Trev_H:
Blimey, it’s worse than I first thought, everybodys mentioned in this epic 
Yes. I’m gonna develop an app. Basically it’ll have all his stock quotes in there so you press a button and it creates a post. The Carryfast Random Post Generator App.
switchlogic:
Trev_H:
Blimey, it’s worse than I first thought, everybodys mentioned in this epic
Yes. I’m gonna develop an app. Basically it’ll have all his stock quotes in there so you press a button and it creates a post. The Carryfast Random Post Generator App.
i think it may well be a best seller luke
Carryfast:
Big Jon’s dad:
Santa:
Correct, there is no Union Flag in Canada’s National flag.
Of the 10 provinces and 3 territories, there are 3 provinces that have the Union Flag as part of their own flag.
embassyflag.com/canadaprovinces.htm
So the Union,Scottish and English flags do fly in Canada.Why assuming it’s in no way British whatsoever 
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Hangovers from the past that haven’t been updated yet. Give it time, they will be in a generation or two.
It used to be more British than it is now. That Britishness is so last century, the world has moved on even if you haven’t.
There are still some nostalgic ties to Britain, particularly in British Columbia’s capital Victoria. This plays well with the tourists.
switchlogic:
Trev_H:
Blimey, it’s worse than I first thought, everybodys mentioned in this epic
Yes. I’m gonna develop an app. Basically it’ll have all his stock quotes in there so you press a button and it creates a post. The Carryfast Random Post Generator App.
Shhh! We are performing a service for the rest of the site by keeping his attention focussed here. Don’t tell him though, will you?
Big Jon’s dad:
Carryfast:
The fact is in my case I wasn’t given a chance to answer any questions regarding all that bs.The system was based on type of job first and foremeost and it wouldn’t have mattered if I’d have been working for NASA as a rocket scientist in the case of asking for a permit to be allowed in to drive a truck which,at the time,was a job reserved for Canadian nationals only.Or probably Indians 
.
Ironically in my case the job I was offered was working for a Canadian owner driver from New Brunswick with a contract with a decent long haul distribution company pulling box trailers.Who I was talking to about his wagon,which was parked up in the services on the I 95 during a trip down to Florida from NY while I was on holiday.He was close to retirement and had had enough of running all over North America and wanted to call it a day.He must have though it was Christmas when he found a 28 year old Brit fan of yank trucks who’d jump at the chance of long haul work in North America.Which is why he gave me a business card and told me to get in touch and arrange to get over there to work for him as soon as I got home and he didn’t give a zb about my so called ‘education’ history although it was good enough.‘That’s’ when I ran up against the zb’s/gestapo at the time who ran the Canadian immigration ‘advice’ and authorities over here.Unfortunately for both him and me. 
Probably Maggie Thatcher had a word so they wouldn’t let you in. 
Not just me loads of others from here at the time too.But no seriously I know where the blame sits and that’s mostly on the Canadian immigration authorities discrimination against British drivers obviously in many cases in favour of those from third world countries etc with no affinity whatsoever to Canada.All done to create a so called more ‘diverse’ ‘multi cultural’ environment but more like a blatant attempt to keep terms and conditions static.
Ironically I saw things gradually getting ( a bit ) easier for us to get in over there in the recent years but to start with most of the so called ‘opportunities’ were just bs put up by scammers offering ‘guaranteed’ Canadian employment placement.However it wasn’t until I saw the posts on here from some of the ones who actually got in there that it became obvious that Canadian immigration policy had changed to at least make the idea possible instead of it being a total impossibility as it was in the 1980’s.
However as robinhood has said elsewhere the Canadian immigration system as it applied to truck drivers,at least at that time,was no different to the US one at the time and since up to today.But no suprise that within that discrimination against British drivers there seems to have been plenty of opportunities for other foreign nationals to just walk in and find work there.Where better than this topic to blow the whole bs situation wide open and try to finally do something about it.
I think a lot of the Britishness that remains in Canada and in Canadian identity is basically there to serve one purpose, to distance themselves from the Americans. For this very reason there is a lot of comotion about the war of 1812. In Fredericton, NB for example they do a changing of the guard/marching thing in the old part of the town during the warmer months where they’re all in period British army uniforms and the union flag is prevellent. I dont think they have any desire to be more British, but rather they have a strong desire to not become totally Americanised.
Big Jon’s dad:
Carryfast:
Big Jon’s dad:
Santa:
Correct, there is no Union Flag in Canada’s National flag.
Of the 10 provinces and 3 territories, there are 3 provinces that have the Union Flag as part of their own flag.
embassyflag.com/canadaprovinces.htm
So the Union,Scottish and English flags do fly in Canada.Why assuming it’s in no way British whatsoever .
