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C-50 Immigration Bill passes with help from Liberals
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by Barry Artiste | June 9, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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With the help of absent 80 Liberal Members of Parliament during a vote to limit immigration to those who have skills Canada needs, the Conservative Governments Bill C-50 passed into law.
The absence of 80 liberal members of parliament speaks volumes against their Liberal Leader Stephane Dion who was opposed to the bill. An Immigration Bill which restricts immigrants to this country to only those immigrants Canada deems to have marketable skills and also limits an immigrant sponsoring relatives with no skills (Except their own children) or elderly relatives which can drain an already stretched to the limit Health Care system and other Social benefits Canadians rely on.
Canadian Social services are being constantly reduced or eliminated because of lack of money. Bringing in New Immigrants with English and French language and Career Skills Canada sorely needs will allow these new immigrants to start work day one, pay taxes and contribute to the Canadian economy.
With 80 liberals convieniently absent from todays vote, certainly shows the Liberals agree with the Conservatives, regardless what their Liberal Leader wants.
A Bad day for Politicians who only rely on the immigrant vote to get elected.
A Bad day to those immigration lawyers and immigration consultants (who seem to be on every street corner) who constantly screw over immigrants with promises of a Ticket to Canada, regardless of their standing, knowing full well in advance these immigrants do not qualify, but take their hard earned money anyway.
A qualified immigrant does not any of the above services to get into this country plain and simple. Immigration have a Website for those immigrants to fill out without the assistance of those who would gladly take their money to do the same thing.
A good day for Canada and a good day for the long list of Immigrants who wish to contribute to the Canadian economy on "Day One" and want a better life for themselves and their immediate family.
Many forget Immigrants ancestors built the 7 Wonders of the World, those are Construction, Engineering and Medical Skills Canada needs.
OTTAWA -- With just a handful of Liberal MPs in the House of Commons, the third and final vote on the Conservative government's budget legislation easily passed Monday evening by a tally of 121-95.
The budget legislation, known as Bill C-50, was a confidence matter and, had the government lost the vote, Prime Minister Stephen Harper would have been obliged to ask the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call a general election.
C-50 also contains a controversial component to reform Canada's immigration system.
The bill changes Canadian immigration law to give the federal minister of citizenship and immigration new powers to fast-track certain groups of potential immigrants. The government has said this provision is required to help reduce the backlog of 925,000 permanent-residents applications.
Opponents of the bill say the new powers are too vague and will be open to political abuse.
The NDP and Bloc Québécois wanted to force an election on the issue and were upset that nearly 80 Liberal MPs were absent from the House during the vote. The vote on Bill C-50 was the last, best chance to force an election before the House rises for its summer recess which it will do before June 20. NDP and Bloc Québécois MPs were angry at the Liberals for letting that opportunity slip away. The bill passed with 120 Conservative MPs voting in favour and 90 Liberal, Bloc, and NDP MPs voting against.
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at 01:56 on June 10th, 2008
I talked to Canada about immigrating about 30 years ago, before I went to college, and they told me to take a hike. They've missed out on taxing the millions I've made since and on not paying my medical bills, since I'm rarely ill and don't like to see doctors. I say fine, let them club they're own damn baby seals.
at 05:54 on June 10th, 2008
Thanks for the comment Steele, 30 years ago was a different time, a Liberal time. Of course who can say about today
at 03:12 on June 10th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:52 on June 10th, 2008
Thanks Dave, for the comment and the GS flag it's much appreciated
at 09:27 on June 10th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I think the Liberals have it pretty SWEET! Think about it....they get paid the same as MP's who work but they don't really have to do anything. They don't have to show up to vote in favour of legislation; they don't have to show up to oppose any legislation and since they never vote they don't even have to do research because they wont be taking any position at all. Hell any better than that and they will have to get appointed to the Senate!
at 14:11 on June 10th, 2008
Hey I'll do ya one better, why have liberals at all, when they sit at home as MPs, and when in the Senate don't show up at all, except to collect their cheques. Thanks for the comments EastVan
at 15:01 on November 17th, 2008
I think that your negative comments about immigration consultants is unfair. Yes, the government does have a website, and in a perfect world it would be possible for an applicant to do the application on their own (and many do). However, the process is complicated and involves many tricky components. People get their incomplete applications sent back all the time.
Also, immigration consultants are not all bad people who want to rob people of their money. Many do an initial assessment and only help those people who they think they can. As well, some provide a money-back guarantee.
Your comment about immigration consultants is along the same lines as saying that all Muslims are terrorists. Indescrimintate name-calling is not good for anyone.
at 13:13 on December 25th, 2008
Lily, it may seem like I am name calling, but I assure you I do not think all immigration consultants are all bad, just as all lawyers are not all bad, or Muslims or people who ramble their comments on my story.
It is just the ones in the immigrants mother countries who love to screw desperate people out of their life savings. I am never one for name calling. As for tricky components, there is a reason for this. But it is certainly not a complicated process, unless one does not speak either of our official languages, then yes, it is complicated. Just imagine not speaking either of our official languages as many do, and some after Canadian taxpayer sponsored language courses still cannot speak it adequately enough to hold down a job, yet pass an interview, with many ESL teachers having to help or completely fill out the immigrants job applications and resume, giving a prospective employer this applicant has a working knowledge of our language only to find out later they could not even fill out the damn application, but needed help. By then some employers find themselves to recipients of a discrimination lawsuit cause they let that person go, when in fact it had nothing to do with discrimination, but their inability to speak our language. It happens all the time!
As your assessment to comment that all Muslims are Terrorists, you stated this, not I. No where in my op/ed piece does it say this anywhere. You must be a Libby Davey supporter I guess.
at 12:14 on December 21st, 2008
I'm simply amazed at the hypocrisy of NDP, Liberal and Green party-types, who--claiming to be pro-environment--push for mass immigration. The staggering urban sprawl problem is caused by the intake of over a quarter million immigrants a year, period. No amount of fanciful New Urbanist planning will arrest the loss of farmland and greenspace caused by a bulging population, mostly fuelled by immigration. Aside from ethno lobbies (like Olivia Chow's constituents), the real push for mass immigration comes from Canada's powerful housing and development industry. All of this talk of addressing labour shortages and the pension system are bogus. Canada needs a hard cap on immigration and population, like proposed in the UK.
We can't be a safety valve for the developing world. Countries like India and Pakistan need to adopt responsible population-control policies and not offload their population surplus on North America. The environmental movement also needs to get a spine--not like the Sierra Club, who accepted over U.S.$100M (from David Gelbaum), to NOT discuss immigration. Aside from the sprawl problem, we have immigrants unable to function in either of our official languages, gangs (e.g., the aptly-named Fresh Off The Boat Killers), hitherto unknown social ills like honour killings, clitorectomies, and khat and doda addicts.
What we need IS an uncensored debate on immigration.
Adam C. Sieracki
at 12:55 on December 25th, 2008
You're my bestest pal Adam!