Canadians open arms to Americans
11-15-2004, 11:47 AM
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Canadians open arms to Americans
This time it's really happening, Chris...
What's everyone's take on this? I think it's pathetic...
Here's that URL with information on Canadian immigration if anyone here is interested: http://www.canadianalternative.com/
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Rudi Kischer wants to help those Americans who have the post-election blues after U.S. President George W. Bush's second-term victory.
The Vancouver, British Columbia, immigration lawyer plans seminars in three U.S. cities -- Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles -- to tell Americans frustrated with Bush's re-election that the grass is greener north of the border.
And that's not just an allusion to Canada's lenient marijuana laws.
"We started last year getting a lot of calls from Americans dissatisfied with the way the country is going," Kischer says. "Then after the election, it's been crazy up here. The Canadian immigration Web site had 115,000 hits the day after the election -- from the U.S. alone. We usually only get 20,000 hits."
There was so much interest that a Vancouver-based Internet company, Communicopia, set up a new Web site this month -- www.canadianalternative.com -- to suggest Canada as a viable option for its American clients, including anyone concerned about constitutional bans on gay marriage passed in 11 U.S. states this month.
The Vancouver, British Columbia, immigration lawyer plans seminars in three U.S. cities -- Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles -- to tell Americans frustrated with Bush's re-election that the grass is greener north of the border.
And that's not just an allusion to Canada's lenient marijuana laws.
"We started last year getting a lot of calls from Americans dissatisfied with the way the country is going," Kischer says. "Then after the election, it's been crazy up here. The Canadian immigration Web site had 115,000 hits the day after the election -- from the U.S. alone. We usually only get 20,000 hits."
There was so much interest that a Vancouver-based Internet company, Communicopia, set up a new Web site this month -- www.canadianalternative.com -- to suggest Canada as a viable option for its American clients, including anyone concerned about constitutional bans on gay marriage passed in 11 U.S. states this month.
Here's that URL with information on Canadian immigration if anyone here is interested: http://www.canadianalternative.com/
11-15-2004, 11:50 AM
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If I could find a good job in BC I would move there for a while. The skiing is second to none in North America up there and there are other *perks* 
But it would have nothing to do with the election. I would go for the landscape and skiing and stuff like that! I was actually in canada this weekend accross from Detroit in Windsor. It is very nice over there. Clean cities, nice people. And Detroit looks so good from accross the river! :banana:
But it would have nothing to do with the election. I would go for the landscape and skiing and stuff like that! I was actually in canada this weekend accross from Detroit in Windsor. It is very nice over there. Clean cities, nice people. And Detroit looks so good from accross the river! :banana:
11-15-2004, 12:05 PM
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If there's one thing I like less than Bush, it's the UK royal family. Untill Canada removes it's thumb from the Queens **** I won't even think about moving there. Don't even get me started on the 'french canadian' bull.
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11-15-2004, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by dub2w
Vancouver is teh bomb, but moving cause of GW? Fugetaboutit
I'd have to agree... have some good memories in Vancouver.
11-15-2004, 01:36 PM
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I wonder what the immigration numbers for the US and Canada are, in other words how many Canadians are moving to the US vs how many Americans are moving to Canada?
11-15-2004, 01:46 PM
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haha... but after quaffing pint after pint of Guinness and then jumping on a bus through the mtn roads up to Whistler, I have good and bad memories of BC
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11-16-2004, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by SilverScoober02
If I could find a good job in BC I would move there for a while. The skiing is second to none in North America up there and there are other *perks*
But it would have nothing to do with the election. I would go for the landscape and skiing and stuff like that! I was actually in canada this weekend accross from Detroit in Windsor. It is very nice over there. Clean cities, nice people. And Detroit looks so good from accross the river! :banana:
But it would have nothing to do with the election. I would go for the landscape and skiing and stuff like that! I was actually in canada this weekend accross from Detroit in Windsor. It is very nice over there. Clean cities, nice people. And Detroit looks so good from accross the river! :banana:
11-18-2004, 10:30 AM
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Whistler is cool...but there are SO many cooler places right around there in BC and Alberta. Whistler is sorta like Vail or Aspen...it's nice, but too well traveled. Try Kicking Horse...much nicer in my opinion.
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