Dash For Power

We wrote recently about the flourishing city of Richmond in Canada and the growing diversity of this city between Vancouver and the Seattle area, 130 miles to the south. In Richmond and Canada the immigration laws have encouraged skills and education and this has seen Richmond become 57% foreign born.

And while scuffles and misunderstanding have occurred, they have been eased by all doing their fair best to leave their Buddha in their home and be more a citizen of Canada in the outside world.Local predictions since 9/11 including my own earlier comments were that ever tightening restrictions and laws being passed by America on allowing needed new immigrants, the more that would begin to squeeze America and benefit Canada. And it has begun.

Recently Bill Gates appealed before the United States Senate to make immigration more easy rather than more difficult as it was choking his company in hiring enough new brilliance. His company has been opening new branch brain factories in Ireland, India, many places around the world.

But this time, almost in direct response to being rebuffed by the Senate and hearing the tightening of the border has only begun. So Bill Gates is overseeing a large new facility being built nearby in Richmond British Columbia, where the supply of skilled brains from China and India will continue to pour.

These new citizens of Canada are in the process of being hired by offices in Hong Kong or Madras and will fit in very well, pay their good taxes in Canada/ Canada and Richmond grows, while Redmond will struggle to find local legal residential brilliance.

Pity, that. The ancestor of my father was English, come to Canada; the ancestor of my mother was Irish, came to Boston, then to Canada. Then in Boston the signs said help wanted-no Irish need apply. It seems Boston has taken over a mind set that now says no foreigner need apply.

If they keep this up, the Statue of Liberty might need melting down to complete the Fence. Our oil passes through the border much easier than some of us, any more.

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