& - Wednesday, July 3, 1985 - North Shore News get this straight ae Hace? ae by Doug Collins We've had enough WwW ouldn’t it be nice if — just for once — this country showed a groat’s worth of guts? Aren’t you sick of seeing us fawn in front of liars, crooks, cheats, scoundrels, cadgers and bums? 'm thinking of the ref- ugee thing, which is the big- gest racket since snake-oil. Tens of thousands of people are being admitted to this country under the phoncy plea that they'll be done wrong or done in if they're sent home. But the majority are simply out to beat the immigration rules. Most of the Viets, for instance, aren't really refugees. They just don't like living in Viet- nam, Which is too bad, but not our fault. Not a single Canadian MP has the backbone to demand that this flummery stop, of course. They’re toc busy sucking up to the pressure groups. Now comes a new twist (pun intended). There’s a move to give goodies to anyone claiming to be a refugee. Yes, a new report says that even before their cases are examined, “‘refugees’’ should get welfare, medicare, Jegal aid, and perhaps buttered toast and eggs served by Flora MacDonald, the girl who can’t say no, All a traveller would have to do is to touch down at a Canadian airport, run over to an immigration officer yelling that Big Daddy in Ghana or whatever doesn’t like him, and presto, he's on the Canadian welfare tit, which gets bigger every year. This lunatic idea would set up a free-lunch system un- matched anywhere else. And that it would encourage mil- lions more to join in the game doesn't seem to worry our M.P.s. Knowing this country to be an easy touch, Third World immigrants have, as stated above, been streaming in for years as ‘refugees’. And then they’re more or less in for good because we don’t have the moxey to tell them to get lost. So there’s a big backlog at the immigra- tien hearings. The Canadian solution? Appoint Rabbi Gunther Piaut to produce a plan to “salve”? the problem, he be- ing a churchman, a sob-ar- tist of high carat, and 4 ref- ugee himself. As I said when he got the job, his solution was predictable: open the doors even wider and waste more money. You might as well appoint Art Kube to write the labor laws. Don't take my word for the way the country’s being bamboozled. The U.S. State Department recently made public a report called IMlegal Immigrants to Canada: What Lessons for the U.S.? The report states, in ef- fect, that anyone coming to this country as a plain illegal immigrant has no brains. All he has to do is to say he’s a refugec. Under the Canadian system, the report continues, a claimant is almost guaran- teed a stay of at least three years — during which he can take a job. Then he can build up ‘humanitarian’ reasons why he should be allowed to stay. (His kids were born kere, ete.) Plaut says we should make it even easier for such con artists because it would be in line with the wishes of the U.N. But I say screw the U.N. I say Jet the U.N. worry about the price of scotch in Ethiopia. Some countries do things differently. The British, for instance, have just put a stop to the flow of ‘refugees’ from Sri Lanka by ordering that people from that coun- try have visas. (Once they hear about Plaut, of course, they’ all come here.) In the great African democracies, they march in- terlopers to the border and tell them to march some more — if they haven’t Cap Super Valu closing permanently FAILURE TO reach agree- ment on wage concessions has forced the closure of the Capilano Mali Super Valu. Owner Tony Smith said the store would be perma- nently closed ‘‘within two weeks."’ Co-owner A! Nicol had earlier blamed