Here in Alberta most Tim Horton’s claim a severe worker shortage. Yet, all they are offering is weekend shifts. No wage is even mentioned.
Lots of effort on the part of this ” manager”.
Paris is battered and scarred, Brussels in its third day of lockdown, a Russian passenger jet was blown up by ISIS in Egypt. And Justin Trudeau STILL wants to bring 25,000 Syrians here. It takes CSIS 6 months to vet a Canadian civil servant for security clearance — with all the information they already have on him or her. And yet they are going to vet 25,000 foreigners from a failed state,with few reliable records. Has Justin Trudeau’s hairblower fried his brain? Or does he want to add to the destruction of the Traditional Canada started by his father?
With Open Gates: The forced collective suicide of European nations
To the Right Honorable Justin Trudeau,
Members of Parliament,
Provincial Premiers
Subject: Will We Learn Nothing >From Paris?
I am a proud Canadian, and proud of our heritage of being a true global leader in Humanitarian efforts. Given the events of recent years and more importantly the recent week, however, I believe prudence requires a pause in our assistance package for Syrian refugees, and indeed all refugees and asylum seekers. I say this not in a tone of political partisanship, but one of Citizenship. Any Parliament, be it Liberal, Conservative, or NDP has as its first mandate the protection of our country and its citizens. This must take precedence over all other considerations and activities.
As a Retired Firefighter/Fire Officer of the City of Calgary, I have an experience I believe is timely and valuable. In my final assignment at the end of my career, I asked for and received a transfer to work on the Airport Crash Rescue Unit at the Calgary International Airport. A requirement for all staff working at the Airport is to undergo a police background check. In between the time the background check is initiated, and the time it is competed, an employee must be accompanied by another employee who has the appropriate screening and credentials. I can’t remember precisely how long it took for the RCMP to conduct my check, but it was several months. Bear in mind that this is for a person who was born in Calgary; completed primary, secondary and post-secondary education in Calgary/Lethbridge; had passed a security clearance to gain employment as a Calgary Firefighter, and had worked in this civic institution for 18 years at the time. I had also been vetted by the Provincial Government’s Lieutenant Governor Norman (Normie) Kwong to sit as a long-term member of the Alberta Labour Relations Board. In short, it would not be difficult to find information on me. I was also required to be finger printed as part of the process.
When the day arrived and I was notified that I had passed the security clearance, I was escorted to the terminal building by a colleague to pick up my coveted airport pass. While in the waiting room, I met and visited with what seemed to be a very nice man of Arab descent, who if memory served was from Jordan. During our discussion, he indicated that his pass had only taken two weeks to get, as opposed to the months mine had taken. He left after receiving his pass, and so when my turn came I asked the RCMP Sargent why on earth it would take so long for me to acquire a clearance when this person who indicated he was a recent arrival to Canada received his in two weeks or less. The answer I received haunts me to this day.
The answer: “We can’t really do that much of a search on these people. They often arrive without even a passport or Birth Certificate, and unless they appear on an INTERPOL watch list, we generally let them pass. Often the police departments from these fractured countries are unable or unwilling to provide information or detailed data, and we simply have to go with what we can learn. We also make sure they have no criminal record while in Canada, which for many of these folks is a very short period of time”…….or words to that effect.
In the couple of years I spent at the airport, I never stopped thinking about that. These people were everywhere: loading aircraft luggage, cleaning the airport with access to virtually all areas right up to the jet ways, acting as security guards and everything in between. It was then and there that I realized that the issue of security was truly an illusion in our country. I do not say these things lightly. I represented Calgary and its 1500 members as the President of the Calgary Firefighter’s Association in New York in 2002 at the 911 Memorial which was attended by 77,000 firefighters from all over the world. The hole at ground zero was still a testament a year later as to the impact of what can happen when a country lets its guard down.
So my questions to the Current Government and to the two opposition parties, and to our provincial leaders, in light of the recent events in France are:
1. “Who are the refugees”? How can you possibly screen 25,000 people adequately in such a short period of time to ensure that none of these people pose a threat to me and my country?
