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2,100 Jamaicans migrate from Jamaica to Canada each year for the past 10 years.
But statistics from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) show that a total of 21,265 Jamaicans have traded the black, green and gold for the red-and-white maple-leaf flag between 2002 and 2011. This number averages about 2,126 Jamaicans annually, and represents only a fraction of the number of locales who send applications to the CIC yearly for permanent residency in underpopulated Canada, which shares border with the United States and regarded year after year as one of Earth's best places to live.
"It is the new hotspot in terms of destination, but it is oversubscribed in terms of people wanting to live there," Canadian education specialist Antonn Brown told the Jamaica Observer.
"It has one of the best economies in the world and ties with Norway for the best standard of living, which are major pulls for Jamaicans, especially with what is happening here," explained Brown, an attorney who since 2009 has been helping Jamaicans to gain admission to schools in Canada.
"But unlike the United States where migration revolves around family, Canada is more about education and economic migration and when you look at the type of qualifying skills most Jamaicans would not qualify," he added.
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But statistics from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) show that a total of 21,265 Jamaicans have traded the black, green and gold for the red-and-white maple-leaf flag between 2002 and 2011. This number averages about 2,126 Jamaicans annually, and represents only a fraction of the number of locales who send applications to the CIC yearly for permanent residency in underpopulated Canada, which shares border with the United States and regarded year after year as one of Earth's best places to live.
"It is the new hotspot in terms of destination, but it is oversubscribed in terms of people wanting to live there," Canadian education specialist Antonn Brown told the Jamaica Observer.
"It has one of the best economies in the world and ties with Norway for the best standard of living, which are major pulls for Jamaicans, especially with what is happening here," explained Brown, an attorney who since 2009 has been helping Jamaicans to gain admission to schools in Canada.
"But unlike the United States where migration revolves around family, Canada is more about education and economic migration and when you look at the type of qualifying skills most Jamaicans would not qualify," he added.
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Obviously I did not contribute to Jamaica's brain drain. 
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