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   XPost: can.general, can.politics   
   From: cognomen@domus.ca   
      
   "Ed"  wrote   
   > I approve of Harper's changes to the immigration laws that  will hopefully   
   keep skilled   
   > engineers and even physicians   
   >  who come here from developing nations like India or countries like Russia   
   and  the   
   > former eastern bloc, from driving   
   >  taxi cabs for a living because their credentials aren't recognized.   
      
   Do you think that "credentials" from a foreign country should be automatically   
   accepted as   
   being at par with Canadian standards of medical learning?   
      
   > The CMA, Canadian Medical Association (the physicians union) has been a   
   barrier when it   
   > comes to that, and the   
   > standards held by engineers in nations that are not accepted here should be   
   evaluated   
   > on their   
   > own merits, not just turned down because the degrees and experience they   
   hold are not   
   > from here.   
      
   Again, are the standards in India or Pakistan or China equivalent to Canadian   
   medical   
   education standards?  Also, are those doctors from those countries able to   
   speak ENGLISH   
   so they can communicate with the majority of patients they would be treating?   
      
   > We do need immigration.  But well educated and experienced people should not   
   be driving   
   > taxi cabs once they   
   >  immigrate here.   They also belong at the front of the line.    Most   
   immigrants do make   
   > well, it's a fallacy that they   
   >  don't.   But the better educated they are, the better the chance of  them   
   contributing   
   > to Canada.   
      
   Your "we do need immigration" theory has had a whole lot of holes punched in   
   it time and   
   time again.  And "most immigrants" are NOT a plus for the Canadian economy -   
   and thus   
   Canada as a whole.  Those facts have come out from Stats Canada many times.    
   The   
   'educated' immigrants to Canada are in the minority.  They bring with them   
   their elderly,   
   their sick, and their many non-contributing relations.   
      
   When Harper stops watching his own ass and starts to think about the   
   betterment of Canada,   
   he would start to restrict the import of immigrants simply because they're   
   related to the   
   few educated ones that come in.  Until then, he's simply perpetuated the harm   
   done by the   
   Liberals before him - but in even greater numbers.   
      
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