tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26575621341929983042024-03-04T23:51:24.706-08:00Pioneers for CanadaProposal for a pilot pioneer project in Canada for refugees.Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-85840972646054674372017-02-07T06:25:00.000-08:002020-03-30T08:46:41.056-07:0021. Dignity for refugees<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Abstract</i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Resettling refugees
with their families in communities where they can keep their culture, their
language and bring their extended families and even friends and live a
dignified life as pioneers is a solution to the refugee problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just like pioneers of the past were not
expected to integrate and lose their language and culture, refugees of today
turned pioneers should also not be expected to integrate. They need to be
treated with respect and dignity and should not only be tolerated, but as well accepted
and appreciated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Countries that deny or greatly limit admission to refugees
seem on the surface to be inhumane. But when this “closed door” heartless policy
regarding refugees is seen in a long-term context, it can become easier to understand.
Just imagine finding yourself alone in Saudi Arabia as a refugee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Many people feel self-gratification by offering refugees
refuge and shelter in their countries. They believe that as long as refugees
integrate into their society, they can become immigrants and with time benefit
the country by becoming productive tax paying citizens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this is a very unrealistic possibility for
most of them. Many of them in the beginning do not wish to stay but rather
would prefer to go back to their families and friends and the homes they left
behind, as soon as it is safe for them to do so. </div>
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The harsh reality is that in the beginning, all of them end
up on welfare in a foreign culture where they cannot speak the language and are
looked down on, resented, despised and feared by the locals. They are separated
from their families and friends they left behind. Supported by welfare, with a guaranteed
roof over their heads, food and enough money for mobile phone, television, cigarettes,
and entertainment, they soon feel that they are better off staying than going
back home. They develop false hopes that if they stay long enough, they could
eventually get a job and bring their families over. </div>
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Unfortunately for most, they find themselves in a hole,
become hopelessly depressed and end up finding it too difficult to climb out of
and too easy to stay in. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most that successfully
flee their countries because of famine, war, or persecution are the most
capable and skilled and they are the people that the countries can afford the
least to lose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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One solution is to offer refugees “safe zones” in
neighboring countries where they can be closer to their homes, families and
friends they left behind and where they find themselves in a culture and language
less foreign and where they can easier return home one day. </div>
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Another solution is to resettle refugees with their families
in communities where they can keep their culture, their language and bring
their extended families and even friends and live a dignified life as pioneers.
This possibility is described in detail in the following posts in this blog. </div>
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Just like pioneers of the past were not expected to
integrate and lose their language and culture, refugees of today turned
pioneers should also not be expected to integrate. They need to be treated with
respect and dignity and should not only be tolerated, but as well accepted and
appreciated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The concept:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The concept is to have an
international cooperation to help refugees help themselves by allowing them and
helping them to resettle and integrate in a new land. As an example, Canada and
Switzerland are used. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is proposed that Canada, which
has plenty of unsettled lands with a potential to be used by tourists, reenacts
its homesteading laws to provide land. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is proposed that Switzerland ,
which has successful apprentice programs, organizes, manages and trains
communities of refugees to become successful pioneers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is proposed that private sector
and NGOs help the pioneers get started by providing them with material needed. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The goal:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The goal is to start a pilot project
to allow refugees which have a very negative connotation to become pioneers
which have a very positive connotation. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What I have done so far:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have documented these ideas
and published them on the internet so that they are available to read, to be
commented on, and to be promoted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have emailed an open letter with the link to the blog to European and Canadian universities and NGOs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have emailed an open letter with the link to the blog to all
the Canadian and Swiss politicians on provincial and national levels suggesting
that they fund a university study program to carry out a feasibility analysis
of such an idea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have emailed an open letter with the link to the blog to the editors of Canadian English daily newspapers.<br />
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<b>Win-win situation:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Canada can benefit by gaining
prestige, tourism and new productive citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Switzerland can benefit by gaining
prestige.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Private donors can benefit by
advertising their businesses.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This is a proposal
to start a pilot pioneer settlement in Canada for refugees. It is argued that
Canada can benefit from pioneers in much the same way it has benefited from
pioneers in the past - provided that homesteading laws of the past are adapted
for the present modern situation. Careful selection of refugees to guarantee
availability of skills, cooperative self-sufficient environment, modern
materials and machinery, friendly neighbors and existing infrastructure such as
railway lines and roads make homesteading much easier and less dangerous then
what it was in the past. The growing tourist industry and the rich forestry and
mineral resources of unsettled land in the north allow homesteaders a niche
market that can be exploited. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It
is not a question of whether it be profitable but rather</span> if <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it can be self-sustainable and offer
refugees and their children a dignified free life that we all deserve. </span>Canadians
are seen not willing to move to remote regions and face the hardships of living
and trying to make a profit in remote unsettled lands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many refugees on the other hand would be
thankful to be given a chance to do just that. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Refugees make the best pioneers. R</span>efugees, turned into modern
day pioneers to settle and open up Northern Canada for tourists, can offer
Canada a lot more than just international prestige.</i><br />
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<i>The proposal covers the concept and highlights the international cooperation
needed between EU countries, Switzerland, and Canada to implement such a
project. A location is proposed as well as the needed facilities, skills, and
tools, the needed financing and legislation, statistics and arguments for the
concept, scenarios of future pioneer settlements and other suitable locations
if the pilot project is successful. Finally a proposal is discussed to fund a
joint university program to convince the politicians to implement such a
project. </i></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><i>The 35 million Canadians living close to the USA
border in the south are unwilling to live in more remote areas further north.
These remote areas further north are rich with natural resources such as lumber
and attractive places for tourists. </i></span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><i><i>The
entire 5000km length of Canada, from east to west, borders on a
norther frontier which is undeveloped nature laced with rivers and
dotted by lakes in a virgin forest setting rich with wildlife. </i>There are many possible
locations for pioneer communities along roads and railway lines leading to
existing settlements that attract tourists. </i><br />
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<i>One example is near Thompson Manitoba, between Winnipeg and Churchill.
Churchill is situated along Manitoba's 1,400 km coastline, on Hudson Bay
at the meeting of three major biomes: marine, boreal forest and tundra, each
supporting a variety of flora and fauna. There is a growing tourism industry.
Each year, 10,000–12,000 eco-tourists visit, about 400-500 of whom are birders.
It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the shore from
inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname "Polar Bear Capital of the
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facilities that need to be built to house the pioneers when they arrive, as
well as the homestead houses. The construction uses local available lumber and
stone. Heating is by wood obtained locally and charcoal manufactured locally.
Insulation materials and windows are used to make the housing ecologically
efficient. The facilities are constructed by the pioneers. </i></span></div>
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it has necessary skill for self-sufficiency.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><i> It is not a question of profitability, but
rather of being able to live a dignified life in freedom. Nature rich in
natural resources provides the possibility to not only survive, but to live a
healthy life. Modern technology allows people to live in remote wilderness
safely and comfortably.</i></span></div>
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Switzerland and Canada are successful and prosperous countries thanks to their
immigrants. </span></i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><i>By treating refugees humanely, we are showing our
children by our example that we are all brothers ans sisters in the family of
mankind and have a responsibility to treat others as we would like to be
treated ourselves. We all have a worth and we can all learn from each
other. By including refugees in our communities, all gain a sense of
thankfulness. We become more aware and grow to appreciate more our own good
fortune to be able to help, instead of to rely on help. We realize that giving
is much more rewarding than getting. Refugees in our communities
allows us to live a life of love, compassion and tolerance rather than just to
preach it. </i></span></div>
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healthy self-sufficient lives. The internet provides people to gain the
necessary knowledge to live self-sufficiently off the land. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><i>It is the role of universities to offer solutions to
the politicians to solve problems. Both universities and politicians seem
to be sleeping at the wheel.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="">Für eine Zusammenfassung</span> </span></span><span style="color: red;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class=""><span style="color: red;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class=""><span class="" id="result_box" lang="de">des gesamten Blog </span></span></span></span>in deutscher Sprache</span>, </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="de"><span style="color: red;"><span class=""><span class="" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="">finden Sie in diesem</span> Post.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class=""><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="">Pour</span> un résumé </span></span></span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class=""><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class=""><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="">de</span> la totalité du blog en </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class=""><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class=""><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr">français</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>, voir ce post.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">This Post 14 contains a summary of this blog in English, </span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i><b><a href="https://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.com/2015/07/15-proposed-work-projects-for-pioneers.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Post 15. Proposed work projects for pioneers</span></a></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><b><a href="https://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.com/2015/07/16-proposed-reward-system-for-pioneers.html" target="_blank">Post 16. Proposed reward system for pioneers to motivate them to work without pay</a></b></i></span><br />
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<i>Working for someone else without a salary is not very
motivating. Working for yourself and your family without a salary is very
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<span style="color: red;"><i><b><u><a href="https://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.com/2015/07/17-proposed-training-for-pioneers.html" target="_blank">Post 17. Proposed training for pioneers</a> </u></b></i></span><br />
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<i><i>Switzerland can not only select the refugees with the
right skill sets to start a pioneer community, </i></i><br />
<i><i>pilot , but train refugees for the right skill sets they will need as
pioneers to be successful. </i></i><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><b><u><a href="https://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.com/2015/09/18-win-win-outcome.html" target="_blank">Post 18. Win-win outcome</a> </u></b></i></span></div>
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<i><i>All,
except for the dictators and the exploiting business, will benefit if
refugees are allowed to find their freedom as pioneers. </i></i><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><b><a href="https://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.com/2015/10/19-pioneers-for-russia.html" target="_blank">Post 19. Pioneers for Russia</a></b></i></span><br />
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<i><i>Canadian
and Swiss politicians are not yet ready or willing to share their freedom with the
people that many claim they helped to a great extent to be robbed of freedom. How
about Russian politicians? </i></i><br />
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<i><i><b><a href="https://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.com/2015/10/20-pioneers-for-world.html" target="_blank">Post 20. Pioneers for the World </a></b></i></i><br />
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<i>If you know of a place near where you live that is a worth-while tourist attraction site, but there are no facilities and roads or trails getting there. The reason why these gems are missing roads and trails leading to them is probably because the roads and trails would cost too much to build and are thus deemed to be not profitable in the short term. Here is where refugees turned pioneers can help you.</i></div>
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-10673567777453788492015-10-28T04:45:00.000-07:002020-03-30T08:29:48.265-07:0020. Pioneers for the worldSome people claim that anything that can be imagined, can come true.<br />
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Imagine the following:<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b>FREE LABOR:::WILL WORK FOR FREE:::FREE LABOR:::::::WILL WORK FOR FREE <br /><br /> If you know of a place near where you live that is a worth-while tourist attraction site, but there are no facilities and roads or trails getting there. The reason why these gems are missing roads and trails leading to them is probably because the roads and trails would cost too much to build and are thus deemed to be not profitable in the short term. <br /><br /> Here is where we come in to help you. <br /><br /> We are a group of hardworking lumberjacks, road builders, trail blazers, carpenters and mechanics. We are self sufficient and provide our own support personnel. We are Swiss trained and selected, and are proud of our Swiss quality, productivity and innovation. <br /><br /> We will build without any wages and we will use local natural resources like stone and lumber. We build trails, roads, wharfs, camping sites, cabins, and tourist facilities.<br /><br /> BUT there is a catch.<br /><br />We are not slave labor. We are pioneers who expect in the pioneering spirit to be left free to be owners of our labor and to be given a chance to become productive and taxpaying citizens.<br /><br /> "Just like pioneers before us, we will work like slaves if we can be free." </b></i></span><br />
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Now back to reality.<br />
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The world is watching and demanding a humane treatment for refugees. <br />
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Hopefully newly elected politicians who still believe they can make a difference in changing and improving the current situation will come up with an immediate dignified solution to this ever growing problem we are all facing.<br />
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Hopefully the politicians will soon fund a university studies program to evaluate the feasibility of setting up a pilot pioneer settlement. <br />
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<b><i>If you know of a place near
where you live that is a worthwile site to see, but there are no roads
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-86563148118303588602015-10-03T09:22:00.002-07:002020-03-30T08:28:38.219-07:0019. Pioneers for Russia<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>Abstract</i></div>
<i><i><i>Canadian and Swiss politicians are not ready to share their
freedom with the people that many claim they helped to a great extent to be robbed
of freedom. How about Russian politicians? </i></i></i><br />
<i><i><i> </i></i> </i> <br />
Russia, like Canada has vast amounts of unsettled lands that are rich in natural resources. It is, like Canada, an ideal place for refugees to find a dignified and productive life for themselves and for their children as pioneers.<br />
<br />
The proposal to start a pilot pioneer settlement in Canada with the help of the Swiss government was and continues to be almost totally ignored by Canadian and Swiss politicians, and by everyone else I sent it to. After half a year of no response, I am now attempting to reach the Russian politicians.<br />
<br />
Below is my letter to Russian Embassies and consulates in Canada and Switzerland.<br />
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<i>To whom it may concern</i></div>
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<i>I am a dual citizen of Switzerland and Canada and I have tried
to promote a proposal for a humane, dignified <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and immediate solution to the current refugee
problem that affects the entire world. My proposal is to help refugees to help
themselves. The main idea was to use unsettled land and to settle it with
refugees and to help the refugees pioneer and develop the land. As Canada has a
vast amount of unsettled lands, it is ideal for my proposal. I contacted Swiss
and Canadian politicians and introduced the proposal to them, which is
described in the blog found at:</i></div>
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<i><a href="http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/">http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</a>.
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<i>I asked the politicians to consider my proposal and if they
found any merit in it, to help me promote it for implementation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After half a year of trying and not getting
any meaningful feedback, I am realizing that I must look elsewhere. </i></div>
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<i>Russia is very similar to Canada as it also has a vast amount
of unsettled land rich with natural resources in need of development. It is also
an ideal land for my proposal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i>Having failed in my call to action to the Canadian politicians,
I would like to persevere and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>continue
my quest. In this light and with this hope, I would now like to ask the Russian
politicians to consider my proposal and if they find merit in it to help me
promote it for implementation.</i></div>
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<i>As I am not a Russian citizen, I cannot approach them
directly, so I am approaching Russian embassies and consulates and asking them
to help me reach Russian politicians. I humbly ask you to send this letter to
the appropriate people or to provide me with appropriate contact addresses.</i></div>
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<i>Any help you provide would be greatly appreciated. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i>Kind regards</i></div>
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<i>Andrew Vecsey</i></div>
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It is my hope that the recently acquired freedom of the Russian people is still fresh enough to be appreciated, cherished, and shared.<br />
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-38265209580575958932015-09-10T01:24:00.001-07:002020-03-30T08:28:10.030-07:0018. Win-win outcomeThe only immediate solution presently offered to refugees by
western governments is to save a few from their sinking rafts and offer
them temporary shelter.<br />
<br />
This proposal - to help refugees help themselves by offering them a long-term dignified solution to their hopeless and desperate situation - claims to be a win win situation for all. The only losers are the brutal dictators who will lose their most capable citizens who risk their lives to flee, and the big-businesses that will lose the dictators that allow them freedom to exploit their citizens and their land.<br />
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The long-term solution proposed in this blog is to offer refugees the opportunity to be pioneers and start a new dignified free life for themselves and their families.<br />
<br />
Switzerland is to provide management, training and transportation to settlements in Canada. Switzerland will benefit by reducing the number of refugees it commits to enter and support. The Swiss citizens will benefit by having cheap labor during the training period. <br />
<br />
Canada is to provide land for the settlements and laws for the homesteading. Canada will benefit by having cheap labor to open up the north for tourists. The local northern Canadians will benefit by the increase in the tourist industry, and the tourists will benefit by newly developed infrastructure built by the refugees. <br />
<br />
The refugees are to be guaranteed the rights of pioneers to be free owners of the results of their labors. They will eventually turn into productive free citizens. <br />
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<i>
</i>
Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-11588186718021115742015-07-05T20:41:00.000-07:002020-03-30T08:26:16.128-07:0017. Proposed training for pioneers<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<i>Switzerland can not only select the refugees with the right skill sets to start a pilot pioneer community, but train refugees for the right skill sets they will need as pioneers to be successful. </i><br />
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In order for the pilot pioneer settlement to be
successful, the refugees that want to become pioneers have to be trained. The
refugees selected to partake in the pilot pioneer settlement are carefully
selected according to the skills they already have. Much of the training is
done “on the job” at the communal center and on the homestead by “doing and
learning” with the guidance of pioneers and volunteers who are ready to share
their skills. The local native Indians teach the pioneers how to fish, hunt,
and use the locally available plants and herbs. Canadian businessmen teach the
pioneers how to manage their communal cooperative settlement. Volunteers, in
the spirit of “peace corps”,offer their services as teachers for other needed
skills as required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more trained the
refugees are, the more chance they have of becoming successful pioneers. </div>
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Canada and Switzerland have a great deal in common,
despite their superficial glaring differences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Both countries have a history of having successful immigrants. It is no
wonder that both countries are regarded and respected by the international
community as being tolerant, generous, and trustworthy. Both countries share similar
geographies, despite Switzerland being about 240 times smaller than Canada.
This makes it perhaps the best country to train the refugees for life as pioneers
in Canada. </div>
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Switzerland has a long and a high reputation for training
children of the world`s elite in exclusive private schools. Switzerland has
maintained, into the present, the time proven system of apprenticeship programs
to train their citizens. It is proposed that Switzerland promotes and subsidizes
their apprenticeship programs to train refugees for the following skills they
would need to succeed as pioneers in Canada:</div>
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<li>Mechanics</li>
<li>Healthcare providers </li>
<li>Cheese making</li>
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<li>Making roads</li>
<li>Making campgrounds </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Felling trees (lumberjacks)</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Lumberyard working</li>
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<li>Gravel and stone workers </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Tourism industry </li>
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Once there are a sufficient number of skilled pioneers,
the pioneers can take over the job of training any newcomers that need to be
trained.</div>
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Canada and Switzerland despite their obvious differences have a lot in common. They can work together to provide a dignified solution to many refugees.</div>
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Links:</div>
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<a href="http://country-facts.findthedata.com/compare/31-180/Canada-vs-Switzerland" target="_blank">http://country-facts.findthedata.com/compare/31-180/Canada-vs-Switzerland</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-66568422416655702382015-07-03T02:53:00.000-07:002020-03-30T08:25:41.238-07:0016. Proposed reward system for pioneers to motivate them to work without pay<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<i>Working for someone else without a salary is not very motivating. Working for yourself and your family without a salary is very rewarding. </i></div>
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Escape from persecution, war and famine and the search
for freedom in a new land is one of the main reasons for refuges wanting to becoming
pioneers. Another reason for many is the freedom to work and prosper with the hope
of being able to help their family members and their friends left behind. Many
also have high hopes of eventually becoming wealthy. Providing basic facilities
for tourists seeking wilderness will not get anyone wealthy, no matter how hard
they work. But with enough time and dedicated work, serving tourists can grow
into profitable family owned businesses. </div>
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The question arises as to how homesteaders could be
motivated to work without pay.</div>
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In the very beginning, the new pioneers are members of a
communal community, living in a communal center. The communal center is set up
as a non-profit organization working as a cooperative. Any profits are handled
and managed by this organization and are used to grow their community, to set
up new ones, to pay off any loans, and to sponsor new refugees to become
pioneers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Homesteaders receive building
materials from the communal community. They work without pay to support and
grow their community and to further develop their homesteads to be
self-sufficient. Once the pioneers are assigned homesteads, they spend more
time working on their plot of land and less time working on communal projects. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their work remains unpaid. </div>
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It is recognized that people need motivation and
incentives to work without pay. The main motivation comes from the guarantee
that they are working on land that they will eventually own. Once the facilities
are built for paying tourists, incentives need to be given so that the pioneers
continue their hard work to ensure that they have more and more tourists to
serve. Because the money received from the tourists are paid to the community,
incentives to motivate the homesteaders to work hard and satisfy tourist so
that they return and recommend their friends to come is in the form of merit
points.</div>
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Each homesteader is responsible to serve tourists that
are accommodated on their plot of land. The amount of merit points that they
receive are determined by the following: the number of tourists that they
accommodate and the quality of the feedback the tourists provide. With
accumulated merit points, the homesteaders can sponsor relatives and have free
time for paid vacations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Homesteaders who have become citizens can sell their
homesteads and family businesses to anyone who is willing to join this
non-profit cooperative and abide by its rules. </div>
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-29135602885887505812015-07-01T07:20:00.000-07:002020-03-30T08:24:56.022-07:0015. Proposed work projects for pioneers<i>Abstarct:</i><br />
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<i>Pioneers can build trails, roads, campgrounds, tourist facilities and offer tourist activities. </i><br />
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Once the pioneers have a homestead, they can move from the
communal center, and work on clearing their plot of land. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pioneers who are still living in the
communal center waiting for their homesteads to be built work on community
projects like the lumberyard, gravel pits, stone cutting plants, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>community farms and greenhouses and the
construction of homesteads. They provide the homesteaders with products like food and building
materials. </div>
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The homesteads are built on plots of land carefully
chosen to be attractive to develop for tourism. As the pioneers move into their
homesteads, they clear the land and provide the communal center with raw
products such as timber for the lumberyard, stone for the stone cutting plants
and rock and gravel. They are not paid for the work they do. They work on their
own land and invest with their labor for the promise of benefiting financially from
it from the tourist industry they help develop. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Building materials such as timber and gravel
are supplied by the communal community. Local, provincial and federal governments
provide support in the form of training, guidance, management and machinery. These
governments benefit from free labor to build facilities and infrastructure for
the tourist industry that will eventually pay taxes. </div>
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Trails for hikers and horses are constructed to tourist
attractions like waterfalls and scenic outlooks. The first trails built are along
the shores of lakes where supplies are brought in by boats. Campsites are built
along the trails on the shore and eventually cabins are built for the tourists.
