Ont. minister denounces ‘hateful’ anti-immigrant flyers; police investigating
2014/08/13 2 Comments
More on the flyer by Immigration Watch (Anti-immigration flyers single out Sikh community in Brampton):
Michael Chan says in a statement that he is “disgusted” by the flyers in the city northwest of Toronto and that “there is no room in our province for intolerance, hatred or division on cultural or racial lines.
The document shows a crossed-out picture of a man wearing a turban alongside text asking readers to “Say ‘No’ to the massive Third World invasion of Canada.”
Ont. minister denounces ‘hateful’ anti-immigrant flyers; police investigating – The Globe and Mail.
About Andrew
Multicultural Meanderings 
There is absolutely NO proven net economic benefit to massive third-world immigration. And for the record, I don’t care if these third world immigrants are black, white, yellow, blue or pink. We do not need endless inflows of them!
Here’s why:
– The median earnings of Canadians (in constant 2005 $) increased by 0.1% between 1980 and 2005 (i.e., ~nil).
– The earnings of the poorest quintile fell by 20.6%.
– The earnings of the richest quintile rose by 16.4%.
All recent mass immigration did is redistribute the wealth to the rich (who own the growth-promoting media).
– Less than 20% of immigrants are selected on the basis of skills. The remainder are nuclear family members or fall under the “family re-unification” category (e.g., parents) or other categories.
– In recent decades, the earnings of recent immigrants have fallen far behind those of native-born Canadians or more established immigrants.
– An economic study calculated that recent immigrants receive $18 – 23 billion more in government assistance (e.g., language and skills training, welfare) than they pay in taxes.
(H. Grubel & P. Grady, 2011, Immigration and the Canadian Welfare State)
– Number 1 destination is Toronto. If mass immigration is so good for the economy, why did Ontario change from a donor to a recipient of federal equalization payments?
– Ontario has lost over 300,000 manufacturing jobs in the last decade; unemployment remains high; 16.5% among youth.
– Despite continued high unemployment, those labour shortages keep looming in the minds of politicians.
“Those who once made a living wage at places like Heinz, Kellogg’s and Canada Post will be forced to compete with ever increasing numbers of New Canadians, who like them, will be lucky to cobble together part-time jobs at miserable wages just to get by.” (Tim Murray, email 12 December 2013)
(Canada’s Immigration Policy: Where is it taking us? The Need for a Cost Benefit Analysis – M. Wield).
Lisa,
Thanks for your comments. I think your concerns are broader than immigration, given the impact of global economic forces and related trends such as increased inequality.
And the debate over immigration should be regarding overall levels of immigration, rather than source countries, given that all have to meet the same standards and we have relatively few immigrants or potential immigrants from developed countries.
The Grubel study focuses only on costs and taxation, and not on benefits and takes a narrow single generation perspective. Similar to the Fraser Institute’s recent study which only focused on taxation levels (valid concern) but did not mention increased government services (medicare being the most obvious example).
Need both to inform policy and programs.
But thanks again for your comment. Important part of the debate and discussion.
Andrew