The Canadian government says it is looking into a plan to help fast-track immigration from Haiti in the wake of the earthquake that has crippled the Caribbean country.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday he and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney have been discussing ways to ease immigration and refugee rules to allow more Haitians into Canada quickly.
Opening up the process “will be something the government will be addressing in the next couple of days,” he said while stopping at the Ottawa Red Cross office to make a donation.
The first three military air transports arrived in Montreal from Haiti early Friday morning, carrying 272 evacuees who had been selected by staff at the Canadian Embassy for transport, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Friday.
The latest Canadian consular information has confirmed four Canadians have died, 13 are reported injured and an additional 550 have been located, Cannon said. About 1,415 Canadians living in the affected area are still missing, he said.
About 6,000 Canadian citizens live in Haiti, but only 700 were registered with the embassy in Port-au-Prince, Cannon said.
The Canadian Embassy has continued to be a refuge for citizens, however, and many are being sent to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic for transport back to Canada.
But as the situation for people in Haiti worsens, the government is expected to look at a plan that would allow Haitians with Canadian relatives to also come to Canada.
Chantal Barratteau, a Haitian community organizer in Montreal, says deciding who can come and who can stay will be a difficult task.
“How can you choose who to bring here?” she asks. “I mean if I could choose, I would bring my family if they are hurt, and then my neighbours, and then my family’s friends and so on.”
Thousands of Haitians spent another night outside following the 7.0- magnitude quake that hit the country this week. Many won’t return to their homes, fearing that continuing aftershocks will knock down already weakened structures.
Visa changes allow for refuelling
Thousands of homes have been destroyed or damaged, and at least 300,000 people are estimated to be homeless.
Kenney has already announced a loosening of rules for Haitian nationals travelling through Canada on board non-commercial flights, allowing aid transports from other countries to stop in Canada for refuelling without requiring passengers to acquire visas for temporary residency.
A Chinese transport that landed in Vancouver and a Russian flight that stopped in Gander, N.L., were the first two planes to take advantage of these rule changes to quickly refuel, Cannon said Friday.
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2010/01/canada_may_fast.php
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Granting Asylum to White South African ‘Perverse,’ Ottawa Says
The federal government has denounced as “perverse” a refugee board ruling that granted asylum to white South African Brandon Huntley on the grounds he could face persecution in his homeland because of his skin color.
In a written submission to the Federal Court of Canada, the government said the ruling that Mr. Huntley’s claim was “justified” is unreasonable and based on a “jaundiced assessment”, by the one-man board, of conditions within South Africa.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is asking the Federal Court for permission to seek a judicial review of the ruling by board member William Davis.
Mr. Davis’ ruling in late August sparked outrage in South Africa where, among other things, the governing African National Congress said the reasoning behind the decision “can only serve to perpetuate racism.”
In Ottawa, Abraham Sokhaya Nkomo, South Africa’s ambassador to Canada, told Canwest News Service Mr. Davis’s ruling was shocking and could seriously damage relations between the two countries.
Within days, the federal government announced it was taking the rare step of appealing a decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board.
The federal submission took Davis to task for effectively accepting Huntley’s argument that he did not seek police protection after allegedly being attacked six or seven times by black South Africans because he did not trust a police force dominated by blacks to help him.
It said Mr. Huntley, who hails from Cape Town, failed to provide “clear and convincing” evidence of the South African government’s inability to protect him.
Mr. Davis’ implicit acceptance of Mr. Huntley’s argument represents a “disturbing view” that “rests largely on the board’s jaundiced assessment of the country conditions,” the government said.
It took strong issue with the statement by Mr. Huntley, who is living in Ottawa, he would stick out like a “sore thumb” because of his colour if he was forced to live anywhere in South Africa.
Dismissing the statement as “unreasonable and perverse,” the government cited figures from Statistics South Africa that said whites form a sizeable minority in the country, ranging from 23.9% of the population of Pretoria, for example, to 16% in both Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg.
The government said that while it is “indisputable” that crime is prevalent in South Africa, all South Africans are affected, regardless of race.
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In a written submission to the Federal Court of Canada, the government said the ruling that Mr. Huntley’s claim was “justified” is unreasonable and based on a “jaundiced assessment”, by the one-man board, of conditions within South Africa.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is asking the Federal Court for permission to seek a judicial review of the ruling by board member William Davis.
