IN A country where the politicians have fewer principles

than ferrets, gutlessness always wins, as can be seen in the
latest federal farce involving immigration and the refugee

racket.

As you may have noticed, the
potty parson who doubles as
Minister of State for Immigration
under the equally dim-witted
Flora MacDonald, has declared
another amnesty for illegal im-
migrants, often known as
refugees.

Not that he calls it an amnesty.
That would be too clear a sign
that the immigration system, so
called, has failed again. No, this is
an ‘‘administrative clearance’’
designed to wipe out a large
backlog. But it still means that
anyone wno sneaked, lied or
otherwise conned his way into
Canada can stay here.

At last count, there were about
21,500 such cheats waiting for the
forgiving finger of Ottawa to
touch their brows, And the said
cheats are not Anglo-Saxons and
the like. If they were, they’d be
shown the door pronto.

They hail from India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Jamaica,
China, Hong Kong and Portugal.

In the Portuguese case, they are
1,500 persons claiming to be
Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted
by the democratic government in
Lisbon — another fiction thought
up by crooked immigration
lawyers and ‘‘consultants’’.

Such advisers know well
enough that any dumb story will
gain their clients’ entry, this coun-
[ try’s rulers going to bed every

night praying that no one will call

them racists.

Only two months ago, McLean
was saying he would not an-
nounce another amnesty. To do
so, he said, would destroy the in-
tegrity of the immigration system

f and reward queue-jumpers.

(There are, after all, still a few im-
migrants who apply properly to
get in from abroad, which is what
they are supposed to do.) Oh well,
put it down to yet another Tory
flip-flop.

Since we started getting soft
about so-called refugees the rules
have been relaxed so much that we
invite liars. Hence the prese:sice of
“Jehovah's Witnesses’? who have
never seen a Bible, and an even
greater number of Sikhs claiming

¥ to be refugees from India.

We have now given so many
rights to foreigners wishing to
jump the immigration rules that

there should be a big sign at every
Canadian dock and _ airport
reading: ‘‘Hlegal immigrants and
other phoneys register here.
Welcome to Wimpland!""

On hearing McLean‘s glad
news, nine citizens of Sri Lanka
who had been on strike against
their ship in Vancouver im-
mediately claimed that they too
were refugees. And why not?
They will end up getting more
money from the Canadian tax-

payer in refugee allowances than |

they could possibly earn at home.

Most of those approved as
refugees at overseas locations are
not true refugees,
former Immigration Minister
Lloyd Axworthy admitted, they
are ‘economic refugees’* who just.
don’t like their own countries.

In this latest fiasco, even the
dorey old Globe & Mail disap-
proves of what is being done, and
God knows it is weak-minded
where immigration i© V:ncerned.
But in this case it cays
“confusing life-b.\t~
liners’’. In other s. rds, ¢
are getting status thor «
denied them.

The minister dispenses the usual
sickening guff. Under this ‘‘ad-
ministratative clearance’, he
says, there will still be some sort
of screening process. Well, you
can forget it. 1 would like a dollar
for every time I have heard such
nonsense from Canadian im-
migration ministers. All they’re
concerned about is pleasing the
ethnics, and the ethnics won’t be
happy until they’ve taken the
place over.

The refugee backlog, it should
be remembered, exists only
because the politicians have ar-
ranged things so that the immigra-
tion department is helpless to deal
with the situation. If you were an

immigration officer, you'd pro- |

bably cut your throat.

The refugee influx adds to the
enormous iniJux of non-white im-
migration into this country, which
has long overshadowed the other
sort.

The destruction of English
Canada that all this portends is
your fault, really, because
although you don’t like it you
don’t rise up in wrath, either.

When you'do, it will probably
be too late.

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AN ALLEGED session of illegal
batting practice has landed an 18-
year-old North Vancouver man in
court.

Richard Troy Saikaley was ar-
rested and charged March 24 with
One count of possession of a
weapon dangerous to the public
peace.

The charge followed an incident
in the parking lot of C.H. Cates &
Sons Lid. in which he is alleged to
have been carrying a baseball bat.

Appearing before North Van-
couver provincial court Judge J.D.
Layton on Monday, Saikaley was
remanded to June 3 to fix a date
for trial on the charge.

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