Cardozo versus Stoffman Andrew Cardozo is a professional multicult lobbyist and currently president of the Pearson-Shoyama Institute. It almost makes you want to pick up your wretched self and head off to Pakistan, leaving this country to the newcomers who are obviously so much more productive and worthy. Cardozo then trotted out a series of half truths to bolster his mendacious claim that immigrants are already carefully screened. In fact, only some are. It was the majority of francophone Quebecers who voted to walk out of Canada and it is Anglos in the West who would be happy to see them go.
Propaganda is the art of presenting half-truths as the whole truth.
Nor would the reader know the the current immigration programme is not based on labour market needs, as Cardozo claims, but rather is a response to organized groups that benefit from high immigration levels. Nor would Cardozo's readers ever know that studies by the Economic Council of Canada and the government's own Demographic Review proved there is no economic or demographic justification for the continuing policy of admitting huge numbers of unskilled people to an economy characterized by permanent high unemployment. Cardozo even leaves the impression that I and other critics think immigrants should not be able to bring their spouses and minor children with them. Yet, I have never advocated that. It's understandable that Cardozo must rely on distortion, given his unenviable task of defending the indefensible and unpopular policy.