We all are impacted: the former immigrants, new immigrants to be, the population in countries of the departees, and the receiving countries.

At stake is the present and the future of everybody in the underdeveloped and developed world, the well-being of you and me, our friends, family, and neighbors.

Why now? We all feel the tide of change coming over -we can be swept by it, or be prepared and ride the force of nature. We have a huge chance, and also a responsibility to be ready: with adequate and flexible socio-economical programs to support families within our borders, make an interesting business environment to keep the workforce in Canada (especially the highly educated one), meet the newcomers with adequate programs tailored to speed up the process of using their expertise and experience in areas we need them the most (e.g. medical field). This is to avoid the loss of their skills and to minimize the effect on the countries that educated them.  My reasoning is, if the professionals are successfully practicing, then some resources (pecuniary, but also in terms of services e.g. possibility to organize some programs to give back to the countries that they immigrated from) will reimburse to some level the countries that are losing these professionals. But it is not ethical or fair or economical or healthy for society, to rely heavily on immigration to replenish the continuously aging and thinning workforce in the developed democracies.

Furthermore, create synchronized programs in the countries that encourage and benefit from immigration, to compensate the less developed countries for the loss of workforce by ways of logistical and financial assistance in education for example. This way we avoid exploiting the socio-economical circumstances and deepening the gap between the developed and underdeveloped civilizations.