The big map is misleading. The vast majority of us live within 100 miles of the US border.

That depends on whom you ask. 🤷 And how eager are you to live in a remote community?

Canada is in desperate need of immigrants but simultaneously suffering some growing pains from fumbled immigration programs and policy it’s the old you won’t make everyone happy shenanigans

More than pretty much anywhere else, yes. It still manages to be heavily selective, though, mostly for highly educated/skilled workers and their families.

But also, yes, the population is heavily in the south. If you showed just the non-remote part, it'd be horizontal Chile.

Canada is always looking for immigrants, weather it likes to or not, it needs them

If you want to own a home, look at property prices and then reconsider. In the urban areas, the housing market can be nuts from what I've seen.