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When I was young, late 50's early 60's, I was jealous of people living in the US. We'd go to my Dad's professional conferences in various areas and everyone seemed to drive such expensive cars and live in such big houses. Now I know that's just window dressing. You have to look at what's underneath. I didnt see the poverty and the racism. Canada unfortunately has people who would like to take Canada down the same road as the US. We have good medical care, a social net, respect human and reproductive rights, attempt to keep religion out of politics, gun control (a pro hunter here!) , fair school funding (the whole province, not just district), and the list could go on. Is it perfect? No but its a whole lot better than the US. We Canucks just need to keep fighting for improvements and it isnt an American model for most of them. \nWe had always planned to take holidays and see various parts of the US. No more. The lack of gun laws is really scary, especially when combined with hate. We're not timid travellers. \n\nMove there... maybe California .

Canada is opening doors to all these new immigrants but it's also kicking out own citizens, because of unable to find jobs that you like no matter that you are highly educated or afford the living expenses. If you are over 50 you will never get a professional job and if you are a recent graduate, even if you study and born in Canada, you can't get a job either because no experience. This is Ontario, this is our home country Canada.

Just to touch briefly on the guns subject. Canada has quite a lot of guns relatively. Other than the United States, Canada has the highest guns per capita in the OECD. However, gun licensing, regulation and distribution along with various policies and cultural dynamics help in reducing mass shootings and school shootings.\nIn fact , Canada has only ever seen about a dozen school shootings in the last 50 years. Just to put that into perspective if a Canadian student were to attend an American school for a couple months, they are more likely to have a school shooting in those couple months than their entire K-12 education in Canada. I think that's why a lot of Canadians were mentioning their childs safety.

I live in Canada, probably a 6 hour drive to the border. I’m in my 50’s and have never in my life stepped foot on American soil. I have no desire to change this

I'm a CPA who works in both the US and Canada. Because of how small business (CCPC) taxes work in Canada, I would pay about 50% more in income taxes if I moved to the US. \nMost people will find their tax burden is lower in Canada. \nCanadians demand and get value for their taxes. and as a result, most Canadians (not all) still trust their government to do what is best for the majority.

The social programs aren’t run well for the most part. Waiting hours and hours for a doctor when more than 50% of tax revenue goes to heath care. A good way to bankrupt a province. We have the same issue as Americans but instead of insurance companies and hospitals in bed it’s a public union, government and bad government contracts 3 way.

I appreciate you feeling the “ouch” from comments because it’s your home. But yeah, guns, political division, healthcare. My daughter as a child, myself, and my granddaughter all have serious medical issues that would break us financially. \n\nKids and school comes up so often because USA had over 50 school shootings last year. One a week! In 2018 CNN reported that USA has had 57 times as many shootings as the other six G7 countries combined.

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NO. Never. Wonderful natural areas and cities to visit on vacation, but America has a personality disorder that's out of control. Not in any order except how they came to me:\n(1) the American Dream vs the Candian ideal. (2) In many places, any stranger you pass on a street or see anywhere may be legally armed with a gun. (3) Babies to adults -- all can be murdered over and over again, and nothing changes. (4) Healthcare - the idea people thing they shouldn't take care of others is appalling to me. (5) Religious fanaticism - nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. (6) Rampant racism alongside denial of the existence of racsim; nope again x 10. (7) What used to be creeping corruption is now rampant all the way to the Supreme Court (8) 50% of the people want authoritarian fascist for a leader corrupt Supreme Court ... Is that enough for now?

I stopped visiting since the orange idiot became pres, and I live 50 min from niagara falls ny

I am from Brazil, moved to Canada 9 years ago, now I am Canadian citizen. I was once asked by a American colleague why did I not immigrated to the USA, the answer is: it was not even in the list of possible countries. In fact it is on my top list of places not to move to. \n\nYou have a good insurance through your job? That only means you have one more reason to fear losing it or stay on a particularly bad one if you don’t have anything lined up, if you have a chronic health condition, then you are straight out hostage to your employer. Even if you do have good insurance your bills may one day go beyond the maximum and you still risk bankruptcy. \n\nIf you do go bankrupt, in any civilized country you can’t go to jail for debt, in the USA you can, the country with the highest incarcerated population in the world in absolute numbers and relative too. To add salt to the injury it is a country that did not completely make slave work illegal, it is still legal if you are not a free citizen and your prison system exploit that.\n\nSo it is a country that you can become slave because you got sick.\n\nThen there are the guns… the fact you think you are exempt of school shootings says it all, if you live in a small city it would not affect you? Are you really saying mass shootings never occur in small cities?! This is an excerpt:\n\n“The massacre that killed 10 people at a high school in Texas last week was just the latest to happen in a small or suburban city. Of the 10 deadliest school shootings in the U.S., all but one took place in a town with fewer than 75,000 residents and the vast majority of them were in cities with fewer than 50,000 people.”\n\nIt is all part of the gun culture, the absurd of making guns easily available and viewing guns as toys, a culture were people think taking your life is a proportional response to trespassing. \n\nIt is all closely tied with all the warmongering you are ok with all the taxes you pay going to your military to kill people outside your country yet you take exception in using a fraction of that to save your own citizens lives.\n\nIt is a place which put low value in the human life and well being, favour punishment instead of prevention and rehabilitation, keeps most of its population in a constant sense of despair and helplessness…\n\nIt is no wonder the USA has the highest number of psychopaths(over than 3000 versus the second next at 166), have kids going nuts and shooting others at school.\n\nIt is not a sane culture, it is not a good place to live and if you are well informed you won’t.

