Canada Offers Free Land to US Right-Wingers Who Want to Emigrate

[MineralMan]

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]

1. It is good to have nice neighbors ..... good on Canada

[MineralMan]

2. I understand that some of DU's friendly Canadian members helped

to make this happen. None of them, however, live anywhere near Nunavut, though.

[Eddie Haskell]

31. Numnuts sounds like paradise

I'm forwarding the link to my Republican friends.

[CreekDog]

75. that's probably why they offered

[Thinkingabout]

3. This way they could gather their snowmobiles in a circle every night.

[MineralMan]

4. I'm sure they could do that.

Lots of camaraderie and that sort of thing. They could sing famous Canadian songs, like "I'm a Lumberjack" to entertain themselves.

[freshwest]

27. Don't they understand that the land and snowmobiles would be *getting free things*?

Ah, our sneaky Canadian Comrades.

Soon, the winguts will unwittingly:

*Embrace the horde. Serve the state!*

Muahaha!!!

[Beartracks]

36. They only mind when *other* people get free things. n/t

[freshwest]

58. But when they realize that *they* ARE the *other* whirled peas will break out!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. What a generous offer.........NOT!

I suspect that with global warming, soon all of Nunavut will be under water!

[MineralMan]

7. Shh....not a word.

you'll spoil everything.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. LOL! I'm so sorry!

Far be it from me to dampen their enthusiasm!

[freshwest]

61. We're going to have to ALERT some posts... To keep our evil plans superduper secret!

Or we can keep mocking them until they realize that mock apple pie has no apples in it... I'm sure it would improve their thinking if they ate real food...

[Turborama]

83. LOL!

At 1st read I thought you'd said "dampen their euthenasia"!

Bad, bad me!

[bluestate10]

12. Maybe that's the idea. Along with making sure the used snowmobiles can't float. nt

[SidDithers]

25. Nunavut will be like Miami...

It'll be called North Beach.

Sid

[msanthrope]

71. You were behind this, weren't you, you crafty Canuck? nt

[CakeGrrl]

6. BWAH! '40 Acres and a Snowmobile'

I see what they did there.

[MineralMan]

8. Canada's a 21st Century country. Mules are just

too out of date in these times.

[Kelvin Mace]

16. tears rolling out of my eyes

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. for rw's in Obama's U.S. of A. who want nun of it.

I saw them do that too!

[Cha]

32. Rofl

[Coyotl]

70. 40 acres of snow and a snowmobile

All the free snow you can eat all winter long

[Baitball Blogger]

9. And they'll call it Southern Australia.

[Joey Liberal]

10. They would just cut all of the trees down

[bluestate10]

13. And drill for oil everywhere. Hmmmm. You think we should put up sludge wall around them? nt

[Joey Liberal]

15. Yes, they would ruin that environment

They hate trees..............

[sharp_stick]

26. Not that many trees

when you get North of 60.

[Gregorian]

14. Neither link works for me. I'm assuming this is Onioneque.

[Art_from_Ark]

72. And Nunavut is a *territory*, not a *province*

So no, it's not from an official source

[thecrow]

17. I call bullshit

But it is a funny thought

[ClusterFreak]

23. Good call.

[Earth_First]

79. lol

[Auntie Bush]

18. Looks like there's a lot of waterfront property.

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]

20. Even Nunavut is too close for me. Let's get Paraguay to make them an offer. (n/t)

[ThoughtCriminal]

21. Be sure and tell them the bears are friendly

Just like in the Coca-Cola commercials!

[ClusterFreak]

22. Ummm...no.

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]

24. Cluster... I never for a moment thought it was real. Canada is too cool to court freaks. nt

[UnrepentantLiberal]

28. Though there are a few who live there.

[ClusterFreak]

60. We have our share, trust me. Lots of them reside on Fox News North....

...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]

30. You guys have David Cronenberg...

...he could build them a smashing planned community somewhere.

[Submariner]

38. You can't fool us. We know everything we need to know about Canada

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]

56. Ah yes I remember that movie well.

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]

42. Isn't most of that area terra firma only because it is frozen year around?

[MineralMan]

62. No? I was assured that those sites were real.

I mean, who hasn't heard of News You Can't Believe? I'm shocked and disturbed that someone gave me incorrect information.

