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Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the she-followed-me-home-can-I-keep-her dept.

ashitaka writes "Just in time for all those who have vowed to leave the United States in response to government policies and mainstream cultural malaise, the Canadian government is announcing a C$700 million initiative to help skilled workers stay in Canada and become citizens. If you had the choice, would you really uproot to a new country especially one where the lifestyle isn't that much different than your own?"

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  1. Re:The lifestyle IS different! by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 5, Funny

    we have tonnes of green land

    Every time I've been to Canada the land has been white.

  2. Prepostorous! by nxtr · · Score: 5, Funny

    >>Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers

    No one can move an entire country, not even Superman!

  3. Re:Lifestyle by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny
    one where the lifestyle isn't that much different than your own?

    Except for that part where we peel our faces off and reveal ourselves to our god. Wait, forget I said that. Everything is fine.

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  4. Canada Sucks. by nblender · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a Canadian. You Merkans would hate it here. This place sucks. Don't come here. We regularly eat children and stab puppies for sport. It's cold and everyone has a dog-sled. This is a horrible purgatory. I beg of you, please don't come here.

  5. Re:The lifestyle IS different! by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hate to tell you this, but you read the map wrong and didn't go far enough north. You only made it to Utah. :)

  6. Re:Well it's the UK, but same logic... by ThaFooz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well i'm not in the US, i'm in the UK...That said, we haven't exactly done a grand job of keeping anyone out anyway...

    More precisley, you haven't exactly figured out who to keep in. I guess the Americans and Australians weren't the rejects that you suspected they were ;)

  7. Re:Lifestyle by mpsmps · · Score: 4, Funny

    So is Chicago. What's your point?

  8. Re:The only catch by Flounder · · Score: 4, Funny
    About the only thing you can't do is marry the horse, yet.

    So, just live across the border in Washington State and commute every morning on your wife.

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  9. Re:How about giving up the Socialism, eh? by Nolkyan · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Also, Canada has the second largest oil reserves in the world." Yes, sir, Mister President, I do believe Canada is intending to use weapons of mass destruction against us.