We Have to Question Immigration

...and the calibre of those we bring in...

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Immigration Watch Canada is an organization of Canadians who believe that immigration has to serve the interests of its own citizens. It cannot be turned into a social assistance / job-finding program for people from  other countries. It should never be a social engineering experiment that is conducted on Canada’s mainstream population in order to make it a minority. **

But immigration has become those 2 things.

Why? In particular, why has Canada’s 250,000 per year immigration intake remained in place for over 22 years?

The answer is that all of Canada’s major political parties have adopted the attitude that they know what is best for Canadians and that Canadians do not have to be consulted when major decisions are made.

These politicians imply that the primary purpose of immigration is to help people in other countries, whether this help is to protect them from persecution or from unemployment. These politicians claim that their position is morally superior, and that this is why they support current immigration policies.

1. Cost of Immigration to Canada (An Estimated Maximum Total of $23.6 Billion per year). That amounts to $64,657,000 per day.

$16,269,256,483.66 

(...and counting as of today...)

They have also pretended that these policies are in the interest of Canada. But, in reality, as most Canadians can see, the policies are intended solely to help each of the political parties get a share of the immigrant vote.

This shameless immigration betrayal of Canada and the promotion of political party  self-interest began in 1990 when one political party (the Progressive Conservatives) increased immigration levels to 250,000 per year. At the time they did this, they actually announced they were doing so in order to capture more of the immigrant vote.

 This may sound hard to believe because it is so brazen, but it is a fact. Since then, all other parties have adopted the same policy. All pretend that their actions are helping people in the rest of the world and that this immigration flood is  literally and figuratively enriching Canadian society.

2. Number of immigrants to Canada --- average of close to 250,000 per year for the past 20 years. That's 684 per day and 28 per hour.

172,111.09

(...and counting as of today...)

The reality is that it has obviously been destructive and senseless. Canada’s 250,000 per year  immigration intake since 1990 has been far too high. In fact, Canada’s intake is the highest per capita in the world.

What are some examples of the destruction and senselessness? Our high intake has had major negative economic consequences for Canadians who are looking for work. In fact, it has forced many of Canada’s own unemployed to compete with immigrants for a limited number of jobs and it has impoverished many Canadians .

3. Number of New Temporary Foreign Workers Allowed to Work in Canada : About 180,000 per year. That means an average of 493 enter Canada every day. In 2011, around 300,000 Temporary Foreign Workers (new ones + ones already here) worked in Canada.

124,050.96 

(...and counting as of today...)

Absurd as it may sound, some naive, employed Canadians have actually launched “Recognize Foreign Credentials”, “Cultural Diversity in the Workplace”, and  “Hire An Immigrant” campaigns to give immigrants that Canada never needed a hiring advantage over unemployed Canadian-born. And they smugly believe they should be given awards for throwing their own fellow citizens under the bus.

The destruction and senselessness  these naive Canadians (as well as those with sinister intentions) have created has caused many Canadians (especially those in Canada’s larger centres) to become very angry. These Canadians feel that this social engineering project has raised “Diversity” to the level of a national goal. They feel this amounts to the country being ethnically cleansed and re-colonized. Finally, they see with their own eyes that Canada’s high intake has also turned many areas of the country into crowded, grid-locked, environmental disasters-in-progress.

We repeat one basic question : Why Is Canada bringing in 250,000+ immigrants per year? Ottawa has never provided a logical answer to that question. In fact, it has pretended that current immigration is no different from past immigration. It has also  withheld vital information or tried to deceive Canadians by making false claims about the benefits of immigration.

4. Number of People Making Refugee Claims In Canada Every Year : An average of 30,000. That's an average of 82 per day.

20,681.56 
(...AND COUNTING AS OF TODAY...)

We believe Canada should have some immigration, but that immigration levels should be reduced to about 50,000, that is, to about 20% of the current annual 250,000 intake. We advocate that  the 50,000 intake level should be kept in place indefinitely to compensate for the immigration disaster that has occurred in the past 22 years.

We also advocate a significant reduction to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program which in 2011 allowed  another 300,000+ non-Canadians to work in Canada. The 300,000+ consists of about 180,000 to 200,000 new workers who entered Canada plus another 100,000 to 120,000 who were already here. This program is being widely abused by employers and should probably be reduced to nearly zero. In any recession (this past one and others), it is madness  for a country to be importing large numbers of immigrants as well as large numbers of Temporary Foreign Workers.

In addition to a reduction of Canada’s immigration intake to 50,000 per year and a dramatic cut to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program, we also call for major reform to many of Canada’s other immigration policies.  (See our Basics section for details.)

** For background on major immigration policy changes made in the 1960′s and 70′s, click on the following summaries of excellent research done by reporter Doug Collins in his book  “Immigration : The Destruction Of English Canada:"

http://www.immigrationwatchcanada.org/2011/11/10/nov-10-2011-for-remembrance-day-doug-collins-immigration-the-destruction-of-english-canada/

http://www.immigrationwatchcanada.org/2011/11/17/nov-17-2011-canadians-never-wanted-to-change-the-character-of-their-country/