Canada to boyfriend: Stop stealing our jobs!

[someoneyouknow]

You hear stories about our neighbor to the North and how great it is to live there, then something like this comes along:

British man kicked out of Canada for helping girlfriend with DIY at her flat

A young British man is being kicked out of Canada for helping his girlfriend decorate her flat.

Tom Rolfe, 24, is accused of "doing a Canadian out of a job" because he did a bit of DIY.

He was locked up by immigration officials who found photographs of Tom and girlfriend Sam filling up cracks in the walls of her flat.

Tom was in Canada on a tourist visa and the pictures were used to prove he was working illegally.

Angry Tom said: "It is just ridiculous, I was just helping Sam to tidy up her flat before she sold it so we could get a place together.

"I was treated like a criminal and told I have eight days to get out of the country - it has wrecked our plans."

Tom, from Abergavenny, South Wales, hoped to open a dog rescue centre with Sam in her home city of Edmonton, Alberta.

He applied for a resident's permit and had to leave Canada to be processed going back through immigration control.

Tom and Sam, 27, drove 300 miles to Montana in the United States and then immediately back into Canada to get his new visa stamped.

But the pair were put through a three-hour ordeal and locked in separate rooms while officials searched their car and belongings.

Tom said: "They looked through the photographs on my camera and saw pictures of me helping Sam fill cracks in her walls where pictures had been hanging.

"They said that by doing that I was denying a Canadian person a job.

"I was completely staggered when they said I had eight days to get out of the country."

Sam appealed to her local MP in Alberta but was told Tom would have to leave Canada for 28 months before he can return.

He was packing his bags to fly home today with Sam planning to follow him in a few months time along with their two dogs.

Tom said: "I'm done with Canada now. I thought they were part of the Commonwealth so I'm surprised to be treated like this.

"We have had to completely revise our plans all because I did a little bit of DIY around the house for my girlfriend."

Tom met Sam in Indonesia in 2013 after going travelling following his father's tragic death from a brain tumour.

He plans to settle in Bristol when he returns to the UK this week and is already looking for somewhere for him and Sam to live.

A Canadian Border Services Agency spokeswoman refused to comment on Tom being booted out of the country.

She said: "We do not provide any specific information on any traveller's entry or status in Canada due to Canadian privacy laws."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/british-man-kicked-out-canada-5934575

 

[Boxlicker101]

This is the kind of thing American unions would do if they could.

 

[JBCorbell]

This incident is completely appalling to all Canadians except the current neo-con government in the country at the moment.

Fortunately we will only have to endure the current government for a few more months.

 

[Hard_Rom]

British subjects do not require a visitors visa to enter Canada. Only if you cannot convince a border official that you have ties in your home country that will ensure you are here only temporarily. If he had to get a visa I would think he was unemployed in Wales and therefore likely to be in Canada looking for work not visiting. He stated he wished to open a business with his gf. That is not what a visitors visa is for.

I suspect that that the border officials remark was more directed to his whole attempt to do more than visit Canada. There is a TV show that follows Canadian Border Services. They deny entrance to scores of Aussie young folk trying to sneak in and find work in Whistler. Asians and Americans too.

Him and the gf tried to pull a fast one and get him fast tracked for residency. Failed!

You want asshole border services? Try get in to the US even legitimately for a tourist trip from Canada! Everyone is Al-Qaeda to them. Make no sudden movements and under no circumstances make jokes. Trust me!

 

[Hard_Rom]

Finally made the news here.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dai...rs-to-canada-may-be-kicked-out-005334056.html

 

[Boxlicker101]

British subjects do not require a visitors visa to enter Canada. Only if you cannot convince a border official that you have ties in your home country that will ensure you are here only temporarily. If he had to get a visa I would think he was unemployed in Wales and therefore likely to be in Canada looking for work not visiting. He stated he wished to open a business with his gf. That is not what a visitors visa is for.

I suspect that that the border officials remark was more directed to his whole attempt to do more than visit Canada. There is a TV show that follows Canadian Border Services. They deny entrance to scores of Aussie young folk trying to sneak in and find work in Whistler. Asians and Americans too.

Him and the gf tried to pull a fast one and get him fast tracked for residency. Failed!

You want asshole border services? Try get in to the US even legitimately for a tourist trip from Canada! Everyone is Al-Qaeda to them. Make no sudden movements and under no circumstances make jokes. Trust me!

Traveling from the Philippines to the USA might be even worse. There is no immigration except for family members, and adult offspring have a fifteen year wait to enter. Minor family members do have it easier.

To get a tourist visa, one has to prove to the INS that they will return to the Philippines after a certain period of time. Under limited circumstances, it is possible to get a specialized work permit and enter the country with it.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

In case proceedings, Immigration Canada may argue that guidelines about working on student or spousal work visa are self-evident, that the rules around a super visa are posted on the government’s website, or that a visitor to a country should know what’s allowed there. But the fact is, many foreigners are not fully aware of the laws that govern their stay.

“Immigration offers counseling at the border,” Tress Said.

“But when I ask my client ‘did they tell you this at the airport?,’ they say, ‘I don’t know. It was a year ago and after a 22-hour flight.’”

Perhaps immigration could simply give people a written sheet of information explaining all the guidelines rather than rely on an oral consultation, he added, but they don’t.

Regarding Rolfe’s situation in Alberta, Sultan said: “If the story isn’t more complicated, the response is stretching the spirit of the law, because the spirit of the law is to protect Canadians. Was he really taking a job away from a Canadian?”

Sultan feels there is a procedural fairness problem in border agencies. The hurdle to have a matter reviewed is too high since it often requires going to court.

“The officers have an inordinate amount of power and an insufficient sense of the consequences for decisions that have a lot of impact on people’s lives,” he said.” It’s a recipe for disaster.

Sometimes people arriving in Canada do not take the system seriously enough, he added, but on the other hand, there are a lot of examples of overreach by officials. What’s needed, he feels, is a balance — a proportionate amount of oversight to catch the bad apples and protect the labor market but not punish everyone.

“Otherwise you end up with these bizarre decisions.”


Good gracious! It is no wonder that many students chose to study in France.