I realized it was like this two weeks after I arrived. Highly educated professionals are lured into Canada for a few main reasons: 1. Toil to pay the mortgage of someone who already lives here, preferably by living in their basement. 2. Bring their life savings here, but you can't find a top-notch job at first. Canada installs many barriers so you have to start over. If you arrive and simply find a great job, you won't spend your life savings and thus won't heat up the economy. They also suggest you might need to "go back to school," so you'll end up subsidizing higher education for people who are already here by paying 3x more tuition. But the media, and politicians too, are going to lie to everyone by saying you get grants and free rent, or even a free car on arrival. 3. After spending the money you brought from your country and paying for someone else's mortgage, you'll start looking for a place of your own to buy. This is another purpose of immigration. Now you'll increase the value of the houses of those who were already here. 4. Paying interest. After depleting your savings, you'll start paying interest to the banks here and also finance the retirement pension of people who are already here. And while you pay interest, you have to watch banks' CEOs blaming YOU, the immigrant, for the their own mismanagement of the economy. 5. Canada works as a lure that causes brain drain in U.S. competitors worldwide, thus helping to keep "in development" countries permanently "in development." 6. Canada's main business is mining natural resources worldwide, with 75% of all mining companies operating from Canada. By bringing immigrants from all over the world, it becomes easier to exploit their countries of origin by applying knowledge of local regulations and culture to establish mining operations abroad. 7. You bring not only money but also hundreds of thousands, potentially millions, of dollars that your nation spent on your education, from childcare to the doctorate level. Canadians get all of this for free. We're the cash cows, and we're badmouthed in every province of this land. Those of us who are smart enough get their citizenship and leave. What aggravates me the most is how some people who were born here act as if we're "taking advantage of what they built". What did they built, exactly? A homeless dystopia? I had never seen so many homeless people dying all over, you can't even take public transit in most cities of this country without risking your life. Is this what they built? This horrible healthcare too? It's far worse than anything we had in my homecountry. These people are completely delusional.
After all of that ranting against Canadian-born sheople, I'm guessing that you left Chinada after your 2-week realisation? You're no better. That same propaganda that has been fed to taxpaying-sheople in EVERY country (not only Chinada), you also swallowed, because you went to Chinada. You were gullible. We fiefs (peasants) are all gullible. To the victors go the spoils. The Eli tes use dirty rotten methods. They lie....always have. And the dumb peasants continue trusting them.....like you did.
You are absolutely right. Unfortunately, I fell for this Hell of an Immigration Scam called Canada and I wasted more than a decade of my life there before deciding to leave for good. I will never go back to Canada, no even for visiting or for connection flights.
I agree with everything you said up until the last sentence. You can call Canadians delusional however everything we complain about was never ever EVER like this before Trudeau. Why do you think the entire country hates him? We consider him by far the worst prime minister in our history and he would have been out last election if he didnt form a coalition government for the first time in our history. The state of the country is lightyears away from the one I grew up in. Example: my childhood home was 75k less than 25 years ago, and is now worth more than 750 thousand. Make it make sense. Healthcare was amazing before mass immigration and covid vaccine requirements for medical staff deteriorated the ability to have a decent hospital experience, all transit was safe, we literally never ever feared anything in transit. Its not about what was built also, aside from an amazing country, many of us like myself have multiple family members dead in the war and have a duty to preserve what they fought for which is clearly intentionally being destroyed. I say the people that are still coming here are delusional, with a little research over the past few years you would easily see the mass deteriorating of the entire country under trudeau, and could make a proper decision. Instead people listen to their immigration consultants who sell them an imaginary dream and in turn, most newcomers show up and are completely baffled at the lies they've been sold. Its sad most newcomers end up in the same boat, you seem very competent in your English however we see literally thousands of immigrants who dont speak english, are incentivized in the workplace with our tax dollars, mass LMIA scams, and not to mention most have literally zero intention of becoming true Canadians. This is simply a landing place for them to obtain citizenship and send our money back to their homeland. Another example; there's about 15 Punjabi men working on a house next to mine, none speak English, theyre all paid cash untaxed, and they will surely be sending whatever they can back to their families. Also, people coming here are surprised there's no housing. If you were Canadians you'd know that almost everyone lives in the south although Canada is massive. There's no housing for us or you so yes we feel taken advantage of when we've paid tax since our first purchase here yet we are prioritizing foreigners everyday in our country. Its clear to those born here that so much money was pissed away during covid that our government is scrambling in any which way to get foreigners to recoup their pockets which in turn makes Canadians feel similarly taken advantage of as you. Calling our people delusional would mean we dont see the current state of things. Is that what you think? Don't you see the liberal disapproval rating? Its like 90% lol the entire country knows that its burning. Canadians never batted an eye at immigrants until the past few years when we've realized were being put aside for them; its quite the opposite, most people here are proudly multicultural and love this fact of our country but when you lend an inch and everyone takes a mile, it is human nature to be upset. Anyways all this to say, our government is fucked, and they are ruining both Canadians and newcomers lives and this entire debacle is truly their fault.
