Dave Smith wrote:
> " wrote:
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> > > When they come here it should be up to them to deal with that.
> >
> > Well if we let them in we probabaly should try to make them productive
> > citizens asap and if we have to spend a bit on ESL or FSL it probably
> > pays off. I suspect in many cases a family may arrive based on one
> > 'prime' immigrant who speaks English or French but it may be worth our
> > while to see that others in the family learn the language.
>
> I don't question that there is benefit to all of them learning English. My problem is
> with getting stuck with the bill. They are the immigrants. They came here fore a
> better life <?>. We didn't go there. They should pay for their own language lessons.

Cheaper than welfare?
>
> > Also refugees are a different matter. They didn't necessarrily plan on
> > coming here they just wanted to get out of wherever with a whole skin.
>
> Given the number of bogus refugee claims, I would suggest that most of them are
> either jumping the immigration or simply getting loose and disappearing in the
> underground market.

Doubt it but we would have to check the figures and I have no idea
where they would be. There's bound to be a few queue jumpers but even
understaffed etc as they are Immigration probably gets most of them.

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada