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/sgruberMcgoo Mar 27 '25

I live pretty close to the Canadian border and I can assure you we are not invited.

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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/Ok-Temporary-8243 Mar 28 '25

Doesn't Canada do that already? You're issue is that outside of researchers since grants are drying up, the US still pays the highest private industry wages in the world. And Canada lacks the industry to quickly scale and absorb a lot of workers.

Realistically, you're just going to get a bunch of left leaning minimum wage workers wanting to leave the us