OT: What does it take to get a “green card” in Canada?

[rnen]

In addition to the above you need to be able to do the following:

1. Drink a 12pack of REAL beer without puking on your shoes.

2. Be able to name atleast 10 Canadian hockey players

3. Oppose banning fighting in the NHL

4. Include backbacon as a staple in your diet.

5. Know which Mackensi is Bob and which is Doug.

6. And most importantly of all… NEVER EVER admit that Paul Schaffer is Canadian!

Good day EH.

[patientlywaiting]

Special Canada Day Report: How Canada stole the American Dream

The numbers are in. Compared to the U.S., we work less, live longer, enjoy better health and have more sex. And get this: now we’re wealthier too.

http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080625_50113_50113

[patientlywaiting]

Special Canada Day Report: How Canada stole the American Dream

The numbers are in. Compared to the U.S., we work less, live longer, enjoy better health and have more sex. And get this: now we’re wealthier too.

http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080625_50113_50113

[patientlywaiting]

Special Canada Day Report: How Canada stole the American Dream

The numbers are in. Compared to the U.S., we work less, live longer, enjoy better health and have more sex. And get this: now we’re wealthier too.

http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080625_50113_50113

[patientlywaiting]

Special Canada Day Report: How Canada stole the American Dream

The numbers are in. Compared to the U.S., we work less, live longer, enjoy better health and have more sex. And get this: now we’re wealthier too.

http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080625_50113_50113

[patientlywaiting]

Special Canada Day Report: How Canada stole the American Dream

The numbers are in. Compared to the U.S., we work less, live longer, enjoy better health and have more sex. And get this: now we’re wealthier too.

http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080625_50113_50113

[Anonymous]

Long time reader/lurker. Happily, reading Pigg’s deterred me and Husband from buying a (now heavily depreciated) property in 2006.

I’m a permanent resident alien of the US (22 years and counting/married a Yankee) and a citizen of Canada. It’s my understanding that Canada would accept dual citizenship, but, at least in my case, the US would not. I would have to renounce my Canadian citizenship to become US naturalized, and then, afterwards, apply to Canada to reinstate. (Although things may have changed since I looked into it years ago). In any case, it used to be easier, US to Canada, than the reverse.

Canadians are generally socially liberal and fiscally conservative, so it seems you’d fit right in. Funny, but the only big difference I see in the “entitlement/socialist” arena, is that Canadians see the welfare of the citizenry as an infrastructure issue, while the States do not. The US has many similar “socialist” programs, but refuses to label them such.

But LOL at the poster who assumes you’d have to return to the US for medical attention. What a snow job the US medical insurance industry has done on Americans. As if, under any scenario, your health is better left to the discretion of a corporation whose sole purpose is to make money. The Canadian health care system is far from perfect, but it’s certainly superior to what we have here. (Not to mention that in Canada, if you’re dissatisfied with your coverage, you’re still free to add whatever additional private insurance you see fit).

As for the US ensuring that Canadians spend little on defense, absolutely. But you’d be hard pressed to find an enemy bent on invading and taking over Canada. Why would they?

Finally, why not Quebec? Have you visited? Perhaps the French aren’t to your liking, but beyond the separatist politics, Old Quebec City and Montreal are world class desintations. A taste of the old world right in our own backyard. (On the other hand, I would hate to live in any of the southern states or the bible belt. Way too backward, despite some obvious charms).

Don’t agree with your doomsday scenario, but I’ll be the first one on the boat singing O Canada if the poop hits the fan.

[Anonymous]

Long time reader/lurker. Happily, reading Pigg’s deterred me and Husband from buying a (now heavily depreciated) property in 2006.

I’m a permanent resident alien of the US (22 years and counting/married a Yankee) and a citizen of Canada. It’s my understanding that Canada would accept dual citizenship, but, at least in my case, the US would not. I would have to renounce my Canadian citizenship to become US naturalized, and then, afterwards, apply to Canada to reinstate. (Although things may have changed since I looked into it years ago). In any case, it used to be easier, US to Canada, than the reverse.

