A Costly Gesture

Written by Paul Fromm

Saturday, 21 May 2011 18:18

A Costly Gesture According to the *Citizenship and Immigration* site, family class, economic immigrants and refugee permanent residents totalled 280,636 in 2010. In addition, there were 283,096 'temporary' foreign workers and 218,243 foreign students present on December 1, last year. That's a total of 781,975. Canada does not monitor exiting numbers. So, there is no way to know how many 'temporary' workers or students will actually leave. "There has been much huffing and puffing by politicians, the media and immigrant lobbyists about the government’s plan to reduce the number of parents and grandparents joining their immigrant offspring in Canada next year. Yes, the policy change is unfair. Many immigrants have come to Canada having been promised that their parents and grandparents could join them so that they can continue the cultural traditions of their homelands and receive help with family chores and child care. While immigrants clearly benefit from the existing policy, the reality is that the benefits to immigrants come at the expense of Canadian taxpayers. New data and studies show just how great this fiscal burden is. Official statistics indicate that recent immigrants have lower average incomes and tax payments than other Canadians, even ten years after their arrival. At the same time, these immigrants on average absorb at least the same amount of social benefits as other Canadians. As a result, *$6,000 is annually transferred to the average immigrant at the expense of Canadian taxpayers. In 2006, the value of these transfers to all of the 2.7 million **immigrants who arrived between 1987 and 2004** and still live in Canada came to $16.3 billion. Taking account of the 1.5 million immigrants who arrived since 2004 the fiscal burden comes to $25 billion in 2010. These fiscal costs represent a significant proportion of the $55 billion deficit of the federal government projected for the fiscal year 2011*. Important here is the fact that parents and grandparents lower the observed low average incomes of all immigrants. The reasons are obvious. They tend to be elderly, have poor language skills and possess few marketable skills. The numbers of immigrating parents and grandparents are high: 84,917 or 6.7 percent of the 1.3 million immigrants admitted during 2006-2010. The fiscal transfers to parents and grandparents are much higher than those of the average immigrant not only because of their low incomes but also because they tend to be of an age where their demand for costly medical services is at its highest level. In addition, many arrive in Canada with medical conditions that went untreated in their home countries. Recently, at the Dubai airport I noticed a long line-up of elderly persons in wheelchairs about to enter a plane headed for Toronto, presumably in transit from India. In the light of these facts it is obviously in the interest of Canadian taxpayers to end the admission of parents and grandparents. This can be done fairly by stipulating that immigrants arriving after some future date will no longer have the right to have their parents and grandparents join them as permanent residents, though temporary visits would be allowed." (*Herbert Grubel*, March 9, 2011) *Prof. Grubel is Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at Simon Fraser University and a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He has a B.A. from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale. He has taught full-time at Yale, Stanford, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania; and has had temporary appointments at universities in Berlin, Singapore, Cape Town, Nairobi, Oxford, Canberra and Bologna. He has published 18 books and 190 professional articles in economics*. [This article appears in the May, 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.]

 

