Americans Moving To Canada In Record Numbers
My first reaction to this was: “Good. Let the Canadians pay for their health care.”
The number of Americans admitted to Canada last year reached a 30-year high, with a 20 per cent increase over the previous year and nearly double the number that arrived in 2000.
The results of a survey, conducted by the Association for Canadian Studies, also revealed that the so-called “brain drain” of Canada appears to be narrowing.
The survey found that 10,942 Americans came to Canada in 2006, compared to just over 9,262 in 2005. In 2000, 5,828 came to the country.
Sounds like a bad thing for America, initially, except when you consider this from later in the article:
While twice as many Canadians went to the States than Americans came to Canada, that ratio diminished between 2005 and 2006.
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.
So Canada is actually losing people to the US.
It’d be interesting to know how many of them are fleeing Canada’s high taxes and slow, inefficient national health care system. Because I’m willing to bet it’s quite a lot.
