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>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.