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I'm living in NZ. Even with 'our problems' I would not exchange or swap for another starting again elsewhere. Sometimes, the pasture isn't always greener. Research or regret.

I’m one of those new immigrants, originally from China. I’d like to share my point of view on this subject. For immigrants, sometimes the number one reason to move to another country is the harshness of their home country. In my case, China is not a pleasant place to live - everywhere is overcrowded, housing is insanely expensive, and job opportunities are mostly concentrated on big cities. So, if a young person like myself stayed in China, my only option to make a living is to join the rat race with another million people, work 60 hours a week, all for a 2-bedroom apartment. The minimum wage in China is the equivalent of $4 Canada dollars per hour. I don’t earn the minimum wage, but this should tell you how underpaid workers are over there. I’m ok with working hard and I have worked hard my entire life, got two degrees before 25 while studying as a non-English speaker, but I can’t bear the thought of not being fairly compensated for my work. In a freer and more transparent society, at least worker’s rights are protected. I could have chosen other countries to migrate to, but Canada seemed to have the fastest processing time and highest chance of accepting at the time, so I took the opportunity. I’m sorry for the Canadians who got caught up in a poorly managed immigration system. All I am saying is, if you are in my shoes, you would rather take this chance to move here - this could be the one of a lifetime window of opportunity.

This is just another proof that bilateral relationships between Nigeria and Canada or any other foreign countries. Until our leaders step up and treat us right, no countries will treat our people right. It's sad but it's what's happening. This same Canada does not treat their European allies in this way. So Na only African countries Dem dey treat like this.

Lol. Great shot of a typical US suburb. Too lonely. I moved from London to NYC and its still lonely in NYC. London is more fun. I am leaving the US after saving up for another year. USA is about fear and money. No culture here and Americans are soooo weird!

No Canadian will take a macdonal job, not even teens, that is a fact. Another thing is that there is a shortage of high skill jobs, but most people has not that specific skill. Many provinces offer free training but only to Canadians, the ones that are not interested in this type of jobs. if there is 17000 positions that cannot be filled and 17,000 people unemployed it is i possible to use those unemployees to fill the open positions because they are not trained in that specific skill. Also companies ask stupid job requirements which make it more difficult.

Why people can't chnge it by voting another politic system, they have democraty.

In the next 100 years, white people will be close to extinction. Unless another reset happens, like many that happened before.

Change... all that hard working Canadians are left with after yet another Trudeau ruined this country.

Another key factor, is the lack of choice in government. Weather it is the Liberals or Conservatives, we get the same dysfunctional government. It is not much different than the US or Europe.\nWe are leaving. It is impossible to retire here now.

I would love to see another video like this but for International Student answering similar question at air port

Yup F off were full and they came here using the student visa to screw the system and bypass the immigration system thats totally broken We want this country to be diverse and not become another India or Pakistan ect Which they left because ?

We need you to do another show about Indians doing call scams stealing millions of dollars from Canadians and the head of the call center scams running from India were found living in Brampton

He didn't mention about drugs in Canada. Govt. has made legal that any individual above the age of 18 years can keep 2.50 grams kokin. Marijuana is being sold on stores. Another worst thing is in Canadian schools young children's brain is being washed that they can change their sex. Now Canada has become a shit country. It's not worth living.

It's every Punjabi's dream to forsake India n contribute economy of another country e accept India. Then they feel patriotic from the soil of another country (especially when attacked). If u love India come back n contribute to Indian economy. Hai dum? If ur citizenship is Candian then ur Candian NOT INDIAN. So stop fooling urself.

canadian society and people *are not similar* to USA society or people at all. another ill informed usa made video...... all of canada is not covered in snow even in winter

Another colossal problem created by Trudeau himself.

