When the concept of multiculturalism was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant "more pavilions at Folkfest".
"25,000 more Tamil protesters to disrupt Ottawa traffic"

Exactly how does a city the size of Toronto end up with a 200,000 strong immigrant community from one insignificant patch on an equally insignificant island on the other side of the planet?
Posted by Kate at April 20, 2009 9:16 PMWhat country are we in?
Posted by: batb at April 20, 2009 9:20 PMIt's simple: tear gas and rubber bullets. I'm getting sick of the extent to which our multi-culti political class and enforcement agencies allow such nonsense.
Posted by: Colin from Mission B.C. at April 20, 2009 9:23 PMAnd they are protesting WITHOUT obtaining the proper permits from the city. There must be 2 sets of laws in this country because the police/city/province is just sitting back doing nothing but if it was white farmers demonstrating with no permits they would get their arse hauled off to jail. The bill so far to the taxpayers of Ottawa for police/fire department/ambulance is somewhere around 1 million dollars for this drum banging/terrorist flag waving Tamil gang.
Posted by: The Glengarrian at April 20, 2009 9:26 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhozx819izU
Jake and Elwood have the right idea.
Posted by: Fred R. at April 20, 2009 9:30 PMHey, that's RACIST!!! Brown people are allowed to do whatever they want because of Colonialism. And besides, SHUT UP!
/.sarc
Posted by: The Phantom at April 20, 2009 9:31 PMI am very sure they left their homeland and came to Canada because we have an inferior culture. We Canadians citizens don't understand that we need to clean up their homeland for them so they can go back.
Perhaps we need to ask Paul Martin to come back out of the closet to help them.
The new Tamil theme song should be:leavin..on a jet plane... I'll hum it for them if they want.
If they are not happy here, they are more than welcome to leave and go back to where their standard of living is obviously so much better. I would like to see how their protests would end in Sri Lanka.
Posted by: dj at April 20, 2009 9:34 PMAh, people are dying? Then stop killing them.
Posted by: Aaron at April 20, 2009 9:36 PMLast election when I pointed out the Liberals were fund raising from this group the G&M pulled the post. That is their right, it is their paper but the clip I posted had the Tiger flag with the Liberal speaking in front of it. As the Phantom said SHUT UP.
Posted by: Speedy at April 20, 2009 9:37 PMI don't see why Canada isn't totally responsible for the mess in Sri Lanka. Hey, maybe we should invade the place! That would make everyone so happy.
Posted by: Black Mamba at April 20, 2009 9:38 PMNothing to see there. Just a bunch of racist redneck teabaggers from the Republican Party. Big flop. Hahaha. Those crazy rightwingnuts, huh!
In other CNN news, Obama farted and witnesses said it smelled like flowers... Awesome, isn't it? What a great President! Greatest of all time!
Excuse me. Just being a little sarcastic there...
Posted by: The Canadian Sentinel at April 20, 2009 9:39 PMI'm still trying to figure out their logic. How exactly is pissing off everyone in Ottawa suppose to help their cause??
Posted by: ChrisinMB at April 20, 2009 9:41 PMYou know, I am on the verge of saying 'Screw it'. Seriously. You, North Americans, are so F4CKING tolerant to the oppressive governments and draconian laws, that you deserve what you get. Get up from your knees, don't you have any human dignity left??? I am qualified to say that, I stood in front of the tanks trying to restore communism. Now it's your FN turn.
Posted by: Aaron at April 20, 2009 9:41 PMTeabaggers? Is that what they do when they're gay married?
Poor gays. Even the lefties are now turning against them.
Tamils go home! Tamils go home! Tamils go home!
Posted by: set you free at April 20, 2009 9:43 PMSo a mob of thousands punishes their host country to show how angry and dedicated they are about a cause in a county they fled. And what ever you do, don't ask why they don't return home to fix the situation.
Meanwhile government commissions tell us the real threats to diversity, peace and tolerance in Canada are politically incorrect blogs.
hudson:
Never let anybody define you, least of all our elected officials who are supposed to represent our interests.
Tamils go hom! Tamils go home! Tamils go home!
Posted by: set you free at April 20, 2009 9:50 PM[deleted. Inappropriate content and language. - ED]
Posted by: Brian M. at April 20, 2009 9:51 PMMeh... it's end game for the heroic Tigers... the Sri Lanka army is about to wipe them out forever, and Tamil civilians are more than happy to get the heck out of dodge. I feel sorry for the Tamils being used by the Tigers as human shields. For the protestors on Parliament Hill? No sympathy whatsoever - to call them hypocrits is insulting run-of-the-mill hypocrits everywhere. Too many Tiger supporters in that crowd for them to shed crocodile tears, considering how many Tamil politicians working towards peace the Tigers have assassinated. I just hope the naive fools on the Hill aren't infiltrated by die-hard Tiger supporters, because when the Sri Lanka army finally finishes one of the world's most vicious terrorist organisations in the next few days, some die-hard is gonna want to go out with a bang - as brought to you by the inventors of the suicide bomber. Not that I'd mourn the dupes (as I do the ordinary Tamil folks who got blown up by the Tigers as they tried to escape), but I'd hardly want some innocent to pay for this utter madness. And my municipal taxes are going to pay for the trash and damage these cretins are and will do to downtown.
Posted by: Tanker at April 20, 2009 9:53 PMWe are a free country and so I don't see what the problem is. Free speech applies to all Canadians including immigrants. As for why we have so many, it is no different than Toronto having a huge Portuguese community, or a large Ukrainian community in Saskatchewan or Dutch community in Southwestern Ontario. These are not massive countries yet we have large concentrations of these groups who came at different times. We can argue whether we have too much or too little immigration, but our immigration laws should be fair in which nationality and race play no role in deciding who comes and who doesn't, rather it is one's own qualifications that decide if they get in. A Sri Lankan who has a Medical doctor degree should get preference over a white British prospective immigrant who dropped out of high school.
Posted by: Miles Lunn at April 20, 2009 9:54 PMYou don't get it. The point is to show us that the streets and the universities are no longer ours.
Posted by: Nicola Timmerman at April 20, 2009 9:54 PMC'mon Kate, Paul Martin told us that the Tamils are good folk. The ones in Canada only raise money for thier 'peaceful' purposes like hospitals and schools....
Posted by: Eskimo at April 20, 2009 9:56 PMI think I should import the methods of my ancestors, the HUNS. Nothing like bringing to Canada the politics of the 'old country'.
I rather suspect, even the atheists will be on their knees, praying to God that I don't lose my faith.
Of course Paul Martin did said he was going to change the way Ottawa operates 'come HELL or HIGHWATER'.
We deliver, would that be eat in or take out?
Cheers
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The Roman Senators' first question when rumours of a revolt in the provinces reached Rome was:
Cui prodest. Who profits? Who gains? "Whom does it benefit?"
The wanna-be beneficiaries of this are named here*.
The purpose? To embarrass PM Harper.
It's the usual suspects rounded up: the IggyLiberal Party of Canada and the socialist party of Taliban Jack Layton(NDP).
The names:*.
...-
"Asian Tribune now presents submissions made by opposition Liberal Party and NDP parliamentarians for the perusal of the readers and for their interpretations:"
*"Hon. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)".
*"Hon. Maria Minna (Beaches—East York, Lib.)".
