"What Dhalla sees as fairness though, others see as gaming the system, giving people a social benefit they have not earned. Those views, and the views of some who say she's doing this for the Indian community or "her Indian community" have been filling up her email inbox over the past few weeks. The 35 year-old MP wants to make one thing clear, she's not doing this for the Indian community, "Everyone loves to point out India as an example, with myself being of Indian heritage, but I'm a Canadian just like other Canadians and have been born and raised here."
Still, the issue is one of importance to Canada's Indian community, an ethnic group that makes up a large part of Dhalla's riding. While Canada has agreements with more than 60 other countries to deal with social security agreements, India is not one of them, although officials with Human Resources Canada say they are working on a deal."
BCF - still want to buy the Eiffel Tower from me?
RIGHT:
"What Dhalla sees as fairness though, others see as gaming the system, giving people a social benefit they have not earned. Those views, and the views of some who say she's doing this for the Indian community or "her Indian community" have been filling up her email inbox over the past few weeks. The 35 year-old MP wants to make one thing clear, she's not doing this for the Indian community, "Everyone loves to point out India as an example, with myself being of Indian heritage, but I'm a Canadian just like other Canadians and have been born and raised here."
Still, the issue is one of importance to Canada's Indian community, an ethnic group that makes up a large part of Dhalla's riding. While Canada has agreements with more than 60 other countries to deal with social security agreements, India is not one of them, although officials with Human Resources Canada say they are working on a deal."
"We cannot have two classes of citizenship in Canada," says Dhalla...
How does that apply to live-in Philipinos, Ruby?
Rimshot!
I'm with Glasnost on this one...
Didn't one of her live in servants accuse her of forcing said servant to eat on the floor at her feet??
She's pandering to the Indo community, nothing more nothing less.
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