Is “Skilled Immigration” Making Canada A Chinese Colony?
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America’s post-1965 immigrant influx is notoriously unskilled, so that the U.S. is in effect importing poverty. But excessive skilled immigration can be a problem too—as Canada is finding out.
Canada recently ratified a foreign investor protection agreement [FIPA] with China [Harper Gov't 'Conceded to China' under Pressure: Treaty Expert, by Jeremy J. Nuttall, TheTyee.CA,September 13 2014]. The agreement underwent considerable delay and remains controversial. [FIPA Signed, but Questions Linger| Canada's investment deal with China vs. anti-monopoly laws, by Matthew Little, Epoch Times, September 17, 2014.]
A major source of the controversy: FIPA may allow China to force Canadian firms to share industrial intellectual property. The major source of the delay: the discovery Chinese infiltration of a Canadian government agency, apparently to steal…intellectual property.
It seems the Chinese have now decided that if you get caught with the goods red-handed, it’s still not too late to just ask for them instead.
Ask—or demand. ...