You're correct! I'm Canadian and left that country as well. I have an amazing life in Asia now. Canada is not what it used to be it's completely fell apart.
Canada ranks as the 25th most expensive country to live in the world, cheaper than Ireland, Austrailia and NZ to name a few.. The US ranks 12th most expensive. The grass is rarely greener on the other side.
The thing is we need immigrants to keep our economy growing, but a growing economy is what is making our housing costs so high. We need a very major recession - a rapidly shrinking economy - to bring down housing costs - and housing costs are the primary reason why immigrants are leaving.
@@peterwhite507 With housing costs in major urban centers doubling in the last five years or so, the data you are looking at needs to be very current to accurately reflect the situation. I believe the issue of negative immigration has only recently become a concern. The comments that I have seen from people who have decided to leave have mostly been about salaries being insufficient to cover housing costs. Keep in mind immigrants would have to be renters or new buyers, so they bear the full brunt of rapid real-estate inflation.
There also high taxes, over price rental place to live, bc high car insurance and no fault policy. No rental caps and protection people can just raise their rent as long as they want. Etc..
These are universal issues. In many parts of Switzerland people are struggling to find a flat or even room to rent that they personally go from door to door to ask people or to leave letters in their post box asking for help with finding a place to rent ! It's ridiculous.
Good luck finding a country where the more you earn the less you get taxed, by just telling you all the countries who have that system are drowned in misery that goes from lack of essential things like even clean water to civil wars. And believe it or not there are countries that have even higher taxes than Canada and have a better life quality (the nordic countries). People must remember that taxes are in favor to them, sure unless the country is horribily corrupted but that'snot the case of Canada.
I was born in Canada 73 years ago and I would be the last one standing in Canada. I have never thought about leaving my home. Once people realize that most other countries are having the same problems, they will be back.
I lived in Canada, but I came back to Brazil. I got a job at Tim Horton's and spent 8 hours working no break time, no food. The other one I just couldn't use the washroom so filthy It was, It was a factory. Me and my husband knew How to speak English. We both took IELTS before going there and he was studying Arts at a College. Here, I am a teacher. In less than a month back, me and my husband got good jobs, we both have majors. Canadians ARE really friendly, honest and polite, but they hardly ever invite you to their houses. Here in Brazil It is Very Common to have a coffee at someone's house, chat, have barbecue. Most of my friends in Canada were foreigners or Italian or Lebanese descendants because they are more open to friendship. It's Just not worth It, too many cons.
I have visited Canada for the first time in 1978 and again in 2006. My ex-wife is Canadian. I am not sure why Canadians have this reputation of being friendly. They are not impolite but they are definitely not friendly towards newcomers. I have lived in Germany, Italy, Greece, Thailand and my current home Australia and those countries are much friendlier than Canada.
We are scrambling for our own resources that have been built for us and were meant for us by our parents and grandparents. It's not that people aren't welcome it's that we are now going without.
Visited Canada and thought Canadians were very passive-aggressive and like to take digs. They will casually make comments about your appearance and other personal things out of nowhere and dont seem to think it is rude. Some are friendly, but being rude with a smile on your face isn't nice. I also wasn't an immigrant just visiting. I would describe Canadians as being more fake than friendly.
Canada is not livable anymore. Housing crisis. Cost of living. Homeless crisis. The most expensive groceries and services. Opioid crisis. Underpaid wages Nobody wants to actually solve these issues
First and foremost, Canada has a society problem. It is devoid of energy. To much rules, and restrictions. Lacks social activities, lacks life and energy in essence. People become bored, isolated, depressed and preserved. No social interactions, no competitiveness, no sport, no outdoors, no zeal, no enthusiasm. People barely talk to each other for fear of some dump privacy and security. Then on the other end for professional, too many protocols and licensing requirements for every single thing. It is just too laidback for a modern society. For me, I think the society needs to open up.
Over the past 3 years, and especially in 2023, I saw that immigrants from India literally flocked in high numbers to the small norther town where I've lived for decades. They're now the majority of workers in most retail positions. This influx has caused severe housing shortages. These newcomers aren't working in the construction industry. Some of them are buying and renting houses, driving up the housing prices dramatically. EVERYBODY is now suffering from the hyperinflation on housing prices and everything else. Our quality of life has plummeted. It isn't rocket science: allow huge influx of immigrants, and inevitably the result will be inflation, lower wages for competing workers, increased housing prices and dire housing shortages. Whoever planned this must have been aiming at destroying Canada.
I live in a small northern city. East Indians, Sheiks, pouring in for years buying everything. They do nothing for the community. Don't forget they were given everything. Now they have entitlement. Little Afghanistan Canada became...
As an engineer, I'm doing my best to leave Canada for the USA. Lack of jobs, affordable housing, high taxes, and I just never felt like I belong in this country. I honestly would rather take my chances in the south. I'm tired of struggling here.
@@HenriqueMartins.English Multiple issues, being that Canada is not tax friendly, or start-up friendly like the USA is. There is a culture for academics and reasearch, but not technical innovation.. There's a desire for comfort and security, but not for pioneering and trying something new, failing, and trying again. What I have seen is that USA will develop something first, then Canada will slowly adopt it. What Canada would need is a shift in it's culture. I think a non- US examples to look at would be Israel.
This has been building for at least two decades and I'm surprised that only now people are talking about this. There are few reasons anymore for quality immigrants to come to Canada. The only people coming here and staying are people coming from God-forsaken places that make Canada look like paradise, or wealthy investor immigrants who buy property here and maybe only live here for six months of the year.
Exactly. As a European and EU citizen who lived in Canada for 13 years I don't see any good reason for Europeans to emigrate to Canada anymore. Canada is only worth it if you're from a very crappy third world country or warzone.
Coming from a Canadian citizen, bad government policies all around for the last 8 years is a major reason, but also Canada has become a culture of virtue signaling, leading to valuing foreign aid, migrants and refugees over its own citizens, also accommodating of oversea values and beliefs that immigrants brings into the country over its own founding values and culture.
Canada receive WAYYY too many immigrants. There is nothing wrong with immigration when you can actually handle the new immigrants. The housing, school and health system cant handle the constant high influx of new citizens. That's why the housing market is insane right now.
I feel even more sorry for the immigrants who have to deal with the realities of the cost of living crisis and not a great job market. I feel like there have to be solutions that must be better.
I have met immigrants in Canada who told me that they wanted to immigrate to America and couldn't, but their goal is still to move there. They are trying to use Canada as a stepping stone.
Its because US pays 125k for the same job and experience u get 90k in Canada. Thats why left my last company due to unfair trade practises with no justification. Canadians are not cheap alternatives for US employees. We must stand for our rights.
Immigrants have been doing that since as far back as the 1970s. One lady I knew came to Canada in 1973 from India when she married her husband (who himself left India for Great Britain in the early 1960s, then came to Canada in 1966). They lived in various places in southern Ontario, then moved to Houston, Texas in 1981. Afterwards, the couple separated a few years later, with the wife moving to Columbus, Ohio in 1986. Husband developed liver cancer in the late 80s, died in India in 1991. Wife passed away just last month. Two sons are cardiac surgeons, third son works in IT security.
I was flying back to Toronto from Europe. Person nearby was from Pakistan. He told me his is flying to get his kid passport. It was around 2005. "Take Canadian passport and move to better place" he told me. By 2022 I realized he was 100% right. It is way less expensive to send kid to Germany for university, rather than paying to ripoff rent, tuitions and food in greedy Toronto.
I moved to Canada from the UK in 2008. I've married, got a good job, bought my own home. I love Canada and Alberta, but if Trudeau was to ever win another election I am going to sell up and move back to the UK.
These politicians talk incessantly about those poor refuges living on the streets. They never mention the 500,000 Canadians who are homeless. The government of Canada is ignoring the desperate Canadians who have nowhere to live and nothing to eat. I'm not against immigrants or people of any nation, but we have a serious homeless problem in Canada and it seems senseless to continue to fork out our Tax dollars to those who have contributed nothing and ignoring the needs of it's own citizens. This is a disgrace and completely unacceptable.
With all my respect Canada needs the immigrants to keep its economy going. The rate of growth of population is 1.1% per year according to the government while the sustainable rate is 1.7% per year i.e. you need bring the difference 0.6% per year from immigration otherwise the Canadian economy ca not function However, homelessness is one the problems Canadians are facing due to lack housing national and provincial policies. Let us face it, more than 50% of Canadians are living below the poverty line, I may say : Seniors, people with special needs, single mams, natives !!! why ? Is Canada a poor country !!!! Absolutely not !!! However, corruption and mismanagement is eating 60-70 % of Canada's revenues As an Example : Canadian oil is giving away to American companies almost for free in return of of a royalty fee 3-5% , so, American sell our crude for $100 per barrel but Canada gets only $5 from this $100 , same thing is happening in our mining industries : Gold , Copper, Uranium. Because, Canada DOES not have enough refineries to produce its gas it needs therefore, it has to buy it from USA at a market price !!! Canadian electricity is more worse, Qc sells its electricity To USA at 3cents per KWH then Ontario buys it from USA at market price 50-75 cent per KWH Canadians are ripped off : for every Dollar the government gives to a special needs or welfare candidate, the government spend $10-$20 to manage this ONE Dollar, things are more worse with natives : the government spend $20 to $30 to manage each Dollar a native candidate gets !!!!! Probably !!!!!! Now , You know the reasons behind Canadian 's poverty symptoms including homelessness !!!!!
Canada in general has to go through a “infrastructure revolution” to grow any further. there is not enough cities, roads, housing to sustain our current growth rate. There needs to be a massive investment in the infrastructure which also would create a ton of jobs.
Agreed. Single family exclusionary zoning, parking minimums, lot area minimums and so much more have created unsustainable urban sprawl and made it Uber expensive to build anything. We really do need less red tape, less regulation, and less staunch zoning control
My family came to Canada 30 years ago. My father and siblings worked very hard to build a business that provides services to the public. My spouse works harder now to provide half of what I grew up with. I wonder how they will provide for their families. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to live a decent life. It’s not the Canada I grew up in. It makes me sad my children are not growing up with what I had. The taxes are high and expenses are high. Trying to own a home is near impossible. It’s a challenge to keep going. I don’t have anywhere else to go let alone my kids. Hope things change for the better for our children’s sake.
@@wysetech2000 There are many that are much better. I emigrated to Canada and have done very well, but the country has massively deteriorated in so many areas since the 1990s.
I lived in Canada since I was 19 years old, for 13 years, and I finally left for Switzerland 3 weeks ago. Trudeau broke Canada and turned into a very dark and depressing place.
@@valeriylipikhin94 Canada was a pretty good place before Trudeau. For the life of me I don't understand why Trudeau Jr. was elected three times in Canada.
I only received a PR card and returned to my home country. There is absolutely no reason to live in Canada with wages that are below the cost of living, crazy prices, murderous monthly rent, and medical services that are frozen in time.
Canada loves to market itself as the best country in the world to live, unfortunately u need to come see for yourself before running for your life, leaving is a smart move, good luck!
Well, part of the problem is 'true' Canadians are not serious about perpetuating their identity. What I mean is they failed to sustain a replacement level, something that led to the aging population. Then, comes the conservatives and blame the liberals; when in fact it's the computer that took the decision to bring an X number of foreigners. And what exacerbates the situation even more is the shipping of jobs overseas, mainly to Asia. So, here the conundrum, bring swathes if people to what? Practically nothing. Then, comes another actor in the demise of Canada: Democracy. Voting became like a catwalk event where politicians with no skills display their incompetence to a meek and gullible crowd.
500k immigrants per year of LEGAL immigration alone (without considering illegal and students) is the size of Mississauga per year to build. the sheer amount of logistics, infrastructure around this is insanely unsustainable. Let alone the natural growth of the population
I moved to Canada with my parents over 33 years ago. About to pack it up and move back to Europe, and I am taking my Canadian spouse with me. I wish my parents never immigrated here.
@@kate57425if you go to Europe, choose Germany or the United Kingdom. The downside to the UK is that you get no EU passport (Brexit) if you want to work and live in different EU countries with ease. If you choose NA, then the obvious answer is the United States. Far more better job opportunities, especially if you are in a highly skilled profession or have an advanced degree. The ceiling for money to be made is higher in America than in Canada. The USA attracts both “refugee” type of immigrants and highly skilled professionals. Canada only attracts refugees who wants an easy way to naturalization and hog up the healthcare system.
@@kate57425 It depends on the industry you're in, but generally if you want stability and to never have to worry about healthcare, employment rights, unemployment money, a comfortable middle class life, then choose Europe, especially central Europe. Taxes are high but the things your taxes pay for are available to you when you need them. For example, I unexpected needed several surgeries, I paid nothing for the hospital or doctor's visits and since it was an urgent medical condition, I didn't have to wait on a long waiting list or anything. As far as the crime rate goes, I definitely feel a lot safer here overall and even though we live in an uncertain world, things are more stable here overall, I would say (although naturally the start of armed conflict in Ukraine definitely had us all on edge for a while.) However, in the US, in certain industries you can definitely make more money than you would make here in the EU and less of it would go to taxes. Depending on which state you choose to live in, you might only have to pay federal income tax. It's definitely more of a business-friendly country if you want to run your own business. But healthcare could be a gamble unless you make sure you get on a good insurance plan and locate yourself in a city or town with access to excellent hospitals and medical centers (like suburban Boston, suburban Philly, New York area, etc.)
When my family immigrated to Canada it had integrity, freedom and was respected globally, for me Canada lost this when Canada pushed Manufacturing out of Canada, as far back in the late 70's early 80's - This was the first exodus from Canada, most left and never came back, this is also when Canada stopped competition is all sectors, food and groceries/ banking, insurance/real estate/engineering, this all happened under Pierre Trudeau. Fast forward here we are again under a Trudeau and the exudes is greater, people are not leaving in larger numbers- Affordability/ failed medical system/corruption in government/ lack of completion/ Failed promises/crime/terrorism sympathizing and hate/drugs/ child exploitation/indoctrination/ Gender madness/woke/ immigration/refuges vetting/.....This all happened under the Liberal/NDP cartel and again under another Trudeau..... Now there is talk about bring in more immigrants, when we can not deal with our current population and the hype of Job jobs is made in Canada only unless you wish to be a Taxi driver/food delivery or be on a government payroll or embrace one of the growth sectors in Government services/Food Bank volunteers, fast food and again as a last resort more taxi drivers.... Canada is broken.
Some are Canadians of Convenience. They go back home after receiving citizenship. Take, take and give little to nothing in return. When war breaks out, they are suddenly Canadian again and taxpayers have to bail them out. Macleans magazine had a write up on car insurance fraud in the early 2000s. Some area codes in Ontario found it very difficult to attain insurance bc of the ppl living in those areas were so crooked. Pretend whiplash claims left and right. The accidents were caused by the so-called victim. Now, as a result, we have no fault insurance. Everyone pays much more regardless of track record.
