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First off: I am by no means an expert.
Pretty sure that if you try to cross without a passport you're going to get turned around 90% of the time, with the other 10% being much worse because canadian border cops are cops. Assuming you do get a passport, you could probably get in by a train or bus somewhere in the northeast going to Toronto or Montreal for recreation (6 months with no visa) and then just not leave. You'd be there illegally, though, and you wouldn't be able to get legitimate work without the appropriate visas/permits. They won't give you a work permit as a non-resident if you have a criminal record. Canada actually has pretty strict immigration requirements that you probably don't meet (things like "has a job lined up and your prospective employer has to prove that there is no resident who could do it").
Before all that, though,
isn't some paradise. The last federal election, earlier this year, had the liberals squeak out a win over the conservatives entirely due to reflexive anti-Trump backlash. In 4 years, it's likely the conservatives win, and afaik they're just as virulently anti-trans as the republicans. Obviously you have to decide what's best for you, but in my mind, getting 4 years of extremely stressful illegal existence before the fascists take over up there is not much better than just moving to the pacific northwest or something. Note that all of the trans-friendly places in canada will also be major cities with huge cost of living crises.
E: No matter what decision you end up making, just make sure that you've thought it through, and have a concrete plan.
Under 52(2) of the immigration regs, American citizens do not need to hold a valid passport in order to enter Canada to be a temporary resident (https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2002-227/page-8.html#h-686250). You do, however, have to PROVE your American citizenship which a passport does.
Looks like the options are passport, birth certificate, certificate of citizenship or naturalization, or certificate of Indian status. Never realized you could get in with just a birth certificate. But then again, who carries that with them?
Technically, a US passport that expires during the stay also counts (everyone else, besides the weird exceptions needs to have a passport that is valid for the duration). As far as I know, they might even accept an expired US passport but I wouldnt push that. There were some other exceptions that were up to the minister over they years - like Venezuelan passports even if they were expired were accepted
PNW is full of fascists
but so's everywhere I guess, to slightly varying degrees
True. And you know what, another major thing I overlooked is that canada has a weaker and less well armed paramilitary militia movement.
I’m actually shocked that the Liberals got in again. Nice to see that our voting blocks still don’t want to be bending the knee to US fascists. But yes, I don’t foresee that lasting past next election. That being said I’ve been wrong before.
If whoever's president in 2029 threatens to invade again that'd probably do it, though the conservatives have 4 years to come up with propaganda suggesting they're anti-Trump as opposed to getting caught unaware this time. Outside of that though, I can't see Carney being materially different from Trudeau, and if the government fails to address people's concerns, they will lose long-term. Very classic liberalism.
Yeah that’s how I feel about it too.
Carney is a conservative (was in Harper's cabinet, was a banker in UK and US and is friend with Ghislaine Maxwell) and the canadian public got played by the old 'jangle keys in front of them' into voting for a wolf hoping to keep the bear out. He's now about to sell off a shitload of natural ressources to trump, because he was his chosen plant all along.
I don't follow. Without Trump's threatening to invade, Pollievre would likely have won. Would he not have suited US goals just as much, if not more than Carney?
Why did Trump suddenly do a 180 on PP and started calmly tweeting about how he prefers having a liberal in the canadian parliament. All we hear is "we need to accept X authoritarian, unpopular measure (like pipelines, infringing on indigenous lands, opening natural ressources for exploitation) to combat Trump". But it's his guy: ex Goldman Sachs banker, he became prime minister without elections, he's pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell, plus he made the crown as popular as its ever been in Canada. It was all a psyop and they used the same fear tactics because "PP would be worse". We just elected our Kamala but it didn't even take a token minority person to make us vote for the "least fascist" option.
Pay close attention and you will see that Carney is doing exactly what american and british capital put him there for: strip the copper from the walls while the dumbasses are distracted. Also fuck PP and the conservatives but you cant tell me to vote for a guy that's been under Harper and is a tool of capital to counter "the much farther right than this party already is".
Wait he was in Harper's cabinet?
"Senior associate deputy minister" of Finance apparently. From 2004-2007, so he was actually in with the Liberals for a bit before Harper came in in 2006.
Despite the three qualifying adjectives, it looks like he actually was responsible for quite a bit of policy. I would've figured only an elected representative could become a minister, huh.
Deputy minister (even with adjectives) is a very powerful position in the Canadian federal bureaucracy.