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MetroVanIndependent.com
June 2015
editorial
Photo by Simply the Best - The Luisa Marshall Show
Protest rally against President Aquino outside Canada Place
Coffee and donuts: what a President dished out
to a perceived (teaser) stupid Vancouver crowd
By Yul Baritugo
He was a picture of someone who just
got off a long, long flight. A few strands of
hair at the back of his balding head were
standing. He was visibly tired. No one gave
President Aquino a fresh style update. Even
his voice sounded tired.
It was no surprise that his meeting with
“The Voice of the People, by the People,
for the People.”
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the Filipino community in Vancouver was
a non-event somehow only made exciting
by a leftist Migrante demonstration outside
the convention center detailing his alleged
human rights abuses.
I was starting to pity President Aquino
when Conservative Filipino job killer Jason
Kenny, now holding the defense portfolio,
started to put lard all over. Kenny is an
expert in multiculturalism, immigration
and employment. He represented Alberta
Southeast as Member of Parliament since
1997 under the Reform Party. He later
joined Harper’s Conservatives.
Kenny was visibly courting another
budding ethnic bastion. He even noted
the fact that the Aquino family had two
Presidents, something that can only occur,
he observe, if one is royalty.
I’m calling Kenny a job killer based on
data. The Association of Care Givers and
Nanny Agencies in Canada (ACNA) just
gave these figures. Local Market Impact
Assessment (LMIA) statistics on the new
caregiver program from Dec 2014 to March
2015:
1. D e ce mbe r 2014: Total LMIA
approved: 0 childcare and 3 High Medical
needs (9 childcare and 12 High Medical
needs)
2. January 2015: Total LMIA approved:
14 (2 childcare and 12 High Medical needs).
Total LMIA received: 169 childcare and 26
High Medical needs applications
3. February 2015: Total LMIA approved:
32 (4 childcare and 28 High Medical needs).
Total LMIA received: 367 (311 childcare and
56 High Medical needs applications)
4. March 2015: Total LMIA approved: 43
(16 childcare and 27 High Medical needs).
Total LMIA received: 297 (262 childcare and
35 High Medical needs applications). It was
even worse this month.
Executive Director Natalie Drolet
(see our report at Metrovan Independent
News) of West Coast Domestic Workers
Association said the recent changes to
the live-in caregiver program “essentially
abolished the program.” Along with four by
four, (four years in, four years out) these are
all Conservative job ploys initiated by Jason
Kenny and the Harper Conservatives.
Kenny talked about some 25,000
Filipinos living in a community closest to
the North Pole and marveled as to how
they evolved as a solid community. He also
donned the proper attire. He was the only
one among the high rollers — in barong
Tagalog – a testimony to the extent he
would go to execute a deception.
He was actually campaigning for the
disgraced Conservatives, booted out
recently from their home turf Alberta,
before a captive crowd of well-heeled
Filipino-Canadians. I wished Albertans
would also get rid of this scheming dropout.
Even PNoy and his cabinet ministers were
in suits including former SGV chairman
Cesar Purisima, now Finance Secretary.
Brainless RCMP officers, meanwhile,
were doing their best to keep media —
earlier cleared by the Philippine consulate
— at bay. I was told it was a joint
operation with RCMP, some elements of
the Presidential Security Command and
Genesis, a local private security agency
Left lane freeway hogs get out of the way
THE RANT
By Steve Marshall
If you are driving down a freeway with
2 lanes going in the same direction you will
notice the left lane is usually the fastest
lane. If you are in the left lane flowing with
the left traffic you are fine. BUT and this
is a big BUT. If you are in the left lane and
nobody is in front of you and you also have
a vehicle or a string of vehicles behind you
that means you should not be in that lane
because you are going too damn slow and
should move to the right lane as soon as
possible to let the faster traffic go by. This
does not matter if you are already going the
maximum freeway speed. This does not
apply to the HOV lane.
The first sign you are in the wrong lane
at the wrong time is when the cars behind
you have to go into the right lane or HOV
lane to pass you then they cut back in front
of you to keep going. You will likely notice
those drivers giving you a glare. If you're
lucky that is all you will get otherwise it will
soon be more likely you will get a $109.00
fine each time.
held largely responsible for the suicide of a
female Mexican national earlier profiled by
the useless Transit police, and placed in a
holding cell by the Canada Border Services
Agency (CBSA). She hanged herself at the
Genesis holding area in YVR Airport. PNoy
was in real good company. Vancouver
police were handling perimeter security
as a Migrante demo was occurring outside.
RCMP also checked media’s usual
equipment, cameras and stuff, by bringing
in a scrawny police dog that sniffed but
wasn’t interested in anything. It was
totally an amateur show by what seem to
be an RCMP contingent not experienced
in handling a social event. We were then
herded to the ballroom where some guys,
pretending to be security, don’t even know
how to do a proper Smith’s hand held metal
detector screening. They don’t resolve
alarms, missed a lot of body parts, and
went about their job for show.
PNoy, as expected, added to the
gruesome failure of the impor tant
gathering. He was in a monologue with
his old tale about coffee and donut. The
punch line was: How do you like your
eggs? Christy Clark v2GFV