Recent article in Agrovox suggested that Canada is Importing illiteracy in the name of family re-unification
The study continues to add that only about 23% of the immigrants pay taxes and rest of the 77% are just burden on these 23% tax payers. The author of the study goes on to suggest that entire country should go on to blush with embarrassment, it no where says about the similar figures about the “non immigrant Canadians”. Though, I have don’t have any data currently on the subject, yet I guess given the ratio of children and aged people and assuming that at least 30% of the household would be single income households, where only a single member would be earning, this figure too will not be better than about 35%.
Mostly immigrants, especially from India and Pakistan are seen to be more affluent and if the car sales statistics are any thing to go by, then they are doing definitely better than “native Canadians”. (Though there is nothing called Natives in Canada, some Canadians established at least 30 years or more would like to call themselves as Natives of Canada.) Obviously, the immigrants are doing better.
Then where is the need for raising all this controversy. The article at agravox also continues to talk about the immense cost to society created by the crimes committed by immigrants. However, if you see the statistics released by the prison authorities from time to time, the ratio of inmates in jails is about the same as their composition in the population.
The article is typical of immigrant bashing by presenting half truths.
Even I am against immigration. My reason is that there are no more jobs available for new immigrants and these immigrants are eating away our jobs; even undercutting.
No doubt, I agree with agravox stand that immigration has generally been touted as a quick-fix solution to our problems: as filling jobs that Canadians supposedly don’t want to do; and that why, then, do we bring in mostly people who add to the cost, instead of selecting those from whom the country can actually benefit? Yes, I agree, but the reason is mostly political than economical though it has been shrouded under the garb of social equality.
Fact is that Canada has pockets of immigrants; some places which resemble more to Punjab in India or look like parts of china. These areas make powerful vote banks and hence some “political compulsion” calls for such statements.
About the fact that agravox mentioned that almost half of the 250,000 immigrants Canada admits a year enter the country under the family reunification scheme. This has swelled the ranks of the elderly and infirm – a group that is growing among native-born Canadians and a source of future affordability bottlenecks when it comes to social programs and health care – and is one of the main reasons why Canadians have to wait for months, or years, for crucial medical procedures. If you have ever wondered why emergency rooms are always clogged, and some people die before staff can attend to them, look around: the majority of patients are elderly aunts, uncles and grandparents or cousins brought in under the family class – none of whom will ever learn English and contribute even a penny in taxes. In other words, they are completely useless and are dragging Canada down into the gutter.
The fact that an immigrant is almost sure to call his parents is well known at the time of granting him immigration. This is a cost that is inbuilt into the hefty fees that a immigrant pays at the time of immigration. Why regret the same later on? In any case, the as a percentage, old people in immigrants family would be the same as in others case.