Get over yourselves

Apparently, Calgary schools have had to take in almost 4,000 refugee and immigrant students over the past two years, which has caused the boards to complain about the drain on resources of all kinds this has caused.  Well of course it's a drain because we cater ridiculously to nonsensical refugee demands.  Hello!  You're refugees who have been admitted to the greatest country in the world and you complain!!??

Give me a break.  The only solution is integration into Canadian society.  But because this is "Canada", the tail wags the dog, hence they don't have to, while the rest of us bend over backwards to accommodate the newcomers.

"Many are coming from really difficult circumstances," said Ms. blah-blah, CBE supervisor for English-language learning.  "Being in a refugee camp, they have likely missed a lot of school, so there are a lot of gaps in their learning," she blabbed on.  "Or, if they have been in school, it likely looked a lot different in that they had limited access to books or computers, they may have only attended once a week, or they were in a room with 50 other kids of all different ages and levels," she opined.

From a supposed English "expert", her language and grammar skills are abominable.  This woman typifies what is wrong with Canada's "open arms" policy.  Sad.  And Trudeau persists in copying his mother's unsuccessful "hippy" outlook on life.  "Sunny ways" are killing this country. 

I remember a young girl coming into our grade eight class as a Hungarian refugee in the fifties.  She spoke not a word of English, yet didn't receive language counselling or emotional help.  That was her problem.  No, she just sat there, fitted in and absorbed it all.  But she did so brilliantly and I bet had a very successful career in whatever she eventually did. 

"Forget about India and forget about England.  You're a Canadian now," B's grandfather counselled when the family arrived in Canada as refugees from the glory days of The Raj and subsequently Britain.  There was no help, other than what the bullies in the schoolyard doled out in the form of beatings until he lost his English accent and spoke "Canadian".  It worked and would still with other refugees, were it not for the bleatings of our hapless leaders.