@Johnny84mm-sn4gj ....to some third world country with horrendously devaluated currency to gentrify it by earning over 20 times the average income and not having to pay income tax at all as they won't work for local employers (not all but most Canadians who emigrate do this, and this is not only a tendency among Canadians. Most Americans, Aussies, West Europeans do this as well.
@@ddaniel987x so its better if i don't spend my cash here? Im esentially dumping money into their economy. And the government here makes good bank on my immigration fees.
As someone who was born in Canada, lived here my whole life, this country is intentionally being destroyed. If your a new comer its a trap. I feel terrible for those who have to find this out them selves.
You now work to live in Canada. I seen this getting so bad over the last ten years getting out of control. And the standing government now will tax you for everything even rain water.. We have a problem with corruption and greed here.. And our government is a big part of it..
North America is just rotten unfortunately, we only work and work and work. We are obsessed with credit scores and financing. My family in Spain lives way better than me and they have never ever financed anything nor have worried about a credit score. We are on a downfall so bad it is making me suicidal for real.
Couldn't agree more. The fact that stupid assholes in Ontario STILL want a Liberal government "leading" this country is insane. I PRAY WESTERN CANADA LEAVES THIS CRAP COUNTRY AND MAKES THEIR OWN! IM ALL FOR IT
Fully agree with everything you've said. For anyone watching who isn't living in Canada: he's not exaggerating. Not even a little. It really is this bad here in Canada. Immigration is completely out of control, relative to the amount of services available, and finding an affordable place to live is basically impossible for almost everyone who isn't rich to begin with.
As a 31 years old Canadian making very good money, I am contemplating leaving and getting my first home in South America. I would like a house before I retire where I can raise a family, period. People don't want 2000$ apartments, they want houses and land that they can own. Rentals should be a temporary situation for anybody understanding the value of their hard earned money and their limited time on earth.
You forgot to mention --> " If you live in Toronto, PLEASE make sure to leave your CAR KEY outside, so the criminals can steal your car without hurting you/your family"
Ya.....screw this place. My family was so much better off in our home country. Now i work as a grunt in a factory.....FML. And im stuck...i can't go back.
*THANK YOU* I am a Canadian/Alberta citizen in my 50s, I have been watching this country in free fall for the last 8 years. Prior to this Liberal/NDP gov lead by the UN and WEF, *_WE DID HAVE_* the country you described believing you were moving to. It WAS a country of opportunity, reasonably priced homes, utilities.. fairly good socialized healthcare.. but still GROSSLY overtaxed, now taxes have surpassed even that to the point of insanity and rising more using 23% carbon tax scam every single year. I have watched all the jobs our students and those recently graduating once used to learn skills and pay their way till they found their jobs. Those jobs are now GONE, (as are care and service jobs, plus owning local small businesses like fast food and corner stores/gas stations..), they are filled instead by newcomers and temp foreign workers. Our Liberal and NDP governments tell us we are RACISTS and anti immigrant for being upset our jobs being taken over, and our housing costs skyrocketing. We are told WE are raacists because now our children and grandchildren may never own a home of their own and that in order to have a successful life, marriage and children, we may lose our families who for generations built this country in work and our taxes, to CANADIANS BEING FORCED TO IMMIGRATE! Yes, Canadians are upset, but don't for one second believe the government as they LIE using the Canadian people as their scapegoat. It is this Liberal NDP government who ripped open mass immigration and flooded the country with zero plans or preparation to how they would accommodate millions of new people or what it would do to the citizens of a country who built and paid for it! *_THIS IS THE GOVERNMENTS FAULT_* following the Century Inituative and UN Sustainable development agendas... and worse is coming. Now he will roll out billions and billions more spending and promises (ZERO previous promises like his big housing announcements in 2016 and 2019 have produced nothing), next is this ridiculous renters bill of rights and MODULAR HOMES! This insane modular home plan is meant to produce cardboard like homes that will be stacked and piled into areas with no yards, little parking and enrich his lifelong family friend who is on the board of the company who produces these units! It's the most corrupt government of my life time. I've watched dozens of videos of immigrants who want to leave Canada and I have changed my mind at who is at fault. It is 100% the federal government of Canada and their partners!! I see how the governments, colleges, other immigrants, immigration lawyers...all put out the call to come here and sell this country as a bastion of freedom and a positive future... when that was destroyed with mass immigration. Again thank you for trying to get the word out, we will never rebuild this to be the Canada it was while the swindlers and eliets cont to lie. Your lives, our lives, this country's futures are ALL ruined by these people.
