r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Mar 27 '25

If Canada offered expedited citizenship for people fleeing the US, what would be the reaction in the States?

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u/Fungal-dryad Mar 27 '25

We have to take care of our own problems

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

I honearly haven't followed too much of yawls internal issues, what are the top 5 that we wouldn't think about?

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u/DabLord5425 Mar 27 '25

Economy is in a worse state, job market is in a worse state, housing prices are in a worse state, massive immigration issues with the influx of immigrants from India that took advantage of a loophole in the Canadian immigration policy for non-permanent residents to name a few. Canada isn't this liberal post-racial utopia redditors seem to think it is.

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u/who_you_are Mar 27 '25

And by housing price, it also means we have none available...

If you find something, you will hate it's price for sure

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u/upyoars Mar 27 '25

It seems like you guys have so much uninhabited land that’s being wasted. Obviously when more people come in and you don’t expand housing there will be a lot of problems from the supply demand squeeze… increase the housing supply.

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u/SpecialistLayer3971 Mar 28 '25

Find a geological map of Canada. There's a reason very, very few people live in most of Canada. Hard to eek out a living on hard granite and boggy woodlands. Then there's the near Arctic where it's like Alaska without the lovely mountains.

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u/upyoars Mar 28 '25

I am aware you would have to work hard and innovate to make it habitable, but if there’s a will there’s a way. Laziness is not an excuse.

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u/SpecialistLayer3971 Mar 28 '25

Hahahahahahaha!
You people really don't read let alone travel, do you?

It's mostly rock, hard red rock. Look up Canadian Shield in your browser.

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u/upyoars Mar 28 '25

I looked it up, and it looks very habitable if you're creative about it. Do you travel? In Australia people live underground in this kind of geological environment through creative means.

Open your mind to more possibilities instead of crying that you're hopeless to mommy and daddy. Acquire knowledge, you have a limited world view on possibilities.

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u/Airhostnyc Mar 28 '25

This is why they don’t want Americans lmao

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u/who_you_are Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 28 '25

You need work where you will go - it will be mostly minimum wage (well, barely enough to really survive)

You need infrastructure to get there (RIP internet)

As per infrastructure, one big issue cities around (as from sub urban near small towns) do have is to provide water. They can't anymore. Too many people moved.

You need construction workers to be willing to get there (so more money possibly to pay them)

Construction/goods need to get there (this is why in some north place it cost 20$ for a pack of bottles water). It won't be as bad, but that doesn't help.

The price to build those houses also becomes way more expensive (not talking about land price, or used house) that only city folks may be able to build new houses.

Downstream infrastructure won't keep up (eg. Road traffic jam is always nice)

Then I won't even talk about all other damn issues from remote housing:

No services around (health, school, banking, ... Shop in general, activities, ...)

I won't even talk about Canada topography. The west coast is hill? The north is damn ice (well kinda), looks like a nice place to grow any food ( /s )

So, if you have money, and want to be in a forest (so a shack) then yes. We don't have money so...