@GottaLaff Just read your blog post. Welcome. Your insights and warnings may help prevent copycat facism in Canada. Of course, we are imperfect and flawed, and we need to work at being better. So, thank you for adding to our community through dialogue, reflections, and more. 🤲
@GottaLaff Hello from Victoria! Congratulations. You will love BC. If you and Mr. Laffy make it over to Vancouver Island, look us up. My wife and I will show you around.
@GottaLaff Immigrated here as a child and still thankful my parents made the move. Last time I was in Port Moody Vashti Rose ice cream was topping my list, the saffron pistachio rose flavour was amazing.
@GottaLaff Ice cream in front, fitness in the back. I only indulged in the ice cream. It’s store made. We were in town for a wedding but I made sure to get there twice.
@GottaLaff Best of luck to you and your family! The majority of my family is American but my brother and I were born in Toronto. So we've lived in both countries but definitely raised in Canada. My Dad is in Victoria, my Mom in Winnipeg, with me and my brother moved to Florida some time ago, but he occasionally thinks about returning to Canada due to politics - he has 3 kids so they keep him their for now.
@GottaLaff Great posts. Apologies for the redundant info I replied with earlier; you're clearly really on top of it.
Sounds like the process has got messier since I did it almost 35 years ago, which I guess isn't shocking. In particular no formal language test issued. May have made a difference that I applied for permanent residence while already working in Canada on a renewable Free Trade work permit, and my employer supported the PR paperwork.
@GottaLaff Kudos to you for persisting through the process!
Do please apply for citizenship in a few years when you qualify; we need you to help keep the Junior GOP (Conservatives) back! As you probably know but other readers might not, there's no problem keeping your US citizenship (i.e. becoming a dual); US laws that made that hard were struck down many decades ago.
And it's amusing to be a citizenship of two countries and always feel embarrassed about at least one of them.