JohnG@lt wrote:
Eh, well the major difference between Canada and us when it comes to attracting immigrants is the fact that they have oil. Most of that immigrant labor ends up in places like Alberta working on the oil fields and making high wages. When the alternative is coming to America and working menial manual labor jobs there's really no comparison. Canada just had more natural resources than it could tap due to the fact no one wants to live in sub-arctic temperatures if they have a choice. That's being corrected now and they'll soon match their needs for labor in the resource extraction industries, wages will drop as the labor supply overwhelms demand and the immigration will slow. Canada's boom is just a market correction, not an endorsement of their 'superior lifestyle' or system
Well, think of it like this... Immigration is a market unto itself... so if America reaches the top of the list for immigrants per capita, that's also not a declaration of having the most desirable country to move to either....
All this sort of stuff means is that, at the present moment, the country at the top is the most desirable to move to.
So, currently, Canada is. As you implied, America might be that country in a few years.