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CANADA DOES NOT NEED IMMIGRANTS LIKE THESE! |
Written by Paul Fromm |
Thursday, 10 December 2009 07:37 |
*CANADA DOES NOT NEED IMMIGRANTS LIKE THESE!* Look at the FACTS of this article and please THINK. Canada dose not NEED immigrants like these who only TAKE OUR MONEY AND ABUSE OUR HEALTH AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS without contributing anything to the country. SIX OF YASMINE'S DAUGHTERS SHARE THE SAME BEDROOM (Her 12-year-old lives in a hospital) -- Max Harrold, *THE GAZETTE* Yasmine has 8 children under age 17. Seven of them live with her and her husband in a cramped 3-bedroom apartment on the West Island. But it's the one child who doesn't live at home, her 12-year-old disabled daughter, who preoccupies Yasmine the most. That child lives at the hospital because of her many ailments, which stem from having been born prematurely at 29 weeks. "She has problems eating, she barely talks, she can't sit on her own," Yasmine, 41 said. This year: the girl had surgery to repair her malformed spinal cord, and the 4-month recovery was especially painful. Yasmine doesn't have a paying job. She cooks and cleans for her family and spends time at the hospital with her daughter: her husband, a landscaper, doesn't work in the colder months. Their welfare child allowance cheques total about $3,000 a month. "It's tough to stretch that out for a family of 10," Yasmine said. Yasmine is among thousands of people who are to receive $125 cheques from the *Gazette* Christmas Fund this year. The money helps make the holiday season a bit more cheerful for needy families and individuals. Six of Yasmine's daughters share one large bedroom, which is the basement level of their apartment Her 15-year-old daughter helps out a lot, but her 17-year-old son spends a lot of time away from home and his mother doesn't know where he is most nights. How does Yasmine find the strength to get through it all? "Honestly, I don't always," she said. "I suffer a lot. My daughter is not here.. She's always sick. My other children don't like to visit her in the hospital, so they don't really know their own sister. ... I'm proud of the way my husband and I have tried so hard to raise our children to be good people." [Well, except for the 17-year-old boy who disappears at night] While she doesn't celebrate Christmas because she is a Muslim, Yasmine said she appreciates the intentions behind the Christmas fund and she will use the money to pay bills. "It's a great thing to help," she said. "If I had money, I would help too FACT: She and her husband have 8 children under 17. FACT: One child LIVES in a hospital! While we feel sympathy for the sick child, we still ask HOW MUCH DOES THIS COST US??? FACT: "Yasmine" doesn't have a paying job. No one in her family WORKS! FACT: Her husband, a "landscaper" doesn't work "in the colder months!" WHY NOT? Landscapers are physically fit. Why doesn't the bum do some OTHER kind of work? FACT: Their welfare and child allowance checques total about $3000 a month! About $36,000 A YEAR! FACT(?): Six of her daughters share one bedroom in the "basement level" of their "apartment". (Since when are there "split-level" apartments?) FACT: Her 17-year-old son spends a lot of time away from home and his other "doesn't know where he is most nights". WHY DOESN'T HE WORK? FACT: She "volunteers" at a thrift shop. FACT: She says she is "proud of the way she and her husband have tried so hard to raise their children to be good people? What does her SON DO WHEN HE IS OUT ALL NIGHT? FACT: They are Muslims and don't celebrate Christmas. In other words, they don't believe in Christ, but THEY DO BELIEVE IN TAKING MONEY FROM CHRISTIANS. ADD UP THE FACTS: She and her unemployed husband have 8 CHILDREN, one who LIVES in a hospital. (HOW MUCH DOES THAT COST CANADIANS?) They get $36,000 a year in WELFARE and CHILD ALLOWANCE CHEQUES. (How much do they also cost us in MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE?) CANADA DOES NOT NEED IMMIGRANTS LIKE THESE! |
FAILED IMMIGRANT SPONSORSHIP: ANOTHER HIT FOR TAXPAYERS |
Written by Paul Fromm |
Tuesday, 08 December 2009 09:34 |
* Failed Immigrant Sponsorship: Another Hit For Taxpayers* "When someone sponsors a family member to immigrate to Canada, they promise to financially support him or her during the initial years in Canada. If welfare money is paid out during that period, the sponsor must reimburse the government, said *Richard Kurland*, an immigration lawyer. The obligation varies. A spouse, for example, has a sponsorship period of three years, and it is 10 years for most others. 'The idea was to control abuse, because before this mechanism existed, there was a tendency for a small number of people to import family relations to Canada for the express purpose of taking undue advantage of our welfare system, chronic care homes, what have you,' said Mr. Kurland. The sponsorship system made sponsors share the overall economic burden, which curtailed this kind of abuse. [Quick! someone stamp out this dangerous outbreak of common sense! Accordingly,] an Ontario court has ruled in favour of a group of residents who said *they should not automatically be made to pay for relatives they sponsored to immigrate to Canada, despite having pledged to do so*, in a decision that could have costly implications due to the number of such immigrants who seek social assistance. *[By 2004, almost 7,500 sponsored relatives were on social assistance in Ontario, costing provincial taxpayers $70 million annually.*] So far this year, about 5,000 sponsored immigrants have applied for social assistance in Ontario, according to the *Ministry of Community and Social Services*, with a cost of about $56-million. ... The landmark ruling by the *Ontario Court of Appeal* says the provincial government must consider the circumstances of immigrant sponsors and use 'case-by-case discretion' when deciding whether to demand sponsors pay back the money their family members collect. *Appeal Court Justices Janet Simmons*, *S.E. Lang* and *John Laskin* wrote that Canada and Ontario '*owe sponsors* a duty of procedural fairness when enforcing sponsorship debt.' ... The ruling hinges on language in the legislation that says sponsorship debt '*may* be recovered,' and *which the judges believe grants the government discretion*. There is 'strong argument that the governments' discretion extends to forgiving sponsorship debt,' the judges wrote. *[Richard Kurland]* said the creation of a 'case-by-case determination system' would create 'humongous administrative overhead' and weigh down any collection system. ... 'Could we be a little smarter, and adopt the Quebec system where the sponsor gives a 100% guarantee to pay, with no excuses possible?' said Mr. Kurland." (*National Post*, November 18, 2009) If the same 15% failure rate applies across the country, that's another hit of $100-million or more to beast-of-burden taxpayers. This is a particularly perverse decision as one dictionary definition of "may" is, "*To be obliged; **must**. Used in statutes, deeds, and other legal documents*." Would it be too much to expect Canadian jurists to know this? There was evidently no confusion about "may" 100 years ago -- the *1906 Immigration Act* (*Section 28*) stated, "any person landed in Canada who, within two years thereafter, has become a charge upon the public funds, whether municipal, provincial or federal, or an inmate of or a charge upon any charitable institution, *may* be deported." In other words, Canada's robust young government understood that it was empowered to deport paupers -- not to seek their permission. Because the young country did not relish the idea of a growing population of undesirables, back then an unemployed man was normally deported with his wife, even if she was earning. Still, there is hope. Judges are the highest paid professionals in Canada. In Ontario, they rake in $200,000 on average. What a lovely good faith gesture if these three Ontario judges were to roll up their sleeves, clear out a spare room and set another place at the table whenever they heard of a newcomer sponsorship breaking down. [This article appears in the November, 2009 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.] |
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