What are the fundamental differences between the United States and Canada?

Posted September 20th, 2011 by immigratecanada and filed in Immigration to Canada

Serious answers only please. No jokes about America always throwing its weight around, Canada’s cheaper meds, that sort of thing.

Imagine you’re a non-Latin-American immigrant (since settling in the US would be the easier choice, obviously), and you have a choice of emigrating to either Canada or the States. How do you make your decision?