Posted on 12/06/2004 1:09:08 AM PST by Cableguy
TORONTO -- Coiled around a brass pole on a barroom stage, clad only in towering stiletto heels, a 31-year-old Romanian woman named Veronica is helping to fill what has suddenly become Canada's most talked-about shortage: a scarcity of strippers.
A government program to import hundreds of "exotic dancers," which was already controversial, took center stage recently when Canada's immigration minister, Judy Sgro, was found to have given preferential visa treatment to a nude dancer who did volunteer work in her reelection campaign for Parliament.
Critics say the program turns Canada into a pimp, while local employers assert it serves a legitimate business, and dancers from struggling countries say it's a way to better their lives.
"This has been a great job," said Veronica, a native of Brasov, who declined to identify herself further. "This has given me a better opportunity for life. I could never go to school and work in Romania."
Nude dancers come here under one of several programs aimed at recruiting foreign workers with specialties sorely needed in Canada. Last year, the country imported more than 19,000 construction workers, almost 5,000 nannies and 1,560 university professors. In addition, 661 work permits were issued or renewed for foreign exotic dancers.
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O Canada. Our home and native land. We stand on guard for nude dancers we stand on guard for nude dancers. We stand on guard for thee.
Disgusted.
What next?
No wonder the Canadian government has to buy broken down Submarines from Britain and can't pay its armed forces a living wage.
And? Who really cares? These topics are so moronic, they defy logic or interest unless you're 7 years old. Dolt.
I haven't been in a Toronto nightclub. But then I was never alone. :)
And spoiling you? They HATE this stuff.
Kinda like Hooters but without the uniforms.
Being a sex object gets real old after the novelty wears off.
Now, where's my Sig? The wife has the Glock. The kids are playing with the Mini-14. Dad is downstairs cleaning the M-16 for me.
LOL.
Hmmm. You should be a waiter at the local Hooters. Oh wait. Then again just shave and put on a push-up bra. Lotsa fun, 'eh?
This nutcase is one sick perverted excuse for breathing oxygen.
Wow! I have found one place where we can learn from our Canadian neighbors (or should I say neighbours?) Importing "exotic dancers" on visas? Why didn't John Ashcroft and the INS ever think of that?
Hilarious!!...Welcome to Beaver Valley, Canada. Damn the terrorists!...speed up those work visa's for strippers...We socialist politicians will not be denied!!.....
Only in Canada would they think strippers add something to national diversity. Go figure!
>Critics say the program turns Canada into a pimp
Sounds exactly like what we have been saying all along. :)
Shows the moral and intellectual superiority of Canadians, right?
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