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[Crazymoogle]

Is she on her way to getting citizenship? If so, hope it works out. Good luck.

Not sure yet; she's from somewhere where you can't have dual citizenship so not sure what we'll do there. PR lasts for quite a few years though so not worried about it right now. Only took 15 months (+ the ~thousand dollars or so in filing costs) to get it done which is apparently quite quick.

 

[Phobophile]

Dont worry, once winter hits they will want to go back. Every winter they stay will weather their spirit more and more.

Nope.

Massive Mexican and Latino/Hispanic presence in the Chicago area.

 

[ghostmind]

These numbers are just refugee claims. The number one country for legal immigration to Canada is the Philippines, at about 40,000 people per year.

 

[Lonely1]

Vancouver used to be full of them as they would be learning English but that is a lot harder now that they require visas. Rich countries imposing visas on people only hurt the poor as the visa requirements are hard to fulfill in Mexico. My neighbor back in Vancouver is married to a Canadian guy. To get a visa you have to go to Mexico City and that is a big trip if you are not from there. You could also get the visa by mail but that is almost impossible as the postal service is corrupt. Hate how our country makes people go through a bunch of hoops because they don't want "dirty poors" in the country.

Eh, it not only affects the poor people since getting a Canadian Visa is a bigger chore than even getting an USA one. Several flying routes got rearranged due that little fact, since people don't want to take the effort. I don't have a Canadian visa and I won't be getting one anytime soon.

 

[GotEmRunnin]

Didn't a GAFer get kicked out of Canada recently?

Yeah, but that's because he was "stalking" some girl at his University. The kicked him out of school which as a result made his Visa null and void. Plus the check called the cops on him or something like that. Hence the Canadian boot.

Edit - plus if I'm not mistaken he was from the middle east which I'm sure had NOTHING to do with the decision to deport him. He even tried to request an appeal and all that jazz, but it was a no go.

 

[mltplkxr]

Immigration Canada has been on crackdown lately, even refusing complete sports teams. That's what happens with Harper!

 

[Pandaman]

Spend 25% of our combined military budget to help some human beings have a better quality of life.

I don't see any problem with this.

really don't mind my taxes going to a cause like that.

unless your plan is to start firing people en masse, 25% of the canadian military budget after upkeep expenses [paying employees/equipment maintenience, funding ongoing peacekeeping operations] would only be about $150,000.


The canadian military is not known for being generously funded at the expense of social programs.

 

[CTE]

These numbers are just refugee claims. The number one country for legal immigration to Canada is the Philippines, at about 40,000 people per year.

And about 5,000 of them go to Winnipeg. Crazy growth there in the community the past half decade.

 

[Bilbo_T_Baggins]

Canada is a bitch to get into. Any citizen who earns their right through our elaborate immigration system deserves to be here.

My wife came from England as a fully qualified teacher and the hoops you have to jump through are astonishing and admirable at the same time.

Edit: And not to make generalizations or insinuations but I live in 'farm' country (Bruce County, Ontario) and there are a few Mexican workers throughout the farms around here.

Oh wow someone else from Bruce County, that's amazing haha. Yeah, the only Mexicans I've met around here seem to work as labourers on farms.

 

[oneils]

Immigration Canada has been on crackdown lately, even refusing complete sports teams. That's what happens with Harper!

I could swear that a whole sport team had applied for refugee status at one point. Hence the crack down on this. I'll have to see if I can find the story. I could be just pulling that out of my butt, though.

 

[SMT]

don't go to those french-loving-separatists

You should know all the hate is because Anglophones can't understand the Francophones and assume they are saying bad things about them.

This results in both parties going back and forth.

Some people don't want to be bothered learning a second official language, but it's the future of the country (bilingualism).

The old ways are no good, we need to even it out a little.

 

[Lasthope106]

There are a lot in Edmonton as colombians, they are there because insecurity and politic asylum.

 

[erpg]

At first I chose Quebec because their inmigration process was easier than the rest of Canada, but with time I grew to like their culture as well as learning and liking french

Don't know if serious but from what I understand not everyone in Quebec wants to separate from Canada, but I guess a big part does (half maybe?)

You made the right choice if you wanted any kind of culture at all.

 

[Crazymoogle]

You could be my mail order husband!

Ironically it's probably easier to get in with a skilled worker visa; it's really difficult to get in the country on a marital PR. There's no "fiancee" class visa and they ask for a pretty hefty amount of documentation to prove your marriage is legit. (The downside with skilled worker visas is I believe it takes even longer in terms of sheer processing time)

 

[Darkangel]

You made the right choice if you wanted any kind of culture at all.

Sadly this is true.

 

[Wyndstryker]

These numbers are just refugee claims. The number one country for legal immigration to Canada is the Philippines, at about 40,000 people per year.

And they're taking the jobs the Mexicans usually get in the US.

It's only a matter of time there will be a tunnel from Mexico to Canada.

 

[Terra Firma]

The economy rises to top five in the world?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/0...omic-freedom-ranking-as-u-s-plummets-to-18th/

Are you crediting Canada's stable economic backbone to Harper? Really?

Other countries have had their economies get destroyed. Canada merely stayed afloat while most of the rest of the world is drowning in financial loss.

And how does "economic freedom" correlate with sound immigration policy?

 

[Reuenthal]

I hope Canada chooses what is best for Canada's economic and other interests and if what is best for Canada is also better for people who want to immigrate there or stay there then good.

 

[mltplkxr]

The economy rises to top five in the world?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/0...omic-freedom-ranking-as-u-s-plummets-to-18th/

Well the graph is from 2010 and The Cons where elected in mid-2011 and the majority of the economic reforms from which we are benefiting now where done by the Liberals so... no.

