• silverwhisper said on Sep 20, 2006....

  say what?! $300k?!
  
  good grief!
  
  ed
  

• secretlife said on Sep 20, 2006....

  300,000 eh?
  
  I had no idea they had those kinds of rules-
  

• bloc said on Sep 20, 2006....

  seriously?
  

• FaithInMind said on Sep 21, 2006....

  That they want American dollars? That they want wealthy people who can pay into their system as opposed to more poor folks who will be dependent on the system? This is a surprise?
  
  That's the great thing about America. You don't need a dime to come here, make money and build a life for yourself.
  
  Some people really take the great things about this country for granted.
  
  Bon Voyage!
  

• silverwhisper said on Sep 21, 2006....

  faithinmind: well, the inscription does start "give us your poor"... :D
  
  ed
  

• Marie-Jane said on Sep 21, 2006....

  Other than Quebec, Canada is a little USA. It's true that we do have health care, but you have wait in a waiting room for hours to get help. You bassically have to be decapitated to get EMERGENCY help. We have stress and crime just like everywhere else! Last week 1 killed and 20 wounded (some in comas) happend right close to my house at a local college, the killer was shot in the leg by the police so the killer killed himself after. It was really sad, so to me is this better than columbine? As for stress, I'm always stressed! I work full time and so does my husband, we have two kids in school and I don't have my driver's license. Honestly if you give me a choice between Canada and USA it's for sure I would choose Canada, but I'm born here and I'm French so I'm happy in Montreal even though (and the weed is great!) all that I said. You know the grass always seems greener on the other side.
  It's for sure I don't know what life is like in Alberta with all the cowboys!!! This is just MY opinion. And you will have to learn French if you move to Quebec since it is the main language. Vancouver I was told is VERY expensive!! I have a friend out there with a university diploma and is working 3 jobs to make ends meet. Ottawa the capitol is great! I just loved it! But to get ahead there you would have to speak French as well. But to me there is no other place than MONTREAL!
  (I'm born in Northen Ontario living in Montreal)
  I know I'm supposed to be gone but I just had to reply to this blog!!!!! I keep reading everybody's posts, I just don't reply!
  
  Marie-Jane
  

• Marie-Jane said on Sep 21, 2006....

  And by the way I have two riffles and my husband is thinking of getting a hand gun.
  

• StrangeOne said on Sep 23, 2006....

  I WANT TO MOVE TO CANADA TOO!!! I go there every year, and it's WONDERFUL!!! I've looked into moving there and will try to do so in the future, never heard of the 300,000 dollar requirement! Perhaps there is some other set of qualifications that can get you in there instead? One of my relatives immigrated there from the U.S. some years back, and he certainly never had, nor has, anywhere near that much money.
  
  Marie-Jane, Canada is a bit like the USA, but sort of like a "kinder, gentler", more reasonable, alternate-universe version.
  
  Believe me, the problems you listed in your post are a lot worse in the U.S. First of all, you have to wait in a waiting room for hours to get help here in the US too!!! Yes, even if you're paying out of your own pocket! My poor husband had to wait close to 12 (TWELVE!!!) hours in the emergency room once, in horrible, excruciating pain with an acute gall bladder infection before anyone even gave him any pain medication, let alone take him in for testing/surgery etc.!!! After this torture, they had the nerve to send us a bill for 15,000 (yes, Fifteen Thousand!) dollars for the operation, which we had to deal with lawyers about since we had nowhere near that much money to pay!
  
  My honey and I have had experiences with both U.S. and Canadian emergency rooms (having travelled to Canada a lot), and the Canadian ER experiences were FAR superior. The waiting time was a lot less (about 3 hours versus 12!) and the actual doctor visit of about 30 minutes cost about 200-300 dollars (not being a Canadian citizen) which was very reasonable. I once had a U.S. ER visit myself; they saw me quickly but I got charged 1,000 dollars for a 5-minute session with the doctor!!!
  
  And, you guys don't have crime like we have crime, trust me. I was just in Canada during that Montreal school killing (I'll probably be posting a blog about that one in the near future!). The thing is, that kind of event is so rare in Canada. In the U.S. it's far more common. In one of your newspapers, someone wrote an article listing ALL school killings in Canada since 1975. There were about 25 listings or so. The thing is, these killings were not mostly sprees like this last one - they were mostly one-on-one type violence, for example a jilted guy killing his ex-girlfriend, things along those lines. Do you know, such things happen so often here in the U.S. that most of the time they don't even make the news! If someone compiled a list like that of killings in schools including every last kid killing some other kid over a girlfriend, a drug deal, whatever, there would probably be 1000's of listings!!! A few months ago some kid killed another kid over an iPod for christssake! Believe me, in comparison, you guys have no crime to speak of! (This is a GOOD thing!!!)
  

• Marie-Jane said on Sep 24, 2006....

