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Canadians do not favour relaxed rules for Americans’ entry to Canada

| | Nov 12, 2016, at 06:09 am
Toronto, Nov. 11 (IBNS): According to a new Mainstreet Research poll conducted last weekend 5,066 Canadians said they were not in favour of relaxing the rules for U.S. citizens to move to Canada after Donald Trumps is elected president.

The results, according to the survey, were not so friendly. 

Only 11 percent favoured easy rules for the move of U.S. citizens to Canada, 72 percent said they did not want relaxed rules for admitting U.S. citizens to Canada, while 17 percent were not sure which was right, Quito Maggi, president of Mainstreet Research, said in a written statement. 

Maggi also said that the rules for moving to Canada were not so simple. 

“Canada uses a complex points system to determine whether a person is allowed to immigrate to Canada…There are exemptions. Canada has a history of openly accepting refugees, as it did with during the Syrian refugee crisis, but disgruntled Democratic voters would not qualify as refugees,” he said. 

Maggie added that Americans’ entry into Canada should be based either on their skills category or through family reunification. 

"Canada tends to pride itself as an open and multicultural society that accepts people from all over the world, but Canadians do not support any special privileges for Americans who want to move here - they would have to apply just like everyone else", he concluded. 

Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s website crashed Tuesday night as election results were being declared. 

(Reported by Asha Bajaj)

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