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| quote: | Originally posted by dEsidEL
these people need to be given encouragement and incentive that they can lead a better life in other parts of the country and not merely within large urban centers. i can't even begin to imagine the kinds of difficulties a refugee would have trying to settle into another part of Canada. what types of services would they expect to receive in terms of helping them find work to establish themselves? what sorts of English language programs would they be able to obtain in order to gain the necessary skills to communicate and integrate within the existing community there? you can't just force someone to live someplace, atleast not in this country.
if you want to know how this is all going to be accomplished, don't look at me, ask immigration Canada .. that's their job
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There's something wrong with this, though. For hundreds of years, immigrants to Canada did not need these kinds of "services". What is so special about refugees that we need to provide for them in this way? Is there some reason they can't do what everyone else did - get a low-skill job that doesn't require much communication, use it to finance an education, and move up the ranks in society? Yes, okay, I wouldn't call this living the high life, but surely it's FAR better than what they had back home, otherwise they wouldn't have left in the first place!
I think the fact that we "can't force someone to live someplace" is precisely the problem. I'm not saying hire armed guards to make sure they stay in Saskatchewan - I'm saying tell them that they aren't getting any welfare if a Toronto address appears on their application (and don't tell me you can't discriminate based on location, insurance companies do this ALL the time), or that they have to pass a citizenship test in 2 years if they want to be eligible to work (or to receive any money from the government). There's nothing wrong with these restrictions - this country has a limited amount of resources it can apply to charity and people seem to forget that those resources come from us, the ones who work 9-5 and speak fluent English and spent at least 12 years in school.
The problem isn't that it's too hard for refugees/immigrants to survive outside urban centres... the problem is that it's TOO EASY for them to survive IN urban centres without doing any work! I can't even blame the immigrants for that - I mean, when you tell people that they can do jack shit with their lives and still be entitled to everything that an upstanding citizen has, they're *probably* going to take you up on that offer. Who would refuse, aside from the ultra-moral and the materialistic?
The other problem is that there's just so damn many of them ("225,000 immigrants + 37,000 refugees are projected") that it's impossible to keep track of them all! The only time the government can ever keep track of so many people is tax collection time. There also seems to be little differentiation between immigrants, who go through official channels and generally come here for the purpose of finding work and an education, and refugees, who come here specifically to escape their own society without any concrete plan as to how they intend to get along in ours. What's that saying again - when in Rome, do as the Romans do? You go to a foreign land, you learn the foreign culture, because THAT is the "right" thing to do.
Let's hear solutions that *don't* involve spending more taxpayer money, please.
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