Ponrauil, here I come!

Nah leave it, just saying for saying...

The Swedes don't like Celine Dion? I mught consider emigrating there then...
For the Canadian citizenship, I also have to win a maple sirup drinking contest, is there anything similar for the Swedish citizenship?

Ponrauil

All you can do to get citizenship in sweden is to apply, no test, no funny cd's to listen too... and you can't pay for it.

btw. Swedes like Celine Dion i think she has sold something like 1,6 million albums here... at that's a lot!!

You can't pay for it either in Canada. Looks simpler in Sweden though. But how do they make sure you go along with Swedish culture? I mean, here it's a little crazy.
My new Maple Leaf tatoo I had to get on my chest is hitching me like crazy. And there's not even a refund.

Well that would be a good thing for you if you ever wanted to come to Canada.

Ponrauil

You forgot that you have you have to be able to hum the Hockey Night in Canada theme too!

And Ponrauil, I do agree that Canadians tend to be laid back when it comes to it's own problems. Look at what has happened with the Kashechewan reserve. The Natives on this reserve, like many others, have complained for years about sub-standard water supply. Last year, the government finally upgraded the system but didn't move the intake pipe, which is located downstream from the sewage system. As a result, the residents have been suffering from nausea, diarrhea, rashes and blistered skin. Some conditions are due to high levels of chlorine used to treat the water. Half of the residents were flown to larger communities in northern Ontario, but they are still be screwed. Promised hotel/motel rooms, they have been relocated to the gym of a community centre, where for their own safety, they have been barred access to some of the facilities.

The government of Canada spends something like $7 billion dollars a year on the Native population, yet living conditions and life expectancy fall well below the national average. We have people in this country living in third world conditions. I don't consider myself politically active, but I'm planning on calling my MP and asking what the government plans on doing, both in the short term and long term.

Steph

There is no such demand. You can go to sweden and more or less live the same life as you did back home, but you have to stick to the law, of course.
In sweden we think (at least some people think this..) that is a hostile behaviour. But I do think that's about to change, all most all people in Swedish prisons are foreigners.. thats not fun for them nor for us.

Btw. I've heard that if a pay the Canadian government 1 million US I will get myself a membership. A few very rich Arabs has done this. perhaps that's just a rumour.


I won't move to a country that requires a tattoo of something “inhabitant” on my chest.

Somehow I have a feeling that humor is sometimes lost on certain people.

Ice

oh ****.

Don't be like that Ice... Please.. I you make me cry.

I'm ready on that one. Learning all the Canadian teams that won the Stanley cup in chronological order with all their players is something I've yet to master though.

The Natives issue, at least in Quebec, is something I could have an argument with people here easily... I mean the way the Canadian government deals with them, and how the French and English dealt with them before that, under the cover name of assimilation is nothing else than a slow and programmed genocide. They've been parked where they can't be seen and "disturb". The tax cut they get is just to keep them away from the main cities. As you said they have a much shorter life expectancy...
Yet they are seen by a vast majority here as lazy, alcoholic, wife and children beating people who take advantage of the system and are nuisance.
People here just avoid the subject and pretend they don't exist.

There's been a polemic here a couple of weeks back, because a stupid psychiatrist said on national tv that the black and native people were less intelligent than average because all the clever ones were killed when slavery was still aloud. Only the stupid strong ones were kept alive. Therefore their IQ is lower than average and they run fast and other BS... The big debate that followed was only about black people. No one ever mentioned the Natives were also discriminated... except a black celebrity.

Shame.

Ponrauil

Ok, so I tried to fool Erik about having to learn the Canadian National Anthem... big deal.

Ponrauil

Well, making the poor boy sing the Titanics soundtrack is one of the cruelest things imaginable.

Ice