Mr. Davis’ ruling in late August sparked outrage in South Africa where, among other things, the governing African National Congress said the reasoning behind the decision “can only serve to perpetuate racism.”
In Ottawa, Abraham Sokhaya Nkomo, South Africa’s ambassador to Canada, told Canwest News Service Mr. Davis’s ruling was shocking and could seriously damage relations between the two countries.
Within days, the federal government announced it was taking the rare step of appealing a decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board.
The federal submission took Davis to task for effectively accepting Huntley’s argument that he did not seek police protection after allegedly being attacked six or seven times by black South Africans because he did not trust a police force dominated by blacks to help him.
It said Mr. Huntley, who hails from Cape Town, failed to provide “clear and convincing” evidence of the South African government’s inability to protect him.
Mr. Davis’ implicit acceptance of Mr. Huntley’s argument represents a “disturbing view” that “rests largely on the board’s jaundiced assessment of the country conditions,” the government said.
It took strong issue with the statement by Mr. Huntley, who is living in Ottawa, he would stick out like a “sore thumb” because of his colour if he was forced to live anywhere in South Africa.
Dismissing the statement as “unreasonable and perverse,” the government cited figures from Statistics South Africa that said whites form a sizeable minority in the country, ranging from 23.9% of the population of Pretoria, for example, to 16% in both Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg.
The government said that while it is “indisputable” that crime is prevalent in South Africa, all South Africans are affected, regardless of race.
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Immigration Bad for Us: Book
For years, Canadians have been led to believe that mass immigration is necessary to fill labour shortages, make up for our low fertility rates and finance expensive social programs.
In a shot across the bow of political correctness, a new book by the Fraser Institute argues that these beliefs are myths and calls for a serious debate on Canadian immigration policy.
“Many of the reasons with which Canada justifies its high immigration intake are simply not valid and the economic and social costs are not open to discussion,” writes James Bissett, a former executive director of the Canadian Immigration Service.
“We may not yet have reached the tipping point,” he warns in the book, The Effects of Mass Immigration on Canadian Living Standards and Society. “But if we continue to sleepwalk into the 21st century and ignore this issue, we may find out too late that Canada has been unalterably changed.”
Various contributors weigh in on what they see as the consequences of mass immigration—Canada’s annual immigration rate is the highest in the world—and offer prescriptions for change.
Bissett calls for a temporary moratorium on new immigrants until the backlog has been eliminated.
He points out 80% of our immigrants are not in the skilled worker category but, rather, enter or are allowed to stay for humanitarian reasons or because they’ve been granted refugee status.
Canada needs to update its point system for selecting skilled workers so it better reflects the needs of the labour force, he adds.
In his essay, U. S. academic Vernon Briggs questions the quality of university education in certain immigrant-source countries. Very few Third World nations have elite universities, he writes, noting that only one institution from outside the industrialized world, the State University of Moscow, is on the list of the top 100 universities.
“The only way to ensure that the immigrants chosen will do better is to be more selective,” Briggs writes. “If Canadian universities chose foreign students the way (Citizenship and Immigration Canada) selected immigrants, half their classes would flunk out.”
Herb Grubel, Fraser Institute senior fellow and co-editor of the book, examines the feasibility of financing social programs like pensions, welfare and health care and concludes that in order to meet such objectives immigration would have to skyrocket to 165 million by 2050. That year alone, we would have to take in seven million immigrants, he says.
That, he adds, creates the “impossibly large” problem of finding jobs for all those people.
The book also contends that high rates of immigration threaten to undermine our national identity and social fabric.
Canada has become nothing more than a “global suburb” for immigrants with Canadian passports living abroad, argues Stephen Gallagher, of the Canadian International Council, a foreign policy think-tank.
And Salim Mansur, who also writes a weekly column for Sun Media, warns that Canada’s secular, liberal-democratic character and security are endangered by unrestrained immigration.
“Religious or cultural wars are won and lost on the grounds of how confidently and tenaciously antagonists hold to their respective . . . values,” Mansur writes.
Critics will no doubt view this book as an anti-immigrant diatribe. On the contrary, it’s a plea for a smart, retooled immigration policy and a slap in the face to those who would stifle discussion on such a crucial issue.
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In a shot across the bow of political correctness, a new book by the Fraser Institute argues that these beliefs are myths and calls for a serious debate on Canadian immigration policy.
“Many of the reasons with which Canada justifies its high immigration intake are simply not valid and the economic and social costs are not open to discussion,” writes James Bissett, a former executive director of the Canadian Immigration Service.