@@cinnamonrollypolyUSA is a cutthroat capitalist nation with a severely broken Healthcare system. The average American is also less educated and significantly more prejudice. Source: my dad's a trucker in the USA
A country is like a business. You don't put someone in charge you doesn't know what they're doing. That's exactly what happened. What happens when you do that with a business? It fails and it fails quickly. That's why in 8 years he's pretty much managed to ruin everything. The worst part is his ego. He forms a partnership with an even smaller minority government just to save his bacon. That's the real problem. When push comes to shove, he can't even acknowledge He's a failure and instead we all get stuck with him for another 2 years. Only a person with very little integrity behaves in that manner and as we've seen over the years he has none.
Canada was never in favor of immigrant professionals, and have always used the highly skilled doctors to fill labor roles even though they invite them on fasttrack visas. These people have massive egos and nothing to show for it, they think their medical programs are better than USA and apparently you need to waste a decade of your life to prove to them that you're up to "Canadian Standards" which honestly aren't that great. Canada likes to keep the bad news hush hush, promoting a false, overly positive image of the country while the reality is different. Once you're landed, you've fallen in their trap.
We all know that the core of the problem is an immigration policy (not the immigrants) which is completely disconnected from the rest of the picture. Immigration targets have not been built in conjunction with housing and transportation programs, and it would seem that we are not bringing in the sort of labour we actually need - skilled trades ready to build homes. It rather seems that immigration policy has been crafted in lock-step with fiscal and monetary policy in order to push back on wages and expedite the financialization of everything, especially housing. In short, it seems to be part of the plan to move towards a digital feudalism, where capitalists are vassals of the owners, who make their money through rent-seeking.
There are plenty of skilled tradesman willing to build homes, and yet many are unemployed. What is happening can be explained by Austrian Economics. Read “Economics in One Lesson” by Hazlitt, and “Whatever Happened to Penny Candy” by Richard Mayburry.
We don’t need to bring in skilled trades. We don’t need to bring in anybody. We have plenty of ppl here who could be trained to do these jobs, and I suspect it would be cheaper to subsidize the costs of training and educating domestically than it is to absorb hundreds of thousands if newcomers a year. A young friend just got into welding and, after finding out how much he was making, his PHD neuroscience proff of a roommate started asking him about getting into the trade lol.
I've heard some insider stories of the justin trudeau Liberal cult and it's worse than you think. The bureaucracy and management brainwashing of their staff by diminishing them as 'unwanted guests' in Canada is truly frightening. No wonder every aspect of government under these libs has been failing. How do you expect productivity and positive minds to accomplish anything when they are being dragged down a hell hole!?
to be that wrong on everything proves you have a job and safety net to live through this mess. We need to cut taxes, drill for oil, build housing, repair infrastructure and fix the medical system. Cutting 40-to 50% of the gov't fat and not spending money on other countries and political pet projects would do a lot of that !!! We don't need ONE more immigrant until we have these things fixed. And they are going to stop coming anyway.
Please, be careful! Do not let just anyone come into this country and work here without some kind of "Canadian experience". I am one of them and had to go back to school for a year and did several placements to understand more how things work in Canada.. it was a wonderful experience and I learned so much. I know SO many doctors who got their license in other countries from a very bad university, I hear them talking and I think "how on earth did you become a doctor?". A lot of them were never good students to begin with, they just signed up for classes and got the spot at a university and are now doctors. My point is, while things should be easier, the Canadian government has to make sure that we are bringing good quality into the country and not only good quantities.
I have a heart attack when they talk about lowering barriers to entry. I had two successive botched C section jobs done by foreign doctors (Tunde-Byass and Mei-Dan of North York general hospital). Tunde-Byass left me with a scar so thin is was spontaneously rupturing a subsequent pregnancy. Mai-Dan left the wound 100% dehised and infected with fecal bacteria. It was left undiagnosed and I was suffering for a year. Neither of them gave me an in person appointment to deal with the hack job they left me with. They do not give a d--m about Canadian standards of professional conduct. I got amazing service and an actually competent repair done by an American doctor for $12,000 USD, which seemed like a steal to me! Believe me, you do not want free garbage healthcare.
@@MedicalAutonomyProject Just because you had a bad experience, it doesn't mean everyone of Canadian doctors are bad. The experience I have had for my 73 years has been great. Very few complaints.
We have enough people as is. The problem isnt that we aren’t welcoming, but that our govt thinks its a good thing to bring in millions of people with no place to live and drive up housing costs.
Well, maybe you should take your Family the the Ukraine and live with the war and deaths. That's why our immigration is so high. We opened the doors for the Ukrainians to give them a safe place to live.
When the rate of growth of the Canadian populations is 1.1.% per year and the sustainable rate is 1.7% per year this means Canada has to cover the difference from immigrants to keep the economy going !!! However, housing problems, high cost of living, very bad health care and services are there because of the corruption and mismanagement of our governments we elect !!!!!!
@@wysetech2000 It isnt just Ukraine, it is a majority of Asian and South Asian people who have taken over the cities. Not to mention a huge influx if other nations such as Central/South America and Middle East. Visit the major cities most are asian/south asian
Many become a citizen of convenience and have no interest in being Canadian. This needs a major overhaul. You become a citizen and don’t pay taxes here you lose citizenship and all benefits. Too many becoming citizens of convenience. Pay your dues or leave.
You didn't really listen to this upload, did you? They listed a plethora of reasons why they leave. It sounds like you didn't want them in the first place. And if you were to actually think about it, you may notice that the people whose land was stolen from them, feel exactly the same way about you. Funny that jo. 🤣
Where are the numbers showing they don’t pay taxes? If anything, we have more freeloaders living here that are 3rd generation immigrants than actual recent immigrants😂
You're so right, and not only that those people when they find themselves in trouble in their home countries they expect and get Canada to pay for their flight back, like Israeli Canadians of ukranian Canadians or any other group, I say you left Canada you are on your own
I lived in Canada since I was 19 years old, for 13 years. I had a job in Canada even before I set foot on Canadian soil and 3 weeks ago I finally left for Switzerland because Trudeau broke Canada and turned into a very depressing place. As an EU citizen I can work and live freely in at least 27 countries and I don't want to live in a country that's packed with homeless drug addicts who act like zombies and young people can't afford to buy homes and start a family. Switzerland is also expensive but at least the wages make up for the cost of living.
Canada is becoming unaffordable for even the middle-class, while oil companies, grocery stores & bank shareholders enjoy tax breaks. Owning a home has become impossible for many, many people now and, they see the writing on the wall.
Most Chinese international students choose to go back to China because Canada is undevelopped compare to the cities they came from. But for people from poor countries, Canada is heaven, have many babies and the government pays for it.
Canada is unfortunately sliding across the board. I’ve returned back after being away for 16 years and to say it’s been disappointing is an understatement.
@@wysetech2000 thats exactly it, I've watched us stay stagnate as I visited my parents every year and now found that we've been passed by as we stay doing the same things.
Canada has become a bleeding heart nation for war torn countries and third world immigrants. Just like the US, we have switched from a manufacturing/production society to a nation of consumerism. That's why all the jobs here are customer service based. People realize this, tuck tail and go back home. We need to take care of our housing crisis.cost of living, homeless and look after our seniors. It's a disgrace what's happening here. We have bigger fish to fry.
Came to Canada from Kuwait looking for a better future. Big mistake, shouldn't have flapped my gums at work, i had a decent banking job with a career and a future. Now im stuck driving a effin truck with a bachelors degree to make slightly above average with 0 appreciation from the public, and a middle finger to say thank you for my 70 hour work weeks. I see my bed once every 3 days. I sleep next to rats and roaches in truck by the ports. Belittled by port workers and customs agents. Barked at by everyone down to a forklift driver. Looked at as lesser of a human because of the colour of my skin. What a horrible life :( My sister has already left and she was a dentist in Toronto. My mom went back ages ago. My dad is the only one wanting to stay to take care of his elderly patients, many rely on him. All i do is pay taxes and hide my money in the business, what a corrupt and horrible financial system.
That's so weird. In the US, we know we need truckers so we respect them. Conservatives love truckers because of their work ethic. Also truckers tend to be patriotic because they see so much of the country and grow to love what they see while driving. Liberals love truckers because most truckers come from working class homes. The trucking industry is one of the few industries that is diverse and equal, a liberal's wet dream. Both conservative and liberal politicians try to represent truckers to get their votes. They're a desirable voting block that wields power. Truckers are painted with a positive image in movies, music and TV. The American trucker is somewhat of an icon. I'm surprised Canada has a different view of truckers.
I left Toronto 20 years ago after living there for 8 years. I didn’t feel welcome and was worried about my livelihood. A lot of Canadians I’ve met were very close-minded and not friendly at all. They weren’t interested in other cultures and would rather hold onto stereotypes against “others”.
Why would they wanna be interested in other cultures? They don't have to, it is you who should be interested in Canadian culture or what's left of it... you are in Canada, it's is not canadians that need to adapt to you
@@sarahsokalhow are the conditions in Montreal? Better than Toronto? Is it more affordable in terms of housings? Are there challenges regarding health care system where people have to wait lot at hospitals like most of Canada? If you can please provide me with details
@@ghassanjneinaty4421 Better than Toronto but it's not saying much. Most jobs require french and the Quebec gov is only interested in putting language laws (gets the votes). The emergency rooms in hospitals are overflowing and you can never get an appointment for a doctor. On the plus side, housing costs are a lot better than the other provinces, Montreal as a city is very walkable and bikeable which is a real plus. Transit is great so you can live without a car.
Because of Trudeau’s socialist liberal policies and the national media support of such policies,we as Canadians don’t have anyplace to go. But as an “irregular traveller” you can become a citizen of our land and go back to where you came from. As long as the Canadian taxpayer will look after you wherever you are and whatever you need. I wish as a Canadian we would have that kind of support in our own country.
When I migrated twenty years ago from Ukraine, we had to apply and wait for 2-3 years for visa. Application form had questions about education, work experience, health, criminal records. You had to get certain amount of points to get permission to come. Looking at population in Canada right now, I doubt most of newcomers had to go through the same strict selection.
@@Itsameya 😂 how do you define barbarism. I would agree that Canada is pretty barbaric for killing millions of indigenous people and stealing their land and forcing their children to residential schools
The best option is the U.S. Same language, short distance, and better pay. I'm not sure about any foreign government assistance. Most countries don't want poor people. They just want your $$$.
People who immigrate to Canada receive no special government assistance. Don't fall for the (mostly racist) hype on this score. In fact, immigrants to Canada have to sign in advance that they will support themselves. As to whete you could emigrate to without having a lot or any money of your own, research the many South American countries with expats from the US and Canada.
2 years in Canada and am leaving after my wife graduates in the university. In 2 years I paid 90k in taxes and rent. No health, No housing, No quality of life means work 40h and enjoy life, I work 80h a week,No freedom of speech, No friends, Racism, No multi cultural country except for Walmart. Just the latest Cellphone.
I immigrated to Canada in 2006. I have two degrees and a well-paid job. The cost of living in Ontario is so high- it leaves me with nothing but negative balance every month. I don’t have my own property, my car is old and all I have is DEBT. I can’t afford living in Canada!(P.S I lived in Quebec too- it was even worse than Ontario)
You are living in the two most expensive provinces in Canada. There are other cities with cheaper housing, the possibility of owning a car. My husband and I could never afford to live in Ontario. My three sons moved to Montreal for work for a large company. They are all doing very well. Buy as pensioners, we could not afford to live there. Visiting only.
@@mtlkwan2611 Prices are rising in Montreal. Rent is still doable compared to Toronto. My brother lives in a high rise condo downtown Toronto; bought when prices were low, many years ago. Luckily for him.
Canada, in all honesty what could be said about it ? A country that promoted itself to the world as the demure virginal type of place to live but the reality is much different. Where, when and who did it start with you ask ? It started to go down hill with the original " Free Trade Agreement " , NAFTA , between Canada, the U.S and Mexico , under the Brian Mulroney Conservative government. That was the beginning of the end of Canada, and it has never recovered ever since. For worker's, it was a death nail to manufacturing, innovation and investment in Canada. The opportunities just aren't here. Immigrants soon realise the name of the game is abuse. Abuse finding a decent roof over your head, abuse in the workplace, and pretty much any other place you can think of. Let alone there is no longer a functional healthcare system in Canada. That vaporized before our very eyes. The failure to innovate, the failure to invest, means a failure to inspire. All it boils down to is, Canada is just another dog eat dog place to live. 0_o
@@Canuck-sv8dh The same Conservative government that actually did something about it by lowering it while the previous Liberal government elected on the promise they would scrap it maintained it as the GST proved too lucrative.
Came from Germany to Canada about a decade ago and I am looking to leave. Canada has too many problems and is unwilling to change anything to improve. Health Care is trash, prices too high, rents unaffordable in a lot of cities, too many immigrants from countries that have a different culture. That rips society apart in the long-term.
Health care is trash? What are you basing that on? I keep hearing this, and yet everyone I know who needs good medical care is able to get it without having to empty their bank accounts. And I know many quality health care professionals too who work very hard and responsibly.
@@TT-fq7plthe health care is trash , when you have people dying in the ER for preventable measures it's trash . The amount we pay in taxes for healthcare could be much better spent in the private sector . Nobody can find a doctor , they switched everything to virtual appointments .. we used to have doctors making house calls .. we had 5 doctors just 50 years ago here in my small town .. now none .. They just let a man die refusing a transplant because he didn't get a needle , then they asked his family to donate his organs .. Trash
As a sick Canadian with sick relatives our healthcare is fine. It could always be better, but it is fine. Gotten way more from the health care system alone than what I've ever paid in taxes.
Canada is in a catch 22 situation: We need to reduce immigration to restore the trust needed to build prosperity (the research on this is absolutely clear - see Putnam, et al, for example.), and we need to maintain it to make up for labor shortages. The fact is, polls show that trust is at an all-time low between Canadians, and it is due to bringing in too many people who are self-segregating and not assimilating. We pumped massive excess cash into our economy during COVID, did not produce enough housing, introduced laws that severely constrained agriculture and dramatically increased the costs of food distribution, and brought in massive numbers of immigrants, among other things. The fact is, we have crushed the birth rate, made homes too expensive, and raised the cost of living to a point where people are desperate, and our school system has destroyed the enterprising spirit that built our economy in the first place.
@@sh115067wages wouldn't need to be increased if everything wasn't so goddman crazy expensive. Higher wages just leads to more inflation and it never ends. Curbing inflation and supply issues is definitely better
I'm one of those former prospective immigrants who left after trying to settle there. I arrived to be with my Canadian spouse, with an advanced degree and work experience and waited for my Spousal PR and work permit. I paid Canadian taxes (higher than of my home country) on the world income that I earned while still living in said home country. At the time when CRA treated me as a "resident for tax purposes", I had no official immigration status (only implied) in the country despite doing my paperwork fully because "immigration services were facing challenges due to covid". Eventually, I thought why waste my youth and education waiting for an immigration decision that was taking 3 times as long as expected (based on the official sources)? My spouse and I moved (back) to the EU and are happier here. He was able to get status here for a tenth of the cost and only within 2 months.
My daughter a four generation Canadian married a German man, he applied and eventually received his PR status as a spouse of a Canadian. His degree in Germany was not accepted here, therefore he had to work in jobs just above min wage, with the cost of living here so high, they both left to live in Germany in 2021. My daughter was without a GP for 2 years in Canada, within a few months of living in Germany and being put on the German health care, she had a GP.
