Taiwan Immigrant : Canada Is Being Cheated By Wealthy Immigrants

[General of Darkness]

Taiwan Immigrant : Canada Is Being Cheated By Wealthy Immigrants
Posted on September 6, 2012

I came to Canada as an international student from Taiwan in 1990 and graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2000. I received my citizenship in 2006. I love Canada and consider myself to be a Canadian.


Because of the nature of my work, I meet many immigrants from some Asian countries and find myself very disturbed by the behaviour of many of these immigrants and the bad effects of that behaviour on Canada’s economy and society. In the essay below, I spell out the nature of this behaviour. At the end of the essay, I propose a number of ways in which I think Canadian immigration policies should be changed for the benefit of all Canadians.



I know the Chinese the best, so I’ll mention them first. Many Chinese immigrants in Canada do not apply for a passport. That because China does not allow dual citizenship. These Chinese immigrants wish to keep their original passports, so they can continue working and making money in China, and paying nearly non-existent or minimal tax to the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency). At the same time, they can enjoy all the wonderful benefits granted by their PR status in Canada.


Many immigrants have no loyalty to Canada, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they never intended to live in Canada.


Again, these people don’t even want to live here, so why do we need them? Most of these immigrants are from developing countries, where political corruption and bribery are a common practice. That’s how they could make so much money, so much dirty money. They just want to buy Canadian citizenship, leech off Canada and continue their money-making schemes in their home countries.


Here are a few ways they abuse Canada’s system :
#1. Annual Tax Refund
I used to have a client who has a million-dollar+ house in Vancouver’s Westside, and a condo at UBC. One time she showed me her tax refund statement and asked me “Hey Tom, how come the government gave me only $1400 for my tax return?”. HELLO!! She has two houses with a total value of well over $2 million. Why was she getting much more of a tax refund than me?? I don’t know how or what that lady’s accountant did. I was just shocked when she showed her tax return to me. I think maybe she reported some kind of income, but she probably had more items that she could write off. This really shows how successful our education in accounting is, and what a bad job the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) is doing. Like many other Canadians, I have a monthly mortgage payment of $2k for a lousy 40-year-old house, and I don’t get any tax refund from the government!


#2. Old Age Security
These rich people don’t work or pay income tax in Canada, but we still give them more money when they grow old. I guess everybody should be treated equally, but let me draw you a picture. These are not just rich people. Rich people drive around in probably BMW’s or Mercedes. These filthy rich people drive around in Bentleys and Rolls, and their kids drive around in Ferraris and Lamborghins. So, despite the fact that these filthy rich people should probably fork out money to help other regular old Canadians, we are taking money away from working Canadians and giving the money to these filthy rich people just because they are old !!1


Most of the old people I talk to are unable to get used to the life in Canada. Right now I have a client who lives in Richmond. It’s a nice neighborhood. He has a $1.8 million house. Just a couple houses down, he bought an emply lot and built a new house for his parents. The new house is probably worth $2.4 million on the market. My client spends most of his time in China, because he still has a business in China. His wife and one baby live in Richmond as a low-income family. His parents live in the brand new $2.4 million house also as a low-income household. But his parents constantly complain about Canada, because they don’t fit in. Even when they are in Canada, they hang out with their own people in their own social circle. They have never been part of Canada, but they always gladly accept free money from our government, so, seriously, why do we need them? It’s not like we are getting anything from them. Instead, we have to give them a whole bunch of freebies.


Less wealthy immigrants play the putting-parents-in-senior-homes scam. They apply to sponsor their parents. Then when their parents arrive, they put them in a home. But since the CIC has temporarily closed the parental sponsorship program, this problem has likely been temporarily deterred.


#3. Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB)
The parents receive about $300-$400 monthly for each child. Again, we are giving free money to people who drive around in Bentleys and Rolls, just because they have kids under the age of 18? The parents don’t even work or pay tax in Canada, and the rest of working Canadians are paying to help these filthy rich people raise their kids? Huh?


#4. No Fee for B. C. Care Card
The Monthly fee is about $69 per person, and $120 for two people in the same household. This monthly fee is waived for low-income families and for these people who pretend to be low-income.


