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B raises a good point.

It seems, judging by the point-award system in this test, that Canada is mistaking "education" for "skill".

We're all educated around the Ministry, but I'd rather someone from OCC build me a bike than anyone here if you get my meaning.

Cold, damp and half french was my meaning. And remember, I hate our freedom just as much as you do.

I got a 57. Canadians seem to have a fetish for formal education. Not as though I had any intention of moving to the vichy-soise of nations.

Buckethead, FYI vichysoisse is an American invention (though by a French chef) and re-imported to Fraunce in the early-mid 20th century. If you hate vichysoisse, you hate America! (It's famous precisely because it was new 'n' chic at the exact moment that French cuisine became well known in the USA thanks to luminaries like Julia Child and James Beard).

I would offer that "Fraunce: the stinky cheese of nations" if more apt. It's double edged (love/hate), gives proper credit to the French for their contributions to world cuisine and culture, and yet is redolent of the remembered whiff of "surrender monkey" you are so very fond of.

Just a thought.

By the way, I think you'd make a fine Canadian. If you stay out of the cities you're probably free from the free-speech madness and creeping socialization that gets your back up.

Me too! I'm a 78, and would move up there in a heartbeat if it weren't for my deep and abiding love of country and hatred of freedom.

Ross,
I'm a 76, so in terms of raw score I might be considered under their skilled immigrant program. No French training though, which certainly didn't help.

But I'm not nearly thoughtful or polite enough to live in Canada.

Geez Ross, just go back. :-P

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Try that... Apparently, I'm all set to go even though I have no employment lined up.