UAE bi*tchslaps Canada - New Visa requirement for entry

[ElPunto]

UAE imposes new visa requirements on Canadians

 

Gloria Galloway

Globe and Mail Update

Posted on Monday, November 8, 2010 4:30PM EST

 

The United Arab Emirates will soon require visas from Canadian visitors – a move that appears to be the latest salvo in a dispute between Canada and the wealthy union of Persian Gulf sheikdoms.

 

A notice posted Monday on the website of the UAE embassy in Ottawa says: “Effective January 02, 2011 Canadian Passport holders will need a visa.”

 

Currently, Canadians and travellers from 30 other countries including the United States, Australia, France, and Japan may enter the UAE with nothing more than a passport.

 

The UAE embassy could not confirm Monday whether Canadians had been singled out for the visa requirement. But Canada has been engaged with the UAE in a dispute over landing rights at domestic airports that has cost this country its secret military supply base in Dubai.

 

Canadian troops were forced to pull out of Camp Mirage last week in retaliation for the federal government’s refusal to allow UAE carriers Emirates and Etihad Airways to land more often at Canadian airports.

 

A Conservative official has confirmed that the closure of the base will cost an estimated $300-million and the Canadian government is still trying to find a replacement for the hub that was the main supply point for the military mission in Afghanistan.

 

“The Conservative government’s incompetence has turned minor problems in Canada-UAE relations into a crisis,” said Paul Dewar, the Foreign Affairs critic for the NDP.

 

“This is an unprecedented step that will have a major impact on travel and business between Canada and the UAE. Last week, it cost our military $300-million to scramble out of our base in the UAE – now this. The government has to be held accountable for its failure to maintain what used to be a strong relationship between Canada and UAE.”

 

Fen Hampson, the director, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, said the fight between the two countries has gotten out of hand. “This is unwarranted escalation of a low-grade trade dispute,” Dr. Hampson said.

 

The UAE is trying to make Dubai a global hub and is using the state-owned carriers to take on the competition, he said. Likewise, he said, Air Canada, which opposed granting more landing slots to the UAE planes, enjoys various forms of indirect subsidies.

 

“This is a battle of national champions in that our government is defending the interests of Air Canada and the UAE is trying to take on Air Canada in what are potentially very lucrative routes to its part of the world,” Dr. Hampson said.

 

But the UAE may have shot itself in the foot if the visa requirement deters Canadian visitors, he said, because whenever a country engages in retaliatory actions it should ask if it will hurt its own interests more than those of its opponent.

 

“Dubai is suffering as a tourist destination,” Dr. Hampson said. “The economy is not doing well there. A lot of investment is leaving. So it’s a place that’s on the ropes. And, if you have differences with Canada on this issue, you should keep negotiating. You don’t resort to linkage tactics of the kind that they did with the airbase.”

 

The Canadian government had been using the base for free for nine years. But leaving is complicated – there are huge logistical issues including moving equipment and now having to factor in fuel costs for the longer routes between Afghanistan and the alternative bases in Germany and Cyprus.

 

 

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[ElPunto]

Time to get tough on those hairy ba$tards. Recall the ambassador! The too nice, don't ruffle any feathers Canadian way has been seriously abused. Man up Canada.

[London2010]

Who cares about uae. They are nothing really. Why would any Canadian want to go there when they have the whole world in front of them. They can keep their racism, backwardness and sex brothels.

[Haatu]

^ Arab lover! Yeah that's right.

[Che -Guevara]

Not the smartest thing to do for either government.

[Jacpher]

Canadian troops were forced to pull out of Camp Mirage last week in retaliation for the federal government’s refusal to allow UAE carriers Emirates and Etihad Airways to land more often at Canadian airports.

The Canadian government had been using the base for free for nine years. But leaving is complicated – there are huge logistical issues including moving equipment and now having to factor in fuel costs for the longer routes between Afghanistan and the alternative bases in Germany and Cyprus.

Canada had military base in UAE? And they were using it for FREE yet they couldn't accommodate landing slots for only two UAE airlines? Just to protect Air Canada? I guess Air Canada can now come up with the $300m the military has to pay now. UAE is showing some xiniinyo lately.

[NGONGE]

I am sure a dyslexic UAE civil servant is behind all these diplomatic spats. He is picking on all the countries that have names starting with the letter K! First Kenya and now Canada!

[ElPunto]

^I believe the Kenya thing was because 4 members of the royal family got stopped at the airport and detained because of terrorism suspicions. And then a little while later comes the decision to restrict Kenyans' entry into UAE. That's what happens when a country is governed by decree.

[NGONGE]

^^ You mean if it were democratic such things would not happen?

[Mad_Mullah]

Why do people hate on UAE and go there begging it (London2010) and ElPunto El-WannabiMexicano

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Canada had military base in UAE? And they were using it for FREE yet they couldn't accommodate landing slots for only two UAE airlines? Just to protect Air Canada? I guess Air Canada can now come up with the $300m the military has to pay now. UAE is showing some xiniinyo lately.

I blame and place all on these squabbles at the feet of Air Canada.

 

It is this airline who is doing behind the scenes war against the expansion of Emirati airlines. They are strongly lobbying efforts of denying Emirates and Etihad to have more landing rights on their expansion of Canadian cities.

 

If both Etihad and Emirates were allowed to land on other major cities like Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary and more frequently as they want, few people would use Air Canada, which Air Canada is fearing. The Conservative government is also biased, biased against successful Muslim companies with global brands, officially stating there is no market for those two Emirati airlines. Why don't they let the market judge.

[Somalina]

^ma dooneyno Carab businesskooda dee xoog miyaa?, no khamiis wearing folks on our runways, thank you very much

Air Canada rules! yeehee!

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Waligaa Emirates ma raacday? Air Canada duqooshin hostees ka ah ku nacayba, and I do think lamana fire gareyn karo because of powerful union.

 

Now compare that to the exotic, multicultural Emirates flight attendants, who change themselves in every four hours of flight time. In a long-haul eight hours flight camal, the flight attendants will change half way. Newly, fresh faced ones will serve you after four or five hours and kuwii horena will go upper level of the airline to rest. Waxaasaa diyaarad la dhahaa haddii kale iska daa. Qanaxda Air Canada with ayeeyooyin in old uniforms serving you shaah xee sheegee.

[N.O.R.F]

^Emirates waa raaxo. Makes the journey that much better.

 

This has been an interesting spat. UAE is flexing it's muscles while Canada is protecting it's airline industry. They have a huge Asian sub-continent market and don't want to see people going through the UAE via Emirates and Etihad onto India/Pakistan et al. Air Canada has a partnership with Lufthansa which means flights go through Frankfurt. Two airlines will lose out.

 

The saga continues. UAE foriegn minister said the Canadian government banned it's employees from flying with UAE carriers.

[Somalina]

^Shukaansi iyo fiirfiirso diyaarad uma koro, A to Z haddii aan safe u tago alxamdulilaah. Adiga masaajidka visit-kiisa iiga waran? maxaad Washamsi u baahantahay.

 

Canada weyku dhaartaan Air Canada walaalow ee hana dhaafaan Arabtaan iyo khamiiskoodaba. Goodbye basal cunayaal n dont come back. who cares about visa haddii lagu galaayo, wixii aada ayaanba la yaaba meelahaas.