WTF’s with Canada???
June 14, 2008 the day of my sale when I
reached the point of NO RETURN to living a life outside
Canada!
Life in Canada at that point was still bearable but not to my liking & as I had the resources to live elsewhere, I was on my way to make that dream a reality.
At that point in time I still had 2 72 passenger buses + a W/C bus, the Super C tractor I bid back in at the sale, the 03 Caravan, ‘82 Checker, ‘78 MH + ‘78 Scout & mother was still in her house.
Looking back it doesn’t seem possible that so many changes in my life would happen in just a tad less than 4 yrs or how freedom & government services in Canada would deteriorate in that short a period. Of course some of it could be attributed to getting out & experiencing the REAL WORLD not just accepting the, for the sheeple government brainwashing version.
First change came in Aug 08 with provincial simple serpents, through collusion & fraud, making my charted business worthless & unsalable (see blog), resulting in the sale of 1 bus. Then then found a buyer for the ‘03 Caravan before I departed on my CA/Cuba trip.
During that 6 mo winter 08/09 trip mother took a turn for the worse, her house was sold & she moved into a nursing home. Also received the news that the outcome of my court case against the school board was a draw due to shenanigans of JP!
Returned to ON in late April 09, to satisfy Big brother OHIP’s requirements for only being out of the country for 6 months, to wet, cold, miserable weather (never again Canada in April). Found mother extremely unhappy so moved her from nursing home to nice one bedroom, ground floor apartment she had found.
Over the course of the summer found much more griping of self-employed friends over new rules & the way they were being screwed by the government. Sold the Super C for less than the sale bid, sold the remaining bus & left the end of Aug on my RTW 09/10.
During Sept mother had an accident which resulted in a move to a nursing home in B’ville.
Returning in July ‘10 found mother’s condition had deteriorated badly & Ontario’s healthcare system a pathetic joke. Flew to El Salvador, bought a house & after a major hassle with the Bowmanville hospital which isn’t fit for pets, incompetent doctors & lying air ambulance operators, managed to make arrangements to have her transported to El Salvador.
During this time July-Sept 10 I managed to sell the MH, load the W/C bus with the contents of my storage unit, & drive it to El Salvador via Route 66.
Returning in May 2011 I found a sad, pathetic Ontario that I could never live in again. Also managed to get screwed trying to sell the Checker on sleaz-eBay so had to sell it at a friends tractor auction where it only brought 1/3 of what I had in it.
Trip to Phnom Penh for a couple months then back home to SV where I am attempting to get residency status, only problem is I need a CRC (criminal record check) from Canada notarized as authentic in Canada. One wouldn’t think this would be a problem however to do this one needs to deal with the moronic simple serpents running Canadian bureaucracy who took 10 WEEKS to do the CRC & send it to a friend to get notarized.
No problemo, one would think, just trot down to your lawyer, he puts his stamp on it, initials the stamp & a couple minutes later for between free & $20 you’re out of there or that’s the way it used to work, apparently NOT NOW!
It seems your AROGANT, IGNORANT,
A$$HOLE ONTARIO lawyer is on holiday for
a week, then cancels the appointment the next week, when he finally deems to see you, he finds it impossible to simply notarize it but must study it for a week.
He then proclaims that the hossmen have signed the CRC so notarizing it is unnecessary & sends the poor ignorant peon on their way.
Friend went back yesterday to explain to the know it all, backwoods advocate from Jerkwater ON, that the aRse Cee eM Pee signature may be good in Canada but is meaningless in the real world, at least in El Salvador.
Apparently the fine upstanding (NOT) advocate for the people finally deigned it prudent to take 30 seconds (after holding on to it for a week) out of his busy life & notarized the document.
So we now have the fine Canadian system (NOT) taking a total of 106 days, almost 1/3 of a year, to complete a process that should have taken 2 weeks tops. Of course I still don’t have the document & as courier charges from Canada are Outrageous (nearly 2x what they are here) will have to depend on Canada Post’s rip-off (nearly same as courier here) Xpress post & hope they can deliver it without losing it in maybe another 2 weeks. Making it a full 4 months (a full 1/3 of a year)!
WTF’s happened to the Canada I/WE
grew up in?
I shall return to Canada, FOR THE LAST FLUCKING TIME in
August 2012 to finalize a few things in OnturkeyO, pick up my
Scout & head to Quebec’s Eastern Townships to attend
the CHS homecoming at the Big Brome County Fair on Labour
Day weekend. http://www.bromefair.com
Shall then make haste for the Y’all land border at Rouses Point &
the Scout Nationals http://www.midnitestar.org held at the
Clarke County Fairgrounds in Springfield OH in conjunction with
the Ohio swap meet http://www.ohioswapmeet.com where the
Scout will be FOR SALE!
At the end of the Nationals it will either be the Grey Dog to the
Mexican border where one can get a REAL BUS home to the land
of the Mayas & Palm Trees or another road trip back to the
Paradise of Las Brisas.
http://wwwlasbrisasplayasandiego.blogspot.com
Tags: Travel
busman7
I haven’t checked your website for 8 months or so and I wonder if you are seeing the same thing that I am – people don’t seem to be following you anymore or leaving comments because you seem to have become a bitter, enraged, old man. I am your age and a lot happier than you seem. I have served my country for 34 years in the military and have done my part. I am still working and supporting my wife and 4 children. I hope you are not drawing CPP or OAS (at 65) as you seem to hate Canada and especially Ontario so much. Canada is a great country. Yes it has some things it could improve upon but I would take it over Honduras and lots of other countries, including the USA, China, UK, etc. People are tired of your site. It was exciting at the beginning with great adventures but your ranting has become a tiring drone.
Glad yo love Canada, someone should, but obviously your experiences are different than mine.
I presume you have read what happened to me, if you consider that the proper way for a person to be treated, then I feel sorry for you.
Yes I am drawing CPP, that I paid into, + OAS that I worked for & deserve. To suggest that I shouldn’t makes you the kind of person that I left Canada to get away from.
FYI over 103,200 folks have read my blog with an average of 75/day.
BTW if you think my rants until now have been bad, just wait for the next one telling of my treatment by the Canadian Gestapo on my recent & last visit to Canada. Just reporting my personal experiences!