Hyperbole, yes, but I was actually asking if anyone from the US had tried that angle. Your opinion means about as much as mine, which is to say nothing.
How soon people forget. There was plenty of talk about this before Bill Clinton was elected. During the last election cycle, it was if Hillary Clinton got elected:
(or to Mexico)
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I remember a lot of this, and find it telling that you don’t, and associate the meme with liberals. Selective memory is how such things get started, then perpetuated.
Just don’t think of coming now. It seems likely that we are about to elect a Conservative majority government on Monday. And this is not your old wishy-washy “Progressive Conservatives”, but Alberta based Conservatives. Alberta is sometimes called “Texas North”. After the 2004 election someone published a red-state/blue-state map of North America (a curious construct that excludes Mexico and anything south of that) in which the NE states, the NW states and all of Canada except Alberta was blue and everything else red.
When I moved to Canada in 1968 it was a lot easier. Having a definite job offer was helpful. It is impossible to prove that someone is qualified for a job as a research mathematician unless they have a publication record to prove it. And then they are unlikely to apply for a job at the lowest rank and you can always say they are in the wrong field.
According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s 2010 Report to Parliament, the total number of immigrants anticipated for 2011 ranges from a low of 240,000 to a high of 265,000. Of those, the category of Protected/Compassionate/Other ranges from a low of 30,900 to a high of 38,200, so in the range of 12 to 15 %. Take those out, and you’re looking at a range of 209,100 to 226,800 - still a considerable number of immigrants.
According to Stats Can, the estimated population of Canada on January 1 2011 was 34,278,400. That gives a per capita immigration rate of between 0.61% to 0.66%.
A piece of related information I’d like to have is the percentages of Canadian immigrants from various countries. Are Americans a huge contribution to Canada? A tiny one? Bigger than China? Smaller than India? Inquiring minds want to know.
Anybody got any data?
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The best I could find in a quick search is this graph from Statscan showing immigrants by region during the years 1971-2006. It doesn’t break China and India out specifically (though it does the United States), but it will give an idea–for example, immigration from Asia is increasing, while immigration from the US and Europe is decreasing.
There may be something more specific and recent out there, but this is the best I could do for now.
Thanks.
You did more than ask a question. You stated:
Which is factually incorrect. You may correct me with a cite if you think I am wrong.
That is an opinion, not a fact.
Beep…yes, I receive and understand…beep. Get off the clock, man.
I think if you’re an Ivy League graduate this may not be so true…I know one such young person, with a master’s degree, who’s been pretty much writing her own ticket. Like Herbert von Karajan, she’s wanted everywhere, and seems to have her choice of vibrant and prosperous world class cities to live in. And a number of her friends seem to be doing equally well.
I can’t give any more specifics, but I will say her field is not the sort of thing we normally associate with this awesome demand and international mobility, like nanotechnology.
Of course what I’m actually interested in is comparing American immigration regulations to Canadian immigration regulations.
For example, I do know that as a Commonwealth Country Canada has several countries to which its people can more easily emigrate and I believe those are reciprocal arrangements.
But how hard is it, based on the regulations, for an American with no familial connection to Canada at all, and no special work ability (say this is a person who is gainfully employed in the United States but with no “highly demanded” job qualifications) to move to Canada and become a permanent resident?
I’ll be honest I tried doing the research myself, and unfortunately both the Canadian and American immigration agencies have such byzantine websites with hundreds of different little sections that I immediately lost interest in doing the research myself when I checked into it.
From what I can tell, the short answer is that it’s pretty much impossible for a Canadian to move to America “just because they want to” and the converse is also true.
Googling “emigrating to Canada” gave this link as the first match. It has all of the FAQs, forms and requirements for emigrating to Canada.
Are you asking for me to adopt you? 'Cause if you are, you should stop beating around the bush.
From the next page on that CIC site in my earlier link:
In light of that map, it’s rather astonishing that Alberta is about to single-handedly elect a Conservative majority. :rolleyes:
Alec Baldwin was another.
Just chiming in as a dual: born and raised in the US, with an American father; I moved to Canada just because I wanted to (sorry, Martin Hyde) with the aid of my heretofore unused dual citizenship. I only mention it here because that wouldn’t show up in Northern Piper’s statistics, and I’m pretty sure my situation not unique. I’m equally sure that despite the fact that I’m a Canadian on paper, actual born-and-raised Canadians would consider me an American. I don’t even know how to play hockey!
I also imported a Briton, who will show up in the stats. As a UK (=Commonwealth) citizen with a graduate degree, he qualified for immigration on his own merits, but sponsoring him family class saved a great deal of time and expense for us.
This was unnecessarily snarky, and you’re right, John Mace. I let my irritation at Republicans get the better of me and that has no place in this thread.
Huh. Just for grins I just took the online test. Scored a 92/100 (minimum score for consideration is 67). Would have been 100 except I don’t speak French.
Nice to know I have an out if things get messy here…