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So are you saying you enjoy all that Toronto has to offer despite the fact that you are a non-white, first generation Canadian. If not, what was the point you were trying to make?




And how much would you get paid in your profession if you were an apprentice (maybe you'd care to read my post more carefully)? How much do you pay your apprentices? And how long did it take you to acquire the skills and save enough, so that you could open your own shop and have the option to subcontract.

Not everyone will opt for a profession, but if they don't, there's still very decent pay in the trades. That was the point of my response: to put the lie to your notion that moving to Redneck country would only bring 'indentured servitude'.

Now, I don't claim to make as much as you (at $200+/hr I'd be billing my clients for over half a mil per year), but considering my community-college edumacashun, I'd say CLEARING over $90K/yr ain't doin too bad.


Well thank you for revealing another facet of your bigotted, white Ontarian character. It's been most enlightening.


Ain't gonna happen unless them furreiners happen to be a bunch of ex-Torontonians. Or didn't you notice that rural Ontario (i.e., everywhere BUT Toronto) is morphing from Red to Blue?

   

I understood your point of reference, which is why I decided to play with it.

Silly me: for expecting you to understand my reference which originates from outside of your cloistered whitebread world.

Not being at all religious myself, but believing in a power greater than man, I tend to lean towards Buddhism.

1. Buddism rule #1: Nothing is real.
2. Buddhism rule #2: No matter how venerated the teacher or how holy the text, nothing is true until you have seen the proof of it's truth yourself. And remember: nothing you see is real.
3. Buddhism rule #3: Because nothing is real, and nothing can be proven as true, you must disregard all previous rules.

   

Except that I am black - which apparently you've missed (at least considering you just called me "whitebread"). I figured you were just going with your stereotype of my existence in a project

You seem to have issues with the idea that there are non-white immigrants in the GTA who weren't "forced to live in an area where there isn't opportunity to succeed." I'm sure that if this were an episode of TOS Star Trek, this would be the point where you start muttering "does not compute" and your head explodes.

I reiterate, thank dog I am not a brown person in Alberta.

   

I'll vote for whoever I beleive is the best choice for Canada. If McKenna does well and his platform is good, it's definately worth consideration.

   

Well I certainly do consider rural people in Ontario to be just as bad as rural people in Alberta.....

That aside, I think the reason that immigrants go to the big cities is that there are more jobs and oppurtunities and money in cities.....In Ontario anyway, there are no opportunities in rural areas....and people have to come to cities to get jobs.......

I don't know if you consider Fort McMurray to be rural or urban, but I know there are lots of opportunities there.....What other opportunities are there? I thought the beef industry was decimated and likely to not have new opportunities......

And since when are immigrants forced to live somewhere? The way I understand it, in Canada people can live wherever they want, and can move anytime they want without the Freedom Police dragging them back to their designated living place in the evil cities.....

   

It's funny that a lot high crime areas are places where immigrants are grouping together. Coincidence?

If you think that's not true, i'll buy you a house in Jamestown and a bullet proof vest.

   

Here's a little clip of Tobin talking about the seizure of 2 American vessels of the 200 mile limit...this was during the same weekend of the Turbot Wars with Spain.


I'll give Tobin credit....he's a good speaker....he LOVES Canada, not just his home province.....and the boys got balls!

   

Yeah, elect Bob

   

Actually, I spent about 10 years in rural (and I do mean RURAL) Ontario. It helped me come to the realization than one or two minority individuals/families are "okay" in a town. There seems to be a "critical mass" element to racism - suddenly there is enough of "them" to be "taking away jobs" or whatever other problem "they" are causing.

Sort of like how GunPlumber points out that there may be a Pakistani doctor, or a Chinese business owner in an area and they get along fine.

It's fine if you're a novelty. I'm not entirely sure I am fine with that.

I have to say I can count on one hand the amount of racist incidents I had in ten years in that tiny town as opposed to the near-weekly issues I had in a larger town (small city?). In the last ten years here in Toronto, I may have had 5 or 6 minor issues.

(I don't hear many good things from Sikh friends in Calgary. It seems to be more like the unnamed large town here in Ontario.)

   

All the more reason to keep us out of Alberta, no?

   

Are you saying it's true ?

   

Anything can be true given the right hypothesis.

So, how long does it take you to build one of those crosses? I'd always wanted to ask that - I mean, it seems like a lot of work to go to when you're just planning to burn it.

   

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