Who doesn't get into Canada

Hey guys,

I know we've come up with most of our survey questions, but I came across this article in Macleans that relates to our topic quite nicely. It's basically about how the Canadian government's been giving preferential treatment to immigrant applicants from South Asia and China over Latin America and the Caribbean because second-generation youth from China and South Asia are better educated. Anyways the article ends with a pretty provocative question: Do some countries offer better immigrants than others?

I think the question is really interesting. What you guys think?

Here's a link to the article if anyone wants to take a gander: http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/06/17/who-doesnt-get-into-canada/

Hi Amrit,

   It's a very interesting topic that you have brought up. I think the country profiling that some people accused the government of is rather vague. It might simply be that more qualified applicants are from Asian countries simply because there are so many of them in terms of number and so much of these people are either well educated or highly experienced in businesses. This could be merely a ratio problem instead of the admission officials being secretly doing country profiling. The Jessica Thomas case is very unfortunate, but it might be affected by having so many cases of sham marriages among new immigrants rather than being discriminated by her and her husband's ethnicity. Any alternative views?