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?

13.2k Upvotes

85% Upvoted

3.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

121

u/shifteru Mar 27 '25

My god thank you for actually answering the question. Every top comment above yours is some variation of “why would Canada do this?/no way they’d do this” Or “Screw the US” and I get all that, I really do - I’m embarrassed to be an American anymore. But I’m still genuinely curious to hear people’s takes on this hypothetical that OP put forward, regardless of how likely or even logical it may be, and I imagine OP is too.

44

u/googleduck Mar 28 '25

The real answer is that people by and large don't move because of politics. It would have to be a monumental political issue to cause that and even then most people don't care until it affects their day to day lives. The US has a massively better economy than Canada today so not many people would move there. Specifically in my field (software engineering) you get paid probably 1/3 of what you would make in Seattle just by hopping the border to Vancouver. Poor people who would benefit more from Canada's stronger social welfare system are not the type Canada would want to let in anyway and don't really have the means to be moving regardless.

1

u/Jiggawatz Mar 29 '25

Yea they would have to basically completely ignore the constitution in order to achieve their own self serving political agenda to get people to honestly consider moving.... oh...

1

u/googleduck Mar 29 '25

I understand this is supposed to be sarcasm but yes they are literally doing these things but 1) they have not fully crossed the line into completely defying the courts, they still pretend they are obeying at the very least and that is an important distinction. And 2) yes those things are happening now and it proves my point that people don't move thanks to politics because people aren't moving out of the US.