Facilities such as wharfs, beaches, swimming areas, and boating facilities are
built to allow tourist to fish and enjoy the nature. Further trails are built
going inland to tourist attractions such as waterfalls and viewpoints. </div>
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The trails are eventually widened to allow mountain bikes
in the summer and snowmobiles in the winter. Dirt roads close to the trails going
around the lake are built next.<br />
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-38562871642481308992015-06-22T11:01:00.000-07:002020-03-30T08:23:17.750-07:0014. A call to action<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Proposal for pilot pioneer community for refugees</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /> <i>Abstract<br /><br />It is argued that Canada can benefit from pioneers at present in much the same way it has benefited from pioneers in the past. Careful selection of refugees to guarantee availability of skills, cooperative self-sufficient environment, modern materials and machinery, friendly neighbors and existing infrastructure such as railway lines and roads make homesteading much easier and less dangerous then what it was in the past. The growing tourist industry and the rich forestry and mineral resources of unsettled land in the north allow homesteaders a niche market that can be exploited. This paper highlights the international cooperation needed between EU countries, Switzerland, and Canada to implement such a project. Locations for the project are proposed, as well as needed facilities, skills, tools, financing and legislation. Scenarios of future pioneer settlements and other suitable locations if the pilot project is successful are proposed. </i><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">A call for action</b><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">Whenever we cannot turn our eyes away from masses of children and women who are dying as a result of natural catastrophes, starvation, war and persecution, and are forced to watch them die a slow and painful death, then and only then do we react on mass to save them. And once they are saved, then we feel good and we forget about them. That has been our reaction to the thousands of refugees that we see on crowded poor equipped boats landing on the shores of Europe. There is a lack of will to find immediate solutions to help these refugees help themselves to obtain the dignity and freedom they are risking their lives to find. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">Many people believe that the refugees are a threat to their culture, their religion, their jobs and their social welfare. Some even regard them as lazy criminals. Too many politicians favor freedom of corporations to make profits over freedom of normal people to live dignified lives. Too many brutal dictators keeping their citizens hostage are armed with weapons supplied by the very free countries that refugees are fleeing to. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"> After having tolerated and supported for decades brutal regimes in the name of freedom, we are now faced with the consequence of having to take responsibility to support citizens of these regimes who are risking their lives to escape from their repressive governments to look for a life of dignity and freedom. After having raped nature in the name of technology, tinkered with its genes in the name of feeding the hungry, used fields to grow fuel for machines instead of food for people, and dammed rivers to generate electricity instead of to irrigate crops, we are now faced with the consequence of having to take responsibility to support people fleeing starvation. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"> The people who are fleeing are young abled bodies ready to take risks for obtaining freedoms. They, like the pioneers of the past, provide a great potential for growth. A repeating wave of migration and immigration would be a win-win situation for many countries, as well as for all refugees - just as the proceeding wave of migration 100 - 300 years ago was. </span><br /><br /> <i style="color: #38761d;">"Refugee" carries a negative connotation, while "pioneer", a positive one. Refugees make the very best pioneers. </i><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"> The refugees who turned into pioneers in Canada in the past faced many dangers and hardships that refugees as potential pioneers at present would no longer face. In the past, homesteads were far from roads and railways and surrounded by a hostile native population. Now they would be built next to them with welcoming and supportive locals. In the past, homesteaders had to compete for the best lands to cultivate. Now they would cooperate to exploit its timbers, minerals, wildlife and a growing number of hunters, nature lovers and tourist. In the past, pioneers had to sell their products to customers far away. Now they have to provide services to arriving tourists. With modern materials, tools, machinery, communication, transportation and support facilities readily available, life of the modern pioneer would no longer be as hard and dangerous as it was in the past. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Project for a pilot pioneer settlement</b><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"> It is not a question if modern pioneers are able to compete in the markets and be profitable from the land they settle on, but rather, if they can survive on it and lead happy, dignified and free lives on it. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Aim:</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> To settle, develop and exploit lands in the northern parts of Canada that are near populated areas suitable and attractive for the tourist industry. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Participants:</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> Refugees trained by Switzerland to be pioneers in Canada who are willing and able to live a self-sufficient communal life for a few years until their community is established. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Aid:</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> Travel costs and training costs for refugees are subsidized and paid work is offered to allow the buying of tools and materials for the settlement. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Work:</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> Building infrastructure for the community. Building homesteads for the pioneers. Building industry facilities such as lumberyard and greenhouses for the community. Building tourist facilities such as trails, lodges, restaurants and gas stations. Working and providing services to local communities. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Contract:</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> After a certain time period, if pioneers have shown that they have worked their homestead with the parcel of land, and have applied and received Canadian citizenship, they are given a deed to that land. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Proposed financing of pilot pioneer project </b><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">Pioneers are encouraged to maintain their strong family values and to be self-sufficient. The local area benefits by being opened up and populated by hard working, thankful and dedicated workers and consumers. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Financing</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> is provided by philanthropists, cities, schools, clubs, friends, and individual donations. </span><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">It is expected that such a pilot pioneer project will receive wide media coverage. The media can subsidize the community by setting up a reality show showing how the community grows. A computer game can be developed similar to "SIM City" and "Minecraft" to build virtual pioneer communities. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Companies</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> can provide machinery and tools and are compensated by media coverage. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Local businesses</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> agree to buy products from the pioneer community at a fair price that is competitive. The pioneers have an great advantage over the rich in competing, as they can tolerate a lower profit margin. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Volunteers </b><span style="color: #38761d;">provide help like the help the Peace Corps projects provide. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">Refugees can be </span><b style="color: #38761d;">sponsored</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> by pioneer family members, once they move out of the communal building into their private homesteads. These sponsored refugees live in the communal building until they build their own homesteads. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Churches</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> that practice missionary work to spread the faith can sponsor refugees who are members of their church. Other churches and charities can provide financial aid. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">European countries and</span><b style="color: #38761d;"> Switzerland </b><span style="color: #38761d;">provide the refugees and train them to become pioneers and pay for their travel costs and the material for building initial communal infrastructure. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Canada </b><span style="color: #38761d;">provides the land and the guarantee that pioneers can keep their land and becoming Canadian citizens if they fulfill the necessary requirements such as working their plot of land and becoming self-sufficient within an agreed time-period. Laws are enacted to allowing pioneers to set up their communities. Loans and subsidies are provided to help pioneers build their own private homes and businesses. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Pioneers</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> are allowed to work as if they would be already Canadian citizens. They are paid and receive the same benefits as Canadian citizens. Part of their pay is deducted to pay for any loans and subsidies they get to help them build their own private homes and businesses. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">Pioneers can sell the products they produce, such as lumber, firewood, wood products such as fencing posts, playground equipment, wooden toys, stone products, cuttings from their greenhouse, animal products from the animals they raise, etc... </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">The new pioneers can provide various services such as gas stations, restaurants, tourist accommodations, high security prison, make trails for horseback riding and hiking in the summer and skiidooing and X-country skiing in the winter, boating, fishing, hunting, wood products (lumber for building, pulp for paper and fire wood). </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Self-sufficiency in the pioneer settlement </b><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"> Nature provides all animals, including humans to live healthy self-sufficient lives. The internet provides people to gain the necessary knowledge to live self-sufficiently off the land. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"> Refugees, turned pioneers, must learn how to be self-sufficient in Northern Canada, with its harsh and long winters. Fortunately, the internet offers many sources from people and communities who have successful experiences they are willing to share their skills for us to learn. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">The internet with its rich source of knowledge, the modern materials and machinery and new micro-farming techniques make self-sufficient living off the land more and more attractive and doable. It not only provides us with cheaper and healthier local food, but frees us from dependence on corporations that use industrialized farming, distribution and marketing to provide us with food. </span><br /><br /> <b style="color: #38761d;">Proposed training for pioneers </b><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"> Switzerland can not only select the refugees with the right skill sets to start a pilot pioneer community, but train refugees for the right skill sets they will need as pioneers to be successful. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">In order for the pilot pioneer settlement to be successful, the refugees who want to become pioneers must be trained. The refugees selected to partake in the pilot pioneer settlement are carefully selected according to the skills they already have. Much of the training is done “on the job” at the communal center and on the homestead by “doing and learning” with the guidance of pioneers and volunteers who are ready to share their skills. The local native Indians teach the pioneers how to fish, hunt, and use the locally available plants and herbs. Canadian businessmen teach the pioneers how to manage their communal cooperative settlement. Volunteers, in the spirit of “peace corps”, offer their services as teachers for other needed skills as required. The more trained the refugees are, the more chance they have of becoming successful pioneers. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">Switzerland has maintained, into the present, the time-proven system of apprenticeship programs to train their citizens. It is proposed that Switzerland promotes and subsidizes their apprenticeship programs to train refugees for the following skills they would need to succeed as pioneers in Canada: farming, mechanics, healthcare providers, cheese making, chocolate making, constructing trails, making roads, making campgrounds, felling trees (lumberjacks), lumberyard working, building houses (Swiss Chalets), gravel and stone workers, tourism industry and setting up and running apprenticeship programs. Once there are a sufficient number of skilled pioneers, the pioneers can take over the job of training any newcomers that need to be trained. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Proposal for new “Homesteading” legislation for pioneers/refugees </b><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">A new homesteading law for refugees has to be very different from the homesteading laws of the past. The new laws, like the laws of the past have to guarantee that the pioneers, when they fulfill certain requirements of homesteading can be owners of their developed settlements and can become tax paying citizens. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">The requirements that pioneer must fulfil to become citizens are the following. Within a time frame of 3 years: pioneers must build a private house. They must demonstrate sufficient English or French language skill, self-sufficiency within the community and constant improvement to their plot of homestead land, clearing it of trees to sell the lumber and fencing it for grazing purposes. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">If pioneers are unwilling or unable because of illness to complete their homesteads, they must be fully supported by the community. Supported pioneers can if they want to and if they are able to return to the country they originally fled from if they can obtain the necessary visa and pay for their return fare. Supported pioneers can when they recover from their illness continue their homestead where they left off when they got sick. Or they can start from the beginning when they so desire. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Proposal for possible location for the pilot pioneer settlement </b><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">There are many remote places in Canada to homestead and support the tourist industry. It is envisioned that more and more tourists in the future will like to witness and experience a bit of Canadian wilderness and history. The 35 million Canadians living close to the USA border in the south are unwilling to live in more remote areas further north. These remote areas further north are rich with natural resources such as lumber, wildlife and attractive places for tourists. The entire 5000km length of Canada, from east to west, borders on a norther frontier which is undeveloped nature laced with rivers and dotted by lakes in a virgin forest setting rich with wildlife. There are many possible locations for pioneer communities along roads and railway lines leading to existing settlements that attract tourists. </span><br /> <br /><span style="color: #38761d;"> One example of a possible location could be near Thompson Manitoba, between Winnipeg and Churchill. Churchill is situated along Manitoba's 1,400 km coastline, on Hudson Bay at the meeting of three major biomes: marine, boreal forest and tundra, each supporting a variety of flora and fauna. There is a growing tourism industry. Each year, 10,000–12,000 eco-tourists visit, about 400-500 of whom are birders. It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the shore from inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname "Polar Bear Capital of the World". </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">The road from Winnipeg to Churchill ends at Thompson. Thompson has a road and a railway to Winnipeg. It has a population of 13,000. It is referred to as the "Hub of the North", serving as the regional trade and service center of northern Manitoba. Thompson is located 739 km north of the provincial capital of Winnipeg, and is 396 km (246 mi) northeast of Flin Flon. Thompson has a population of 13,123 residents, which also serves as a trade center for an additional 50,000 to 65,000 Manitobans. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Scenarios of what can follow the “pilot pioneer project”. </b><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">Once the pioneers complete the requirements to be Canadian citizens and become proud owners of their settlements, they are no longer pioneers. It is foreseen that many would like to sponsor their relatives to immigrate to Canada. This should be encouraged as the main point of this project is to help refugees help themselves. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">The road to Thompson, the proposed location of the pilot pioneer project is almost 800km long. Additional pioneer homesteads can be set up along the road to exploit the lumber along the way and open the road up for tourists. If a settlement is started at every 20 km, there could be as many as 40 such settlements on that road. With each settlement housing 1000 -2000 settlers, 40,000 – 80,000 refugees can be helped to start a new life of freedom and opportunity just along this road. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Facilities to be built before pioneers arrive: </b><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">All facilities are built by the free labor provided by the pioneers using mainly locally available materials - wood and stone. The buildings are built with the minimal costs possible. They do not have a basement. As the buildings are built, the trees are cut down for the lumber and the land is cleared of stones. These lumber and stones are the main building materials used for the buildings. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #38761d;">Community communal housing</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> is built with 40 private rooms to house 80 pioneers. This house is available for pioneers newly arriving and is used by them until they have built their private homestead houses. The communal house has 3 floors. The 1st and 2nd floors each have 20 private rooms, and 2 bathrooms, one for men and one for women,. Each bathroom has toilets, sinks and a shower. The ground floor has the rooms that are shared. Kitchen, dining room, laundry room, drying room, play room for children, entertainment room, communication room with library and internet and a smoking room, </span><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">The heating is centralized heating fueled by wood. The ovens in the kitchens are fueled by wood. Electricity for lighting and TV/radio/computer is generated by diesel motors supplemented by solar panels. Water is heated by water heating panels on roofs. <br /><br />2 pioneers share a room with 2 beds, a table, 2 chairs, shelves and cupboards. Each room has a double pained window with a screen. The window can be tilted open. There is a white shade on the outside to keep the room cool in the summer, and a black shade on the inside to absorb the sun and keep the room warm in the winter. Adjacent bathrooms with toilets sinks and showers are shared. <br /><br />Children sleep in the rooms of their parents, or alternatively they can share a room furnished as a dormitory for the children. There is a room where children can play. <br /><br />There is a room furnished as an infirmary room. <br /><br />Wireless internet access is available via satellite. The internet access is a very important facility as it provides cheap communication to their native country with family members of the pioneers as well as cheap banking (ie. Bitcoin), a digital library for cheap learning, cheap entertainment, etc.... <br /><br /><b>Common facilities</b> for the community include a lumberyard where wood cutting and splitting provide building material for houses and fuel for heating them and for cooking and selling to Thompson. A stone working shed is provided for cutting stone. A water tower is provided to store water. A community sauna is provided. Sheds are provided to house diesel generators for electricity to charge batteries and for emergency power, as well as for the tractors and cars. Once the common facilities are built, the pioneers can then build all the other facilities they need, such as: workshops, green houses, and barns for animals like cows, pigs, and chickens. <br /><br />As a next step, the community can build business facilities such as: a gas station, motel type accommodation for tourists, kiosk for tourists, and tourist center to advertise facilities and events in Thompson and Churchill. <br /><br />Once all the communal facilities are built, all pioneers help each other build private houses for families and block apartments for singles. Should singles form partnerships and families, they can trade their apartments for houses. When pioneers move out of the communal house, their places are taken by newly arriving pioneers. <br /><br /><b>Private houses</b> are standardized. Thick wooden walls and floors are the main forms of insulation. The wooden beams are supported by stone pillars. There is no cellar and the pillars are the foundation. The ceilings are low to keep the rooms warm in winter. The kitchen with the fire stove is placed in a room extension so that it can be isolated from the house in summer to keep the other rooms cool. As well the chimney pipe is isolated in the summer. In winter, the isolating walls of the kitchen extension can be easily added and the isolating tubes around the chimney pipe can be removed so that they can heat up the entire house. There will be an attic with a vent going up to the attic or to the outside to vent warm air from the rooms. Lighting is LED and powered by batteries charged by solar panels. <br /><br />The community at the end should be limited to 200 people all living in their own private houses. When that point is reached, a new adjacent community can be started. 10 adjacent communities form a settlement with a population of 2000. <br /><br />When a settlement is finished, a new location is chosen and a new settlement is started for new arriving pioneers. As the private plots of land are cleared, the lumber is sold. <br /><br /><b>Proposed people and their tools selected for pilot pioneer project. </b><br /><br />People selected for the pilot pioneer community project are selected for their skills as needed to form a functional and self-sufficient community. Extended families of 3 generations (grandparents, parents and children) are encouraged. The numbers are limited to: 20 single men, 20 single women, and 20 families. <br /><br />The 80 adults have amongst them the following skilled workers for communal work: health care workers, nurses, doctors, teachers, cooks, bakers, cheese makers, butchers, tailors, farmers, gardeners, beekeepers, carpenters, mechanics, stone cutters/ bricklayers, people with computer skills, English speaking and writing skills, driving skills, fishing skills, candle making and soap making skills, Should families bring with them grandparents, the grandparents would help the parents take care of the children. <br /><br />Each capable working adult is expected to work 8 hours of communal work 5 days a week with 3 weeks of holidays. Communal work includes taking care of the sick members, teaching, baking, preparing dairy products, setting traps for hunting, slaughtering the animals and harvesting their hides, sewing and repairing cloths, farming, gardening, making honey, carpentry, maintaining machinery, driving, cutting down trees, sawing them in boards, logs and splitting the logs. <br /><br />Second-hand tools are provided, such as tractors, cars, saws, log splitters, grain grinders, washing machines, sewing machines, shovels, hammers, kitchen appliances, electric generators. Mechanics are trained to maintain and repair the second-hand tools. <br /><br />Pioneers all work together to build private houses and apartment blocks. They are given a loan for any materials they need. Once the pioneers have their own private houses, they no longer need to do communal work. They can work outside the community and/or set up businesses for the pioneer community. <br /><br />New arrivals live communally and build communal facilities and private homes for their community. <br /><br />Settled pioneers of a community work their own land and work their own businesses. Once they meet the requirements of homesteading, they receive their Canadian citizenship and deeds to their homesteads. <br /><br /><b>Proposed work projects for pioneers </b><br /><br />Pioneers can build trails, roads, campgrounds, tourist facilities and offer tourist activities. <br /> <br />Once the pioneers have a homestead, they can move from the communal center, and work on clearing their plot of land. The pioneers who are still living in the communal center waiting for their homesteads to be built work on community projects like the lumberyard, gravel pits, stone cutting plants, community farms and greenhouses and the construction of homesteads. The provide products like food and building materials. <br /><br />The homesteads are built on plots of land carefully chosen to be attractive to develop for tourism. As the pioneers move into their homesteads, they clear the land and provide the communal center with raw products such as timber for the lumberyard, stone for the stone cutting plants and rock and gravel. They are not paid for the work they do. They work on their own land and invest with their labor for the promise of benefiting financially from it from the tourist industry they help develop. Building materials such as timber and gravel are supplied by the communal community. Local, provincial and federal governments provide support in the form of training, guidance, management and machinery. These governments benefit from free labor to build facilities and infrastructure for the tourist industry that will eventually pay taxes. <br /><br />Trails for hikers and horses are constructed to tourist attractions like waterfalls and scenic outlooks. The first trails built are along the shores of lakes where supplies are brought in by boats. Campsites are built along the trails on the shore and eventually cabins are built for the tourists. Facilities such as wharfs, beaches, swimming areas, and boating facilities are built to allow tourist to fish and enjoy the nature. Further trails are built going inland to tourist attractions such as waterfalls and viewpoints. <br /><br />The trails are eventually widened to allow mountain bikes in the summer and snowmobiles in the winter. Dirt roads close to the trails going around the lake are built next. <br /><br /> <b>Proposed reward system for pioneers to motivate them to work without pay </b><br /><br /> Working for someone else without a salary is not very motivating. Working for yourself and your family without a salary is very rewarding. <br /><br />Escape from persecution, war and famine and the search for freedom in a new land is one of the main reasons for refuges wanting to becoming pioneers. Another reason for many is the freedom to work and prosper with the hope of being able to help their family members and their friends left behind. Many also have high hopes of eventually becoming wealthy. Providing basic facilities for tourists seeking wilderness will not get anyone wealthy, no matter how hard they work. But with enough time and dedicated work, serving tourists can grow into profitable family owned businesses. <br /><br />The question arises as to how homesteaders could be motivated to work without pay. <br /><br />In the very beginning, the new pioneers are members of a communal community, living in a communal center. The communal center is set up as a non-profit organization working as a cooperative. Any profits are handled and managed by this organization and are used to grow their community, to set up new ones, to pay off any loans, and to sponsor new refugees to become pioneers. Homesteaders receive building materials from the communal community. They work without pay to support and grow their community and to further develop their homesteads to be self-sufficient. Once the pioneers are assigned homesteads, they spend more time working on their plot of land and less time working on communal projects. Their work remains unpaid. <br /><br />It is recognized that people need motivation and incentives to work without pay. The main motivation comes from the guarantee that they are working on land that they will eventually own. Once the facilities are built for paying tourists, incentives need to be given so that the pioneers continue their hard work to ensure that they have more and more tourists to serve. Because the money received from the tourists are paid to the community, incentives to motivate the homesteaders to work hard and satisfy tourist so that they return and recommend their friends to come is in the form of merit points. <br /><br />Each homesteader is responsible to serve tourists that are accommodated on their plot of land. The amount of merit points that they receive are determined by the following: the number of tourists that they accommodate and the quality of the feedback the tourists provide. With accumulated merit points, the homesteaders can sponsor relatives and have free time for paid vacations. <br /><br />Homesteaders who have become citizens can sell their homesteads and family businesses to anyone who is willing to join this non-profit cooperative and abide by its rules. <br /><br /> <b>Win-win outcome </b><br />The only immediate solution presently offered to refugees by western governments is to save a few from their sinking rafts and offer them temporary shelter.<br /> <br /> This proposal - to help refugees help themselves by offering them a long-term dignified solution to their hopeless and desperate situation - claims to be a win win situation for all. The only losers are the brutal dictators who will lose their most capable citizens who risk their lives to flee, and the big-businesses that will lose the dictators that allow them freedom to exploit their citizens and their land.<br /> <br /> The long-term solution proposed in this article is to offer refugees the opportunity to be pioneers and start a new dignified free life for themselves and their families.<br /> <br /> <b>Switzerland</b> is to provide management, training and transportation to the pilot pioneer settlement and can offset some of the costs by benefiting from the free labor during the training period. <br /> <br /> <b>Canada </b>is to provide land for the settlements and new laws for homesteading. Canada can offset some of the costs by benefiting from the free labor to open up the north for tourists. The local northern Canadians will benefit by the increase in the tourist industry, and the tourists will benefit by newly developed infrastructure built by the pioneers. <br /> <br /> <b>The refugees</b> are to be guaranteed the rights of pioneers to be free owners of the results of their labors and will eventually turn into productive free citizens. <br /> <br /> <b>Pioneers for the world </b><br /><br />Some people claim that anything that can be imagined can come true.<br /> <br /> Imagine the following:<br /> <br /> <i><span style="color: black;">FREE LABOR:::WILL WORK FOR FREE:::FREE LABOR:::::::WILL WORK FOR FREE <br /> <br /> If you know of a place near where you live that is a worthwile site to see, but there are no roads or trails getting there. The reason why these gems are missing roads and trails leading to them is probably because they are deemed to be not profitable. <br /> <br /> Here is where we come in to help you. <br /> <br /> We are a group of hardworking lumberjacks, road builders and trail blazers, and carpenters and mechanics. And we provide our own support personnel. We are Swiss trained and selected, and we will uphoald to the Swiss quality and productivity and innovation. <br /> <br /> We will build, "wage free", using all the local natural resources, trails, roads, warffs, campgsites, cabins, and tourist facilities.<br /> BUT there is a catch.<br /> <br />We are not slave labour. We are pioneers who expect, in the pioneering spirit, to be left free and alone and to be given a chance to become self-sufficient, productive and free taxpaying citizens.</span></i><br /> <br /> Now back to reality.<br /> <br /> The world is watching and demanding a humane treatment for refugees. <br /> <br /> Hopefully newly elected politicians who still believe they can make a difference in changing and improving the current situation will come up with an immediate dignified solution to this ever growing problem we are all facing.<br /> <br /> Hopefully the politicians will soon fund a university studies program to evaluate the feasibility of setting up a pilot pioneer settlement. <br /> <br /> <b>Conclusions </b><br /><br />In order to promote this idea, I have published it in a blog and invited about 3000 people to consider it and provide feedback. Of all the Swiss and Canadian politicians, Universities, NGO and special interest groups I contacted, I have received about 30 replies. That is about 1%. And most of those did not even take the time to read the blog. This clearly shows that there is no will of the politicians to address the refugee problem so as to provide it with a dignified long term and immediate solution. </span><br />
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I research to find university refugee study programs in
European, Swiss and Canadian universities, I was disappointed not to find any
that claimed to study humanistic programs with the aid to help refugees help
themselves to live dignified lives.
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I sent <b>140</b> emails to faculty members of universities in
Europe, Switzerland and Canada, and various international interest groups
concerned with refugees.<br />
<i><br />To whom it may concern,<br /><br />No one can deny that the increasing refugee problem the world is facing is very serious, and deserves serious attention from universities, whose role is to help solve problems. I humbly ask universities to take on this very difficult challenge of either incorporating or starting a study program to offer humanistic solutions that allow refugees to help themselves. <br /> </i><br />
<i>I propose that:<br /><br /> The sociology departments in universities integrate into existing programs or to start programs to find possible ways to immediately help refugees set up a self-sufficient community. <br /><br /> The universities should work in close cooperation. They should make a feasibility study concerning:</i><i> financing,</i><i>legalit and </i><i>administering of a pilot pioneer settlement for refugees in Canada.<br /><br />Once the feasibility study is completed, it will be submitted to: various philanthropists, charity organizations, and various governments that would be involved ( ie. Canadian, Swiss, and EU countries). <br /><br />The blog describing a proposed pilot pioneering settlement for refugees is found at: <br /><a href="http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/">http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</a><br /><br />Feedback and help in promoting this idea would be greatly appreciated. <br /><br />Kind regards<br />Andrew Vecsey</i><br />
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</span></span></span>Thank you for your thoughtful proposal, which I
read with interest. Unfortunately, there are no resources available at my
institute to pursue such a project. As it exclusively
entails research in and about Canada, whose refugee reception
problematique differs a great deal from that in Europe (and CH in particular),
it is also not likely that funding, either through the university or the Swiss
National Fund, can be procured. I am very sorry not to have a more positive
response at this time. I do wish you the best of luck with your important
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</span></span></span>Thank you for your inquiry. We suggest you
propose your ideas to the International Organization of Migration: <a href="http://iom.ch/cms/en/sites/iom/home/about-iom-1/contact-us.html" target="_blank">http://iom.ch/cms/en/sites/iom/home/about-iom-1/contact-us.html</a><br />
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</span></span></span>Thank you for your message and your interest in
the plight of refugees. Please note however that decisions concerning refugee
destining in Canada’s are made by the Federal Government. UNHCR is not involved.
In addition, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides mobility
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your work. I have forwarded your e-mail. The topic is very close to my heart
and I sincerely hope that you will find support for your ideas. Please let me
know if you require further guidance. I will think about what you have
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Realizing that without external funding of university
study programs, there was little chance of program being implemented, I sent
<b>1,132</b> emails to Canadian federal and provincial politicians and <b>1,574 </b>emails to
Swiss national and Kantonal politicians proposing that they fund a university
program to offer refugees with solutions of how they could help themselves find
the dignified free lives that they were risking their live to find for
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<i>Dear Canadian and Swiss politicians <br /> </i><br />
<i>I am a Swiss-Canadian citizen who has a great deal of concern and interest regarding the plight of refugees. I am disappointed to find out that despite the grave ever growing refugee problems the world is faced with, there are no current university programs offering an immediate long term humanistic solution where refugees are helped to help themselves lead dignified free lives. With politicians unable to solve this problem I hope to see more programs from Universities dealing with this problem. <br /><br />As a first step in finding a solution to this refugee problem, I propose that the government of Switzerland with the government of Canada take the lead and fund a university program to study the issue and recommend solutions for immediate long term humanistic solution to the refugees so that they can lead dignified free lives that we all deserve. <br /><br /> I have been working on a proposal I would like to submit for consideration. I have formulated these ideas in a blog at: <br /><a href="http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/">http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</a> <br /><br /> A proposal for a university study program to find immediate long term solutions for refugees is described on the blog at <br /><a href="http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/2015/05/proposal-for-feasibility-study-for-this.html#links">http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/2015/05/proposal-for-feasibility-study-for-this.html#links</a><br /><br /> Both Switzerland and Canada have very highly regarded reputations in the world. <br /><br />Only politicians, and their generous and open minded citizens, and their successful diplomacy can solve this world wide problem. Both Switzerland and Canada are the prime candidates to tackle this problem. <br /><br />I believe very strongly that refugees, turned into modern day pioneers to settle and open up Northern Canada for tourists, can offer Canada and Switzerland a lot more than just international prestige. <br /><br /> Thanking you in advance for your consideration and help in promoting my proposal. <br /><br /> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. <br /><br />kind regards<br />Andrew Vecsey</i><br />
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</span></span></span>Thank you for your email and for sharing your
creative thinking in regards to positive solutions for refugees. Were
only all our governments so humanistically inclined! I am afraid that we are not in a position to assist with your proposal however as you
are Canadian and focused on Canada it would seem to make more sense to be in
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</span></span></span>Thank you for your thoughts.<br />
Thanks for sending this to our office. I'll make sure to bring this to Minister
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</span></span></span>Thank you for sharing your ideas with us. Copied
below is a link to information about, including contact information for Ontario
Education Minister Liz Sandals. We recommend you get in touch with her on your
proposals.</div>
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</span></span></span>Thank you for your email. I’ve forwarded it to
David’s colleague Kathy Corrigan as she is the Opposition Spokesperson for
Advanced Education. You may also want to be in touch with the Minister of
Advanced Education, Andrew Wilkinson. He can be reached here: <a href="mailto:andrew.wilkinson.mla@leg.bc.ca"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">andrew.wilkinson.mla@leg.bc.ca</span></a>
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to some federal politicians in BC such as the MP for Vancouver-Quadra, Joyce
Murray: <a href="http://joycemurray.liberal.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://joycemurray.liberal.ca/</span></a>
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</span></span></span>While your proposal appears to have merit, I
feel the the approach of Government to Government is unnecessarily difficult.
Too much bureaucracy and politics. If you were to approach Universities
directly, one of them may be interested. If so, that university could work with
a Swiss university and they could collaborate on a joint program that may have
considerable appeal to students. Any funding, at least in Canada, would
come from Government grants, university investment and tuition. Good luck
with your proposal and feel free to contact me again. </div>
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9. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thank
you for your email regarding Canada’s refugees. I appreciate you taking
the time to voice your thoughts and concerns on the subject and
providing your proposal.<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";"> </span>Please know that your concerns have been received, considered and will be reflected upon.<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";"> </span>10.</span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";"> </span></span>On behalf of The
Honourable Greg Selinger, Premier of Manitoba, I would like to thank you
for sharing your proposal for a university program to study issues
related to refugees.<br />
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We appreciate your
thoughtful concern for this important global issue. As it appears your
proposal would entail collaboration between two levels of governments,
we encourage you to consider contacting Canada’s
federal government. If you have questions related to the Province of
Manitoba’s educational institutions, please contact the Honourable James
Allum, Minister of Education and Advanced Learning. Once again, thank you for writing to Premier Selinger.<br />
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11. Thank you for your email of June 16, 2015, outlining your proposed refugee strategy.<br />
The settlement and
integration of immigrants to Canada is a shared area of responsibility
between federal and provincial governments. Citizenship and Immigration
Canada (CIC) provides funding to all provinces
and territories to deliver federal settlement and integration programs.
Refugees come to our province as permanent residents and are entitled
to government services and programs that are available to all
residents.<br />
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From a
post-secondary perspective, Memorial University, our province’s only
university, has autonomy with respect to its operations. This includes
programming and collaboration with governments and universities
in other jurisdictions. Given the province’s constitutional powers, as
well as priorities under our existing immigration strategy, further
review of your proposal is not feasible at this time. For your
information, I have included links to our immigration
strategy - <a href="http://www.nlimmigration.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.nlimmigration.ca</a>, and our recently released population growth strategy -
<a href="http://www.gov.nl.ca/populationgrowth" target="_blank">http://www.gov.nl.ca/populationgrowth</a>.<br />
Thank you for your interest in our province.<br />
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12. I have reviewed your email regarding your proposal for a university
program established and funded by Switzerland, Québec and the Canadian
government to address the issue of refugees, which you sent to the
Minister of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion, Kathleen Weil, on June
14, 2015. She has asked me to reply.<br />
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Promoting the full
participation of refugees in community life is a major challenge. For
years, our ministry has been actively working to that end with various
partners in the Québec regions. The different efforts are all in line
with the Government of Québec’s Plan d’action du gouvernement du Québec
pour l’accueil et l’intégration des personnes réfugiées sélectionnées à
l’étranger – 2013-2016 (2013-2016 action plan for the reception and
integration of refugees selected abroad), which can be found at the
following address:
www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/publications/fr/divers/PLA_AccueilRefugies2013-2016.pdf<br />
The government services for refugees under state care include reception, settlement, financial assistance and francization.<br />
Moreover,
the Government of Québec is currently preparing a new policy on
immigration, participation and inclusion, along with an action strategy.
It should be noted that a number of experts from the university
community were consulted during the development of this new policy. To
find out more, you can consult the documents filed during the public
consultations, held between December 19, 2014 and February 10, 2015 by
the Committee on Citizen Relations, at the address below:
http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/travaux-parlementaires/commissions/CRC/consultations/consultation-363-20141219.html<br />
As for your request for the funding of a university
program, I suggest that you contact Québec’s Ministère de l’Éducation,
de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, one of whose
responsibilities is the Fonds de recherche du Québec.<br />
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you for your email regarding Canada’s refugees. I appreciate you taking
the time to voice your thoughts and concerns on the subject and
providing your proposal.<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";"> </span>Please know that your concerns have been received, considered and will be reflected upon.<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span>Thank you for submitting this interesting
proposal that seems to be fueled by a truly humanistic attitude - an attitude
I do really miss in many of the rather militaristic proposals made as how to
solve the current refugee crisis of the Mediterranean. I would like to point
you to an institution that might be a better or at least more suited partner
for such a collaboration of universities as you are proposing than the
university of Bern: The Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies
(SFM). The SFM is a research and training institute at the University of
Neuchâtel: <a href="http://www2.unine.ch/sfm/page-10694_en.html" target="_blank">http://www2.unine.ch/sfm/page-10694_en.html</a></div>
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politician of the Canton of Bern. But in my party there are some national
politicians and I forward your mail to them - hoping you will become an answer.</div>
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Schneider-Ammann and Mrs. Simonetta Sommaruga, we thank you for your messages
concerning the project of creating a study program dealing with refugees
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</span></span></span>We are very much aware that these issues are
multiple and referring to different aspects of our societies. In this regard,
every innovative solution should be taken into consideration and examined.
Concerning particularly the creation and the funding of a study program, we can
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educational responsibilities lie mainly within the cantonal, only to some
degree within the federal authorities. Particularly in higher education,
each canton is autonomous and exclusively responsible for its university or
higher education institutions. In this regard, the decision to create a
new study program belongs to the university or to the institution itself. At
the federal level, both Federal Institutes of Technology (ETHZ and EPFL) are
also autonomous in offering study programs. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Concerning the funding of study programs, the
Swiss Confederation already grants federal subsidies to cantonal universities
based on the "Federal Act of 1999 concerning the financial aid to the
universities". <a href="http://www.sbfi.admin.ch/themen/hochschulen/01641/index.html?lang=fr" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.sbfi.admin.ch/themen/hochschulen/01641/index.html?lang=fr </span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Within the basic contributions the Confederation
finances the regular budget of the universities. Within the project-related
contributions special cooperation or innovation projects can be funded. The
universities can apply for this kind of contributions by presenting their new
projects. In this respect, we therefore suggest that you
contact directly the universities or higher education institutions in order to
present your concrete proposal. We
hope this information will be useful for you and if you have any question, do
not hesitate to contact us.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>You
figure out some very interesting points and I will send the link to your blog
to some colleagues from parliament. I wish you good luck and hope that you can
contact and convince some Canadian politicians!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thank you so much for your important work!<br />
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6.<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Thank you</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> for your E-Mail
<span style="color: black;">enquiry </span>of the 11 of June 2015.<span style="color: black;">
</span>The Governing Council of the Canton Bern has considered the issues that you raise<span style="color: black;"> and your specific proposal.
</span> <span style="color: black;">We can </span>respond to your enquiry as follows:
</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The issue of refugees requires global cooperation and coordination<span style="color: black;">,
in Europe this need is reinforced by the present crisis. Emergency
action is currently being taken in various European countries including
Switzerland to accommodate the heightened number of displaced persons
and refugees.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">On a more long term level towards which your proposal is aimed, it is f</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">irst
and foremost the UN<span style="color: black;"> and in particular</span> UNHCR and the International Organization of Migration
<span style="color: black;">that are tasked to </span>devise
internationally oriented solutions. They can then make recommendations
to governments. Presumably you have already been in contact with the
organizations mentioned above.
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">As you know, the situation in Switzerland is very different from that in Canada.
<span style="color: black;">According to the information available to us, </span>Canada
takes in around 10,000 refugees each year through programs in countries
of initial reception. In addition, Canada received around 14,000 asylum
applications in 2014 from people
who travelled there independently. In contrast, Switzerland received
around 30,000 applications in the same year from people who had
travelled here independently. In line with a quota, Switzerland also
decided to take in a further 3000 refugees from Syria.
Furthermore, 4600 visas were issued to Syrian citizens who may now
travel to Switzerland without necessarily applying for asylum here.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Your proposal as outlined on the website
<a href="http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/" target="_blank">http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</a>
recommends the provision of vacant land in Canada for settlement by
refugees as homesteaders, modelled on the original settlement of the
country between the 18<sup>th</sup>
and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries by immigrants from Europe and other
parts of the world. It is of course the exclusive right of the Canadian
government to answer the question whether such land could be provided
in the first place.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In
addition, your proposal foresees the selection of refugees seeking
asylum in Switzerland or other European countries as participants in the
pioneer
project. This idea poses a fundamental problem: Unlike immigration
policy, which allows for a sovereign state to set criteria for selecting
individuals that can obtain a permit of residency, international law
regarding refugees foresees as the only criteria
for the granting of asylum whether a person is in need of protection.
In short, asylum cannot be granted based on suitability, skills or
abilities of the person seeking protection.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Furthermore,
you propose the setting up of a pilot pioneer settlement in Canada.
Again, only Canadian government on Federal or State level or private
land owners in Canada can answer the question whether land for such a
settlement could be made available. However, if someone would set up a
community to test the feasibility of self-sufficiency in the geographic
area that you propose, any interested researcher
or research group in a discipline such as social science, ethnology,
human geography or ecology, based at a Swiss, Canadian or any other
research institution, could submit a research proposal for accompanying
research to one of the research funding bodies
(i.e. the Swiss National Science Foundation). If such a proposal
successfully passes the peer review process, it could be funded.
Research at Swiss Universities is generally funded according to this
system and the Government of the Canton of Berne generally
does not impose research subjects and projects onto its University
researchers. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">W</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">e would like to emphasize that
<span style="color: black;">researchers at </span>the University of Berne <span style="color: black;">
are indeed active in research regarding</span> the different aspects of migration in
<span style="color: black;">various</span> projects<span style="color: black;"> and in teaching programs.
</span> <span style="color: black;">Aspects of the complex problems of migrations are in particular examined by the disciplines of h</span>uman
<span style="color: black;">g</span>eography<span style="color: black;">, social anthropology, s</span>ociology<span style="color: black;">
and law. Applied research as well as teaching on land use and food
production form part of the core mission School for Agricultural,
Forest and Food Sciences at the Berne University of applied sciences.
Researchers at these public institutions can be freely contacted
concerning specific ideas or research questions. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We hope that this information is helpful to you.</span><br />
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<u><b>Open email sent to newly elected Swiss and Canadian politicians in October 2015. </b></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A Swiss federal election was held October 18 2015. The right
wing Swiss People's Party won a record number of seats, taking a third of the
200-seat lower house. The large shift to the right was due to voter concerns
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A Canadian federal election was held on October 19, 2015.
The Liberal Party's increase of 148 seats from the previous election was the
largest-ever numerical increase by a party in a Canadian election. The
Liberals' success came at the expense of 60 seats from the Conservative Party
and 51 seats from the New Democratic Party, and was the largest total number of
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<i><br />Dear newly elected Swiss and Canadian politicians.<br /><br /> Firstly I would like to congratulate you all on your successful election to represent the Swiss and Canadian citizens. I recognize your noble goals to offer solutions to the most difficult and challenging situation that Switzerland, Canada and the world are facing at the present. I am sure that the much needed “new blood” that you have to offer will help in that regard. May you listen to all of your constituents and use your newly acquired influence wisely. Switzerland and Canada are known and respected for its humane and innovative leadership, which you have been now elected to uphold. <br /><br />I am a proud dual citizen of Switzerland and Canada, two countries that have achieved such a high reputation for the example they give to the others. I have been working on a proposal to offer a dignified and an immediate solution to the current escalating international refugee crisis that we are all facing at present. My proposal calls for consideration to help the refugees help themselves by allowing them to develop undeveloped lands in countries that have unsettled lands in need of being developed. <br /><br /> I think that this challenge requires a political solution made with an international cooperation. I hope that Switzerland and Canada can find this common ground with each country paving the way and being an example to the rest of the world. In my vision, Switzerland would organize and train volunteer refugees to ensure that the group selected has the right skills while Canada would reenact the homesteading laws to allow refugees to become pioneers. <br /><br /> I have published this proposal in a blog found at: <a href="http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/">http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</a> <br /><br /> The blog is an ongoing publication which at this moment has 19 “postings” with various topics dealing with promoting and implementing a pilot pioneer settlement for refugees.<br /><br /> One of the proposals suggests that a university study program be funded to research into the viability of starting a pilot pioneer settlement and of promote this concept to politicians who will hopefully implement it. <br /><br />I humbly ask you to take a look at this proposal, and if you find any merit in it, to use your newly given powers of influence to promote it. <br /><br /> Kind regards<br />Andrew Vecsey</i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Replies from Swiss and Canadian politicians</b><br />
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As of May 2016 I have received the following replies from the newly elected politicians.<br />
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1. Thank you very much for your message which is motivating.As
you can imagine I’m involved in a lot of political projects.
Unfortunately, I do not have time for a new one but want to concentrate
on my projects going on at the moment.Thank you for your understanding - and good luck!best regards<br />
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<pre>Dear Sir,
Thanks for your thoughtful suggestion.
While I am very familiar with the historic proposal to develop lands in the
hinterlands of Canada, having lived in the Peace River Country of
northern Alberta during my formative years; I wish to respectfully
advise you that in my opinion, the pioneers who developed the Peace
River country were very hardy people, mostly of European heritage, who
were familiar with living in the cold and conditions of extreme hardship
and toil. They had a hard life, but coming from the northern latitudes
of Europe and agricultural backgrounds, they were willing and able to
clear land and establish homesteads.
There were often refugees from the Soviet Union or its affiliated states, and were motivated to obtain
political freedom as well as being attracted by offers of free land if
they developed and worked it.
I am not sure which class of refugees you are thinking of, but with modern refugees to Canada wanting to come
from Asian or middle Eastern countries, I frankly must question, in my
own mind, whether they would have the same skills and desires and
willingness to settle in the cold latitudes of Canada.
With reference to my home territory of Nunavut, which does not have agricultural land
at all, the possibility of refugee settlement by homesteading is
impossible, given Nunavut's harsh climate, seasons of total darkness and
brutal weather and exceptionally high costs of travel and living.
I don't want to discourage you and commend you for your concerns and
ideas...but I wish to give you my candid views on the challenges of
succeeding with your proposal, depending on the background of your
proposed refugees and the Canadian lands which you might have in mind
(admittedly some agricultural areas are warmer than others, although all
feature challenging and cold winters).
I hope you appreciate my desire to give you my candid thoughts on your proposal.
Yours,</pre>
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<b>Open letter sent to Canadian English daily newspapers</b></div>
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April 2016, I sent out the following letter to 80 English daily newspapers.<br />
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</xml><![endif]--><i><br /></i><i>Dear editor:</i><i><br /></i><i>There is an ever growing problem in Europe with a flooding of refugees that is straining Europe not only financially, but also morally, and is threatening the peace and stability of its population. This world-wide problem is not limited to Europe and needs an international cooperation to solve. There is a clear lack of consensus from the politicians as to how to solve this problem. There are virtually no proposals for helping the refugees to help themselves. There are no university studies on how to solve this problem that the groping helpless politicians can consider. If a small tiny fraction of the billions of dollars budgeted to help refugees would be spent on helping refugees to help themselves, then there would be a chance to turn this problem with losers on all sides into a win-win solution for all. </i> <i>One possibility to help the helpless and hopeless refugees to help themselves is to allow them to become pioneers who could eventually become productive tax paying free citizens with a dignified future. For over a year I have been unsuccessfully trying to promote an idea that unsettled and undeveloped lands ideal for tourist industry can be settled and developed by refugees turned into pioneers. I have published this proposal in a blog at <a href="http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/">www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch</a> and have tried to promote it by sending it to universities, and NGOs. Being a dual Swiss-Canadian citizen, I have sent an open email to all Swiss and Canadian politicians on both the national and provincial levels. Other than a few replies of acknowledgement of having received my email, there has been virtually no feedback. That in itself is worthy of a news article. </i><i><br /> </i><br />
<i>I hope that journalist will animate the public to demand that their governments take the responsibility to offer an immediate and dignified solution to these refugees. They have been risking their lives to escape brutal dictatorships, wars and famines and search for freedom for themselves and their families. It can be argued that their problems are caused in part by foreign governments and the businesses they support who have been, in the name of freedom, supporting and arming these dictators and exploiting their lands by robbing them of their natural resources. </i> <i>I humbly ask for your support in uncovering and making public this lack of response from our universities and from our politicians. I also ask your readers for feedback and advice as to how I can better promote this proposal. </i> <i>Kind regards</i><i>Andrew Vecsey</i><br />
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<i><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Summary of blog re-sent in English, German and French on May 2016</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><b> </b></span><br />To whom it may concern<br />I emailed you a while back humbly requesting you to provide comments and feedback to a proposal I was working on to promote a project designed to help refugees help themselves. Only about 1% of the emails I sent got a reply or an acknowledgement of receipt. The link to the blog where I published this proposal was basically left unread. Because the blog is quite extensive and detailed, I am making a second attempt to promote my idea by offering a summary of the blog below.<br /><br />The entire blog in English is viewed at: <a href="http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/">http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</a><br /><br />My contact details are:<br /> Andrew Vecsey<br /> Laengenbergstrasse 23 <br /> 3132 Riggisberg<br /> Switzerland<br /> mobile phone +41763090880<br /> email: andrewvecsey@hotmail.com<br /><br /> Kind regards<br />Andrew Vecsey</i></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">An diejenigen, die es betrifft</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Vor einer Weile habe ich Ihnen bereits eine Email zukommen lassen, mit
ergebenster Aufforderung, Ihre Meinungen, Ansichten und Rückmeldung zu einem
Vorschlag bzgl. eines Projektes zu erhalten, an dem ich tätig war und welches
das Ziel verfolgte, Flüchtlingen dabei zu helfen, sich selbst helfen zu können.
Leider erhielt ich nur von ungefähr 1% aller gesendeten E-Mails eine
Rückmeldung oder Empfangsbestätigung. Der Link zum entsprechenden Blog, in dem
ich diesen Vorschlag veröffentlicht habe, wurde grundsätzlich nicht
wahrgenommen und gelesen. Da meine E-Mail und der Blog in englischer Sprache
verfasst wurden und doch recht umfangreich und detailliert waren, möchte ich
einen zweiten Versuch wagen, meine Idee zu fördern, indem ich Ihnen im
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Der gesamte Blog steht in englischer Sprache zur Verfügung unter: </span><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</span></a></span></u></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Meine Kontaktdaten sind:</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Andrew Vecsey<br />
Laengenbergstrasse 23 <br />
3132 Riggisberg<br />
Schweiz<br />
Handy +41763090880<br />
E-Mail: andrewvecsey@hotmail.com</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #ac193d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Je vous ai envoyé un email vous
demandant humblement de me fournir des commentaires sur une proposition sur
laquelle j’ai travaillé ayant pour but de promouvoir un projet aidant aux
réfugiés de s’entraider. Seulement 1% des emails que j’ai envoyés ont reçu des
réponses ou des accusés de réception. Le lien du blog où j’ai publié ma
proposition n’a pas été lue non plus. Etant donné que l’email et le blog
étaient écrits en anglais et étaient très longs et détaillés, j’essaie une
deuxième fois de promouvoir mon idée en vous offrant un résumé du blog en
français (ci-dessous) :</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="DE" style="color: #ac193d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Le blog en anglais peut être visionné ici: </span><span style="color: #ac193d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">http://pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</span></a></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #ac193d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Voici mes coordonnées: <br />
Andrew Vecsey<br />
Laengenbergstrasse 23 <br />
3132 Riggisberg<br />
Suisse<br />
téléphone mobile +41763090880<br />
email: andrewvecsey@hotmail.com</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="DE" style="color: #ac193d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Cordialement</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Reply to </span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><b><span style="color: black;"><i><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">TEXT Summary of blog re-sent in English, German and French on May 2016</span></i></span></b> </span></div>
<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">1. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Besten
Dank für Ihr Mail und Ihre Informationen. Besten Dank auch dafür, dass
Sie sich Überlegungen machen, was man für die Flüchtlinge
tun kann. Die Idee, Flüchtlinge hier in der Schweiz auszubilden und für
ein Auswandern nach Nordkanada vorzubereiten, überzeugt mich aber
nicht. Die Flüchtlinge müssten sich zuerst hier bei uns lernen
einzufügen und deutsch zu sprechen und dann wenige Jahre
später im Norden von Kanada, wo sie sich dann englisch durchschlagen
müssten. Da denke ich, dass internationale Resettlement-Programme mehr
Erfolg versprechen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Je
n’ai effectivement pas réussi à trouver le temps de lire votre texte
beaucoup trop long. Mais j’essayerai de lire le résumé en français,
dont je vous remercie.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">3.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Je
n’ai effectivement pas réussi à trouver le temps de lire votre texte
beaucoup trop long. Mais j’essayerai de lire le résumé en français,
dont je vous remercie.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">4.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tatsächlich
habe auch ich Ihren Blog nicht angeklickt, da ich solche Links generell
meide, wenn mir der Absender unbekannt ist. Virusgefahr! Gerne werde ich aber Ihren Text lesen. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">5.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Je
voudrais d’abord vous féliciter pour votre initiative d’aide auprès
d’une population qui en a grandement besoin. Pour ma part, j’ai atteint
l’âge de la retraite pour le Sénat en avril dernier. Je suis donc dans
la fermeture de mon bureau pour ensuite me concentrer sur mes nouvelles
activités de retraite. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Je
partage vos préoccupations en ce qui concerne les réfugiés, je m’occupe
d’un groupe de Syriens qui attendent en Turquie de pouvoir faire le
voyage jusqu’au Québec. Je vous souhaite donc bonne chance dans vos
démarches et encore une fois merci de votre implication.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">6.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Ja, ich kann mir so eine Art Lösung des Flüchtlingsproblems sehr gut vorstellen. </span></div>
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<b>Facebook</b></div>
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Contacting politicians using email was very easy as their email addresses are published on the official government web sites. Most unfortunately were either too afraid of possible viruses to open the link to this blog. They were either not aware that they could cut and paste links from emails to their browsers to safely open them, or were simply just not interested enough. <br />
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Contacting politicians using Facebook is potentially easier as you can easily find them by their names and can either send them private messages and public comments with links that are safe to click on and open. Unfortunately too many politicians either do not have Facebook pages, or use Facebook only as a one-way communication tool disseminating only what they want people to see without listening to what the people have to say. <br />
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For politicians who have Facebook with 2-way communication enabled, I sent them the following private message.</div>
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<i>Over the last 2 years, using email, I have unsuccessfully tried to promote a proposal to allow refugees to settle as pioneers to open up Northern Canada for tourists. I am now trying to promote this idea using Facebook. I have formulated these ideas in a blog at:</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/">http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</a> <br />
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<i>I thank you in advance for taking a look at this proposal and for any feedback and comments. If you find any merit in this idea, I would appreciate your help to promote it. </i><br />
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Soon after sending some messages, I was blocked from sending any more by Facebook. I unsuccessfully appealed the decision. So I wrote Facebook a letter of complaint. </div>
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<i>Dear Facebook<br />First, I would like to thank you for the great service you offer. Facebook has become the ubiquitous international communication service that allows not only communication with family, friends and acquaintances, but also with public persons. All you need is to know the real names of people you want to communicate with, and Facebook search features will find the person if they have a Facebook account. That is a very unique and valuable service that I greatly appreciate. While email addresses are not searchable and opening links in them are a risk for viruses, Facebook messages use real names that are searchable and links can be safely opened. The one benefit to email over Facebook is that anyone can send anybody with a known email address anything they want to send, while users of Facebook are at the mercy of Facebook bureaucrats that can decide who can send what to whom. <br /><br />Can you please clarify my status on Facebook. <br />I am a dual Swiss and Canadian citizen and I was sending a private message to politicians who represent me. Before I could finish my work, I was sent the following notification on Sept 15 2016. </i><br />
<b>You're temporarily restricted from posting on or creating Pages until October 19 at 8:00am.</b><br />
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<i>Although the restriction specified "posting and creating pages", I noticed that I was no longer able to send a private message to Facebook members who were not my "Facebook friends". I was thus restricted from sending private messages to my Swiss and Canadian politicians who represent me. I only sent 1 message to each politician representing me. The message I sent was: <br /><br />“Over the last 2 years, using email, I have unsuccessfully tried to promote a proposal to allow refugees to settle as pioneers to open up Northern Canada for tourists. I am now trying to promote this idea using Facebook. I have formulated these ideas in a blog at:<br /> <a href="http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/">http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</a> <br /><br />I thank you in advance for taking a look at this proposal and for any feedback and comments. If you find any merit in this idea, I would appreciate your help to promote it.” <br /><br /> I wanted to see how reachable Swiss and Canadian politicians are via Facebook and compare the following data: How Swiss / Canadian politicians on a National / provincial level are accessible / responsive to email / Facebook messages. It must be noted that it is important for this comparison study that the messages sent are sent at roughly the same time so that responses are not effected by any world events.<br /><br />In addition I was able to experience how Facebook responded to me while I was accessing politicians who represent me via Facebook. I was blocked without any explanation.<br /><br />I immediately appealed and today Sept 19 I was denied my appeal without any explanation. I did notice however that I was able to send a private message that a few days ago I was blocked from doing. <br /><br />I would like to continue this study so please allow me to do so, and if not, please tell me why not. <br /><br />Now that it seems that I am able to send out my messages to my politicians, I would like you to clarify that I will not risk losing my Facebook account if I continue with my work. My Facebook account is: </i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/andrew.vecsey?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/andrew.vecsey?fref=ts</a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Swiss and Canadian politicians who are reachable via Facebook</u></b></div>
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To support this proposal you can send the following message to the politicians listed below who are reachable via Facebook. You can open their Facebook pages by cutting and pasting the links below. You can see their names as part of the link.You can cut and paste the message below and add anything else you desire. <br />
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<i>Does the ever-growing world refugee crisis concern you? If yes, then please read a proposal of a Swiss/Canadian effort to allow refugees to settle as pioneers to open up Northern Canada for tourists. This proposal is formulated in a blog with the link <a href="http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/">http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/</a> If you find merit in this idea, please share it.</i><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swiss politicians</b></div>
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Parliament">Swiss Parliament</a> consists of two houses, The Council of States and the National Council. Members of both houses serve for 4 years. <br />
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Council_of_States">Council of States</a> which has 46 representatives are elected under a system determined by each canton. <br />
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Switzerland">National Council</a>, which consists of 200 members who are elected under a system of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation">proportional representation</a>, depending on the population of each canton. <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Members of the Swiss Council of States</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Swiss_Council_of_States_(2007%E2%80%9311)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Swiss_Council_of_States_(2007%E2%80%9311)</a></span></div>
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46 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are reachable via Facebook</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Staenderat.Luginbuehl/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/Staenderat.Luginbuehl/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/claudejaniak/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/claudejaniak/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BersetAlain/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/BersetAlain/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Liliane-Maury-Pasquier-163032317056104/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/Liliane-Maury-Pasquier-163032317056104/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/filippo.lombardi.319/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/filippo.lombardi.319/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010265042162&fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010265042162&fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/felix.gutzwiller?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/felix.gutzwiller?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Members of the Swiss National Council </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.parlament.ch/en/organe/national-council/members-national-council-a-z">https://www.parlament.ch/en/organe/national-council/members-national-council-a-z</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/matthiasaebischer/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/matthiasaebischer/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/nr.evi.allemann/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/nr.evi.allemann/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/violaamherd/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/violaamherd/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thomas.ammann.ch/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/thomas.ammann.ch/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Amstutz-936320439757809/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Amstutz-936320439757809/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jeanluc.addor?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/jeanluc.addor?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Jacqueline-Badran-Nationalrat-128245567255475/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/Jacqueline-Badran-Nationalrat-128245567255475/?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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The Canadian Parliament consists of two houses, The Senate and the House of Commons. <br />
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The Senate consists of 105 members appointed by the Governor General on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_%28constitutional%29">advice</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Canada">Prime Minister</a>. <br />
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The House of Commons consists of 335 who are elected by simple plurality when elections are called. <br />
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Getting Facebook pages for the politicians was time consuming. I got their names from the official government web sites and then searched for their Facebook pages using the Facebook search facilities. </div>
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Then I started to send and post the following message:<br />
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<i>Does the ever-growing world refugee crisis concern you? If yes, then please read a proposal of a Swiss/Canadian effort to allow refugees to settle as pioneers to open up Northern Canada for tourists. This proposal is formulated in a blog with the link http://www.pioneersforcanada.blogspot.ch/ If you find merit in this idea, please share it. </i><br />
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Before I could finish, I was threatened by the Stasi type bureaucrats that were monitoring my activities that I was not allowed to do what I was doing, and unless I stop, they would delete my account. <br />
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Many people complain about privacy issues concerning Facebook, but for me a bigger problem is that Facebook offers a free communication service that most end up using, and then they control who can post what to whom.<br />
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My question to Facebook....do you honestly think that a politician who has a Facebook page which allows messages and posts to be posted on it likes it that you are blocking users from sending them messages and posts. It is a shame that such a powerful tool like Facebook which is used by so many people should be controlled in such a dictatorial way. Many people complain about privacy issues concerning Facebook, but for me a bigger problem is that Facebook offers a free communication service that most end up using, and then they control who can post what to whom.<br />
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<b>Back to email </b><br />
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Over the last 2 years, using email that all politicians have, I have unsuccessfully tried to promote this blog as a link in my email. Understandably, hardly any one opened it for fear of having a virus lurking behind the link. There is usually a simple solution to complex problems. The simple solution to dangerous links in emails is to have the recipient cut and paste the links in their browser to open them. The simple solution to the complex international refugee problem is to have a coordinated effort of countries to make a win-win situation of it all.</div>
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Getting email addresses of the politicians from official government sites is a lot easier and contacting them is very easy as 1 email addressed to all of them is all that needs to be sent. And the emails do not get buried and forgotten as quickly as postings in Facebook that get buried under a flood of new posts within a matter of a few hours.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Email of politicians</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Members of the Swiss Council of States</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Of
