Canada can pick the desired countries for immigrants, it doesn't have to treat them all the same or local lobby groups. We want immigrants who plant to stay and not be citizens of convenience. So they must stay in the country for five years. So we ought to be picking individuals over families, and no grandparents as they eat up pension money like OAS and GIS. Plus, cut immigration by 75% during this economic slowdown.
Immigrants to Canada live in subsidized housing
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Canada can pick the desired countries for immigrants, it doesn't have to treat them all the same or local lobby groups. We want immigrants who plant to stay and not be citizens of convenience. So they must stay in the country for five years. So we ought to be picking individuals over families, and no grandparents as they eat up pension money like OAS and GIS. Plus, cut immigration by 75% during this economic slowdown.
The country is taking in 250 000 immigrants per year, plus permit workers, plus refugees. Cut them all.
In the old days immigration was cut during recessions, now, due to political multicultural reasons, it is not. So it creates an underclass as jobs are harder to get and immigants suffer most because they lack the connections and language skills to succeed. Not to mention driving down the cost of labour. Is that what you want?
What good did it do? It was thinking like yours that put a couple of my great uncles into a concentration camp in Manitoba. What good did that do?
The Family reunification program should be abolished. There is no need for it and it is just a drain on our social system, the old folks do not pay into it at all but get all the benefits. Besides, anyone who can't live here without their parents, should stay in there own country.
Here is an example of what goes on;
Parents from Philippines may qualify for OAS
By Allan Thompson, the Star
Q: My husband and I sponsored my parents last year to come to Canada under the family reunification process. My parents want to apply for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), but as part of the sponsorship agreement my husband and I said we would make a 10-year commitment to the Canadian government to support my parents. Would my husband and I be penalized or chased after by the Canadian government for return of OAS/GIS benefits? My father thinks that these are benefits accorded to all legal residents. I must add that Canada has a standing Social Security agreement with our home country, Philippines. This issue is causing some division between my parents and me and so I would like some clarity on this issue. All the government websites (such as Service Canada and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada) are vague on this issue. What I am trying to avoid is the government approving them upon application and then clawing the benefits back after a reassessment.
A: The Old Age Security pension is a monthly benefit that is available on application to most Canadians who are 65 or over. Old Age Security recipients still pay federal and provincial income tax and those with higher incomes will end up repaying part or all of their benefit through taxes. Typically, the OAS pension can be paid to eligible people who are 65 years of age and have at least 10 years of residence in Canada after age 18. And it is payable regardless of whether someone is under a sponsorship agreement or not. And you are right, under the terms of an International Social Security Agreement — and one of those exists between Canada and the Philippines — someone with less than 10 years of residence in Canada and who has been sponsored is eligible for the OAS pension. But those who have been sponsored are not eligible for the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) until they have 10 years of residence in Canada and the sponsorship undertaking has expired. (The GIS is a monthly benefit paid to eligible residents of Canada who receive a basic, full or partial OAS pension and who have little or no other income.) For more information on individual cases, you can contact Service Canada at 1-800-277-9914.
It kept them off the streets and gave them food and water. It could have worst, they could have been sent back home and gotten no shelter, food or water!!
Philippinos make great immigrants. They also do a great job in senior citizen homes and in our hospitals. Careing for people seems to be an excellent trait of the Phillips..
I'm not sure what the Muslims from the middle east are good for??? Maybe someone can enlighten me!!
If you're going to slam immigrants, at least spell some of the ethnicities properly, it makes you look like a Canadian moron.
Follow after me.
F I L I P I N O
Follow after me.
F I L I P I N O
Sorry about the mis-spelling!!
I am not slamming immigrants, maybe you should learn to read if your going to respond to my Posts!!
On one line Filipipinos are praised the next they are blood sucking vultures trying to get OAS. Did you know they can collect their pension from home and only get a top up if it's less than OAS? How much cash flows into Canada from all these offshore pensions being paid to immigrant citizens?
Top up??? Absolutly not true. Get your facts straight....eh!!!
Hahaha, money flows in from others pensions,,,,hahaha,,, yeah, like pennies compared to what we pay out under Family Reunification,,,again, get your facts straight before you start flapping your lips,,,,errrr fingers!!!
Absolutly not true? I'm sure you've heard about immigrants being allowd to collect their pensions from offshore before?
I supposed you think it's rotten for Canadians to retire in the sunshine and collect pensions?
Infosheet on the Agreement on Social Security between Canada and the Philippines
I supposed you think it's rotten for Canadians to retire in the sunshine and collect pensions?
Infosheet on the Agreement on Social Security between Canada and the Philippines
It's an estimate...it's not like there was an Americas-wide census or anything. Though a pre-Columbian population of 100 million in the Americas is on the high end of estimates.
It is on the BS side of estimates. And speaking of estimates, who estimated that ridiculous nonsense?
Provide WRITTEN historical records.
I know you will be more than capable of providing hysterical records. Just what we expect and get from liberals.
My forefathers(mothers) are Cherokee. Matriarchal society. In simple terms that means the women rule the roost. Far as I know they never had much problem with famines until the white man came along. Not a lot of disease either until the same group of unwashed spread their filth and whatever they caught from screwing banyard animals. Goes for other countries as well. Ireland had a famine that was a direct product of the English masters putting down a revolution by starvation.
Sure, Chief!
You claim land 5 times more than you ever owned.
When you treasure babbles and booze more than your land, expect to get hosed.