[ASLplease]

Its not fair for Iggy to stand in the wrong field and slag the conservatives, but yet he did.

And, I've noted that he didn't apologize.

[OldChum]

Or a fool with make up om her face this is nuts raise the pensions of the pensioners who are now on the plan first.

[KorbenDeck]

kenmore kenmore:

If they want to change anything it should be .. one must be a citizen and the other would be once you leave the country to live some place else... its stopped..

I would support that. If they changed the waiting period for getting citizenship from 3 to ten years

[ridenrain]

ASLplease ASLplease:

Its not fair for Iggy to stand in the wrong field and slag the conservatives, but yet he did.

And, I've noted that he didn't apologize.

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"What's with all that construction equipment over there?"

[leewgrant]

$1:

For Ruby Dhalla, offering pensions to immigrant seniors after just three years in Canada is about lifting people up out of poverty, not pandering for votes. The Liberal MP for Brampton-Springdale says the issue of immigrant seniors living in poverty is one that has been raised time and again, dating back to before her entrance into electoral politics. It's this desire to help low income seniors that led her to introduce her private member's bill, C-428, to grant all immigrant seniors access to the Old Age Security pension plan after three years in Canada rather than the current ten.

What Dhalla sees as fairness though, others see as gaming the system, giving people a social benefit they have not earned. Those views, and the views of some who say she's doing this for the Indian community or "her Indian community" have been filling up her email inbox over the past few weeks. The 35 year-old MP wants to make one thing clear, she's not doing this for the Indian community, "Everyone loves to point out India as an example, with myself being of Indian heritage, but I'm a Canadian just like other Canadians and have been born and raised here."

http://www.cfrb.com/news/565/999291

Balls - Dhalla has made the immigrant community her constituency. If she really wants to help seniors then do something that helps ALL seniors not just people who came to Canada to collect a pension.

[EyeBrock]

There are many of these 'cultural enclaves' in the GTA (they used to be called ghettoes but these are sub-divisions built by Mattamy et al and look rather nice if you like cookie-cutter housing) are either Chinese or East Indian.

The various political parties grab a member from the relevant ethnic community and the 'enclave' votes en-masse for the ethnic candidate.

It's multi-culturism at it's finest and RR is right. This private members bill won't get anywhere but it will get Ruby votes from the tens of thousand of Indians, Pakistani's and Bangladeshi's in her riding and maybe, just maybe they will forget about her abusing her Filipino house-maids.

[Brenda]

$1:

While Canada has agreements with more than 60 other countries to deal with social security agreements,

That ONLY means, that the government of your old country can put your OAS in youir foreign bankaccount. THAT is all. And probably that you can pay your taxes here.

So, If you come from a country that does not have that, you have to make sure they put it in an account over there, and YOU ship it and pay taxes over it in your former country. When you emigrate, you know that. NOT up to Canada to change that for you.

[EyeBrock]

I'm looking forward to getting $20 a month from the UK when I'm 65.
That should just cover a large pizza with 5 toppings. Mmmm, spicy chicken, feta, spicy beef, bacon and jalapenos.
God Save the Queen!

[Brenda]

If it still exists then...

[leewgrant]

Brenda Brenda:

If it still exists then...

Geographically it will still be there; however the check will be written in Arabic.

[EyeBrock]

Pizza or the UK?

[Brenda]

Either... AND OAS

It will become way to expensive, so I have no illusions. Like everything else is cut, so will OAS be cut. Me thinks ya gotta pay to collect it when we get old!

[EyeBrock]

I pulled my military pension out of the UK and it's in a locked-in plan over here. I can probably cough up the cash for my own pizza.

On the UK, there is a lot of anger over there and I think that either the immigrants will get with the program or Enoch Powell's apocalyptic vision from the 1960's will come true.
The Brit's are very nationalistic and all this multi-cult stuff is not sitting well with the 90% majority of ethnic Brits, whatever the government and social activists say.
The UK is ripe for a revolutionary change in direction and it's not going to be pretty.

[leewgrant]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

On the UK, there is a lot of anger over there and I think that either the immigrants will get with the program or Enoch Powell's apocalyptic vision from the 1960's will come true.

Rivers of Blood. We have already seen them. July 7/2005.

[EyeBrock]

Yea, British blood. Unfortunately Powell's vision will likely become a reality unless the UK government radically changes it's course.