-. into: the front-end @ get this straight Coe: IT’S NOT true that there are no true Tories left. There are plenty of them on the North Shore and they are mad as hell about Brian Baloney’s immigration policies. [ sat agape on Thursday even- ing as the Progressive Conser- vative women of Howe Sound- Capilano and their hubbies bash- ed Ottawa. The women voted to send a petition telling Brian to get his conniving finger out. They are fed up with this country's being taken to the cleaners by liars, phony refugees and a flood of Third Worlders, (Race as such wasn't mentioned, but was the bottom line.) immigrants. Merit and the ability to fit into Canadian society are no longer criteria for entry. About 35 per cent of the newcomers are il- literate even in their own languages, and cost this country a lot of money. Of the immigrants accepted in 1987, ‘‘the basis of entry for 80 per cent was having relatives here, not merit."’ There are now iwo standards for entry - —a a tough one for “Te ‘family reunification’ program is a disaster that hes led to a huge wave of unqualified immigrants.” One brave soul asked why Tories were attacking Tories, Her sally was grected with cries and groans. The letter of complaint had been drafted before the mecting started and would have been passed anyway. But Charles Campbell cemented the deal in rock. Mr. Campbell served 10 years on Immigration Appeal Board and is a Liberal. But he is more interested in.Canada than in par- tisan politics. His criticisms ap- plied to all federal partics. He said that the government and bureaucrats were gutless, and that the politicians were sabotaging the system for the sake of the ethnic vote. Here are some more of his points: ' The “family reunification” program is a disaster that has led fo-a huge, wave of unqualified “the honest and able" and a soft one for the others. (Meaning that Europeans and Americans, being better of f, will not go the cheaters’ route, while Third Worlders will.) Qualified immigrants now find it extremely difficult to get in. One result is that the flow from the U.K. has dropped from 20,000 a year to 5,000. Other Europeans find it equally hard to penetrate the barrier. “We cut them off,’' said Campbell. About 60,000 ‘‘refugees"” are in the pipeline, the great majority of whom are bogus. That. number will translate into 500,000 when fheir relatives get here. The Tories’ own Nielsen Task Force recommended that loopholes be closed, but the government had ‘deliberately scuttled the (screening-out) system.’” Campbell quoted the Auditor Genera! of Canada to show that today’s immigrants use ‘‘mar- riages of convenience, engagements of convenience and even pregnancies of conve- nience’’ to gain entry. Plus false relatives and false documents. “Courier parents’? come in from countries like India, leave their kids here, and return to their native villages. So much for the ‘family reunification’ nonsense. Like Oliver North, said Camp- bell, ‘the Ottawa bureaucrats have tossed all of this valuable information from the auditor gencral into the shredder."* The Mulroney government has made it even casiers than it used to be for unqualified relatives to be accepted. ‘‘Children”® over 21 years of age may now follow their parents. Some older immigrants put on their age by as much as 10 years “and so benefit carlier from our Pension programs than the rest of us." Campbell's was a bombshell performance, all right, and what you've read here ain't the half of it. Will the Baloneyites take any notice of him, the Capilano zvyomen, and the Immigration Association of Canada, whose Gallup Poll showed that 78 per cent of Canadians abhor current immigration policies? Not until the country starts screaming and putting MPs under the gun. That's what the Capilano women wanted to do. But Mary Collins wasn’t at the meeting. She was said to be still ‘in flight."" if she had been present she would have been in flight even more. @ Video pla yer pins child’s finger NORTH “VANCOUVER City firefighters and: paramedics from the. North Vancouver unit of the Provincial Ambulance Service were ~ called in to rescue a 14-month-old toddler. on West 6th Street who got -hér ‘finger stuck inside a video player Jan. 20. : When the child pushed a tape loading . machine, her finger was pinned in- 10. the mechanism along: with the || pRapes—-——énvs . CUSTOM DRAPERY JAN. SPECIAL! Pretty Prints, Plains, Weaves and Sheers, Expert complimentary advice and in home service. SAYUE ¢ SAVE ¢ SAVE on Aftex, Maxwell, V.AT. | $B Boe erate ____Offer ends . ends Jan. 34 926-8819 1441 CLYDE AVE., W.VAN. tape. Her parents immediately unplugged the machine and called for help. Her compressed finger was eventually gently pulled out using dish liquid as a lubricant. “People should be aware that this can happen and shouid keep these machines out of a young child’s reach,”* said North Van- couver City Fire Department Insp. Dave Burgess. 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