Hey All SCD,CD and FCD (go figure that out),

Have been following the CD portal for quite some time and have asked many a questions - nearly all of them have been answered.

So here is one big question :

of the 500000 South Asians in Canada :

How may are unemployed
How many work as Janitors, Delivery people,drivers etc
How many are in Blue collar jobs
How may in White collar jobs
How many totaly sucessfull
How many unscucessfull?

Most of the people post negative thoughts - bad place, racial discrimination, no jobs, bad weather,poverty etc etc.

So how much is a flight to India? Are they ashamed to come back and face the world - or is it just ego.

Did you try hard enough to succeed?

I spent a good part of my life in Middle East - and faced racial and religious discrimination, was both highly sucessfull and unsucessfull (in stages of life) .

I believe that I will make it in Canada - no one can stop it.

Balaji will help.

All we need is the moral support of people who already are there.

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I AM "CAN-INDIAN"

Hi !
May God bless you in your effort.
All the very best.
TK

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I am a Gents and not a Ladies.

I believe that I will make it in Canada - no one can stop it.

Balaji will help.


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Thats the spirit. Please keep us updated of your progress after your landing in May 2006.

Best of Luck & God Bless !

Edugondulavada, Venkataramana- Govinda ! - Govinda !

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Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....

"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our
vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my
children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India
who would make you starve, if you don't.'"

Hi Shubi:

Making here will be difficult
1.If your field is a regulated occupation in canada(Non-IT)
2.If neither you nor your wife is an experienced IT professional
3.If you are aged above 30
4.......means Odd jobs at odd working hours are waiting for you...you are going to get depressed and frustrated.
5. Canadian Govt. needs you & waiting for you to snatch 38% of your salary away from you as tax (23% from pay cheq, 15% GST,PST)
6. They are running the whole country from that tax system.

Balaji Bless Canada!

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How many totaly sucessfull

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Making here will be difficult

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6. They are running the whole country from that tax system.

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5. Canadian Govt. needs you & waiting for you to snatch 38% of your salary away from you as tax (23% from pay cheq, 15% GST,PST)

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I want to explain this point from an Indian perspective. That too from a practical example from Tamil Nadu.

HHChedaji please excuse me for this and do not ask me what is the relation between the thread and my response.

I'm going to use crude language and people who are offended please excuse:


When people die their bodies disposed off in many ways. Typically Christians, Islamic and some people bury the dead. Parsis and others throw the body for the vultures to feed on, while Hindus either burn their dead or throw them into holy rivers and the body gets eaten by fish.

In Tamil Nadu, Hindus burn their bodies. Now a days electric crematoriums are used and in earlier dies a wooden pyre used to made with some sandal wood. When women died before heir husband died, they used to be decorated with their favorite marriage kanchipuram saree, and many of their golden jewels adorned. The body used to be kept on the wooden pyre, and top of the body covered with wood, and the whole thing was sealed off with cows dung made into a paste. The body would be lighted, and there will be two holes near the face for the heat and smoke to escape.

The undertaker at the ghat, used to be so good, that he would pull out the saree and also remove the gold through the holes, with out touching the body, and he will sell it off. The next morning when the family reached there the ash and the bones would be handed over.

The real trick was to manouvre and remove the saree and also the gold, which the undertaker was good at.

The Canadian tax system is like this undertaker. In 2001, I had met a Gora, who was the chief buyer for Pepsico, NY in Mumbai. During a dinner meeting I asked him he mentioned that he was from Canada. I was then in process of applying and I asked him if you are a Canadian, why did you leave this beautiful country and working in USA. To which pat came the reply" In Canada, you work for the government from morning till 2 PM, and you work for yourself from 2 to 3 PM. What he meant was that you work and pay taxes which goes to the government, and your real earnings are for the last hour. I do realize now what a true statement this is. Many people work over time and at the end of day, they are just paying more taxes or ending up with RRSP's. You get your RRSPs back starting at the age of 69, and if your CPP is strong with your RRSP, you will not get the Canadian Governments share of the old age pension. Why do you want to forgo that amount from the Government of Canada, when you have worked your butt off them all your life ?.

The Government of Canada has ways and means to take the last cent out of you, and just leave with enough to survive and breath.

Thank God for not taxing the air we breath.

Thanks for reading!

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Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....

"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our
vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my
children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India
who would make you starve, if you don't.'"