit individuals with good English language skills who resemble the applicant,' said the report. The report noted fake marriages are common and attributes one such marriage to 30 alleged family members being sponsored to Canada. Immigration lawyer *Richard Kurland*, who obtained the document, said the scams are quite likely still ongoing." (*QMI Agency*, May 21, 2012) No doubt! We have certainly seen identical stories for the last decade. [This article appears in the July, 2012 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.]