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Fromm Excluded from Mississauga Mayoralty Debate

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:16:00 +0000

Paul Fromm for Mayor of Mississauga

905-274-3868; fax: 905-278-2413

For Immediate Release

Fromm Excluded from Mississauga Mayoralty Debate

PORT CREDIT. October 5, 2010. Mississauga Mayoralty candidate Paul Fromm, who has made immigration control his key issue, was denied entry to an all candidates mayoralty debate tonight at Erindale College campus.

“Democracy took a kick in the head tonight at the hands of the organizers MIRANET, the Mississauga Residents Associations Network,” said Fromm, who was not the only candidate excluded by organizers backed up by security guards and police.

“There are 17 candidates for mayor. There were only six participants in this phony debate,” Fromm charged. “A number of us were excluded.”

“I indicated in a timely fashion that I would participate in the MIRANET debate, after the initial invitation,” Fromm recalls. “I did have some concerns about the overly restrictive rules and somewhat hazy format, but I signed the consent form to Rogers and the ‘unconditional’ agreement to the rules for the debate, duly included my 100 word introduction and the name of the one supporter who would be allowed by the MIRANET rules to accompany me and submitted all this to MIRANET early Monday morning. Actually, my computer has the message being sent at 1:24 a.m.” Mr. Fromm explains.

“I was still denied the right to participate on the basis that the consent did not use their exact language. My computer could not copy their text as it could the Rogers' consent form. So, I typed it up the best I could. My text was substantially the same as theirs and the intent was clear,” Mr. Fromm explains.

“As soon as I learned I'd been excluded, I appealed to MIRANET, re-did their consent form word for word and re-submitted it Monday night at 8:11 p.m. [Oops, I'd missed their deadline.] My intent was clear. As the hour for the debate approached, I hadn't even received the courtesy of a reply to my appeal,” Mr. Fromm adds.

“MIRAMET is guilty of blatant discrimination and utterly undemocratic behaviour. It was clear they looked for every excuse to exclude candidates and not just me,” Mr. Fromm charges.

“I endorse efforts by fellow mayoralty candidate Don Barber to organize a debate in which all candidates for mayor can appear and which operates under less constipated rules,” says Fromm. “Surely, we need more debate and discussion, not less.”

“I shall be asking Rogers Cable not to broadcast the MIRANET debate as it failed spectacularly to include all interested candidates. It does a disservice to Mississauga voters,” Mr. Fromm explains.

“In the alternative, I shall be asking Rogers to permit the excluded candidates to have air time to explain their positions for the voters of Mississauga,” the radio broadcaster and immigration expert adds.

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Mark Weber and Paul Fromm: America in Crisis is Theme of Spirited IHR Meeting, October 2, 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:14:00 +0000

Mark Weber and Paul Fromm: America in Crisis is Theme of Spirited IHR Meeting, October 2, 2010

News from the Institute for Historical Review

America’s social, economic and political malaise, a spreading sense of national gloom, and prospects for the future were the issues tackled by speakers at the IHR meeting on October 2, 2010. Attendees included students, teenagers, first time visitors, and long-time friends of the Institute.

Mark Weber opened the meeting with words of welcome and messages of greeting from some who were not able to attend. He also expressed thanks to several individuals who had been especially supportive in recent months. He spoke a bit about Joseph Sobran, the brilliant columnist, author and lecturer who had died a few days earlier. Sobran, a friend of the Institute, addressed an IHR conference in 2002.

Weber also provided a brief update on the IHR’s recently launched project against internet censorship. For example, an activist in Georgia phoned a few days ago to report on his success in persuading his city’s library system to unblock access to the IHR website.

IHR meetings, said Weber, bring together men and women of “exceptional commitment, concern and awareness,” and “reinforce our own idealism and dedication in working for a better country, a better future and a better world.” A lively question and answer session followed the main talks, with pointed comments and questions from attendees and trenchant remarks by the featured speakers.

Paul Fromm, the meeting’s featured guest speaker, has addressed a number of IHR events over the years. In addition to his work as director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE), he is currently a candidate for mayor of Mississauga (Ontario). He took a break from campaigning for a brief visit to southern California

Fromm recounted humorous anecdotes from the boisterous election campaign, in which he’s been getting attention with his call for a halt to immigration. At a time when so many Canadians are out of work, he asked rhetorically, how can any rational person support more immigration?

In Canada as well as in the US, he said, the prevailing immigration policy amounts to a program of “population replacement.” A “human wave” is “changing America beyond recognition,” with the majority population of European origin giving way to a “Third World” population.

For years, he noted, politicians and the establishment media have insisted that Canadians should welcome ever greater social-ethnic “diversity” and immigration. But recently there’s been major shift in public sentiment. “A lot of people are waking up,” he said. A broad consensus against further large-scale immigration has emerged among Canadians across the political spectrum. Moreover, growing numbers of people distrust the “establishment,” and regard politicians of the major political parties as either incompetent or corrupt.

As a result of all this, said Fromm, the US is entering a “pre-revolutionary situation,” to borrow a phrase of Lenin. New times require new thinking, he added. Profound changes in North American society are forcing people to reconsider long-standing assumptions and beliefs.

After a short break, Mark Weber addressed the meeting. “Americans sense that something is very wrong,” he said. They are “concerned about rising social-economic inequality, an erosion of national identity and purpose, increasing social polarization, and broad distrust of the US around the world.” Citing recent public opinion polls, he noted that most Americans now think that life for their children will be less prosperous and secure than it has been for them.

The US has changed dramatically over the past 50-60 years, said Weber, above all demographically. Americans now see the US “rapidly becoming an unrecognizable `third world’ country.” The confident, proud and comfortable America of the 1950s and 1960s is “gone -- gone forever,” he said.

California has been transformed from a state with a population of overwhelming European origin to one with a majority non-white population. Over the past half century, he went on, southern California “has been transformed more radically, more fundamentally than Poland, Hungary, and other eastern European countries changed during nearly 50 years of Soviet Russian occupation and domination.”

America today is “a society in denial,” said Weber. The country’s political, cultural and intellectual leadership -- both liberal and conservative -- denies social reality and ignores the historical record, and therefore inevitably betrays the interests of the people, pushing America along a path that means ever greater anxiety and decline. “The leadership of both major parties, along with the mainstream media, and the educational establishment, support and relentlessly promote an egalitarian-universalist ideology, an outlook of wishful thinking divorced from reality that refuses to acknowledge the most elementary truths of society, of heredity, and of history.”

In the lives of nations and of individuals, said Weber, how we deal with great challenges is largely based on one’s sense of identity -- our sense of who and what we are. America lacks the cultural, ethnic or religious “glue” that holds a healthy society together, above all during times of crisis. Tackling the great problems of our age is especially difficult for the USA because this country has no clear sense of itself.

“Just as the former Soviet Union eventually fell apart as an inevitable consequence of trying to organize society on the basis of an ideology and principles unrooted in historical, social and biological reality,” Weber said, “so also this society will and must continue to decline as it tries to force nature and reality to conform to wishful thinking based on an unsound worldview.”

Immigration Remains the Key Election Issue, Says Fromm

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:13:00 +0000

Paul Fromm for Mayor of Mississauga

905-274-3868; fax: 905-278-2413

paul@paulfromm.com

For Immediate Release

Immigration Remains the Key Election Issue, Says Fromm

PORT CREDIT. October 12, 2010. “Immigration remains the sleeper issue of this campaign,” Mayoralty candidate Paul Fromm said today. “My fellow candidates avoid it like herpes or mouth silly platitudes about immigration having built Canada.”

“I’m getting a great response as I am out meeting people. They see the connection between traffic gridlock and massive immigration which has seen our city swell from 200,000 at the time of the 1979 train spill to over 700,000 today.”

“I get a lot of agreement with my call for a five year moratorium on immigration to let Mississauga and other urban areas absorb the immigrants we have. Voters know that the planned 300,000 more people for Peel by 2016 is untenable. With 8.2 per cent official unemployment, such an increase is insane.”

“I’m the only candidate prepared to say the obvious -- that Mississauga is full -- and dedicated to providing leadership and lobbying the federal government to halt immigration,” says Mr. Fromm.

The broadcaster and immigration expert points out: “It’s sad. I know Hazel knows better.” He points to comments she made back in 2001: "If you go to the Credit Valley Hospital, the emergency is loaded with people in their native costumes. A couple will come here as immigrants and each bring over their parents. Now you have four people who not contributed a nickel toward our medical system using it at an age when they will cost everyone a great deal of money. No wonder we have to worry about our medical system looking after everyone."

Also, Mr. Fromm adds, Mrs. McCallion in the past complained that "illegal immigrants" cost Mississauga $1.5 million annually in welfare costs which the federal government has failed to reimburse to the municipality.

But that was then. Now, she’s silent on this issue. “This city needs leadership, if we are to avoid wall to wall sprawl, worse gridlock and more environmental damage,” argues Mr. Fromm. “That means a halt to the major engine of local overcrowding – immigration,” he explains.

Mr. Fromm had led protests against the federal government’s weak response to people smuggling by Tamil Tigers. ”Illegals pose a huge burden on local communities and strain social assistance. During the years they are here collecting welfare, legal aid, medical and dental care, all at taxpayers’ expense, they stress the low cost housing supply,” Fromm charges. ”That may explain why there is an up to 21 year wait for assisted housing in Peel,” Fromm says. “It time to take care of our own.”

Poor screening of immigrants means most are unable to hit the ground running. Many, especially those let in through family reunification have no language or job skills.

“Immigration is costing taxpayers big time,” says Fromm. Recently announced federal grants for Mississauga for just one three month period alone total over $175,000,000. “That’s taxpayers’ money to try to bring poorly screened immigrants up to speed,” he charges.

“The time has come for a five year moratorium on immigration to stop the pressure and to let us go back to the drawing board and, if in the future we do need immigration, hopefully we can get it right,” he adds.

