South African Boers

[parsley]

How do Av'ers feel about some of the grower orgs making a recommendation to bring in SA farmers as refugees?

[bucket]

Parsley.

No. That's not my intent. Sorry I said it that way and it was interpreted that way.

No ... there is an incredible opportunity to rebuild rural Saskatchewan with people that would offer much to this country.

But I also feel that way about hard working oil workers that may be looking for something different.

[bucket]

And good to have you posting again.

Miss your logic.

[cottonpicken]

Get them out of there,hell or high water,that war was lost years ago.

[Braveheart]

Nope. Don't want them. We don't need anymore competition from foreigners or foreign treasuries.

South Africans have their Apartheid policy now being turned around and handed back to them. Who's the "Kaffir" now?

This refugee thing is out of line also. Judging nowadays what actually qualities one as a refugee is getting a bit sketchy. If everybody in the world keeps flooding into Canada claiming refugee status, we'll be the ones ending up refugees.

They'd never last anyway. It's too harsh and unforgiving an environment for most. That's in terms of weather, gov't policy, and economics.

[grassfarmer]

Nope. Don't want them. We don't need anymore competition from foreigners.

A bit rich in a country of immigrants. Besides there needs to be a huge land transfer on the prairies in the coming decades. The 60something grainfarmers aren't replacing themselves - can't be farming 100 quarters when they're 90!

They'd never last anyway. It's too harsh and unforgiving an environment for most. That's in terms of weather, gov't policy, and economics.

On the contrary - I'd suggest these people are used to a lot harsher climate in many respects and they've certainly been through the wringer with Government policy the last decade.

[Braveheart]

Of the immigrants here more than half haven't lasted a full decade.

Yes we're a country of immigrants. That doesn't mean I like to see any more of them.

Re South Africans, the ones that immigrated to South Dakota are a big problem. Attitudes, cultural issues, even crime.

[grassfarmer]

Of the immigrants here more than half haven't lasted a full decade.

Yes we're a country of immigrants. That doesn't mean I like to see any more of them.

Re South Africans, the ones that immigrated to South Dakota are a big problem. Attitudes, cultural issues, even crime.

I heard there were problems of that nature with the Somali immigrants in SD but not the South Africans - care to elaborate?

[Braveheart]

Here's a further point: Many posters here were against Syrian refugees being brought to Canada mainly because of their Islamic faith. But, South Africans are ok? Many are bigoted as shit. They're not all as nice as Charlize Theron.

[Braveheart]

We have a neighbour originally from South Dakota (he actually works for a German immigrant here). His family still farms/ranches there. The problem people are Afrikaners. They bought farmland in a block. They are acting like Hutterites but with a cultural chip on their shoulder. Their children have been involved in some criminal activities no doubt having trouble fitting in. They have zero tolerance for the Arikara people on nearby reservation.