Wide Open Spaces: Holiday Visa

Eiffel Tower Dept: But whether they come for love, money or adventure, more than 400 years after the French first landed on the shores of the New World, they are again invading Quebec in increasing numbers and calling it home. All over Le Plateau, the city's trendiest quarter, and downtown, shops are staffed with clerks happily speaking broken English and a definitely un-Quebecois brand of French, according to The Star. If you think about nature, you think about Canada and Quebec, she says. Ask her if she'll stay when her visa is up and she says: Why not and mONTREAL They come for love. They come for work. They come for the wide-open spaces or as the French like to dream ma cabane au Canada and they come for the two-letter word tu. Most are the PVTistes, young people from France who have invaded Quebec under a Canada-France program called Programme Vacances Travail PVT or Work Holiday Visa, which allows 18-35 year-olds to work, travel and live in Canada for up to a year. After that, they can apply for permanent resident status. Since I was a kid I dreamed of Canada, says 23-year-old Julie Hedouen, who arrived in January as a PVTiste and now sells pastry in a fancy shop with a symbol of the Eiffel Tower on the door, just off the long and increasingly hip shopping corridor of Mont-Royal Blvd. Hedouen says she grew up seeing Canada on TV and learning a bit about it in school. As reported in the news.
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