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ar231@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Karen Gordon) writes:

>It's interesting to read messages from recent or pending immigrants to Canada
>who tell long-term Canadians what we 'owe' them.
>Let's compare Canada's record with that of a British Colony that is exporting
>economic immigrants to us in huge numbers....

>CANADA'S REFUGEE RATIO HIGHER THAN MOST OTHERS

>(Canadian Press - Ottawa - March, 1994)

>Canada is a haven for refugees, accepting a greater proportion of those
>who come knocking at its doors than any other industrial country, Statistics
>Canada says.

>But it's not just refugees who are finding Canada's doors open, as Canada
>takes in proportionately more immigrants in total than the 2 other major
>countries that traditionally attract immigrants - the United States and 
>Australia.

>Canada in recent years has admitted about 250,000 immigrants annually -
>which, with a population of about 28.5 million works out to a rate of 8.8 
>per 1,000 Canadians, compared with a rate of less than 2.5 per 1,000 in
>the United States.
>	_____________________________________________________

>(from the Vancouver Sun -January, 1995) via Associated Press/ John Leicester

>HONG KONG PEOPLE ANGRY VIETNAMESE ALLOWED TO STAY

>(Hong Kong) The residents of Tuen Mun want every visitor to know how they 
>feel about their new neighbours.

>The Hong Kong suburbanites have draped a banner in front of their ferry pier
>proclaiming: We Strongly Protest the Placement of Vietnamese Boat People in
>Tuen Mun's Pillar Point Refugee Camp.

>That sums up the state of Hong Kong's sympathies for the boat people.

>Most Hong Kong residents are themselves refugees from communist China who
>came to the British colony for political freedom or a better life.  But
>instead of identifying with the Vietnamese, they see them as a TAX BURDEN
>and a cause of friction with China.

>More than 220,000 Vietnamese of various ethnic groups have fled to Hong
>Kong since communist North Vietnam defeated the U.S.-backed South in 1975.

>Only human rights activists speak out for the boat people.  They accuse
>the government of sending back genuine political refugees and criticize
>living conditions in the camps.

>Hong Kong legislators and China are demanding all the boat peope be 
>evicted by 1996 - TO BRITAIN IF NECESSARY.

>"Don't tell us now that there will be leftovers," said legislator Allen Lee.
>"I don't think the Hong Kong people can accept that."
>		___________________________________

>WOMAN SENT HOME STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE

>(via Associated Press - Kathy Wilhelm):

>(Haiphong, Vietnam)  Leaving home was an easy choce for Dinh Thi Thu back in
>1988.
>The only job she could find was as a housemaid and her unemployed husband 
>took out his frustrations by beating her.
>Fishing boats were pushing off weekly for Hong Kong from secluded spots up
>and down the coast around Haiphong.  Everyone knew someone who was going to 
>the booming capitalist haven (Hong Kong) on the southern shore of China.

>But coming come has been hard for Dinh Thi Thu.

>She staged a 6-day hunger strike but that didn't stop Hong Kong officials
>from carrying her onto a plane on April 7, 1993, and sending her back.

>She is one of nearly 1,000 Vietnamese forcibly sent home by the British
>Colony over the past 4 years.

>The West, sympathetic after the decades of war in Vietnam, took most of the
>Vietnamese refugees in.  About 135,000 went to Canada, including 60,000 in
>1979-80.
>			==========================

>Now, what exactly are our recent Hong Kong immigrants telling us with regards
>to 'tolerance' and what Canadians owe to prospective immigrants?
Sorry Karen wrong newsgroup try to find something better to do than 
sit and tyoe stuff and that also in the wrong group