Where's The Plan?
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
As you've been told endlessly over the past 24 hours, Canada's growth since 2001 has been almost entirely counted on the heads of immigrants. A drive through the 905 and down the DVP could tell you much more than Statistics Canada. Successive governements have used immigration as a way to stock our skills and entreprenurial shelves. And for the Liberals it's been a way to keep the party in power. All's fair in the political game but has anybody thought this through?
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Aside from our laughable and corrupt refugee system, for the most part we have in place a good system that is meant to attract people who can help build Canada. We can only hope that, once here, ethnic hatred and divisions are left at the border. Fundamentalism has no place in Canada. Neither do cultural practices that make women secondary citizens or scorn traditions and laws we all cherish. We are a secular society where women have the right to choose, sexual preferences are protected by the Charter and tribalism is considered unenlightened.
If, as Stats Canada predicts, 100% of Canada's growth will depend on immigration by 2030 we had better make sure we are attracting people who are determined to want to belong and build on our strengths. We don't want criminals. We don't want people who hate our way of life and are bent on returning to the Dark Ages. We don't want grandmother and grandfather. We don't want the unskilled who refuse training. We don't want the creation of victim ghettos...