the 46 members, 7 are reachable via Facebook and 37 are reachable via email</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="mailto:fabio@abatelegal.ch">fabio@abatelegal.ch</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="mailto:isidor.baumann@parl.ch">isidor.baumann@parl.ch</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="mailto:didier.berberat@parl.ch">didier.berberat@parl.ch</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="mailto:bischof@law-firm.ch">bischof@law-firm.ch</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="mailto:ivo.bischofberger@parl.ch"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">ivo.bischofberger@parl.ch</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><a href="mailto:andrea.caroni@parl.ch">andrea.caroni@parl.ch</a></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><a href="mailto:raphael.comte@parl.ch"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">raphael.comte@parl.ch</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="mailto:josef.dittli@parl.ch">josef.dittli@parl.ch</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:roland.eberle@parl.ch">roland.eberle@parl.ch</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:joachim.eder@parl.ch">joachim.eder@parl.ch</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:stefan.engler@parl.ch">stefan.engler@parl.ch</a></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><a href="mailto:christian.levrat@parl.ch"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">christian.levrat@parl.ch</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="mailto:werner.luginbuehl@parl.ch">werner.luginbuehl@parl.ch</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:liliane.maurypasquier@parl.ch">liliane.maurypasquier@parl.ch</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:philipp.mueller@parl.ch">philipp.mueller@parl.ch</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:politik@ruedinoser.ch">politik@ruedinoser.ch</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:rechsteiner@anwaelte44.ch"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">rechsteiner@anwaelte44.ch</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Members of the Canadian senate</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://www.parl.gc.ca/SenatorsBio/default.aspx?Language=E&sortord">http://www.parl.gc.ca/SenatorsBio/default.aspx?Language=E&sortord</a>=</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN;">17
from 107 are reachable via Facebook. All are reachable via email.</span></div>
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<a href="mailto:raynell.andreychuk@sen.parl.gc.ca">raynell.andreychuk@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:salma.ataullahjan@sen.parl.gc.ca">salma.ataullahjan@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:george.baker@sen.parl.gc.ca">george.baker@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:denise.batters@sen.parl.gc.ca">denise.batters@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:diane.bellemare@sen.parl.gc.ca">diane.bellemare@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:lynn.beyak@sen.parl.gc.ca">lynn.beyak@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:doug.black@sen.parl.gc.ca">doug.black@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:boisvp@sen.parl.gc.ca">boisvp@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:Patrick.Brazeau@sen.parl.gc.ca">Patrick.Brazeau@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:larry.campbell@sen.parl.gc.ca">larry.campbell@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:claude.carignan@sen.parl.gc.ca">claude.carignan@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:anne.cools@sen.parl.gc.ca">anne.cools@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:jane.cordy@sen.parl.gc.ca">jane.cordy@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:jim.cowan@sen.parl.gc.ca">jim.cowan@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:jean-guy.dagenais@sen.parl.gc.ca">jean-guy.dagenais@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:dennis.dawson@sen.parl.gc.ca">dennis.dawson@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:joseph.day@sen.parl.gc.ca">joseph.day@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:line.tessier@sen.parl.gc.ca">line.tessier@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:percy.downe@sen.parl.gc.ca">percy.downe@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:norman.doyle@sen.parl.gc.ca">norman.doyle@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:Michael.Duffy@sen.parl.gc.ca">Michael.Duffy@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:lillian.dyck@sen.parl.gc.ca">lillian.dyck@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:nicole.eaton@sen.parl.gc.ca">nicole.eaton@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:art.eggleton@sen.parl.gc.ca">art.eggleton@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:tobias.enverga@sen.parl.gc.ca">tobias.enverga@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:joan.fraser@sen.parl.gc.ca">joan.fraser@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:linda.frum@sen.parl.gc.ca">linda.frum@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:george.furey@sen.parl.gc.ca">george.furey@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:Raymonde.Gagne@sen.parl.gc.ca">Raymonde.Gagne@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:stephen.greene@sen.parl.gc.ca">stephen.greene@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:peter.harder@sen.parl.gc.ca">peter.harder@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:Leo.Housakos@sen.parl.gc.ca">Leo.Housakos@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:elizabeth.hubley@sen.parl.gc.ca">elizabeth.hubley@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:mobina.jaffer@sen.parl.gc.ca">mobina.jaffer@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:janis.johnson@sen.parl.gc.ca">janis.johnson@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:serge.joyal@sen.parl.gc.ca">serge.joyal@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:colin.kenny@sen.parl.gc.ca">colin.kenny@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:daniel.lang@sen.parl.gc.ca">daniel.lang@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:Frances.Lankin@sen.parl.gc.ca">Frances.Lankin@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:carole.smith@sen.parl.gc.ca">carole.smith@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:michael.macdonald@sen.parl.gc.ca">michael.macdonald@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:ghislain.maltais@sen.parl.gc.ca">ghislain.maltais@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:fabian.manning@sen.parl.gc.ca">fabian.manning@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:elizabeth.marshall@sen.parl.gc.ca">elizabeth.marshall@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:martin@sen.parl.gc.ca">martin@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:paul.massicotte@sen.parl.gc.ca">paul.massicotte@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:elaine.mccoy@sen.parl.gc.ca">elaine.mccoy@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:thomasjohnson.mcinnis@sen.parl.gc.ca">thomasjohnson.mcinnis@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:paul.mcintyre@sen.parl.gc.ca">paul.mcintyre@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:terry.mercer@sen.parl.gc.ca">terry.mercer@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:pana.merchant@sen.parl.gc.ca">pana.merchant@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:don.meredith@sen.parl.gc.ca">don.meredith@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:grant.mitchell@sen.parl.gc.ca">grant.mitchell@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:percy.mockler@sen.parl.gc.ca">percy.mockler@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:wp.moore@sen.parl.gc.ca">wp.moore@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:jim.munson@sen.parl.gc.ca">jim.munson@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:nancy.ruth@sen.parl.gc.ca">nancy.ruth@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:richard.neufeld@sen.parl.gc.ca">richard.neufeld@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:thanhhai.ngo@sen.parl.gc.ca">thanhhai.ngo@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:kelvin.ogilvie@sen.parl.gc.ca">kelvin.ogilvie@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:senator.oh@sen.parl.gc.ca">senator.oh@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:Ratna.Omidvar@sen.parl.gc.ca">Ratna.Omidvar@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:dennis.patterson@sen.parl.gc.ca">dennis.patterson@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:Chantal.Petitclerc@sen.parl.gc.ca">Chantal.Petitclerc@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:don.plett@sen.parl.gc.ca">don.plett@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:rosemay.poirier@sen.parl.gc.ca">rosemay.poirier@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:Andre.Pratte@sen.parl.gc.ca">Andre.Pratte@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:nancy.raine@sen.parl.gc.ca">nancy.raine@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:pierrette.ringuette@sen.parl.gc.ca">pierrette.ringuette@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:bob.runciman@sen.parl.gc.ca">bob.runciman@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:judith.seidman@sen.parl.gc.ca">judith.seidman@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:sibnic@sen.parl.gc.ca">sibnic@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:Senator.Sinclair@sen.parl.gc.ca">Senator.Sinclair@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:larry.smith@sen.parl.gc.ca">larry.smith@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:carolyn.stewartolsen@sen.parl.gc.ca">carolyn.stewartolsen@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:scott.tannas@sen.parl.gc.ca">scott.tannas@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:claudette.tardif@sen.parl.gc.ca">claudette.tardif@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:david.tkachuk@sen.parl.gc.ca">david.tkachuk@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:betty.unger@sen.parl.gc.ca">betty.unger@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:josee.verner@sen.parl.gc.ca">josee.verner@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:john.wallace@sen.parl.gc.ca">john.wallace@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:pamela.wallin@sen.parl.gc.ca">pamela.wallin@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:charlie.watt@sen.parl.gc.ca">charlie.watt@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:claudine.courtois@sen.parl.gc.ca">claudine.courtois@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:senatorwhite@sen.parl.gc.ca">senatorwhite@sen.parl.gc.ca</a></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Questions that need to be answered</span></b></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Why are universities and politicians so unwilling
to help refugees help themselves to free dignified lives? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">How can universities and politicians be motivated
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<b><span style="color: red;">Vorschlag für Pilotprojekt einer Pionier-Gemeinschaft für Flüchtlinge</span></b></div>
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><i><span style="color: red;">Zusammenfassung</span></i></b><br />
<i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: red;">Es wird argumentiert, dass Kanada von den gegenwärtigen Pionieren in der gleichen Art und Weise profitieren könnte, wie es bereits in der Vergangenheit der Fall war. Die sorgfältige Selektion von Flüchtlingen, um Verfügbarkeit von Fertigkeiten, ein kooperatives autarkes Umfeld, moderne Materialien und Maschinen, freundliche Nachbarn und bestehende Infrastruktur wie Eisenbahnlinien und Straßennetz zu gewährleisten, machen das „Homesteading“ (Aufbau von Häusern oder Behausungen) deutlich einfacher und weniger gefährlich, als es in der Vergangenheit der Fall war. Die wachsende Tourismusindustrie und die reichhaltigen Forst- und Bodenschätze von unbesiedeltem Land im Norden, ermöglichen „Homesteader“ einen Nischenmarkt, der genutzt werden könnte. Diese Abhandlung veranschaulicht die erforderliche, internationale Kooperation zwischen den EU-Ländern, der Schweiz und Kanada, um ein solches Projekt zu realisieren. Es werden potentielle Standorte für das Projekt vorgeschlagen, sowie die notwendigen Einrichtungen, Fertigkeiten, Werkzeuge, Finanzierung und Gesetzgebung. Szenarien für zukünftige Pioniersiedlungen und andere geeignete Standorte, sollte das Pilotprojekt erfolgreich sein, werden ebenfalls vorgeschlagen.</span></i><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Ein Aufruf zum Handeln</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Wann immer wir unsere Augen nicht von den Massen an Kindern und Frauen abwenden können, die in Folge von Naturkatastrophen, Hunger, Krieg und Verfolgung sterben müssen und dazu gezwungen werden, andere einen langsamen und schmerzhaften Tod sterben zu sehen, erst dann reagieren wir als Masse, um sie zu retten. Und sobald diese Menschen gerettet wurden, fühlen wir uns gut und wir vergessen sie. Dies war unsere Reaktion auf die Tausenden von Flüchtlingen, die in überfüllten, schlecht ausgerüsteten Booten an den Küsten Europas landeten. Es herrscht ein regelrechter Mangel an Willen, eine sofortige Lösung zu finden, um Flüchtlingen dabei helfen zu können, sich selbst helfen zu können, ihre Würde und Freiheit zu erhalten, für die sie ihr Leben riskieren, diese zu finden.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Viele Menschen glauben, dass die Flüchtlinge eine Bedrohung für ihre Kultur, ihre Religion, ihre Arbeit und ihr soziales Wohlergehen darstellen. Manche betrachten sie sogar als faule Verbrecher. Zu viele Politiker ziehen die Freiheit von Unternehmen Gewinne zu erwirtschaften, der Freiheit von Menschen vor, ein Leben in Würde leben zu können. Zu viele brutale Diktatoren halten ihre Bürger mit Waffen als Geiseln, die wiederum von den freien Ländern geliefert werden, in welche die Flüchtlinge fliehen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Nachdem wir seit Jahrzehnten brutale Regimes im Namen der Freiheit duldeten und unterstützten, müssen wir nun mit den Konsequenzen leben und Verantwortung übernehmen, um den Bürgern dieser Regimes zu unterstützen, die ihr Leben riskieren, um deren repressiven Regierungen zu entkommen, um ein Leben in Würde und Freiheit leben zu können. Nachdem die Natur im Namen der Technologie vergewaltigt wurde, mit ihren Genen im Namen der Hungrigen gespielt wurde, Felder verwendet wurden um Kraftstoff für Maschinen zu gewinnen, statt Nahrungsmittel für Menschen zu produzieren und ganze Flüsse gestaut wurden, um Elektrizität zu erzeugen, statt Getreide zu bewässern, sehen wir uns jetzt mit der Folge konfrontiert, Verantwortung dafür zu unternehmen und die Menschen zu unterstützen, die zu verhungern drohen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Menschen, die sich auf der Flucht befinden, sind junge, hochbegabte Körper, die bereit sind, die Risiken einzugehen, um ihre Freiheit zu erhalten. Sie, wie viele anderen Pioniere in der Vergangenheit, bieten ein großes Potential für Wachstum. Eine sich wiederholende Welle der Migration und Einwanderung, wäre für viele Länder eine Win-Win-Situation, wie auch für alle Flüchtlinge – ebenso wie es bei der fortschreitenden Welle der Migration vor 100 – 300 Jahren der Fall war.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><i><span style="color: red;">„Flüchtling“ trägt eine negative Konnotation, während „Pionier“ einen eher positiven Beiklang hat. Flüchtlinge können die besten Pioniere ergeben.</span></i><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Flüchtlinge, die in der Vergangenheit auch in Kanada zu Pionieren wurden, sahen sich vieler Gefahren und Härten konfrontiert, mit denen die gegenwärtigen Flüchtlinge als potentielle Pioniere nicht mehr zu kämpfen haben. In der Vergangenheit waren Heimstätten weit von Straßen und Eisenbahn entfernt und von einer feindlichen, einheimischen Bevölkerung umgeben. Heute würden solche Heimstätten direkt neben einer freundlichen und unterstützenden Bevölkerung errichtet. Früher standen Errichter von Heimstätten im Konkurrenzkampf um die besten Länder, die es zu kultivieren galt. Heute würden sie zusammenarbeiten, um Holz, Tiere und Mineralien zu erschließen und es würde eine steigende Zahl von Jägern, Naturliebhabern und Touristen geben, die diese geförderten Rohstoffe nutzen könnten. Früher mussten Pioniere ihre Erzeugnisse an Kunden verkaufen, die weit entfernt von ihnen waren. Mit modernen Materialien, Werkzeugen, Maschinen, Kommunikation, Transportmöglichkeiten und leicht zugänglichen Hilfseinrichtungen, wäre das Leben moderner Pioniere keinesfalls mehr so hart und gefährlich, wie es in der Vergangenheit der Fall war.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Pilotprojekt für eine Pioniersiedlung</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Es ist keine Frage, ob die modernen Pioniere in der Lage sind, auf den Märkten konkurrieren zu können und durch die Länder profitabel werden, auf denen sie sich niederlassen, sondern vielmehr, ob sie durch diese überleben können und ein glückliches, würdiges und freies Leben führen könnten.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Ziel: </b>Ansässig werden und Länder in den nördlichen Teilen Kanadas kultivieren und zu bewirtschaften, die sich in der Nähe besiedelter Gebiete befinden, welche für die Tourismusindustrie angemessen und attraktiv sind.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Teilnehmer: </b>Flüchtlinge, die von Schweizern ausgebildet werden, Pioniere in Kanada zu sein und auch gewillt und fähig sind, für ein paar Jahre ein autarkes Gemeinschaftsleben führen zu können, bis ihre Gemeinschaft etabliert ist.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Hilfe: </b>Reise- und Ausbildungskosten für Flüchtlinge werden subventioniert und bezahlte Arbeit wird angeboten, um den Kauf von Werkzeugen und Materialien für ihre Siedlungen zu ermöglichen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Arbeit:</b> Aufbau einer Infrastruktur für die Gemeinschaft. Errichtung von Heimstätten für die Pioniere. Errichtung von Industriegebäuden wie Holzlager und Gewächshäuser für die Gemeinschaft. Der Aufbau von touristischen Einrichtungen wie Wanderwege, Hütten, Restaurants und Tankstellen. Arbeiten und Erbringung von Dienstleistungen an die lokale Gemeinden.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Vertrag:</b> Nach einer gewissen Zeit, wenn die Pioniere gezeigt haben, dass sie an ihren Grundstücken gearbeitet haben und die kanadische Staatsbürgerschaft beantragt und erhalten haben, erhalten sie eine Urkunde für dieses Land.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Finanzierungsvorschlag für das Pilot-Pionierprojekt</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Pioniere werden ermutigt, ihre starken Familienwerte zu erhalten und autark zu sein. Das Ortsgebiet profitiert von seiner Offenheit und wird bevölkert von hart arbeitenden, dankbaren und engagierten Arbeitern und Verbrauchern.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Finanzierung erfolgt durch Philanthropen, Städten, Schulen, Vereinen, Freunden und durch Einzelspenden. Es ist zu erwarten, dass ein solches Pilot-Pionierprojekt eine breite Medienberichterstattung erhält. Medien können die Gemeinschaft subventionieren, indem eine Realityshow ins Leben gerufen wird, in der gezeigt wird, wie die Gemeinschaft wächst und gedeiht. Ein Computerspiel, ähnlich „SIM City“ und „Minecraft“ könnte entwickelt werden, in welchem virtuelle Pioniergemeinschaften errichtet werden können.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Unternehmen</b> können Maschinen und Werkzeuge liefern, welche durch Medienberichterstattungen kompensiert werden.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Lokale Unternehmen</b> vereinbaren, die Produkte der Pionier-Gemeinschaft zu fairen Preisen zu kaufen, die im Rahmen der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit stehen. Die Pioniere haben gegenüber den Reichen im Wettbewerb einen großen Vorteil, da diese auch eine niedrigere Gewinnspanne tolerieren können.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Freiwillige</b> bieten Hilfe, wie sie auch durch Friedenskorps geboten wird.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Flüchtlinge können durch Familienmitgliedern der Pioniersfamilien <b>sponsoriert </b>oder gefördert werden, sobald diese aus den kommunalen Gebäuden in ihre privaten Häuser ziehen. Diese gesponserten Flüchtlinge leben in den kommunalen Gebäuden, bis sie ihre eigenen Heimstätten errichtet haben.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Kirchen</b> die Missionsarbeit praktizieren, um Glauben zu verbreiten, können Flüchtlinge fördern, die Mitglieder ihrer Kirche sind. Auch andere Kirchen und gemeinnützige Organisationen können finanzielle Hilfe zur Verfügung stellen.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Europeische Länder</b> und die <b>Schweiz</b> liefern ihre Flüchtlinge und schulen diese, zu Pionieren zu werden u belen sowohl Reisekosten, als auch die für die Errichtung der kommunalen Infrastruktur erforderlichen Materialien.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Canada </b>bietet Land und Garantie, dass die Pioniere ihr Land behalten können und zu kanadischen Staatsbürgern werden können, wenn diese die notwendigen Voraussetzungen erfüllen, an den zur Verfügung gestellten Grundstücken arbeiten und innerhalb einer vereinbarten Zeitperiode autark werden. Gesetze werden erlassen, um den Pionieren zu ermöglichen, ihre Gemeinschaften errichten zu können. Kredite und Subventionen sind vorgesehen, um Pionieren dabei zu helfen, ihre eigenen, privaten Haushalte und Unternehmen zu gründen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Pionieren </b>ist es erlaubt zu arbeiten, als wären sie bereits kanadische Staatsbürger. Sie werden gleich bezahlt und erhalten die gleichen Vorteile, wie sie kanadische Bürger erhalten. Ein Teil ihres Entgelts wird abgezogen, um etwaige Darlehen und Subventionen zu bezahlen, die sie erhalten, um ihre eigenen privaten Haushalte und Geschäfte zu errichten.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Pioniere können die selbst produzierten Produkte verkaufen, wie etwa Bauholz, Brennholz, Holzprodukte wie Zaunpfähle, Spielgeräte, Holzspielzeug, Steinprodukte, Stecklinge aus ihren Gewächshäusern, tierische Produkte von den Tieren die sie züchten usw.….</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die neuen Pioniere können verschiedene Dienstleistungen wie Tankstellen, Restaurants, touristische Unterkünfte, Hochsicherheitsgefängnis erbringen, Wege zum Reiten und Wandern im Sommer und Skifahren und Langlauf im Winter errichten, sowie Einrichtungen zum Bootfahren, Angeln, Jagen errichten und Holzprodukte zur Verfügung stellen (Holz für den Bau, Zellstoff für Papier und Feuerholz).</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Selbstversorgung in der Pioniersiedlung</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Natur liefert alle Tiere, einschließlich Menschen, um ein gesundes, autarkes Leben führen zu können. Das Internet bietet den Menschen das notwendige Wissen, um autark von ihren Ländern leben zu können.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Zu Pionieren werdende Flüchtlinge müssen lernen, in Nord-Kanada, mit seinen harten und langen Wintern, autark leben zu können. Glücklicherweise bietet das Internet viele Quellen, die von Menschen und Gemeinden zur Verfügung gestellt wurden, die von ihren erfolgreichen Erfahrungen berichten und gewillt sind, ihre Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse mit uns zu teilen, um davon zu lernen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Das Internet mit seinen reichen Quellen des Wissens, die modernen Materialien und Maschinen und die modernen Mikro-Anbautechniken, machen ein autarkes Leben auf dem Land immer attraktiver und durchführbarer. Nicht nur billigeres und gesündere lokale Nahrungsmittel werden dadurch geboten, sondern wir befreien und auch von der Abhängigkeit von Unternehmen, die uns durch industrialisierte Landwirtschaft, Vertrieb und Marketing mit Nahrung versorgen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Vorschlag zur Ausbildung von Pionieren</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Schweiz kann nicht nur die Flüchtlinge mit entsprechenden Fähigkeiten für die Pilot-Pioniergemeinschaft auswählen, sondern Flüchtlingen auch die richtigen Fähigkeiten beibringen, die sie benötigen, um als Pioniere erfolgreich zu sein.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Für die erfolgversprechende Durchführung des Pilotprojekts einer Pioniersiedlung, müssen Flüchtlinge, die zu Pionieren werden möchten, auch geschult werden. Die für das Pilotprojekt der Pioniersiedlung gewählten Flüchtlinge werden entsprechend ihrer Fähigkeiten sorgfältig ausgewählt. Ein großer Teil der Ausbildung erfolgt „bei der Arbeit“ in den Gemeinschaftszentren und Heimstätten durch „lernen und tun“ unter der Führung von Pionieren und Freiwilligen, die bereit sind, ihre Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten zu teilen. Die einheimischen Indianer lehren die Pioniere, wie sie fischen, jagen und lokal verfügbare Pflanzen und Kräuter verwenden können. Kanadische Geschäftsleute lehren die Pioniere, wie sie ihre kommunale, gemeinschaftliche Siedlung verwalten. Freiwillige, im Geiste von „Friedenskorps“, bieten ihre Dienstleistungen als Lehrer, um andere benötigte Fähigkeiten zu vermitteln. Je besser geschult die Flüchtlinge sind, desto besser sind auch ihre Chancen, zu erfolgreichen Pionieren zu werden.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Schweiz hat bis in die Gegenwart, das bewährte System der Lehrlingsprogramme beibehalten, um seine Bürger zu trainieren. Es wird vorgeschlagen, dass die Schweiz deren Ausbildungsprogramme fördert und subventioniert, um Flüchtlingen die folgenden Fähigkeiten zu vermitteln, die benötigt werden, um als Pioniere in Kanada erfolgreich zu sein: Landwirtschaft, Mechanik, Gesundheitswesen, Käseherstellung, Herstellung von Schokolade, Wegebau, Errichten von Campingplätzen, Bäume fällen (Holzfäller), Arbeiten in Holzlagern, Bau von Häusern (Schweizer Chalet-Stil), Kies- und Steinarbeiter, Tourismusindustrie und Aufbau und Betrieb von Ausbildungsprogrammen. Sobald eine ausreichende Anzahl an qualifizierten Pionieren besteht, kann diese Aufgabe der Ausbildung und Schulung von Neulingen, von den Pionieren übernommen werden.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Vorschlag für eine neue “Homesteading” Gesetzgebung für Pioniere/Flüchtlinge</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Ein neues Homesteading-Gesetz für Flüchtlinge muss sich deutlich von den Homesteading-Gesetzen der Vergangenheit unterscheiden. Die neuen Gesetze, müssen wie auch die in der Vergangenheit erlassenen Gesetze garantieren, dass die Pioniere im Falle der Erfüllung bestimmter Anforderungen, zu Eigentümern ihrer errichteten Siedlungen und Steuerzahlern werden können.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Anforderungen, die durch Pioniere erfüllt werden müssen, um zu Staatsbürgern zu werden, sind die Folgenden. Innerhalb eines Zeitraumes von 3 Jahren: Müssen Pioniere ihr eigenes Haus erbauen. Sie müssen ausreichende Sprachkenntnisse in Englisch oder Französisch nachweisen, Selbstständigkeit innerhalb ihrer Gemeinschaft, sowie eine kontinuierliche Verbesserung der Bewirtschaftung ihrer Länder, es von Bäumen befreien um das Holz zu verkaufen und es für Zäune für Weidezwecke zu verwenden.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Sollten Pioniere aufgrund von Krankheiten nicht willens oder in der Lage sein, ihre Heimstätten zu bewirtschaften, müssen diese in vollem Umfang von der Gemeinschaft unterstützt werden. Unterstützte Pioniere können, wenn sie wollen und in der Lage sind, auch in das Land zurückkehren, aus dem sie ursprünglich geflohen sind, wenn sie das erforderliche Visum erhalten und ihre Rückfahrt bezahlen können. Unterstützte Pioniere können, wenn sie sich von ihrer Krankheit erholt haben, weiterhin an ihrer Heimstätte arbeiten, wo sie zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Erkrankung aufhören mussten. Oder sie können, sollte dies ihrem Wunsch entsprechen, auch von vorne beginnen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Vorschlag für einen möglichen Standort der Pilot-Pioniersiedlung</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Es gibt in Kanada viele abgelegene Orte, die sich für die Errichtung von Siedlungen anbieten und die Tourismusindustrie unterstützen. Es ist vorgesehen, dass immer mehr und mehr zukünftige Touristen ein bisschen kanadische Wildnis und Geschichte erleben möchten. Die 35 Millionen Kanadier, die im Süden des Landes an der Grenze zu den USA leben, sind nicht bereit, in den entlegenen Gebieten weiter nördlich des Landes zu leben. Diese abgelegenen Gebiete im Norden sind reich an natürlichen Ressourcen wie Holz, Tieren und Orten, die für Touristen attraktiv sind. Die gesamte, sich auf 5,000 Kilometer erstreckende Länge Kanadas, von Osten bis Westen, trifft an eine Nordgrenze, die aus unberührter Natur, reich an Flüssen und übersät von Seen in einem unberührten Waldstück besteht, welches wiederum ein reiches Angebot an Tieren aufzuweisen hat. Es gibt zahlreiche, mögliche Standorte für Pioniersiedlungen entlang von Straßen und Eisenbahnlinien, die zu bestehenden Siedlungen führen, die Touristen anziehen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Ein Beispiel für einen möglichen Standort könnte sich in der Nähe von Thompson Manitoba befinden, gelegen zwischen Winnipeg und Churchill. Churchill befindet sich an der Hudson-Bucht, entlang der sich auf 1,400 km erstreckenden Küstenlinie, wo drei große Biome (Ökosysteme) aufeinandertreffen: Marine, Taiga und Tundra, die jeweils eine Vielzahl an Flora und Fauna aufweisen. Zudem besteht eine wachsende Tourismusbranche. Jedes Jahr kommen 10,000 – 12,000 Ökotouristen zu Besuch, wovon etwa 400-500 Ornithologen sind. Der Ort ist berühmt für die vielen Eisbären, die im Herbst aus dem Inland zu den Ufern ziehen, wodurch der Spitzname „Eisbären-Hauptstadt der Welt“ gegeben wurde.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Straße von Winnipeg nach Churchill endet bei Thompson. Thompson hat eine Straße und eine Eisenbahn nach Winnipeg. Es hat eine Bevölkerung von 13,000 Einwohnern. Es wird als „Hub des Nordens“ bezeichnet und dient als regionales Handels- und Dienstleistungszentrum der nördlichen Manitoba. Thompson befindet sich 739 km nördlich der Provinzhauptstadt Winnipeg und 396 km (246 Meilen) nordöstlich von Flin Flon. Thompson hat eine Bevölkerung von 13,123 Einwohnern und dient ebenfalls als Handelszentrum für weitere 50,000 bis 65,000 Manitobas.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Szenarien, die dem „Pilot-Pionierprojekt“ folgen könnten</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Sobald die Pioniere sämtliche Anforderungen erfüllen konnten, um kanadische Staatsbürger zu sein und zu stolzen Besitzern ihrer Siedlungen wurden, sind sie keine Pioniere mehr. Es wird vorhergesehen, dass viele ihre Verwandten unterstützen möchten, um nach Kanada auszuwandern. Dies sollte gefördert werden, da der Schwerpunkt dieses Projektes, die Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe von Flüchtlingen ist.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Straße nach Thompson, dem vorgeschlagenen Standort für das Pilot-Pionierprojekt, ist fast 800 km lang. Zusätzliche Pioniersiedlungen könnten entlang der Straße errichtet werden, um dort entlang der Straße Holz zu füllen und die Straße für Touristen zugänglicher zu machen. Wenn alle 20 Kilometer eine neue Siedlung errichtet würde, könnten entlang dieser Straße bis zu 40 solcher Siedlungen gegründet werden. Umfasst jede dieser Siedlungen 1000 – 2000 Siedler, könnte 40.000 – 80.000 Flüchtlingen dabei geholfen werden, ein neues Leben in Freiheit und vielen Möglichkeiten aufzubauen und das nur entlang dieser einen Straße.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Vor Ankunft der Pioniere zu errichtende Einrichtungen:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Sämtliche Einrichtungen werden durch freie Arbeit von den Pionieren errichtet, wobei hauptsächlich lokal verfügbare Materialien verwendet werden – Holz und Stein. Die Gebäude werden mit geringstmöglichen Kosten errichtet. Sie haben keine Keller. Während der Bauarbeiten werden Bäume für Holz gefällt, sowie das Land von Steinen befreit. Holz und Stein sind die wichtigsten Baustoffe für die Errichtung dieser Gebäude.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Kommunale Gemeinschaftshäuser </b>werden mit 40 privaten Zimmern gebaut, in denen 80 Pioniere beherbergt werden können. Dieses Haus wird neu angekommenen Pionieren zur Verfügung gestellt und so lange genutzt, bis diese ihre eigenen Heimstätten errichten konnten. Das Kommunalhaus verfügt über 3 Etagen. Die erste und zweite Etage weisen jeweils 20 private Zimmer und 2 Badezimmer auf, eines für Männer und eines für Frauen. Jedes Badezimmer verfügt über Toiletten, Waschbecken und eine Dusche. Im Erdgeschoss befinden sich Räume, die gemeinschaftlich genutzt werden. Küche, Esszimmer, Waschküche, Trockenraum, Spielzimmer für Kinder, Unterhaltungsraum mit Bibliothek und Internet und ein Raucherzimmer.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Geheizt wird mittels einer Zentralheizung, die mit Holz betrieben wird. Auch Öfen in den Küchen werden mit Holz betrieben. Elektrizität für Beleuchtung, sowie TV / Radio / Computer wird durch Dieselmotoren generiert, die durch Solarzellen ergänzt werden. Das Wasser wird durch Wasser-Heizungs-Kollektoren erhitzt, die sich auf den Dächern befinden.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">2 Pioniere teilen sich ein Zimmer mit 2 Betten, einen Tisch, zwei Stühle, Regale und Schränke. Jedes Zimmer verfügt über ein Doppelfenster. Das Fenster kann geöffnet und gekippt werden. Außen weist das Fenster einen weißen Farbton auf, um das Zimmer im Sommer kühl zu halten, sowie einen schwarzen Farbton auf der Innenseite, um die Sonne zu absorbieren und das Zimmer im Winter warm zu halten. Angrenzende Badezimmer mit Toiletten, Waschbecken und Duschen, stehen zur gemeinschaftlichen Nutzung zur Verfügung. Kinder schlafen bei ihren Eltern auf den Zimmern oder alternativ können diese auch in einem als Schlafsaal eingerichteten Zimmer nächtigen. Es gibt ein Zimmer, in dem die Kinder spielen können.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Ein Zimmer ist als Krankenzimmer eingerichtet.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">WLAN-Internetzugang wird via Satellit zur Verfügung gestellt. Der Internetzugang stellt eine äußerst wichtige Einrichtung dar, da somit günstige Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten mit Familienmitgliedern der Pioniere gegeben sind, sowie günstiges Banking (z.B. Bitcoin), eine digitale Bibliothek zu Bildungszwecken, günstige Unterhaltungsmöglichkeiten usw...