I don't there really exists a notion of 'Send Us Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning To Be Free' Do u really believe that it's the poor and oppressed that make it to canada? (i'd say) a fraction of people refugee them are genuine refugees, rest are well off in wherever they come making false stories to eligible for a refugee status. Take tibetean refugees in Canada for instance, most are upper class people first generation tibetean from nepal. Even nepalese refugess that claim to be victims of maoist conflict to apply for a canadian residency, are they poor and oppressed? Surely, refugees are reaping the harvest of canada's laxed civil liberty values not the immigrant.. As for immigrants living on EI goes, i would't say they are the ones cheating the government for unemployment insurance. EI in canada is based upon several factors - number of insurable hours worked, the rate of unemployment and where you live. If you look at your pay slip, you've been paying for employment insurance ever since you recieved your fisrt pay check. If i have worked for considerable number of hours and paid my insurance against unemployment every pay check, why wouldn't i use my insurance when i lose my job? Besides, the idea of living on employment insurance isn't appealing to immigrants. firstly, because with EI, you can only only meet the ends meet, if immigrants wanted to live such a miserable life in canada, they would have never come, they have good bank balance to qualify as an immigrant. If you're an immigration trying to cheat the government by living on EI and working under the table, that's purely a crime, you can get jailed for fraud. by the, prem ji, canada's not going down t the bottom in the other 5 years, if you didn't know canada is one of the richest resource country in the world, which means that we have enough oil to last for another 10 years if the oil reserves would dry up right now. With recent boom in the asian markets, thje deamnd of oil rising faster than predicted along with its prices soaring, think about who might benefit......and america is not going to go down either in 10 15 years, the asian dragons only mass produces, they don't invent new ideas.. that's the job of america to do and make money out it....