Canadians are generally socially liberal and fiscally conservative, so it seems you’d fit right in. Funny, but the only big difference I see in the “entitlement/socialist” arena, is that Canadians see the welfare of the citizenry as an infrastructure issue, while the States do not. The US has many similar “socialist” programs, but refuses to label them such.

But LOL at the poster who assumes you’d have to return to the US for medical attention. What a snow job the US medical insurance industry has done on Americans. As if, under any scenario, your health is better left to the discretion of a corporation whose sole purpose is to make money. The Canadian health care system is far from perfect, but it’s certainly superior to what we have here. (Not to mention that in Canada, if you’re dissatisfied with your coverage, you’re still free to add whatever additional private insurance you see fit).

As for the US ensuring that Canadians spend little on defense, absolutely. But you’d be hard pressed to find an enemy bent on invading and taking over Canada. Why would they?

Finally, why not Quebec? Have you visited? Perhaps the French aren’t to your liking, but beyond the separatist politics, Old Quebec City and Montreal are world class desintations. A taste of the old world right in our own backyard. (On the other hand, I would hate to live in any of the southern states or the bible belt. Way too backward, despite some obvious charms).

Don’t agree with your doomsday scenario, but I’ll be the first one on the boat singing O Canada if the poop hits the fan.

[Anonymous]

Long time reader/lurker. Happily, reading Pigg’s deterred me and Husband from buying a (now heavily depreciated) property in 2006.

I’m a permanent resident alien of the US (22 years and counting/married a Yankee) and a citizen of Canada. It’s my understanding that Canada would accept dual citizenship, but, at least in my case, the US would not. I would have to renounce my Canadian citizenship to become US naturalized, and then, afterwards, apply to Canada to reinstate. (Although things may have changed since I looked into it years ago). In any case, it used to be easier, US to Canada, than the reverse.

Canadians are generally socially liberal and fiscally conservative, so it seems you’d fit right in. Funny, but the only big difference I see in the “entitlement/socialist” arena, is that Canadians see the welfare of the citizenry as an infrastructure issue, while the States do not. The US has many similar “socialist” programs, but refuses to label them such.

But LOL at the poster who assumes you’d have to return to the US for medical attention. What a snow job the US medical insurance industry has done on Americans. As if, under any scenario, your health is better left to the discretion of a corporation whose sole purpose is to make money. The Canadian health care system is far from perfect, but it’s certainly superior to what we have here. (Not to mention that in Canada, if you’re dissatisfied with your coverage, you’re still free to add whatever additional private insurance you see fit).

As for the US ensuring that Canadians spend little on defense, absolutely. But you’d be hard pressed to find an enemy bent on invading and taking over Canada. Why would they?

Finally, why not Quebec? Have you visited? Perhaps the French aren’t to your liking, but beyond the separatist politics, Old Quebec City and Montreal are world class desintations. A taste of the old world right in our own backyard. (On the other hand, I would hate to live in any of the southern states or the bible belt. Way too backward, despite some obvious charms).

Don’t agree with your doomsday scenario, but I’ll be the first one on the boat singing O Canada if the poop hits the fan.

[Anonymous]

Long time reader/lurker. Happily, reading Pigg’s deterred me and Husband from buying a (now heavily depreciated) property in 2006.

I’m a permanent resident alien of the US (22 years and counting/married a Yankee) and a citizen of Canada. It’s my understanding that Canada would accept dual citizenship, but, at least in my case, the US would not. I would have to renounce my Canadian citizenship to become US naturalized, and then, afterwards, apply to Canada to reinstate. (Although things may have changed since I looked into it years ago). In any case, it used to be easier, US to Canada, than the reverse.

Canadians are generally socially liberal and fiscally conservative, so it seems you’d fit right in. Funny, but the only big difference I see in the “entitlement/socialist” arena, is that Canadians see the welfare of the citizenry as an infrastructure issue, while the States do not. The US has many similar “socialist” programs, but refuses to label them such.

But LOL at the poster who assumes you’d have to return to the US for medical attention. What a snow job the US medical insurance industry has done on Americans. As if, under any scenario, your health is better left to the discretion of a corporation whose sole purpose is to make money. The Canadian health care system is far from perfect, but it’s certainly superior to what we have here. (Not to mention that in Canada, if you’re dissatisfied with your coverage, you’re still free to add whatever additional private insurance you see fit).

