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An analysis of immigration statistics done by the Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies showed the number of Americans who moved to Canada in 2006 hit a 30-year high, almost double the number who moved north in 2000 when Bush was elected for a first term as U.S. president.

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The 2006 figure marks the first time there have been more than 10,000 American migrants to Canada since 1981 and was the highest number since 1977.

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Ontario – particularly the GTA region – was the destination of more than half of the U.S. migrants, far outpacing British Columbia and Quebec, the second and third most popular destinations.

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Originally posted by Sven:
Well, that's about 1 out of every 30,000 Americans. That's hardly a rush to Canada.

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Well, that equals about 33,000 out of 330 million Americans for 2006. I do call that a rush, and a huge loss for the USA, as 33,00 thousand highly educated, monied and skilled people is a significant one and that is only for 1 year.

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Originally posted by remind:
Well, that equals about 33,000 out of 330 million Americans for 2006. I do call that a rush, and a huge loss for the USA, as 33,00 thousand highly educated, monied and skilled people is a significant one and that is only for 1 year.

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According to the article, the number of Americans who immigrated to Canada from the USA was about 10,000 for the year (which means 0.0003% of the 300 million USA population immigrated to Canada or 1 out of 30,000 Americans).

Because, according to the article, slightly less than half of those 10,000 immigrants had a college degree (or higher), that means that slightly more than half of those 10,000 American immigrants only had a high school diploma (or less).

Of the roughly 5,000 people with college degrees, the article doesn’t say the percentage of them who have highly-sought-after technical degrees. But, let’s assume it’s all of them (i.e., 5,000 Americans with technical degrees migrated to Canada).

If that were the end of the story, I’m not sure I’d call a loss of 5,000 people with technical college degrees (or higher) a significant brain drain for a country with 300 million people. Something that is far more concerning to me is the fact that fewer high school students in the USA are going into math, science and other technical fields.

But, the article goes on to say that in that same year about 24,000 Canadians migrated to the USA (which is about 0.08% of the Canadian population or about 1 out of every 1,250 Canadians immigrated to the USA). Assuming that half of those immigrants have technical degrees, the USA picked up 12,000 people from Canada with technical degrees (or a net gain for the USA of 7,000 people with technical degrees).

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Originally posted by sgauvreau:
My wife will be one of our newest immigrants as of September 1st!

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