shockedcanadian
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No surprise at all for me. I've said it before, I dare Americans to leave their liberty and capitalism for a Big Brother police state and socialism. They talk a great game until they realize they like freedom more than they dislike a leader just because the media tells them they should.
We've even had aggressive campaigns and promotion from CBC news to try and get Americans to come over, LOL. When you consider that last yer a number of Syrian refugees actually left Canada to head back to the Middle East you known all you need to know about how popular our system is with people pursuing freedom.
God Bless America!
Trump win produces only tiny bump in numbers of Americans applying for Canadian citizenship
The number of Americans applying for Canadian citizenship jumped slightly after Donald Trump’s election, but numbers are still only half what they were five years ago.
New statistics from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada obtained by the National Post show an average of 400 U.S. citizens put in their applications in each of the first four months of this year, compared to an average of 264 per month in 2016 — including a spike in applications in November, the month Trump was elected.
But overall — despite reports of the immigration website crashing on election night, and earnest tourism campaigns sprouting in Cape Breton, N.S. — the trend line has gone down in the past couple of years.
In the decade since 2007, applications peaked in 2011, with an average of 564 Americans per month applying to become Canadians.
A batch of data to the end of 2016 was obtained through the access-to-information system and newer numbers were provided by Immigration spokesman Rémi Larivière. The numbers do not include Americans who may have moved to Canada recently to become permanent residents, or who already live here — just those who are applying for citizenship to seal the deal.
We've even had aggressive campaigns and promotion from CBC news to try and get Americans to come over, LOL. When you consider that last yer a number of Syrian refugees actually left Canada to head back to the Middle East you known all you need to know about how popular our system is with people pursuing freedom.
God Bless America!
Trump win produces only tiny bump in numbers of Americans applying for Canadian citizenship
The number of Americans applying for Canadian citizenship jumped slightly after Donald Trump’s election, but numbers are still only half what they were five years ago.
New statistics from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada obtained by the National Post show an average of 400 U.S. citizens put in their applications in each of the first four months of this year, compared to an average of 264 per month in 2016 — including a spike in applications in November, the month Trump was elected.
But overall — despite reports of the immigration website crashing on election night, and earnest tourism campaigns sprouting in Cape Breton, N.S. — the trend line has gone down in the past couple of years.
In the decade since 2007, applications peaked in 2011, with an average of 564 Americans per month applying to become Canadians.
A batch of data to the end of 2016 was obtained through the access-to-information system and newer numbers were provided by Immigration spokesman Rémi Larivière. The numbers do not include Americans who may have moved to Canada recently to become permanent residents, or who already live here — just those who are applying for citizenship to seal the deal.