Canadian farmer Arend Feenstra, who moved to Russia through a streamlined immigration program for citizens of “unfriendly” countries who share “traditional values,” has complained that he cannot get a permanent residence permit. The news outlet Nizhny Novgorod Onlain drew attention to his YouTube video.
Feenstra received a three-year temporary residence permit in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region in early 2025. He then brought his wife and eight children to Russia and began farming.
But Feenstra has now learned that to replace his temporary residence permit with a permanent one, he must sign a contract with Russia’s Defense Ministry.
They’re not being sent, they’re being called to Alberta. Did you know Alberta has been heavily advertising in other provinces to get people to move there? They’ve been doing this for over ten years now. They have huge multimillion ad campaigns to lure people over.
Read it again. Your recency bias is showing. They flooded out west long before there were any ad campaigns.
Read what again? Where you said it happened over the past 10 years? I also said it happened over the past ten years.
I said 25 years ago it doubled in 10 years. We’re not talking about the same time period.