POL Slow-motion but steady genocide of Canadians in small towns

MinnesotaSmith

Membership Revoked
Links and comments at original. (Canada either needs their own Trump or to revolt.)

http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2017/11/immigration-is-killing-ontario-small-towns.html?m=1

Thursday, 23 November 2017

Immigration Is Killing Ontario's Small Towns

by Maggie McDougal

"I was on my way to work one morning around the beginning of March, when I decided to stop at MacDonald's for a morning coffee, one of the few luxuries I can afford, despite having trained for four different fields of work throughout my life in Ontario, Canada. At my current job, I am by far the highest educated worker, with vast training, including a graduate degree in the chief public service that the organization provides: human services. Yet, I am employed on contract at the lowliest clerical job, with the poorest status, and wages and without benefit, not even vacation time (only money in lieu of vacation). That in it-self should raise the eyebrows of the handful of critical thinkers that still exist in this nation.

Immigration is a working class issue, make no mistake about it. If you were waiting for the wealthy to intervene and to try and stop immigration, that isn't going to happen — ever!

At this point, the immigration tap doesn't need to only be turned off, we actually need restoration efforts to make up for the losses sustained by Canadians proper — restorative justice.

I waited for my coffee, which was being poured by a long-time Canadian such as myself. Likely he was forced to take any job in order to continue to live in this town, like citizens in so many other small Ontario towns, which have suffered for decades as the jobs left for nations where products could be manufactured at a lower cost to create a product of poor quality to sell back to people like us.

I reached for the newspaper rack, and ended up with a newspaper in my hand, which I have learned through the application of my critical thinking skills to distrust and despise. Yet, it was in my hand, so I read the headline, "The Future Of Ontario's Small Towns Is Immigration."1

I was served my coffee and I gulped it down, not paying attention to it, but rather the headline and burning my mouth and throat in the process. The pain was no comparison to the raw feeling of acid burning in my gut as I continued to read the front page newspaper story, which the low wage workers serving me would likely never even get a chance to glance at throughout their stress-full day at work.

Imagine having watched your entire community being fed a steady diet of raw potatoes and turnips for thirty years, and in order to survive you've swallowed it, but not because you liked it, but because you had been led to believe it was the only way to survive. And then one day you discovered that you could have been eating steak and lobster, and it was all a grand farce, because the joke was on you and the rest of the folks in your towns and communities all across the nation.

Reading that Toronto Star article, on that freezing cold morning in March, I recognized that "we" the working class had all been made complete fools, not once but again and again and again, as lie after lie was unveiled for us by grinning political shysters.

Immigrants resent me for being Canadian

I am an environmental refugee, having twice fled the shameless and unnecessary destruction of the green spaces in and around central Ontario, in the name of atrocious and unnecessary development projects which include row after endless row of cookie cutter housing for immigrants. At forty-five years of age, I have watched the replacement of Canada's host population with nothing but wall to wall immigrants. I have experienced deep hate and racism from immigrants in the workplace and in the communities I have lived in. The hate they direct at me is called "internalized oppression." They resent me for being Canadian. It has been vicious abuse from them and nobody is interested in hearing my story, and seems like nobody ever will.

I came to live in the community my husband spent much of his youth in, and which is a two and half hour drive from Toronto. One would think that I had travelled far enough to escape, but not so. In the decade since coming here, we have watched the community emptied out of working class Canadians, many of whom were in tears at having to return to urban centres such as Toronto and surrounding communities. Like all of us, they had to go where they could find work. As if that wasn't enough, to further aid the destruction of the community the provincial government has mandated the closure of small hospitals in all small Ontario communities, as they move to a centralized model for healthcare. They have also closed high schools and junior schools to ensure real estate opportunities for the new, wealthy immigrants.

There is one common theme for people who live in Central Ontario, north of Toronto, "Good luck finding a job, eh!"

Most of those who are able to live here and find work have to accept that their children will have to leave and come home only when they have a long weekend. Most of these children would love to work and live in the communities they were raised in, and have deep roots in, but they can't.

With no jobs for us, where are the jobs coming from for the immigrants?

Apparently, while this exodus continues all around us, the Toronto Star, for some reason is assured that the future of our small towns across this province is immigration. The logical question, which media outlets such as the Toronto Star, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) will never pose is: How can the future of Ontario's small towns be immigrants, when there is no future here for Canadians?

I want to jump to the heart of the matter: Where are the jobs coming from for the immigrants when there are no jobs here for Canadian citizens and their children?

