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lidangzzz/canada-run

★ 269 · GPL-3.0 · updated Sep 2022

成本100万人民币拿15张枫叶卡零基础教程(程序员篇)

This isn't a software project. It's a single Chinese-language README (plus a LICENSE file, no code) describing a scheme where a group of people pool roughly 1 million RMB to obtain Canadian permanent residency ('maple cards'), pitched specifically at programmers looking to immigrate. It's a document, not a tool, library, or application.

Hit a nerve — 269 stars and 12 forks for a text-only repo means it spread through word of mouth in the Chinese dev community, which says something about demand for immigration info among programmers. Using GitHub as free, durable, censorship-resistant hosting for this kind of content is at least a clever distribution hack.

Zero code — the directory tree is just LICENSE and README, so there's nothing to evaluate technically and nothing to run, fork meaningfully, or contribute to. The 'README' as given is a single title line with no actual methodology, costs breakdown, legal basis, or risk disclosure, so there's no way to judge whether the scheme is legitimate investment immigration or something closer to a pooled scam. No activity since September 2022 means any claims about program eligibility or cost are almost certainly stale — Canadian immigration rules change yearly. This also just doesn't belong in a developer-repo digest; there's no engineering content here to feature.

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