Posted on 07/04/2017 8:57:55 AM PDT by John W
Despite claims by furious Trump opponents that they would leave the country if he won the presidency, Canada hasn't proved as many citizenship applications as might be expected.
The country's did receive an uptick of 66 per cent in applications from January-April 2017, but that only meant an average of 400 people per month rather than the previous year's 264.
And those figures are still down from highs of 2011 - the middle of the Obama administration - when 564 Americans a month were trying to become Canadian, the National Post reported.
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That is b/c the online “precheck” for Canadian Citizenship goes like this>
Q: Are you American?
A:(yes)
Q: Do you have at least $1.7M in assets you can bring in?
A:(no)
Calculating immigration clearance...
Result: WE DON’T WANT YOU!!
Don’t believe me?
Try it: http://onlineservices-servicesenligne.cic.gc.ca/eapp/eapp.do
When are the effete, pretentious Hollywood and other show business types who promised to leave the USA if DJT were elected going to do that.
Big talkers . . . the shame is they didn’t follow thru
Would’ve loved to have seen it. Go north and freeze their azzezov
And then let the Canadians have to put up with them
Oh we can dream can’t we?
You would think Hollywierd would be a ghost town by now?
So many libtards promise to leave, but they just don’t follow through....
A bit irrelevant. You can’t apply for citizenship until you have become a Permananent Resident and lived here at least 4 years in the 6 years preceding the application. Anyone applying for citizenship now would have had to be here since at least 2013.
You would think Hollywierd would be a ghost town by now?
How can we miss them when they won't go away?
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Semd the trash to Canada
You need to have been a permanent resident and living here for four out of the preceding six years before you can even apply for citizenship. It’s a bit early.
Thanks for the info. Seems a bit inhospitable though doesn’t it?
Once again the left is breaking their promise to leave.
Darn it! Who do we have to elect to get y’all to bail?!?
Maybe they came up for a two-week fact-finding mission and discovered it’s not all it’s made out to be (and it’s not made out to be anything anyway). :)
Why apply? Just cross the border and demand money from the taxpayers. We’ve been told that’s the proper immigration policy. Anything less is racist.
Some might be interested to know that Canadian conservatives tend to think of the bluer states as being more liberal than any part of Canada except maybe Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver.
For example, none of our provinces have yet legalized marijuana although it is sort of de facto legal in parts of British Columbia (very hit or miss law enforcement on that).
The social climate at universities is also seen as being even more Marxist south of the border than here, although differences are slight.
Really, you’re going to need to go much deeper than Trump to bring about a real counter-revolution. The left can outlast Trump and get back to their program in either 2020 or 2024. They are not in a hurry given the gains they have already made.
We have more of a left-leaning government now but that could change. The Canadian voters are probably on the whole somewhat more conservative than American voters, consider for example that we have no sizeable black or Hispanic populations primed to deliver predictable blocs of progressive votes. Even in losing the last election, the Conservative Party got over 35% of the popular vote against what amounts to a Clinton and a Sanders option. Do you think Trump would have done much better against both running for president? Hard to say. I would guess not, some of Trump’s working class support might have preferred Sanders. Also, Hillary would not have looked as bad running against two angry old dudes. Not that I mind the outcome, it seemed providential to avoid the HRC nightmare.
Wheels within wheels, however — the Canadian conservatives are basically a RINO type of party and our voters seem generally too stunned to notice these distinctions.
Maybe those prospective immigrants were thrown off by our opposite color scheme in politics — the majority up here are red, not blue.
You mean Whoopi and Alec Baldwin haven’t left the USA? What a disappointment
We need to step it up! They still have hope.
Instead of Canada, maybe they all went to Mexico. NOT! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
That sounds like the “entrepreneurial” immigrant rules — all part of the “merit-based” immigration system that Trump says the US should emulate. (Although, the merit system doesn’t apply in all cases.) If you can show that you will make direct investments, and create jobs — you get a lot of bonus points toward your application. Few entrepreneurial immigrants wind up on welfare.
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