One has to accept that assertions such as this one, made by mainstream media are steeped in knowledge of a strategy at-work, one which includes many sectors of society working together to ensure high employment rates amongst immigrants and not citizens, no matter how educated. Such a duplicitous strategy is often referred to as a conspiracy or elites breathing together for their own gain.

Immigration portal of Leeds & Grenville

As a human services professional I have become aware over the past decade of the agencies that are funded by the government to find immigrants jobs, and which provide incentives to their staff to do so. The Local Immigration Partnerships which exist in every single community in Ontario and which are working with private enterprises and local social service agencies, to ensure new immigrants find jobs, but not us. We are not the future, we are ghosts walking around remembering amongst ourselves about what was, but which we cannot celebrate any longer, for fear of being labelled and losing what few options for employment we still have.

There is a vast network of immigration lobbyists that have lined their pockets with gold, as they lead Canadians to believe that we must remove the shirts from our backs, and leave our home communities, in order to make way for the immigrants, lest we be accused of our lack of humanity.

Last week, CBC Radio aired a live phone in program called Disappearing Life Lines and it exposed some of the different stories not being heard from small town Ontario. It basically spelled out for us the death of Ontario's small towns. The guests on the program cited the unnecessary closure of high schools and hospitals in towns such as the one I live in, as a final death knell and guarantee of population decline. Yet, the pro-immigrant CBC Presenter made no connection between this and the Toronto Star's assertion that the future of Ontario's small towns is immigrants. If these towns are brimming with so much opportunity, then how come Canadian citizens have been so hard pressed to find any? Why would they leave if there are opportunities?

First they let our jobs disappear by allowing industry to flee to the Third World, causing a dramatic decline in the population of Ontario's small towns. They could have simply applied protectionist policies to protect Canadians from greedy corporations — of course they couldn't do that because protectionism is a taboo word in globalist circles. Then they over-populated central Ontario through immigration, and now they are going to re-populate our beloved small towns with wealthy immigrants, when the Canadians who long to live in these towns can't afford to stick around!

One immigrant is quoted in the Toronto Star article as stating, "A smaller community makes the transition easier. There is no hustle and bustle, and people ... It would have taken me much longer to settle down in a big city like Toronto," said the 35-year-old from Bangalore, a metropolitan city in India with a population of nine million.

"There are more opportunities and less competition here. The salaries are not as high as in the big cities, but the cost of living is lower," said Joseph, who works as an operation and planning co-ordinator at an area trucking company.

Joseph states exactly what we Canadians like about our small towns, and the way we would like to keep them, but there is no opportunity in these communities for most Canadians, so exactly how does he come to find it?

The article goes on to state: According to the latest census, populations fell between 2011 and 2016 in one in four of Canada's 723 municipalities with 5,000 people or above, with those further from urban centres more likely to show a decline in population than those close to a larger city.

Neither the Toronto Star nor the CBC haven't wasted their time interviewing Canadian Citizens who have been forced to leave small towns for the urban centres, because we don't ever want to get near the heart of the matter, lest some truth be revealed to the general public.

Finally, the new measures instituted by Ontario politicians to bring the price of houses down in Toronto, brought UP the price of houses in small communities across the rest of the province, which in my mind is more evidence of a larger strategy at work, not to control an out of control market, but rather to spread the "out of control" aspect of it to the impoverished working poor who are clinging to life in small town Ontario.

Employment agencies do not advocate for Canadians and place them into jobs

In the town I live in, a Syrian refugee family was given a handsome house to live in, while a homeless guy spent the last two winters in a cardboard hovel tucked into a corner of the local cemetery. He is a nice man, whom I am sure could be placed in to do a good job, but that's not ever going to happen, is it? Government funded employment agencies are not in the business advocating for Canadians and placing them into jobs. They are only good at collecting government money and engaging in nonsense such as the resume critique.

One million wealthy immigrants are on the way and will be enjoying the good life here in Canada by 2020. Millions of Canadians will most definitely be displaced by them including in the area of jobs, housing, business opportunities, political opportunities ... the list goes on and on. The best part is that the Trudeau government has made it clear that the one million are not headed to Canada's major cities. Oh no, these immigrants are going to be provided with INCENTIVES to settle in our small towns. The same small towns the host population can only dream of living in and which most Canadians have to wait until they retire to live in.

I have lost everything, at this point, I don't feel there is a future for me and what is left of my family. I missed the chance to have children because I wasn't able to afford to and now there is nothing but hollowness inside of me. I don't know what I will do with the rest of my life, but it is very sad to think of the future. I don't know what I risk by writing this letter, or what they will do to me, but I just had to write it.

