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It pains me to see so many people--not just in Chinese Canadian community, but throughout all ethnicities and demographics--take Canadian citizenship for granted. Being a Canadian citizen, having the right to exercise responsibilities that come with this citizenship, are a privilege. I look forward to the system becoming better at recognizing applicants who understand and want to contribute rather than to leech off and take advantage.

I'm a Chinese Canadian ???? girl and well yeah racist people exist here too sadly ?

There are more Brown countries then white if you go to a brown country then you will know what it feels like or black owned restaurant like checkers I'm white I applied for job at Checkers they told me it's black owned and operated we don't hire white people they're not subtle they come straight out with it it depends who's doing the hiring a black person will look out for a black person a white will look out for a white a Chinese would rather look out for a Chinese you're more comfortable with someone of your own all people in all Races do that you tend to look out for somebody that looks more like you it's a proven fact

I am an old bearded Caucasian with a cane who often shops at a Korean market in my area in downtown Vancouver. At one point they had a black security officer who would consistently follow me anytime I entered the store. I finally reached a point where I jokingly confronted him and told him if he insisted on following me I was going to get him to help me by carrying things. He never followed me again but we would always smile at each other and laugh when I came to shop. I believe his attitude was based on my appearance and perceived economic status rather then race.\nHaving said this I have also gone shopping at other Asian markets with my children, who are half Chinese, and been followed by the Caucasian security people while my kids were not.

A LOT of Chinese people are scammers.

I'm Latina and in my neighborhood which is literally only Latino and latino shoppers (owners are Chinese, Latino, Middle eastern) all Latinos get the side eyed. They should do the experiments in minority cities and see how we ourselves hold the same bias because we know our own people. Sorry I'm one of those that speak truth and I would understand why people have those stereotypes because they come from those that have experienced it

I come from an immigrant background. What I noticed qith Canadians is that they are way too soft and nice. The immigrants come here, take advantage of the system to get rich, especially the Chinese, their culture only values money. Why is it that I worry for the White Canadians more then they do for themself. You can fix these problems without being a biggot or being angry at the common people. Fix it systematically

A lot of legit Chinese people who appreciate the value of North America worked their asses off to come to Canada and the U.S, believing in fairness and uprightness. Yet, What we are trying to project is now severely sabotaged by Wang and Li, HUGE DISGRACE for the Chinese community!

White people think everybody is as honest as they are, its not true, some cultures, Indian,African and Chinese have no problems cheating the system.

Why do people apply for a citizenship while not wanting to live there? I really doubt that these Chinese people want to move to Canada ever. They don't even speak English. Is Canadian cititzenship a status symbol now in China? Like iphones or teslas?

Yea, but the immigrant ( all races) kids get far better grades in school, and that generation pays 30% tax every year of their 100k salary... They're the ones that gonna take this country into next century of technologically advanced world. Issue with economy starts with the family. If you have single parent family and social issues.. kids aren't gonna make it in this highly competitive world. Please go to Google, facebook, Microsoft. .. you'll see immigrants left right and centre. Lets face the facts, immigrant mentality is what builds a proper county. First generation immigrants are lost and weird and seems odd, second generation is the cream of the crop . Third slows down then 4th is basically are the ones complaining about the first generation. Solution is to use these people and figure out how they will help this county in the next 30 years, not tomorrow. Look at how Irish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Italian etc.. came as first gen immigrants (to this native land). Cold.. lost.. try to use their wits to survive in a colonial economy. That second generation built what we have now. Immigration is a god damn economical strategy man... Issue with homelessness, has nothing to do with immigration. Homelessness is related to addiction and mental health. Most immigrants don't suffer from homelessness because they have relatives that look after each other. 3rd generation+ Canadians (all races) lack that.. if you're 18 you are own your own, thats where that issue is with homelessness.

