Family facing deportation granted temporary stay

So by your own reckoning Canada since confederation has ceased to be built upon? Only British subjects are responsible for the building of Canada since our birth? Boy,do you know how to stretch a thought! I would think that the thousands of Chinese labourers that toiled on our national railway would say different. I would say that the thousands of Sikh mill-workers in the West would say different. I would say that the thousands of eastern Europeans that settled in the prairies would say different. Let's not forget the tens of thousands of French immigrants that came at the same time or before the British subjects. Taking his rant further, he suggests that every immigrant since has not contributed one iota. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/rolleyes.gif' alt='Rolling Eyes'> Sometimes human compassion trumps preconceived notions, and the case of this family is no different. The only law broken was they didn't come legally. Since that time they have been model citizens, the man of the family works to support them, and all have stayed on the right side of the law. Instead of attacking those that can contribute to this nation perturbed, why not target the leaches that want to really destroy Canada? You know the ones - Harper, Mackay, D'Quino, Mulroney... or are they too close to your conservative party? Or do they not fit into your mold of anti-immigrant hysteria?

[QUOTE]So by your own reckoning Canada since confederation has ceased to be built upon? Only British subjects are responsible for the building of Canada since our birth? Boy,do you know how to stretch a thought![/QUOTE]

Did I say that :question:

[QUOTE]I would think that the thousands of Chinese labourers that toiled on our national railway would say different. I would say that the thousands of Sikh mill-workers in the West would say different. I would say that the thousands of eastern Europeans that settled in the prairies would say different. Let's not forget the tens of thousands of French immigrants that came at the same time or before the British subjects. Taking his rant further, he suggests that every immigrant since has not contributed one iota. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/rolleyes.gif' alt='Rolling Eyes'> [/QUOTE]

I was replying the quotation the girl's lawyer gave her that "this is a multicultural nation built by immigrants". Whether you agree with that interpretation of history, which I don't mostly, this girl was implying that immigrants benefitted Canada in the past, therefore she must be allowed to stay. The two are non sequitor and no connected. Immgrants helped Canada then, doesn't mean a dishonest law breaker from Costa Rica will help us now. Toronto is already overcrowded with many unemployed.

[QUOTE]Sometimes human compassion trumps preconceived notions, and the case of this family is no different. The only law broken was they didn't come legally. Since that time they have been model citizens, the man of the family works to support them, and all have stayed on the right side of the law.[/QUOTE]

What do you mean "the only law they have broken"? That is like saying "I broke into your house but I didn't steal anything so I did no wrong". They are not necessarily a good fit and it is the Canadian government's job to make that determination. The fact that they are in the country illegally means they are NOT on the right side of the law no matter what they do, and if we don't enforce our immigration laws, why would they respect our other laws?

[QUOTE]Instead of attacking those that can contribute to this nation perturbed, why not target the leaches that want to really destroy Canada? You know the ones - Harper, Mackay, D'Quino, Mulroney... or are they too close to your conservative party? Or do they not fit into your mold of anti-immigrant hysteria?[/QUOTE]

I actually voted for your favourite little party not the Conservatives, but I am quite happy to criticize the immgration policies of Mulroney who helped put us in this mess.

Just as you have criticized Mulroney with NAFTA, I believe massive immigration is another side of the globalization shell game--an attempt to eliminate nationalism by homogenizing distinct nations :!:

I would like to respond to this before the goose-stepping thought police in their brown shirts close this thread let alone delete this post.

Illegal immigrants should be deported. If we do not then we reward them for breaking the law and encourage others to do so as well. Most of the letters to the editor found in the Toronto Star regarding this issue, some by immigrants and immigrants to be, express irritation at these people. Who are these people who think they can circumvent our immigration laws and then claim victimization? Who are these people who choose to ignore our laws but then run to them when it offers them protection? Canada did display compassion to them by allowing them to finish the school year and I do not see any problem with that. However upon completion they should be prepared to leave the country. In fact, if they have any respect for this country then they will leave willingly without being coerced by our laws.

What is sickening is how politicians prey on these people to score points with ethnic voters. MPs and MPPs only take an interest in these cases if they are made public and if they are not then they make sure they do. Illegal immigrants do not mind if they do. They get to stay in the country and politicians score cheap and easy points with ethnic voters leaving Canadians to pick up the tab.

[QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte]The only law broken was they didn't come legally. Since that time they have been model citizens, the man of the family works to support them, and all have stayed on the right side of the law.[/QUOTE]

That's no excuse. Some Nazi war criminals lived model lives after escaping initial arrest but that never stoped us from bringing them to trial. They only broke our immigation laws and since those are not real laws anyways we should let this slide right Roy? Oh please. You do not reward criminal behaviour. And their punishment is that they get sent back to their home country. Oh the humanity.

[QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte] Instead of attacking those that can contribute to this nation perturbed, why not target the leaches that want to really destroy Canada? You know the ones - Harper, Mackay, D'Quino, Mulroney... or are they too close to your conservative party? Or do they not fit into your mold of anti-immigrant hysteria?[/QUOTE]

So Paul Martin or Jean Chretian or Trudean are not included in there as well Roy? Of course not. They are Liberals and therefore are good for the nation. :roll:

I agree with going after the leeches like immigration lawyers, immigration consultants, and all the other parasites who feed off of the traffiking of humans. These people lie to prospective immigrants and ruin their lives but we should ignore this becasue Steven Harper is PM. Gotta love that reasoning. Immigration lawyers and other immigration industry parasites are the leeches Roy. Hope you're not one of them.

Wow the lengths anti-immigrant people will leap to astounds once again! The Saint compares this family to Nazi war criminals. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/eek.gif' alt='Eek!'> My point which both of you clearly missed was that while they did not file to stay, and thus broke the law, what harm did it do to Canada that you can quantify? Please, show the harm done. That is what laws are based on in case you didn't already know. Yes there are many among the Liberals that are responsible for their parts in selling out Canada, but last I looked they are not in power. What we saw in your fumbled attempt was the Canadian version of the American 'blame Clinton' game.

[QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte] Wow the lengths anti-immigrant people will leap to astounds once again! The Saint compares this family to Nazi war criminals. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/eek.gif' alt='Eek!'>

My point which both of you clearly missed was that while they did not file to stay, and thus broke the law, what harm did it do to Canada that you can quantify? Please, show the harm done. That is what laws are based on in case you didn't already know.

Yes there are many among the Liberals that are responsible for their parts in selling out Canada, but last I looked they are not in power. What we saw in your fumbled attempt was the Canadian version of the American 'blame Clinton' game.[/QUOTE]

Last you checked the Liberals were not in power? They've been in power 80% of the time over the last 100 years. They've been in power for the majority of the sellout of Canada.

As for Clinton, he did sell out America and actually took campaign contributions from China while allowing top secret military technology to be transferred.

The law is not based on "harm", the law is based on precedent under British inspired common law. If we set a precedent that immigrants can break our immigration laws, this will inspire more to do so.

[QUOTE BY= Perturbed] [QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte] Wow the lengths anti-immigrant people will leap to astounds once again! The Saint compares this family to Nazi war criminals. My point which both of you clearly missed was that while they did not file to stay, and thus broke the law, what harm did it do to Canada that you can quantify? Please, show the harm done. That is what laws are based on in case you didn't already know. Yes there are many among the Liberals that are responsible for their parts in selling out Canada, but last I looked they are not in power. What we saw in your fumbled attempt was the Canadian version of the American 'blame Clinton' game.[/QUOTE] Last you checked the Liberals were not in power? They've been in power 80% of the time over the last 100 years. They've been in power for the majority of the sellout of Canada. As for Clinton, he did sell out America and actually took campaign contributions from China while allowing top secret military technology to be transferred. The law is not based on "harm", the law is based on precedent under British inspired common law. If we set a precedent that immigrants can break our immigration laws, this will inspire more to do so. [/QUOTE] People have been coming to Canada uninvited since this land was discovered, the roof hasn't caved in so find yourself another excuse. 2nd largest land mass and one of the richest seven nations on earth... we can afford to allow ten times the immigrants we do now. But, facing them are the denizens of the old colonial era. Sound familiar? You better hope nothing makes our country inhospitable for if that happens and we have to migrate elsewhere, I would hope those in that land remember the anti-immigrant crowd of today.

[QUOTE]People have been coming to Canada uninvited since this land was discovered, the roof hasn't caved in so find yourself another excuse.[/QUOTE]

This statement is beyond vague. There were many riots in your neck of the woods out west over Chinese immigration to BC--and that was legal, not illegal immigration. The Sikh illegals were sent beack as you probably know. The rood has not caved in because most illegals were rooted out and sent back or not allowed in the first place.

