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1995.
11.2. In early 1990, another effort by Mr.
Chisholm to join "ON-SITE" in Montreal was frustrated by his having
"insufficient insurable weeks". This arose out of a long history of
problems since arriving in Canada from the U.K. in 1982, beginning with his illegal
dismissal by SNC in Montreal after only 15 weeks of employment. This was less
than the 20 weeks needed to qualify - as a "new entrant" to the
Canadian labour force - which rule Mr. Chisholm was never told about by anyone
prior to arrival in Canada. These problems were explained in a registered
letter from Mr. Chisholm to Mr. Normand Sauriol, at the C.E.C. then operating
at 3450 Ontario Est in Montreal; the letter is documented as EXHIBIT No.14-5 of
the Docket of Appeal to the Umpire dated May 25th 1995. Mr. Sauriol failed to
reply to the letter and failed to initiate any action to correct the situation.
11.3 In late 1989, Mr. Chisholm applied for
work on the Hibernia oil production platform project, just after the go-ahead
was officially announced and following years of unemployment as an engineer.
This coincided with the official announcement of a then-new five-year
immigration plan by then-Minister of Employment and Immigration Barbara
MacDougall; a key point in this was the acknowledgement of the need to ensure
that immigrants were allowed to integrate properly into Canadian society. Mr.
Chisholm was seeking re-training and lobbied Mrs. MacDougall' s office for
assistance in getting this, with special reference to work on the Hibernia
project, but without result; this was indicative of an unwillingness on the
part of Mrs. MacDougall to acknowledge that availability of sufficient jobs and
re-training was and is a key issue in permitting immigrants to integrate
properly (or, for that matter, people such as Mr. Chisholm who were former
immigrants and had taken up Canadian citizenship). This is also documented (but
was not in the Docket of Appeal).
11.4. Suggestions have been directed at Mr.
Chisholm from all quarters concerning how to get work in Canada. These have
concentrated on such things as resume-writing, interview technique and
attitude, to the exclusion of arguably much more important things such as
re-training for whatever work is available. These suggestions have included
falsifying his resume to make it appear that he has Canadian experience which
he does not in fact have. These phenomena are further indications of major
dysfunction in Canadian society.
To summarise, the suggestions which have been
directed at Mr. Chisholm, from all quarters, have been both bigoted and
incompetent.
11.5 Since July 1992. following completion of
6 months insurable employment as a painter ( it was a 6-month term position ),
Mr. Chisholm has been pursuing engineering studies and research on his own
initiative to become up-dated in his field, using the facilities at CISTI in
Ottawa, Among other things, this has included:-
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