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My own country, Canada, seems to be doing a good job, and I'm not sure but I think we have even higher immigration rates than Europe or the United States and we
by vivekd 10y ago
My own country, Canada, seems to be doing a good job, and I'm not sure but I think we have even higher immigration rates than Europe or the United States and we're still a fairly liberal, progressive and integrated society. I think our secret is selective immigration, we are much more selective than Europe in regards to who we let into the country and we don't have the illegal immigration issue on the scale that America does.
I think the trick to dealing with immigration is controlling for "which immigrants" which might be easier said than done if you are place like America or Europe with a bunch of people stampeding at your boarders wanting in.
- drawnwren 10y agoI would be very surprised if total (legal and illegal) Canadian immigration is anywhere close to US or Europe. Do you have any numbers to back this claim?
- vivekd 10y agoimmigration "rates"
- drawnwren 10y agoIn mathematics, a rate is the ratio between two related quantities.[1] If the denominator of the ratio is expressed as a single unit of one of these quantities, and if it is assumed that this quantity can be changed systematically (i.e., is an independent variable), then the numerator of the ratio expresses the corresponding rate of change in the other (dependent) variable. People/year? People/country? Per capita? Just putting quotes around a word doesn't clear anything up.
- muninn_ 10y agoControlling for immigrants, hmm. Doesn't sound like a popular idea in europe or in the US in democratic circles.
- akjainaj 10y agoOf course if you cherry pick your immigrants, you can claim immigrants are not problematic. If all your immigrants turned into Muslim refugees overnight, what would happen? I'm sure you guess it.
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- majewsky 10y agoCanada is in a comfortable position: It might be tenable to get from the Middle East or North Africa to Europe in a raft, but not to Canada (or the US, for that matter).