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The 2nd biggest country in world with 40 million people complaining they are getting too many ppl??? \n\nNo! You guys are being eaten by the rich and they use immigrants as human shields and as an excuse to keep exploiting everyone while their property value keeps growing every year and they pay less in wages.\n\nYou can blame immigrants all you want but the problem won’t be solved until you guys stop corporations from governing and stop trickle down economic policies that only benefit the top 1%

Of course this is designed to show the tenants in a poor light - which is what they deserve! After 3 months there should be an automatic eviction by a department of the Sheriff unless devastating personal circumstances like losing an arm or something. I dont want to hear the coping arguments about Fed vs Provincial. This country is broken and every tax cent should go towards benefiting the people, not the select minor few who get fat and rich from abusing the system.

I don’t feel bad for landlords at all. \nThey are all rich. Don’t listen to this landlord. They are sitting rich. Trust me

Someone is getting very rich while lying both to Canadian Citizens and Immigrants

This is so rich I love it!!!

Follow the money. Rapid population growth makes rich people even richer, and they don't want anything to change. Asset owners, real estate investors, universities, construction companies, retailers etc etc all benefit. Working poor and the migrants themselves pay the price

Some entitled renters think that all landlords are rich and have no expenses. What ever happened to respect and decency?

We shall increase the quality of immigrants instead of any refugees. We shall learn it from Singapore. Rich immigrants or international student who urge to stay here shall be our target of immigrants. We shall mostly criticize the corrupt of the city government regarding the high Housing price. It is nothing about the immigrant. Don’t make an ignorant conclusion.

Zero-net population growth or very slow growth is desirable for a host of reasons. Immigration is not inherently a virtue. Not inherently a vice either. Its value depends entirely upon the context in which it is taking place. Here are some reasons why Canada should reduce immigration to achieve eventual zero-net population growth.\n\n(1) The ecology: Canada is possibly the world's worst country per capita in producing waste – certainly among the worst. (a) As of now we have a population of 40 million. At its present rate of growth our population will reach 50 million in 2041. This will require a 20% reduction in waste production per capita simply to keep waste production at the present level. This reduction will not happen. (b) In addition, freshwater resources cannot be expanded at all, really (desalinization can only produce a drop in the bucket). Hence, look for shortfalls in water availability. (c) From a global perspective, it is the rich countries, such as Canada, that pollute the most, both absolutely and on a per capita basis. Therefore rich countries should not increase their populations. Immigrants do not come to rich countries to be better ecologists than the citizens of those countries. Immigrants to Canada want to live like Canadians, as Canadians. The problem here is not that they will not assimilate to Canadian ways, but that they will. \n\n(2) Housing: with 500,000 new immigrants a year, housing starts cannot keep pace. The result: ever-inflating housing costs. Rich immigrants compound the problem. \n\n(3) Suburbanization: most of the new housing in Canada is in highway suburbs (over 80%), with their car-driven way of life. Once again, this is bad for the country’s ecological health. In addition, the result will be ever-growing geographies of nowhere. We will not be creating more Victorias or Quebec Cities. We will be creating more Surreys. \n\n(4) Downward pressure on the incomes of most people: the law of supply and demand is very simple: when there is a surplus of any commodity, that commodity becomes cheaper. When a commodity is scarce, its value rises. Labor is a commodity. Workers rightly do not want there to be a surplus of labor. Their livelihoods are threatened. \n\n(5) Future care of the old: the more people we add now, the more people we will have to take care of later, when their working lives are done. Adding immigrants now to pay for the care of the old is therefore a pyramid scheme. Eventually, in a generation or two, the population of the world is set to decline, and the well of immigrants will run dry. Canada should aim for fewer, rather than more, retirees – as preparation for that coming moment.

A lot of applicants are tricked into getting student visas by recruiters into going to Canada for the promises which turned out to be just promised when they get there. Canada has to be stringent on its immigration laws to prevent scumbags from getting rich out of people's despirate hopes and dreams.

We're an IMMIGRANT COUNTRY! These are purposefully racist and divisive talking points amongst politicians and rich people which are meant to divide working-class people with genuine and rightful grievances. Instead of focusing that rightful anger on who is really responsible for inflation, the housing crisis, and all the issues listed in this very-well made video, which are corrupt politicians, bankers, CEO's of major corporations and BILLIONAIRES AND MILLONAIRES! Rich people and politicians try to divide and confuse the public by playing into people's worst impulses such as being racist. I don't blame the protestors or people in this video who habour all this anger, I really don't. Their grievances are genuine and their anger is completely justified. However, it is misguided. When you think about it, WE ARE AN IMMIGRANT settler-colonial country. Unless you are an Indigenous person, YOU AND YOUR FAMILY COME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE! So it is not logical for us to be anti-immigrant, when, again unless you are Indigenous, WE'RE ALL IMMIGRANTS! The public and working-class should focus their anger on who is really causing all these issues. Rich people and corrupt politicians.

