69% of Canadians Agree With Me!!
Further to my blog entry about Jason Kenney's decision to toughen entry requirements to Mexican and Czech visitors, it seems he's hit a chord with Canadian sentiment on this. Notwithstanding the usual obligatory howls of bigotry and racism - we're excluding "brown" people, you know - from the lunatic left, it seems that most people recognize that showing up at our doors and claiming refugee status under false pretenses is not only a drain on our public purse, but is an abuse of our hospitality. Furthermore, it's no way to start off the road to citizenship in a new country. If you lie in order to get in, what other unethical behavior are you going to offer your new country?
The survey, conducted by Angus Reid, also revealed "64 per cent of respondents believe the federal government is doing a poor job of handling Canada's immigration programs". It would be interesting to have a discussion and debater just about that point. Do I detect the beginning of a backlash against the longstanding policy of multiculturalism?
More here.
A bit of information from the Czech Republic:
The survey, conducted by Angus Reid, also revealed "64 per cent of respondents believe the federal government is doing a poor job of handling Canada's immigration programs". It would be interesting to have a discussion and debater just about that point. Do I detect the beginning of a backlash against the longstanding policy of multiculturalism?
More here.
A bit of information from the Czech Republic:
"An influx of asylum seekers prompted Canada to impose the visa requirements on the Czech Republic in October 1997. It cancelled the measure ten years later. However, the influx later resumed.
Since the visa requirement was lifted from the Czech Republic in October 2007, nearly 3,000 claims have been filed by Czech nationals, compared with a mere five in 2006, Canada's department of immigration (CIC) said earlier this week."
posted by Louise at 5:35 pm
2 Comments:
What I do not understand is why the government decided to change the visa policy now, during the tourist season. People wanting to visit Canada during the summer might not have time to adjust to the new situation and thus not come here at all. And that is not good for our economy, is it?
Best regards, Julie.
I don't know how you would cost the eith/or scenario, but my gut hunch is that the cost of losing a few tourists is waaaaaaay smaller than process and ensuring due process to hundreds of phony refugee claims. After all, a single refugee claim process from beginning to end can take years.
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