There is an alarm belling ringing, and it is warning us about the future, and it is time to listen to it."
 

genuapia

Contributing Member
Is genocide the right term for what is described in this article?
Seems to me the better strategy in discussing the agenda and actions of the globalists is to be precise.
 

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Maggie can’t even spell “McDonald’s” correctly. I have a tough time wanting to read this essay.
 

Faroe

Un-spun
This woman is an SJW in Conservative clothing...sort of.

She certainly has a unique take on herself:
At my current job, I am by far the highest educated worker, with vast training, including a graduate degree in the chief public service that the organization provides: human services. Yet, I am employed on contract at the lowliest clerical job, with the poorest status, and wages and without benefit, not even vacation time (only money in lieu of vacation).

Personally, I think her "critical thinking skills," and her writing kind of suck.

ETA: The whole thing is just *off.* Maybe a computer wrote it?
 

Illini Warrior

Illini Warrior
This woman is an SJW in Conservative clothing...sort of.

She certainly has a unique take on herself:
At my current job, I am by far the highest educated worker, with vast training, including a graduate degree in the chief public service that the organization provides: human services. Yet, I am employed on contract at the lowliest clerical job, with the poorest status, and wages and without benefit, not even vacation time (only money in lieu of vacation).

Personally, I think her "critical thinking skills," and her writing kind of suck.


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THIS


be willing to bet a $1M that she voted again and again for the country to get into this f_____ing mess ......

NOW it's coming back to personally bite HER in the azz ...........
 

hoss

Out to lunch
I mostly agree with the comments above about the author most likely being a SWJ liberal lefty.

With that said, I believe the overall point she tries to make holds water here in the US as well.

We have many dying small towns with decaying infrastructure. It seems to me that we too are dumping immigrants with little skills into these towns. And, we are often spending good money through government entitlement programs to help them settle, find jobs, and provide for them. Not as much for many of the native born citizens.
 

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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This woman is an SJW in Conservative clothing...sort of.

She certainly has a unique take on herself:
At my current job, I am by far the highest educated worker, with vast training, including a graduate degree in the chief public service that the organization provides: human services. Yet, I am employed on contract at the lowliest clerical job, with the poorest status, and wages and without benefit, not even vacation time (only money in lieu of vacation).

Personally, I think her "critical thinking skills," and her writing kind of suck.

ETA: The whole thing is just *off.* Maybe a computer wrote it?

And her self-description is chock full of grammar and syntax errors. So evident her vast training wasn’t particularly effective.
 

Laurane

Canadian Loonie
But her description of what is happening in Ontario is probably more correct than anyone has noticed. The immigration rules allow family reunification (supposedly merit-based) but heavily in favour of allowing a LOT of family to enter Canada.....and the rules on not receiving .gov money are not applied fairly.

Pres Trump said he was in favour of the Canadian merit-based system, but it is not one he should base his reform on......Trudeau talks a good fight, but not too many white German engineers are getting in if they don't have a family connection.

So these families are spreading across that Province, and probably through Quebec too, and we see it in BC with the Asian immigrants in Vancouver pushing real estate so high, that Canadians are not able to find housing and are moving to smaller centres.
 

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
I remember, here in the USA, in 1981 applying for a receptionist job that came open at Tacoma Community College, greeting and helping the public as they entered the College.
They ended up hiring a recent SE Asian immigrant woman who spoke nearly NO English at all and was entirely USLESS at the job she was hired to do. I desperately NEEDED that job too. Went on looking for decent work till we lost our home. (both laid off at once)
I discovered that (since) even BACK THEN in 1981, Immigrants, ex-cons, (and blacks) got PRIORITY consideration over citizens (especially over law-abiding WHITES) for any and all good paying TAXPAYER FUNDED public sector jobs at EVERY level of government Federal, State, County, Town etc.!
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
I remember, here in the USA, in 1981 applying for a receptionist job that came open at Tacoma Community College, greeting and helping the public as they entered the College.
They ended up hiring a recent SE Asian immigrant woman who spoke nearly NO English at all and was entirely USLESS at the job she was hired to do. I desperately NEEDED that job too. Went on looking for decent work till we lost our home. (both laid off at once)
I discovered that (since) even BACK THEN in 1981, Immigrants, ex-cons, (and blacks) got PRIORITY consideration over citizens (especially over law-abiding WHITES) for any and all good paying TAXPAYER FUNDED public sector jobs at EVERY level of government Federal, State, County, Town etc.!

It shouldn't matter if you're white, black, pink. or green with purple polka dots! What should matter is whether or not you can do the damned job, that's the part that pisses me off, is the continued need to hire those that are incompetent to fill quotas... or if your in a small rural town and aren't related then the retarded relative gets the job and you're screwed even though you're more qualified.
 

