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South African agricultural land prices have drop 32% between July and September 2018 following the ANC's marxist expropriation without compensation land policies - and led to a spike in emigration and the demand for 2nd passports.

A year after celebrating its 150 birthday, Canada appears to have lost control of its land border with the United States, with potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants and bogus asylum-seekers expected to enter the country in 2018. After a huge influx in 2017 of Haitians trying to avoid being sent back to Haiti by the U.S., this year substantial numbers of Nigerian and Central American citizens are walking across the Quebec border and demanding asylum. The Quebec... government estimates that more than 400 people could be crossing the border per day this summer, compared to 250 in 2017. Of course, this is only in Quebec, so the overall numbers could be much larger. At this rate, Quebec should see an influx of about 150,000 ‘asylum’ seekers and the whole of Canada probably double that, or about 300,000, equal to Canada's official immigration numbers. Reception facilities, housing, medical and social services are stretched to breaking point and the frustration at this abuse of Canada’s traditional welcoming culture is running high among Canadians. Add to this the resentment felt by the hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants who have been on waiting lists for years and who have spent thousands of dollars to apply for residence visas. With the Liberal Party refusing to close the loophole in the Safe Third Country agreement with the U.S., it is sure that the government will be severely punished in the 2019 general election. Most Canadians welcome immigrants and appreciate multiculturalism, but do not agree with the liberal, George Soros-style ‘open-borders’ ideology and with policies that endanger Canada’s territorial integrity. Johann van Rooyen Political Analyst and Director of the Citizenship by Investment Research Consultancy www.residencycitizenship4investors.com

Justin Trudeau's calamatous Indian diplomacy Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just came back from an eight-day trip to India. The general perception is that Trudeau probably wishes he never went, following a disastrous experience which caused unmeasurable harm to the strong diplomatic ties between the two countries. This ranged from Trudeau getting involved in domestic Indian and separatist Sikh politics, to his outlandish ethnic outfits for each occasion, to being snub...bed by Prime Minister Modi until the last day. It was followed by a diplomatic storm with Trudeau accusing factions in the Indian government of sabotaging his trip and a damning response by the Indian government. Trudeau certainly won't be seen anywhere near India ever again, adding to his equally disastrous visit to China a few months earlier. A bit of historical perspective: In 1958 when Canadian PM John Diefenbaker visited India, officials debated the pros and cons of whether he should go on a tiger hunt, and they concluded that one of the cons was that the "Prime Minister could be eaten by tiger." After Trudeau's visit, the prevailing sentiment is more likely to be that in the latter’s case, being eaten by a tiger would have been a big pro. Johann van Rooyen 2018 see on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com//justin-trudeau-calamatous-indi/

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