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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: equal opportunities
Message-ID: <1138@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 22:42:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 22:42:40 1985
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Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Keywords: ESL, immigration language requirements
Summary: 


I stand corrected. Certain classes of immigrants are (I think) not 
required to know at least one of the two official languages, e.g.
retired parents of a permanent resident. However, I still believe that 
*unsponsored* would-be immigrants do have to meet the said language
requirement. The reasoning being  that   people who are 
expected to earn a living here should not be lacking such a fundamental
tool as the ability to converse with the "natives". It would make
finding gainful employment rather difficult plus there is no 
guarantee that  the person would ever learn english and/or french
thus enabling him to become fully productive.  

I have no idea what the story is concerning *sponsored* would-be
immigrants who are expected to eventually support themselves.
Since these people have relatives to fall back on it might be
different for them.

[Then again, all of the above could be completely 100% wrong - any of
you lawyers out there involved in immigration?]

J.B. Robinson