</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Gemeinsame Einrichtungen </b>für die Gemeinschaft umfassen ein Holzlager, in dem Holz geschnitten und gespalten wird, welches aus Baumaterial für Häuser, als Brennholz für Heizung und Kochen verwendet wird und an Thompson verkauft wird. Ein Schuppen zur Steinbearbeitung zum Schneiden von Stein, wird ebenfalls zur Verfügung gestellt. Ein Wasserturm zum Speichern von Wasser, ist ebenfalls vorgesehen. Eine Gemeinschaftssauna wird zur Verfügung gestellt. Schuppen sind vorgesehen, in denen sich Dieselgeneratoren für die Elektrizität befinden, um Batterien zu laden und für Notstrom, sowie für Traktoren und Autos. Sobald die gemeinschaftlichen Einrichtungen gebaut wurden, können die Pioniere danach alle weiteren, benötigten Einrichtungen bauen, wie beispielsweise: Werkstätten, Gewächshäuser und Ställe für Tiere wie Kühe, Schweine und Hühner.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Im nächsten Schritt, kann die Gemeinschaft weitere Einrichtungen erbauen, wie beispielsweise: Eine Tankstelle, Unterkünfte in Form eines Motels für Touristen, einen Kiosk für Touristen, sowie ein Touristenzentrum, um Einrichtungen und Veranstaltungen in Thompson und Churchill zu bewerben.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Sobald sämtliche kommunalen Einrichtungen erbaut wurden, helfen sich die Pioniere gegenseitig bei der Errichtung von Privathäusern für Familien und Blockwohnungen für Singles. Sollten Singles Partnerschaften eingehen und Familien gründen, können sie ihre Wohnungen für Häuser tauschen. Wenn Pioniere aus dem Gemeinschaftshaus ziehen, werden ihre Plätze durch neu ankommende Pioniere eingenommen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Privathäuser</b> sind standardisiert. Dicke Holzwände und Böden sind die wichtigsten Formen der Isolation. Holzbalken werden durch Steinsäulen gestützt. Es gibt keine Keller und die Säulen bilden das Fundament. Die Decken sind niedrig, um die Räume im Winter warm zu halten. Die Küche mit dem Feuerherd befindet sich in einer Raumverlängerung, damit sie im Sommer isoliert werden kann und die anderen Räume kühl bleiben. Der Rauchfang wird im Sommer ebenfalls isoliert. Im Winter können die isolierenden Wände der Küchenerweiterung einfach hinzugefügt werden und die Isolierung von Rohren um den Schornstein können entfernt werden, damit das gesamte Haus beheizt werden kann. Es gibt einen Dachboden mit einer Entlüftungsöffnung zum Dachboden oder nach draußen, um Warmluft aus dem Räumen nach draußen abzuführen.Die Beleuchtung wird über LED realisiert und durch Batterien betrieben, die wiederum durch Solarzellen aufgeladen werden.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Gemeinde soll letztendlich auf 200 Personen begrenzt werden, die alle in ihren eigenen Privathäusern leben. Ist dieser Punkt erreicht, kann eine neue, benachbarte Gemeinde gegründet werden. 10 solcher benachbarten Gemeinden bilden eine Siedlung mit einer Bevölkerung von 2,000 Personen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Ist eine Siedlung vollständig errichtet, wird ein neuer Standort für die Errichtung einer neuen Siedlung gewählt, in der neu eintreffende Pioniere ihr neues Leben beginnen. Werden private Grundstücke geräumt, kann das Holz verkauft werden.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Vorgeschlagene Menschen und ihre gewählten Werkzeuge für das Pilot-Pionierprojekt.</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die für die Gemeinschaft des Pilot-Pionierprojektes ausgewählten Menschen werden bei Bedarf nach ihren Fähigkeiten ausgewählt, um eine funktionelle und autarke Gemeinschaft zu bilden. 3 Generationen umfassende Großfamilien (Großeltern, Eltern und Kinder) werden gefördert. Die Zahlen sind beschränkt auf: 20 alleinstehende Männer, 20 alleinstehende Frauen und 20 Familien.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Unter den 80 Erwachsenen befinden sich folgende Facharbeiter für die kommunale Arbeit: Krankenhelfer, Krankenschwestern, Ärzte, Lehrer, Köche, Bäcker, Käser, Metzger, Schneider, Landwirte, Gärtner, Imker, Schreiber, Mechaniker, Steinmetze / Maurer, Menschen mit EDV-Kenntnissen, die Englisch sprechen und schreiben können, Fahrkönnen aufweisen, Angeln, Fähigkeiten in Kerzenherstellung und Seifenherstellung aufweisen. Sollten Familien ihre Großeltern mit sich bringen, könnten diese ihren Beitrag leisten, indem sie für die Betreuung der Kinder verantwortlich gemacht werden.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Von jedem Erwachsenen, der in der Lage ist zu arbeiten, wird eine gemeinsame Arbeit von 8 Arbeitsstunden täglich an 5 Tagen pro Woche erwartet, bei 3 Wochen Urlaub pro Kalenderjahr. Gemeinschaftsarbeiten sind unter anderem die Pflege erkrankter Mitglieder, Lehren, Backen, Vorbereitung von Milchprodukten, Setzen von Fallen für die Jagd, Schlachten von Tieren und Abziehen der Häute, Nähen und Reparatur von Kleidung, Landwirtschaft, Gartenbau, Herstellung von Honig, Zimmerei, Wartung von Maschinen, Fahren, Bäume fällen und diese zu Brettern, Klötzen und anderen Formen zu verarbeiten.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Werkzeuge</b> aus zweiter Hand (Secondhand) wie Traktoren, Autos, Sägen, Holzspalter, Getreidemühlen, Waschmaschinen, Nähmaschinen, Schaufeln, Hämmer, Küchengeräte, elektrische Generatoren, werden zur Verfügung gestellt. Mechaniker sind darin geschult, solche Secondhand-Werkzeuge zu reparieren und zu erhalten.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Pioniere helfen alle zusammen, um Privat- und Mehrfamilienhäuser zu errichten. Sie erhalten für sämtliche benötigte Materialien entsprechende Darlehen. Sobald die Pioniere ihre eigenen Häuser haben, brauchen sie keine kommunale Arbeiten mehr zu verrichten. Sie können außerhalb der Gemeinde arbeiten und / oder Unternehmen für die Pionier-Gemeinschaft gründen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Neu eingetroffene Menschen leben kommunal und errichten kommunale Einrichtungen und Privatwohnungen für ihre Gemeinschaft. Sesshafte Pioniere einer Gemeinde bewirtschaften ihr eigenes Land und gründen ihre eigenen Unternehmen. Sobald sie die Anforderungen an das „Homesteading“ erfüllt wurden, erhalten sie die kanadische Staatsbürgerschaft und Urkunden für ihre Heimstätten.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Vorgeschlagene Arbeitsprojekte für Pioniere</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Pioniere können Straßen, Campingplätze, touristische Einrichtungen bauen und touristische Aktivitäten bieten.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Sobald Pioniere eine Heimstätte besitzen, können sie aus dem kommunalen Zentrum ausziehen und ihr Grundstück räumen. Die Pioniere, die noch im Gemeinschaftszentrum leben und darauf warten, bis ihre Heimstätte errichtet ist, arbeiten solange an Gemeinschaftsprojekten wie im Holzlager, Stein- und Kiesgruben, Gemeindefarmen und Gewächshäuser und helfen auch bei der Errichtung von Heimstätten. Sie liefern Produkte wie Nahrungsmittel und Baumaterialien.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Heimstätten werden auf sorgfältig gewähltem Land errichtet, welches attraktiv für den Tourismus ist. Sobald Pioniere in ihre Heimstätten ziehen, räumen sie das Land und liefern dem Gemeinschaftszentrum die entsprechenden Rohprodukte wie Holz für das Holzlager, Steine für die Steinmetze, sowie Fels und Kies. Sie werden für diese Arbeiten nicht bezahlt. Sie arbeiten auf ihrem eigenen Land und verrichten dort ihre Arbeit, während sie finanzielle Unterstützung durch die Tourismusbranche erhalten, die sie entwickeln. Baumaterialien wie Holz und Kies werden von der kommunalen Gemeinde geliefert. Lokale, Landes- und Bundesregierungen bieten ihre Unterstützung in Form von Ausbildung, Beratung, Management und Maschinen. Diese Regierungen profitieren von der freien Arbeit, durch welche Einrichtungen und Infrastruktur für die Tourismusindustrie errichtet werden und schließlich auch Steuern zahlen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Wege für Wanderer und Pferde werden errichtet, sowie touristische Attraktionen wie Wasserfälle und Aussichtspunkte konstruiert. Die ersten Wege werden entlang den Ufern von Seen erbaut, wo Lieferungen über Boote in Empfang genommen werden. Campingplätze werden entlang der Wege am Ufer errichtet und schließlich auch Hütten für die Touristen. Einrichtungen wie Anlegestellen, Strände, Badestellen und Bootseinrichtungen werden errichtet, um den Touristen ermöglichen das Fischen zu ermöglichen und die Natur zu genießen. Weitere Wege werden landeinwärts zu Touristenattraktionen wie Wasserfällen und Aussichtspunkten errichten.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Wege werden später erweitert, um im Sommer Mountainbikes und im Winter Schneemobilen den Zugang zu ermöglichen. Danach werden unbefestigte Straßen in der Nähe der Wanderwege rund um den See errichtet.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Vorgeschlagene Belohnungssysteme um Pioniere zu motivieren, die ohne Bezahlung arbeiten</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Ohne Bezahlung für andere zu arbeiten, ist nicht sonderlich motivierend. Für sich und seine Familie unbezahlt zu arbeiten, ist andererseits sehr motivierend.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Flucht vor Verfolgung, Krieg und Hunger und die Suche nach Freiheit in einem neuen Land, sind die Hauptgründe für Flüchtlinge, zu Pionieren zu werden. Ein weiterer Grund ist für viele, die Freiheit zu arbeiten und zu gedeihen, in der Hoffnung dadurch in der Lage zu sein, ihren zurückgelassenen Familienmitgliedern und Freunden, helfen zu können. Viele haben auch große Hoffnungen und wollen letztendlich reich werden. Durch die Bereitstellung von grundlegenden Einrichtungen für Touristen, die die Wildnis entdecken wollen, wird niemand reich, egal wie hart er oder sie auch arbeitet. Jedoch kann mit genügend Zeit und engagierter Arbeit, kann der Tourismus zu einem profitablen Familienunternehmen heranwachsen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Es stellt sich die Frage, wie die Gründer von Heimstätten (Homesteaders) ohne entsprechende Bezahlung motiviert werden könnten.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Ganz am Anfang sind die neuen Pioniere Mitglieder einer kommunalen Gemeinschaft und leben in einem Gemeinschaftszentrum. Das Gemeinschaftszentrum wird als Non-Profit-Organisation gegründet und es wird kooperativ gearbeitet. Jegliche Gewinne werden von dieser Organisation verwaltet und verwendet, um der Gemeinschaft zu Wachstum zu verhelfen, neue Gemeinschaften zu gründen, eventuelle Kredite zu tilgen und neue Flüchtlinge zu fördern, die zu Pionieren werden wollen. Homesteader erhalten Baustoffe von der kommunalen Gemeinschaft. Sie arbeiten ohne Bezahlung, um die Gemeinschaft zu unterstützen und zu Wachstum zu verhelfen und ihre eigenen Heimstätten zu entwickeln und autark zu leben. Sobald Pionieren entsprechende Heimstätten zugewiesen wurden, verbringen sie mehr Zeit, auf ihrem eigenen Land zu arbeiten und weniger Zeit mit Gemeinschaftsarbeiten. Ihre Arbeit bleibt weiterhin unbezahlt.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Es wurde erkannt, dass die Menschen auch Motivation und Anreize brauchen, um ohne Bezahlung zu arbeiten. Die Hauptmotivation kommt aus der Garantie, dass sie die Länder auf denen sie ihre Arbeit verrichten, schließlich auch besitzen werden. Sobald die Einrichtungen für zahlende Touristen errichtet wurden, müssen Anreize gegeben werden, damit die Pioniere ihre harte Arbeit auch weiterhin fortsetzen um sicherzustellen, dass immer mehr Touristen bedient werden können. Da die durch Touristen erhaltene Gelder an die Gemeinschaft gezahlt werden, können Anreize zur Motivation der Siedler in Form von Verdienstpunkten gesetzt werden, damit diese ihre harte Arbeit fortsetzen und immer mehr zufriedene Touristen bedienen, die wiederum ihren Freunden empfehlen, ebenfalls dort Urlaub zu machen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Jeder Homesteader ist verantwortlich dafür, die Touristen zu bedienen, die auf ihrem Grundstück untergebracht sind. Die Menge der erhaltenen Verdienstpunkte, werden nach folgenden Kriterien bestimmt: Anzahl der untergebrachten Touristen und Qualität der Rückmeldungen von diesen Touristen. Mit akkumulierten Verdienstpunkten können Homesteader ihre Verwandten unterstützen und erhalten Freizeit für bezahlten Urlaub.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Homesteader, die zu Bürgern ihrer Heimstätten geworden sind, können diese und ihre Familienunternehmen an jeden verkaufen, der bereit dazu ist, dieser gemeinnützigen Gesellschaft beizutreten und sich an deren Regeln hält.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;">Gewinn-Gewinn Ergebnis</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die derzeit einzige unmittelbare Lösung, die für Flüchtlinge von westlichen Regierungen angeboten wird ist, ein paar von ihnen von ihren sinkenden Flößen zu retten und ihnen Notunterkünfte zu bieten. </span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Dieser Vorschlag – Flüchtlingen dabei zu helfen, sich selbst helfen zu können, indem eine langfristige und würdige Lösung für ihre hoffnungslose und verzweifelte Lage geboten wird – beansprucht eine Gewinn-Gewinn-Situation für alle darzustellen. Die einzigen Verlierer sind die brutalen Diktatoren, die ihre fähigsten Bürger verlieren, die fliehen, sowie große Unternehmen, die wiederum Diktatoren verlieren, die ihre Bürger und Länder gnadenlos ausbeuten.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die langfristige Lösung, die in diesem Artikel vorgeschlagen wird, ist Flüchtlingen die Möglichkeit zu bieten, zu Pionieren zu werden und ein neues, würdiges und freies Leben für sich und ihre Familien aufzubauen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Die Schweiz</b> bietet Management, Schulung und Transport zur Pilot-Pioniersiedlung und kann einen Teil der Kosten dadurch ausgleichen, indem während der Trainingsperiode von der freien Arbeit profitiert wird.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Kanada </b>bietet das Land für die Siedlungen und stellt neue Gesetze für das Homesteading zur Verfügung. Kanada kann einen Teil der Kosten dadurch ausgleichen, indem das Land von der freien Arbeit profitiert, durch welche der Norden des Landes für Touristen geöffnet wird. Die lokalen Kanadier im Norden profitieren durch den Zuwachs der Tourismusbranche und die Touristen profitieren wiederum von der neu entwickelten Infrastruktur, die von den Pionieren errichtet wird.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Den Flüchtlingen </b>werden die Rechte garantiert, als Ergebnis ihrer harten Arbeit zu freien Eigentümern zu werden und werden letztendlich zu produktiven, freien Bürgern.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Pioniere für die Welt</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Manche behaupten, dass alles vorstellbare auch realisiert werden könnte.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Stellen Sie sich Folgendes vor:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">FREIE ARBEIT:::ICH ARBEITE UMSONST:::FREIE ARBEIT::::::: ICH ARBEITE UMSONST</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d;">Wissen Sie von einem Ort in Ihrer Nähe, den es sich wirklich lohnt zu sehen, jedoch über keinerlei Straßen oder Wege verfügt, um dorthin zu gelangen. Der Grund, warum diese Juwelen keine Straßen und Wege aufweisen, die zu ihnen führen, ist wahrscheinlich, da sie nicht als rentabel erachtet werden.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d;">Hier kommen wir ins Spiel, um euch zu helfen.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d;">Wir sind eine Gruppe fleißiger Holzfäller, Straßen- und Wegbauer, Schreiner und Mechaniker. Und wir bieten unser eigenes Support-Personal. Wir wurden in der Schweiz geschult und ausgewählt und halten Schweizer Qualität, Produktivität und Innovation aufrecht.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d;">Wir werden „lohnfrei“ arbeiten, indem wir alle lokal verfügbaren natürlichen Ressourcen verwenden, um Wege, Straßen, Warffs, Campingplätze, Hütten und touristische Einrichtung zu errichten.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d;">ABER es gibt auch einen Haken.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d;">Wir sind keine Sklavenarbeiter. Wir sind Pioniere und erwarten, im Sinne des Pioniergeistes, frei und in Ruhe gelassen zu werden, um die Chance zu geben, sich ein autarkes und produktives Leben als freier Bürger aufzubauen, der ehrlich seine Steuern bezahlt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Nun zurück zur Realität.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Die Welt sieht zu und verlangt eine humane Behandlung von Flüchtlingen.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Hoffentlich schaffen es neu gewählte Politiker, die immer noch glauben, einen Unterschied hinsichtlich der Veränderung und Verbesserung der aktuellen Situation machen zu können, auf eine sofortige und würdige Lösung für dieses immer größer werdende Problem, mit dem wir alle konfrontiert sind.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Hoffentlich werden Politiker bald ein Universitätsforschungsprogramm finanzieren, um Umsetzbarkeit und Durchführbarkeit einer solchen Pilot-Pioniersiedlung zu bewerten.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Würde für Flüchtlinge</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Die Wiedereingliederung der Flüchtlinge mit dessen Familien in den Gemeiden wo sie ihre Sprache und Kultur beibehalten, ihre Familie und Freunden wiederfinden, sowie ihr Leben als würdevolle Pioniere leiten könnenm bereitet sich als Lösung des Flüchtlingsproblem. Sowie bei den Pionieren der Vergangenheit, von den man nicht erwartete dass sie sich integrieren und ihre Sprache und Kultur verlieren, so sollte man nicht von den heutigen Flüchtlingen erwarten dass sie sich integrieren. Man sollte sie mit Respekt und Würde behandeln und man sollte sie auch tolerieren, acceptieren und gewürdigen.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"></span><b><span style="color: red;">Schlussfolgerungen</span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Um diese Idee zu fördern, habe ich diese in einem Blog veröffentlicht und mehr als 3000 Menschen dazu eingeladen, meine Idee selbst zu prüfen und Rückmeldungen zu liefern. Von allen Schweizer und Kanadischen Politikern, Universitäten, Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Interessengruppen mit denen ich in Kontakt getreten bin, habe ich ungefähr 30 Rückmeldungen erhalten. Das entspricht etwa 1%. Die meisten dieser Leute haben sich nicht einmal die Zeit genommen, den Blog zu lesen. Dies zeigt deutlich, dass seitens der Politiker kein Wille vorhanden ist, um sich mit dem Flüchtlingsproblem zu befassen und eine würdige, langfristige und sofortige Lösung zur Verfügung zu stellen.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="color: blue;">Proposition pour le projet pilote de la communauté des refugiés</span></b></u><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><br /><i><b>Résumé </b><br /><br />On prétend que le Canada peut profiter des pionniers en ce moment de la même manière dont ils en ont profité dans le passé. La sélection attentive des refugiés garantie par la disponibilité de compétences, un environnement autosuffisant et coopératif, des matériaux modernes et une machinerie, des voisins amicales et l’existence d’une infrastructure comme des voies ferrées et des routes qui rendront le ‘homesteading’ plus facile et moins dangereux que dans le passé. L’industrie touristique croissante, une riche foresterie et des ressources minérales de territoires vierges dans le nord permettent aux ‘homesteaders’ d’avoir accès à un marché niche qui peut être exploitée. Ce document démontre la nécessité d’une coopération internationale entre les pays de l’UE, la Suisse et le Canada pour permettre la mise en œuvre d’un tel projet. Les lieux pour le projet sont proposés, ainsi que les installations, compétences, outils, financement et les lois nécessaires. Les scenarios de colonies de pionniers futures et d’autres lieux appropries sont proposés dans le cas où le projet pilote a du succès. </i><br /><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Appel à l’action </b><br /><br />Quand on ne peut pas regarder la masse d’enfants et de femmes qui meurent suite à des catastrophes naturelles, la famine, la guerre et la persécution et nous sommes forcées de les voir mourir une mort lente et souffrante, seulement à ce moment-là réagissons nous en masse pour les sauver. Et une fois sauvés, on se sent bien et on les oublies. Ceci fut notre réaction face aux milliers de réfugiés perchés sur des bateaux mal équipés qui viennent sur les côtes d’Europe. Il y a un manque de volition pour trouver des solutions immédiates pour aider ces réfugiés pour qu’ils s’entraident dans le but d’obtenir dignité et liberté pour lesquelles ils ont risqué leurs vies.<br /><br />Plusieurs personnes perçoivent les réfugiés comme une attaque à leurs cultures, religions, leurs emplois et leurs sécurités sociales. Certains les perçoivent même comme des délinquants fainéants. Trop de politiciens préconisent la liberté des entreprises de faire de marges de profits au lieu de se concentrer sur des personnes normales qui peuvent vivre des vies en toute dignité. Trop de dictateurs brutaux qui prennent leurs citoyens en otages avec des armes fournies par ces mêmes pays auxquels ces réfugiés font fuite.<br /><br />Après avoir toléré et aidé des régimes brutaux au nom des libertés pendant plusieurs décennies, on fait maintenant face à la conséquence de prendre la responsabilité d’aider les citoyens de ces régimes qui sont en train de risquer leurs vies pour fuir ces gouvernements répressifs et qui sont à la recherche d’une vie libre et pleine de dignité. Apres avoir violé la nature au nom de la technologie, jouer avec ses gènes pour nourrir les affamés, utilisé des champs pour produire l’énergie pour les machines au lieu de nourrir le peuple, et construit des barrages sur des rivières pour créer de l’électricité au lieu d’irriguer les produits agricoles, on fait maintenant face à la conséquence de prendre la responsabilité de donner de l’aide aux personnes fuyant la famine.<br /><br />Les personnes prenant fuite sont des personnes capables et prêtes à prendre des risques pour obtenir leurs libertés. Eux, comme les pionniers du passé, peuvent nous fournir le potentiel pour la croissance. Une nouvelle vague de migration et d’immigration serait une situation ayant que des gagnants pour beaucoup de pays, ainsi que pour tous les réfugiés, tout comme il y a 100 a 300 ans, ou l’on s’occupait de plusieurs vagues migratoires.<br /><br />‘Réfugie’ a une connotation négative, tandis que ‘pionnier’ est positif. Les réfugiés font les meilleurs pionniers.<br /><br />Les réfugiés devenant des pionniers au Canada dans le passé ont fait face à moult dangers auxquels les réfugiés en tant que pionniers potentiels ne feraient plus face. Dans le passé, les ‘homesteaders’ (aussi ‘fermiers’) étaient loin de la route et des trains et étaient submerge par une population native hostile. Maintenant ils peuvent être construits à côté d’eux et pourront profiter de la population locale les accueillant et leur offrant de l’aide. Dans le passé, les fermiers ont dû se battre pour avoir accès aux meilleurs terrains pour cultiver. Maintenant ils vont coopérer pour exploiter le bois, les minéraux, la nature et un nombre grandissant de chasseurs, d’amoureux de la nature et de touristes. Dans le passé, les pionniers ont dû vendre leurs produits à des clients habitant très loin. Maintenant ils doivent fournir des services aux touristes. Avec les matériaux modernes, des outils, la machinerie, la communication, les moyens de transports et les infrastructures de soutien étant si accessible, la vie d’un pionnier moderne ne sera plus aussi dure et dangereux que dans le passé.<br /><br /><b>Projet pilote pour une colonie de pionniers </b><br /><br />Il n’est pas question des pionniers modernes étant capables de faire compétition sur le marché et de profiter du terrain sur lequel ils s’installent, mais s’ils peuvent y survivre et mener des vies dignifiées, libres et pleines de bonheur.<br /><br />But: de s’installer, de développer et exploiter les terres au nord du Canada qui sont proches d’endroits densément peuplés, appropriés et attractifs pour l’industrie du tourisme.<br /><br /><b>Participants: l</b>es réfugiés formés par la Suisse pour devenir pionniers au Canada et qui sont prêt et capable de vivre une vie autosuffisante et communale pour quelques années jusqu’au moment où leur communauté est établie.<br /><br /><b>Aide: </b>Les coûts de voyage et les coûts de formation pour les refugies sont subventionnés et le travail rémunéré permettra l’achat d’outils et de matériel pour la colonie.<br /><br /><b>Travail: </b>Construire l’infrastructure pour la communauté. Construire les fermes pour les pionniers. Développer les facilites de l’industrie, tel une scierie et des serres pour la communauté. Le développement de l’infrastructure touristique comme des chemins, logements, restaurants et station services.<br /><br /><b>Contrat: </b>Apres une certaine période, si les pionniers ont fait preuve d’avoir travaillés leur fermes avec une parcelle de terrain et ont demandés et reçus la citoyenneté canadienne, on leur donne les titres pour ce terrain.<br /><br /><b>Financement propose du projet pilote pour les pionniers </b><br />Les pionniers sont encouragés de maintenir leurs valeurs familiales et d’être autosuffisant. La localité profite de travailleurs dédiés au travail très dur ainsi que les consommateurs.<br /><br /><b>Le financement</b> est fourni par des philanthropes, des villes, des écoles, des clubs, des amis et des dons individuels. Il est attendu que ce projet pilote pour les pionniers sera amplement couverts par les medias. Ces derniers pourraient subventionner la communauté en établissant une émission télé réalité démontrant la croissance de la communauté. Un jeu vidéo, similaire à ‘SIM City’ et ‘Minecraft’ peut être développé pour porter à l’expansion de la communauté virtuelle des pionniers.<br /><br /><b>Les entreprises</b> peuvent fournir la machinerie et les outils et seront compensées par la couverture médiatique.<br /><br />Les entreprises locales sont d’accord pour acheter des produits de la communauté de pionniers a un prix juste et compétitif. Les pionniers ont un grand avantage par rapport aux riches dans la compétition, vu qu’ils peuvent tolérer une marge de profit plus basse.<br /><br /><b>Les volontaires</b> aident comme le font les projets des Peace Corps<br /><br />Les réfugiés peuvent être <b>sponsorisés</b> par les membres de la famille des pionniers, une fois qu’ils sortent du bâtiment communal et s’installent dans une ferme étant de propriété privée. Ces réfugiés sponsorisés vivent dans un bâtiment communal jusqu’au moment où ils construisent leur propres fermes.<br /><br /><b>Les églises</b> pratiquant le travail de missionnaires pour propager leurs croyances peuvent sponsoriser les refugies qui sont membres de l’église. Les autres églises et associations peuvent offrir une aide financière.<br /><br /><b>Les pays européens</b>, ainsi que <b>la Suisse</b> forment les réfugiés à devenir des pionniers et leur subventionnent les coûts de voyage et le matériel pour construire l’infrastructure communale.<br /><br /><b>Le Canada </b>fourni le terrain et la garantie que les pionniers peuvent garder leur parcelle et devenir citoyen canadien s’ils remplissent les critères nécessaires, comme travailler leur parcelle et devenir autosuffisant pendant une certaine période. Les lois qui doivent être décrétées permettront aux pionniers d’établir leurs communautés. Les prêts et subventions sont fournis pour aider les pionniers à construire leur propres maisons et entreprises.<br /><br /><b>Les pionniers</b> ont le droit de travailler comme s’ils étaient des citoyens canadiens. Ils sont payés et reçoivent les mêmes privilèges que les citoyens canadiens. Une partie de leur paye contribue aux prêts et aux subventions qui les aident à construire leurs propres maisons et entreprises<br /><br />Les pionniers peuvent vendre les produits qu’ils produisent, comme le bois, le bois à brûler, les produits de bois comme les clôtures en bois, l’équipement de terrains de jeux, des jouets en bois, des produits en pierre, des coupes de leurs serres, des produits animaliers des animaux qu’ils élèvent, etc…<br /><br />Les nouveaux pionniers peuvent fournir plusieurs services, tel les stations-services, les restaurants, logements touristiques, prisons de haute sécurités, faire des chemins pour l’équitation et les randonnées en été et pour le ski de fond en hiver, la pêche, la chasse, les produits de bois (le bois pour la construction, la pulpe pour le papier et le bois de feu).<br /><br /><b>Autosuffisance dans la colonie des pionniers </b><br /><br />La nature permet à tous les animaux, y compris les humains de vivre une vie saine et autosuffisante. L’internet permet aux personnes de s’approprier les connaissances nécessaires pour vivre de manière autosuffisante en harmonie avec la terre.<br /><br />Les réfugiés, devenus pionniers, doivent apprendre comment vivre de manière autosuffisante dans le nord du Canada avec ses hivers longs et durs. Heureusement, l’internet met à disposition plusieurs expériences de personnes et de communautés qui ont la volonté de partager leurs acquis nous permettant d’apprendre.<br /><br />La richesse que l’internet nous offre en termes de connaissances, les matériaux modernes ainsi que la machinerie et les nouvelles techniques de micro-agriculture rend la vie autosuffisante plus attractive et rentable. Non seulement elle nous offre de la nourriture locale plus saine et bon marché, mais nous libère également de la dépendance des entreprises qui utilisent l’agriculture industrielle, la distribution et le marketing pour nous délivrer ses aliments.<br /><br /><b>Formation pour les pionniers </b><br /><br />La Suisse ne peut non seulement sélectionner les réfugiés avec les bonnes compétences pour commencer la communauté pilote des pionniers mais peut également former les réfugiés avec les bonnes compétences pour réussir.<br /><br />Afin que la colonie pilote de pionniers réussisses, les réfugiés qui veulent devenir pionniers doivent être formés. Les réfugiés sont soigneusement sélectionnés en fonction de leurs compétences afin de participer dans la colonie pilote de pionniers. La formation se fait sur le terrain au centre communal et sur la ferme en apprenant par la pratique sous la surveillance des pionniers et des volontaires qui sont prêts a partager leurs compétences. Les indiens natifs locales apprennent aux pionniers comment pêcher, chasser et comment utiliser les plantes et herbes locales. Les hommes d’affaires canadiens apprennent aux pionniers comment gérer leurs colonies communales coopératives. Les volontaires, dans l’esprit des ‘peace corps’, offrent leurs services en tant qu’enseignants pour toutes les autres compétences requises. Le plus les réfugiés sont formés, plus grande est leur chance de devenir des pionniers qui ont réussi.<br /><br />La Suisse a maintenu, jusqu’à présent, le système d’apprentissage pour former ses citoyens. On propose que la Suisse promeuve et subventionne ses programmes d’apprentissage pour former les réfugiés pour les compétences nécessaires pour réussir en tant que pionniers au Canada : l’agriculture, la mécanique, la santé, production de fromage, la production de chocolat, la construction de rails, la construction de routes, la construction de campements, l’abattage forestier, le travail à la scierie, la construction de maisons (Chalets suisses), le travail de gravier et de pierre, l’industrie de tourisme et l’installation et l’organisation de programmes d’apprentissage. Une fois qu’il y a un nombre suffisant de pionniers compétents, les pionniers peuvent à leur tour former les nouveaux venus ayant besoin d’être formés.<br /><br /><b>Proposition pour une nouvelle loi de ‘Homesteading’ pour les pionniers/réfugiés </b><br /><br />e nouvelle loi de ‘homesteading’ pour les réfugiés doit être très différent des lois du du passé. Les nouvelles lois, comme celles du passé doivent permettre aux pionniers, une fois qu’ils ont remplis certains critères de ‘homesteading’ de devenir les propriétaires de leurs colonies, pouvant ainsi devenir des citoyens payant leurs taxes.<br /><br />Les critères que le pionnier doit remplir pour devenir citoyen sont les suivants : dans l’espace de 3 ans, les pionniers doivent construire une maison privée. Ils doivent également faire preuve d’une connaissance suffisante de la langue anglaise ou française, l’autosuffisance au sein de la communauté et un développement constant de leur lopin de terre de ferme en y dégageant des arbres pour vendre le bois et en clôturant la parcelle pour le pâturage.<br /><br />Si les pionniers ne veulent pas ou ne sont pas en mesure de compléter leur fermes à cause d’une maladie, la communauté doivent leurs offrir plein soutien. Les pionniers qui sont soutenus peuvent, s’ils le veulent et s’ils en sont capable retourner vers le pays qu’ils ont fuis, s’ils peuvent obtenir le visa nécessaire et payer pour le voyage. Les pionniers soutenus peuvent, une fois récupéré de leur maladie, continuer à travailler sur leur ferme. Ils peuvent aussi commencer du début s’ils le préfèrent.<br /><br /><b>Proposition pour le lieu de la colonie pilote de pionniers </b><br />Il existe beaucoup d’endroits isolés dans le Canada pour une ferme et pour développer l’industrie du tourisme. Il est prévu que le nombre de touristes voulant apprendre l’histoire et visiter les régions sauvages du Canada va grandir de plus en plus. Les 35 millions de canadiens vivants dans le sud, proche de la frontière canado-américaine, ne veulent pas vivre dans les endroits isolés au nord. Ces endroits isolés plus au nord sont riches en ressources naturelles comme le bois, la nature et des attractions touristiques. La longueur entière du Canada de 5000 km, de est en ouest, avoisine une frontière plus au nord qui n’es pas développé, une nature dentelée par des rivières et dispersée par des lacs dans une forêt vierge remplie de vie sauvage. Il y a plusieurs lieux possibles qui pourraient servir à l’installation des communautés de pionniers tout au long des routes et des chemins de fers qui mènent a des colonies qui existent déjà et qui attirent les touristes.<br /><br />Un exemple d’un lieu possible pourrait être proche de Thompson Manitoba, entre Winnipeg et Churchill. Churchill se trouve au long de côte de 1,400 km de Manitoba, sur Hudson Bay, qui contiens trois biomes majeures : marine, la forêt boréale et la toundra, tous ayant une variété de flores et de faunes. Il y a une industrie de tourisme grandissante. Chaque année, 10,000-12,000 éco-touristes visitent, 400-500 étant des ornithologues. C’est encore plus fameux pour le nombre d’ours polaires qui migrent vers rivage en automne, lui donnant le nom de ‘Capital mondial des ours polaires’.