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RECENTLY ANNOUNCED FEDERAL IMMIGRATION SPENDING IN MISSISSAUGA

Accessible Community Counselling and Employment Services for New Canadians

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-10

$1,208,035.00

Afghan Women’s Counselling and Integration Community Support Organization

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-03-30

$2,570,760.00

Afghan Women’s Counselling and Integration Community Support Organization

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-03-30

$857,172.00

Afghan Women’s Counselling and Integration Community Support Organization

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-07

$467,053.00

African Community Services of Peel

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-08

$335,914.00

African Community Services of Peel

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-12

$983,732.00

Audmax Incorporated

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-03-30

$1,186,508.00

Catholic Cross-Cultural Services

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-12

$4,728,525.00

Chinese Association of Mississauga

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-13

$93,851.00

Chinese Association of Mississauga

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-21

$1,423,570.00

Collège Boréal

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-21

$431,413.00

Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-06	$9,816,261.00
Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-10	$1,547,592.00
Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-10	$1,147,303.00
Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-10	$7,234,506.00
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-10	$1,147,246.00
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$1,795,381.00

India Rainbow Community Services of Peel		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		2010-04-10	$3,529,651.00
India Rainbow Community Services of Peel		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		2010-04-10	$8,138,648.00
Malton Neighbourhood Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		2010-04-10		$988,840.00
Malton Neighbourhood Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		2010-04-10		$2,269,620.00
Malton Neighbourhood Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		2010-04-10		$5,331,878.00

Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$1,441,804.00
Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$1,646,569.00
Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$2,596,045.00
Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$3,142,816.00
Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$4,919,461.00
Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$12,598,682.00
Palestine House Educational And Cultural Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada			2010-03-31		$3,190,316.00
Palestine House Educational and Culture Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada			2010-04-12		$938,196.00

Peel Career Assessment Services Inc.	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-03-30	$624,318.00
Peel District School Board	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-07	$2,147,042.00
Peel District School Board	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-07	$5,528,588.00
Peel Multicultural Council	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-03-30	$794,655.00
Peel Multicultural Council	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-03-30	$1,269,885.00
Peel Multicultural Council	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-03-30	$1,924,370.00
Peel Multicultural Council	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-03-30	$2,789,271.00

Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$1,985,833.00
Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$6,274,132.00
Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$1,142,914.00
Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$1,101,552.00

Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-07	$199,951.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-07	$295,276.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-07	$486,832.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$558,730.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$904,140.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$923,782.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$1,288,969.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$8,341,074.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$8,867,798.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$9,848,768.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-05	$635,197.00

The Cross-Cultural Community Services Association (formerly Toronto Chinese Community Services)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-08	$416,975.00
The Cross-Cultural Community Services Association (formerly Toronto Chinese Community Services)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-10	$1,442,714.00
The Gateway Centre for New Canadians	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-04	$2,511,143.00

United Way of Peel Region	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-10	$1,631,438.00
United Way of Peel Region	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-25	$1,529,891.00

Vietnamese Community Centre of Mississauga

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-03-30

$1,165,360.00

YMCA of Greater Toronto (Peel Region)

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-08

$491,356.00

New Two-Week Detention Period for Illegals Totally Inadequate,Says Fromm

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:07:00 +0000

For Immediate Release

New Two-Week Detention Period for Illegals Totally Inadequate, Says Fromm

PORT CREDIT, September 21, 2010. Legislative proposals announced today to require illegals who are part of mass smuggling operations to spend two weeks in custody before being given a detention hearing (instead of the present 48 hours) are "totally inadequate" Paul Fromm, a candidate for Mayor of Mississauga said today.

"These measures are a sad joke. Yes, they may give the authorities a bit more time to inquire into the criminal background of the illegals," said Fromm. "However, as the National Post (September 21, 2010) notes today: "A two-week waiting list. That’s it. That is their grand plan. It would be pathetic, if it weren’t so predictable. ... For people who have been waiting months or years for a chance to jump the queue into Canada, an extra two weeks in detention — with the best medical and dental teams your tax dollars can buy — is a drop in the bucket."

"Minister Kenney's measures are like waving a feather to stop a rampaging elephant," says Fromm a radio broadcaster and immigration expert.

"This is a serious issue for Mississauga," Fromm insists. As of April, 2010, there were 19,300 on Ontario Public Works (welfare). Illegals making ‘refugee’ claims in Ontario are not allowed to work during the two to five years these claims typically take. Appeals can extend the process. "The vast majority of these illegals are in the GTA, including many in Mississauga. 'These people are a serious burden on welfare, as well as imposing costs on schools, ESL programmes and subsidized housing," says Fromm.

"The vast majority of the Tamil illegals will head to Ontario," says Fromm. "That's why it's crucial to deter human smugglers and the several ships of Tamils preparing to head for Canada, having noted the weakness and disorganization of our response," he says.

"What is needed is to stop these people smugglers outside Canadian waters and turn them away. Furthermore, the government should use the 'notwithstanding' clause to overcome the ludicrous Singh Decision of 1985. The only way for people to enter Canada as immigrants or refugees is to apply and be vetted abroad," Fromm argues.

Paul Fromm, as Director of the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee, led a protest in Victoria the day after the illegals arrived in August, as well as protests in Calgary, London, Hamilton and Ottawa to gather signatures on letters urging Prime Minister Harper to regain control of Canadian borders and deport the illegals, willing participants in people smuggling operations.

“Immigration impacts almost every major problem in Mississauga – overcrowded roads, dwindling farm land, the environment, welfare costs. If I’m elected, I’ll camp out on the Minister of Immigration’s front lawn and demand action,” said Fromm.

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Tamil Illegals Bankrupting BC Legal Aid

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:06:00 +0000

Tamil Illegals Bankrupting BC Legal Aid

It's just cost, cost, cost. There is a crying unfairness. Illegals, making use of Tamil Tiger people smugglers, sneak into Canada. For their lawlessness, they are rewarded by the opportunity, at taxpayers' expense,. to begin the prolonged "refugee" claim process (and appeals.) Meanwhile, the unconsulted Canadian taxpayer is stuck with the bill. Unmentioned in the following CBC report is yet another drain on the Canadian taxpayer -- translation copsts fopr the proceedings.

CBC reported (September 16, 2010): "

The organization that provides legal aid in B.C. says it's running out of money in its efforts to represent the Tamil migrants who arrived in August. 'The society's immigration funding is limited,' Legal Services Society manager Rod Holloway said in a letter Thursday to lawyers who have been representing the migrants. 'The arrival of … Tamils who are currently detained has placed us in a position where funding their detention reviews … will, very shortly, exhaust our current resources allocated to immigration matters.' The organization that provides legal aid in B.C. says it's running out of money in its efforts to represent the Tamil migrants who arrived in August. 'The society's immigration funding is limited,' Legal Services Society manager Rod Holloway said in a letter Thursday to lawyers who have been representing the migrants."

Then, there's the cost of keeping and detaining the illegals: " The CBSA also is bearing extraordinary expenses by keeping the migrants in detention. The Immigration Review Board said the CBSA is being charged more than $88,000 a day — about $200 per migrant — for a total of more than $3 million for their 34 days of incarceration so far."

Tamil migrant lawyers face money crunch

Last Updated: Thursday, September 16, 2010 | 5:59 PM PT

CBC News

A translator and lawyers representing the federal government and Tamil migrants sit before an immigration adjudicator in Vancouver. (Jane Wolsak/CBC)

The organization that provides legal aid in B.C. says it's running out of money in its efforts to represent the Tamil migrants who arrived in August.

"The society's immigration funding is limited," Legal Services Society manager Rod Holloway said in a letter Thursday to lawyers who have been representing the migrants.

"The arrival of … Tamils who are currently detained has placed us in a position where funding their detention reviews … will, very shortly, exhaust our current resources allocated to immigration matters."

Most of the 492 migrants who arrived on Vancouver Island on Aug. 13 aboard the MV Sun Sea remain in detention in the Vancouver area.

All of the migrants have applied for refugee status, claiming their lives are in danger or that they suffer extreme discrimination as an ethnic minority in their native Sri Lanka.

The funding crunch could leave the migrants without legal representation at detention hearings.

"The Legal Services Society will be considering this issue and may be required to restrict services … to ensure the society remains within budget," Holloway said in the letter.

Identities at issue

The primary issue in the hearings is the difficulty in establishing each migrant's identity to the satisfaction of the Canada Border Services Agency.

The CBSA is concerned that some migrants could be members of the Tamil Tigers, an organization banned in Canada as being terrorist.

The CBSA also is bearing extraordinary expenses by keeping the migrants in detention.

The Immigration Review Board said the CBSA is being charged more than $88,000 a day — about $200 per migrant — for a total of more than $3 million for their 34 days of incarceration so far.

Four of the migrants — a mother and her three children — have been given conditional release.

Four other women and five children were about to be released when the federal government filed to block their release.

Refugees And Welfare: Hamilton

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:05:00 +0000

Refugees And Welfare: Hamilton

According to a new report, Hamilton took in twice as many refugees as other cities between 2003 and 2008. Get beyond the gee whiz rhetoric and it turns out that doing missionary work in your own back yard is a dog's breakfast, and a costly one. It appears that our government shovels our money at settlement agencies without pestering them for anything like even rudimentary audits of outcomes: "The Demographic Profile of Immigrants in Hamilton report was designed to serve as a background paper for the development of an immigration strategy. It also shows little is known about the status of refugees who have arrived here over the past five to 10 years. Tim Rees, programme manager for the Hamilton Immigration Partnership Council, said while the city is proud of its humanitarian reputation, there needs to be more follow-up on refugees who come here. 'Nobody at the federal, provincial or municipal level is documenting, quantifying or costing the particular settlement experiences of refugees,' said Rees.

'We need to know far more about how successful different categories of newcomers, including refugees, are in finding employment, feeling a sense of belonging and staying in Hamilton, and how they are able to contribute to the city's social, cultural and economic well being.' Approximately 1,440 refugees arrive annually in Hamilton. Of those, around 440 are government-assisted refugees while 1,000 are refugee claimants; [that is, spontaneous chancers who roll in and ride the refugee train.] Morteza Jafarpour, executive director of SISO [Settlement and Integration Services Organization], said refugees present a certain challenge when it comes to settlement and can need help with the most basic skills, such as turning on a stove and running a shower. [Wonderful!] ... SISO frequently receives special requests from Citizenship and Immigration Canada asking if it will take families that have special needs, said Jafapour, adding they have accepted many families who have been turned down by other cities because their needs are too costly. ...

Government-assisted refugees (GARs) can receive financial support under the federal government's Resettlement Assistance Programme for one year. The support is meant to meet basic food and shelter needs while they learn English and look for employment. Melanie Carkner, spokesperson for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, said there is no formal monitoring or tracking of refugees. 'Although we encourage these refugees to remain in Hamilton in order to benefit from the services planned for them, they are free to move,' said Carkner. Refugee claimants differ from GARs in that they bypass the government system and come to Canada directly. They must plead their case at a hearing in Toronto. That can take two to five years, depending on the complexity of the case.

In that time, they are not allowed to work but can apply for Ontario Works [the current term for not working, aka collecting welfare. Sweet deal. You turn up and, for the next five years or so, you collect welfare. If you can't concoct a humanitarian exemption like an anchor baby or a marriage of convenience in five years, you're just not trying]. As of April 2010, there were approximately 19,300 refugee claimant cases in the province on Ontario Works [welfare], of which about 700 were in Hamilton. Kerry Lubrick, director of employment and income support for the city, said the city has no sense of how many GARs go on Ontario Works [that is to say, shifting dependency from federal to provincial welfare] after that first year. 'There is a cost but nobody knows it,' said Lubrick. [However, according to Rees] refugees 'find ways not only to survive but to succeed and contribute in disproportionate ways to local prosperity.'" (Hamilton Spectator, July 19, 2010)

Down boy. You've just told us that no one in the industry has a clue whether refugees succeed and contribute, let alone "in disproportionate ways" -- remember?

