Affordable Health Care: Federal Immigration

Immigration Minister Dept: The U.S. jobless rate is 9.1 per cent while Canada s comparable rate adjusted to U.S. concepts is just 6.3 per cent, statistics released last week show, according to Globe and Mail. He sees several shifts Canadians who married Americans and live in the U.S. are now returning to Canada because of better job prospects in professional areas like law and finance. And more Americans, from the Northeast and California in particular, are setting their sights on Canada for its work opportunities and other factors such as affordable health care, a stronger banking system and stable housing market and on one side of the border, 14 million Americans are out of work the equivalent of more than 40 per cent of Canada s population. On the other side, some employers particularly in Alberta s oil sector say they can t find enough skilled workers, prompting the country s federal immigration minister to publicly muse last month on how to admit more skilled Americans. It s reverse brain drain, says Toronto-based immigration lawyer Sergio Karas. There are a lot of disgruntled people who say America is letting me down. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.