{"id":113,"date":"2015-03-11T02:32:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T02:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2015-03-11T02:32:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T02:32:51","slug":"if-immigrants-were-screened-more-carefully-we-wouldnt-blow-1-billion-per-year-on-immigrant-settlement-programmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"If Immigrants Were Screened More Carefully, We Wouldn’t Blow $1-billion Per Year on “Immigrant Settlement” Programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If Immigrants Were Screened More Carefully, We Wouldn’t Blow $1-billion Per Year on “Immigrant Settlement” Programmes<\/b><\/span>
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A note which appears to have been prepared for\u00a0Costas Menegakis, the parliamentary secretary for immigration<\/b>, says the party\u2019s base will learn as a result that the government spends close to\u00a0$1-billion a year<\/b>\u00a0on those efforts.”<\/span>
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$1 billion dollars spent on the needs of Canadian citizens would surely eliminate poverty in Canada for those born and raised in our country.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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Unfortunately, our government would rather spend money on\u00a0new arrivals, refugees, those who cannot speak one of our official languages and those who have never paid a dime of tax money to our government<\/b>:<\/span><\/div>\n
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Tories worried about base finding out how much they spend helping immigrants<\/span><\/h1>\n
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OTTAWA\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Canadian Press<\/span><\/p>\n

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A note which appears to have been prepared for Costas Menegakis, the parliamentary secretary for immigration, says the party\u2019s base will learn as a result that the government spends close to $1-billion a year on those efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The note says the other risk of undertaking such a study is that the government\u2019s relationship with Quebec may surface as an issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

And while the study only began last month and the committee has only just started hearing from witnesses, the briefing note also lays out five recommendations for the eventual report.<\/span><\/p>\n

A copy of the note was obtained by The Canadian Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

Menegakis\u2019 office declined to comment specifically on the note\u2019s contents.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCommittee members are masters of their own proceedings,\u201d said an e-mailed statement. \u201cAs always, we look forward to hearing testimony from all witnesses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberal MP John McCallum, who sits on the committee, called it \u201cchilling\u201d to see the reference to the party\u2019s base in the document.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s as if they are concerned their own supporters would be aghast at the idea of spending money to help settle immigrants,\u201d McCallum said in an interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good not only for the immigrants, it\u2019s good for the country if the newcomers settle quickly and work and not be receiving welfare and become productive Canadians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Conservatives credit much of their electoral success in recent years to the inroads the party has made among new Canadians. They\u2019ve also massively overhauled the immigration system which they\u2019ve said is partially motivated by concerns raised from within the newcomer community.<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of the overhaul has been shifting the focus to so-called economic class immigrants, those coming to Canada for work purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The briefing note suggests, among other things, that employers ought to be more engaged in the settlement process.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s clear what those witnesses say doesn\u2019t matter, said Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe, the NDP\u2019s immigration critic and also a member of the committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey already have their lines, and whatever the witnesses are bringing to the table, they already want to go forward with certain things,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not my view about what should be the work of a committee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The committee is scheduled to meet Tuesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Immigrants Were Screened More Carefully, We Wouldn’t Blow $1-billion Per Year on “Immigrant Settlement” Programmes \u00a0 \u00a0 A note which appears to have been prepared for\u00a0Costas Menegakis, the parliamentary secretary for immigration, says the party\u2019s base will learn as a result that the government spends close to\u00a0$1-billion a year\u00a0on those efforts.” \u00a0 $1 billion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}