2. What specific process(es) is/are engaged to determine the identity of who these people are?
3. What agency is tasked with performing the background checks, and has the capacity to conduct appropriate checks on what amounts mathematically to about 800 people per day if they are all to arrive by Christmas. I note that in the U.S.A., the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson admitted that “we don’t know a whole lot about these people” and that we have “no real protocol for screening refugees” – My guess and fear is if they can’t do it between the DHS, FBI, and CIA, there is no reasonable hope that Canada can possibly have any credible system. I believe Canadian citizens are entitled to know this. I would commend to you the words of Governor Greg Abbot of Texas who today said: “Given the tragic attacks in Paris and the threats we have already seen, Texas cannot participate in any program that will result in Syrian refugees — any one of whom could be connected to terrorism — being resettled in Texas.” That seems like a very reasoned approach at the moment.
4. Bill C-45 (2003), which became an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada after the Westray Mine accident, allowed the courts to find officers of corporations criminally negligent if their actions either willfully or by gross negligence contribute to the preventable death of an employee. Does this legislation reach to the political elite if, in the future, an innocent citizen is harmed or killed by a refugee because the sitting government failed to properly screen them? If not, we need to amend it. As I read the Act, Clause 1(1) extends the reach of Bill C-45 to “all organizations”…..which I assume includes political parties. Would you concur with this view?
5. What is the projected, long-term cost per refugee and what current, existing benefits will suffer because of this for existing citizens?
6. What is the demographic make-up of the refugees being allowed into the country? What percentage are women, children, married men accompanying a family, and single men?
7. Will refugees be required to undergo a polygraph test, be finger printed, and be drug tested as is required of several types of employment for Canadian Citizens such as the Calgary Fire Department?
8. Will Refugees be screened for infectious diseases including TB, HIV, hepatitis, leishmaniosis, meningitis, and the host of other physiological problems which have been identified with these disadvantaged people?
9. Why are neighboring, wealthy countries of Syria with similar cultures such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait not accepting ANY refugees?
10. There are reportedly 19 million refugees globally from places as diverse as Libya to Myanmar. Are we to take them all? In the case of Syria, is it not better to spend our money pushing for a UN peacekeeping force to be deployed and contributing our resources in that fashion so that these people can have the opportunity to stay put and rebuild their own country? How we managed the war in Cyprus comes to mind. Is that not the road we should be following instead of pretending that we are blind to what the USA and Russia are doing there?
11. Terror attacks appear to be occurring in random places with high civilian populations with little if any police or military presence. I have never been that concerned with gun restrictions, however like our brothers and sisters in France, we Canadians live a country with severe gun restrictions. Can you comment on how Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms squares with my inability to carry or possess (without significant restrictions) a weapon for self-defence? Put another way, how can I possibly have the right to Security of Person where I don’t have a reasonable ability of self defense? Do you intend on travelling anywhere (inside or outside of the country) without armed guards? While you will no doubt have me look to the south (USA) for reasons not to re-consider this, I would point you east, to Switzerland, which is one of the most heavily armed, yet peaceful nations on earth.
In all of this, I am not suggesting that as a nation we turn a blind eye to those in need. We do have an enviable reputation in the world that each of us is proud of. Having said that, we unfortunately live in an ever-changing world. For all of the forgoing reasons, I would ask that the sitting government halt the refugee program until it can be demonstrated to all Canadians that every single refugee being allowed access to our country, and being offered benefits that most of us have worked a lifetime to fund, have been thoroughly vetted. I would also argue that it is time to re-open the debate on gun legislation from a constitutional perspective. We don’t have a “second amendment” as our U.S. brothers, but without the right to meaningful self-protection, the Canadian Charter guarantee of “Security of Person” is starting to ring very hollow.
In closing, are we going to learn anything from Paris? While social media is replete with people stating “we are Paris”, my suggestion is we make immediate alterations to the issues noted above, before that Facebook slogan changes from an echo of support to a prophesy.
Respectfully,
D. S. (Scott) Wilcox
Cold Lake, Alberta
VUnlimited Compassion Is Not Sustainable
Frederick Fromm’s photo.