In year 2050 canedian Government want Canada ?? to rich 100 million people popolition in Canada is creazy

People are fighting each other without realizing that the real problem has always been the growing capital accumulation since the 1960s, which has led first-world countries to face this issue nowadays. Most politicians don't want people to stand up against the wealthy, better to have an easy target than to face the actual problem.\n Eat the rich!

This is why I say we need Trump in office I don't care about them crying at the border or whatever you don't see the rich people from El Salvador Mexico and all over the nation Coming to America to live you see poor corrupt crime people Coming to to America and once they're here they're here to stay cuz the America think they can save everybody but the ones that needs to be saved

They to rich to care

This is a well-thought-out globalist policy. The poor of the world must slowly, slowly be all brought to the rich nations. In this way, there will no longer be very poor countries, but the level of rich countries will decrease a lot in the next decades.

Has anyone pointed a finger at the landlords? Just because you can charge a fortune for your s#*t apartment doesn’t mean you should. How about the real estate agents getting rich off this madness.\nI blame Greed, Not immigrants.

Immigration is one of the factors causing housing crises, but not the main reason. It is the free market capitalist system and the rich who exploits the system.

Settlers and colonisers talking about immigration is rich.

There are very few normal people except the dredges of society who migrate to western countries and maybe a few super super rich. The west made it so hard to jump through all the hoops that normal middle class would not want to put in the effort to degrade themselves and go west. The result is Canada and most of the west get the worst type of migrants and yet the west makes it even harder paradoxically and ends up with even more boat people!

We only need rich immigrants with more than 1 million capital

I don’t even necessarily blame the government. I blame the for profit immigration centers in foreign countries that sell canada as this utopia rich land. We’ve been struggling for years and it’s not fair for those who come here being told it’s paradise and they’ll make all the money they want when it’s not true. It’s fraudulent

The immigrants who come here on student visa and do 3 jobs to survive are not a problem. Problem are those who pay big $ to come in. They are the ones who launder their money through Canadian real estate and make Canadian living costs rise. They use Canadian real estate market for speculation and live off flipping houses and condos. They did the same in countries they came from after they earned their money through smuggling illegal staff. Book Crazy Rich Asians explains it well.

There is plenty of vacant or underused housing in Toronto. The problem is that rich people ain't sharing.

I thought of moving to Canada too, but it felt really impractical. Canada is expensive, even to locals. This is what you get when you prioritize corporations over people, making the rich richer, and poor poorer. High rise condominiums bought by tax-evaders, and money launderers from all over the world, instead of livable communities. Happens almost everywhere in the world. I think everyone needs to live simpler, live in the province, or work from home, the cities are really getting unlivable nowadays, full of greedy corporations constantly fed by their cousins in the ranks.

Well the same happens in HK when HK government, which its citizens never voted for, welcomes thousands and thousands of mainland Chinese immigrants every year (who are very rich) for work, investment (money laundering) and university degrees and the rent goes up every year like crazy, and all they want is a HK passport so they can then move overseas, and they still shame and mock HK for fighting for democracy

4:45 She missed the biggest problem between building is expensive and they have to charge high. Canadian government allow this developer mafia to market and sell these condos to rich Asians who have tons of dirty money to profitable real estate casinos, make more profit with rentals- arbnb business, and even more profit by flipping home. This is big stab the back poor locals who can not compete with foreign investors and then are terrorized to unaffordable rents to these investors. It doesn't sound like a country, but some kind of mafia running this country

Tax the insanely rich. Immigration isn’t the problem. The problem is the gap between rich and poor is too large. The rich have bought too many assets and are holding the poor to ransom while deflecting on immigrants.

It's a false statement saying there's not enough housing, considering the fact that there is more unoccupied housing in Toronto then unhoused people living in the street. Why? Because of predatorial housing capitalists corporations flipping condos left and right with only their profits in mind. \n\nIt's always been this over and over, nothing new on the horizon. Our bourgeois government creates a crisis, the far-right uses the immigrants as a scapegoat and then guilible working class victims of this crisis looking for a solution fall for their racist rhetoric.\n\nWe do not lack housing, we lack AFFORDABLE housing!\n\nImmigrants are NOT your enemies, the rich capitalists who created this crisis are!

They could always build more houses that are affordable but why are they not oh wait the immigrants are responsible for that yt ppl are so easily fooled by rich yt ppl smh

As a son of an immigrant, immigration is not the issue. Quality immigration is. These days all Canada is bringing in are students that make college and university owners rich and keeps businesses like Tim Horton's running with low spending. While the big corporations get rich, every Canadian is being hurt.