[This article appears in the September, 2010 issue of the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE. Published monthly, the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE is available by subscription for $30 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.]

Fromm's "Fight gridlock: Freeze immigration." Message Now on Mississauga Buses

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:02:00 +0000

Fromm’s “Fight gridlock: Freeze immigration.” Message Now on Mississauga Buses

PORT CREDIT, September 30. Paul Fromm, candidate for Mayor of Mississauga, renewed his call for a five year halt to all immigration to help deal with the growing problem of traffic gridlock.

And, he’s broadcasting his message on a number of signs on Mississauga Transit buses. His sign reads: “FROMM, Mayor, Mississauga: ‘Fight gridlock: Freeze immigration.’”

“Mississauga is part of the GTA mess created by irresponsible politicians at the federal level who stuffed this area with more than 2.5-million immigrants in the past 20 years,” he charges. “However, they never built the infrastructure of roads to move these people. Result: growing traffic gridlock,” he says. “We have much the same network of roads we had 20 years ago.”

Fromm cites the fact that traffic gridlock and transportation were the most important issues for the City of Mississauga, according to a survey of local residents in 2006.

Mississauga’s gridlock woes are tied to those of the GTA and Toronto, Mr. Fromnm notes. “This past spring,” he explains, “the Toronto Board of Trade commissioned a survey found that, of 19 cities, Toronto’s commuting time is the longest – an average 80 minutes round trip – longer even than legendary gridlocked US cities like Los Angeles (66).”

“The key factor here,” says Fromm, “is massive population increase through immigration. Peel Region is targeted to receive 300,000 more newcomers in the next six years.”

“We need a five year moratorium on immigration intake. No reflection on the present immigrant population, but we need a breather,” Fromm adds.

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Broadcaster Boosts Paul Fromm's Campaign for Mayor of Mississauga

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:27:00 +0000

Broadcaster Boosts Paul Fromm's Campaign for Mayor of Mississauga

James Edwards, the host of "The Political Cesspool," a hardhitting weekly radio show over the Republic Network and the Internet (thepoliticalcesspool.org) had Mississauga mayoralty candidate Paul Fromm on his show, September 11. The half hour segment featured Mr. Fromm's critique of Canada's failed immigration polices. "We're full," Mr. Fromm said. "To deal with traffic gridlock, damage to the environment and welfare costs, we need a moratorium on immigration intake. No other candidate wants to deal with this issue. With just can't keep stuffing people into Mississauga. We've more than doubled our population, to 668, 549. in the 30 years I've lived here. The federal government sets immigration polices, but a few cities like Mississauga are stuck with the costs and burdens.."

Mr. Edwards has endorsed Mr. Fromm and has joined the fast growing Facebook group "Paul Fromm for Mayor of Mississauga." You can join too!

Mr. Edwards, a Memphis resident, is the author of Racism, Schmacism: How Liberals Use the "R" Word to Push Obama's Agenda, (Available from C-FAR Books,, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3, Canada for $25 postpaid.)

LET ME SEE IF I GOT THIS RIGHT..*

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:46:00 +0000

LET ME SEE IF I GOT THIS RIGHT..*

IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET
DETAINED INDEFINITELY.

IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET SHOT.

IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET
JAILED.

IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY
YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR,

IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET
DUMPED IN NORTH KOREA,

IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET
DISAPPEARED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET
THROWN INTO A POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.

BUT

IF YOU CROSS THE CANADIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET

* A HOT SHOWER,
* NEW, CLEAN CLOTHES
* A HOT MEAL (OF THE APPROPRIATE ETHNIC SORT)
* A MEDICAL EXAMINATION & TREATMENT,
* A LEGAL AID APPOINTED LAWYER,
* THE OPPORTUNITY TO STRATEGIZE WITH ETHNIC ACTIVISTS,
* FREE HEALTH CARE,
* FREE DENTAL CARE,
* FREE EDUCATION,
* SUBSIDIZED RENTAL ACCOMMODATION,
* BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE
* THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR TERROR-GROUP FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST OLD CONFLICTS YOU SUPPOSEDLY LEFT BEHIND WHEN YOU BEGGED US FOR REFUGE
* THE RIGHT TO VACATION IN WHATEVER COUNTRY YOU FLED FOR YOUR LIFE
* THE RIGHT TO INSIST CANADA PROTECT YOU IF YOU GET INTO HOT WATER
* BUT THE FIRST THING CANADA GIVES YOU IS FREE PHONE CARDS TO LET THE FOLKS BACK HOME KNOW, 'IT WORKED . . HURRY!'

I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD WHERE MY TAXES GO!

Contact your MP (mail is best: ___, c/o House of Commons, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6) and urge him/her to support an initiative to turn back smuggling ships when Parliament resumes

Paul Fromm to Run for Mayor of Mississauga

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:44:00 +0000

Paul Fromm for Mayor of Mississauga

905-274-3868; fax: 905-278-2413

paul@paulfromm.com

For Immediate Release

Paul Fromm to Run for Mayor of Mississauga

September 8, 2010

PORT CREDIT. Nightly radio broadcaster and immigration expert Paul Fromm filed nomination papers for Mayor of Mississauga this afternoon.

“Immigration is the issue,” Fromm declared. “It’s the two ton elephant in the room that the municipal politicians don’t want to discuss. They just want to babble about the supposed benefits of ‘diversity.’”

Ontario projections have Peel Region growing from 1.258-million in 2008 to 1.543-million in 2016. “Will the roads be any less congested? Will welfare costs be lower? Will the environment be safer with nearly another 300,000 in Peel? “asks Fromm. “Not likely.”

“Mississauga is full,” Fromm declares. “It’s more than doubled in size since I moved here in 1980,” says the Port Credit resident, who is in demand as a lecturer on immigration in Canada, the U.S., and Australia..

“According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate in July was 8.5% in Ontario. We don’t have enough jobs for our own people. We need a five year moratorium on immigration intake. No reflection on the present immigrant population, but we need a breather,” Fromm adds.

According to the Mississauga Planning and Building Department, Mississauga is the city with the third largest immigrant population in Canada. “From 2001 to 2006, immigrant population growth exceeded total population growth in Mississauga.

Paul Fromm is a graduate of the University of Toronto, holding B.A., B.Ed., and M.A. degrees. He pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Waterloo and Webster College in Missouri in linguistics and education.. He is a retired English instructor and also is a director of the Council of Conservative Citizens. In the past year, he has lectured on immigration reform to audiences in 28 cities in seven Canadian provinces and 10 U.S. states.

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Former Teacher Running For Mayor

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:42:00 +0000

Former Teacher Running For Mayor
by John Stewart

The former Peel District School Board teacher who was fired for refusing to curtail his political activities outside the classroom is the 14th candidate seeking to become mayor of Mississauga in the Oct. 25 municipal election.

Paul Fromm registered to run yesterday afternoon, less than an hour after incumbent Hazel McCallion officially announced she would be seeking her 12th term in office.

“Immigration is the issue,” Fromm said in a press release announcing his candidacy. “It’s the two-ton elephant in the room that the municipal politicians don’t want to discuss. They just want to babble about the supposed benefits of ‘diversity.’”

Fromm was fired from his job teaching English at Applewood Heights Secondary School in 1997 after he ignored warnings from administrators not to continue associating with known racists and white supremacists. The B'Nai Brith and other organizations had complained about his conduct at a series of right-wing political rallies.

The board removed Fromm from the classroom after 19 years on the job and asked him to teach adult students. He was warned not to continue his political activities, then was fired when he attended a memorial service for renowned American white supremacist Revilo Oliver.

A lengthy arbitration process followed and Fromm's firing was eventually upheld. Fromm's teaching licence was revoked by the Ontario College of Teachers in November 2007. Fromm lost his appeal to have the Supreme Court review his case last year.

Now a radio broadcaster and a director of the Council of Conservative Citizens, Fromm intends to make immigration the central plank of his platform.

“Immigration impacts almost every major problem in Mississauga — overcrowded roads, dwindling farm land, the environment, welfare costs. If I’m elected, I’ll camp out on the Minister of Immigration’s front lawn and demand action,” said Fromm in his statement.

Fromm expressed concern that Peel's population is slated to grow from 1.258 million people in 2008 to 1.543 million by 2016.

“Will the roads be any less congested? Will welfare costs be lower? Will the environment be safer with nearly another 300,000 in Peel?” Fromm said. “Not likely.

“Mississauga is full,” Fromm said.

“It’s more than doubled in size since I moved here in 1980,” said the Port Credit resident, who speaks regularly on immigration in Canada, the United States and Australia.(The Mississauga News, September 9, 2010)

The Illegals' Drama Continues: "Break In" at Toronto Tamil HQ

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:41:00 +0000

The Illegals' Drama Continues: "Break In" at Toronto Tamil HQ

Canadians have been asked to suspend critical brain function throughout the MV Sun Sea ordeal. Before it arrived with its cargo of 517 illegals, August 13:

We knew it was piloted by a Tamil Tiger sea captain and likely a Tiger operation,
We knew the UN High Commission for Refugees had designated Tamils "no longer in need of protection,"
We knew Tamil refugees already enjoying Canada's protection habitually holidayed in Sri Lanka,
We knew Tamil refugees living in India and elsewhere were voluntarily resettling in Sri Lanka,
We knew the Sun Sea passengers "fled" from the safety of Thailand, not Sri Lanka,
We knew that the passengers were permitted to "consult" with an ethnic advocacy group here while still devising the strategies they will present to the Immigration and Refugee Board. Wouldn't competent officials have been uneasy with such an arrangement?

None of this is sitting well with people fed to the teeth with being taken for long, expensive rides by self-professed "refugees." Just 16 days after arrival, taxpayers had already invested $45,000 in each Sun Sea passenger.

So this smuggling ship hasn't exactly followed the usual pattern of an effortless hoodwinking of the paying public. Nearly half of Canadians polled want the passengers deported regardless of the outcome of their refugee claims; 78% of readers of the extremely wet Toronto Star wanted the ship turned back before arrival.

We are now additionally expected to believe that (quelle horreur!) "someone" has broken into the offices of said ethnic advocacy group, the Canadian Tamil Congress, and, despite the fuss, flap and noise of kicking in a door, chose not to scoop up armfuls of computers and leave with their booty, but took their time to systematically browse through various programmes in various computers to find the one computer (the receptionist's!) holding the names of the passengers as well as the names of family members back in Sri Lanka.

