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The Hongcouver | Why was a Vancouver immigration consultant protesting against immigration?
Former South African military man Ray Primack also has connections to fake identities used by anti-multiculturalists
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Ian Youngin Vancouver
Let me be clear from the outset. The five guys who staged a protest on a flyover outside Vancouver last week, waving a banner blaming immigration for traffic jams, were perfectly entitled to do so.
And the public has a right to ask who they are and what they stand for.
The Hongcouver blog’s primary curiosity is this: Why was a registered immigration consultant’s agent among those few men protesting against immigration on that chilly morning in Richmond, the most ethnically Chinese city in North America?
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It could be that Ray Primack, a South African immigrant whose immigration consultancy website is emblazoned with Chinese and Canadian flags, is simply an outrageous hypocrite, protesting against the very system from which he seeks to profit. Or it could be that Primack is an immigration consultant in name only, and that his consultancy services are in part a sham, designed for purposes other than profit. I don’t see much room for middle ground here, considering Primack himself provided no clarity when I spoke to him on Monday.
Primack is clearly identifiable in a cellphone video of the protest shot by commuter Eron Main, who approached the men on the Blundell Road overpass in Richmond on November 19. Primack is the burly, bespectacled protester who takes the greatest umbrage at being filmed and brings the video to an abrupt close by snatching the phone from Main’s hand.
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WATCH: Eron Main's video of his encounter with the anti-immigration protesters
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