vivek901 said:
I do not understand this, why everyone is so worried about this rule. What difference does it make if it takes 3 years or 4 years. I just applied for my wife just now after 4 years. She could have applied last year if the rules had not changed. But I think this 1 year delay did not make any difference to us. I dont understand why people need to get so crazy...at the end of the day it is just 1 year. I think its not a big deal to ask for. I think people who are in Canada for good will not care. Only ones who will care are people who want Canadian passport (Citizens of convenience)..and want to run out of Canada.
I'm just new on here but, like other recent PRs (landed prior to Bill C-24's passage) who were adversely affected by the Harper Government's & the then-Senate's seemingly deliberate unkindnesses in pointedly choosing not to make any 'grandfathering-in' provision in Bill C-24 for then-current PRs, like all so affected by being made to feel suddenly as though the goalposts were changed overnight, and could presumably at any future time as well, without any consideration being shown for our cohort whatsoever, then with this group of individuals I do stand in solidarity, against the sheer ignorance of posts like this one quoted above.
The gentleman's wife is almost certainly having a vastly different experience of coming to Canada than those of us, like myself, who've come here solo, without any family or friends or support network whatsoever, and who are involved in daily struggles to find our footing here, to survive even.
I myself have, as a non-citizen, so far been cheated by no less than four (4) separate Canadian employers, and was nearly killed in an industrial accident which went unreported, having been put in harm's way by a foreman who couldn't care less about newcomers. So it is, mon cher Monsieur, struggling newcomers like myself, who are entirely without the kind of insulating support network that is presumably being enjoyed by your wife, it's people like me who have every bloody right under natural justice to be angry that Bill C-24 froze us out in an apparently deliberate act.
Anyhow, I can at least wish you and your wife a Happy Christmas.
For those other nearly exhausted/exasperated C-24-affected PRs like myself, who are anxiously following Bill C-6's progress in the Senate, I have it on good authority that all is not lost, and that C-6 should be going to committee before the Christmas break. Keep your chins up and keep struggling; in the end it'll be worth it.
