Noah Smith and Professor Smith

Canada immigration: It only been a couple of weeks since Disney, that most iconic of American companies, moved to displace all its homegrown techies with low-cost foreign temporary workers, according to Rabble. But the company had to beat a hasty retreat in the face of an outpouring of criticism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Amid the deluge of commentary this story triggered about where America is headed, blogger and finance professor Noah Smith turned his eyes north and gave Canada a mighty shout-out in a column for Bloomberg, "Canada: Tomorrow Superpower." Professor Smith rightly pointed out that, among the attributes that will make any nation great in future, immigration policy is key. Canada immigration reforms have pivoted from family reunification to economic immigration, with a focus on new permanent residents who have high educational skills and/or high net worth. But in his haste to explain what right about Canada policies, he skipped over the part of the story where we've begun to ape what wrong about the American way: a growing reliance by business on temporary "guest" workers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.