From the San Francisco Giants' skipper:

[Jedi Guy]

14. My wife is Canadian, so that made it a lot easier for me to get in.

I wouldn't call it easy, though. The paperwork was exhaustive. The background check was very thorough, to the point that they wanted every address I'd ever lived at, even as a child. We also had to prove that our relationship was genuine and not a "green card" marriage, for lack of a better term.

I'm not sure what it's like today, though, or how it is for someone looking to move to Canada without being related to a Canadian in some way. I think they use a weighted points system.

So for instance, a person with a professional degree or specialized skill will net more points than someone without a college degree, the thinking being that the former "brings more to the table" than the latter. But I could be completely wrong, since that wasn't the process I went through.