Trudeau has made our once great country now unrecognizable to most of us. The new immigrants who are moving here still envision the Canada of 10-15 years ago, sadly that is no longer the case.
Well said. We Canadians have been brainwashed into being so “nice” and “polite” (read: weak and complacent) that we are afraid to ferret out those corrupt individuals and string them up.
My wife is mexican... I am born and raised canadian. I made a huge mistake and sold my house in 2008 and never got back in to real-estate... so we invested in mexico, and now have a passive income and will be moving for good in June. Can't take the druggies overdosing outside my house.
@@StinkyIndianStudent What kind of comment is this, Canada steals only the elite of other countries.. You think they would give PR to someone living in a mudhut? No dear, they want people they can scam, no, they want a doctor who can work as a taxi driver
I agree there needs to be a ban on immigration. Like you said, my family too was tricked into donating our generational wealth to this shitty government. I saw my mother cry regreting coming here, we can't return because our home country does not allow dual citizenship, and you can't go back easily. My parents used to be upper middle class in our home country and now we are completely broke. My Parents speak very poor english and have been surviving on minimum wage because no one wants to hire them despite both of my parents graduating from top universities in our home country. Canada is complete Bullcrap. The amount of nepotism in the workforce. Its very difficult to move up by merit alone. You have to be somebody's important's child if you want to be promoted.
Learning English is important for getting jobs especially university grads. However Canada has been run by a losing government that hasn’t helped anyone except themselves
If you work hard you get up from bottom of ladder! Been there,done that came here with $20 now retired and own a million dollar house! Lots of Filipinos do it!
@@dobrenkijbog5156 lazy bums go to the Soup Line, seen it since I got to Canada,of course you can rob a bank or deal drugs, Fast money!! " Free Housing" Club Fed!
This country is messed up. The fact that me and my wife earn over 100k and still cant afford a decent home for our kids is the saddest thing ever. Such a messed up country. Living hand to mouth on rent.
Hey, just an idea, you could put your money into rural Sask, Man and park your money in a couple of rental properties. It’s still possible out here. 100-200k houses
@@jordanpankofinance I have considered that but doesnt that create issues of affordability for the people living in those provinces? Unless I relocate myself I dont think its a viable option. And my job says i can move anywhere in ontario but not outside.
@@furtalance_x don’t move, just buy. With inflation, you are purchasing in a place that is still possible, hold the real estate and use the equity/appreciation to purchase a place in your province A 200,000 property through appreciation and equity in the property, you should be able to pull the $50-60k out in 5 years
It's definitely a PROPAGANDA. Many of my friends asked me if it's worth, I said : "no, stay away!". I , myself, will not stay here. Just saving enough to get back to my country. I am just sad for the Canadians born and raised here who are struggling and don't have somewhere else to go to because, imagine you live in a country where you can't afford to buy a house or even , if you rent, you will be budgeting and cutting on food because of the rent and bills... let's not even talk about healthcare!
The narrative of corporate Canada is that there is a labour shortage hence the need for out of control population growth and both parties have bought into this. With decade after decade of 'multiculturalism' drilled into our minds its extremely difficult for the working class to go against this even though it is ruining their quality of life (wage suppression, high rents).
Yeah it's a really evil narrative. Truth is that pay hasn't kept pace with inflation in over 5 decades in Canada. Tim Horton's, Wendy's and Walmart wouldn't have any problem finding workers if they RAISED THE STARTING WAGE. No. It's far easier to say "Canadians don't wanna work" and ask the government for foreign worker visas.
