Van Jones blasts Trump in Toronto speech, warns Canada 'whitelash' could happen here

'I am not qualified to be president of the United States. Nor is the president-elect,' pundit says

By John Rieti, CBC News Posted: Nov 22, 2016 8:38 PM ET Last Updated: Nov 23, 2016 11:00 AM ET

Van Jones was in Toronto Tuesday to discuss the recent U.S. election. (Bill Pugliano/Getty)

A high-profile American political commentator says Canadians are flat-out wrong if they think a candidate like Donald Trump couldn't succeed here.

Van Jones, a CNN political contributor and former White House policy adviser, spoke with reporters on Tuesday evening about the U.S. election ahead of a Toronto event organized by the Broadbent Institute.

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Since Trump's win, which Jones believes was driven in part by what he called a "whitelash," there has been a spike in hate crimes and hate speech across the U.S.

"It can find a home in your country, too, if you don't stand up to it," Jones said.

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As for Trump, Jones said it's hard to tell what the president-elect will actually do once he's sworn in. He accused Trump of running one of the most irresponsible campaigns in history and said he hasn't done enough to condemn the white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups that have been emboldened by his win.

Trump did condemn an alt-right gathering in Washington that had featured Nazi salutes, during his meeting at the New York Times on Tuesday. 

How will Donald Trump lead once he's sworn in? Even Trump doesn't know, Jones says. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)

Jones said he still believes the wider public won't back Trump's plans to deport millions of immigrants or stage a major crackdown against Muslims in the U.S.

Trump voters, he said, didn't sign up for the most extreme things Trump stands for. Jones said he believed millions of people who voted for Trump didn't actually like the candidate, but just couldn't bring themselves to vote for the Democrats.

Election fractured U.S., Jones says

"Most Americans right now are just heartbroken about the whole thing," Jones said, noting both major parties have major flaws — the Democrats for their elitism, while the Republican Party has become a safe place for bigots.

"The country is so divided over these two broken parties that nobody wants to go home for Thanksgiving dinner."

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Jones also quashed speculation he'd run for the White House during the next federal election.

"I am not qualified to be president of the United States. Nor is the president-elect."

Jones was recently called a "star of the 2016 campaign" by the New York Times. He's also a civil rights activist and founded multiple social enterprises, including the Dream Corps, which promotes innovative policy solutions.

With files from The Canadian Press

The Source:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/van-jones-toronto-1.3863185

Comment:

“I’ll be direct”… Fr, Vitaliano Papais

                               “It could happen here” …Van Jones

What do Van Jones and Fr, Vitaliano Papais have in common?

They are both direct men who use direct words.

Mr. Jones, a left wing American commentator, was recently in Toronto warning about arrogant Trudeau government behavior leading to a “whitelash”.  

Fr. Vitaliano, a respected parish priest, recently broke all church protocol. He wrote in the Corriere Canadese that the Trudeau government has rigged the system against Italian Canadians.

We can all see where this is going.

Sophie better start packing.

Richard Boraks, November 24 2016

From Bingo to Pay for Play

I’ve finally figured out one of modern civilization’s great mysteries:

Why, since 1993, has the Indian sub-continent and adjoining areas always managed to corral such a lion’s share of Canadian permanent residency visas?

Immigration programs come and go. But, no matter the program, the Indian sub-continent region consistently out scores European by significant margins.

The lop sided numbers have persisted for two decades. This despite:

• The data based demand by Canadian Europeans for their relatives and workers far outweighing the needs of the South Asian communities. The visas go to the subcontinent. The illegal worker status  goes to Europeans

• The European demand for Canadian visas has persisted for the past two decades  

• Most immigrants from Asia do not bother staying in Canada. Ottawa is scared to disclose how many Canadian passports and potential claims on Canada’s social safety network are floating around Asia. Over 1 million is the correct number.

What happened in June 1993 was that Mike Malloy, an Ottawa Immigration official, came down to Glendon College and told the ,overwhelmingly Christian, assembled churches and NGO’s  ,that   “immigration bingo was over”. Mike told us that community groups (many based in church basements and thus the reference to bingo) would no longer have a say in immigration quotas.

The doors were slammed shut on any form of European lobbying for visas.   

Mike explained the logic of Ottawa’s rush to get away from the European community visa lobbying:  Communism had fallen. The European Union was strong. Computer technology was becoming the rage. Bureaucrats were tired of bending immigration quotas to suit community groups, overwhelmingly, European, white and Christian. The new world order of Immigration was descending. Everything would be fair and transparent.

Hallelujah.

By 1993, the bureaucrats were spending money to establish computer systems ensuring that immigration selection would now be a meritocracy run by professionals. The bureaucrats were determined that never again would there  be community interference , largely led from Toronto. The new visa selection system would be colour blind. It would be free of political interference .It would be run by the new electronic selection system.

Hallelujah.

So what happened?

Jean Chrétien is what happened.

Later in 1993 Chretien became Prime Minister.

Chrétien had no intention of allowing Mike’s meritocracy to stand in the way of making some money.

Mike was sent off to Syria.

