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You nailed it Sonia, me and my family of as been living here for about 17 years and yes we have been through it all, so I could actually feel the clock turning as you spoke. I would like to add one thing though which you are right about that, if you are planning to come and start now, it definitely is not the time to come, 17 years ago was a different time and I can also tell you that we feel the pain yet even now to make ends meet. Honestly, life was good until a few years ago but now the value is declining to a great extent, again as a disclaimer this is my personal experience and would probably apply differently to different individuals. In short, as you said, if you are doing well somewhere else, don't hit the axe on your own feet by coming here.

I will give you my own 10 reasons (not in order of importance):\n1. Rampant unemployment.\n2. Insane housing market to both buy and rent.\n3. Excessive taxation.\n4. Food so expensive even families with two jobs make sacrifices for their children.\n5. A ruined health system.\n6. Goods and services two or three times more expensive than the US.\n7. The most embarrassing and shamelessly incompetent PM ever.\n8. Fascist enforcement of Identity Politics and ESG.\n9. Did I mention Klaus Schwab's lapdog?\n10. Oh, and the weather.

If these things don't make you listen to me, then I will discipline you seven times over for your sins.\nRead Leviticus (CJB) will the jews say this is antisemitic thier torah

Very logical and instructive response. The weight has to be lifted by some countries united together to stop the massacre of Palestinians on Humanitarian ground, much like breaking into a house to stop a murderer ready to kill someone.\nWhy are the countries so intimidated by a tiny state with a few millions that can be wiped off in a few seconds...with no consequence of an extended war beyond the border of Palestine. It just doesn't make any sense, 8 billion world population can be held hostage by a mere 8 million Jews in Israel whose valor or heroism is just fictional and overblown.

I lived in Toronto most my life. My father told me something startling accurate. Someone making $50k 5-6 years ago would have a much better purchasing power than someone making $100k now. The cost of living skyrocketed across the country because of 2 decades of terrible government policies, especially in the last 8-10 years...

Still doesn’t make sense . These people are talking nonsense, how you push dignity when you can’t even stand with your brothers . Arab world ????????

Israel wants these people off the island. Netanyahu has said that is why he wants to make sure there will never be a Palestinian United government

The Arabs have a history with taking in Palestinian Arab refugees, and they don't want to make that mistake again. Look it up and you will see why.

WHERE are municipal politicians supposedly limiting the construction of homes? I don’t see it. \n\nWe are aware that there are regulations in place to protect buyers and that self-serving industries lobby to do away with, as those protective regulations can reduce profits. Some provincial governments (like Alberta) are highly sympathetic to lobbies and industries, to the detriment of citizens. \nWhy are you not pointing to the fact that successive federal governments of the past stopped funding the construction of lower cost housing (thereby creating more demand AND our number one problem of unmitigated greed throughout the real estate and home building industries? We have some people in government attempting to get more low cost homes built while industries know that they can make more money building houses that are far, far bigger than people NEED. Dumbasses and keep-up-the-Jones folks unwisely buy these homes and then many of them have difficulty affording a lifestyle that they think they are entitled to. Meanwhile, lower income earners have been priced right out the market. Of course, capitalists and real estate investors like Pierre Poilievre will never admit that these are our actual problems. Regulating the construction and real estate industries could have gotten a lot more homes built in higher density for young and lower income Canadians, as well as for our newcomers. \n\nToo much blind and poorly informed anger, selfishness, and foolishness going around. Canadians of the past who pulled together during world wars would call us weak and entitled.

I think North Korea is by far a better place than anywhere in the west.\nThere's no homelessness, drug addicts, and climbing crime.\n\nIt's also very. Clean everywhere.\nJust bicos the west vilifies a place does not make it suck.!!!!!!!

Yes just watch and make some speeches but do nothing!

GET RIDDANCE OF BAD RUBBISH! Cost money and big trouble! It is expensive in Canada but we make big money! I retired from Canada and the United States and get more money than I can spend! When I am dead, my cask will be made of gold!??????

In my province healthcare is ostensibly nonexistent. Wait times at ER's are well over 12 hours and you're often directed to go home without ever seeing a doctor. \nThere is an extreme deficit of doctors. I've been waiting 6 years for one and there are people who have waited much longer with no relief in sight. \nHousing is unaffordable. A decent (nothing special) one bedroom 1 bath apartment is around 1600 a month and this is a largely rural province, not a metropolitan city. \nHomes are being bought as fast as they go on the market at extremely inflated prices by people moving here to escape the more populated provinces. This has raised property taxes by 20% in the last 2 years.\nThe economy is in shambles. Homelessness is exploding and the government seems uninterested in fixing it in any realistic or helpful way.\nFederal and provincial income taxes are nearly 50% of your income (44% for me and a bit more for my wife). So, what money you do make you get to keep a little more than half.\nElectricity is about 3 times what it is in the US and the rate here is increasing by 29% over the next 3 years.\nGroceries are unreasonably expensive and becoming more pricey by the day. Provincial sales tax is 15% on top of those groceries as well. \nThis is a short list of a few of the more glaring issues but there are far more. Canada has transformed over the last 5 years into a place I hardly recognize anymore. If something isn't done about it soon we'll be living in a third world country by 2030.