No non Canadian citizens should be protesting in this country. Most of them are not here for education. They want jobs and our employers hire them because they are cheap labour. I'm not against immigration, but at one time, you were allowed status if you had a job waiting for you. The whole student study scheme is a scam!!!\nMake Canadians wait for 20 minutes at Tim Horton's!! Good luck with that! They will fire your ass out the door. Pierre Polievre says they are only doing what the government allows them to do.\nThe government has lost control of immigration. Another example of why Canada is broken.

Generosity is another double edged sword, the more you give, the more will be demanded. Time for the Government to say NOPE.

Thanks Trudeau, soon enough we will be able to walk across lake Ontario, just like the Ganges. First hand knowledge here, while enjoying a day at a park, a Hindu/Paki or whatever they were numbering about 50 having a picnic/family get together, age ranging from 1-80 with 20 or so full grown men. Despite their being a trash can every 20 metres, and numbering 47 total in the park, the family left the garbage all over the ground and tables and left. The mess, considering 50 ppl you can judge for yourself. Now in our world if I call the law on them I am a racist. The Canadian way is gone, new arrivals think that we should adapt to their ways, not the new arrivals adapting to ours. Canada was once a great nation, no more it costs your whole cheque just for rent, then you need to work another job if you want to eat.

Canada is yet another example of why communism doesn't work.

Just spent an hour scraping the ice off my car only to get stuck in a Timmies drive-thru for another hour. Send help (and hot chocolate). #CanadianProblems

Man, in one video, I hate this reporter, and in another, I love his work. In this video, good job on calling out fake students and Khalistanis. This is a very reasonable video but the problem is people start hating all the Indians and Punjabis after watching stuff like this.... There are neutral Indians as well who do not want to be associated with Khalistan and fake students. PLEASE COVER THOSE INDIANS AS WELL FOR ONCE!

Some of the stats cited here are straight up wrong or... creatively employed, and there's a lot of contradictory information and the typical conservative 'the sky is falling' sensationalism and misattribution. That said, the bas supposition isn't wrong. The bubble we've been sitting on for 20 or so years has completely burst. As someone born and raised in the Toronto area, it's impossible for me to afford to own a house or apartment here on a teacher's salary. Even rent pushes me to the limit unless I want to live in a... less than nice area. I'm living hand to mouth and enjoying the benefits of living in a 'developed' country less. Here's why:\n\n1. Wages aren't really even close to keeping up with the cost of living. The first tick upwards a bit. The second just keeps rising on the back of housing, food, amenities, and inflation: the four horsemen.\n\n2. Our grocery cabal ruthlessly raise prices whenever we look away, and their lobbyists are all ensconced within the leadership of our three major parties, particularly the Conservatives (so if anyone thinks that electing them will help, they're in for a nasty surprise).\n\n3. We're experiencing 'labour shrinkflation': increasing duties are downloaded onto workers and more is expected: more productivity, more availability (almost 24/7 in some jobs), and higher qualifications. Meanwhile, real wages are decreasing relative to living cost, more positions are 'contract', which is basically a way for employers to not have to give you benefits, and job security is tenuous for a lot of people.\n\n4. Houses are being bought by investors and not owners. Foreign entities are money laundering. The wealthy upper crust of high population countries are moving here and buying property because Canada is (still) more safe and stable and less repressive than their home countries in most cases. \n\n5. There's a cycle beginning: as people are squeezed and forced to spend more on 'needs', they spend less on eating out, entertainment, and other 'wants'. These are significant drivers of the service economy and they're being hit hard. So, what can they do? They can let go of workers or lower product costs to remain profitable, but they their quality declines and, in a market where people are pinching every penny and looking for quality for their dollar, they're less likely to go back. They can raise their prices, of course, but then they price people out completely and their profits still tank. I went to a decent steakhouse for my dad's 60th last week. I can't remember the last time that I went to one before that. \n\n6. Our politicians and news cycles focus on the most niche and irrelevant stuff because it'll stoke anger and get tongues wagging. This carbon thing is almost a non-issue, but our conservative leader is harping on about it like it's singlehandedly the death of the Canadian economy when it's a drop in the bucket. Trudeau focuses on 'equity' measures, hoping for a bit of cheap good press, while his efforts are, for the most part, just window dressing and the issues, while meaningful, are often not of paramount importance or even applicable to the vast majority of the people who elected him. Meanwhile, the middle class is pretty much evaporating as he speaks. The NDP keep talking about this in a pretty real way, for what it's worth, but Jagmeet Singh is giving off an increasing vibe of just being another fat cat politician beneath his rhetoric these days. Also, third-party trolls and screeching conservatives try to bury him on social media whenever he speaks... a lot more than other leaders as well, oddly. I wonder why? Oh yeah, the Greens exist and there's Quebec and the conspiracy theory party.\n\n\nUltimately, what we're experiencing is the revenge of the feudal system. Instead of paying rents to your lord and doing labour on the land for him whenever commanded to, you pay rent to your landlord now and go to work even when you're sick or when work hours are over because you have no union protection or are working 'on contract'. Unless we want to live in the armpit of nowhere, 95% of us are going to be wage slaves living hand-to-mouth, not owning our own property, and working to please our corporate overlords if current trends continue unchecked. While some of Canada's problems are unique, I fear that most aren't. As for me, I'm headed to the 'armpit of nowhere' where I can at least have a ghost of a chance of affording life.

...what Canada has been able to absorb.\n\nNo Trudeau. What's happening to Canada, the United States and throughout the G7 is by design.\n\nIt's all about diluting the common demographic, breaking up Canadian and Western values, displacing any sense of normalcy.\n\nCanadians are going to be disassociated , separated, cut off from their nuclear family, their gender, their identity, their religious beliefs, their faith in a God.\n\nWhy do we need a monument for one class of Canadians while working to remove another class of people because they are taking up space.\n\nMillions of people, especially Canadians have been under the guise of a liberal ideological psychological operation for the last 8 years. \n\nUnfortunately for Trudeau, Canadians are waking up and the alarm has been ringing very loud.

Just another disgusting illustration in a sad, long, long list of Liberal stupidity and the lack of guts so prevalent in our current government. I'm an old guy who remembers when we had a law-based government that actually loved this country and did what was best for Canada and her citizens.

Oh no. Not Pollievre too…. Just another globalist? Struggling Canadians need those low skilled jobs, Canadians need those affordable homes. Damn it.

International students is another way to bypass our immigration laws as weak as they are and jump to the front of the line ahead of those people who filled out all the forms got all the health tests paid all the fees and wait years to come to Canada legally. They they have the nerve to make demands of the Canadian taxpayers. Send them home.

Polievre is just another Greasy Professional Politician.\nHe is a closet WEFer.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, and take another one or two with you.\nAdios, Bon Voyage, Have a nice Trip, and don't come back.

So if an immigrant can get a Canadian citizen tax payer funded job the government will let them stay. Cool sounds about right par for the course for our government. Imagine going to another country, going to school there, failing, then demanding handouts from their country. U mad yet? If the government won't send them home, Canadian citizens will create innovative solutions.

I totally agree that immigration has been uncontrolled lately, a pause is necessary and students should leave once their work permit expires, but the point is if Canada wants to release the burden off economy, they should first deport/stop refugees and stop sending billion dollar aid to Ukraine. International students boost the economy by bringing foreign investment, paying taxes and not put burden if done in a controlled way. Refugees(not all) who take advantage of the benefits, funding wars eat up the tax payers money. What kind of quality students you are bringing that is another story.

It's great that people want to come here and study, but... When you come here and abuse the rules and work well beyond the limits of your work permit and work double and triple the amount of hours that is not ok. Another issue is when you take only business courses and then fail out just you didn't actually get any skills that are needed in this county to allow you to stay after your schooling. If you follow the rules, great! Come learn and work and share our culture for your school term, but if you don't want to follow the rules...

