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Three hurrahs for Doug

Dear Editor:

Hurrah, hurrah, burrah for Doug Collins’ article in

reference to Brian Mulroney.

Bouquets to your paper for printing it.

discontinued years ago.

Mr. Collins had the courage to state what the Helen Jean Clark

general public think and are afraid to say.

Reader explains immigration regulations

Dear Editor:

Your correspondent Mrs. M. Critchley (News, Sept. 12) com- pares the difficulty she and her husband had in immigrating to the ease with which the Tamils have been accepted.

The government has established these boat people in Tamil com- munities in Montreal and Toronto where the minister tells us they will integrate. Thus they are being ac- cepted without any effort as pro- vided in law to first determine the validity of their claims. For several years a minority of Tamil refugee claims have succeeded’ in the determination process.

The Critchley letter only tells part of the story. Their background was thoroughly in- vestigated. He had skills with a proven work record. They speak one of our languages and had the ability to successfully establish without assistance.

The Tamils will become citizens. This brings the fight to sponsor parents whatever their age and they: may bring with them all of their unmarried children under 21 without reference to their status as refugees or any consideration for the capacity of any of those spon- sored to successfully establish ir Canada.

They are members of the family class about whom the auditor general in his 1982 report told us that a ‘‘significant portion of fam- ily class immigrants do not corres- pond to the family reunification principle .... they are not well prepared to participate in the Ca- nadian labor market ... they have less training, work experience and knowledge of the official lan- guages than do other immigrants

. they often belong to occupa- tional groups where unemployment is high ... and since there is a ques- tion of the ability of a significant portion of this group to adapt to life in Canada there could be repercussions on social programs and on the labor market.”’

He listed the loopholes and abuses and wrote that every im- migrant centre visited regularly reported these. practices to head- quarters but that the data was not coliected resulting in an inability to assess the magnitude of the pro- blem.

In 1985 he reported an acknow}- edgement that those with ‘‘much less potential’? are admitted and that the government ‘‘does not believe it would be worthwhile”’ to determine if ‘‘members of the fam- ily class have the ability to become successfully established’. It is clear that both the bureaucrats and the politicians prefer not to know.

In the event Mr. and Mrs. Crit- chley had children with post sec- ondary education or: had in developing lifetime skills advanced past the age of 21 they would have been inadmissible as accompanying dependents. They could then apply independently but because of our unemployment levels would face a restrictive occupations list with the odds against acceptance.

Charlies M. Campbell West Vancouver

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