on this episode of "united shades of america." i'm where a lot of americans wish they were right now. canada. i want to find out what that is and find out whatever she is doing. i got into show business so i could stop sweeping. it's united shades of north america. i'm headed to canada to see if it's the progressive dream that a lot thinks it. my name is w. kamau bell. as a comedian, i made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don't understand. and now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out

and experience all the cultures and believes that add color to this crazy country. this is the "united shades of america." canada. to many americans it's a utopian version of the united states. it's supposed to have everything. like the mom in commercials who nailed the work life balance. allegedly canada has it all, racial harmony. no gun violence and doctors handing out free health care like the weird deuced on college campuses handing out credit card applications don't take it. when the going gets tough some americas talk about getting going. >> canada's immigration website has crashed. >> funny how americans didn't crash mexico's immigration website. but is canada all that awesome in all hugs and snowball fights? and is everything covered in grave judge? now i want a gravy covered

snowball. pitch that on shark tank. once we get past assumptions and generalizations how much do we know about our neighbor to the north other than circle bacon and the prime minister is superdreamy. i'm guessing not a lot. are they like an upgraded perk or expansion pack like spelling color with a up before you consider packing up the family i'm thinking statistically my viewers are tinking about going. i'm going up to see if rocky 2 better than the original or just overhyped and kind of sad. but no better place to start than los angeles, california. i'm trying to fake you out. it's just that there is one thing that canada has given the united states, it's their funny people. like a lot of them. jesus, what are they putting in the water up there? i wasn't be surprised if all the funny canadians are lichaj in

russell's house he has the room. >> thanks for letting us come here. >> thanks for coming. >> i appreciate it. nice house. >> a little something jokes wrote. >> you invited my fireman. i can't bring my wife here she will get mad. she thinks i'm doing well. >> you are. i'm doing show boaty. >> russell peters is one of the biggest kmeetens in the world. he is one of the few comedians whose act works. he can play anywhere. lithuania, dubai, south carolina. and he got a netflix special. he hang out with the people like the king of jordan process who ulsle cause abp no biggy. russ sell way too successful to be talking to me. >> you didn't grow up in a house like this did. >> you no i did not. i didn't grow up in one wing of this house. >> talk about that growing in toronto. >> yeah, i grou up- dsh living in torrent of until i was about 5 and then my family moved to

brampton, 20 minutes outside of toronto. now brampton is little india. when i g back, i go damn. and my mom says too many. you can leave if you want. >> toronto gets credit for being racially diverse and ethnicities but your suburb didn't have that. >> mine had it but it was blue collar. i hung around the black kids because they weren't picking on me. the white kids were. they wrn picking on me out of hatred she they just didn't know what that is. we know the become guy but what's that. >> a lot of times americans associate ktd with being we don't associate canada with being bullied. >> canada is going through a renaissance of new identity we're not the soft kid we used to be. especially toronto with drake and the weekend and bieber all these people really bigging up my city, it's becoming a

desirable place to be from. >> when you hear about americans talking about canada like around the election and if trump wins i'm moving to canada. if bush wins i'm moving to canada. what do you think about when you hear that. >> it's a nice sentiment they think of us as the safe haven. >> why do you think canada has that reputation and being so inclusive. >> because they are. it's not so much reputation as it is a fact. >> how do you feel about the country doing now in the world. >> it's doing great things. it's very canadian what we do. not upsetting anybody. laying low trying to give you all the good things. you want good music. try brake and weekend. start a war? no, we're good. thanks. you want to let transgender in the military you want homosexuals bring them all in let everybody. >> you want free health care we'll take fwloo. >> are you a citizen of the states. >> no. >> are you a thing you are interested. >> i'm going to wait see what

happens. >> is that because of the current climate. >> i don't know what's going to happen here. >> you are dsh dush might find yourself on the bad end of the st. croix o stick. >> i don't want to build a railroad for anybody. >> anything americans can learn from canada. >> what they can learn from not judge just canada and but the rest of the world. low crime rates and they take care of people. it has to start from the government. you have to pay attention to what's happening in the rest of the world. but take care of the people. and maybe start taxing churches. i'm just saying. we'd get out of debt if we did that. >> hashtag just saying, guy. >> hashtag just saying. >> "united shades of america." dear foremothers, your society was led by a woman,

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my first stop in canada is toronto, ontario with estimated population of 2.8 million, it's the largest city in canada. but despite what many think it's not the capital of canada. that's on the wau. which i hear isn't as fun so we don't go interest. but torn o is a global center for business, arts and most importantly there you can get a latte with ryan goslings face on it. >> where are you from. >> i'm in oshawa. >> and this american thing is coming out are those both in canada? >> yeah. >> what would you say the biggest difference canada and the united states of america.

