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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”.

Which city and which province? I live in brampton and I didn't see these peoples like homeless ever here

Been in America was not a good first visit. We got lost in Detroit at night. Turns out it was a black community that didn't like whites. My Husband went into the convince store for directions. Across the street a black gal in a yard was pointing a shotgun at me. I had 3 young children in the car. Told my husband on his return we had to get the heck out of here. He said that's what they told him inside. Pointed over to the gal who was standing now with the shotgun leaned up against her. Ok paddle to the metal.

I left at age 23 to the US cause I felt I had no decent opportunities in my field (pharmaceutical R&D) in Montreal. I know so many other Canadians who did the same. Sad cause I wanted to stay but it didn't make any sense to me.

One insane thing in Canada is even you work 40 years with a salary of 100k /yr, you are lucky if you get $1500 pension, while someone didn’t work a single day would get $1100 OAS… IT’s completely messed up. To make things worse, we selfemployed have to play $6600 a year to contribute to our CPP, but what’s the point?

... And here is why:\n1. Insanely expensive housing with next to none disposable income left in the pocket. \n2. Inability to get into the real estate market unless $$$ was brought in as an investment. This will leave locals and people who were born in Canada left out for good even further. \n3. Extremely competitive job market. Newcomers will have to suffer for a long time to break-in. \n4. Depression and drug addiction is everywhere. It's more deadly than covid but the government can't address the problem because they lose control for good. \n5. Canada is far away from many other places, which makes things worse as you feel trapped in a workcamp with no place to escape. \n6. The cost of living is getting much faster with the salaries significantly behind year after year. \n7. Canada became the country of failed government, failed multiculturalism, too tolerant as a result. \n8. Retirement in Canada will be impossible for 95% unless you agree to live in the middle of the nowhere until depression kills you. \n9. Many who came to Canada 25+ years ago and still around felt trapped. Canada's source of immigration will likely be the poorest communities who will agree to put up with everything listed above just to get out of where they live right now. \n10. Sad, but true. I have seen a steady decline in Canada since 1998. Things get worse every year.\nAmen to that. I'll be visiting Lviv in 2025 for the first time since 2000 to check on my apartment in the city centre, not far from my Alma Mater LPI. I THANK GOD every day I didn't sell it and so I have a place for retirement!

Wait, don't Republicans and Fox constantly say the border is wide open. Someone didn't tell these border patrol agents to step aside. Someone is lying.

Normal when doctors, vets and engineers … etc have no choice but to drive Uber. \nQuebec set discrimination laws against everyone who doesn't speak French while the federal government didn’t care. \nWhen it’s impossible to get a family doctor. \nNormal when many graduated students couldn’t get any internship.

In Canada ?? at the shopping mall I tried to look at the new cell phone , I asked for help, a men didn’t pay attention to me because he thought I can’t speak English mean no help

Divorce didn’t help anything to make yourself look better

Hello Peter, good job as usual. Someone was denied because she lost her passport and did not submit when she was asked to by the embassy.\nShe decided to reappply but submitted all her company's documents but didn't submit her account details she said that she was not asked to submit her account details. What do you think? Although she has been frequent traveler to Canada.\nThank you.

Trump didn't want this yet Biden fucked it all up

I'm from Sydney, Australia and visited family in Toronto just before Covid and no offence but for a metro area of almost 7 million people it's incredibly boring. I was also genuinely shocked at how dirty it was. If I didn't have family there I honestly wouldn't go back.

Don't let the door hit you in the crack on the way out. Citizens stand by their country.Obviously they didn't consider themselves citizens\nor Canada their country.

