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THE RESOLUTION you should make for 1990 is aever to
believe a single word put out by those gyppers, chisellers
and chimps in Ottawa. Not on taxes, not on bilingualism,
and above all not on immigration.

Proof of the latter is to be seen
in the booklet “‘A Time Bomb
Ticking,’’ a devastating critique of
the system by Charles Campbell of
West Vancouver, published last
week by the Mackenzie Institute.
He is well qualified to write it
because for 10 years he was on the
old Immigration Appeal Board
and watched the mess from the in-
side.

**Time Bomb’’ is a litany of
government deception. Take the
refugee scam, for instance.
Because of public outrage, new
refugee laws were passed after
those Sikhs landed in Nova Scotia
asking how they could get taxis to
Toronto. What has been the
result? Things are worse now than
they were then.

Before the new laws came in,
Ottawa knew that between 70 and
90 per cent of refugee applications
were bogus. So what do we have
now? A 90 per cent admittance
rate, says Mr. Campbell. Of the
first 1,000 cases to be heard, in-
deed, only two were refused. In
other words, the political fix is in
and the public has been gulled.
What we have, in effect, is another
refugee amnesty program. Of
permanent duration.

Deception is the order of the
day. Immigration Minister Barbara
McDougall, the latest in a long list
of sell-outs to the immigration
lobby, has stated that immigration
for 1990 would increase only
modestly, from about 150,000 to
165,000. But expected refugee
backlog admissions of at least
a 50,000 were noi included in the
: } estimates, which, writes Mr.

i Campbell drily, made for ‘“‘mca-
/ erate headlines.”
7 You think the refugce totals ars
not all that imporas:? “Think
again. Mr. Campbell produces the
unheralded statements of a top
source. Firdaus Kharas, who is
deputy chairman of the refugee
board, said in 1989 that refugees
would face a ‘‘much lower thresh-
old’’ of admittance standards. The
result, he went on approvingly,
would be that we would face ‘‘the
7 greatest migration into Canada in
7 the history of our country.’’
- Kharas dogs not exaggerate,
f states Mr. Campbell drily, because
hundreds of thousands of relatives
will follow these phoney refugees
(the vast majority of whom will be
Third World).

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for the ethnic vote, you see, the
politicians have widened the range
of relatives who can be sponsored
and can come here as of right.
There are practically no limits:
parents, grandparents, unmarried
*‘children’’ over the age of 21, the
lot. As Mr. Camptell puts it, ‘‘the
government has abandoned controt
of Canada’s borders....”°

Why? Because politicians put
re-election first and the country
second. As the West Van man
points out, Gerry Weiner, the
minister for multiculturaJism, told
a Tory meeting held in Edmonton
recently that the ethnic vote was
vital in 29 constituencies. (And
never mind if we go Third World
in the process, Weiner might have
added.)

It isn’t just ti:c Tories. It’s the
whole damned bunch. Whit the
Tories are doing now, the Liberals
did before them, with the en-
thusiastic support of the NDP. As
one of many examples, Mr.
Campbell mentions the nearly
15,000 Trinidadians who arrived in
1989 claiming to be refugees. The
Tories didn’t impose visa restric-
tions on Trinidad until after the
federal election. Of course not.

Did any MP protest about this
and other, similar abuses of our
borders? Not one, states Mr.
Campbell. And I can add that you
needn’t look for Gordon
Fairweather to rectify these
wrongs. He’s in charge of the Ref-
ugee and Immigration Board at
$100,000 a year, but he said when
he got the job that he wouldn’t act
as Canada’s gatekeeper. He’s
keeping that promise, for he has
now admitted that 98 per cent of
*‘refugees’’ are being accepted, not
90 per cent as conservatively stated
by Mr, Campbell.

It isn’t just a matter of refugees.
It’s the whole system. The Catch-
22 aspects of the regulations are a
barrier to the best qualified im-
migrants while guaranteeing that
illiterates and the totally unquali-
fied can sing their way in.

By implication, this booklet is
also a denunciation of the media,
who for the most part are just too
lazy or incompetent to do their
job. (Or afraid of being called
“racists.’’) Whatever, ‘‘Time
Bomb” is a high-quality expose.

(The booklet is available for $6
from The Mackenzie Institute,
Suite 906, 100 Adelaide Street
West, Toronto, Ont. MSH 153) @

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We sincerely wish all 77 teams the best in
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The teams are from the following Soccer
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