Canadian Green Party Leader Elizabeth May — Utterly Muddled: Wants to Save the Environment but Bring in Hordes of Environment Stressing Immigrants.
Has a Green Party leader in any country in the world ever met an asylum-seeker, refugee or migrant that he or she wouldn’t accept? Or one who shouldn’t be waved in without sufficient screening?
Is there a Green Party somewhere out there that doesn’t want their nation to be a welcome wagon for untold millions or tens of millions?
Is there a Green Party alive today whose primary focus is not “social justice” dressed up in trendy shibboleths about ‘renewable’ energy and ‘sustainability’, a word they have helped to debase and render meaningless?
Is there a Green Party in some distant galaxy that realizes that there is no social justice on a dead planet and that nature is indifferent to our social and political arrangements?
Is there a Green Party that understands that first and foremost migration must be treated as an ecological issue and not one of ‘human rights’ ? Or that the rights of people indigenous to a nation trump the ‘rights’ of migrants who aspire to reach it?
Do Greens—in any country—understand limits? Financial limits? Population limits? Limits to our cultural, economic and ecological carrying capacity? Limits to growth? Limits to the number of euphemisms they use to re-brand economic growth as ‘smart’ growth, ‘managed’ growth, “sustainable’ growth, or ‘sustainable development’, a phrase that Garrett Hardin said merely allowed us a moratorium on thinking’? Euphemisms which have yet to fool Mother Nature? Is there any limit to their ignorance about the Laws of Sustainability? These people scare the pants off me.
There are some unmentionable questions beneath all of this. Questions that would strike at the premise of all the hand-wringing and moral upmanship about ‘boat people’, ‘asylum-seekers’ or ‘refugees’, as we call them here. Those questions are, “Why do we have a moral obligation to accept them?” And “What of our moral obligations to our own people and our own land?”
Before purchasing a car or a television set or a sofa or a house, the prudent consumer conducts an audit of his financial resources. And if he must rely on a loan, the bank will certainly conduct one. So why are we—Canadians, Australians, Americans, French, British, Europeans—even talking about accepting more asylum-seekers when we haven’t even determined what our carrying capacity is or developed a Population Plan for our country?
There are lots of dogs that I would like to adopt from the local SPCA—dogs that need and deserve a good home—but I can’t accommodate them or pay for their upkeep. To retain the capability to remain compassionate and caring to my own animals, I must remain callous to the plight of those poor animals who languish in the animal shelter. Yes, refugees are human beings. But so are the people here who depend on food banks, who are homeless and unemployed. So are the roughly 35,000 Canadians orphans who wait in vain for placement in good homes. So are the 20% of Canadian kids living below the poverty line. So are the aboriginal youth who suffer an unemployment rate of 75-80% on the reserves. Yet refugee claimants in Canada get better medical treatment than many Canadians (eg. vision and dental care) and receive affordable housing. We find the money for them, but we haven’t got it for the Canadians I mention. What kind of “compassion” is this?
The backbone of the pro-refugee lobby here consists of Christian denominations. They should check out 1st Timothy 5:8 in their own Bible. “He who does not first attend to the needs of his own family is no better than a heathen.” Ironically, the leader of Canada’s Green Party, Elizabeth May, aspires to be an ordained Minister of the United Church of Canada. Obviously she is as ignorant of scripture as the rest of the human rights coalition, which includes “No One Is Illegal”, a Marxist group that attempts to shout down any politician who would propose limits to refugee and immigrant intakes and services. It is puzzling that a political party that was formed to make “the environment” its focus, should attempt–the world over—to duplicate the role of centre-left parties, whose commitment to the environment is mere window-dressing. The word “Green” is the biggest marketing scam yet contrived. Slap that label on any product on a supermarket shelf and it is purchased without scrutiny. If it says its “Green” it must be Green. If a political party says that it is “Green”, then it must be Green. Who reads the fine print anyway?
