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As a Canadian that works closely with the government, the other issues that the tax rate in Canada is very high. Even you get a good paying job or a profitable business, a significant portion of your paycheck/profits goes to the government. There is also a lot of bureaucratic and legislative hurdles to overcome and too little incentives when trying to start or develop a business. For example, to build a high density residential building, it takes around 1 - 2 years of planning and studies, then another year to get all the permits and government paperwork, then 2 years of construction. It takes around 5 years to build a new residential building. Canada's housing affordability problem is not just simply cause by people willing to buy property, it is also cause by a significant shortage of housing supply due to all these regulations and hurdles. If you can't find affordable housing and your income is also heavily tax, a lot Canadians will go south to the US where things are a lot more affordable.

The issues is the woke dipshit political party taxing the shit out of us and giving our money to their friends and families and no one is being held accountable for stealing our tax dollars they just continue to take. that’s what wrong with our finances…

To exasperate the lack of innovation issues in Canada, Trudeau has once again ignored local industries and innovators and instead propping up Volkswagen with billions of dollars in taxpayer money, he has no confidence in Canadian innovation or the natural resources required to push it forward.

i actually have some issues with this but im a dumb little boy so.

I run a small business in Canada and it’s ridiculously difficult to do here right now. Not only is the available labor pool deficient, but energy prices are high and regulations inhibitory. \n\nIt took 10 years of blood, sweat and tears to get to a solid place, and yet some days I still want to throw in my hat because the Canadian government issued another mandatory survey that takes DAYS to fill out, or some other such nonsense.

big problem with the housing is also trudeau taking in so many immigrants and refugees before having enough available housing for everybody. I think they were taking in 200k people a year. while we need atleast 1million new houses within the next 10 years in order to supply enough to the population. There was also an issue with forieign purchases where people from other countries were buying houses in canada and nobody living in them. Trudeaus votes comes from majority indian people and arabic since thats a lot of the population in canada, and to win those votes and get more hes friendly with them accepting a lot of immigrants from those countries, its not a bad thing since a lot are very well educated and their peaceful people for the most part, but the problem is there isn't enough housing. Even renting has become competitive , owning is near impossible without help. Trudeau really messed up the country, houses are riduclously expensive and they often go into bidding wars if in a good area, banks interest rates keep going up now, loans are harder to take out, sadly we need to limit the amount of immigrants that come into the country until the right number of houses are built in the country, if anything new and major cities need ot be build in other locations with jobs in order to get more people spread out around the provinces. Once there is enough houses and jobs i believe the doors should be open to whomever wishes to come (obviously with a background check) but until then there should be a limit so the houses stop going up.

Pretty much every developed country is experiencing economic issues. It's pretty sad.

The fact that we have a homelessness crisis is enough justification to send them all packing. We need to fix our own issues before people who come here illegally thinking everything is free in America, come here with their own issues.

So grateful to see all the comments. I'm moving to Canada soon and the comments from locals helped me understand the ground reality.\nI have questions about small business/ start ups, can any of you fine people help me with these? \n1. What are the major challenges of starting a small business/startups? \n2. Is expensive mobile data a major hindrance to the growth of apps which provide services? \n3. Red flags/negatives of starting a small business. Taxes, govt procedures, ease of doing business, etc.\n4. Is funding for a good app based business idea available easily? \n5. If I have an app based idea and the backend/IT operations run out of India what could be the issues I could face legally or taxwise? \n\nWill really appreciate guidance as I'm new to Canada and really looking for real business advice. Thanks much.

What we are seeing global inflation. I saw it in the news that most countries are all competing for parts, products, food etc. Even nations that managed their rates better are seeing major issues. The glut of money was an issue sure, but the surging demand from nation that re-opened from covid lockdowns played a larger role. Add to this pandemic-related staffing issues, Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the intentional global oil supply problems and its a nightmare.

Why invest in a business when a literal doofus can just buy home and land and make many of my relatives made fortunes from “land trade”. \nReal estate and all its related jobs (agents, construction workers) is where a lot of Canadians work.\nAnd cooling the real estate market will affect a ton of those workers. \nAlthough a lot of this actually ignores one of the biggest issues. Our geography.\nSo much of Canada is cold and just an overall annoying place to live in that it’s simply less attractive for anyone to want to set up anything here.\nIt’s big, but a lot of useless land.

And how many of them are sleeper agents or just criminals? Have communicable diseases, all manner of issues. Thank Biden, this is so much better.

We have the natural resources to create energy. Yet Trudeau put a stop to anything that could earn Canada money. With the regulations in place we could produce energy a lot more greener than other countries. Wouldn’t it be better if we have our own oil that is produce cleanly than to rely on other country that don’t care about environmental issues? It’s so simple yet the people have been brainwashed by this government. I live in Quebec and we have so much potential energy wise and we do nothing. Frustrating.

