2016 elections - because it's never too early

[Monoriu]

Lots of HKers "commuted" between Toronto/Vancouver and Hong Kong back in the 90s.  There is a residency requirment of like 6 months per year to obtain Canadian citizenship, but they could only find work in HK.  They invented a lot of ways to slip in and out of Canada without Canadian officials noticing 

[Eddie Teach]

Canada must have the worst job market in the world. 

Either that, or this:

[Monoriu]

It is easier if you are a plumber or programmer.  Or if you don't mind waiting tables.  Otherwise, I don't know anybody who landed an office job.

[Valmy]

Well if Sanders or Cruz/Trump win there are at least affordable houses in Trois-Rivières waiting for me.

Of course the goofball Trudeau is their leader...

[Jacob]

Huh.  Who knows, maybe Canadians also move to the US and they also say they are so glad to be out of that country 

Some do, yes.

[Monoriu]

I have now read more on Ted Cruz, including his own website. 

I am disturbed by what I read.  I thought separation of Church and State is one of the cornerstones of democracy.  His 10% flat rate tax is pie in the sky unworkable.  His idea of eliminating the IRS seems either a simple name change (that must be what he means) or insane.  His insistance that marriage is between a man and a woman is seriously behind the times.  I don't understand his opposition to Obamacare and Net Neutrality (!).  His support for gun ownership flies in the face of reality.  His statement that what is good for the US is what is good for the world sounds unstatesman-like. 

You guys seriously elected him to the position of US senator on these platforms? 

[Eddie Teach]

Valmy did. 

[garbon]

Lots of HKers "commuted" between Toronto/Vancouver and Hong Kong back in the 90s.  There is a residency requirment of like 6 months per year to obtain Canadian citizenship, but they could only find work in HK.  They invented a lot of ways to slip in and out of Canada without Canadian officials noticing 

Amazing. You posting something that is tangential at best to what was being discussed.

[Monoriu]

Lots of HKers "commuted" between Toronto/Vancouver and Hong Kong back in the 90s.  There is a residency requirment of like 6 months per year to obtain Canadian citizenship, but they could only find work in HK.  They invented a lot of ways to slip in and out of Canada without Canadian officials noticing 

Amazing. You posting something that is tangential at best to what was being discussed.

You said if you flee, you aren't trying to come back.  So I said, according to my experience, that isn't true, illustrated with an example. 

[garbon]

No that is not an example of fleeing a country let alone relevant to a discussion of people fleeing out of disgust.

[Monoriu]

No that is not an example of fleeing a country let alone relevant to a discussion of people fleeing out of disgust.

Then why do you think HKers went to Canada, if not to flee the communist takeover in 1997? 

[garbon]

Ah I see. You are right that I overreached but again conversation really has nothing to do with HK tangent. These are people who are fleeing because they are upset about a political change and aren't planning on commuting to their former country. Who cares if people from HK found that virtually impossible to do?

[Monoriu]

Ah I see. You are right that I overreached but again conversation really has nothing to do with HK tangent. These are people who are fleeing because they are upset about a political change and aren't planning on commuting to their former country. Who cares if people from HK found that virtually impossible to do?

HKers left because we feared political change.  The long-distance commute wasn't exactly planned either.  Most of us wanted to settle down in Canada and start a new life.  I myself also wanted to give it a chance from the start.  But reality soon sank in and we either had to move back for economic reasons, or settle for unemployment in Canada. 

[Admiral Yi]

Then why do you think HKers went to Canada, if not to flee the communist takeover in 1997?

To set up an escape hatch if needed.

[Razgovory]

Then why do you think HKers went to Canada, if not to flee the communist takeover in 1997?

To set up an escape hatch if needed.

In case you are trapped in an egg.