Martin Joseph:
“Canada has an Express Entry Program where it has relaxed immigration for skilled workers, while at the same time it has more rigorous criteria for unskilled workers.
“This means that if you are uneducated and unskilled, you flock to the US (because it’s easy to get in there and stay) and if you are educated and skilled and are a professional, you go to Canada.
“Which tells me the Canadians have it right, but need to stop being so damn smug about how decent they are about everything. It’s easy to tout your immigration and multiculturalism when you are bringing in the cream of the crop. Professionals want to assimilate. They want to get their kids educated. They want to learn the local languages.
“No one is accusing the US of bringing in the world’s cream of the crop via its immigration policies.”
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