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tcr, God forbid I don't want my kids to get polio," she said. "I think it's very, very different."
Where previous generations had stress factors that were beyond their control, many of today's stress inducers are caused by striving to attain a certain standard of living that goes well beyond the basics.
"If you were in the Depression and couldn't feed your kids, how do you equate that to what we're doing to ourselves now?" she asked. "I think the stresses that we have now are all self-created. We are choosing to live these lifestyles."
Though women often neglect their own needs, Ncmetz said they might feel better about taking care of themselves when they consider the effect that their stresses have on the people around them.
"Unless you take care of yourself, you're not going to be a good wife, you're not going to be a good mother, you're not going to bo a good daughter, you're not going to be a good partner and you're
not going to be good for anything," she said.
Moreover,jDarents are unconsciously setting examples for their children. If women do not take care of themselves, they are not setting good precedents for their offspring.
"I don't want my daughter working 90 hours a week like I do, doing laundry at midnight," said Nemetz. "And I don't want my son to think that that is what a wife should do."
Along with Nemetz, other speakers include Ramona Josephson on healthy eating and nutrition, Reva Dexter on visualizing where careers should go; Barb Hestrin, who is known as British Columbia's Dr. Ruth; and Barbara Findlay and Dr. Renee Waterman, who will together talk about taking control over one's health decisions through holistic practices and becoming an assertive patient.
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bership in a particular social group. Because people can apply imder as few as one or as many as five of these bases - and because the board can approve claimants on one or more - there are no statistics on the groimds for accepting refugees.' Forget did note that discrimination baS^d on sexual orientation has been used before to grant refugee status, though she could not say whether it had been used by an Israeli applicant. She said that it falls into the category of a particular social group.
Although Canada has good relations with Israel, that sort of diplomatic nicety does not play a part in the board's decision, she said.
"Basically we will determine any refugee claim according to the law," said Forget. 'It has nothing to do with the country of origin."
The first step in the process is to have an immigration official forward the claim to the Immigration and Refugee Board. The RodRozens, along with the vast majority of claimants, are sent on to that quasi-judicial level. Once there, however, the chances are slim that they will be granted refugee status.
In each of the past three calendar years, only a fraction of Israeli claimants have been approved. In 1998,24 Israeli applicants (two per cent of the total Israeli claimants) were granted refugee status. In 1999,29 were accepted (seven per cent of the total). In 2000,16 were accepted (five per cent of the total). Not all the others were rejected. A large number of applications are abandoned or withdrawn in the process and a significant number
are deferred to the following calendar year.
Though the Canadian government does not keep statistics on its reasons for accepting refugees, it publishes summary reports of cases. Most recent applications from Israelis appear to be from those who originated in the former Soviet Union and who claim they are persecuted because of their national heritage or because they are part of a mbced-religion family.
The Immigration and Refugee Board has responded in some cases by saying that close to one million people from the former USSR have moved to Israel and they do not all experience discrimination. Moreover, they differentiate between systemic discrimination and individual incidents, such as the case of a Christian woman who had a cross physically ripped fix)m the necklace around her neck. In that case, the board determined the assault did not reflect a credible case for refugee status.
The idea that people would apply for refugee status in Canada because of discrimination in Israel does not impress a senior Israeli diplomatic official.
Zehavit Ben Hillel, Israeli consul to Oritario and Western Canada, said she doesn't see any reason for an Israeli to seek refuge in Canada.
"I personally - and I probably say in the name of the government -1 don't see any reason for any Israeli to claim refugee [status] in Canada, or any place else, because Israel is a democracy and very similar in values to Canada," she said.
No date has yet been set for the RodRozens' hearing. □
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