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Another interesting statistic would be the number of Americans who have moved into Canada that are anti-war, anti-Bush.  After all there were many liberals that promised to leave our country if Bush was reelected.

Being liberal is never having to admit you’re wrong

I wonder how many news sources will report the first statistic while glossing over and ignoring the 2nd?

"The survey found that 10,942 Americans came to Canada in 2006”

Survey?...I know there are only, like, 23,000 Canadians but that’s still a lot of surveying seeing they are spread over a pretty big place.

Crazy Canadians.

I can’t say for sure if it was a reason in their leaving, but my neighbors here in Plymouth, MA are Canadian and for the record, they say the Canadian health care system SUCKS.

I can’t say for sure if it was a reason in their leaving, but my neighbors here in Plymouth, MA are Canadian and for the record, they say the Canadian health care system SUCKS.

I’ve heard the same thing from my Canadian neighbors along the North Dakota border as well.  A lot of them really don’t like it.

In 2006, 23,913 Canadians went to the U.S., resulting in a net loss of 12,971 to Canada when compared to the Americans coming to Canada.

OK, there are 33M Canadians.  There are 300M Americans.  Of a country 1/10th the size of America, roughly double the number of people in Canada move to the US than US move to Canada.  Let’s combine the two figures.  Reality is that a Canadian is 20x more likely to move to the US than a US citizen to move to Canada.

20x MORE LIKELY.

Is that what we are saying?  So what, these stats mean that now it is 20x more likely instead of say 30x more likely in 2000?

Big effing deal.  It still speaks volumes about Canada and the media will probably not report that.  Am I missing something?

It’d be interesting to know how many of them are fleeing Canada’s high taxes and slow, inefficient national health care system.

Could be cause it sure isn’t the lure of that fine American beer.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear
*Edmund Burke*

Could be cause it sure isn’t the lure of that fine American beer.

I think it aboot all the Hockey teams moving to the US, eh.

Could be cause it sure isn’t the lure of that fine American beer.

Just because you Canadians need stronger drinks to make your women look prettier is no reason to run-down American beer.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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