Canada's immigration website just crashed

The Government of Canada's immigration website crashed on Tuesday night as the US election results were rolling in.

The site went down around 10:30 pm ET Tuesday, followed by intermittent accessibility.

Around 9:00 PM eastern on Tuesday evening, CNN announced that a number of key states in the election including Michigan, Ohio, Virgina and Florida could all swing in Republican nominee Donald Trump's favor. And Google search traffic to the Canada story began to surge.

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Elias Toufexis ✔@EliasToufexis

The Canadian immigration site crashed. That's not a joke, it actually crashed.

4:40 AM - 9 Nov 2016

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Emily Andras ✔@emtothea

The Canadian Immigration website has now actually crashed.#ElectionNight

4:57 AM - 9 Nov 2016 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Kristian Sturt ✔@FootieWriter

Sounds like a joke, but the Canadian Immigration site -http://cic.gc.ca/english  is down due to overloading server issues.#ElectionNight

4:42 AM - 9 Nov 2016

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Here is what the site looks like when down:

Screenshot/Government of Canada

Here is what it's supposed to look like:

Government of Canada