Politicians_r_clowns

If you having nothing to contribute to my post but sarcastic remarks to someone else's intelligent response, please stay off. Who's smurfing? I came on this board because I'm frusturated with British Columbia bearing the brunt of this country's immigration policy, it may not be a serious issue to you, but it is for alot of working people, so if your not from B.C. would you please politely bud out. thank you.

No this is not racism, it has nothing to due with rascism, there is a general consenus in this Province that immigration is out of hand, if people start voting on racial lines, then maby that tells you something about the route were going. Plus, if a community develops strongly negative pre-conceptions about another community, its not, lack of having an open mind, ignorance or being short sighted, there is usually some strong validity to it. I have a wide range of eclectic friends, and they agree with me, they know what the deal is, and what's going on, they may not be caucasion but thier grounded in reality. This is no time to be an idealist dreamer, there are people coming here with masters degrees cleaning toilets at Subway, I'm a working class white male, I recognize I've attianed my status through economic hegemony, and I'm not going to give it up by becoming a minority Outside of the odd diehard, I don't know any workng class caucasions that vote NDP anymore, simply because they don't have anything to offer us. times have changed. Two more things, the last consensus in Richmond showed the Chinese population at 64% not 30%, and no we don't need more immigration to support are tax base, it actually contributes a nominal effect, a tax cut works much better.

I don't think you have to apologize for your comments Alliance Fanatic, I don't view them as rascist, they actually reflect the feelings of many working class caucasions in B.C. Balkanization, as you call it, is an issue out here, a major issue. Its not something that's being whipped up out of our exnophobic heads, its simply a hard reality, there is corruption and there is block voting. Its no suprise that Uijal Dosanjh is now running for the Liberals, its been well documented by the media, as to the tactics he employed to ensure his nomination as Glen Clark's successor. This being said, the christian right has played the same game as well, (ie Val Merdith), the only difference is that they are a substantial minority, who are not going to put me in minority status within the next 20 years. I'm seriously starting to think that the liberal party has some hidden agenda for B.C. , it just seems too obvious, its almost laughable. And because I don't think any other party will differ once they come to power, I think its time for B.C. to pack up, and join the U.S.

This is an election issue primarily for those residing in British Columbia, because personally, I don't think any other Province has such a high visible minority rate amongst their population. It should also be noted that I have no political affilaition, although I do belong to a private sector union. Despite this I won't be voting NDP as many of you might assume, in fact I don't know anyone in the union who votes NDP anymore. 1) because of the high cost of living in this Province. 2) Immigration!!! If there is one concerning issue amongst cacausion working class males in this Province, its the drastic explosion in BC's ethnic communites over the last decade. I've been around long enough to realize minorites within nation states aren't treated fairly, and despite people's visions of a grand mulit ethnic utopia, I have to question the wisdom of making one a minority in one's own Province. Perhaps if I didn't plan on having children it wouldn't bother me so much, but I do, so their economic interests and opportunities will be a concern for me, and I myself have expierenced "heavy" reverse discrimination, working briefly for a punjabi run business. Even though we tolerate each other, if one group could wave a magic wand wishing the other way, we'de promptly do so. What irratates me the most is that B.C. appears to have become a dumping ground for specific ethnic groups in this Province, in order to bolster liberal electoral support. (I realize people can settle where they want.) Certain ethnic communities (I'm trying to be politically correct here) are also very effective at signing up everyone in their community to make sure they dominate the riding associations, personally the corruption sickens me. Plus, recently the liberals have merged my community with an ethnic dominated community to ensure that B.C. gets another seat to parliment, a liberal one of course. I don't know any working class caucasions in this Province who vote liberal. I'm not advocating for the Conservatives either, because, they love thier cheap labour, and personally, I don't think they have the guts to do anything. I just want out of this friggen country, gone, seperate, cut the ties with Ontario, off to the U.S. label me a bigot, a exnophobe and so forth if you like, I'm not an out here to debate the merits of multiculturalism, I'm just an average joe who's fed up with this countries politcal process.