#5. Free Dental Care for Children Under the Age of 18
If these people can afford to live in luxury, they should be able to afford to pay for medicare premiums and for their kids’ dental work. Can’t the Canadian government see that these people are draining our resources? These are the freeloaders and the leeches of our society. We, the regular working Canadians, are getting gypped !!!


These are the benefits that I’m aware of. These rich people’s accountants can probably think of more ways to get more money from our government.


I propose to cancel all benefits for PR status holders, because they are basically just foreigners with the permission to live in Canada. These people are not officially Canadian citizens, so why should they be treated like Canadian citizens?


The Canada Revenue Agency, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and Service Canada should really start working together to stop this kind of abuse from happening.

Having no income in Canada does not mean these people are poor. These people may have no income in Canada, but if you think about it, they must be getting their money from somewhere in order to maintain their luxurious standard of living. ( Immigration Watch, September, 2012)

[old steel]

Wow that is so fucked up i had no idea.

[Ponce]

Blame the government that allows them to do it and not the Chinese........

[Glass]

The Chinese are with out a doubt the master merchants of the world. They are that StarTrek race of merchants personified.

From my experience the chinese philosophy of business is: "That dollar (right down to the very last one) is better in my pocket than yours. I will do what it takes to get it and put it in my pocket. I'm talking about the negotiation, the haggling, the sweetners to get the deal done. They will do what it takes but it can take time.

For them it is not about the product or service or property so much but it is about the actual transaction. It is that moment of the movement of the money. The point in time where it changes hands.... into their hands. That is the overiding motivation for a chinese person.... in my experience

I don't have any problems with that at all. People just need to be aware of that. If you understand this motivation it can work well for mutual benefit.

The other comments I would make are that this guy/gal might be a bit wet behind the ears. Many countries have taxation rules that depend on residency. Using Australia as an example. If you as an Australian spend 180 days or more living outside the country, you are not subject to income tax here. Being a commonwealth the situation may be the same or similar in Canada.

Another possible thing to take into account is a thing called negative gearing. This is where you can take losses from a rental property and apply them to your taxable income. In some instances this results in a tax return. Your losses/expenses are greater than your income tax obligation. Throw in a few benefits like child/family benefits and you don't actually have anything coming out of your pocket.

The example of the people who built a second house with the parents living in it. The main family home with just the mother and children and a father who lives away most of the year fit this format quite well.

[Twisted Titan]

Its has been said that the chinese is the yellow jew

They have the exactly methodology and superior complex

On top of their complusion for money exploitation and control

[Glass]

I'd never heard that description before now. I've not had any dealing with mainland chinese directly. Mostly with expat chinese in asia and here.

Another thing I was thinking about was their attitude to quality control. I don't know if this is still how it's done but it was once. We used to find that when we placed an order for say 10,000 units, we would actually get as many as 20% more units in our shipment. Mostly it was the low side of 10% but occasionally there would be a wopping over supply.

Now the chinese philosphy was that there were going to be a certain % of unsatisfactory units in any production run and these would have to be replaced under the deal. With the distances involved the most economical solution for the chinese was to ship 10% more units with the original order. Then the buyer could junk any unsuitable units and they had replacements on hand.

So this seems logical from the suppliers point of view however from the purchasers point of view this was a problem. If they ordered 300 product lines of maybe 500,000 units and they got 10% more units than they ordered there were big expenses involved. 10% more bond warehouse space (pre import duty bonding storage). Extra import duty. 10% more regular warehouse space. 1 extra storeman. Extra insurance. so it goes on.

Then some of the units might only have superficial imperfections. You have thousands of them after several orders. What you do? You open an outlet to shift those. You have whole new business. Makes me chuckle now I think about it but man did it drive us insane and you just could not get across/explain the problems. Great offence to complain about 10% extra product for free.

anyway, doesn't matter. Everyone was prosperous. That was the main thing.

[Son-of-Liberty]

I think the worst thing I have heard is that when immigrants sponsor there parents. The parents can collect Social Insurance after living in Canada only three years and contributing nothing. Plus they get free medical.

Meanwhile the younger generation of Canadians that are paying for it will probably not get a chance to collect. SI will be bankrupt before then.