After living for 13 years in Canada I came to the conclusion that the best place for Europeans is Europe. There is no good reason to move to Canada from EU.
My cousins were born and grew up in the UK after their Mom went to Europe from Canada. She was travelling and ended up marrying a man from the UK. Her father ( my Grandfather ) had been born in the UK. I asked my cousins about the rainy weather. They said, it would be difficult living there if you had not grown up with it. They visit Canada a lot and know how sunny it is here, even in winter. I have had friends who moved to rainy climates in Canada and had to leave because of depression. There are many factors involved in moving to different countries - language, weather, living far from family. It’s not just the economy.
@@Ghostwriter-o6c He didn't know his degree wouldn't be accepted but at the time but his reason for moving to Canada was to be with my daughter. My daughter is learning German but she didn't know many words in German when they first moved there as they had planned on remaining in Canada plus he spoke and wrote excellent English. After six years being in Canada, when the cost of living kept going up plus he had a condo in Germany, they moved to Germany and have been there just over two years.
Canada has achieved the unthinkable by becoming one of the most expensive countries for basic needs. Argentina, 1 kg tenderloin 10 dollars, Canada 35 t0 40 dollars. Frozen almost rot vegetables, home rental at stratospheric rates. Gasoline, power, utilities, TAXATION, you name it. So, why staying? The next step by these protocommunists is food cards.
Life on PEI has changed dramatically, with rent skyrocketing to nearly triple what it was 5-7 years ago. As well the soup kitchens are very full it's very common for entire families and groups of student aged foreigners (20s, 30s) to go in when the meals are good.
Argentina might have 10 dollars 1 kg of tenderloin but the minimum wage is 377 Usd a month, How could you compare, costs of imports, and taxes, Is not only Canada going through tough times , is all around the world, and worst is less privileged countries
I'm 32, Congolese born and raised in France arrived in Toronto in 2019, moved back home 2 month ago because of : - Cost of living - Cost of becoming a house owner - Dry Dating game - Woke and Workaholic culture - Not seeing myself building my family far away from my family - 6 month winter I love Canada tho, was a great experience 🇨🇦
@@celineo9445 hey sis yeah it's really expensive how long have you been there? Where do you come from and when are you going to leave? Are you leaving for other reasons? Lol
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when the student visas are included it gets over 1 million. When raising concern about this you are called racist. But the people most harmed by the next million are the last million.
This is the real issue with Canada's immigration. What are the consequences of false promises to future Canadians, and how will they hurt Canada's reputation worldwide?
I don't know where you get your information from but if it wasn't for covid immigration to Canada wouldn't have slowed down it's picked back up again. Calgary Vancouver they make the top 20 list every year for how many years now for most livable cities in the world. When's the last time anybody had mass shootings or blew up a bunch of s*** and did it on behalf of their home country. As a world traveller Canada has a great reputation. The only people that really get too worried about some of the false promises of the government are the people that usually complain no matter what the outcome is.
I'm 60 and born here and worked to the bone my whole life as a middle class worker.! It's just brutally to expensive to survive here. I am just a step above poverty now.
Yes I agree Canada’s prosperity was build by emigrants but there is a “but” by emigrants from Italy, Ireland, emigrants from Eastern European countries skilled workers, housing was booming. Now Canada gets 1/2 million of Amazon workers from India, Home Depot, Pearson Airport. Canada use to be multi cultural now is becoming one culture.
Lol just say white people man, Canadians are only the whites , don't be shy Just say it. Imagine thinking multiculturalism is just europe. Imagine the blandness of that multiculturalism
Amen!!!!! I laugh at the "diversity" line bdcause it's only Indian culture and I can't even tell people I'm gay now when customers ask me out and I want to be honest because my indian coworkers will never talk to me again. So much for liberal! We are back in time!
Those Irish, Italian and Eastern Europeans came here for the same reason people come to Canada today. South Italy, Ireland abs much if Eastern Europe was very poor ands horrible place to living in not to mention violent. Irish potato famine, mafia in southern Italy and lack of development in the south and Eastern Europe because many reasons.
Canadien are facing very bad financial situation because the prices have been jamped more than double but our salary is exactly the same as 10 years ago. Our mortgage rate is higher than ever. Everybody lives in credit. What should you expect from people!!! Excluding those whom are on welfare, of course.
Same with the immigrants. How does it help them if all that awaits them is a real estate bubble, unaffordable rents, mediocre income, and paid time off as well as benefits for parents that is far below what many developed countries in the world get? What benefits are they getting if that's what Canada offers?
@@sangjinlee5020 Did your salary went up more than 0.50 per hour? Even if yes(which I don’t think), that will not come even close to upraised prices. Not even to that of low Costco prices. In which each product cost at least $3 more than 2 years before. And how more hard you want me(an mother) to work? Am I an Robot? Ha ha ha
I hope rents double and triple. It will help Canadians understand that landlords don't care about tenants. Then the people can go somewhere else outside of Canada or perhaps to Albertta where they are welcome and can live on social assitancei n homeless shelters for the rest of their lives.
I'm in Québec. I live alone and I have no children. Every year I have to payback taxes because I'm not exempt even though I loose about 19 to 20 % of my salary to taxes and other deductions and I pay 15% tax on everything I freaking buy minus a few exceptions. I mean when I have to fork up thousands at the end of the year to the gouvernement even after they've already taken so much and life keeps getting more expensive and my salary doesn't reflect those changes, I feel like I'm being punished by my gouvernement for choosing to be single and childless. It's a depressing feeling.
I think Canada needs less commumism and more real canadian culture. When i moved in 3 years ago everything felt extremely artificial, confusing, and depressing. Like everyone was on the brink of going crazy. I am glad I came back to my country Italy.
Canada should have global taxation structure like the US. If you want to carry a Canadian passport around the world you should pay some federal tax annually for that privilege. Not just return to Canada when you are old and need healthcare and social services.
@samdope1865 About 3 million Canadian citizens live abroad and pay zero Canadian tax until they need medical care and social services. About 300,000 live in Hong Kong alone.
I would just renounce my Canadian citizenship since it's useless for me anyway. Why would I continue to pay taxes in Canada if I don't work and live there?
@@bushroadexplorer3703 I already paid close to 40% in income tax in my 13 years living there. In the past the only good excuse for high taxation was the universal healthcare but now even that is broken. So why would I continue to give the Canadian government money even when I don't live there?
@@Dacicus-lz9gr One of the great problems that we have in Canada is that nearly 10% of our citizens live abroad and pay zero tax into our society, often for very long periods of time. Then when those individuals need social assistance or have a problem abroad Canada is expected to solve their problem, often at great expense to Global Affairs Canada. This is one major reason why Canada struggles to support Canadian tax paying residents at home. Holding a Canadian passport is a privilege that should come with expectations that citizens are also investing in our society for the long term. Canada does not need more “paper Canadians” who use the passport simply for their own international convenience to navigate the world. I am in favour of encouraging Canadian citizens to live abroad if they wish, but applying a global tax would help separate true Canadians, from those who simply want access to the passport. The tax would incentivize paper Canadians to renounce as you suggested.
I teach ESL so I talk with a lot of newcomers and immigrants as part of my job. The case of one of my students sticks out in my mind. She originally came here from Ukraine because of the war. She wants to get PR status because she wants to settle here and make a life for herself and her family. She was explaining the process to me and she seemed really caught in a Catch 22. She held advanced degrees in mathematics and economics already, but in order to qualify here she would need to go back to school, which would require a different visa than the one she was here on. She was working, but at a low paying job where she was just making ends meet. So she has to decide whether to go back or stay, basically because of bureaucracy and no other reason. She was strongly considering going back home because of how expensive the cost of living is here. And I can't say I blame her. I was born here and if I had the resources, I would move. I would love to move abroad because the standard of living in most European countries is so much better.
This is wrong, I've stayed in Europe for over 5 years and left Germany and a job to go back to India before immigrating to canada. The Rosy picture Europe is painting is a pipe dream ( no different from how canada is painted outside canada to immigrants). I paid 2000 Euros in Frankfurt for an Apartment that was so bad it made the Sticks look like a paradise. The cost of living was extremely high and the people were just soulless and dead inside. They don't even bother to even strike up a conversation much less be welcoming. The cost of living is extremely high the medical system is strained due to the influx of refugees crossing the Mediterranean sea. You live pay check to pay check with 0 social construct. Canada is way better than most European countries but yes its facing the same problems the world is currently grappling with due to the economic downturn and wars creating a mess in west Asia and eastern europe displacing a lot of people
Saying someone is not just willing, but "strongly considering" going back to a warzone because of the cost of living... I don't even know what to think of it. I dreamt of having the oportunity to move there one day (opposed to many, I'm an introvert who loves the cold, the snow and the rain and hate the sun's heat where I live). But with those living cost and taxes, I have to think of another place to drem about now.
Based on the workforce at Tim Hortons and Circle K , if Columbus sailed across the ocean today, he'd be forgiven for thinking he made it all the way to India.
These are mostly foreign students being exploited by our own universities. Their lives are often very sad and miserable. I have much empathy for them, along with much contempt for university administrators and governments who cut funding to post-secondary institutions.
By subsidizing their wage, I mean the government encourages hiring of foreigners. Why would these companies hire regular Canadians. Over time, the wages get artificially reduced.
@@jay1645 but yes CK probably owned by immigrants. Other companies are forced to diversity hire but you don't really see that at Ck. Half the people that work there can't communicate effectively enough to answer a simple question.
I have a different perspective as a Canadian who has lived abroad since 2017. Digital Nomads are a growing force around the world and more and more people are retiring in countries other than where they were born. So this is a global phenomena, not just something happening in isolation in Canada. The world is on the move. In the future I predict this will greatly increase. Nothing will stop the globalization of the world, and I mean that in the truest sense - not restricted just to the economic realm.
Agree. I am from NYC but work abroad in SE Asia half the year. I work as a contractor so have the ability to work anywhere I want. This is the best way to get the most bang out of my US income.
I am also an immigrant. My parents moved from germany to canada when I was a toddler. Mom already moved to the states and found a happier life. I really hate this province (quebec) so I am thinking about following my mothers footsteps. I do not blame the other immigrants for choosing to leave. Provinces like this one (quebec) is not the best to live in.
Quebec just proposed doubling anglophone students tuition for higher education. It’s slowly killing its own economy under the guise of saving its so-called Francophone traditions
Old Canada has gone forever, the west side is now Chinada, ni hao, and the east side is now Canadistan, allahu akbar, if you are looking for the very few remaining "Canadienses" you can find them living in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
I arrived in 2006, I had travelled the world and Canada was my favourite. Drugs and crime amplified by idiotic ideology have broken this place. I used to love this country. The health care system is now the same as government hospitals in Africa, just newer buildings. Now I'm established, have 3 children in school and my wife and I are still seriously considering our options.
Im a Canadian who is wanting to leave. The health care we pay for is horrible. We get taxed too much. Are tax money just given to other countries to support war instead of fixing our issues.
Reminds me about US citizens who said that they will move to Canada if Trump became the president. There are also some that say they vomit whenever the name Trudeau is mentioned. Then some people reads that statement and they too vomit.😂 Trudeau’s name is mentioned everyday and that is lot of vomit on Canadian soil. Now that is a good reason to leave Canada !
I noticed a man on the bus pretty sad and quite teary. I asked him if he's alright. He looked at me and nodded. I'm pretty sure we're the same nationality so I started talking to him in our language. He told me that he and his wife are new in Canada and they're struggling here while in our country, back home, they're very well off. He's an engineer over there and his wife's a teacher. Now he works in a packaging warehouse and a janitor. I asked him what made him decide to come here when he's well off over there? "It's because of peer pressure." He responded. I just listened to him talked because he just wanted someone to listen to his struggle. I didn't make any suggestion or advice. I hope he's doing alright today wherever he maybe.
I know a guy in his 50th who was prominent architector in China, came to Canada to be told he had to complete 6 years of studying plus exams in order to confirm his credentials.
The fact that Canada is horribly unaffordable and you can't just walk in and get a job as a doctor, is not exactly a secret. Did none of those immigrants bother to actually do a bit of reasearch before they came here? Or did they come based on the word on the streets that trudeau loves to hand out free money? When my parents came here they consulted friends that were already here and ensured jobs were secured before they stepped on that boat. I have family that simply moved from one province to another that did a deep dive on housing, labor market, cost of living and health care, and secured a job, before moving. The immigrants now just think they can step out of the airport and be handed keys to a new home and their preferred job. Their fault.
There are Canadians who are struggling to pay their rent here. I'm 7th generation Canadian and I can hardly believe it. I don't blame them for not expecting THIS.
@@peterwhite507 That's probably outdated information. The gap between income and housing here has been growing since Trudeau came into office. His voters own houses and love that the prices are going up and haven't yet computed that they are sacrificing their own kids, not to mention the poor (yes, of every race).
Simply untrue. Immigrants face the same challenges they always have. You sound like your parents did a good job getting you over here and now you want to pull the ladder up behind you.
Really !!!! I'm a fourth generation Canadian and I have not heard that there is something called secured job in Canada !!!! Tell me smart !!! was you able to speculate that Russian's invasion to Ukraine will cause our inflation to go from 2.2% to 9% in one year !!!! Canadian government immigration policy is chaotic and drive professional immigrants away from Canada , and Canadian business is badly in need of them including my business, one third of my professional workers are new comers !!! Stop such stupid racism !!!!!!
same reason we nationals have been wanting to leave... the place has been run into the ground by the Liberals. Its unrecognizable from the place it was 8 years ago
Yes, they should never have been fast tracked into my country in the 1st place! Our health care infrastructure, roads, and government services are all dwindling because there is an open cheque written for any immigrant to have access to free money, jobs and housing while ancestral Canadians get nothing!
That is not true. The reason we need immigrants is because of the low fertility rate of born-Canadians. Our population is old. Where are we going to get our tax base from without people? Who will contribute to our pension fund? Also, there is a lack of workers. I worked for the foreign workers program and there are thousands of businesses that apply because they cannot find workers here
The truth is, that when you immigrate to canada. you are one in a giant bowl of people that roughly have the exact same qualifications as you. For one entry level tech job, over 600 people applied, 580 were of Indian immigrants, 10 Asian, 5 natural born Canadians, and 5 african. The people who get hired are not the 580 who all have the same qualifications and resumes, whos second language is english or french. Its the 5 canadians who were born here. Thats just a fact and a hard one for the huge number of immigrants to learn after they get here.
Immigration without proper infrastructure. people with the means are leaving. We were 3 international students in a single class of 40 in 2012, now 100 international students and probably 5 or 6 local. that shows.
