It is hard to see where Canada offers unfair inducements to educated people in poor countries. Immigration Minister Joseph Volpe announced pilot projects in the spring to entice more international students， but the decision to stay or return home is the student's. The streets， alas， are not paved with gold. Immigrants need to cover great distances， learn new languages and survive in a climate or social setting that may be very different from the ones they are accustomed to. Only a powerful inner need could take them that far. It is the same need —— the yearning to be free from war， or corruption， or poverty， or hopelessness —— that has driven the movement of peoples throughout history. （Roughly 175 million people now live outside the country of their birth， about twice the number of 25 years ago， but that's still only about 3 per cent of the world's population.） More and more， it is the middle classes rather than the huddled masses who are moving. But they， like the poor， have the right to build better lives for themselves and their families.

    我们实在看不出加拿大用哪种不公平的方式诱惑那些在贫困国家受过教育的人来这个国家。为了吸引更多国际留学生学成后留在加拿大，联邦移民部长Joseph Volpe今年春季宣布一个非常前卫的移民项目。尽管如此，那些国际留学生们可以自己选择他们毕业后是留在加国还是回到自己的祖国。毕竟，移民并非是一条金光大道。移民需要重新适应一个新环境，学习新语言，并要在一个可能与他们的祖国截然不同的社会文化中生存。只有强烈的愿望才会使他们决定如此背井离乡。在人类历史上，同样的愿望：远离战争、腐败、贫穷、绝望等因素，让人们作出背井离乡的决定。（目前大约有1.75亿人旅居外国，几乎比25年前增加了一倍，但那仍然大约只占到世界人口的3%.）是越来越多的中产阶级，而不是不分男女老少在毫无目的移民。这些同平民一样的中产阶级，他们有权为他们自己和家人营造更美好的生活。

    The First World is not feasting on the misery of the Third. It is， slowly， realizing that discriminatory barriers only hurt itself in the growing international competition for skilled labour. It is a happy coincidence that an end to discrimination is in the West's interest. But there are costs to absorbing immigrants （language training， housing， security） and benefits to countries of origin （immigrants worldwide sent back remittances of $225-billion in 2005）。 Educated people do not rush to leave prosperous， safe democracies in which their skills can be put to work. The loss of talent， say Professors McHale and Kapur， is a wake-up call to poorer countries. The West's obligation is to help those countries build the infrastructure they need to prosper.

    第一世界并不想把自己的享乐建筑在第三世界的痛苦之上。发达国家开始发觉，在争夺全球技术劳工的竞争当中，设置歧视性的政策只会损害自己的利益。为了西方的利益，停止对技术劳工的歧视是个皆大欢喜的巧合。吸引移民也是有代价的（语言培训，安置，安全检查），而且，移民对移民输出国有益（全世界的移民在2005年给自己祖国的汇款达到2250亿美元）。受过教育的人不会轻易离开繁荣且安全的、并可以充分发挥自己的技能的民主国家。McHale和Kapur两位教授称，人才的流失是对贫困国家的一个警告。西方国家有义务帮助那些国家建造他们发展所需要的基础设施。