>> canada no matter where i go people are really informed on what's going on in canada and the world. and some places i go in the u.s. don't know a whole lot. i have to be cautious what i say. >> i can't act like that's not true. >> it's not like what's happening in the u.s. is a lot more. >> let's talk about this what do you by what's happening. >> south of the border type situation. >> south of the border in this case i do. from where a what your perspective what's going on south of the border. >> people are staying in section, whether white, black, asian. i think that in canada as a whole there is a lot more of that understanding, you know, there is a lot of americans that come up here and they go, oh, really like that up here? i can walk safely, do this, it's always that. yeah this is canada. >> yeah, yeah. man everybody i've talked to up here loves canada. maybe i should look into asylum.

but what about the over a million americans moved here are they happy to leave the home of the whopper? i'm meeting with one of them to see what pushed him over the edge. >> this is canada crispy. >> have you picked up eh. >> that was the first canadianism i adopted. i can't say i was an early adopter but an enthusiastic one. >> mark is a four-time hemy winning former news correspondent who used to have hair like an 80s music video. he is also an author currently writing about americans emigrating to canada. and he serve as a press sec for jerry brown in 1992. if you are an outraged liberal thinking of moving to canada he is you in the future. >> a lot of americans idealize as this is the playing to say to go. if things get bad i'll g to canada. nobody does. but did you it. >> yeah you did. >> you and your which have did

it. >> we did when trump got elected i stayed up to catch the results. >> you were that guy. >> i was like oh. >> you were counting the votes. >> i never underestimated the conservative nature much american politics but i did this time. and my wife and i i said time to hit the road. we had the house on the market in two weeks. >> two weeks. that's serious. >> yeah. i really want to make it clear that my wife and i really worked hard when we were in america. we weren't just in there whining. >> you weren't sitting there reading the evening paper what's the problem with this. >> what's going on deb by. >> while you're flipping the channels. >> when we made the decision it was really thought out. the truth is we had been thinking about it for a long time. when i turned 18 and had to register for the draft i applied as a conscientious objector. except the the lottery came appear. and i had a high number so i lucked out. >> in 1969 canada passed a law

allowing fo u.s. immigration regardless of military status. which meant if you weren't down with uncle sam's war you could crash with uncle buck. >> tens of thousand of conscientious objectors had a safe haven suddenly. the prime minister of canada, pierre trudeau was so popular at the time he could have beaten beaten richard nixon if pierre had been allowed to run for president. and boy have things not change. now pierre's son juft isn't the prime minister of canada. and he is so popular he is actually on the cover of rolling stone magazine. and justin followed in his father's foot steps by making canada a safe haven for immigrants from around the world. >> the thing that every time the u.s. invaded another country it was like, not again. not again. >> yeah. >> when we came across the border we are driving in and when you see the canadian flag all of a sudden my wife is sighing and so am i. we're both going, ahh. i think that was thes emotional

response of two americans who were no longer living in the country constantly going to war. that's a hard thing to take. that's a burden americans have that even progressives i don't think quite get it. >> you don't feel it. >> you don't really feel it. and we didn't expect it. it was just out of the blue. it hit us. it's like. >> what was the biggest adjustment you and your wife had to make upon moving to canada, things you weren't prepared for or were surprised by? the biggest shift was the cultural one. there is some and must. it's subtle most of the time directed towards americans. i think we as americans coming to canada need to be particular license active to our natural arrogance. presumption. >> yes and that's what i think even when some liberals and progressives say if such and such a candidate wins i'm moving

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one thing our countries have in common is a love of sports. it's just sometimes we love different sports. sure canada loves basketball and football. kind of. but their national past time is hockey, not baseball. and canada has one sport exclusively owned by them. well until this year's olympics it was. am i right, gold medal? i already feel like i'm not good at this. while curling is a sport that originated is 16th century scotland. it's now as canadian as americans wanting to move to canada.

curlers come from all over the world to compete petition they even put curling heroes on stamps. >> welcome to the canadian curling club. >> this is chad mcmullin a former manager of the wormed curler frags. a thing i didn't know existed until i said it. >> what is this. >> this is what we do when not playing hockey. >> okay. >> two teams, four people per team trying to slide the stones as close to the center as they can. who ever has the points at the end of the game win. and then to the bar. >> i do notice there is a bowling lane vibe. does it take up a similar space as like bowling, leagues people doing it after work. >> it's similar. it's a lot of league play, hanging out after with opponents. we have a program calls rocks and ring we're taking to the schools. we are trying to reach more people so it's not the same people playing the sport. >> by the same people. >> i mean white people. the sport is very white.