I was just talking to a truck driver the other day who was so angry at the way this government has run this country He's planning on moving back to his home country he said it was worse 5 years ago where he's originally from but now Canada is actually worse that says a lot thanks Mr Trudeau
@@wysetech2000 wow You must not have to pay for hydro or gas to heat your house or have any concept of the economy and where we're going...... Or have a clue of how many illegal things this guy has done and got away with.....or what happens when you print a ton of extra money everything gets more expensive except wages...... I really hope when the recession hits you make it through it because a lot of middle class people aren't going to be able to. when you can see even liberals are mad because of what he's doing to make it harder for us to live it's a sign this guy's going to be done soon! When people can be comfortable being able to pay for all amenities and have a little extra to maybe do something fun That's when people start caring about the environment! Poor people worry about the next week not years down the road. If you want people to care about the environment so badly build the people up so they can think about their long-term future and they will automatically start doing more to help the environment because they can afford to. And I say liberals not immigrants because every immigrant he has let in, in the last 8 years will vote liberal it was a study done whoever's in power and lets a whole bunch of people in they vote for that person the next time around. But judging by your photo you look like you're possibly almost ready to retire so you'll still have a CPP me on the other hand I won't without us letting a whole bunch of people in to keep the system going.
@@wysetech2000 judging by the other comments you have made you're against immigration You can also thank Mr Trudeau for that because he's letting so many people into our country for votes,
Because cheap and greedy employers have made employees life miserable and have moved the Canadian life style and living standards to lowest level in history and people feel helpless and getting mental health issues but these criminals are getting rich and richer.
Canada is not perfect and it has its ups and downs. As a Canadian, I still stand with my head up high and say I love this land of my birth, and I know there are many beautiful places in the world but there is none like home. Many have abused the system here, and play a major role in high crimes, high housing costs, and lack of stability. Like an ungrateful child, they forget the good things.
And Canada has voted in this regime by thinking and lets not hide this idiocy of believing the "Trudeau" name means good govt and it is an absurd infantile logic to vote for and the result is what we see today!
I met some of these people in Thailand after COVID. There was a small group of Chinese who kept to themselves at our hostel. One day I overheard them in Chinese repeatedly talking about my country Mexico which got me to talk with them. They were quite happy to learn I could speak Chinese but more excited to learn I was from Mexico. They started asking me a bunch of questions about crossing the border into the US to which I bluntly told them I had no idea about and discouraged it. I asked where they got these crazy ideas from and they said that people were posting videos and tutorials of how to cross into the US online. The Chinese government hard handed approach to COVID was what made them leave. They wanted to go both for the freedom and economic benefits but they had a very naive and overly optimistic view of the US. They saw the high wages US workers were making but had no idea as to the incredibly high living costs associated with living there. I tried explaining that there was a housing shortage and that their expectations for life in the US would set them for disappointment but they either didn't believe me or brushed off my criticism. I also tried encouraging them to go to German or Australia instead (places which I feel would be better and easier for them to enter) but they seemed dead set on just going to the US. Unfortunately I don't know where they are now as Wechat is blindly and constantly blocking and deleting accounts in SE Asia without reason......................
Omg we can't even house are born and raised and yet we still keep taking refugees ??? VOTE BLUE BABY. I used to be a liberal and because of who the blue have runing for office he's got my vote 🔵 Conservatives
Why are there labour shortages? There are a lot of construction workers looking for jobs, but the companies are not building due to red tape and other challenges. Also, why bringing immigrants when our own current people need jobs? Do you know why the younger folks don't want to work? I hear this all the time from them... because it is simply not "worthy it". they would make around 1600-2k dollars a month working full time, then having to pay 1500-2k in rent alone, what about the rest of their expenses? I hear a lot of young people saying.. "having a full time job no longer pays the basic needs, it can't even pay rent.. it is simply crazy!". Please, let's take care of the folks who are currently in Canada, and if needed, we can welcome more people. I am not against immigration, but making them believe that they will have a job and a place to live is crazy. Why bring a bunch of hard working immigrants and getting them to live in bunk beds in a crowded apartment? Take the Indian International students as an example... they are so full of dreams, but there are a ton of them who are currently sharing a house with 14 other people, and others that are relying on food banks! Come on! The city of London is another example, pre pandemic they had an average of 50 people going to homeless shelters, now, it is more than 400!!! Another lovely Canadian problem, I was talking to a friend the other day, she said that she had taken her husband to the hospital and waited 16 hours to see a doctor here in southern Ontario... we had another friend with us who said"wow... I waited 14 hours last week". Then, a week later, the hospital goes to social media to say that they are understaffed and under stress. This is all over Canada.. The health care is kinda crumbling. It takes forever to get an appointment with a specialist. I had to wait a whole year for one, and he did not even help me much. Getting a follow up with him has been incredibly difficult, and I have been waiting for that for about 6 months. Come on! But, the idea of Trudeau is to bring more and more people...Stop selling Canada as if it is an amazing country to people abroad. The true reality is, they will struggle big time!( a lot of them anyways)
Natural born Canadian - you are taking about salaries that are 22-24k per yr in 2024??? during my lifetime, we have always needed 2 x salaries (a couple) to make our expenses. It’s been like that since well, forever, in social media years.
Being a landlord isn’t a fun or profitable business in a number of cases as it’s very hard to find good people who will pay & who will live with others in a peaceful manner The world has become a joke not just Canada
The most qualified and motivated are leaving, while we ramp up diploma-mills for the mediocre. The government has not invested in new housing, new infrastructure, more doctors, better on boarding for those with foreign qualifications etc. No, we just suck in huge amounts of immigrants with no real planning or investment. No wonder the best of them rapidly realize they want out. I recently met a pediatrician from Venezuela working in an Apple store, what a bloody waste!
Not having welcoming committees is definitely not a significant issue. The economy, increased emphasis on MAID (i.e. death) over extensive medical care, and the new sociopolitical atmosphere of hating immigrants to Canada from the 16th century onward are definitely major factors. When people were encouraged to come and work in numerous professions all across Canada for centuries, it was not difficult to retain immigrants. The virtues of hard work and supporting your family were valuable treasures, but now there is much less emphasis (even some discouragement) concerning these things today. I am praying for our nation to turn itself around.
There isn’t a new sociopolitical atmosphere of hating immigrants. There is a sociopolitical atmosphere of hating excess immigration. If Canada was acting as it did in the past, screening heavily and and making sure that immigration was not excessive people wouldn’t care. It taking in a million people when there is already an affordability problem with housing, and insufficient social services, causes real problems. The provinces have all been screaming at the federal government over this, you can ask anyone in a provincial policy department. But the feds are desperate to keep cramming in more people in order to grow the tax base. Unfortunately the news doesn’t report things like basic policy conflicts between the feds and provinces. That would imply there are serious problems and the people in charge are screwing up.
@@defenstrator4660yeah agreed. We are a country of immigrants and that is our strength. But 500 000 immigrants and 800 000 students a year is just taking the piss.
it's hate for the cOlOnIZeRs that's being pushed, like you just did here. Everyone else is a poor innocent victim who never did anything wrong in their histories ever
From the 16th century? Was that a typo? Canada wasn’t even a COUNTRY in the 16th century 😂😂…even now there is argument whether it’s a legitimate country…
It’s not just immigrants who are leaving.
You're correct! I'm Canadian and left that country as well. I have an amazing life in Asia now. Canada is not what it used to be it's completely fell apart.
I’m Canadian plan to go Asia
Same
Enjoy dried squid. @@Naiphoenix
It’s probably almost all native Canadians leaving lol
Reality is: unless you have to stay with no other option, it makes sense to leave. Canada isn't anymore what it used to be.
We honestly need more to leave and to allow FAR LESS to come in the 1st place.
100% agree.
@@Gl-my8fw No. We need the right immigrants and Canada has to provide a good welcoming environment where they can prosper.
@@thefly373 like Hamas supporters?
@@thefly373we don’t need anymore immigrants.
Affordability and inflation plus reduced benefits as Canadian citizens are major issues. Costs are skyrocketing.
Canada ranks as the 25th most expensive country to live in the world, cheaper than Ireland, Austrailia and NZ to name a few.. The US ranks 12th most expensive. The grass is rarely greener on the other side.
@@peterwhite507
How do they rate for having visage noir wearing public funds thief in charge?
@@grandmufftwerkin9037 Don't care, the list is what it is, overall.
The thing is we need immigrants to keep our economy growing, but a growing economy is what is making our housing costs so high. We need a very major recession - a rapidly shrinking economy - to bring down housing costs - and housing costs are the primary reason why immigrants are leaving.
@@peterwhite507 With housing costs in major urban centers doubling in the last five years or so, the data you are looking at needs to be very current to accurately reflect the situation. I believe the issue of negative immigration has only recently become a concern. The comments that I have seen from people who have decided to leave have mostly been about salaries being insufficient to cover housing costs. Keep in mind immigrants would have to be renters or new buyers, so they bear the full brunt of rapid real-estate inflation.
No housing. No Doctors, nurses. Dollar dropping, Runaway inflation. Stagnant Economy.
Did I miss anything?
There also high taxes, over price rental place to live, bc high car insurance and no fault policy. No rental caps and protection people can just raise their rent as long as they want. Etc..
No jobs
Was it something I said?
I do hope not.
racism, discrimination, jobs only for those they like...
These are universal issues. In many parts of Switzerland people are struggling to find a flat or even room to rent that they personally go from door to door to ask people or to leave letters in their post box asking for help with finding a place to rent ! It's ridiculous.
I’ve been a Canadian my entire life, I’m contemplating leaving , it’s impossible to get ahead when you’re being taxed to death
Please leave Paleface, England needs you.
How cute redface
@@Make_America_Native_Again
What makes you think he is white and he will leave to England where almost have of population is people of color now
Good luck finding a country where the more you earn the less you get taxed, by just telling you all the countries who have that system are drowned in misery that goes from lack of essential things like even clean water to civil wars.
And believe it or not there are countries that have even higher taxes than Canada and have a better life quality (the nordic countries).
People must remember that taxes are in favor to them, sure unless the country is horribily corrupted but that'snot the case of Canada.
I was born in Canada 73 years ago and I would be the last one standing in Canada. I have never thought about leaving my home. Once people realize that most other countries are having the same problems, they will be back.
I lived in Canada, but I came back to Brazil. I got a job at Tim Horton's and spent 8 hours working no break time, no food. The other one I just couldn't use the washroom so filthy It was, It was a factory. Me and my husband knew How to speak English. We both took IELTS before going there and he was studying Arts at a College. Here, I am a teacher. In less than a month back, me and my husband got good jobs, we both have majors. Canadians ARE really friendly, honest and polite, but they hardly ever invite you to their houses. Here in Brazil It is Very Common to have a coffee at someone's house, chat, have barbecue. Most of my friends in Canada were foreigners or Italian or Lebanese descendants because they are more open to friendship. It's Just not worth It, too many cons.
All the best for the new journey in Brazil. BTW, Do you get citizenship when you leave Canada or you have no idea of getting one at all?
@@hsujongee7963 why. You after one ?
It's a big thing when you are open to friendship and enjoy going out with friends family or a house friwnd visit right?
Perfectly said. People don’t need friendly, they need *true humans.
@@darrylh547Or people that are escaping or trying to escape from wars, persecution or overall economic crisis.
Canadians are leaving Canada. Sold my businesses and moved, best decision ever.
Yep me too. Canada is screwed.
to where?
Don't come back.
Good...don't come back!
@@robertgraziano That's 100% I won't be coming back budz. Good luck with your life in this crapshoot of a nation.
I have visited Canada for the first time in 1978 and again in 2006. My ex-wife is Canadian. I am not sure why Canadians have this reputation of being friendly. They are not impolite but they are definitely not friendly towards newcomers. I have lived in Germany, Italy, Greece, Thailand and my current home Australia and those countries are much friendlier than Canada.
So true!
We used to be before our traitor government made our lives a living hell.
They used to be, not anymore; not feeling welcome in your own country is the reason
We are scrambling for our own resources that have been built for us and were meant for us by our parents and grandparents. It's not that people aren't welcome it's that we are now going without.
Visited Canada and thought Canadians were very passive-aggressive and like to take digs. They will casually make comments about your appearance and other personal things out of nowhere and dont seem to think it is rude. Some are friendly, but being rude with a smile on your face isn't nice. I also wasn't an immigrant just visiting. I would describe Canadians as being more fake than friendly.
I came to Canada two decades ago after quitting a very decent, well paid job with my family. That was the biggest mistake I ever committed.
Then say goodbye.
You dont have to stay 🤷🏾♂️
Many immigrants do that mistake. Then they get trapped in Canada with debt and family issues.
Buh-bye !!!
I've heard many of those stories from immigrants. I'm so sorry for that.
Canada is not livable anymore. Housing crisis. Cost of living. Homeless crisis. The most expensive groceries and services.
Opioid crisis. Underpaid wages
Nobody wants to actually solve these issues
aint that the truth
When are you leaving?
You have Trudick to thank for those.
@@brownnomad6805 I left a Muslim hell country to be in this amazing free country. I will remain loyal to Canada . When are you leaving ?
@@3000A.D Yet muslims doing all kinds of palestine nonsense protests here.
First and foremost, Canada has a society problem. It is devoid of energy. To much rules, and restrictions. Lacks social activities, lacks life and energy in essence. People become bored, isolated, depressed and preserved. No social interactions, no competitiveness, no sport, no outdoors, no zeal, no enthusiasm. People barely talk to each other for fear of some dump privacy and security.
Then on the other end for professional, too many protocols and licensing requirements for every single thing.
It is just too laidback for a modern society.
For me, I think the society needs to open up.
Over the past 3 years, and especially in 2023, I saw that immigrants from India literally flocked in high numbers to the small norther town where I've lived for decades. They're now the majority of workers in most retail positions. This influx has caused severe housing shortages. These newcomers aren't working in the construction industry. Some of them are buying and renting houses, driving up the housing prices dramatically. EVERYBODY is now suffering from the hyperinflation on housing prices and everything else. Our quality of life has plummeted. It isn't rocket science: allow huge influx of immigrants, and inevitably the result will be inflation, lower wages for competing workers, increased housing prices and dire housing shortages. Whoever planned this must have been aiming at destroying Canada.
So right you are...
Nailed it
I live in a small northern city. East Indians, Sheiks, pouring in for years buying everything. They do nothing for the community. Don't forget they were given everything. Now they have entitlement. Little Afghanistan Canada became...
Exactly! These immigrants are killing Canada. That's why I left I don't think it'll ever be the same.
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As an engineer, I'm doing my best to leave Canada for the USA. Lack of jobs, affordable housing, high taxes, and I just never felt like I belong in this country. I honestly would rather take my chances in the south. I'm tired of struggling here.
It's much better there. There are very few good jobs here and they are low paying.
Why don’t you start your own business as an engineer ?
@@HenriqueMartins.English Multiple issues, being that Canada is not tax friendly, or start-up friendly like the USA is. There is a culture for academics and reasearch, but not technical innovation.. There's a desire for comfort and security, but not for pioneering and trying something new, failing, and trying again. What I have seen is that USA will develop something first, then Canada will slowly adopt it. What Canada would need is a shift in it's culture. I think a non- US examples to look at would be Israel.
wow, an opinion from another engineer. I was thinking about immigration, but it seems that Can is having the same problems as the USA.