Black Comedy Staged In Winnipeg Court

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 19 May 2011 05:51

*Black Comedy Staged In Winnipeg Court* "A Winnipeg man on trial for rape claims he was forced to have anal sex with his alleged victim against his will, accusing her of stealing his sperm so she could have a mixed-race baby. [Keep reading, it gets worse.] When asked by the *Crown* whether he thought pregnancy could result from anal sex, the man replied: 'I'm not in the medical profession.' The trial of *Hilaire Ndyat*, 42, wrapped up in Winnipeg Friday, with *Justice* *Gerald Chartier*reserving judgment on whether he will find the man guilty of one count of sex assault. His decision is expected next month. Ndyat, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo who moved to Winnipeg in 1996 [as a refugee], is executive director of the *Winnipeg Afro-Aboriginal Crosscultural Association* and is also involved with numerous inner-city and cultural organizations and committees. [In other words, he doesn't have a real job.] Ndyat is accused of raping a female acquaintance inside his West Broadway apartment in March 2008, with the *Crown* suggesting he may have drugged the woman's beer before raping her. However, while testifying in French at his trial Tuesday, Ndyat *claimed it was the woman who forced herself on him and that he didn't resist because women are revered in his culture and he didn't know how to react to her advances*. Ndyat testified that he only resisted when the woman removed his condom and tried to force anal penetration. 'I found that disgusting. I pushed her away and ran to the bathroom to wash up,' he said. 'In my culture, anal sex is taboo.' Ndyat said he became concerned when he later discovered his used condom was missing* *and remembered the woman had told him of her fondness for mixed-race children. 'I thought she wanted a black man's sperm as she mentioned earlier during the conversation that she'd like to have a mixed child, (she was) using me as a sperm donor by stealing sperm from me,' he wrote in a 2008 statement to police and his employer. When asked on the stand whether he knew that anal sex doesn't lead to pregnancy, Ndyat said he is not a doctor. 'His version of the events insults our intelligence and defies common sense,' prosecutor *Lisa Cupples* told court during Friday's closing arguments. 'His testimony makes no sense.' Ndyat's counsel argued *the woman's story is not credible*and suggested Ndyat be acquitted." (*Toronto** Sun*, April 30, 2011) This cloacal case is so ludicrous, you really have to hold your nose to gain perspective. Look at Nydat: Fifteen years after arrival, his English is too shaky for testimony; he is involved in several "cultural" organizations (and despite his undoubtedly sincere interest in Afro-Aboriginal dancing and drumming, he does not seem motivated to really learn about Canada); he didn't drug and rape the woman, he insists she - incredibly - forced herself on him and forced anal penetration (a poser for the poor chap because women are revered in "his" culture); anal sex is taboo in "his" culture. Has Canada's all-singing all-dancing multiculturalism morphed into something else? Under the doctrine of extraterritorialism, foreign nationals are governed by the laws and mores of their home country, not those of the hopeless backwater where they find themselves surrounded by outlandish and bewildering cultural curiosities. While Mr. Nydat insists he must be the victim because women are revered in his culture, a new study published in the *American Journal of Public Health * would suggest otherwise: "More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the *Democratic Republic of Congo*, a *US* medical report released Wednesday says. More than 400,000 women and girls were raped [in one year,] 26 times more than the 15,000 women that the *United Nations* has reported were raped there during the same 12 months. 'Our results confirm that previous estimates of rape and sexual violence are severe underestimates of the true prevalence of sexual violence occurring in the *DRC*,' said *Amber Peterman*, lead author of the study. 'Even these new, much higher figures still represent a conservative estimate of the true prevalence of sexual violence because of chronic underreporting due to stigma, shame, perceived impunity, and exclusion of younger and older age groups as well as men,' she said. [Wouldn't that imply anal sex? Another no-no in Mr. Nydat's righteous world.] The study, which gathered data from 2007, did not capture sexual violence among girls younger than 15 years or women older than 49 years and did not include sexual violence among boys and men. 'Although the burden of sexual violence among these groups is uncertain, a review of the records of 4,133 women attending *Panzi Hospital* in Sud Kivu showed that six percent were younger than 16 years and 10 percent were older than 65 years,' said the study. 'In addition, *Human Rights Watch* reported that sexual violence in 2009 doubled in comparison with 2008. If this assessment is accurate, then the current prevalence of sexual violence is likely to be even higher than our estimates suggest.'" (*Agence France Presse*, May 11, 2011) [This article appears in the May, 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.]

 

The Fighting Side of Me: Immigration Rights and Human Wrongs

Written by Paul Fromm

Tuesday, 17 May 2011 07:54

The Fighting Side of Me: Immigration Rights and Human Wrongs<http://reasonradionetwork.com/20110510/the-fighting-side-of-me-immigration-rights-and-human-wrongs> May 10, 2011 [image: Green leader Elizabeth May] Green leader Elizabeth May Paul Fromm discusses: - Ontario “conservative” leader betrays freedom lovers and reneges on promise to abolish Ontario Human Rights Tribunal; - Poorly screened Third World immigration means net annual cost of billions to Canadian taxpayers, says former Ambassador Martin Collacott; - All major Canadian parties favour costly, environment threatening immigration invasion; - Canadian Greens support environment-unfriendly mass immigration. http://reasonradionetwork.com/20110510/the-fighting-side-of-me-immigration-rights-and-human-wrongs *Contact Paul:* [email protected]