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Source: http://www.newsyoucantbelieve.com
The Canadian government announced today that they planned to open up to immigrants from the United States. All those who wish to leave the United States after the 2012 election will be able to find a new home in Canada, with all the benefits of Canadian Citizenship. There's only one requirement: All immigrants under this new plan must settle in Nunavut, a Canadian province with plenty of open spaces and very few people. Each immigrant will be given 40 acres of well-situated land, near open water, a used snowmobile, and a sled to pull behind it. With global climate change well underway, new immigrants should find improving winter weather in Nunavut soon. Additional details and applications for immigration can be found at:
http://www.itsnunavutforme.ca
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)to make this happen. None of them, however, live anywhere near Nunavut, though.
Eddie Haskell
(1,628 posts)I'm forwarding the link to my Republican friends.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Lots of camaraderie and that sort of thing. They could sing famous Canadian songs, like "I'm a Lumberjack" to entertain themselves.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Soon, the winguts will unwittingly:
*Embrace the horde. Serve the state!*
Muahaha!!!
Beartracks
(12,814 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)I suspect that with global warming, soon all of Nunavut will be under water!
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)you'll spoil everything.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)Far be it from me to dampen their enthusiasm!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Turborama
(22,109 posts)At 1st read I thought you'd said "dampen their euthenasia"!
Bad, bad me!
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)It'll be called North Beach.
Sid
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)I see what they did there.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)too out of date in these times.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I saw them do that too!
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)All the free snow you can eat all winter long
Baitball Blogger
(46,716 posts)Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)They hate trees..............
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)when you get North of 60.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)So no, it's not from an official source
thecrow
(5,519 posts)But it is a funny thought
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Of course with the rising sea level...they won't have much property to will to their kids. Maybe they will have Polar Bears for family pets.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)Just like in the Coca-Cola commercials!
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)I'm Canadian. This is a joke. Never happened.
First clue shoulda been the fact that both of the websites sourced in OP do not exist anymore, if they ever did.
Second clue shoulda been how incredibly preposterous this whole idea sounds in the first place.
My American friends on DU...for the love of gawd once in a while read a Canadian newspaper, watch a Canadian news network, or log on to a legitimate Canadian news website. And you won't post stuff like this which is and was meant to be nothing more than satire.
Sigh.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)...a.k.a. The Sun News Network...filled with disaffected hard righties from up here, all suffering from advanced stage persecution complex. Kind of the warm up bullpen for Fox News down south...a bunch of wannabes who'd love nothing more than a shot at working for Rupert. SNN also features bootlicking interviews with the likes of O'Reilly, Coulter and their ilk. It's really quite amusing/nauseating...lol.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)...he could build them a smashing planned community somewhere.
Submariner
(12,504 posts)from the movie Canadian Bacon.
That "logic" thing you're trying on us does not work so soon after our crushing defeat of teabagger nation. Please forgive our temporary insanity. You'd have to be from here to fully appreciate the thought of shipping our right-wingers to the desolate far north.
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)It was shot in large part in Niagara Falls, Ontario, about 5 minutes from where I used to work. John Candy was occasionally spotted around town. Nicest guy you'd ever meet from everything I heard.
Gotta watch out for us Canucks though....we're crafty little devils.
RC
(25,592 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)I mean, who hasn't heard of News You Can't Believe? I'm shocked and disturbed that someone gave me incorrect information.
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)Otherwise a straight read of your post leads most to conclude you were serious. Read your replies if you don't believe me....a lot of people believed you.
p.s. back atcha.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Sorry.
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)Sorry.
daleo
(21,317 posts)There are a large number of ice floes in the Arctic Ocean that are uninhabited, though. Of course they are shrinking, due to global warming.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Bring a sweater!
savebigbird
(417 posts)Sorry, but I couldn't help it.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)NCcoast
(480 posts)You'll have to fashion a satellite dish out of caribou hides. I understand Canada has a law against the media knowingly lying to the public.
marlakay
(11,469 posts)I would love to see republicans explain why they voted no on it!
