Did I mention maple leaves and warm fuzzies?

[chanter1944]

Canada is actively assisting LGBT refugees out of Chechnya and likely saving their lives in the process.

Unlike the orange!verse, this is a) real and b) government sanctioned, officially. <3 <3 <3 <3!

C'est magnifique, absolument! As nearly ever. I say nearly ever because nowhere's perfect, see that line in the article about previous persecution of trans* folks, but... Around here, our officials are still persecuting them. Up north, people are openly apologizing to them for the unwarranted ill. I... Shards. What am I doing down here, again? This CIS queer lady has a case of continued star eyes! Uncommon common human decency for the sharding win.

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[cmcmck]

I'm glad to hear this for obvious reasons!

[chanter1944]

So am I! My reasons are equally obvious, if in different ways. :)

[acelightning]

I almost never squee, but the very name Rainbow Railroad made me squee! :-)

I've used the online screening questionnaire several times to see if my husband and I could emigrate to Canada, but we always miss by a couple of points: we're too old, we don't have any skills that are in short supply, we have no money, and my husband doesn't speak a word of French. Merde!

[chanter1944]

I knooooow, that *name*! :D And the article used the phrase Underground Railroad, with zero irony and just as little casual intent. <3 <3 <3!

I need to take that online questionnaire. Would you believe I haven't yet?

[acelightning]

My husband doesn't really want to move to Canada - he's New York City born and raised, and he wants to stay within sight of it. And I pretty much agree with that, and, besides, I would never try to drag him off to someplace he doesn't want to be. (Nor would he do that to me. We've been married 44 years.)

The questionnaire is mildly amusing. And it's not hard to see that they want people who either have enough money to live on, or who have the guarantee of a well-paying job when they get to Canada; everybody else had better have some kind of damned good reason the Canadian government should let them in :-)

[technoshaman]

I keep hearing rumblings that Trudeau isn't perfect... but Crisse in tabarnak, he's orders of magnitue better than what we got now!!

[chanter1944]

I hear the same rumblings, but I'll take perfectly imperfect on the order of usual human fallibility over... well, you said it.

Speaking of said it. Uf da! Watch yer mouth! :P

[technoshaman]

Hey, if I'm gonna swear about a Canadian at least I can do it in French! Then you can pardon it literally! ;)

[chanter1944]

*cracks up* Nice one!

For the record, I was teasing about the 'watch your mouth' bit. More an acknowledgement that I'd caught it for what it was than anything else. :) A little swearing doesn't bug me in the slightest, except for a few certain slurs aimed at categories of people, which you don't at all strike me as the sort to use.

[technoshaman]

Nope. Some classes of language a white boy is *never* allowed to use (and it doesn't sound good out of POC, though Ysabet does use it for shock value and realism, and I'm okay with that...)

I remember a once-friend wrote a really good fanfic about MacGyver in Ireland... very well researched and realistic... I sent it to Mother, who's a fan of Irish lit... she liked it, except she complained that they dropped the feckin' f-bomb a lot.... I'm like, "Mother, that's really the way they talk! I *lived* as an Irish lady's houseguest, I *know!*"

She was non-plussed.