Call us skeptics, but several benefits spring to the mind:

-- Suppose CSIS or the RCMP were preparing warrants for this information? Convenient for it to disappear in the most public way imaginable if there was official suspicion that the ethnic advocacy group was complicit in/behind any part of the operation.
-- Suppose those names are critical to shake down efforts to recover the agreed upon cost of passage? Does Ottawa get the connection between smuggled human flesh and indentured servitude at all? If it did, it would not permit entry of smuggling ships.
-- If there was a sense that there are widespread doubts about the veracity of these claims and depending who now gets blamed, the Sun Sea passengers may at last appear to genuinely be "people in need of protection." (Along with their extended families "back home." One comes is as a "refugee" and we soon get the whole village!)
-- Oh, and get this, the Globe and Mail (September 12, 2010 reports: "Officials also said they discovered destroyed and unclaimed identity documents on the MV Sun Sea, evidence, they say, the refugee claimants might be trying to conceal their identities." No, like the illegals might be, uh, fibbing to us? Whoa, so there is a possibility that the names on the CTC computer are not even the same names the illegals are submitting to dopey Canadian officials!

According to Tamil Congress mouthpiece, the break in is either a hate crime or a Sri Lankan government black op.

Seriously.

Does this country really need more ethnic-partisan paranoids?

Toronto Star, September 12, 2010

The Canadian Tamil Congress fears the names of hundreds of Tamil asylum-seekers who boarded the MV Sun Sea and their families back home have been stolen in what they allege is either a hate crime or an act of international espionage.

“We were targeted. We fully well know we were targeted because we were involved in this Sun Sea issue,” said David Poopalapillai, national spokesperson for the Tamil congress.

Toronto police are investigating the break-in, believed to have occurred late Saturday or in the early hours of Sunday, at the congress headquarters on Progress Ave. in Scarborough.

Poopalapillai said some rooms in the office were ransacked and computers and telephones were left on the floor. The computer at the main reception desk was the only thing taken, he said.

“Either it’s a hate crime or we have a strong feeling Sri Lankan intelligence may have a hand behind this,” he told the Star.

Poopalapillai added that the congress has received hate mail about the Sun Sea issue from those who believe the organization is “helping illegals.” He also said that some migrants aboard the boat had agreed to come forward and give information about war crimes allegedly committed by the Sri Lankan government during the country’s bitter 26-year civil war, which ended last year.

“If the Sri Lankan government has that information they can then go and intimidate the family members (still in Sri Lanka) to stop them from speaking out,” he said.

Poopalapillai said the identities of the 492 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who arrived in British Columbia last month may be on the stolen computer. As well, it may contain contact information for the migrants’ families still living in the fragile South Asian nation.

The names of the migrants who boarded the MV Sun Sea are subject to a publication ban ordered by Canada’s Immigration and Refugee board. The ban was ordered, in part, to protect their families in Sri Lanka from reprisal.

The congress has been collecting names and contacts because the organization has been trying to connect the asylum-seekers with family back home. Poopalapillai said he believes the break-in occurred sometime after 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

Police said there were signs of forced entry at the congress headquarters. The office does not have an alarm system.

According to Poopalapillai, Toronto police are taking the investigation “very seriously.” The congress will not know exactly what, if any, sensitive information was stolen until Monday.

“Our job now is to find these families and call them and let them know,” said Poopalapillai.

Canadian authorities boarded the MV Sun Sea on Aug. 13. One month on, nearly all adults are still being held in detention centres until their identities can be confirmed.

Public Safety minister Vic Toews fanned fears that Tamil Tiger “human smugglers and terrorists” were amongst those in the group. The Tamil Tigers are a banned terrorist organization in Canada. Ottawa has promised new legislation to deal with human smuggling.

A spokesperson from Toews’ office said they had no comment Sunday.
Canada’s Sri Lanka High Commission could not be reached for comment.

The Canadian Tamil Congress is a non-profit organization serving the voices of Tamil Canadians. Headquartered in Toronto, it has 11 chapters across the country.

LETTER TO STEPHEN HARPER RE: TAMIL ILLEGALS: PRINT IT OFF; GETSIGNATURES; SEND IT TO THE PRIME MINISTER

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:25:00 +0000

Canada First Immigration Reform Committee

P.O. Box 332,

Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3PH:

416-428-5308

FAX: 905-278-2413

August 21, 2010

The Right Honourable Stephen Harper.

Prime Minister,

House of Commons,

Ottawa, ON.,K1A 0A6

Re: SEND THE TAMIL ILLEGALS BACK

Dear Mr. Harper:

We, the undersigned, are disappointed and disillusioned by the weakness of your government in light of the intrusion into Canadian waters on the Thai-registered NV Sun Sea, a boat your government has identified as a people smuggling operation. On August 13, the Canadian Government escorted this vessel of illegals into CFB Esquimalt. The smugglers had won.

Now the long process or “refugee” claims begins. The cost to Canadians will be horrific. We’ll, of course, pay for the government lawyers and investigator

We applaud your government’s efforts to secure national sovereignty: a) the purchase of new transport planes for our armed forces; b) purchase of new fighters for our airforce; c) assertion of Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic; d) new measures of assert a presence in our Arctic in furtherance of our claims.

However, your government has given the Tamil Tiger people smugglers a cheap victory. They have won. Smuggling works and the stern warnings of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews are just an act. Not surprisingly, emboldened by our wimpish response, the Tamil Tiger smugglers have two more boats loading up and heading for Canada.

British Columbians couldn’t help but notice that, after the closing of hospital wings and curtailment of health services for “budgetary reasons,” austerity suddenly flew out the window and there were plenty of medical services available to people who had never contributed a cent to Canada and who had sneaked in uninvited. We urge you to: Cease these hearings and deport all these illegals;

The polls are unequivocal. Canadians want these queue jumping illegals out!

A Toronto Star reader’s poll asked, “Should the Tamil illegals be turned back before arriving?” Fully 78% answered YES; 16% NO. (Toronto Star, August 15, 2010)

The Toronto Sun commissioned a Leger Marketing poll when the illegals were still on the high seas, August 2-4. It found 60% of Canadians believed that the illegals “should be turned away [and] the boat should be escorted back to Sri Lanka by the Canadian Navy.” The numbers of those believing you should never have let the illegals land soared to 74% in your own home province of Alberta. (Toronto Sun, August 20, 2010)
An Angus Reid poll taken last week found 63% of Canadians believe the illegals should be sent back to Sri Lanka. “Another 83 per cent of respondents felt the migrants are jumping the immigration queue and should be forced to apply like other foreigners who want to come to the country. … Another 83 per cent of respondents felt the migrants are jumping the immigration queue and should be forced to apply like other foreigners who want to come to the country.” (CTV, August 19, 2010)

Regain control of Canada’s borders by introducing legislation in Parliament, using Sec. 33 of our Constitution (“the notwithstanding” clause) to overturn the revolutionary 1985 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada granting virtual Canadian citizen rights to illegals. To secure our borders, we urge you to introduce legislation specifying that the only way to seek immigration or refugee status is to apply and be vetted abroad. No more flying in or sailing into Canada, jumping the queue and announcing “I’m a refugee.”

Prime Minister, it’s time to put Canada and Canadians first and regain control of our borders.

Sincerely yours,

Name Address Signature

[Mail this letter to Prime Minister Harper. No postage is required.] Mail this letter to Prime Minister Harper. No postage is required.]

HAMILTONIANS PROTEST: STOP THE TAMIL TIGER SMUGGLING SHIP

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:24:00 +0000

August 21, 2010

HAMILTONIANS PROTEST:

STOP THE TAMIL TIGER SMUGGLING SHIP

HAMILTON: August, 21, 2010. Two dozen concerned Hamiltonians and supporters of the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee gathered today in the late afternoon at the War Memorial in Gore Park (King and John Streets) to gather signatures on a letter to the Prime Minister to protest the government’s decision to allow a boatload of illegals to enter Canadian waters last. This was part of a nation-wide series of such rallies.

A similar rally in Calgary netted several thousands of signatures, “a hell of a lot of sheets filled,” said organizer Kyle McKee.

Hundreds of signatures were gathered in an hour as young activists went up and down King Street asking passersby to sign the letter to Mr. Harper. In some cases, the petitions were literally snatched out of their hands by people eager to register their outrage at the government’s weakness.

A Thai-registered boat, the Sun Sea, captained by a Tamil Tiger leader smuggled 492 would-be refugee claimants. Canada lists the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) as a terrorist group. Several of their fundraising fronts have been shut down by the Federal Government.

“The Government has totally failed to protect Canada and Canadians,” said Paul Fromm, Director of the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee. This is part of a Tamil Tiger people smuggling operation. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says Canada is against “people smugglers” but letting these sneaks in through the backdoor just rewards the “people smugglers.”

“It’s a matter of national sovereignty,” Mr. Fromm insists. “Foreign ships up to no good should not be allowed into Canadian waters. Foreign ships engaged in human smuggling operations should not gain admittance to Canadian waters on principle: human smuggling is illegal. Other grounds include what is in the best interest of Canadians - what is in the best interest of human cargo destined to be utilized as sweated labour, or more chillingly, as operatives - and what is in the best interest of an ethnic community that has long endured Tiger fundraising shakedowns without recourse to Canada's legal remedies.”

The Canadian taxpayers will be put to huge expenses in terms of processing the 492 Tamils then showering them with most of the rights of Canadian citizens – welfare, public housing, medicare, legal aid, dental care, language and job training – through the years it will take to assess their refugee claims and subsequent appeals. Victoria hospitals have already been put on alert for tuberculosis cases. Permitting such people to enter Canada could be a serious health disaster.

“Canada is being played as a patsy by the Tamil Tigers,” Mr. Fromm insisted. Last fall, they sent two probes, a ship to Australia and one to Canada. Australia sent the Tiger boat packing and wouldn’t allow them to land. Canada went out and welcomed them into Canadian waters. “Despite the fact that we suspected at least a third of those on board were Tiger militants. Residue of both drugs and explosives were found on their clothes. Most of the men in their 20s or 30s could give no account of their education or work history over the past decade, strongly suggesting they were tiger soldiers. And, yet, this lot is loose in Canada and the cash register just keep ka-chinging with the Canadian taxpayer footing the bill,” Mr. Fromm charged

“The polls are unequivocal,” said Mr. Fromm. “Canadians want these queue jumping illegals out!”

