| Doug Collins ® get this straight & EIN TO THE North Vancouver-Burnaby Liberal Party public meeting on immigration, where it was my pleasure to play cat among the pigeons. There were five on the panel: two East Indians and one Chinese, plus two whites. The chairman, North Vancouver lawyer Mark Moseley, opened the discussion by saying that im- > migration was very much in the f news. When it came to question period, I agreed with him. But im- migration was in the news, I pointed out, because it was a disaster. Every poll showed that Canadians were fed to the teeth with it, and it was the Liberal Par- ty that had started the process. 4 About 75 per cent of im- f migrants, 1 continued, now came from countries like India, ‘Guyana, and Botswana. immigra- tion from Europe was almost down the drain. We were getting twice as many Vietnamese as Brits, to quote but one example. The composition of the panel, I said, was an augur of what the future held: three to two in favor { of the Third World, at feast. ‘Consternation! You would have thought I had sprayed the place with a sub-machine gun. There were East Indians in the au- dience, and one of them told an Evening Wimp reporter after the meeting that what I had said was ‘talmost Hitlerian’’. He may have been the one who challenged me, stating he was a banker and had been to Cam- bridge University and other high- . thought places. I should go to South Africa, he said. I said I'd already been there, and that for a Cambridge man he hadn’t done very well. He had claimed, for instance, that this country was receiving large in- vestments from Third World countries. I told the audience that although Hong Kongers were buy- ing up our real estate lixe crazy, strictly for their benefit and not for ours, the traffic was in the op- posite direction. We were paying out vast sums in foreign aid to the likes of Zambia and other cripp!- ed ducks: $2.5 billion this year. Cambridge man or not, he was a fool, 1 declared. Most of the panel members delivered the usual bilge. Aziz Khaki of the Committee for Racial Justice and late of Tan- zania or some place like that, talk- ed as though a few million more Khakis would be the answer to all our problems. We need more peo- ple, etc. I didn’t have an oppor- tunity to tell him that if popula- tion meant prosperity, India and China should be the most pro- sperous places on earth. Elizabeth Lee, the Chinese panelist (here via Singapore, | gathered) told us how we discriminated against immigrant labor. Rotten old Whitey, sort of thing. Similar sad themes were delivered by Charles Paris of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, a guy who can’t wait to see us go Third World, which I reckon will happen by about 2020 A.D. The star of the evening was panelist Charles Campbell of West Van, the former chairman of the Immigration Appeal Board and a man who knows what he is talking abaut. He stays strictly away from the racial aspects of immigration, of immigrant we are getting. Reason and common sense, he suggested, had disappeared from the immigration system. Abuse was widespread and preference | was being given to ‘family reunification” (which is designed to favor immigration from India, ] China, etc.). Not only that, but all kinds of sub-systems exist to recruit relatives of refatives in endless numbers. Many such immigrants, he went on, are illiterate even in their own countries and cannot fit into the Canadian cultura! and social! pat- terns, Meanwhile, well-qualified | potentiat immigrants of the “independent” class who would easily fit in are being shut out. (He didn’t say so, but those are mainly the Europeans.) In the coming year, he said, 87 per cent of immigrants will enter ‘“‘on other than economic grounds’’, meaning they will be family class or refugees. Top im- migration officials have expressed concern about this, but government doesn’t want to know’’, Predictably, not a word of what he had to say appeared in the Evening Wimp, which went with the Hitler stuff, Lee’s hard luck stories, and the laments of Khar- tun Siddiki, the second East In- dian panelist. It’s time for the revolution, comrades. Speak out! Spring a Surprise Ay Candle Bouquet Delightful Order Early Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 10th Sewing Basket Bouquet from $28.50 1821 Marine Dr., West Vancouver 922-4171 922-3968 concentrating in- | stead on the suitability of the type | “the | 9 - Friday, May 8, 1987 - North Shore News Co-op education NORTH VANCOUVER-Burnaby MP Chuck Cook recently an- nounced the approval of a Coop- erative Education project under the Canadian Jobs Strategy in the North Vancouver area. The project, involving School District 44, will receive $191,535 in federal government funds over four years. Cooperative Education, an op- tion of Job Entry, offers an in- tegrated combination of classroom study and on-the-job training for students in secondary schools, community colleges and wniver- sities. Cooperative Education is carried out as part of Job Entry — one of six programs under the Canadian Jobs Strategy (CJS} — and is designed to help young people and | project announced women who are having difficulty making the transition into the labor market. “This project will provide young people with important experience and skill development to help them make the transition from school to the working world,’’ Cook said. Through the Canadian Jobs Strategy’s Cooperative Education option, the government helps pay the salaries of coordinators and support staff who arrange and im- plement the projects, as well as associated costs such as ad- ministrative expenses. 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