This Tuesday 6 November we discuss the recently released 2007 Immigration report by the Canadian Conservative government which revealed that the government failed to outline major complaints and systemic problems in Canada’s immigration system and that the country received 10 000 less immigrants last year. Some people have voiced concern about the inability of the immigration system to expedite family reunion. Some have also questioned why Canada has taken 10 000 less immigrants when the country faces a problem of an ageing population and shortage of skilled labour.
To discuss this issue we have the federal New Democratic Party Immigration critic Olivia Chow (confirmed) and her federal counterpart, Omar Alghabra from the Liberal Party of Canada.
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Presenter: Kuthula Matshazi
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Tin of beans
cathybuckle.com
4th November 2007
Dear Family and friends,
I am writing this letter by candlelight and with battery power and do not
know how long either will last. It has been a very harrowing week with
electricity cuts of 16 hours every day in my home town and apparently in
many other areas of the country too. The week has culminated in a marathon
where we've had just 35 minutes of electricity in the past 38 hours.
Basic survival really has been uppermost in our minds and our activities
this week and there is an air of exhaustion and a feeling of exasperation in
the streets. Food in fridges and freezers has gone bad; precious dairy
produce is ruined; geysers have gone cold, clothes are un-ironed and
nutrition has been pushed to the limits. All our ingenious recipes for home
made bread, vegetables stews and bulked up soups and porridge have either
gone unmade or been tainted with smoke and debris from our outside cooking
fires.
There seems no limit to the hardship and struggle of life in Zimbabwe. Just
as we get through one crisis another great trial is waiting to test us and
see if this one will be the straw the breaks the camels back. We've survived
4 months of shops without food and there is very little improvement to
report. There is still no bread, flour, rice, pasta, biscuits, beans,
cereals. oil, margarine, sugar or salt. This week strangely enough there
were baked beans in one local supermarket but they were 1.2 million dollars
a tin - five hundred times more than the cost of a four bedroomed house on
an acre of land in 2001.
The latest product to disappear from sight is toilet paper and most daily
toiletries are close behind. Going into a string of pharmacies this week I
struggled to find a tube of locally made and well known antiseptic cream.
Eventually I found some but it had been 'repackaged' - spoonfuls had been
scooped into little plastic pill bottles and each was selling for almost
half a million dollars.
I guess you have to see life on the streets of Zimbabwe to really get the
feel for the struggle of everything, and for the irony and simplicity of it
too. In a local bank I gave up counting when I got to 78 - that was the
number of people queuing to withdraw money. A few blocks away four little
poppets stood on the pavement with their newly checked out library books
carefully wrapped in old plastic shopping bags. They gleefully showed each
other their books: Doctor Seuss, Enid Blyton, The Wind in The Willows, The
Hardy Boys. A man walked past carrying two bottles of milk and a small pink
plastic cup. He was selling the milk by the cupful to people passing by -
health and hygiene not a factor. Further along outside a big but empty
supermarket was a smart, silver, double- cab Isuzu truck. Two brand new
bicycles still wrapped in plastic lay in the back of the truck. Clothes from
the dry cleaner, on a coat hanger and wrapped in plastic hung inside the
car. The owner appeared in a smart dark suit and people looked, looked again
and then looked away. Everyone knew who he was, this man who has made
himself rich and famous by wearing a grass hat and invading commercial
farms - chasing farmers and their workers out of their homes and off their
land. You have to wonder, if he ever wonders if his activities on those
farms had anything to do with the state of the country now, or if he too
blames the world, the west and sanctions.
Until next week, thanks for reading, love cathy.
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