Welcome to the new Canada where multiculturalism means flying terrorist flags while stopping other people from going to work

Click to enlarge - More pictures here[Update: Tamil protesters moved off University Ave.]

As everyone in Toronto already knows, Tamil protesters have been blocking traffic on University Avenue for three days now. Yesterday there were clashes with police who made some arrests. Among the chants I heard when I went downtown yesterday afternoon were "Tamil Tigers - Freedom Fighters".

Right.

These are freedom fighters who kidnap children to use as frontline soldiers in a separatist war. These are freedom fighters who use extortion and other crimes to fund suicide bombings and other acts of murder.

Not that the Sri Lankan government is any better. It was Sinhalese chauvinism that started this mess in the first place.

Unfortunately, the approaching military defeat of the Tigers in Sri Lanka won't mean the end of Tamil terrorism in Canada. The Tigers will continue to exist. They will continue to raise money illegally. They will continue to teach Tamil children that their first loyalty is to murderous thugs on the other side of the globe.

People sometimes say immigration and multiculturalism have created a new Canada. That's certainly true. Welcome to the new Canada, where supporters of a foreign terrorist organization don't think twice about displaying terrorist symbols while occupying a major street in the country's largest city.

Welcome to the new Canada where police are afraid to clear the road because they know if they do, they will be called racists by the Barbara Halls of this world.

Speaking of which, isn't flying a terrorist flag somewhat you know, err, what's the word ... hateful? Why aren't these protesters being hauled before the human rights commission to explain their open display of hatred towards the Sinhalese? Why is the board missing out on this chance to invent a new crime? Why it could even coin a new word to join the growing list of phobic neologisms: homophobia, Islamophobia, Sinhalophobia. And speaking of words, what do we call citizens of one country who openly display loyalty to a foreign government or in this case foreign terrorist group?

More protest pictures here.

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Ottawa ignored predictions high immigration would lower Income growth. Canadians have paid the price

From Immigration Watch Canada's April 9th bulletin:

John Meyer, a Canadian businessman and a past-president of Zero Population Growth, is the author of the article ("Immigration To Canada Now That We've Grown") featured in this bulletin.

Mr. Meyer's observations are particularly relevant in this deepening recession :

(1) In the 1970's, it was predicted that higher rates of immigration would lower per capita income growth. Recent OECD stats on this issue show that Canada has under-performed every other OECD country and that the prediction has come true. High immigration to do the so-called "dirty low paid jobs that Canadians reject" was a clear attempt to expand and perpetuate low-paying work.

(2 The move to raise immigration even higher is a "smoke stack era policy" which ignores social and environmental effects. High immigration makes environmental goals, such as a commitment to Kyoto, worthless.

(3 Creating millions of low-paying workers means creating a group which contributes minimally to our tax pool. This makes it impossible for Canada to both balance budgets and maintain full social programs.

(4) The impact of mass immigration on deficits and the environment has never been officially calculated. High immigration supporters such as cheap labour employers (supported by huge indirect subsidies) and land speculators lobby our governments to keep things that way. Canada, now likely a net food importer, has moved from feeding the world to consuming the world.

(5) Canada's accounting system remains cash-flow based. It values negative things such as sitting in traffic and paving farmland because these activities increase paid activity. Our GDP does not present a true picture because it fails to measure much more important factors in our economy.

(6) Canada needs to advance to a real-wealth accounting system which values environmental assets and considers the true and total effects of high immigration. Our current system hides all these negative effects and allows Canada's immigration lobby to control immigration policy. We do not permit the tobacco industry to write health legislation. We should not allow the immigration lobby to control immigration policy.

(7) "Knowing what we are measuring , looking down the road and developing integrated policies are core competencies for a democratic government--as is keeping a full set of books." Canada does not have any of these "core competencies" in place.

Read the whole bulletin

An excellent resource: Immigration Watch Canada

It's been a long time since I've updated this blog, but I'm still here and I'm still thinking about immigration. I see no reason to change my opinion that Canada's current immigration policies are a disaster. I plan to resume this blog, but I don't know when. In the meantime I would like to remind visitors that Immigration Watch Canada is an excellent resource for learning more about immigration policy. Also, please read, and just as important, support Peter Brimelow's website Vdare. Be sure to visit the blog. Even though Vdare is an American site, it often publishes articles about Canada. Just put Canada into the site's search engine. Furthermore, although Canadian and American immigration problems are different, there are enough similarities for the American articles to be of interest to Canadians.