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live in Canada, and among the aspect of the United States that I find very silly, there’s the 21-year-old drinking age and the ridiculous penalties for underage drinking. This is greatly undermining the opinion I have of the US.

In Canada, the drinking age is 19 in seven provinces and 18 in three. If someone is caught underage drinking, they are either handed a small fine or arrested and detained until the effect of alcohol is over, that’s all. Underage drinkers don’t lose their driver’s license and don’t get a criminal record that would haunt them for the rest of their life. Additionally, enforcement is much less strict, and police often don’t really care about underage drinking on private property.

I think that American policy of giving a criminal record to underage drinkers is unfair and exaggerated, as a criminal record permanently jeopardizes employment and emigration, and will get a person barred from entering Canada for 5 years. You want to visit Toronto, but four years ago you were caught drinking at the age of 20? Impossible, you’ll get arrested and deported at the border. The punishment doesn’t fit the “crime” at all.

In the state of New Mexico, it’s a FELONY to give alcohol to someone under 21, but only a MISDEMEANOR to drive drunk, even on the third offense. Any reasons for that?

Underage drinking and drunk driving are two entirely different things. I take drunk driving very seriously and I even think aggravated drunk driving (over .12) should be a felony.

Canada has a lower rate of car crashes and deaths and far less problems with alcohol use by young people.

What justifications do you Americans have for these criminal penalties for such a trivial “offense” as consuming alcohol under 21?
Just a little side note: unless you live in the state of Mississippi, people in the 18-20 age group are NOT “minors”. The age of majority is 18 (19 for Alabama and Nebraska). You have to say “person under 21”, “underage drinker” or “underager” as these people are NOT minors.
Sure Texas is one of the most lenient states relatively to under-21 drinking, I knew that alreay. However, Texas and Ohio are the only big states to allow parents to give alcohol to their children. In 20 states, including most of the large ones (California, New York, Florida, Michigan, Illinois, Arizona, North Carolina) it’s a criminal offense for a parent to serve any amount of alcohol to their children. Another oddity is in South Dakota, South Carolina and West Virginia, parents may serve alcohol to their children, but it’s still a criminal offense or the under-21 person to drink it.

My point is that any underage drinking related offense that does not involve driving should only be punished by civil penalties, not criminal ones.

Why are Canadians still the True North Strong and Free?

Don’t they like USA any more?

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An easy-to-use, step-by-step guide to calling Canada home
 
 
More and more Americans are thinking of moving to Canada for work, study, peace of mind—even retirement—and whatever their motivations, they will have to navigate the Canadian immigration and naturalization processes. 
 
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How to Move to Canada: A Primer for Americans

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act, INS Act of 1965, Pub.L. 89-236) abolished the national-origin quotas that had been in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924. It was proposed by Emanuel Celler, cosponsored by Philip Hart and heavily supported by United States Senator Ted Kennedy.

An annual limitation of 170,000 visas was established for immigrants from Eastern Hemisphere countries with no more than 20,000 per country. By 1968, the annual limitation from the Western Hemisphere was set at 120,000 immigrants, with visas available on a first-come, first-served basis. However, the number of family reunification visas was unlimited, and it is only now that there are any country-origin quotas for spouses of US citizens, and numerical quotas for other relatives of US citizens.

In the Congress, the House of Representatives voted 326 to 69 (82.5%) in favor of the act while the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 76 to 18. Opposition mainly came from Southern legislators. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation into law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Services_Act_of_1965

More on the Act here and who was behind it:
http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/v1/2005/Staff031305MaliciousDuo.htm

This is a very informative video on the Nation of Atzlan which seeks to take back over half the US, and move all other races out, and the North American Union/NAFTA Superhighway which would make Mexicans majority in this nation and although-out the continent, and bring the US and Canada into a Mexican (or Soviet Union) type slave state, with no middle class, mostly slave workers that are ruled by a rich and powerful few?

http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DFNP83ThK3YI
I am not asking what the outcome will be when push comes to shove, only if the *intent* here is by the drafters here. I am not afraid of little trolls with cheap African rugs in the attic and small Oriental candles down there, who can’t slam dunk a basketball or desing a computer program. I am only taking about a conspiracy here, a plot.

or vice versa?
Why don’t they stay and make their country better?

Not only would you instantly get universal health care but because of Global warming Canada is becoming a much nicer place to live in terms of weather and they’ve got plenty of space for millions of new citizens. Plus most of them speak English and it’s very easy to visit the US. It would be just like living in the US only w/o any Republicans living in it. Now if that ain’t a win win situation I don’t know what is.

And how would they fit in there? I’m considering immigrating there in a few years.

They are called First Nations in Canada; they do not need a passport or a Visa to travel throughout North America; therefore many of the people that you assume are illegal are not illegal at all. What do you think of that?

Are there any background checks for American citizens visiting Canada? I have a court date in a few months for a misdemeanor marijuana charge and I am thinking about visiting Canada with some friends during my month off from college over winter break. Do they look that kind of stuff up, and if so, would I be unelgible to cross the border? I visited Mexico a couple of years back by (legally) walking over the border at Tijuana and nobody even checks you when you cross over, there were no guards or anything, only when you’re trying to get back in to America do they do a check. Is it the same for Canada? I plan to do the same for my trip to Canada, visit a border city and just walk over the border.