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Canadian government, not to mention immigration lawyers, will step up their efforts to entice and help Americans to move north of the border Canada Immigration’s website crashed around 10:30 p.m. ET last night. While no official explanation has been given for the crash, the logical inference is it was caused by too many Americans going to the site to look for a place to flee to after a Donald Trump victory. The outage occurred around the same time it became clear Trump was going to become the 45th president of the United States. While the ballots were still being counted,...

All those Chinese citizens, who were eagerly waiting to come to Canada and were eyeing for visas, may now consider suing the Canadian government. After an abrupt termination of Immigrant Investor Program (IIP) in February, Chinese citizens were returned their fees or we would call it that their roads were blocked to Canada! So, after scrapping IIP in February with more than 65,000 people waiting for visas, we may witness a good chunk of affected citizens suing the government.

As the curtain fell on 2012, and America’s implacably inane “fiscal cliff” melodrama played out, all was symbolism and posturing. Following the last minute deal, the President led the nation in New Year’s revelry with a press conference that was a frenzied verbal caricature of the Republican opposition. Regular readers will recall my past Jeremiads about the unfeasible condition of American public debt: an annual federal deficit of almost 10% of GDP, largely paid for through a fraudulent shell game in which the Federal Reserve purports to buy its parent’s (the U.S. Treasury) bonds by the cyber-issuance of notes, compounded...