Positive net migration with another country occurs when your country receives more people from that country than the number of people who leave your country to live in the other country, and net migration would be the opposite.
In Canada’s case, they have a net positive migration with nearly every country in the world as there are more people moving to Canada from all the red highlighted countries than there are Canadians moving to the red highlighted countries. A major reason for this is because many of the red highlighted countries already have an existing diaspora living in Canada so others will gradually follow along to move to the Great White North.
The only countries that Canada has a negative net migration with are the United States and Australia, with just over 1 million Canadians living in the United States vs only 234k Americans living in Canada, and 50k Canadians living in Australia vs 42k Australians living in Canada. For the USA, many Canadians move to the USA for career-related or family-related purposes and for Australia, it is a country that offers very similar quality of life but with a much warmer climate.
Ewallye on
Stay away, we don’t need any more people. Unless they move to the northern areas.
FrankSonata on
Why Australia? The USA is understandable because it’s literally next door, but Australia is a billion miles away. Is Australia really the only country with a similar-enough quality of life to Canada that so many Canadians choose to move there? That’s really surprising. I’d have thought there’d be at least a few European countries that would also work, for instance.
Perhaps it’s also due to things like ease of immigration, lack of language barrier, and maybe even visibility–New Zealand has a very similar quality of life to Australia yet has net negative migration with Canada, possibly just because it just isn’t as close to the front of people’s minds as Australia.
Puzzleheaded_Iron406 on
Similar oil, gas, and mining economies
BIGepidural on
Its not 2021 anymore buddy.
TheDigitalPoint on
Pretty sure the U.S. no longer has positive net migration with Canada.
orioliseffect on
This is because while the average Canadian has a keen sense of latitude, they are unable to effectively sense changes in longitude.
The result is that Canadians, guided by their acute sense of magnetism, can effectively traverse the north-south boundary with the United States, but often tragically end up walking into the ocean when trying to navigate to other lands.
Australia, with its rich supply of iron ore, serves as a natural attraction point to most Canadians left accidentally wandering the oceans. Canadians can often be seen by locals emerging from the low tide when local magnetic cycles peak.
sailingtroy on
Peace, order and good government are attractive, it turns out.
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Sources:Â [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_immigration_statistics#2021_census](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_immigration_statistics#2021_census);Â [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_diaspora](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_diaspora);Â [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_origins_of_people_in_Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_origins_of_people_in_Canada)
Positive net migration with another country occurs when your country receives more people from that country than the number of people who leave your country to live in the other country, and net migration would be the opposite.
In Canada’s case, they have a net positive migration with nearly every country in the world as there are more people moving to Canada from all the red highlighted countries than there are Canadians moving to the red highlighted countries. A major reason for this is because many of the red highlighted countries already have an existing diaspora living in Canada so others will gradually follow along to move to the Great White North.
The only countries that Canada has a negative net migration with are the United States and Australia, with just over 1 million Canadians living in the United States vs only 234k Americans living in Canada, and 50k Canadians living in Australia vs 42k Australians living in Canada. For the USA, many Canadians move to the USA for career-related or family-related purposes and for Australia, it is a country that offers very similar quality of life but with a much warmer climate.
Stay away, we don’t need any more people. Unless they move to the northern areas.
Why Australia? The USA is understandable because it’s literally next door, but Australia is a billion miles away. Is Australia really the only country with a similar-enough quality of life to Canada that so many Canadians choose to move there? That’s really surprising. I’d have thought there’d be at least a few European countries that would also work, for instance.
Perhaps it’s also due to things like ease of immigration, lack of language barrier, and maybe even visibility–New Zealand has a very similar quality of life to Australia yet has net negative migration with Canada, possibly just because it just isn’t as close to the front of people’s minds as Australia.
Similar oil, gas, and mining economies
Its not 2021 anymore buddy.
Pretty sure the U.S. no longer has positive net migration with Canada.
This is because while the average Canadian has a keen sense of latitude, they are unable to effectively sense changes in longitude.
The result is that Canadians, guided by their acute sense of magnetism, can effectively traverse the north-south boundary with the United States, but often tragically end up walking into the ocean when trying to navigate to other lands.
Australia, with its rich supply of iron ore, serves as a natural attraction point to most Canadians left accidentally wandering the oceans. Canadians can often be seen by locals emerging from the low tide when local magnetic cycles peak.
Peace, order and good government are attractive, it turns out.