Or I’m going to move to Spain, because I want to move to Spain, I really, really want to move to Spain right now. She then openly cried, apologizing, “Sorry, I hate f**king crying on camera – is not to give up because this is so important and it’s easy to throw in the towel or we’re going to leave. Handler was also visibly upset, adding, “As a woman it feels so sexist, and I guess the message I want to spread out to other women is exactly what you’re saying – is not to give up.” The senator admitted that she hasn’t spoken to Clinton since her defeat, getting emotional as she said, “I like to write. Do you understand what that means? And I take such solace in this, to know that more people said ‘Stronger Together.’” “But remember, Hillary got more votes than Donald Trump. Her publicist did not reply to a request for comment.“I was just a mess because I thought, ‘Oh my God, they didn’t like me,’” she recalled. When asked by the Huffington Post what she would do if he won, her answer was clear: “Move back to Canada.”Īfter Trump was elected, Campbell noted on Instagram that she was “still very proud to have the honor of living in America”.
Nothing more was ever mentioned by either of them and requests for comment went unanswered by their representatives.ĭuring the election, actor Neve Campbell – who was born and raised in southern Ontario – said she found the thought of a Trump presidency terrifying. The singer Ne-Yo and rapper Snoop Dogg both said they were Canada-bound, with Ne-Yo telling TMZ he planned to become neighbours with Drake while Snoop Dogg hit up his fellow rapper for a “hookup on some property” in Toronto on social media. Their publicists did not reply to a request for comment. Similarly, Barbra Streisand, who said she would move to Australia or Canada, and Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, who pledged he would “definitely move” north if Trump won, have not brought up the idea of moving since the election. A publicist for Sevigny said she did not have any other information on the topic. After telling Vanity Fair that she would escape to Canada’s east coast province of Nova Scotia if Trump became president, the actress Chloë Sevigny said nothing more. Others simply never addressed their promise. But the segment ended with her preparing to head back to the US.
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Raven-Symoné’s promise to move north prompted a six-minute TV segment featuring her travelling to British Columbia, dressed as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer and throwing axes with a flannel-clad man in an attempt to get a taste for life in Canada. “Yesterday, my staff reminded me that platforms and voices like mine are needed more than ever leaving the country is quitting,” she tweeted after Trump was elected. The comedian Chelsea Handler, who had said she was ready to move to Canada if she couldn’t live in Spain, said she had been encouraged to stay in the US. “It’s harder to live, fully and painfully aware of the injustice surrounding us, to cherish and fear your country all at once. “It’s easy to joke about moving to Canada,” she wrote on social media. Days after Trump was elected, Dunham said she would not be heading to Vancouver. As Trump took office in 2017, the number remained stable, with 7,446 applications received in the first 11 months of the year.Īmong celebrities, the follow-through was less certain. In 2016, Canada received 7,745 applications for permanent residency from Americans, a 13% increase over 2015. Media on both sides of the border featured profiles of Americans who had left behind the fraught, divisive political climate of their home country, while others detailed the lengthy, complicated process involved in making the move.īut one year after Trump took power, has there been a surge of Americans – celebrities or otherwise – moving to Canada?įigures from the Canadian government suggest an uptick in interest. Canadian officials even got into the game, hinting that distressed Americans were partly to blame for crashing the country’s main immigration site. The sentiment seemingly continued unabated on election night, sending online searches on moving to Canada rocketing. The actor Raven-Symoné said she had her ticket already and was prepared to “move to Canada with my entire family” if any Republican candidate became president. “I know a lovely place in Vancouver and I can get my work done from there.” “I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will,” Girls’ Lena Dunham told a New York audience in 2016.
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