ANECDOTE:
I came to Canada at 3 years old with first generation parent immigrants in the early 90's and we all had citizenship within ~3 years (I was 6 at the time).
Thanks to McDonald's (and others) breaking all the rules and abusing immigrants, the current situation is you have to be physically inside Canada for 5 years out of 7 before you can even apply for citizenship.
And that's just to apply. The process can easily take a year or two longer. Also every day I spend outside Canada (holiday, visiting family, whatever) pushes that back.
Wrong info. Here are the actual rules from the Government site:
To be eligible to become a Canadian citizen, you must:
be a permanent resident
have lived in Canada for 3 out of the last 5 years
have filed your taxes, if you need to
pass a citizenship test
prove your language skills
Other requirements may apply.
I got my citizenship ages ago but I think the rules were about the same.
Yeah, that was Mr Mike at his best. When they can't do something productive they get "tough" on immigration/crime/lap dancing/whatever other subject tickles their cockles. After him they must've changed the rules back.
> that you can not go to work for 2 weeks and there has been zero disciplinary action?
It's true most places, not just in the US and not just in the public sector. They did not indicate whether he was away with or without leave, and if he was on leave for medical (including psychiatric) reasons, there are privacy considerations which might prevent revealing that.
OTOH, if he is away without leave consequences are near certain, but the disciplinary process in the public sector may be slow (and it may deliberately be deferred in this case to maintain leverage for his cooperation in the investigation, which probably had more critical importance—especially if it's not a hunt for a scapegoat—than an attendance problem.)
In the rest of the world the "SLR" is referred to as a "FAL" and it's 7.62x51mm / .308 Winchester ammunition is a "medium" caliber firearm.
Quite a bit weaker than what was used commonly in WW1/WW2 but stronger than the standard 5.56mm / .223 Remington round that is used today by the armed forces. It's still a very common round and used in various applications around the world.
"Quite a long time" is a bit of fear pandering, it's what you would use to kill a deer humanely.
Any sort of a firearm is dangerous when used against people massed in tight quarters.
Don't worry, my criticism was very much intended for the person telling me this story who seemed to think that army bullets traveling as far as possible through Catholic housing was a good thing :-|
This is a multiyear process and extremely challenging for H4 holders.