Baring All for Canada

[BgMstr4u]

Every once in a while reading Drudge does pay off. This is priceless:

 

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2004/07/27/558388.html

 

Tue, July 27, 2004

Baring all for Canada

FOREIGN STRIPPERS MUST SUPPLY NUDE STAGE PHOTOS TO OFFICIALS

By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN

 

IMMIGRATION OFFICERS are having to pore through naked pictures of hundreds of exotic dancers to keep impostors out of Canada. Foreign strippers planning to table dance in clubs here must now provide photos of themselves with no clothes on to qualify for a visa for Canada, immigration officials say.

 

"Stage photos during performances are required," said Sergio Mercado, of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico.

 

MEMO TO VISA OFFICERS

 

In a memo to fellow visa officers around the world, Mercado said if a dancer passes the no-clothes test, they may then require a police certificate or medical examination.

 

The memo was obtained from access to information documents obtained by the Sun.

 

The potential dancers have to prove they can dance in the nude, immigration lawyer Mendel Green said yesterday.

 

"They can't be partially nude," he said. "If they don't have pictures in the nude, they are not going to wiggle their bottoms in Canada."

 

Immigration lawyer Richard Kurland said the women have to show nude pictures to ensure they're not abusing the system.

 

When it comes to Russia, the visa officers are looking for "headline performers" who can be paid up to $5,000 weekly and are often featured in ads of which they are expected to have copies.

 

PHOTO SPREADS

 

Officers at the Canadian Embassy in Moscow said most headliners have been subject of photo spreads after vying for "Miss Nude North America or Miss Nude Europe" contests.

 

Immigration officer Dorothy Christie said once dancers arrive here they are usually placed in strip club lodgings and paid $60 every time they're on stage, $10 for a lapdance and $20 for a VIP room lapdance.

 

Each week the women must pay $100 to an agent and $50 for a driver as well as $10 nightly to a DJ, the officer said.

[Kai]

Well thats interesting! To will keep these bloody immigrants to steal our jobs! like those german! (bloody germans) lol

 

No seriously that has to be one of the most stupid idea from the canadian parlement! Rumors says that we will need a burlesque show liscence to strip in Quebec soon like in the rest of the country. and if it keeps going like that we will soon need a B.A. in Burlesque Intertainment to do that job!

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you dont stop playing because you grow old , you grow old because you stop playing

[Guest msclonly]

Most qualified only need apply!

 

You can't blame them for wanting to keep the standards high

and not letting any Tom, Dick or Mary from taking up stage room.

 

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[Kai]

RE: Most qualified only need apply!

 

Oh please! The clubs set the standards , not the gouvernment!

[Michael]

RE: Most qualified only need apply!

 

It's very Canadian to try to regulate something like this.

 

Anyway, for every exotic dancer that applies for a visa to work as a stripper in Canada, there are several hundred that entered the country on a student visa, a visitor's visa or no visa at all.

[Guest msclonly]

RE: Most qualified only need apply!

 

Kai,

 

Laugh and the World laughs with you.

 

 

 

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