Re: [microsound] On canadians performing in the USA...

[Jonathan Hughes <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 30, 2005, at 10:37 PM, graham miller wrote:

> the whole green card, we're stealing jobs from the locals  
> mentality... the
> terrorists go to and fro but god forbid a foreigner might make some  
> cash
> abroad playing music...



I believe the Canadians are just as strict, if not more, than the  
americans when it comes to musicians performing and "stealing jobs."  
I don't know if it's still in effect, but it used to be that if a  
canadian club hired an american band, they also had to pay a canadian  
band for the gig (and the canadian band could just stay home). This  
may have jut been a union rule, and not a law, but when my uncle's  
dixieland band would play gigs in canada, they knew that a canadian  
band was getting payed to sit at home.



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