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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There's been a lot of debate over immigration -- local and foreign. As the US is in the midst of a crisis and Canada under the Conservative Stephen Harper is also turning into anti-minority, immigration is come under fire from the right-wing forces. Europe too has seen its share of troubles. Though the US periodically breaks into mayhem over immigration, Canada and Australia see the issue to the forefront periodically. On the issue of a Toronto-based Tamil group banned for its alleged terrorist links by the Canadian government and the subsequest debate if the new government is anti-immigrant, here's one quote from a Canadian list. --Giacomo Cardinal Biffi, archbishop of Bologna, who created a stir on September 12, 2000, by writing that: "The criteria for admitting immigrants can never be just economic. It is necessary to concern oneself seriously with saving the nation's own identity. Italy is not a deserted land, without history, without living and vital traditions, without an unmistakable cultural and spiritual physiognomy, to be populated indiscriminately, as if it were not a model legacy of humanism and culture that must not be allowed to disappear." -- I believe the bishop was talking of the period when the wave of new immigrants was threatening Italy. The quote's logic has been applied to keep out those immigrants who do not fall into the category of cultural ethos. Many in Goa feel that outsiders coming to settle in Goa do not fall into the Goan cultural and social mix. There's no doubt the indiscrimination on colour, race and ethnicity prevails subtly in Canada, the ethnics have made lot of progress. The battle for equality continues to be fought in the corridors of power and academia. Indo-Canadians have been one of the groups in the forefront of this struggle. To the new Conservative government's credit, a public enquiry has been ordered into the Air India crash. The ousted Liberals and before that the Mulroney government had not found it necessary to set up a commission. The Harpen government have may scored a major political point in gaining support from the Indo-Canadians, who form part of the minority community. Among the South Asians in Toronto, the Tamils (most of them from Sri Lanka) were close to overcoming the Sikhs in terms of population. eugene __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)