*"Hon. Jim Karygiannis (Scarborough—Agincourt, Lib.)".
*"Hon. John McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood, Lib.)".
*"Hon. Albina Guarnieri (Mississauga East—Cooksville, Lib.)".
*"Mr. Derek Lee (Scarborough—Rouge River, Lib.)".
*"Hon. Jack Layton (Toronto—Danforth, NDP): Leader of the NDP".
The Hon. Dalton McGuinty, Liberal Premier of Ontario.
*http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/15495
You should know that you have to fact check the Toronto Star. According to Stats Canada 2006 Census, there are 29,245 Tamils in Toronto. That's nowhere close to 200,000. In fact, there are only 34,590 in all of Canada.
According to the CIA Fact Book "more than 200,000 Tamils have sought refuge in the West (July 2009 est.)" I guess Toronto really does think it's the centre of the universe as the Star must have assumed "the West" and "Toronto" are equivalent.
Posted by: TimR at April 20, 2009 10:14 PMNicola is right.
I was on Parliament Hill for the Good Friday procession. About the same number of people in each group. We had a police escort of a few officers. The Tigers were behind the barricades with a phalanx of police. They were quiet and watchful but with an slight air of menace. It felt to me that the Tigers were giving US permission to be there.
Posted by: valencia at April 20, 2009 10:16 PMThe scariest thing about the protest was the Toronto media the day it happened.
All the Toronto stations (radio and TV) were all tripping over themselves to say how "well organized and peaceful" the protest was, and how "they were doing their best not to disturb" the public.
No mention of terrorist flags, in fact, you wouldn't even have known they were flying everywhere unless you were trying to get through it. No mention of what they represent other than "building awareness to stop the conflict in their home country"
Do you think they had orders on specific messaging from the braintrust not to sway public opinion?
This city and its propaganda machine would make pre WW1 Germany green with envy.
*
don't worry... things are gonna be different now...
"Despite leader Michael Ignatieff's vow that his party would no longer sit on its hands
during votes in Parliament, Liberal MPs have missed three times as many votes in
the House of Commons so far this year as Conservative members."
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Posted by: neo at April 20, 2009 10:27 PMOf course the Tamil Tigers are marxist/leninist and so they have the support of the usual socialist rent-a-looney crowd that seem to exist in certain parts of Ontario...if you get my drift.
Posted by: John Luft at April 20, 2009 10:33 PMMiles... DO you support terroism? The Tamil Tigers, are they, or are they not a terrorist organization? Is that not what these people are waving their flags in support of? Yup more liberal voters HEY.
Posted by: dj at April 20, 2009 10:34 PMThe Liberal Party of Canad has to import its voters.
Hence the 200,000 Tamils in the Toronto area.
Miles Lunn: "our immigration laws should be fair in which nationality and race play no role in deciding who comes and who doesn't"
Sure. Absolutely. After all we wouldn't want to base our immigration policies on actual experience would we?
There's no reason we should consider someone from Auckland more likely to adapt to Canadian customs and values than someone from Peshawar. No reason to believe that someone from Norway will be less inclined towards gunplay and gangsta behavior than a young man from Jamaica.
Nope. Everybody on the planet starts from the same place. Clean slate. No assumptions.
It's the Canadian way.
Posted by: No Guff at April 20, 2009 10:40 PMAccording to statistics Canada, 2006 census, there are 138,675 Tamils in Canada (defined as using the Tamil language), with 110,450 in Toronto.
That's really quite a high ratio - comparable to Greek at 157, 385, and Dutch at 152,000 and Farsi (Persian). But Punjab, Urdu and Hindi, are more.
Posted by: ET at April 20, 2009 10:47 PMWe should build them basketball courts.
Posted by: Shaken at April 20, 2009 10:53 PM Canada has slowly morphed into a Nation that is seen by outsiders as a Hotel to flee to until their plight back home is dealt with.
After only 3 years in Hotel-canada you get a Citizenship and Passport to globe-trot back to the Nation you fled or visit even more violent nations while expecting canada to bail-out your sorry A$$ once you get in trouble.
We taxpayers were Sued by a Syrian draft-dodger
that fled to canada to avoid the State Military Service at age 19 ,this Syrian aquired a gun permit in 1993 and then around 1999 had moved to Boston while leaving their family back home in canada.
With a canadian passport in hand this person went globe-trotting to Known terrorist-producing nations and hung around some shady people with possible ties to Hamas,Hezbollah,or a Militant Whahabbi Mosque in the USA.
When the RCMP and CSIS closed in on this person and found hidden hard drives and data Discs in walls and the attic of their House....the whole family fled to Tunisia to live with relatives while they DID NOT report to the Canadian Embassey
they were in the Country as "Tourists" .
When the Tunisian Security forces started to close in on the relatives for the possible ties to the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood that is banned in that Nation...the Father of the canadian family living there had headed to the local Airport and fled Tunisia by themselves for the USA.
Once they deplaned in New York's JFK Airport they were taken aside and questioned for flying by themselves as a Young/Sunni/Muslim/Male/Syrian on a Canadian passport as the Khadr family are known for to globe-trot .
The USA had Legally denied this Syrian entry to their Nation as allowed by the U.N.Charter for dealing with Non-Citizens and Tourists , BUT, Tunisia refused to let him on a Return Flight for fear of a Asylum Claim for his Family to stay in Tunisia.
So after some phone calls the USA could only find Jordan to take them in because the wife was a Orthodox/Sunni Palestinian that could meet them there for a flight back to canada.
Once the Syrian had landed in Jordan they had been nabbed by Jordanians for Questioning for awhile , then once released... a new group of Kidnapper/Bounty-Hunters took him and tortured him befor transporting him to his Homeland of Syria to face a Military Court as a Draft-Dodger that fled to canada to avoid service.
The Canadian media bought the propaganda that a "Canadian" was nabbed in New York and accused of terrorism ties and "Deported" to Syria to be Tortured into a confession that they were in Afghanistan while the Khadr's were there and saw him at an Al-Qaeda camp.
Because Canada didn't bail-out his sorry A$$ soon enough from their Homeland of Syria,a pro-Shariah Law Saudi-Funded Org. in canada supplied a team of Lawyers that launched a $400'000'000.00 dollar Lawsuit against us Taxpayers for what Jordan had done and then Syria had done.
The demands for an Inquiry was part of the Blackmail scheme to make canada appear guilty of the harm caused by a Syrian Globe-trotting with a canadian pasport ,but as the Inquiry began to wind-down from the collected evidence we saw the Lawsuit drop to $40 Million and then about $25 million.
BUT,just befor the final report we saw the Lawyers agree to a "Out of court settlement" for $10.5 Million .
How long can canada pay-out $10.5 Million dollars to every Dual-Citizen that globe-trots to dangerous Nations and then returns to canada and hires a Team of Lawyers to Sue us for any "Alleged" harm with not one piece of proof other than a selected group of Witnesses to back the claims .
I do not trust the Canadian media's version of this Tamil crisis , nor do i blindly accept the Tamil version of the events.
We have been played for Suckers for too long now and don't be surprised if the Tamils launch a massive Class-action lawsuit against us taxpayers for not bailing them out of their plight as Dual-Citizens wanting their relatives rescued and brought to canada.