A Toronto Star reader’s poll asked, “Should the Tamil illegals be turned back before arriving?” Fully 78% answered YES; 16% NO. (Toronto Star, August 15, 2010)

The Toronto Sun commissioned a Leger Marketing poll when the illegals were still on the high seas, August 2-4. It found 60% of Canadians believed that the illegals “should be turned away [and] the boat should be escorted back to Sri Lanka by the Canadian Navy.” The numbers of those believing you should never have let the illegals land soared to 74% in your own home province of Alberta. (Toronto Sun, August 20, 2010)

An Angus Reid poll taken last week found 63% of Canadians believe the illegals should be sent back to Sri Lanka. “Another 83 per cent of respondents felt the migrants are jumping the immigration queue and should be forced to apply like other foreigners who want to come to the country. … Another 83 per cent of respondents felt the migrants are jumping the immigration queue and should be forced to apply like other foreigners who want to come to the country.” (CTV, August 19, 2010)

The Sun Sea is just the beginning of an all-out invasion. The Globe and Mail (August 5, 2010) warned that at least two more Tiger ships are prowling Asian waters to see whether Canada will again prove a wimp and allow the incursion.

The Government spent a billion dollars to protect some foreign diplomats meeting in Toronto for the G-8 and G-20 meetings. “It’s time they started protecting Canada and Canadians,” said Mr. Fromm.

“Send the illegals back!” shouted one young unemployed man from Hamilton as he grabbed a sign and joined the protest.

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Send the Illegals Back, London Protesters Tell Harper

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:24:00 +0000

Send the Illegals Back, London Protesters Tell Harper

LONDON: August, 22, 2010. Inspired by a talk by Canada First Reform Committee Director Paul Fromm on the shameless scam being perpetrated on this Dominion by the Tamil Tiger terrorists people smuggling operation, 20 people from London, most of them under 30, protested today outside the local offices of the Department of Immigration at Queen and Richmond to gather signatures on a letter to the Prime Minister to protest the government’s decision to allow a boatload of illegals to enter Canadian waters. This was part of a nation-wide series of such rallies.

They were joined by Saskatchewan activist, Terry Tremaine. He was featured earlier in the day, along with Mr. Fromm. Former political prisoner Terry Tremaine has been a victim of Richard Warman who had charged him under Sec. 13 (the Internet section provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act) and under Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code (the “hate law”) for his Internet postings on history and race. Mr. Tremaine explained how Warman had cost him his job as a university lecturer and continued to complain to the courts with a view to jailing him for “contempt of court.”

Hundreds of signatures were gathered in an hour as young activists approached the late afternoon downown crowd asking them to sign the letter to Prime Minister Harper. In some cases, the petitions were literally snatched out of their hands by people eager to register their outrage at the government’s weakness.

A week before, a Thai-registered boat, the Sun Sea, captained by a Tamil Tiger leader smuggled 492 would-be refugee claimants. Canada lists the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) as a terrorist group. Several of their fundraising fronts have been shut down by the Federal Government.

The Canadian taxpayers will be put to huge expenses in terms of processing the 492 Tamils then showering them with most of the rights of Canadian citizens – welfare, public housing, medicare, legal aid, dental care, language and job training – through the years it will take to assess their refugee claims and subsequent appeals. Victoria hospitals had already been put on alert for tuberculosis cases.

“The polls are unequivocal,” said Mr. Fromm. “Canadians want these queue jumping illegals out!”

A Toronto Star reader’s poll asked, “Should the Tamil illegals be turned back before arriving?” Fully 78% answered YES; 16% NO. (Toronto Star, August 15, 2010)

The Toronto Sun commissioned a Leger Marketing poll when the illegals were still on the high seas, August 2-4. It found 60% of Canadians believed that the illegals “should be turned away [and] the boat should be escorted back to Sri Lanka by the Canadian Navy.” The numbers of those believing you should never have let the illegals land soared to 74% in your own home province of Alberta. (Toronto Sun, August 20, 2010)

A number of new recruits joined the protest and there are plans for more demonstrations in London against Canada’s notoriously lax immigration policies.

IF YOU'RE 65 & HAVE PAID TAXES ALL YOUR LIFE, GO FIND A LEAKY BOAT,LOSE YOUR ID, AND RETURN A S A "REFUGEE" FOR REAL GOODIES

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:23:00 +0000

IF YOU'RE 65 & HAVE PAID TAXES ALL YOUR LIFE, GO FIND A LEAKY BOAT, LOSE YOUR ID, AND RETURN A S A "REFUGEE" FOR REAL GOODIES

Only in Canada

*       It is interesting to know that the federal Government of Canada allows :
A monthly pension of : $1,890.00 to a simple refugee
plus :                                 580.00   in social aid

==========
A grand total of : $2,470.00 monthly

                                                   X    12       months

                                              ==========
                                          $28,920.00    annual income

FOR FOREIGNERS WHO NEVER PAID A CENT TO THIS COUNTRY!

·         By comparison, the Old Age Pension of a senior citizen who has contributed to the development of Our Beautiful Big Country during 40 or 50 years, CANNOT receive more than :
    Amount/month          $1,012.00     in Old Age Pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement
                                               X   12 months

                                             ============
                                                                               $12,144.00           annual income

FOR PEOPLE WHO DID THEIR WORK, PAID THEIR TAXES AND PROBABLY SHUT UP WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROTESTINGTHEIR REPLACEMENT BY MASSIVE THIRD WORLD IMMIGRATION!

A difference of : $16,776.00 per year

*      Perhaps our senior citizens should ask for the Status of Refugees instead of applying for Old Age Pension.

*   Let us send this message to as many Canadians as possible, and maybe the allowance of refugee could then be reduced to $1,012.00, and that of our Canadian pensioners raised to $2,470.00 per month.     (who actually deserve it) the money that they have been paying in income taxes for 40 or 50 years,

INCREDIBLE NONSENSE !!!
OUR CANADIAN SENIORS CITIZENS, DESERVE BETTER

Please circulate this text to see the reaction of your contacts !

Ship Docks, Canadians Taken For Ride

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:23:00 +0000

Ship Docks, Canadians Taken For Ride

As details emerge about the origins of the latest smuggling ship, it is obvious that Canada has been badly outclassed by seasoned swindlers. Again. Shortly after the MV Sun Sea arrived, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said his officials had advised him the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) were behind the operation and that the group may have realized a cool $20-million from the operation. Hey, who wouldn't circumnavigate the globe for profits like that? As a proscribed terror group, LTTE is forbidden fundraising activities in Canada, but stuff a money-spinning smuggling ship with paying illegals and the World's Biggest Pushover will actually send out the navy to tow you in! The cargo makes landfall, the cargo pays. So in addition to everything else, Canada becomes enabler in chief to the ancient evil of indentured servitude. Or worse. Note that of the nearly 600 spurious refugees that arrived on Chinese smuggling ships a decade ago, just 16 were ruled legitimate; most simply dropped off Canada's notoriously lax radar and disappeared. Canada's milquetoast strategy isn't really working for us when cell after cell of newcomer terrorists are plotting against the nicest people in the world.

As the article below makes clear, LTTE are constantly on the lookout for exploitable weaknesses, whether in foetid Thai seaports or useful idiot receiving countries: In 2008 and 2009, the Tamil refugee claim success rate was above 90%, although Canadians recently learned that 71% of these so-called refugees head to Sri Lanka when vacation time rolls around. More risible, a full month before the Tamil "refugee" ship arrived, the UN High Commission for Refugees removed Tamils from the endangered list: "Sri Lankans originating from the north of the country are no longer in need of international protection under broader refugee criteria or complementary forms of protection solely on the basis of risk of indiscriminate harm. In light of the improved human rights and security situation in Sri Lanka, there is no longer a need for group-based protection mechanisms or for a presumption of eligibility for Sri Lankans of Tamil ethnicity originating from the north of the country." (UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-seekers from Sri Lanka, July 5, 2010 HRC/EG/SLK/10/03)

LTTE must not be mistaken for some rag-tag insurgency: They ran their own merchant navy and financed a civil war/ethnic cleansing campaign over 30 years by way of heroin trafficking, flesh smuggling, credit card fraud, forged document services and ethnic shakedown/protection rackets that spanned the globe from Geneva to Bangkok. Toronto saw open street warfare -- drive bys and machete action -- for a decade between rival Tamil gangs, VVT and AK Kannon. LTTE may be down after a decisive defeat, but not out and it's ready to regroup. This is a single-minded mission to carve out a racially pure Tamil homeland within someone else's disappointingly diverse nation. Note however, that it is Canadians who are demonized as "racists" by Tamil advocates and activists posturing at the foot of the gangplank. In 2008, years after al-Qaeda became a household word, the FBI would identify LTTE as "amongst the most dangerous and deadly extremist outfits in the world." Which explains why the MV Sun Sea gave the continental US a wide berth as it made for the world's most slack-jawed doormat.

So why couldn't Canada turn the ship away? As usual, we were lied to. We were told that our border agencies could do nothing as the MV Sun Sea steamed toward us, because it was a legitimately flagged and registered Thai ship. In fact, it was an unregistered rogue vessel and Canada was well within rights to intercept and turn it. The ship loaded its human cargo in Thailand. Even if Ottawa chooses to ignore the dictates of UNHCR, these passengers embarked in a safe third country. Real refugees do not abandon a safe haven, nor do real refugees shop for asylum -- the ship sailed past a hundred countries to reach Bonanza-Land.

The saddest thing is that even in the darkest days of civil strife, Tamils in Sri Lanka knew the government heard them. It's a luxury Canadians simply do not enjoy. No one wanted this ship to land. Knowing that it was a terrorist fundraising operation -- that human smuggling itself is an offence -- Ottawa ignored the wishes of its citizens, lied to us, and permitted this odious pirate ship to make landfall. Captive taxpayers are on the hook for years of upkeep, assessments and appeals. In truth, there's nothing very appealing in any of this.

Send the Illegals Back: CFIRC Protesters Tell Government

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:14:00 +0000

Send the Illegals Back: CFIRC Protesters in Victoria Tell Government

VICTORIA. August 14, 2010. Under a brilliant summer son, two dozen supporters of the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee protested outside Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt and demanded that the Canadian Government protect Canadian sovereignty and deport all 490 illegals aboard the Sun Sea, now docked at CFB Esquimalt.

“I was here 11 years ago, when six rusty boats smuggled in some 600 Chinese illegals” CFIRC Director Paul Fromm told reporters. “The immigration minister of the day, Elinor Caplan, preached acceptance, stated she did not see her role as ‘gatekeeper,’ but spat fire and brimstone against the evil of people smuggling. Nothing happened. Virtually, one has been prosecuted.

Canada talks a good game about punishing people smuggling, “If we’re serious, we take the profit out of people smuggling. We don’t let these sneaks in.”

