roll your left trouser leg up, bare your chest and join the freemasons! you can give a small fortune away with your fellow bretheren. If you are a girl, you can't join.fletch

It has absolutely nothing to do with owing the country of Canada anything. It's to do with how we help our less fortunate fellow human beings. If you don't get that then you are one cold hearted individual, IMO anyway.

That not how the thread was presented though, was it

Whatever you say, Big Chief.

I'm not the one saying it...

I don't know, but I've tried. I did a couple of years at Crisis at Christmas when in the UK, a year in Hebron in the West Bank at a refugee camp and prison visiting, and the last 11 years assisting the mentally handicapped with outings in France. I hope that I can 'maybe' 'do' something in Canada, but it won't be because they are Canadian. I have been given a bloody great bit of life on a plate. A not great start got better and better, I've been incredibly lucky, but like most of us have had a couple of bad patches - there isn't a day I'm not thankful.

Animal Sanctuaries always need volunteers if you are inclined towards the furry and feathered in need of help.

I try and be as informative and encouraging to people from the UK who are thinking about emigrating to Canada.

And a great job you do of it too! Thanks to you nobody will arrive with rose coloured vision! I can feel myself breaking out into song.

Selfless!

And where would the Expat community be without your erudite cricket comment?

At least you can read Oinks advice without vomiting.

Call me a total cynic, but I smell the scent of a small menacing creature that likes to live under bridges here...

Indeed...he was living in Chicago until last week at least

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...76#post9888776

Blimey - he did settle quick in Canada - no wonder he wants to give something back