Americans Immigrating to Canada to Escape Trump Presidency

Zoey Weinstein

Mr. Roddy

GPHC

1/31/19

Americans Moving to Canada Since Trump Election

When Donald Trump got elected as president, many people made jokes like, “I’m moving to Canada!” But, as Canada’s federal immigration statistics tell us, over the first half of Trump’s presidency, Canada has seen a higher number of American immigrants moving to Canada. As of August 2018, over 1000 more Americans received permanent residency in Canada than during Obama’s presidency. Along with these 1000 more people moving to Canada, student visas of U.S. citizens going to school in canada increased by approximately 1,012. Based on the trackings of IP addresses, ovr 100,000 Americans had at least done research on moving to Canada to escape the Trump presidency. People have looked at moving to many provinces of Canada,many in. Saskatchewan.  American interest in Saskatchewan increased from 0.1 percent between Jan. 1, 2016 and Nov. 1, 2016 to 0.5 per cent between Jan. 1, 2017 and Nov. 1, 2017.
We know that there has been a spike of interest and actual immigration to Canada since Donald Trump has been in office, but there are other theories to why this spike has occurred . One theory regards the value of English fluency. Toronto immigration lawyer Guidy Mamann, stated that being able to speak fluent English is becoming more and more valuable in Canada. This need for English fluency obviously more heavily targets Americans. But again, so many people have shown interest and even took action by immigrating to Canada to escape the Trump presidency. A few days after the election, Canada announced that they would implement new immigration rules to make it easier for Americans to live in Canada and eventually even gain citizenship. The system consists of would-be immigrants needing to qualify for a certain amount of points and then be placed in a pool of other potential immigrants and get “graded” based on education, work experience, official language fluency, etc. Then people will be offered residence out of this pool. This system is unfair because it favors certain nationalities, specifically Americans because they speak fluent English. Although an unfair system, it does help Americans immigrate more easily and due to the nature of the system and when it was put in place, it is highly possibly linked to the spike in Canadian immigration after the election.

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