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Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds
(www.reuters.com)
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Please take me as a refugee if/when this happens... I've got an engineering degree and I'm willing to learn French.
Canadians also worry that CANADIAN democracy cannot survive Trump's return to the White House...
A fascist dictator annexing a relatively weak yet prosperous neighbor with a similar culture and shared history?
When has that ever happened?
Yeah there’s a good chance Trump will invade Canada eventually.
It's not about invasion as much as it's about the cultural shift/invasion.
If you are going to leave the time is now. Not when you are in line behind tens of millions of refugees. As I said many times I plan to go down with the ship, but my wife has citizenship in another country and our kids can now legally be there. If/when it goes to hell send them out and I am staying.
Easier said than done. I earnestly looked into it around 2016 and it's not easy to make it in as a citizen, especially if you don't have a job offer. Having an engineering degree definitely helps, but I don't know how much. I started doing Duolingo French because that also gives you some "points".
It just wasn't doable for me at the time.
Luckily you don't have to speak French in 90% of the country.
You don't have to, no, but if you're trying to immigrate, there is a "points" system where you get points for various things. For example, there is a chart with a list of careers, with more valuable/desired fields equating to more points. You also get extra points for understanding, reading and/or speaking French. Higher score means more likely to be accepted.
So if one wanted to maximize their odds, learning French would help.