[LINK] "Disenchanted U.S. voters look with longing eyes to Canada, but few follow through"

[rfmcdonald]

The Toronto Star's Dan Taekema reports on those few Americans who actually do move to Canada as a sign of political protest.

“I think very few people who say they’re going, have any idea what it all involves,” said Lee Rowan, an author who moved from Ohio with her wife in 2007 and settled in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. “It’s complicated; you don’t just throw a bag in the car and drive north.”

Rowan’s father was a PoW during the Second World War, and the 63-year-old said watching American officials gloat about torturing prisoners during the Iraq War left her “horrified.”

Adding to the allure was the fact that three years earlier their home state had outlawed same-sex marriage; meanwhile Ontario was one of the first North American areas to make it legal.

“We were thinking, you know, this system is so screwed up there may be no hope left and we started really thinking about Canada, which seemed to be sane.”