letters to Globe re Feb 18th - immigartion, Manji. judges,

1. Good for Jason Kenney for reviewing our immigration criterion. Single people will adapt better than married people, those who speak Englsih or French will adapt better than those who don't, the young will adapt better than the old, and the technically or reasonably educated will adapt better than extremely well educated. Adaptability should be given much more weight and many more points on our immigration assessment scale.

2. Irshad Manji is right when she says that the challenge for Arab democracy starts at home. But cultures take years to change so she is effectively saying that there is no hope for Arab democracies or perhaps Islamic democracies in the near future. However what she and your editorial forget is that the Arab world doesn't want democracy. They want more wealth, freedom and human rights. These, however, are tied together, and like Manji says, are dependent on changes to the family culture more than on democracy.

3. It is unfortunate that Jason Kenney is critical of judges. However it is the judges' duty to interpret the law, not to make creative decisions, based, not on the law, but on their own views of what is good for our society. It is this new judicial intrepretation of a judge's role that is leading to the criticism.