CGTech

Has No Life - Lives on TB
(folk here on PEI have bitched about this program for years. never any change by the politicians)

Scrutiny for P.E.I. immigration program: 'The rules, apparently, don't apply'
[The Canadian Press]


The Canadian PressNovember 24, 2017

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CHARLOTTETOWN — From her Charlottetown fitness studio, Wendy Chappell has watched a parade of new, immigrant-owned businesses open in nearby storefronts.

She was excited to have newcomers open up shop around her, but watched in disappointment as their companies — including a Chinese children's book store, a porcelain shop, a store that sold reproductions of art, and a baked goods store — closed over the last two-and-a-half years.

She started wondering about the province's business immigration system — and whether it really keeps immigrants or creates lasting jobs.

"How do we have a system that encourages this? Where's the oversight to our provincial (immigration) nominee program?" she asks, standing at her second-floor window overlooking University Avenue, near the city's downtown.

"From my window, I could see four storefronts which began to be these turnover businesses, which were legitimate businesses, but weren't conducting much business."

Locally, such businesses set up under the "100 per cent ownership stream" in the provincial nominee program are known simply as "PNP companies."

It's a system the provincial Liberal government says is diversifying the Island's population and economy, but its critics say has evolved into a side-door route to larger Canadian cities, while filling the province's coffers with forfeited deposits from failed or abandoned ventures.

"In the absence of a sound and rational immigration program with proper oversight ... wealthy applicants will work the system," veteran Halifax-based immigration lawyer Lee Cohen wrote in an email to The Canadian Press.

In P.E.I.'s program, foreign businesspeople provide the province with a $200,000 deposit, and commit to invest $150,000 and actively manage a firm that incurs at least $75,000 in operating costs.

After the deal is signed, the province nominates the firms to the federal Immigration Department as a permanent resident. After an agreed period of time, usually a year, the immigrants can claim a refund of $150,000 if they met the business requirements, and $50,000 more if they could prove to the province they stayed in the province.

For Chappell, the results aren't evident.

Just beneath her studio, the Elite Gourmet Bakery closed up earlier this month. Chappell said during her occasional visits over the past year she'd seen a rack of baked goods purchased from a local shop, as hired students sat working on their laptops or reading books.

The Canadian Press visited the owner's address listed on the province's business registry, but a former landlord said he had moved.

Jun Jia, the co-owner of the children's book store that used to operate across from Chappell, confirmed in an email that he has closed his commercial space.

"We have left Prince Edward Island and moved to Ottawa ... We just want to give my sons better education, and we think Ontario is the better choice," he wrote.

Judy Chen, the owner of Grace Home Decor, a shop that also used to operate near Chappell's studio, said in a telephone interview from Ottawa that she was now travelling around Canada and might be back in "about a month."

The provincial nominee program is a "win-win situation," she wrote in an email.

"We like to be involved in the local community. It's not a bad idea. We would like to try. We opened a business. We hired a lawyer, an accountant, local people," she said in an interview.

Meanwhile, figures that emerged recently from the province's public accounts showed many PNP businesses simply never open at all.

The Island Investment Development Inc., which holds the deposits for the newcomers' businesses, indicates $18 million in net revenues over the past year came from immigrant companies that defaulted on their obligation to create a business. The figure is equivalent to about half the province's projected new spending on infrastructure projects.

Two thirds of the 2016-17 applicants, 177 people, defaulted on the business component of their agreement, while 92 did succeed in receiving the $150,000 business portion of their deposits back, according to the province.

However, of those, the province said 30 closed after one year. Of the 177 who defaulted, 152 never opened, and 25 defaulted after opening.

Yet, the provincial minister responsible says almost all the nominees are passing residency requirements, allowing them to keep $50,000 of their deposit, and he says the immigrants are staying in the province.

Heath MacDonald, the provincial minister of Economic Development, said during an interview at his office he's not contemplating changing the deposit system.

"One number that really stands out to us is our residency number. Even though they (nominees) may default on their business application and obligation, they are staying here," he said during an interview in his Charlottetown office.

In addition, he says the forfeited deposit money can be used to support the social programs that benefit newcomers, such as the hiring of more teachers.

He also says some of the PNP companies that succeed add to the province's economy, including a recent success story where a firm has signed a $150 million sales deal for Bangladesh.

In an email, an official with the Economic Development Department says the province hopes it can still work with those that have forfeited their deposits and will "reinstate their escrows if the applicants open a business at a later point."

However, critics of the program say it's not doing enough to ensure a serious effort will be made to create a business, or that the immigrant is likely to stay on the Island.

