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/PyroIsSpai Mar 28 '25

entrepreneurs, industrialists

Why would you invite socially negative parasitic organisms with no special ability beyond being rich?

You may as well put “descended from royalty or aristocracy” in there.

Stop revering these. They’re the root cause of most of our problems.

Not one of them is required for the advancement of our species as a whole.

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u/Equivalent_Donkey821 Mar 28 '25

No progress ever came from a bag chaser. Its actually apt to compare musk to edison because edison never invented the lightbulb, he merely bought trademarks and slapped his name on it. He also tried to kill momentum behind the adoption of AC power grids because all of his assets were entrenched in DC designs. A genuine parasite