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If you want to say that you're[Canada] doing a better job than Europe, please prove, or at least make likely, that the Canadian migrants are similar to the migrants in Europe.

The article also doesn't define the relation between migrant and refugee. If you're cherrypicking migrants, which I believe Canada is doing, you'll have a easier job at integration.

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There's also some self-selection for highly motivated individuals moving all the way to Canada. And a person that can afford to move that far is going to have a better starting point than most of the people walking or floating into the EU.

The gov cherry picked whole family refugees from Jordan, who left the fighting early in the civil war. They screened them for health problems, criminal records, education, ect. It's not masses of N African migrants flooding in through lawless Libya.

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