As a teenager I thought America would be the best place to live. In my 50's, no thank you. Wouldn't move there because of the politics.

2000s \nDate\tCity\tProvince\tDead\tInjured\tTotal \nSeptember 18–20, 2001[15]\tMontreal\tQuebec\t7[n 1]\t0\t7 \nMarch 11, 2002[16]\tQuatsino\tBritish Columbia\t6[n 2]\t0\t6 \nMarch 3, 2005[17]\tnear Mayerthorpe\tAlberta\t5[n 1]\t0\t5 \nSeptember 13, 2006[18]\tMontreal\tQuebec\t2[n 1]\t19\t21 \nOctober 19, 2007[19]\tSurrey\tBritish Columbia\t6\t0\t6 \nJuly 26, 2009[20]\tSmith\tAlberta\t4[n 1]\t0\t4 \nAugust 25, 2010[21]\tToronto\tOntario\t0\t4\t4 \nDecember 12, 2010[22]\tVancouver\tBritish Columbia\t0\t10\t10 \nAugust 14, 2011[23]\tKelowna\tBritish Columbia\t1\t4\t5 \nDecember 15, 2011[24]\tClaresholm\tAlberta\t4[n 1]\t1\t5 \nJune 2, 2012[25]\tToronto\tOntario\t2\t5\t7 \nJune 15, 2012[26]\tEdmonton\tAlberta\t3\t1\t4 \nJuly 1, 2012[27]\tCalgary\tAlberta\t1\t3\t4 \nJuly 16, 2012\tToronto\tOntario\t2\t24[n 3]\t26 \nFebruary 21, 2013[28]\tWhitby\tOntario\t0\t5\t5 \nSeptember 22, 2013[29]\tToronto\tOntario\t0\t5\t5 \nApril 30, 2014[30]\tNanaimo\tBritish Columbia\t2\t2\t4 \nMay 30, 2014[31]\tToronto\tOntario\t0\t4\t4 \nJune 4-6, 2014[32]\tMoncton\tNew Brunswick\t3\t2\t5 \nOctober 22, 2014[33]\tOttawa\tOntario\t2[n 1]\t3\t5 \nDecember 29, 2014[34]\tEdmonton\tAlberta\t9[n 1]\t0\t9 \nJanuary 1, 2015[35]\tCalgary\tAlberta\t1\t6\t7 \nApril 16, 2015[36]\tToronto\tOntario\t0\t5\t5 \nAugust 4, 2015[37]\tToronto\tOntario\t2\t3\t5 \nJanuary 22, 2016[38]\tLa Loche\tSaskatchewan\t5\t6\t11 \nJanuary 31, 2016[39]\tToronto\tOntario\t2\t3\t5 \nApril 16, 2016[40]\tHamilton\tOntario\t4[n 1]\t0\t4 \nApril 23, 2016[41]\tMississauga\tOntario\t1\t3\t4 \nJanuary 3, 2017[42]\tGuysborough County\tNova Scotia\t4[n 1]\t0\t4 \nJanuary 29, 2017[43]\tQuebec City\tQuebec\t6\t5\t11 \nJuly 10, 2017[44]\tCalgary\tAlberta\t4\t0\t4 \nJuly 23, 2017[45]\tToronto\tOntario\t0\t5\t5 \nJuly 31, 2017[46]\tToronto\tOntario\t1\t4\t5 \nSeptember 3, 2017[47]\tThorold\tOntario\t0\t5\t5 \nJanuary 19, 2018[48]\tToronto\tOntario\t2\t2\t4 \nFebruary 25, 2018[49]\tRyerson Township\tOntario\t4[n 1]\t0\t4 \nJune 2, 2018[50]\tPickering\tOntario\t0\t4\t4 \nJuly 1, 2018[51]\tToronto\tOntario\t1\t3\t4 \nJuly 22, 2018[52]\tToronto\tOntario\t3[n 1]\t13\t16 \nAugust 8, 2018[53]\tHamilton\tOntario\t1\t3\t4 \nAugust 10, 2018[54]\tFredericton\tNew Brunswick\t4\t1[n 1]\t5 \nApril 15, 2019[55]\tPenticton\tBritish Columbia\t4\t0\t4 \nAugust 24, 2019[56]\tToronto\tOntario\t0\t4\t4 \nApril 18-19, 2020[57]\tMultiple\tNova Scotia\t23[n 1]\t3\t26 \nJuly 10, 2020[58]\tToronto\tOntario\t1\t4\t5 \nMay 29, 2021[59]\tMississauga\tOntario\t1\t4\t5 \nAugust 8, 2021[39]\tToronto\tOntario\t2\t2\t4 \nJune 28, 2022[60]\tSaanich\tBritish Columbia\t2[n 3]\t6\t8 \nJuly 25, 2022[61]\tLangley\tBritish Columbia\t3[n 1]\t2\t5 \nSeptember 12, 2022[62]\tMississauga and Milton\tOntario\t3[n 1]\t3\t6 \nDecember 18, 2022[63]\tVaughan\tOntario\t7[n 1]\t1\t8 \nJune 10, 2023[64]\tOttawa\tOntario\t0\t4\t4 \nJuly 1, 2023[65]\tMississauga\tOntario\t0\t4\t4

I live 20 minutes from the US border, I'm single and doing the online dating thing. I Get lots of people who live in the states because I live so close to the border, but I immediately reject them. That's how much I don't want to even consider involving myself with the US.\n\nAlso, I think you need to do a little bit of research about your own company because your statement that the vast majority of people have health insurance through work is completely wrong. It's less than 50%. Most people in your country are screwed when it comes to healthcare.\n\nThe fact that basic human rights for the majority of the population are also under attack makes it a very easy no. Who would ever want to live in a place that is so hateful and violent?

Hate to tell you Lad, less then 50% of working Americans get Health Insurance from their jobs. Easy to look up. So...

Montreal has more asylum seekers than Toronto .... more than 50,000 arrived by Roxham road last year ... Toronto are always asking money from Canada and cannot managed their own issues ... another incompetent mayor

Please anyone watching this do not take it as fact. Pretty much got all of it wrong. Fishing and Hunting in Nova Scotia and cold? Can live in Vancouver for $50,000/year?? Alberta is way more than Agriculture, oil and gas. Also quite a few more cities than just Calgary. Toronto is getting worse every year. People are leaving the city because it is so expensive to live there. Quebec is getting up there with cost of living along with the taxes. Vancouver Island, yes mild in the winter compared to the rest of Canada but jobs are hard to come by which is why a lot of people retire there.

Cause it more corrupt then mexico and 50 times more expensive?????

THEY HAVEN'T HELP THOSE WHO WERE FORCED HERE IN SLAVERY. THEY WILL NOT GIVE US IMMIGRANT STATUS AS THEY DO OTHERS. OUR GREAT ANCESTORS WERE DROWNED RAPED MURDERED AND FORCED HERE IN ? AMERICA WITH ALL THEIR TRICKS AND WE STILL CANNOT GET JUSTICE DECENT HOUSING BUT THEYRE QUICK TO SAY WORK, WORK,WORK. BUT WORKING DOES NOT GIVE US EQUALITY OROUR 50 ACRES. THEY CAN KEEP THEIR MULE.

.50 cal will clear this up real quick, baby.

Canada has developed a culture of rich-hating which drives polices that harms investments so even Canadians invest and do business in the US instead of at home. RE is a great example, there is so much red tape for developers and landlords I know many that just build homes in the US instead. Not to mention the government charges a flat tax of 50% on rental income. This has lead to shortfall of homes. Ontario population has grown about 800k since 2020 but the province only built 200k homes.

Please invite 2 fathers who are 50+ years and take their perspective as well. Very good initiative ✨??

invasion....50 cal up!

All these reasonings are pretty tame ngl. It's just 1st world problems after 1st world problems. Even the speed limit thing. There's nothing wrong with 50 even if it should be 70. You know, I agree on that, that there are times when the road is so empty I want to go past the speed limit. But the thing is, that's just a luxury. I can stay on 50 and I'll lose at most 2 minutes on a 20 minute drive. Boo hoo.\n\nBut hey, you seem to like your new place a lot, so good for you. That's all that really matters. You don't seem like a bad guy, just uneducated. In the end, Canada just wasn't your preference. You think that people should be allowed to drink beer outside, but you only say that because you don't know what it was like when people drank beer outside. There's a reason that rule was made and it's because people aren't responsible to hold their own in that part of Canada that you lived in. And the part of Europe you're living in can have beer outside because they can hold their own and not get in trouble.\n\nRules don't just get made up, remember that. They're made because something happened to make that rule.

