Funding Announced to Assist Immigrant Integration
Monday, February 18, 2013 @ 12:23 PM
Prince George, B.C. – The Prince George Multicultural Society has received $200 thousand dollars as one of 51 community projects aimed at supporting the integration of immigrants in B.C.
In all, the Province has announced $8.5 million will be distributed as part of the Welcoming Communities Program.
The program supports projects that provide such things as settlement services, improvement of access and services to immigrants, and the recruitment and training of volunteers to remote understanding around issues faces by immigrants.
Here are some of the other communities in the 250 region which have received funding under this program:
· 100 Mile House: Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy – $67,000
· Dawson Creek: Dawson Creek Literacy Society – $107,000
· Fort Nelson: Fort Nelson Community Literacy Society – $67,000
· Fort St. John: S.U.C.C.E.S.S – $200,000
· Kitimat: Kitimat Child Development Centre Association – $93,000
· Prince Rupert: Hecate Strait Employment Development Society – $93,000
· Quesnel: New Focus Society – $67,000
· Smithers: Smithers Community Services Association – $67,000
· Terrace: Skeena Diversity Society – $80,000
· Williams Lake: Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society $67,000
Comments
We are indeed lucky to live in a country where taxpayers can give this money freely to help and aid new comers. Now we can indeed thumb our noses at places like Iran and N. Korea who do not have these services. In a word, we can then become ethnocentric. Feels good, eh?
How on earth does spending $200,000 of tax-payers’ money assist immigrants to integrate into society better?
Really! This craziness has to stop. For many years, immigrants that WANT to come to Canada, and come through legal means, and desire to have a new life and be productive citizens in their adopted country, have always been able to integrate as much as they needed.
Besides, many immigrants CHOOSE to keep themselves a little bit aloof from Canadian society as a matter of choice to retain their unique heritage. This goes for the Chinese, Italians, Ukrainian Indian, communities and many more.
This is just another fell-good-but-accomplish-nothing waste of taxpayer money.
In that last sentence, ‘fell’ should of course be ‘feel’.
There’s an election coming. Afterwards, we’ll be in a period of ‘austerity’. So while the tap is open and the funds are flowing…..
Buying votes? I don’t believe it.
To paraphrase gus, the government should make no announcements or start no projects for a couple years before an election, because it might be construed by the unwashed masses as ‘vote buying’.
socred: “There’s an election coming. Afterwards, we’ll be in a period of ‘austerity'”
The NDP has never been about fiscal restraint. No need to worry.
Train Canadians…
As one of the majority “washed” masses, I think it is vote buying too!
Interesting that the carping comment by JohnnyBelt about the NDP completely ignores the “borrow and spend” party, i.e. the Liberals, who have put us far more deeply in debt than the NDP ever did, while providing much poorer economic performance.
Besides, the claim about the NDP is false. I clearly remember fiscal restraint on my income.
Oh fear not my voting brethren, the name of the party in power may shift like the tide but the beauracracy never, never does. How does one explain our own council’s bull-headed approach vis-a-vis the Haldi conundrum and the lack of municipal leadership forthwith? Nah, pockets are being lined as we speak. If you were not lucky enough to be born into certain families, I’m afraid that your opinion just doesn’t count in this dirty little town. NDIT, indeed…
The NDP has always been about ethical values and the use thereof. I’ve been a member for thirty-five years and every decision seems to come down to which of the witches was more put out by one of their own. If you want to vote for the Party of the Discontented, fly at. I’m about ready to change my vote.
“….this dirty little town”? I must correct you before we lose face. It was once called a “gritty little mill town”. Less of an insult. You’re welcome.
Train horses
Educate Canadians…
Is *immigrant integration* an oxymoron.??
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