This labour shortage narrative is such bullshit. We never had any issues before this "mass immigration". Early 2000s was great rent was cheap housing was affordable
It's not just recent immigrants who go through this. Canadians born here also struggle similarly. I'm 43 and still renting because I have never been able to save for a down-payment to buy a house. About 80% of my income goes to rent, I have a college education, spent many years paying off student loans, now have a small business, my husband works full time as well and we both struggle to get by. We cant afford to have kids either.This country is very badly managed by the government. The liberal government delays new house projects, developers have to wait about 7 years to build houses. They purposely make it hard for people to survive, they just use Canadians as cash cows that pay a lot of taxes, they don't want people to keep their money. They bring in too many new immigrants while have no there is a housing shortage. The economy is bad here, job shortages, not a lot of development going on and also the government charges a lot of carbon taxes here for pollution. Canada pollutes 1.5% of the worlds pollution, which is extremely low but we have to pay more and more taxes for the the air we breathe because it's a money scam. Canada is a hard country to survive in, the quality of life is actually very low because you spend most of your earnings on rent or a mortgage and have to cuts costs on food for example. Canadians have a lot of debt and most live paycheck paycheck and are not able to save any money. If you have a choice, go somewhere else, don't come here because you will struggle for the rest of your life.
You failed to realize you need a household income of $250,000 to have a good life in Canada. It is something you could have achieved but avoided. Now you and a lot of your Canadian friends are suffering the consequences of your ignorance. Too bad, so sad.
Once you live as an average person in a third world country you'll realize the reason why people will still come here and perhaps realize that Canada isn't that bad. Besides all first world countries have very similar issues like Canada to not say the same, actually there are countries where you are even more taxated than here.
Canada is honestly a pretty shitty place to live currently. Things are extremely expensive, and taxes are insane. The weather is shitty, the infrastructure is lacking. I was born here and am actively investigating leaving.
Same here. This isn't Canada anymore. I feel sorry for people who've been lied to about how great this country is. My advice is stay where you live and avoid the disappointment.
Thank you for your work, after living in Canada for 8 years, and working in the Insolvency Field, I was shocked how everything is outdated and inefficient. I was waiting 2 months for gastroscopy exam, meanwhile I had a horrible stomach pain and I couldn't get treatment for 2 months, packed everything and I left to Russia, got a job there in less than 3 days in the same field with only Cad $1000 difference
"Outdated and inefficient." That's Canada. Exorbitant taxes/outrageous home prices/sub-arctic climate/colorless; bland/bogus carbon tax. Oh! Excuse me--carbon "pricing"/(fill in the blanks.)
@@freedombro believe it or not... Russia is way more developed. It's the same as Spain, everyone says Canada is way more developed than Spain, but it just isn't true.
@@freedombroi know 😂😂😂, but i got treatment for my stomach pain on the next day after i landed, i paid around 80 bucks including all exams, which were performed right away, and salary wise even i make less, i have way more to spend,i think that in Canada i was basically overpaying for being in "democratic" country
@@richiandino8187 as a Canadian, I've never heard anyone say CANADA is MORE developed then Spain 🇪🇸 😂 However russia, is not developed outside of Moscow or st pete . Do you dispute this ?
you spelled Racist wrong. But a lot of us do it too. Soon the `thought police` will put you and me in jail for even thinking those thoughts. 1984 was a paperback book we too up in grade 11. I didn't think it was real history book!
I can summarize since I emigrated here beginning of 90's that Canada did full "salto mortale" since "our" PM took office almost decade ago. Lower Mainland is without healthy future. We sold everything and moved to Calgary. More sunny days' continental Mountain climate. I understand your frustration, few days ago my older Son showed me a video about food prices in Moscow. Wow, in German owned mega grocery store' bread is around 1$, chicken breast bonles skinless 4 times less compared to our local prices. Apples fruits and vegetables 5 times less, gass price 3 times less compared to Vancouver. If there wasn't current "special operation" going on, I would move there. No hard feelings, but Canada is "free range working camp" . I asked my nice if she was planning to move from Serbia to Canada. She told me "uncle Borko, Canada dropped to 18th spot according to UN statistics "real statistics" as for quality of life.
You put into words what I have not been able to. In Canada you can freely travel and work but you still feel like a wage slave. Free range work camp is EXACTLY what it feels like here.