Nah bro we are not too good either
This has been building for at least two decades and I'm surprised that only now people are talking about this. There are few reasons anymore for quality immigrants to come to Canada. The only people coming here and staying are people coming from God-forsaken places that make Canada look like paradise, or wealthy investor immigrants who buy property here and maybe only live here for six months of the year.
Most of the immigrants will spend their lives in homeless shelters and on welfare.
If that
Exactly. As a European and EU citizen who lived in Canada for 13 years I don't see any good reason for Europeans to emigrate to Canada anymore. Canada is only worth it if you're from a very crappy third world country or warzone.
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Racist
Coming from a Canadian citizen, bad government policies all around for the last 8 years is a major reason, but also Canada has become a culture of virtue signaling, leading to valuing foreign aid, migrants and refugees over its own citizens, also accommodating of oversea values and beliefs that immigrants brings into the country over its own founding values and culture.
The virtue signaling was disgusting.
Trudeau destroyed this country. This country is upside down
Like germany. It feels like they want to destroy our own culture and everyone is more important than the own people
Canada receive WAYYY too many immigrants. There is nothing wrong with immigration when you can actually handle the new immigrants.
The housing, school and health system cant handle the constant high influx of new citizens. That's why the housing market is insane right now.
Bring in more Palestinian refugees to build more mosques near the synagogues.
@dimitar297 Stop bombing their homes and they will stay in their home land.
Wow some common sense! (Not many folks have this common sense thinking anymore.)
Yup. Somewhere Along the way math, logic and calculating sustainability became 'racist'.
I feel even more sorry for the immigrants who have to deal with the realities of the cost of living crisis and not a great job market. I feel like there have to be solutions that must be better.
The skilled leave to greener pastures and the unskilled stay to abuse the system.
This right here.
and the upper class cheats both the skilled and the unskilled equally, how about all those rich freeloaders?
@@TomTschritterrich freeloaders? Please explain.
@@grumpynomad3551probably referring to our corporations that dodge taxes
Well said!
I have met immigrants in Canada who told me that they wanted to immigrate to America and couldn't, but their goal is still to move there. They are trying to use Canada as a stepping stone.
Out of the frying pan and into the fryer eh?
Its because US pays 125k for the same job and experience u get 90k in Canada. Thats why left my last company due to unfair trade practises with no justification. Canadians are not cheap alternatives for US employees. We must stand for our rights.
As they should
Immigrants have been doing that since as far back as the 1970s. One lady I knew came to Canada in 1973 from India when she married her husband (who himself left India for Great Britain in the early 1960s, then came to Canada in 1966). They lived in various places in southern Ontario, then moved to Houston, Texas in 1981.
Afterwards, the couple separated a few years later, with the wife moving to Columbus, Ohio in 1986. Husband developed liver cancer in the late 80s, died in India in 1991. Wife passed away just last month. Two sons are cardiac surgeons, third son works in IT security.
I was flying back to Toronto from Europe. Person nearby was from Pakistan. He told me his is flying to get his kid passport. It was around 2005. "Take Canadian passport and move to better place" he told me. By 2022 I realized he was 100% right. It is way less expensive to send kid to Germany for university, rather than paying to ripoff rent, tuitions and food in greedy Toronto.
I left Canada after 13 years. I couldn't stand the freezing cold winters anymore 🥶
Everything has gotten worse under Trudeau. It is going to take decades to fix the mess he has left us with.
That's why he brings 500.000 people a year. All of these ignorants, to say the least, are his future voters.
A lot of these problems have been brewing long before Trudeau or even Harper. Prime Ministers / Presidents are lazy scapegoats to blame.
How to fix Canada in two steps and under ten years:
Step 1) mass deportations
Step 2) abolishing income tax and implementing a 20% sales tax
@@Chadministrator9313 to 20 is a big leap. Ill settle for 15%
I moved to Canada from the UK in 2008. I've married, got a good job, bought my own home. I love Canada and Alberta, but if Trudeau was to ever win another election I am going to sell up and move back to the UK.
These politicians talk incessantly about those poor refuges living on the streets. They never mention the 500,000 Canadians who are homeless. The government of Canada is ignoring the desperate Canadians who have nowhere to live and nothing to eat. I'm not against immigrants or people of any nation, but we have a serious homeless problem in Canada and it seems senseless to continue to fork out our Tax dollars to those who have contributed nothing and ignoring the needs of it's own citizens. This is a disgrace and completely unacceptable.
Sure, but this has nothing to do with immigration. You might as well have commented that the govt isn't doing enough to save the whales.
With all my respect
Canada needs the immigrants to keep its economy going.
The rate of growth of population is 1.1% per year according to the government
while the sustainable rate is 1.7% per year i.e. you need bring the difference
0.6% per year from immigration otherwise the Canadian economy ca not function
However, homelessness is one the problems Canadians are facing due to
lack housing national and provincial policies.
Let us face it, more than 50% of Canadians are living below the poverty line, I may say : Seniors, people with special needs, single mams, natives !!! why ?
Is Canada a poor country !!!! Absolutely not !!!
However, corruption and mismanagement is eating 60-70 % of Canada's revenues
As an Example : Canadian oil is giving away to American companies almost for free in return of of a royalty fee 3-5% , so, American sell our crude for $100 per barrel but Canada gets only $5 from this $100 , same thing is happening in our mining industries : Gold , Copper, Uranium.
Because, Canada DOES not have enough refineries to produce its gas it needs therefore, it has to buy it from USA at a market price !!!
Canadian electricity is more worse, Qc sells its electricity To USA at 3cents per KWH
then Ontario buys it from USA at market price 50-75 cent per KWH
Canadians are ripped off : for every Dollar the government gives to a special needs or welfare candidate, the government spend $10-$20 to manage this ONE Dollar, things are more worse with natives : the government spend $20 to $30 to manage each Dollar a native candidate gets !!!!!
Probably !!!!!! Now , You know the reasons behind Canadian 's poverty symptoms including homelessness !!!!!
That's true. I totally agree with you.
@@mohieali7317
Great examples of mismanagement that the governments have.
do not worry ... Freeland will send more of Canadian taxpayer money to her Ukrainian Not See
I have been here for 17 years.. I am 31 now, will be immigrating again to somewhere else. Canada has really changed for the worse in the past 5 years.
To many immigrants brought in. Leave so Canada can get back to normal.
Canada in general has to go through a “infrastructure revolution” to grow any further. there is not enough cities, roads, housing to sustain our current growth rate. There needs to be a massive investment in the infrastructure which also would create a ton of jobs.
Agreed. Our transportation is awful. Unless you live in a major city, there is very little public transportation available.
Agreed. Single family exclusionary zoning, parking minimums, lot area minimums and so much more have created unsustainable urban sprawl and made it Uber expensive to build anything. We really do need less red tape, less regulation, and less staunch zoning control
We can't buy a simple house now.
Who cares, we own cars
@@shawnkelly695 There's a lot of trafic in big cities, metropolitan areas and the suburbs now though. We need new and better roads.
My family came to Canada 30 years ago. My father and siblings worked very hard to build a business that provides services to the public. My spouse works harder now to provide half of what I grew up with. I wonder how they will provide for their families. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to live a decent life. It’s not the Canada I grew up in. It makes me sad my children are not growing up with what I had. The taxes are high and expenses are high. Trying to own a home is near impossible. It’s a challenge to keep going. I don’t have anywhere else to go let alone my kids. Hope things change for the better for our children’s sake.
No kidding
Lies again? Canada Gay USD SGD
There is problems most everywhere in the world that was caused by Covid. I believe that 2024 will begin to get better again.
There isn't one country in the world that is the same as It was 30 years ago.
@@wysetech2000 There are many that are much better. I emigrated to Canada and have done very well, but the country has massively deteriorated in so many areas since the 1990s.
I lived in Canada since I was 19 years old, for 13 years, and I finally left for Switzerland 3 weeks ago. Trudeau broke Canada and turned into a very dark and depressing place.
I'm guessing you have duel citizenship?
@@JonnyGee Yes I do. But I never applied for Canadian citizenship for a better passport because my EU passport is better anyway.
It started to be a hell before child-faced JT. With him it's just got worse.
I'm jealous ;)@@Dacicus-lz9gr
@@valeriylipikhin94 Canada was a pretty good place before Trudeau. For the life of me I don't understand why Trudeau Jr. was elected three times in Canada.
I only received a PR card and returned to my home country.
There is absolutely no reason to live in Canada with wages that are below the cost of living, crazy prices, murderous monthly rent, and medical services that are frozen in time.
bye
Canada loves to market itself as the best country in the world to live, unfortunately u need to come see for yourself before running for your life, leaving is a smart move, good luck!
If you don’t like the price of rent thank a conservative.
@@Steve-mz7npHaha nothing you say is going to save your hero Trudy, he's done. You gonna cry now or save your tears for election time.
@@Steve-mz7np huh? all the price hikes have come under liberals.....
Canada has completely lost it's identity. I feel like I'm in a foreigner in my own home town.
Where's that
Learn Punjabi then?
@@BDee3126 I'd prefer everyone return to their own home town. If I want to learn Punjabi, I should travel to India, but I have no desire.
@@L8again902 you're a first nations' person?
Well, part of the problem is 'true' Canadians are not serious about perpetuating their identity. What I mean is they failed to sustain a replacement level, something that led to the aging population.
Then, comes the conservatives and blame the liberals; when in fact it's the computer that took the decision to bring an X number of foreigners.
And what exacerbates the situation even more is the shipping of jobs overseas, mainly to Asia. So, here the conundrum, bring swathes if people to what? Practically nothing.
Then, comes another actor in the demise of Canada: Democracy. Voting became like a catwalk event where politicians with no skills display their incompetence to a meek and gullible crowd.
500k immigrants per year of LEGAL immigration alone (without considering illegal and students) is the size of Mississauga per year to build.
the sheer amount of logistics, infrastructure around this is insanely unsustainable. Let alone the natural growth of the population
yet there restrictions on building new housing to create shortages to increase prices on housing
I moved to Canada with my parents over 33 years ago. About to pack it up and move back to Europe, and I am taking my Canadian spouse with me. I wish my parents never immigrated here.
do you ever watch news and know what's going here in Europe at all? We are flooded with terrorist from Islamic slums
whyy
Thank you for leaving. This was never your land to occupy.
@@kate57425if you go to Europe, choose Germany or the United Kingdom. The downside to the UK is that you get no EU passport (Brexit) if you want to work and live in different EU countries with ease. If you choose NA, then the obvious answer is the United States. Far more better job opportunities, especially if you are in a highly skilled profession or have an advanced degree. The ceiling for money to be made is higher in America than in Canada. The USA attracts both “refugee” type of immigrants and highly skilled professionals. Canada only attracts refugees who wants an easy way to naturalization and hog up the healthcare system.
@@kate57425 It depends on the industry you're in, but generally if you want stability and to never have to worry about healthcare, employment rights, unemployment money, a comfortable middle class life, then choose Europe, especially central Europe. Taxes are high but the things your taxes pay for are available to you when you need them. For example, I unexpected needed several surgeries, I paid nothing for the hospital or doctor's visits and since it was an urgent medical condition, I didn't have to wait on a long waiting list or anything. As far as the crime rate goes, I definitely feel a lot safer here overall and even though we live in an uncertain world, things are more stable here overall, I would say (although naturally the start of armed conflict in Ukraine definitely had us all on edge for a while.)
However, in the US, in certain industries you can definitely make more money than you would make here in the EU and less of it would go to taxes. Depending on which state you choose to live in, you might only have to pay federal income tax. It's definitely more of a business-friendly country if you want to run your own business. But healthcare could be a gamble unless you make sure you get on a good insurance plan and locate yourself in a city or town with access to excellent hospitals and medical centers (like suburban Boston, suburban Philly, New York area, etc.)
When my family immigrated to Canada it had integrity, freedom and was respected globally, for me Canada lost this when Canada pushed Manufacturing out of Canada, as far back in the late 70's early 80's - This was the first exodus from Canada, most left and never came back, this is also when Canada stopped competition is all sectors, food and groceries/ banking, insurance/real estate/engineering, this all happened under Pierre Trudeau.
Fast forward here we are again under a Trudeau and the exudes is greater, people are not leaving in larger numbers- Affordability/ failed medical system/corruption in government/ lack of completion/ Failed promises/crime/terrorism sympathizing and hate/drugs/ child exploitation/indoctrination/ Gender madness/woke/ immigration/refuges vetting/.....This all happened under the Liberal/NDP cartel and again under another Trudeau.....
Now there is talk about bring in more immigrants, when we can not deal with our current population and the hype of Job jobs is made in Canada only unless you wish to be a Taxi driver/food delivery or be on a government payroll or embrace one of the growth sectors in Government services/Food Bank volunteers, fast food and again as a last resort more taxi drivers....
Canada is broken.
Excellent summary. Completely agree. And it's not just immigrants leaving. Some of us citizens are also leaving.
@@on2thenextthingwhere do you go from USA? I'm asking because I'm wanting to move away from Canada, but not sure if the US is a good option.
@@cinnamonrollypoly go to Bangladesh we only want pride canadian no matter the up and down
Some are Canadians of Convenience. They go back home after receiving citizenship. Take, take and give little to nothing in return. When war breaks out, they are suddenly Canadian again and taxpayers have to bail them out.
Macleans magazine had a write up on car insurance fraud in the early 2000s. Some area codes in Ontario found it very difficult to attain insurance bc of the ppl living in those areas were so crooked. Pretend whiplash claims left and right. The accidents were caused by the so-called victim. Now, as a result, we have no fault insurance. Everyone pays much more regardless of track record.
@@cinnamonrollypolyUSA is a cutthroat capitalist nation with a severely broken Healthcare system. The average American is also less educated and significantly more prejudice.
Source: my dad's a trucker in the USA
ever since justin came to ottawa as pm.... canada has been in decline. canada is not a place that it once was before justin's terrible leadershiip.
You cant even find dead end jobs anymore. Even if you are poverty they still deny you even a penny of your tax refunds.
A country is like a business. You don't put someone in charge you doesn't know what they're doing. That's exactly what happened. What happens when you do that with a business? It fails and it fails quickly. That's why in 8 years he's pretty much managed to ruin everything. The worst part is his ego. He forms a partnership with an even smaller minority government just to save his bacon. That's the real problem. When push comes to shove, he can't even acknowledge He's a failure and instead we all get stuck with him for another 2 years. Only a person with very little integrity behaves in that manner and as we've seen over the years he has none.
I know of at least 5 different immigrant families that left Canada because it has too many immigrants
Canada was never in favor of immigrant professionals, and have always used the highly skilled doctors to fill labor roles even though they invite them on fasttrack visas. These people have massive egos and nothing to show for it, they think their medical programs are better than USA and apparently you need to waste a decade of your life to prove to them that you're up to "Canadian Standards" which honestly aren't that great. Canada likes to keep the bad news hush hush, promoting a false, overly positive image of the country while the reality is different. Once you're landed, you've fallen in their trap.
Most canadian doctors are better at business than medicine. 🤑
CANADA does have many foreign professionals. What more do these foreigners want?
Some smart comment here! And "Canadian Standard" is not the standard at all. 😅
Perfect comment. Totally agree.
