Americans flock to Canada's immigration Web site

CANADA'S immigration web site has been taking some serious numbers of hits since George Bush won the US presidential election.

An immigration ministry spokesperson said that since the election visitors to the website had increased from 20,000 a day to more than 115,016.

Canada is one of the few major nations with a large scale immigration policy. Ottawa is seeking to attract between 220,000 and 240,000 newcomers next year, so they are saying the more the merrier.

The news has created some amusement in Canada where one commentator Thane Burnett of the Ottawa Sun newspaper pointed out to would be US immigrants that as Canadians they would have to learn to embrace and use all the products and culture of Americans, while bad-mouthing their way of life.

While the American right might be happy to say good bye to a few lily livered lefties, we think it is nothing to do with Bush. It is just that there is a deep psychological urge in the American psyche to be ruled by a Queen again and that the recent experiment in Republican democracy is causing them to regret being so nasty to George III in 1776. µ