As someone who was canvassing for the Liberals in a very multicultural riding, I found the people who were most upset by the lack of control in the TFW and international student programs, were immigrants themselves.
These new restrictions don't attack Canada's multicultural identity or commitment to immigration. They restore confidence.
Gee whiz really? One columnist and all of a sudden its a impatient whipping to "get with the program"?
I'm beyond tired of being hectored to ideologically align or hit the highway. I call bullshit hearing it from the left, center or the right.
Surely the Lord Levitating Baby Jesus Himself we can find space in this big country for a plurality of voices and viewpoints. If I stomach Lorne Gunter's paranoid ravings in the PostMedia rags out here in Alberta, surely I can stomach Althia Raj's wet whinging in the Star.
As far as immigration goes (I moved here with my parents in 1957) I worry about what is going to happen when everybody south of 49 (or on the other side of the equator, north of 49) decides to move away from the increasing climate disaster.
What you described of The Star article by Althia Raj sounded like a settler-colonial (IE: regressive) variant of Performative Progressivism.
Immigration to the Dominion of Canada has long been a tool to generate loyalty to the Dominion government over the inherent and Treaty Rights of First Nations and other pre-existing peoples of this continent.
There are ongoing issues with the Foreign Worker programs of Western Canada that aren't being addressed.
Expansion to Reserve policies, LandBack and CashBack should happen first, with restored domestic (meaning Indigenous) governance deciding who should be accepted as migrants to this continent rather than settler-colonial governments.
That said, the article I read (only I could find from that author) was focused on unaccountable privacy invasions from police, border and other related services. I’m glad I read it, as what you wrote seems to be about an entirely different article – and the invasion of privacy policies they wrote about I seriously doubt most Canadians would agree with, unlike the separate issue you focused on.
Sorry Evan but equating one columnist to the entire philosophy of the Star is lazy writing. There are lots of other viewpoints in its pages. Plus, so what? Isn’t it good that there exists a spectrum of opinions in Canada and not just right wing sludge?
Finally, may I respectfully point out that the Beveridge report came out in the depths of WW2 and, with the defeat of Churchill, was mostly implemented soon after the war’s end. So yes, we are in the midst of a crisis and maybe today isn’t the time to entertain the leftist musings of Ms. Raj. However, that doesn’t prevent debate about policy and parties for a post-crisis Canada.
As someone who was canvassing for the Liberals in a very multicultural riding, I found the people who were most upset by the lack of control in the TFW and international student programs, were immigrants themselves.
These new restrictions don't attack Canada's multicultural identity or commitment to immigration. They restore confidence.
Gee whiz really? One columnist and all of a sudden its a impatient whipping to "get with the program"?
I'm beyond tired of being hectored to ideologically align or hit the highway. I call bullshit hearing it from the left, center or the right.
Surely the Lord Levitating Baby Jesus Himself we can find space in this big country for a plurality of voices and viewpoints. If I stomach Lorne Gunter's paranoid ravings in the PostMedia rags out here in Alberta, surely I can stomach Althia Raj's wet whinging in the Star.
As far as immigration goes (I moved here with my parents in 1957) I worry about what is going to happen when everybody south of 49 (or on the other side of the equator, north of 49) decides to move away from the increasing climate disaster.
What you described of The Star article by Althia Raj sounded like a settler-colonial (IE: regressive) variant of Performative Progressivism.
Immigration to the Dominion of Canada has long been a tool to generate loyalty to the Dominion government over the inherent and Treaty Rights of First Nations and other pre-existing peoples of this continent.
There are ongoing issues with the Foreign Worker programs of Western Canada that aren't being addressed.
https://r.flora.ca/p/alberta
Expansion to Reserve policies, LandBack and CashBack should happen first, with restored domestic (meaning Indigenous) governance deciding who should be accepted as migrants to this continent rather than settler-colonial governments.
That said, the article I read (only I could find from that author) was focused on unaccountable privacy invasions from police, border and other related services. I’m glad I read it, as what you wrote seems to be about an entirely different article – and the invasion of privacy policies they wrote about I seriously doubt most Canadians would agree with, unlike the separate issue you focused on.
Sorry Evan but equating one columnist to the entire philosophy of the Star is lazy writing. There are lots of other viewpoints in its pages. Plus, so what? Isn’t it good that there exists a spectrum of opinions in Canada and not just right wing sludge?
Finally, may I respectfully point out that the Beveridge report came out in the depths of WW2 and, with the defeat of Churchill, was mostly implemented soon after the war’s end. So yes, we are in the midst of a crisis and maybe today isn’t the time to entertain the leftist musings of Ms. Raj. However, that doesn’t prevent debate about policy and parties for a post-crisis Canada.