<br /><br />La route de Winnipeg jusqu’à Churchill se termine a Thompson. Thompson a une route et un chemin de fer qui mène jusqu’à Winnipeg. Il y a une population de 13,000. On la nomme le ‘centre du nord’, étant le centre de ventes et de services du nord de Manitoba. Thompson se trouve à 739 km au nord de la capitale provincial de Winnipeg, et est 392 km (246 mi) au nord-est de Flin Flon. Thompson a une population de 13, 123 résidents, Thompson sert aussi comme un centre de commerce pour 50, 000 à 65, 000 manitobains supplémentaires.<br /><br /><b>Scenarios de ce qui pourrait suivre le ‘projet pilote des pionniers’ </b><br /><br />Une fois que les pionniers ont remplis les critères pour devenir citoyens canadiens et deviennent des fières propriétaires de colonies, ils ne sont plus des pionniers. Il est prévu que beaucoup aimeraient sponsoriser des membres de leurs familles pour venir habiter au Canada. Ceci devrait être encouragé comme étant le point focal de ce projet, d’aider les refugies a s’entraider.<br /><br />La route jusqu’à Thompson, le lieu proposé pour le projet pilote des pionniers est presque 800 km en longueur. Un nombre supplémentaire de pionniers fermiers peuvent être construits le long de la route afin d’exploiter le bois et de dégager la route pour les touristes. Si une colonie est établie tous les 20 km, il peut y avoir jusqu’à 40 colonie sur cette route. Avec chaque colonie ayant de 1000 à 2000 personnes, 40, 000 à 80, 000 réfugiés pourraient être aidés à reprendre une nouvelle vie libre et pleine d’opportunités tout au long de cette route.<br /><br /><b>Les installations qui doivent être construites avant l’arrivée des pionniers </b><br />Toutes les installations sont construites par le travail gratuit des pionniers qui peuvent utiliser les matériaux locaux qui sont à disposition, tel le bois et la pierre. Ces bâtiments sont construits à coûts minimes. Ils n’ont pas de cave. Si les bâtiments sont construits, les arbres sont abattus pour le bois et les terres sont dégagées de pierres. Le bois et les pierres sont les matériaux utilisés pour la construction des bâtiments.<br /><br /><b>Le logement communal </b>de la communauté sera construit avec 40 chambres privées pour accueillir 80 pionniers. Cette maison est disponible pour les nouveaux pionniers et sera utilisé par eux jusqu’à ce qu’ils construisent leurs maisons privées. La maison communale a 3 étages. Le premier et le deuxième étage ont 20 chambres privées, 2 salles de bains, une pour les hommes et une pour les femmes. Chaque salle de bain a des toilettes, des leviers et une douche. Le rez-de-chaussée a des chambres partagées. Cuisine, salle à manger, buanderie, séchoir, salle de jeux pour les enfants, salle de divertissements, salle de communication avec une librairie et internet et une salle pour les fumeurs.<br /><br />Le chauffage est centralisé, alimenté par le bois. Les fours dans la cuisine sont alimentés par le bois. L’électricité pour l’éclairage et la TV/radio/ordinateurs sont alimentés par des moteurs diesels ainsi que des panneaux solaires. L’eau est chauffée par des panneaux de chauffant l’eau qui se trouvent sur les toits.<br /><br />2 pionniers partagent une chambre avec 2 lits, une table, 2 chaises, étagères et placards. Chaque chambre a une vitre double avec un écran. La fenêtre peut être inclinée pour être ouverte. Il y a une teinte blanche à l’extérieur pour garder la chambre fraiche lors de l’été et une teinte noire à l’intérieur pour absorber le soleil et garder la chambre au chaud pendant l’hiver. Les salles de bains adjacentes contiennent des toilettes, des leviers et des douches qui sont partagées. Les enfants dorment dans les chambres avec leurs parents, ou dans l’alternative, ils peuvent partager une chambre meublée comme un dortoir pour enfants. Il y a une chambre où les enfants peuvent jouer. Il y a une chambre meublée comme une chambre d’infirmière.<br /><br />L’accès sans fil à internet se fait par satellite. L’accès à internet est très important vu que cela permet aux pionniers de communiquer à prix réduit avec des membres de leurs familles résidant dans leur pays d’origine. Ça leur permet également de profiter de services bancaires bon marchés comme bitcoin, une librairie digitale pour l’apprentissage bon marché, le divertissement facile, etc…<br /><br /><b>Les installations communes </b>comportent une scierie, où l’abattage et le fendage de bois fournissent du matériel pour la construction de maisons et de carburant pour le chauffage et pour cuisiner et vendre a Thompson. Un cabanon pour travailler la pierre est fourni pour découper la pierre. Une tour d’eau est fournie pour conserver l’eau. Un espace sauna commun est fourni. Des cabanons sont fournis pour garder à l’abri des générateurs diesels pour l’électricité afin de charger des batteries et pour l’alimentation de secours, ainsi que pour les tracteurs et les voitures. Une fois que les installations communes ont été construits, les pionniers peuvent construire toutes les autres facilites dont ils ont besoin, tels des ateliers, des serres, des granges pour des animaux comme des vaches, cochons et poulets.<br /><br />La prochaine étape, la communauté peut construire des installations pour le commerce, tel une station-service, des logements motels pour les touristes, un kiosque pour les touristes, un centre touristique pour annoncer les services et les évènements dans Thompson et Churchill.<br /><br />Une fois que toutes les installations communes ont été construites, les pionniers peuvent s’aider entre eux pour construire des maisons privées pour les familles et des appartements pour les célibataires. Si les célibataires forment des couples et des familles, ils peuvent échanger leurs appartements pour des maisons. Si les pionniers déménagent de la maison communale, leurs places sont reprises par des pionniers nouveaux venus.<br /><br /><b>Les maisons privées </b>sont standardisées. Les murs et parquets en bois solides sont les deux grandes formes d’isolation. Les poutres en bois sont tenues par des piliers en pierre. Il n’y a pas de sous-sol et les piliers sont la fondation. Les plafonds sont bas pour garder les chambres au chaud pendant l’hiver. La cuisine avec la cuisinière est placée dans une extension de chambre afin qu’elle puisse être isolée de la maison en été et garder les autres chambres au frais. De plus, le conduit de cheminée est isolé pendant l’été. En hiver, les murs isolants de l’extension de la cuisine peuvent être facilement ajoutés et les tubes isolants autour du conduit de cheminée peuvent être retirés pour qu’ils réchauffent la maison entière. Il y aura un grenier avec un tuyau allant jusqu’au grenier ou à l’extérieur pour faire échapper l’air chaud des chambres. L’éclairage est LED et est alimenté par des batteries chargées par des panneaux solaires.<br /><br />La communauté doit être limitée à 200 personnes tous vivants dans leurs propres maisons privées. Une fois que cette limite est atteinte, une nouvelle communauté adjacente peut être fondée. 10 communautés adjacentes forment une colonie de 2000 personnes.<br /><br />Quand une colonie est finie, un nouveau lieu est choisi et une nouvelle colonie est fondée pour les pionniers nouveaux venants. Une fois que les parcelles de terre privées sont dégagées, le bois est vendu.<br /><br /><b>Personnes proposées et les outils sélectionnés pour le projet pilote pionnier </b><br /><br />Les personnes sélectionnées pour le projet pilote de communauté des pionniers sont sélectionnées pour leurs compétences nécessaires pour former une communauté autosuffisante et opérationnelle. Les familles étendues sur 3 générations (grands-parents, parents et enfants) sont encouragées. Les nombres sont limités a : 20 hommes célibataires, 20 femmes célibataires, et 20 familles.<br /><br />Les 80 adultes ont, parmi eux, les travailleurs qualifiés pour le travail de communauté suivant : travailleurs dans le domaines de santé, docteurs, enseignants, cuisiniers, boulangers, fromagers, bouchers, tailleurs, agriculteurs, jardiniers, apiculteurs, menuisiers, mécaniciens, tailleurs de pierre/ maçons, personnes avec des compétences informatiques, des compétences en anglais à l’oral et a l’écrit, des compétences de conduite, des compétences de pêche, compétences en fabrique de bougies et de savons. Si les familles amènent avec eux leurs grands-parents, ces derniers aideront les parents à s’occuper des enfants.<br /><br />Chaque adulte ayant la capacité de travailler est censé travailler 8 heures de travail communal pendant 5 jours par semaines avec 3 semaines de vacances. Le travail communal consiste de prendre soin des membres malades, l’enseignement, la cuisson, la préparation de produits laitiers, la mise en place de pièges pour la chasse, l’abattage d’animaux et la récolte de leurs peaux, la couture et la réparation de tissus, l’agriculture, le jardinage, la production de miel, la menuiserie, la maintenance de la machinerie, la conduite, l’abattage d’arbres, en les sciant en planches, en bûches et en fendant ces bûches.<br /><br />Les outils d’occasion sont fournis, tels que les tracteurs, voitures, tronçonneuses, fendeuses de buches, broyeurs à grains, machines à laver, machines à coudre, pelles, marteaux, appareils ménagers, générateurs électriques. Les mécaniques sont formées pour maintenir et réparer ces outils d’occasion.<br /><br />Les pionniers travaillent tous ensemble pour construire des maisons privées et des blocs d’appartement. On leur fait un prêt pour tous les matériaux dont ils ont besoin. Une fois que les pionniers ont leurs propres maisons privées, ils n’ont plus besoin de faire du travail communal. Ils peuvent travailler en dehors de la communauté et/ou établir des entreprises pour la communauté des pionniers.<br /><br />Les nouveau arrivés vivent en commune et construisent des installations communes et des maisons privées pour leur communauté. Les pionniers d’une communauté s’étant installés travaillent leur propre terrain et travaillent dans leur propres entreprises. Une fois qu’ils remplissent les critères de homesteading, ils reçoivent la citoyenneté canadienne et des titres à leurs propriétés.<br /><br /><b>Proposition de projets de travail pour les pionniers </b><br /><br />Les pionniers peuvent construire des sentiers, des routes, des terrains de camping, des installations touristiques et peuvent offrir des activités aux touristes.<br /><br />Une fois que les pionniers ont une ferme, ils peuvent partir du centre communal, et travailler sur le déboisement de leur parcelle de terre. Les pionniers qui vivent encore dans le centre communal attendant à ce que leur ferme soit construite, travaillent sur des projets de la communauté, comme la scierie, des gravières, des ateliers de découpe de pierres, des fermes de la communauté, des serres et de la construction de fermes. Ils fournissent des produits comme la nourriture et le matériel de construction.<br /><br />Les fermes sont construites sur des parcelles de terre qui sont méticuleusement choisis pour attirer les touristes afin de développer le secteur touristique. Comme les pionniers emménagent dans leurs fermes, ils dégagent la terre et fournissent le centre communal avec des produits bruts comme le bois pour la scierie, la pierre pour l’atelier de découpe de pierres et de graviers. Ils ne sont pas payés pour le travail qu’ils fournissent. Ils travaillent sur leur propre terrain et y investissent avec leur main-d’œuvre avec la promesse qu’ils peuvent en profiter financièrement grâce à l’industrie du tourisme qu’ils ont aidés à développer. Les matériaux de construction comme le bois et le gravier sont fourni par la communauté communale. Les autorités au niveau local, régional et fédéral soutiennent les pionniers en leur aidant à la formation, l’orientation, la gestion et la machinerie. Ces autorités profiteront de ce travail gratuit pour construire des installations et des infrastructures pour l’industrie touristique qui payera éventuellement des taxes.<br /><br />Des chemins pour les randonneurs et les chevaux sont construits comme des attractions touristiques telles des cascades et des beaux paysages. Les premiers sentiers ont été construits au long de rivages de lacs ou des fournitures ont été ramenées en bateau. Les emplacements de camping sont places le long des chemins sur le rivage et des cabines peuvent finalement être construites pour des touristes. Des installations telles des quais, plages, lieux de baignades, et installations nautiques sont construits pour permettre aux touristes de pêcher et de profiter de la nature. Plusieurs chemins sont construits allant au centre des attractions touristiques telles que des cascades et des vues panoramiques.<br /><br />Les chemins sont éventuellement élargis pour permettre aux VTTs de circuler en été et les motoneiges de le faire en hiver. Les chemins de terre proche des sentiers allant autour du lac sont construits par la suite.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Système de récompenses proposes pour motiver les pionniers à travailler sans être payés </b><br /><br />Travailler pour quelqu’un sans un salaire n’est pas très motivant. Travailler pour soi et sa famille sans salaire et très gratifiant.<br /><br />Après avoir fui la persécution, la guerre et la famine et la recherche pour la liberté dans un nouveau pays est une des raisons principales pour les refugies de devenir des pionniers. Une autre raison pour beaucoup de personnes et la liberté de travailler et de prospérer dans l’espoir d’être capable d’aider les membres de famille et les amis laisses derrière. Beaucoup ont aussi bon espoir pour éventuellement devenir riche. Fournir des services basiques aux touristes a la recherche de la nature ne rendra personne riche, peu importe comment ils travaillent. Cependant, avec suffisamment de temps dévoué au travail, le service aux touristes peut se transformer dans une entreprise familiale profitable. La question se pose quand a la motivation de ‘homesteaders’ pour travailler sans être payer.<br /><br />Au tout début, les nouveaux pionniers sont des membres d’une communauté communale, vivre dans un centre communautaire. Le centre communautaire est établi en tant qu’organisation non-gouvernementale travaillant en tant que coopérative. Tous les profits sont gérés par l’organisation et sont utilisés pour grandir la communauté, créer de nouvelles, payer des prêts, et de sponsoriser de nouveaux réfugiés pour devenir des pionniers. Les ‘homesteaders’ reçoivent du matériel pour une communauté communal. Ils travaillent sans être payés pour assister et grandir leurs communautés et de développer les fermes des ‘homesteaders’ pour être autosuffisants. Une fois que les pionniers sont assignés les fermes, ils travailleront plus de temps sur leur parcelle de terre et moins de temps à travailler sur des projets de commune. Leur travail n’est pas rémunéré.<br /><br />C’est reconnu que des personnes ont besoin de motivation et d’incitations pour travailler sans être payés. La motivation principale vient de la garantie qu’ils travaillent sur des terres qu’ils finiront par en devenir propriétaire. Une fois que les installations sont construits pour les touristes qui payent, les incitations ont besoin d’être proposes afin que les pionniers puissent continuer leur travail pour assurer qu’ils aient de plus en plus de touristes à servir. Etant donné que l’argent reçu des touristes est payée par la communauté, les incitations pour motiver les ‘homesteaders’ à travailler dur et satisfaire les touristes pour qu’ils retournent conseillent leurs amis à venir visiter est une forme <b>de points mérités. </b><br /><br />Chaque ‘homesteader’ est responsable de servir les touristes qui sont logés sur leurs parcelles de terre. Le nombre de points mérités qu’ils reçoivent sont déterminés par les critères suivants : le nombre de touristes qui sont logés et la qualité des réactions fait par les touristes. Avec les points mérités accumulées, les ‘homesteaders’ peuvent sponsoriser des membres de famille et avoir du temps libre pour des congés payés.<br /><br />Les ‘homesteaders’ qui sont devenus citoyens peuvent vendre leurs fermes et leurs entreprises familiales à n’importe qui étant prêt à joindre une coopérative à but non-lucratif et qui veuille respecter ses règles.<br /><br /><b>Que des gagnants </b><br /><br />La seule solution immédiate offerte aux réfugiés en ce moment par les gouvernements de l’ouest est de sauver quelques-uns des radeaux faisant naufrage et leurs offrent des abris temporaires<br /><br />Cette proposition-pour aider les réfugiés à s’entraider en leur offrant une solution à long terme et offrant la dignité à leur situation désespérée et sans espoirs- semble être une situation avec que des gagnants. Les seuls perdants sont les dictateurs brutaux qui perdent leur citoyens les plus qualifiés qui ont risqué leurs vie pour y faire fuite, et les grandes entreprises qui perdront les dictateurs qui leurs permettent d’exploiter leurs citoyens et leur pays.<br /><br />La solution long-terme proposée dans l’article offre aux réfugiés l’opportunité de devenir des pionniers et commencer une nouvelle vie libre et pleine de dignité pour eux et leurs familles.<br /><br /><b>La Suisse </b>va fournir la gestion, la formation et le transport à la colonie pilote des pionniers et peut contrebalancer certain coûts en profitant du travail gratuit pendant la période de formation.<br /><br /><b>Le Canada</b> va fournir le terrain pour les colonies et des nouvelles lois pour le ‘homesteading’. Le Canada peut contrebalancer certains coûts en profitant du travail gratuit qui ouvrira le nord aux touristes. Les canadiens de la région du nord profiteront du surplus dans l’industrie du tourisme et les touristes profiteront des nouvelles installations développées par les pionniers.<br /><br /><b>Les réfugiés</b> sont garantis les droits de pionniers de devenir des propriétaires suite à leur travail et deviendront des citoyens libres et productifs.<br /><br /><b>Pionniers pour le monde </b><br /><br />Certaines personnes affirment que ce qui peut être imagine peut devenir réalité.Imaginez ce qui suit :</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">TRAVAIL GRATUIT:::VA TRAVAILLER GRATUITEMENT:::TRAVAIL GRATUIT:::VA TRAVAILLER GRATUITEMENT<br /><br />Si vous connaissez un endroit proche de vous qui vaut le détour mais sans routes ou de sentiers y menant. La raison pour laquelle ces perles manquent de routes et de sentiers y menant est peut-être parce qu’ils ne sont pas vu comme profitable.<br /><br />Voici comment on vient à votre aide.<br /><br />Nous sommes un groupe de bucherons bosseurs, des constructeurs routiers et pionniers, des menuisiers et des mécaniques. Et nous fournissons notre propre personnel de support. Nous sommes formés et et sélectionnés en Suisse, et nous respecterons la qualité, la productivité et l’innovation suisse.<br /><br />Nous allons construire, ‘sans être rémunérés’, en utilisant toutes les ressources naturelles locales, sentiers, routes, quais, emplacements de campings, cabines et installations touristiques.<br /><br />MAIS il y a un hic.<br /><br />Nous ne sommes pas des esclaves. Nous sommes des pionniers qui exigent, dans l’esprit de pionnier, d’être laissé libre et seul et d’être donné la chance de devenir autosuffisant, productif ainsi que des citoyens payant leurs impôts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Maintenant, de retour à la réalité.<br /><br />Le monde regarde et exige un traitement humain des réfugiés.<br /><br />On espère que des politiciens qui se font élire et qui croient encore qu’ils peuvent faire la différence en changeant et en améliorant la situation, peuvent trouver une solution immédiate à ce problème grandissant auquel on fait tous face.<br /><br />Avec un peu de chance, les politiciens vont bientôt financer un programme d’études à l’université qui évalue la rentabilité d’établir un projet pilote de colonies de pionniers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><br />La réinsertion des refugiés avec leurs familles dans des communautés où ils peuvent garder leur culture, leur langage et retrouver leurs familles ou encore leurs amis ainsi que vivre une vie dignifiée en tant que pionniers est la solution au problème des réfugiés. Tout comme on n’attendait pas des pionniers du passé de s’intégrer et de perdre leur langage ainsi que leur culture, on ne devrait pas attendre des refugiés d’aujourd’hui devenus pionniers, de s’intégrer. Ils doivent être traités avec respect et dignité et ne devraient non seulement être tolérés mais aussi acceptés et appréciés.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Conclusions </b><br /><br />Afin de promouvoir cette idée, je l’ai publié dans un blog et invité environ 3000 personnes pour la considérer et de faire des commentaires. De tous les politiciens suisses et canadiens, universités, ONGs et groupes d’intérêts speciales que j’ai contacté, j’ai seulement recu a peu près 30 réponses. Ceci équivaut à environ 1%. Et la plupart d’entre eux n’ont même pas pris le temps de lire le blog. Ceci démontre clairement qu’il n’y aucune envie des politiciens d’addresser le problème des réfugiés afin de leur fournir une solution immédiate dignifiante et rentable dans le long terme.</span><br />
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<i>Nature provides all animals, including humans to live healthy self-sufficient lives. The internet provides people to gain the necessary knowledge to live self-sufficiently off the land. </i></div>
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Many people find the proposal in this blog as too idealistic. They claim that it lacks any realism in that such a proposal is not profitable and not "doable". The solutions proposed by others is to help the helpless refugees by saving them and taking care of them. I think that we should rather help the refugees to help themselves. The refugees are not seeking profitable lives, but rather a chance for free dignified lives for themselves and their children.<br />
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This post in this blog attempts to convince the reader that the past experience of pioneers clearly demonstrates that people, ready to work hard can, if given the chance, be self sufficient because nature continues to provide everything they need to be self sufficient.<br />
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Our world has drastically changed in the past 100 years. Our
globalized world has displaced family farms, using natural means to farm, with industrial
ones that must use chemical fertilizers and antibacterial medicines and cruel
handling of animals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While man`s "wants"
have changed over the century, his "needs" have remained the same. Nature continues to
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The internet with its rich source of knowledge, the modern
materials and machinery and new micro-farming techniques make self-sufficient living
off the land more and more attractive and doable. It not only provides us with cheaper and healthier food, but frees us from dependence on corporations that use industrialized farming,
distribution and marketing to provide us with food. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Refugees, turned pioneers, must learn how to be self-sufficient
in Northern Canada, with its harsh and long winters. Fortunately, the internet offers many sources from people
and communities who have successful experiences they are willing to share their skills for us to learn.<br />
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<b>The Pig Idea: use food waste as pig feed rather than crops, say celebrity chefs </b><div class="content__headline js-score" itemprop="headline">
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Haslett-Marroquin, an innovator in the field of regenerative
agriculture, has developed an ingenious blueprint for a system that has
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agriculture needs to be centered around livestock in order to be
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is also very accessible to small-scale farmers, who produce most of the
food in the world. About 40 percent of the world’s population are small
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Dr. Mercola Interviews Steve Farrar About Mushrooms (Part 1 of 5)<br />
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Grow Your Own Mushrooms in Used Coffee Grounds<br />
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In the video below from Shades of Green, discover how the people who live
among the Tongass NF in southeastern Alaska live with and off of the
land, the natural resources and each other in this compelling video.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">From Fairbanks, Alaska</span><br />
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A short documentary about a self- sufficient family living on a mini eco
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How to grow Stevia</div>
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<b>Here's Why You Should Grow Some Fenugreek</b><br />
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Plants for healing and keeping healthy<br />
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<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/self-reliance/self-sufficient-living-zm0z13onzrob.aspx?PageId=1#ArticleContent">http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/self-reliance/self-sufficient-living-zm0z13onzrob.aspx?PageId=1#ArticleContent</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.self-sufficient-farm-living.com/">http://www.self-sufficient-farm-living.com/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.5acresandadream.com/p/homesteading.html">http://www.5acresandadream.com/p/homesteading.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.hobbyfarms.com/farm-marketing-and-management/beginning-farmers-guide-to-self-sufficiency.aspx">http://www.hobbyfarms.com/farm-marketing-and-management/beginning-farmers-guide-to-self-sufficiency.aspx</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/self-reliance.html#.VWH1YkaaVhl">http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/self-reliance.html#.VWH1YkaaVhl</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.self-sufficient-farm-living.com/">http://www.self-sufficient-farm-living.com/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsible-living/stories/off-the-grid-communities-5-places-carving-a-sustainable-path">http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsible-living/stories/off-the-grid-communities-5-places-carving-a-sustainable-path</a></div>
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Sustainable Mini-farming</div>
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<a href="http://www.growbiointensive.org/?gclid=CNLPkZ303MUCFVHKtAodmEkAfA">http://www.growbiointensive.org/?gclid=CNLPkZ303MUCFVHKtAodmEkAfA</a></div>
Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-38393414062374376852015-05-16T06:54:00.000-07:002020-03-30T08:04:16.442-07:0012. Proposal for a feasibility study for this pilot pioneer project<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<i>Politicians need to be convinced by academics of the feasibility of such a pioneer project as described in this blog.</i><br />
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I have formulated an idea how one can start a pilot
pioneer settlement in Canada for refugees. </div>
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I argued that Canada can benefit from pioneers much in
the same way it has benefited from pioneers in the past. The pioneers today no
longer can become self-sufficient by cultivating their land, as the most
fertile land are no longer available. Homesteaders can no longer compete in
this competitive world by cultivating their plots. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have to rather exploit their plot for all
the possible resources that they find on it. They have to cooperate instead of
compete. They can no longer afford to work in family units, as they did in the
past, but instead have to work as a community that is made up of carefully
chosen people with unique skills of expertise. Modern machinery, friendly neighbors
and existing railway lines and roads make homesteading much easier then what it
was in the past. The growing tourist industry allows homesteaders a niche
market that can be exploited. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i>It is not a question of "can it be profitable?" </i><br />
<i>but rather</i> <i>"can it be self-sustainable and offer refugees a dignified free life ? that we all deserve" </i></div>
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<i>Refugees make the best pioneers </i><br />
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I continue to believe very
strongly that refugees, turned into modern day pioneers to settle and open up
Northern Canada for tourists, can offer Canada a lot more than just
international prestige. </div>
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<b>Proposal for a study program to explore possible immediate and long term solution to help refugees to find a new dignified and free life. </b><br />
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The sociology departments in universities start programs
to find possible ways to immediately help refugees set up a self-sufficient
community. A start would be to make a feasibility study of the pilot refugee settlement
as proposed in this blog. </div>
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3 universities should be funded to work on a cooperative base:</div>
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<li>A university in Switzerland, close to the Swiss politicians,
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<li>A university in Canada, close to the Canadian politicians
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<li>A university in Canada, close to the proposed
location for such pioneer settlement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
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The 3 universities should work in close cooperation. They
should make a feasibility study concerning:</div>
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<li>legalities </li>
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Once the feasibility study is completed, it will be
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Canadian, Swiss, and EU countries). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-28647896330094109632015-05-08T00:07:00.001-07:002020-03-30T07:52:54.412-07:0011. Scenarios of what can follow the “pilot pioneer project”. <i>Abstract: </i><br />
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<i>Examples of other locations that need pioneers to build trails, roads, campgrounds, and facilities to open them up to tourists. </i></div>
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Once the pioneers complete the requirements to be
Canadian citizens and become proud owners of their settlements, they are no longer pioneers.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is foreseen that many would like to
sponsor their relatives to immigrate to Canada. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This should be encouraged as the main point of
this project is to help refugees. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The road to Thompson, the proposed location of the pilot
pioneer project is almost 800km long. Additional pioneer homesteads can be set up along the road to
exploit the lumber along the way and open the road up for tourists. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a settlement is started at every 20 km,
there could be as many as 40 such settlements on that road. With each settlement
housing 1000 -2000 settlers, 40,000 – 80,000 refugees can be helped<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to start a new life of freedom and
opportunity just along this road. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As situations improve in the countries that
the refugees fled from, many no doubt would eventually choose to return. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would just open up more opportunities for
more refugees from other countries as the needs change, and make it that much
easier for them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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There are many remote places in Canada to homestead and
support the tourist industry. It is envisioned that more and more tourists in the future will
like to witness and experience a bit of Canadian wilderness and history. </div>
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Some of the possible locations to do this are taken from
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The little coastal village of Tahsis is one of the most
remote Canadian towns in the country. Located on the west coast of Vancouver
Island, the village is around 300km by air from the provincial capital of
Victoria. With 300 residents the area is found at the head of the steep and
forbidding Tahsis Inlet, part of the spectacular Nooka Sound. The inlet, while
making access to Tahsis difficult, is actually a protector of sorts for the
town, saving it from the vicious lashings of the Pacific Ocean. With the major
income for the town derived from forestry, Tahsis enjoyed a healthy population
at its peak of around 2,500. But as the forest industry has declined, so to has
the town’s population, it now numbers around 300 residents. Today, the town is
trying to reinvent itself as an outdoor recreation adventure destination. About 20km from the closest road, it would be accessible by horse riding or hiking if a path was made from the road. This is an excellent opportunity for pioneering spirited people, and an excellent tourist attraction possibility. </div>
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Telegraph Cove in British Columbia is a former fishing
village which now serves as a launch point for eco-tourism in Blackfish Sound.
Growing out of a one-room station of the northern tip of the Campbell River
telegraph line, Telegraph Cove may be a remote Canadian town with
a permanent population of just 20. Despite this the area is a hive of
activity, with up to 120,000 visitors descending on the area in the summer.
