dbd33

I trust you're joking. I hear so much about the superiority of the cheese in Macao, in Uruguay, even in America!

Atlantic Xpat

I enjoyed a very pleasant cheese platter in a little bistro in Singapore recently. So you may be onto something.

dbd33

The guy from Laos never mentions cheese. He does have a gripe with the tofu but his English isn't strong enough to pontificate on the nuances of tofu. Neither's mine.

Alan2005

Those asian types love Canadian food. It's why they set up all those shops and restaurants where they can go to avoid eating it.

Jingsamichty

That wouldn't happen to have been in a little lane near Chinatown, would it?

YoshiPal2010

Oh, really? I clean toilets (and wax floors, clean-up puke, and make sure that the 98,000sq ft junior high that I work in is clean and safe and warm everyday -- me and two others. And I am not the only Brit that is doing that form of employment. Don't try to tar us all with the same brush: the ones that appear on the forum bemoaning the lack of employment, seem to be the white, middle-class professionals who wail that they haven't found anything in their field for seven months! Unlike the Chinese and Philipino professionals I work with -- yes, we do have a doctor, and a physics teacher on our staff!

Atlantic Xpat

Yes. This street.

Almost Canadian

I would be amazed if such people cannot find work in their field in Calgary, particularly if they have passed the necessary "transfer of qualifications" requirements.

Just the other day I was in Court with an opponent that spoke English so poorly that the Judge was not prepared to deal with the matter and adjourned it. He must have been able to persuade his employer that he would be an asset to the firm. The Judge didn't ask him if he spoke French, which is just as well as I would have looked a right Charlie

Jingsamichty

Ha! I know the one you mean. Lovely little place.

YoshiPal2010

Yes, it is amazing! Perhaps you should pop down to your local school and ask the little Oriental fellow working as a caretaker (around 40 percent of the workforce in facilities is Asian, and more than half of my SAIT Facility Management class is from that part of the world) what he was doing before arriving in Canada? They probably have as much of a grievance against the Canadian immigration system, which seems to be set up to have the best-educated janitorial workforce in the world (although I was only a typesetter when I came here, arriving on my wife's job and points qualification, and bitterly regretting it ever since).

Steve_P

How true, how true, the Senior FO at the last school my wife temped at was a school principal in Korea, he came here for his kids to have a better life not necessarily himself.

Oink

English rather than British immigrants should get priority when it comes to admittance. We share the same culture, language and in general we're far more educated than most. Plus, most of the Canadians I know strive to emulate Anglo culture.

Almost Canadian

You have obviously missed the "transfer of qualifications" point I made above. I take it all those rocket scientists haven't managed to satisfy the required licensing boards of their abilities. You'll get no argument from me that the hurdles they place are nonsense but, once cleared, I stand by my comment that it would be relatively easy to find work in Calgary.

JamesM

I agree.

Don't start lumping me in with the Welsh, Scots or Irish.

ExKiwilass

so did this story air or not?