Too often we have yielded the ethical “high-ground” to our opponents without a fight. We have not challenged their assumptions and assertions. The truth is, they do not occupy the moral high-ground. Their concept of “compassion” is based on the assumption of persistent abundance. For them, there are no opportunity costs, no trade-offs or hard choices to be made. Instead, we must “fight the cuts”. The concept that austerity can be ultimately imposed by geological constraints is beyond their understanding. Their core belief is that there is enough to go around, if only we would “share” our bounty equitably. A bounty, as we know, that is based on a one-time bonanza of fossil fuels, metals and minerals that are finite and whose full exploitation would propel us into a Venusian nightmare—- if not cut short by nuclear, biological and chemical war occasioned by resource conflicts.
Compassion is a luxury of surplus. Scarcity makes it a zero-sum game. “Looking after one’s own first” is a bedrock moral imperative, an ethical principle that we see at work in times of tribulation, like war. My uncle served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the war, and “Lifeboat Ethics” was built right into their action protocol. When men jumped from their burning merchant ships, the corvettes had only minutes to recover them, because the priority was to find and destroy the U-Boats that would sink other ships and cause greater losses. And if they themselves were hit, the bulkhead hatches remained closed, even though there were men trapped behind them as the sea water rose up to drown them. As my uncle told me, for the sake of the ship, “You listened to their screams and you did nothing.”
Those are ethics of scarcity. Triage ethics. Lifeboat ethics—where the survival of the ship is more important than the survival of the passengers or crew. Ethics which the likes of Pope Francis or would-be United Church Minister Elizabeth May will not acknowledge or entertain. Her slogan, the slogan of the newly minted “Leap Manifesto”, is that we must “Care for the Earth and Care for Each Other”. All 7.3 billion of us, apparently. All 35 million Canadians too, even though one could name several prominent Canadian scientists who have argued that Canada is in population overshoot by at least a factor of two. Oh, I forgot, we can accommodate zillions if only we lived simply and cut back our per capita “footprint”. Just imagine, a Canada of 350 million Lilliputians living carbon-free, with the gate left wide open to those tens of millions who would join us. But then, if drove our per capita consumption down far enough, none would want to join us. In other words, we can put an end to ‘Failed State Colonization’ by becoming another ‘Failed State’. Is that the end game? Sure looks like it, doesn’t it?
When are we going to close the hatches on HMCS Canada, HMAS Australia, HMS United Kingdom, USS America, and the listing ship “Europe”? When our population, already in overshoot, doubles? How do we know that the people we are now taking on board will not meet a fate not too unlike the one they escaped from? How do we know that they will not be straw that broke the camel’s back here?
Humanitarian policies that are bought with an ecological or economic credit card are not sustainable.
Tim Murray
“Although a political party preaching environmental sustainability should advocate stringent immigration restrictions (with only in very exceptional circumstances immigration being permitted), this is not the case with the Green Party (of England), its standpoint is quite the opposite. The way that the ‘Greens’ reconcile this is by claiming that our ‘First World’ lifestyles are themselves unsustainable and that if we were all to adopt a subsistence-level standard of living, then Britain – or even just England – could accommodate and support many millions more people. Aside from the difficulty of trying to convince many of the electorate to think likewise, I have yet to met any ‘Greens’ who are themselves willing to make such sacrifices. If they were, they wouldn’t be blogging about it on the net, as they wouldn’t have the hardware, let alone the power supply to go on-line. Only those who have never experienced such subsistence-level living would consider it to be desirable.” (From “View from the Centre for a secular and integrated society” https://secularvegan.wordpress.com/category/immigration
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“Retain the power of speech no matter what other power you may lose… Do what you will, but speak out always. Beshunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but don’t be gagged. The time of trial is always. Now is the appointed time”
John Jay Chapman – 1900
“Candour before tact, honesty before diplomacy.”
Tim Murray – 2006
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After the Illegals Left the Budapest Railway Station
> Budapešť, spoušť po migrantech.
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> Prostě sežrat, vybydlet a o dům dál
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> Spací pytle, stany, hračky, školní brašny, deky, jídlo,
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> dárky od neziskovek nechali na místě, přeci dostaneme další
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> Úklid? Co to je?
PORT CREDIT. September 12, 2015. Immigration reformers hit several neighbourhoods in Brampton and Mississauga today with flyers hammering the unfairness to Canadians of the Temporary Foreign Workers’ Programme and the politically correct notion of “diversity.”
