I have for many years held the belief that Lou Dobbs is a jack ass, his daily diatribes on CNN are barely better than listening to well known drug addict Rush Limbaugh. About the only industry that would benefit from Lou is the Razor Wire manufacturers! as the crow flies we would need something like 12,000 miles of it to protect the US border, and no doubt a single strand would not be enough.
Canada on the other hand uses a softer but equally irritating method of dealing with immigration. No Lou Dobbs Razor Wire for us, we will beat you to death with administrivia. I guess my favorite is the language requirements, Canada is bilingual, so I have been told. The harsh reality is that 90% of us speak English, and the rest speak whatever they like. Certainly on the west side of the country there are more Chinese speakers than there are francophone’s. Even though French is about as common as sunstroke in the Arctic, we put up with it, we even have instructions on the side of cans of baked beans in French -Mode d employ (or something similar). We are nice people, we let this stuff go on. Of course the rules are different in the one French enclave in Canada, Quebec. Quebec is special we are told. Quebec has a unique identity the politicians entreat us. Personally I think this might be the place for Lou’s Razor Wire!
I recently had the need to play in the murky world of immigrating to Canada, I am Canadian, so this story is not about me! The basic plot involves filling out one three page form, and paying a fee of $200. This does not sound all that challenging. But you would be wrong.
Problem number one was finding the form, that in itself was pretty much an all day adventure of ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ on the various Government of Canada web sites. After taking innumerable twists and turns in the passageway to knowledge you would end up in a dead end cave. After slaying many mythical beasts and using healing potions I finally located the form. I was excited, it was a ‘clickable’ form, meaning that we could fill it out online. Of course there was a catch, you have to print it out, you cannot file this online. Oh, and catch number two, you cannot save the information! All in all, this is about as much use as a ham sandwich at a Jewish wedding!
OK, I was frustrated, but I did feel I was winning. I mean how hard can it be to pay $200? Well in Canada it turns out to be a real stumbling block. They don’t accept cash! I have never been anywhere that didn’t accept cash before. My theory was to truck on down to the Government Of Canada building and fork over my hard earned money. That would have been way too easy, and Canada has invented what has to be the most inane system in the known universe. You have to pay the money up front at a bank and get a receipt. But, and its a huge but, the receipt has to be on a Government form. No problem thinks me, and back off to the prolonged game of ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ on their web site.
There is only one form not available online, and that of course is this stupid receipt! Of course this form is not available at the Government of Canada office either. The only way to get it is to spend 45 minutes on musical hold and talk to a rather unhelpful and bored operator who takes your name and address and mails it out within a couple of weeks.
So as I said at the beginning of this article, you don’t need Lou Dobb’s razor wire, just do it the Canadian way. You can slow immigration down to a trickle!
Simon Barrett
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Taken from
http://www.NotCanada.com
8. Discriminatory and Dishonest Immigration System.
Immigration to Canada is based on a point system, obtained with your education, qualifications and job experience. Points are good enough for immigration, but in Canada, they are not good enough to get a job in your field. Amazing, how the credentials that qualify you to come to Canada are the same credentials that don’t qualify you for your profession in Canada. The reason is, Canada only wants immigrants to do the labor jobs – pizza delivery, driving taxis, factory work etc.
7. Out Of Control Cost Of Living.
From rent, to utility bills, to shopping, to phone, internet and cable bills, to gas, to car insurance, to eating out, to basically anything you have to pay for or buy, the cost of living in Canada has become astronomical. Recent immigrants are astonished as to how expensive everything is. It is estimated that compared to most countries around the world, the cost of living in Canada is on average five times greater.
6. Health Care Crisis.
Practicing physicians in Canada are in a shortage, 1 in 4 Canadians cannot get a family doctor. Canadian doctors are leaving to move permanently to the United States. Statistics Canada and the Canadian Medical Association both have identified that for every 1 American doctor that moves to Canada, 19 (nineteen) Canadian doctors move to the United States! Doctors in Canada are overworked and underpaid, and there is a cap on their salaries.
5. Very High Taxes.
Yes, you have the GST, the PST, totaling 15%, on practically everything you purchase and many other taxes taken out of our weekly paycheck. You have to pay a whopping amount to the government, out of your hard earned salary, so that the government can turn around and give it to beer drinking, hockey watching welfare bums. Fair? It does not matter, it’s Canada.
4. Money Hungry Government.
Canadian Embassies around the world lie to foreigners, painting this picture that Canada is Utopia, because they want them to come to Canada. Why? Because foreigners bring money! So after being deceived, these foreigners come. They must bring with them at least $10,000. Canada has an immigration quota of 250,000 per year. So please do the math, 250,000 multiplied by $10,000 each equals a whopping 2.5 Billion dollars that Canada gains from immigrants every year.
3. No Culture.
Unlike almost every other country in the world, Canada has no culture. Actually American culture is what dominates Canada. When was the last time you had some ‘Canadian’ food? There are no Canadian traditions and there is no national identity. What does it even mean to call yourself a ‘Canadian’. . .nothing really. People living in Canada, still identify themselves with the country they ‘originally’ came from.
2. Worst Weather.
Yes, Canada has the worst weather conditions of any country in the world. Freezing cold temperatures, snow, ice, hail, winds, storms etc. From the Prairie provinces to the Maritimes, from the Territories to southern Ontario, the weather is so horrific and disgusting that many Canadians leave Canada simply because of this reason alone.
1. No Jobs.
Yes, coast to coast, there are no jobs. Immigrants are highly qualified (MD’s, PhD’s, Lawyers, Engineers etc.) but they are driving taxi cabs, delivering pizza’s or working in factories. Even people with bachelors degrees from Canadian Universities cannot find jobs after graduation. This is the tragedy associated with immigration to Canada. I feel sorry for those immigrants who are stuck in Canada for the rest of their lives. It is indeed a very sad and hopeless future.
Taken from
http://www.NotCanada.com
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Much of the above ‘Not Canada’ screed is rubbish — the last one, immigrants working as taxi drivers instead of doctors, has to do with qualifications, not lack of jobs.
The rest of it is just oversimplification and pure reductionism…Canada is a fine place to live, as is the United States…I’m sure the person who wrote it is fan of Lou Dobbs, a hysterical alarmist if there ever was one.
I am sure that immigration to anywhere with the exception of some particularly nasty middle eastern countries is fraught with challenges.
I mostly like Canada, other than the weather.
A quick update on the story I posted. I discovered a new and exciting immigration requirement today. The completed forms, photocopies, and the illusive receipt for $200 now has to be mailed to Vegreville, Alberta. OK, that might not sound all that bizare, hell you have to send it somewhere! But… Immigration Canada actually tells you what size envelope to use! I am sure that I am pushing the envelope (pun intended) by using a white rather than brown one!
Iam affraid from my immigratio to Canada after reading this site.So I ll change to usa and we make it for our kids.God help us
Bye
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