Posts Tagged by immigration
What is an Immigration Bill Doing in a Budget Bill?
| 3/25/2008 | Posted by Patti under Canadian Politics |
Slipped inside a budget implementation bill is changes to the immigration system which some claim could lead to the Minister of Immigration having unprecedented authority to interfere in the system’s operation without oversight from any other source. It would allow the minister to do things like fast tracking certain applicants or denying others that have already been approved.
Not only is that level of power grabbing being allowed disturbing, but no one has explained why it is appropriate to have it inside a budget implementation bill. Am I to understand that the government of the day can simply stick whatever legislative changes they want to make into any bill and the members of the House have to scramble to find them? What kind of law making is that? (more…)
Canadians Need to Speak Up!
| 2/21/2008 | Posted by Patti under Canadian News |
Charles Roach’s ongoing objection to swearing an oath to the Crown aka Her Majesty to be a Canadian citizen lands in the Ontario Court of Appeal today. Roach, a lawyer, is trying to move a class action suit forward to have the swearing of the oath to the Queen declared unconstitutional.
The Trinidad born Roach has waged this battle for many years. Back in 1987 he fought against the oath when the Law Society of Upper Canada required all lawyers to be Canadian citizens and that is part of the swearing in of a new Canadian. He likens asking blacks to swear an oath to the Queen to asking Jews to swear an oath to Hitler.
You’d think that a clown who’d been in the country since 1955 would have learned by now that this country is a constitutional monarchy and the Queen is our head of state. An oath to the Crown is an oath of allegiance. In order to rule the oath unconstitutional is to throw out the constitution itself. (more…)
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