Here’s a roundup of recent news about Canada immi­gra­tion, relo­ca­tion, and other top­ics of inter­est to new Canadians:

More than one-​​third of afflu­ent Canadians were born out­side the coun­try: In “Bootstrapping the Good Life,” BC Business reports on ways that immi­grants have joined the ranks of the wealthy.

Over 50 per­cent of China’s rich are con­sid­er­ing immi­gra­tion: The Wall Street Journal reports that “half of the country’s rich­est cit­i­zens have con­sid­ered invest­ment immi­gra­tion” as a way of secur­ing their wealth. And accord­ing to the China Daily, most Chinese immi­grant investors go to Canada, the U.S., or Australia. In Canada, you can apply for per­ma­nent res­i­dent sta­tus as an investor if you have a min­i­mum net worth of CDN $1.6 mil­lion and you can make an $800,000 invest­ment in Canada.

Australians con­tinue to flock to Whistler for jobs, says “Welcome to Little Australia” in the Sydney Morning Herald, which reports that:

In the past two years Australians have accounted for a stag­ger­ing 34 per cent of Whistler-Blackcomb’s work­force.

The British are com­ing to Canada, too: “Canada…offers the best qual­ity of life for Britons abroad,” the Telegraph reports in their recent arti­cle, “Expats say Canada is best place to live.”

For sev­eral years in a row, Canada has been voted the world’s friend­liest coun­try for expats, too, accord­ing to Forbes​.com.

Perhaps one other rea­son why so many immi­grants set­tle in Canada is that Canadians are among the hap­pi­est peo­ple in the world: According to a Gallup “Global Well-​​being Survey,” Canadians are sec­ond only to the Danish as the world’s hap­pi­est people!

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