NCcoast
(480 posts)We use to have the 'Fairness Doctrine' that provided that publicly licensed broadcasters 'present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced' Wikipedia. It was revoked in 1987 under the Reagan administration. I consider that repeal, along with the Communications Act of 1996 which allowed ownership of the media to be consolidated into hands of now 5 gigantic corporations, to be the two moves that have spurned a 'conservative entertainment complex' as David Frum just called it (as well as alining the mainstream media with Republican interests). Conservatives saw the Fairness Doctrine to be a impingement to free speech, or more accurately, it prevented them from freely lying their asses off for the purpose of misleading the public into voting against their own best interests. It's been working out pretty well for them up until recently when that 'conservative entertainment complex' began to demand fealty from anyone running for office on the right for the alternative reality they've created.
Rupert Murdoch fought a long legislative battle in Canada to repeal the law that stops people from knowing misleading the public in the guise on news. He lost that battle and in turn decided not to enter the Canadian market. Clearly we should have such a law again.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)You're trying to Baffin me!
Playinghardball
(11,665 posts)DirtyDawg
(802 posts)...way to entice polar bear food to the area. Happy hunting.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Obvious joke.
knightmaar
(748 posts)It's run by a native government, basically.
If I understand racial tensions in the U.S., there might be a problem between rednecks and natives - but it probably won't come to that.
Between the "being really far away from anyone" and the "likelihood of just freezing to death" compounded with the "I don't know your skin colour because you're completely covered to prevent frostbite", I doubt racism will come up.
PNW_Dem
(119 posts)How about also letting them move onto the lightly used tar sands land. After all, they claim that it doesnt do any environmental damage
savebigbird
(417 posts)n/t
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)middle of nowhere. although maybe some place there has a small tree area... but yea visit Manitoba from time to time.
2naSalit
(86,636 posts)and nontakers as well, Nunavut is one of the last not totally over-run parts of Canada where the indigenous folks are.
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/province/nuziqaluit.htm
If this weren't a gag, I'd be upset with CA for making such an offer given what we did here to our indigenous peoples. I can just imagine how the right-wingers from here would deal with finding themselves in the heart of a Native American/First Nations territory (Canada being part of the North American continent). They'd be killing them off with disease and redneckism and totally trashing the landscape in no time.
But a used snowmobile wouldn't last long in a bog!!! Now that part is funny.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)My wife and I are getting a big kick out of this.
Nunavut? 40 acres in Nunavut is like 40 acres in the Sahara Desert.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)how they feel about this? :> )
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Your average teabagger is from the Deep South. Put 'em in Nunavit and they'll freeze solid by the end of the week.
maindawg
(1,151 posts)Santa Clause and the island of misfit toys are up that way. Yukon Corneilius and the Bumble still are roaming the icy hills. And Superman has his lair around there some where. If you can put up with the damd ice road truckers all winter you can hunt Carabu and seals and you can play hockey all year round.
With climate change the permafrost is thawing out so
joshcryer
(62,274 posts)You better believe that there are some of them up there.
(Note: the natives have been typically cajoled into agreeing to mineral and oil exploration.)
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)...in northern Quebec.....Or "Nunatsiavut", an autonomous Inuit region in northern Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ha ha haaa... Very funny...
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)Dimwitted Emigrant Wingnuts
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)should be good for Oxycontin Limbaugh.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Botany
(70,508 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Botany
(70,508 posts).... the shack might be in trouble.
donheld
(21,311 posts)redStateBlueHeart
(265 posts)And socialized medicine. LOL. I'd love to see them go just for them to experience the shock of it all
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Kennah
(14,270 posts)They can secede from the rest of the world into their fantasy land (water)
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)What did the Inuit ever do to deserve being overrun by teabaggers???
Kennah
(14,270 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)joshcryer
(62,274 posts)I've always wanted some land!
libodem
(19,288 posts)Bitches!
wilderness
(1 post)OK I will bite is it true about canada giving forty acres an a snow mobile to us citizens who move their an if it is a hoax well I guess I just look stupid