We're now a Nation of cowards that fled their homelands so other people can die for their freedoms as out Tropps are expected to fight in Their wars or conflicts.
With 6.5 billion people outside of canada....how many are we expected to rescue as refugess or send canadian Soldiers to die for the freedoms we already paid for to make canada great?.
What Dictator or Thug would care about mass murder or genocides in their Nations when Suckers like canada will take-in their poor and ill cowards that choose to flee rather than fight and die for their own Childrens future with a peaceful Country?????
Thank You Mr.Trudeau , you were a coward during WW2 and you finally got your wish to make canada into your image as a nation of Cowards that fled their homelands and familes to enjoy OUR freedoms that were bought with the blood of Canadians that died for Mr.Trudeau's Right to be a coward and join the wealthy/white/liberal/Elite nabobs that gave us the Charter and Consitution which tells us what Rights we have under a Trudeau reign nation.
Wow..I was just going to ask if that was a rhetorical question Kate,
but Roger has come up with a definitive answer.
A Sri Lankan who has a Medical doctor degree should get preference over a white British prospective immigrant who dropped out of high school.
~Miles Lunn at April 20, 2009 9:54 PM
I'd take the Brit any day. Why? Because he hits the ground running, speaks English, fits in with Canadian culture and values and doesn't cost a penny of my taxes.
The Ceylonese with the Medical doctor degree?
He doesn't speak English or French so needs a ESL course, his bought his Medical doctor degree from a diploma mill and doesn't know enough about germs to wash his hands before eating, plus even though he may eventually end up driving a taxi or city bus, has never ridden in a motorized vehicle in his life before getting on a plane to Canada.
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hopes apart
As they turn your dreams to shame.
My "dream" was what Canada was.
Posted by: G at April 20, 2009 11:45 PMA Somalian arrives in Vancouver as a new immigrant to Canada . He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says ... 'Thank you Mr. Canadian for letting me in this country, giving me housing, money for food, free medical care, free education and no taxes!'
The passerby says, 'You are mistaken, I am Mexican.'
The man goes on and encounters another passerby. 'Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in Canada!'
The person says, 'I not Canadian, I Vietnamese.'
The new arrival walks further, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand and says, 'Thank you for the wonderful Canada!'
That person puts up his hand and says, 'I am from Middle East, I am not Canadian!'
He finally sees a nice lady and asks, 'Are you a Canadian?'
She says , 'No, I am from Africa !'
Puzzled, he asks her, 'Where are all the Canadians ?'
The African lady checks her watch and says ...'Probably at work'
The Sri Lankans I met over her were actually catholic!!! Refugees from a war they had no interest in seeing either side win.
A minority definitiely.
Posted by: Stephen at April 21, 2009 12:00 AMStephen said, "The Sri Lankans I met over her were actually catholic!"
That's funny. yeah, same here. The only couple I know are Catholic and own a small business. Years ago when I asked about the situation over in Sri Lanka, he just shrugged, said he lives here now, and changed the subject.
i keep telling you mugs...there were 50,000(yes folks ,fifty thousand of loyal immigrants looking for a better life in Canada aside from citizenship free medical welfare etc etc etc etc 'canadians" evacuated from lebanon after the last hamas/israeli tussle...
how did we ever grant 50,000 passports(and this is only ONE small country) to people who live offshore pay no taxes and yet are entitled to all you and i pay taxes to provide....
dr dawg? step up to the the plate you commie mother...and superduperK man...give us YOUR take...
Posted by: john begley at April 21, 2009 12:54 AMThey held the Liberal convention in the streets? Or was it the NDP convention? I thought those weren't for a while. Oh well.
Posted by: Soccermom at April 21, 2009 1:08 AMI'm also thinking Jack Layton would view these people as damn fine NDP candidates. Damn fine.
Posted by: Soccermom at April 21, 2009 1:22 AM"The Sinhalese make up 74 per cent of the island's population of 21 million people. They are Buddhists and speak Sinhala. The Tamils comprise 18 per cent of the population, are Hindu and speak Tamil."
Hahaha ... Buddha's people fighting Gandhi's people. The irony.
The 74% should rule, they are the majority.
Canada is not a real county.
Posted by: Momar at April 21, 2009 1:36 AMAren't those Liberal Flags? They're Red?
Posted by: Gunney99 at April 21, 2009 1:42 AM" Exactly how does a city the size of Toronto end up with a 200,000 strong immigrant community from one insignificant patch on an equally insignificant island on the other side of the planet? "
... isn't that essentially the same question being asked around those parts two hundred years ago by the Six Nations?
Posted by: Peter O'Donnell at April 21, 2009 1:49 AMThank-you Roger - well said and well written. The fable that msm tried to fly by Canadians stunk to high Heaven; it still stinks and we are still out the millions that we paid to that sidewinder from Syria.
Ezra, why on earth any Canadians, in their right minds, would vote for ANY MP that marches with a terrorist organization (or goes to dinner with them - Minna and Paulie II dome to mind) are right in the same boat with the MP that they vote for and they should all be set a' sail (WITH THEIR TERRORIST PALS) for Ceylon! No return fare and no 'do overs'.
As my Grandad would have said 'get out and don't darken the door again'. We have no room for people like the Tamil Tigers here - people who come with agenda's from their 'old country' are of no use to us and are not welcome.
Posted by: Jema54 at April 21, 2009 3:22 AMThank-you Roger - well said and well written. The fable that msm tried to fly by Canadians stunk to high Heaven; it still stinks and we are still out the millions that we paid to that sidewinder from Syria.
Ezra, why on earth any Canadians, in their right minds, would vote for ANY MP that marches with a terrorist organization (or goes to dinner with them - Minna and Paulie II come to mind) are right in the same boat with the MP that they vote for and they should all be set a' sail (WITH THEIR TERRORIST PALS) for Ceylon! No return fare and no 'do overs'.
As my Grandad would have said 'get out and don't darken the door again'. We have no room for people like the Tamil Tigers here - people who come with agenda's from their 'old country' are of no use to us and are not welcome.
Posted by: Jema54 at April 21, 2009 3:23 AMI'll be there with my camera, I'll be offering my photos to whichever site deserves them. I've already got enough pictures of infants in strollers holding Tamil Tiger flags *and* the picture of the terrorist leader of the LTTE to be interesting.
Is it really necessary to stick a terrorist flag in the hands of an 18 month old infant, at a public rally?
"Exactly how does a city the size of Toronto end up with a 200,000 strong immigrant community from one insignificant patch on an equally insignificant island on the other side of the planet?"
Have you ever written a single post, ever, criticizing Canada's immigration policy? If not you, who? Problem lies between keyboard and chair, ma'am, it wasn't a legislature or an electorate full of Tamils who let them in.
The police, who are Liberal, are colluding with their LTTE pals to hold Ottawans hostage until Harper agrees to send Canadians to fight and die in Sri Lanka. The Ottawa police and RCMP consistently refuse to arrest the demonstrators blocking traffic, they are not upholding the law as their sworn oath compels them to. The Liberal media is colluding too, and a few labour groups are now openly backing the Tamil Tiger terrorists.
And you geniuses are still on about Iran and Afghanistan, LOL. Yeah, you care about terrorism, traitorous snakes.
