Who Gets in: What's Wrong with Canada's Immigration Program - And How to Fix It

by Daniel Stoffman

Book Overview

September 11, 2001, marked the end of innocence for Canada's ill-conceived, poorly run, and highly partisan immigration and refugee programs. In a tightly argued book sure to inspire controversy, Daniel Stoffman debunks the myths surrounding Canadian immigration and offers well-founded suggestions for change. A Chinese fishing boat is intercepted off the British Columbia coast. The 123 people on board, seeking to enter Canada illegally, are arrested,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551990954
• ISBN13: 9781551990958
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: MacFarlane Walter & Ross
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Required reading for anyone concerned about Canada

Thank God Daniel Stoffman decided to write a book about Canada's incredibly lax immigration and refugee system. As he points out so well in his book, you're labelled a racist or anti-immigrant if you dare speak up and question what our government(s) has done to a once responsible department. He tackles all of the tough issues from Canada's incredibly generous and inept refugee system to the government guise of multiculturalism and even about how our immigration and refugee system is failing legitimate refugees and immigrants. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in where this once proud country is heading or for anyone interested in politics in general.

Goring a Sacred Cow and Doing it Well

Daniel Stoffman does a superb job in demolishing the mythology surrounding immigration to Canada. He convincingly demonstrates that increased immigration is not essential for economic growth; that the economic performance of recent immigrants is much lower than was the case when immigration was more sensibly managed; and that both conservatives and left-wingers often have their own underlying motives concerning immigration, which have nothing to do with altruism. This book shows that the current disastrous state of Canada's immigration and refugee program benefits immigration lawyers and fraudulent refugee claimaints but does nothing to help Canadians, the country's economy, and even bona fide immigrants themselves. My only criticism is that the book does not go into sufficient detail on a number of points, such as the failure of many recent immigrants to learn English or French (Canada's only two official languages). Nevertheless, I highly recommend this book - good reading in advance of the next federal election.

something to examine

i found the book persuasive. some of the arguments generated questions in my mind but his arguments and ideas seem to have support from other sources.some of the most disturbing aspects to his book to me were political appointments to immigration boards, queue jumping, and the manipulations the process is subjected to.the horror stories he tells certainly confirm that the system is not working effectively.