On 19 May 2001, at 23:33, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> >> I really can't live in Canada. There's a ban on parents of kids
> >> with Down Syndrome.
> >
> > Your kidding about this, right?
> >
> No. I am not kidding.
>
> AFAIK, there's a ban on parents of kids with Down Syndrome
> that want to live in Canada. The argument is that it puts too
> much stress into the (state owned) medical system, etc.
> But Ca is not alone; the USA also had this ban [before some
> law changed], Australia probably has it too, and England bans
> unless you are a millionaire.
England isn't THAT bad on immigration, and it has large quotas for
skilled immigrants. I believe engineers are included in that
catagory...
Equally, heh, the only country I'm interested in moving to is Israel,
and as I'm Jewish, I have a *right* under Isralie laws to move there.
The "Law of Return", as it's called.
Andy
Dawn Falcon
