So many movies out there with messages and what one influences our elected officials? Cool Runnings a Disney flick starring that great Canadian John Candy. Just saw the news and it looks like Canada is going to get a Gold in Italy!We have managed to get a Jamaican for our olympic bobsled team.
Sources close to the immigration minister have confirmed to CBC that Brown, a native of Jamaica, will receive his citizenship next week.Brown is expected to hear from Canadian officials on Friday morning.
"I can tell you that the minister made a call last night to some representatives of Mr. Brown and it's our belief that they will be happy with the news," Stephen Heckbert, a spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Minister Joe Volpe, said Friday."
The 31-year-old is the brakeman for Olympic champion Pierre Lueders and had been waiting to hear back on his situation since his citizenship application was submitted July 28, 2005.
A gold medal contender in the two-man and four-man events, Brown said he has one thing in mind when it comes to becoming Canadian.
"Canada is more competitive than Jamaica and my goal was to prove to the world that I could be good at something," said Brown, who competed for Jamaica at the Salt Lake City Olympics four years ago.
Brown has been competing with Lueders on the World Cup circuit for two seasons.
Lueders, a 35-year-old Edmonton native, was emphatic when he told CBC Sports Online during the Christmas break that it would take a "miracle" for Canada to win a medal in either the two- or four-man events if Brown was ineligible to compete in the Olympics.
Brown is married to a Canadian and has two children who are both Canadian citizens.
Dudley Stokes, the president of the Jamaican Bobsled Association and one of Brown's former teammates, says he isn't impressed with Brown's addition to Team Canada.
Stokes says the association discovered Brown working as a butcher in Jamaica. He says they spent hundreds of thousand of dollars developing him and should be compensated for their loss.
"They are going to be sucked out of your program if you are a poor nation. That is the reality of life as it is today," said Stokes.
Lueders and Brown, who both admitted the uncertainty concerning the immigration case affected their performance earlier in the season, broke through in a big way last weekend in Koenigssee, Germany.
On Saturday, the pair won the two-man event for their first win of the season. A day later, Lueders and Brown, who were joined by Ken Kotyk of Canora, Sask., and Calgary's Morgan Alexander, won the four-man competition.
It was the first time in Lueders' illustrious career that he swept both events on the same weekend.
Lueders and Brown had a memorable 2004-05 season that included a world title, four World Cup victories and several other podium finishes.
Brown is so revered for his speed and power that Bobsleigh Canada coach Gerd Grimme calls him one of the top-three brakemen in the world. Grimme, a former East German bobsleigh pilot, puts Brown at the same level with Switzerland's Beat Hefti and Kevin Kuske of Germany.
Brown and Lueders are training in St. Moritz, Switzerland, for two World Cup events this weekend.
(Unable to play hockey or any other winter sport Alexi Portnoy is recently deported and finds himself in Mexico.His wife and children still seeking sanctuary in a Roman Catholic church in Marystown, NL. A man who makes pizza's for a living and supports his family simply just can't make it on the Canadian Olympic team. Joe Volpe minister of citizenship and immigration wants Gold for Canada in the 2006 Olympics in Turin,Italy rather then a united family in Marystown Newfoundland. Im sure Joe will get to view our bobsledding team at the winter games because he's going to have a lot of time on his hands after January 23rd. Joe,your going to be unemployed!BUT!not to fret Joe, cause Canada might bring home two Golds. One on monday with a change of government and one from Turin,Italy.)
9 comments:
I love you site. Thank you so much for supporting Alexi and his family. I would like to add, that while I am very happy for Mr. Brown on becoming a Canadian. I am also very angered at our Government. Not only are they heartless, cold, and corrup.They are being prejudice as well towards Alexi because his status as a Canadian will be that of the ordinary citizen. How sad is that??
Keep up the excellent work on your site!!!!
ITS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT MR MATTHEWS MIGHT NOT WIN TOMMOROW.YOU SHOULD BE SHAME OF YOURSELF AND ALL WHO WISH THIS FAMILY GETS TO STAY AND BREAK LAWS SHOULD BE TO.WHY DONT WE LET ALL THE TERORIST IN.THEN YOU BE HAPPY.YOU AND YOUR CONSERVATIVE CROOKS WILL LIKE THAT.I GUESS YOU DELETE THIS BEFOR PEOPLE READ IT.
Well i'm from the South West Coast and hope Bill doesn't win tommorow. Time for a good change i am personally voting for the NDP! Mr. Matthews hasen't done much since he has been in Ottawa anyway. Just as well forget about the liberals getting power this time, thats why the big liberals all bailed they saw it coming just like the PC's did with Brian Mulroney!!!!!
delete it you say? are you kidding?this is the greatest compliment i have seen posted on my blog since i started!imagine ,my blog might help bring down the most corrupt government in my lifetime.by portraying that family as terrorist and the party you no doubt support says a lot about you and your ethics.please feel free to reply and keep reading my blog.
"deliberately misled his country into the war in iraq and now wiretapping of his citizens without a court order. (impeachment) makes nixon lok like a saint." Wayne thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment, I would say by the comment that anyone wether it be a President, PM, citizen, or an immigrant they should obey the law of the land...correct. from what I have read regarding the Alexi Portnoy story he entered Canada under false pretences and was a convicted felon...correct me if I am wrong...under Canadian laws you cannot enter Canada if you are a felon without the Governments concent...is that correct...here again if you enter into Canada and are a felon without notifing them they have every right under the law of the land to jail and deport you correct...We can argue the point that Martha Stewart was being allowed in, but my guess is because of the law Ms. Stewart contacted the government and expressed her wishes, the reasons, and length of stay and that was why she was allowed.
most people that entered canada even as far back as the 19th. century were probably considered felons from the place they came from.back then we refered to it as the underground railroad and their crime in most cases was the color of their skin .their countries of origin today are half a world away but one time it was next door to us.
("Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.")
maybe it's time for you guys to get rid of that or at least change the wording.
("Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.") Wayne what does this and the underground Railroad have to do with the Portnoy case? We could go on and debate the underground railroad if you wish and how the black people who escaped to Canada contuinued to suffer....I see that and the immigration policies at that time, if there were any to be totally different than today....Did Portnoy enter Canada under false pretenses yes or no.
If the answer is yes then they the Canadian Government under the law of the land has every right to expell him wether the people like it or not, a country does not start changing its policies to benifit a few or just one individual, if a government starts doing that then there is no policy, nor or is there any law.
entering a country under false pretenses is usually the american way of doing things.(looking for WMD ex,)in this case someone is looking to build not destroy.
we just saw the government step in and allow another person to gain citizenship to bobslide on the canadain olympic team. the policy can be changed for one then i suggest it can be changed for two.
Wayne you are trying to use what another country does to justify what you think is right, you cannot justify your Governments decision based upon what the States has done in the past or what they may do in the future.
You have to look at your own immigration laws to make the justification on who gains citizenship. If you think these laws are unfair then get a campaign going to change or abolish them to fit what you feel is fair.
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