Canada Immigration’s website crashed around 10:30 p.m. ET last night. While no official explanation has been given for the crash, the logical inference is it was caused by too many Americans going to the site to look for a place to flee to after a Donald Trump victory. The outage occurred around the same time it became clear Trump was going to become the 45th president of the United States.
While the ballots were still being counted, searches for “apply for Canadian citizenship” increased 500 percent. There were also dramatic increases in the search terms of “emigrate,” “moving to Canada,” and “move to Canada.”
