CANADA: Yankee, Come Here!

"There is nobody we would rather have. The Americans fit right in." So says Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, and this week her department is backing its sentiments with action. Two Canadian information offices are opening in Los Angeles and Minneapolis to supplement existing offices in New York and Chicago. Their purpose: to offer all help "short of money" to desirable U.S. citizens interested in moving to Canada on a permanent basis.

Canada wants U.S. immigrants; last year's total of 10,846 puts the U.S. in fourth place as a source of new Canadian residents, behind Italy, Britain and...

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