Unhappy Democrats Need to Wait to Get Into Canada, reads the Reuters headline:

Canadian officials made clear on Wednesday that any U.S. citizens so fed up with Bush that they want to make a fresh start up north would have to stand in line like any other would-be immigrants ? a wait that can take up to a year.

“You just can’t come into Canada and say ‘I’m going to stay here’. In other words, there has to be an application. There has to be a reason why the person is coming to Canada,” said immigration ministry spokeswoman Maria Iadinardi.

In other news, Canada’s immigration policy is stricter than the U.S.’s. Then again, people streaming over the border into the U.S. generally work.

Psst! Hey, disgruntled leftists ? this guy’s still booking one-way trips: