Stephen Harper finally does something good in 2008 by admitting another 240,000 to 265,000 immigrants and refugees
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Last Updated: Saturday, October 18, 2008 | 8:40 PM ET
CBC News
Britain is going to restrict immigration to preserve jobs for its
citizens, Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said in an interview
published Saturday.
“If people are being made unemployed, the question of immigration
becomes extremely thorny … It’s been too easy to get into this country
in the past and it’s going to get harder,” the Labour government
minister told the Times of London.
Britain's unemployment rate rose sharply, to 5.7 per cent, in the last
quarter.
Britain, which admits about 200,000 immigrants a year, adopted a
tougher points-based immigration system in February. "Only those with
skills the country needs can come," Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said
at the time.
Woolas said the government should train British citizens for those
jobs.
Government ministers had welcomed more immigration earlier this year.
Smith said that "migrants benefit this country economically,
contributing an estimated £6 billion [about $12.3 billion] to our
national output, as well as socially and culturally."
And in June, Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform Stephen Timms,
commenting on a report on migrants from Eastern Europe, said: "These
migrants have not taken jobs away from British workers and have not
impacted on wages."
The opposition Conservatives have been pushing to cut immigration
substantially below the 200,000 figure.
Labour MP and former minister Frank Field welcomed the policy change.
"We shouldn't grow the population by immigration," he said.
Canada admits about 250,000 immigrants a year, and expects 240,000 to
265,000 in 2008, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Diane Finley
said in October 2007.
It's not known if Finley will remain in the immigration portfolio when
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new cabinet is sworn in.
With files from the Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/10/18/britain-immigration.html
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Harper's hyper-immigration is just another part of his pernicious New
World Order, Zionist, warmongering, freedom stomping, war on the
working class and the poor agenda that everyone knows about. Auldboob
is obviously a member of Canada's pampered, priviledged, idle rich,
who want to assuage their white liberal guilt trip BS by fuxing up the
country with ever more immigrants, didn't old deluded auld boob say he
wanted a million darkies from africa a year in Canada? Now the
Zionists in the EU have a secret plan for 52 million Africans to run
around, basically the JEW elite wants to wipe out whitey, maybe Auld
boob is a Jew himself, at least a freemason, so ready to sell out his
own people, this Zionist creep is emblematic representation of what
the Jewsmedia propaganda says is a proper Canadian; a snivelling
arrogant worm kowtowing to Loxism while angrily deriding his own
people, those he considers himself to be above due to accident of
birth. Guess what Boob, soon you will be at our level too, and you
fuckers are going to have a lot to answer for.