Thread: Immigration Deal Model for Country

Another Canadian province is taking immigration issues in their own hands. They have decided that they know better than the federal government what skills are needed in their province. Maybe the United States should look at the same. Then if some states have better policies then peole who don't like their state policy can move to another state with more strict ones.

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Sat, March 31, 2007

Immigration deal model for country
By Licia Corbella

If there's one file the feds have botched for decades, it's immigration.

Hard working people from around the world with bankable skills spend years grinding their way through the legitimate channels of our backlogged, bureaucratic, bungling immigration system.

And for every legitimate immigrant trying to get in the blocked and costly front door, hundreds more make their way through the back door as refugees.

Many are perfectly legitimate refugees fleeing oppression and potential death from dictatorial regimes or tribal warfare. Others, however, use the refugee system as a way to bypass the slow, costly, legitimate channels of entering this country. There are agencies around the globe that charge wannabe Canadians a fee for tips on how to enter as a refugee to beat the system.

For a country that has built itself on immigration, we sure are doing a lousy job of attracting and expediting the entry of those immigrants we need most and who will be of most benefit to this country. It really isn't rocket science.

What should be happening but isn't is, if one area of the country needs bricklayers, the government should go through the files, find the best-qualified bricklayers and expedite their files.

The same goes for hairstylists, engineers, carpenters, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers! Whatever.

And that's exactly what Alberta is proposing to do.

Next week, it's expected that Alberta's Conservative government, along with the federal Tories, will announce a new immigration arrangement between the province and the feds that will essentially have Alberta take over the file.

It's not, apparently, going to be as good a deal as what Quebec has (no surprise there) but it's better than the current situation of incompetence and glacial movement of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.

This idea, oddly enough, is one of the planks in the infamous "Alberta firewall" agenda co-authored by now-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and now-Alberta MLA Ted Morton. Critics tried to make it sound really scary.

Here's a guess: In a couple of years the rest of the country is going to follow Alberta's lead and this country will be better off for it.

This way the big business interest in Alberta can utilize immigrants so that they will not have to compete to hire Canadians to come in from less robust areas in Canada. No more having to give financial rewards to Maritimers to leave their houses and part time or poorly paid jobs. Now the Alberta business leadership can just hire overseas.

Sounds like Canada wants immigrants instead of training Canadians do those jobs. They could trained unemployed Canadians to be brick layers instead of importing them. this doesn't sound like a good deal for Canadians.

And for every legitimate immigrant trying to get in the blocked and costly front door, hundreds more make their way through the back door as refugees.

Just how easy is it to say you are being persecuted for "whatever?" Nobody can prove you are not! The same thing goes for these "humanitarian" releases from the raids. It seems like anyone can say they have a child at home or some sick person to care for. Do they bother to check it out?

I think that Alberta is not so much for the immigrants as they are getting the wealthier Canadians from the Toronto area who don't want to live in a city that looks more Asian than Canadian. The wealthy are often business owners are bringing money into cities like Calgary. so my feelings are that the province wants to cater to the rich and middle classes. Look at Quebec. They don't have the immigration problems that the rest of Canada has as they made it very undesirable for most immigrants to come. They are French speaking and therefore if you are non french or non english speaking, you are sent to a french speaking school. It works wonders for them.
If you go to Toronto to the airport you would think you are in India as men with breads and turbans is all you see. In other areas it is the Vietnamese and other Orientals. The Chinese and Japanese aren't bad as they live like the rest of Canadians and are more educated. With the others you would have 4 families in one home, dressed in their traditional clothing and speaking mininmal English. The Indians would cook traditional food and in apartments it was terrible due to the curry smell being so over powering. The Seiks would scream racism if they didn't get what they wanted and made the RCMP and other police departments allow them to wear their turbans and their sons were allowed to carry knives to school as they were considered ceremonial daggers. Some of the kids actually used those so called ceremonial daggers in fights at schools. People just got sick of it and many left for Alberta.