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Dear Canada
By John | August 16, 2009
Dear Canada,
I see your bureaucrats recently detained one of your own citizens in Africa for several months. Maybe you should examine some of your bureaucratic policies and recognize the damage your bureaucrats are capable of.
You see, I, too, was detained recently by your bureaucrats. I was denied entry to your country and accused of violating Canadian law. Am I a terrorist? No, I was accused of being a thief!
I was entering Canada from the United States to inspect some of my Canadian land. I was taking a couple of “for sale” signs with me to place on the land. When Canadian Customs learned of my egregious crime, I was referred to Canadian Immigration, where I was detained for over an hour and accused of theft. What kind of theft? I was stealing Canadian jobs!
How so, you might ask? Well, if I was taking “for sale” signs into Canada to sell real estate, I was denying Canadians the opportunity to sell that real estate.
I was asked if I had sold Canadian real estate before. I said I had. I was told I had committed a crime by doing so.
I can’t sell my own property in Canada? Yes, you can. But you can’t sell land for others, and you are working for a company.
“Working”? A company? The property I sold previously was in my name.
Oh. OK. That was legal. But now you are selling land for a company.
Yes, the real estate is in the name of a Michigan limited liability company. That company was established by me for the sole purpose of owning this particular parcel of Canadian real estate. I am going to the property to place “for sale” signs on it. So, by your definition I am “working”.
Am I being paid for this “work”? No! If Canadians want to work for nothing, they can have my job!
Well, finally, Immigration realized how ludicrous their assertions were, and let me enter the country. But, here is what I didn’t tell them: I purchased that land with American dollars. I improved that land with American dollars, paid to Canadian citizens. I was not stealing Canadian jobs; I was creating them. But if my efforts are going to be treated like this by you, Canada, I will stay out of your country.
Now, I’m not picking on Canada. The U.S. has its share of bureaucrats, as does the rest of world. But there is a lesson to be learned here. If you want to create and protect Canadian jobs, GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY! Your harassment deters me from wanting to do business in Canada. And, if I, and others, don’t do business in Canada, Canadians have fewer jobs.
Just another example of bureaucratic policies having the opposite effect of their intended purpose.
Canada, you, like the United States, need to learn to appreciate capitalism. You need to listen to your own national anthem: …glorious and FREE…
Freedom creates jobs. Not bureaucrats.
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