  Hey man I live here, and it's a problem. Wait till you get sick, you'll see what I mean... LIke I said the grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side...There are different hospitals. Next time you come to Canada tell me and i'll show you the slums and the crappy hospitals they have...you didn't see nothing yet...When you visit and when you live here is TWO DIFFERENT things. It's for sure you were impressed, after all you have american dollars, any canadian would jump to the opportunity to help you. And don't tell me that shootings aren't rare in Canada, you don't live here so you don't hear all the news! There are just as many gangs, violence etc...If you compare the violence with the population and compare it, you'll see. There are allot of killings, suicides etc...
  
  Maybe you should read up on this before moving here, sincerely I don't beleive that we're much saints as you believe. The government is awful, we have a HUGE deficit, education don't get me started, honestly I could talk about this for hours. I want Quebec to seperate so we can be happy on our little own.
  
  I find it almost discusting that you think us this way. We have problems just like everybody else! If I met somebody from the states with that kinda attitude I wouldn't be impressed honestly(already that you're american). Maybe to me that's one too many killings even though there are not that many, it worries me just as much as if we had 1 shooting a week! Trust me I'm probably not the only canadian to think like this. It's also unfair to compare school killings to yours, OF COURSE you have more, you have way more population! I"m thinking that we will have problems like the ipod killing in the future, it's just a matter of time. You know I could see why somebody would have killed for an ipod (I don't know what the situation was though) but image you living your life poor, it ain't easy. There is poverty everywhere, after all it takes rich people to make poor people!
  
  I"m not saying that I don't want you here, I just think you need to change your attitude towards us. We're just average shmo's like everybody else! Your flashy money might impress uper class people but not middle or lower class....
  
  All in all no matter were you are, they'll always be something to complain about, never mind the problems on the planet, I always think of my family and future family so no I'm not satisfied with what my government has offered me up till now, and what the government has done till now. I"m currently sick and was sick for the last year and I'm talking from experience. If I was offered to move anywhere it would probably be europe, somewhere french
  
  
  anywho good luck
  

• Marie-Jane said on Sep 24, 2006....

  i once waited more than 12 hours in a emergency room
  

• rarity121 said on Sep 24, 2006....

  sorry to hear your sick
  
  i know it's not all roses anywhere, but want to start over someplace, marie-jean
  
  

• Marie-Jane said on Sep 24, 2006....

  But hey that's just my opinion, comming from a a french canadian, I'm sure an anglo canada would say something completly different from what I said...
  

• Marie-Jane said on Sep 24, 2006....

  I know the feeling of starting over, that's why I live in Montreal. I'm born and raised in Sudbury,Ontario, and I just love Quebec and it's mentality!
  

• StrangeOne said on Sep 27, 2006....

  I"m not saying that I don't want you here, I just think you need to change your attitude towards us. We're just average shmo's like everybody else! Your flashy money might impress uper class people but not middle or lower class....
  
  WHAT flashy money?!?! If I had flashy money, why would I be trying to blog to make a few extra dollars?! hahahaha... Didn't you read my post?! American dollars aren't worth that much more than Canadian! My Canadian hospital visit was about $300, which is maybe, oh, $270 American. Almost equivalent. Do you call $300 "Flashy?!" Because that is about all I could afford to pay a hospital! Certainly not the $15,000 the American hospital wanted. Americans have gone bankrupt from medical bills, and some die because they can't afford treatment. Is that the case in Canada? And, oh, when I was at the Canadian hospital (this was TWICE, actually, in two different provinces) they saw the CANADIANS first, not us Americans - and I saw the Canadians waltz right up with their lovely benefit cards and walk right in. Before us. So don't think that they love our American dollars just because they're worth a few measly percentiles more than Canadian dollars!
  
  As for crime, I may not have lived in Canada, but I have stayed there for weeks at a time and I have always been stunned by the lack of violence in the news. Is it just that it's under-reported? I mean, for chrissakes you have car accidents with no deaths as headline news... to me that is an indicator of nothing worse to report, maybe I don't know what it really indicates... all I know is, if you visited America, you would not have to wait that long to hear about a violent story. One day would be enough... perhaps you find it disgusting for an American like me to think this way, but maybe I find it disgusting for a Canadian to be so ungrateful for the positive social benefits he/she has.
  
  As for education... I don't know about Canadian education. But answer me this question. When an average Canadian graduates from high school, is he or she able to read properly and write a literate essay? If so, you guys are already doing better than Americans with education.
  
  And if you think your government is awful, have you ever heard of George W. Bush?
  

• Marie-Jane said on Sep 27, 2006....

  Hey man I'm just saying it like it is, if you don't like it too fucking bad! Thanks for reminding me why I stopped comming to soulcast...have a nice life. LOSER i'm just giving my option, so fuck you, delete the comment if you want you're just a loser and yes we do hate americans, we will be polite in your face but that's it. I HATE SOULCAST YOU GUYS ALL SUCK, YOU CAN'T GIVE YOUR OWN OPINION ON HERE
  

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