| The Hidden Benefit of Canada's continuing brain drain | | | | ... He's been out of Canada for years now, ridding the |
| These days, Canadians often lament the brain drain. | | | | country of a thoroughly annoying person. This is the |
| There is a silver lining however. What about the jerk | | | | same guy who walks onto movie sets uninvited and |
| drain? With every Air Canada plane load of brains | | | | gets paid to be an extra in the cocktail party shot. |
| departing Canadian shores, there are a gaggle of jerks | | | | Sure he's interesting, but let's face it mom, dad, The |
| amongst them. In a drunken slur they demand, "Get me | | | | Law Society; he's a jerk. I do love him though, oh there |
| another double honey!," on their flights to London, | | | | I go again, it's going all over my shoes! Wait...I'll get a |
| Tokyo, and Los Angeles. Good riddance I say! And I | | | | tissue. Okay I'm back. Where was I? Oh yah... |
| ask you, does Stats Canada keeps statistics on how | | | | Take the guy at the Thai beach hut resort, you know |
| many jerks are leaving Canada and annoying those | | | | the really cheap ones. At these resorts they charge |
| poor helpless foreign folks abroad? Are those stats in | | | | next to nothing for the hut, but hope you will eat and |
| English and French? Is the Canadian taxpayer saving | | | | drink in their restaurant as that's how they make their |
| money due to the flow of jerks abroad? Are any | | | | money. Well, this jerk wasn't eating in the restaurant, |
| other countries exerting international pressure on | | | | and would only set foot in it to steal the sugars and |
| Canada to stem the repugnant tide of jerks entering | | | | creamers off the tables, then sneak back miserly to |
| their nations? I have met many jerks while abroad, and | | | | his hut to make his instant soup and coffee. He also |
| I am proud to say that many have hailed from the | | | | stole the coconuts, another real no-no at beach |
| Great White North. It may be the cold, harsh winters, or | | | | resorts in general. This guy was the talk of the resort. |
| the rain of the coast, but we should be happy in | | | | My brother, you remember him right? He asked |
| knowing that we produce a lot of jerks-- for export. | | | | discriminatingly, "What part of America is that guy |
| I in fact live abroad. Just ask my poor suffering wife of | | | | from?" "Vancouver," was the reply. Yep, another one |
| 9 years. "He's a jerk!" states Ikumi. There you have it. | | | | of Canada's finest. |
| I've been in Japan for over eleven years and I still | | | | No don't knock the jerk drain. The UN has proclaimed |
| butcher their language. My poor neighbours. I think | | | | Canada the most liveable nation on the planet for a |
| some of them avoid me in embarassment--FOR ME. I | | | | few years now. I think it may be because we are |
| always say Japanese is such a tough language to | | | | relatively jerk free as compared to say America. The |
| learn, but even my five year old can speak it better | | | | other thing is, when Canadian Jerks Abroad, (The |
| than I. Guilty as charged, I'm a jerk. | | | | CJA) act like jerks in London or Paris, no one thinks |
| Take my brother--he's a lawyer. I could end it right | | | | we're Canadians! We can't even tarnish Canada's |
| there now couldn't I? Have you heard any good jokes | | | | image correctly! "Go back to America!" is what we |
| lately? | | | | frequently hear. I never correct them! |