And they don't like it when people cheat. Some of them booed when illegal immigrants from China came ashore earlier this summer and they displayed similar sentiments yesterday, when they learned that another sorry human cargo was headed their way.
People are upset.
Polls show Canadians are losing their tolerance for an immigration policy that is so soft it is now seen to be attracting illegal immigrants literally by the boatload. So far this summer, more than 400 have arrived on the West Coast in three ships. Despite the growing resentment, felt most deeply here on the West Coast, where the ships just keep arriving, the community of Port Hardy rallied to help when federal officials told the mayor a shipload of smuggled aliens was being tracked in nearby waters. But we don't like what's happening. Mr. Hellberg made a few calls yesterday, and pretty quickly the community had set up cots in the local arena, warmed the coffee maker and put food in the kitchen.