Я живу в Монреале и в моей семье 4 культуры и 3 языка...
"Канадец" это очень включительный термин. По-моему в Канаде (сравнивая) с УСА очень легко почуствовать себя дома из-за diversity -
в Торонто более 50% жителей are foreign-born, в Монреале почти все говорят с акцентом на одном из языков, Ванкувер...большая Азиатская Коммюнинти...
"We" (foreign-born) даже представлены в Парламенте гораздо лучше чем Американские иммигранты.
Irene Bloemraad
Becoming a Citizen:
Since the early 1970s, Canada and the United States have diverged on all three indicators. In Canada, the proportion of citizens among the foreign-born population increased from 60 percent in 1971 to 72 percent in 2001. In contrast, U.S. citizenship level declined over the last three decades of the 20th century to stand at 38 percent in 2004. As for political representation, in 2000, less than two percent of the members of the U.S. Congress (compared with 11 percent of the U.S. population) were foreign-born. In 2002, 15 percent of the members of Canada's House of Commons (compared with 19 percent of the Canadian population) were foreign-born.
Ксати для тех кто не знает, Канада всегда ranked выше US по "уровню жизни" by ООН. Канада была названа 10 раз лучшей страной в мире за последние 20 лет:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is the measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to determine and indicate whether a country is a developed, developing, or underdeveloped country and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life.
Ну а за дешевым телеком можно и в Штаты сгонять если желание есть.