In Canada we have issues with small businesses funds. We lost alot of small businesses due to covid and they couldn’t afford to recover from the economic crisis. Banks refused to lend small businesses forced them to lend for third parties financial institutions with very high interest rates

Walk-in clinics were the only way for me to solve an issue with my ears a year ago in Calgary.

And they took care of it and it wasn't an issue the rest of the country needed to know about...

Why?! Why are we seeing this right now?!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo exasperate this terrible issue for years and then Rasputin your way to the moral high ground isn’t just fundamentally unforgivable to audiences. It’s unforgivable to next gen governments. You’re a career abuser, even in the eyes of those you hide behind.

Canada is horribly corrupt, and the perception of its fairness is shifting. The company I work for (mining) had to fight for years to get a permit to work from the provincial government, and won. The very next day after the permit was issued, the CRA (Canadian IRS) audited the company and took away the project's funding. People are going to starve.

Corporate America turns a blind eye to this because they want cheap labor. That’s why you’ll never see the immigration issue resolved until there’s full blown violence. The same thing is happening across the developed world. In a country like Canada, where the labor pool is coming from India, the social programs would fail if not for the taxes and fees collected from these migrant low wage earners. But it’s fuelling the housing crisis and other social problems. Complex business folks.

Should be treated as an invasion and dealt with accordingly. We have our own issues, can't take on the world's issues.

THIS SHIT IS MADE FUNNY TALK MAD SHIT ABOUT TRUMP VOTE FOR BIDEN . YEAH, HERES YOUR RESULT. AMERICANS DONT HAVE A MIND OF THEIR OWN. I LITERALLY TILL THIS DAY CANT FIGURE OUT OR MAKE SENSE ON WHY TRUMP WAS CALLED A BAD PRESIDENT. WHATEVER HE DID WITH HIS MONEY IS HIS PROBLEM. BUT HE DID SECURE AND PROVIDE A BACKBONE FOR OUR NATION. IM NOT INTO POLITICS. I LIKE FACTS RESULTS REALISTIC PRODUCTION. HERE FOLKS LMFAO YOU GOT MADE ISSUES . GOOD LUCK ?

Man- Im not American, and I dislike republican politics - BUT they are right on this border issue. This is insanity.

“Why are we seeing this right now?” Bruh, conservatives have been warning about the border issue and trying to get congress to address it for a while. CNN knew about it too. Don’t play dumb. It was only a matter of time

Well guys you could have voted for PPC instead you voted for retarded liberals and equally retarded conservative party. Maxime addressed this issue years ago on his campaign and instead of using your brains you did not vote, and called him a racist for having common sense. Congrats.

This is horrible... it seems to only be an issue when the people have color. Cause hunny America had an overabundance for the Ukrainians.

Bro we have are own issues!!!! Fix your own country so u can say your proud to be whoever u are

Hi, i would like to know one detail. My mother got biometric instruction letter on the same day itself. But father’s biometric instruction letter has not been issued even after 5 days of submitting application . Is there something wrong with the application? Kindly answer

Dang as a Mexican who has came from family who crossed the border i can honestly admit this is not okay and needs to be cracked down on the main issue is the liberal fools who absolutely know nothing but act on emotion and feel like everyone deserves to come here this country is declining rapidly because we don’t allow it to do what needs to be done to protect it

CNN is part of the reason this is happening. The wall was very evil, until Biden continued its construction. CNN denied that there was even a migrant crisis the entire time Trump was president. Biden Administration has only RECENTLY admitted it's even an issue. This is the fault of Martha's Vineyard Democrats, The Biden Administration, and CNN.

We Need to close the entire border, under armed guard till this issue is fixed

Stop using as much force as needed. Can you not see the issues we are CURRENTLY having with our SS System? What part if broke is confusing?

No we can tell you what happened with member that basketball that they nicely they did it was their marketing guy then the next thing they know they got hit over the floods hurricanes and earthquakes and stuff. Yeah see when you go around marking identity a god guess what you brought that on yourself period you getting high but statue of God looking over your whole country and then you sit up there and mark them send it you gonna start wishing it doesn't and this what God took his words very seriously period now wipe it to all those people they start pushing up now everybody want to start coming through. I have no issues with Venezuela. But at some point you have to be able to rise up and guess whatever tyranny your government is doing. But due to the United States and Venezuela have a history. And we have caused some some other time damages that's done in Venezuela. If you need to assist not take over where the people is more comfortable notice I said the people not the government cuz we shouldn't be taking over the government what happened to people people the people themselves can re-establish the government how they wanted to be what best fit them

????The issue that Worries me Most is what Diseases they will bring with them how do we know or if their Illnesses among them do we even have the resources to take care of them so it doesn’t spread

Lefties voted for this. They would rather spite republicans than vote for someone who would end this nonsense. Republicans are called racists and bigots for wanting to handle this issue. Anyone here from the left complaining about this can go suck a big one.