Oh, and ET: you stunned whore. Only two weeks ago you made excuses for your Tamil Tiger terrorist pals, if there is blood today, and I think there will be, it will be on your hands. They do what they do because they know they can count on traitors like you among the population to make excuses for them.
Posted by: Ottawan at April 21, 2009 3:59 AMLifeboat Canadafornia
You can check in anytime you like
And check out when every you please
About 40% of the children attending the Qatar Canadian School in Doha are what I call “Passport Canadians”. Many of them have never lived in Canada and have only made brief visits. But their parents have done what is required to become citizens.
To become Canadian citizens, adults must have lived in Canada for at least three years (1,095 days) in the past four years before applying. I know of one very well educated Iraqi couple who were obtaining their Canadian citizenship while living nearly full time in the UAE. They’d fly into Canada and have their passports stamped, drive to the States, then fly back to the Emirates. Six months later they do it in reverse. They have three very bright kids that are all attending Canadian Universities on scholarships.
Maybe their kids will stay and become active contributing Canadians. But Canada is not their country or their hotel; it’s their lifeboat to be used when it’s required.
They’re playing the Canadian system with all the skills that they gained from living a corrupt part of the world. From their point of view they are playing by the rules.
Do come to Windsor with the daily NDP Muslim lovefest.
Posted by: Simeon at April 21, 2009 6:13 AM50,000 people from another country get canadian passports yet a white canadian with six generations has to prove who the hell he is to get a passport from some damn immigrant who just got here.
Posted by: old white guy at April 21, 2009 6:49 AMIronic, isn't it, old white guy?
My family are sixth generation Canadians, came over from the old country in 1799, built this country into a democracy which, until recently, was the envy of the world, and my family and I have no benefits or perks. In fact, our so-called rights are being trampled on every day -- because, as we all know, "multiculturalism" and the Charter of Rights (sic) and Freedoms (sic) don't apply to Judeo-Christian white folks because we've been deemed to be "historically privileged". DUH.
We work hard, pay our own way, and pay inordinately high taxes so that the "new immigrants" who bring their grievances from their undemocratic H*ll-holes can live unfettered and clog our city streets with their highly politicized demonstrations while the po-leece stand by TO PROTECT THEM AND THEIR RIGHTS.
What? An outlawed Terrorist organization has rights in Canada to disrupt our civil life and to H*ll with the rest of us?
My father and grandfathers risked their lives in both World Wars and this is their reward? It is to weep. And, yes, we have Pierre Elliot Trudeau and his rotten Librano Party to blame for this crap and corruption. LPC = Vote Buyers Extraordinaire. There will be a special place set aside in the After Life for these traitorous shysters.
Posted by: batb at April 21, 2009 7:39 AMIronic, isn't it, old white guy?
My family are sixth generation Canadians, came over from the old country in 1799, built this country into a democracy which, until recently, was the envy of the world, and my family and I have no benefits or perks. In fact, our so-called rights are being trampled on every day -- because, as we all know, "multiculturalism" and the Charter of Rights (sic) and Freedoms (sic) don't apply to Judeo-Christian white folks because we've been deemed to be "historically privileged". DUH.
We work hard, pay our own way, and pay inordinately high taxes so that the "new immigrants" who bring their grievances from their undemocratic H*ll-holes can live unfettered and clog our city streets with their highly politicized demonstrations while the po-leece stand by TO PROTECT THEM AND THEIR RIGHTS.
What? An outlawed Terrorist organization has rights in Canada to disrupt our civil life and to H*ll with the rest of us?
My father and grandfathers risked their lives in both World Wars and this is their reward? It is to weep. And, yes, we have Pierre Elliot Trudeau and his rotten Librano Party to blame for this crap and corruption. LPC = Vote Buyers Extraordinaire. There will be a special place set aside in the After Life for these traitorous shysters.
Posted by: batb at April 21, 2009 7:42 AMFolks, your focus is too narrow. It's not about Canada at all. These protests are being held all over the world.
This is a deliberately orchestrated campaign to try to get governments to pressure Sri Lanka into a ceasefire. Sri Lanka now has the Tigers by the short and curlies, so this is now a desperate manoeuvre to garner support.
To no avail, I'd say. Through their ruthless and murderous ways, the Tamil Tigers long ago lost any goodwill towards their cause, such as it might be. And of course, after years and years of bloody conflict, the Sri Lankans can smell victory - so they're not about to halt their offensive and agree to any "ceasefire" (who would?).
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Oz: "The Ceylonese with the Medical doctor degree?
He doesn't speak English or French so needs a ESL course, his bought his Medical doctor degree from a diploma mill and doesn't know enough about germs to wash his hands before eating, plus even though he may eventually end up driving a taxi or city bus, has never ridden in a motorized vehicle in his life before getting on a plane to Canada."
I'm sorry, but this was a cheap shot and an all too thinly veiled racist remark. My experience with medically-trained East Asians (whether Indian, Sri Lankan or Pakistani) is that they generally always speak English (it's nigh impossible in the Indian subcontinent to proceed to any form of higher education without it). As to not washing their hands and never riding a motorized vehicle, please, put a sock in the stereotyping.
By the way, what's with the term "Ceylonese"? Do you still say "negro" as well?
"And, yes, we have Pierre Elliot Trudeau and his rotten Librano Party to blame for this crap and corruption."
I've always enjoyed your commentary batb and PET set the stage, but the blame lies with people alive today. The police are actively partnering with the Tamil Tigers, both RCMP and Ottawa Police. They regard the protesters as in the right and the few Ottawans who are pissed off as racists and rednecks. The media is completely covering this up, saying roads aren't blocked when they are blocked, saying there are no terrorist flags when there are terrorist flags.
It's quite a thing to see an RCMP officer make excuses for terrorists, calling them "good protesters" who are "not causing any trouble" in front of your own eyes, while they are carrying terrorist flags and blocking sidewalks if not roads. It's quite a thing to call your radio station to complain and have the Liberal station manager laugh in your face and make excuses for terrorists. It's quite a thing to have a police officer tell you a guy holding the flag of a banned terrorist organization is not a terrorist. They think guys like me - who want to see rule of law enforced - are nuts. They're not even interrogating or photographing these terrorists with flags.
Liberal police and Liberal media actively colluding with terrorists to take Ottawa hostage to make Harper look bad, and to force Harper to send Canadian troops to fight and die in Sri Lanka. Ugliest goddamned thing I have ever seen. I might have to leave Canada for my own safety, I'm not sure I can control myself in a society in which police and the media and terrorists gang up on citizens and nobody really cares, I simply can't just stand and watch. I'd rather be a ten peso an hour english teacher in the Bongo Republic than be associated with the cowardly and grotesque Canadian people.
Posted by: Ottawan at April 21, 2009 7:58 AMAll you folks from Ontario support Randy Hillier.
Posted by: Simeon at April 21, 2009 8:15 AMThe sooner the SL Army wipes out the last pocket of TTLE resistance - it should only take a few more days - the better off Canada will be.
I'm thinking most of these protesters will leave the GWN and head on back to the island.
We'll be better off, they'll be warmer.
Posted by: Fred at April 21, 2009 8:22 AMA few years ago, after then FinMin Paul Martin had spoken at a Tamil fundraiser in Toronto, Stockwell Day asked during question period whether it was appropriate for a minister to lend his support to an organization bent on destroying a government that Canada recognized, had dip relations with and supported with foreign assistance. Martin responded by saying he did not think such a racist comment warranted a reply. The Speaker ruled that an adequate answer and moved on.
