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Title: The Philippines now Canada's top source of immigrants
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Arctic_Menace
Date: 2011-03-18 22:58:43
Canadian

[Bacardi4206]

Yet another immigration source I support, must be a good year. I love it when immigrants integrate peacefuly, work hard like any other average Canadian and don't cause trouble or piss off everybody in the country and the fact there hard work is paying off (according to them) is a bigger bonus. Working hard and getting the rewards. The better immigrant way, instead of making as many kids as possible and getting as much welfare checks as you possibly can.

[Arctic_Menace]

Wow, that's borderline racist. I also find it oddly hilarious that you have nothing to say about this, which is quoted directly from the article:

$1:

She describes it as an attractive proposition: A few years of sacrifice for life in a stable country with free health care and a salary that will allow her to send relatively vast sums home. She already paid her brother�s way through college.

She's not even keeping the money in Canada.

[CommanderSock]

I like Filipinos, I'll try my best not to overgeneralize, but I still will a bit... from my experiences with working with them in Toronto, they share similar work ethic to Britons (lower than Indians and Chinese, but a bit higher than Caribbean/Latino males), they mingle with everyone, and most importantly aren't ethno-nationalist bigots like their Asians cousins from India and China. This is a big bonus for integration in the long term. They tend not to look down on other minorities.

I'm sure Canada's immigration numbers will constantly fluctuate however. Next year it could be Nigerians, after that Brazilians, hard to tell with the massive backlog of applications in the pipelines.

[Brenda]

Ah, Philipinos. Cheap labour, cheap nannies...

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Brenda Brenda:

Ah, Philipinos. Cheap labour, cheap nannies...

And great accents

[Brenda]

When I see the "live in caregiver" ads, and see what they pay, AND take $325 for room and board, I wonder how they sleep at night... It's freaking slavery.

[andyt]

We don't need to be flooded by Philipinos any more than we do by people from other countries.

[CommanderSock]

andyt andyt:

We don't need to be flooded by Philipinos any more than we do by people from other countries.

You just said in another post you wanted more Japanese in Canada.

[andyt]

Yep. They seem the most desirable immigrants to me. We get very few, so we could certainly take some more - at a reduction of other groups, in fact an over all reduction of immigration. If we got a flood of Japanese, I'd probably feel differently.

[CommanderSock]

$1:

Yep. They seem the most desirable immigrants to me. We get very few, so we could certainly take some more - at a reduction of other groups, in fact an over all reduction of immigration. If we got a flood of Japanese, I'd probably feel differently.

Why, somehow you feel the Japanese will make your life better?

[andyt]

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

$1:

Yep. They seem the most desirable immigrants to me. We get very few, so we could certainly take some more - at a reduction of other groups, in fact an over all reduction of immigration. If we got a flood of Japanese, I'd probably feel differently.

Why, somehow you feel the Japanese will make your life better?

I think of any immigrants, they are the most desirable. Maybe I only feel that way because we get so few of them. But also looking at their society vs say the Philippines, I respect it a lot more.

I don't want hordes of people from any one culture flooding into Canada all at once, it just creates problems. I want immigration drastically reduced - I think that will make Canada better, so my life as well. And of the few immigrants we should take, they should be assessed strictly on what benefit they can bring to Canada. I want us to quit importing masses of people that are desperate enough to take shit jobs for shit wages and wind up costing us 18 billion more in govt services than they contribute in taxes. We have enough poor people, we don't need to import more.

That's all separate from refugees. I have no problem taking in a sizable number of refugees, as long as they are genuine ones. I think many of the ones we take aren't. If we stopped accepting the phony ones, the number of genuine ones we take now would be OK with me.

[Bacardi4206]

Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:

Wow, that's borderline racist. I also find it oddly hilarious that you have nothing to say about this, which is quoted directly from the article:

$1:

She describes it as an attractive proposition: A few years of sacrifice for life in a stable country with free health care and a salary that will allow her to send relatively vast sums home. She already paid her brother�s way through college.

She's not even keeping the money in Canada.

Borderline racist? I'm not judging who I'd rather have as a immigration source based on the color of there skin. I'm judging it based on how they act once they immigrate here. You'd find the same comments if you asked a lot of Europeans from sections of Europe with the highest immigration from certon countries. I also don't care if she keeps the money in Canada or not, point being is that she worked for that money. Payed her tax's, what she does with HER earned money is entirely up to her. My beef is with those that does stuff with OUR earned money.

[Brenda]

How much taxes do you actually pay when you work for $8/hr, - $325/mo for room and board?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

$1:

Yep. They seem the most desirable immigrants to me. We get very few, so we could certainly take some more - at a reduction of other groups, in fact an over all reduction of immigration. If we got a flood of Japanese, I'd probably feel differently.

Why, somehow you feel the Japanese will make your life better?

If they stayed, yes I do. However, chances are that most of any we might get would arrive as refugees with the intention of returning to Japan at some point anyway.