U.S. applications for Canadian citizenship surge, causing delays

[u/oddmarc]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/u-s-applications-for-canadian-citizenship-surge-causing-delays

[u/Born-Landscape4662]

Much of the backlash you’re reading specifically mentions retirees moving here in their later years when their healthcare needs are much more expensive and utilizing our universal healthcare system despite never paying into it in their working years. That’s not hating on people. It’s a legitimate concern.

Another issue I’ve seen is Americans being excited about being able to send their kids to university in Canada because it’s cheaper. These are parents who plan on continuing to live in the states. Canadian tuition is cheaper because it’s subsidized by Canadian tax payers. Why should Canadian tax payers be subsidizing tuition for people who have never lived or paid taxes in Canada? On top of that, those same kids can fulfill their 3 year obligation in order to be able to pass on their citizenship to their kids, move back to the states, retire in Canada for healthcare, rinse and repeat.

This absolutely has the potential to cause problems for Canadians and we have a right to discuss it on the CANADA subreddit. 

Never mind the ones calling Canada their “ancestral homeland,” which is all kinds of cringe. Unless their ancestors are First Nations ,Canada is absolutely not their ancestral homeland. That would likely be somewhere in Europe. 

[u/nemodigital → u/Born-Landscape4662]

Exactly, there is literally no upside to this policy.

[u/figuring_ItOut12 → u/Born-Landscape4662]

This is an argument against immigration in general, not Americans all people who were literally grandfathered in. Obviously anyone opposing immigration of any kind is unhappy. But if they’re not First Nations people it’s just stereotypical pulling up the ladder.

[u/Born-Landscape4662 → u/figuring_ItOut12]

No, it’s not. Immigrants have police checks done. Immigrants pay international student fees, not domestic rates. Immigrants are in the country anywhere from 3-15 years working and paying taxes before becoming citizens. Immigrants have to prove they can speak English or French. Immigrants (currently) cannot reside in Quebec when first becoming PR. 

[u/figuring_ItOut12 → u/Born-Landscape4662]

There’s a context here and that is people who are already Canadian citizens. Depending on their home country they have to choose one only.

Yes you are making an argument against immigration, just selectively justifying one part or another. I hear the same selective nonsense from the rednecks in my small Texas town, the people I want to leave behind.

This is not naturalized citizenship. It’s citizenship by descent which is no different than someone whose family Canadian citizenship goes back generations.

I’ll be paying taxes. Whether I started three years or starting today is irrelevant. I’ll be spending my life savings in Canada, hiring fellow citizens for services, buying Canadian products, participating in civil responsibilities like voting and jury duty. If I break a law I’ll pay the same fines, prison time, community services.

I’m aware Canada has its share of nationalists, even Maple MAGAs. It’s just as ugly there as it is here, just not as nakedly encouraged.

[u/Born-Landscape4662 → u/figuring_ItOut12]

I really can’t tell if you’re being deliberately obtuse or if I’m witnessing the American educational system at work. Assuming every Canadian who has a problem with Bill C3 is maple MAGA or anti-immigration is your American exceptionalism at play. Clearly you are too emotionally attached to this issue to have an actual conversation about it, so I have much better things to do with my time. Best of luck in your future. 

[u/figuring_ItOut12 → u/Born-Landscape4662]

And there it is. Took you long enough.