Naturally, a few illegals are not the ned of the world--I am much more worried about our legal immigration policy than the illegals.

[QUOTE]2nd largest land mass and one of the richest seven nations on earth... we can afford to allow ten times the immigrants we do now. But, facing them are the denizens of the old colonial era. Sound familiar?[/QUOTE]

This argument is common, but is easy to debunk. Most immigrants today come to Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. They don't come to live up north (there are no jobs) and they don't come to farm anymore.

As for allowing 10 times the amount, you are simply uninformed about this issue. The government already spends billions settling incompatible immigrants, teaching them English, letting them bring their whole family.

10 times a year would be 2.6 million a year--that is practically the population of the city of Toronto!!!! Are you insane? Canada already accepts 2 times more immigrants per year than Britain, which is a bigger nation of 55 million. The empty space is a myth--you would lose all of the green space in Ontario. after a few years and create a poor country. Our government is starved of resources and cannot afford what we do now.

Immigration only works if levels are LOW and only from compatible countries. This helps the nation and goes largely unnoticed. 10 times would be cultural and physical annihilation and we would become an Asian colony as that is where we get our immigrants today.

The official languages would be wiped out. We would have a civil war--and we are headed that way anyway.

[QUOTE]You better hope nothing makes our country inhospitable for if that happens and we have to migrate elsewhere, I would hope those in that land remember the anti-immigrant crowd of today.[/QUOTE]

Umm, we already know that China, India, Africa would never let us under any conditions immigrate to their nations even if we were in danger. They have ethnic restrictions. Canada is likely to be one of the prosperous nations in the future.

Anyway, the family facing deportation is not a true refugee family, they are liars and opportunists.

It's clear trying to debate this topic with you is like talking to a brick wall. I've read many of your other anti-immigrant threads, and always avoided them, and probably should have again. You hate immigrants legal, illegal, justified or unjustified. I highly doubt you will come right out and say you have a white superiority thing going on, but there we are. Immigrants don't scare me. Come one come all. Come to Canada, bring your cultures and blend them with our mosaic. Bring your varied religions, and ethnic traits. Move to the population centres all ready filling with the human rainbow. Talk like that probably makes you want to wet your pants eh? So you know there is not one drop of non-white non-European background blood coursing through my veins. But when it comes to my beloved country and immigrants, I know enough to know this nation is a land of immigrants - all colours, types, beliefs, yadda yadda. The Brits certainly played their part in helping to establish this nation, but that does not give their descendants de-facto credence for time immortal. perturbed and those anti-immigrant types like you - you are in the minority. I don't mean white minority, I mean thought wise. You need to look in the mirror and ask yourself why you think you are somehow superior to others. Why you think your culture supersedes others. Why you think your sheltered little life cannot be broadened by the taste of a multi-ethnic Canada. Beyond all that - there are more white cultures than your vaunted British white. Anti-immigrant types like to claim as you did at the beginning of your screed in this thread that white Anglo-Saxons built this country after conquering it. Well sorry to break down your door perturbed, but we are not living in the 1700's anymore. Get with the times or be left behind. Or are you some new form of the old British Luddite, but this time instead of technology, it's race, faith, and culture? For now on, I am going to call the anti-immigrant brigade the culturites. One last thing: In the next couple of weeks I am going to ask my dear girlfriend to marry me. She is a beautiful filipina, and this ought to get your goat - she is not a citizen till later this summer. I am damn proud to say I am the first of my entire extended N.American family line to marry someone who is not white. With that said, she doesn't much care for politics, so I know she won't read this before the time comes!! hahaha And don't take my barbs too much to heart perturbed, as I don't when you jab me. We both love our country, we just don't see eye to eye.

To show I am not just about bashing the Cons: "Well I think we need more," Harper said when asked by a reporter whether his government would increase the number of immigrants entering Canada. Good for him. Bravo Mr Harper.

[QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte] Wow the lengths anti-immigrant people will leap to astounds once again![/Quote] What’s an anti-immigrant? [QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte]The Saint compares this family to Nazi war criminals.[/Quote] Should I even bother? [QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte]My point which both of you clearly missed was that while they did not file to stay, and thus broke the law, what harm did it do to Canada that you can quantify?[/Quote] Now here’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Apparently you can read and string a few words together to form something of a coherent sentence but your level of reading comprehension needs improvement. For someone who appears to be intelligent it’s embarrassing that I have to explain myself when I thought I was being clear. You’re reasoning is flawed and I used an extreme example to illustrate it. According to you, since these people lived productive lives, we assume anyway, for a period after breaking the law then they should be forgiven. Well, Nazi war criminals lived quite and productive lives after they eluded capture and trial so we should forgive them as well. To think that I was comparing illegal immigrants to Nazi war criminals is absolutely stupid on your part and I hope you smarten up unless you like embarrassing yourself. This is my point which you “clearly missed:” both illegal-immigrant and Nazi war criminal committed crimes and therefore should both be punished within the extent of the law. That is how our laws are enforced “in case you didn’t already know.” If we continue to look the other way when the law is broken then not only do we condone such behaviour but we encourage that behaviour in others. [QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte]Please, show the harm done. That is what laws are based on in case you didn't already know.[/Quote] I’ll show you the harm. Go to anyone of Canada’s embassies overseas and talk to all the immigrants waiting in line, filling out papers, paying lawyer and consulting fees, and who have been queued for over a year just to land in Canada, and tell them about the illegal immigrants in Canada and tell them how you support their behaviour. Once you come to, pick yourself up off the floor and any teeth that may have been knocked out and walk to the nearest washroom. Look into the mirror and then wonder if plastic surgery can fix that mess that you once called a face. There’s the harm. Satisfied? [QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte]People have been coming to Canada uninvited since this land was discovered, the roof hasn't caved in so find yourself another excuse.[/Quote] We don’t need excuses. We have reasons. For instance the Ontario Environment Commissioner has cited unchecked population growth fuelled by mass immigration as a main cause, not sole cause, of environmental degradation in southern Ontario. It threatens prime farm land and green spaces. It is adding more cars to the roads thus increasing traffic congestion and harmful pollutants in the air. In short he concluded that the quality of life of southern Ontarians, I being one, is being adversely affected by rapid population growth. To put this in perspective Toronto alone receives 100,000+ immigrants a year. That is enough to start a small city. Canada imports more people over the age of 65 than turn 65 in Canada. This shows how serious Canada is about addressing our ageing population. These imported retirees use our health care system as they have paid a modicum into it. Our health care system is under financial strain yet the government has $2-4 billion to import and take off 250,000 people a year most of whom got into the country via the family class. This mean they do not have to have basic language or job skills. This shows how serious our government is in addressing the country’s labour shortage. Canada imported just as many engineers into the country as graduated in Canadian universities. That’s why they are driving cabs while Canadian engineering graduates are having a hard time finding a job, keeping it, while fighting unemployment or underemployment. There are no jobs for them. WHO has criticized western nations, especially Canada among others, for poaching much needed health care professionals from developing nations. Canada needs doctors and nurses but India needs them more. Do you support this Roy? Toronto is regarded as a high risk area for an infectious disease outbreak. This is because “Torontonians” are among the most frequent global travelers around the world. Toronto is over 50% immigrant. This explains why. High immigration levels to Toronto add to and maintain poverty levels in areas in the city. These areas are plagued by drugs, gangs, theft, and violent crime. Immigrants are usually the victims but this is the price they must pay so Toronto can be multicultural and diverse. Lower immigration levels will help the city address these problems and help immigrants. Despite Toronto’s claim to diversity it is increasing becoming segregated and turning communities into colonies where English is a second language. English is about to become a minority language in Vancouver if it is not already. There’s more but I’m sure you’ve skipped all I wrote because, like ostriches, many Canadians prefer to hide their heads in the sands when it comes to immigration. [QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte]perturbed and those anti-immigrant types like you - you are in the minority. I don't mean white minority, I mean thought wise.[/Quote] Oh really? How do you know that Roy? [QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte]To show I am not just about bashing the Cons: "Well I think we need more," Harper said when asked by a reporter whether his government would increase the number of immigrants entering Canada. Good for him. Bravo Mr Harper.[/Quote] When did he say this? Monte Solberg just announced the conservative government's squashing of the idiotic Liberal plan to increase our intake to 300, 000. And why do I get the feeling you’re an immigration lawyer? Please tell me your not.

[QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte] To show I am not just about bashing the Cons: "Well I think we need more," Harper said when asked by a reporter whether his government would increase the number of immigrants entering Canada. Good for him. Bravo Mr Harper.[/QUOTE] Could you please provide a link for this statement by Harper or at least tell me where you heard it? I am interested. In the past the Conservatives essentially said no increase, no decreases. This said, why would anyone be surprised Harper would say that? Harper has spoken out against 3rd world immigration in the past by western elites currently insist there should be a free flow of goods, capital and labour. Harper is controlled largely by these people to a point. Also, Harper is trying to suck up to ethnic groups to get a majority government as the Liberals proved so adept at over the decades.

[QUOTE]It's clear trying to debate this topic with you is like talking to a brick wall. I've read many of your other anti-immigrant threads, and always avoided them, and probably should have again.[/QUOTE] I've thought the same thing about you with much more of a justification. You don't provide evidence to back up your beliefs--I do. [QUOTE]You hate immigrants legal, illegal, justified or unjustified. I highly doubt you will come right out and say you have a white superiority thing going on, but there we are.[/QUOTE] What's this about white supremacism? You think that you will win an argument by defaming me? We are 80% and were 97% of Canada's population and the majority should rule in a democracy. [QUOTE] Immigrants don't scare me. Come one come all. Come to Canada, bring your cultures and blend them with our mosaic. [/QUOTE] What mosaic? You actually believe our government? [QUOTE]Bring your varied religions, and ethnic traits. Move to the population centres all ready filling with the human rainbow. Talk like that probably makes you want to wet your pants eh?[/QUOTE] No but it does make you look stupid. Only a utopian would promote the kind of ethnic division that is casuing so much pain and suffering around the world and think it is a paradise. Just wait until a depression. Then we'll find out how much we love each other. [QUOTE]So you know there is not one drop of non-white non-European background blood coursing through my veins. But when it comes to my beloved country and immigrants, I know enough to know this nation is a land of immigrants - all colours, types, beliefs, yadda yadda.[/QUOTE] All nations are in a sense a nation of immigrants if you go back far enough. People have to come from somewhere--they don't grow out of the ground like trees. That said, the question is where immgrants come from, and how many if any we should accept. Most of out population increase was through natural increase, not immigration--which was never popular. Promoting all beliefs implies they will all reach the same outcome--they will not. I prefer to say Canada is a nation of decendants of immigrants--British and French going to their homelands of British North America and New France. The immigrants that were not from those locales were mostly European and were forced to assimlate--they came to become part of a new culture and lost their own eventually after a couple of generations. They came to a traditional , largely Christian nation of European ancestry, not a multicultural nation. [QUOTE]The Brits certainly played their part in helping to establish this nation, but that does not give their descendants de-facto credence for time immortal.[/QUOTE] The Brits played the whole part. Why should their descendants not get to have their own country? Are you telling China or Japan they are not allowes to be Chinese or Japanese anymore? [QUOTE]perturbed and those anti-immigrant types like you - you are in the minority. I don't mean white minority, I mean thought wise. [/QUOTE] Quite the opposite actually. Why would the majority of the country want themselves to become the minority? Polls from mainstream publications and polling companies which I have posted numerous times: <a href="http://www.canadafirst.net/immigration.html">here</a> [QUOTE]You need to look in the mirror and ask yourself why you think you are somehow superior to others. Why you think your culture supersedes others. [/QUOTE] My English culture supercedes others in Canada because this is Canada. In China I would not expect to be treated like I owned the place and nor should we allow foreigners to be treated like they own Canada. [QUOTE] Why you think your sheltered little life cannot be broadened by the taste of a multi-ethnic Canada.[/QUOTE] I have been in Toronto almost my whole life and my life has been broadened to the point where I need no more broadening. I've learned more than I ever wanted to know about other ethnic groups and what I think about them will not be published in public space. [QUOTE]Beyond all that - there are more white cultures than your vaunted British white. Anti-immigrant types like to claim as you did at the beginning of your screed in this thread that white Anglo-Saxons built this country after conquering it. Well sorry to break down your door perturbed, but we are not living in the 1700's anymore. Get with the times or be left behind. Or are you some new form of the old British Luddite, but this time instead of technology, it's race, faith, and culture?[/QUOTE] You keep claiming to be telling me something I dion't know, but it is all name-calling. If race, nation and culture are obselete, why are you not telling China to accept white and black immigrants? Also, if ethnicity is a thing of the past--why do you request more cultures and races for Canada? Hypocrit. [QUOTE]For now on, I am going to call the anti-immigrant brigade the culturites. [/QUOTE] That's nice. [QUOTE]One last thing: In the next couple of weeks I am going to ask my dear girlfriend to marry me. She is a beautiful filipina, and this ought to get your goat - she is not a citizen till later this summer. I am damn proud to say I am the first of my entire extended N.American family line to marry someone who is not white. [/QUOTE] You could have just told us this from the start. Most people who fail to back up their arguments but fight against those who think like me are really mixers trying to justify their own decisions. Perhaps the best argument for segregation as the U.S. once practiced is some people will invent an unlimited number of reasons to mix with othe races. You remind me of the middle class whites who dated blacks in the 1960s to "prove they weren't racist" and bother their parents. I hope you have a better reason for marrying someone than a twisted form of trailblazing. Your families line would come to an end and you brag about that as some sort of badge of honour. That's pretty screwed up that's for sure. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/confused.gif' alt='Confused'> It takes someone unbelievable self-hating and cultureless to make such an important life decision for such immature reasons. [QUOTE]And don't take my barbs too much to heart perturbed, as I don't when you jab me. We both love our country, we just don't see eye to eye.[/QUOTE] I appreciate that old pal but you remember one thing--I'm not intending to jab you, I aim to convince with my arguments. You claim to love your country yet you can't wait to change it via immigration as fast as possible. That's pretty insincere. It sounds more like you love everything except what Canada was. In other words, you love everything EXCEPT the traditional Canada that doesn't fit your Marxist critiqe.

