Just to make clear, I wasn't disputing your point. It was truly curiosity.

I suspect, with no data to back me up, that there are more 'economic migrants' coming south but clearly intending to return to Canada; I'm not sure it's as true in the opposite direction.

(Could be the bias of the Cape Breton diaspora...)

Since I don't "sound Canadian" if I stay away from "out" and "about," people here who don't realize where I was born will say the most unthinking things.

One person, a political conservative, maintained vehemently that Canada's Liberals are "a right-of-center party, like the American Republicans."

To those who yap about Canada becoming the fifty-first state, I ignore the fact that none of them are interested, then offer the notion that each province and territory would of course become a state, forming the fifty-first through sixty-third states.

Among other things, that'd put 26 Canadians into the U. S. Senate, a fifth of the new total.

Naturally, the 51st-ers consider my idea preposterous.