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by lbrito 44 days ago
Yes, Canada gets many immigrants from the most populous country in the world (1M Indians in 2024) - should that be surprising?

It also gets immigrants from the China (772k), UK (427k), Germany, France (100k each). Saying its all stick and all those people are desperate is an insane take.

Believe it or not, not every person in this planet wants to move to the US.
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joe_mamba 44 days ago
>UK (427k), Germany, France (100k each).

Over what period of time?

>Believe it or not, not every person in this planet wants to move to the US.

No, but if emigrating to the US was just as easy as to Canada, very few would go there over the US. Similar with EU. Ambitious people don't like being lowballed.

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lbrito 44 days ago
Those figures I cited were a snapshot from 2024 (https://ourworldindata.org/migration) Data is cumulative of course. I couldn't find a yearly breakdown on statcan. Doesn't change my argument though.

>if emigrating to the US was just as easy as to Canada, very few would go there over the US.

Immigrating to the US, not emigrating. People emigrate from a place and immigrate to another.

And the thing about hypotheticals is you can't prove them. That's just your opinion.

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joe_mamba 44 days ago
>And the thing about hypotheticals is you can't prove them.

You can prove it by how many canadians move to work in the US versus how many Americans move to work in Canada. This discrepancy will scale if immigration barriers to the two countries would be the same, but since they're not we have to extrapolate based on other data.

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