All points are bang on. Too many monopolies inside too many extremely large categories. The taxes are out of control!!!! Everyone says free health care. Not true. What percentage of healthcare is done through company benefits? My guess is a high %. Also, look at some of the salaries people are making who work for the governments! The city I live in, about 150,000. There are dozens of “captains in the fire department as well as dozens of captains in training making 120,000 per year and have the ability to work 24 hour shifts (how much downtime) and I’m not sure how many days total in a month they have to work 6 or 7 shifts a month. We have a LOT of firemen. My property taxes are over $6000 per year now.

I know an experienced doctor from India .... went to Canada and was never able to make it to the medical industry and still working as a waiter in a restaurant.

I get that the arabs don't want palestinians to give up their lands. But his answer makes no sense.\n\nThe weight has to be lifted - who lifts that weight? US is siding with israel. International community has very little power over Israel. Who is going to save the muslims?\n\nGenuinely who??

When you’re brining millions of people from countries that are heavily underperforming , they bring their poor habits , culture and mindset to our country. Canada is quickly becoming the country they are trying to “save” those people from. By bringing more immigrants from third world countries, Canada is quickly getting that third world feel. What happens when you give people with third world mentality the opportunity to perform in decision making roles in your job sector, there would be a quick culture shift and that shift in culture is generally to eastern norms, the very reason they are fleeing those countries to migrate to a western society. Yes I said it, Canada is slowly but surely becoming like a eastern crap hole.

The islam community in London says there’s only a few people doing this, but I do not see them, policing their own, and making sure that this stops, nor do I hear them publicly condemning that sort of bootjack enforcement of sharia law in.

Its not their land, it was once Jordanian land but Jordan lost. The only reason Gaza and the West Bank exist in its present form is because Israel wants to live in peace with the people in THEIR land. Personally I think Israel should invade Lebanon and forceably move all Palestinians to that area. They could do the same thing in Syria. At that point, all the Arabs can give all the Palestinians all the aid they want because they will no longert be in Israel. \nIran should be being blockaded and Tehran should look just like Gaza. I do appreciate that these Islamic countries have the arrogance they do, doesnt make them right though, at all.

They want countries to take them in so that leaves gaza open for new settlements. Its so blatant that it makes me cringe

How can they live in safety while hamas make their houses a weapon storage

Muslim want to make London like Lahore .why don't they come back to Lahore or go to muslim counties.

Imagine the Israelis creating a genocide and trying to take the land over and these stupid journalists ask others to help that process. What makes it worst is that she would never ask the Israelis to stop the genocide. What a clown world!

Canada is at the end of the road. Plain n simple. The Farm is going bust.Any country that makes it so difficult to get a tourist visa that rivals communist dictatorship always end badly.???

Born and raise here in Quebec and loved everything about it but the past decade has proven to me how much the province and country changed for the worst... Florida will be my new home soon and I cannot wait! The country is dead and going downhill and nothing will steer it back as long as Trudeau is there. Nothing makes you want to stay here...

I never thought about the reason why Canada would allow the monopolies, and your explanation makes sense (it doesn't make sense we pay this much for groceries though ?). Your explanation about the housing market also makes a lot of sense, thank you for sharing these ideas with us. And yes, I decided to leave Canada after a year ?

Food prices are a hot topic right now. Interestingly, I was in Fort Myers Florida recently shopping at Publix and I was astonished by the high food prices versus stores around Toronto. 1.5L of Tropicana orange juice was $7.99 USD compared to $5.99 CAD, green/red peppers were much more expensive. Cereals, bread, potatoes, meats…. everything I found was consistently more expensive in USD versus CAD. Once you factor in the exchange rate it was just that much more painful. Perhaps Fort Myers is unique in this respect, or maybe it was a Publix issue, but I was happy to come home to much more reasonable food prices. \n\nWe definitely have our issues in Canada, but I love Canada. Our lakes, wilderness, and wildlife are truly majestic. We have virtually unlimited freedom to explore and roam this beautiful land. As one comment stated wisely, too many people live beyond their means and make unwise purchase decisions that create stress. Having said that, I realize that wealth and income inequality have never been worse, and many people face very difficult daily struggles. I do think Canada offers a better social safety net structure vs US to help people through those struggles, but we are definitely heading in the wrong direction in that respect. These are complex issues that are difficult to solve.

About #8: As a Finn I gotta say making friends is just as hard in Finland, people are reserved, however the politeness is something that Finnish culture just doesn't have.

Let me translate.\nThe reporter is asking, why aren't the Arab world help the israeli clear the Palestinians from the Palestine to make it easier for the israelis to move in.

The craziest thing is a Jew who has no connection to that land can come and settle while Palestinians who have no other connection to any other land are forced to leave for the settler. Make that make sense. They’ve tried everything for 75 years but the people of Palestine just wouldn’t give up.