>> okay. >> there is no getting around that. it's probably whiter than gol zbloof a white man comfortable talking about his whiteness in a non-threatening way. canada does that are the. >> we don't have a tiger woods yet. >> you can be thefers one. >> what if i find out this is the thing i should be doing. what if i retire from this show because i find out i'm the greatful naturaler curler in the world. >> start working on the passport tomorrow. >> are you the only black curl ner canada? there are two of us. no, seriously. >> where are you from originally? that didn't sound canadian. >> i grew up in jamaica. >> you grew up in curling in jamaica. >> you guy have the bobsled team. i saw the movie. >> i watched curling for a couple of years. it was so intriguing. >> what was intriguing. >> it's like kmes on ice. >> intriguing. >> it is more than you imagine.

>> people watch. >> you and they think i'm insane. >> theeninged changed you. >> a helpful tip. >> yes. >> a helpful tip, stay low to the ice and it will hurt less when you fall. >> oh, good. because you know i'm going to fall. this is abbyp she got stuck teaching me because she is canadian she is being nice about it. >> okay. >> left foot back a little bit. then the left foot slides forward into a nice lunge. >> like that. >> exactly. >> okay. these jeans are too tight. i'm blaming the jeans. >> i'll go with you on that. >> these are the skinny jeans. i should have wore my dad jeans. >> this time with the rock. >> okay. >> and slide it forward. there we go. >> oh, camera guy down. >> oh, oh. >> sorry, patrick. nothing against you personally. you know i love. >> you patrick still hasn't forgiven me.

>> either i'm out of shape or this is more athletic than i suspected. >> which is it. >> probably a combination of both. >> that's nice. >> even her laughter is polite. >> and now we sweep. you have to keep up to the rock and can't touch it. >> this is the way you the way you treat the rock johnson. that's how his assist works. don't touch the rock. >> and start walking. >> that was the wrong way i should have gone this way. >> come on, hurry. hurry. all right so it is in play. we're in play this time. >> we're in play. am i ready to play a game. >> i think you're ready. watch the rock. watch the rock. >> did you see that?

i'm going to rewind that part. didn't even fall. oh, damn it. >> there we go. oh >> that's my signature move. my michael jordan jump man. doing a black power fist on ice. >> wow, it's going to make it. >> whoa. >> was that good? i'm going to choose to believe that was good. so there you have it my jamaicaen friend, you're not alone. now there is three black curlers in canada. now i'm going to change these pants. >> announcer: "united shades of america," brought to you by red lobster. rimp summerfest is back! with lobster and shrimp together in so many new ways. like new cedar plank seafood bake, roasted to perfection.

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i don't need somebody in canada to tell me that health care for everyone is better than what we got in america, health care for some sometimes for some diseases as long as you get the right job and keep that job forever. let's start with the problem we have in common, president opioid epidemic. both our countries are in the midst of a public health crisis but canada is doing something different. they are offering supervise the drug injection clgs, a place where you are allowed to illegally shoot up illegal drugs and then go home without fear of prosecution. don't misunderstand.

hard drugs aren't anymore legal in canada than the united states but canada chooses to treat the drug problem like it should be treated, as a health issue not criminal. let's see if you can tell the difference. >> i urge anyone using the illicit substance to do something so in the. >> just say no, don't do it. >> that's not even his line. he stole it from nancy regan. >> we have to be willing to let go of old stereotypes and old and sadly ineffective solutions. >> much better, eh? canada elvis presleys the responsibility of the community rather than the failings of the individual. >> we're in the injection room. >> okay. >> so this is where we have five booths. so people come in with their drugs. >> this is shaun hopkins.

