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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.
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U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday November 13 2016, @12:04PM
Canada to invade the US, depose the ruling class and annex the country
That's called "spreading democracy".
Democracy is usually spread on countries that have oil - and the US has a lot of it. Also, Canada could come up with a pretty convincing file on US WMDs at the United Nations. So yeah, I'd say they have a pretty strong case to start the spreading.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @09:02PM
In the UK, we might consider welcoming the US back into the commonwealth, if they were sufficiently apologetic for the interregnum.