A government spokesperson confirmed the I migration, Refugees and Citizenship website was flooded with a huge increase in traffic Tuesday night as it became clear that Donald Trump had a good chance of winning the presidency.
Canada's citizenship and immigration website experienced a huge spike in web traffic from the U.S. just before it crashed on Tuesday, as results from the American presidential election were rolling in. (THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Canada’s Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship website crashed on U.S. election night when it was flooded with a huge increase in traffic from Americans looking for advice on how to move north, a government spokesperson said.
Late-night traffic to the immigration website from Americans was about five times higher than usual on Tuesday, spokesperson Sonia Lesage said.
Site traffic on Tuesday night rose dramatically as it became clear that Donald Trump had a good chance of winning the presidency.
A number of U.S. citizens have said they may consider applying to move to Canada if Trump follows through on proposed policies such as mass deportations of illegal immigrants or the reopening of international trade agreements.
Immigration lawyers have warned, however, that the process to move to Canada can be long and complex and may cause a number of potential U.S. emigrants to reconsider their plans to move north once they learn more.
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The site crashed late Tuesday night and remained down until shortly before 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Lesage said a “significant increase” in web traffic and technical difficulties was found to be behind Tuesday's site crash. The website is now fully operational.
“At around 11 p.m. (Tuesday night), when we started to experience difficulties, there were more than 200,000 users accessing the site,” Lesage confirmed. “At that time, American IP addresses accounted for approximately 50 per cent of the traffic, followed by Canada at 37 per cent, then Australia at 3 per cent, and U.K. at 1 per cent.”
These figures don’t include any users to tried to access the site but were turned away and received server error messages.
“On average, the percentage of users from American IP addresses ranges from 8.8 per cent to 11.6 per cent,” Lesage said.
“The volume for this time period is significantly higher than the same time the previous week, when the website saw just over 17,000 users,” Lesage said.
Users trying to get onto the site were redirected to a page reading “there is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.”
Also on Tuesday night, Google Trends saw a surge in searches on Canadian immigration amid projections that Trump would take key swing states.
Starting at 9 p.m., Google Trends in the U.S. saw a surge in the topic of Canada and the election, amid CNN projections that Republican candidate Donald Trump would take key swing states, including Florida.

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