Canada's pre-jet-age immigration policies need a major overhaul.

[Second-class Canadian]

We're not looking to "shack up". On the one hand, all our problems should be fixed within the next year once we are married. However, it would be nice to meet her parents first and determine the details of a trans-Pacific marriage rather than rush into it for the papers.

In the meantime though, if she had the ability to work and do business as of now, that could give us a head start. Or even if I could sponsor her in the meantime, but I can't do that either. Anyway, that's it. We work with the laws dealt us and that's that.

Since she would prefer getting married in Hong Kong though, we've considered maybe arranging a pre-marriage ceremony in Canada for my dad who would legally not be allowed to attend due to a past military security status, though since her family could come to Canada, she also considered simply explaining my dad's situation to her family and have it in Canada.

[cybercoma]

provided they aren't certain types of ghettos.

What type is that?

[-1=e^ipi]

What type is that?

Wahhabi Islamist ghettos for example.

[Remiel]

The jet age started during or just prior to World War II. Our immigration policies are mostly from the 60s and 70s.

[cybercoma]

Wahhabi Islamist ghettos for example.

Do we have a lot of those in Canada?

[Canada_First]

We have enough Chinese here. I went shopping the other day and the whole mall was taken over by them. I remarked many times the same thing out loud that day. Too many asians in here for me...feel like I'm in China...I don't like feeling as an minority in my own country. They very secretive and clannish not to mention heavily racist. More racist than others in my experience. They almost never mix with other peoples. Just my observations. So no we don't need a millions more to come here. Plus will they start wanting to have dog and cat eating here as well?. Cat and dog butcher shops?...No thank you.

Edited July 3, 2015 by Canada_First

[PIK]

Seconds class, if you don't like it, leave. Nobody is holding you back. But having the notion this country owes you something ,you are mistaken.

[-1=e^ipi]

Do we have a lot of those in Canada?

Not yet.

[Michael Hardner]

Not yet.

It should be a straight-line equation to figure out when they'll be the majority, assuming some erosion factor for those who will fall away from the faith of course.

[eyeball]

Not yet.

We're trying though...my granddaughter is half Chinese and she's the most beautiful human being I know on the planet. We have another on the the way too

[Michael Hardner]

We're trying though...my granddaughter is half Chinese and she's the most beautiful human being I know on the planet. We have another on the the way too

Good for you, and sad that the 'Genetically Correct' types (I won't call them racist because they're sensitive, you see) on here don't consider your granddaughter Canadian. Hopefully, the GC crowd will mostly be dead and forgotten by the time she grows up.

Cheers.

[-1=e^ipi]

We're trying though...my granddaughter is half Chinese and she's the most beautiful human being I know on the planet. We have another on the the way too

Your granddaughter is a Wahhabi Islamist?

[Argus]

Language skills are an asset, but they shouldn't be a veto.

About six in 10 newcomers have less than the desired level of literacy, the study says, and the employment rate for those with poor literacy skills is almost 20 percentage points lower than for those with the desired level.

http://About six in 10 newcomers have less than the desired level of literacy, the study says, and the employment rate for those with poor literacy skills is almost 20 percentage points lower than for those with the desired level.

The overall economic performance of immigrants has declined irrespective of whether they have come in under the “skilled immigrant” provisions or under the “family class” provisions of the Immigration Act. Poverty is a much more prevalent attribute of recent immigrants than it was among immigrants in the past, and recent immigrants are much less likely to achieve the levels of earned income of either their predecessors or the native-born population. Martin Collacott also finds that social stresses and “ghettoization” associated with the inability to speak either of the official languages is a serious problem, as are criminal activities in some communities.

Immigrants aged 16 to 65 performed significantly below the average for the Canadian- born population in all four literacy domains. Perhaps contrary to expectation, duration of residence in Canada appeared to have no significant impact on the average performance of immigrants in any of the four domains.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-004-x/2005005/9112-eng.htm#Footnote3

[Argus]

Good for you, and sad that the 'Genetically Correct' types (I won't call them racist because they're sensitive, you see) on here don't consider your granddaughter Canadian. Hopefully, the GC crowd will mostly be dead and forgotten by the time she grows up.

Cheers.

God, what a smug, sanctimonious post. Do you wear a halo when you walk around during the day? Walk on water, much?

[Peter F]

Good for you, and sad that the 'Genetically Correct' types (I won't call them racist because they're sensitive, you see) on here don't consider your granddaughter Canadian. Hopefully, the GC crowd will mostly be dead and forgotten by the time she grows up.

Cheers.

Well said. I approve of this post.

[On Guard for Thee]

Well said. I approve of this post.

Ditto.

[Argus]

Smug, sanctimonious people tend to approve of smug, sanctimonious posts.

[On Guard for Thee]

And "GC" people tend to be a bit sensitive...I see.

[Argus]

And "GC" people tend to be a bit sensitive...I see.

I wouldn't know, since I've never written about or even hinted at any belief in any sort of genetic superiority or inferiority. But I know your entire understanding of immigration is that anyone who doesn't support it as mindlessly and unthinkingly as you do is evil incarnate.

Edited July 18, 2015 by Argus

[On Guard for Thee]

I wouldn't know, since I've never written about or even hinted at any belief in any sort of genetic superiority or inferiority. But I know your entire understanding of immigration is that anyone who doesn't support it as mindlessly and unthinkingly as you do is evil incarnate.

It's amazing all the things you seem to think you "know".

[Argus]

It's amazing all the things you seem to think you "know".

Not difficult. You demonstrate it every time you post.

[On Guard for Thee]

Not difficult. You demonstrate it every time you post.

I demonstrate your false assumptions? Naw, that's your job.

[Civis Romanus sum]

The jet age started during or just prior to World War II. Our immigration policies are mostly from the 60s and 70s.

But our thoughts on immigration are much older. We look back on when most immigrants were from the UK and Europe and see that they assimilated and assume new immigrants will too. But this isn't an island in the ocean far from home any more. They can get home and back again in a day, can talk to people back home, watch TV from back home, and hold onto their old culture more.

If a little girl went to school in a chador thirty years ago all the other kids would stare at her and ask her why she was wearing something so silly. She'd want to be like them, want to be like Canadian kids, and would beg her parents not to wear foreign gear. Now if a girl goes to school in a chador it's nothing surprising. Lots of kids in school are wearing them. If you look at some urban classes 80% of the class is foreign born or the children of immigrants who are being raised in their immigrant parents culture. How are they supposed to assimilate when the class is more foreign than Canadian?