“Four decades ago, even when the gap between local wages and housing prices was not nearly as severe as it is today, economist Gordon Soules published an eye-opening book titled The Housing Crisis: Causes, Effects, Solutions… In it, Art Phillips, Bill Vander Zalm and Mike Harcourt detail a fist-full of reasons that house prices were so high in Metro Vancouver, including lack of zoning density and inadequate social housing… The politicians did not shy away from how high immigration rates and foreign capital were among the biggest contributors to the city’s rising prices – phenomenons re-confirmed this year by UBC geographers David Ley, Dan Hiebert and other scholars” – and – “I maintain that the primary approach to solving the housing problem in the Greater Vancouver area lies in the immediate reduction and future control of immigration.” – Then-mayor Art Phillips of Vancouver, mid-1970’s (1).
Archive for the ‘Canadian Immigration Issues’ Category
Immigration, House Prices, and Vancouver – An Analysis
Friday, March 10th, 2017Thought crimes and regular crimes…
Tuesday, February 28th, 2017I generally agree with John Thompson, (see the link to his web-site below), but find myself unable to do so with regards to his most recent communique.
His statement that “If you think your cause is worth breaking a law to make your point, your trip before the judge and the dignified acceptance of what they award is even more important than parading with a placard” (*) resonated with me.
I did that during the Sixties and Seventies while demonstrating against American draft dodgers and deserters, peace-marchers, communist party members, union goons, and the “Canadians For The National Liberation Front”. And in my opinion, if you plead guilty and take the crap, you are morally justified in doing it again as many times as necessary.
Last chance to protest M-103 – do it now!
Monday, February 13th, 2017Here is the text of a letter I sent to Canada Free Press which was published yesterday, and a list of politicians who should be contacted:
“Dear Editor:
“The Commons will be voting on the adoption of M-103 “Systemic racism and religious discrimination” on Thursday, and this is the last opportunity to contact our politicians urging them to reject this blatant attempt to muzzle free speech.
“According to the Gatestone Institute, M-103 is very likely a consequence of the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda to infiltrate Canadian politics and silence any dissent against civilizational jihad: “It had been reported prior to 2015 that the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamaat-e-Islami front groups would use the Liberal Party of Canada as a vehicle for political entryism… The article also noted the roles of ISNA Canada and ICNA Canada in these efforts.” I am gravely concerned that adoption of this Motion will lead to criminalizing those expressing legitimate concerns about the dangers posed to democracy by Sharia Law, which Premier Dalton McGuinty rejected in 2008 .
“Merely pointing out the massive increases in sexual assaults committed in such countries as Sweden and Germany, and mass criminal acts such as car-burnings in France, or child sex-grooming and paedophile gang-rape such as in Rotherham, could result in charges. Criticism of honour killings and female genital mutilation – or merely offending a Muslim – could result in incarceration. It’s time to take a stand, and the time to do it is now.”
Is the Liberal Party being used for “political entryism”?
Wednesday, February 8th, 2017(This item is post number 3,000… !)
“It had been reported prior to 2015 that the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamaat-e-Islami front groups would use the Liberal Party of Canada as a vehicle for political entryism… The article also noted the roles of ISNA Canada and ICNA Canada in these efforts. A number of Canadian Members of Parliament have Islamist connections, advocate for sharia law or, in the case of Cabinet Minister Maryam Monsef, states that ‘Sharia fascinates me’:)”
The article linked to below is very significant in that it indicates a number of ways in which Muslim “extremists” are using Canada to advance their purposes, including silencing “Islamophobia”.
You may find it an interesting read.
Jeff Goodall.
You can read the Gatestone Institute article here.
Perils of Diversity – February 5th, 2017
Sunday, February 5th, 2017Eight items in total…
Pakistani immigrant used false persona to hire and pay fees to himself while working as an Ontario government bureaucrat
Indian immigrants face threatening charges for “scary road rage incident” – forced car to stop on major highway
Serial rapist from Malaysia sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in Toronto
Black Crime – Greater Toronto Area – Jan. 15th, 2017
Sunday, January 15th, 2017Five items in total, all from the eastern GTA area between Toronto and Bowmanville…
Pickering: Blacks stab, rob teen
Whitby: Disabled senior beaten and robbed in armed home invasion
Ajax: Burger King robbed at gunpoint by two masked men
Oshawa: One stabbed, four pepper sprayed in home invasion
Ajax: Female bank teller clubbed on the head with a gun during armed robbery
“Creeping Islamization” and the decline of the West
Tuesday, January 10th, 2017“Sharia courts administering Islamic justice in Britain are run by clerics who believe some offenders should have their hands chopped off… Teaching children fundamental British values is an act of ‘cultural supremacism,’ according to the National Union of Teachers… 23% of British Muslims said Islamic Sharia law should replace British law in areas with large Muslim populations… Residents in Manchester received leaflets in their mailboxes, from a Muslim group called ‘Public Purity,’ calling for a public ban on dogs.”
The above brief extracts are taken from Soeren Kern’s article “The Islamization of Britain in 2016” posted by the Gatestone Institute yesterday (1).
Kellie Leitch strikes at the heart of our dispossession
Friday, December 30th, 2016This is the text of a letter-to-the-editor I just sent out, it should be self-explanatory.
“In her email bulletin which I received yesterday, Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch says in part: “Kellie believes Canada is a place where every individual should have the opportunity to reach their full potential. That ‘equality of opportunity’ and ‘not equality of outcomes’ should be guaranteed”. This strikes right at the heart of the beast, directly challenging immigration as an all-party vote-buying strategy. Kellie has already said that she wants to apply “Canadian values” as a test for would-be immigrants, and now she is striking at the blatantly discriminatory “affirmative action” and “human rights” industries which underpin the entire, stinking edifice. A person just arrived from any third-world country is given preference in hiring over someone who’s family may have lived in the New World for several hundred years. I have great hopes that Dr. Leitch will be able to harness all the resentment caused by the likes of Steven Harper and Justin Trudeau, and bring our dispossession to an end. This has to stop, and in my opinion, Kellie Leitch is just the person to do it.”
You can visit her campaign website and sign up for her email bulletins here.
Jeff Goodall.
A Canadian values test will “chill” would-be immigrants?
Monday, November 7th, 2016“Add Lisa Raitt to the list of Conservative leadership candidates who WILL NOT screen visitors, refugees or immigrants for anti-Canadian values… She says a values test will put a ‘chill’ on people wanting to come to Canada.
“Lisa has decided to stand with the left-wing media elite and the rest of the Conservative candidates who don’t want to stand up for our shared Canadian values.
Leitch stands firm; Rona Ambrose an unlikely “conservative”
Monday, September 12th, 2016A week ago, I wrote about the firestorm that erupted over Conservative leadership candidate Dr. Kellie Leitch and her campaign policy that immigrants to Canada be “screened for values like intolerance toward other religions and violent or misogynist behaviour” (1).
Since then, the media and political reaction continues, with most responses being “politically correct” accusations of “racism”, “homophobia”, “Islamophobia”, “xenophobia”, and “dog-whistle politics” – the latter from her fellow-candidate Michael Chong, who obviously considers the electorate to be no more discerning than Pavlov’s furry friends…