outside of rimm. what else has canada brain given us.
It's not what they've given us, it's what they've given themselves. There's this..
query.nytimes.com
The influx of nearly 100,000 Asians over the last decade, many of them Chinese entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, has transformed the look and character of Canada's third-largest city and helped shield it from cold economic winds blowing across the rest of the country.
As a result of new Canadian immigration policies and worries in Hong Kong about absorption by China in 1997, Vancouver, which now counts 15 percent of its 1.5 million people as ethnic Chinese, has emerged as a bustling Pacific Rim finance and trading center.
It is a harbor city of gleaming towers, silvery hills and crisscrossing ferries, and already looks much like Hong Kong...
...Fearing for the future in Hong Kong under Communism, many of the immigrants have bought their right to live here. They have come under new Government programs offering "landed immigrant" status, which is almost as good as citizenship, to those who commit at least $250,000 or start businesses employing at least three people...
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Contrast that with the swarm of impoverished illegals coming to the US, clogging our schools and emergency rooms and cranking out "anchor babies"... |
