mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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 Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 11:44 pm Post subject: Op-ed:American/Haitian immigrants to Canada, closing prisons |
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http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/12/11/conrad-black-four-ideas-for-a-better-canada-and-a-better-world/
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| Given its need for a growing population, and its prosperity, relatively high levels of social services, tolerance and adaptability, Canada should take advantage of the current recession and the comparative political mismanagement of most other countries to redouble efforts to induce desirable immigration, and especially relatively assimilable immigration...I believe Canada could now, for the first time, attract a large number of Americans, and for the first time in decades, Eastern Europeans, while remaining candidates from under-developed countries continue to be admitted in as large numbers as is practical. |
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| French Canada is ever-concerned with demography...Canada�s French population could be reinforced by a program of providing Canadian citizenship to qualified Haitians. Of course, Quebec nationalists would prefer less ambivalent francophones; but to achieve that, they will have to become more fecund again. |
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Having recently inexplicably spent 29 months in one of the kindest and gentlest of American federal prisons, I must emphasize that imprisonment is an insane, archaic and self-defeating treatment of non-violent offenders...felons should receive a government insurance bond for their employers, and contribute work to society pro bono but with, where their circumstances require it, basic non-custodial shelter and meal vouchers, and treatment for substance abuse. Recidivists would have to be confined, but in prison or workshop facilities. Disused prison facilities could then be spruced up and reconfigured as housing for the indigent.
This program would save Canada about $1-billion a year, and increase the productivity of the workforce by about a full half of one percent. (The United States, with its grotesquely bloated prison population, would save $60-billion annually, and increase productivity by over one full per cent.) |
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