I have an issue with it personally. We already struggle enough with our cultural identity not being influenced by the U.S. and them seeing as a "safe haven" extension of the U.S. rather than as a sovereign nation, and now we're actively bringing those people in.

Personally I don't care about generation gaps, I want this to be more thorough. In the same way I don't see Jim Carrey, Seth Rogen, or other celebrities that spend over 90% of their time in the U.S. as "Canadian", I don't see the average person who spends all their time in U.S. as "Canadian".

If we want to take in people genuinely at risk, we remove the Safe Third Country agreement. If this country wanted to right historical wrongs, they could have been more specific rather than do this blanket ruling. Like I'm really looking forward to people who have no true connection to this place whatsoever coming in and doing things like complaining about CanCon laws because Dr. Phil isn't on TV enough at best, and moving our politics to the right at worst.

I don't want to see a single American coming up this way if they're either not in danger and seeing us as a "backup" for inconveniences in life they're not utilising their civic duties to address, or if they're in danger and did this to themselves with their voting record (or lack of). If there's anybody we should be bringing in less of right now, it's Americans.

There wasn't much outrage when other policies inviting people to Canada were changed.

If the polycrisis continues and there's a clear line between these new citizens and the problems we're facing, I expect there will be outrage.