The new rules include: all future immigrants must speak either English or French; have at least two years of a post- secondary education; be under 45 years of age; the spouse and children of a person applying to immigrate must speak either language or that person must put up front the costs for their language training.
Immigrant rights organizations have denounced the proposals and called the public hearings on the new rules a sham. Protesters have been physically removed from the hearings.
All this from a government that says it has joined the war preparations against Iraq out of its alleged concern for protecting the peoples of the region from tyrants.
The tyrants are at home.
Al Cappe
Toronto, Ontario
A pernicious quote
Who said the following? "There must be some point in the
elevation of the ex-slave, when he takes the rank of mere
citizen, and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws,
and when his rights as a citizen, or a man, are to be
protected in the ordinary modes by which other men's rights
are protected." If you said a present-day conservative arguing
against affirmative action, you're wrong. In fact, it was said
by a right-wing Supreme Court Justice during a 1883 case.
Although reactionaries die, their pernicious ideas survive!
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Croton, New York
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