Paul Fromm for Mayor of Mississauga
905-274-3868; fax: 905-278-2413
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 |
| | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-08 | $335,914.00 |
| | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $983,732.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-03-30 | $1,186,508.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $4,728,525.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-13 | $93,851.00 | |
| | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-21 | $1,423,570.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-21 | $431,413.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-06 | $9,816,261.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-10 | $1,547,592.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-10 | $1,147,303.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-10 | $7,234,506.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-10 | $1,147,246.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $1,795,381.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-10 | $3,529,651.00 | |||
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-10 | $8,138,648.00 | |||
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-10 | $988,840.00 | |||
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-10 | $2,269,620.00 | |||
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-10 | $5,331,878.00 | |||
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| 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 | |||
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-03-31 | $3,190,316.00 | ||||
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $938,196.00 | ||||
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| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-03-30 | $624,318.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-05-07 | $2,147,042.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-05-07 | $5,528,588.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-03-30 | $794,655.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-03-30 | $1,269,885.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-03-30 | $1,924,370.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-03-30 | $2,789,271.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $1,985,833.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $6,274,132.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $1,142,914.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $1,101,552.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-07 | $199,951.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-07 | $295,276.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-07 | $486,832.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $558,730.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $904,140.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $923,782.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $1,288,969.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $8,341,074.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $8,867,798.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-12 | $9,848,768.00 | |
| 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 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-05-04 | $2,511,143.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-05-10 | $1,631,438.00 | |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-05-25 | $1,529,891.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-03-30 | $1,165,360.00 |
| Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 2010-04-08 | $491,356.00 |