They had to come through Mexico the didn't get to the border by magic fairy dust. Mexico should be turning these invaders back at their southern border

Nothing is here all them do is stealing from Peter and give it to Paul, it's real just take a look at what they trying to do they want do steal everything u work to build their infrastructure that they didn't build create for the population of 40 million pple.

honestly i’m muslim and didn’t even know what sharia law was? but now i see what it is and tbh im with the english on this one. come on this is their country with their set of rules and law and religion and we come over here and shit on it and enforce our beliefs. these ppl make the rest of us look bad

Good. Look as a product of an immigrant father myself, we simply can't afford to take care of the Canadians we have, never mind all these people who come to Canada with no jobs, no housing, no money, possibly no ability to speak English or French. Like it or not, our taxes are going up and our services are going down. The government is focused on GDP numbers as opposed to GDP per capita, which essentially means while our production numbers are artificially enhanced the quality of life per person is rapidly declining. We're talking about flooding Ontario with 500,000 new immigrants, God knows how many Indian paypigs... I mean students for colleges and universities, as our government is giving tax breaks to Atlantic Canadians and torturing everyone else for going greener with natural gas. We're living in a country where it is very possible to hold down multiple jobs and still be homeless in 2024 and we're talking about more immigrants? We can't afford the people we have now and we're talking about bringing in more? Who's building the homes for these people? The last couple million of immigrants who were supposed to build homes didn't build anything so now we're bring in more to build homes for the last couple million who were supposed to build homes plus Canadians who has been here for more than a July on a sidewalk.

they didn't mention creeping loss of freedoms in Canada, right to resources, freedom to build a home where you want

I didn't know racism exists in Canada ?

4:20 Look at how she immediately pulls away from the hug ?, poor guy didn't even have a shot on camera

Yesssss! I wish I didn't come. I would like to go back, but it's too late now. I lost my money, I lost my profession, I lost my dignity......

Are they citizens with citizenship and the good Canadian babies, people didn’t know this? Talk to people, benefits galore they take with them

We left where we were from cuz we didn’t want certain values imposed onto us ,onto our identity, our freedom as a human being was under threat then only to move here and mobbed by another group of tricksters . Left for financial stability that is nowhere to be found in this country now . I am not just saying immigrants we all facing these problems I know that but it’s just if one has a way out or can afford a way out they are taking that route . People I know personally about 10-20% of them have either left or are planning to leave in next couple years .

People blame trudeau.\nThis is a democracy.\nThe leader is a reflection of the people, its priorities and its values.\nIf you don't like what you see in parliament, time to look at yourself.\nIf canadians didn't like drugs, junk food and woke stupidity, they wouldn't have voted him in.\nIf trudeau ran for office in 1950, he would not have been close to winning.\nThe government was different then, but again, so were the majority of canadians

The ones leaving are the ones with $ and skills.\n\nThey didn’t leave communist authoritarian regimes to come to another authoritarian communist regime.

We thought of going home after a few years in Canada. Ripped off for salary, as ignorant immigrants, we found day to day life difficult. We just didn't want to go home and admit we gave up. It's not so bad now. The kids settled in well.

I have completed my masters in civil engineering from university of Ottawa last year but I didn’t get job it’s been year now

didn't even watch this video.. came here to read the comments section. Did not dissapoint!

Cost of living...ask them they didn't know you have to work 60hrs a week to just survive

Strange that they don’t mention the FACT that many immigrants leave because they stay long enough to run out the free assistance provided by Canada. They didn’t realize that just like Canadians you have to work for a living in Canada not just sit on your butt and everything gets handed to you.

Mostly large no of Gujarat's Don't educated, lots of them didn't even passout in highschool , that's why

Well it’s something good that you have shared , yes you can’t have the privilege of keeping a maid / can’t have the cake and eat it too , India has its own pros and cons and so dose Canada . I have lived and worked in UK never had any issues , as had to come back home due to family reasons but it all depends on an individual plus if you are ready to accept challenges even I am planning to migrate to canada in my early 30s with a kid let’s c how it goes , but I have kept my window to return back in case if I didn’t like it . Luck plays a part plus what you imagine is what you create … simple

If I didn’t have a family I’d be out of here too

Let me tell you the truth about the situation, my ex-girlfriend she wanted to get a pension for her dad, even though he didn’t live here and as soon as that pension got through for him, he went back to Iraq to live there the rest of his life they sent his checks to him there that was their plan. They scam us.