 

[Medalion]

Mexicans have some nice looking feminina's, bring em on

 

[cousins]

Tons of casual racism in this thread.

 

[oyoshimaru]

It's only a matter of time there will be a tunnel from Mexico to Canada.

That's so true.... DAMN!

 

[Complex Shadow]

At first I chose Quebec because their inmigration process was easier than the rest of Canada, but with time I grew to like their culture as well as learning and liking french

Don't know if serious but from what I understand not everyone in Quebec wants to separate from Canada, but I guess a big part does (half maybe?)

i am not =P

You should know all the hate is because Anglophones can't understand the Francophones and assume they are saying bad things about them.

This results in both parties going back and forth.

Some people don't want to be bothered learning a second official language, but it's the future of the country (bilingualism).

The old ways are no good, we need to even it out a little.

i doubt the future of our country is bilingualism, even though i don't mind it. yea i hated learning french in high school but now that i am out. I feel as if, even though i learned nothing, i gained something intangible.

 

[Onion_Relish]

i doubt the future of our country is bilingualism

Oh its billingualism, just not french

中国

 

[bangai-o]

Tons of casual racism in this thread.

this reminds me. we are going to take over your hockey teams and pour red chile sauce all over your maple syrup!

 

[Warm Machine]

i am not =P


i doubt the future of our country is bilingualism, even though i don't mind it. yea i hated learning french in high school but now that i am out. I feel as if, even though i learned nothing, i gained something intangible.

I wish I had learned more french in school as it is pretty handy in France and even Luxembourg and Belgium.

Canada would do well to have a bigger migration to the middle. The smaller prairie towns are dying and they could really use a population boost. Loads of land and housing is incredibly cheap/abandoned but strong public works infrastructure exists.

 

[commedieu]

unless your plan is to start firing people en masse, 25% of the canadian military budget after upkeep expenses [paying employees/equipment maintenience, funding ongoing peacekeeping operations] would only be about $150,000.


The canadian military is not known for being generously funded at the expense of social programs.

Then just the USA. We are bloated down here.

 

[StrangeADT]

At first I chose Quebec because their inmigration process was easier than the rest of Canada, but with time I grew to like their culture as well as learning and liking french

Don't know if serious but from what I understand not everyone in Quebec wants to separate from Canada, but I guess a big part does (half maybe?)

Well I have no idea why. They've been riding the gravy train of equalization payments without realizing it or something. Their education is the cheapest in Canada by a huge margin.

From wikipedia, though still true:

In the 2006-2007 fiscal year, Quebec residents paid $1916 (can.) in tuition for undergraduate programs due to a tuition-freeze that has kept fees at less than half the national average since the 1990s.[70] The tuition freeze was lifted in 2007, bringing fees to $2025 (can.), still less than half the national average in Canada. Graduate fees also remained low at $2137 (can.), on average. In comparison, Canadian graduate students paid $5387 (can.), on average.

Also, their daycare is ridiculous. They pay $7 per day for child care, which is WAAAY cheaper than in the rest of Canada where it's not subsidized like crazy. YAY EQUALIZATION payments! Where some are more equal than others. The benefits they get from confederacy...I wonder if it's all a ploy to get our politicians to pander more to them.

 

[jaz013]

As in anything my fellow country men manage to take advantage, this is the result of the typical reasoning of the average mexicanito: "hey, that guy made it, lets go in groups of hundreds, nobody will notice!".

I will not lie, if I get the opportunity, I will also move to Canada, but that's because I like cold weather. But I'd prefer to return to France (Toulusse).

 

[wenis]

you Canadans realize Mexicans have strong sperm right?

incredibly strong. my guys beat a condom and the plan b pill. shot like a rocket.

 

[IceCold]

Well I have no idea why. They've been riding the gravy train of equalization payments without realizing it or something. Their education is the cheapest in Canada by a huge margin.

From wikipedia, though still true:


Also, their daycare is ridiculous. They pay $7 per day for child care, which is WAAAY cheaper than in the rest of Canada where it's not subsidized like crazy. YAY EQUALIZATION payments! Where some are more equal than others.

People are bitching because the government has no reason to increase tuition fees when they are corrupt as fuck and wasting millions/billions left and right. This is why the protests were so huge this year, it was not just about the tuition hikes but the incompetence of the government.

 

[StrangeADT]

People are bitching because the government has no reason to increase tuition fees when they are corrupt as fuck and wasting millions/billions left and right. This is why the protests were so huge this year, it was not just about the tuition hikes but the incompetence of the government.

...well I'm not really referring to those hikes at all... In fact, I don't give two shits about them. If Alberta kept its portion of the equalization payments, I'd have free education fairly easily. You can see how I'm irritated that not only do I pay more for school, but I work right now as well and my taxes are partially paying for the ability for Quebecois to pay less. In other words, if I only had to pay $2k per year for school, I wouldn't need to work so much. But because I'm in a "have" province, I have to work a lot while going to school, and some of the money I earn goes to subsidize those who don't need to work while in school. It's crap.

IMHO, the government should pay for our post secondary, but with a limit of 4 years worth of course tuition (so 40 courses) so you don't screw around wasting resources. That's how I think it should be done, and it really wouldn't cost them much more to do that relative to spending in many other areas. Instead of buying subs with holes in them (yes, the Canadian government did indeed do this), or shitty f35 planes, they could cover all of our education expenses.

To anyone who doesn't have to work while going to school: you have no idea how good you have it. Thank your parents. I can only imagine how much better my learning experience would be and how much more I'd be able to learn (ie attempt bonuses on all projects, get involved in extra-curricular coding competitions etc) if I didn't have to work so much.