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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fresc who wrote (8399)	2/18/2006 5:43:58 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37788

fresc....."Once and for all.... Canada is a country composed of immigrants from practically every country in the world.... No matter where you come from, once you are a landed immigrant you have all the rights of a Canadian citizen."..... Ah yes....use to be a time when all immigrants were Canadians first..... not to day though IMO the promotion of multi cultures has ended any sense of being Canadian.

To: fresc who wrote (8399)	2/18/2006 5:50:28 PM
From: seventh_son	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37788

Well, Canada is the country I was born in and the country I plan to stay in. I did not choose to live in the third world, but unfortunately, the third world is being transplanted here, and the more the third world comes here, the more Canada becomes like the third world -- their crime, their corruption, their low productivity... I prefer to live in Canada, not Ghana, Pakistan, Jamaica, or a host of other countries that include people of all colours and races including white. Most of the world cannot operate on the kind of fragile honour system that we live with -- our tax system, our insurance systems, our electoral systems, etc. We flood ourselves with the average third world global citizen, and our systems and institutions collapse. Hmmm... auto injury rates skyrocketed along with insurance premiums in Ontario in the last decade even as cars became safer -- the reason being insurance fraud becoming a profitable organized crime often tied to immigrant communities. The insurance industry knows how to set rates to match their costs -- you live in whitebread Oakville like one of my brothers and your rates are low. You live in metro Toronto with heavily ethnic communities and your rates are through the roof. One of my former co-workers from Russia told me how their community in Toronto has organized businesses for creating phony tax receipts -- and he casually told me how his sister who is an accountant routinely produces phoney tax returns for him and many others that take advantage of the fact that audits rarely occur and if they do they just buy phoney receipts. To him, this was just usual. Everyone cheats the system if they can get away with it, right? That was the prevalent thought pattern coming from Russia. Well, for sure not all deep-rooted Canadians are honest, but the percentage that are supports fragile systems that is on the verge of breaking the more we open the floodgates to immigration from less desireable regions of the world. Note that one of the biggest criteria granting people admission to Canada in the 80's was the willingness to lie -- the system was flooded with so many bogus refugees that eventually there was an amnesty to allow them all in all questions unasked because the process couldn't deal with them all.