Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Yes - evidence: the population of Canada is highly clustered around the border. I have hunch they would bolt the second the border was opened. Fabio On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote: Question: If there were free migration between the U.S. and Canada, would Canada lose a lot of

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Check out: http://atlas.gc.cas/site/english/maps/peopleandsociety/population/density It's a map of Canadian population density. Highest density around the great lake and the west coast. Otherwise, just a bunch of wawas up there. Fabio On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote: Can any Canada

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Rodney F Weiher
Maybe look at migration of the Northern tier US states and put in a climate variable. Except for those getting out of the concentration camps and leaving the economically unsustainable post-communist communities, I wonder how strong the climate variable is in Russian migration. Casual

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Bryan Caplan
Can any Canada experts weigh in? That includes all Canadians. Eric? fabio guillermo rojas wrote: Yes - evidence: the population of Canada is highly clustered around the border. I have hunch they would bolt the second the border was opened. Fabio On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote:

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Christopher Auld
Well, for professionals under NAFTA there already is more or less free migration. My casual impression is that most migration which does actually occur is retirement to certain areas in the southern US (snowbirds). Further immigration leniency would be unlikely to have large effects. Recall

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Eric Crampton
Mass migration would be incredibly unlikely in the short term. Too much Canadian nationalism. Longer term, though, increasing migration would put pressure on the Canadian govt to adopt more sensible policies to reduce outflow. At least that would be my guess. There are huge regional

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Shadowgold
In a message dated 4/8/2004 3:34:39 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Question: If there were free migration between the U.S. and Canada,would Canada lose a lot of population to California, Florida, and othermore desirable locations?In fact we might expand the rationale to

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2004-04-08, Bryan Caplan uttered: Question: If there were free migration between the U.S. and Canada, would Canada lose a lot of population to California, Florida, and other more desirable locations? In fact we might expand the rationale to something I once asked: in the event totally free