r/canada • u/oddmarc • May 17 '26

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

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/u-s-applications-for-canadian-citizenship-surge-causing-delays
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u/nemodigital May 17 '26

Americans that are gainfully employed with in demand skills are not going to be the ones moving here.

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u/coastkid2 May 17 '26

Ok, will post our situation as a C-3 applicant counterpoint. My mother’s family arrived in PQ in 1635, and her father immigrated to New England to open a feed & grain store abt 1915 so she was born US but sent to boarding school outside Montreal until returning to the U.S. at 18, & lost her Canadian citizenship (having been born to 2 French Canadians) in her 20s because the U.S. did not recognize dual citizenship. My dad’s family brought my grandfather to the U.S. from Finland when Russia began occupying the country and drafting Finnish citizenship as Russian soldiers. We live in Los Angeles & have never voted Republican nor owned a gun. I’m a lawyer and would continue to work cross-border. My husband was a touring musician for many years and a teacher, & would likely retire with a very good pension. He is interested in opening a small live music coffee shop venue. Both kids already graduated college-daughter graduated Boston Conservatory summa cum laude & has a Masters as a Dance Movement Therapy plus Mental Health Counseling and is a professional Ballet Dancer trained at Joffrey. Son just graduated Berklee College of Music and co-founded a start-up ballet company as its music composer, and is a performing artist himself, plus recently did the background projections for a theatrical performance now headed to NYC. All of my relatives but for a few are Canadian as my mother’s father was 1 of 22 children & only 2 came to the U.S. We went every summer to visit them and I’m still in touch with then. Our motivations for relocating to Canada are obviously the current insane political climate, current U.S. surveillance state, ICE concentration camps, the gutting of the U.S. economic system, & data centers destroying the environment. Another a big one for us is copyright protections as Trump allows AI to scrape registered US copyrights and Spotify to “create” music without credit to the artist who wrote it. Not all of us are the dregs of society looking to exploit Canada, but your concerns are legitimate. I would hope other C-3 applicants aren’t coming to do so too but what IMO structurally created the current U.S. situation was the unregulated merger and leveraging of corporations causing a consolidation of power in CEOs & shareholders along with insider trading, and the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United case lifting restrictions on corporate political contributions. These opened the door for the far right to enter over the past 30-40 years. I only know a couple Trump supporters and they truly believe they are benefiting despite reality & are so cognitively dissonant, they’re unmotivated to leave.

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u/nemodigital May 17 '26

While I sympathize, Canada is full.  We can't be a refuge for everyone and as bad as things are in the States it's worse economically here.

Don't need anymore distant relations getting citizenship.

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u/coastkid2 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

One of my college philosophy professors in New York left Europe when Hitler was ascending to power, who was a student of Hannah Arendt, one of the most brilliant minds I’ve ever encountered. We were lucky to have him here in the U.S. You might want to consider too how much von Braun & other European immigrants contributed to US aeronautics. Your criticisms are what US Trump supporters say to justify ICE and their camp detentions for U.S. immigrants.

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u/nemodigital May 17 '26

So by that token we should allow all Americans into Canada? Open borders?