So how does Canada feel about ex-pats? I hear you need to have a job lined up, or at least be self-sufficient. Central heating, parkas, warm toques (?!) and gloves are great and all that but how good is the pizza and hot cocoa?? Inquiring minds wanna know. And so do I. And thanks.73, Terry Bakowski KC9KEL
Plus, Canada's Medicare covers people of all ages, not just the elderly. And regarding the toques, one to keep you warm, and there is less paranoia about the other variety than in USA. And Canadian ham bands have no subbands.
But it has become much more difficult to get "landed immigrant" status (more or less the equivalent of the US Green Card) than it was during the VietNam era, when all you had to do was make your declaration at the border crossing.
And apparently it is now difficult to enter Canada even for a short visit. My daughter's boyfriend had planned to take a camping trip to Thunder Bay back during the summer. He drove several hundred miles from Nashville to the border crossing, and they refused him entry because the computer showed that he had been busted at age 19 for under-age drinking in Tennessee. What was really so stupid about that was that it should have been a moot point since 19 would have been legal drinking age in Canada, and when he tried to enter the country, he was 24, well past the drinking age. Besides, what does under-age drinking 5 years ago have to do with being a risk to Canada? Makes me wonder if it would be worth travelling from distant reaches of the US, if you could unexpectedly be refused entry because of some hassle you might have forgotten all about. Most of us probably have something trivial like that on our past record.
There is a down side to the ham radio issue. Canada's regulations impose a 6 kHz bandwidth limitation for AM. But that is apparently taken about as seriously as the USA's p.e.p. bullschzit. I have never heard of an AM'er on either side of the border being cited for exceeding either one. And I hear Canadian AM'ers describe their rigs in detail, with no mention of any measures taken to suppress the highs.
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