The American Dream needs to be redefined.

Coming out of the pandemic, perhaps ever more of them will follow in Greg’s footsteps and find the American Dream in Canada.

Canada is a policy lab for experiments in reducing inequality.

in social mobility: Almost 20 per cent of Americans are born below the poverty line, a figure that’s less than 10 per cent in Canada.

Today more than one million Americans live in Canada, and their numbers are rising.

What Canada is also more clear about than America is its commitment to systematic mass migration and assimilation.

convulses over immigration policy, Canada has far fewer qualms.

Canada has entered the immigration big leagues, setting a clear target of 400,000 migrants annually to add to its 38 million population – a far higher annual percentage than the U.S?

Canada’s “Century Initiative” openly aspires to grow the population to 100 million – at which point its population will likely surpass that of Russia.

One-fifth of Canada’s current population is immigrants, who account for most – and soon all – of its population growth, especially South Asians and Chinese.

If Canada continues this high immigration trajectory, by 2036 half the country’s population will be foreign-born or have at least one immigrant parent.

The number of annual Indian immigrants to Canada more than doubled between 2016 and 2019, to nearly 90,000, more than migrated to the U.S.

Like America, Canada has a large Eastern European diaspora, and as those homelands continue to depopulate while unemployment remains high, many of the jobless could skip across the Atlantic to join their relatives.

Every March and April I get antsy e-mails and phone calls from friends in London, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore whose children have just been admitted to numerous fill-in-the-blank universities in America, Canada, Britain and elsewhere.

To cope with its growing population and to prevent an anti-immigration backlash, Canada needs to build far more residential communities, schools and hospitals.

Canada needs a more robust coast-to-coast rail network for commodities and construction materials.

These efforts would be part of a strategy to predesign Canada for a world of accelerating climate change rather than being caught off guard by it – something that is clearly, and unfortunately, the case in most of America.

Some suggest that Canada choose the path of “zero growth”: keep the population low, stabilize emissions and focus on domestic social concerns.

This could be done without returning to the boring low-immigration society it used to be – or abandoning the path of the high-immigrant society the world needs it to be