🇨🇦 Canada is now handing out passports to Americans shopping for an escape hatch

In just three months, Ottawa issued 4,075 citizenship certificates under Bill C-3, and 1,955 went to people born in the U.S., with another 900 in Mexico. So while Canadians are drowning in housing costs, strained services, and a shredded social contract, the federal machine is busy expanding the passport franchise to people who may never have lived here at all, as reported. Sovereignty, in Trudeau-era and post-Trudeau Ottawa, is basically a genealogy contest with paperwork.

The sales pitch is that this is compassionate and constitutional. Of course it is. Everything that dilutes citizenship is marketed as a moral necessity. Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab said there would be no surge, yet Quebec alone got 3,800 ancestry document requests from abroad since January. Tens of thousands are expected over time, including Americans treating Canada like a backup generator for their domestic politics. Citizenship used to mean belonging to a nation. Now it means rummaging through the family tree until IRCC finds your branch useful.

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