A.erica s saying we need to fix America 1st. They don't realise that all developed nations are facing similar issues with housing, corrupt politicians killing the system

I live in NM and that scares me..we have so many homeless here ..if we can't fix our own problems we can't care for anyone else or allow anyone else in..esp when we're already dealing with Californians moving and causing issues with realty in states already ..shoot most New Mexicans can't even get a home right now because of the huge influx ..other states as well

we don't have a single issue in Pakistan but when you do little Math Canada is Gold mine to development country.

Bro hope ap thk honge bro meri scoring ka letter aya hoye almost 5 months ho chuke hn lakin mera medical letter nhi issue ho rha could u please explain k kis number say call anay k chances hotay hn aur 19 mheenay ho gue hn muje work permit apply kiye hoye

I do feel for these folks...but we got a real homeless issue with our own citizens, health care and housing issues

They are cause the rest of us to suffer greatly on our needs of living ...they are hurting thiere kids ...doing this by getting caught and putting them on the streets .and going days with out eating !! And having appropriate place to sleep. We as American s. Will suffer greatly as right now our in what you call recession...and still struggling to get on our feet. The president needs to set in stone that they need to go back to thiere home country and start asking for help on the needs of living servival. It's the president here ... In United States that needs to put into action that they need to make sure this will not happy any more. Kids and pet are dying and suffering.greatly ... please do so that will stop them from doing this !!! And get them help in thiere home country. So they don't have to leave and come to the United States. Please president \n.. We the people...are asking you to please stop them from coming down here..! We American s are having a hard time living with our family s .. and need food housing and more income .if they all make it down here... We're done !!! Consider us worse off as we've ever been.. with this issue ..they are rapists.. heavy criminals...they bring drugs and will do anything to make money?️?❌????

Let them come. It’s okay they are running away from issues.

Not enough housing in America for citizens. Have homeless.. but yet taxpayers cover everything but AMERICAS ISSUES

They have to be willing to issue lethal force at the borders.Put the national guard at the border.

On the issue of job opportunities in Canada, the Canadian experience is a thing of the past. Most people now got jobs in Canada as soon as they arrived here in Canada. As long as you can prove yourself, there are no worries.

I think we need to help fix there own shit then we could all live in peace but instead of fix real issues we wasting time on men who want think there women when we could be making other things better

it's ok 85% of them just continue on to Canada. Both out countries are drowning FAST... Today Ontario alone announced plans to set into action to build 1.8 BILLION new homes. Who can afford to live in them because anyone living here CANNOT. Average rent for a Average house is 3500.00 per month plus water, gas, and hydro. To buy they want 20% down and Average price is 1million for a starter home. \nWorld wide we have a MAJOR issue we ALL have to get rid of the evilness with in and make the world rigorous and good again. We the PEOPLE hold the power.

Some of these people might be worthwhile.\n\nI really hope that the integration of these people to the American culture works better than how it did in my country, Chile where they definitely had more of a negative impact as they brought more issues % wise than benefits.

@Mac Ronan \nOh, there's _plenty_ of housing, however, unlike my parent's and grandparent's generations, the buying market is unfathomably skewed, to the detriment of single families. This is largely because of the bulk buy up of properties by hedge funds, which in turn rent these properties at exorbitant costs, and severely limiting the supply of homes available to buy by prospective homeowners. Another factor is the curtailing of multiple family housing (as in affordable apartment buildings and duplexes) due to unprecedented restrictions on development zoning permits for the average citizen,\ninstead favoring the whims of commercial and gated community developers, most of whom have contributed to the campaigns of the various city council members who enact these policies. Beginning with deregulation and less focus on community development under Reagan, the crowding out of potential new home buyers saw an upsurge after the '08 crash. With thousands of Americans facing homelessness with impending foreclosure, most were forced from their homes, and thus a huge upsurge in demand for lower cost rentals for tenants that now had terrible credit ratings.Their former homes (sometimes entire neighborhoods), however, were purchased dirt cheap by aforementioned hedge funds and large rental property realtors from banks desperate to recoup even a fraction of their losses due to the crash. This policy of 'pump and dump' mass property purchases continued, largely turning the once suburban neighborhoods of homeowners into strictly assets to be squeezed for every bit of profitability possible. Even as the economy stabilized, even after the big banks profited overall from these foreclosures, because there were no lasting effective measures taken to prevent this housing situation from reoccurring, nor was the issues surrounding the housing market for single family home ownership ever addressed, let alone properly rectified, the housing market steadily constricted. As the U.S. gasps a last breath in it's death nell through late stage capitalism, there is no future policies or government reforms championing loudly for affordable home ownership on the horizon, and this is not likely to change anytime soon, not as long as the megalomaniacal entities continue to usurp any chance for the American Dream to be realized for all future generations.

They need to go back to their country and deal with their issues!

If they treated our birders the way Turkey treats theirs we wouldn't have this issue!!! Electrify our fences, have armed guards mow down anything that tries to force their way ILLEGALLY into our country!!!!