On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:07:03 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>On 2017-01-12 12:00 PM, wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:30:46 -0500, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
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>>>> I would like to see proof of that last statement, definitely not true
>>>> of either refugees or immigrants in NS. I wonder though why it
>>>> surprises me that you would say it.
>>>
>>> Are you serious? You know that refugee claimants are eligible for
>>> welfare and for health care. The guy lost all his fingers. He is going
>>> to have a hard time finding work. You know they won't turn him down now.
>>> What is so hard for you to understand about that?
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>> That does not constitute proof. You assume he doesn't want to work.
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>I didn't say he had come here just to live off our welfare system. He
>and his friend entered Canada illegally across the prairies in winter
>and got lost and almost froze to death. He has lost all his fingers and
>a couple toes and he may yet lose his arms. That is going to make it
>difficult for him to find work.
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>> He most likely does, he will maybe need some help to polish up his
>> speaking and be shown the ropes, but after that, most go on to work.
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>What is he going to use to pull on those ropes? He now has no fingers,
>and he may not even have arms.
You are showing your true colours as usual
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>>
>> They covered items recently about two of the refugee families who came
>> to NS from Syria - one in Antigonish is successfully operating a
>> chocolate making business but still needs translation by one of the
>> kids! Another one I can think of set herself up as an online
>> translator and is doing very well, not in the least concerned that all
>> help ends around now for most of them. Did you even know that even a
>> refugee only receives help for one year??? So much for languishing
>> for all their life on our welfare system.
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>Great. Being refugees themselves, maybe the guy with the chocolate
>factory will offer a job to the one with no arms.
And again
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>> It's so simple for people to parrot the common misconceptions about
>> refugees and immigrants.
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>Who is parroting misconceptions. I specified someone who almost froze to
>death while sneaking across the border illegally. He is the author of
>his own misfortune. I also pointed out the surge in Mexican refugee
>claimants within the first month of the lifting of via requirements for
>Mexicans, the visa requirements that had been put in place because we
>were getting so many refugees claims from visiting Mexicans.
>
So tell me - how did your ancestors arrive here? Were they refugees
or immigrants, nearly the whole population of Canada stem from one or
the other group. Funny how the ones today like you spit on those
trying to be here.
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