“We may not yet have reached the tipping point,” he warns in the book, The Effects of Mass Immigration on Canadian Living Standards and Society. “But if we continue to sleepwalk into the 21st century and ignore this issue, we may find out too late that Canada has been unalterably changed.”
Various contributors weigh in on what they see as the consequences of mass immigration—Canada’s annual immigration rate is the highest in the world—and offer prescriptions for change.
Bissett calls for a temporary moratorium on new immigrants until the backlog has been eliminated.
He points out 80% of our immigrants are not in the skilled worker category but, rather, enter or are allowed to stay for humanitarian reasons or because they’ve been granted refugee status.
Canada needs to update its point system for selecting skilled workers so it better reflects the needs of the labour force, he adds.
In his essay, U. S. academic Vernon Briggs questions the quality of university education in certain immigrant-source countries. Very few Third World nations have elite universities, he writes, noting that only one institution from outside the industrialized world, the State University of Moscow, is on the list of the top 100 universities.
“The only way to ensure that the immigrants chosen will do better is to be more selective,” Briggs writes. “If Canadian universities chose foreign students the way (Citizenship and Immigration Canada) selected immigrants, half their classes would flunk out.”
Herb Grubel, Fraser Institute senior fellow and co-editor of the book, examines the feasibility of financing social programs like pensions, welfare and health care and concludes that in order to meet such objectives immigration would have to skyrocket to 165 million by 2050. That year alone, we would have to take in seven million immigrants, he says.
That, he adds, creates the “impossibly large” problem of finding jobs for all those people.
The book also contends that high rates of immigration threaten to undermine our national identity and social fabric.
Canada has become nothing more than a “global suburb” for immigrants with Canadian passports living abroad, argues Stephen Gallagher, of the Canadian International Council, a foreign policy think-tank.
And Salim Mansur, who also writes a weekly column for Sun Media, warns that Canada’s secular, liberal-democratic character and security are endangered by unrestrained immigration.
“Religious or cultural wars are won and lost on the grounds of how confidently and tenaciously antagonists hold to their respective . . . values,” Mansur writes.
Critics will no doubt view this book as an anti-immigrant diatribe. On the contrary, it’s a plea for a smart, retooled immigration policy and a slap in the face to those who would stifle discussion on such a crucial issue.
www.amren.com
Monday, August 10, 2009
Jews and Child Molesting
August 10, 2009
Jews and Child Molesting
Filed under:
Civil Rights— @ 8:39 am
by Ian Mosley
It is not generally admitted in the media that both homosexual and heterosexual child abuse occurs with an alarming frequency among Jews.
An article by Reverend Ted Pike notes “the Orthodox Jewish community struggles to contain what has been a closely guarded secret: pedophilia…. In a previous e-alert, “Pedophilia: Thriving in Judaism’s Right Wing” [4], I related how an Orthodox Jew, Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn assemblyman, is attempting to address… ‘a taboo subject’ among the Orthodox. Since Hikind broached the subject on his radio show this summer, ‘dozens of people have come forward with stories about children being molested in the Orthodox community which strictly follows Jewish law…Dov Hikind says as many as four people a day have come to him over the past three months with painful accounts of secrets often kept for decades, accusing more than sixty individuals.’ …. ‘One rabbi and psychologist told Jewish media outlets he was hounded into quitting a task force on child molestation days after Hikind appointed him to lead it…’ Six former students are suing an Orthodox school in New York for allegedly covering up the abuse of Rabbi Yehuda Kolkol, charged with sexually molesting boys…. the existence of pedophilia is not Orthodoxy’s best kept secret. What truly cannot be uttered by the Jewish community or media worldwide is that the Talmud, Judaism’s highest legal authority, encourages pedophilia.”
Continued...http://www.whitecivilrights.com/?p=2459
Jews and Child Molesting
Filed under:
Civil Rights— @ 8:39 am
by Ian Mosley
It is not generally admitted in the media that both homosexual and heterosexual child abuse occurs with an alarming frequency among Jews.
