Did you know we’re a “nation defined by water”? Me neither. Anyway, the Globe and Mail gets pwned by Lorne Gunter in the National Post:
Something must be done about the national scourge of immigrant drowning. No, really, the Globe is serious. In its lead editorial it concludes “water safety shouldn’t just be for people born in Canada. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to swim.” It even advocates that “employers of nannies who enter the country under the live-in caregiver program could also consider assisting their employees to register for classes.”
Good god, no. Is nanny drowning a problem too? How come the mainstream media has been keeping this from us?
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So I’m shocked to learn that water safety lessons are apparently being reserved only for “people born in Canada.”
I’ll bet the denial of swim lessons to new Canadians is another one of Stephen Harper’s plots to control the citizenry…
Something else that amused me from the two Globe articles here and here, where I get this quote:
A 24-year-old recent immigrant from Haiti drowned at Petrie Island beach on the Ottawa River in May. [...] And an eight-year-old boy drowned in Quebec’s Yamaska provincial park in 2006 while he was with his mother, who came to Canada from the Philippines. None of the victims could swim.
Yes, that’s sad. But here’s my question: Canada is defined by water, but Haiti and the Philippines aren’t? When it comes right down to it, the Earth is defined by water.
And finally this quote — I smell a social justice program in the making:
But translating the message isn’t enough, said University of Ottawa professor Audrey Giles, who researches connections between culture and water safety. Drowning-prevention education must be tailored to the needs of each community to be effective, she said.
So to sum it up that’s Canada: just one big fat racist nation, defined by water, denying the “human right” to swimming lessons and thereby contributing to immigrant drownings. Get ready for another misuse of tax dollars coming…
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Hmmm what possible “immigrant” demagraphic who are from “water deprived” cultures/countries could the G&M bedwetters be designating as an “at risk water hazard” victim group?
Frik! This PC bed wetting has me normal well adjusted Canadians sick to death of nanny state MSM PC messaging. I have wonder who is left to even patronize their print media pissing and moaning. Subscribership to the Star or G&M must be more like an extended daily encounter group therapy than normal news cycle publishing.
I loved Lorne Gunter’s response to their nonsense. CTV last night parroted the same story, sounding absolutely serious — it had me laughing. Not about people drowning (that would be sick), but the fact that they believed there was a serious issue we needed to address. One idiot they interviewed actually said they’d have to look at hiring lifeguards who could speak other languages — she actually said “Farsi”. We have two official languages — learn one of them or drown, I say.
Canada ‘Not Nanny State Enough’ for the Mope & Wail and probably CUPE et al.
Nanny state — that’s the phrase for it.
I have family that fish for a living off of NFLD, none of them can swim. Not many of the old fishermen can in the east coast. The reason being, it was thought you were better off dying quickly if you fell in the Atlantic ocean. That makes sense to me. For christsake if you take your family to a beach and you can’t swim it is a good idea to have someone with you who can. That is just common sense. If you takes kids to a beach you don’t take your eyes off of them, because they are kids, and they don’t know nothing. Adults should know that.
Exactly — common sense. Funny thing, I grew up on Lake Erie. I never had a swimming lesson in my life. But I was never left alone near water, and could not go to the beach without the supervision of an adult swimmer until I could prove I could swim. It was my grandpa — a very strong swimmer — who taught me.
And even knowing how to swim, I still did some dumb things — like playing chicken with the fishing boats as they came in to the harbor.
It is just another stupid socialist scheme made up to suck money out of our wallets. If new immigrants are that stupid that they don’t know that humans can’t breathe water, it is best they stay where they came from. Who ever wasted our money doing this research, needs to be fired, because they are incompetent.
It is bad enough they have to be taught they aren’t allowed to beat and kill their females in Canada, now we have to teach them how to swim.
How dumb would an adult have to be that they would jump into the deep end of the pool without knowing how to swim?
Drowning deaths are tragic, but preventable in many cases.
And just how many Canadians died during the same time period?
Want to learn how to swim?Pay for it out of your own pocket.Otherwise watch your kids.There are two languages in Canada ,english and french.Learn them.Speaking another language like Farsi isnt an excuse.Why do people insist on using govt to get involved with everything we do?Yeesh!
It is not the new immigrants demanding this, they are just the simpleton pets of the socialist, who need to use them to create more socialist programs, which means more money in the socialist pockets.
What new immigrant is going to say, “hey I am really stupid wipe my ass for me” You have a handful them who believe Canadians are stupid, and take advantage of that. Why wouldn’t they when they have racist socialist wiping their asses for them and offering to buy the toilet paper on the Canadian taxpayer’s dime. You would really think they would have some dignity and tell the socialist racist to fuck off, but they don’t, unless they are second or third generation.
I bet the majority would adopt to the Canadian way of life much quicker if they didn’t have the poverty pimps portraying them as stupid, and in need of assistance in ass wiping.
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