Canadian Immigration Control

Unlike the United States, Canada is trying to shore up their immigration controls to keep out undesirables. According to this story,

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.

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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.

Another fine example of Canadian tax dollars at work, preventing foreign bottom wigglers from abusing the system. Of course, one has to wonder how a nude picture could provide evidence that a woman can dance. Fred Astaire was a great dancer but I doubt you could tell by looking at a naked picture of him. This makes about as much sense as looking at a picture of a person's feet and determining that he/she could ride a bicycle. (via David Janes)