Let me give you, my fellow Canadians, a little history lesson. From the late 1700's to the mid 1800's, the English murdered, starved and drove tens of thousands of Scots and Irish off their lands. In Scotland, it was called 'the clearances'. What it really was, was genocide, the kind only 'Great' Britain could do best.

Many of those emigres came to Canada - hungry, exhausted, sick, penniless, in great need. In Canada, especially in Hamilton and other areas of South West Ontario, those immigrants (who did NOT have an application pending) were sheltered, fed, healed and merged into our society. Today they make up an important back bone of the Canadian mosaic. If you have any doubts about the loyalty or gratitude they felt then all you have to do is research the history of the Irish and Scots guards in the first and second world wars. 
Those immigrants did not fare as well in the US. They were spit on, shunned, exploited, marginalized and ignored. Which type of Canadian are you?