An analysis by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council shows that only one out of four people who've entered the province under the PNP program has remained five years later. In neighbouring Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, five out of 10 economic class immigrants are still in the province over the same time period.

In addition to turning the Island into an entry point for immigrants heading elsewhere, the PNP program is leading to a double standard in Canadian immigration, says Cohen.

The lawyer says if business immigrants fail to meet P.E.I.'s provincial conditions, it's unfair that they gain permanent residency while applicants in other provincial programs who don't meet standards may be asked to leave.

"What this invites ... is that the province loses the moral (and maybe legal) authority to reject other applicants in other immigration streams who fail to satisfy the immigration criteria in other streams," he wrote in an email.

"I am surprised the federal government has not yet weighed in on this."

A spokesperson for the federal Immigration Department wrote in an email that the criteria for nominations are set by the province, though they must conform to federal regulations.

"Defaulting on a deposit made under P.E.I.'s 100 per cent Ownership or Partial Ownership streams does not preclude a permanent resident from maintaining their permanent resident status or eventually seeking Canadian citizenship," wrote Jennifer Bourque.

Informed of Bourque's comment, Cohen replied: "If what Ms. Bourque says is true, I will, from this point forward, recommend to all of my clients wanting to immigrate under a PNP stream to do so only in P.E.I. where the rules, apparently, don't apply."

Meanwhile, the deposit system the Island is using is being dropped by some provinces.

Saskatchewan ended its requirement for a deposit two years ago, and requires applicants set up the business and pass through an evaluation before the provincial nomination is sent to Ottawa to become a permanent resident of the country.

Manitoba has just ended its deposit system, which used to require $100,000 per applicant and brought in about $9 million in forfeitures over the last fiscal year, half of P.E.I.'s levels.

Nova Scotia dropped its deposit system about a decade ago, and doesn't believe it leads to good retention levels of immigrants, said Suzanne Ley, the director of the province's Office of Immigration.

Abbey MacPherson, director of P.E.I.'s Office of Immigration, said steps are underway to increase the number of business owners who go through with their plans, and meet the conditions of their agreements.

She also said the province is revamping its intake system for applications that will allow her officials to do more ranking and screening of applicants for the ownership program, based on language, skills and other criteria.

The province has also been partnering PNP immigrants with P.E.I. Connectors, an initiative of the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce, and is finding that mentorship with local businesspeople creates a higher success rate, said MacDonald.

Still, for Chappell, the statement in the appendix of each PNP agreement that businesses show "good potential for sustained commercial viability," seems far from being met.

"I understand the businesses (in the program) are supposed to contribute to the local economy. ... That's not what's happening with a good portion of these," she says.

Follow (at)mtuttoncporg on Twitter.

Michael Tutton, The Canadian Press

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/scrutiny-p-e-immigration-program-135449124.html
 

TerryK

TB Fanatic
I mostly agree with the comments above about the author most likely being a SWJ liberal lefty.

With that said, I believe the overall point she tries to make holds water here in the US as well.

We have many dying small towns with decaying infrastructure. It seems to me that we too are dumping immigrants with little skills into these towns. And, we are often spending good money through government entitlement programs to help them settle, find jobs, and provide for them. Not as much for many of the native born citizens.

Her articles actually said "Then they over-populated central Ontario through immigration, and now they are going to re-populate our beloved small towns with wealthy immigrants, when the Canadians who long to live in these towns can't afford to stick around! "
Sound like they're being priced right out of their homes and neighborhoods.

I know this is happening on the Canadian west coast to some extent, but thought that most immigrants to other parts of Canada were mostly poor and unskilled.

Funny, but non refugee immigration to Canada is very strict and would be a good model for the US. Language requirements (English & French), education levels, financial status, are all considered.

However if you are a refugee, especially a minority refugee, you're in no matter what. :shk:

Hey, the Canadians elected the government they have. They and every country with elections get the government they voted for.
 

hoss

Out to lunch
The rules are the rules, but they aren't being followed.....

Whose rules? Some people think they are above the law and can do as they please according to their ideology. For the last 20 years, they have won.

Today, I'm not so sure they are winning. But unless we get 8 years of Trump I'm not sure we can stem the tide. Even then, with the RINO's he has to work with I'm not sure he can really change things much -- just slow them down.
 

Coulter

Veteran Member
Hey, the Canadians elected the government they have. They and every country with elections get the government they voted for.

Not sure about you - but I didn't vote for Obama.

Besides the truth is 99% of those who run for office are liars.

And pure evil IMO.

A lot of the votes are not even legitimate.

Just not sure what we can do about it.
 
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