Wow. One would think, with the size of the Sikh (and Indian, in general) population in Canada, they would be aware of the cultural differences.

Y' know, I thought Emigration Canada was supposed to be lightening up a bit. This sounds so 1980. The Sikh community has GOT to be yanking some chains about this one.

We pat ourselves on the back for being so wonderfully multi-cultural. Ha.

The difference between what a government says they're about, and what they're really doing is still on a 10-15 year delay.

For every literate successful businessman who is denied his rights, there are likely 20 people who are less able to effectively complain.

I never trusted those Canadians -- xenophobes, every last one of the lot.

Fucking maple-syrup drinking canuks!

Btw, how come we don't have any good epitaphs for Canadians? Canuk really just doesn't cut it. Like calling someone from England a Brit, rather then a Limey.

They're all hosers, eh!

(Married to a Canuck, I am.)

It took three years for my Landed Immigrant application to be approved. I applied from within the country (the gov't doesn't like to do this - it's hard to get rid of people once they're here if the application isn't approved - but they will). I've been "Landed" (which is the Canuck equivilant of receiving a green card - it's called a Maple Card) for 1 1/2 years. It'll be another couple years before I can apply for citizenship.