We're not making this up
What's news there? No doubt hundreds of Asians and Latinos suffer the same fate annually but these were Portugese. A bit more like us
Anyways these lawbreakers got the full sympathy treatment about how they were finagled out of money by evil consultants suggesting they apply on refugee grounds
Hello! This is Portugese coming to Canada not vice versa. Unless their slow boat from Lisbon left before fascist Salazar died in 1970, Portugal's temperate climate, the land of sardines and sweet wine, is a go-to place
Our immigration ministry might help with a 'No Portugese' notice but I suspect 90% of their cases and hence trheir employment are built round no-hope cases
As a sidenote, I remember visiting post-war England and seeing signs in guest houses for 'No Blacks'. Rumour has it that the three year old Conrad Black saw the same on a trip to London. Even at that age he was amazingly self absorbed and did not realise it referred to our coloured brethren. This fuelled a srong desire to be accepted by the Brits, and a hang-the-consequences business ethic culminating in both a peerage and criminal charges.
Expect him to produce the race card at his forthcoming trial
Bit late to this one but as the Afghan invasion continues with us at the helm of operations and the forefront of casualties has anyone noticed that our great multi-cultural country is represented in the field exclusively by soldiers of a lilywhite complexion that reminds one of Oak Bay, Victoria circa 1950
Mind you after World War II, I can understand the reluctance of any citizens of Asian descent signing up. After their grandparents incarceration they are probably a bit wary of 'family fire'
It was an all-inclusive rendition featuring a beaming Sikh who looked suspiciously like the guy who got off in the Air India trial and ended with yours truly holding a pickaninny at arms length.
Many in the PMO have it running on constant loop and obviously the Tories checked it out as it got a knee-jerk reaction from Harper. He immediately promised to speed up the immigration process, which can take years, halve the $1,000 entry tax and make it easier for highly qualified professionals with foreign experience to start higher on the ladder
The Toronto Star weighed in with a piece about how we are fielding fewer ethnic candidates inthe GTA than other parties. To be honest I had always thought this was playing the immigration card. We are trying to get newcomers to have a fuilfilling life their family can be proud of. Encouraging them to become backbench cannon fodder hardly fits the bill. Well does it?
However, my crew got a bit rattled so we decided to dump the immigration tax completely and also promised to address the other issues - as we had planned to do before being forced into an election blah-blah-blah
To be honest this went against my better judgement, not only because it is one of Sheila Copps's hobby-horses. There will be one of two outcomes. Either there will be a rush of applications that will completely flood the ministry. Or Psychology 101/the Groucho rule will kick in and what is available to all will be less attractive to the elite
Whichever happens it wont change human nature. The next time Harper goes for his annual check up with his proctologist and a doctor with a third-class degree from Tripoli university reveals his probe I can predict his immediate reaction
Not In My Bum, Yasser
Count on it
