Posted on 06/24/2015 10:19:42 AM PDT by dennisw
A British tourist has been booted out of Canada after he helped his girlfriend decorate her flat.
Tom Rolfe was just being helpful, but immigration officials in the country felt that he was ‘doing a Canadian out of a job’, after they found photographs of him helping girlfriend Sam Edwards to fill in cracks in the walls of her flat.
Tom, 24, from Abergavenny, said: ‘It is 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.’
And Tom’s helpful nature doesn’t end there either – he had planned to open a dog rescue centre in his girlfriend’s home city of Edmonton, Alberta.
He applied for a resident’s permit in order to do so, and had to leave Canada in order to get his new passport stamped at immigration control.
But when the couple returned, they were locked in separate rooms for three hours while immigration officials searched their belongings and car.
‘They found photos on my camera of me helping Sam fill cracks in her walls’, Tom said.
‘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.’
Yesterday, Tom was preparing to return to the UK, and while his girlfriend will follow in a few months with their dogs, he has no immediate plans to return to Canada.
‘I’m done with Canada now. I thought they were part of the Commonwealth so I’m surprised to be treated like this’, he said.
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He should have told the authorities he was a Muslim
The world is run by insanity
Could someone stop the world, please? I’d like to get off this carnival ride now, thanks.
bad link?
I guess it would be too much to ask that they name the Canadian Tom did out of a job.
Only indigent immigrants allowed.
Would they give towelheads this kind of treatment?
Your link is defective.
Here is a corrected version:
http://news.yahoo.com/british-tourist-booted-out-of-canada-for-helping-092757399.html
Meanwhile EU brings in welfare squatters who don't take jobs.
I doubt for one min the Police searched their belongings because of DYI
crack repairs, they found the pictures and used those instead of what
they were really looking for. We don't know what they were intentionally
looking for though. Drugs?
So, fixing up your own (or your girlfriend’s) property is against the law now??? Wake up, Canada! You are being destroyed as surely as we are!
Good thing he didn’t get caught doing the dishes.
I guess the visit wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
Maybe she should find an off the wall friend instead.
My coworkers up north have told me you can’t even cross the border into Canada with a tool kit in your possession. Apparently, unlike here, there are no jobs Canadians just won’t do.
You can’t exercise your Free Trade that way.
The Commissars of Who May Transact With Whom can arrest you.
Take off, eh?
In principle, it doesn’t seem much different than Roscoe Filburn getting fined for growing his own wheat.
I am way in favor of protectionism and “fair” trade. But this is going a little too far. But I like the spirit shown.
I’ve taught seminars in Canada and had to jump thru multiple hoops to get it approved, including demonstrating that no equally qualified Canadian was available.
Which is requiring you to prove a negative and is essentially impossible.
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