The Government has totally failed to protect Canada and Canadians. This is part of a Tamil Tiger people smuggling operation. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says Canada is against “people smugglers” but letting these sneaks in through the backdoor just rewards the “people smugglers.” “Mr. Toews looked tough and determined, but there have been no prosecutions of those who brought in last October’s boatload of illegals,” says Canada First Immigration Reform Committee Director Paul Fromm. You stop human smugglers by refusing to reward their clients. Turn the smuggler ships away and the sordid practice will stop,” Mr. Fromm added.

Joining the protest was prominent free speech attorney Douglas H. Christie, the Battling Barrister, and a renowned local singer with long roots in British Columbia. A number of people were attracted to the hastily organized protest by reports on local radio: one couple were visitors from Montreal and another woman hailed from Calgary.

CFB Esquimalt officers discussed the location of the protest in advance with Mr. Fromm and it was agreed that the protesters and press would meet in a largely vacant parking lot just outside the main gates to the base. The parking lot commanded a beautiful view of the Straits of Juan de Fuca and the mountains of Washington State beyond. Hidden just out of view in the harbour was the people smugglers’ ship.

In his comments to the press, Mr. Fromm pointed out that Canadian taxpayers will be put to huge expenses in terms of processing the 490 Tamils then showering them with most of the rights of Canadian citizens – welfare, public housing, medicare, legal aid, dental care, language and job training – through the years it will take to assess their refugee claims and subsequent appeals. |”British Columbians, who have chaffed under long waits for health care and the spectacle of hospital wings being shut down because of cost considerations, have every reason to be upset seeing the system instantly jumping to help people who are sneaking into Canada and who have never contributed a cent in taxes,” said Mr.Fromm.

“Canada is being played as a patsy by the Tamil Tigers, “says Mr. Fromm. Last fall, they sent two probes, a ship to Australia and one to Canada. Australia sent the Tiger boat packing and wouldn’t allow it to land. Canada went out and welcomed them into Canadian waters, despite the fact that we suspected at least a third of those on board were Tiger militants. Residue of both drugs and explosives were found on the passengers’ clothes. Most of the men in their 20s or 30s could give no account of their education or work history over the past decade, strongly suggesting they were tiger soldiers. “And, yet, this lot is loose in Canada and the cash registers just keep ka-chinging with the Canadian taxpayer footing the bill,” Mr. Fromm charges.

The protest attracted considerable local and national media coverage; including C-FAX Radio, CBC, the Toronto Star, the National Post, the Vancouver Province, La Presse, Victoria News, CBC Radio (French) and others.

PROTEST OUTSIDE CFB ESQUIMALT - SATURDAY, AUG. 14, 2:00 P.M.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:15:00 +0000

Canada First Immigration Reform Committee

P.O. Box 332,

Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3

PH: 416-428-5308

FAX: 905-278-2413

PROTEST OUTSIDE CFB ESQUIMALT – SATURDAY, AUG. 14, 2:00 P.M.

For Immediate Release

STOP THE TAMIL TIGER SMUGGLING SHIP -- ANOTHER COSTLY BOATLOAD OF ILLEGALS

VICTORIA: Concerned citizens of Victoria will protest Saturday, August 14, at 2:00 pm at the entrance to CFB Esquimalt (end of Esquimalt St) to protest the government’s decision to allow a boatload of illegals to enter Canadian waters on Thursday.

A Thai-registered boat, the Sun Sea, is captained by a Tamil Tiger leader and reportedly is carrying about 490 would-be refugees claimants. Canada lists the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) as a terrorist group. Several of their fundraising fronts have been shut down by the Federal Government.

The Government has totally failed to protect Canada and Canadians. This is part of a Tamil Tiger people smuggling operation. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says Canada is against “people smugglers” but letting these sneaks in through the backdoor just rewards the “people smugglers.” “Mr. Taews looked tough and determined, but there have been no prosecutions of those who brought in last October’s boatload of illegals,” says Canada First Immigration Reform Committee Director Paul Fromm. You stop human smugglers by refusing to reward their clients. Turn the smuggler ships away and the sordid practice will stop,” Mr. Fromm added.

“It’s a matter of national sovereignty. Foreign ships up to no good should not be allowed into Canadian waters. Foreign ships engaged in human smuggling operations should not gain admittance to Canadian waters on principle: human smuggling is illegal,” Mr. Fromm explains. Other grounds for keeping the Sun Sea out include what is in the best interest of Canadians - what is in the best interest of human cargo destined to be utilized as sweated labour, or more chillingly, as operatives - and what is in the best interest of an ethnic community that has long endured Tiger fundraising shakedowns without recourse to Canada's legal remedies

The Canadian taxpayers will be put to huge expenses in terms of processing the 490 Tamils then showering them with most of the rights of Canadian citizens – welfare, public housing, medicare, legal aid, dental care, language and job training – through the years it will take to assess their refugee claims and subsequent appeals. Victoria hospitals have already been put on alert for tuberculosis cases. Permitting such people to enter Canada could be a serious health disaster.

“Canada is being played as a patsy by the Tamil Tigers, “ says Mr. Fromm. Last fall, they sent two probes, a ship to Australia and one to Canada. Australia sent the Tiger boat packing and wouldn’t allow it to land. Canada went out and welcomed them into Canadian waters, despite the fact that we suspected at least a third of those on board were Tiger militants. Residue of both drugs and explosives were found on the passengers’ clothes. Most of the men in their 20s or 30s could give no account of their education or work history over the past decade, strongly suggesting they were tiger soldiers. “And, yet, this lot is loose in Canada and the cash register just keep ka-chinging with the Canadian taxpayer footing the bill,” Mr. Fromm charges.

“The Government spent a billion dollars to protect some foreign diplomats meeting in Toronto for the G-8 and G-20 meetings. It’s time they started protecting Canada and Canadians,” M. Fromm concludes.

Send the illegals back!!!!!

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Keith Martin: How arrogant

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:13:00 +0000

[How arrogant -- to take the phones off the hook because your constituents presume to express an opinion? It'd be bad enough if we weren't paying for it. And, of course, we were never asked about the change in our immigration patterns and our planned replacement.

VICTORIA RESIDENTS FLOODING MP KEITH MARTIN'S PHONE LINES WITH PROTESTS AGAIINST TAMIL ILLEGALS

Vancouver Province Aug 12 2010

MP Keith Martin says outraged Victorians have been flooding his office with angry phone calls for days as hundreds of Tamil refugees head for Vancouver Island.

“We’ve just had to put [the phone] on voicemail because my staff was on the phone all day long,” said Martin, whose constituency includes CFB Esquimault, where the refugees are expected to be brought.

“They’re angry because they don’t want the Tamil people to be let into Canada and they don’t want them drawing from our social services because they’re already under a lot of pressure.”

He said the callers are accusing the refugees, which Ottawa confirmed number close to 500, of jumping the immigration queue.

“Some just want them to be turned away at sea, which we can’t do for a multitude of reasons,” he said. “Legally you could do that [before the boat reached Canadian waters], but that would be signing their death warrant.” [WHY CAN'T WE? THE U.S. AND AUSTRALIA DO. WHAT DEATH WARRANT?]

Many are also concerned that members of the Tamil Tigers, banned from Canada because the group is considered a terrorist group, could be on the boat.

Martin said Canada should determine which of the refugees are legitimate, a process he concedes can take years. The Liberal MP said he supports the Conservative government’s plan to speed up the process.

He also proposed Canada ask the United Nations to set up processing centres in Sri Lanka to determine the eligibility of refugees before they leave Sri Lanka.

Two representatives from a Toronto-based National Council of Canadian Tamils are headed to Victoria to ensure the refugees know their rights, said spokesman Krisna Saravanamuttu.

In response to fears that terrorists are on the boat, he said Canada has a right to protect its national security but urged the country to treat the refugees with compassion.
“Canada has already accepted tens of thousands of Tamil immigrants, and why is this situation any different?” said Saravanamuttu, who lives in Toronto’s Tamil community of 300,000, the largest disapora outside of Sri Lanka.
He said after the claimants are processed in Vancouver, “it’s reasonable to expect many of them will come to Toronto.”
Toronto lawyer Lorne Waldman, who represented 30 of the 76 Tamil refugees who arrived by boat in B.C. last fall, said many of his clients work in restaurants, factories and the service industry.

The claimants are eligible for health care and financial assistance while they settle and apply for work permits, according to Immigration Canada’s website.

The website refutes a widely circulated e-mail stating that the claimants receive more per month than a Canadian pensioner.

Waldman said refugee claimants are eligible for welfare while they look for work.
Martin said the claimants don’t receive as much as a pensioner’s $1,100 or $1,200 a month and they don’t receive the payments for long.

Meanwhile, Victoria General Hospital was preparing for the arrival of the Tamils by reopening the hospital’s old emergency ward and reopening a closed wing for any that required inpatient care, said spokeswoman Shannon Marshall.

She said the Tamils would be kept separate from other patients and staff would be provided with precautions against any infectious diseases they may have.

OPEN LETTER TO JASON KENNEY -- STOP THE TAMIL TIGER SHIP!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:42:00 +0000

OPEN LETTER TO JASON KENNEY -- STOP THE TAMIL TIGER SHIP!

[Join "STOP THE TAMIL TIGER SMUGGLER SHIP AND THE 200 ILLEGALS HEADS FOR CANADA" Facebook Group]

August 7, 2010

The Hon. Jason Kenney,

Minister of Immigration and Multiculturalism,

1168 137 Ave, SE,
Calgary, AB

Dear Mr. Kenney:

I write you and ask you to take a clear stand and warn the MV Sun Sea, a Thai-registered boat captained by the Tamil Tigers and headed for Canadian waters with 200 illegals aboard, that it will not be allowed to land.

           Somewhere not far from Canadian waters, a Thai-flagged smuggling ship, probably part of the terrorist Tamil Tigers' navy, is lurking to make a run for Canadian waters and, you guessed it, mass "refugee" claims. "The U.S. Coast Guard's Pacific Division has confirmed the sighting of the MV Sun Sea, a vessel believed to be carrying 200 suspected asylum seekers. ...'All I can say is that it is carrying the Thai flag and is believed to travelling toward British Columbia,' Adam Stanton of the Coast Guard ... said [July 23.] ...

          Sri Lanka's high commissioner in Ottawa contends the ship is captained by a man named Vinod, a senior member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam." (Globe and Mail, July 24, 2010) Incidentally, the Tamil Tigers are listed a terrorist group in Canada and fundraising for them is illegal. "'There is no war now in Sri Lanka, and this is definitely not a humanitarian exercise,' Chitrsanganee Wagiswara said. 'The ship is captained by a Sea Tiger leader and these are illegal migrants who are trying to come into Canada illegally. This is part of the international activity to smuggle people in."

