Canadian Imports

Jeeves, am I not glad to see you. We have not been here for a while, have we? Actually many things did happen during the hiatus, like the Sinhala new year, the May Day, and even Vesak festival. The latter was only a couple of days ago. Now all these things are important, and in here Sinhala new year and Vesak are the biggest events since days immemorial. Actually I wanted to write about them, but the Canadian officer bastards got in the way. Is that news?

Are these critters more important to me than national events in my native land? Well, the obvious answer is a big no no. Alas, the New Year was ruined by the major a-holes who were in charge of coming up with the traditionally observed auspicious time. Accordingly to their charts it fell in some ungodly hour somewhere in the deep end of the night and I for one did not observe it nor did anyone else whom I knew. I don’t know these toss pots take themselves how seriously. Someone told me they came up with this time to satisfy the self styled king. Well I don’t know about that, but I have a low opinion of them (and besides, the king feller gets the blame for everything here these days).

Anyways this thing threw cold water on the whole set up and it was a half-hearted celebration and no one in his right mind wanted to write about it. I am not sure if I am in full control of my faculties though - for I have just written a whole para on that shebang. I ought to have my head examined, maybe.

Anyway let us now pay a courtesy call to our nice friends at the Canadian outfit in Colombo. It's always comforting to be in the company of friends, as the saying goes. Here is what our friends have to say. Relax kids, its written so they just can’t turn around and say no we did not say anything of that nature. No wonder they have confined themselves in a fortified castle here...

This is what they have to say to a work permit applicant: You do not have enough ties to your home country (Sri Lanka).

And this man is legally married with a wife, has got legit kids, got commitments like providing refuge to aged parents, has a house of his own and bit of money in the bank! If these are not ties to one’s native land, then I just can’t work out what else they could be. Worst of all this guy’s kids are still schooling, it's not like as if he were a deadbeat with kids old enough to buy Paris Hilton video off the local store.

I just have one question, what are the courts in Canada take as established ties in any legal scenario? I am not going to take that much further here coz I am taking it to human rights grounds in both Canada and internationally. But being curious is no crime, so I am just telling you to help me out a bit here. Just give me an inkling to what these visa bastards would accept as ties. Because, despite of the friendly & generous nature of their compatriots, people appointed to represent them here are nowhere near an average Canadian either morally or intellectually.

All in all, I feel self pity. You know, even Canadians could not afford to send out one decent soul down to this piss pot to represent their fine nation. Talk about the street creds of Sri Lanka in international arena.... And here I am, fated to share this plot of land in middle of Indian ocean with both local and imported w@nkers alike......