Jay, what are you on about? First, you don't follow up on my reply, and then you go on about some visa regulations that you do not seem to understand at all. Residency Permits are issued for varieties of reasons; one is work and one spousal, for example. It has been like that for a few years around. Before 2004 or so, there were some provinces that issued/stapled easy local Z visas to our passport pages but I think that times are over.
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