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Yet their Pax seems only achieved through numbing their
brains and minds, rather than decisively taking steps
to take back their country.
The image above is of the Canadian Female Ice Hockey
players "celebrating" their gold medal at the
2010 Winter Olympics
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I haven't read Pax Canadiana's Canadian Immigration Reform Blog in a while. I went there to see what he'd written about the Scarborough shootings. He's abstained from writing directly about it, but instead, his July 8, 2012 headline that caught my attention:
"Can You Please Leave Canada? Pretty, Pretty, Please With Sugar On Top?"
Pax links to this Toronto Star article (Canada offers failed refugee claimants $2,000 to go home) and writes:
What a joke! So the government wants to bribe failed refugee claimants to voluntarily return home with a one-way plane ticket and up to $2,000 to help them re-establish themselves in their homelands. Do you think anyone will seriously take them up on that? For that to work they're going to have to offer more money than that.He continues:
I wouldn't say this money being offered is an incentive for failed refugee claimants to willingly excuse themselves from Canada but more so an enticement for future would-be asylum seekers to try their luck with the Canadian asylum system as it makes it less risky to do so. If you're successful in your bid then you get Canadian citizenship. If you fail you get a plane ticket home and a possible $2,000 to help cover costs. How can you go wrong?This is pretty much what I said in my post $10,000 To Go Back Home.
I try to address the incentive issue, and the "refugee" excuse. I write:
People fleeing war torn countries can be provided with special countries of refuge near, even adjacent to, their countries of origin.Now the Canadian refugee policy is that any refugee who buys a plane ticket (what real refugee can afford a plane ticket, anyway?) and lands at a Canadian airport is automatically a "refugee claimant." "Claiming" refugee status can take years, during which time the claimant can disappear, change his location and name, marry a citizen, or just live illegally. But should he stay legal, and obtain his refugee status, he can then start the process of applying for landed immigrant (green card status) and eventually citizenship. As a refugee, it is almost guaranteed that he will get residency. Citizenship is acquired merely by living a certain number of years in Canada. That is why I wrote in my earlier post that refugee claimants who arrive at Canadian airports asking for asylum should be returned to a country near their homeland, with hopes of eventually repatriating them back to their countries.
But tackling the refugee problem is not enough. Immigration, mostly from Third World, non-Western countries with no cultural resemblance to Canada, should also be curtailed. I wrote:
[T]he government should follow a strict policy of reducing immigration into the country.This is a more complicated issue, since two of the most important criteria for for entrance into Canada are economic, which takes into account financial and other assets the applicant brings, and educational, which favors immigrants with post-secondary, and preferably post-graduate, education. So far, Chinese and Hong Kong immigrants win hands down. But, their acceptance into Canada doesn't guarantee benefits for Canada.
In fact, Chinese/Asian immigrants' educational credentials are not up to par with the Canadian system. And their financial assets are often tied up with their countries of origin, in which they continue to invest even after immigrating to Canada.
They have higher rates of acceptance into universities and post-graduate programs because of their higher secondary and college scores (often from their countries of origin, which are nevertheless hard to verify since different grading criteria are used in Canadian high schools and universities), thus displacing white students. But once in these post-secondary institutions, and especially with post-graduate work, they produce inferior inventive and creative research. Many types of industries depend on graduate level research to improve and upgrade their products, thus inferior works affects them and eventually Canada, reducing the country's competitive place in the world.