Canada must take in more Indians. That is one ally does for another ally. Remember, India must contain China. ?

as a canadian, many of us are sick of the lack of assimilation and disrespect we get from them, they are also the biggest contributors to the crime stats as evidenced by the recent arrest of 4 of them in the case of the assasinations of Niggar in Surrey, never ends with them., Go get educated in another country

Protesting in another country where you are a student is not allowed and the act itself can get you deported. However, the scams the Canadian colleges and universities do in countries like India and Pakistan is terrible. These students pay almost double the money local kids do. They r most times highly qualified and have availed of an opportunity offered by these institutes. When such things happen, its obvious that they are unhappy. I think the Indian government needs to start issuing advisory. I don't think its worth it, I wish people understood this. The US, Germany/Europe,UK even Australia is much different. Believe it or not, a lot of these students wish to pay back student loans and get out of this scam. Canada is beautiful, but the amount of scams here, prepostrous.

All politicians are bad news one way or another

Sucks to realize you’ve been duped by a corrupt liberal government doesn’t it? The whole mass immigration and international student rise was a cash grab to keep the fake economy stimulated, it was a racket! Just like the housing market! Don’t like it? Get out. Go to another country. We have enough Indians.

Diversity is our strength! The Communist Party supports them ?and the CBC! Trudeau’s world is simply an out of control train wreck. Miller is another wedding party member who is way out of his league helping destroy Canada. Trudeau’s marriage ended in separation likely divorce now for voters to do the same.

Imagine going to another country and DEMANDING they give you free stuff. GET THEM ALL OUT NOW!!!

Anyone who abuses the privilege of an invitation to study in another country, by DEMANDING MORE, should be SENT HOME IMMEDIATELY AND BANNED FROM EVER RETURNING, YOU ARE A THREAT!

Just another hate monger spewing hate!! Chirp Chirp Chirp...

Can a Canadian workers buy a house on minium wage working at Tim Hortons , Walmart & other service jobs ? We have a restaurant here that only has take out because they can't get any help for eat in,yes this is another victim of covid shut downs

Of course the students will allowed to stay in Canada....the politicians in this country are weak...since when should a student from another country demand to stay here just because they studied here....I don't believe there were any promises made when they came here that they would automatically be made Canadian citizens.

Justin Trudeau has another TAX PAYERS FUNDED 8 BILLION DOLLAR Green Slush Fund FOR JUSTIN AND HIS FRIENDS.\nSunny Days For Justin Trudeau ?‍♂️⛱?????

Another lie by the liberaux...

I’m Indian and I will be damned if I say I agree with you. This shouldn’t be allowed. Follow the rules. This mob culture has to stop. I work my ass off and I can’t get by. My industry went on a strike for a year and I couldn’t get a survival job. These students can move from one province to another any time they want. How is this possible. Isn’t there any law to prevent them moving from the place they came to “study” in the first place and move to another location just for PR? I waited two years to get my police verification done from all the countries I worked before my immigration application got approved. These days it’s like the immigration ministry is handing over permanent residency like candies. More over if I go to a shop ask for help I get answers in a language I don’t speak or follow. Why are we allowing this? Why can’t these guys speak English or French? Why am forced to learn Punjabi? If these guys want to create a ghetto for themselves why are they doing it here? Who’s allowing all this? What’s happening to those English language tests? I don’t care if they fulfill any of those departments that require eligible workers. Why do we have to import truck drivers and factory workers? I’m fed up with this and I wonder why Canadians aren’t worried about their country and culture and react like they do. Oh no, we can’t do that. We will be arrested and our bank accounts will be closed and won’t have money to eat. Thanks Justin.

Another banger ?

How do these citizens of another country have the right to demand anything? Tell them not to let the door hit them in the ass on the way out.

I wish I could get deported to another country

Read between the lines; Hitler ‘stache is another clue.