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Cutting refugee health care a false saving
Ottawa’s cutbacks have exposed Canadians to health risks the government did not anticipate and has not acknowledged. Infectious diseases, wiped out long ago in this country, could make a comeback if refugees are left untreated… the cost of cutting off access to health care could quickly overtake the savings. Bill C-31 prevents doctors from treating diseases in their early stages when they can be cured or managed… Most emergency wards don’t turn away uninsured patients. But the provinces have to pay their bills.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Why has Canada given up competing for immigrant investors?
One of the budget items that received little attention was the termination of the 25-year-old Immigrant Investor Program (IIP). It was the flagship immigration tool that specifically focused on attracting global entrepreneurs and investors to Canada… Rather than refocusing and reinvigorating the program, it was turfed, all without providing any economic analysis… They don’t worry about other provinces now aiming for Quebec, which was allowed to continue its unique investor program.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, rights
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Citizenship reforms a serious threat to rights of all Canadians
… what they really do is make citizens vulnerable to abuse of power by the government. They broadly expand the requirements for citizenship in ways that will make it inaccessible to many while dramatically reducing a person’s due process rights when the government seeks to take citizenship away… Under the proposed changes a person will be eligible for citizenship only if they satisfy the minister that they intend to reside in Canada after becoming a citizen.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living
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How to read Ottawa’s latest immigration changes
Our immigration policy used to be a citizenship policy — 85 per cent of newcomers opted for citizenship, the highest rate of such integration among immigrant-receiving nations. But the Conservatives turned immigration into a supply chain of cheap and pliant labour for business. Thus the exponential rise in temporary foreign workers and a record level of immigration, at about 250,000 a year, despite persistent high unemployment among Canadians.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, rights
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Ontario denies dignity in death
Provincial laws are discriminatory even in death. Ontario Works and ODSP are a social net for people in need. Non-status immigrants deserve this support like all Ontarians, especially since they often do the dirty, low-paying and dangerous jobs other Ontarians don’t want. If Rob Ford can vote with the rest of council to make Toronto a sanctuary city, Kathleen Wynne should be able to do the same for Ontario.
Tags: ideology, immigration, poverty, standard of living
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Feds to double number of international students
More diplomatic, visa-processing and marketing resources will be shifted to China, Vietnam, India, Brazil, Mexico, and the Middle East-North Africa region, including Turkey, in order to help recruit the world’s best and brightest… The goal is to boost the number of international students and academic researchers to more than 450,000 by 2022, which translates into a huge cash injection for universities due in part to the lofty tuitions paid by non-Canadians.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration
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Ontario health workers prescribe $14 minimum wage
A $14 minimum wage would put a full-time worker about 10 per cent above Ontario’s poverty line of about $19,000 a year, after taxes. Almost 500,000 Ontarians — one in nine workers — earn the minimum wage of $10.25, which has been frozen for almost four years… The situation is even worse for immigrants who, despite their higher education levels, are twice as likely to work for minimum wage as the average Ontarian
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, poverty, standard of living
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Court challenges show Harper governing in shadow of Trudeau’s Charter of Rights
Court challenges by First Nations are likely to stop the Northern Gateway pipeline. Judges have ruled mandatory sentencing for gun crimes violate the charter and refused to impose victim surcharge fees… immigration reforms were restrained by charter rulings on refugees’ rights. And on the key social questions of our era – same-sex marriage, prostitution, drugs, assisted suicide – the Harper government has been unwilling to stand down the judges…
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, rights
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Canadians outshone their politicians in 2013
In Ottawa, mean-spiritedness reigns… At Queen’s Park, goodwill is nowhere to be found… Even the charitable sector doesn’t have much good news to report. Again this year, fewer Canadians made donations and those who did, gave less. Is anything going right in this benighted nation? My answer is a quiet yes. In small but significant ways, Canadians began to take back their country.
Tags: budget, corrections, Health, ideology, immigration, participation
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Finding a way forward for Canada
With our civil and democratic institutions eroding all around us, what we see isn’t pretty… Michael Valpy’s call to action involves restoring cohesion… / His recommendations include “proportional representation” (PR), but many people pushing for change use this term to exclude the “alternative vote” (AV) or ranked ballot system. We need a higher minimum wage… changes to immigration policy… and the Bank of Canada needs to change its policies to put more emphasis on unemployment and less on inflation
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, participation, rights, standard of living
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