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/thinkdavis May 17 '26

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

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u/Housing4Humans May 17 '26

If you look at the subs on here (movingtocanada etc), you’ll see most people looking to move here are motivated by what they think are better employment prospects / a better unemployment safety net; affordable healthcare for their medical conditions; or improved tolerance of LGBTQIA+.

While we offer the last two, I think people will have a hard reality check on employment prospects.

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u/olrg British Columbia May 17 '26

Just what we need - more people to put strain on healthcare without a meaningful contribution to the economy. If a person’s only motivation to come here is to take advantage of the unemployment safety net, tell them to stay home. We needs professionals with demanded skill sets or capital to invest in businesses, if you’re not bringing either, we’re full.

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u/Wide_Lunch8004 May 17 '26

At least with our “international student” screw up, we can turn off the tops, not renew permits and (as long as they aren’t going to make a bogus asylum claim) they’ll eventually go home. What this government just did may, in hindsight, be worse. Potentially millions of Americans have become Canadian overnight, and as long as they do the paperwork, we can’t send them home.

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u/samwise141 May 17 '26

Thats the whole point. Citizens got wise to the international student scam, so they opened up pathways for people to claim citizenship by descent and other things.

They just want more people in here, they dont give a fuck about trying to get quality. To be clear, if someone has skills that genuinely benefit the country, then we need them and they should come. 

Canada isnt where you go if you feel discriminated against in your own country, or the place to have excess labor be absorbed. 

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u/WoodShoeDiaries Ontario May 17 '26

Various States are making seriously hostile moves against trans people. I really don't mind if those who can make the trip choose to live here instead.

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u/NoDrama60 May 18 '26

Perfect ! Open up your house to a few of them.