Canada’s Immigration website crashes likely due to surge of inquiries from disgruntled American voters

It is not just the global markets that is jittery over the prospect of Donald Trump leading the United States for four years. Disgruntled American voters are now looking for options to the country’s north, causing the Immigration Canada website to crash.

While a Trump presidency would result in walls being build down south to prevent Mexicans from migrating to the US, the country’s northern borders would likely be busy witnessing an exodus of Americans toward Canada. Latest results show Trump holding 232 electoral votes versus Hillary Clinton’s 209 as of latest count.

Ahead of the final results, Canada’s Immigration website had experienced repeated outages likely because of an increase in traffic from panicky Americans, Gizmodo reports. Along with the thousands of clicks on the Canadian website, searches for the word “emigrate” also surged in the US, The Telegraph reports.

Detroit Free Press reports that the spike in web traffic from American IP addresses started in March after the start of caucus and primary season. Of the 13.6 million queries received by Immigration Canada, 12.3 percent came from the US. The surge was repeated in June when 10.2 percent of the 12.4 million queries originated from the US.

Not surprisingly, queries to Canadian immigration consultants also went up noticeably, Toronto immigration lawyer Joel Sandaluk shares. “We got more around the time of the Republican convention. It’s slowed down a little bit. There's always an interest in leaving the country if it seems your country is on a path that doesn’t please you,” he explains.