The Canadian Press says there has been a steady increase in the number of Americans applying for Canadian citizenship, with the exception of the year 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Statistics from Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada show the number of successful U.S. applicants reached 11,950 in 2021, up from just 7,655 in 2015 and the highest annual total since at least 1980, according to CTV News Canada.
In total, 70,330 applications from the U.S. have been approved since the end of 2014, including 5,040 in the first five months of 2022 alone.
What is motivating Americans to move to Canada?
CTV News says progressive-minded Americans aren’t lacking in motivation. So I am assuming that we are talking about the progressive movement that took root at the beginning of the 20th century
In the United States, these people wanted to change politics, which was at that time run by big business and corrupt political machines. Most of the people who believed in the Progressive Movement were part of the middle class.
Basically, progressives generally want to change the government in a new way, for the betterment of the middle-class American, Unlike conservatives who want to keep the government similar.
And surprisingly, the motivation being talked about has everything to do with the ultra-conservative political climate that has taken over just about every aspect of life in the United States.
According to the National Post, it’s not just the relentless parade of deadly mass shootings, the draconian assault on abortion rights, or even the prospect of a Donald Trump comeback that is scaring some people.
It instead, seems to be a loss of faith in our government, and more recently, the Supreme Court. Surprisingly, many young voters are coming to the realization that we have a government top-heavy with septuagenarian leaders.
Even I wonder why we have so many elderly lawmakers, and even worse, why not one of them seems to care about what their constituents want. All of them must be hard of hearing because they obviously don’t hear what the public is saying.
A survey from The New York Times and Siena College found that just 1 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds strongly approve of the way Mr. Biden is handling his job. And 94 percent of Democrats under 30 said they wanted another candidate to run two years from now.
Of all age groups, young voters were most likely to say they wouldn’t vote for either Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump in a hypothetical 2024 rematch.
As these young voters have come of age – facing racial strife, political conflict, high inflation, and a pandemic – they have looked for help from politicians who are more than three times their age.
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