Well done Canada, you're number 1!

Canada immigration is soaring at the moment and today Canada has been named as the country expats rated the most highly, the survey questioned 5,000 expats, a reasonable number, about the countries they had immigrated to and how they had turned out for them. The survey, carried out by a well-known high street bank, took into account all the usual varying factors, such as health-care, crime, lifestyle, education etcetera etcetera etcetera.

The results of the survey have come to me as no surprise and I haven’t even been to Canada. The pre-conception of Canada as a land of snow, bears and mounted police is one I think we all have, I blame the show where the guy talked to his husky and never took his hat off. In terms of immigration, Canada however is clearly ahead of the game. Some critics of the Canadian immigration system throw the same sort of accusations that the UK government are now having to contend with, this however does not seem to phase the country or the Canadian immigration minister, Jason Kenney. The fact that immigration into Canada was at 250,000 people last year says it all really, this coupled with the fact that Canada has an immigrant population of 20 per cent should be telling the rest of us what the expats in Canada already know.

Why isn’t everyone immigrating to Canada

So why aren’t we all packing up and moving to Canada then? Well, too many reasons to write down in fact, a large one being the requirements for a Canadian visa. As although much easier to emigrate to then say the US, still not straight-forward and not applicable to everyone. The conditions are pretty much universal across the western countries, to be simplistic – if you have a skill or experience that can be put to use in the country and grow the economy then they want you. It’s called economic growth and every country wants economic growth!

What makes it interesting is that there are still people that fit the requirements to move, yet don’t or have no interest in doing so. The survey in question asked expats from 50 different countries, so to be ranked as number one is a pretty definitive statement. From what I have read and been told Canada is an accepting and friendly place, and the cities are as multi-cultured as you are likely to find anywhere in the world – half of Toronto’s 2.5million population were born outside of the country. From the information coming into this office it is also one of the top countries people want to move to.

Canada, although popular with people in the know seems to be a secret the rest of the skilled workforce in the UK are happy to ignore. Perhaps we are all guilty of laziness and a complacency of living, forward slash surviving, where we constantly complain about our wages, and deride the government for not doing what they are supposed to, all the while laughing at those people moving to Canada where it always snows and you’re likely to be eaten by bears that can also talk.

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