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Would Canada welcome Obama refugees with open arms?

Canada should open its doors for Barack Obama refugees



What would happen if thousands of Americans fleeing President Barack Obama’s ravaged U.S. economy and its soaring unemployment rates flooded the Canadian border post November 6, 2012? Would Canada welcome Obama refugees with open arms? Not according to the rules as currently set up by Canada Immigration.
Rigid screening is slowing approvals of Americans coming to Canada and someone should be demanding to know why. “Strict (immigration) rules only grant visas to Americans with pre-arranged jobs and students willing to pay high tuition fees to cash-strapped universities,” CTV discovered in a July 11th interview with Canada’s Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. The door seems firmly shut for all other Americans wanting to move to the country next door. Googling the US-Canada immigration story shows that President George Bush is still the bogeyman for Americans wanting to flee America for political reasons.

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Hollywood malcontents like Robert Redford, who allegedly said he would hightail it for Ireland if Bush were reelected in 2004; Alec Baldwin who threatened to depart from U.S. soil; American film director Robert Altman claiming to be ready to leave for France; a France ditto for Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary during the Kennedy administration and ‘Spooky Dude’ George Soros are still ‘livin’ in the USA’. Frustrating to some that the legions of those threatening to leave America over George W. never left but still dominate leaving stories on Google. Then and now the real numbers on U.S. to Canada immigration tell a different story. Out of a population of roughly 300 million, only 34,000 Americans were granted visas to work and study in Canada last year, and there were only 35,000 Americans who came to Canada the year before. Americans lag as fourth on the list in the 252,179 new immigrants admitted to Canada in 2009. People from the Republic of China top the list at 29,049, followed by the Philippines (27,277) and India (26,122). Only three thousand separate permanent residents from the USA (9,723) and Iran (6,065). For many countries, including America, visas are not required when visiting Canada. Since January, Canada has issued half a million visitors’ visas, up from 450,000 same time last year. There are 178,478 temporary foreign workers currently in Canada and 85,140 international students. With its 5,525 mile long border, making the Canada-US border the longest international one between the same pair of countries, there are multiple entry points for Americans coming to the Land of the Maple Leaf. Though Canada’s total percent of trade in the U.S. declined from 75 percent in 2005 to 68 percent in 2009, The United States is still Canada’s number one trading partner. With the economy now unstable worldwide, countless people are forced to look to other countries for jobs. Many now look to other countries for safety and political stability. Americans and Canadians share much in common as a people. It was more than two centuries ago when the US fought for independence from British rule, while Canada remained under the rule of the monarchy. It would not only be humane for Canada to be a haven for refugees of the Obama regime, but beneficial, too. Canada would benefit from American business people fleeing Obama’s fundamental Transformation of America, who just want to do business. Some 252,000 immigrants start a new life in Canada every year, why not Americans? Someone should be knocking loudly on Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s door before November 6, 2012 comes to pass.


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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