MoveNot.Org

Sadly, many thousands of die-hard libs who promised to move to Canada if Bush was reelected did not follow through on their promises:

Official statistics reveal that in the six months after George Bush won a second term to the White House, the number of Americans who applied to live permanently in Canada did not, in fact, rise at all: It fell.

Canada, which is generally thought to be more liberal than the U.S., was seen as the place to which disgruntled left-wingers from the U.S. would run if President Bush remained in office.

And Reuters reports that "in the days after President Bush won a second term, the number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada's main immigration Web site shot up sixfold."
Canada, which is looking to entice people to move there, was ecstatic, but mistakenly so.

Canadian Immigration Minister Joe Volpe said he'd be happy to accept immigrants from anywhere in the world, but was especially enthused when Internet traffic went up, at least for a while.

"I was absolutely elated to see the number of hits and then my staff said 'You know what? A hit on the Internet is after all just a hit'," he told Reuters.

"I guess I'm happy Republicans and Democrats have found a way to live together in peace and in harmony," he added. (What's he been smoking?? - HolyCoast)

Of course, reality starts setting in when you see what you're really moving to:

Toby Condliffe of the Canadian chapter of Democrats Abroad, cracked, "I can only assume the Americans who checked out the Web site subsequently checked out our winter temperatures and further took note that the National Hockey League was being locked out and had second thoughts."

I doubt that the absence of hockey had much to do with it, but you can't forget their crappy socialized health care system which has Canadians escaping to the US to get treatment.