It took 6 years for me to get my license. I was almost at the verge of breaking down when I finally got my license. I felt it was really unfair. They should tell us what to expect with a reasonable time frame. Not like just assessment taking 1.5 to 2 years, which is not acceptable. I didn’t even felt any joy when I finally got my license to be honest. I don’t think that any other western country takes this long .

Government has lot to do for newcomers settlement. \n\n- international education and past experience didn’t consider but we had to pay a lot for ECA. \n- most of the immigrants like me get tough time to land a job in their field, Canadian employers doesn’t value overseas experience so all the immigrants except few had to start from scratch.\n\nIf you want to retain immigrants which is for country’s sake you have to do lot.

Boy, the government sure screwed things up didn't they? Nobody to work building new homes, old homes are astronomical in price. Looks like it's time for everyone to leave.

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I have a question though, if i didn't take the IELTS tests but i have my qualifications verified via ECCTIS and i got a score of C1, does that work in Canada as well?

? OK but who didn't know this?

still sikhs didn't get justice of 1984. Such a pity on Indian government

Why the government didn't helped them. I am so touched Canada is a rich country.

Chorkor i was blessed to have come across this video... it really moved me..back in 2019 started by going to Ghana.. i left Nigeria through benin republic to togo lome then aflao to Accra....was in Ghana for about 1yr..came to Nigeria. 2020 i was aspiring for Germany but due to covid everything was still. Then 2021 i applied for masters program in Warsaw Poland. But i was duped for about 4euro. By the person who wanted to help me pay my sch fee..i still didn't give up 2022 i applied for ireland visiting visa was denied... but this your video is giving me hope...as we speak now my home country is hell..people have almost ran away ???

I’m Canadian. I don’t appreciate criticism of our oil and gas industry. A lot of other Canadians love to criticize us when they have no idea what they’re talking about. If we didn’t have oil and gas up here, everybody would freeze to death in the winter. Oil from Putin, or Saudi Arabia is fine, but if it’s from Canada, it’s bad. That’s the logic of these protesters.

Why didn't they stay in their own countries in the first place? There they could implement all the sharia law they wish.

So I was born in Russia, then moved to Toronto, then lived in New York for 5 years... Let me tell you waits in emergency room in New York aren't nearly as bad as in Toronto... but costs... 300 dollar copay when my employer in New York was giving me one of the best insurance available in US... But I just didn't like living in US... I moved back to Toronto eventually to lower pay, mainly because my relatives are here... but having social safety net and stuff like that is nice, even if my salary in Toronto is lower than in NYC...\nP.S. both USA and Canada are way better than living in Russia tho

1984 was the major reason to bring idealogy of Khalistan in some parts of Sikh community\nand punjabi youth\n ……\nStill we didn’t got any justice for the act of 1984 many innocent sikhs got killed \n????

Why not allo?w others to come for their children ???you people just let them to come and see if they can't then go back, ???they will also cope ?????people ooooo???, before I came to dubai ?? alot of discourage about Africans in dubai yet they're are buying big cars and building Palaces at in Africa, ??I didn't care!!!! I'm unstoppable I came and almost 4yrs ???and planning to move to London or Canada ???I don't care!!!!

Bhai never worry about people.... They will find issues even if you didn't do anything wrong.

I was in upstate New York and didn't realize that they didn't take our Canadian money, this was many years ago. I hadn't had a problem Previously using my money by border states. The gas station attendant called the cops on me Cause I had no other means to pay for the gas. A state trooper came and told the cashier to take my money. He was super friendly and kind. I was so thankful and grateful for his help. I've always found people friendly when I've been to the America. But that said I haven't visited all the areas.