~ DID YOU believe all that rot about Canada’s “tough new refugee laws,”’ as our media keep calling them. Did you think they would have anything but minima! cffect? 9 - Sunday, June 4, 1989 - North Shore News PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY ... requires professional help “FREE” copy of our booklet, “Assignment in Bankruptcy”, available upon request. ‘Booze who’ on the N. Shore RECENT CONVICTIONS in North Shore courts have resulted in the following fines and penalties for drinking and driving related offences. NORTH VANCOUVER: Jack Richey Daigle, 28, 433 Orwell St., North Vancouver (over .08, $700 fine); Roger Higham, 38, 3172 Tory Ave., Coquitlam (impaired, $700 fine); Brett Douglas Walker, 28, 265 East 27th St., North Van- couver (impaired, $900 fine). TRUSTEE IN BANERUPTCY (Across the 2nd Nesrows Bridge at Brenfood Mail at Witingson Ave. & Lougheed Hwy. "Bumeby) Patricia I didn’t. The whole thing is a propaganda exercise. Ottawa lacks the will to do anything about the: refugee racket. From Mulroney through Turner to Broadbent, they don’t want to know. Cowards all. The facts concerning the new refugee process are there, but don’t make much news. Recently, however, Firduas Kharas was here. He’s the assistant deputy chairman of the Immigrazion and Refugee Board of Canada, and is in charge of the refugec backlog clearance ~ program. He let a few cats out of the bag. As of Jan. | this year, for instance _o— the date they finally got around to implementing the new laws after 18 months of piddling about — “better than 90 per cent’*® of new refugee claimants are meeting the “credible basis test’’ for admis- sion. Charles Campbell of West Van- couver heard him say that at a meeting put on here for the benefit of refugees, the fawyers who live by them, and the ethnic groups. And Mr, Campbell was somewhat surprised. As former vice-chairman of the old Immigration Appeal Board, he kniows that before Jan. {, only 24 per cent met the “‘credible basis test.”” He also Knows that by Ot- more than half of all immigrants get into this country. Immigration officers have no say in whether those relatives should be admitted, and the program was set up to sat- isfy the likes of Aziz Khaki and Co. In short, it was a Third World admission scheme. And just before the last election, Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall widened its scope, she having a heavily ethnic riding and being anxious to please other boneless wonders in the Tory party. Kharas ‘‘speculated’’ that the new refugee influx, taken in com- bination with family reunification, would result in the largest move- ment of migrants into Canada in our history. [n other words, when all the grandmas, grunddads, 40- year-old ‘‘children,”’ aunts, uncles, and brothers and sisters arrive, we won't know what hit us. You can reckon on at Icast 10 and as many as 20 relatives to follow each member of this ad- vance invasion party. Which means a minimum of 1,250,000 and possibly 2,500,000. (All in ad- dition to the regular immigration inflow.) Kharas had further good news for the Third World. Claimants who did not pursue their claim but A Complete Collection of 10 Signed Bill Reid Fy Indian Prints cel Sn toO" frames 925-2300 A Place To Go When Worth Vancouver CLIP DAN’S SPRING BONUS COUPONS Kennedy B.A.; DIR NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN Interior Design A personal service to help you with all your decorating needs. You're Pregnant And Specializing in custom window treatments, upholstery, bedding & Need Support: co-ordinating soft furnishing to accent. 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Of course, What else? So much for our ‘‘tough new laws’’ and defence of our borders. The most interesting admission, however, cume from a statement Kharas made on CKNW concern- ing ‘‘family reunification.’’ Family reunification is the massive loophole through which be given letters requesting visa of- ficers to ‘give consideration to the Canadian experience.”’ Translation: although they are such blatant liars that even the weeping-willow boards could not accept them, they are to be en- couraged to come back. Euro- peans, however, knock on a closed door. Kharas’s boss in Ottawa, Gor- don Fairweather, said recently that groups like the British and Euro- pean Immigration Aid Foundation represented ‘‘blatant bigotry.”” He’s no bigot in reverse, of course. As I write this, the news says that the Hong Kong government has dumped 2,500 Vietnamese ref- ugees on an island. What's the bet- ting that Fairweather, the chur- ches, the media and the Khakis don’t get them over here? 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