Fromm Excluded from Mississauga Mayoralty Debate

 

Paul Fromm for Mayor of Mississauga

905-274-3868; fax: 905-278-2413

paul@paulfromm.com

 

For Immediate Release

 

Fromm Excluded from Mississauga Mayoralty Debate

 

PORT CREDIT.  October 5, 2010.  Mississauga Mayoralty candidate Paul Fromm, who has made immigration control his key issue, was denied entry to an all candidates mayoralty debate tonight at Erindale College campus.

 

“Democracy took a kick in the head tonight at the hands of the organizers MIRANET, the Mississauga Residents Associations Network,” said Fromm, who was not the only candidate excluded by organizers backed up by security guards and police.

 

“There are 17 candidates for mayor. There were only six participants in this phony debate,” Fromm charged. “A number of us were excluded.”

 

“I indicated in a timely fashion that I would participate in the MIRANET debate, after the initial invitation,” Fromm recalls. “I did have some concerns about the overly restrictive rules and somewhat hazy format, but I signed the consent form to Rogers and the ‘unconditional’ agreement to the rules for the debate, duly included my 100 word introduction and the name of  the one supporter who would be allowed by the MIRANET rules to accompany me and submitted all this to MIRANET early Monday morning. Actually, my computer has the message being sent at 1:24 a.m.” Mr. Fromm explains.

 

“I was still denied the right to participate on the basis that the consent did not use their exact language. My computer could not copy their text as it could the Rogers' consent form. So, I typed it up the best I could. My text was substantially the same as theirs and the intent was clear,” Mr. Fromm explains.

 

“As soon as I learned I'd been excluded, I appealed to MIRANET, re-did their consent form word for word and re-submitted it Monday night at 8:11 p.m. [Oops, I'd missed their deadline.] My intent was clear. As the hour for the debate approached, I hadn't even received the courtesy of a reply to my appeal,” Mr. Fromm adds.

 

“MIRAMET is guilty of blatant discrimination and utterly undemocratic behaviour. It was clear they looked for every excuse to exclude candidates and not just me,” Mr. Fromm charges.

 

“I endorse efforts by fellow mayoralty  candidate Don Barber to organize a debate in which all candidates for mayor can appear and which operates under less constipated rules,” says Fromm. “Surely, we need more debate and discussion, not less.”

 

“I shall be asking Rogers Cable not to broadcast the MIRANET debate as it failed spectacularly to include all interested candidates. It does a disservice to Mississauga voters,” Mr. Fromm explains.

 

“In the alternative, I shall be asking Rogers to permit the excluded candidates to have air time to explain their positions for the voters of Mississauga,” the radio broadcaster and immigration expert adds.

 

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Mark Weber and Paul Fromm: America in Crisis is Theme of Spirited IHR Meeting, October 2, 2010

 

Mark Weber and Paul Fromm: America in Crisis is Theme of Spirited IHR Meeting, October 2, 2010 
 
News from the Institute for Historical Review

 

 
 
America’s social, economic and political malaise, a spreading sense of national gloom, and prospects for the future were the issues tackled by speakers at the IHR meeting on October 2, 2010. Attendees included students, teenagers, first time visitors, and long-time friends of the Institute.
 
Mark Weber opened the meeting with words of welcome and messages of greeting from some who were not able to attend. He also expressed thanks to several individuals who had been especially supportive in recent months. He spoke a bit about Joseph Sobran, the brilliant columnist, author and lecturer who had died a few days earlier. Sobran, a friend of the Institute, addressed an IHR conference in 2002.
 
Weber also provided a brief update on the IHR’s recently launched project against internet censorship. For example, an activist in Georgia phoned a few days ago to report on his success in persuading his city’s library system to unblock access to the IHR website.
 
IHR meetings, said Weber, bring together men and women of “exceptional commitment, concern and awareness,” and “reinforce our own idealism and dedication in working for a better country, a better future and a better world.” A lively question and answer session followed the main talks, with pointed comments and questions from attendees and trenchant remarks by the featured speakers.
 
