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As Donald Trump emerged as the winner of the American presidential campaign Tuesday night, 100,000 people in the Unites States visited Canada's immigration website, contributing to a crash.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada confirmed that visitors from the U.S. made up half the traffic on its website when it "started to experience difficulties" around 11 p.m. on Nov. 8. The usual proportion of visitors from the U.S. ranges from 8.8 to 11.6 per cent.
In total, 200,000 users were on the website when it crashed, compared to 17,000 users at the same time the previous week.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday November 13 2016, @11:44AM
At each election, there's a bunch of vocal people who threaten to leave the US. Then there's a spike of visitors to various countries' immigration websites around or immediately after the election results, indicating that a whole lot of people are thinking of leaving the US. But in the end, it's all bullshit and nobody leaves the US.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Sunday November 13 2016, @12:58PM
The funny part is the folks threatening to leave have a major policy goal of increasing illegal immigration... if you're consistent enough to leave, they should be illegals in Canada, just sneak across the border...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @05:16PM
Actually, we're going to immigrate to Canada legally and then sneak back into the US just to screw with the illegal immigrant numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14 2016, @03:07PM
Actually it depends on who is winning...