“We need the CCPA to remind us that our dreams of a decent, egalitarian society are reasonable — indeed that with a little work, they are practical. And I love that practicality, that protection of the dream of the possible.”
— Naomi Klein
National Office, BC Office | Update
August 23, 2010
Many of us at the CCPA have been troubled by Canada's reaction to the arrival of 492 Tamil asylum seekers on the MV Sun Sea. Seth Klein, Director of our BC Office, put words to this discomfort in an excellent post on PolicyNote.ca (our blog on BC public policy issues). Seth, son of Vietnam war resisters who fled the US in the 1960s, points out that Canada accepts relatively few refugees -- in 2009 we took in just over 0.1% of the 15 million global refugees. And he argues the real immigration story is the exploding number of "temporary foreign workers" who are brought to Canada each year to work (but not to stay) under highly exploitive conditions. Read his post here...