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Pax Canadiana #fundie canadianimmigrationreform.blogspot.com

I don’t believe he gives a damn about climate change. I think he’s using it as a platform to champion with hopes it will net him a nod from Stockholm. It also feeds his messiah complex. It’s all about him really. Everything, be it the election, gender equality, or climate change. It’s a means to generate narcissistic supply for the narcissistic Prime Minister and mine adoration from a sycophantic press and a fan base of half-wits.

Were he truly concerned about climate change his party wouldn’t be so determined to shovel more people into the country especially from nations with a lower carbon footprint per capita than Canada. This is because Canadians have one of the largest carbon footprints in the world. To put this in perspective, while China is the biggest global producer of CO2 emissions it also has the largest population in the world and broken down per capita Canadians are bigger producers of CO2 emissions than the Chinese. Yet China is a top source of immigrants to Canada as is India and the Philippines. Immigrants from these countries, and elsewhere, increase their carbon footprint simply by moving to Canada.

A specific way immigrants contribute to climate change is pushing urban sprawl onto the nation’s arable lands making Canada more dependent on food imports and large agribusiness factory farms both of which have larger carbon footprints than a farm growing local produce. Furthermore, in urban sprawl the car is king and urban sprawl just expands the urban heat island effect.

Canadians’ large carbon footprint may have to do with the fact that Canada is a northern country with long, cold, dark winters and short hot summers. It’s a vast country with a relatively sparse population. To stay warm during the winters, cool in the summers, and to generally traverse its great expanse requires the consumption of inordinate amount of resources. This may help explain why Canada is warming twice the global rate. Canada isn’t suitable to hosting a large population.

Whether you accept climate change is real or not is up to you. However Justin Trudeau has made it very clear it’s very real and very important to him. When the next election rolls around another one million more people would have been imported into the country increasing their carbon footprint and Canada’s as well. Allowing that, coupled with his international playboy-esque jet setting, if climate change really matters to Justin Trudeau he has a funny way of showing it.

PaxCanadiana #fundie canadianimmigrationreform.blogspot.com

In order to understand why those aboard the Komagara Maru were not allowed to land we must first investigate as to why the Chinese Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Laws were enacted. You can read about it here, here, here, and here. Simply put, these laws were enacted to protect west coast labourers from the negative effects Asian immigration was having on their livelihoods; a frustrating situation that was at the root of the 1907 Vancouver Asiatic Riot.

The arrival of the Komogata Maru off the coast of British Columbia in 1914 found itself in the wake of these earlier events. It is reasonable to assume that successive waves of Indian immigrants would have followed if the Canadian government allowed those aboard the Komogata Maru to land and take up residency. This would have flooded the B.C. economy with cheap excess labour, the kind of excess Chinese and Japanese immigration was producing with the attendant negative effects on the wages of Canadians living in the province. The Canadian government's priorities rest squarely with the welfare of its citizens and if Asian immigration to British Columbia was adversely affecting the living standards of Canadians in that province then the government did the right thing by refusing the illegal immigrants aboard the Komogata Maru the right to land. Read more about it here.

The main problem with the apology is it implies that what the government did at the time was wrong. Taken in its historical context the government acted and did what was best for those Canadians who would be negatively affected by their landing. Denying the landing of the passengers of the Komogata Maru, and thus controlling immigration, was the right thing to do and the apology is therefore unwarranted.

So on May 8 the government doled out "$5 million to the Chinese-Canadian community in grants for commemorative and educational projects related to immigration restrictions." Then, the next day on May 9 they doled out "$10 million to the Ukrainian-Canadian Foundation to support initiatives marking the First World War internment of Ukrainians and people from other eastern European ethnic communities in Canada." Then on May 12 Ottawa promises an unwarranted apology to the Indo-Canadian community for the Komogata Maru "incident" while doling out "$2.5 million in grants to commemorate the two-month standoff with the Komagata Maru." Then on May 13 the Conservatives act "to recognize Ukrainian famine as a genocide." This is clear cut ethnic vote pandering and that's why the apology is insincere. Just throw the seals some fish and watch them clap.

The Harper Conservatives are a minority government angling for ethnic block votes to win a future majority. So, they are apologizing for Indo-Canadian votes. That's it! There is no other reason. It's for votes and of course we Canadians pay for them out of our pockets with tax dollars doled out here and there for some grievance or another and it seems Canadians are getting fed up with it. Read the comments that follow the CBC article and you'll see what I mean. They are quite revealing.

No apology is necessary. The government did the right thing given the circumstances and acted with the interests of Canadians in mind. The Canadian government owed nothing to those aboard the Komogata Maru who were not Canadian citizens and were challenging Canadian immigration laws with their illegal act. The government of today should be taking notes, not giving hallow apologies.

Anonymous #racist canadianimmigrationreform.blogspot.com

I have noticed over the last 25 years or so the massive amount of immigration into Canada from India, China, Korea, Phillipines and other Asian countries. More and more everywhere I go all I see is Asians and East Indians. Our schools, hospitals, and other major places are all being filled up and overloaded with immigrants who dont 'Mix" with us native people, ( born in Canada) and they refuse to abide by Canadian values and culture. I find myself being in disputes with Asians at Pharmacies or other places listening to them "tell me" the rules or pushing their ways on me when they cant even speak English and they dont care what im used to. I find our schools are overloaded and the education quality is going down, our house prices are rising from Asian/east Indian buyers buying everything up and making houses out of reach. Our hospitals are over crowded with Asians and East Indians in our Emergency rooms like Damn Flies. NONE of these immigrants have paid one cent into our tax system that pays for all these services yet they come here and milk the heck out of them which costs us a massive amount of money. I am NOT Racist one bit but a much more BALANCED immigration system is needed and fast. I am finding myself being mad and more and more starting to majorlly dislike these immigrants as they literally take our country over. Its NOT Canadian's Fault that they Over-populated their own countries and now want to come here and live a better life. I am not alone either as alot of people I know are totally hating these Asians and East Indians and want them gone out of Canada. Theres way more gangs and shootings and pretty much all of them are from Immigrant gangs. Racism is fast becoming a problem in Canada and soon it will be a major issue and people are going to start seperating themselves into White only groups areas etc. Like I said im not Racist, I love all people from all lands but this is a major problem and our govt better wakeup and stop all this asian/east indian immigration before its a problem thats to big to fix easily. Time to limit Asian and East Indian immigration into Canada, asap.