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Friday, April 01, 2016

Do Americans Really Move To Canada Because Of Politics?

Every election, there's that chorus of people who insist they are moving to Canada if candidate so-and-so wins. Everyone knows these people. They're tweeting andGoogling about it as you read this. One Nova Scotia island is even specifically appealing to the anti-Trump crowd.

And, yeah, some people actually follow through with it. The Guardian dug up one such couple earlier this year. Another immigration lawyer tells NPR that he has definitely seen this happen on a wider scale.

"I did a lot of American immigration in the late 1990s, 2000s, [and] there was a huge spike in liberal-leaning individuals moving north," said David Aujla, a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Canada is my absolute favorite place to visit,but too cold to live there from September to late May.

Anonymous said...

if they do they are idiots and we did not need them here any more. If that was the case we should have lost half the population because of Obama.