It took a day, but they have accepted their orange overlord.
Interest declined when they discovered the immigration process was non-trivial. I checked into Canada back in 2016. Didn’t bother this time. I think a lobotomy might be the answer. It would be nice if I could just have my empathy surgically removed.
No, but they all now have plan on how to move.
Canada has US flag waving pickup truck driving room temperature IQ having Trump cultists. Somehow. It’s incredibly stupid.
They’re discouraged by Canada. Subreddits for European countries are filled with Americans inquiring about their chances though. I’ve heard of several wanting to know more about the Netherlands.
As a Dutch person we’d happily welcome the more sensible Americans over here 🙂. I can’t guarantee our government wouldn’t try to stop a mass migration wave given their anti-immigrant policies though.
It’s funny, my partner and I were actually talking about moving to the US for a while to spend more time with my American in-laws but I think that’ll be out of the window for the next four years.
Well once the US stops support and drops out of Nato and Putin starts steamrolling across Eastern Europe countries after they decimated what’s left of Ukraine, I’m sure all the borders will be closed.
Not that it does much good. If the option is get tortured and killed or try your luck with an illegal border crossing people will always try. Even if the border police starts shooting like at the North Korean border, people would still try.
Foreigners can’t vote in Dutch national elections unless they are naturalized. And Americans are not very likely to naturalize since it’s not allowed to have double citizenship in the Netherlands and the US has an exit tax when people renounce their US citizenship. So what’s your point ?
I asked on here, but I’m Canadian. I know what is coming up here and it’s worse than Trump.
Can you clarify? I know Canada has many of the same idiots as the US, but still?
Pierre Poilievre is the leader of the conservative party. That party has been in the grips of religious zealots since 2003, when Stockwell Day capitulated the existing Progressive Conservative party to the extremist Reform party.
When he(Pierre Poilievre) was a minister under Stephen Harper, they suppressed scientific research, abolished and ignored environmental laws, ran roughshod over first nations, tried to repeal same sex marriage and tied foreign aid to the passing of strict anti-abortion and anti-LGBT laws in the receiving countries. They also were riddled with scandals, including taking a significant portion of the security budget of a G7 conference in Toronto for various ministers pet projects in their own ridings. They also routinely capitulated to US interests, including destroying BC’s forestry industry by allowing Canadian logs to be shipped directly to the US and not processed at all in Canada.
Also they cut so much from the budget and gave to their friends; as an example, they sold the building space for the control tower for Vancouver Harbour to friendly developers. They also sold the land for Vancouver’s coast guard base to developers, changing their response time from 5-15 minutes to 45-60 minutes. One of the things that helped Trudeau get elected in 2015 was reversing that sale and reopening the base.
Poilievre and the CPC party have been caught at anti-vaxxer rallies, at anti-LGBT rallies, at the anti-vaxxer riots(both the truck border riot and the attempted coup in Ottawa) during Covid, and he has refused to get a security clearance so he and his party have not been willing to deal with known(according to CSIS) treasonous party members, nor have they done or said anything over Moti’s(PM of India) inner circle officially attacking and murdering Canadian Citizens in Canada.
Current polls put his CPC party at getting roughly 60 seats over a majority, and the election has to happen next year.
