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Well, none that were stated, but that doesn't rule out implied prerequisites. That would be those prerequisites that are taken as a given. For example that you can see, hear, etc. You know, the stuff that's obvious.
Again, it's your view, but that's besides the point.
I know how you like to ignore things that don't support your agenda, but...
Just like I have to have welding tickets to be legally allowed to weld on certain materials, structures, and so on. Furthermore, my licenses, permits and certs, make me distinctive, ie: special status. Which means I can right off certain things, get tax breaks, and purchase things under my business, in ways others can't.
I realize how much importance you place on me, but the topic is the special status of VFF's. Not my time wasting.
Ya, that was a typo. I meant the VFFA.
Why would the VFFA have guidelines on rejection letters, if they have no prerequisites?
Why does the VFFA give guidance on hiring practices?
In Alberta, a deep search Police check, and health exam, are mandatory, for all VFF's.
Your claim is, all you have to do is ask to join. Insinuating, poof, you get to be a VFF.
Ya we have SmartServe here in Ontario. That's all great and all, but isn't that like moving the goalposts?
You did say waitresses. Now you want to focus on one category of waitress.
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Yup, you're special...just like everybody else
Yes it is. You have made the claim that because Burlington has prerequisites for volunteer firefighters, that means not everybody can be a volunteer firefighter and therefore volunteer firefighters enjoy some kind of special status. I have merely shown that pilots have special status, garbage collectors have special status special and waitresses have special status. You have chosen to add welders.
Clearly everybody has special status and if everybody is special then nobody is special.
Now that that is settled, we can move on to why I think it's a bad idea to give tax credits to VFFs if you would like.
I'm glad you finally admit that.
Thanks.
The VFFA has similar mandatory requirements.
By the way, thats only 1 requirement. You said at least as many as would preclude volunteering as a VFF.
But all that's moot now that you admit that there are no special status people in Canada.
LOL...only you would try to make such a feeble leap in logic....or are you having problems with context again?
What? The only feeble leap in logic, is the claim that anyone can be a VFF. Not even your own unit has no prerequisites. As you claimed.
Lets examine the context shall we, your exact words were...
Since not everyone has the exact same special status, ie: I would have to get crippled to get a disability tax break. Or meet Alberta's minimum requirements to be a VFF, but don't.
I have a different special status as a licensed welder. Meaning I enjoy an equal special status, to you.
Which is what has been said.
You even qualified what you meant here...
So unless you wish to move the goalpost. You absolutely agree, that no one is excluded from special statuses. They just have a different special status.
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Where do you draw the line between garbage collector and hoarder?You could fake it.
Wouldn't be the first time someone pulled it off-errrr maybe a bad choice of words. :lol:
Better ask someone who's hoard! :lol:
Ooooooooooh Canknucklehead- I thought "red notches" meant that you disagreed with the post...............is there anything you aren't prepared to argue about? :lol::lol::lol::lol:
Perhaps it would be useful if you explained the difference between OAS and social assistance. If there is already a program in place to help those over the age of 65 why replace it with another?
I can remember my mother finally getting OAS at age 65. She had never worked (if you can call raising six children prior to the era of daycare not working) and so had never contributed to any pension plan. She did involve herself in unpaid work outside the home, actually becoming President of the New Brunswick Red Cross, but of course, such work does not result in a pension. Once she was receiving OAS, for the first time in her life she did not have to hold out her hand to my father whenever she wanted to buy something for herself or for other members of her family. This relatively small payment made an enormous difference in her life.
Are these not your own words?
If you didn't mean to say exactly what you said there. Maybe you can apologize for that misleading post, and clarify what you really meant.
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