Math? Today, why should a Canadian child invest time in education only to face stiff competition with 350,000 educated immigrants each year?

Ready-made highly educated immigrant has guided American investment in Education for 100 years. While Japan stresses elementary education, Europe skill based vocational training, Americans preferred to channel most funds to universities, to produce managers for the plethora of  educated immigrants they cheaply get. All they had to do was to destabilize a region, and all its elite pours in.

This model is now wearing thin. With US $20 trillion in debt and weak economy, the educated Indians, Chinese, and Africans have better possibilities outside the West. 

Can we afford the US model? We can barely absorb the immigrants we get. A current joke in GTA is that for fast, cheap, and expert medical advice, call a cab, as most of the drivers are newly arrived MDs unable to get into our healthcare system, as our own best head to the US to mint money.