As for the US ensuring that Canadians spend little on defense, absolutely. But you’d be hard pressed to find an enemy bent on invading and taking over Canada. Why would they?

Finally, why not Quebec? Have you visited? Perhaps the French aren’t to your liking, but beyond the separatist politics, Old Quebec City and Montreal are world class desintations. A taste of the old world right in our own backyard. (On the other hand, I would hate to live in any of the southern states or the bible belt. Way too backward, despite some obvious charms).

Don’t agree with your doomsday scenario, but I’ll be the first one on the boat singing O Canada if the poop hits the fan.

[Anonymous]

Long time reader/lurker. Happily, reading Pigg’s deterred me and Husband from buying a (now heavily depreciated) property in 2006.

I’m a permanent resident alien of the US (22 years and counting/married a Yankee) and a citizen of Canada. It’s my understanding that Canada would accept dual citizenship, but, at least in my case, the US would not. I would have to renounce my Canadian citizenship to become US naturalized, and then, afterwards, apply to Canada to reinstate. (Although things may have changed since I looked into it years ago). In any case, it used to be easier, US to Canada, than the reverse.

Canadians are generally socially liberal and fiscally conservative, so it seems you’d fit right in. Funny, but the only big difference I see in the “entitlement/socialist” arena, is that Canadians see the welfare of the citizenry as an infrastructure issue, while the States do not. The US has many similar “socialist” programs, but refuses to label them such.

But LOL at the poster who assumes you’d have to return to the US for medical attention. What a snow job the US medical insurance industry has done on Americans. As if, under any scenario, your health is better left to the discretion of a corporation whose sole purpose is to make money. The Canadian health care system is far from perfect, but it’s certainly superior to what we have here. (Not to mention that in Canada, if you’re dissatisfied with your coverage, you’re still free to add whatever additional private insurance you see fit).

As for the US ensuring that Canadians spend little on defense, absolutely. But you’d be hard pressed to find an enemy bent on invading and taking over Canada. Why would they?

Finally, why not Quebec? Have you visited? Perhaps the French aren’t to your liking, but beyond the separatist politics, Old Quebec City and Montreal are world class desintations. A taste of the old world right in our own backyard. (On the other hand, I would hate to live in any of the southern states or the bible belt. Way too backward, despite some obvious charms).

Don’t agree with your doomsday scenario, but I’ll be the first one on the boat singing O Canada if the poop hits the fan.

[Coronita]

Procolherring, thanks for the input.

My wife has labeled me as being insane, particularly since living in CA which is one or the more liberal states.

Still, I like to play the “what if” scenarios. I do love this country, but I do like planning for the worst. So recently, I’ve been giving some thought into this.

Yes, I have traveled quiet a bit in Canada.
Victoria, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec, a few other places. Folks I met in Quebec were generally friendly (French without the stereotype French attitude), but still i guess I just didn’t feel I could fit in. I really liked Vancouver, and could see myself live there (good asian food, and culture). Personally don’t mind the cold weather though wifey isn’t fond of it. Hockey rocks, so that won’t be a problem (gripe about SD is that it doesn’t have an NHL team).

I have “heard” taxes are incredibly high, but it’s probably not surprising considering there are more social programs. Health care system I have heard is much better than what you would get hear, except really good health care you still need to pay for. It was sort of LOL for me when I read about “returning for healthcare in the U.S.” Among other problems, medicare to my understanding is in deep doodoo (worse shape than SSN).

The biggest problem my wife and i have is that we have heard there isn’t much opportunity there for enginerds (at least not as much as hear), though we really haven’t looked that much either. Then again, perhaps it will be a moot point as a refugee from U.S. concentration camps.

Anyway. Mind if I ask if you know anything about Real Estate in Canada? Rules, regulation about foreign owners,etc? (Yes, I’m aware the greenback dollar is soo weak now..)Just curious though.

[Coronita]

Procolherring, thanks for the input.

My wife has labeled me as being insane, particularly since living in CA which is one or the more liberal states.

Still, I like to play the “what if” scenarios. I do love this country, but I do like planning for the worst. So recently, I’ve been giving some thought into this.

