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Originally Posted by Rerun

Who wants high numbers when those numbers include criminals, gang members, the unskilled and un/under-educated, welfare recipients, taxi cab drivers, waitresses, and terrorists.

Its time to set the immigration bar a little higher and I'm glad the Conservatives are doing it.

Canada is a great country with a lot to offer, and its about time we stopped letting just about anybody in, just as long as they were breathing.

Canada will always be a primo destination to emmigrate to, but its about time we started keeping the riff raff out. We have enough home grown riff raff, as it is. We don't need any more, coming here from elsewhere..

You realize that all of those people could be Canadian born as well, right?

Originally Posted by Rerun

I'm not assuming that a large chunk will be useless. I know that its just a small chunk, but anything that we can do to reduce in numbers that small chunk is ok with me.
As for cab drivers with university degrees, I'm sure a number of them do (however I do think that in most cases its an urban myth)... but thats the problem... their university degree is useless because obviously its not recognized in Canada.. therefore they are essentially unskilled. I'd rather have a machinist come here that can practice his trade than a lawyer who cannot and is unskilled at anything else.

Or, we could create programs to recognize those degrees so they can be productive in Canadian society with the skills they have.