Hi Tamar

>Thanks for letting me know. I'm the daughter of a woman who survived the Holocaust only because the English people took in Jewish children and because my grandparents had the courage to send their children away. My mother's parents died in Auschwitz. Had immigration been easier before the war, there's a reasonable chance I'd have known my grandparents. I take immigration personally.

My parents emigrated to Canada when my father was around 18. So I understand the need to emigrate. Even though I was working in the US for several years, I am now not allowed to work in the US post 9-11. My diploma from a business "college" is no longer acceptable to US Immigration. So I understand the desire to want to go where the work is. As a FoxPro developer in Canada, I can also say I understand the need for Immigration. It is hard enough to find work here without immigrants coming here with nothing and under-bidding me, dragging down the hourly rates and flooding MY market.

Immigration must protect existing citizens by bringing in labour for industries that have shortages. With more outsourcing, there is less reason to allow any programmers to immigrate, just as there is less reason to immigrate factory workers to Canada when the factory jobs are outsourced and even automated away.

I don't believe they do a good job of that. My kids go to school to learn a trade or profession that may be flooded before they graduate. How is that good?

I believe the holocaust was a separate issue, which cannot be put on any country's immigration policies, but squarely on the shoulders of the perpetrators.