Canada might consider adding such an option, again for the win-win.

I'm sorry, but I don't see it as a win-win to let people become Canadian citizens who have no intention of living here. It just doesn't make sense. We call those people citizens of convenience.

Ask yourself this: If you became a Canadian citizen, and Canada's sovereignty were threatened militarily, would you take up arms to defend it?

If the answer to that is "No"... then it says everything we need to know.

If that's the case, make your application.

I feel like I'm the kind of candidate you personally would want

If the Government of Canada agrees, then you will be granted permanent resident status. Good luck.

I don't know how taxes work in Canada

So typically, when you are interested in becoming a citizen of another country, you take the time to learn about it.

I'm sorry, but you're coming across as very entitled. I don't see why Canada should make special rules for you. We have immigration rules. My family followed them. So can you.

You need to start living in reality. There is absolutely zero chance that Canada will grant refugee status to an American citizen. Even trans people, who are amongst the worst persecuted by the Trump administration, have been refused, because there are still blue states that are relatively safe.

Sorry, but we don't give citizenship to people who don't want to live here and pay taxes. Otherwise, they live wherever and then when they get sick, they come to Canada for free healthcare.

Americans are no more likely than anyone else to bring talent or wealth to Canada, so I think the same rules should apply to them as to any other immigrant.

FWIW, I am an immigrant to Canada, not from the USA, and my family didn't get any special treatment. However, I've lived the whole time since immigrating in Canada, started and ran a company that provided around a dozen high-paying jobs for 19 years, and contributed to our tax base and our exports. IMO, those are the kinds of immigrants we need, not people who live in Asia who just "want" a Canadian passport.

If the US goes down the shitter, that's its problem. It'll certainly hurt Canada a lot, but it's not up to us to provide a lifeline to Americans who don't even want to live here or contribute.

Canada has multiple streaming services. Crave and CBC Gem come to mind; I know there are others. Crave has about 5 million subscribers. CBC Gem is mostly free, but is estimated to have about 5 million free and 450,000 paid subscribers.

Netflix has about 9,750,000 Canadian subscribers, so it's twice as big as Crave. But being half the size of Netflix is still pretty substantial.

Why should we do that? We've cut immigration targets drastically; housing in Canada is crazy expensive.

Americans need to fix their country, not look at Canada as an escape hatch. And we especially don't need people who want citizenship, but are unwilling to meet the basic residency requirements.

Except the streamers won't pull out because even with cancon rules, their Canadian business is still profitable.

You know that Bob and Doug McKenzie were created to both satisfy and mock cancon requirements? They were having a joke at the CBC's expense, but the show unexpectedly became a huge pop culture phenomenon in Canada.

Also. No more trips to or through the USA. I avoid USA products whenever I can. Canceled Amazon, Netflix, Ebay, Meta accounts. Don't use any Microsoft or Apple products. My last tie to US big tech is Google because of my Android phone, but when that one dies, I'm getting either an open Android phone that doesn't require a Google account or a Linux phone. Or even just a dumb phone that can only do SMS and calls, since I don't use my phone for all that much else.

Move to purple states and affect the vote? I dunno.

If US streaming companies don't like the Canadian content rules, they are free not to do business here.

Pretty much every country in the world other than the USA has similar cultural protection rules, and the streamers manage to make their business work anyway.

I love that Doug Ford continues the stereotype of the polite Canadian. We all know that what he was thinking was way worse than what he said.

Donald Trump negotiated and signed CUSMA in 2018, calling it the most modern, up-to-date, and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country.

Then he unilaterally breaks the deal, applies illegal tariffs on Canadian goods (by the way, tariffs are consumption taxes on American consumers, in case you didn't realize that) and then tries strong-arming Canada into giving up its sovereignty.

No wonder our negotiators walked away. Fuck that shit. At this point, it's a trade war, and Canada's not going to talk without an attitude adjustment from the USA. For sure, Canada will feel a ton of economic pain... a lot more than the USA. We will definitely suffer. But Canadians are united and willing to take pain, while Americans are hopelessly divided and completely unwilling to endure any sort of economic pain.

I assume Canadian tariffs will target swing states and MAGA states. Anything we can do to hurt the MAGA bastards and hurt the Republicans' chances in the mid-terms is the most productive thing we can do to get the US-Canada trading relationship back on track.

I didn't comment on the safety of self-driving cars. I agree they probably are or will be safer than human-driven cars. If a Waymo gets confused in a small or confusing street, it'll probably just stop rather than crashing.

Now let's see the statistics for accidents per person-kilometre on public transit vs Waymos. I suspect public transit will come out ahead given that a bus can carry dozens of people and a train can carry hundreds.