Ted Opitz Speaking about Bill C-25- Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act
February 1st 2012. MP Ted Opitz speaking on Bill C-25 (Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act) Ted Opitz was born in the Parkdale area of Toronto in 1961 and is the youngest of four children. Ted’s parents were originally from Poland and immigrated to Canada shortly after WW2. During the war, Ted’s mother suffered in Nazi Germany as a forced labourer and his father served in the Polish 2nd Corps after being released by the Soviets as a prisoner of war in a gulag. Like all immigrant families, Ted’s parents came to Canada to start a better life. In 1978, while still in high school and only a teenager, Ted enrolled as a private in the Canadian Army Reserves and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel during 33 years of service. In 1998 and early 1999, his career brought him overseas to Bosnia as a member of NATO’s Stabilization Force (SFOR), where he served to bring peace, stability and security to the region. During his rich military career, Ted undertook various roles ranging from Assistant to the Chief of Staff at Canadian Forces College, a course instructor and military planner for Pope John Paul II and his World Youth Day visit to Canada in 2002. Prior to running and being elected to Parliament, Ted was the Commanding Officer of The Lincoln and Welland Regiment. Ted is grateful to the Canadian military for teaching him the values of leadership, responsibility, humility, duty and service to Canada. During his military service, Ted also had parallel careers in the telecom …
Can an gay American, technically and legally speaking, immigrate to Canada due to a lack of legal protectio?
I don’t care what you think about homosexuality, if you can add no insight, f*ck off and go back to the dark ages.
I attended public school in this f*cking country but I’m not stupid.
“immigrate to, emigrate from.”