           It's not as if it's a surprise raid by the illegals and the people smugglers. The Philippines Coast Guard sounded the alert. Papers in Ceylon openly discuss this latest attempted invasion of Canada. We've even tried to get the Asians to do our work for us -- protect our shores: "The Canadian government has been keeping a watch on the Sun Sea (formerly the Harin Panich 19) since early May when, in partnership with Australia, it asked the Thai government to board two vessels allegedly preparing to ferry migrants to Canada or Australia," reports the National Post (July 17, 2010)

          The Post report continues: "Federal lawyers have advised the government that once migrant smuggling vessels are in international waters, they cannot be forcibly turned back. ... If the Sun Sea does make the weeks-long journey across the Pacific Ocean, it would likely be intercepted and boarded by the navy once it enters Canadian waters. It would then be brought to Vancouver Island, where the Immigration and Refugee Board would process those on board."

           Yes, and the refugee industry will shift into high gear with immigration lawyers, government investigators and defence lawyers -- both sides paid for by the taxpayer -- swinging into action,. Then the illegals will have to detained and fed or let go and housed and fed and medicated and given English instruction and job training , all, all at taxpayers' expense, while we hold hearings and scratch our heads and decide whether they're REALLY "refugees." Then, if the decision goes against the invaders, the appeals could drag on -- again, all at our expense -- for years.

          Perhaps, your Government should consult the Australian Government's lawyers. Last year, Sri Lankan smugglers sent out two probes. One boat of illegals headed for Australia, where they were told to shove off. The other headed for Canada. Our navy escorted them to Esquimalt. They were then bussed to Vancouver, fed, housed and an initial processing began. Although a third were suspected of being Tamil Tigers and both drugs and explosives residue were detected on their clothing and although the men, mostly in their 20s or 30s had scant educational or job history (because of long Tamil terrorist military service perhaps?) the lot were released and asked to report, if it isn't too much trouble, for their eventual hearings. Meanwhile, the Canadian taxpayers are paying for their keep, their medical care, their lawyers, etc.

Michael Byers, Professor of International Law at the University of British Columbia, clarifies that we DO have the power to interdict and turn away the illegals: "Australia, the destination of choice for most Tamil asylum seekers, is now closing the door on them. Ships carrying asylum seekers are interdicted on the high seas and their passengers taken to Christmas Island, a far-flung fragment of Australia that has been deemed by the government to fall outside its territory for the purposes of refugee law.
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If a ship is flagged by a friendly country like Thailand, Canada can simply ask for permission to stop the vessel on the high seas. Furthermore, permission is not required if the vessel is unregistered or proceeding under false pretenses, such as flying the flag of a country where it is not registered, or using a fake name.

In 2002, the United States adopted a policy of intercepting Haitian migrants on small boats and rafts and returning them directly from the high seas to Haiti. The Canadian government at first questioned whether the new policy was consistent with international refugee law, but later sent a frigate to assist the Americans. France, Greece, Italy and Spain all engage in high-seas interdictions of asylum seekers.

In addition, coastal states have rights to a 'contiguous zone,' between 12 and 24 nautical miles off shore, within which they can act to prevent any violations of customs and immigration laws that are about to occur. In Canada, such actions are facilitated by the Marine Transportation Security Act which requires ships to give 96 hours notice before entering territorial waters. If a ship hasn't provided notice, or has been told not to enter the territorial sea but is sailing resolutely toward it, there is no question -- we can stop it."

So, it's a matter of WILL. The government has the power, territorial integrity demands it, national sovereignty should insist on it: The MV Sun Sea should be turned away before it enters Canadian waters.

The Globe and Mail (August 5, 2010) warned that more Tamil Tigers smuggling ships are waiting is Asia, watching to see whether you will act with resolve or, once again, cave in an allow dodgy people tp backdoor their way into Canada. “Two shiploads of potential asylum seekers are waiting to see how Canada deals with a vessel expected to arrive in B.C. next week with 200 Tamils on board before deciding if they, too, will head for Canada’s shores, a top terrorism expert says.

‘There are two other vessels that are planning to conduct a similar voyage to Canada,’ said Rohan Gunaratna, who heads a research centre in Singapore. Dr. Gunaratna, whose area of expertise is Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, declined to disclose his sources but was one of the first people to warn Canada about the MV Sun Sea – which reports say is in the eastern Pacific Ocean bound for British Columbia – when the ship was initially travelling to Australia. … ‘[Because of] Canada’s response to Ocean Lady last year, the Tamil Tigers decided to dispatch Sun Sea to Canada, and depending on Canadian response to this vessel, the two other ships will arrive,’ Dr. Gunaratna said. He added that the two ships are in South Asian waters collecting passengers. ‘They are in a phase of gathering money from those who will travel,’ Dr. Gunaratna said.”

Your government rightly banned the LTTE as a terrorist group and has shut down several Tiger fundraising front groups. Torontonians got a taste of the power of the Tigers in May, 2009, when thousands of Tamils, brazenly flying the flag of the terrorist Tigers took over and blocked many Toronto streets, including the Gardiner Expressway for six hours on Mother’s Day.

We again call on you to act proactively and announce that the NV Sun Sea will not be allowed into Canadian waters. Should any individual aboard have a legitimate refugee claim to make, it should be made at a Canadian Embassy or High Commission abroad.”

Sincerely yours,

Paul Fromm

Director

PRESS RELEASE: STOP THE TAMIL TIGER SMUGGLING SHIP -- ANOTHER COSTLY BOATLOAD OF ILLEGALS

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:41:00 +0000

PRESS RELEASE: STOP THE TAMIL TIGER SMUGGLING SHIP -- ANOTHER COSTLY BOATLOAD OF ILLEGALS

For Immediate Release

STOP THE TAMIL TIGER SMUGGLING SHIP -- ANOTHER COSTLY BOATLOAD OF ILLEGALS

Concerned Calgarians will join Paul Fromm, Director of the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee, Monday, August 8, at 10:00 a.m at the Constituency Office of Jason Kenney, Minister of Immigration and Multiculturalism, (1168 137 Ave, SE, Calgary, AB) to present a letter and petition calling on the minister to stop a shipload of 200 Tamil illegals now approaching Canadian waters.

A Thai-registered boat, the Sun Sea, is captained by a Tamil Tiger leader and reportedly is carrying about 200 would-be refugees claimants. Canada lists the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) as a terrorist group. Several of their fundraising fronts have been shut down by the Federal Government.

“We’re calling on Minister Kenney to make it clear that the Sun Sea will not be allowed into Canadian waters,” Mr. Fromm announced. “We’ve had a Facebook site for two weeks urging people to write to their MPs and to Mr. Kenney urging that the boat not be allowed to land.

“It’s a matter of national sovereignty,” Mr. Fromm added. “Foreign ships up to no good should not be allowed into Canadian waters. Foreign ships engaged in human smuggling operations should not gain admittance to Canadian waters on principle: human smuggling is illegal. Other grounds include what is in the best interest of Canadians - what is in the best interest of human cargo destined to be utilized as sweated labour, or more chillingly, as operatives - and what is in the best interest of an ethnic community that has long endured Tiger fundraising shakedowns without recourse to Canada's legal remedies,” Mr. Fromm argued.

“When these 200 illegals land, the Canadian taxpayers will be put to huge expenses in terms of processing them and then showering them with most of the rights of Canadian citizens – welfare, public housing, medicare, legal aid, dental care, language and job training – through the years it will take to assess their refugee claims and subsequent appeals,” he explained.

“Canada is being played as a patsy by the Tamil Tigers,” Mr. Fromm charges. “Last fall, they sent two probes, a ship to Australia and one to Canada,” he explains. “Australia sent the Tiger boat packing and wouldn’t allow them to land. Canada went out and welcomed them into Canadian waters. Despite the fact that we suspected at least a third of those on board were Tiger militants. Residue of both drugs and explosives were found on their clothes. Most of the men in their 20s or 30s could give no account of their education or work history over the past decade, strongly suggesting they were tiger soldiers. And, yet, this lot is loose in Canada and the cash register just keep ka-chinging with the Canadian taxpayer footing the bill.”

“The Sun Sea is just the beginning of an all-out invasion” Mr. Fromm warns. The Globe and Mail (August 5, 2010) warned that at least two more Tiger ships are prowling Asian waters to see whether Canada will again prove a wimp and allow the incursion.

“I’m calling on Jason Kenney to do his job and protect our borders,” Mr. Fromm insists. “ He must act as Captain Canada and protect our sovereignty as Brian Tobin did some years ago when foreign fishing vessels were looting our fishing grounds.”

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Ceylon Sounds Urgent Warning About Terrorists Using the Sea Lanes -- Are You Listening, Jason?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:40:00 +0000

Ceylon Sounds Urgent Warning About Terrorists Using the Sea Lanes -- Are You Listening, Jason?

So, Sri Lanka - that is, the legitimate government of a country that has recently defeated a long standing internal terror threat , the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the Tamil Tigers) - hosts a conference to share their expertise and to warn that the oceans are increasingly being exploited by "non state players" to execute lawless piracy and terror operations. Further, they warn that legitimate governments must wake up and realize that old rules do not address new threats. Note that the Sri Lankan navy pursued Tiger ships 1,000 miles into open water!

That's nice - too bad Canada is determined to remain, once again, nothing but a sad object lesson for others: "Let's not go the Canada route and steam out to intercept boatloads of Somali pirates with sets of matching tea towels and coupons for flower arranging classes...."

Are you listening, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, Defence Minister Peter MacKay? Who stands on guard for Canada?

Terrorism’s defeat unprecedented world achievement
Dharma SRI ABEYRATNE in Galle

The defeat of terrorism is an unprecedented world achievement. Other countries can learn many lessons from the Sri Lanka experience, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said. Delivering the inaugural address at the Galle Dialogue Maritime Conference in Galle yesterday, the Defence Secretary said one of the reasons to organise this conference was to provide a forum to exchange information.

Strengthening maritime security is an urgent need for greater international cooperation, Defence Secretary Rajapaksa said.
The conference’s theme was ‘Charting the Course for Sustainable Maritime Security Cooperation’.
Sri Lanka with a maritime heritage occupies a key strategic geographical position in the Indian ocean. Sri Lanka Navy contributed its maximum to defeat the LTTE to bring eternal peace to the country.

The Navy countered all forms of threats posed out at sea successfully.

Therefore Sri Lanka Navy has been marked as an innovative and robust force, especially in irregular warfare at sea. Sri Lanka standing proudly today willing to share the experience gathered of countering maritime terrorism and lessons learnt with the rest of the world.

He said the importance of this achievement cannot be overstated. It has not only created space for an economic resurgence within Sri Lanka, but also strengthened security and stability in the region.

