Giving Away The Country In Exchange For Votes

Who Started It?

Tories to increase immigration by 5.2%

The Tory government has set one of the most aggressive immigration targets in the past 15 years in a move that some immigration experts say is carefully designed to woo votes among new Canadians. Ottawa Citizen, Nov. 1, 2006

Letter which appeared in The Ottawa Citizen October 27, 2004

Ms. Yasmin Ratansi, Member of Parliament for Don Valley East, had mistakenly praised Trudeau for making it possible for her to come to Canada.

Mulroney, not Trudeau, boosted immigration

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Ms. Ratansi should give credit where credit is due. It was not Trudeau, as she claims, who threw “Canada’s doors open to immigration from the Third World”, but Brian Mulroney. During the last year of the Trudeau government, Canada took in about 84,000 immigrants. In 1993, the last year of the Mulroney Conservative government, immigration levels reached an unheard of 256,000.

Prior to the Mulroney Conservatives coming to power, immigration levels were usually set by impartial bureaucrats based on a formula that took into account the needs of the country in terms of skills, the ability of the newcomers to start a new life here and the state of the economy.

Mulroney got rid of the bureaucrats that had served Canada and the immigrant community so well and created a new organization called The Immigration and Refugee Board and staffed it with political appointees with little or no knowledge or experience in immigration and refugee affairs and gave them a simple mandate: “increase immigration levels to make the Conservatives look good to the immigrant community”. That is how the doors were thrown wide open to the Third World.

Bernard Payeur, Ottawa