And what party do nazi's and the like in the states vote for? Yup, the Republicans(or reform with pat). I guess the republicans are a bunch of nazi's then right. Oh wait, most of them risked their lives trying to kill nazi's in WWII.
As for Betty Granger. Exactly what part of her comments were racist? She was mearly stating facts about how our government regulated post-secondary institutions are being abused by foreign students. I don't pay tax to subsidize universitys so that some kid from china or germany or zimbabwe can take a spot from a Canadian kid. Where i live the University of Waterloo has a requirement of around 98% for applicants to computer science. Do you know why? It's not because you need to be capable of those kind of grades to pass the course. It's because they have so many applicants, and so few seats that it needs to be set that high to weed out as many people as possible. And a large part of the reason why there are so few seats available is because they are taken up by FOREIGN students. Go to the computer science or math building, everyone is either oriental or a abnormaly fat/skinny white kid. Now i would love to have as many foreign students come here for their education as possible, but not at the expense of even ONE Canadian being turned down.
Regarding the comment of immigrants being rich. Well, they are. It's practically a requirement for immigration, look it up.
Perhaps an example of American ignorance. Canada has roughly a ninth the population of the US, spread over a similar amount of space. This inherantly means LESS competition then is possible in the US, which requires government intervention to ensure a fair free market. An example... in Texas the three biggest players in the gas industry control something like 25% of the market. In Canada the three largest control 80% of the market. This equals price fixing. Which means artifically high gas prices.
Oh and the ADSL service around here is like 1.2mb and cost $35 CDN.. or $23 US a month.
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And what party do nazi's and the like in the states vote for? Yup, the Republicans(or reform with pat). I guess the republicans are a bunch of nazi's then right. Oh wait, most of them risked their lives trying to kill nazi's in WWII. As for Betty Granger. Exactly what part of her comments were racist? She was mearly stating facts about how our government regulated post-secondary institutions are being abused by foreign students. I don't pay tax to subsidize universitys so that some kid from china or germany or zimbabwe can take a spot from a Canadian kid. Where i live the University of Waterloo has a requirement of around 98% for applicants to computer science. Do you know why? It's not because you need to be capable of those kind of grades to pass the course. It's because they have so many applicants, and so few seats that it needs to be set that high to weed out as many people as possible. And a large part of the reason why there are so few seats available is because they are taken up by FOREIGN students. Go to the computer science or math building, everyone is either oriental or a abnormaly fat/skinny white kid. Now i would love to have as many foreign students come here for their education as possible, but not at the expense of even ONE Canadian being turned down. Regarding the comment of immigrants being rich. Well, they are. It's practically a requirement for immigration, look it up.
Perhaps an example of American ignorance. Canada has roughly a ninth the population of the US, spread over a similar amount of space. This inherantly means LESS competition then is possible in the US, which requires government intervention to ensure a fair free market. An example... in Texas the three biggest players in the gas industry control something like 25% of the market. In Canada the three largest control 80% of the market. This equals price fixing. Which means artifically high gas prices. Oh and the ADSL service around here is like 1.2mb and cost $35 CDN.. or $23 US a month.
50 canadian dollars.. or 32 US dollars.. so yes dirt cheap. MAXIMUM.
You can have all the liberals and NDP freakshows you want.. plz take em.. they're about to get re-elected...alah save us.