“The LTTE, which caused enormous suffering to this country for three decades, was no ordinary terrorist group. It had a well-organized international network that provided both funding and logistical support to its domestic outfit. It also had a network of operatives within Sri Lanka that had infiltrated every part of the country. It had a ruthless ground force, a fledgling air force, and a sophisticated naval wing. The LTTE not only controlled a large area of land but, crucially, up to two thirds of Sri Lanka’s coastline,” the Defence Secretary pointed out.

He said the LTTE controlled coastline was a grave threat to this country. Their ability to attack our naval vessels, as well as attack targets on the mainland using the sea, was a significant security challenge. The arms, ammunition and equipment it procured and smuggled in through international waters posed an even greater problem. Over the years, the LTTE managed to bring in thousands of items of heavy weaponry. They also managed to smuggle in sophisticated equipment, including aircraft, communication systems, missiles and torpedoes with which they greatly enhanced their offensive capabilities.

The LTTE had a large network of activists around the world that raised funds to support their separatist ambitions. By engaging in various criminal activities, including extortion, smuggling, and various kinds of fraud, as well as by tapping sympathizers in the Diaspora, this network generated a constant flow of funds. These funds were used to procure arms, ammunition and equipment from various sources. These items were stored at large warehouses in strategic locations abroad and when needed were transported to Sri Lanka through international waters.

Through this financial and logistical chain, the LTTE brought weapons into the country by large ships, the Defence Secretary added.

However, Sri Lanka Navy was able to destroy 10 vessels, often by going over a thousand miles into the deep sea. Destruction of these ships was a key factor in crippling LTTE.

“We must realize that although the LTTE has been militarily defeated in Sri Lanka, its international network remains largely intact. In May this year, a vessel named the MV SUN SEA was reported to be off Thailand waters. The MV SUN SEA is a general cargo ship believed to be carrying more than 200 immigrants including a considerable number of LTTE cadres and is heading towards Canadian waters. This voyage is part of LTTE activists human smuggling operation that began after the military defeat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka. Charging anything between US$15,000 to US$40,000 per immigrant, this human smuggling operation poses a significant threat, because it allows trained terrorist cadres to enter other nations while disguised as civilians or refugees,” he added.

It is vitally important that all maritime nations realize the threats they face from the sea. Transnational crimes, human smuggling, piracy, drug trafficking, terrorism or the smuggling of supplies for terrorism, have space to take place because of the lack of adequate domination of the sea. [good question - what if suspected somali pirates rolled up claiming asylum]
The Defence Secretary stressed there are legal difficulties relating to the ability of a country to intervene with regard to such threats in international waters. There should be a legal framework and adequate multilateral commitment to combat transnational crimes.

The Defence Secretary said conferences such as this will encourage further cooperation at an operational level.
“If all act together to oppose the shared threats we face, we will be able to stand firm and uphold our security. If we do not cooperate with one another, and are forced to continue to act in isolation, we will all be at risk,” he noted.
Navy Commander Vice Admiral Tisara Samarasinghe and Senior Research Fellow for South Asia Professor James Clad also addressed the gathering. International and local Security Forces Heads, foreign dignitaries and many other intellectuals were also present. (Ceylon Daily News, Aug 7, 2010)

Don't Let the Tamil Tigers Illegals Land, Protesters Tell Immigration Minister

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:39:00 +0000

Don’t Let the Tamil Tigers Illegals Land, Protesters Tell Immigration Minister

CALGARY. August 9, 2010. Concerned Calgarians, supporters of the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee, joined CFIRC Director Paul Fromm in a protest outside the constituency of Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. Mr. Fromm presented a letter calling on the immigration minister to turn back a shipload of 200 illegals headed for Canadian waters. It is piloted by a senior member of the terrorist Tamil Tiger Navy.

The ship the NV Sun Sea, if successful in entering Canadian waters, will be followed by at least two other Tamil Tigers ships as Canada is targeted as a major organizing ground for one of the world’s mostly deadly terrorist organizations. It is a group banned in Canada. The government has recently shut down several Tamil Tiger fundraising front groups.

Flying the Red Ensign, Canada’s traditional flag, the CFIRC protesters caused a flurry in Mr. Kenney’s constituency office. The door was abruptly locked, as an ashen face employee looked out at the protesters who chanted no slogans and were entirely peaceful.

“I thought a constituency office was supposed to be open to the public,” a bemused protester observed.

Protesters signs read “Canada First: Ship the Tamil Tigers Back”, “Turn the Illegals Away”, “Tamil Tigers Can Ship Out and Shove Off”, and “Don’t let the illegals land!”

Twenty minutes into the protest several cruisers from the Calgary Police Service showed up. One officer inquired what the purpose of the protest was and how long it would last. Mr. Fromm indicated that he wanted to hand a letter for Mr. Kenney to the staff at his office. The officer disappeared inside the office. The door was locked. About 10 minutes later, he emerged. Apparently, Mr. Kenney’s employee would come out and accept the letter. The exchange was made under the watchful eye of the policeman.

“It really shows how terrified our rulers are of the people,” Mr. Fromm observed.

CFIRC was helped by a strong contingent of young men and women from the White National Aryan Guard. After a year of organizational problems, the AG is reorganizing. |”The AG is back and active,” leader Kyle McKee explained.

The protest broke up at about 10:50. A blue van belonging to the Calgary Police Anti-Gang Unit trailed from Mr. Fromm all the way to the Calgary Airport.

“They’ve got Vietnamese gangs shooting each other. They’re facing a Tamil Tiger invasion and these cops have the time to follow me to the airport. Incredible!” Mr. Fromm observed later before a meeting in Edmonton,.

In comments circulated to the press and given in a talk Sunday afternoon in Calgary, Mr. Fromm said: “We’re calling on Minister Kenney to make it clear that the Sun Sea will not be allowed into Canadian waters. We’ve had a Facebook site for two weeks urging people to write to their MPs and to Mr. Kenney urging that the boat not be allowed to land.

“It’s a matter of national sovereignty,” Mr. Fromm added. “Foreign ships up to no good should not be allowed into Canadian waters. Foreign ships engaged in human smuggling operations should not gain admittance to Canadian waters on principle: human smuggling is illegal. Other grounds include what is in the best interest of Canadians - what is in the best interest of human cargo destined to be utilized as sweated labour, or more chillingly, as operatives - and what is in the best interest of an ethnic community that has long endured Tiger fundraising shakedowns without recourse to Canada's legal remedies,” Mr. Fromm argued.

“When these 200 illegals land, the Canadian taxpayers will be put to huge expenses in terms of processing them and then showering them with most of the rights of Canadian citizens – welfare, public housing, medicare, legal aid, dental care, language and job training – through the years it will take to assess their refugee claims and subsequent appeals,” he explained.

“Canada is being played as a patsy by the Tamil Tigers,” Mr. Fromm charges. “Last fall, they sent two probes, a ship to Australia and one to Canada,” he explains. “Australia sent the Tiger boat packing and wouldn’t allow them to land. Canada went out and welcomed them into Canadian waters. Despite the fact that we suspected at least a third of those on board were Tiger militants. Residue of both drugs and explosives were found on their clothes. Most of the men in their 20s or 30s could give no account of their education or work history over the past decade, strongly suggesting they were tiger soldiers. And, yet, this lot is loose in Canada and the cash register just keep ka-chinging with the Canadian taxpayer footing the bill.”

“The Sun Sea is just the beginning of an all-out invasion” Mr. Fromm warns. The Globe and Mail (August 5, 2010) warned that at least two more Tiger ships are prowling Asian waters to see whether Canada will again prove a wimp and allow the incursion.

“I’m calling on Jason Kenney to do his job and protect our borders,” Mr. Fromm insists. “He must act as Captain Canada and protect our sovereignty as Brian Tobin did some years ago when foreign fishing vessels were looting our fishing grounds.”

It May Not Be Love But Love Those Canadians!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Fromm) — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:55:00 +0000

It May Not Be Love But Love Those Canadians!

"One of lawyer Julie Taub's clients recently narrowly escaped being duped into marrying a foreign woman so she could gain permanent residency. Taub arranges a lot of marriage sponsorships and she's gotten good at sniffing out the fraudsters over the years. A red flag went up when she began the preparatory work for a Canadian man who fell in love with a woman from Madagascar and wanted to sponsor her. 'I took one look at her and saw her attitude (of entitlement),' recalls Taub, an Ottawa immigration and refugee lawyer. She later e-mailed the man and warned him to check out his prospective spouse more closely because she might be taking him for a ride. He subsequently withdrew his sponsorship application. She'd been having an affair with one of his colleagues. Taub estimates that for every five sponsorships she arranges, one ends up victimizing a Canadian. 'These people who get status in Canada through fraud ... can sponsor their own family members,' she explains. 'So you get chain migration based on an original fraud.' Canada should adopt the system in the U.S. and Australia, where foreign nationals in spousal sponsorship cases are given temporary resident status for at least two years, says Taub. That status is renewable at the end of the first year if the marriage is still intact. If the couple is still together after two years, the sponsored spouse can apply for permanent resident status. 'That's the kind of reform we need. It's just common sense,' says Taub. 'Giving them permanent resident status immediately on landing just encourages these bad-faith marriages.' [Seriously, who writes Canadian immigration law? Pollyanna's younger sister?]

The federal government doesn't formally track marriages of convenience. Immigration Canada's overseas offices receive between 30,000 and 40,000 spousal sponsorships annually. About 18% are refused and officials suspect that most of them are marriages of convenience. (This summer, Immigration Canada plans to implement a new case management system to better track this data.) The Canada Border Services Agency has only eight officers to investigate bad faith marriages, points out Taub. And those officers are also expected to investigate security threats. So, immigration-related marriage fraud isn't exactly a priority, she says. 'Why do you think (foreign nationals) target Canadians in all the Caribbean islands and China and everywhere you go? Because it's so easy to get status through marriage,' she says. [Aww, we thought it was because we're so good looking.] She manages to talk 10% to 15% of her clients out of proceeding with sponsorships. Under proposed amendments, the federal government plans to tweak the rules slightly to try to prevent marriages of convenience. Currently, a bad faith relationship must meet two criteria -- that it isn't genuine and that it was primarily entered into to obtain immigration status. Under the proposed changes, officials would only have to show one of the elements. But Vancouver immigration lawyer Gordon Maynard says the existing system works fine. 'You don't want to say no in the wrong cases.' People can be stripped of their permanent residency status and deported if it's proven they defrauded the system, says Maynard. Retorts Taub: 'Do you know how difficult that is? It's practically never happened because once you're a permanent resident, you have rights.' Welcome to Canada, folks." (Edmonton Sun, April 14, 2010)

[This article appears in the May, 2010 issue of the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE. Published monthly, the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE is available by subscription for $30 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.]