It’s not just “exotic dancers” getting the fast track.
CTV news;
The RCMP has charged five people, among them an Immigration Canada official, with corruption and fraud after several morning raids in Ottawa Thursday morning.
The RCMP are alleging the group received up to $25,000 in fees from at least a dozen Arab immigrants seeking permanent resident status.
The arrests are the culmination of an investigation that began in January. There will likely be more arrests, the RCMP said.
RCMP Cpl. Nathalie Deschenes told CJOH’s Anna-Karina Tabunar that the suspects were allegedly approaching immigrants and promising that their applications would be fast-tracked for fees ranging from $4,000 to $25,000.
One of the five suspects is the 34-year-old operations manager at the Ottawa branch of Citizenship and Immigration.
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These arrests will likely sharpen the focus on Immigration Minister Judy Sgro, whose resignation opposition critics have been demanding in recent weeks.
She is currently the subject of an investigation by the federal ethics commissioner, prompted by allegations she received an improper election donation.
Critics have also lambasted Sgro for her office’s decision to extend a residence permit to a Romanian stripper who worked on her re-election campaign; and over Ottawa’s controversial program to allow foreign strippers to get special work visas.
When the stripper story broke, my first reaction was that Sgro’s department has been infiltrated by someone with associations to organized crime. The connections to the sex trade are too well known and too obvious for even the dimmest beaurocrat to feign ignorance. In this case, it appears the corruption was well established and well supported. That tells us it’s been in place for a long time.
It looks like the Canadian Immigration Dept. is going to be looking for staff. Having had a little experience in advertising in a past life, I thought the following would save the Feds some loot if they want to copy the following for media purposes.
NOTICE OF EMPOYMENT:
Her Majesty Queen Elizebeth the tooth, on behalf of her Gov’t of Canada wishes to announce to her subjects that Her Government will be accepting applications to toil in Her offices in Ottawa Ont., to scrutinize, annalize, and adjudicate beautiful coloured pictures of NUDE GIRLS AND WOMEN that will be applying for toil as STRIPPERS (and side-chores?)in the best strip joints in town.(ah evening entertainment centres!)
The LUCKY applicants will be proficient in being able to act as the eyes of the public that will be “entertained” by these lovely creatures, in-as-much as easily to recognize a sensual body, no appendex scars, or Caecarian section scars, boils, pimples or warts or unsightly tattoos et., body hair longer than an inch and uderarm hair longer than two inches is forbidden. Must be proficient in judging feet, toe-nails(if any), knees not to be knobby with no rug burns, proficient in head hair, length, colour, style or if bald, acceptable skin texture: Proficient in teeth, both of them should be clean, and the tongue if too short is disqualified, too white, ditto. The eyes should not be too cross-eyed, and if one looks left and the other looks right, that is acceptable: Proficient in facial structure with the large mouth types having priority, and no facial hair longer than half an inch, must provide own razor.
To qualify one must be proficient in judging the beauty in a womans body, with it’s ability to execute physical acts, unaccustomed to the female gendron, back flips, climbing steel poles, and laying on their back alot for unaccustomed periods of time. The breasts should be there, any size will do, and the nipples should be an enhancement to the breasts and free of matts of hair hangng from them. Breasts that are leaking milk will be disqualified until after the baby is wheened. (Her Majesty cares!)
The navel must look and be clean at all times free of lint, and other small particles, like cat hair, attached metal rings will be allowed. Proficient in sexy annus’s, the annus should look sensual, and inviteing and have no boils or hemmroids attached or any bruises, or unsightly tatoos, the hair on the annus can be any length and must be odour free at all times. Proficient in the study of pubic hair, it’s quality, colour and texture, and if too long the lucky applicant will supply their own hair-net. Proficient in the shape and size of the vagina, however the hood should not seem to be falling out of the vagina, and it should be of a healthy colour, no green stuff oozeing out, and no visible sanitation pads, which must be kept clean and free of odour at all times. It is preferrable that the clitoris should be tiny and neat with cute little thingies on it, however fatty clitoris’s will be accepted.
After the lucky applicants have gone through their extensive training excercizes, they will be allowed to take the pictures home for further analyses under the guise of “professional investigating ” ( and make copies?)( should be worth a buck or two )as the Dept. is always looking for efficiency and professionalism in our daily labour of love for our dear Queen, and we want to be doubly sure of the highest quality and the most deserving of the pleasure of being selected to migrate into Canada which has always held stripping under the highest standards, and to keep up the image Canada has deservedly created for itself amoung the citizenry of the world as being the four star den of iniquity for not only acceptable strippers, but young boys and girls for the pleasure of the petophiles of the world. Oh! Canada! and God save the Queen.
“In this case, it appears the corruption was well established and well supported. That tells us it’s been in place for a long time.”
I will follow that rant with a rant. If you don’t have that much time, you can skip to the last paragraph.
Dear suckers,
You are correct, your country was stolen a long time ago.
Actually that’s not quite true – you *sold* your country a long time ago. Back in the 60s and 70s when you and your parents were being given all kinds of candy such as free health care, generous social security, welfare and unemployment insurance, World Fairs and Olympic Games, crown corporations, a massive public service with ironclad job security and indexed pensions, gigantic infrastructure projects, a lenient justice system, a university or college in every town, business subsidies, unlimited fishing quotas, etc. etc. – how did you really think it would all be paid for?
The answer is, it can’t be paid for. Every single one of those pieces of socialist tripe that you were given not only cost you money, but also diverted human resources and investment away from productive economic activities, which if they had continued, might have generated the revenue to pay for the trudeaupian projects. One of the many productive activities from which Canadians were diverted, was reproduction.
So you don’t have enough Canadians working any more to pay for the socialist dreams the politicians sold them – what’s the solution? More Canadians of course!
Result: the largest and most prolonged experiment in human migration in human history. The trouble is, the same burden of socialist taxation and regulation that prevents existing Canadians from being able to grow their economy, also prevents most of the immigrants from finding decent, productive work. If there were lots of private jobs that needed to be filled, then employers would be working with the government to bring in the best immigrants, and they would never put up with a crooked, corrupt immigration system. Neither would the immigrants.
So we’re not that attractive any more to engineers, doctors, tradespeople and businesspeople. The less attractive Canada is to educated, qualified people, the farther we have to move down the feeding chain to get unskilled immigrants from countries that are even more socialist, corrupt and broke than we are. The more desperate these people are, the more they will pay to get into Canada. The more disreputable the party in power appears to voters, the more desperate they become for money and support from any possible source. It’s a match made in heaven … but in the end it’s the devil who will be paid.
Merry Christmas, suckers, and best of luck in 2005 – you’ll need it.
Me