she managing the first legal consumption site called the works. >> we have all the injection supplies to do a safer and hygienic injection. they are assigned a booth. >> the intention is to give people a safe space to inject in a sterile place. >> um-hum. >> how much then is it encouraging people to get off drugs. >> it's not our kind of first thing that we talk to people about, right? we are talking about what are you using today? have you overare overdosed in the past? is there anything we need to to be worried about in terms of drug use and if they say i'd like to get in treatment we'll help them get there. >> what's been the response from the city of torrent of to know they've been here. >> we've had a lot of support. people see value. they don't want people to die because they are using drugs. there is less public injection, des discarded supplies on the

street. this service in terms of or harm reduction meets everybody's needs. >> while the works just who said in august of 2017 they hope to have the same success as other programs across canada. take vancouver for instance. in the last few years drug deaths tripled. but amazingly one clinic reported in 2015 they intervened in 4922 overdose was zero deaths. starting in spring 2018 vancouver will test out atm like vending machines that distribute clean pharmaceutical opioids they hope provide clean drugs to people. let's hear from my favorite canadian again. >> nobody has died in a supervised consumption site. >> that stat is the the reason in 2018 seattle is leading the way in opening the first clinic in the u.s. >> it all starts from the place of we have to accept that people use drugs. >> i think there is sog hirntly

canadian about harm reduction and accepting people where they're at. >> that could be. it's the canadian way. >> it's the canadian way. theening way of doing health care is a single payer system. and because that's quite literally a foreign concept to most americans let me explain. single payer health care is financed by taxes and covers the cost of essential health care for everyone. one more time for the politician in the back. it covers the cost of essential health care for everyone. so instead of a bunch of insurance companies making up their own rules and pharmaceutical companies charging hundreds of dollars for aspirin is goes threw a single public system. something bernie sanders was trying to bring to the u.s. and he enlisted the help of author dr. danielle mark. >> this should be less pressure than against a u.s. senator. >> now you're on my territory. home game. >> if i brought to you the u.s. i would have been like super -- if you haven't seen the clip of

the doctor. >> on archl how many canadians wait li die on a waiting list. >> i know there are 45,000 in america dying because they don't have insurance at all. >> when i watch it i feel like it's sort of low grade rap battle. >> nice. nice. >> you won. >> that's great. >> there is times i want to go, ooh, yeah! >> i think the thing about the american health care debate is that it seems to be pretty loose on the evidence. >> yeah that's the kind of thing we do in america. it's not just limited to that debate. we don't like facts influencing. >> get in the way. >> so one of the defining features of canada in the eyes of america maybe the eyes of the world is health care. >> it is a defining feature and it's a defining feature here too. i think in many countries seen as bizarre. how could an insurance scheme become a national symbol? but in fact actually in canadaway we call medicare which

is the single payer publicly funded health care system has become sort of a symbol of who we are. and how we take care of one another. and what it means to be canadian. those kind of fundamental answers to values-based questions like do we place well being above wealth? do we believe that good eliot health leads to other good outcoming a strong economy and more cohesive communities. when we poll canadians and ask them what makes you proud, the health care system comes up at the top of the list ziet the fact that we have huge problems in the health care system of course like every country. but the core fundamental value that is define it have sort of become symbolic of the country. >> i spent a lot of my career not having health insurance and when i got sick and have asthma. i was always trying to get through clinics. >> that must be scarey. >> low income places can i have an inhaler so i don't die?

>> i have to say that is a totally foreign concept to me what you have just described. let's rewind and imagine that you grew up with asthma as a young kid in canada. you would have access to primary care physician or team and if you got sick or needed to go to the emergency department, if you ever needed to be admitted to the hospital which happens to kids with asthma. >> happened to me several times. >> all that would have been covered. that's a fundamentally way humane way to run the health care to me. luckily it's also kpkly mart. but we don't have pharmaceutical included in our public plans. and so the prescription for your the puffer you would have been on your own. prescription drugs if admitted to the hospital are covered but in the outpatient environment they're not covered. that's one of the things we're fighting for here is the inclusion of prescription medicines in our public insurance plans. but the experience that you're describing of the childhood and adolescence doesn't really happen here. >> yeah, for me, like to see the

look on your face when i say these things make me say this system isn't work. >> it's not. that much is clear. we know the american system is the most expensive in the world and yet fails to cover tens of millions of people. >> that's the thing i think is the most maddening about the american rk you can get sick and become broke being sick. >> you have a single payer health care bill that's been proposed now in the u.s. the world is watching to see what happens with that bill. because it's a compelling drama. your country is embroid in right now in many ways. >> yes it's become a little too compelling thanks for talking to me. >> thanks for having me. >> i henderson my inhaler is called a puffer. makes asthma adorable. >> i can use my puchlt uffer so i don't die. thank you. >> thanks a lot.