Compact and bordered by rainforest and ocean, the town retains it’s rustic
past. About 10km from the closest road, it would be accessible by horse riding
or hiking if a path was made from the road. This is an excellent
opportunity for pioneering spirited people, and an excellent tourist
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Around 138 make this small Quebec town their home,
Kegashka , or Kegaska as they pesky French-speaking Canadians like to spell it,
was the site of a Hudson’s Bay Company trading post in 1831.Yet it wasn’t
properly settled until 1898. The area attracts outdoor
enthusiasts, drawn by the excellent hiking, wildlife watching, iceberg viewing
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be less harsh to their citizens, and less citizens will have the need to become
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<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">The refugees come from various troubled countries. They are trained and selected according to skills needed in the pioneer community. They are then transported to the community where they live in the communal center. They support the community by living and working there. They communally build </span><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">private houses called "homesteads" for each other. When they are selected for a homestead, they move out from the communal center. They continue to work for the community as many hours as needed to use products that the community makes. The remaining time, they </span>make trails and clear the land around their homestead and provide trees and stones to the community. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">They improve their lives by starting small businesses and providing services to tourists as well as services to the community. Once they meet the requirements of homesteading, and demonstrate that they are self sufficient, then they become tax paying Canadian citizens free to stay, or go wherever they desire. <b><br /></b></span><br />
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-76340792559244583642015-05-07T08:35:00.000-07:002020-03-30T07:49:39.981-07:009. What we can do to help refugees now<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<i>By treating refugees humanely, we are showing our children by our example that we are all brothers ans sisters in the family of mankind and have a responsibility to treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. We all have a worth and we can all learn from each other. By including refugees in our communities, all gain a sense of thankfulness. We become more aware and grow to appreciate more our own good fortune to be able to help, instead of to rely on help. We realize that giving is much more rewarding than getting. Refugees in our communities allows us to live a life of love, compassion and tolerance rather than just to preach it. </i></div>
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The community of Riggisberg, in the Kanton of Bern,
Switzerland has offered the use of its emergency community shelter to house 150
refugees. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Riggisberg has become a very
positive example; not only for all Swiss, but also for everyone in this world.
The setting of this example is especially important for young people who will
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Giving, when freely done from the heart is much more
rewarding than receiving. It makes givers aware of their freedom, and it makes
them be thankful for their good fortune to be able to give. It is very self-satisfying
to be helpful, especially when it is appreciated. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Many residents of Riggisberg as well as the local church have
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very grateful for the good and wise leadership it has.</div>
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There is a home page that documents all the work that is
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Some of the regular weekly activities that volunteer
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refugees who chose to come in a coffe house setting where they can practice
their German with the volunteers who bring cakes and serve coffee. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 30%-50% of the refugees attend.<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>German lessons<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Sewing and knitting workshops<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Volleyball and soccer<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></span></li>
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<li>Children play group<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-42301012151056556742015-05-07T07:50:00.004-07:002020-03-30T07:47:52.881-07:008. Statistics and information on Refugees<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Abstract:</i><br />
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<i>Both Switzerland and Canada are successful and prosperous countries thanks to their immigrants. </i><br />
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The United States (170,400) and Germany (170,000) granted Convention refugee status to the largest number of asylum-seekers, followed by theUnited Kingdom (139,000) and Canada (127,000). Sweden accepted the largest number of asylum-seekers for humanitarian reasons (117,000), followed by the United Kingdom (113,500), the Netherlands (97,000) and Switzerland (95,000). During the past decade, 37% of all asylum-seekers granted some form of individual protection in industrialized countries received humanitarian status.</div>
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299,738 claims were submitted in <b>Canada,</b> (9.6 per 1000 inhabitants) ranking 14 in the world.</div>
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239,260 were admitted (7.7 per 1000 inhabitants ) ranking 7 in the world.</div>
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247,683 claims were submitted in <b>Switzerland</b>, (34.5 per 1000 inhabitants) ranking 1 in the world.</div>
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169,517 were admitted (23.6 per 1000 inhabitants) ranking 1 in the world.</div>
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164,132 were rejected at first instance and 57,079 were rejected on appeal.</div>
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88,512 asylum-seekers were allowed to remain for humanitarian reasons at the first instance.</div>
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772,651 refugees entered <b>Canada</b>. 518,046 (almost 33%) were rejected. 518,046 were able to stay. That is almost 1.5% of the 2013 population. The population of Canada was 27.8 million in 1990. In 2013 it was 35 million, an increase of 7.2 million. Over 7% of the increase was due to refugees.</div>
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516,540 refugees entered <b>Switzerland</b>. 314,222 (about 60%) were rejected. 202,318 were able to stay. That is over 2.5% of the 2013 population. The population of Switzerland was 6.7 million in 1990. In 2013, it was 8 million, an increase of 1.3 million. Over 15% of the increase was due to refugees.</div>
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Annual number of persons granted asylum as Convention refugees and allowed to stay by type of arrival, 1985-1994</div>
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Table 17: Annual number of asylum applications submitted in selected countries, 1988-1997</div>
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Table V.1 Asylum applications submitted in selected countries, 1989-1998</div>
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<u style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Canada: A History of Refuge</b></u><br />
<a href="http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/timeline.asp" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/timeline.asp</a><br />
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<section style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></section><section style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">1776: 3,000 Black Loyalists, among them freemen and slaves, fled the oppression of the American Revolution and came to Canada.<br /><br />1781: Butler’s Rangers, a military unit loyal to the Crown and based at Fort Niagara, settled some of the first Loyalist refugees from the United States in the Niagara peninsula, along the northern shores of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.<br /><br />1783: Sir Guy Carleton, Governor of the British Province of Quebec, and later to become Lord Dorchester, safely transported 35,000 Loyalist refugees from New York to Nova Scotia. Some settled in Quebec, and others in Kingston and Adolphustown in Ontario.<br /><br />1789: Lord Dorchester, Governor-in-Chief of British North America, gave official recognition to the “First Loyalists” – those loyal to the Crown who fled the oppression of the American Revolution to settle in Nova Scotia and Quebec.<br /><br />1793: Upper Canada became the first province in the British Empire to abolish slavery. In turn, over the course of the 19th century, thousands of black slaves escaped from the United States and came to Canada with the aid of the Underground Railroad, a Christian anti-slavery network.<br />Late 1700s: Scots Highlanders, refugees of the Highland Clearances during the modernization of Scotland, settled in Canada.<br /><br />1830: Polish refugees fled to Canada to escape Russian oppression. The year 1858 marked the first significant mass migration of Poles escaping Prussian occupation in northern Poland.<br /><br />1880-1914: Italians escaped the ravages of Italy’s unification as farmers were driven off their land as a result of the new Italian state reforms.<br /><br />1880-1914: Thousands of persecuted Jews, fleeing pogroms in the Pale of Settlement, sought refuge in Canada.<br /><br />1891: The migration of 170,000 Ukrainians began, mainly to flee oppression from areas under Austro-Hungarian rule, marking the first wave of Ukrainians seeking refuge in Canada.<br /><br />1920-1939: The second wave of Ukrainians fled from Communism, civil war and Soviet occupation.<br /><br />1945-1952: The third wave of Ukrainians fled Communist rule.<br /><br />1947-1952: 250,000 displaced persons (<abbr>DPs</abbr>) from Central and Eastern Europe came to Canada, victims of both National Socialism (Nazism) and Communism, and Soviet occupation.<br /><br />1950s: Canada admitted Palestinian Arabs, driven from their homeland by the Israeli-Arab war of 1948.<br /><br />1950s-1970s: A significant influx of Middle Eastern and North African Jews fled to Canada.<br /><br />1951: The <i>United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees</i> was created.<br /><br />1956: 37,000 Hungarians escaped Soviet tyranny and found refuge in Canada.<br /><br />1960: Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, whose grandfather was a German refugee of the Napoleonic Wars, introduced Canada’s first Bill of Rights.<br /><br />1960s: Chinese refugees fled the Communist violence of the Cultural Revolution.<br /><br />1968-1969: 11,000 Czech refugees fled the Soviet and Warsaw Pact Communist invasion.<br /><br />1969: Canada signed the <i>United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees</i>, and its Protocol, agreeing not to return a person to their country of origin if that person had grounds to fear persecution.<br /><br />1970s: 7,000 Chilean and other Latin American refugees were allowed to stay in Canada after the violent overthrow of Salvador Allende’s government in 1973.<br /><br />1970-1990: Deprived of political and religious freedom, 20,000 Soviet Jews settled in Canada.<br /><br />1971: After decades of being denied adequate political representation in the central Pakistani government, thousands of Bengali Muslims came to Canada at the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War.<br /><br />1971-1972: Canada admitted some 228 Tibetans. These refugees, along with their fellow countrymen, were fleeing their homeland after China occupied it in 1959.<br /><br />1972-1973: Following Idi Amin’s expulsion of Ugandan Asians, 7,000 Ismaili Muslims fled and were brought to Canada.<br /><br />1979: Iranian refugees fled Iran following the overthrow of the Shah and the imposition of an Islamic Fundamentalist regime.<br /><br />1979 -1980: More than 60,000 Boat People found refuge in Canada after the Communist victory in the Vietnam War.<br /><br />1980s: Khmer Cambodians, victims of the Communist regime and the aftershocks of Communist victory in the Vietnam War, fled to Canada.<br /><br />1982: The Constitution of Canada was amended to entrench the <i>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms</i>.<br /><br />1986: The United Nations awarded Canada the Nansen Medal for its outstanding humanitarian tradition of settling refugees.<br /><br />1990s: By the 1990s, asylum seekers came to Canada from all over the world, particularly Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa.<br /><br />1992: 5,000 Bosnian Muslims were admitted to Canada to escape the ethnic cleansing in the Yugoslav Civil War.<br /><br />1999: Canada airlifted more than 5,000 Kosovars, most of whom were Muslim, to safety.<br /><br />2006: Canada resettled over 3,900 Karen refugees from refugee camps in Thailand.<br /><br />2008: Canada began the process of resettling more than 5,000 Bhutanese refugees over five years.<br /><br />2010: Refugees from more than 140 countries were either resettled or were granted asylum in Canada.<br /><br />2011: Canada expands its refugee resettlement programs by 20% over three years.<br /><br /><i>Each year, Canada provides asylum to more than 10,000 persecuted persons and welcomes another 12,000 refugees from abroad.</i><br /><br /><i>If you, your family or your community organization would like to sponsor a refugee, please visit cic.gc.ca for information.</i> </section><br />
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At 21%, Switzerland has one of the largest percentages of foreigners in the world.</div>
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At 1.4%, Switzerland has the lowest number of naturalizations.</div>
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Switzerland has a long humanitarian tradition as a place of refuge, dating back 400 years.</div>
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In the 16<sup>th</sup> century, thousands of French Protestants, persecuted for their religious beliefs, sought refuge in Swiss cities. Many of these people became members of Switzerland`s cultural, political, and entrepreneurial elite. </div>
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The Swiss universities founded in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century benefited from the arrival of German intellectuals who fled home when the liberal revolution of 1848 failed. Industrialization in Switzerland began around 1850 and required foreign labor, both skilled and unskilled. The liberal immigration policies that prevailed in the pre-war period resulted in a rapid increase in the foreign population.</div>
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Before and during WWI, refugees were considered as worthy. In order to take care of war refugees, the Swiss government built internment camps for 26,000 people.</div>
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After WWI and during WWII, Jewish refugees were considered as a danger to the country. Protecting national identity became one of the pillars of immigration and asylum policies. The group of refugees most affected by “the boat is full” rhetoric were the Jews. Swiss civil servants urged to use a “J” stamp to administratively label foreign Jews.</div>
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Between 1940 and 1945, at least 24,000 were sent back to face death in German concentration camps.</div>
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After WWII, refugees from communist countries were welcome.</div>
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In 1956, 13,700 Hungarians were allowed to settle permanently after the uprising.</div>
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In 1963, 1,000 Tibetan refugees came to Switzerland fleeing China`s invasion of Tibet.</div>
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In 1968, 13,000 Czechoslovakian nationals, who were well educated had little difficulty in obtaining refugee status.</div>
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In mid-1970, 1,600 Chilean refugees were accepted.</div>
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After 1981, the number of applicants, which had been steady at about 1,000 per year during the 1970s increased exponentially. Most of the refugees except for a large number of Polish refugees in 1982 came from non-European countries: Turkey, Zaire, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and from the Middle East. Unlike the anti-communist dissidents, they were not always professionals or university educated.</div>
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A weak economy made it hard for these non-European refugees to find work. The government carried out progressive revisions to the liberal 1981 law to make it more restrictive.Consequently, only a decreasing percentage of asylum requests were accepted, even from people fleeing civil wars and violence.</div>
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Positive answers to applications averaged 92.2% between 1975 and 1979 dropped to an average of 55.8% between 1980 and 1984 and then to an average of 8.7% between 1985 and 1989.</div>
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As of 1990s Asylum seekers were regarded as “criminals and drug dealers”.</div>
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As the civil war broke out in the former Yugoslavia, the numbers of asylum seekers to Switzerland significantly increased. </div>
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In 1991, demands for asylum reached a high point with 41,629 requests.</div>
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Between 1990 and 2002, Switzerland received a total of 146,587 asylum applications from the war torn Balkans. About 10,000 people were granted asylum, and 62,000 received temporary protection over the course of several years. Most of the asylum seekers from Bosnia and Kosovo had to leave Switzerland after conflicts ended in 1995 and 1999, respectively. The law was made more restrictive and introduced new grounds for non-admission to a regular asylum procedure.</div>
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Despite the fact that the number of accepted refugees declined during the 1990s, in 2002 the nationalist Swiss People`s Party (SVP), launched a referendum against the “Abuse of Asylum Rights” to introduce further restrictions. A narrow majority of 50.1% voted against the tightening of asylum laws.</div>
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In 2005, the Swiss Parliament accepted the tightening of asylum laws.</div>
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The government`s tightening of asylum laws came at a time of decreasing asylum applications.</div>
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In 2004, there were 14,248 asylum applications. This was 32% lower than in 2003.</div>
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In 2005 there were 10,061 applications, the lowest number since 1986. The largest single group of applicants came from Serbia and Montenegro, followed by Turkey. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">With an increasing aging population and death rate, and a decreasing family size and birth rate, Canada needs to rely on immigration to give it a population growth rate needed for economic growth. Refugees, in the form of pioneers who later become immigrants and citizens are young, willing, hard workers who can provide Canada with a vibrant population growth it needs.</span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"> In the decades from 1861 to 1901, the annual average growth rate was less than 1.3%.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Between 1901 and 1921, the population increased almost 3% a year on average. Then it gradually slowed in the following decades, to just above 1% between 1931 and 1941.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">In the decades from 1941 to 1971, the annual average growth rate was slightly more than 2.1% due to the baby-boom and strong immigration.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Since the early 1970s, the rate of population growth has held at just over 1% per year on average. </li>
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<b>Natural increase</b> is the difference between the number of births and deaths during a given period. This is how any population is replenished in the absence of migration.</div>
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<b>Migratory increase</b> is the difference between the number of immigrants entering the country and the number of emigrants leaving the country.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">In the early 20th Century, large numbers of immigrants settled in Canada, mainly to populate the West. Between 1901 and 1911, more than 1.2 million immigrants, mostly from Europe, came to Canada, generating what was then a record migratory increase. A significant rise in fertility resulted in the post-Second World War baby boom. Immigration also rebounded after the Second World War and was especially high during the 1950s. In 1957, against the backdrop of the Hungarian and Suez crises, Canada received more than 282,000 immigrants, resulting in a high migratory increase during the 1950s.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Between 1851 and 2001, natural increase was the main factor behind Canada's population growth. The proportion of growth due to natural increase, however, has declined since the late 1960s. Since 2001, it has accounted for about one-third of population growth. This decrease was the result of two factors.</span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The first was a rapid decrease in fertility in the late 1960s and the 1970s and its fairly constant level since then. By 1976, fertility had fallen to less than 1.8 children per woman. There was a corresponding decrease in the number of births during this period .Since the mid-1970s, the number of births has been stable at a level below 400,000 per year, owing to relatively low fertility ranging from 1.5 and 1.7 children per women.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The second factor was a steady rise in the number of deaths. This was due in part to the aging of the population. Migratory increase has taken on an increasingly important role in recent Canadian population growth.</li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Natural increase is expected to continue to decline in the future decades, due to a projected increase in the number of deaths. The aging of the population will accelerate between 2011 and 2031 as baby boomers reach the age of 65. In 2026, the first of the baby boomers will reach the age of 80, an age when mortality is high. As a result, the number of deaths will increase significantly.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">The medium growth scenario used in population projections assumes an immigration rate of 7.5 immigrants per 1,000 population and a fertility rate of 1.7 children per women. This scenario indicates that starting in 2031, migratory increase could account for more than 80% of Canada's population growth, compared to about 67% currently.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Without a sustained level of immigration or a substantial increase in fertility, Canada's population growth could, within 20 years, be close to zero.</span><br />
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Switzerland’s population jumped by nearly 85,000 people in 2011, according to the Federal Statistics Office, with the majority of cantons experiencing population growth.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">In 2011, switzerland had a population growth of 1.1 per cent, comparable to growth experienced in 2007 and 2009. 1 in 8 live in the largest five Swiss cities of Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Lausanne and Bern, while nearly half of the population resides in a city with more than 10,000 inhabitants.The new population numbers include Swiss citizens and foreigners, with the exception of those with short-term residence permits and those who have been seeking asylum in Switzerland for less than one year. The foreign population rose by nearly 50,000 people to 1.815 million, making up 22.8 per cent of the total Swiss population. 63.3% of the foreign population comes from eurozone states.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Switzerland’s population has more than tripled since 1860, when it stood at 2.5 million. The strongest period of growth occurred between 1950 and 1970, when the population grew by an average 1.4 per cent every year. That rate slowed dramatically between 1970 and 1980 to 0.15 per cent because of immigration restrictions and the economic crisis in the mid-1970s.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Since 2000, Swiss population growth has been around 0.9 per cent annually but has stood at one per cent or higher since 2007.</span><br />
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<b><u>UNHCR 2012 Refugee statistics</u></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jun/19/refugees-unhcr-statistics-data" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jun/19/refugees-unhcr-statistics-data</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">In summary:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The total number of people forcibly displaced worldwide has reached 45.2m people, the highest level in almost 20 years, according to a report published today by the UN's High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The annual 'Global Trends' report shows that as of the end of 2012, more than 45.2m people were forcibly displaced compared with 42.5m at the end of 2011. Mark Tran writes today:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The world is in the throes of its most serious refugee crisis for almost 20 years, as conflicts in Syria, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mali have forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, the UN's refugee agency has said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">More than 45.1 million people were displaced last year, the largest number since 1994. This includes 15.4 million refugees, 937,000 asylum seekers, and 28.8 million internally displaced people (IDPs) – those forced to find refuge within the borders of their own countries.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Collectively referred to as "persons of concern", the term used by the UNHCR includes refugees, asylum-seekers, returnees, stateless persons and certain groups of internally displaced persons (IDPs).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>The number of refugees and asylum seekers entering different countries in 2012. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">IDPs protected/ assisted by UNHCR, incl. people in IDPlike situations</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Total population Refugees of concern</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Australia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Austria</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">30,083</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">51,730</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 30,083</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">51,730</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">20,010</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">22,429</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">50,093</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">74,701</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Bosnia/Herzegovinia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Bulgaria</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Canada</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">22,024</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 6,903</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 2,288</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 22,024</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">6,903</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,288</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">163,756</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 6,903</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 15,036</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 42</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 1,270</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">32,643</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">103,449</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">40,958</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">177,440</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3,558</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">196,399</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Cyprus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Czech Rep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">690</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3,631</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,805</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 724</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 3,631</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,805</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 724</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">345</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 2,636</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">574</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">24,023</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">6,267</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4,883</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Denmark</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">11,402</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">11,402</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">692</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">15,717</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Eritrea</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3,600</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3,600</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3,567</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">14</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3,684</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Finland</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">France</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Germany</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 9,919</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">217,865</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">589,737</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">9,919</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">217,865</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">589,737</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,881</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">49,885</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">85,560</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">13,817</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">268,960</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">680,980</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greece</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,100</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,100</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">36,183</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">38,437</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Hungary</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4,054</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4,054</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">386</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4,551</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ireland</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Italy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Liechtenstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Luxembourg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Monaco</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Malta</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Netherlands</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">6,327</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">64,779</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 102</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 2,910</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">37</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">8,248</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">74,598</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">6,327</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">64,779</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">102</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 2,910</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">37</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">8,248</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">74,598</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 5,471</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">14,330</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,239</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">767</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">10,420</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">11,871</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">79,579</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">124</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4,326</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">37</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">9,015</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">87,023</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Norway</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">42,822</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">42,822</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">9,354</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">54,489</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Poland</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">15,911</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">15,911</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,390</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">29,126</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Portugal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Romania</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">483</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,262</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 483</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,262</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">132</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 179</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">35</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,233</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,545</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Russia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Serbia/Kosovo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Slovakia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Slovenia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Spain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Sweden</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3,178</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">66,370</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">662</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 176</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 4,510</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">92,872</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3,178</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">66,370</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">662</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">176</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">5,510</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">92,872</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 3,178</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 9,443</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 844</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 332</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 194</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">100</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 2,790</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">18,014</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 227,821</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">191,101</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">304,737</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,448</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">280</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 7,366</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">120,482</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Switzerland</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">50,747</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">50,747</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">21,709</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">72,525</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Syria</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">476,506</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">476,506</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">67,815</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,222</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,016,500</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,784,801</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Macedonia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Tunisia</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 750</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,435</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> 327</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,077</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,435</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,077</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,376</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">516</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">340</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,498</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,777</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Turkey</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">267,063</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">267,063</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">267,063</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">14,051</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">282,200</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ukraine</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,807</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,807</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">493</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">5,082</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">42,889</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">United Kingdom</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">149,765</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">149,765</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">18,916</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">168,886</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">United States</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">262,030</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">262,030</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">18,966</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">280,996</span></div>
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<b>P</b>eople recognized as refugees in accordance with the UNHCR statute, people granted refugee-like humanitarian status, and people provided temporary protection. Asylum seekers--people who have applied for asylum or refugee status and who have not yet received a decision or who are registered as asylum seekers--are excluded.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Latest UNHCR data for Switzerland:</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e48f0d6.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e48f0d6.html</a> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">The number of asylum applications received in 2014 in European Union (EU) Member States has risen by 25 per cent compared to the same period in 2013. A quarter of the applicants are of Afghan, Eritrean or Syrian origin, and a similar proportion are under 18 years of age. There have also been many more asylum applications from stateless people, with an estimated total of 436,000 people across the European Union. Germany continues to be the recipient of the largest number of asylum applications, followed by France, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) speaks of three “durable solutions” to refugee crises: return; local integration; and third country resettlement.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Return:<br /><br />The most desirable way to end forced displacement is for people to return home when conflict ends. To return in safety and dignity, families need help with transportation and require basic goods for restarting their lives, including a provisional supply of food, seeds and tools, and building materials for home repair or construction. In addition, support for the reconstruction of schools and health clinics is also critical.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If instability persists or if the individual will face persecution when they return, then integrating into the country of asylum is another option. Most countries hosting refugees, however, are reluctant to allow refugees to integrate and become citizens, fearing competition for scarce resources between the refugees and residents of a particular locale.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Resettlement:<br /><br />Resettlement to a third country can also be a solution for refugees who cannot return home, cannot establish a new life in their country of asylum, or are considered to be particularly vulnerable. Resettlement can never be an option for more than a tiny minority of the world’s refugee population, but still benefits tens of thousands of refugees who have made new lives in countries such as the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Norway.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Every day, all over the world, people make the most difficult decision of their lives; to leave their homes in search of a better life.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Their journey can be full of danger and fear. Some face detention when they arrive. Many face daily racism, xenophobia, and discrimination. They are uniquely vulnerable, without the usual support structures most of us take for granted.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Amnesty has been working with refugees and migrants for decades. From helping to prevent refugees being returned to be persecuted to protecting the most vulnerable migrants from being exploited and abused by their employers, traffickers and smugglers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In Europe, for many the only route in is by overcrowded and unseaworthy boats, run by traffickers who care little whether their passengers arrive. In October 2013, more than 400 people lost their lives in two shipwrecks off the coast of Italian island Lampedusa. At least 3,419 people died making the crossing in 2014 alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Migrants are often scapegoated by politicians or the media as “illegal immigrants”, “gate-crashers” – even “invaders” – who exploit host countries’ generosity. This creates the impression that migrants have no rights at all, and leads to racism and discrimination.</span></div>
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The positive benefits migrants bring with them, including skills, resources and diversity, rarely make the news. According to the World Bank, international migration is good because workers can move to places where they are most productive. And the money migrants send home to developing countries (known as ‘remittances’) is worth three times more than what governments spend on development aid – an estimated US$404 billion in 2013.</div>
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Amnesty International is calling for;</div>
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• Be protected from racist and xenophobic violence<br />
• Be protected from exploitation and forced labour<br />
• Not be detained for no legitimate reason or deported<br />
• Not be discriminated against</div>
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• Not be forced to return to a country where they are at risk of human rights abuses.<br />
• Be resettled when they are in a vulnerable situation.<br />
• Not be discriminated against.<br />
• Have access to work, be housed and be educated.<br />
• Be allowed to move freely, and keep their own identity and travel documents.</div>
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• Be allowed to enter a country to seek asylum.<br />
• Not be returned to a country where they would be at risk.<br />
• Have access to fair and effective asylum procedures, and if they are returned to a country it must be done safely and with dignity.<br />
• Have access to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) if they need or want it.</div>
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Migrant</div>
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A migrant moves around within their own country, or from one country to another, usually to find work, although there may be other reasons such as to join family. Some move voluntarily, while others are forced to leave because of economic hardship or other problems. People can migrate ‘regularly’, with legal permission to work and live in a country, or ‘irregularly’, without permission from the country they wish to live and work in.</div>
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Most international migrants live in Europe (72 million) followed by Asia (71 million) and North America (53 million).</div>
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Rrefugee</div>
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A refugee is a person who has fled their own country because they have suffered human rights abuses or because of who they are or what they believe in. Their own government cannot or will not protect them and so they are forced to seek international protection.</div>
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Asylum seeker</div>
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An asylum-seeker is someone who has left their country in search of international protection, but is yet to be recognized as a refugee.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The law</span></b></div>
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Regardless of how they arrive in a country and for what purpose, migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers’ rights are protected by international law:</div>
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• The <a data-ga="event,Outgoing links,Click,external" href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a> (Article 14), states that everyone has the right to seek and enjoy asylum from persecution in other countries.<br />
• The 1951 <a data-ga="event,Outgoing links,Click,external" href="http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49da0e466.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">UN Refugee Convention</a> protects refugees from being returned to countries where they risk persecution.</div>
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<b><u>2015 UNHCR Operation profile for Europe</u></b></div>
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In summary:</div>
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Strategy</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Special attention will be devoted to the resettlement and humanitarian admission of Syrian refugees.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Managing the Emergency Transit Centres in Timisoara (Romania) and Humenné (Slovakia) with a focus on return and local integration, including through the Regional Housing Programme.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Working with Governments, humanitarian actors and other stakeholders in Eastern Europe on addressing protracted internal displacement situations. These activities include assisting in the revision of relevant national legislation, technical assistance, capacity building, protection monitoring, provision of legal aid and limited direct assistance to particularly vulnerable people of concern. A special focus will be placed on supporting local integration, self-reliance and voluntary returns for IDPs.</li>
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Financial information</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The budget for Europe in 2015 is set at USD 480.5 million which represents a two-and-half fold increase compared to five years ago (2009).</li>
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<b>Additional links:</b><br />
How some Swiss citizens feel about refugees:<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-23753875" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-23753875</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-23599502" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-23599502</a> </div>
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How the EU turns its back on Refugees</div>
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<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/asylum-policy-and-treatment-of-refugees-in-the-european-union-a-926939.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/asylum-policy-and-treatment-of-refugees-in-the-european-union-a-926939.html</a></div>
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Record Tide of Refugees Expected to Strain European System</div>
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<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/record-tide-of-refugees-will-strain-eu-system-1428610967" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.wsj.com/articles/record-tide-of-refugees-will-strain-eu-system-1428610967</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">Asylum Statistics from eurostat:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">Finding your way in Switzerland as a refugee:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;"><a href="http://www.integration-zentralschweiz.ch/der_rote_faden_e.pdf" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.integration-zentralschweiz.ch/der_rote_faden_e.pdf</a> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">Waiting to be accepted into Swiss society:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;"><a href="http://voixdexils.ch/2013/06/11/waiting-to-be-accepted-or-not-into-swiss-society/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://voixdexils.ch/2013/06/11/waiting-to-be-accepted-or-not-into-swiss-society/</a> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">Swiss backs tighter asylum rules:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-22832616" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-22832616</a> </span><br />
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Integration into Swiss society:<br />
<a href="http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/switzerlands-non-eu-immigrants-their-integration-and-swiss-attitudes" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/switzerlands-non-eu-immigrants-their-integration-and-swiss-attitudes</a><br />
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Foreign nationals and asylum seekers:<br />
<a href="http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4c4ff7b22.pdf" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4c4ff7b22.pdf</a><br />
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Integration of refugees: Refugees to be integrated into Switzerland`s agricultural sector.<br />
<a href="http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2015-05/21/content_35620644.htm" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2015-05/21/content_35620644.htm</a><br />
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National asylum procedure in Switzerland<br />
<a href="http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/fileadmin/docs/Switzerland_Dublin_II_national_asylum_procedure_in_Switzerland.pdf" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/fileadmin/docs/Switzerland_Dublin_II_national_asylum_procedure_in_Switzerland.pdf</a><br />
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The refugee system in Canada<br />
<a href="http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/canada.asp" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/canada.asp</a><br />
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Overview of asylum procedures in Canada<br />
<a href="http://www.uniya.org/research/asylum_canada.pdf" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.uniya.org/research/asylum_canada.pdf</a><br />
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Asylum procedures in Switzerland<br />
<a href="http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/fileadmin/docs/Switzerland_Dublin_II_national_asylum_procedure_in_Switzerland.pdf" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/fileadmin/docs/Switzerland_Dublin_II_national_asylum_procedure_in_Switzerland.pdf</a></div>
Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-18361798228505253252015-05-06T11:53:00.004-07:002020-03-30T07:16:44.917-07:007. Proposal for new “Homesteading” legislation for pioneers/refugees<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 9.0pt;">
<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<i>"Homesteading laws" of the past need to be revitalized and adapted to meet the needs of the present. </i></div>
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New legislation will be
necessary to legally define the rights of new pioneers as well as to protect
the government sovereign lands. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A bit of history</b></div>
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Below is a historical outline
of similar legislation in USA and Canada. </div>
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Link to Wikipedia article:</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts</a></div>
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In summary:</div>
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The <b>Homestead Acts</b> were
several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of up to
160 acres of land (about 800m x 800m called a “homestead” at little or no cost.
