Millions more Americans might qualify for dual Canadian citizenship under a recent change to Canada’s requirements that has led to a surge in applications from its southern neighbor.
  • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
    102·
    2 days ago

    As a Canadian I welcome our new American refugees. Please leave your guns at the door and be sure to grab your free plate of poutine when you arrive.

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
    342·
    2 days ago

    Cool, cool…As a Canadian I will ask Americans A. where you gonna work? and B. where you gonna live? because both situations here are…yeah not great. good luck though I guess. Well I suppose if you want to live in a shoebox in Toronto those prices are apparently “coming down”.

    • favoredponcho@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      The goal is just to get a Canadian passport so we don’t have to admit to being American when we travel abroad.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      As a software guy, every software company has jobs in mississauga and housing in the gta is cheaper than Boston

    • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      There are places to live in smaller cities or smaller communities.

      And it appears that the U.S. has more affordable places with jobs today, but Canada’s affordable regions are likely to become much more attractive if U.S. instability rises and Canada actually executes a serious national growth strategy.

    • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      31·
      19 hours ago

      as a trans American with Canadian ancestry:

      A. anywhere, on anything, God please get me out of here! more seriously, probably in some sort of applied math/CS research position given my background. or maybe start a garage-based research startup.

      B. Nunavut, obviously. Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics are beautiful. alternatively, maybe I’ll finally live my dream of studying Nuxalk and working with the First Nations people to revitalize their language.

    • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Whats the land situation like? Like say I don’t particularity care where, I just want some land where I can build a microfarm/homestead and largely be left alone, and I genuinely don’t care if I’m 100km from the nearest settlement. Would prefer closer, but meh. Doesn’t even need good internet, I’m beyond caring at this point.

      • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        I mean honestly and truthfully if you don’t care and are willing to drive…like…awhile to get to something even moderately close to what would be considered a decent sized civilization then I think you’d do fine.

        If you don’t want to live along the US border then you could probably score some land in like Northern Ontario or like Albera or something. But keep in mind the further you get from the border the harsher the winter. If you’re ok with dealing with -40C winters then have at it. You gotta prep for that crap too because depending on where you decide to go you gotta be ready to spend 8+ hours at least driving for like groceries or something. I used to live in a town in Northern Ontario where the nearest Indigenous reserve was like 10+ hours away. So once a month they’d all drive down here, clear out the walmart and safeway, and then head back. People who lived and worked out in the bush did the same. came to town once a month, stocked up, spent the night in the motel, drove back the next day.

        • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
          21·
          1 day ago

          Yeah that all sounds pretty doable. I don’t usually buy groceries that frequently now, and I don’t currently have a farm with year-round greenhouse space as I would do with land, just minimal space for plants inside. Though I do need fairly regular medical care (every 3-ish months) so that might be a challenge.

          My plan for winter no matter where I end up is basically hibernation, because screw winter anywhere with snow (I’ve lived near the great lakes most of my life so no stranger to unpleasant winter). What I want to build would allow me tunnel access to any outbuildings, all of which would be earth bermed.

          Thanks for the info :)

  • MrNesser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    2 days ago

    All those Canadians living under a hostile government, invasions have happened for less.

      • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        I always found the story of that so fascinating.

        The British commander that took Washington wanted to take the city peacefully and entered the city under a flag of peace but some Americans in the city opened fire and wounded his horse and killed some of his soldiers. That made him change his mind and he ordered the burning of all public buildings in the city. And his orders were followed so only public buildings such as the White House, parts of the Capitol, the Department of War were burned. The only government building that survived unscathed was the Patent Office because the guy in charge of it pleaded with the British and they listened to him.

        The general also wanted to burn down some newspaper that was printing negative stuff about him but some women convinced him not to do it as the fire would likely spread to their houses. He instead ordered the soldiers to take the newspaper building down brick by brick and then ordered the printing equipment destroyed so they can’t write more about him. I always found that to be hilariously petty.

        Also another story I heard was that President Madison was so sure that the British wouldn’t take the city that he had a dinner party prepared for that evening. When the British sappers came to burn down the White House they ate all the food and drunk all the wine prepared before starting to burn the White House down.

        After sometime a big storm came and put out the fires and even a tornado landed in the middle of the city. The British decided to get out at that point as the storm caused a lot of damage to the city and casualties to their troops and civilians. As they were pulling out the general asked some woman if this is the kind of weather they get in these God forsaken lands. The woman told him the storm was sent by God to save them from their enemies and the general retorted that the storm actually helped them finish destroying the city.

  • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    Most Americans vacationing in Switzerland consider themselves Canadian in public. We can always spot the fake Canadians though.

  • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    19·
    2 days ago

    I’m actually looking into this right now. Other than tracking down all the birth certificates and stuff, it seems pretty straightforward.

    The bill is C-3, since the article didn’t seem to mention it.

  • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    I’m waiting on the last birth certificate we need for our application. Let’s go Saskatchewan administrators! Find that old birth record please, we know it’s in there somewhere.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
    1810·
    2 days ago

    I really don’t want more Americans to have the right to fuck up our elections and politics.

    I’m so god damn exhausted of Americans.

    I get you’re not all bad, but even the non trumpers have politics that are a reason they left.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    81·
    2 days ago

    My great grandparents were from Didsbury, Alberta so my entire immediate family qualifies… Would be interesting to see how this shakes out.

    I think the only fear would be Trump cronies going nuts and trying to deport us.

  • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.comEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Mmm interesting. Irc my dad’s grandparents are from Quebec, I think my grandparents where born in the us but idk for sure.