Calgary Tory candidate blames immigrants for crime

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9 t$ _) l, Z! W: {CALGARY — Another Conservative is in hot water over controversial comments — this time about immigrants.
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Both the Liberals and NDP are demanding that Lee Richardson resign or be fired as Calgary Centre candidate for suggesting that immigrants are prone to commit crimes.

. E& ~. L2 o7 I, R6 r  ^% Q: X- k. K“Look at who’s committing these crimes ... They’re not the kid that grew up next door,” Richardson told the Calgary newsmagazine Fast Forward Weekly.

“Particularly in big cities, we’ve got people that have grown up in a different culture,” he said.
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: a$ O2 N' t" j( T8 B7 g“And they don’t have the same background in terms of the stable communities we had 20, 30 years ago in our cities and don’t have the same respect for authority or people’s person or property.”
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+ o5 b, n- T# j6 X! R% p7 HRichardson later said he regretted his remarks and was referring to a “small minority” of people. But the opposition demanded his head.

( V3 ]6 w2 B4 ^& T( d" @“If prime minister Harper does not take action and fire his candidate, one can only assume he condones such attitudes,” said Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh.
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“It’s clear that the old Reform party view toward immigration is still alive and well in this Conservative party.”
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. |, N! x" j  ?8 b5 t% zLiberal Calgary Centre candidate Heesung Kim, herself an immigrant from South Korea, denounced the comments as “disturbing.”
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' ~7 ^! p+ ?/ d& @“To say that if you weren’t born and bred in Canada then you’re more likely to be a criminal is completely unbelievable,” she said.
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原帖由 luckylu888 于 2008-9-25 14:05 发表
+ z! E" Q: u0 x7 k5 qPlease call all your freinds in Calgary: don't vote this man!
CALGARY — Another Conservative is in hot water over controversial comments — this time about immigrants.
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Both the Liberals and NDP  ...