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Vancouver Sun –
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前自由党总理马丁说,在温哥华南部,75%的人口是中国和南亚移民,家庭团聚是一个敏感的问题。
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很多赞助家人团聚移民的申请,面临多年的延期和耽搁。但是今年年初,保守党把家庭团聚移民人数的限额从两万人减到一万一千人。这个消减完全是秘密的,直到媒体Canadian Press 要求获取信息时发现了这个秘密。
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$ ^1 s& ~4 l/ L5 J7 U马丁说,我们需要那些愿意到这里来,并努力工作的人。我们让移民到这里来,却不让他们的父母和家人来团聚,我只是想说,他们对普通的人民是怎么回事缺少基本的知识。$ ^8 @4 G4 X0 L, r
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马丁说,这个政府完全脱离实际,在触动普通人民生活的问题上,这个政府的施政做法是卑鄙的。$ N* b/ D1 ^4 a& A, _
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4 G8 n$ _" z/ d0 kMartin said family reunification is also a hot-button issue in ridings like Vancouver South, where 75 per cent of the riding is made up of Chinese and South Asian immigrants.$ E: i) }5 P/ H" n& ~4 P9 v
+ b+ }" L9 X6 z! A6 m8 cMany immigrants already face years of delay in sponsoring their families. But earlier this year, the Conservatives cut the quota for sponsored family members from 20,000 to 11,000 per year, making it much tougher. The cut remained a secret until The Canadian Press discovered it during an Access to Information request.$ L1 C ]) h( N4 [3 S& C2 ^7 B- |9 r
. Z! l: a1 h: Y f5 j“We need people who are willing to come here and work hard. I just think to say we’re going to bring immigrants over here but you can’t bring your mother and father shows such a fundamental lack of knowledge of what people are all about,” Martin said.
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U. O+ r# \$ ?+ V9 _, k- N“This is a government that is totally divorced from reality. I think it is a government that is very mean-spirited in its approach to the issues that touch people.”9 O" [2 M1 K1 P; R
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