Yeah i know how you personally meant that .... the inmigrants i know, and i know quite a few after bringing my wife through the system in the last six years, would agree with your take on it .... they don't want any big subsidy* or anything that walls them off from general society, they want to enter it with gusto, work their guts out and yes, pay taxes ... there are exceptions of course, crooks slipping through the process, in the case of some centroamericanos around here for instance, the hispano community shuns them, and i know for a fact has provided information on their drug dealing et al activities
* - one thing that does help is the multicultural centre programme, for the teaching of english, and the meeting of immigrants one with another .... doesn't cost that much on the ground, but the Ottawa bureaucracy that administers it is hugely expensive, and unnecessary as far as we can see .... but the idea is good, the people on the ground are good, this can be best regarded as infrastructure with a decent cost/benefit ratio
Three of my wife's best friends, met through the multicultural deal, are japanese, chinese/filipina , and hungarian/czech ... they communicate in english, and the husbands of the two who have them vote reform, and provincially liberal, which is to say anti-NDP and proud western canadians [same as ninety per cent of the hispanos we know] .... this surprises people when they hear it, but it shouldn't |
