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dreilley@pinc.com (David Reilley) wrote:

Kathy Audrey is a blinker. Kathy is an anti-immigrant racist; period.
No need for any further discussion.

>>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)

>Most importantly, when your parents arrived they found a land of opportunitry 
>which had been created, in part, because previous generations of Canadians had 
>agreed through their governments to invest taxes in an educated 
>population and a transportation/communications/pipeline infrastructure.

>If your parents had "paid their own way" they would have deposited a large 
>sum of money in the Canadian treasury on their way in the door to purchase an 
>interest in the Canadian inffrastructure which they were about to begin using.

>I am glad that your parents were welcomed into this country.  I am glad that 
>the Canadians of the day were willing to share with them.  I just get annoyed 
>when I hear people like you pretend that the immigrants of yesteryear were 
>self sufficient when they weren't.  This kind of talk diminishes the 
>generosity my parents generation showed towards immigrants - a generosity 
>which apparently is completely lost on you.