The stats indicate that emigration is up (from 5,828 in 2000 to 10,942 in 2006), with the implication that people are increasingly unhappy with the United States. And I give credit for ABC citing that immigration from Canada to the USA is still much higher (23,913 in 2006, down from 29,930 in 2005.)

But these figures are useless given that the populations of the two countries are nowhere close to similar. When you factor in those figures, it tells a much different story. Canadian population according to the CIA Factbook is 33.4M, compared to an American population of 301.1M. So Canadian population is outnumbered roughly 9 to 1. Applying those proportions to the ABC figures, that means that .0716% of the Canadian population emigrated to the USA in 2006, versus .0036% of the American population. Those figures tell a whole different story. Even as Canadians are outnumbered 9 to 1, they still have 219% more emigrants than immigrants to/from the US.

Given all the hype about "Sicko" and how the Canadian system is so much better than the United States, you would think that at a minimum American emigration would be at least comparable to the opposite case, but it's not. Many, many more Canadians would rather come here than vice versa. If Michael Moore saw 215,575 Americans emigrate to Canada we would surely have seen it in his film, since people vote with their feet. But of course he would not include the other side of the story in his film either.