Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

[PPCLI Guy]

Sarah Connor not seeing the research conducted prior to accepting an AI overview. It is a tool. Probably less biased than shouting podcasts with doomscroller titles...

 

[QV]

AI Overview



Americans move to Canada seeking increased social stability, safety, and a better work-life balance. They are primarily driven by progressive social policies, gun control, universal healthcare, and the desire for a calmer political climate, though many find the process difficult without a specific job offer. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key factors attracting Americans include:

• Safety and Stability: Canada typically experiences significantly lower rates of violent crime and gun violence compared to the U.S. [1]
• Healthcare: Universal healthcare provides a safety net, although users on platforms like Reddit highlight that wait times can be long and finding a family doctor can be challenging. [1]
  • Work-Life Balance: Generous statutory vacation time, mandated paid leaves, and a generally slower-paced professional culture draw many workers. [1, 2]
  • Social and Political Climate: Many Americans relocate to escape volatile political cycles or to seek communities with more progressive policies regarding reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and environmental protection. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Despite these draws, relocating can be challenging. As discussed on Reddit, opinions are mixed regarding finances; expats note that moving often entails a higher cost of living and lower salaries compared to U.S. hubs, along with strict immigration requirements. Many Americans utilize specific economic programs like CUSMA (the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement) or are sponsored by Canadian spouses. [1, 2, 3]

I asked AI to give me data on comparison. Numbers, reasons, demographics tell an ugly story for Canada.

Direct Comparison

Feature	Canadians Moving to the U.S.	Americans Moving to Canada
Annual Volume	~126,000+ total individuals	~7,500 to 11,000 permanent residents
Total Diaspora	~828,000 Canadian-born residents	~256,000 American-born residents
Primary Motivations	Housing affordability, lower taxes, high-salary corporate jobs	Universal healthcare access, specific work or study programs
Demographics	Highly educated professionals, young buyers, retirees	Older median age, non-citizen transiting students/workers

 

[Infanteer]

I asked AI to give me data on comparison. Numbers, reasons, demographics tell an ugly story for Canada.

Direct Comparison

Feature	Canadians Moving to the U.S.	Americans Moving to Canada
Annual Volume	~126,000+ total individuals	~7,500 to 11,000 permanent residents
Total Diaspora	~828,000 Canadian-born residents	~256,000 American-born residents
Primary Motivations	Housing affordability, lower taxes, high-salary corporate jobs	Universal healthcare access, specific work or study programs
Demographics	Highly educated professionals, young buyers, retirees	Older median age, non-citizen transiting students/workers

This drain is happening - good think tanks are talking about this.

A decade of lagging productivity and business stifiling regulations have done this. Ottawa bureaucrats, bloated by 50% over the same time with sinecure and iron-clad benefits, think everything is just fine.

 

[Czech_pivo]

I asked AI to give me data on comparison. Numbers, reasons, demographics tell an ugly story for Canada.

Direct Comparison

Feature	Canadians Moving to the U.S.	Americans Moving to Canada
Annual Volume	~126,000+ total individuals	~7,500 to 11,000 permanent residents
Total Diaspora	~828,000 Canadian-born residents	~256,000 American-born residents
Primary Motivations	Housing affordability, lower taxes, high-salary corporate jobs	Universal healthcare access, specific work or study programs
Demographics	Highly educated professionals, young buyers, retirees	Older median age, non-citizen transiting students/workers

Dude, this is the same as it’s been for the last 30+yrs.
It’s the same as when I left Canada in 93.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Dude, this is the same as it’s been for the last 30+yrs.
It’s the same as when I left Canada in 93.

Exactly. Individual people make individual choices, and always have. If the flow has been, over the long term, relatively stable, then it would seem that the aggregate of those individual choices is not necessarily a commentary on the current political climate., much as one may hope.

 

[QV]

Dude, this is the same as it’s been for the last 30+yrs.
It’s the same as when I left Canada in 93.

That's not a good thing, Czech_pivo

 

[QV]

Exactly. Individual people make individual choices, and always have. If the flow has been, over the long term, relatively stable, then it would seem that the aggregate of those individual choices is not necessarily a commentary on the current political climate., much as one may hope.

It's a commentary on the system long-term, a slow bleed that has not been good for the country.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

That's not a good thing, Czech_pivo

It is just a thing. Facts are not, in and of themselves, good or bad.

The fact that it is persistent suggests much deeper roots of some type, rather than the introduction of some new variable.

 

[Czech_pivo]

That's not a good thing, Czech_pivo

Overall I agree with you that losing some of your population yearly is not a good thing.

If the trend, overall, has been steady - as @PPCLI Guy pointed out - then the 'issue' is neither good or bad overall, its just there, like Dandruff that sometimes is an embarrassment but overall you just deal with it.

Some people 'cross the border' back and forth a number of times in the life - school, job, retirement, whatever. Hell, Dougie Ford loves to prattle on and on about his years working/living in the US whenever he's on CNN having a lovefest with Wolfe Blitzer.....

 

[PPCLI Guy]

It's a commentary on the system long-term, a slow bleed that has in my opinion not been good for the country.

A valid personal opinion. But not a fact.

In my opinion, this is not a slow bleed. It is an overpressure valve used by individual Canadians and Americans to change their own circumstances, to the net benefit of both countries, as it provides options for individuals to choose. If an individual doesn't want to be Canadian anymore, I absolutely support them in that choice, and I am thankful that they have a readily available option.

 

[QV]

We're losing more high skill than we're gaining. This is a loss, and in my opinion not good for the country.

The number 1, 2, and 3 reasons for which people leave is directly a reflection on government policy direction. Something that can be adjusted to slow the bleed.

 

[Czech_pivo]

We're losing more high skill than we're gaining. This is a loss, and in my opinion not good for the country.

The number 1, 2, and 3 reasons for which people leave is directly a reflection on government policy direction. Something that can be adjusted to slow the bleed.

I know personally a fairly large number of these 'high skill' individuals who moved to the US. ALL of them still consider themselves to be Canadian, all still have family here and still regularly come back here to visit. The MAIN reason that they left was the chance to become a BIG fish in a BIG pond. When you have a skill, the drive or an ability to be extremely good at something, the majority of those type of people want to be challenged and they want to go to the biggest, largest arena that's available to them and prove to themselves just how good they believe that they are.
Not a single person that I know who moved to the US (or Europe in a few cases) left Canada because of Politics, or 'high' taxes, or whatever gripe you can think of - they moved because they wanted to see if they could prove themselves in an arena of 350 million vs 39 million......

 

[mariomike]

Hell, Dougie Ford loves to prattle on and on about his years working/living in the US whenever he's on CNN having a lovefest with Wolfe Blitzer.....

Our loss is their loss.

I kid. Gentle good humour/ humor with love.