All that is part of Ottawa s mythology Canadians, he says, are mostly ignorant of immigration levels and trends. Policy is made behind closed doors and the government holds consultation processes in which the public is not consulted. It is the immigration industry that is consulted, meaning immigration lawyers and ethnic associations. He is an authority in his own right on the bogus refugee racket, which allows people to make applications for status simply by arriving. The instance of the Chinese boat people alarmed many, but that was only a minor nail in the Canadian coffin except that, like Trudeau, Jean Chretien sees illegal immigration as no problem.
Misinformation is an Ottawa art.
In the late 1980s, the government side reported that the backlog in refugee screening would be 23,000. Another estimate was 40,000. It turned out in fact to be 101,000, and as the author states, a building contractor so unfamiliar with reality who made estimates like that would go broke . The refugee picture is one long horror story. Nothing has changed, except for the worse.