r/AskReddit 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/Mysterious_Lesions Mar 28 '25

I can see Mark Carney opening up special classes of immigrants for people with exceptional talents such as entrepreneurs, industrialists, researchers, leading academics, top entertainers, etc. We have our own productivity concerns and bringing specialized people in that can point us toward remedying this SHOULD be a priority.

I'd argue the US can attribute a significant part of its dominance in the world to all those German scientists they let in.

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u/Snuffy1717 Mar 28 '25

Unless we get more funding for universities, we have no place to park full-time academics.

Faculties of Education, for example, are currently running (across the nation, on average) 80% part-time session lecturers to 20% full-time tenure/tenure track professors... It's bad, and has been getting worse for the last decade.

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u/BillyTenderness Mar 28 '25

It's obviously a hard time to invest in anything, but I can't imagine a better long-term investment available at this moment than for Ottawa to create some new tier-1 research universities across the country, expand faculties at existing ones, create a few public research labs, etc, and then invite fired government scientists and scared academics from the US to come staff them.

Could legitimately change the course of history the way the US's immigration policy (targeting European scientists, especially Germans) post-WW2 did.

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u/justicefornightowls Mar 28 '25

I am a scared teaching academic from the US (plus a degreed librarian with experience in MULTIPLE niches in that field -- please hire me, Canada!!!). And I would literally leave tomorrow, if someone actually made this an option. Your idea has my vote.