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From: tjsmedley@watmum.waterloo.edu (Trevor J Smedley)
Newsgroups: ont.jobs
Subject: Re: Job Hunting in Ontario: looking for advice
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Date: 29 Feb 88 15:21:38 GMT
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In article <1988Feb28.223251.25666@lsuc.uucp> (Chris Lewis) writes:

>I know that you can't get a driver's license on a Work Permit.

A good friend of mine got an Ontario Driver's license on a Work
Permit.  The province would only let her use her German license for
some restricted amount of time (I can't remember how long), and then
she had to take the test and get an Ontario license.  I thought it
strange that she had to take the Ontario test (including having to have
a beginners for two months and all that) when she had already had a
German license for a quite a while, and a German license is
considerably harder to get than one in Ontario.

>With all the Chinese visitors we got we tried to get some of them
>licenses (after the training and so on) so they could drive to and from
>work for the 12-18 months they'd be here.  The province wouldn't allow
>it.

Something is strange here.  Sounds like one of these things where the
rules change depending on who you are talking to, or perhaps which
country you are coming from.

Trevor J. Smedley                    University of Waterloo

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