Yes, I have traveled quiet a bit in Canada.
Victoria, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec, a few other places. Folks I met in Quebec were generally friendly (French without the stereotype French attitude), but still i guess I just didn’t feel I could fit in. I really liked Vancouver, and could see myself live there (good asian food, and culture). Personally don’t mind the cold weather though wifey isn’t fond of it. Hockey rocks, so that won’t be a problem (gripe about SD is that it doesn’t have an NHL team).

I have “heard” taxes are incredibly high, but it’s probably not surprising considering there are more social programs. Health care system I have heard is much better than what you would get hear, except really good health care you still need to pay for. It was sort of LOL for me when I read about “returning for healthcare in the U.S.” Among other problems, medicare to my understanding is in deep doodoo (worse shape than SSN).

The biggest problem my wife and i have is that we have heard there isn’t much opportunity there for enginerds (at least not as much as hear), though we really haven’t looked that much either. Then again, perhaps it will be a moot point as a refugee from U.S. concentration camps.

Anyway. Mind if I ask if you know anything about Real Estate in Canada? Rules, regulation about foreign owners,etc? (Yes, I’m aware the greenback dollar is soo weak now..)Just curious though.

[Coronita]

Procolherring, thanks for the input.

My wife has labeled me as being insane, particularly since living in CA which is one or the more liberal states.

Still, I like to play the “what if” scenarios. I do love this country, but I do like planning for the worst. So recently, I’ve been giving some thought into this.

Yes, I have traveled quiet a bit in Canada.
Victoria, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec, a few other places. Folks I met in Quebec were generally friendly (French without the stereotype French attitude), but still i guess I just didn’t feel I could fit in. I really liked Vancouver, and could see myself live there (good asian food, and culture). Personally don’t mind the cold weather though wifey isn’t fond of it. Hockey rocks, so that won’t be a problem (gripe about SD is that it doesn’t have an NHL team).

I have “heard” taxes are incredibly high, but it’s probably not surprising considering there are more social programs. Health care system I have heard is much better than what you would get hear, except really good health care you still need to pay for. It was sort of LOL for me when I read about “returning for healthcare in the U.S.” Among other problems, medicare to my understanding is in deep doodoo (worse shape than SSN).

The biggest problem my wife and i have is that we have heard there isn’t much opportunity there for enginerds (at least not as much as hear), though we really haven’t looked that much either. Then again, perhaps it will be a moot point as a refugee from U.S. concentration camps.

Anyway. Mind if I ask if you know anything about Real Estate in Canada? Rules, regulation about foreign owners,etc? (Yes, I’m aware the greenback dollar is soo weak now..)Just curious though.

[Coronita]

Procolherring, thanks for the input.

My wife has labeled me as being insane, particularly since living in CA which is one or the more liberal states.

Still, I like to play the “what if” scenarios. I do love this country, but I do like planning for the worst. So recently, I’ve been giving some thought into this.

Yes, I have traveled quiet a bit in Canada.
Victoria, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec, a few other places. Folks I met in Quebec were generally friendly (French without the stereotype French attitude), but still i guess I just didn’t feel I could fit in. I really liked Vancouver, and could see myself live there (good asian food, and culture). Personally don’t mind the cold weather though wifey isn’t fond of it. Hockey rocks, so that won’t be a problem (gripe about SD is that it doesn’t have an NHL team).

I have “heard” taxes are incredibly high, but it’s probably not surprising considering there are more social programs. Health care system I have heard is much better than what you would get hear, except really good health care you still need to pay for. It was sort of LOL for me when I read about “returning for healthcare in the U.S.” Among other problems, medicare to my understanding is in deep doodoo (worse shape than SSN).

The biggest problem my wife and i have is that we have heard there isn’t much opportunity there for enginerds (at least not as much as hear), though we really haven’t looked that much either. Then again, perhaps it will be a moot point as a refugee from U.S. concentration camps.

Anyway. Mind if I ask if you know anything about Real Estate in Canada? Rules, regulation about foreign owners,etc? (Yes, I’m aware the greenback dollar is soo weak now..)Just curious though.

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