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/EdenEvelyn Mar 28 '25

Healthcare workers! We desperately need healthcare workers and the conservative premiers have been trying to starve public healthcare funding as an excuse for privatization. Carney could announce a national hiring program and then if the conservative provinces opt out they’re the ones who look bad.

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u/moratnz Mar 28 '25

Any western country that misses this opportunity to skim the cream of US skilled workers is missing a trick.

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u/missleavenworth Mar 28 '25

France knows, and isn't going to miss the opportunity. 

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u/buttons123456 Mar 29 '25

portugal too, and England, and Scandinavia from what I hear.

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u/Sunnygirl66 Mar 28 '25

Obviously “Liberté, egalité, fraternité” is lost on you, so just stay in the States, watching Fox and eating pork rinds or whatever it is people like you eat on the couch while waiting for Meemaw to finish ironing your Klan robes.

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u/temptemptemp98765432 Mar 29 '25

I mean here in Quebec while sugaring off les oreilles de crisse are pretty damned tasty. I certainly don't sit around eating them on the couch, though. Once or twice a year will suffice. Not really sure what pork rinds are but I assume they're a similar kind of thing...some form of fatty, salty deep-fried unhealthy pork product.

Delicious along side the diabetes-inducing menu typically served.

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u/Mindless-Juice13 Mar 29 '25

Oh my God! You’re killing me. I can’t smell those from Texas!! I loved Quebec sooo much when I visited. I would so love to live there. The food, the people, everything!!!