16 points

Same

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39 points

I mean, the paperwork is probably online so you could get a head start, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up for fast bureaucracy nor cutting the line. Plus we just cut down on immigration to play along with your trend.

Don’t hold your breath.

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29 points

Not to mention a housing crisis significantly worse than the US from what I hear.

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3 points

Depends on where you go and what you do. Foreign investment is a problem in the big cities, small towns saw a surge in prices when everyone left the office for lower costs of living, but they’ve stabilized. It’s not good, not horrible.

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110 points

As a Canadian, I say this with the utmost sincerity: if you’re thinking of moving here because you’re a leftist, don’t. Canada is about to take a huge swing to the right in next year’s election. People are extremely sick of Trudeau and his refusal to withdraw from the upcoming election (he’s been in power for 9 years) will take his party down with him.

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72 points

Also, you can’t afford a house, car ownership is mandatory, and we do nothing to stop our oligarchs from creating monopolies and playing silly little games like price fixing groceries.

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35 points

Supporting oligarchy is an official policy here. It’s based on some grossly misguided ideology that big Canadian companies will protect us against bigger American competitors. We’re raising our own breed of face-eating snow leopards!

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33 points

Sounds like United States 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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8 points

They’ve actually got the US beat on the military-industrial complex bit, at least when adjusted for GDP.

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1 point

Preach!

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1 point
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Also 2 phone providers I believe yes?

Rogers and Bell or something?.. Or did it have “Tel” in there. I’m just guessing from memory

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3 points

We have 3 major providers, Rogers/bell/telus with their subsidiary fido/virgin/koodo. And we do have a few small companies but they just rent bandwidth from the big 3.

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14 points

If you’re a leftist, wouldn’t that situation make you want leftists to move there? Wouldn’t that be a (tiny) net positive?

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27 points

Leftists moving here now are not going to get citizenship in time to vote in the next election. The visa -> PR -> citizenship path takes years and years.

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10 points

Yabbut, electoral politics isn’t the only way to make a community better.

I just read a story yesterday about a community in northern Maine that ran a neo-Nazi out of town. For example.

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1 point

Need to spend 3 of last 5 years in Canada

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11 points

We’ve just seen that stepping aside is pointless without a popular candidate to step up. Neither the Liberals nor the NDP have anyone.

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7 points

Come to europe please if youre liberal and you are able to

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0 points

Canada isn’t America. You can’t just cross the border and claim to be “undocumented”. There’s a shit ton of paperwork and it’s a lengthy process. If you just jump the border they will deport your ass.

!Just like the US should do with everyone who did the same.!<

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4 points

America needs people to jump the border to perform back-breaking labor under constant threat of being arrested to keep our groceries cheap

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1 point

You can visit and stay, though. Like my drug dealer.

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5 points

They won’t take you

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