Paul Fromm, the meeting’s featured guest speaker, has addressed a number of IHR events over the years. In addition to his work as director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE), he is currently a candidate for mayor of Mississauga (Ontario). He took a break from campaigning for a brief visit to southern California
 
Fromm recounted humorous anecdotes from the boisterous election campaign, in which he’s been getting attention with his call for a halt to immigration. At a time when so many Canadians are out of work, he asked rhetorically, how can any rational person support more immigration?
 
In Canada as well as in the US, he said, the prevailing immigration policy amounts to a program of “population replacement.” A “human wave” is “changing America beyond recognition,” with the majority population of European origin giving way to a “Third World” population.
 
For years, he noted, politicians and the establishment media have insisted that Canadians should welcome ever greater social-ethnic “diversity” and immigration. But recently there’s been major shift in public sentiment. “A lot of people are waking up,” he said. A broad consensus against further large-scale immigration has emerged among Canadians across the political spectrum. Moreover, growing numbers of people distrust the “establishment,” and regard politicians of the major political parties as either incompetent or corrupt.
 
As a result of all this, said Fromm, the US is entering a “pre-revolutionary situation,” to borrow a phrase of Lenin. New times require new thinking, he added. Profound changes in North American society are forcing people to reconsider long-standing assumptions and beliefs.
 
After a short break, Mark Weber addressed the meeting. “Americans sense that something is very wrong,” he said. They are “concerned about rising social-economic inequality, an erosion of national identity and purpose, increasing social polarization, and broad distrust of the US around the world.” Citing recent public opinion polls, he noted that most Americans now think that life for their children will be less prosperous and secure than it has been for them.
 
The US has changed dramatically over the past 50-60 years, said Weber, above all demographically. Americans now see the US “rapidly becoming an unrecognizable `third world’ country.” The confident, proud and comfortable America of the 1950s and 1960s is “gone -- gone forever,” he said.
 
California has been transformed from a state with a population of overwhelming European origin to one with a majority non-white population. Over the past half century, he went on, southern California “has been transformed more radically, more fundamentally than Poland, Hungary, and other eastern European countries changed during nearly 50 years of Soviet Russian occupation and domination.”
 
America today is “a society in denial,” said Weber. The country’s political, cultural and intellectual leadership -- both liberal and conservative -- denies social reality and  ignores the historical record, and therefore inevitably betrays the interests of the people, pushing America along a path that means ever greater anxiety and decline. “The leadership of both major parties, along with the mainstream media, and the educational establishment, support and relentlessly promote an egalitarian-universalist ideology, an outlook of wishful thinking divorced from reality that refuses to acknowledge the most elementary truths of society, of heredity, and of history.”
 
In the lives of nations and of individuals, said Weber, how we deal with great challenges is largely based on one’s sense of identity -- our sense of who and what we are. America lacks the cultural, ethnic or religious “glue” that holds a healthy society together, above all during times of crisis. Tackling the great problems of our age is especially difficult for the USA because this country has no clear sense of itself.
 
“Just as the former Soviet Union eventually fell apart as an inevitable consequence of trying to organize society on the basis of an ideology and principles unrooted in historical, social and biological reality,” Weber said, “so also this society will and must continue to decline as it tries to force nature and reality to conform to wishful thinking based on an unsound worldview.”
 

Immigration Remains the Key Election Issue, Says Fromm

 

Paul Fromm for Mayor of Mississauga

905-274-3868; fax: 905-278-2413

paul@paulfromm.com

 

 

For Immediate Release

 

Immigration Remains the Key Election Issue, Says Fromm

 

 

 

PORT CREDIT. October 12, 2010. “Immigration remains the sleeper issue of this campaign,” Mayoralty candidate Paul Fromm said today. “My fellow candidates avoid it like herpes or mouth silly platitudes about immigration having built Canada.”

