The loans are made available to people in Canada wanting to sponsor their spouse or children to come to Canada. An astounding number of voters have switched from the New Democrats to Reform. It was undoubtedly unfair to blame the NDP, which has never held power nationally, for all the successive waves of immigration. But the New Democrats have always made themselves conspicuous by speaking up for racial tolerance and social justice. The old line party candidates, however, stoutly defended current policies.
Nothing breeds greater humbug than race.
But for the first time in nearly 50 years the genie was let out of the bottle in the recent election. Racism' is the taboo through which it is being done. All the parties condemned it, and Preston Manning was busy casting out the unclean so his critics wouldn't have him for breakfast. But immigration, and therefore race, was a big underground issue, as even the media had to admit. Thousands voted Reform because they knew that the party's platform might be a start toward saving Canada, despite Manning's politically correct pretensions.