The Canadian Parvasi - Issue 04

The International News Weekly July 21, 2017 | Toronto 06
Hello Bramptonians, join hands to
stop frauds in businesses!
By Brig (Retd) Nawab Singh Heer
and Ms Preet Pannu
It is really heartening
to see more and more non-
Caucasians in Brampton
and the GTA venturing into
businesses. They are not
just limiting to real estate,
transportation, immigration,
grocery stores, gas
pumps, restaurants, whole
sales, manufacturing, construction,
healthcare, etc.
These people have all
worked very hard and controlled
their expenses to
establish successful businesses.
They give employment
to many new immigrants
and contribute to the
economy.
A healthy competition
among them has benefited
the residents of the GTA in
getting more value for their
money. They speak the same
language of the immigrant
population and are aware of
the challenges faced by the
community, helping the immigrant
obtaining services
through them and adjusting
quickly to a new environment
fast.
Most of these business
owners are good innovators,
very enthusiastic and full
of dreams to expand. They
are creating a very healthy
competition which is resulting
in a win-win situation
for businesses and clients.
But we also need to look
the negative impact of many
unwanted practices of these
businesses.
Take immigration: they
violate values and ethics by
not telling the truth, overcharging
and promising
much more than they can
deliver.
In the trucking industry,
they pay less, they pay
in cash allowing cheating
on taxes, and they indulge
in exploitation by using
drivers as drug couriers.
The same holds true for
the restaurant industry:
less pay, exploitation of students,
sale of stale food, and
lack of cleanliness.
Many doctors are indulging
in unethical practices,
prescribing sedatives and
cheating insurance companies.
In grocery stores, they
indulge in cash business
to save taxes, sell spurious
items, exploit labour laws
and under-pay employees.
The list of unethical practices
is growing.
If we consider the principal
of 80:20, it means 80
percent of businesses are
very honest, value-based
and transparent, but the
other 20 percent want to
be rich overnight and they
have actually become. I
know a trucking company
owner who is constructing a
double-digit bedroom house
after 10 years of being in
business. It happens quite
often in our community.
The truth behind the success
of such dubious business
owners is usually kept
secret. No one talks openly
about how many trips were
made across the border
transporting drugs. But you
hear our people talk about
these stories in whispers.
It is a fact that many crossborder
drug pedlars are incarcerated
in Buffalo and
other surrounding towns.
Now the question is:
Why Canadian police forces
are so soft on these crooks?
This is the irony of the situation.
The cheating is not
restricted to the trucking
industry. In the insurance
industry, people cheat on
body injuries by overstating
their injuries and lying
to earn a few extra dollars.
Old Canadian values
are being dumped and new
methodologies for cheating
are being adopted. Canadians
evolved initial values
systems to trust a fellow
citizen to be honest, not
realising that when new
immigrants came they will
need a modification to the
value system.
Crooks have exploited
all the legal loopholes legally
and illegally to get rich.
Today, one who remains
on the right side of the law
tends to get demoralised.
But at the end of the
day, who suffers? It is poor
bloody Bramptonians, our
children and our future.
We all are a party to it, be
it people who indulge in
these malpractices, be it
people who help them and
be it the silent public who
sees it happening, but never
speaks up.
In front of our eyes, we
see the old Canadian values
are being trampled upon
and rules being flouted.
Everybody knows what is
happening; but no one is
belling the cat. In my view,
it is time to decide whether
we want to stand up and
speak up or be doomed. It
is time to act. Today, you
have social media at your
disposal. You have a camera,
so become a self-styled
reporter. Whenever you
find anything going wrong,
either report it or put it in
social media. Join hands to
expose crooks, otherwise
you will keep paying the
highest insurance and the
highest taxes. Join hands
against crooks, otherwise
you will always be scared
that someone will sell drug
to your children and always
scared that someone can
hit you from behind and
run away. The government
must commission help lines
where citizens can report
all types of frauds happening
in Brampton.
Wake up, Bramptonians!
Let us join hands and
make a difference.
[Brig (retd) Nawab Heer can be
contacted at nawabheer@gmail.com]
Mississauga Mayor welcomes proposed
appointment of Chief Scientist for Ontario
The Canadian Parvasi
MISSISSAUGA: With
the Ontario government
holding consultations
with stakeholders for the
proposed position of Chief
Scientist, Mississauga
Mayor Bonnie Crombie
has praised as the Wynne
government for its initiative
to establish the new
position.
The first Chief Scientist
is expected to be appointed
later this year.
The Ontario government
wants the Chief
Scientist to "lay the
groundwork for the next
generation of research
and innovation jobs by
defining the best science
strategy for the province.’’
Towards this end,
Ontario’s Ministry of Research,
Innovation and
Science had sought public
input on the role, responsibilities
and mandate of
the Chief Scientist.
As per the feedback,
the overwhelming view
is that the Chief Scientist
should have ``exceptional
networking skills’’ and be
an "excellent educator.’’
The Mississauga mayor
says, "The overall feedback
is consistent with
our very own submission.’’
In her own input
in March, Mayor Crombie
had made three key recommendations:
strengthening
existing connections,
aligning existing strategic
planning priorities and
support for post-secondary
institutions.
Crombie had also suggested
aligning scientific
research with economic
development, especially in
the field of life sciences.
"Mississauga is home
to Canada’s second
largest life sciences
cluster in Canada with
more than 430 life
sciences companies
employing 22,000 people,’’
according to the mayor.
Crombie has thanked
Research, Innovation and
Science Minister Reza
Moridi "for the opportunity
to once again provide
public input to shape
the important work that
will be undertaken by the
Chief Scientist.
"Working together,
both the public and private
sector can bring
about new and important
research that safeguards
and elevates the quality
of life for Ontarians, and
unleashes new opportunities
that can lead to economic
development.’’
(From press release)