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After getting caught misleading Canadian citizens—seemingly on purpose—an honorable minister of the crown should step down. Especially in this day and age of Liberal corruption, the likes of which this great country has never known.
That would help Canadians regain their trust in government and help steer Canada back from its liberal-left-led drive to banana republic status.
But liberals aren’t in favor of that.
Conservatives say Volpe has tainted citizenship investigation of Tory Grewal
Immigration Minister Joe Volpe is under fire from Conservatives for telling reporters that investor class immigrants who are found not [to] have met their conditions “don’t usually get to stay” in Canada.
The comments were prejudicial to embattled Tory Gurmant Grewal, his colleague Jason Kenney charged Thursday in the Commons.
Media reports this week aired allegations that Grewal, the B.C. MP at the centre of an ethics controversy involving secretly taped conversations with senior Liberals, didn’t invest $50,000 in a Canadian business when he emigrated as an entrepreneur in the 1990s.
A former business associate told the CBC that Grewal gave him the money but got it back the day after the transaction.
That prompted Volpe to tell reporters Wednesday that, while he couldn’t comment on specific cases, investor class immigrants to Canada must meet “a series of performance makers.”
“They don’t usually get to stay,” if they fail to meet those criteria, added the minister.
OK that sounds ominous. But here’s the thing:
But officials at Citizenship and Immigration said Thursday there’s no record of any Canadian being stripped of citizenship or permanent resident status due to failure to meet investor criteria, because statistics are not compiled that way.
Since 1977, only 50 Canadians have been stripped of their citizenship after investigations showed they had gained it in an improper fashion.
Department spokesman Greg Scott also said that prior to changes in the law in 2002, there was no specific investment dollar threshold that entrepreneurs had to meet.
Kenney is accusing Volpe of issuing thinly veiled threats of booting Grewal out of Canada as retribution for a messy failed defection that involved Grewal, his MP wife Nina, and senior members of Prime Minister Paul Martin’s government.
[…] “Does threatening to deport a member of Parliament whom the Liberals have failed to buy not reflect more the politics of a banana republic than a modern democracy like Canada?” Kenney charged Thursday.
And for that, Jason Kenney gets the ProudToBeCanadian.ca Statement of the Week Award.
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