Paul Fromm
It’s been 25 years since a hard-bitten Scottish socialist, feminist, and judicial interventionist Madam Justice Bertha Wilson wrote the Supreme Court ruling that has become known as the “Singh Decision.”
This inspired piece of meddling lunacy granted any scamster who managed to put his little toe on Canadian soil the right to claim “refugee” status. We had to give him an oral hearing and venues for appeal. Even better, the Supremos decided that illegals had all the rights as Canadians.
Thus, a refugee claimant would receive welfare, medicare, dental care (which our own working poor do not get), legal aid, public housing and, of course, English or French and skills training… all at taxpayers’ expense.
Prior to 1985, people flying in making refugee claims numbered in the low hundreds each year. Ever since thousands have poured in each year. The hearings and appeals stretch on for years. Meanwhile, the “claimants” scarf up welfare and other government services and cost us more 42-billion a year. More than 500,000 “refugees” have entered Canada this way since 1985.
So nutty is the Singh Decision that should President Obama fly to Canada and say, “I’m a refugee,” we’d have to give him a hearing, welfare, medicare, legal aid, and even job training. Common sense matters not. That the U.S. is a democracy doesn’t matter. That he’s the president wouldn’t matter either. We (Canadians) would be on the hook.
Successive government have sought with little success to get some handle on the invasion. More recently, the Conservatives have slapped visa requirements on sources of particular abuse — Mexico and the Czech Republic, where large numbers of Gypsies have decided to come to Canada claiming to be “refugees” from their democratic homeland.
Now the Canadian Press (January 8, 2010) reports: “Ottawa is seriously considering imposing visa requirements on visitors from Hungary to cut off a growing flood of refugee applicants, mainly from the Roma community, The Canadian Press has learned. It would be the third such move in less than a year, after Canada imposed visas on visitors from Mexico and the Czech Republic last summer. … Now, the Eastern European country is among the top three sources of refugee claimants. The number of claims made every month was usually between 20 and 40 immediately after the visa requirement was lifted in the spring of 2008. By the fall of 2009, the monthly total was about 200. While numbers for the last three months of the year have not yet been made public, they are expected to show another sharp increase. At the same time, the refugee board’s approvals of the claims have plunged to zero, with many of the claimants withdrawing or abandoning their applications as they come up for processing.”
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Parliament must help Canada regain control of our borders. The Government should introduce legislation using Sec. 33 of the Constitution — the “notwithstanding” clause.
Very simply, the legislation would say, “Notwithstanding the Singh Decision, no person shall obtain immigration or refugee status, unless they apply and are vetted abroad.” Thus, Gypsies who think they have a legitimate claim would have to apply to the Canadian Embassy in Budapest. No more flying to Canada and feasting off the taxpayers for years on end. –Source–
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