A new type of immigrant is quickly taking advantage of the Canadian immigration system, and Canada’s Immigration Minister Jason Kenney wants to make it even easier for them to settle permanently in Canada. The Canadian Experience Class program is granting fast track access to immigrants who have already spent time in Canada, are familiar with … Continue reading »
Tag: Jason Kenney
10 Scariest Canadian Politicians: The Second-Annual X-Ray Magazine Halloween Special
With only one Liberal (I agree) and one Dipper, this list is plenty funny, if you don’t choke on your cookies first.The illustrations tasty, the descriptions delectable, the subjects nauseating.Guess where this tool ranked on the list. (No, not Tony So…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Frances Woolley points out just how much more efficient public-sector health services are compared to private-sector alternatives by contrasting the cost of surgery on people with the far higher rates charged to priv…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Republican Debates Now Turning Into the Reform-Alliance Debates
Watching the Republican presidential hopefuls duke it out to determine who is the most absurd, I’m reminded of how far this party has fallen since the days of Eisenhower. I doubt they’d get anyone “normal” to run now.In the latest round of insanity, Ri…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Both Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page and Interim Auditor General John Wiersema are rightly ripping the Cons for their complete unwillingness to be honest about how they’re wasting public money. But then, the …
Continue readingImpolitical: RCMP brought into middle of PEI election
“Ottawa calls for probe of PEI immigration program.” The timing of all of this is suspect: The federal government is calling in the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency to investigate allegations of fraud and bribery in a PEI immigration program …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: It’s a Good Thing Tim Hudak Wasn’t Around When Plavnice Podatransk Came to Canada
The latest Tim Hudak ad focuses on his grandfather, a Czech immigrant who “believed in the value of hard work”. There is even a close up shot of his immigration papers dated 1898.All I can say is that it was a good thing that Tim Hudak wasn’t around th…
Continue readingPsst. Hey Mr. Afghani, you want to be an interpreter for us?
Risk your life. And your family’s. And everyone you know.Now you’ve done your job. Thanks for all your help. But you’re in danger at home?You want to seek refuge in Canada?Screw you.Two of every three Afghans who sought refuge in Canada after risking t…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Dean Del Mastro Plays the Race Card From an Incomplete Deck
When Dalton McGuinty released his party platform, one item had Federal Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro in a flap.The $10,000 incentive to employers who hire immigrants.For Del Mastro it brought back chilling reminders of Bob Rae and affirmative action,…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto 6: To Every Action There is a Reaction. Cough, Cough!
Isaac Newton may not have had neoconservatism in mind when he wrote his laws of motion, but it seems fitting when discussing the multitude of think tanks and AstroTurf groups that back up the movement.Most were created in reaction to an action that wen…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto 5: The Exploitation of Religion
“… the seemingly squeaky clean but morally corrupt Ralph Reed.” Sarah Posner (1)In the movie Casino Jack, based on the life of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, we are introduced to some of the players in the massive corruption scandal, that took do…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Hatred as an Import/Export Business
On January 26 of this year, David Kato, a gay rights activist in Uganda, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer. Often the target of hatred, there was a renewed fierceness, when he won a court battle against a tabloid for publishing over 100 images of h…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Picking and choosing who to try and bully
This happened yesterday, but I’ll still comment on it. You might have seen the story where the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court took the unusual step of publicly (albeit indirectly) supporting the rebuke of Immigration Minister Jason Kenney for his suggestion a few months back that judges weren’t being deferential enough to the Conservative government:
“I was certainly — and I think all judges were — very pleased when an issue arose earlier this year when a Minister of the Crown seemed to suggest that some judges were insufficiently solicitous to government policy. We were very, very gratified to see your president writing a powerful public letter to […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Selected text for your weekend reading.
– Edmund Pries points out how the right sees wasted public money and gratuitous tax slashing as tools to force cuts to programs which actually serve a valuable purpose:
During the Reagan era, a friend and former…
Accidental Deliberations: Burning question
Since declaring themselves enemies of Amnesty International apparently wasn’t enough villainy for one week, the Harper Cons have also decided to pick a fight with an asbestos widow. Can National Kick a Puppy Day be far behind?
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
Anybody who sees the need to treat Amnesty International as an “adversary” has every reason to take a much closer look at whether they’re on the right side.
Continue readingImpolitical: "Kenney amateurism"
So editorializes Embassy Magazine: Five down, 25 to go. But five what?The Conservative government, lead by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, would have every Canadian believe that the 30 men whose names and pictures have been plastered on the Canadian…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Headline Of The Day
Error or no, this header “sings” to me.
Continue readingRedBedHead: Ethical Oil? Tory Scum Polishes Turd
There really is no lie too big, no corporate filth too odious that there isn’t some Tory bagman who isn’t willing to try and sell it to us as a golden egg, when it is in fact toxic poison. Alykhan Velshi, a former aide to the seriously disgusting Immig…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On revocability
Dr. Dawg has a post worth reading on the Cons’ purification strategy. But let’s take a closer look at part of that plan which I’ve only dealt with in snark form so far:The federal government believes some 1,800 people have obtained their Canadian citiz…
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