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some financial institutions will finance a new
immigrant's home purchase up to 65% without proof
of income? This allows you to keep
liquidity.
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some banks will give newcomers credit cards with
up to $2,000 limit without
security?
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car insurance carriers use a wide variety of
criteria to determine your premium, and rates can
vary from $1,000 to $3,000 per year? Make certain
you get several quotes.
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the best way to get a job in Canada is via
personal contacts?
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the Maple Leaf Card is a wallet-sized permanent
resident (PR) status card required by permanent
residents for travel purposes?
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it is recommended that before you buy a farm you
consult with the Provincial Agriculture Department
and the Farm Credit Corporation?
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you should work for one year in the sector in
which you are thinking of investing or purchasing
a business? It may open your eyes.
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you should never buy a business, resort, ranch or
farm if a bank is not willing to finance at least
50%, or you may have difficulties selling it
later?
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you should never compare real estate prices with
those of your home country? A deal is a good deal
when you can sell for more a short time
later.
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there are many well paid job opportunities for
people in trades?
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in most of Canada we do not live in igloos?
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all across Canada a blood alcohol content of .08
is the legal limit for drinking and
driving?
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110 km per hour is the fastest you are allowed to
drive?
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the metric system was formally introduced in
Canada in 1970, but newcomers still need to learn
the Imperial system? We still buy lumber by the
foot!
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the Province of Alberta has the lowest taxation
rates in Canada, has no debt, has a CAD$11.6
billion Trust Fund and has an annual surplus of
over CAD$3 billion?
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the world's second largest reserve with 50 percent
more oil than Iraq is in the province of
Alberta?
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Alberta is the largest beef producing province in
Canada, consuming only 13% of its
production?
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the Province of Alberta has the lowest
unemployment rate in Canada and the largest job
creation trend in Canada?
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a large segment of the owners of small and medium
sized businesses are coming of retirement age at a
time when there are not enough qualified people to
take over their businesses?
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gasoline in Alberta is approx. CAD$0.80 per
litre?
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the distance between Alberta's two major cities,
Edmonton and Calgary, is not 300 km but a 3 hour
drive?
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in Alberta you are insured under Alberta Health
Care the minute you arrive with a Landed
Immigrant, Student or Work Visa? Elsewhere you may
need to wait 90 days.
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Alberta's housing prices are still affordable in
spite of our hot economy?
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