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Bill C-31, recently introduced
in the House of Commons, will re-define the term "family"
for the purposes of family-class immigration. The family-class
allows legitimate immigrants from other categories (such
as entrepreneurs) to sponsor family members as immigrants.
The current law restricts family to those individuals
related by blood, marriage or adoption. The new Act will
now include common-law partners and homosexuals as 'spouses.'
This Act is a direct assault
on the institutions of marriage and family, as legitimately
married spouses, their children and aged parents will
now have to wait additional months or years to be re-united
with their family. The number of immigrants who may
be admitted to Canada in the family-class is annually
limited meaning that the newly included illegitimate
relationships will crowd out many husbands, wives, etc.
Because both homosexual
and common-law relationships are so unstable, taxpayers
will face an additional burden on the already overburdened
social safety net supporting these immigrants once these
relationships end. Therefore to open this category is
neither fiscally responsible nor socially desirable.
It is also obvious that allowing immigration of people
who have no legal relationship as family opens up the
family-class system to fraud and abuse. This is just
bad public policy.
The second major anti-family
aspect of Bill C-31 are the amendments that will open
wide the doors to the adoption of foreign children by
Canadian homosexuals. Children need a mother and a father,
but the Liberals intend to deny hundreds of children
the parents and family they need through the passage
of this Act.
Finally, the Liberals have
introduced changes in Bill C-31 that will assign special
group status to allow homosexuals from almost every
country in the world to immigrate to Canada as 'refugees.'
The Liberal Government admits that it has already been
abusing the current Immigration Act in this regard.
A recent case involved the granting of refugee status
to a male homosexual from Poland (a country whose people
enjoy full democratic freedoms.) CFAC is disgusted by
this perverse interpretation of who qualifies as a refugee.
Refugees are supposed to be people "who have a
well-founded fear of persecution in their homeland."
Again, the admission of homosexual 'refugees' means
that genuine refugees will now be forced to wait longer
in the queue for their opportunity to enjoy freedom.
This Bill will weaken Canada's
immigration system, further undermine the institutions
of marriage and family and directly hurt thousands of
families affected by re-unification, children who need
parents and legitimate refugees fleeing persecution.
It is also a very poorly written and hastily assembled
piece of legislation which means that the Bill may face
intense scrutiny from many quarters in Parliament, and
that it may be possible to defeat this legislation even
though the Liberals control both the House and Senate.
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WHAT
YOU CAN DO
Bill C-31 will
likely be the last piece of anti-family legislation
tabled by the Liberals before the next federal
election. Please take a few moments to write
a short e-mail to your local MP and cc the
Immigration Minister and the Official Opposition
Critic indicating your opposition to this
Bill.
To E-Mail Your
MP Surname.FirstInitial@Parl.gc.ca For example:
John Nunziata, MP Nunziata.J@Parl.gc.ca
Please cc. your
note to Immigration Minister, Elinor Caplan
Caplae@parl.gc.ca
and Official Opposition Critic, Leon Benoit
Benoil@parl.gc.ca
If you don't
know who your MP is, 'Find
Your MP Here' then click "MP
by Postal Code" and insert your postal
code.
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