Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers

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?"

The only catch

[i8puppies]

is that you have to dress like a mountie.

Re:Lifestyle

[observer7]

i am, updating my resume and packing my bags as i read this .

Re:The lifestyle IS different!

[the eric conspiracy]

we have tonnes of green land

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

Re:Rather to Alabama

[mordors9]

What are you a Hurrican chaser?

slashdot

[queef_latina]

so you guys really like computers? you guys like to talk about lunix?

Canada's more like the US than ever

[p3d0]

Nowadays a guy can go a whole day in Toronto without ever seeing a single igloo.

Prepostorous!

[nxtr]

>>Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers

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

Re:Lifestyle

[AndroidCat]

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.

Canada Sucks.

[nblender]

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.

Re:To become a real Canadian...

[PygmySurfer]

Don't kick the baby...

Re:You can be a thief, too!

[Russ Nelson]

What are you?? Some kind of libertarian scum? If you let people keep their money, all they'll do is spend it foolishly on stuff they only think they need. Instead you have to tax away a substantial portion of people's income so the government can spend it wisely on stuff the government knows they need. You just have to learn to trust the government more. They're here to help you, you see. With hatchet, axe, and saw [songfacts.com].
-russ

Re:The lifestyle IS different!

[Seumas]

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. :)

Re:Funny this should pop up on slashdot...

[Neoprofin]

Don't worry, many Americans hate France too.

Re:Well it's the UK, but same logic...

[ThaFooz]

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 ;)

Re:You may still have to wait in the U.S.

[Seumas]

Should we include starving artists in that as well? If you're a depressed starving artist living in a loft and you spend your days drinking coffee and splattering paint on a canvas (or eating your body's impression out of a bread-mattress) that nobody will want to buy, you are OWED health care. Hell, society should owe you a fucking CAR! And a nice one, too!

Re:Canada Sucks.

[petabyte]

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.

And not a single "eh" in there at all. Like we'd believe you're a Canadian! ;)

Re:Lifestyle

[mpsmps]

So is Chicago. What's your point?

Re:The only catch

[Flounder]

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.

Re:Canada vs. USA

[Vicissidude]

The poor, poor Waltons. They have no money to speak of since it's all tied up in stock. And everyone's out to get them because they provide plenty of well-paying jobs to the community while all but giving away high quality goods. They provide great benefits for their employees while taking absolutely nothing from the government. We should all bow before the great Waltons and the sacrifices they make for all of us.

I was born in Canada...

[Barbarian]

..when do I get my entitlement?

This is not for Americans!

[Anonymous Coward]

The program is for "skilled workers"

Re:Well it's the UK, but same logic...

[leathered]

Well, immigration of Australians is essential if the beer is to be kept flowing in the London's bars.

As for Americans, we need them here because...

I'll get back to you on that one.

Re:How about giving up the Socialism, eh?

[Nolkyan]

"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.