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the Kiwis (and, by extension, the Aussies) are quite likely to accept me with open arms, no questions asked.

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*hugs twinky* Damn skippy.

I know how this whole thing makes you feel, and I'm sorry, Raja.

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So just how hard is it for an American to become a Canuck? A recent Harper's article suggested that bailing from Dick Cheneyville entailed a rather onerous legal dance. "It's not difficult at all," says Cohen. Basically all you need is a B.A. and a passing fluency in English and "Bingo, you're in."

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*hugs Kylie*

Thanks. ...though, to be fair, the reason the Kiwis and Aussies won't mind taking me is that I'll have Kiwi citizenship. But from what I've been reading, the Aussies at least really WOULD welcome me with open arms, even without a Kiwi citizenship -- they even have an official government program to get recent graduates (particularly in technical fields) working in Australia.

rivka, do they mention which issue of Harper's that bit about immigration is in? I just so happen to have a current subscription to Harper's... I'm looking, but I don't see it anywhere yet.

The Salon article does make reference to the skilled worker test though:

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To put down roots in Canada, you need a permanent residence visa. First, you fill out a scorecard that awards you points for who you are -- you're shooting for 67. That B.A. in Communications from Chico State will do the trick but so will two years as a tradesperson; Manitoba is always looking for good sheet-metal workers. If you only have a high school education but sold that software program you wrote in your bedroom one night to Oracle -- that is, you have a net worth of $200,000 -- start packing, your Canada's kind of person. There is, however, a little bit of a Gattaca thing going. You get more points for being under 49 years old.

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The Salon guy obviously didn't take the test himself. I've got a BASc in chemical engineering, I'm 23, I have family here, I speak both official languages, and I still don't qualify to enter my own country as a skilled worker. Thankfully I'm a citizen.

I think the easiest way to do it would be to figure out which province needs what you are (which in some cases is really just "immigrants;" Atlantic Canada's population is declining, for example), and see if you can get a provinicial "invitation." Of course, there's always that other option. I love how that site says "aboot" instead of "about," too. So very quintissentially Canadian, "aboot."

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*stern look at Kylie*

NOW look what you've started!

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If not, at least there would then be two superpowers again

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Yeah, only, one would have a lot of nuclear-missles and the other'd have a couple of broken second-hand submarines and helicopters.

EDIT: And they'd be reluctant to use them.

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Yeah, only, one would have a lot of nuclear-missles and the other'd have a couple of broken second-hand submarines and helicopters.

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You know, I'm willing to bet that every liberal state that would be in the United States of Canada have nukes. Along with most of the industry in the country. Jesusland would have most of the farmland and old people. Unless of course you think that the farmland could somehow take all the nukes.

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..though, to be fair, the reason the Kiwis and Aussies won't mind taking me is that I'll have Kiwi citizenship.

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Not true, sir. I calculated your points for NZ and you're about 50 over the required level.

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