 

“I’m getting a great response as I am out meeting people. They see the connection between traffic gridlock and massive immigration which has seen our city swell from 200,000 at the time of the 1979 train spill to over 700,000 today.”

 

“I get a lot of agreement with my call for a five year moratorium on immigration to let Mississauga and other urban areas absorb the immigrants we have. Voters know that the planned 300,000 more people for Peel by 2016 is untenable. With 8.2 per cent official unemployment, such an increase is insane.”

 

“I’m the only candidate prepared to say the obvious --  that Mississauga is full --  and dedicated to providing leadership and lobbying the federal government to halt immigration,” says Mr. Fromm.

 

The broadcaster and immigration expert points out: “It’s sad. I know Hazel knows better.” He points to comments she made back in 2001: "If you go to the Credit Valley Hospital, the emergency is loaded with people in their native costumes. A couple will come here as immigrants and each bring over their parents. Now you have four people who not contributed a nickel toward our medical system using it at an age when they will cost everyone a great deal of money. No wonder we have to worry about our medical system looking after everyone."

 

Also, Mr. Fromm adds, Mrs. McCallion  in the past complained that "illegal immigrants" cost Mississauga $1.5 million annually in welfare costs which the federal government has failed to reimburse to the municipality.

 

But that was then. Now, she’s silent on this issue. “This city needs leadership, if we are to avoid wall to wall sprawl, worse gridlock and more environmental damage,” argues Mr. Fromm. “That means a halt to the major engine of local overcrowding – immigration,” he explains.

 

Mr. Fromm had led protests against the federal government’s weak response to people smuggling by Tamil Tigers. ”Illegals pose a huge burden on local communities and  strain social assistance. During the years they are here collecting welfare, legal aid, medical and dental care, all at taxpayers’ expense, they stress the low cost housing supply,” Fromm charges. ”That may explain why there is an up to 21 year wait for assisted housing in Peel,” Fromm says. “It time to take care of our own.”

 

Poor screening of immigrants means most are unable to hit the ground running. Many, especially those let in through family reunification have no language or job skills.

 

“Immigration is costing taxpayers big time,” says Fromm. Recently announced federal grants for Mississauga for just one three month period alone total over $175,000,000. “That’s taxpayers’ money to try to bring poorly screened immigrants up to speed,” he charges.

 

“The time has come for a five year moratorium on immigration to stop the pressure and to let us go back to the drawing board and, if in the future we do need immigration, hopefully we can get it right,” he adds.

 

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RECENTLY ANNOUNCED FEDERAL IMMIGRATION SPENDING IN MISSISSAUGA

 

Accessible Community Counselling and Employment Services for New Canadians

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-10

$1,208,035.00

 

Afghan Women’s Counselling and Integration Community Support Organization

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-03-30

$2,570,760.00

 

Afghan Women’s Counselling and Integration Community Support Organization

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-03-30

$857,172.00

 

Afghan Women’s Counselling and Integration Community Support Organization	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-07	$467,053.00
African Community Services of Peel	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-08	$335,914.00
African Community Services of Peel	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$983,732.00

 

 

 

Audmax Incorporated

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-03-30

$1,186,508.00

 

 

 

Catholic Cross-Cultural Services

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-12

$4,728,525.00

 

 

 

 

Chinese Association of Mississauga	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-13	$93,851.00
Chinese Association of Mississauga	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-21	$1,423,570.00

 

 

 

 

Collège Boréal

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-21

$431,413.00

 

 

 

 

Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-06	$9,816,261.00
Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-10	$1,547,592.00
Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-10	$1,147,303.00
Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-10	$7,234,506.00
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-10	$1,147,246.00
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$1,795,381.00

 

India Rainbow Community Services of Peel		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		2010-04-10	$3,529,651.00
India Rainbow Community Services of Peel		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		2010-04-10	$8,138,648.00
Malton Neighbourhood Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		2010-04-10		$988,840.00
Malton Neighbourhood Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		2010-04-10		$2,269,620.00
Malton Neighbourhood Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		2010-04-10		$5,331,878.00