Posted by: John L at April 21, 2009 8:31 AMSo far (8:30 a.m.), there's no more than 200 there and traffic is moving along nicely.
Posted by: Mark Bourrie at April 21, 2009 8:42 AM"So far (8:30 a.m.), there's no more than 200 there and traffic is moving along nicely."
You lying sack of sh!t. I have pictures to prove otherwise and they are blocking the sidewalk at Wellington and Metcalfe, and I've got pictures.
Traitorous lying sack of sh!t, we will neither forgive nor forget this Bourrie. They blocked traffic for a week, not a peep from you, now you are making excuses for them. Whore. Filthy crackwhore, show us the money Bourrie, bought and paid for boomer f*ck.
Posted by: Ottawan at April 21, 2009 8:54 AMOff your meds, Ottawan?
Posted by: Tanker at April 21, 2009 9:20 AMI wasn't trying to make excuses for them. Yes, there are a couple of hundred of them and they are blocking gthe sidewalk. Big deal. They said they would get 25,000 people to block traffic. So far, it hasn't happened. That was my point. Now, maybe they're planning to arrive later -- it's a long bus ride from Toronto -- but the morning rush hour has gone off without a hitch.
I've been around Parliament for 15 years. A crowd that size is no big deal. Even a crowd of 2,000 or 3,000 can be drummed up for every whacked-out cause.
The sad thing is that today's Holocaust Remembrance Day service was forced off the Hill to make room for this demonstration by terrorist supporters.
"Exactly how does a city the size of Toronto end up with a 200,000 strong immigrant community from one insignificant patch on an equally insignificant island on the other side of the planet?"
I think you know the answer to that but it bears repeating for the reality challenged in the ranks of the partisan left...since LPC bureaucrats started using the immigration department and the refugee clause to import a voting block.
Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at April 21, 2009 9:55 AMYup Mark but this from the G&M.
"Canadian Press
April 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM EDT
OTTAWA — Pro-Tamil protesters have begun amassing in the drizzle on Parliament Hill in advance of what they say will be a huge demonstration involving thousands.
Dozens of busloads of demonstrators left Toronto overnight and more are expected from Montreal.
....The protesters say they have put away the red flags bearing the insignia of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Sri Lankan rebel forces representing the minority Tamils. Canada has designated the group a terrorist organization."
And of course, the organizers have lots of money to bus outside agitators in but the City of Ottawa wants the taxpayer to foot the bill for Police, paramedics and sanitation for these terrorists
Perhaps Montreal and Toronto should pay it? Even better, simce they have NO Permit - BILL the ORGANIZERS for their holiday.
Then I suppose the worst they will do is screw up part of the evening rush hour. The flow of civil servants off the Hill and the surrounding buildings will be disrupted. Still, it's one isolated corner of the city and even 25,000 of these people -- if they show up-- will be just a slight disruption. It's a cold, grim day here with more rain threatening.
The big threat has, os far, turned out to be a big flop.
And, yes, they have black flags, which actually draws attention to the fact there's something wrong with the red ones they usually wave.
The real question is what Canada can really do to stop the flow of money from Canada to the Tigers, Hizbollah, Hamas and the rest.
CBC this morning reported that some MP's may address the Gathering, They did not indicate who?
Posted by: bryanr at April 21, 2009 10:11 AMI am tired of these terrorist Tamils
Posted by: winston at April 21, 2009 10:12 AMWe are all tired of them. Multiculturalism does not mean multimeddling into the affairs of state simply by virute of ethnic or racial status.
It (Homeland issues/conflicts) is NOT a Free Pass to NOT pay the Bills.
But Mark, you are right - it is likely an evening rush hour issue but the business owners downtown, just after the OC Transpo strike, must really be hurting and not in a very generous mood.
May it Rain even more heavily.
I am sure some MPs - mainly Liberal and especially NDP will make great pronouncements, blame Harper and then go into the taxpayer funded cafeteria or fly home to the Beaches.
Posted by: The LS from SK at April 21, 2009 10:26 AM"one insignificant patch on an equally insignificant island on the other side of the planet?"
A bit rich, coming from someone who lives in bumblef$#k, Saskatchewan.
The refugee policies are coming to bite Canada. About time. You'd think the government would wisen up after the Air India bombing. But no. Harper won't do anything either. Guaranteed.
Posted by: hehe at April 21, 2009 10:33 AMPosted by: Ottawan at April 21, 2009 3:59 AM and
Posted by: Ottawan at April 21, 2009 8:54 AM
What wrong Ottawan, did they block you from getting your starbucks latte and baconstrips breakfast.
Posted by: Merle Underwood at April 21, 2009 10:34 AM"What country are we in?'
"It's simple: tear gas and rubber bullets. I'm getting sick of the extent to which our multi-culti political class and enforcement agencies allow such nonsense."
No kidding! It's DISGUSTING that lieberal politicians can participate in terrorist rallys with impunity, but Gary Breitkreuz announces his intention to speak at a dinner held by a LEGAL sports shooting association where they intend to raffle a firearm (and only those legally permitted to possess such a firearm are permitted to enter the raffle in the first place!) and all hell breaks loose! Where is the logic in that?
The Federal Lieberal Party has NO MORALITY WHATSOEVER.
I quite agree Edward. A tactic from the French police in Paris. Immigration status will be checked while they await trial and soon the sky will be dark with planes flying those affected to their dear beloved homeland:
AFP - French police arrested 210 people on Monday as a demonstration in central Paris by Tamils angry at the situation in Sri Lanka turned violent.
"French people, react", "Sarkozy, help us" chanted several hundred demonstrators as they gathered near the Gare du Nord train station for the protest, which had not been declared to the authorities.
...Tamil protest turns violent in Paris
The demonstration quickly turned violent as protestors began turning over bins and throwing bottles at police.
One policeman was among four people injured, said the authorities, who held 164 of the 210 people initially detained for further questioning.
The windscreens of three buses, two cars and a lorry were smashed and a scooter set on fire, according to AFP journalists at the scene.
Police said the demonstrators might be charged with belonging to an "armed gathering" as the bottles they threw could be considered weapons."
If what is going on is of such concern to the Tamil supporters, why haven't they already gone back to Sri Lanka to stand side by side with their brethren? Scratch a Canadian Tamil, find a coward.
Posted by: bob c at April 21, 2009 11:13 AMIf Canada allows open support for a group they've banned as terrorists, along with about 32 other countries and the UN, what's the point?
There's absolutely nothing more Canada can do about the fighting in Sri Lanka, we cannot wage war.
Our Canadian government has to do some serious investigation of all Tamils living here. Are they using this as safe haven to raise funds to fight their battles?
Posted by: Liz J at April 21, 2009 11:25 AMThey should have stayed home and fought like men. Instead they came here to be cowards (and NDP or Liberal supporters/candidates)
Posted by: Soccermom at April 21, 2009 12:12 PMDowntown Ottawa is slowly turning into a zoo with all these Tamil Tiger sympathizers arriving from everywhere, looking for parking, jamming up the streets. Gonna be an interesting commute home when they all decide to leave.
BTW, why is it that we're all at work and these LTTE dupes are swanning around?
