A disaster in the making fF HOW DOES the prospect of another 3,500,000 phoney refugees and their relatives popping into this country strike you, nearly all of whom would be from Sri Lanka, Somalia, Ghana, Sudan and other places dear to the Ca- nadian heart? The figure is not a concoction of my fevered brain. It comes from Claude {sbister, a former deputy minister of immigration who has worked with five im- migration ministers and has doubts about where Ottawa is tak- ing us. He has also been the executive director of the World Bank, so we may assume he is nu: a bum, like me. His forecast appeared in the news sheet put out by the Im- migration Association of Canada. ft shoud be headlines in all rhe media, but won't be because the association opposes the kind of immigration we are getting. As for the politicians, they are too busy kissing the ass of the immigration industry and looking for votes from the ethnics to take any notice of what he says. It is no news to students of our general immigration fiasco that a racial, cultural and social disaster isin the making. You needn’t even be a student. All you have to do is take a look at our inner city schools or read the Asian gang news. But the refugee mess alone takes some beating. Not surpris- ing, considering that Barbara McDougall is the worst immigra- tion minister we have had in 25 years. (Which is saying some- thing.) - Mr. Isbister says the refugee in- take is out of control and that it is far in excess of what McDougall says it is. And even she admits that by the end of 1989, when new laws should have brought it under control, it had swollen to 85,000. West Vancouver’s Charles Campbell, former vice-chairman of the old Immigration Appeal Board, showed that to be a grass Doug Collins ON THE OTHER HAND underestimate long ago. He also accused McDougall of outright deception. Now, Isbister says the backlog is 150,000, and deals with joys to come. “With a backlog of 150,000 and new arrivals of 180,000, we have 330,000 refugee claimants to be dealt with by 1995. Add to these the 158,500 refugees (that are to be) selected abroad, and you get a total of 488,500."” It doesn’t stop there. “There is a rule of thumb,”’ he continues, ‘“‘that relatives out- number the primary immigrant by a ratio of six to one. It would be reckless to forecast from this that there would be a mind-boggling 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 relatives in the next five years because there is no room for them.’* I beg to differ. Room is not the deciding factor. The deciding fac- tor is what our craven and conniv- ing politicians will do. As is well known, they are good at doing nothing where the im- migration muddle is concerned. Fhey deny the popular will at every tien aad the media let them vet awre aith it for fear of being seen as “racist.” Se the rot con- ftimues. Some glimmers of hope have appeared, however, because one or two major publications have at last got around to telling you what this space has been telling you for years. Maclean's magazine did a devastatingly critical piece on the refugee thing recently, for in- stance, whereas only a year ago it was expounding on how wonder- ful it was. The magazine quoted a member of the Refugee Board as follows: **You wouldn’t believe how the system is abused. If the public knew what was going on, there would be riots in the streets.”’ Also quoted were immigration officials who cannot speak out publicly. Thus: *‘The system has become so open that if you get a refugee who gets in, the word goes out and his whole village floods in behind him."' A second official said, ‘‘The last refugee system we had was a bad one. This one is a joke."’ Word has gone out across the world that we are the biggest dopes on legs. All the phoney ref- ugee needs is some lying sob- story. The Refugee Board will then admit him. About 78 per cent get through the ‘‘screening’’ and most of them just don’t take notice of deporta- tion orders. The few who have difficulty can count on our daft media peddling their fiction, no questions asked. Did I say a racial and social disaster is in the making? Only in English Canada. Not in Quebec. Under its new immigration agreement with Ottawa, that pro- vince can ‘‘ensure the integration of immigrants consistent with the distinct character of Quebec socie- ty.”’ Have a nice day. Winners named in competition THE FOLLOWING is a list of senior trophy winners at the recent 20th Annual North Shore Music Festival of the Registered Music Teachers’ Association: Ronald Lee Ho, Empey Trophy in Baroque: sSH OP PItN G Park Royal shops and services now open at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, and 12:00 noon Sunday. PARK ROYAL ceEeN TR E, Somuch. Soclose. 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