Donald Trump says Canada has too many immigrants, but the math doesn’t add up

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) TOI correspondent from Washington: MAGA supremo Donald Trump looked north on Wednesday morning and discovered that Canada has too many immigrants.Canadians might look south and discover something to contest: Although Canada takes in more immigrants per capita, the US takes in three times as many legal immigrants – and both countries seem particularly fond of Indians, the Asian type, who rank #1 in Canada and #2 in the US in legal immigration inflow.“Canada is destroying itself by allowing millions and millions of people into the Country, essentially unchecked and unvetted,” Trump declared in one of his customary social media outbursts, hours after railing that the United Nations was ceaselessly promoting mass migration that was destroying Western cultural heritage.He warned that immigrants to Canada were “causing problems that will soon be too big to handle,” attributing it to a “Liberal takeover” that would “end very badly.”There is, however, a small problem with the arithmetic, which is not exactly an American strength (Canada ranks substantially above the US in maths scores determined by the OECD’s PISA tests).Ottawa doe...