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Canada, as almost every poster affirms, is hell-bent to become as socialist as the Europeans.

How unlike the U.S., whose Welfare State has been dismantled and whose public sector employees provide good service for modest salaries, unlike those insane Frenchman shivering in hospital line-ups up North!

Yes, Canada's deluded citizens actually take pride in our psychotic Medicare monopoly, whereas Americans see through the Ponzi-like charade of Social Security with a Thatcherite eye.

Definitely no socialism in the U.S.

No siree Bob!

I have lived and worked in both countries. At the present time I dislike what Canadians have become however, and prefer to remain in the United States, a land which I find much more forgiving and realistic than the "superior" Canadians.

Canadians seem to identify themselves as I have said so many times as NOT AMERICAN, and therefore have not only shed their quasi British, Francophile identities (well some have), but all things relating to the North American continent which may identify them as Yankee Doodles. What a sad commentary. To NOT BE SOMETHING IN ORDER TO 'BE'.

It is a difficult statement for me to make as I hoped to be able to maintain an equal feeling of belonging to both countries, but it is not possible these days.

People must find what they wish in life, being offered by both countries. We will all go where we experience the most comfort in lifestyle and ideological preference.

As for the author of the article in Seattle, I think she is having a bit of a honeymoon "waiting for her Pink (Green) Card" and wonder how she was able to move and find work in Seattle when she was not officially an "Alien".

I was not allowed to work until that card was firmly in my wallet. Perhaps had I thought it would "speed things up", I too, would have created a glowing testimony of instant gratification for my newly adopted land to publish in my local paper. Somehow I find her a tad manipulative.