Posted by: Tanker at April 21, 2009 12:23 PM200,000 people waving the flag of a cult-like, murderous, illegal terrorist organization? No problem.
Lone Catholic grandmother praying the Rosary in front of an abortion clinic? Jail.
Tamils: Welcome to Canada.
Linda Gibbons: I'm Sending you a Tigers flag in a cake. Wrap yourself in it and WALK OUT OF JAIL.
Posted by: John K. at April 21, 2009 12:51 PMhuhhhehe?
"one insignificant patch on an equally insignificant island on the other side of the planet?"
A bit rich, coming from someone who lives in bumblef$#k, Saskatchewan."
That you BCL or "derJackel"?
I warned Kate not to mention how well the Sask economy was doing as now all those Easterners freezing in the dark have started a "caravan of hope" to find jobs (ans welfare)in SK and Alberta.
How many journalism doctors and marxist sociologists can Sk integrate?
Posted by: The LS from SK at April 21, 2009 1:07 PM"What country are we in?"
We are in the socialist nightmare created by True-dough. hahahaha. Kate, I still love the "more pavillions for Folkfest" phrase - one days when I get depressed, all I have to do is think about that, and my troubles go away!
On a more serious note, I predict we will separate from the East within 20 years, and not a moment too soon.
I sympathize with the plight of those (usually only the rich) trying to escape oppression in their country by coming to Canada with the understanding they will make a positive contribution to our society and abide by our countries rules.
What has happened with immigration is akin to inviting a person who is homeless into your home with the understanding he/she will make a positive contribution and abide by the rules of the house. Their contribution is substantial - to the point where you become incresingly dependant on them to get a number of jobs accomplished without much cost or effort. But once the homeless person has your trust, your rules are slowly and subtly disregarded and before you know it, you only own your home in principle. One day you realize your name is on the title but the guests run the roost. As more time goes by the guest actually demands to have their name placed on the title, conjointly of course, and their rules instituted alongside your own even if they contradict each other.
I know this illustration is a poor one, but I trust my point is made.
Posted by: No-One at April 21, 2009 2:09 PMDon't look now: With Cinco de Mayo around the corner, our own crowd of squatters will be milling around inferring a threat through sheer numbers and anti-patriotic gestures. Even in a modest city of under a half mil, last year they filled a four lane street for seven blocks.
A Democratic politician on one of my boards indicated they were utilizing most available local resources for small business development and community grants through active and productive lobbying while native-born Americans in the northern section of the city continued to sit on their hands and complain. I'm reaching once again for the Excedrin.
Posted by: Anna Mac at April 21, 2009 2:18 PMWell, time to update. Yup, they definitely are here in some numbers, with the CBC saying 10,000. I live about twelve blocks from the Hill and the street parking around here is full, which is not the usual situation. Looks like they're going to block the downtown traffic at rush hour. Ho-hum.
Maybe they'll spend enough money in the downtown stores to offset any lost business, though no one spends money at rush hour anyway. You lose business when no one can get downtown -- like during the late and unlamented bus strike -- not when the downtown is jammed with people, demonstraters and displaced locals. This time of year, there are no tourists around.
One more thing: The last time I checked, this was CANADA. If they want to effect change in Sri Lanka,the place to be doing it is OVER THERE. Canada is for CANADIANS! If you still want to be a Tamil Tiger, what did you come here for? Go and be one in Sri Lanka!
Posted by: Edward Teach at April 21, 2009 2:55 PMBTW, one vanload of fightin'-aged men asked me where the nearest gas station was. That's $60 extra in the coffers of the locals.
Posted by: Mark Bourrie at April 21, 2009 2:57 PMVery Christian of you Mark.
Hope you sent them over to PQ.
I still think Landsdowne Park could serve as a nice "Protest Centre". The can sleep under the bleachers and watch the games.
Hope they don't interupt Ezra's appearance in the Market on the 25th.
Posted by: The LS from SK at April 21, 2009 3:52 PM"BTW, one vanload of fightin'-aged men asked me where the nearest gas station was. That's $60 extra in the coffers of the locals.
Posted by: Mark Bourrie at April 21, 2009 2:57 PM "
I'm telling your employer Algonquin College I will be boycotting them and recommending we hire no Algonquin College grads, and I will recommend they not renew your contract. I will also contact the Centretown Press or whatever it is you write for these days and tell them I won't be advertising with them either.
Economic warfare is the new game, let's attack these guys where it hurts. Boycott the city of Ottawa too while you're at it folks, starve them of tax dollars and revenue and jobs, jerks like Bourrie can freeze in the dark with their close, close Tamil pals. Contact the city and tell them you are disgusted and will not ever visit dirty Ottawa again.
Tell Americans especially. Tell them the police won't protect them from menacing flag waving terrorists if they come to Canada, not that they're great shakes on non-terror related crimefighting.
Boycott Canada, what the hell. Convert to American dollars or Euros, don't buy Canadian, don't invest in Canada. Starve these bastards, grind the economy to a halt, it's the only way they will learn. We can pretty much agree this country has failed, yes? We all have a nest egg? We hate what has become of Canada? Kill it. Starve it of tax dollars, starve it of economic activity.
Don't sell food to Canadians. Don't take their phonecalls. Don't give them a wave when they let you by in traffic, don't stop to help people.
Gasoline sales to Canadians should be prohibited, propane too. Cigarettes especially. Do no charity work whatsoever. Disinvest yourself from your community. Try having goods shipped from afar to avoid Canadian merchants, or do your shopping in the states.
Don't buy pizzas, get your woman to cut your hair. If you die, instruct the executor to convert everything to cash and have it burned.
Smiling at Canadians, thanking them, or saying please to them is verboten. Ditto have a nice day.
Find an online forum having nothing to do with Canada, and trash Canada; we recommend a "starter" forum such as Yahoo! groups.
Inform on Canadians.
There will be no Canadian music, or art, or Group of 7 prints either in home or in cubicle. Finland produces a quality maple syrup, try it instead of Canadian.
Cheer for American teams in sports, and anyone but Canada at the Olympics. Prank phone call Canadians, ideally early in the morning when the lazy goofs are still snoring.
Oh yeah, that was a three smoke rant, much better. I still loathe this country though.
Posted by: Ottawan at April 21, 2009 4:15 PMCal @ 4:23 a.m. said "I know of one very well educated Iraqi couple who were obtaining their Canadian citizenship while living nearly full time in the UAE. They’d fly into Canada and have their passports stamped, drive to the States, then fly back to the Emirates. Six months later they do it in reverse."
You should report them to Immigration. They are defrauding Canada.
Posted by: Sarge (not the idiot troll) at April 21, 2009 4:32 PMWhy are Tamil Tiger supporters allowed into Canada in the first place?
Posted by: Joanne at April 21, 2009 4:38 PMPublic face of the Tamil Tigers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7075158.stm
Canadian MPs pay tribute to Thamilchelvan
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=23705
These idiots are protesting at the wrong place. If it is military intervention they want, protest the UN. If they want to discredit Sri Lanka, protest at their embassy.
But if this gaggle of refugees and terrorists think that they can intimidate PMSH, well, quite obviously, they have not read a Canadian newspaper in the last few years.
