# At 8pm tonight I became a Permanent Resident of Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541 "2008-09-14T06:38:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/61 "2008-09-18T07:01:44Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Don’t tell me there’s a place in Canada where you can’t get [Hawkins Cheezies](http://www.cheezies.com/static.htm)! I thought those things were ubiquitous. I don’t recall seeing them in Ontario. Of course, to be a real resident of Canada, **Seven** has to try some Thrills gum. ;)😉 …golf balls, lawn chairs, a bike lock, a fire extinguisher, junction boxes… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/62 "2008-09-18T07:19:57Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I don’t recall seeing them in Ontario. Of course, to be a real resident of Canada, **Seven** has to try some Thrills gum. ;)😉 I don’t recall seeing them in Ontario either, which is odd considering that the company is or was based in Belleville, at least according to their webpage. …tinfoil, house wiring, vacuum-cleaner bags, packing tape, markers, garden gnomes… ---
**Author:** ![lynxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/63 "2008-09-18T10:02:56Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I don’t recall seeing them in Ontario either, which is odd considering that the company is or was based in Belleville, at least according to their webpage. > > …tinfoil, house wiring, vacuum-cleaner bags, packing tape, markers, garden gnomes… I’ve seen them but maybe it was in BC. Seven - stay away from the Thrills, unless you’ve said a naughty word. Hockey sticks, pucks, paper towels, propane stove, an aluminum pot… ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/64 "2008-09-18T13:00:14Z")
Seriously, everything I buy from Canadian Tire self-destructs within a month. Do we really want to uphold Crappy Tire as a symbol of our nation? (waits for jokes about the election…) …BBQs, flashlights, hose caddies, ponchos, hacksaws, screwdrivers, plastic dishes, citronella oil, compressed mulch blocks… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/65 "2008-09-18T14:06:26Z")
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > Seriously, everything I buy from Canadian Tire self-destructs within a month. Do we really want to uphold Crappy Tire as a symbol of our nation? Oh, I don’t know. I’ve got a serving spoon from there that’s still going strong… …reflective tape, tile cleaner, glue… ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/66 "2008-09-18T14:58:44Z")
When my mum died, my sister and I had to clean out my parent’s house and put it on the market. I wouldn’t have even said my folks were big Crappy Tire shoppers, but we threw the Canadian Tire money in a shoe box along with some other stuff we were donating to the Indian and Metis Friendship Centre. Damned if it didn’t come out to around $200. bucks - they’d never spent a dime of it, and they’d been hoarding it since before they moved to Saskatoon! Twenty-five years worth of $8.00 a year… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/67 "2008-09-18T15:50:00Z")
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > Seriously, everything I buy from Canadian Tire self-destructs within a month. Do we really want to uphold Crappy Tire as a symbol of our nation?\ I’d prefer not to - they’re a bunch of shysters. If you return something you bought there, they will deduct the amount of the Canadian Tire “money” they gave you from your returned money if you don’t bring it back. I guess the “money” is not so much a gift as a loan. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/68 "2008-09-18T16:13:38Z")
Congratulations on becoming a Canadian citizen. I still hold that if things here in the States ever go totally sideways, I’m packing up the “kids,” the hubby and the house and heading North. ---
**Author:** ![lynxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/69 "2008-09-18T23:57:24Z")
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > Seriously, everything I buy from Canadian Tire self-destructs within a month. Do we really want to uphold Crappy Tire as a symbol of our nation? But everybody calls it Crappy Tire in real life - don’t they? That’s why we always joke about it … but we still go buy stuff there because they always have at least one of what you need. Not the best one of course… 😃 motor oil, brake pads, funny looking seat covers, socket wrench, vise grips… (getting into my husband’s list now) ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/70 "2008-09-19T09:06:06Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > If there is a Mex restauraunt in Bradford I have not seen it, the Mexicans yes , they are commonly seen right up until the harvest comes in. Jamacian soul food is the only odd ball eatery visible. > > Declan OOps , what da ya know there was one , oddly enough right beside the soul food place, my bad. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541/71 "2008-09-19T18:52:53Z")
> [@vengeance and dust](#): > > So, if you didn’t have the right to enter the US, would you be required to take a trip overseas and back in order to “land”? You take the ferry to St. Pierre and back. That’s only 4000 miles from Westminster, BC, though, if only a short trip from St. Johns, NL. But I wonder if you couldn’t just go to the US border and get turned back, then return to Canada and “land”. When I immigrated just 40 years and 2 days ago, the cost was 0 and the paperwork not much more. Times change. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-8pm-tonight-i-became-a-permanent-resident-of-canada/463541.md?page=3)