Well china doesn't agree on private property, chinese people need to hide their assets. If china ever collapses they will spread their parachutes to land on Canada

Just go in a Japanese and Korean and Chinese and middle eastern store's . Oh if you're black Rich or not they they profiling you because of race. But the funny thing is that Chinese and Japanese and Korean and middle eastern people still more than you know. Just go to their store's. Yes they jack up the price for what they buy at the dollar stores. Just go in the dollar store in Duluth Ga you see middle eastern people and Japanese and Korean and Chinese buying up stuff for a dollar and putting them in thier store's.

I'm muslim but i dont like the arabs muslim (not all arabs but mostly of them) becuz of the way they behave. They are refugees from their own country but they are disrespectful to their destination country. The arabs are not grateful with what they have been given from the other country. If They wanna be one of the majority community, then they have to be thankful and accept the culture of the majority community .They must be fluent and well spoken in english too. Not force the other people to accept their bad culture and not just think about the passport of the country they want to live in and get benefit from it. \n\nThose muslim country that are non arabs are living in harmony. They are much more better than the arab country. They treat their own people well. and open minded. They love to make their country more better and developed. \nBut the arabs love war .... abandon their own people struggling and dying for living...narrow-minded people...women abusing and have less the right...women cant drive...(what kind of that ideology)...This bad things isnt in non arab muslim country... They make our religion more become worse..if you heard about terrorist or that kind of the bad thing , its not the muslim..its about the arabs... we non arab muslims arent represent all of it... sad to be a muslim with this bad people...we are the white muslim, malay muslim, turkish muslim, middle asian muslim, chinese muslim, japanese muslim, etc. The non-arab muslim and Islam doesnt represent the arabs.

I don’t trust Chinese people they don’t have a etiquette.

It happened the same things in US I guess., how Chinese people come to US they are everywhere

This is done routinely by Chinese people. Similar situation in Australia. The vast majority of the Chinese 'businessmen' and officials registered barely spend a day in a year in the country they are supposedly ordinarily resident in. It's about preparing for the very real threat of when something goes awry back home or they fall out of favour with a honcho bigger than them they have an escape path and they can not be extorted with their families. For this, ultra-wealthy Chinese are more than willing to throw some money around by investing in unprofitable businesses, buying real estate or flat out handing some money to that country's government and go through the bureaucratic hurdles of committing fraud.

What killed me is she was eligible for the Working Poor Tax Credit. It goes to show how easy these rules are to exploit. Someone could sit down and calculate exactly what they need to make, how many children they need to have, what activities to pursue etc so they can gain access to all these tax benefits. Make the most money while paying the least tax. There was an article in the nation post about this which discussed Trudeau's statement that the poor do not pay tax. It is crazy the tax credits people get and it makes it so something like close to 40% of people do not actually pay tax. Its one thing when working canadian's benefit, but not Chinese business people who come here, buy a house, maintain their status under false pretenses, then get credits for being poor.

If the clients are Chinese people living in China, then why try to fraud Canadian citizenship?

We need to ban all Communist Chinese from coming to the west. They are our enemy state, their people are uncaring about Canada. They must be banned.

Remember we’re talking about Chinese people the only thing they know best is faking everything.so I am not surprised at all

Chinese and Indian people should be banned from entering other countries.

I am Chinese but I hate dodgy people!! The Canadian law seems weak ! If he did this in China, he might get sentenced for life or even death penalty

Perhaps the government can try to hire people who can read those Chinese newspapers to spot these fraudulent immigration consultants.\nOr give financial rewards to persons who helped to report these frauds to the police.

Every one of these Chinese people knew exactly what they were doing, they were not innocent victims, and these Canadian lawyers that are representing them should not be paid by the government, these lying cheats should be paying their own lawyer fees.

Most Chinese and East Indians are using fraud. Mostly to get people over here and especially the young that go on to American universities taking slots from citizens. They then get green cards and take jobs away from citizens. The other thing with Canadians and Americans is that for the last 40 years they have conditioned, especially whites, not to say anything about someone that is foreign or not white otherwise you're labeled as 'racist'. Canadians are incredibly naive and historically lenient

Man, a lot of agencies run by Chinese help their clients through these shady practices. I remember going through one of these agencies after university to see if I can get some government scholarships to furthur my education with hopes that it'll help with job prospects, and they advised me that they would pad my resume with bogus employment history in order to meed the scholarship requirements, and I noped out of there. I wonder what is it about China that encourages people to turn to scams/shady practices?

