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Forum: Canada
Nov 10th 2009, 11:08 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

Well, let us start with this. Why did you originally report this as



GTA/GV not Canada and benefits and not opportunity. Saying that an immigant will have to work to pay benefits for the...
Forum: Canada
Nov 10th 2009, 9:20 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

I can do linear regression in Excel if that helps.
Forum: Canada
Nov 10th 2009, 9:01 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

Well, obviously, I am crushed by your opprobrium. Should I join you in the Are Salaries Lower thread to see how it is done properly?
Forum: Canada
Nov 10th 2009, 8:43 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

That is fair enough if someone is posting sincere opinions.

However, whan a poster goes to all the effort of concocting deliberately inflammatory material it seems rather unsporting not to play...
Forum: Canada
Nov 10th 2009, 5:01 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

Don't say that! Think off all the poor colonial types out here who haven't had the good fortune to have been born in Britain. If the Brits stop emigrating Canada will fall to pieces within a few...
Forum: Canada
Nov 9th 2009, 8:52 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

It is hard to tell at times, but he made me laugh.
Forum: Canada
Nov 9th 2009, 3:26 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

An ad hominem argument is a logical fallacy. If I said, "Oink is a fool, so you can't place any value on his opinions about Canada," it would not be logical. Just because someone is a fool doesn't...
Forum: Canada
Nov 9th 2009, 4:20 am
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

Oh come on. He's not for real.
Forum: Canada
Nov 9th 2009, 4:08 am
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

Well, I am sure we are all extremely grateful that you are bestowing on Canada all the benefits of your British upbringing. And I apologize if Canada is not giving back to you what you so richly...
Forum: Canada
Nov 7th 2009, 9:19 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

All well and good. But it is not exactly news that immigrants benefit the economy because:

a) they fill gaps in the labour market (aka doing the jobs the existing population don't want to do). ...
Forum: Canada
Nov 5th 2009, 8:47 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

A bit of BC perspective ...

In the trades the legal minimum of 2 weeks for the first five years and three weeks thereafter is the norm. I don't hear anyone complaining about it. It never comes...
Forum: Canada
Nov 5th 2009, 6:09 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

a) You negotiate. This is the legal minimum but there is nothing stopping you agreeing a better deal with your employer.

b) Get family and friends to come and visit you.

Employment...
Forum: Canada
Nov 5th 2009, 5:46 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

Eh? Two weeks after 50 weeks worked (plus stats) is the legal minimum in BC and, I think, most of the rest of Canada.
Forum: Canada
Nov 5th 2009, 5:10 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

You can make a decent argument for these. In the 60s and 70s Canada had two visionary liberal leaders (both big and small L) who transformed Canada from a colonial backwater to a modern liberal...
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 11:11 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

They were doing great in 1997.

I have an image in my head of Hague giving a speech to the Tory conference when he was about 15. It makes me shudder to this day.
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 10:28 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

Yes, in 1997 William Hague said the Conservatives would win the next election. It was good enough for me. I was off.
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 10:18 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

If you believed Wilson would carry out his pre-election promises. That is a big if.
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 9:16 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

Negative karma to the first person who posts about a tree falling in the forest.
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 9:03 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

I wouldn't chose to walk about the center of, say, Woking, at chucking out time on a Friday evening - but fair enough.

I was trying to make the point that perception of crime is more of a reality...
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 8:20 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

I am sure that statistically I am more likely to be shot in Surrey BC than Surrey UK.

My perception, because I am not associated in any way with drugs or gang activity, is that I am much safer in...
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 8:00 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

For sure (though I think ghetto is a pejorative word in these circumstances), but I am thinking of Vancouver as a region (The Lower Mainland) rather than a specific city or neighborhood.
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 7:43 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

But you can't simply lump everyone from South Asia into one ethnic group and everyone from East Asia into another. That is about as useful and accurate as categorizing everyone from Europe and the...
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 7:10 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

I didn't take it as overly personal and no apology is necessary.
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 7:09 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

In my street there are people born in England, Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic (now), Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Israel, Algeria and Quebec. There are a few Canadians as well.
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2009, 6:55 pm
Replies: 705
Views: 51,345
Posted By JonboyE

Re: Why do you want to move to Canada

There is more than a grain of truth in this.



I think not - but I have no proof other than what I have seen and heard around me so this is going to be a pointless discussion.



Have you...
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