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[ajgeddes]

[beast]

Large selection of turbans in Canada.

[Roch]

[4 months left]

First we are glad Jinju doesn't want to live there. You can make money there if you work hard like any country, too many people want money for nothing so that's why they stay in Korea and sing its praises, for example Jinju.

A lot of immigrants come with worthless degrees like Koreans who drink in University. Oh, I 'm a cab driver and I have a degree in my country, ya well your degree isn't worth the paper it is written on.

Canada is a place where a high school graduate or tradesman can make a half decent living and where the average uni. grad might not make great money but that is true of the U.S., Britain, Aus. and NZ.

If you want ot make money get off your a$$ and work for it.

[Roch]

[SuperHero]

[twg]

[thepeel]

Most of you are missing the point.

The immigration system is hopelessly broken. It is broken for the same reason that you are all in Korea.

Canada has an identity problem. We want to have a high-tech, service oriented, knowledge economy but we don't. We import high-tech, knowledgeable people but do not need them. But have tens of thousands of kids in uni who should not be there and are not needed in the economy upon graduation. They have thousands of dollars in debt that permanently stunt their financial well-being.

Canada needs strong backs, not strong minds. Canada need plumbers, not liberal arts grads. Canada needs welders, not immigrant management consultants.

And the professions that do need high-skilled workers are regulated in a way that foreign workers are largely unable to gain entry. Think law and medicine, two professions with wildly overpaid people. A little foreign competition would bring down those wages and benefit "Canadians" greatly.

But our immigration policy is based upon a white guilt that has birthed a multicultural fantasy of cities run by people in multicolored moomoos. And objection to this is quickly denounced as racist.

Canada is a soft-totalitarian country. Meaningful change is fully impossible.

Ours is a deeply cynical, bitter, envious society that survives due to the twin effects of rigid political correctness in all aspects of thought and an arrogant conditioning from DAY1 in the school system that teachers that we are "better" that others.

But most importantly, our immigration and post-secondary education system is based upon our belief that our economy is as well developed as the United States. And. It. Isn't.

The Canadian economy involves digging up the country and throwing it across the border in exchange for little green IOU's.

[alex83]

I immigrated to Canada with my family 18 years ago. My parents are both engineers by trade and, initially, it was very hard for them to get any kind of job. A few years later, when things picked up, they got taxed half to death. Yes, when you're an immigrant, you need to work twice as hard as everyone else just to get ahead...but is that supposed to be shocking??

We Canadians know that Canada has A LOT of problems (only one of which is the immigrant issue) and is highly over-rated throughout the world for many things. I always laugh when people (usually Americans) talk about our "great" health care system. Those of us who have needed health care in Canada know better.

All this being said, Canada still treats its immigrants way better than most of the world. Sure, there's some covert bigotry every now and again, but less than most places in my opinion.

Take Korea, for instance. Here, people talk openly (sometimes to your face) about their hatred or opposition of immigrants. In Canada, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone calling an immigrant "foreigner."

[bubbleboy]

The problem is the PROVINCES. All professional jobs are regulated individually by the provinces (Ontario Professional Accountants, Professional Engineers of Alberta etc.) and in Canada you legally need a licence to be an engineer, doctor, plumber, carpenter, accountant etc. All the provincial regulatory bodies are unwilling to accept foriegn credentials and grant immigrants licences because they don't want to create too much competition within their fields and create an oversupply. They are only bound to accept professionals trained in Canada - not pple trained overseas.

The provincial governments are too complacent and are not getting tough on the licensing bodies.

In the early eighties (when my family immigrated), my dad's engineering degree had to be formally recognized by the Professional Engineers of Ontario AND he had to have a job offer before we could qualify for immigration. Nowadays, the Fed's are handing out "instant-immigration" right away without recognition of degrees or job offers.

The federal government creates its immigration policies without consulting the provinces, because they all hate each other and don't get along. The system is completely disfunctional and needs a complete overhaul. The feds are only bringing in immigrants so our population doesn't decline, they could care less about whether Canada needs their expertise or not.

[blaseblasphemener]

The medium (50th percentile) net worth in America is....$20,000.

That means 50% of American families have a net worth of $20,000 or less.

3.5% of Americans are millionaires.

The median net worth of the top 25% richest Americans is $150,000. And, the richest 5% skew this number up.

conclusion? Most Americans are not at all wealthy. America is the land of the haves and have nots. Most Americans are living paycheque to paycheque, on a pile of easy to borrow money.

By the way, the average house price in Canada is $330,000. The average house price in Vancouver is over $500,000, and Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto are all close to half a mil. Hardly middle class numbers. Don't be decieved. Canadians as a whole enjoy an exceptional quality of life.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Aw. Boo hoo. Apu didn't have a job handed to him on a silver platter. Really brings a tear to my eye. Then he says that he scammed all he could out of the Canadian government to go to much better America where if he gets into a huge accident and needs medical care, he'll be crying about those costs and somehow try to go back over the border to take care of it.

A really sad story.

[crusher_of_heads]

Canada has the Queen of England as thier monarch.


The USA doesn't.


It is clear which is the better, more mature and democratic state, and that includes immigration policies.

[kimchi story]