It boils down to the Liberal Party, which has been in power since 2015, e.g.:\n- high immigration targets and housing/jobs/healthcare/etc can't keep up.\n- decriminalization/destigmatization of drugs (especially in Vancouver)\n- political correctness, censorship, gender ideology, health mandates, soft on some crimes but harsh on thought crimes, etc.\n\nAs for other things like weather and challenges in finding a job, these were always the case but Canada really started to go down when Trudeau became PM.\n\nI migrated with my family as a teen. Parents (engineer and nurse) couldn't find a job in their field. Mom had to start as a care aide while she re-certify as a registered nurse even though she has a masters and taught nursing in a college in the Philippines. Dad had to settle as an appliance technician.\n\nThe 4 of us lived in a single-bedroom basement suite, but we bought a half-duplex in Vancouver in a couple of years, which would be practically impossible these days.\n\nI make a decent amount niw and own 3 properties, but if I have to buy my house at its current market value ($1.9m), I can't afford it. Even that half-duplex, my parents sold it at 6x during a down market years ago.\n\nThen there's crime and drugs: I've worked in the downtown east side of Vancouver since 2006 and the last couple or so years has been really bad - it's like a zombie apocalypse. Glad I work remote and have moved to a suburb around Vancouver. That said, I'm highly considering moving but it's hard with kids and aging parents.

Make everyone speak French simple solution and in general make it a proper bilingual country

When i see people dress like this in UN it just make me think what kind of joke the UN is.Its 21st century it would be nice not to dress like a war lord from 1000 years ago

In addition, wthere was virtually no crime. In the 60s and 70s I never felt any trepidation walking through any neighbourhood in Toronto. The cold didn't seem all that severe - and I was from the southern United States. Had no trouble at all making friends in that time. Political correctness hadn't yet been invented.

Close his make a phone

Universities are for losers. I love watching them suffer unemployment and debt while making $$ in the trades

Pushed the Palestinians to get Hamas to release the hostages and then surrender then this can stop and maybe talk them into a 2 state solution . If they are smaart they could tried Gaza into a mini Dubai or Las Vegas and live in peace with Egypt and Israel making tourist money . Get over the hate and start making bank!!!!

Stay in your own country fight for your own country make a country of your own. You came from a country go back there and live make it right

I agree about cash grabs. I own a house with a basement apartment, I didn't put it in, the previous owner from 20 years ago did. I recently got a new tenant and had it listed online, once I acknowledged it had been rented, Zolo called the city on me. I have to get the basement registered or evict my tenant or pay $25,000 for disobeying the bylaws. I decided to get the basement registered and they are telling me that I don't have 50 % Landscaping so I have to pay $800 to apply for an exception ( even after paying the fee I could still be denied, that's just a fee for the application)\n\nNo one within 30 square km of my house has 50% landscaping, that's not how the neighborhoods were designed. It's a cash grab. After paying the $800 I still have to go through the process to register the basement which is going to cost me another $1,000 plus whatever changes they ask me to make.\n\nWe are in an affordable housing crisis and this is the bs that I'm going through just trying to rent my basement. I'm not a slumlord nor do I overcharge for rent, the system is grossly unfair

Furthermore assisting in the removal of Palestinians from their land would make them complicit in Israels criminal ethnic cleansing.

Why don't these people make a state in USA called Israel???

So can you commit to rebuilding their homes, hospitals and businesses. In south africa we don't have the money you have.... Can you please help make a super difference

The Arab nations spokesman gives STUPID answer. They should send their army to protect the Palestinians. But they don't because they are very scared of Israelis Netanyahu. Netanyahu is the Mastermind who making Arab nations to be rich today.

An Immigrant in a country of entry make a citizen one dollar poorer and a politician in a country of departure one dollar richer

They are Palestinians it’s their home; why do they try to make Arab countries responsible when it’s Israel that is taking that land from them.

The Palestinians must not leave their homeland... Israelis the one should leave. The Jews come to Palestine as refugee and should go back to where they came from. The land been and will continue to be Palestine forever. Israelis would've never make it without US and UK. If US and UK get the hell out of this and stop supporting apartheid state like Israel the Palestinians will be in much better situations right now. Free free Palestine ????????????????????????

Anybody can talk without action. The fact is Arab Saudi, Egypt , Jordan should put their army in Gaza to protect Palestinians. That's what the Arab world is afraid of. Afraid of losing their thrones, afraid of dying. It's a matter of time when we die either now or later. Shame on the Arab world after 75 years still unable to have their own weapons to protect their own country. Look at China, very poor in 1999 but within 23 years capable of becoming Second world power where the United states dares not touch China. That shows that Muslim leaders are very weak in protecting ISLAM but are very good at making money for themselves. Fact .

Why'd you make the video so quiet? Fix your volume.

This is what some people don’t understand.. the Palestinians know that if they were to move to the nearby Arab countries, they will lose Palestine forever, they don’t want to make the same mistake as their ancestors in 1948

As an immigrant born in Mexico and living in Canada (Québec) for the last 32 years I'm certainly going back to Mexico once I retire. Cost of living is awful and taxes are too high to consider staying in Canada.\nOur current Prime minister Justin Trudeau did help to make this much worse. Trudeau spends our money like crazy...and the worse is that he is telling Canadians that he does not care about it and he will spend much more. Better to leave?