57 Replies to “Survey Says…”

  1. I don’t know if I’d necessarily go that far but I wouldn’t be against the idea either so…Canada is such a clown show

    1. Justin Trudeau has finally destroyed Canada something his father tried to do for years. The liberal party is a cancer that must be removed

    1. If that was actually easy or even only a little hard, this country would empty significantly, and it would be the productive class who leave.

      1. Can’t they join the US Army? I hear they’re looking for recruits.

        Alternatively, just drive to California and stay. Doesn’t Newscum give free health care? And isn’t California going to be a sanctuary state?

          1. fc

            1. It’s relatively easy to drive to the USA, or fly in.

            2. California provides free health care to California residents regardless of immigration status
            https://abcnews.go.com/Health/california-1st-state-offer-health-insurance-undocumented-immigrants/story?id=105986377
            FYI, many in California are complaining about the above, in light of cuts to fire budgets, water supply issues etc.

            3. California has passed sanctuary state legislation. Some info here:
            https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/11/immigrant-deportation-california-trump/

            Who knows, California might need carpenters, plumbers, etc.

            4. You do not have to be a US citizen to join the US Army. You do need a green card (permanent resident) So if you want to move to the US, earn to code, or get a degree, and then get an immigration visa. From there you can join the Army, and then get US citizenship.
            If your point is people would have to work hard to do this, well they can work hard if they actually want it, as opposed to just telling a pollster they want to..

          2. So, Joe… You’re suggesting that we enter California as a tourist, and stay as an illegal, just waiting to be deported.

            You conceded that you need a green card to get into the U.S. army… Just how exactly would you suggest getting a green card?

            And just how is a 64-year-old non-citizen supposed to even generate an interest from an army recruiter?

            You may be up to date on the facts, but you are completely missing the point.

          3. fc
            a) the original posting referred to 18-34 year olds. Rather than pining for someone to give them US entrance rights and ultimately citizenship, perhaps they should WORK to try and attain it.

            b) Elon Musk did it, but on a student visa, not a tourist visa. He wanted it, so rather than whining about it, he found a way.

            If 18-34 year olds go in on student visas, they can study hard, they meet people, they make connections, they get job offers (and via that get visas). or they might even get married and also eventually get a visa that way.

            If you want it badly enough there are ways

            c) lots of people go to the US illegally. I’m saying California makes it possible to stay.

            d) If you are 64 years old and want to live in the US, you can do so for 180 days a year. I know lots of people who do this. True it’s not full time, but with how much you say you want to live in the USA, perhaps 180 days a year is better than nothing.

            If you want it badly enough there are ways. That’s my point.

          4. Yeah, Joe… They’re called snowbirds. I’m not a snowbird, and I had no interest in migrating to the US when I was 34, because we hadn’t experience the Turd 2.0 back then.
            Who knew!
            If I was still 34 years old, of course I would have had more open doors, but I’m not. That’s my reality.
            And I’ll take your suggestion of moving to California while LA burns to the ground with all the consideration that it deserves.
            The point, that you are still missing, is that it is incredibly hard to migrate to the US LEGALLY, and STAY THERE, and commenting on that reality IS NOT WHINING.

          6. fc

            The original post was about 18-34 year olds.

            Having lived and worked in the US, I am quite familiar with the difficulties immigrating to the US.
            As a 64 year old, it’s tougher than if you were 18-34.

            But how badly do you want to live in the US?

            Two legal options for you to consider, immediately come to mind. A smart guy like you might be able to come up with more.

            a) apply for a student visa. Go study in the US

            b) contact trade schools. Some may be willing to hire you to teach your trade, and they take care of visa’s.

            A 60 year old relative of mine made option b happen.

            Alternatively, since you no longer want to live in Canada, which you call, “this hell hole of authoritarian banana-republic-styled dictatorship”, have you considered moving to a country other than the USA?

            Again, my point is, how badly do you want it?

        3. Can’t claim asylum from Canada…..yet. Although with socialism, internet censorship, bank account freezing, and jail for thought crimes, we are getting close.

    2. Great idea, and many do, but if they don’t have relatives there then they have to have medical degrees or advanced degrees in some type of engineering with specific accomplishments etc.

