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http://thestar.blogs.com/politics/2011/03/the-conservative-party-bids-a-warm-welcome-to-immigrants.html
March 18, 2011
The Conservative party bids a warm welcome to immigrants
This blog doesn't usually reprint Conservative talking points (because you only need to tune in to Parliament or a myriad of other places to find them), but I would like to draw your attention to the time, energy and scope of the governing party's response to an ad today about Michael Ignatieff and his family. Somewhere in here, they may well be claiming that he was born in Kenya.
Feel free to stop, have a coffee, go out and have life halfway through this screed, which seems to be dedicated to the idea that there are fake immigrants in Canada, and then ones that Conservatives like ("typical" immigrants). I leave you to figure out where the distinction lies. - дэвушка убежденная lieberal так что это вступление никого не волнует. Текст оторый она цитирует, однако, довольно интересный.
Michael Ignatieff: Child of immigrants?
Or, “How the other half aristocrats immigrate”
“My dad was a Russian immigrant. Came off a boat in 1928 without anything.”
--Michael Ignatieff, Liberal Party video, post on March 18, 2011
“There's an issue of principle here to make sure that refugee is individual and you're looking at a guy whose dad was a political refugee.”
--Michael Ignatieff, Interview, CTV News Channel, June 9, 2010
"The part of my family story that means most to me now is that they never complained, they never sat back and waxed nostalgic about the vanished glories, they rolled their sleeves up," Ignatieff said.
"They just adored this country from the minute they set foot on it. And their parents, who had lost everything, just pushed them forward. And I feel that kind of gentle hand pushing me forward, too."
--Shereen Dindar, “How Michael Ignatieff became Canadian,” National Post, January 2, 2009.[1]
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March 18, 2011
The Conservative party bids a warm welcome to immigrants
Feel free to stop, have a coffee, go out and have life halfway through this screed, which seems to be dedicated to the idea that there are fake immigrants in Canada, and then ones that Conservatives like ("typical" immigrants). I leave you to figure out where the distinction lies.
Michael Ignatieff: Child of immigrants?
Or, “How the other half aristocrats immigrate”
“My dad was a Russian immigrant. Came off a boat in 1928 without anything.”
--Michael Ignatieff, Liberal Party video, post on March 18, 2011
“There's an issue of principle here to make sure that refugee is individual and you're looking at a guy whose dad was a political refugee.”
--Michael Ignatieff, Interview, CTV News Channel, June 9, 2010
"The part of my family story that means most to me now is that they never complained, they never sat back and waxed nostalgic about the vanished glories, they rolled their sleeves up," Ignatieff said.
"They just adored this country from the minute they set foot on it. And their parents, who had lost everything, just pushed them forward. And I feel that kind of gentle hand pushing me forward, too."
--Shereen Dindar, “How Michael Ignatieff became Canadian,” National Post, January 2, 2009.[1]
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