Doug Collins

IMMIGRATION BEING so much in the news,

® gel this straight ®

let me tell

you about Fred Nachbaur, who is about to be deported

from these humanitarian shores to West Germany.

which

he left when he was 11 months old.

Now 36 years of age and runn-
ing a small computer company in
Nelson, he is the victim of a fickle
fate, political stone-heartedness,
and parental error.

He probably wouldn't be in his
present fix if he were wearing a
turban. But as things are he is
waiting for a German travel docu-
ment, and when he gets it he will
have to bog off to a country
whose language he doesn’t speak
well and whose society is foreign
to him.

His parents made the mistake
of not applying fo. him to become
a Canadian citizen when they
became Canadians in 1958. The
father claims officials told him
that Fred would have to wait until
he was 21 before citizenship could
be granted.

If they did, they were wrong.
As the father explained it to me,
though, ‘‘When you are new in a
country and don’t know the

f language well you accept what
you are told.”’

The family moved to the U.S.
for a while and when they return-
ed to Canada Fred stayed on to at-
tend university. He spent 20 years
in the States but never became a
U.S. citizen, regarding Canada as
his home country.

He came back in 1984, reported

N. Van waik
fully booked

honestly to immigration, and pro-
mptly dived into a sea of ad-
judications and appeals that
would only make vou dizzy if TE ex-
plained it all. The end result, in
any case, was the old heave-ho.

Gerry Weiner, the minister of
state for immigration, could settle
this tangle with,a stroke of his
pen. He has done so, in many
other cases,

Bowing to Jewish pressure in
Montreal, for instance, he ruled
that a crook named Abraham
Finkel could stay here even
though the guy had 20 criminal
convictions in three countries --
Belgium, West Germany and
Israel -- including robbery with
violence and large-scale fraud.
Three previous immigration
ministers had refused to give
Finkel ‘‘landed’’ status but that
didn’t’ prevent Weiner’s heart
from melting on the guy’s behalf.

The law says Nachbaur snuss
now be deported. But what often
happens in such cases is that with
federal connivance the person in
question goes to the U.S. and
comes back right away. He is then
given a minister's permit to stay.

Weiner has not even
acknowledged representations
inade on Nachbaur’s behalf by
Bob Brisco, the local MP.

We live in funny times.

AN HISTORIC walking tour of
North Lonsdale, held on July 19,
proved so popular the North Shore

‘Heritage Committee has planned

two additional walks. Both these
tours, planned for July 26 and
August 9, are already completely
booked.

Chairman Jack Waits says the

Weiner can fasat crooks when
it pleases fim to do so, and an far
migsation oNppea. Board can
decide that if couldavi be nasis
enough to dypart fohn bewis, the
consicted pervert. Che board can
bring down the gasel sivirpls
enough on Nachbaur. however.
who is whistle-clesn.

Robert Satiacum the U.S. In-
dian can be granted refugee
shttus, too. Canada apparently
being just the plaice for people
wanted on criminal charges in the
U.S.

Crech hockey players can be
trotted through immigration with
a bow and a smile, and we can
smuggle Russian deserters into the
country from) Afghanistan,

Hong Kong and other
businessmen can buy their way into
the country. Many of fAer inay
be crooks, too. Nobody cares.

And one of the phony Sikh
“refurees’’ can walk away from
that Nova Scotia hearing
laughing. He has already been
deported once. That's OK, toc.

But when it comes to a man
who went to school here and
whose parents, two brothers and
three sisters are in Canada, we
become pernickety. Yet Weiner
says ‘family reunification” is the
cornerstone of our immigration
policy.

Buy vourself a turban, Fred.

Se ed

Pay no attention to Mary Col-
lins’s hypocritical call for the
recall of parliament over the il-
legal immigration fuss. That's on-
ly an obeisance to the protests that
have swamped her office.

Collins is a dedicated
multiculter and has spoken no
word against the pattern immigra-
tion has taken. She also knows
that Brian Baloney will not recall
parliament. Hle’s busy building
sandcastles.

What really worries Collins is
that the Capilano constituency |
may turn out to be a sandcastle.

committee is pleased with the
response and will consider other
walks in the future. ‘We had a
most interesting group of all ages
from around the Lower Mainland,
including Molly Nye whose uncle,
Tom Nye, was responsible for
most of the North Lonsdale
development.”’

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