Lol chinese people do this throughout canada. Rent 1 /20th of a house and all driving nice cars. White people actually own a whole house and live with their family and drive regular cars.

Chinese people bad idea to used Canada! #ChinaCheatersMoney

Chinese will always fraudulate everything as they can, anywhere, around the world and includes in China. Business, immigration, culture, reports, unfortunately they are a kind of tricky and dominator bad culture... and will destroy the world if people don’t stop them ASAP.

The U.S a country of over 4 hundred millions people need to be more careful about these frauds because we have more than enough people now. I love to go out eat at the Chinese restaurant at least two to three every week, I don't know if anyone sees the way I saw their waiters and waitresses to me I have always see new people every time I go eat in there.

why Chinese people need a Canadian citizenship? china is growing than any another country, just out of curiosity

They are not immigrants, they are just buying a insurance policy illegally of course. Those people never wanted to live in this country, their optimal goal is buying a Canadian passport (in case of need) without even visiting Canada.\nMost reported Chinese Canadian immigrants are like this, I knew few, they visited Cananda maybe twice in the last 10 years, or some max once a year (for a two weeks summer holiday). They just have money, and they heard from guys like above they can just buy some rights.

to those people who are asking why they fined him 900,000 and left with 9 million. the reason because the money he made is Chinese money brought from Chinese clients and he did a favour by contributing 10million to the Canadian economy from Chinese money so I know he did fraud but in the same time he did great favour to the Canadian economy so that's why they jailed him only 2 years and fined 900,000$

I don’t get why you’d want to be a resident and care so much of a residency. In a country you don’t even want to live in. It just doesn’t make sense like what a waste of money and time. I mean you live in China and love China so much then stay in China, period. Wtf people love to complicate themselves and their lives. People love problems and difficulty. These rich Chinese I think were only buying property and helping skyrocket the real estate in Vancouver, that’s all they succeeded on.

Exactly happen in Australia, Chinese people are very dishonest.

i can tell you no chinese person is surprised that chinese people take advantage of canada.

I’ve been visited Vancouver a few months ago from Seattle. Before I was thinking why USA have so many Chinese but when I visited Vancouver I changed my mind because I thought “Here China or Canada ? I barely saw non Asian people

Unfortunately thats in chinese blood to cheat people, government etc

Deport him and all those illegal Chinese immigrants. Unfair for the other people (from other countries)who follow rules. They don't even speak and read English. Actually Its happening even in other major cities in Canada. That's a very light sentence. For sure he will do it again.

even white people who live in canada are not canadians but europeans who came to americas, committed genocides and took over the land. At least Chinese are not massacring anyone

Why on earth hasn’t the man been deported? Seriously, except putting shame on Chinese immigrants, what has he contributed? \n\nIf people are disgraceful of being immigrants, deport them!!!

As a second generation son of Asian immigrants (Viet and Chinese parents), my parents had lived here for 7 years before they got citizenship and now these low moral Chinese scammers allow these uneducated people to illegally movebhere . This makes me so mad.

Stopped accepting mainland Chinese as immigrants for these people don't even have any patriotic semblance to Canada. Sick fake would be new citizens.

I'd live in Canada if granted a Permanent Residency Status. Chinese ruining it for other people *sigh*

What's going on here? How is this man acting bossy after all he's done? I live in China and believe me, you can't do this in China. You will be deported and everything you have will be seized without a single reason. How is he still in Canada? Why would the Chinese respect the Canadian gov't if you won't take actions on people who commit such crimes in the country?

Why not just deport all these Chinese people in Canada.

chinese people should only be allowed to make Chinese food when they come here.

That’s why I “HATE” Chinese people!! ?

1600 clients @ est. $10K/client = $16 million!!!!\nCRIME PAYS VERY WELL IN CANADA!!!!\ni've watched people of chinese nationality in richmond banks deposit $50K in $100 bills!!\nwhere's that money coming from????