50 cal MaDuce

Load up that 50 cal n let her rip

*laughs in browning .50 cal*

If all foreign businesses and investors were required to hire 50% native employees on all levels including management and executives the problems within the continent would change within a decade. They're really needs to be accountability within government also who tend to get extremely rich on the plight of their people.

where are the humvees with 50. cals?

One 50 cal sweep and this shit would stop!

This is propaganda video for the Liberal party even tho it is delivered by a extreme leftist woman from the CBC. The amount refugees get upto $50,000 is a lot more than many Canadian families make. Most Canadians are not elegible for legal aid or dental care. Who bears the cost of medicare, education, housing, policing, crime.....you guessed it, the Canadian Taxpayer. You know it is a propaganda video when she said the refugees give back more than they take. Do you see woman in a hijab or nicab working ?? She is not allowed by her religion to mix where there are men around. So most of them are pregnant, with 3 or 4 other toddlers around and you see them in malls at all hours of the day. That's how you tell the govt that you have not settled well yet and get more aid. The boat people of Vietnam came from a culture that honored hard work, education, discipline, creating wealth and the women had no restriction from religion in working with men (a lot of them were Catholic or Buddhist). The middle east people are a whole different kettle of fish. It's men who work, if at all, and women are primarily for breeding.They are not allowed to socialise with men outside the family and have to be accompanied by a male relative while outside the home. It's been five years since they landed and there have been many acts of terrorism Canadians have been faced with. However, they have become citizens and who are they voting for ??? It's not the PC. That leaves NDP and Liberals. 99% Liberals.

Open up the 50 cal.

who do these people think they are? this makes me want to emulate North Korea and install motion sensored 50 cals every 50 yards along the border. This crap would stop real fast.

Pull the 50 cals out let it rip

All are much more affordable than the UK. Over here the average annual salary is equivalent to around 50,000 Canadian Dollars. And an average 3 bedroom house would cost around 1 million - 1.4 million Canadian Dollars.

You cannot find homes for the American people the crime will increase by 50% drugs cartel

This is when I wish I had a .50 cal mounted on a humvee. With about 100,000 rounds and 20 fresh barrels

I bet you at least 50% of them will be badasses in American society, and at that, that's enough to offset the shitty tweakers that live off our taxes on SSDI for free.

California Love ? Always US ...USA is the best economically and doing business is easy and golfers are more in US then in canada canada is lil more chill and good for residing after your 50's

So glad we are not reliving the racism of the 50's and 60's right now. We really have come a long way even if we are still experiencing some racism.

A few Browning .50 cals in strategic spots would quell this pretty quickly.

Well,well!Only in Canada,you say .How about the US,France and other countries in the world? I assume that there are no homeless people in the US or France...How many thousands and thousands die from drugs in the US and other countries in the world.Yes,the governments should do better and find/build special housing for these people.They should set up special\nclinics in order to detoxify these drug addicts.The problem is that people don't want to have these clinics in their neighbourhood because they are afraid of fights,their houses will go down\nin value and so on.I saw a documentary about the homeless people and I was surprised and not surprised about what they are saying.There is what they call the Old House Brewery in\nMontreal and there are about 50 beds (or more) and the homeless people can sleep,eat and shower.There are a lots of then who refuse to go to this place,some say that so people were\nmaking noises at night and they prefer to sleep under bridges ..Homeless people are everywhere in the world.DON'T FORGET THAT IT 'S ALSO THE JOB OF THE PROVINCES TO FIND\nSHELTERS FOR THESE PEOPLE...

All you need at the other side of the bridge is one pissed off Marine on a .50 and Fortunate Son on repeat. Whack'em & Stack'em

in Canada we have a serious housing crisis, you pay 50 % of your wages on rent. Also even though it's a big country, less than 10% is habitable. Mass immigration is definitely not helping.

I have a solution...............put me on that bridge with a fully automatic 50 cal mounted on an armor plated military vehicle that has a superb sound system blasting Archspire or Infant Annihilator??? and 100,000 rounds w more ammo just a phone call away! \nDon't forget to give me a couple baloney sandwiches ? and a couple kegs of beer! ?? I'll get the job done ☠️ ⚰️ ∞ I'll bill the government when I'm done! ???

8:50 cotton candy ko urdu main “Gurya k baal” kaha jaata hai

50 to 60% people click video for thumbnail

I have been in Toronto for 50 years no problem. By family in Alberta for 60 years no problems. Got to be more to this story.

.50 cal and open ROE's

The only protecting the US needs on the boarder is 50 calibers on auto shoot !?????