Four years ago, when Hong Liao and her husband Zhian Zhou immigrated to Ontario from southern China, the two chemical engineers wondered as to where in this vast land will they settle, and how will they make a living for themselves and their two-preschoolers.

After living for 41-years in this country, I can now feel and understand of honour of calling myself a citizen of Canada. The process of citizenship provided me an opportunity to reflect on how growing up in this magnificent country has shaped me.

No easy answers are offered to Antonio Insogna, a St. Lazare resident and father of a mentally handicapped young man. Antonio’s son is stuck in the Philippines with his new-formed family and he wants to get his son and daughter-in-law here. Earlier, he went to speak to five federal elections candidates in Vaudreuil-Soulanges after the public debate held at Cite des Jeunes high school in Vaudreuil-Dorion.

Are the immigrants in Canada fairing well? The answer depends upon which one are you talking about. The Asians i.e. Chinese, Indians and Japanese are doing very well and in fact, they achieve higher level of education and earn more than long-standing Canadians in the same amount of time.

We have all heard it from pundits and also read it online as well, that illegal immigration is obstructing our legal system in a bad way. They may come here with dreams of better life and work, but they also bring with them increased crime and trouble.

If I would have known about Canada before I came here then I would certainly have never been here. The sad thing is that most people like me put all their dreams into coming here and once here, it is financially impossible to go back and start the same life back home. We left England because we felt that the country was going rapidly downhill with increase crime rate, yob culture, etc.

Rachid Arab and Nao Fernando, NDP candidates for Surrey North and Fleetwood-Port Kells, said that the recent comments from two Conservative candidates, one of whom is MP, saying that immigrants and refugees are ‘criminals’ and ‘terrorists’ have raised serious concerns.

According to an internal government review obtained by the Vancouver Sun, Canada places so few restrictions on foreign students and schools that the student-visa system is open to widespread abuse and fraud.

Hassan Almeri may have spent the last seven years of his life in isolation behind the bars but the spy service of Canada still believes that if he is released then his reputation in terrorism circles and ability to easily get false documents poses a danger to Canada.

It turns out that the RCMP are actively looking at even more issues concerned with the flawed provincial immigration program than what the auditor general noted in his report that was released on Wednesday.