Between 1862 and 1934, the federal government granted 1.6 million homesteads. Homesteading
was discontinued in 1976, except in Alaska, where it continued until 1986. About
40 % of the applicants were able to complete the requirements and obtain title
to their homesteaded land. The requirements were that the homesteader was a US citizen
or have filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen and was willing to
settle on and farm the land for at least five years. </div>
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In 1916, the <i>Stock-Raising
Homestead Act</i> was passed for settlers seeking 640 acres public land for ranching
purposes. Settlers found land and staked their claims, usually in individual
family units, although others formed closer knit communities. Often, the
homestead consisted of several buildings or structures besides the main house.The
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ended homesteading. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
that time, federal government policy had shifted to retaining control of public
lands. The only exception to this new policy was in Alaska, for which the law
allowed homesteading until 1986. </div>
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Link to Wikipedia article:</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Lands_Act">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Lands_Act</a></div>
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In summary: </div>
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In 1871, the Imperial Crown obtained
the consent of the indigenous nations for the taking up of lands "for
immigration and settlement". The <b>Dominion Lands Act</b> was an 1872 Canadian
law that aimed to encourage the settlement of the Canadian Prairies, and to
help prevent the area being claimed by the United States. The Act was closely
based on the United States Homestead Act, setting conditions in which the
western lands could be settled and their natural resources developed. In order
to settle the area, Canada invited mass emigration by European and American
pioneers, as well as settlers from eastern Canada. It echoed the American
homestead system by offering ownership of 160 acres of land free (except for a
small registration fee) to any man over 18 or any woman heading a household.
They did not need to be British subjects, but had to live on the plot and
improve it. The had to agree to cultivate at least 40 acres and build a
permanent dwelling on it within three years.</div>
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Bloc settlements were
encouraged and allowed associations of 10 or more settlers to group their
houses together to form a settlement to fulfil their cultivation obligations on
their own homestead while residing in a hamlet. Claimants were limited to areas
further than 32 km from any railway as much of the land closer were granted
to the railways. Since it was extremely difficult to farm wheat profitably if
you had to transport it over 32 km by wagon, this was a major
discouragement.</div>
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From 1930 onwards, the Act only
applied to the public lands in the Northwest Territories. The homestead
provisions of the Act, designed to encourage agricultural settlement on the
prairies, had little application to the conditions in the Northwest
Territories. Parliament finally repealed the Act in 1950, replacing it with the
<i>Territorial Lands Act</i>, which was better adapted to the conditions in the
Territories. The new Act did not contain any homesteading provisions.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is needed now</b></div>
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It is clear that a new
homesteading law for refugees has to be very different from the homesteading
laws of the past. The new laws, like the laws of the past have to guarantee that the pioneers, when the fulfill certain requirements of homesteading can be owners of their developed settlements and can become tax paying citizens. The main differences from the old laws are:</div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Instead of needing to populate lands it is now a
need to provide a place for refugees to live in freedom and peace. </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Instead of needing to farm lands, it is now a
need to provide tourist facilities.<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>Instead of 160 acers far away from railways and
roads it is now a smaller plot close to them.</li>
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<b>The new pioneers can provide various services:</b><br />
<ul>
<li>gas stations</li>
<li>restaurants</li>
<li>tourist accommodations</li>
<li>High security prison </li>
<li>make trails for horseback ridinf and hiking in the summer and skiidooing and X-country skiing in the winter</li>
<li>boating</li>
<li>fishing</li>
<li>hunting </li>
<li>wood products (lumber for building, pulp for paper and fire wood)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> </li>
</ul>
<b>Proposed requirements for requirements needed to successfully complete the homestead</b><br />
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Within a time frame of 3 years:<br />
<ul>
<li>Build a private house </li>
<li>Demonstrate sufficient English or French language skill </li>
<li>Demonstrate self-sufficiency within the community </li>
<li>Demonstrate constant improvement to your plot of land (clearing it of trees to sell the lumber and fencing it for grazing purposes.</li>
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<b>Questions that need answers:</b><br />
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What happens when:<br />
<ul>
<li>Pioneers are "unwilling" or "unable because of illness" to complete their homesteads..</li>
</ul>
One possibility proposed: <br />
<ul>
<li>The pioneers of a community agree to support any pioneer who is unwilling to complete their homesteads or unable to complete their homestead because of health reasons. This is the approach taken in the Swiss military (as far as I understand). When a soldier is unable to or unwilling to continue on his field exercise where he has to walk great distances carrying a heavy backpack, then his fellow soldiers must carry him and/or his pack. </li>
<li>Of course the unwilling and unable pioneers have the choice of freely returning to the country they originally fled from if they can obtain the necessary visa and pay for their return fare.</li>
<li>Unwilling pioneers who are supported by their fellow pioneers have the choice to "give it another try" and start their homesteading again from the beginning.</li>
<li>Unable pioneers who due to illness are supported by their fellow pioneers have the choice to "continue where they left off" when they are able to. </li>
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Additional Links<br />
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<a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-last-homesteaders-how-determined-pioneers-turn-the-yukons-wild-crown-land-into-successful-farms">http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-last-homesteaders-how-determined-pioneers-turn-the-yukons-wild-crown-land-into-successful-farms</a></div>
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-69615761983108527032015-05-06T01:39:00.000-07:002020-03-30T07:14:57.329-07:006. Putting this proposal into perspective<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<i> It is not a question of profitability, but rather of being able to live a dignified life in freedom. Nature rich in natural resources provides the possibility to not only survive, but to live a healthy life. Modern technology allows people to live in remote wilderness safely and comfortably.</i><br />
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Many people might find a proposal to set up a pioneer settlement near Thomson, Manitoba, Canada as impractical:<br />
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Some of the reasons they might use are:<br />
<ul>
<li>the land is not commercially viable for farming</li>
<li>the land is too inhospitable stating the mosquitoes perhaps</li>
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Life in setting up a pioneer settlement near Thompson would be indeed far from easy. But to put things into perspective, 2 types of lifestyles are compared:<br />
<ul>
<li>the lifestyle that some of the refugees have escaped from and </li>
<li>the lifestyle of surviving in extreme wilderness.</li>
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<b>Life in Eritrea:</b><br />
<br />The video below is about life in Eritrea. Much of the information about life in Eritrea explores the difficulties the country faces following wars with Ethiopia and Yemen and how impoverished and isolated the country has become over decades with a shattered infrastructure, secretive one party state and spurned by the international community following allegations of support for Islamic rebels in Somalia.<br /><br />The State of Eritrea, with its population of some 5.2 million has been described as one of the most secretive states in Africa following its harrowing thirty year struggle for freedom from Ethiopia and its disastrous border war between 1998-2000, again with Ethiopia. In fact Eritrea is the only African country to have no privately-owned news media having shut down all private media in September 1991.<br /><br />Today, Eritrea is a one party state ruled by the only party the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) with Isaias Afewerki as its president. It has been branded the North Korea of Africa (with the Press Freedom Index of 2009 classifying Eritrea with the lowest possible rating, one below North Korea) where family members inform on each other, children are rounded up for national service and their parents imprisoned if they attempt to escape. <br /><br />There are reports of thousands fleeing the country and, following allegations that Eritrea was supporting Islamic rebels in Somalia, Eritrea became the target of UN sanctions. The country responded by suspending its membership of the African Union in protest, causing further isolation. Others, however, claim that the outside world's image of Eritrea is unfair and plays down the progress the country has made, particularly over the past ten years. <div>
<br />As with many other countries inside the Horn of Africa, access to safe water in a major issue in Eritrea, particularly in rural communities. The country has only one river that flows all year, the Setit River, so most are reliant on boreholes. Of the 5,365 known boreholes about 3,374 offer unprotected water and a further 1,233 are known to be contaminated leading to a prevalence of waterborne diseases including bacterial diarrhoea, Hepatitis A and typhoid fever. <br /><br />This video documentary goes inside Eritrea and shows the first independent review of life in Eritrea for many years.<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">
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YouTube Video: "People and Power - the mystery behind Eritrea"<br />
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<b>Surviving in Wilderness:</b><br />
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YouTube Video: "Surviving Alone in Alaska"<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=79&v=Iq0rZn8HFmQ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=79&v=Iq0rZn8HFmQ</a><br />
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YouTube Video: "Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years"<br />
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-45308076795116838252015-05-04T12:08:00.000-07:002020-03-30T07:11:24.389-07:005. Proposed financing of pilot pioneer project<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<i>Financing is necessary to help the community reach a level of self-sufficiency. </i><br />
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Pioneers are encouraged to maintain their strong family values and to be self-sufficient.</div>
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The local area benefits by being opened up and populated by hard working, thankful
and dedicated workers and consumers.<br />
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<i><u><b>Financing </b></u></i></div>
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<b>Philantropists</b>, cities, schools, clubs, friends, and individuals can donate.<br />
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<b>Media: </b>It is expected that such a
pilot pioneer project will receive a wide media coverage.The media can
subsidize the community by setting up a reality show showing how the
community grows. A computer game can be developed similar to "SIM City" and "Minecraft" to build virtual pioneer communities. </div>
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<b>Companies: </b>provide machinery and tools and are
compensated by media coverage.<br />
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<b>Local Businesses: </b>Agree to buy products from the pioneer community at a fair price that is competitive. The pioneers have an great advantage over the rich in competing, as they can tolerate a lower profit margin. <br />
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<b>Volunteers</b> provide help like the help the peace corps projects provide.<br />
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<b>Sponsors: </b><br />
<ul>
<li>Pioneers, once they move out of the communal building into their
homesteads can sponsor refugees. These sponsored refugees live in the
communal building until they build their own homesteads. </li>
<li>Churches, who practice missionary work to spread the faith, can sponsor refugees who are members of their church. </li>
</ul>
<b>Churches</b> and charities provide financial aid.</div>
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<b>European countries</b> provide:</div>
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<li>refugees and train them to
become pioneers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
<li>travel costs </li>
<li>material for building initial communal
infrastructure</li>
</ul>
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<b>Canada</b> provides:</div>
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<li>land</li>
<li>guarantee that pioneers can
keep their land and becoming Canadian citizens if they fulfill the necessary requirements
such as working their plot of land and becoming self sufficient within an agreed
time.(ie 5-10 years).</li>
<li>guarantee of laws allowing freedom of pioneers to set up their communities. </li>
<li>loans and subsidies to help pioneers build their own private homes and businesses. </li>
</ul>
<b>Pioneers: </b><br />
<ul>
<li>Pioneers should be allowed to work as if they would be already Canadian citizens. They should get the same pay as Canadian citizens get, with the same benefits. Part of their pay should be deducted to pay for any loans and subsidies they get to help them build their own private homes and businesses. </li>
<li>Pioneers should be able to sell the products they produce, such as lumber, firewood, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">wood products such as fencing posts, playground equipment,
wooden toys, stone products,</span>cuttings from their greenhouse, animal products from the animals they raise, etc... </li>
</ul>
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-40135714978940320692015-05-04T11:38:00.001-07:002020-03-30T07:07:56.026-07:004. Proposed people selected for pilot pioneer project.<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 9.0pt;">
<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<i>The community members are carefully selected so that it has necessary skill for self-sufficiency.</i><i> </i></div>
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People selected for pilot
pioneer community project and for any additional pioneer communities are selected for their skills as needed to form a functional and self sufficient community. Families are encouraged. The numbers are limited
to:</div>
<ul>
<li>20 single men</li>
<li>20 single women</li>
<li>20 families</li>
</ul>
The people come from all walks of life.<br />
<ul>
<li>Refugees wanting to be pioneers should be fully sponsored.</li>
<li>Canadian families or singles wanting to be pioneers should pay for their trip to the community and for their room and board costs as well as subsidizing the room and board costs of one refugee.</li>
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The 80 adults have
amongst them the following skills for communal work.</div>
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<li>minimal 2 health care workers
or nurses or doctors</li>
<li>minimal 2 teachers</li>
<li>2 or more cooks </li>
<li>2 or more bakers</li>
<li>2 or more cheese makers</li>
<li>2 or more butchers </li>
<li>2 or more tailors</li>
<li>2 or more farmers</li>
<li>2 or more gardeners</li>
<li>2 or more beekeepers </li>
<li>3 or more carpenters</li>
<li>3 or more mechanics</li>
<li>3 or more stone cutters/ bricklayers</li>
<li>2or more with internet computer
skills </li>
<li>2 or more with English speaking
and writing skills</li>
<li>3 or more with driving skills <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">2 or more with fishing skills </span></li>
<li><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">2 or more with candle making and soap making skills </span></li>
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Should families bring with them
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Each capable working adult is
expected to work 8 hours of communal work 5 days a week with 3 weeks of
holidays. Communal work includes taking care of the sick members, teaching,
baking, preparing dairy products, setting traps for hunting, slaughtering the animals and hiding them, sewing and repairing cloths, farming, gardening, making honey, carpentry, maintaining machinery, driving, cutting down
trees, sawing them in boards, logs and splitting the logs.</div>
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<li>tractor</li>
<li>car </li>
<li>saws</li>
<li>log splitters</li>
<li>grain grinder</li>
<li>washing machine</li>
<li>sewing machine</li>
<li>shovels</li>
<li>hammers</li>
<li>kitchen appliances</li>
<li>electric generator </li>
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Pioneers all work together to build private houses and apartment blocks. They are given a loan for any materials they need. Once the pioneers have their own private houses, they no longer need to do communal work. They can work outside the community and/or set up businesses for the pioneer community.<br />
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<b>Different phases of pioneers</b><br />
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<li>new arrivals live communally and build communal facilities and private homes for their community. </li>
<li>settled pioneers of a community work their own land and work their own businesses.</li>
<li>new tax paying Canadian citizens have full ownership rights to the land they pioneered. </li>
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Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-22736178646553778772015-05-04T10:53:00.000-07:002020-03-30T07:06:46.945-07:003. Proposed infrastructures for pilot pioneer project<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<i>Examples </i> <i>are given of communal facilities that need to be built to house the pioneers when they arrive, as well as the homestead houses. The construction uses local available lumber and stone. Heating is by wood obtained locally and charcoal manufactured locally. Insulation materials and windows are used to make the housing ecologically efficient. The facilities are constructed by the pioneers. </i><br />
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<b>Communal facilities for the pioneers</b><br />
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<b>Facilities to be built before pioneers arrive:</b><br />
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Community communal
housing is built with 40 private rooms to house 80 pioneers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>This house is available for pioneers newly arriving and is used by them until they have built their private homestead houses. The communal house has 3 floors.<br />
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The 1st and 2nd floors each have 20 private rooms, and 2 bathrooms, one for men and one for women,. Each bathroom has toilets, sinks and a shower.<br />
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The ground floor has the rooms that are shared. Kitchen, dining room, laundry room, drying room, play room for children, entertainment room, communication room with library and internet and a smoking room, <br />
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All facilities are built mainly of locally available materials - wood and stone. The buildings are built with the minimal costs possible. They do not have a basement. As the buildings are built, the trees are cut down for the lumber and the land is cleared of stones. These lumber and stones are the main building materials used for the buildings. </div>
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The heating is centralized heating fueled by
wood and charcoal. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ovens in the kitchens should
be fueled by wood and charcoal. Electricity for lighting and TV/radio/computer should be
generated by diesel motors supplemented by solar panels. Water should be heated
by water heating panels on roofs.<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·All the building are standardized.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<li>2 pioneers share a room with 2 beds, a table, 2 chairs, shelves and cupboards. Each room has a door that can be locked and a double pained window with a screen that can be opened. There is a white shade on the outside to keep the room cool in the summer, and a black shade on the inside to absorb the sun and keep the room warm in the winter. Adjacent bathrooms with toilets sinks and showers are shared. <span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>Children can sleep in the rooms of their parents, or alternatively can share a room furnished as a dormitory for the children. There is a room where children can play.<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>There is a room furnished as an infirmary room<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">. <span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>Wireless internet access is available via
satellite. The internet access is a very important facility as it provides cheap communication to their native country with family members of the pioneers as well as cheap banking (ie. Bitcoin), a digital library for cheap learning, cheap entertainment, etc.... </li>
<li>Lumberyard </li>
<li>Wood cutting and splitting facility to provide fuel
for heating and cooking and selling to Thompson.<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<li>Stone working shed</li>
<li>water tower</li>
<li>community sauna </li>
<li>facility to house diesel generator for electricity to charge batteries and for emergency power </li>
<li>shed for tractor</li>
<li>shed for car </li>
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<b> Lumberyard:</b><br />
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<b>Various sheds:</b><br />
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The pioneers can then build or
help to build all the other facilities they need. Such as:<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><br />
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<li>Workshops</li>
<li>Green houses</li>
<li>Barn for animals (cows, pigs, chickens) </li>
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<b>Barn for 40 cows:</b><br />
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<b>Barn for 40 pigs:</b><br />
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As a next step, the community
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</span></span></span>kiosk for tourists<br /><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
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Once all the communal facilities are built, all pioneers help each other build private houses for families and block apartments for singles. Should singles form partnerships and families, they can trade their apartments for houses. When pioneers move out of the communal house, their places are taken by newly arriving pioneers.<br />
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<b>Private Houses</b><br />
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Private houses are standardized. Thick wooden walls and floors are the main forms of insulation. The wooden beams are supported by stone pillars. There is no cellar and the pillars are the foundation. The ceilings are low to keep the rooms warm in winter. The kitchen with the fire stove is placed in a room extension so that it can be isolated from the house in summer to keep the other rooms cool. As well the chimney pipe is isolated in the summer. In winter, the isolating walls of the kitchen extension can be easily added and the isolating tubes around the chimney pipe can be removed so that they can heat up the entire house. There will be an attic with a vent going up to the attic or to the outside to vent warm air from the rooms. Lighting is LED and powered by batteries charged by solar panels. <br />
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The community at the end should be limited to 200 people all living in their own private houses. When that point is reached, a new adjacent community can be started. 10 adjacent communities form a settlement with a population of 2000.<br />
When a settlement is finished, a new location is chosen and a new settlement is started for new arriving pioneers. As the private plots of land are cleared, the lumber is sold.<br />
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<i>Abstract:</i><br />
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<i>The 35 million Canadians living close to the USA border in the south are unwilling to live in more remote areas further north. These remote areas further north are rich with natural resources such as lumber and attractive places for tourists. The entire 5000km length of Canada, from east to west, borders on a norther frontier which is undeveloped nature laced with rivers and dotted by lakes in a virgin forest setting rich with wildlife. All this is waiting to be exploited by potential tourists living in the south within distance. All that is needed are trails, dirt roads and basic tourist facilities. There are about 5000 km There are many possible locations for pioneer communities along roads and railway lines leading to existing settlements
that attract tourists. </i><br />
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<i>One example is near Thompson
Manitoba, between Winnipeg and Churchill. Churchill is situated along Manitoba's 1,400 km coastline,
on Hudson Bay at the meeting of three major biomes: marine, boreal forest and
tundra, each supporting a variety of flora and fauna. There is a growing tourism
industry. Each year, 10,000–12,000 eco-tourists visit, about 400-500 of whom
are birders. It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the
shore from inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname "Polar Bear
Capital of the World". </i></div>
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The road from Winnipeg to Churchill ends at Thompson. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thompson has a road and a railway to
Winnipeg. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has a population of 13,000.
It is referred to as the "Hub of the North", serving as the regional
trade and service centre of northern Manitoba. Thompson is located 739 km north
of the provincial capital of Winnipeg, and is 396 km (246 mi)
northeast of Flin Flon. Thompson has a population of 13,123 residents, which
also serves as a trade centre for an additional 50,000 to 65,000 Manitobans. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are two major ways to get
into Churchill from Winnipeg: airplane and train. </span>There are two airlines that fly into Churchill with varying schedules.There is no road to Churchill; however, you can drive to Thompson (pop
13,000) and pay to park your car there, and continue by train or airplane. Churchill
is right above the national park shown in green in the top right corner on the
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<br />Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657562134192998304.post-91049905772380467902015-05-04T07:11:00.001-07:002020-03-30T06:52:50.346-07:001. Proposal for pilot pioneer community <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This is a proposal to start
a pilot pioneer settlement in Canada for refugees. It is argued that Canada can
benefit from pioneers in much the same way it has benefited from pioneers in
the past - provided that homesteading laws of the past are adapted for the present
modern situation. Careful selection of refugees to guarantee availability of skills,
cooperative self-sufficient environment, modern materials and machinery, friendly
neighbors and existing infrastructure such as railway lines and roads make
homesteading much easier and less dangerous then what it was in the past. The
growing tourist industry and the rich forestry and mineral resources of
unsettled land in the north allow homesteaders a niche market that can be
exploited. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It is not a question
of whether it be profitable but rather</span> if <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it can be self-sustainable and offer refugees and their children a
dignified free life that we all deserve. </span>Canadians are seen not willing
to move to remote regions and face the hardships of living and trying to make a
profit in remote unsettled lands. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many refugees
on the other hand would be thankful to be given a chance to do just that. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Refugees make the best pioneers. R</span>efugees,
turned into modern day pioneers to settle and open up Northern Canada for
tourists, can offer Canada a lot more than just international prestige.</i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The proposal covers the concept and highlights the international
cooperation needed between EU countries, Switzerland, and Canada to implement
such a project. A location is proposed as well as the needed facilities, skills,
and tools, the needed financing and legislation, statistics and arguments for
the concept, scenarios of future pioneer settlements and other suitable
locations if the pilot project is successful. Finally a proposal is discussed
to fund a joint university program to convince the politicians to implement
such a project. </span></i></i></div>
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Whenever we cannot turn our eyes away from masses of children
and women who are dying as a result of natural catastrophes, starvation, war
and persecution, and are forced to watch them die a slow and painful death, then
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risking their lives to find for themselves and for their children.<br />
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After having tolerated and supported for decades brutal
regimes in the name of freedom, we are now faced with the consequence of having
to take responsibility to support citizens of these regimes who are
risking their lives to escape from their repressive governments to look for a
life of dignity and freedom. After having raped nature in the name of
technology, tinkered with its genes in the name of feeding the hungry, used
fields to grow fuel for machines instead of food for people, and dammed rivers
to generate electricity instead of to irrigate crops, we are now faced with the
consequence of having to take responsibility to support people fleeing starvation.</div>
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A repeating wave of migration and immigration would be a win-win
situation for many countries, as well as for all refugees - just as the
proceeding wave of migration 100 - 300 years ago was. The world would
greatly benefit if refugees were encouraged and helped to immigrate and
settle and open up these productive yet laid to waste lands.<br />
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<i>"Refugee" has a negative connotation, while </i><br />
<i>"Pioneer" has a positive connotation. </i></div>
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<i>Refugees make the very best pioneers. </i></div>
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The refugees that turned into pioneers in Canada of the past faced many dangers and hardships that the refugees turned pioneers would no longer face at present:<br />
<br />
<b>In the past </b><br />
<ol>
<li>Homesteads far from roads and/or railways </li>
<li>Hostile natives </li>
<li>Competition to get the best land </li>
<li>Need to cultivate land </li>
<li>Need to provide products to consumers far away </li>
<li>Lack of modern materials, tools and machinery </li>
<li>Lack of communication and support facilities </li>
</ol>
<b>At present</b><br />
<ol>
<li>Homesteads are next to roads and/or railways</li>
<li>Friendly helpful natives </li>
<li>Cooperation in a kibutz style communal community</li>
<li>Need to exploit land of timber and rock</li>
<li>Need to provide services to an increasing tourist population.</li>
<li>Modern materials, tools and machinery available</li>
<li>Modern communications and support facilities available</li>
</ol>
<u><b>Project “Pioneer” proposal</b></u><br />
<br />
<b>Aim</b>: To settle, develop and exploit lands in the northern parts of Canada that are near populated areas suitable and attractive for the tourist industry.<br />
<br />
<b>Participants:</b>
Any young and able families or singles with a pioneering spirit who are willing to
live a self-sufficient communal life for a few years until their community is
established.<br />
<br />
<b>Aid:</b> Travel costs and training
costs for refugees are subsidized and paid work is offered to allow the buying of tools and materials for the settlement.<br />
<br />
<b>Work offered:</b> Building infrastructure for the community. Building homesteads for the pioneers. Building industry facilities for the community (ie, lumberyard, greenhouses, etc). Building tourist facilities (buildings, trails). Working in local facilities. Providing services to local communities.<br />
<br />
<b>Contract:</b>
After a certain time period, if pioneers have shown that they have worked their homestead with the parcel of land, and
have applied and received Canadian citizenship, they are given a
deed to that land.<br />
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<i>It is not a question if modern pioneers are able to compete in the markets and be profitable from the land they settle on, but rather, if they can survive on it and lead happy, dignified and free lives on it. </i></div>
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<b>YouTube Video:</b><br />
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The text of the video is below:<br />
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<b>Refugees - the modern freedom loving nomads</b></div>
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Many countries refuse to properly deal with the growing
refugee problem because they claim that their lands cannot support more people
than they have. They claim that because of overpopulation, allowing refugees
into their country is a too difficult of a problem. Overpopulation is a myth. For
the money the USA spent on war for the past 10 years, a small home on a small
plot of land in a small community could be built for every family in America.
To house the 320 million Americans in a 1 story home would require about 500,000
low density villages of 750 people. These villages would need less land than
there is in the state of New Hampshire. The 7, 000 million people in the world could
be similarly housed on 75% of the land in Texas. Overpopulation is not the
reason that half of the population in the world lives hungry in overcrowded
facilities. Scientists show that
artificial closed systems cause mice to literally kill each other off. The same
results apply to other animals, including people. We are herded into high
density living conditions because a few dozen psychopaths, our slave masters, want us to tear each other to pieces so that
we won`t unite against them. There is
too much money to be made in destroying and in rebuilding infrastructure and in
attacking and protecting people from terror. </div>
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Up to a 100 years ago, North America, for a couple of
hundred years, offered the millions of people from all over the world who were searching
for prosperity and freedom a great opportunity. They were encouraged and
allowed to immigrate and settle and open up wild lands rich with resources.
This migration of people to the Americas worked well, until the banksters
arrived. </div>
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American immigration history lasted until about 100 years
ago attracting a rich mixture of national groups, races and ethnicities that
enriched the land like a ray of sunlight and a breath of fresh air in a
stagnant dark room. About 1 million
immigrants came to the United States from Europe between 1600 and 1799. The
peak year of European immigration was in 1907, when 1,285,349 persons entered
the country. By 1910, 13.5 million immigrants were living in the United
States. By 1920, a great part of the nation`s
presently existing railways, roads and cities were completed by these hard
working immigrants and in 1921 laws were enacted to restrict immigrants,
particularly Jews, Italians, and Slavs. Most of the Jewish refugees fleeing the
Nazis in World War II were barred from coming to the United States. In 1954, more
than 1 million Mexicans were deported. </div>
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The hard working immigrants with a pioneering spirit had
a long term view of their future and sacrificed everything for the future of
their offspring. Unfortunately their ungrateful offspring have turned lazy and
complacent, and the politicians they are led by have turned into marionettes of
greedy banksters with short term values. </div>
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<span class="ecxtgc">The numbers of refugees, escaping
exploiting dictators, starvation, persecution and war exceeded 50 million in
2013. They are the new wave of nomads and are unwanted and have nowhere to
escape to. Yet there are vast rich lands still unpopulated and in need of
immigrants who could exploit the riches they have to offer. </span></div>
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At present, there are countries with still a great amount
of undeveloped and un-populated land which is closed for immigrants, unless
they are wealthy and are able to buy their citizenship. <span class="ecxtgc">Most of
the 35 million Canadians live along and near the southern border to the United
States. The lands to the north are just as fertile and resource rich as those
that are populated. But they are left empty and unexploited. Similar empty rich
lands waiting to be settled and exploited are found in Australia and Russia. </span></div>
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<span class="ecxtgc">A repeating wave of migration and
immigration would be a win-win situation for these countries, as well as for
all refugees, just as the proceeding wave of migration 100 years ago was. The
world would greatly benefit if refugees were encouraged and helped to immigrate
and settle and open up these productive yet laid to waste lands. At the same
time, this exodus would be a great blow to the dictators that the refugees are
escaping from as the dictators would be left with less people to exploit. </span></div>
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<span class="ecxtgc">For many difficult problems, there is
often a simple solution.</span></div>
Andrew Vecseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16044030372500056395noreply@blogger.com1