[ClusterFreak]

65. The sarcasm emoticon is a good thing.

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]

67. If nobody believes, there is no satire.

Sorry.

[ClusterFreak]

69. Many did. Since my first post others have clamored to try and get the joke.

Sorry.

[daleo]

29. Nanuvit is a nice place, in its way

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]

33. Nunavut!

Bring a sweater!

[savebigbird]

34. Maybe they'd be able to see Russia from their front door.

Sorry, but I couldn't help it.

[ZombieHorde]

35. Funny. nt

[NCcoast]

37. But if you want Fox News when you're there

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]

46. Why don't we have a law like that?

I would love to see republicans explain why they voted no on it!

[NCcoast]

87. It would work

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]

39. I'll have Nunavut nonsense!

You're trying to Baffin me!

[Playinghardball]

40. Well...they can't freeze their asses off because they already lost their ass in the election...

[DirtyDawg]

41. Damned clever...

...way to entice polar bear food to the area. Happy hunting.

[Quantess]

43. HA, HA.

Obvious joke.

[knightmaar]

44. Nunavut is a territory, not a province.

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]

45. “lightly used” tar sands land

How about also letting them move onto the “lightly used” tar sands land. After all, they claim that it doesn’t do any environmental damage…

[savebigbird]

57. Ewwwwww!

n/t

[PatrynXX]

47. always preferred Saskatchewan actually

middle of nowhere. although maybe some place there has a small tree area... but yea visit Manitoba from time to time.

[2naSalit]

48. Unfortunate facts for takers...

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]

49. Hahahaha

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]

50. Has anyone had the decency to ask the... Nunavutians..

how they feel about this? :&gt )

[jmowreader]

51. I wouldn't worry too much about the Nunavit natives

Your average teabagger is from the Deep South. Put 'em in Nunavit and they'll freeze solid by the end of the week.

[maindawg]

59. I think

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]

82. Your average roughneck is, too, and they're drilling in Nunavut.

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]

64. The bears are looking forward to the meat.

[Pachamama]

52. The Canadians I know will have "Nun-of-that".... Nunavut - not to be confused with "Nunavik"

...in northern Quebec.....Or "Nunatsiavut", an autonomous Inuit region in northern Newfoundland and Labrador.


Ha ha haaa... Very funny...

[TahitiNut]

53. It'd give "DEW Line" a whole new meaning.

Dimwitted Emigrant Wingnuts

[lovemydog]

54. 40 acres & a drug mule

should be good for Oxycontin Limbaugh.

[DeSwiss]

55. K&R

- And I'm sure that they'll especially loved the hunting!!!

[Botany]

63. Baffin Island might be nice

[MineralMan]

66. Lovely. I'm sure someone will build a nice shack there.

[Botany]

68. of course when the winter comes and the glacier pushes over that rock ......

.... the shack might be in trouble.

[donheld]

73. Oh good. It's the same temperature there as their hearts are.

[redStateBlueHeart]

74. I sure hope they enjoy those 40% income taxes!

And socialized medicine. LOL. I'd love to see them go just for them to experience the shock of it all

[Rosa Luxemburg]

76. It gets awfully cold in the winter!

[Kennah]

84. Climate Change will make it temperate

[RogerM]

77. LMAO

They can secede from the rest of the world into their fantasy land (water)

[Odin2005]

78. Why do want do dump all the idiots on the poor Inuit?

What did the Inuit ever do to deserve being overrun by teabaggers???

[Kennah]

85. Are the Inuit by any chance cannibals? Just wondering. n/t

[Earth_First]

80. At night they can conjure up visions of Jesus from the aurora borealis! n/t

[joshcryer]

81. If this were real I'd totally do it.

I've always wanted some land!

[libodem]

86. Bounce

Bitches!

[wilderness]

88. can anyone tell me if canada does give land to move their

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

[uppityperson]

89. Alas, it is a joke. Here is the link if you'd like to look into immigrating to Canada.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/

Bonus link
http://www.immigration.ca/en/