 

Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$1,441,804.00
Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$1,646,569.00
Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$2,596,045.00
Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$3,142,816.00
Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$4,919,461.00
Newcomer Centre of Peel (formerly Peel Adult Learning Centre)		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12		$12,598,682.00
Palestine House Educational And Cultural Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada			2010-03-31		$3,190,316.00
Palestine House Educational and Culture Centre	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada			2010-04-12		$938,196.00

 

Peel Career Assessment Services Inc.	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-03-30	$624,318.00
Peel District School Board	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-07	$2,147,042.00
Peel District School Board	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-07	$5,528,588.00
Peel Multicultural Council	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-03-30	$794,655.00
Peel Multicultural Council	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-03-30	$1,269,885.00
Peel Multicultural Council	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-03-30	$1,924,370.00
Peel Multicultural Council	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-03-30	$2,789,271.00

 

Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$1,985,833.00
Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$6,274,132.00
Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$1,142,914.00
Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$1,101,552.00

 

Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-07	$199,951.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-07	$295,276.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-07	$486,832.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$558,730.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$904,140.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$923,782.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$1,288,969.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$8,341,074.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$8,867,798.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-12	$9,848,768.00
Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training (operating as Centre for Education and Training)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-05	$635,197.00

 

The Cross-Cultural Community Services Association (formerly Toronto Chinese Community Services)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-08	$416,975.00
The Cross-Cultural Community Services Association (formerly Toronto Chinese Community Services)	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-04-10	$1,442,714.00
The Gateway Centre for New Canadians	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-04	$2,511,143.00

 

United Way of Peel Region	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-10	$1,631,438.00
United Way of Peel Region	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2010-05-25	$1,529,891.00

 

Vietnamese Community Centre of Mississauga

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-03-30

$1,165,360.00

 

YMCA of Greater Toronto (Peel Region)

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2010-04-08

$491,356.00

 

 

 

New Two-Week Detention Period for Illegals Totally Inadequate,Says Fromm

 

For Immediate Release

 

New Two-Week Detention Period for Illegals Totally Inadequate, Says Fromm

 

 

PORT CREDIT, September 21, 2010. Legislative proposals announced today to require illegals who are part of mass smuggling operations to spend two weeks in custody before being given a detention hearing (instead of the present 48 hours) are "totally inadequate" Paul Fromm, a candidate for Mayor of Mississauga said today.

 

"These measures are a sad joke. Yes, they may give the authorities a bit more time to inquire into the criminal background of the illegals," said Fromm. "However, as the National Post  (September 21, 2010) notes today: "A two-week waiting list. That’s it. That is their grand plan. It would be pathetic, if it weren’t so predictable. ... For people who have been waiting months or years for a chance to jump the queue into Canada, an extra two weeks in detention — with the best medical and dental teams your tax dollars can buy — is a drop in the bucket."

 

"Minister Kenney's measures are like waving a feather to stop a rampaging elephant," says Fromm a radio broadcaster and immigration expert.

 

"This is a serious issue for Mississauga," Fromm insists. As of April, 2010, there were 19,300 on Ontario Public Works (welfare).  Illegals making ‘refugee’ claims in Ontario are not allowed to work during the two to five years these claims typically take. Appeals can extend the process.  "The vast majority of these illegals are  in the GTA, including many in Mississauga. 'These people are a serious burden on welfare, as well as imposing costs on schools, ESL programmes and subsidized housing," says Fromm.

 

"The vast majority of the Tamil illegals will head to Ontario," says Fromm. "That's why it's crucial to deter human smugglers and the several ships of Tamils preparing to head for Canada, having noted the weakness and disorganization of our response," he says.

 

"What is needed is to stop these people smugglers outside Canadian waters and turn them away. Furthermore, the government should use the 'notwithstanding' clause to overcome the ludicrous Singh Decision of 1985. The only way for people to enter Canada as immigrants or refugees is to apply and be vetted abroad," Fromm argues.