We all know that the core of the problem is an immigration policy (not the immigrants) which is completely disconnected from the rest of the picture. Immigration targets have not been built in conjunction with housing and transportation programs, and it would seem that we are not bringing in the sort of labour we actually need - skilled trades ready to build homes. It rather seems that immigration policy has been crafted in lock-step with fiscal and monetary policy in order to push back on wages and expedite the financialization of everything, especially housing. In short, it seems to be part of the plan to move towards a digital feudalism, where capitalists are vassals of the owners, who make their money through rent-seeking.
There are plenty of skilled tradesman willing to build homes, and yet many are unemployed. What is happening can be explained by Austrian Economics. Read “Economics in One Lesson” by Hazlitt, and “Whatever Happened to Penny Candy” by Richard Mayburry.
We don’t need to bring in skilled trades. We don’t need to bring in anybody. We have plenty of ppl here who could be trained to do these jobs, and I suspect it would be cheaper to subsidize the costs of training and educating domestically than it is to absorb hundreds of thousands if newcomers a year.
A young friend just got into welding and, after finding out how much he was making, his PHD neuroscience proff of a roommate started asking him about getting into the trade lol.
@@firstandforemost87 I agree.. there isn't enough jobs and homes for Canadians as it stands
I've heard some insider stories of the justin trudeau Liberal cult and it's worse than you think. The bureaucracy and management brainwashing of their staff by diminishing them as 'unwanted guests' in Canada is truly frightening. No wonder every aspect of government under these libs has been failing. How do you expect productivity and positive minds to accomplish anything when they are being dragged down a hell hole!?
to be that wrong on everything proves you have a job and safety net to live through this mess. We need to cut taxes, drill for oil, build housing, repair infrastructure and fix the medical system. Cutting 40-to 50% of the gov't fat and not spending money on other countries and political pet projects would do a lot of that !!! We don't need ONE more immigrant until we have these things fixed. And they are going to stop coming anyway.
JT has made Canada so miserable that not even immigrants want to stay
Canadian born and I left the country to start a business elsewhere
That's good enough
Quebec need freedom from Canada
@@Jjrr462 Please! Alberta also wants out after we get back our CPP money!
@@Jjrr462 Why? It never had it so good. But living in Gatineau I think Outaouais should separate from Quebec.
Please, be careful! Do not let just anyone come into this country and work here without some kind of "Canadian experience". I am one of them and had to go back to school for a year and did several placements to understand more how things work in Canada.. it was a wonderful experience and I learned so much. I know SO many doctors who got their license in other countries from a very bad university, I hear them talking and I think "how on earth did you become a doctor?". A lot of them were never good students to begin with, they just signed up for classes and got the spot at a university and are now doctors. My point is, while things should be easier, the Canadian government has to make sure that we are bringing good quality into the country and not only good quantities.
I have a heart attack when they talk about lowering barriers to entry. I had two successive botched C section jobs done by foreign doctors (Tunde-Byass and Mei-Dan of North York general hospital). Tunde-Byass left me with a scar so thin is was spontaneously rupturing a subsequent pregnancy. Mai-Dan left the wound 100% dehised and infected with fecal bacteria. It was left undiagnosed and I was suffering for a year. Neither of them gave me an in person appointment to deal with the hack job they left me with. They do not give a d--m about Canadian standards of professional conduct. I got amazing service and an actually competent repair done by an American doctor for $12,000 USD, which seemed like a steal to me! Believe me, you do not want free garbage healthcare.
@@MedicalAutonomyProject Just because you had a bad experience, it doesn't mean everyone of Canadian doctors are bad. The experience I have had for my 73 years has been great. Very few complaints.
@@wysetech2000 Must be nice. I have PTSD and physical symptoms 2 years after delivering in this dump of a country.
We have enough people as is. The problem isnt that we aren’t welcoming, but that our govt thinks its a good thing to bring in millions of people with no place to live and drive up housing costs.
Well, maybe you should take your Family the the Ukraine and live with the war and deaths. That's why our immigration is so high. We opened the doors for the Ukrainians to give them a safe place to live.
When the rate of growth of the Canadian populations is 1.1.% per year and the sustainable rate is 1.7% per year this means Canada has to cover the difference from immigrants to keep the economy going !!!
However, housing problems, high cost of living, very bad health care and services
are there because of the corruption and mismanagement of our governments we elect !!!!!!
@@wysetech2000 most immigration is not from Ukraine. Most are not refugees of war either.
@@wysetech2000 It isnt just Ukraine, it is a majority of Asian and South Asian people who have taken over the cities. Not to mention a huge influx if other nations such as Central/South America and Middle East. Visit the major cities most are asian/south asian
@@mohieali7317 We don't have to "cover the difference". A lower growth rate is a good thing.
Many become a citizen of convenience and have no interest in being Canadian. This needs a major overhaul. You become a citizen and don’t pay taxes here you lose citizenship and all benefits. Too many becoming citizens of convenience. Pay your dues or leave.
You didn't really listen to this upload, did you? They listed a plethora of reasons why they leave. It sounds like you didn't want them in the first place. And if you were to actually think about it, you may notice that the people whose land was stolen from them, feel exactly the same way about you. Funny that jo. 🤣
Wait. What does taxes have to do with it? Who’s not paying their dues?
Where are the numbers showing they don’t pay taxes? If anything, we have more freeloaders living here that are 3rd generation immigrants than actual recent immigrants😂
You're so right, and not only that those people when they find themselves in trouble in their home countries they expect and get Canada to pay for their flight back, like Israeli Canadians of ukranian Canadians or any other group, I say you left Canada you are on your own
I lived in Canada since I was 19 years old, for 13 years. I had a job in Canada even before I set foot on Canadian soil and 3 weeks ago I finally left for Switzerland because Trudeau broke Canada and turned into a very depressing place. As an EU citizen I can work and live freely in at least 27 countries and I don't want to live in a country that's packed with homeless drug addicts who act like zombies and young people can't afford to buy homes and start a family. Switzerland is also expensive but at least the wages make up for the cost of living.
Canada is becoming unaffordable for even the middle-class, while oil companies, grocery stores & bank shareholders enjoy tax breaks. Owning a home has become impossible for many, many people now and, they see the writing on the wall.
Most Chinese international students choose to go back to China because Canada is undevelopped compare to the cities they came from. But for people from poor countries, Canada is heaven, have many babies and the government pays for it.
Thank you
Canada is unfortunately sliding across the board. I’ve returned back after being away for 16 years and to say it’s been disappointing is an understatement.
Did you ever think that part of your problem is trying to live like we did 16 years ago?
@@wysetech2000 thats exactly it, I've watched us stay stagnate as I visited my parents every year and now found that we've been passed by as we stay doing the same things.
Then why did you return?
@@wysetech2000 because its my home. Are you going to tell me to get out if I don't like it, not sure where you going with that comment.
Me too. Sixteen years abroad. Forced to return for a few. Difficult years. Leaving again soon.
Canada has become a bleeding heart nation for war torn countries and third world immigrants. Just like the US, we have switched from a manufacturing/production society to a nation of consumerism. That's why all the jobs here are customer service based. People realize this, tuck tail and go back home. We need to take care of our housing crisis.cost of living, homeless and look after our seniors. It's a disgrace what's happening here. We have bigger fish to fry.
Must be nice to have Canada as your second home.
As for me, I'm poor in my own home country.
You even live here?
You can just come as illegal migrant. Free housing and free everything
@@ethimself5064 Unfortunately. Wish I could go back to my racial point of origin.
Canadian born, left to start a business elsewhere
@@bacchushollywood2021 Is that Nazi Ukraine or Nazi Germany? Canada welcomes Nazi's of all European kinds.
Came to Canada from Kuwait looking for a better future. Big mistake, shouldn't have flapped my gums at work, i had a decent banking job with a career and a future. Now im stuck driving a effin truck with a bachelors degree to make slightly above average with 0 appreciation from the public, and a middle finger to say thank you for my 70 hour work weeks. I see my bed once every 3 days. I sleep next to rats and roaches in truck by the ports. Belittled by port workers and customs agents. Barked at by everyone down to a forklift driver. Looked at as lesser of a human because of the colour of my skin. What a horrible life :( My sister has already left and she was a dentist in Toronto. My mom went back ages ago. My dad is the only one wanting to stay to take care of his elderly patients, many rely on him. All i do is pay taxes and hide my money in the business, what a corrupt and horrible financial system.
Stay in Kuwait and make your own country better. If every coward runs away from their country, then how is it ever supposed to get better?
That's so weird. In the US, we know we need truckers so we respect them.
Conservatives love truckers because of their work ethic. Also truckers tend to be patriotic because they see so much of the country and grow to love what they see while driving.
Liberals love truckers because most truckers come from working class homes. The trucking industry is one of the few industries that is diverse and equal, a liberal's wet dream.
Both conservative and liberal politicians try to represent truckers to get their votes. They're a desirable voting block that wields power.
Truckers are painted with a positive image in movies, music and TV. The American trucker is somewhat of an icon. I'm surprised Canada has a different view of truckers.
My partner and I left 1.5 years ago to Australia from Ontario, it’s much better here. We both work in health care.
Partner?
But aren't you surrounded by Australians?
it should be the same...how is it different???
Public school in Canada become big concern for parents
when they should be focused on food water and security we are at war
SO TRUE.
I feel sorry for immigrants who entrust schools with their children to come to devastation and horrible realization later on...
Too many diddlers aka "teachers"
@@seankingwell3692 We are at war and bought-off mainstream media pretends otherwise. Depressing.
I want my old Canada back!!!! ❤️🇨🇦❤️
You will never get it back Colonizer. We are taking back our land.
Sorry it’s gone. Trudolf has absolutely destroyed it.
Canada is done friend. Totally DOOMED.
Old Canada? You mean racist, red necked Canada.
@@IAM-iv1oz Oh come on. It's not that bad. We are much better off than some countries.
I left Toronto 20 years ago after living there for 8 years. I didn’t feel welcome and was worried about my livelihood. A lot of Canadians I’ve met were very close-minded and not friendly at all. They weren’t interested in other cultures and would rather hold onto stereotypes against “others”.
Hello Sherry, how are you doing today
Quebec people are very friendly.. I'm from Montreal. Yup Toronto is a colder vibe definitely. Come visit ! I'm sure it will change your mind 😊
Why would they wanna be interested in other cultures? They don't have to, it is you who should be interested in Canadian culture or what's left of it... you are in Canada, it's is not canadians that need to adapt to you
@@sarahsokalhow are the conditions in Montreal? Better than Toronto? Is it more affordable in terms of housings? Are there challenges regarding health care system where people have to wait lot at hospitals like most of Canada? If you can please provide me with details
@@ghassanjneinaty4421 Better than Toronto but it's not saying much. Most jobs require french and the Quebec gov is only interested in putting language laws (gets the votes). The emergency rooms in hospitals are overflowing and you can never get an appointment for a doctor.
On the plus side, housing costs are a lot better than the other provinces, Montreal as a city is very walkable and bikeable which is a real plus. Transit is great so you can live without a car.
Because of Trudeau’s socialist liberal policies and the national media support of such policies,we as Canadians don’t have anyplace to go. But as an “irregular traveller” you can become a citizen of our land and go back to where you came from. As long as the Canadian taxpayer will look after you wherever you are and whatever you need. I wish as a Canadian we would have that kind of support in our own country.
Actually, it started with the Harper government. They started bringing in laborers from other poor countries to fill our spot for cheap wages.
@@stoneneilsGovernment steals all my money so it makes more sense to just steal from people like you.
Так он социалист? Теперь понятно почему он с разноцветными абезянами тусуется!
When I migrated twenty years ago from Ukraine, we had to apply and wait for 2-3 years for visa. Application form had questions about education, work experience, health, criminal records. You had to get certain amount of points to get permission to come. Looking at population in Canada right now, I doubt most of newcomers had to go through the same strict selection.
They actually do. All of this info is available online. Don't act like Ukraine isn't as corrupt as any other part of the developing world.
U absolutely have no idea how hard it has become compare to 20 years ago .
Unless you are fleeing a war torn country. seems easy enough for someone with a barbaric view of human rights to come over here and get a free ride…
@@Itsameya 😂 how do you define barbarism. I would agree that Canada is pretty barbaric for killing millions of indigenous people and stealing their land and forcing their children to residential schools
@@0601ac Definitely a lot easier now a days compared to back then.
As a poor Canadian with no ties to any other country, where can I flee to? What kinds of foreign government assistance could I receive?
The best option is the U.S. Same language, short distance, and better pay. I'm not sure about any foreign government assistance. Most countries don't want poor people. They just want your $$$.
The best option is to find a rich person willing to love in Canada but has no idea where to start like me.
People who immigrate to Canada receive no special government assistance. Don't fall for the (mostly racist) hype on this score. In fact, immigrants to Canada have to sign in advance that they will support themselves. As to whete you could emigrate to without having a lot or any money of your own, research the many South American countries with expats from the US and Canada.
2 years in Canada and am leaving after my wife graduates in the university.
In 2 years I paid 90k in taxes and rent.
No health, No housing, No quality of life means work 40h and enjoy life, I work 80h a week,No freedom of speech, No friends, Racism, No multi cultural country except for Walmart.
Just the latest Cellphone.
This makes no grammatical sense
I immigrated to Canada in 2006. I have two degrees and a well-paid job. The cost of living in Ontario is so high- it leaves me with nothing but negative balance every month. I don’t have my own property, my car is old and all I have is DEBT. I can’t afford living in Canada!(P.S I lived in Quebec too- it was even worse than Ontario)
Why don't you move to the outskirts of the city and commute for cheaper rent/mortgage?
You are living in the two most expensive provinces in Canada. There are other cities with cheaper housing, the possibility of owning a car.
My husband and I could never afford to live in Ontario. My three sons moved to Montreal for work for a large company. They are all doing very well.
Buy as pensioners, we could not afford to live there. Visiting only.
Indeed, houses in Montreal are 1/3 cheaper than in Toronto. Or think about Laval.
Back in 2006 houses are only less than 100k in Toronto. You should blame your financial planning skill for not owning a house lmao
@@mtlkwan2611 Prices are rising in Montreal. Rent is still doable compared to Toronto. My brother lives in a high rise condo downtown Toronto; bought when prices were low, many years ago. Luckily for him.
Canada, in all honesty what could be said about it ?
A country that promoted itself to the world as the demure virginal type of place to live but the reality is much different.
Where, when and who did it start with you ask ?
It started to go down hill with the original " Free Trade Agreement " , NAFTA , between Canada, the U.S and Mexico , under the Brian Mulroney Conservative government. That was the beginning of the end of Canada, and it has never recovered ever since.
For worker's, it was a death nail to manufacturing, innovation and investment in Canada. The opportunities just aren't here.
Immigrants soon realise the name of the game is abuse. Abuse finding a decent roof over your head, abuse in the workplace, and pretty much any other place you can think of. Let alone there is no longer a functional healthcare system in Canada. That vaporized before our very eyes.
The failure to innovate, the failure to invest, means a failure to inspire.
All it boils down to is, Canada is just another dog eat dog place to live.
0_o
That's true, the same conservative government that came up with the GST.
