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In article <John_Driedger-0211951637510001@itc685.educ.ualberta.ca>,
   John_Driedger@itc.educ.ualberta.ca (John C. Driedger) wrote:
>In article <47aq4h$o3t@morgoth.sfu.ca>, schuck@sfu.ca (Bruce Schuck) wrote:
>
>> In article <DHB3FB.5z7.0.queen@torfree.net>,
>>    au999@torfree.net (Andrew T. Chow) wrote:
>> >Mike Hebert (hebert@cs.uregina.ca) wrote:
>> >: I disagree.  I would say that the skew in the figures represents the 
>> >: quotas set out by the immigration dept. that make it easier for people 
>> >: from eastern and southern countries to immigrate than people from 
western 
>> >: countries.
>> >
>> >I disagree.  Immigration Canada does not have quotas as you stated.  
>> 
>> Yes they do, but they call them targets or some other such euphamism.
>
>Since they don't seem to reach the number, it is more a target. Anything
>wrong with a target?
>
>The fact is, they get more applicants from eastern and southern countries.

If you know the target is set low...real low, of course less people
are going to bother applying.

But don't waste your time trying to tell me that millions of people
in the former communist countries wouldn't love a chance to emigrate
to Canada.

We could have picked up a lot of very talented scientists, engineers
etc. 

But noooooo. Canada wants 50,000 or more family reunification class
immigrants (or whatever the number is). People with little skills.
People whose only claim to fame is that they have a relative here.

What a waste of potentially great new immigrants.