The happiest day in my wife's life will be when she receives THIS. She has contributed to Canada for over 10 years since her landing sixteen years ago and has helped to support this family. After she receives her Canadian citizenship, she will no longer have to deal with the self-entitled types back in the country where she was birthed (It's not home anymore) who expect her to pay her "fair-share" while she receives no benefits, no representation...or anything connected with the United States; who lift up their hands in self-entitled greed backed by statute, expecting that she will pay their way when it would take food off our family's table and the clothes off our children's backs.
She has paid her FAIR SHARE to Canada, for 10 years and counting, for the roads that she uses, for the sidewalks that she walks on; for the education that our children (born in Canada) have received, for the health-care that she and our family receives in Canada and all for the love of our family.
And like my father who took out his Canadian citizenship, 50 years to the day that he landed on Canadian soil (because he chose to give his life with work and paying taxes to Canada before receiving his benefits - he did not feel entitled to take out citizenship before retirement - his exact words were, he "owed Canada for providing him and his family a life"); after emigrating from Japan in 1956 and he died a Canadian in 2009. My father would be ashamed if he could see HIS Canada today, the country that he loved because he wanted his beloved daughter-in-law to have the same rights that he did that he worked so hard for. My father was a simple man, he worked hard and provided for his family and in turn he helped my family while I was getting on my feet (that is the love of an Asian father). My father never had the chance to vote as a Canadian yet he paid his taxes to Canada throughout his life. My wife wants to be a Canadian so that she has the full rights of being able to vote in this country that my father was unable to (because he died before he could exercise his right to vote); to exercise the rights and freedoms provided by the Charter of Rights & Freedoms of Canada. My father loved this country, yet our country fails to protect the daughter-in-law that he loved, as much as I love.
I love my country, but my country has betrayed me twice: First when it interned my loyal maternal grandfather's (grandfather, grandmother, uncles and my mother) family in Slocan. Second when it said to my wife and 1M+ other Canadians and permanent residents (those who have moved here with the intention of gaining citizenship in Canada) that they were second-class citizens) and that "Congress had spoken" as if Canada was a lapdog of the United States or even worse, the 51st State of the Union. I still LOVE Canada, with all my heart and soul, but I stand here a jaded man, bitter and angry, that the Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives would relegate my wife and 1M+ others and their Canadian families to the role of second class-citizen.
So to anyone who would dismiss that loyalty, that love of country. who says that she is a second-class Canadian resident, and/or self-entitledly feel that she should give you something or scream fair-share due to the fact that she is of a citizenship (that she cannot shed fast enough) of a country that practices a taxation form that is only matched by that of a 3rd World Banana Republic and supports an administration that has persecuted her because of it: FUCK YOU!!!
To the friends-in-arms (who are going through this crap) like Bubblebustin', Trisha Moon, SwissTechie, Gwenny and Petros who have been instrumental in becoming a support group and network and loyal friends, Thank you; you mean more to me and to my wife than you know.
To my friends from school who actually do understand the situation who knew me before I became this seething ball of rage, thank you for standing by me, for believing that I am still the same person you once knew in school as a caring and understanding guy underneath all this rage at this injustice and that all my rage that I have presented here on this page is mainly because I hate persecution, especially when it is unjust. I will not pay taxes to a government that I derive no benefit from and I should think that my wife feels the same. That is why my wife has no problems paying taxes to Canada because she derives benefits from being a Canadian resident. If you think anything different of me just because I rage at injustice, then as George Carlin once said, "I don't give a fuck, Go Fuck Yourself."
My wife WILL get her Canadian citizenship; she will become a loyal Canadian; she will vote for the next prime minister of Canada but the satisfaction of my beloved wife becoming Canadian will be bittersweet tempered because I know now that Canada is not the shining beacon of fairness and equality that it holds herself out to be.
