Canada in talks with US on using Bill C-428 to stem illegal immigration problem
Apparently, Senator John McCain of Arizona, furious about Mexican immigration, has contacted Canadian Liberal MP, Ruby Dhalla to discuss a mutual arrangement to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States. An unidentified source said, “McCain really likes the proposed Canadian Bill C-428 that reduces the waiting time, from ten years to three, for Canadian immigrants to get Canadian Pension benefits. Senator McCain would like to get Canada to extend Bill C-428 to include illegal Mexican immigrants into the US so that they could travel right on through to Canada.” A McCain assistant said, “Initially, it would increase visitor traffic into Canada – which has been lagging lately – and over the long-term bolster Canada’s growing need for cheap labor.” He added, “It would be a win-win – the US would win by reducing the number of illegal immigrants, and the Mexican immigrants would win by getting a piece of Canadian taxpayers’ pensions.” When asked how Canada would win he replied, “Well … taxpayers would lose but the farmers, especially those in the Holland Marsh area would have a huge source of cheap labor for years to come.” Sources say that Ruby Dhalla, fearing a Canadian taxpayer (more…)
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Coming 2026
My personal history is the stuff they write books about. And that's what I am doing. The working title, "Chains of My Father: Marry White."
"The ghostly image of the tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds." - Barack Obama
This perspicacious line from the Prologue of Barack Obama's "Dream from My Father" wrenched my aspiration into action. I started writing, furiously. Unlike Obama's perspective, my pain had been for the opposite reason: I was not seen by whites as a "tragic mulatto," rather I lived every day of my childhood hoping whites were not "searching my eyes for some telltale sign" that I WAS mulatto. This is my story.
It's historical fiction because I cannot find enough records to substantiate all facets of the story. I've combed the genealogy, traveled to my father and grandmothers' birthplace, walked the graveyards, searched the churches and ... well, all the facts aren't there. I have written three books based on the genealogy of other families but my ancestors emerged from a journey that left too few records – slavery.
My paternal, great grandmother was a "freed slave." My grandmother, Amelia, was born to a mixed race slave named Mary (we do not know her last name) and a white, French plantation owner, the Count de Poullain, in Grenada, West Indies. Amelia was raised in the "Big House" and in adulthood, in an attempt to escape her black heritage disowned her mother, telling her, "Get out and never come back." Amelia, as a mother of twelve children, enshrined into the family commandments, "Marry white." Many did, including my father. My mother was a lovely, white, Anglo-Saxon protestant born in England. They met in Canada where my dad studied and became a doctor.
It has taken five generations for the descendants of Mary to free themselves from the stigma of their black heritage but today my children embrace it. Unfortunately, the past 250 years have been a wasteland of bigotry, racism and bullying. But, on closer look, we see not only the brutality, fear, violence, and murder but also the self-respect, dignity, love, kindness, perseverance and indomitable spirit.
As of the spring of 2025, the depth of historic perspective and the sweeping inspiration of oppressed people has created a two-volume duology of which I have only arrived at the middle of the 19th century. 1840 is the year my great grandfather was born, the beginning of Volume II, and he's pushing me to make sure our story is published by the summer of 2026.
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