Now here are a couple of folks that don't mind calling someone a liar without knowing background details...
Take it from me, I don't qualify for UI. I knew that when I started the Landed Immigrant process, and I have asked since. It is as simple as that.
Since you don't believe nobody can be here for 6 hears and not get a job in his/her chosen profession I could invite you to see the evidence - thousands of applications, and more gone the way of crashed hard drives - and junked files when we moved apartments a few months ago after our rent went up 42%.
Hey, call me a liar again... tell me that's not legal, and I'd say you're right. But welcome to the real world, and what the hey, _you've_ got a job - I'm probably just one of those stupid lazy people, right?
Well, this "laziness" has cost me some CD$100,000 in living expenses out of my retirement fund over the last 6 years, and it's starting to look pretty slim now. Why would I risk all that to be lazy?
But that's OK, I'll accept being called a liar and keep sending out applications - call it maturity, of you will.
Say what you like, Canada so far has been a minor nightmare for me. We're all entitled to our own experiences and opinions, and that is mine. Fact is, I'm not interseted whether you agree or not, that was my experience.
I spent a week in hospital here once, and one of the orderlies was a fully qualified and experienced doctor from Europe who emigrated and was told on arrival that he had to start med school from the start again because he did not train in Canada and had no "Canadian experience". He couldn't afford that, so he remains here as an orderly and the Canadian doctors are safe from yet another thieving foreigner.
I guess the point I am making is that if you don't know what you are talking about you should not be making criticisms, judgements and pronouncements about other people - especially when they are asking for help.
The encouragement elsewhere on this Forum (unlike the last two posts) has moved me to see an Aviation Medical Examiner here in Canada about whether I might qualify for a pilot licence again. It turns out that after an eye test the first step is positive (20/30 separately, 20/20 together), and I am going on to try and achieve a Class I medical after the DOT reviews the circumstances of my operation and complications (one of my pupils is stuck open due to damage from the operation).
If that is possible, I will then decide if to risk part of the funds I have left to convert my ICAO Airline Transport Pilot Licence to Canadian and perhaps find a job flying here... with my many years of airline flying experience it's got to be easier than slugging it out at street level trying to make a new start.
Jim Lynch
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