GET YOUR TERRORIST FLAGS AND ARSES OFF OF PARLIAMENT HILL ! MY GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BOW DOWN TO EXTORTION AND INTIMIDATION !
BTW - Ottawan...do not sell out your country until your country has sold you out....and that day has not quite happened yet.
Posted by: kingstonlad at April 21, 2009 6:15 PMGolly, Ottawan, I simply suggested that, if people are going to come here and be annoying, they could at least fill their tanks here before they leave. I certainly deserve to lose my job for that observation.
I suggest you call Algonquin College and get them to fire me.
BTW, Ottawan, you seem rather annoying. I hope you shop locally.
"But if this gaggle of refugees and terrorists think that they can intimidate PMSH, well, quite obviously, they have not read a Canadian newspaper in the last few years."
Maybe not. Two days after the attempted hijack of that plane, PMSH has announced we'll spend $17.2M helping Jamaica with their crime problem. I thought we were already taking in their criminals but maybe we missed a few.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=cp_n042181A.xml&show_article=1&catnum=2
Posted by: Kathryn at April 21, 2009 6:57 PMThey have no respect for their adopted or birth country, I'm sick of these Canadians of Convenience if they care so much for the beloved Tigers grow a set of balls and go fight with them. Those born in Canada appear brain washed from birth to believe the Tigers are victims, I don't think so. Behold Multiculturalism begets sedition and traitors to this country, I'm sick of them and their ole holy wars and decades ole fueds.
Posted by: Rose at April 21, 2009 7:55 PMI'm not sure when the Herd Mind decided to take sides in the Sri Lankan conflict.
It seems like 100% of the posters on this thread are willing to attack ethnic Tamils. Yet what percentage of you could even find Sri Lanka on a map? What is the capitol of that country? Who is their Prime Minister?
The reality is that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Posted by: Honest Abe at April 21, 2009 8:23 PMTo address the question of the original post the answer is Canada's internationally renowned gullible refugee system.
With the handing down of the Singh decision of 1985 Canada became the choice mark for anyone wishing to scam a refugee system for immigration purposes and Sri Lankan Tamils did so with force. Sri Lankan Tamils were practically unknown in Canada before that date but after the ruling the country began to witness a significant influx of Sri Lankan Tamils to the point where Canada now hosts the largest Sri Lankan Tamil community outside of Sri Lanka. This is curious considering the proximity of India's Tamil dominated province of Tamil Nadu.
When word got back to Sri Lanka about the ease at which one can enter Canada on a cooked up refugee story then Sri Lankan Tamils targeted Canada for immigration purposes via the refugee stream. This is different from the Ukrainians and the Dutch who were courted by the Canadian government at the time for their agricultural skills. In other words Canada wanted the Ukrainians and Dutch to immigrate here but the same cannot be said about Sri Lankan Tamils who are, more or less, self selecting immigrants.
I suspect most of the Sri Lankan Tamils who are in Canada got here as refugees and/or as sponsored relatives of refugees and I doubt very much if most are real refugees at all. The size of the Sri Lankan Tamil community is an embarrassment not only for Canada and its laughable refugee system but it seems for the Tamil community as well who are the only ones who seem to contest the 200,000 figure for some reason.
If the protesters want to effect change in Sri Lanka they have four active Tamil political parties functioning in Colombo (a testament to how "persecuted" Tamils really are) they can lobby. It's a better than obstructing traffic on Canadian streets. By doing so they will only irritate Canadians which it seems to me is the only thing they are accomplishing.
Posted by: Pax Canadiana at April 21, 2009 8:57 PMHonest Abe? "It seems like 100% of the posters on this thread are willing to attack ethnic Tamils."
How ridiculous. These aren't attacks, they're observations. Rather, it would seem that the attacks are from the Tamil Canadians of Convenience on Canadian soil who are attacking our values and our hospitality by demonstrating in our streets and demanding that Canada get involved in the affairs of "their" country which, BTW, I thought they'd left in order to come to Canada to become citizens of this country.
As for knowing anything about Sri Lanka, that's a moot point. Many posters here know a lot about the political situation in Sri Lanka, the former Ceylon, and many others don't know very much. But, so what? Since when has knowing where Sri Lanka is or who its Prime Minister is been a defining issue for Canadians?
Posted by: batb at April 21, 2009 9:01 PMAbe:
If we don't know what they're talking about, why are they wasting everybody's time talking about something nobody here gives a s**t about?
Tamils go home! Tamils go home! Tamils go home!
Posted by: set you free at April 21, 2009 9:13 PMAbe: These protests are taking place in Ottawa. THAT IS IN CANADA, BY THE WAY. You probably wouldn't even be able to point that out on a map though, would you? There protests are disrupting the lives of law abiding citizens, trying to get to and from WORK! What the heck does it matter if we don't know who their leader is or where Sri Lanka is located on a map? THEY ARE HERE. THEY CHOSE TO COME HERE, THEY SHOULD OBEY OUR LAWS, JUST LIKE WE HAVE TO. If you feel that strongly about them maybe you should go to Sri Lanka yourself and join their cause.
Posted by: dj at April 21, 2009 9:33 PMThose damn New Zealanders -protesting again!
Posted by: FredAGunter at April 21, 2009 9:44 PMreasons why we real Canadians are angry concisely summarized:
1. Some Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers come to Canada, freeload off the system and bilk us for everything we're worth (all social goods). We stand by and let it happen.
2. As they bilk us for our goods and services, they continue to keep their previous identity and show no appreciation for what we provide them with (re: giant protests). Still we tolerate.
3. They destroy our culture by promoting their own, forming enclaves (re: brampton). We watch it happen.
4. They refuse to assimilate, take on our culture and respect the fact that they are here now. We support their cultural distinction and help them promote it.
To which I say:
Give it up or go back to where you're from. Your problems are not the problems of Canadians. Get it through your heads: you are destroying our patience and willingness to accommodate and help needy people. If you care so much about Sri Lanka, go back. We won't miss you.
When will the silent majority stand up? Why do we stand by and let this happen? If we try to protect our culture and nation we are deemed racists. Meanwhile we stand back and let it happen.
So at the risk of sounding racist, oppressive, xenophobic and anti-democratic I say go back to where you're from or assimilate and take on our values, like all of our ancestors did. There is room for accommodation, tolerance and support of people in need. There is also a balance. Canada is at the tipping point.
Yrs ago in some Toronto rag there was an article or series about gangs in one of the papers.It seems as i recall there was a Tamil gang targeting the chief of police Julian Fantino seems they were doing counter surveilance on the chief and he was truly worried.Could those Tamils be some of them same peace loving Tamils at this rally??
Tamils Go Home fight like a Man!!
Posted by: Average Joe at April 21, 2009 10:14 PMBe sure to vote in the Federal Liberals again all you ignora-mouses...and don't bother to speak out in protest yourselves...just sit back and do nothing and watch the further destruction of what was once a great nation...
Posted by: mort at April 22, 2009 9:18 AM"Miles Lunn" at April 20, 2009 9:54 PM says ".......but our immigration laws should be fair in which nationality and race play no role in deciding who comes and who doesn't, rather it is one's own qualifications that decide if they get in."
Ya, sure!
Do you mean race should play no role in racist employment-equity laws that displace qualified White Canadians in jobs or promotions?
