Tomorrow Bill C-304 Likely to be Reported Out of Committee

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 26 April 2012 03:07

*Tomorrow Bill C-304 Likely to be Reported Out of Committee* Bill C-304 is a private member's bill introduced by Alberta MP Brian Storseth (Conservative -- Westlake-St. Paul) to repeal Sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (Internet censorship). The House Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights met yesterday and will hear one more witness tomorrow, Jean-Francois Page, committee clerk, told me and then will report, likely without amendment, this vital piece of freedom legislation back to Parliament where third and final reading is virtually assured. *Here is Brian Storseth's testimony yesterday to the Committee.* ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-zGm5Tq-0 CAFÉ · Was an “interested party” or intervener during the lengthy *Sabina Citron & the Toronto Mayor’s Committee on Community and Race Relations v. Ernst Zundel* (1996-2002) case. Inter alia we argued that Sec. 13 – “telephonic” communication – did not apply to the Internet. We led a number of witnesses to support our submissions. · Was an “interested party” or intervener in the *Mark Schnell v. John Micka* Sec. 13 case. Again, we led an expert witness and argued that Sec. 13 did not apply to the Internet. · Has been an active “interested party” or intervener in *Richard Warman v. Marc Lemire*. This was the only Sec. 13 case where the victim/respondent won. This decision by Member Athanasios Hadjis was the subject of a judicial review hearing in Federal Court, December 13, 2011. CAFÉ was represented by Gerald Langlois. · As a complaint under the Canadian Human Rights Act is considered civil litigation, most provinces do not provide legal aid for victims of a Sec. 13 complaint. I, acting on behalf of CAFÉ, acted as a representative for the respondent in a number of cases and have been able to see the unfair proceedings and the juggernaut that crushed Canadians, usually young and poor, for merely expressing themselves on controversial topics over the Internet. · *Richard Warman v. Jessica Beaumont* · *Richard Warman v. Ciaran Donnelly* * * · *Richard Warman v. Glen Bahr and Western Canada for Us.* * * · *Richard Warman v. Terry Tremaine* * * · *Richard Warman v. Melissa Guille and the Canadian Heritage Alliance* * * · *Richard Warman v. Jason Ouwendyk and the Northern Alliance* * * · *Centre for Research Action on Race Relations v BC White Pride & John Beck* ** Marc Lemire's brave and tireless battle essentially wrestled Sec. 13 to the ground. We still await the decision of the judicial review in Federal Court challenging the Hadjis ruling. However, Sec. 13 now appears dead should Bill C-304 pass as we're told it will. Paul Fromm Director CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION

 

Hear Paul Fromm -- The Fighting Side of Me: Memories True and False

Written by Paul Fromm

Wednesday, 25 April 2012 05:49

Hear Paul Fromm -- The Fighting Side of Me: Memories True and False<http://reasonradionetwork.com/20120410/the-fighting-side-of-me-memories-true-and-false> April 10, 2012 [image: Indian perp Del Louie]<http://reasonradionetwork.com/images/2012/04/Del_Louie.jpg> *Paul Fromm* - … commemorates April 9, 1865 — the sad but honourable surrender of Robert E. Lee & the Confederacy at Appomatox; - … exposes law based on false history — the latest “native discount” sentencing e.g. an Indian gets 18 months suspended sentence for brutally beating and damagimg a Vancouver bus driver; - … decries lunacy of the “native discount” in a society dedicated to “equality” (e.g. perp Del Louie is only half Indian but gets full native discount); - … explores the legal and media lynching of George Zimmerman and the deification of gangbanger Treyvon Martin. http://reasonradionetwork.com/20120410/the-fighting-side-of-me-memories-true-and-false

 

Timmy, Wendy & Denny

Written by Paul Fromm

Tuesday, 24 April 2012 01:47

Timmy, Wendy & Denny "The faces of the staff at Tim Horton’s, Denny’s and many other Canadian food chains have been rapidly changing. The servers and cooks at countless Canadian food outlets, as well as the staff in seniors care centres, are increasingly migrant Filipinos, says University of B.C. PhD candidate Lawrence Santiago. [And here's a tidy fit], Santiago [a Filipino], has received a $250,000 Trudeau Scholarship to study Filipino workers ... focusing on the 'highly pragmatic and resilient' women who work in seniors centres. [And you were afraid he might be biased.] Despite an economic downturn, the federal government has permitted the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada to swell from 160,000 in 2006 to 283,000 in 2010. The largest ethnic group among this tide of often-grateful short-term workers is Filipino. [Not uniformly grateful -- Filipino employees have hit Denny's with a $10-million class action lawsuit to recoup what they claim were $6,000 recruitment/air travel fees.] The second conflict centres on whether foreign workers are hurting productivity and keeping down wages of Canadians. ... Saying he’s a social scientist not an economist, Santiago ... declined to comment on whether the rising number of foreign workers is lowering Canadians’ wages. [Nice work if you can get it.] But there is no shortage of economists, scholars and former federal government officials from both the left and right who believe Canadian employees are being shortchanged by the inundation of short-term workers. University of B.C. economist David Green says Canada has traditionally welcomed foreign workers to fill high-skill shortages. But he says there has recently been a fourfold jump in low-skill workers, including fast-food servers and security guards. When many 'firms claim there is a shortage of workers, what is implicitly meant is that they cannot find workers at the wage they are offering,' says Green, who is also a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The rise in foreign workers 'seems to be more about keeping wages down than generating economic growth.'" (Vancouver Sun, October 17, 2011) The Temporary Foreign Worker Programme "was expanded in 2002 to a wide range of industries, and the number of foreign workers in Canada rose from 161,000 in 2006 to 283,000 in 2010. Most of the growth has been in the Low-Skill Pilot Project, which allows employers to nominate temporary workers to provincial governments so that they can ask the federal government to issue immigrant visas to these workers. ... Manitoba has been most aggressive in nominating low-skilled guest workers for immigrant visas. Maple Leaf Foods, Canada's largest meatpacker, employs low-skilled temporary foreign workers in its Brandon pork processing plant and nominates some for immigrant visas after two years of satisfactory work. In 2009, three-fourths of the 2,220 workers at Maple Leaf's Brandon plant were foreign-born. Temporary foreign workers are required to work at least six months for Maple Leaf before they can be recommended for immigrant visas. Toronto-based Maple Leaf, which opened the Brandon pork processing plant in 1999, reportedly spends $6,000 per migrant to cover recruitment and costs and a month's rent in Brandon (many of the workers also pay recruitment costs in their country of origin). Maple Leaf's Brandon workers are represented by UFCWLocal 832, which negotiated a five-year contract in January 2010 that raised wages and required Maple Leaf to translate the contract and employee handbook into languages spoken by at least 100 employees, English, Spanish, Ukrainian and Mandarin, and to provide translators for foreign workers who request them. ... The Canadian Labor Market and Skills Researcher Network released a study September 1, 2011 urging the government to reduce immigration during recessions. An analysis of the earnings of immigrants in Canada who arrived in 1982, 1988 and 1994 found that newcomers who faced a severe recession soon after arrival, such as the early 1990s recession for those arriving in 1988, had slower income growth than newcomers who experienced booming economies after arrival, as with those arriving in 1994. The study recommended that Canada continue to admit over half of its immigrants on the basis of a point system that gives priority to younger foreigners with more years of education and English or French, and reduce admissions during recessions." (Migration News, October 2011 Volume 18 Number 4) [This article appears in the March, 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.]