@@Canuck-sv8dh
The same Conservative government that actually did something about it by lowering it while the previous Liberal government elected on the promise they would scrap it maintained it as the GST proved too lucrative.
Abuse on the workforce is RAMPANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@theultimateartist4153 canadian workplaces are toxic. this whole pretend 'nice canada' sh8t makes it even worse. a form of gaslighting
Not "free" trade - Free Health care. Put "free" in front of it and people will think that is true.
Came from Germany to Canada about a decade ago and I am looking to leave. Canada has too many problems and is unwilling to change anything to improve.
Health Care is trash, prices too high, rents unaffordable in a lot of cities, too many immigrants from countries that have a different culture. That rips society apart in the long-term.
Health care is trash? What are you basing that on? I keep hearing this, and yet everyone I know who needs good medical care is able to get it without having to empty their bank accounts. And I know many quality health care professionals too who work very hard and responsibly.
@@TT-fq7plthe health care is trash , when you have people dying in the ER for preventable measures it's trash . The amount we pay in taxes for healthcare could be much better spent in the private sector .
Nobody can find a doctor , they switched everything to virtual appointments .. we used to have doctors making house calls .. we had 5 doctors just 50 years ago here in my small town .. now none ..
They just let a man die refusing a transplant because he didn't get a needle , then they asked his family to donate his organs ..
Trash
As a sick Canadian with sick relatives our healthcare is fine. It could always be better, but it is fine. Gotten way more from the health care system alone than what I've ever paid in taxes.
"too many immigrants from countries that have a different culture. That rips society apart in the long-term"... Yikes...
Scary comment, Esp from a German :immigrants from different cultures???
Born and raised Canadians are leaving as well. They are beyond fed up. The Quebec government is a joke.
Canada is in a catch 22 situation: We need to reduce immigration to restore the trust needed to build prosperity (the research on this is absolutely clear - see Putnam, et al, for example.), and we need to maintain it to make up for labor shortages. The fact is, polls show that trust is at an all-time low between Canadians, and it is due to bringing in too many people who are self-segregating and not assimilating. We pumped massive excess cash into our economy during COVID, did not produce enough housing, introduced laws that severely constrained agriculture and dramatically increased the costs of food distribution, and brought in massive numbers of immigrants, among other things. The fact is, we have crushed the birth rate, made homes too expensive, and raised the cost of living to a point where people are desperate, and our school system has destroyed the enterprising spirit that built our economy in the first place.
No we need to have the shortage in labour. That increases wages. Maybe when people can afford to live, it'll make sense for immigrants to come here
@@sh115067wages wouldn't need to be increased if everything wasn't so goddman crazy expensive. Higher wages just leads to more inflation and it never ends. Curbing inflation and supply issues is definitely better
It's all by design hahaha.
everything is going according to plan
common/family law isthe nail in the coffin
I'm one of those former prospective immigrants who left after trying to settle there.
I arrived to be with my Canadian spouse, with an advanced degree and work experience and waited for my Spousal PR and work permit.
I paid Canadian taxes (higher than of my home country) on the world income that I earned while still living in said home country. At the time when CRA treated me as a "resident for tax purposes", I had no official immigration status (only implied) in the country despite doing my paperwork fully because "immigration services were facing challenges due to covid".
Eventually, I thought why waste my youth and education waiting for an immigration decision that was taking 3 times as long as expected (based on the official sources)? My spouse and I moved (back) to the EU and are happier here. He was able to get status here for a tenth of the cost and only within 2 months.
My daughter a four generation Canadian married a German man, he applied and eventually received his PR status as a spouse of a Canadian. His degree in Germany was not accepted here, therefore he had to work in jobs just above min wage, with the cost of living here so high, they both left to live in Germany in 2021. My daughter was without a GP for 2 years in Canada, within a few months of living in Germany and being put on the German health care, she had a GP.
After living for 13 years in Canada I came to the conclusion that the best place for Europeans is Europe. There is no good reason to move to Canada from EU.
@@franceyneireland1633 Why was his degree from Germany not accepted in Canada? Did he know that before he came?
Does your daughter speak German?
My cousins were born and grew up in the UK after their Mom went to Europe from Canada. She was travelling and ended up marrying a man from the UK. Her father ( my Grandfather ) had been born in the UK.
I asked my cousins about the rainy weather. They said, it would be difficult living there if you had not grown up with it.
They visit Canada a lot and know how sunny it is here, even in winter.
I have had friends who moved to rainy climates in Canada and had to leave because of depression.
There are many factors involved in moving to different countries - language, weather, living far from family. It’s not just the economy.
@@Ghostwriter-o6c He didn't know his degree wouldn't be accepted but at the time but his reason for moving to Canada was to be with my daughter. My daughter is learning German but she didn't know many words in German when they first moved there as they had planned on remaining in Canada plus he spoke and wrote excellent English. After six years being in Canada, when the cost of living kept going up plus he had a condo in Germany, they moved to Germany and have been there just over two years.
Canada has achieved the unthinkable by becoming one of the most expensive countries for basic needs. Argentina, 1 kg tenderloin 10 dollars, Canada 35 t0 40 dollars. Frozen almost rot vegetables, home rental at stratospheric rates. Gasoline, power, utilities, TAXATION, you name it. So, why staying? The next step by these protocommunists is food cards.
Life on PEI has changed dramatically, with rent skyrocketing to nearly triple what it was 5-7 years ago. As well the soup kitchens are very full it's very common for entire families and groups of student aged foreigners (20s, 30s) to go in when the meals are good.
Argentina might have 10 dollars 1 kg of tenderloin but the minimum wage is 377 Usd a month, How could you compare, costs of imports, and taxes, Is not only Canada going through tough times , is all around the world, and worst is less privileged countries
You need to quote average income to compare prices in different countries.
Protocommunists?! 😂 This is neoliberal capitalism exactly as it ut was meant to be.
@@tashastarling6573 The new generation of "international students" is also a demographic that makes use of food banks, etc. Canada is a ponzi scheme.
I'm 32, Congolese born and raised in France arrived in Toronto in 2019, moved back home 2 month ago because of :
- Cost of living
- Cost of becoming a house owner
- Dry Dating game
- Woke and Workaholic culture
- Not seeing myself building my family far away from my family
- 6 month winter
I love Canada tho, was a great experience 🇨🇦
Oh gosh an African haha, me too I’m planning to leave. Canada is a scam.
@@celineo9445 hey sis yeah it's really expensive how long have you been there? Where do you come from and when are you going to leave? Are you leaving for other reasons? Lol
@@ForMySoulSistas Did you leave after getting PR or did you not care about it?
Well said. Canada is a DUMP.
@ForMySoulSistas , we need congo DRC origin , copper cathode and ores , pls share your email , we will send our requirment , we will buy via Tanzania port , pls inform
Adding 450000 people instead of helping the people already here. Makes total sense
when the student visas are included it gets over 1 million. When raising concern about this you are called racist. But the people most harmed by the next million are the last million.
This is the real issue with Canada's immigration. What are the consequences of false promises to future Canadians, and how will they hurt Canada's reputation worldwide?
Reputation? Lol
that "Canada" image is already hurt there is ton of videos in different languages here on youtube
Canada's reputation is weak lol. Both India and China didn't give a damn about Canada.
I don't know where you get your information from but if it wasn't for covid immigration to Canada wouldn't have slowed down it's picked back up again. Calgary Vancouver they make the top 20 list every year for how many years now for most livable cities in the world. When's the last time anybody had mass shootings or blew up a bunch of s*** and did it on behalf of their home country. As a world traveller Canada has a great reputation. The only people that really get too worried about some of the false promises of the government are the people that usually complain no matter what the outcome is.
@@kuriyamatidusflossy Yeah, lots of them are jealous of Canada and will do anything to make us look bad.
we all understand that those who leave are clever and educated people, but not those who live completely on gov support. In other words, it is all sad
hatred visible here!
how you are gonna run country without immigrants?
I'm educated and on government support. If it wasn't for this ****ing disease I'd be living in Germany by now
Yes they don't mention that we are losing all the educated immigrants.
Same thought!!
Education is not always intelligence.
Unfortunately it’s the skilled workers that are leaving and not the unemployables.
I'm 60 and born here and worked to the bone my whole life as a middle class worker.! It's just brutally to expensive to survive here. I am just a step above poverty now.
How about of we make a deal ? You bring me and I pay your monthly expenses ?
@@manitbaacy3413😊
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Ну с конторой на хвосте везде брутальненько!
@@manitbaacy3413😂
Yes I agree Canada’s prosperity was build by emigrants but there is a “but” by emigrants from Italy, Ireland, emigrants from Eastern European countries skilled workers, housing was booming. Now Canada gets 1/2 million of Amazon workers from India, Home Depot, Pearson Airport. Canada use to be multi cultural now is becoming one culture.
Lol just say white people man, Canadians are only the whites , don't be shy Just say it. Imagine thinking multiculturalism is just europe. Imagine the blandness of that multiculturalism
Amen!!!!! I laugh at the "diversity" line bdcause it's only Indian culture and I can't even tell people I'm gay now when customers ask me out and I want to be honest because my indian coworkers will never talk to me again. So much for liberal! We are back in time!
@@KaituoKidYeah cause Europe is just so bland has so little to offer. Not like Europe created the modern world or anything.
Those Irish, Italian and Eastern Europeans came here for the same reason people come to Canada today. South Italy, Ireland abs much if Eastern Europe was very poor ands horrible place to living in not to mention violent. Irish potato famine, mafia in southern Italy and lack of development in the south and Eastern Europe because many reasons.
@@KaituoKid come back and read my comments
Canadien are facing very bad financial situation because the prices have been jamped more than double but our salary is exactly the same as 10 years ago. Our mortgage rate is higher than ever. Everybody lives in credit. What should you expect from people!!!
Excluding those whom are on welfare, of course.
Same with the immigrants. How does it help them if all that awaits them is a real estate bubble, unaffordable rents, mediocre income, and paid time off as well as benefits for parents that is far below what many developed countries in the world get? What benefits are they getting if that's what Canada offers?
@@sangjinlee5020
Did your salary went up more than 0.50 per hour?
Even if yes(which I don’t think), that will not come even close to upraised prices. Not even to that of low Costco prices. In which each product cost at least $3 more than 2 years before.
And how more hard you want me(an mother) to work? Am I an Robot?
Ha ha ha
I hope rents double and triple. It will help Canadians understand that landlords don't care about tenants. Then the people can go somewhere else outside of Canada or perhaps to Albertta where they are welcome and can live on social assitancei n homeless shelters for the rest of their lives.
I'm in Québec. I live alone and I have no children. Every year I have to payback taxes because I'm not exempt even though I loose about 19 to 20 % of my salary to taxes and other deductions and I pay 15% tax on everything I freaking buy minus a few exceptions. I mean when I have to fork up thousands at the end of the year to the gouvernement even after they've already taken so much and life keeps getting more expensive and my salary doesn't reflect those changes, I feel like I'm being punished by my gouvernement for choosing to be single and childless. It's a depressing feeling.
Why aren’t Pashtuns mentioned in your profile bio?
I think Canada needs less commumism and more real canadian culture. When i moved in 3 years ago everything felt extremely artificial, confusing, and depressing. Like everyone was on the brink of going crazy. I am glad I came back to my country Italy.
Canada should have global taxation structure like the US. If you want to carry a Canadian passport around the world you should pay some federal tax annually for that privilege. Not just return to Canada when you are old and need healthcare and social services.
@samdope1865 About 3 million Canadian citizens live abroad and pay zero Canadian tax until they need medical care and social services. About 300,000 live in Hong Kong alone.
I would just renounce my Canadian citizenship since it's useless for me anyway. Why would I continue to pay taxes in Canada if I don't work and live there?
@@Dacicus-lz9gr if you feel that way then please renounce.
@@bushroadexplorer3703 I already paid close to 40% in income tax in my 13 years living there. In the past the only good excuse for high taxation was the universal healthcare but now even that is broken. So why would I continue to give the Canadian government money even when I don't live there?
@@Dacicus-lz9gr One of the great problems that we have in Canada is that nearly 10% of our citizens live abroad and pay zero tax into our society, often for very long periods of time. Then when those individuals need social assistance or have a problem abroad Canada is expected to solve their problem, often at great expense to Global Affairs Canada. This is one major reason why Canada struggles to support Canadian tax paying residents at home.
Holding a Canadian passport is a privilege that should come with expectations that citizens are also investing in our society for the long term. Canada does not need more “paper Canadians” who use the passport simply for their own international convenience to navigate the world. I am in favour of encouraging Canadian citizens to live abroad if they wish, but applying a global tax would help separate true Canadians, from those who simply want access to the passport. The tax would incentivize paper Canadians to renounce as you suggested.
I teach ESL so I talk with a lot of newcomers and immigrants as part of my job. The case of one of my students sticks out in my mind. She originally came here from Ukraine because of the war. She wants to get PR status because she wants to settle here and make a life for herself and her family. She was explaining the process to me and she seemed really caught in a Catch 22. She held advanced degrees in mathematics and economics already, but in order to qualify here she would need to go back to school, which would require a different visa than the one she was here on. She was working, but at a low paying job where she was just making ends meet. So she has to decide whether to go back or stay, basically because of bureaucracy and no other reason. She was strongly considering going back home because of how expensive the cost of living is here. And I can't say I blame her. I was born here and if I had the resources, I would move. I would love to move abroad because the standard of living in most European countries is so much better.
It's not better in most European countries. The UK is worse off than Canadians are.
This is wrong, I've stayed in Europe for over 5 years and left Germany and a job to go back to India before immigrating to canada. The Rosy picture Europe is painting is a pipe dream ( no different from how canada is painted outside canada to immigrants). I paid 2000 Euros in Frankfurt for an Apartment that was so bad it made the Sticks look like a paradise. The cost of living was extremely high and the people were just soulless and dead inside. They don't even bother to even strike up a conversation much less be welcoming. The cost of living is extremely high the medical system is strained due to the influx of refugees crossing the Mediterranean sea. You live pay check to pay check with 0 social construct. Canada is way better than most European countries but yes its facing the same problems the world is currently grappling with due to the economic downturn and wars creating a mess in west Asia and eastern europe displacing a lot of people
It's sadly true. @@wysetech2000
There's 100 applicants for any decent white-collar job in Canada. She wasting her time even trying.
Saying someone is not just willing, but "strongly considering" going back to a warzone because of the cost of living... I don't even know what to think of it.
I dreamt of having the oportunity to move there one day (opposed to many, I'm an introvert who loves the cold, the snow and the rain and hate the sun's heat where I live). But with those living cost and taxes, I have to think of another place to drem about now.
Based on the workforce at Tim Hortons and Circle K , if Columbus sailed across the ocean today, he'd be forgiven for thinking he made it all the way to India.
These are mostly foreign students being exploited by our own universities. Their lives are often very sad and miserable. I have much empathy for them, along with much contempt for university administrators and governments who cut funding to post-secondary institutions.
So are TH and CK benefiting or are they franchises with their owners (likely immigrants?) benefiting ? lol trickle down slave economics ..
