March 18[FONT=宋体]，[/FONT]2008 www.cconservativeblog.ca

[FONT=宋体]去年，在哈珀总理的强有力的领导下，加拿大迎来了历史上新移民的最高峰，[/FONT] [FONT=宋体]数目达[/FONT]429,649[FONT=宋体]人，这超过了以往[/FONT]100[FONT=宋体]年的记录。我们的政府希望新登陆的家庭在这里成功，我们希望更多的移民来到加拿大。我们也尽量让家庭更快的团聚，技术人员更快的移民。这是我们最优先考虑的。[/FONT]

[FONT=宋体]但是由於前任政府的大量积压的案件，使得这些变得越来越困难。历任的自由党政府坐视不理积压的申请从[/FONT]5[FONT=宋体]万件增长到[/FONT]90[FONT=宋体]万件。[/FONT]

[FONT=宋体]这意味著那些申请移民加拿大的人甚至要等[/FONT]4[FONT=宋体]到[/FONT]6[FONT=宋体]年才有人审查他们的材料。这也意味著加拿大失去了那些有才华的移民，他们会选择去其它如澳大利亚的国家，那里移民申请只要等[/FONT]6[FONT=宋体]个月，而不是[/FONT]6[FONT=宋体]年。实际上，其它国家也声称它们最好的吸引移民的宣传就是加拿大的漫长等候时间。[/FONT]

[FONT=宋体]这是无法接受的。对那些想移民到加拿大来的人，对那些期待家人团聚的家庭，对那些需要雇用技术工人的雇主都是不公平的。[/FONT]

[FONT=宋体]上个周五，政府提出了一些移民和难民保护修正案。这些修正案将减少自由党政府导致的积压，降低移民加拿大的等候时间。[/FONT]

[FONT=宋体]而自由党却指责我们关闭移民的大门，这是在玩政治把戏。这根本不是事实。是自由党将移民的大门关上导致大量申请积压。如果不采取行动，到[/FONT]2012[FONT=宋体]年，等待时间会上升到[/FONT]10[FONT=宋体]年。这是绝对不可接受的。[/FONT]

[FONT=宋体]这项立法的一个目的就是面对加拿大劳工市场的需求。该立法不会影响难民申请和家庭团聚。我们努力让家庭尽早团聚，这是我们的重点。家庭团聚申请现在已经比自由党政府时代快了[/FONT]20[FONT=宋体]－[/FONT]40[FONT=宋体]个百分比。我们要做的更好，所以在[/FONT]2008[FONT=宋体]年预算案中有[/FONT]2[FONT=宋体]千[/FONT]2[FONT=宋体]百万是帮助减少等待时间的。[/FONT]

[FONT=宋体]这些重要的措施仅仅是我们帮助移民的一部分。我们还将自由党实行的具有歧视性质的移民人头费降低一半；我们还拨款[/FONT]14[FONT=宋体]亿用於移民安置，其中包括语言培训和帮助找工作，而自由党政府曾将这些资金冻结。[/FONT]

[FONT=宋体]不幸的是狄安和自由党，在反对降低移民人头费和移民安置费后，用这些我们急需的修正案恐吓新移民社区，而声称他们是移民的利益捍卫者。可是让我们来看看事实是怎样的：他们导致了移民申请积压案件从[/FONT]5[FONT=宋体]万飘升到[/FONT]90[FONT=宋体]万起。这导致了不公正的等待时间，而使加拿大在国际人才市场竞争中处於劣势。这还导致数万个家庭在好些年都无法团聚。现在自由党反对我们加速处理移民申请和团聚申请的措施。我觉得狄安更倾向於让申请人等，让他们在积压中煎熬而不是采取任何措施。[/FONT]

[FONT=宋体]我们政府的目的是让更多的移民更快的来到加拿大，这也是我们为什麽要采取措施减少积压减少等待时间。我们无法让自由党积压的案件来伤害移民和加拿大美好的未来。[/FONT]

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可信度有多少? 哪里来的此报道...?

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不是报道，是部长办公室发布的信。English as follows:

Last year, under the strong leadership of Stephen Harper, Canada welcomed the highest number of newcomers in our history, 429,649, surpassing the previous high set almost 100 years ago.

[FONT=&quot]Our government wants newcomers and their families to succeed. And we want more immigrants to come to [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Canada[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]We also want newcomer families to be reunited faster and skilled workers to get here sooner. This is our priority.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]But it’s becoming more and more difficult thanks to the massive backlog in immigration applications inherited from previous Liberal governments. Successive Liberal governments stood by and watched the backlog balloon from 50,000 to more than 900,000 today. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]This means that those applying to come to [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Canada[/FONT][FONT=&quot] are waiting on average 4 to 6 years just to have their application looked at. It means that [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Canada[/FONT][FONT=&quot] is loosing out on talented immigrants who are choosing to go to other countries such as [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Australia[/FONT][FONT=&quot] where the wait time is six months, not six years. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In fact, other countries claim that their best marketing tool to attract immigrants is [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Canada[/FONT][FONT=&quot]’s long wait times. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]This is unacceptable. It is not fair to immigrants who want to come to our country, families here who are waiting for loved ones to join them and to the employers who want to hire skilled workers. [/FONT]
Last Friday the government tabled amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. These amendments will reduce the backlog, created by the Liberal Party of Canada and result in shorter wait times for immigrants to come to Canada.

[FONT=&quot]Liberals are practising cheap politics by accusing us of closing the door to immigrants. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]This is absolutely not true. It was the Liberals who closed the door by letting the backlog balloon. Without our actions by 2012 wait times would rise to 10 years. This is completely unacceptable.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]One of the goals of this legislation is to respond to [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Canada[/FONT][FONT=&quot]’s labour market needs. It will not apply to refugees and is not intended to affect family reunification at all. We want families to be reunited and we have made it a priority. Family reunification cases are now being done 20 to 40 per cent faster than under the previous Liberal governments. We want to do even better, and so Budget 2008 invested [/FONT][FONT=&quot]$22 million to help reduce the wait for immigrants. [/FONT]
These important steps are just some of the things we are doing to help immigrants. We’ve also cut in half the head tax on new immigrants (a discriminatory tax on immigrants that the Liberal Party implemented) and invested $1.4 billion into settlement programs ? programs that help immigrants with language training and help finding a job - after the previous Liberal government had effectively frozen funding for years.

Unfortunately Stephane Dion and the Liberal Party, after opposing the head tax cut and new settlement money, are using these much needed amendments to fear monger in new Canadian communities and at the same time claim that they are the only party standing up for immigrants. But let’s look at the facts. While they were in power they allowed the backlog to skyrocket from 50,000 to over 900,000. This resulted in unjust wait times for immigrants and put Canada at a disadvantage when competing for global talent. It also caused tens of thousands of families to wait years before being reunited with their loved ones. Now the Liberals are opposing the very changes that would speed up processing and allow more immigrants to come to Canada and reunite families. I guess Stephane Dion’s preference is that people wait for years, languishing in a backlog created by his party and which they will do nothing to solve.

Our government wants more immigrants to come to Canada and to bring them here faster and that is why we are acting now to reduce the backlog and reduce wait times. We cannot afford to allow the Liberal created backlog to continue to hurt immigrants and Canada’s future prosperity.

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