You Might be a Canadian

Bravo · Apr 18, 2009

eh, pen would just end up killing you both anyways, so a crash en route would just save you from the horror.

William Haskins · Apr 18, 2009

that's true.

good point.

billythrilly7th · Apr 18, 2009

Bravo said:
eh, pen would just end up killing you both anyways, so a crash en route would just save you from the horror.

No way.

The rabbits are smarter than the panther.

William Haskins · Apr 18, 2009

he's right. we'd have fun. we'd drink. but eventually, he'd kill us.

Romantic Heretic · Apr 18, 2009

Welcome to the dark side.

dclary · Apr 18, 2009

William Haskins said:
Thanks to a new law, Canada will bestow citizenship Friday on what its government believes could be hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting foreigners, most of them Americans.

The April 17 amendment to Canada's Citizenship Act automatically restores Canadian nationality to many people forced to renounce it when they became citizens of another country. It also grants citizenship to their children.

The Canadian government doesn't know the precise number or location of individuals affected by the legislation. But it believes most are U.S. citizens, a spokeswoman for Canada's immigration office said. U.S. Department of Homeland Security records show 240,000 Canadians were naturalized in the U.S. from 1948 to 1977; the new law fixes problems that occurred during those years.

To reach that amorphous group of beneficiaries, the Canadian government has turned to YouTube. It's running an ad there titled "Waking up Canadian," in which a man awakens on April 17 to a room festooned with red-and-white Canadian flags. He's met by a welcoming committee consisting of two stuffed plush moose, a hockey player, and a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123993183347727843.html?mod=yhoofront

In an entirely unrelated story, the ministry of finance announced a new plan to heavily tax Canadian expatriates living in the Unites States to help offset rising health care costs.

dclary · Apr 18, 2009

I got a great plan, eh. I'm going to put a dead rat on my birth certificate. Then when I go to Canada, I'm going to tell them I found a dead rat on my birth certificate, and they have to give me like, free government beer for the rest of my life, eh. I'm totally going to hork that government beer. It's free.

WildScribe · Apr 18, 2009

I don't think that makes me Canadian... I'm not sure, but I don't think I especially WANT to be Canadian.

billythrilly7th · Apr 18, 2009

William Haskins said:
he's right. we'd have fun. we'd drink. but eventually, he'd kill us.

You're probably right.

Just like the movie The Edge.

Or True Romance Dennis Hopper scene.

You know something bad is coming.

robeiae · Apr 18, 2009

You guys know Pen from the internet, right? Suppose it turns out that he's an eleven-year-old girl that dreams of being a ballerina and collects fairy ponies?

billythrilly7th · Apr 18, 2009

robeiae said:
You guys know Pen from the internet, right? Suppose it turns out that he's an eleven-year-old girl that dreams of being a ballerina and collects fairy ponies?

That would be awesome.

Don · Apr 18, 2009

And you would both go to prison.

billythrilly7th · Apr 18, 2009

Don said:
And you would both go to prison.

wHOA!!

Get your mind out of the gutter.

I happen to love ballet and who doesn't love a kid who has a pony?

TheRightEyedDeer · Apr 18, 2009

dclary said:
I got a great plan, eh. I'm going to put a dead rat on my birth certificate. Then when I go to Canada, I'm going to tell them I found a dead rat on my birth certificate, and they have to give me like, free government beer for the rest of my life, eh. I'm totally going to hork that government beer. It's free.

I hereby declare that dclary is already Canadian. Sounds just like these guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rp9MXoBNL8

Hoser mania rocks! Eh?

Joe270 · Apr 18, 2009

I hereby declare that dclary is already Canada.

Hey, Deek will, like me, admit he's on the heavy side, but he's not that big.

Judg · Apr 18, 2009

Haggis said:
Crap. I miss out on free health care by one generation.

Sorry, Haggis. You have to be a resident too. The health care lapses if you leave the country for too long.

And it never did extend to chihuahuas.

TheRightEyedDeer · Apr 18, 2009

Joe270 said:
Hey, Deek will, like me, admit he's on the heavy side, but he's not that big.

Sorry. Sheesh.

Edited accordingly so, take off, eh? :tongue

It's the beer. Yes, it's THAT good.

Joe270 · Apr 18, 2009

And it never did extend to chihuahuas.

Tyranny of the masses! Save the Chihuahuas! Canadian Healthcare discriminates against small Mexican hairless yappy dogs!

On second though, meh, that's fine with me.

Chumplet · Apr 18, 2009

Welcome, my subjects. I gotta two-four waitin' for ya.

dclary · Apr 18, 2009

Joe270 said:
Hey, Deek will, like me, admit he's on the heavy side, but he's not that big.

Yes. I prefer to call myself greenlandesque.

Magdalen · Apr 18, 2009

I like Canada. This new amend. might actually apply to my family. But I will still have to show a VISA when I go. I wonder how having dual citizenship will affect border crossing?

Joe270 · Apr 18, 2009

I wonder how having dual citizenship will affect border crossing?

If you only hold US citizenship, then you get strip-searched going North. If you're a Canadian, you get strip-searched on the way south.

Dual citizenship means you get strip-searched going both ways, and they throw in a body cavity search as a bonus.

Haggis · Apr 18, 2009

Judg said:
Sorry, Haggis. You have to be a resident too. The health care lapses if you leave the country for too long.

And it never did extend to chihuahuas.

Don't make me send Obama over there to straighten you people out.

Joe270 · Apr 18, 2009

Are you suggesting that Canadians are twisted?

Chumplet · Apr 18, 2009

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