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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (19 children)

Some of those applicants want to come here to actually study and ideally shouldn't be rejected solely because of their nationality.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Currently it does need more scrutiny though. I have a few coworkers from India, they have tons of stories of how the corruption works there.

Get a traffic ticket, buy the cop a roadside lunch.

Want planning permission slide the civic clerk a bribe. (Apparently that position has a long waiting list, because you will make more in bribes that a doctors salary.)

Injure or kill somebody in a motor accident, offer their family (and police) a lump sum to drop charges.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

That's pretty much anywhere in the third world, FYI. It's just how things work until you have many decades of stability and democracy to unlearn it. Corruption used to be a way of life in the West, too. There were operas about it.

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