Yeah, ofc blame the greed of the rich, on immigrants and foreigners. Typical right wing bs. lol

This started long ago when lots rich Hongkies trying to flea HK before handing over to china. Canadians cant even afford a home no more while rental remains high esp in vancouver and toronto

It’s deeper than this lazy journalism. Billionaires benefit off the poor so why not bring more into a western country. You’ll have a lot more people to exploit and get rid of unions and basic human rights because of “religious” values. Don’t worry about housing worry about the rich

The wealthy need bodies to tax and sell stuff to. If they can get $100 from a million people they can stay rich. The poor will stay poor, and the rich will stay rich.

This all did buys rich people.. for stealing your money. When you don’t have money in pocket your thinking ability less.. government also driven rich greedy people

The liberals did this on purpose to gain new tax revenues! For corporations to get cheap labor. For Canadians to leave so canada can be a cheap labor country while making more money for the rich and politicians.

There are enough resources in this country to solve these problems. The problem is that the system is increasingly rigged against the poor and the middle class. The tax system favors evasion from corporations and the rich. The political system has been bribed out (lobbied out they call these days) Trudeau is just putting out fires and maintaining the status quo while pretending that he cares. It is questionable that the conservatives are interested in fixing those problems.

So long as the rich people have someone to fix their cars and mow their lawns, nothing will change.

Politicians are the problem. They block the population from accessing the benefits of taxing the rich and have a fair society

Government importing cheap labor for corporations and pumping real estate for boomers and the rich

For decades, the real estate developers have argued that there’s not enough supply of housing. There is not enough supply. But why and what kind of supply do we need? Recently the mayor of Burnaby pointed out that he grew up in a co-op. I also live in a co-op, the federal government stop building these in the 1980s. The mayors argument was that the number of co-ops kept prices down and provided affordable, and very excellent housing. There’s something to this. None of the solutions the government has offered have done anything but make real estate, developers and foreign investors, and also domestic investors richer.what is needed is a massive co-op building program that starts tomorrow. Something in the trillion dollar range. This will provide excellent housing for all kinds of levels of income. But it won’t make developers really rich, or real estate investors.

I can't help but think that the phrase 'a country of immigrants' is just a sneaky way of saying 'a country of colonialism'. I dont know that much accountability or reconciliation has happened in Canada over the last 300 years. It began with governments and corporations doing whatever they wanted and could do to make money and extract resources off of this land (regardless of whom it affected), and continues to be just that. The increase of immigrants is largely, as far as I know, being used to a) bring in more revenue and economic stimulus (which is more and more ending up in the hands of a few very wealthy families) and b) fuel the labour force of large corporations that would rather soak the profits up themselves, hire low-wage PR or temporary foreign worker labour, than pay Canadian residents properly to work those jobs. I love immigrants, have many 1st gen immigrants friends, and think they do bring a lot to Canada. We all do, as we were all immigrants at some point. At the same time, the immigration system is very complicit in looking at immigration as a resource in aiding those rich families/ corporations in colonialism, and you could argue that this overreliance is abuse of the immigration system. Certainly, we have seen this with colleges. This feels especially true over the last several years with huge jumps in immigration numbers with growing inequality for long term residents. So the result is a very quickly changing world that is not helping many Canadians feel more secure about their future, which is a recipe for unrest. Am I wrong? Genuinely I am looking to have an open discussion here!

Canada and America just need to focus on two of main problems...which are greed and a lot of people getting in real estate who are either renting or selling at a severely inflated rate because those people in real estate just want take short cut early retirement. If rich individuals or companies create more jobs that are entry level and offer decent salary then rich individuals or hedge fund companies can buy empty land and buy town homes or a tower like apartment and charge a decent rate.

Oh please and I doubt it's a white girl Everytime when I am rich no show neither and I will get one if need be pansexual

Well it is true, lots of Syrian and Palestinian refugees being accepted by Western countries but all these wealthy Arab countries is not taking a single refugee. Shame on these rich Arabs!

Bro I can’t wait for trump to get in office he needs to shut this downnnn nyc use to be for the rich now it’s for the homeless

They became homeless when they left their own homes in their countries seeking freebies and riches in the U.S. Its cheaper to send them back to their own countries rather than all American taxpayers financially supporting them. Let the liberal politicians and other Democrats support them from afar by sponsoring them through legit non- profits that provide food and resources WITHIN their country of origin.

If our liberal leftist government politicians would stop giving away our resources. Instead of giving back our tax dollars to the American people who desperately need it do to the insane policies that don’t affect the rich liberal elites who don’t give a dam about the middle class and working poor of our country! Send these people to Martha’s Vineyard and to other rich liberal conclaves!

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