Chretien encouraged his Immigration Ministers, and his Members of Parliament to operate wholesale “pay for play” immigration consultancy businesses out of their government offices.

Pay to play became so notorious that the Speaker of the House of Commons actually initiated the “Jim Karygiannis rule” formalizing Members of Parliament taking money for immigration services. MP’s were/are actually charging money for making representations to the Immigration Minister on behalf of constituents/clients. (One day back in the 1990’s, I bumped into Jim, a Member of Parliament, in an elevator at the Canadian visa office in Athens. He was busy running his tax payer subsidized immigration practice. I had to pay my own overhead. The taxpayer paid Jim’s expenses. He simply kept the profit. I always thought it funny that he asked me what I was doing there.)

The Karygiannis rule opened the door to the “pay for play” culture which has led to Asian consultants pretty much dictating immigration quotas for over 20 years.

Ministers, Members of Parliament, consultants and Asian political groups have shared, and are sharing millions of dollars for peddling visas in the subcontinent.

The auctioning off of our visa quotas was accompanied by Ottawa creating a new unconscionable, mandatory administrative layer of global pre visa selection. Canada’s overseas visa applications are now vetted by a private company from Mumbai, India.

The Mumbai company controlling our visa vetting system is VFS. Their web site is: www.vfsglobal.ca

I never understood why Canadians cannot not operate the visa vetting system. There is no acceptable explanation justifying Ottawa compromising our security by sole sourcing a private sector call centre operation in Mumbai. Shame.

So, it is now 2016. In summary:

• The gatekeeper for Canadian  visas  is an entrepreneur from Mumbai

• Immigration quotas are established by MPs who take money from Asian consultants and Asian commercial and political groups

• The same groups, e.g. the Punjabis, who are big players in the visa quota game with MP’s are also serious players in assuring that MPs, mostly South Asians, control the nomination process.

• There are several Trudeau appointed Punjabi senators, 16 Punjabi MP’s and 4 senior Punjabi cabinet ministers. The Punjabi reps, disciplined by organizations such as the World Sikh Organization, assure the ongoing control of quotas. The perfect system. Ottawa assures the supply. Chandigarh assures the demand.  

• Italian and Portuguese MP’s will not engage in pay to play. Thus, their visa representations are ignored by Trudeau.

• There are no Trudeau appointed Italian, Portuguese or Greek senators or Cabinet ministers.

So, there we have it:

European Church Basement Bingo Replaced by Asian Pay for Play

No meritocracy…. No transparency

No public policy consideration in establishing immigration quotas

Meaningless, crashing computer systems

Foreign political and commercial interests financed by Canadian MP’s operating visa cash registers in their offices

European Canadians squeezed out of the picture

The criminal code hovering above the entire mess

Time for a return to the church basements.

Richard Boraks, November 23 2016

Comparing Trump and Trudeau on Undocumented Workers

If President Trump keeps his word on the processing of undocumented workers,  then he’ll prove himself significantly more transparent, responsible and liberal than our Prime Minister.

Consider the following:

Denial and bureaucratic voodoo  in Canada

• Canada does not formally acknowledge the existence of significant numbers of illegal workers (about 3 percent of the total population).

• Canada does not provide any statistics concerning illegal workers. Canada does not respond to any suggestion of any numerical estimate or location or source countries or job description or tax status or previous visa status  of illegal workers

• Since Trudeau does not acknowledge the existence of illegal workers, he sees no reason to deal with issue…It’s simple … out of sight , out of mind

• When the nation’s  largest urban area, Toronto and Hamilton, ignores the rule of immigration law by setting themselves up as Sanctuary cities ,Trudeau simply ignores the lawless flouting of the rule of federal law … see no evil, speak no evil

• When illegal workers are arrested and removed from Canada, it’s not the government’s or employers responsibility. It’s strictly the consequence of the worker lacking the integrity to go through the legal process.

• It is legal for an illegal worker to pay the government to set up his own legal business. It is the illegal worker’s obligation to pay taxes on illegal income. The illegal, tax paying worker has no right to health benefits. But the Canadian taxpayer will provide health services without asking for up front payment

• The Trudeau government refuses to issues work permits to illegal workers who pay taxes. But the Trudeau government will issue social insurance numbers to the illegal workers to pay legal taxes on illegal money

• Since Canada does not bother establishing a simple administrative process for employers to check a worker’s immigration status, employers are not responsible for hiring illegal workers, especially those who operate under a government approved company  

• Trudeau is in Federal Court claiming :

a) That there is no pathway whatsoever for any illegal worker to be legalized by proving successful economic establishment

b) The right to remove 3 percent of Canada‘s population without any assessment of any file on any condition

Trump owning his problem in the US

• Trump, aggressively, acknowledges the scope and nature of the US illegal worker issue ( about 3 percent of the total population )

• Trump , aggressively, acknowledges that the illegal worker issue is his problem

• Trump, aggressively, promises to vet each illegal worker on a case by case basis. There will be no amnesty. There will be no sending anyone back without an assessment of each file on the basis of criminality and degree of establishment  

So, who’s transparent, responsible and liberal?

                          And who’s not?

Richard Boraks, November 9 2016

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Richard Boraks, November 1 2016

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