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If I wanted to write something original, I would have done so. There was a point to the above comment, see if you can find it.

   

Re Buchanan - Its too bad he said a lot of stupid things about Canada because in other ways he is intelligent and a person with integrity - He has stood up against the war and imperialism. He is a real conservative unlike the neoconazi scum who have taken over the USA and are running it into the ground. I say this as somone who is not a conservative...

   

Robert Fisher, I agree. Some Canadians are just naive and ignorant to world issues. It makes me angry to see some people not understanding a situation and then express their feelings either positively or negatively.

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Based on the kinds of comments coming from these so-called journalists (liars of course is a better word), we may be able to take this station to court and get it banned because it violates our hate laws.

   

Nice long post about Albright, Jerry Jay. However, *completely* off topic. Deleted, please repost it as a story if you would like to discuss "firsts".

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Jesse

   

I just sent an email to Coulter telling her she'll see how insignificant Canada is when we shut off the oil and natural gas shipments.

She seems to have a real hate for this country, I guess she envies the good life up here.

   

Exactly...

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"Those who would sacrifice a little Liberty for more Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin

   

Incidentally, on the National the other night it was reported that more than twice as many Canadian emigrate to the U.S. each year as depart Jesusland to embrace socialism and pacifism. The good life indeed.

   

KWL,

Very good point indeed! It is not a widely publicized fact to the average American that Canada is America's single, largest energy supplier.

I'd like to see the PM, Paul Martin, put the squeeze on Bush and his administration by witholding energy supplies until softwood lumber and canadian beef are resolved.

   

UN most liveable countries: Hmmm, where is Canada, and where is the US? Socialist Norway and Sweden are 1 and 2 respectively. I guess if pacifism means oppostions to unilateral wars based on lies then sign me up. I love how we are called socialists in Canada just because we have universal health care.

Most Livable Countries, 2004
1. Norway 16. France
2. Sweden 17. Denmark
3. Australia 18. New Zealand
4. Canada 19. Germany
5. Netherlands 20. Spain
6. Belgium 21. Italy
7. Iceland 22. Israel
8. United States 23. Greece
9. Japan 24. Singapore
10. Ireland 25. Portugal
11. Switzerland 26. Slovenia
12. United Kingdom 27. Korea, South
13. Finland 28. Barbados
14. Austria 29. Cyprus
15. Luxembourg 30. Malta

   

Or maybe Coulter saw this, the Mercer index and is still smarting no US cities in the top ten but Vancouver is number three.

Rank
City
Country
Index


1
ZURICH
Switzerland
106.5



2
GENEVA
Switzerland
106.5


3
VANCOUVER
Canada
106


3
VIENNA
Austria
106


5
AUCKLAND
New Zealand
105


5
BERN
Switzerland
105


5
COPENHAGEN
Denmark
105


5
FRANKFURT
Germany
105


5
SYDNEY
Australia
105


10
AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands
104.5


10
MUNICH
Germany
104.5

   

So why are twice as many Canadians coming south as there are Americans going north?

   

Exactly how many Canadians are moving south each year? Are they taking into consideration students who move there temporarily, or other temporary workers? Either way, the so called brain drain is a myth and the numbers are pretty insignificant.

Funny, here in Vancouver I have seen an unusually large number of American licence plates recently. I guess word is getting out down south Canada is a great place.

   

Why twice as many Canadians go south? Because the US has to seek their top brains elsewhere.

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Dave Ruston

   

Well, it's not always cool to drag out an academic paper in a discussion forum, but I thought this was a well thought-out experimental paper using some good data. A good portion of the migration has to do with the progressive tax structure in Canada relative to the US. Most of the people going to the US are high-income earners. The study found, however, that the tax structure was not the main consideration for the highest of these earners, but it did rank. The study hypothesizes, but does not test, that the other consideration is the "ability premium". <br />
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I think that publicly funded education might be the key. If I can get a degree in Canada using the same textbooks for 20,000 Canadian (ignoring foregone income), whereas an American has to pay 80,000 (ignoring foregone income, which is higher) then, at the same US salary, my education is paying a higher return. By corrolary, I might not have to move to the US to get the _same_ percentage return, which is the goal. Increasing the cost of education would likely drive more people to the US. <br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.econ.umn.edu/~rkhleung/research/migration40.pdf">http://www.econ.umn.edu/~rkhleung/research/migration40.pdf</a> <br />
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"We find that tax harmonization will lead to a significant decline in migration among the upper half of the wage distribution. The intuition is that the US ability premium is small for those workers in the 55th to 70th percentile <br />
of the wage distribution (see Figure 9). However, there remains significant migration among those in the top quintile. The tax differential is the economic <br />
motive driving the migration of workers in the 25th to 50th percentile." <br />
<br />
.... <br />
<br />
<br />
"We find that Canada’s tax code accounts for 42 percent of the migration to the US. Among the top quintile of workers, tax differentials between Canada and the US can only account for 33 of the observed migration. This result highlights the limited ability of the Canadian government <br />
to retain high-ability workers through tax policy alone."

   

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