AKIPRESS.COM - Canada’s official website providing information on immigration and citizenship has been experiencing repeated outages, presumably due to a surge in traffic as Donald Trump grabbed an early lead in the U.S. presidential race, said RT.

Just as the race was kicking off many Americans joked that they would move out of the U.S., namely to Canada, if Trump won the presidency.

It may be a coincidence, and may not be, since the site already crashed earlier this year – when U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump declared victory on Super Tuesday. Surprisingly, the search trend “how can I move to Canada” spiked violently that day, just as it is doing at the moment, according to Google statistics.

Searches for the word “emigrate” also jumped in the United States as the Republican steamed ahead in Tuesday’s election, the Telegraph reported.

Even ahead of election day, many celebrities expressed their discontent with Trump's anti-immigration and borderline racist remarks, and have threatened to leave the U.S. if the Republican wins.

The Breaking Bad TV series actor Bryan Cranston suggested that he would leave the U.S. for Canada if the Republicans win. Other U.S. stars like actress Barbara Streisand and Stephen King said they were planning to leave the U.S. should Hillary Clinton lose.