Hangovers from the past that haven’t been updated yet. Give it time, they will be in a generation or two.
It used to be more British than it is now. That Britishness is so last century, the world has moved on even if you haven’t.
There are still some nostalgic ties to Britain, particularly in British Columbia’s capital Victoria. This plays well with the tourists.
You’re right the world has ‘moved on’ and it’s obviously going to be a case of it being a future that leaves the ethnic British an increasingly poor minority,in a world in which the working class everywhere is brought down the a third world level with no national identity.I think that countries like Canada will regret it years to come though when it becomes just another united nations,globalised,multicultural zb that’s torn by inter ethnic strife.Just like the home country.
Carryfast:
However as robinhood has said elsewhere the Canadian immigration system as it applied to truck drivers,at least at that time,was no different to the US one at the time and since up to today.But no suprise that within that discrimination against British drivers there seems to have been plenty of opportunities for other foreign nationals to just walk in and find work there.Where better than this topic to blow the whole bs situation wide open and try to finally do something about it.
Its quite true that as far as I’m aware, back in the 1980s you would not have been able to come to Canada as a truck driver in the same way that we’ve all come here now. If it weren’t for the TWP system that then feeds in to certain provincial PNP systems to become permanent residents none of us would be here now as we would never qualify for immigration under the Federal points system.
The US doesn’t allow for trucking companies to bring in drivers on work permits for anything other than seasonal work, yet there are tens of thousands of Russians, Africans and Hispanics who barely speak a word of English driving American trucks. I dont think for one minute they entered on truck driver work permit, they’re obviously getting in by other methods but the fact remains that for British people wanting to do things legally and above board, working for an American trucking firm and settling permanentely is impossible. As I said before, British citizens are not even eligable for the green card lottery! Why the hell not? That is one area where I agree 100% with carryfast, denying a whole nationality the opertunities you give others is discimination. Having said that, the US is a complete crap hole and I thank God every time I drive around the place that I was never unfortunate enough to have being able to follow my idiotic desires to live and work in the place now I know what a mess the place is after seeing it first hand over the last four years.
Carryfast:
Big Jon’s dad:
Carryfast:
The fact is in my case I wasn’t given a chance to answer any questions regarding all that bs.The system was based on type of job first and foremeost and it wouldn’t have mattered if I’d have been working for NASA as a rocket scientist in the case of asking for a permit to be allowed in to drive a truck which,at the time,was a job reserved for Canadian nationals only.Or probably Indians .
Ironically in my case the job I was offered was working for a Canadian owner driver from New Brunswick with a contract with a decent long haul distribution company pulling box trailers.Who I was talking to about his wagon,which was parked up in the services on the I 95 during a trip down to Florida from NY while I was on holiday.He was close to retirement and had had enough of running all over North America and wanted to call it a day.He must have though it was Christmas when he found a 28 year old Brit fan of yank trucks who’d jump at the chance of long haul work in North America.Which is why he gave me a business card and told me to get in touch and arrange to get over there to work for him as soon as I got home and he didn’t give a zb about my so called ‘education’ history although it was good enough.‘That’s’ when I ran up against the zb’s/gestapo at the time who ran the Canadian immigration ‘advice’ and authorities over here.Unfortunately for both him and me.
Probably Maggie Thatcher had a word so they wouldn’t let you in.
Not just me loads of others from here at the time too.But no seriously I know where the blame sits and that’s mostly on the Canadian immigration authorities discrimination against British drivers obviously in many cases in favour of those from third world countries etc with no affinity whatsoever to Canada.All done to create a so called more ‘diverse’ ‘multi cultural’ environment but more like a blatant attempt to keep terms and conditions static.
Ironically I saw things gradually getting ( a bit ) easier for us to get in over there in the recent years but to start with most of the so called ‘opportunities’ were just bs put up by scammers offering ‘guaranteed’ Canadian employment placement.However it wasn’t until I saw the posts on here from some of the ones who actually got in there that it became obvious that Canadian immigration policy had changed to at least make the idea possible instead of it being a total impossibility as it was in the 1980’s.
However as robinhood has said elsewhere the Canadian immigration system as it applied to truck drivers,at least at that time,was no different to the US one at the time and since up to today.But no suprise that within that discrimination against British drivers there seems to have been plenty of opportunities for other foreign nationals to just walk in and find work there.Where better than this topic to blow the whole bs situation wide open and try to finally do something about it.
You’ll need to have some evidence to show that British immigrants were treated less favourably that non British ones, all other factors being equal. The other foreign national that you seem to think just walked in, didn’t, they qualified to immigrate through one of several possible paths such as family, business or were sponsored by a Canadian citizen etc. That means you can only use nationality as a factor in acceptance or refusal in your evidence. You can’t cite family connections, investors bringing money into Canada, workers filling positions in certain industries or sectors of the economy as reasons for acceptance or refusal. Equal treatment will not be accepted as evidence of discrimination even if you might like it to be. Being British doesn’t give you any special status for immigration to Canada, it gives you equal status.
Incidently, the neighbour to the south of Canada was also once a British colony. I don’t hear you protesting that you should have special status in that country. Why is that?
robinhood_1984:
Carryfast:
However as robinhood has said elsewhere the Canadian immigration system as it applied to truck drivers,at least at that time,was no different to the US one at the time and since up to today.But no suprise that within that discrimination against British drivers there seems to have been plenty of opportunities for other foreign nationals to just walk in and find work there.Where better than this topic to blow the whole bs situation wide open and try to finally do something about it.
Its quite true that as far as I’m aware, back in the 1980s you would not have been able to come to Canada as a truck driver in the same way that we’ve all come here now. If it weren’t for the TWP system that then feeds in to certain provincial PNP systems to become permanent residents none of us would be here now as we would never qualify for immigration under the Federal points system.
The US doesn’t allow for trucking companies to bring in drivers on work permits for anything other than seasonal work, yet there are tens of thousands of Russians, Africans and Hispanics who barely speak a word of English driving American trucks. I dont think for one minute they entered on truck driver work permit, they’re obviously getting in by other methods but the fact remains that for British people wanting to do things legally and above board, working for an American trucking firm and settling permanentely is impossible. As I said before, British citizens are not even eligable for the green card lottery! Why the hell not? That is one area where I agree 100% with carryfast, denying a whole nationality the opertunities you give others is discimination. Having said that, the US is a complete crap hole and I thank God every time I drive around the place that I was never unfortunate enough to have being able to follow my idiotic desires to live and work in the place now I know what a mess the place is after seeing it first hand over the last four years.
Which just leaves the question as to how it was that America was such a different place in the mid-late 1950’s at least before it got involved in the Vietnam War. 
While although I was told of numerous opportunities in it’s engineering industry for Brits at that time,with even my own father having only been stopped from entering the US aircraft manufacturing industry like many other Brits did then by the fact that my mum didn’t want to leave England,I think it was off the radar to most British truck drivers.But definitely a place worth emigrating to at that time.Like will probably turn out to be the case in Canada in the long term,it was the US integrationist race relations agenda and an immigration policy over the years that became based on one of cheap labour at the expense of it’s British colonial roots,that did it.
Carryfast:
Which just leaves the question as to how it was that America was such a different place in the mid-late 1950’s at least before it got involved in the Vietnam War.
While although I was told of numerous opportunities in it’s engineering industry for Brits at that time,with even my own father having only been stopped from entering the US aircraft manufacturing industry like many other Brits did then by the fact that my mum didn’t want to leave England,I think it was off the radar to most British truck drivers.But definitely a place worth emigrating to at that time.Like will probably turn out to be the case in Canada in the long term,it was US immigration policy over the years that became based on one of cheap labour at the expense of it’s British colonial roots that did it.
The US immigration and border guards were ■■■■■ in the 1950’s too. I am too young to remember but Dad told me about us transiting from the UK to Canada and being given a hard time in one of the US airports even though we weren’t leaving the airport, simply changing planes to fly to Toronto.
Big Jon’s dad:
Carryfast:
Which just leaves the question as to how it was that America was such a different place in the mid-late 1950’s at least before it got involved in the Vietnam War.
While although I was told of numerous opportunities in it’s engineering industry for Brits at that time,with even my own father having only been stopped from entering the US aircraft manufacturing industry like many other Brits did then by the fact that my mum didn’t want to leave England,I think it was off the radar to most British truck drivers.But definitely a place worth emigrating to at that time.Like will probably turn out to be the case in Canada in the long term,it was US immigration policy over the years that became based on one of cheap labour at the expense of it’s British colonial roots that did it.
The US immigration and border guards were [zb] in the 1950’s too. I am too young to remember but Dad told me about us transiting from the UK to Canada and being given a hard time in one of the US airports even though we weren’t leaving the airport, simply changing planes to fly to Toronto.
The story I was told is that British girls picked up by the yanks here and taken back there and British aircraft engineers who could show them how to make planes had no problems getting in during the post war years.
Big Jon’s dad:
Carryfast:
torn by inter ethnic strife.Just like the home country.
There isn’t any inter ethnic strife in my area. Maybe you live too close to the big city. Have you thought about emigrating?
Luckily I live in what’s left of Surrey not Croydon or Bradford .Although I was talking about a time in the future when I won’t care anymore anyway because I’ll no longer be here to bother about it.
Big Jon’s dad:
Carryfast:
Big Jon’s dad:
Carryfast:
The fact is in my case I wasn’t given a chance to answer any questions regarding all that bs.The system was based on type of job first and foremeost and it wouldn’t have mattered if I’d have been working for NASA as a rocket scientist in the case of asking for a permit to be allowed in to drive a truck which,at the time,was a job reserved for Canadian nationals only.Or probably Indians .
Ironically in my case the job I was offered was working for a Canadian owner driver from New Brunswick with a contract with a decent long haul distribution company pulling box trailers.Who I was talking to about his wagon,which was parked up in the services on the I 95 during a trip down to Florida from NY while I was on holiday.He was close to retirement and had had enough of running all over North America and wanted to call it a day.He must have though it was Christmas when he found a 28 year old Brit fan of yank trucks who’d jump at the chance of long haul work in North America.Which is why he gave me a business card and told me to get in touch and arrange to get over there to work for him as soon as I got home and he didn’t give a zb about my so called ‘education’ history although it was good enough.‘That’s’ when I ran up against the zb’s/gestapo at the time who ran the Canadian immigration ‘advice’ and authorities over here.Unfortunately for both him and me.
Probably Maggie Thatcher had a word so they wouldn’t let you in.
Not just me loads of others from here at the time too.But no seriously I know where the blame sits and that’s mostly on the Canadian immigration authorities discrimination against British drivers obviously in many cases in favour of those from third world countries etc with no affinity whatsoever to Canada.All done to create a so called more ‘diverse’ ‘multi cultural’ environment but more like a blatant attempt to keep terms and conditions static.
Ironically I saw things gradually getting ( a bit ) easier for us to get in over there in the recent years but to start with most of the so called ‘opportunities’ were just bs put up by scammers offering ‘guaranteed’ Canadian employment placement.However it wasn’t until I saw the posts on here from some of the ones who actually got in there that it became obvious that Canadian immigration policy had changed to at least make the idea possible instead of it being a total impossibility as it was in the 1980’s.
However as robinhood has said elsewhere the Canadian immigration system as it applied to truck drivers,at least at that time,was no different to the US one at the time and since up to today.But no suprise that within that discrimination against British drivers there seems to have been plenty of opportunities for other foreign nationals to just walk in and find work there.Where better than this topic to blow the whole bs situation wide open and try to finally do something about it.
You’ll need to have some evidence to show that British immigrants were treated less favourably that non British ones, all other factors being equal. The other foreign national that you seem to think just walked in, didn’t, they qualified to immigrate through one of several possible paths such as family, business or were sponsored by a Canadian citizen etc. That means you can only use nationality as a factor in acceptance or refusal in your evidence. You can’t cite family connections, investors bringing money into Canada, workers filling positions in certain industries or sectors of the economy as reasons for acceptance or refusal. Equal treatment will not be accepted as evidence of discrimination even if you might like it to be. Being British doesn’t give you any special status for immigration to Canada, it gives you equal status.
Incidently, the neighbour to the south of Canada was also once a British colony. I don’t hear you protesting that you should have special status in that country. Why is that?
So you’re saying that denying Brits entry to Canada,to take up a job offer to drive a truck there,on the basis that Brits weren’t/aren’t allowed in to do ‘certain’ jobs,which were deemed reserved only for Canadians.While the evidence seems to show that other foreign nationals were allowed in to do exactly that instead based on a deliberate policy of social engineering related to producing an environment of more ‘racial diversity’ ,isn’t evidence of Brits being treated less favourably.It doesn’t take a genius to realise that the so called Canadian immigration and work permit system is just really a system of quotas set up in order to disadvantage British immigration in order to make sure that the labour market doesn’t ‘overheat’ from the point of view of the employers.By using cheap foreign labour from poorer countries.So no real difference to what’s going on here since the import of cheap labour from similar poorer countries with the same motivation over the years.
As for the states the same applies.Although to be fair sending Redcoats over there to upset them by burning down the White House and removing US citizens from their country and ships to be pressed into service on British ships for slave labour rates probably didn’t help in their view of the Brits.Although the Canadians obviously don’t have that excuse. 
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havent gone through all of CF’s dribble but seen words and phrases such as ‘cheap labour’ discrimination. Let me tell you now I havent witnessed either of them. Talking to some yanks and they are on 2 cents a mile less then me and I get paid the same as if a local driver was to do my job so how’d you figure that out?? Before you answer that CF think about your answer as far as I’m aware it is law they have to pay us the same. As for discrimination I really dont know where you get that from because the simple fact that say a Russian or a chech or ■■■■■ or Spanish have to go through the same process as I do