Ed Broadbent’s Canada: More equal, more optimistic
Ed Broadbent, one of Canada’s most respected progressive sages, sat down with the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy to talk about the Canada he grew up in and how it’s changed over his lifetime. During this candid conversation — in Mr. Broadbent’s own Ottawa backyard — he reflects on the profound shift away from equality. When he was growing up, he says, “the name of the game was to have more and more equality.” It was an unstated assumption, and it was accepted by all the leaders of the main political parties when he was first elected to Parliament. Since then, he says: “We’ve had a terrible assault on democratic equality. Equality has, since the Greeks, been the key value associated with democracy.” See the video of his full interview here.
What are the skills that are in more demand in Canada, US, UK and Australia?
I want to know the skills that are in high demand in Canada, US, UK and Australia. Which country is best to immigrate from India? Also which country is best for IT Jobs?
I have more than 10,000$ and engineering degree, can I immigrate to Canada?
many people from the whole world living legally in CANADA and money immigrate to CANADA every year, can anybody show me the way
Would more humane immigration laws in the US mean less illegal immigrants?
CAUTION: Before answering, please think for at least 90 seconds. I don’t want sound bites and I don’t want sourceless claims (ie, “More immigrants means more poor people which means more taxpayer dollars going toward welfare. Our economy can’t take that!” — how MANY more taxpayer dollars? In numbers, how BIG of an impact would that have on our economy?).
According to Canada’s statistics database, it takes approx. 180 days to immigrate to Canada. According to England’s counterpart database, it takes on average 6 months to immigrate there. According to New Zealand’s Immigration Services webpage, immigration to NZ takes 6-9 months.
The US doesn’t publish straightforward immigration statistics. But according to the website, the waiting list for Mexico, India and the Philippines is 21-25 years. After that, a prospective immigrant must learn English, pay thousands of dollars in lawyers’ fees, wait at least 7 more years, and pass a US history test that most natural-born US high schoolers can’t pass. His/her application is then at the discretion of immigration officers.
There are plenty of very good people in very bad situations who simply can’t afford that kind of investment (and by can’t afford, I mean they’d literally DIE while waiting to be legally naturalized). Maybe, just maybe, if we made this process a bit more realistic instead of building more walls, we’d be able to aid many needy people without criminalizing them.
And yes, there are some arguments against making immigration laws in the US more humane:
1) Those people should work to change their own governments and improve the quality of life in their own countries.
This argument is naive because it assumes that poor, oppressed individuals who live in absolutely desolate conditions can put together a militia and overthrow their often wealthy, corrupt government without starving to death or being shot down by a more powerful government army. Sure, this is not ALWAYS the exact case in third world nations, but there are always SOME factors stopping the oppressed from having any political influence in their respective nations.
2) We already have too many people in the US.
This is not true. According to the CIA World Factbook, the US has the 180th largest population density out of 241 countries.
3) Many Mexican immigrants are just criminals.
According to the Minnesota Human Rights Group, whose data is used in public middle school curricula, less than one percent of illegal Mexican immigrants will go on to commit any other crime in the US.
A translated quote from the song Frijolero by Mexican band Molotov:
“From the outside, it’s easy to imagine being a Mexican crossing the border, thinking of your family while you cross, and leaving everything you know behind. If YOU had to escape from under the heals of a few elite gringo ranchers, would you keep calling me a good-for-nothing wetback? If it was YOU who had to start from zero.”
How does Immigration To Canada Help Muliculturlize and Help Get More Jobs?
How does Immigration help get more jobs and help muliculturism In Canada?
What factors does it play?
Please Explain!!!!
I am so anxious to know
MUST WATCH!!! MORE THAN 2500 CONFERENCES FROM USA TO INDONESIA *GLOBAL IMPACT*
Conferences dealing with the works of Harun Yahya have been held in some of the world’s most renowned universities, from Australia to Canada, from Britain to Malaysia. More than 2500 such conferences have to date been staged in Turkey and abroad.