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again. sell me on canada. i'm an american. you know my country is going through a hard time. maybe i'm looking for a place to live. >> i love the diversity. i think it's special. >> diversity. >> diversity seems like a big thing. standing here the last half hour i feel like i've seen one of everybody. >> it's universal. everybody everyone treats everyone as if they've been best friends for their whole life you can turn to anyone. >> people, color on our stage is not always the best. things happen. no, police officer. how is that up here. >> i like the police. >> wow. >> you guys don't have that thing where something bad happens man should i call the police? no they'll make it worse. >> no, no, no you call the police. >> really. >> for sure, yeah. >> what's that like? >> feels good. >> yeah. >> so while the word on the streets of the farmer market makes it sound like canada does a better job of protecting minorities. canada has one thing in common

with the united states process. but unlike us their leader admits it's a problem. >> for indigenous people in canada the experience was mostly one of humiliation, neglect and abuse. >> today i'm at the native child and family services of torn o to meet with malina, an activist and member of the a tribe from northern alberta. >> a lot of people in the united states idealize canada. one of the times i got push back is from the indigenous people up here. they say. no, no, no don't high pressure thp. they do a lot exactly as poorly as u.s. >> they are better altelling the story. in america it's left out of the history books of the treatment of the indigenous people. the government attacked our spiritualty which was foreboden until the '60s which was part of

the indian act within we didn't have the ability to vote as an indigenous vote. there is a lot of thipgts that people don't raeltz about canada which are still playing out stloo why does canada have a better reputation. >> better pr. >> better pr. >> when i dou up it wasn't in the history books. i felt isolated. it was shameful to admit you are even native. one of my first memories is being called a dirty indian at the age of four. this is the history of canada. so i think a lot of times people like to i tealize that that didn't happen here, you know. so we have had the truth american reconciliation commission now, the first time ever the government has in a way, like, aapologized for the genocidal treatment of indigenous people. >> truth and reconciliation in the states we do more of a nobody wants to hear that crap kind of thing. but in canada they had a six-year investigation that uncovered stories we like to leave buried in the united

states. generations of indigenous children being taken from families and sent to schools that forced them to forget languageage culture. >> the work that all of you are part of will ensure that is never again. that is a promise we make here. >> it's important to acknowledge the past but also important to ac knowledge ongoing grievanceance what the future looks like. >> so last season on the show we did an episode about indigenous people starting with standing rock and pienl ridge in south dakota. a lot of people were upset that i hadn't covered indigenous women. and i looked it up that's when i realized a lot of the activism in the work and talk about the work is done up here. >> well the issue of emerging and missing indigenous women and girls has been a longstanding issue within our communities. the rcmp is the royal canadian mounted police, the fbi i guess of canada. and originally they said, only 500 are murdered or missing.

and then event hi when the new government came in and they agreed to a national inquiry they were like actually it's 4,000. there's been women that have gone missing and murdered from coast to coast. that's a part of our history. >> and it's a part of the united states present. in 2016, there was 5712 native women and girls reported missing. and between 2013 and 2016 there have been only 14 federal investigations and two prosecutions of these cases. while women in north america of all races are victims of crime, many activist point and socioeconomic conditions and the history of colinization that they believe empower would be attacker who feel they can get away with the crimes. and the numbers prove they often do. >> i know that attacked you personally with your sister bella can we talk about her story. >> yeah, yeah. i sister bella was a beautiful

young 25-year-old. she actually came when she was about 22, 23 to toronto. she came to study. and she wanted to finish her degree in the fashion arts here at one of the colleges. and actually graduated three months before she was found dead. >> i want to thank you for telling your story, her story. i'm sorry. >> it's okay. it just gets kind of, like -- there is no resolution, you know. >> um-hum. like what happened? why? how? who? it feels kind of oddly reminiscent of the rest of the lack of justice that exists for indigenous peoples in canada. >> malina is strong to be an

advocate for her sister and others. and even the canadian government is making strides. it's clear they have more work to do. but i can't get too judgmental because they are way ahead of the u.s. we have shared history though. there is a belief there aren't a lot of black people in canada. but we're here and how we got here is yet another way the two countries are connected. >> before we begin i'm just going to say gnaw may not do too much talking, because you have some laryngitis. >> i'll try. >> that's what black women got to do. do thework. my voice is gone but i show up and do the work. >> shannon and brian prince live in bucks ton ontario the largest freed slave center in canada. she is the a kurt eighter of bucket are bucks ton mumds and her husband has written several becomes on the underground railroad in canada. in canada? >> we have in simple narrative of the states of black people

