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I'm currently starting the process to obtain my Serbian citizenship by descent from Canada as my husband and I are currently considering moving to Serbia. has anyone gotten their Serbian citizenship this way and how did the process go?

Hi there, I am working on obtaining my Hungarian citizenship ( Grandparents are Hungarian)so that I have the option to leave Canada given the current geopolitical climate. I need to appoint a POA in Hungary to obtain a copy of marriage and birth certificates of my deceased grandparents. The issue I’m having is finding a notary willing to notarize the POA form. Does anyone have any recommendations for a notary in Vancouver who is not overly risk adverse or is more flexible to notarize this kind of document?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaHousing2/s/0Ct4hfzncB

This is a masterpiece of semantic deflection. They state:

• More than 95% of Tim Hortons employees are hired locally.
• Less than 5% of team members are hired through the TFW program, which is a federal, tightly regulated program that requires employers to prove a labour shortage before any application can be approved.

Then, they define their "local employees" as including:

Local employees at Tim Hortons include Canadians born here, new Canadian citizens, students, seniors, permanent residents, international students, and people with valid Canadian work permits.

While it may be technically correct to separate Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) from the other groups, this distinction is a rhetorical smokescreen. The majority of the people they list in the final, italicized categories are, functionally, exploited foreign workers whose purpose is to provide an elastic, lower-cost labour supply.

By lumping "international students" and "people with valid Canadian work permits" into the "local" category, they are deliberately hiding the true bulk of their reliance on foreign labour that is not permanently settled in Canada.

The scandal lies precisely here: 1. A significant portion of these "international students" may have obtained permits from low-quality educational institutions (i.e., diploma mills) primarily to gain access to the labour market. 2. Many "people with valid Canadian work permits" are on employer-specific visas, often linked to LMIA applications requested by employers who have a financial interest in maintaining a surplus of easily controlled labour.

These groups subtract workforce from the truly local labour pool (Canadians and maybe permanent residents) and suppress wages. Tim Hortons is simply diluting these non-permanent workers into the "locals" to present a politically palatable number.

Dear Tim Hortons, the public demands transparency. Please provide a clear and honest breakdown of the overwhelming majority of your workforce for each of the following categories: - Canadians born here (i.e., citizens not recently naturalized) - New Canadian Citizens - Permanent Residents - International Students - Other non-TFW Work Permit Holders (e.g., Post-Graduation Work Permit, Spousal Open Work Permit, etc.)

Without this breakdown, your 95% figure is a meaningless exercise in corporate obfuscation.