An article by Reverend Ted Pike notes “the Orthodox Jewish community struggles to contain what has been a closely guarded secret: pedophilia…. In a previous e-alert, “Pedophilia: Thriving in Judaism’s Right Wing” [4], I related how an Orthodox Jew, Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn assemblyman, is attempting to address… ‘a taboo subject’ among the Orthodox. Since Hikind broached the subject on his radio show this summer, ‘dozens of people have come forward with stories about children being molested in the Orthodox community which strictly follows Jewish law…Dov Hikind says as many as four people a day have come to him over the past three months with painful accounts of secrets often kept for decades, accusing more than sixty individuals.’ …. ‘One rabbi and psychologist told Jewish media outlets he was hounded into quitting a task force on child molestation days after Hikind appointed him to lead it…’ Six former students are suing an Orthodox school in New York for allegedly covering up the abuse of Rabbi Yehuda Kolkol, charged with sexually molesting boys…. the existence of pedophilia is not Orthodoxy’s best kept secret. What truly cannot be uttered by the Jewish community or media worldwide is that the Talmud, Judaism’s highest legal authority, encourages pedophilia.”
Continued...http://www.whitecivilrights.com/?p=2459
Sunday, May 24, 2009
The Latino Race War with the Blacks
May 24, 2009
The Latino Race War with the Blacks
Filed under:
Civil Rights— @ 8:04 am
by Jeff Davis
A recent news article reports “A Latino street gang waged a racist campaign to eliminate the city’s black residents through attempted murders and other crimes, according to federal racketeering indictments unsealed Thursday. Five indictments charged a total of 147 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, and federal and local agencies arrested 63 of them by early Thursday, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien said at a news conference. Another 35 defendants were already in custody on unrelated charges. Weapons and drugs worth more than $1 million also were seized in what O’Brien called ‘the largest gang takedown in United States history.’ ”
Continued here: http://www.whitecivilrights.com/?p=2124
The Latino Race War with the Blacks
Filed under:
Civil Rights— @ 8:04 am
by Jeff Davis
A recent news article reports “A Latino street gang waged a racist campaign to eliminate the city’s black residents through attempted murders and other crimes, according to federal racketeering indictments unsealed Thursday. Five indictments charged a total of 147 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, and federal and local agencies arrested 63 of them by early Thursday, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien said at a news conference. Another 35 defendants were already in custody on unrelated charges. Weapons and drugs worth more than $1 million also were seized in what O’Brien called ‘the largest gang takedown in United States history.’ ”
Continued here: http://www.whitecivilrights.com/?p=2124
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Attacks on Internet Free Speech Escalate
May 21, 2009
Attacks on Internet Free Speech Escalate
Filed under:
Civil Rights— @ 7:08 am
by Ian Mosley
Government attacks on freedom of speech on the internet are increasing in the months since Obama was wrongly sworn in as president despite serious evidence he was not a legal US citizen. Local governments are taking their cue from the Obama regime. As bad as Bush was, even he never tried to silence the Internet.
The Conneaut, Ohio Star Beacon reports “City administrators have sent a letter to a local website operator, ordering her to remove information related to municipal offices, City Council members learned at Monday’s work session. The cease-and-desist order was sent last week to Katie Schwartz, who oversees the everythingconneautohio.com website. The letter was authorized by City Manager Robert Schaumleffel Jr. …Ward 1 Councilman Dave Campbell, who has promoted the Web site, was outraged by the letter, calling it garbage. ‘We cannot dictate how she runs her business,’ he said. …At the end of the meeting, Campbell made a motion that would order Schaumleffel to rescind the letter and apologize to Schwartz. The motion was defeated by a 3-3 vote.”
Continued here: http://www.whitecivilrights.com/?p=2117
Attacks on Internet Free Speech Escalate
Filed under:
Civil Rights— @ 7:08 am
by Ian Mosley
Government attacks on freedom of speech on the internet are increasing in the months since Obama was wrongly sworn in as president despite serious evidence he was not a legal US citizen. Local governments are taking their cue from the Obama regime. As bad as Bush was, even he never tried to silence the Internet.
The Conneaut, Ohio Star Beacon reports “City administrators have sent a letter to a local website operator, ordering her to remove information related to municipal offices, City Council members learned at Monday’s work session. The cease-and-desist order was sent last week to Katie Schwartz, who oversees the everythingconneautohio.com website. The letter was authorized by City Manager Robert Schaumleffel Jr. …Ward 1 Councilman Dave Campbell, who has promoted the Web site, was outraged by the letter, calling it garbage. ‘We cannot dictate how she runs her business,’ he said. …At the end of the meeting, Campbell made a motion that would order Schaumleffel to rescind the letter and apologize to Schwartz. The motion was defeated by a 3-3 vote.”
Continued here: http://www.whitecivilrights.com/?p=2117
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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