enslavingment to the north for freedom. you we define the north asset philadelphia, boston, which i think is ironic especially thinking about boston. yeah, i'm free of racism. i'm in boston. so to me it really makes sense that there would be some people who are like i need to get out of this united states system to find my freedom. >> there actually was slavery in canada, something a lot of people didn't know. >> yes. >> and it ended in 1834. after that period you see more and more american blacks coming into canada. but particularly after 1850. >> in 1850, the united states congress passed the fugitive slave law. it rird that all black people who skapd enslavement, even those in free states, had to be returned to the white people who owned them in the first place. not surprisingly most black people were like, hell, no. and many of those people said screw the united states nonsense

i'm headed all the way north. they fled to canada via the underground railroad. between sell 34 and 1860 an estimated 30,000 people crossed into southwest ontario. the idea of the underground railroad seems like something from history. but with the current administration trumpeting it wants america to go back to the past, the train once again pulled out of the station. taking trump's anti-immigration rhetoric sowers so while president trump hasn't fulfilled any of the promises to bring back jobs, coal and pride he has brought back the under ground rail road all aboard. >> we were able to share stories with the run away slaves themselves, they risked all. the most touching thing you have

museum are these shaq ls. we take this when we speak to school groups and let the children put them on and they are so small they will only fit the ankles of children. these are children shackles? >> yes. >> oh my god. wow. some people want to think that happened a long time ago and it doesn't involve me, to think these were once around the ankles of children, little kids. >> yeah. >> this is a heavy burden to carry investigating this history and your family personal history. sometimes it might be overwhelming or gets hard. what keeps you going? >> it does get hard at times. i'm going to cry.

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languages. our guy is still working on the one. i'm here to take the i'm dwrammn test to see if i'm canadian material but i want to experience as many things as canadian as possible, which means gravy. once we turn the cameras off, you'll tell me how to make the brown sauce. >> i won't. >> being home. ♪ do you want to build a snow man ♪ acting like a true canadian and ignoring the cold and i don't know if throwing axes is canadian but i'm doing it. winter is coming. yeah. [ laughter ] >> you better ask somebody. >> i couldn't resist that joke and i should have. but it's time to take the immigration test and the person who is going to help me with that is corey carl. she's the author of the book

moving to canada, a detailed immigration guide from two americans who have done it and developed an online quiz that helps americans determine if they qualify to move here. we got to be qualified? >> show me how this works. >> we made a little quiz based on government website. >> okay. >> so let's see if you can reach canada. so you weren't secretly born in canada, right? >> no, i was not secretly born in canada. >> and your parents aren't canadian citizens? >> unfortunately, no. >> passport? you're already here so -- >> finally a yes. >> have you ever been convicted of a crime? >> no, i have not. >> that makes things easier. >> lose you some points. >> do you have a job lined up in canada? >> there seems to be choices here. >> if you can get your company to transfer you, you're basically set but it's hard to set that up. >> i got to say no. this is too many noes. >> are you married to a canadian? >> no. >> are you no good health? >> if you are diagnosed with

cancer and you're like okay, canada, no, it's too late. it's like buying health insurance five years ago. you have to get in while the going is good. >> if i'm regular american high blood pressure and black guy asthma, i'm okay? >> they don't care. >> any canadian working experience. >> i come here and do standup comedy. does that count? >> no. >> how old will be be in three months? >> we just met each other and i don't appreciate that. 41 to 49. wide range of ages. >> highest level of education. >> wait a minute, a high school diploma from america doesn't count? >> no. >> so i have none of the above. they are saying i'm illiterate. do you own a startup? investor? no. i don't have that. a lot of noes. no canadian ties at all other than the under ground railroad

stops. >> so you would be out of luck. >> that's almost all the ways you can legally move to canada so start unloading the u-haul. >> you're out of luck but you would qualify as a world class actor, writer, musician. you're on tvr now, you're good. >> i'm literally on tv now even though i failed the regular way, i got in through my television show. thanks, guys. without you i couldn't run screaming from the united states into canada. i appreciate it. do they have cnn in canada? yeah, i'm moving to canada ain't as easy as screaming at the tv when the news makes you mad. canada doesn't want any american, the good americans, the americans with their own tv shows because even though they are far from perfect, they got a pretty good thing going on. so even though it's not the perfect winter wonderland we imagine it to be, it's a country

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