N771AN From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (8 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 1135 times:
Unhappy Democrats Need to Wait to Get Into Canada
Wed Nov 3, 2004 01:16 PM ET
By David Ljunggren
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Disgruntled Democrats seeking a safe Canadian haven after President Bush won Tuesday's election should not pack their bags just yet.
Canadian officials made clear on Wednesday that any U.S. citizens so fed up with Bush that they want to make a fresh start up north would have to stand in line like any other would-be immigrants -- a wait that can take up to a year.
"You just can't come into Canada and say 'I'm going to stay here'. In other words, there has to be an application. There has to be a reason why the person is coming to Canada," said immigration ministry spokeswoman Maria Iadinardi.
There are anywhere from 600,000 to a million Americans living in Canada, a country that leans more to the left than the United States and has traditionally favored the Democrats over the Republicans.
But recent statistics show a gradual decline in U.S. citizens coming to work in Canada, which has a creaking publicly funded healthcare system and relatively high levels of personal taxation.
Government officials, real estate brokers and Democrat activists said that while some Americans might talk about a move to Canada rather than living with a new Bush administration, they did not expect a mass influx.
"It's one thing to say 'I'm leaving for Canada' and quite another to actually find a job here and wonder about where you're going to live and where the children are going to go to school," said one government official.
David b. From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 3148 posts, RR: 6 Reply 1, posted (8 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 1106 times:
LOL who would be stupid enought to do that?
Yep people are upset but what are you going to do? Thats life for you.
Mikey711MN From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 1380 posts, RR: 8 Reply 2, posted (8 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 1086 times:
Can't be that bad.
David, how can someone make a comment like you just have with the following as their signature: "Teenage-know-it-alls should be shot on sight"
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62 Reply 3, posted (8 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 1062 times:
Actually what is going to happen is that the US Miltary when it is done with Iraq is going to cross the St laurence and finished what we should have in 1812.
We have to save those people from British and French oppresion!!!
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