Share Guest blogger: Steven Meurrens (辛湉王) is an Immigration Associate at Larlee Rosenberg. To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB] Wealthy Chinese people looking to immigrate to Canada with their families have hopefully by now heard that the Canadian government has announced that it will temporarily no [...]
Share Latest release from Statistics Canada: The visible minority population of the census metropolitan area (CMA) of Vancouver could more than double from 910,000 in 2006 to just over 2 million by 2031, according to new population projections. The main factor would be immigration, as well as fertility. During the same period, the rest of [...]
Share Finally, this is coming. If the funding cuts to pride parades aren’t first sight of anti-gay attitude of the Harper government, this one definitely is. Well, I have to applaud to the Tories. They have the patience to wait for 4+ years to let this deep rooted sentiment slowly slip out. Applaud to Kenney [...]
Share This is a very important debate. Really want to hear from the readers on this. BTW, should Kenney change his title to “minister responsible for pluralism”? Any alarm here? In short: So … what’s the difference? Multiculturalism: The term is strictly for immigrants – it does not include Canada’s English or French founding cultures [...]
Share Very interesting article from the Asia Pacific Post. What does this poll means? It means we are still the best-loved destination for international migration. Asians have the least desire to migrate About 45 million people would like to move to Canada and make a new life here, a global poll on migration desires showed. [...]
Nov 13 2009 | Posted in
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Share Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB]. A recent book against Asian immigrants published by the right-wing research organization, the Fraser Institute, has raised concerns among the general public, to such a point that federal [...]
Share Auditor general Sheila Fraser opened fire against the gov’s immigration reform today (full OAG report). While CIC has said that it has cleared 30% of backlog within a year, Fraser says the drop was only 6.5%. Whose accounting should we trust? Reforms to fast track skilled immigrants a bust so far: auditor general THE [...]
Nov 3 2009 | Posted in
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Share Interesting…. so people of the three major immigrant-taking western countries don’t even want to have LEGAL immigrants? If the majority of immigrants coming to Canada are from Europe instead of Asia, do you think the public opinion towards immigration in general will lean to the opposite? Just like what the poster above indicates in [...]
Share Immigration lawyer David Cohen is reporting that CIC is undergoing a pilot project in which children of temporary foreign workers in Alberta (guess why) and Ontario can now apply for work permits. Looks like our government is determined to expand the temp work permit system. Full article. Children of Temporary Foreign Workers in Alberta [...]
Aug 8 2009 | Posted in
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Share Just found this very interesting analysis into why British MP Galloway is banned from entering Canada. According to Global Research, there’s much more behind mere “security measures” claimed by CIC minister Jason Kenney. British MP George Galloway barred from Canada under the Canada Israel “Public Security” Agreement by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, March 26, [...]
Mar 27 2009 | Posted in
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