This nurse visited Nanaimo with hundreds of other Americans. Now she wants to relocate there – CTV

B.C. says applications have more than doubled since election of U.S. President Donald Trump

May 19, 2025

A Texas-based nurse is hoping to relocate permanently to Canada after taking part in a festival that invited Americans to visit Nanaimo, B.C., amid turmoil between the neighbouring countries.

Rachael Smith-Taylor attended the event last month and used it as an opportunity to scope out the possibility of starting a new life in Canada.

“I’m a wife in a same-sex marriage needing to get out of a red state,” she said in an interview with CBC News.

She and her wife, Lisa, also a nurse, live in Texas with their three children. Smith-Taylor says the re-election of Donald Trump made them start seriously considering leaving the U.S., concerned about their family’s safety.

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