Jack Jedwab

Well, by and large, over the past, say, 30 years, more Canadians have moved to the U.S.

than the inverse.

We don't have up-to-date data for Canadians moving to the U.S.

because since 2023, there's sort of been a hold on releasing data from DHS, from Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, relative to how many people are entering the States and from which countries they're doing so.

But prior to 2023...

Leaving the pandemic exceptional year aside, more Canadians have been moving to the US to the inverse.

Now, having said that, there has been some uptick in Americans moving to Canada, but not major uptick.

No, I agree completely.

I think there's... And what's created a lot of the buzz lately about Americans moving to Canada has been this amendment to legislation in the country that will make for much greater eligibility for citizenship on the part of Americans if they have deeper ancestral ties beyond, say, first generation.

So that presumably is opening up a path to hundreds of thousands of Americans potentially being eligible for Canadian citizenship.

But

There's a big gap between actually checking your ancestry, which apparently we're seeing some movement in that regard on the part of Americans and actually making the move.

Making the move is a bigger decision.

And so you're seeing a lot of the stories in the media lately about that amended legislation.

In each of those stories, there's someone being interviewed who doesn't like Donald Trump, right?

Who's sort of saying, you know, it's a lot of

unpleasant stuff going on in the US.

There's that ICE thing going on, which is terrible.

And Donald Trump's doing this and that.

So the stories don't look as much about the expansion of the citizenship opportunities they do about politics in the United States and the sort of uneven impact it's having on how people feel.