What stability in Canada? Government maybe, but many jobs require 10 years citizen ship and billingual in French and English (not Engrish). And I’ll be dammed if they give an immigrant a government job before a citizen.

The private sector here is more volatile than an mixture of vinegar and baking soda. Labour is too expensize and taxes too high to be able to manufacture anything… and I mean anything that’s why we have a declining private sector. The only good jobs are doctors, optometrist, teachers and government paper pushers because they are backed by some of the most powerful unions.

House prices are increasing at the pace of an olympic 100m gold medalist.

Homes are approaching 600,000$ on average in less costly cities. Don’t get me started on Toronto (8th most expensive city and Montreal, the 9th most expensive city in the world in 2010).
Everything is pricier here! It’s over 11$ for sub-way here, for example. A hamburger combo at a cheap place comes close to 10$. A nicer lunch in a city will cost you half your days pay.

Jobs here suck. We are service oriented because of our socialist government that is out-growing the other industries 10-1 thanks to socialist views that keep re-electing egotistical and useless members of parliament that vote themselves raises every year.

We need a Tea Party in Canada!! To counter the our monstruous government that is crippling private industry.

Our government hates private sector so much that when companies were going bankrupt it bought out all the real-estate in the city for a fraction of the price just so it could grow itself larger. People that lost out due to the bankruptcies have no retirement and no medical coverage and the government did nothing despite protests.

Meanwhile, crime is on the rise and we don’t do anything about it. Unprecendented numbers of homocides are occuring despite the fact that police make over 110,000$ each.

Private sector salaries are meanial in comparison. You will be forced to work 14 hours a day and commute 5 hours a day until you break down. Sound like a 3rd world country?

What’s also interesting to me is the other countries on the map. Lots of Europe, which along with the US & Canada are comfortable, developed and affluent places so they make sense. But what about Russia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Japan? Each must have some specific group interested in being there — Observant Muslims for Saudi? Other Sub-Saharan Africans for S. Africa? Who for Russia which is more or less collapsing, or Japan which notoriously doesn’t like immigrants?

Canada’s population is around 1/10th the size of the US, slightly smaller than California. A million spread out immigrants would hardly be noticed in the US, but would have a huge impact in Canada which is not only smaller in population but most of it is clustered within 100 miles of the US border.

They may be an anomaly, but my son-in-law’s educated Indian parents went to Canada which was easier to immigrate to as a way station to getting into the US.