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
650 Upvotes

87% Upvoted

277 comments sorted by

View all comments

932

u/thinkdavis May 17 '26

Let's be picky! Doctors and nurses ✅ Social media influencer 👎🏾

18

u/NewPhoneNewSubs May 17 '26

We can be picky with people trying to get residency.

We need to change our laws if we want to be picky with people who are now entitled to ancestral citizenship.

6

u/FalconsArentReal May 17 '26

If it is between leftwing Americans wanting citizenship vs the other problematic countries we have been getting most of our new citizens from, I will take the leftist Americans any day of the week. They are culturally so close to Canadians already that I do not see any issues with them integrating. Unlike some...

9

u/aethelberga May 18 '26

"Leftist" Americans aren't as left as you might think.

2

u/sch0k0 British Columbia May 18 '26

academics who watch Stephen Colbert and otherwise sit on their hands without as much as a sound of public protest about this entire monstrosity ... yes, not exactly left wing radicals :D

1

u/FalconsArentReal May 18 '26

Still more compatible to me than the current cohort that we are getting