C-FAR Focuses on Immigration in
Election '97
C-FAR supporters used a May 22 rally outside of Justice Minister Allan
Rock's Toronto headquarters to kick off a 10-day campaign to distribute
tens of thousands of leaflets reminding people that immigration is an issue
in this election.
While
all parties have stressed the need to address the problem of unemployment,
all have studiously avoided the fact that the more than one-million immigrants
admitted in the past five years have helped to keep the unemployment rate
scandalously high.
The following is the text of the C-FAR leaflet, which was also used
to introduce voters to C-FAR newsletters.
Immigration is an Election Issue
Since the immigration revolution of 1965, when the Pearson government
turned its back on our traditional source of immigration (Europe), Canada
has undergone a radical demographic change.
- Whole neighbourhoods have changed, with the traditional
Canadian population being replaced.
- Poor screening has permitted large numbers of criminals
and gangsters to enter Canada.
- Poor screening has allowed ugly diseases like TB, hepatitis
and leprosy to make a comeback in Canada.
- Costs such as ESL and welfare for legions of illegals
have soared.
- Multiculturalism policies have restricted free speech
for Canadians, denigrated Canadian culture (banning Christmas assemblies
in some schools) and cost tens of millions.
- The immigration flood (200,000 plus per year) has kept
unemployment artificially high and blighted the future for young Canadians.
- Canadians never voted for these policies. They were never
asked.
- All three oldline parties -- Liberal, Progressive Conservative,
and NDP -- backed this massive change.