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Thread #73943   Message #1298516
Posted By: hesperis
16-Oct-04 - 01:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Illegal Immigration
Subject: RE: BS: Illegal Immigration
Toronto is actually beginning to have an ethnic problem. A lot of people immigrate to it but don't speak English or even French... then it's much harder for them to join into the culture. They settle in pockets of same-language people and don't get to know others easily.

There are no ads for service jobs in Toronto that don't require knowledge of English AND either Portugese or Mandarin... and there are jobs that require only Portugese or only Mandarin. When the ads say "bilingual" they don't mean English and French anymore.

Then the servers at the restaurants don't know english properly, only enough to get by, and they mess up your orders constantly. People who speak only English - even very well - find it REALLY difficult to get a job.

This problem could only be solved by slowing the rate of immigration, and offering incentives to people to settle in areas other than the large cities.