{"id":21295,"date":"2008-07-08T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=28"},"modified":"2016-09-11T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T07:39:08","slug":"crossing-borders-within-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/crossing-borders-within-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Borders Within Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine asked me last night what makes me feel that Canada discourages any sort of serious and long term travel within its borders, something I mentioned in my previous entry. I thought I should highlight the three roadblocks I&#8217;ve encountered so far, starting with the least severe. The more I look at this list, though, the more I have to wonder if the issue isn&#8217;t <em>Quebec <\/em>rather than Canada. This is another reason I want to try life in other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>1) <strong>Vehicle Insurance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not an issue I expected to encounter, but if I&#8217;m out of the province for more than 6 months, then getting insurance coverage for my vehicles is an issue. I was only able to get coverage by promising that I would not spend more than a couple of weeks of the upcoming year outside of Canada and that I would return to Quebec for six months starting next fall, else my coverage will not be renewed. Well, there&#8217;s another reason for setting up residence elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Health Coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Same sort of deal as with vehicle insurance. The RAMQ (Quebec health insurance board) allows one exemption to the &#8216;no more than six months out of the province&#8217; rule every seven years. So, next fall I need to return to Quebec for six months or lose my health care coverage, and then I have to stay in in the province for six months per year for six years.<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Voting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I sure hope that things have changed since the last time I was out of Quebec when there was a provincial election. When the 2001 elections came up, I enquired about voting by proxy from the small town in Ontario where I was going to school and was told I absolutely had to travel back to my riding in Quebec in order to vote. So, with my riding being a twelve hour bus ride away, this wasn&#8217;t feasible and I had to give up my right to vote. Never mind that I was paying income tax in Quebec and still considered a resident of the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine asked me last night what makes me feel that Canada discourages any sort of serious and long term travel within its borders, something I mentioned in my previous entry. I thought I should highlight the three roadblocks I&#8217;ve encountered so far, starting with the least severe. The more I look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,936,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-legalities","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}