It was good also to see that a progressive place like Canada also values immigration on diversity/multiculturalism grounds.
Americans don't "procreate enough" either (though more than Canadians :) ), but the national attitude towards immigration is much different. We value past waves of immigration as a part of who we are, but current immigration has
always (from the Irish and Germans, to the Italians and Polish, to the Chinese and Japanese, and now to Hispanics) been resisted by those who preceded them.
Canadians seem to be some of the few people who value
current immigrants. Heck,
14% (42 of 307) of members of Parliament are immigrants. I'm not sure the US has any congress people who are foreign born.
"The total fertility rate in the United States estimated for 2009 is 2.01 children per woman, which is below the replacement fertility rate of approximately 2.1."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States(Canada's) "Total fertility rate: 1.58 children born/woman (2009 est.)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada