Some People Are "Special"

Especially if they have no ties to Canada other than being cheap labour:

Smith said Tuesday that the success of the local beef processing facility in her home riding, owned by Brazilian multinational JBS, shows why local employers should have more control over Alberta’s intake of migrants. 

”I think they began by recruiting people from Sudan, then Somalia, Mexico, the Philippines … the most recent individuals I met were from Ecuador,” said Smith.

“I don’t know how JBS manages to find (foreign workers) and use our program (but) they are reaching out throughout the world … to be able to do it. And I think that’s a very positive example of how other businesses would do the same.”

Smith said the Brooks, Alta., slaughterhouse triggered a “massive” local population boom by drawing thousands of foreign workers and their families to the area.

She was speaking at an Albert Next town hall in Fort McMurray, Alta., where immigration reform was one of six topics under discussion to be added to next year’s referendum ballot.

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Conservatives say courts should not consider the immigration status of convicted criminals when handing down sentences, warning that doing so would create a “two-tier” system.

 The statement comes after a recent court ruling that spared prison time for a convicted criminal to reduce his risk of deportation.

 “Non-citizens convicted of a crime should face the same consequences as Canadian citizens, and when they are convicted of serious crimes, they should be deported,” Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, her party’s immigration critic, said in an Aug. 26 statement.