Canadian immigration website flooded with US visitors after election

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Canadian immigration website flooded with US visitors after election

Chris Buell

November 5, 2004 10:25:00 am

[JURIST] A website for Canada's Citizenship and Immigration agency was flooded with US visitors following the news of Tuesday's elections results. Officials said American traffic on the site was six times higher than normal, and the previous record for hits in a day was doubled to 179,000. The Canadian Press has more.

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