      So unfortunately it’s very difficult for regular people to emigrate from canada to the USA.

      Socialists in canada, like their counterparts in Cuba, will make it more difficult in the future as our country declines, we might still need a handful of doctors for rich people etc.

      Lucky for the burgeoning poor population they’ll be eligible for MAiD…

    3. Joe, where have you been? Obviously not reading my posts. Unless you have a sponsor for your visa, like a potential employer or family relative, or a couple of hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest, you’re pretty much shut out of the US.

      As for that poll, count me in among the 4 out of 10, and I pray that that number climbs even higher. This country is finished. It’s not the Canada I grew up in, nor is it the Canada that I can be proud of, as I once was in my early development years. Just look around you. MAiD is now competing with cancer for lead cause of death! The country would rather kill you, because it can’t afford to cure you.

      1. fc

        I read your posts with interest.

        I have lots of friends who live in the US during the winter. They tell me that is legally permissible as long as they don’t stay more than 180 days in a year. I believe they have B1/B2 visitor’s visas although I’m not sure of that. Perhaps you could do the same? It’s true health insurance can be an issue, but supposedly you don’t have to wait for health care down in the US..

        Having lived and worked in the US, personally I have no desire to live there.

        1. Joe… I’m not interested in staying for only 180 days a year on a visitor’s visa. I’m looking to PERMANENTLY immigrate to the US. I am not at all interested in returning to Canada if I can legally stay in the US. Why would I want to come back to this hell hole of authoritarian, banana-republic-styled dictatorship, where I can no longer work at my trade because of insane and ineffective policies dictated by power-hungry public health authorities, not only in the federal government, but in the provinces as well, and that includes Deena Hinshaw of Alberta, who I am ever so grateful to Danielle Smith for giving her the boot, and telling her not to let the door hit her keester on the way out?

          1. If you are looking to PERMANENTLY immigrate to the US, what are you willing to do to make it happen?

  3. We did this to entirely to ourselves.

    Canadian “leaders” and officialdom et al drive great-souled people, as well as merely practical ones, of of this country

    The Liberals aggressively projecting and re-imagining of Canada as some sort of quasi-socialist, pacifist, virtue-signalling, sneeringly anti-American, anti-Western, woke utopia, has not just (1) invited ALL of Trump’s trolling, but (2) has utterly REPLUSED a great many sensible Canadians who want to get the hell out of here – many of us feel like strangers in our on country. No wonder, other places look welcoming!

    What did the Liberals expect?

  6. The little people in canada won’t think for a minute, especially if Justin et al tell them not to, but an immediate 30% increase in your wealth is nothing to sneeze at.

    Ontario and Ohio, BC and Washington, Alberta and Montana, Nova Scotch and Maine, etc. North and South there’s not much culture shock between these places, no shock at all actually.

    Even the Quebecois have distant cousins in Louisiana…

    The rest of the world would jump at the chance, except for their own politicians of course…

    1. Just as an fyi, its a 43.8% increase in your wealth based on todays conversation rate. Unfortunately, for those Canadians that haven’t accumulated the few hundred thousand needed to move to the US, your options aren’t great regardless of which jurisdiction you reside in.

  8. Wouldn’t that be a MAGA moment.
    “Non Americans can emigrate, from any country, if they can prove they have financial assets to support themselves, and/or have post-sec degrees (recognized by NAFTA) or skill sets in high demand with job offers, for Green Card status.”
    The rest of the world would just Sht, the greatest brain drain and wealth drain of the world, heading to the US for the life they desire.
    As a retiree, I would jump ALL. OVER. THIS.
    Unfortunately, the Canadian government would TAX your assets to the nth degree as you leave. Sometimes the price is worth it.
    This country is led and run by dangerous, ignorant clowns, whose best asset is destroying wealth.

    1. Actually the tax is not bad. RRSP and pension payments are subject to a 15% witholding tax, which is a credit against US taxes payable. Capital gains are only triggered if you do or have to dispose of an asset, but investment accounts for the most part are not required to be liquidated.

      1. 25% withholding tax on Registered money, plus a deemed disposition would be triggered on certain assets.

        1. 15%, pretty sure. Doesn’t matter, if you are gone and filing in the US, it works out in the wash. I am not talking about collapsing, that would be dumb in either country, I am talking about a structured draw down.

  10. The first thing we need to focus on is an independent Alberta – much will follow naturally from that.

    1. A nice unit would be Alberta, Saskatchewan, and BC and Manitoba if they swore off being pathetic loser communists. I’m not sure why Manitobans became pathetic losers. That’s where western Canadian wealth used to be concentrated.

  11. I’m sure it’s higher than that.
    The talk show idiots (are ya listening Gannom?) are so bound to the narrative that that they may as well all be on CBC.
    But that’s our corrupt media

  13. I’ve been telling my university student children they should emigrate since they were in highschool. If your going to spend your life as a stranger in a strange land you might as well do it in one with opportunity.

  14. A survey’s accuracy depends on the clarity and neutrality of the question, among other things. And what was the sample size/methodology? 1000 is low for 40 million Canadians now, plus how many were 18-35 year-olds (way too small a sample).

    This survey was unclear about what conversion of Cdn funds to US$ means. Anyone with assets can convert Cdn$ to US now, at a current rates. So apply to move already, if you can financially afford it. US
    jobs/green cards are probably a huge barrier, as well as eventually getting citizenship.

    1. It took me 8 years to get my green card, albeit interrupted by COVID, and I’d have to say I’d be pissed if it was just given to others. The southern border is bad enough.

  15. You can convert your assets but no one is going to convert your 68 cent dollar one for one. Your million dollar house will be worth under 700,000.

  16. This age group is the product of education systems that failed to properly teach Canadian history. For forty years I was a social studies and history teacher and during that time British Columbia had a compulsory curriculum that covered Canadian History from pre-Contact to recent decades but during the latter years I saw organized attempts to water this down and replace the compulsory part with alternative “woke” courses. We have a proud history with courageous leaders of vision (Sir John A and the other fathers of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier…) who our current governments have allowed to be desecrated. Our historic path created a Canadian ethos that is definitely different from that of our American neighbours and has left a legacy that Canadians should be fiercely proud of and not willing to submit to economic blackmail.

    1. What about submitting to being impoverished by 40% vis a vis the US in only 10 years? What about a generation that despite working hard cannot ever afford a house? What about a healthcare system where the only service not rationed and delayed is M.A.I.D.? That is just for a start DD

      1. You are right on these points Peter but the decline in Canadian patriotism is also an important factor. Trudeau with his globalist agenda and his insistence that there is no Canadian culture has destroyed what was a vibrant nationalism under Stephen Harper. Just remember our reaction to the Canadian dominance of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Wee actually embarrassed ourselves.
        We Canadians have faced hard times before and have suffered bad governments without losing that quiet, polite belief in our country.

    2. Hey Delbert, Here are some quotes from Laurier. If this Canada still existed, ther would be no need to even poll the question.
      Laurier: “What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the enjoyment of power, do not discharge the duties of power; they are the men who, having the power to redress wrongs, refuse to listen to the petitioners that are sent to them; they are the men who, when they are asked for a loaf, give a stone.”

      Laurier: “I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.”
      Laurier believed in extremely limited government, and would puke at the leviathan of today.

  18. I gave a lot to Canada and now I’m the problem. The filthy heterosexual white male who stole the land. The country has gone to hell and there is no coming back from the demographic toilet it’s become. US citizenship would come with many actual rights, not subject to “reasonable limits”.

  20. Consider the proposition,we Canadians are worthless people.
    We are worthless than when Dear Leader took office.
    We will be worth even less before we are shot of the lying leech .
    And I see nothing in common between myself and most all Eastern Canadian and Urban voters.
    Canada has a long history of those with get up and go…well going.
    Because Canada robs the productive blind.
    And the voting idiots,the reason we have become worth so much less, keep rewarding fools bandits and destroyers.
    We have spent our grandchildren’s opportunities and eaten all the seed corn.
    broken beyond repair..beyond reform.
    All that is left us to enjoy..Retribution.

    “The Guillotine, it is our heritage”

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