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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.951105014954.10851D-100000@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu> Neil <neilends@gas.uug.arizona.edu> writes:
>From: Neil <neilends@gas.uug.arizona.edu>
>Subject: Re: 'Fleeing the Asians' remark....
>Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 01:54:05 -0700

>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. 

You missed my point entirely.  

I was not arguing about whether "my parents deserve a better life" - where did 
you get that from?  I was taking issue with her claim that her immigrant 
parents had no assistance from Canadian taxpayers when they arrived in Canada. 

They had considerable benefits from the generations which preceded them.

That was the full extent of my argument, for which I make no apologies - I 
don't understand where you get all that other stuff.