Maybe Canada should be more careful in who they let in.

In the past ten years or so Canada has drastically changed/tightened the 'let' in process. Majority of my close relatives live in Canada not the US or even Jamaica. For decades the process was very lenient making easy for anyone with a good heart and a job to sponsor relatives with no real means to provide for them. Proud to say my family has done very well but they are from my generation.

Yes, many Jamaicans in the US work really hard with multiple jobs because it was a harder road to get here.

A good number of my Jamaican friends have a good amount of relatives living in Toronto, which I became aware of after being invited to many weddings in my area.

All of these relatives seem to for sure be employed and hard working people, if any of you have ever been to a Jamaican wedding in the U.S. you see how the mic is passed around from person to person...

Really and truly, all of the Jamaicans that I see in my area (NY) work HARD, each and every week on a daily basis. From the most elementary position to the most elevated position (i.e., not even a high school education to up there in the Master's degree level & even PhD level)... I'm talking from janitors to drivers to prep cooks to teachers to nurses to professors.

Jamaicans in my area are really thought well of for their WORK ETHIC, they work really really hard and have an amazing amount of "no" absences.. they don't call in sick, they have no personal problems preventing them from coming into work. Their jobs are considered 'SERIOUS business' and they all become really WELL respected as hard workers, as conscienscious (sp?) workers.