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WHAT YOU CAN DO
It is important that Canadians tell elected officials that Canada's current immigration policies are in need of major reform. For example, present immigration levels have to be reduced dramatically. Immigration Watch Canada believes in a major reduction from the 250,000+ present level to approximately the 50,000 per year level. We are not advocating abolition of immigration.
Immigration is primarily a federal responsibility, so concerned Canadians should contact federal politicians first. However, provinces have a constitutional right to be involved in immigration, so provincial politicians are part of the problem too. When any politician (federal, provincial or municipal) preaches unsustainable growth or a provincial or municipal politician pleads helplessness about federal jurisdiction over immigration, they have to be challenged. Provincial and municipal politicians can influence federal immigration policies.
If a municipal, provincial or federal politician seems to think that no critical comment can be made about immigration, tell them they are speaking absolute nonsense. Being able to say nothing critical today about Canada's immigration policies is like being able to say nothing critical, fifteen years ago, about Canada's massive deficit spending. Canada's spending had to be brought back to sanity. So do Canada's present immigration policies. The latter are a formula for even greater disaster than unrestrained deficit spending.
If politicians are marvelling about multiculturalism, you will know that they are in favour of present immigration levels and/or that they know very little about Canada's present immigration policies and/ or that they have given very little thought to the immigration issue. Challenge them. Canadians have had enough of robotic immigration comments from people who are supposed to have the ability to think. Tell them that their primary responsibility is to the majority of Canadians and that this means that the economic, environmental and cultural well-being of the majority of Canadians has to take precedence over such cliched and vacuous ideas as multiculturalism and diversity. It is important that you speak out. The economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Canada is at stake.
Send us a copy of your letters. We regularly publish a selected number of comments in the "WEEKLY BULLETINS" section of our web site. Contact us through this address: saneimmigration@yahoo.ca
One of the more effective ways to contact politicians is to write an old-fashioned letter and to use Canada's mail system. Hard copy gets more attention than electronic copy. To send a letter to Canada's Prime Minister or any other MP, just use the MP's name and the following address: C/O Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario.
If you don't know your MP's name, you can find him or her by calling the Library of Parliament in Ottawa (1-866-599-4999). Give the receptionist your postal code and address. That will help to locate the MP. If talking to someone in Ottawa sounds intimidating, you can always phone the constituency offices of these people. If you have the internet, check it for constituency office contact information. Your phone book should also have constituency contact information.
All paper letters to MP's require no postage!
Please send a copy of youe letter to your own MP and to 3 or 4 other related departments. MP's will usually respond to letters, but will sometimes ignore e-mails.
If you wish to use e-mail, here is a list of e-mail addresses. We have included other information you can use to make a complaint about the immigration issue:
(1) Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper: Harper.S@parl.gc.ca
(Ph. 613- 992-4211 ; Fax: (613) 941-6900
(2) Canada's Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney: Kenney.J@parl.gc.ca (Ph. 613-992-2235 ; Fax. 613-992-1920)
(3) The leaders of the other parties in Parliament : Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff (Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca), NDP Leader Jack Layton (Layton.J@parl.gc.ca) and BQ leader Gilles Duceppe (Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca)
(4) The 12 MP's who are on the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. These MP's spend most of their time discussing immigration and refugee issues. They make decisions on what immigration and refugee changes should be introduced to the House of Commons. Incredible as it may sound, they spend most of their time listening to Canada's immigration industry. They need to hear from real Canadians. Here are their names and e-mail addresses :
David Tilson (Tilson.D@parl.gc.ca)
Maurizio Beviliacqua (Bevilacqua.M@parl.gc.ca )
Thierry St-Cyr (St-Cyr.T@parl.gc.ca )
Paul Calandra (Calandra.P@parl.gc.ca )
Olivia Chow ( Chow.O@parl.gc.ca)
Denis Corderre (Coderre.D@parl.gc.ca )
Nina Grewal (Grewal.N@parl.gc.ca )
Jim Karygiannis (Karygiannis.J@parl.gc.ca )
Eve-Mary Thai Thi Lac (ThilaE@parl.gc.ca )
Alice Wong (Wong.A@parl.gc.ca )
Terence Young (Young.T@parl.gc.ca )
Rick Dykstra (Dykstra.R@parl.gc.ca )
(5) Canada's Minister responsible for the Canada Border Services Agency, which investigates fraud and deports offenders, Peter Van Loan: VanLoan.P@parl.gc.ca
(6) Canada's Minister of Heritage, which funds the CBC which regularly abuses its role as a publicly-funded broadcaster to act as the propaganda arm for Canada's immigration industry: Moore.J@parl.gc.ca
(7) Canada's Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews : Toews.V@parl.gc.ca
(Ph: 613-992-3128 ; Fx:613-995-1049)
(8) The CBC Ombudsman's office which investigates complaints against the CBC: English complaints: ombudsman@cbc.ca; French complaints against Radio Canada: ombudsman@radio-canada.ca
The CBC Ombudsman for English broadcasting can be contacted by regular mail or by phone. Here is the appropriate contact information:
Vince Carlin, CBC Ombudsman
P.O. Box 500, Station A
Toronto, Ontario M5W 1E6
Fax: 416/205-2825
Tel.: 416/205-2978
Each province has a minister responsible for immigration. You can get that person's name and e-mail address by phoning any provincial government office.
Here is a list of phone numbers by province and territory :
1. Britiah Columbia : 250-356-2771
2. Alberta : 780-427-2711
3. Saskatchewan :
4. Manitoba : 1-866-626-4862
5. Ontario : 1-800-267-8097
6. Quebec : 514-644-4545
7. New Brunswick : 1-888-762--8600
8. Nova Scotia : 1-800-670-4357
9. P.E.I. : 902-368-4000
10. Newfoundland and Labrador :1-709-729-3699
11. North West Territories : 1-867-873-7500
12. Yukon : 1-867-607-5811
13. Nunavut : 1-888-252-9869
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