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P.O. Box 332, Stn. "B" http://www.canadafirst.net
Etobicoke, Ontario M9W 5L3 cfirc@canadafirst.net
Tel: (905) 897-7221
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TIME FOR YOU TO SPEAK UP!!!
At the height of this crisis, on August 3, Elinor Caplan was appointed
Immigration Minister. Her maiden speech was apparently meant to "shame"
Canadians into line:
"Canadians need to learn more from their government about immigrant's
contributions to the country. ... 'I think there's a lot of
confusion and it's difficult to engage the public in discussion
around the importance around immigration.'"
(Globe and Mail, Thursday August 5, 1999)
We're NOT Confused
The immigrants WE honour are those who managed to build a nation from
the rawest of raw materials. They broke their backs and destroyed their
health pulling stumps and rocks from unyielding ground. They suffered
Canadian winters and sweltered through the summers to bring in the
crops. When the crops failed, they starved. They stayed up with calving
cows and the men went away to send money home. Sometimes the women went
mad from isolation, privation, and fear. Multiple marriages were
frequent: people weren't "experimenting" - they died. And when they
were only injured, it only made the work harder, because they could
never, ever, stop. In childbirth, they could only pray that the baby
would survive. These aren't isolated instances. These aren't the
exaggerations of Hollywood: the same impossible conditions were
surmounted, and the same scenes played out again and again, right across
the land. It was only later, when they died prematurely, that they were
freed of their labours at last. The gnarled, calloused and arthric
hands crossed over their chest, bore mute testimony to a lifetime of
unrelenting hardship.
No, Canadians are NOT confused about the contributions immigrants make.
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Your mother probably told you that "there's a little good in
everything."
This invasion has ripped the discourse on immigration away from the
"expert" class of immigration lawyers, lobbyists, minority pressure
groups, ESL curriculum advisors, immigration bureaucrats, refugee
settlement workers, ad nauseum - and put it back where it belongs - in
the hands of the Canadian people.
So much so, that it's beginning to resemble a healthy society, where
important issues are open to debate. In that sense, this invasion has
brought us nearer participatory democracy than we have been for a long,
long time -
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New venues devoted to the illegals where you can exercise
this strange new thing called - Freedom Of Speech
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GET INVOLVED NOW! SIGN OUR PETITION
AGAINST THESE TYPES OF IMMIGRATION ABUSES
http://www.canadafirst.net/scoc-petition
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CBC NEWSWORLD ONLINE
Read comments and add yours
http://www.cbcnews.cbc.ca/news/indepth/smuggle_letters.html
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Spokane Spokesman Review Journal
News story and comment form
http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=081299&ID=s620695&cat=
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Immigration Canada's Legislative Review web-site (see bottom of page)
Ask to be added to mailing list - an informed public is harder to exclude
http://cicnet.ci.gc.ca/english/about/policy/legrev_e.html
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CONTACT YOUR MPS! HAVE YOUR SAY HEARD!
Caplan.E@parl.gc.ca
Elinor Caplan (Lib. Thornhill, Ontario)
phone: (613) 992-0253 fax: (613) 992-0887
Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan said she deplored the smuggling
of humans, adding that she may change Canada's laws to prevent such
activities. INSIST ON IT!
Martin.K@parl.gc.ca
Keith Martin (Ref. Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, BC)
phone: (613) 996-2625 fax: (613) 996-9779
Reform MP Keith Martin is drawing up a private member's bill to
reform the Immigration Act.
Lunn.G@parl.gc.ca
Gary Lunn (Ref. Saanich-Gulf Islands)
phone: (613) 996-1119 fax: (613) 996-0850
Reform MP Gary Lunn launched a petition Tuesday calling for changes
to the Immigration Act. "Until the immigration laws dealing with
refugee claimants are seriously revised to prevent such blatant
abuses of the system, Canada will continue to be a dumping ground
for the human smuggling industry," said Lunn.
Benoit.L@parl.gc.ca
Leon Benoit (Ref. Lakeland, Alberta)
phone: (613) 992-4171 fax: (613) 996-9011
Reform immigration critic Leon Benoit accused the Liberals of doing
nothing to stop a dangerous practice. ``We need to send a strong
message to the world that Canada is not going to put up with
illegal immigration,'' he said in a statement. Benoit said refugee
claimants entering Canada under suspicious circumstances should be
detained until their identification is verified, or until they have
a hearing. Deportation orders for rejected refugees should be
issued immediately, he added.
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CFIRC goes 3,000 miles to protest against Illegial Immigration in
British Columbia! Read the whole story and find out the truth about the
silent invasion going on in BC! .
http://www.canadafirst.net/news/victoria_protest/index.html
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P.O. Box 332, Stn. "B" http://www.canadafirst.net
Etobicoke, Ontario M9W 5L3 cfirc@canadafirst.net
Tel: (905) 897-7221
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