{"id":62265,"date":"2017-01-07T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/?p=62265"},"modified":"2017-01-07T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T12:13:11","slug":"kellie-leitch-would-charge-immigrants-for-canadian-values-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/kellie-leitch-would-charge-immigrants-for-canadian-values-test.html","title":{"rendered":"Kellie Leitch would charge immigrants for Canadian values test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Conservative leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch says she would charge immigrants\u00a0a fee to cover the cost of her proposed Canadian values screening test at the border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;For myself, screening everyone for Canadian values, screening everyone at the border is important &#8230; My intention is\u00a0to transfer that cost to the individual who is immigrating here,&#8221; the Simcoe-Grey MP\u00a0told the CBC&#8217;s Catherine Cullen on <\/span><em>The House.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><span>Kellie<\/span>\u00a0<span>Leitch<\/span>\u00a0calls comparisons with Donald Trump unfair<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">&#8216;Irresponsible&#8217; populism: Lisa\u00a0<span>Raitt<\/span>\u00a0slams Kevin O&#8217;Leary,\u00a0<span>Kellie<\/span>\u00a0<span>Leitch<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>&#8220;Prior to our Conservative government, the Liberals had brought in a fee for individuals that were immigrating to Canada and my intention would be to bring back that fee.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Introduced by then-finance minister Paul Martin in 1995, the <\/span>$975 right-of-landing fee was reduced to $490 and renamed the right of permanent residence fee\u00a0under the Stephen Harper government during the 2006 budget.<\/p>\n<p><span>Leitch said it would be a jumping off point, but any fee would have to be adjusted for inflation and the number of immigrants coming to Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The fee would only apply to immigrants, not refugees, she added. Refugees would, however, still have to take the test.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Listen to\u00a0<span>CBC&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0The House<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>One of the\u00a0key components to Leitch&#8217;s campaign is a push to conduct interviews with every potential new Canadian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Leitch&#8217;s\u00a0controversial platform, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">which has been targeted by opponents<\/a>,\u00a0includes conducting face-to-face interviews with immigrants for values including <\/span>equal opportunity, hard work, helping others, generosity, freedom and tolerance.<\/p>\n<p><span>How immigration officials would go about testing for generosity is still being hammered out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The opportunity for creating appropriate ways of questioning \u00a0are absolutely there and I look forward to working with Canadian public servants and Canadians in general to make sure we have the right questions to ask,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/anti-canadian-values-test-leitch-1.3925420?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch says she would charge immigrants\u00a0a fee to cover the cost of her proposed Canadian values screening test at the border. &#8220;For myself, screening everyone for Canadian values, screening everyone at the border is important &#8230; My intention is\u00a0to transfer that cost to the individual who is immigrating here,&#8221; the Simcoe-Grey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-62265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}