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Illegal Italians

Jason Kenney’s legacy

In 2007, there were no illegal Italians in Canada.

Today, there are tens of thousands. Get on the Dufferin bus and it’s easy to believe that there are 60,000 young, educated, illegal Italian workers in the GTHA. They must be illegal simply because Jason Kenney made sure they’d be illegal.

In May 2014, Kenney dragged along Julian Fantino, to a press conference where Kenney capped Italian immigration at 800 persons, not families, a year.

Kenney specialized in destroying his Ontario colleagues’ and “supporters” reputations by embarrassing them as Uncle Toms and Quislings. I witnessed any number of Kenney’s “friends” cringe as he lied his way out of bad situations of his own making. What I never figured out is why his caucus colleagues never told Kenney to fuck off.   

Statistics released in 2015 confirmed that Kenney could not even meet the insulting “quota” of 800. And you wonder why Fantino lost?   

(As an aside, national quotas are illegal in Canada. Can you imagine the howls if government had a “quota cap” on Indians, Chinese etc? But Kenney cares about the rules even less than he does about the truth. )

In any event, all of Jason’s boot lickers from the GTHA were defeated on October 19.

It’s post October 2015. Jason Kenney’s mess is now John McCullam’s opportunity.

It’s true that the Liberal’s never promised an “Italian” solution.

It’s true that the Liberals never promised an Italian cabinet minister.

It’s also true that the Liberals would not be in government today without the Italian community.

The greatest truth of all is the Liberal’s genetic sense of self survival.

Self-survival starts by playing fair with a few talented young people on the Dufferin bus. 

Failure to get on the bus assures that a few more wannabe Uncle Toms will be thrown underneath the “illegal worker” express. It could get crowded and messy.

Richard Boraks, November 26 2015