@@jay1645 yes they are benefitting because the Canadian government subsidizes their wage. So TH saves money on employment at tax payers expense.
By subsidizing their wage, I mean the government encourages hiring of foreigners. Why would these companies hire regular Canadians. Over time, the wages get artificially reduced.
@@jay1645 but yes CK probably owned by immigrants. Other companies are forced to diversity hire but you don't really see that at Ck. Half the people that work there can't communicate effectively enough to answer a simple question.
I have a different perspective as a Canadian who has lived abroad since 2017. Digital Nomads are a growing force around the world and more and more people are retiring in countries other than where they were born. So this is a global phenomena, not just something happening in isolation in Canada. The world is on the move. In the future I predict this will greatly increase. Nothing will stop the globalization of the world, and I mean that in the truest sense - not restricted just to the economic realm.
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Agree. I am from NYC but work abroad in SE Asia half the year. I work as a contractor so have the ability to work anywhere I want. This is the best way to get the most bang out of my US income.
I am also an immigrant. My parents moved from germany to canada when I was a toddler. Mom already moved to the states and found a happier life. I really hate this province (quebec) so I am thinking about following my mothers footsteps. I do not blame the other immigrants for choosing to leave. Provinces like this one (quebec) is not the best to live in.
Quebec is one of the worst tax jurisdictions to live in across all of North America. Not just Canada.
Quebec really does make immigration more difficult than other provinces, and the govt seems actively hostile to English speakers.
Well if it makes you feel any better most provinces hate Quebec anyway so.. your not alone
Quebec just proposed doubling anglophone students tuition for higher education. It’s slowly killing its own economy under the guise of saving its so-called Francophone traditions
Yeah, Americans have such a happy life. Wait until the civil war ends.
Old Canada has gone forever, the west side is now Chinada, ni hao, and the east side is now Canadistan, allahu akbar, if you are looking for the very few remaining "Canadienses" you can find them living in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
I arrived in 2006, I had travelled the world and Canada was my favourite. Drugs and crime amplified by idiotic ideology have broken this place. I used to love this country. The health care system is now the same as government hospitals in Africa, just newer buildings. Now I'm established, have 3 children in school and my wife and I are still seriously considering our options.
Which country you will prefer to migrate ??
Im a Canadian who is wanting to leave. The health care we pay for is horrible. We get taxed too much. Are tax money just given to other countries to support war instead of fixing our issues.
You will fit right in to Russia, will earn 1/10th therefore pay less taxes, cya
@@laars0001and make significantly less too
My family and I are doing the same thing, and I was born here, looking forward to leaving I'm not upset about it.
Interesting how the exodus is happening during the Justin fallout.
If trudeau gets in again, I'll be leaving. Unfortunately, apparently leaving means you have to leave half your assets
Reminds me about US citizens who said that they will move to Canada if Trump became the president. There are also some that say they vomit whenever the name Trudeau is mentioned. Then some people reads that statement and they too vomit.😂
Trudeau’s name is mentioned everyday and that is lot of vomit on Canadian soil. Now that is a good reason to leave Canada !
Why wait......Leave NOW!!
Even if Trudeau loses ( I actually think he has a 60/40 chance of winning again, too many dumdums), the country is too far gone to fix.
He will. I can already feel it.
I am living in Canada and leaving next year it used to be a safe country but now it all changed
I noticed a man on the bus pretty sad and quite teary. I asked him if he's alright. He looked at me and nodded. I'm pretty sure we're the same nationality so I started talking to him in our language. He told me that he and his wife are new in Canada and they're struggling here while in our country, back home, they're very well off. He's an engineer over there and his wife's a teacher. Now he works in a packaging warehouse and a janitor. I asked him what made him decide to come here when he's well off over there? "It's because of peer pressure." He responded. I just listened to him talked because he just wanted someone to listen to his struggle. I didn't make any suggestion or advice. I hope he's doing alright today wherever he maybe.
So sad
I know a guy in his 50th who was prominent architector in China, came to Canada to be told he had to complete 6 years of studying plus exams in order to confirm his credentials.
Brand new buildings collapse all the time in China
Many were told the same thing of other prominent professions
LoL, With all the buildings the fall down in China, it should have been 15 years.
The issue is in some countries you can literally buy your degree or if your family is of a high enough status obtain one that way@@innb28
@@wysetech2000 You still watching the news from 2005? Things have changed, the Chinese now laugh at us.
The fact that Canada is horribly unaffordable and you can't just walk in and get a job as a doctor, is not exactly a secret. Did none of those immigrants bother to actually do a bit of reasearch before they came here? Or did they come based on the word on the streets that trudeau loves to hand out free money? When my parents came here they consulted friends that were already here and ensured jobs were secured before they stepped on that boat. I have family that simply moved from one province to another that did a deep dive on housing, labor market, cost of living and health care, and secured a job, before moving. The immigrants now just think they can step out of the airport and be handed keys to a new home and their preferred job. Their fault.
There are Canadians who are struggling to pay their rent here. I'm 7th generation Canadian and I can hardly believe it. I don't blame them for not expecting THIS.
Canada ranks as the 25th most expensive country to live in, cheaper than Ireland, Austrailia, NZ to name a few and the US sits at 12th.
@@peterwhite507 That's probably outdated information. The gap between income and housing here has been growing since Trudeau came into office. His voters own houses and love that the prices are going up and haven't yet computed that they are sacrificing their own kids, not to mention the poor (yes, of every race).
Simply untrue. Immigrants face the same challenges they always have. You sound like your parents did a good job getting you over here and now you want to pull the ladder up behind you.
Really !!!!
I'm a fourth generation Canadian and I have not heard that there is something called secured job in Canada !!!!
Tell me smart !!! was you able to speculate that Russian's invasion to Ukraine
will cause our inflation to go from 2.2% to 9% in one year !!!!
Canadian government immigration policy is chaotic and drive professional immigrants away from Canada , and Canadian business is badly in need of them including my business, one third of my professional workers are new comers !!!
Stop such stupid racism !!!!!!
How nice to have a country to return to. I’m jealous. This is all I know.
agree. wish i had a fall back county i can flee back when canada is a corrupted hellhole n then come back when it's fixed
@@acutelilmint8035it ain't getting fixed. That said, the Canadian passport is a good one and opens lots of doors. Use it.
same reason we nationals have been wanting to leave... the place has been run into the ground by the Liberals. Its unrecognizable from the place it was 8 years ago
Yes, they should never have been fast tracked into my country in the 1st place! Our health care infrastructure, roads, and government services are all dwindling because there is an open cheque written for any immigrant to have access to free money, jobs and housing while ancestral Canadians get nothing!
That is not true. The reason we need immigrants is because of the low fertility rate of born-Canadians. Our population is old. Where are we going to get our tax base from without people? Who will contribute to our pension fund? Also, there is a lack of workers. I worked for the foreign workers program and there are thousands of businesses that apply because they cannot find workers here
Canada is not much better than the same countries these people came from. It just looks shiny and inviting
The truth is, that when you immigrate to canada. you are one in a giant bowl of people that roughly have the exact same qualifications as you. For one entry level tech job, over 600 people applied, 580 were of Indian immigrants, 10 Asian, 5 natural born Canadians, and 5 african. The people who get hired are not the 580 who all have the same qualifications and resumes, whos second language is english or french. Its the 5 canadians who were born here. Thats just a fact and a hard one for the huge number of immigrants to learn after they get here.
Immigration without proper infrastructure. people with the means are leaving. We were 3 international students in a single class of 40 in 2012, now 100 international students and probably 5 or 6 local. that shows.
I was just talking to a truck driver the other day who was so angry at the way this government has run this country He's planning on moving back to his home country he said it was worse 5 years ago where he's originally from but now Canada is actually worse that says a lot thanks Mr Trudeau
Yeah, if it rains or snows it's all Trudeaus fault.
@@wysetech2000 wow You must not have to pay for hydro or gas to heat your house or have any concept of the economy and where we're going...... Or have a clue of how many illegal things this guy has done and got away with.....or what happens when you print a ton of extra money everything gets more expensive except wages...... I really hope when the recession hits you make it through it because a lot of middle class people aren't going to be able to. when you can see even liberals are mad because of what he's doing to make it harder for us to live it's a sign this guy's going to be done soon! When people can be comfortable being able to pay for all amenities and have a little extra to maybe do something fun That's when people start caring about the environment! Poor people worry about the next week not years down the road. If you want people to care about the environment so badly build the people up so they can think about their long-term future and they will automatically start doing more to help the environment because they can afford to. And I say liberals not immigrants because every immigrant he has let in, in the last 8 years will vote liberal it was a study done whoever's in power and lets a whole bunch of people in they vote for that person the next time around. But judging by your photo you look like you're possibly almost ready to retire so you'll still have a CPP me on the other hand I won't without us letting a whole bunch of people in to keep the system going.
@@wysetech2000 I love trolls 😂🤣😂
@@wysetech2000 judging by the other comments you have made you're against immigration You can also thank Mr Trudeau for that because he's letting so many people into our country for votes,
Because cheap and greedy employers have made employees life miserable and have moved the Canadian life style and living standards to lowest level in history and people feel helpless and getting mental health issues but these criminals are getting rich and richer.
Could have fooled me, I live in a small rural town and feel like an outsider more and more every year.
Canada is not perfect and it has its ups and downs. As a Canadian, I still stand with my head up high and say I love this land of my birth, and I know there are many beautiful places in the world but there is none like home. Many have abused the system here, and play a major role in high crimes, high housing costs, and lack of stability. Like an ungrateful child, they forget the good things.
В плане сюрвайва от конторы здесь совсем неплохо! Пятый год уже здесь! Самому то себе я верю!
Yeah. People complain a lot instead of focusing on solutions. This poor mindset like “Canada owns me something”. They think like losers.
good for you,
And Canada has voted in this regime by thinking and lets not hide this idiocy of believing the "Trudeau" name means good govt and it is an absurd infantile logic to vote for and the result is what we see today!
Nurse here came to Canada, unable to practice there so I moved south.. Im in the US now on greencard status
I met some of these people in Thailand after COVID. There was a small group of Chinese who kept to themselves at our hostel. One day I overheard them in Chinese repeatedly talking about my country Mexico which got me to talk with them. They were quite happy to learn I could speak Chinese but more excited to learn I was from Mexico. They started asking me a bunch of questions about crossing the border into the US to which I bluntly told them I had no idea about and discouraged it. I asked where they got these crazy ideas from and they said that people were posting videos and tutorials of how to cross into the US online. The Chinese government hard handed approach to COVID was what made them leave. They wanted to go both for the freedom and economic benefits but they had a very naive and overly optimistic view of the US. They saw the high wages US workers were making but had no idea as to the incredibly high living costs associated with living there. I tried explaining that there was a housing shortage and that their expectations for life in the US would set them for disappointment but they either didn't believe me or brushed off my criticism. I also tried encouraging them to go to German or Australia instead (places which I feel would be better and easier for them to enter) but they seemed dead set on just going to the US. Unfortunately I don't know where they are now as Wechat is blindly and constantly blocking and deleting accounts in SE Asia without reason......................
Omg we can't even house are born and raised and yet we still keep taking refugees ??? VOTE BLUE BABY. I used to be a liberal and because of who the blue have runing for office he's got my vote 🔵 Conservatives
Why are there labour shortages? There are a lot of construction workers looking for jobs, but the companies are not building due to red tape and other challenges. Also, why bringing immigrants when our own current people need jobs? Do you know why the younger folks don't want to work? I hear this all the time from them... because it is simply not "worthy it". they would make around 1600-2k dollars a month working full time, then having to pay 1500-2k in rent alone, what about the rest of their expenses? I hear a lot of young people saying.. "having a full time job no longer pays the basic needs, it can't even pay rent.. it is simply crazy!". Please, let's take care of the folks who are currently in Canada, and if needed, we can welcome more people. I am not against immigration, but making them believe that they will have a job and a place to live is crazy. Why bring a bunch of hard working immigrants and getting them to live in bunk beds in a crowded apartment? Take the Indian International students as an example... they are so full of dreams, but there are a ton of them who are currently sharing a house with 14 other people, and others that are relying on food banks! Come on!
The city of London is another example, pre pandemic they had an average of 50 people going to homeless shelters, now, it is more than 400!!! Another lovely Canadian problem, I was talking to a friend the other day, she said that she had taken her husband to the hospital and waited 16 hours to see a doctor here in southern Ontario... we had another friend with us who said"wow... I waited 14 hours last week". Then, a week later, the hospital goes to social media to say that they are understaffed and under stress. This is all over Canada.. The health care is kinda crumbling. It takes forever to get an appointment with a specialist. I had to wait a whole year for one, and he did not even help me much. Getting a follow up with him has been incredibly difficult, and I have been waiting for that for about 6 months. Come on!
But, the idea of Trudeau is to bring more and more people...Stop selling Canada as if it is an amazing country to people abroad. The true reality is, they will struggle big time!( a lot of them anyways)
Natural born Canadian - you are taking about salaries that are 22-24k per yr in 2024??? during my lifetime, we have always needed 2 x salaries (a couple) to make our expenses. It’s been like that since well, forever, in social media years.
Being a landlord isn’t a fun or profitable business in a number of cases as it’s very hard to find good people who will pay & who will live with others in a peaceful manner
The world has become a joke not just Canada
The most qualified and motivated are leaving, while we ramp up diploma-mills for the mediocre. The government has not invested in new housing, new infrastructure, more doctors, better on boarding for those with foreign qualifications etc. No, we just suck in huge amounts of immigrants with no real planning or investment. No wonder the best of them rapidly realize they want out. I recently met a pediatrician from Venezuela working in an Apple store, what a bloody waste!
Not having welcoming committees is definitely not a significant issue. The economy, increased emphasis on MAID (i.e. death) over extensive medical care, and the new sociopolitical atmosphere of hating immigrants to Canada from the 16th century onward are definitely major factors. When people were encouraged to come and work in numerous professions all across Canada for centuries, it was not difficult to retain immigrants. The virtues of hard work and supporting your family were valuable treasures, but now there is much less emphasis (even some discouragement) concerning these things today. I am praying for our nation to turn itself around.
There isn’t a new sociopolitical atmosphere of hating immigrants. There is a sociopolitical atmosphere of hating excess immigration. If Canada was acting as it did in the past, screening heavily and and making sure that immigration was not excessive people wouldn’t care. It taking in a million people when there is already an affordability problem with housing, and insufficient social services, causes real problems. The provinces have all been screaming at the federal government over this, you can ask anyone in a provincial policy department. But the feds are desperate to keep cramming in more people in order to grow the tax base. Unfortunately the news doesn’t report things like basic policy conflicts between the feds and provinces. That would imply there are serious problems and the people in charge are screwing up.
@@defenstrator4660yeah agreed. We are a country of immigrants and that is our strength. But 500 000 immigrants and 800 000 students a year is just taking the piss.
it's hate for the cOlOnIZeRs that's being pushed, like you just did here. Everyone else is a poor innocent victim who never did anything wrong in their histories ever
From the 16th century? Was that a typo? Canada wasn’t even a COUNTRY in the 16th century 😂😂…even now there is argument whether it’s a legitimate country…
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