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I’m sure this video is exactly what so many of you think. I’ll personally stand at the border, in a Mountie costume, and give you a basket of maple syrup, social healthcare, beaver meat, and aborted fetuses.
Actually, it’s a little known part of Canadian socialism that you have to spend one day a year at the border in a mountie’s outfit. It’s kind of like conscription, but Canadian-style.
Yeah, yeah, I know the vid’s a joke, but it irritated me. I’m an American who was offered a job at a university in Ontario, but Canadian immigration wouldn’t let me in. They don’t really want E.L.I.T.E. people. I took the immigration test and scored over 90 (well-educated, professional, and I’m fluent in French!). But no. Not good enough. They tried to squeeze me into a “protected category” so that I could skirt immigration that way. They focused on the fact that I’m gay, but when it turned out that I was gender-conforming (i.e., they actually asked me if I do drag!), they rejected my application. Canada shmanada.
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Actually, it’s a little known part of Canadian socialism that you have to spend one day a year at the border in a mountie’s outfit. It’s kind of like conscription, but Canadian-style.
If there’s free arugula in that gift basket I’m sold…
Yeah, yeah, I know the vid’s a joke, but it irritated me. I’m an American who was offered a job at a university in Ontario, but Canadian immigration wouldn’t let me in. They don’t really want E.L.I.T.E. people. I took the immigration test and scored over 90 (well-educated, professional, and I’m fluent in French!). But no. Not good enough. They tried to squeeze me into a “protected category” so that I could skirt immigration that way. They focused on the fact that I’m gay, but when it turned out that I was gender-conforming (i.e., they actually asked me if I do drag!), they rejected my application. Canada shmanada.
Not as cold as you think!
Disgruntled: If you’re serious, that’s messed.
That’s awful! I find that strange–we’re pro-homosexuality in Ontario.