Former Diplomat Blasts Landing of 490 Illegals on Tamil Tiger Boat

Apparently the estimated 490 migrants have been permitted to disembark. BIG misstake. I get the sense that there is a sinister Hidden Hand seeking to divide and conquer by destabilizing the country with a massive influx of unassimilable Visible Minorities. There was never any popular demand by Canadians for the change in policy. It seems to me it was purely the work of the Lobby, but of course they will never be held responsible, nor even accused! I.V.

August 12, 2010

Editor
NATIONAL POST
Toronto

Dear Sir

A dangerous precedent

Several decades ago, with remarkable prescience, French novelist Jean Raspail wrote his now famous "Camp of the Saints" in which he described an invasion of Europe by a million Third World indigents, accomplished through the use of a flotilla of aging freighters that eventually beached on the French Riviera. The plight of the destitute refugees from famine in their native India aroused much sympathy among the Western liberal media and politicians, which intensified with every day of the flotilla's progress, forestalling debate on the capability of Europe to absorb the fragrant multitude. In the event, ample shelter was provided by the French government commandeering vacant rooms in middle class homes throughout the hitherto fashionable coastal region.

Raspail's migration nightmare has come true, in spades, and his conjectured million has already been exceeded many times over in both Europe and Canada, creating intractable problems that threaten not only our cultural and ethnic heritage but also the very existence of Western Civilization.

It would be folly therefore to allow the shipload of Tamils to disembark or permit the ship even to dock. Tamils do not qualify as "refugees" and have their own homeland nearby in South India should they wish to leave Sri Lanka. Placing them on full social benefits in Canada with the additional cost of endless hearings (and eventual permanent residence), will send a signal to hundreds of millions of others yearning to live in the "Camp of the Saints", with unpredictable, but surely disastrous, consequences for all concerned.

As ever,

Ian Macdonald