The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday. January 23, 1992-Page 7
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RON CSILLAG
TORONTO -
National Jewish organizations have turned thumbs down to proposed changes to Canada's immigration laws, which would impose new limits on family-member sponsorship.
Despite objections from immigration lawyers, church and human rights groups and Canadian Jewish Congress, it looks as though the changes will take force, with few alterations, in February, immigration department spokesman Roger White told The UN.
Current rules say a child of any age is eligible for family sponsorship or immigration with his or her parents, as long as he or she has never been married.
Under the new rules, family sponsorship of unmarried children will be limitwl to those under 19 years old.
Exceptions will be made for university students or for those unable to support themselves due to a .physical or mental disability.
"Anytime you narrow the defini-
tion, you restrict immigration," said Susan ' Davis, national executive director of Jewish Immigrant Aid Services(JIAS). "This [new rule] is not helpful."
Davis finds the change "offensive" because "it works against the whole cornerstone of the Immigration Act, which is family reunification."
The change will likely hurt large immigrant families. Davis explained, and will affect Jewish immigrants "the same way it will affect all immigrants.
"If a child seeks to bring his family here, he can bring his parents but he won't be able to bring a sibling over 19. That works against multicul-turalism and against the extended nature of the immigrant family."
According to some reports, Ottawa wants to keep a lid on growing family-class immigration.
But Davis finds the latest tinkerings more a product of random stabs at trying to cap immigration levels than of policy.
"These are not sympathetic changes but they are not mean. They
(immigration officials] don't quite know what to do."
Neither is Davis a fan of how Ottawa is handling government sponsored immigration.
She said Ottawa's quota this year for government-sponsored immigrants is 13,000, a figure it will not meet.
"I find it bizarre that they can't .find 13,000 suitable people. They want people with money."
Davis believes Ottawa will eventually do away with the govemment-sponored classification.
Eric Vemon, director of CJC's law and social action committee in Ottawa, agreed that the new rules damage the definition of family-class immigration.
Earlier this month, Congress sent a letter to Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt. urging him to reconsider the changes.
CJG argued that the government seems to be "retreating" from its ambitious five year plan for immigra-^ tion, set out in late 1990 by Valcourt's predecessor. Barbara McDougall.
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MAURICE LUCOW
VANCOUVER -
Al Waddell, alleged to be a member of the racist group Posse Comitatus, is in jail here facing extradition to the United States for a variety of firearms charges.
He was picked up by the RCMP in early January and has been held in custody, without bail, since his arrest, although a bail hearing had been set for Jan. 22.
Waddell evaded police for six years, after skipping out of the United States just a few hours before he was to have been sentenced. He was convicted of falsifying firearms registration documents, weapons possession and conspiracy. He had been accused of possessing a machine gun, silencers for .22 calibre handguns and for .45 calibre weapons, as well as a silencer for.a .380 calibre gun.
According to a lawyer for the Canadian Justice Department, Waddell faces 60 to 70 years'in jail, if he is returned to the United States.
It is believed that Waddell, a native of London, Ont., has been hiding out in the Vancouver area. According to the Vancouver Sun, he preached on occasions at the fundamentalist Lighthouse Baptist Church in suburban Surrey.
U.S. Marshal Lois Engstrand, who is based in Tucson, Ariz., said the church's pastor Rev. Gordon Hagen, and Waddell were smdents together at the fundamentalist Bob Jones University Bible School in South Carolina. The school ran into trouble with authorities for not allowing black students to date white students.
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Engstrand told the 5u/i she has been pursuing Waddell "off and on" for six years. Although he claimed to be a minister, she said she didn't believe he was ordained.
The marshal said further that she believes members of the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group which is fairly active in Alberta and British Colunibia, provided sanctuary for the wanted man. Waddell was featured on three episodes of the TV shovj America's Most Wanted, rhost recently on Dec. 13.
Waddell was arrested near the B.C.-Alberta border after the RCMP pulled over a speeding car driven by a Biima-by. B.C.. businessman. Anton Theo Blok, who owns a company called Money-Card Security Systems Canada Ltd., which makes floor safes. The 5w/j story said that Waddell lived with Blok in 1988 and wrote advertising" copy and did computer work for Blok's firm.
The Department of Justice lawyer said he could not substantiate claims by Engstrand that Waddell is a member of the Posse Comitatus, which is described as a secret anti-government, white supremacist group. "We have learned however." said the lawyer. John Loo. "that he attended meetings of an extremist, anti-government, anti-Jewish, anti-everything group called the Arizona Patriots." Waddell used to preach at the Hope Independent Baptist Church in Tucson.
'T\{t Vancouver Sun story says Posse Comitatus; which is Latin for "power of the county," was founded in Portland, Ore., in the 1960s and believes that the only legitimate law enforcement authority is the local county sheriff.
The group allegedly advocates the violent overthrow of any government institution which does not implement what it calls "Anglo-Saxon Christian conmion law." Quoting Dan Levitas, director of the Cenu^ for Democratic Renewal which monitors right-wing extremist groups in the United States, the 5urt story says the tax-protesting, cross burning members of the Posse have begun to splinter into different factions, calling themselves The Golden -MeanTeam.^n Montana, and The Arizona patriots in Arizona. :
MONTREAL -
Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) has applauded the stance taken by Alberta Health Minister Nancy Betkowski who has rejected the view of her provipce's leader that official bilingualism in Canada should be abolished.
CJC categorically disagrees with Alberta Premier Don Getty's call for the abolishment of official bilingualism and the scrapping of legislated support for multicultural-ism in Canada. ,
. "It is extremely disappointing that a respected politician like Premiere Getty would make statements such as this at siich a critical juncture in the national debate," said CJC president Les Scheininger. "We do not agree that official bilingualism should be abolished and we would oppose any move to eliminate legislative support for multiculturalism." ' ~r "
CJC national unity committee chairman Max Bernard found Getty's comrrients very regrettable. CJC, in coalition with the Italian and Greek communities, has visited each provincial capital in Canada over the past several months and met with premiers and their representatives. -The group met with Betkowski in November in her capacity as vice-chairman o^lberta's select special committee on constitutional reform. "AVe commend Ms. Betkowski for articulating her views in response to Getty." remarked Bernard.
Bernard pointed out that Preihier Getty's belief that more Canadiaiis would embrace bilingualism if it were voluntary rather than "forced" unfortunately misses the point with regardto ffie leadership Canada needs at this time. "Canada is a bilingual country and we should take pride in this,''he says.
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