Europe’s problems = Canada’s opportunity
As is the case with millions of Canadians, most members of my extended family either
have or qualify for European or British passports. Clearly, the bonds between Canadian
families, and their businesses, with the EU-Britain run wide and deep.
The time is opportune for Ottawa to, again, simply step aside and allow families and
business to bring over our European - British cousins and employees. This is one of those
times in history that call for less control by the state in the social and commercial
development of the nation.
Ottawa should welcome the opportunity to once again leave selection, settlement and
retention to families and businesses.
This suggestion is hardly novel. In fact, the novelty lies with the recent, and failed, concept
that bureaucrats sitting behind computers should control the visa process to the
exclusion of families and businesses.
I’m in Canada because my uncle sponsored my mother. My cousin is here because my
mother did the sponsoring. There were no fancy immigration programs. No cost to the
taxpayer. The state was not involved expect to confirm that everything was kosher.
Everybody happy.
- The state stepped aside to allow a million Hong Kong folks to secure themselves
against 1997.
- The state stepped aside during the communist era to allow mass sponsorships of
east Europeans.
- The state stepped aside in the 1960’s allowing construction and other trades
companies to land hundreds of thousands of Europeans.
- Clifford Sifton stepped aside at the turn of the last century and allowed the rail
company to build the west.
Let’s simply go back to the future. Nobody loses. Everybody happy.
The only losers will be the policy control freaks with nice offices and fancy titles. These
are the bureaucrats who attend meetings and impress each other. For some unexplained
reason, they actually believe that they are necessary in the nation building process.
Richard Boraks, July 6 2016