Anti-Donald Trump protesters march to Trump Tower in Chicago on Jan. 20, 2025, as he was being inaugurated in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
The Conversation: The American mass exodus to Canada amid Trump 2.0 has yet to materialize
As written in The Conversation by Dr. Lori Wilkinson, Professor, Dept. of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba.
In February 2025, the New Republic, reported there were a growing number of Americans who wanted to leave the country following the election of Donald Trump.
Canadian reports backed up the assertion, particularly the news that three high-profile Yale professors would be joining the faculty of the University of Toronto in the fall of 2025.
For some Canadian observers, it may feel like a case of déjà vu. After Trump’s first election in 2016, some media predicted a sharp increase in Americans seeking to escape their country’s harsh social and political climate for Canada’s “sunny ways.”
According to Google Analytics, web searches originating in the United States involving “how to move to Canada” increased by 350 per cent on election night in 2016. A few months earlier, they’d increased by 1,500 per cent over normal search rates for the same phrase in March 2016, when Trump clinched the Republican nomination for president.
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Research at the University of Manitoba is partially supported by funding from the Government of Canada Research Support Fund.