 

Paul Fromm, as Director of the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee, led a protest in Victoria the day after the illegals arrived in August, as well as protests in Calgary, London, Hamilton and Ottawa to gather signatures on letters urging Prime Minister Harper to regain control of Canadian borders and deport the illegals, willing participants in people smuggling operations.

 

“Immigration impacts almost every major problem in Mississauga – overcrowded roads, dwindling farm land, the environment, welfare costs. If I’m elected, I’ll camp out on the Minister of Immigration’s front lawn and demand action,” said Fromm.

 

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Tamil Illegals Bankrupting BC Legal Aid

 It's just cost, cost, cost. There is a crying unfairness. Illegals, making use of Tamil Tiger people smugglers, sneak into Canada. For their lawlessness, they are rewarded by the opportunity, at taxpayers' expense,. to begin the prolonged "refugee" claim process (and appeals.) Meanwhile, the unconsulted Canadian taxpayer is stuck with the bill.  Unmentioned in the following CBC report is yet another drain on the Canadian taxpayer -- translation copsts fopr the proceedings.

 

CBC reported (September 16, 2010): "

The organization that provides legal aid in B.C. says it's running out of money in its efforts to represent the Tamil migrants who arrived in August. 'The society's immigration funding is limited,'  Legal Services Society manager Rod Holloway said in a letter Thursday to lawyers who have been representing the migrants. 'The arrival of … Tamils who are currently detained has placed us in a position where funding their detention reviews … will, very shortly, exhaust our current resources allocated to immigration matters.' The organization that provides legal aid in B.C. says it's running out of money in its efforts to represent the Tamil migrants who arrived in August. 'The society's immigration funding is limited,' Legal Services Society manager Rod Holloway said in a letter Thursday to lawyers who have been representing the migrants."

Then, there's the cost of keeping and detaining the illegals: " The CBSA also is bearing extraordinary expenses by keeping the migrants in detention. The Immigration Review Board said the CBSA is being charged more than $88,000 a day — about $200 per migrant — for a total of more than $3 million for their 34 days of incarceration so far."

 

 

 

Tamil migrant lawyers face money crunch

Last Updated: Thursday, September 16, 2010 | 5:59 PM PT

CBC News

A translator and lawyers representing the federal government and Tamil migrants sit before an immigration adjudicator in Vancouver. (Jane Wolsak/CBC)

The organization that provides legal aid in B.C. says it's running out of money in its efforts to represent the Tamil migrants who arrived in August.

"The society's immigration funding is limited," Legal Services Society manager Rod Holloway said in a letter Thursday to lawyers who have been representing the migrants.

"The arrival of … Tamils who are currently detained has placed us in a position where funding their detention reviews … will, very shortly, exhaust our current resources allocated to immigration matters."

Most of the 492 migrants who arrived on Vancouver Island on Aug. 13 aboard the MV Sun Sea remain in detention in the Vancouver area.

All of the migrants have applied for refugee status, claiming their lives are in danger or that they suffer extreme discrimination as an ethnic minority in their native Sri Lanka.

The funding crunch could leave the migrants without legal representation at detention hearings.

"The Legal Services Society will be considering this issue and may be required to restrict services … to ensure the society remains within budget," Holloway said in the letter.

Identities at issue

The primary issue in the hearings is the difficulty in establishing each migrant's identity to the satisfaction of the Canada Border Services Agency.

The CBSA is concerned that some migrants could be members of the Tamil Tigers, an organization banned in Canada as being terrorist.

The CBSA also is bearing extraordinary expenses by keeping the migrants in detention.

The Immigration Review Board said the CBSA is being charged more than $88,000 a day — about $200 per migrant — for a total of more than $3 million for their 34 days of incarceration so far.

Four of the migrants — a mother and her three children — have been given conditional release.

Four other women and five children were about to be released when the federal government filed to block their release.