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Neil <neilends@gas.uug.arizona.edu> wrote:

>On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, David Reilley wrote:

>> >kaubrey@idirect.com (Kathy Aubrey) wrote:
>> >>Agreed.  When my parents came here they were not given financial 
>> >>assistance nor where they given health care etc., they were on their own as 
>> >>were all immigrants at that time. 
>> 
>> That's not true.  When your parents arrived they were provided with full 
>> access to a government-funded infrastructure which had been paid for by my 
>> parents and grandparents and great grandparents
>> 
>> When you parents arrived:
>> - they could turn on the tap and get clean water
>> - walk down well-policed, paved roads 
>> - use subsidized public transit
>> - use the school system (for themselves or their children)

>Well, as long as we're playing the "wah, my parents deserve a better life 
>than yours do" game... MY parents were ASKED to come to Canada. MY 
>parents were asked to REPRESENT Canada in the United Nations. MY parents 
>made the country YOUR great grandparents "created" a BETTER place than it 
>was before they got to Canada. What does all this prove? NOTHING! You 
>personally had nothing to do with the creation and success of Canada. 
>Neither did I. Sure, our parents helped build it. BIG DEAL. It is 
>attitudes like yours that are actually breaking Canada, rather than 
>building it like our ancestors did. 

>And by the way, if your ancestors are British, then you are in part a 
>beneficiary of your ancestral homeland's RAPE of my ancestral homeland 
>(India). Again, does that prove anything?

And for that matter, the British  colonialists also RAPED large parts
of Africa, and huge chunks South East Asia.

>There are more important things to be bickering about. Grow up. 

>-Neil