Travis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Robert Dean" <qualiall at adelphia.net> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] leaving the USA
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> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Date: 2004/11/03 Wed PM 08:14:17 EST
> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] leaving the USA
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> http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/
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> http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6704853
> Unhappy Democrats Must Wait to Get Into Canada
> Wed Nov 3, 2004 02:41 PM ET
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> By David Ljunggren
> OTTAWA (Reuters) - Disgruntled Democrats seeking a safe Canadian haven
> after President Bush won Tuesday's election should not pack their bags
> just yet.
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> Canadian officials made clear on Wednesday that any U.S. citizens so fed
> up with Bush that they want to make a fresh start up north would have to
> stand in line like any other would-be immigrants -- a wait that can take
> up to a year.
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> "Let me tell you -- if they're hard-working honest people, there's a
> process, and let them apply," Immigration Minister Judy Sgro told Reuters.
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> Asked whether American applicants would get special treatment, she
> replied: "No, they'll join the crowd like all the other people who want to
> come to Canada."
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> There are anywhere from 600,000 to a million Americans living in Canada,
> which leans more to the left than the United States and has traditionally
> favored the Democrats over the Republicans.
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