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  This is an interesting article, and I so agree with him at the end that I thought I would share.

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Immigrating can be leap of faith - Guidy Mamann

On Friday I will mark the 40th year since my family and I immigrated to Canada.

I have spent much of the past 20 years involved in the immigration odyssey of others, first as an immigration officer, and then as an immigration lawyer. I don´t often indulge in expressing my thoughts about my own immigration experience. However, I will on this auspicious occasion.

I can only imagine the excitement I, as a three-year-old, must have felt while dressed in my finest clothes and clutching the hands of my parents or sisters as we boarded the plane that would take us to our new home.

It is only since having assumed the responsibility of providing for my wife and four daughters that I have come to fully realize the magnitude of my parents´ decision.

I can only imagine the thoughts they entertained as they sat on that plane. How did they build up the nerve to pack up their lives and three children and move to a country they had never even visited? How did my father think he could make it here? Surely, Canada was as different from Morocco as one could imagine. Making a living in Toronto was certain to be very different from making a living in Casablanca. He didn´t speak a word of English and knew no one here other than his younger brother in Toronto, who had only recently immigrated to Canada himself.

While I have assisted thousands of families execute their own plans for immigration to this country, I now find myself having to admit that I have absolutely no experience in that part of the immigration process, which is the most important of all. That is, that great leap of faith that the head of a household must make in order to consciously uproot the ones he loves and resettle them in a country where he can only hope to provide them with a better life.

My mother cried for days before leaving. Because of the relatively expensive cost of air travel in those days, she thought it would be many years before she would see her parents or any of her siblings again.

We arrived in Montreal where our mother tongue, French, was spoken. Apparently, I loved it there. After a few days we continued to our destination, Toronto. I got frustrated in Toronto when I found everyone speaking a language I didn´t understand. Everyone had a good laugh at my expense when I packed my suitcase and told my mom I was going back to Montreal where people understood me. She let me go as far as the apartment lobby before fetching me. There were many more adjustments to follow for all of us.

I don´t usually make it my business to "sell" Canada. My professional role is only to help those who are already "sold" on it.

**However, if I were asked to explain why I think Canada is such a great country, perhaps I would answer that it is because it was settled by people from all over the world who took great chances to build a better life here for themselves and their children.

And that is why they make sure to take such good care of it and each other.**



[12-07-2005,14:06]
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SW
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1080323626556_1/?hub=WFive
[12-07-2005,14:17]
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Anticorruption
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A lil bit of corruption.... what is the big deal? Don´t forget, those chinese who got in through corruption also hauled major monies into Canadian economy. Check out Richmond in BC. A glaring shrine to the loot from Old China into Canada. But it is true all those Chinese are little more than scum-buckets.
[12-07-2005,15:29]
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ano
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This guy ´ano´ was born in a "scum-bucket" and has lived his entire life being one. No wonder we find the word mentioned in almost all his posts.
[12-07-2005,22:56]
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