Or perhaps you mean that after scouring our entire country with Whites commanding an 86% majority, that race played no part in appointing a Black immigrant woman from Haiti as our most recent Governor-General??
This Tamil protester parade is but a symptom of what's wrong with Canada's broken immigration policies that allows for mass 3rd world immigration to colonize our country by stealth.
From a percentile point of view, how do we compete with numbers like this:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_world’s_racial_demographics
Posted by: Fed-up Canuck at April 22, 2009 11:26 AMI wasn't aware that we can use tags here, so this should make it easier for the above link.
Click here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_world%27s_racial_demographics
Posted by: Fed-up Canuck at April 22, 2009 11:46 AMThe strange things will come when you move your home in city of Toronto is also
You will see it is like you enter from one country to other country. Each area already get divided and enter from down town Toronto of warm close home and friendly more Portuguese and European shape and Chinese and more like university educated mid class to poor to suddenly high level in 33 division area of city of Toronto Willowdale of wish to have nicer bigger richer neighborhood is not stay only as a dream and suddenly you facing delema of enter to zone of rich fight very poor area. 33 Division of corruption and bullying in Toronto and nobody can lead to them get better it is become worst than before in some cases.
And 33 divisions stand to made poor poorer mentality and made rich protected of big houses there. What I mean when teenager enter in area like do and do not by force of police. Is different of do what you like friendly of down town of change to city of bunch of bully police rather than correct criminal made you criminal even if you not plan to be one really. I need to explain more detail how management of 33 division is corrupted to begin with and how they get fish to made poor as only accused in region and patrol
Leslie and finch area of subsidized housing like city of ghost nobody enter they all has cancer and aids you may get from them .City full of drugs and alcohol and adultery and prostitute in one hand in poor areas as they design it that way verses more educated school neighbor in Toronto 33 division.
spying each person of who you are and if not fit they enter their name to list of their criminal soon and start to tell you come 11 or come 9 or do not go 9 am and curfew or not see your best friend and not talk by cell phone and take your phone and each if breach you end up to go all 32 and 33 for fun of court there trust me for those facts I said it.
Never you can come of it even all thing made to finish you already set up to go to next breach soon to go to hell soon and end up. We have so many teenagers of 15 who end up 21 in mental hospital
With no recommended of doctors notes or any psychologist to fix it. How visit in jail and how those police treat criminal with abuse in jail to made them come out with m ore mental health problems to correct them on time to save Our community better place not more hate place to live by entering Continues bullying of curfew of not to correct them but al so made criminal lead to mental h health is direction 33 division in Toronto choose to follow up and all those lawyers of duty counsel try to help police or crown not to accused thing all accused are really are criminal in day one or they made them criminal after years from bad to prevent to worse scenarios seen. so change management of 33 division first change bad cops second to direct law in correct used psychologist who know how to deal with multicultural group in proper ways and understand youth and teenager and adult are two different issue and adult is not click of clock of turn to 18 it is maturity and next ban alcohol and drugs in cities and prostituton out of city and also in jail made correct program and change abused police in jail and address them to correct them not made them worst if some group become worst who to blame environment and systems and or only to the person himself or herself. This need more investigation for better city to deal with and not made those criminal get frustrated of no life so many can get corrected if first step put psychological assessment on place and level it in better bigger shape not label all crazy ill people stress of living in Toronto is made so many people act sick or subsidized not cells for studied belong to illegal immigrants and no safety to visit criminal in their correction yet. Upgrade those to prevent them and cut all gamble place instead made all gamble place to buy ticket for stork foundation and win lottery and you money goes to sick people and hospital at least you do not gamble every day. Made subsidized housing in Leslie and finch to new brand building and put each level two subsidize and the rest to normal people to rent it and link poor with mid class in normal way to put all poor in one building and put first floor as food or some business you can hire their children of subsidize work there too to change their environment if some one is poor should not stay in rest of life of their generation poor. Change subsidize poor to new building and fix and mix them with other people and add more floor and made city more safer not put their housing like people with sick they are poor or do not act all people in drug and alcohol in jail they are sick mentally people they are not criminal and put mentally people in safe place they are not criminal too they are not know what they are doing until they can get fix it is easier to fix them when they are young to let them get old with their mental ill and damage all society of full of crime seen today criminal need to separated from each other I think we can not call majority of poor and mentally ill and youth and teenager criminals until this is proof done and knowing by all health did it.
City of Toronot is not always as may some try to show or gossip it strange city It is different city but Canada is nothign to do in other country crisis while hear people problmes can help us not allow same old history repeat here in Canada
Let’s study justice system in Canada which is more important for us to teach other how to fix their criminal or society get fix or deal with opposition in each countries. people who are mentally ill or psychologically or socially not know how to deal with each other most of them are teenager and young children of immigrants or poor people or people of color or minority of mostly target of law making in this country while crime is not what person not come on curfew of 11 pm it is stay out all night and do not do crime in any time. Police is not target real criminals and only bit person who fight criminal in street and both will charge for example assault if some one criminal bit you charge assault and if you prevent them to bit and self defense also is assault words in criminal is not clears. And abuse of do not talk to each other never work easy reduce self confidence among Canadian as we can see in compare of scared to say their opinion freely . criminal not always was criminal when they born from mother and how to prevent tem or not made them from primarily stage to worse scenarios and feed and multivitamin and exercise body health and mental health and use their brain work or read or active not stay to get worst but also correct them and they just turn back what did I was thinking I did such crime and get correct them most of them can get correct and stupid of them will back to jail again.
://www.cotahealth.ca/content.php?doc=354
://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/forum/e112/e112f-eng.shtml
://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8358ec82f5b198d18a278110501010a0/?vgnextoid=2aca9e2f1b091010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD
://www.adamhfranklin.org/publications/needs.php
://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/lhd/pe/pe-35-suicide-prev-0708.pdf
://www.ncmhjj.com/curriculum/juvenile/resources.htm
://www.djj.state.fl.us/HealthServices/documents/08_Training/Steven_Leifman.pdf
://edlabor.house.gov/testimony/091807AndreaWeismanTestimony.pdf
://consensusproject.org/the_report/toc/ch-VI/ps31-training-mental-health
Drugs is ban in Canada so as alcohol must get ban in Canada too since both has same damage to brain cell and all criminal activities are directly related to drug alcohol and
Mental health related issues never get resolve yet and social relationship of people
Do not try to immigrant to Canada of face so many multicultural groups of so many
Different view and this is not hit us as adult now. This will hit the children and young and teenagers more than adult as we know how to deal with social adjusting to public or I would say I guess most of us know how to deal with each others after all
So the hyphenated Canadian of convienence liberal voting bloc of Toronto wants something done about the misery in their home land?
Would it be okay then that we demand the LTTE stop forcing civilians at gunpoint to do a forced march out of the last Tamil Tiger foothold in SriLanka, where once they reach the front, are filmed by the anti-west lib lovin democracy hatin media as "proof ah da proof" that there is a humanitarian crisis for which Canada carries the blame.
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The blame folks is that you bought the "Bernie Madoff" scam from the local liberal MP, and you bought the big con that when you came to this country our laws are suppose to accommodate you and your ancient grievances.
Please for the love of God, go home if you wish to continue this war.
If you want to stay here in my country, discard your old citizenship and accept the fact that you are now a Canadian and not a hyphenated citizen.