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- From: chrisb@seachg.uucp (Chris Blask)
- Subject: Re: Misleading stats
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.164020.13636@seachg.uucp>
- Reply-To: chrisb@seachg.UUCP (Chris Blask)
- Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- References: <93018.113411SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <C12HCG.HCw@ecf.toronto.edu> <1993Jan19.052001.11893@sq.sq.com> <1993Jan19.063014.8618@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 16:40:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.063014.8618@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.052001.11893@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
- >>> On the "Facts (sic) & Arguments" page of the _Globe & Mail_ today,
- >>> there's a statement that "The majority of men who assault women in
- >>> Canada are white (71.9 per cent) and Canadian-born (63.4 per cent)."
- >>> Does anybody know what the percentages of men in Canada total that
- >>> fit these characteristics (white and born here)? Somehow, I suspect
- >>> that the numbers would be remarkably similar.
- >>
- >>Not exactly, but I have some numbers that should be close enough, from
- >>the 1993 Canadian Global Almanac.
- >>
- >>Of Canadian residents, 40% are of British, 27% French, and 20% other
- >>European ethnic origin. (No date is given for this statistic; I would
- >>suspect it comes from the 1986 census.) Depending on who is doing the
- >>classifying, some Europeans might not be considered white, but probably
- >>not many; and I would expect men and women to be distributed similarly
- >>in this regard. Therefore the portion of men who are white should be
- >>something over 80%.
-
- Don't know anything about it, but it reminds me of another interesting stat:
-
- By per-capita representation, native born Canadians are more likely to be
- on welfare than immigrants, and equally likely to be on unemployment. As
- an immigrant myself (American, which wome of you will view differently), I
- can say taht in over ten years, I've accepted _no_ public assistance,
- though I have been eligable.
-
- Another note,
-
- My cousin runs the Manhattan Naturalization Center of US immigration (the
- largest immigration centre in the US), and she tells me that Canada is
- highly thought of in the global immigration community as a perfect example
- of how to do great work without being taken for a sucker. By US law, an
- immigrant who has been on welfare the ENTIRE TIME of his/her stay in the US,
- will get US citizenship after five years. In Canada, despite popular
- belief, illegal immigrants and immigrants with criminal records are almost
- always packed up and sent back, period.
-
- I've had the pleasure to work with many immigrants, most recently
- Ethiopians, who, while speaking a little funny (in three to seven
- languages), are quite willing to work for a living. Most of the people on
- Pogey I've known looked just like me; white.
-
- -chris blask
-
- An American who seems to appreciate Canada more than most Canadians.
-