[QUOTE]We don’t need excuses. We have reasons. For instance the Ontario Environment Commissioner has cited unchecked population growth fuelled by mass immigration as a main cause, not sole cause, of environmental degradation in southern Ontario. It threatens prime farm land and green spaces. It is adding more cars to the roads thus increasing traffic congestion and harmful pollutants in the air. In short he concluded that the quality of life of southern Ontarians, I being one, is being adversely affected by rapid population growth.[/QUOTE] This reminds me of what Nick Griffin of the British National Party said about immigration to Britain--Britain is literally having water shortages thanks to growth which was never in large supply on that already overcrowded island. Britain was overcrowded before immigration started. [QUOTE]Despite Toronto’s claim to diversity it is increasing becoming segregated and turning communities into colonies where English is a second language.[/QUOTE] Anglophone Canadians have been a minority in Toronto since 1996, and will be in the entire GTA by 2017 as reported by The Globe and Mail: <a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/index.php?topic=immigration&page=2">here</a>

The Saint wrote: [QUOTE]English is about to become a minority language in Vancouver if it is not already.[/QUOTE] This may surprise you but that point was reached back in 1996 according to the Vancouver Sun: Canadian Immigration Hotline: Number 84, November, 1996 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- English is Now A Minority Language in Vancouver "If you feel like you're in the minority if you speak English in the city of Vancouver, you're right. A majority of people living within the city limits now speak a language other than English at home, city hall's social planning department has confirmed. ... The past few years have seen an unprecedented influx of Asian immigrants moving into Vancouver, coupled with a mass movement of English-speakers selling their high-priced Vancouver city homes and cashing in by moving to the suburbs. The result: just 43.96 per cent of the children in Vancouver schools report English as the language they speak at home. ... More than 56 per cent of the population of the city speaks a language other than English at home. ... Chinese dialects make up the bulk of non-English speakers in schools at 31.56 per cent. ... Add to those the 5.17 per cent speaking Vietnamese, 4.39 per cent Punjabi, 2.6 per cent Spanish, 2.06 per cent Hindi, and 1.52 per cent Tagalog (from the Philippines,) and you've already got 47.3 per cent of the populace speaking a language other than English." (Vancouver Sun, November 2, 1996) <a href="http://www.canadafirst.net/back_issues/cih-nov.html">here</a>

The Saint on Roy Whyte: [QUOTE]And why do I get the feeling you’re an immigration lawyer? Please tell me your not.[/QUOTE] No he works a dead end job as a security guard and runs some political web site that no one reads. Its threads used to get like 1 comment so now no comments are allowed.