It’s also ILLEGAL!! I put in a LEGAL basement suite in my home as a mortgage helper. Legal suites are extremely expensive to build but they are safe, to the building code and they have passed city inspection at various stages. It is a major fire hazard to have a bedroom without windows. Windows also need to big enough that a fireman, with all his equipment on, can easily get into the bedroom in case of fire….and easily get the occupants out. If you ever view a space that doesn’t even have windows in the bedrooms, run!!!!! And report this landlord/slumlord to the city!! In my city a decade ago, 3 young renters perished in a fire because the windows in the 2 bedrooms were 50 yr old windows..very small and they couldn’t get out.
I owe attached garage house in Silverado SW Calgary. Here is my monthly bill WITH NO MORTGAGE: $320 electricity, $180 gas, $400 property tax, $140 insurance plus garbage plus Silverado area fee. So I pay about $1200 for my house without even mentioning mortgage !!!!!!!! Insane.
@@Richard-Burdett-Bow Or we make Alberta leave Canada! We shouldn't have to rent out our homes to live with foreigners to be able to live normally! (Not to mention the fact that not all houses are built to give outside access to the basement!) Because of trudeau we sold our house in 2021 we went to Europe we came back a year ago and now we realize that we will never be able to buy another House ... in Alberta !!!
Government mines us as a resource. Immigrants keep wages low to boost corporate profits. Corporate has vast sums to pay kickbacks to politicians. The WEF is a group of billionaires looking at how to squeeze us more and they become trillion aires. The illusion of freedom is just that, an illusion 😢
It wasn't like that 30 years ago. I have family that immigrated that is doing great from the 90s. I have family that immigrated today and I cringe about the difficulties they will have, but they are oblivious to it so far since everything is so new and exciting.
A friend of mine moved to the USA two months before Trudeau became Prime Minister in 2015. He said he'll never come back to Canada. He loves the weather, and the standard of living is better than it is in Canada.
Keep in mind. You "buy" a house and onw it only if you paiy in CASH whole amount. Otherwise, bank owns it for next 25 to 30 years. You are still renting it from them. Proof needed? Skip couple of mortgage payments, see what happens next😂
Everything said in this video is true. I am a canadain PR, and have seen this beautiful country go downwards cos of massive immigration and lack of jobs. Will soon find my square root
@@petergriffin513 yes. They think I don't want them to have as much success as I have (not that I have, lol). I told one to go back home to live on a farm. I also know she can't do that because her family will be opposed to it. Too much money has been sunk into coming here so they'll think she's crazy. She currently knows it's a bad idea but she's trapped.
You are 100% right! Fortunately I came to Canada in the mid-70's, but I have seen the country deteriorate through the years, but precipitously since J. Trudeau took over with his unfulfilled promises and "woke" measures.
As an immigrant living in Canada for more than a decade I can tell you that you are telling precisely what is happening in this country. About immigrants resumes, I went through different agencies as I was said to improve my resume, so I could find a good job, and after being here and there I realized my resume never liked them it always needed to be fixed, also they asked immigrants to remove any specialization or high degree from their resumes, after all kind of changes I ended up with a low qualification resume. It was clear to me, that my education and professional experience would be never appreciated in Canada, no matter what.
Why you compare renting in vancouver to buying in edmonton? Why don't you compare renting in vancouver to renting in edmonton? Or buying in vancouver to buying in edmonton? The difference would make much more sense. I moved from BC to Alberta and it has been best financial decision of my life. Of course you need a plan for your job, but your personal situation isn't the same for everyone. I agree with you on the immigration propaganda though.
I would think a Ukrainian software engineer in 2024 would have better job prospects and standard of living in Kraków than in Vancouver. Few would have said that in 2010.
Welcome to Canada. Immigrant or native Canadian citizen most are living on the line of or below the poverty level. Become a corrupt politician or corrupt corporate entitie and you’re all good.
My son is living here and united stay with me. We are both Canadian and he wants to go back to Canada. He is young and dumb and frustrated with the social atmosphere here. Here you can buy a home and spend your time killing your money and not worry about everyone's attitude towards you. For now, I think the US is a better deal. I'm gonna send him this video.
@@dees900 100%. The US has its problems but it is the last beacon of hope in the Western world right now. Those people they call red necks or hillbillies have a lot more common sense than one thinks. And I'm a total city slicker/white collar worker. Have been all my life.
US gives you more for your money but I understand why your son is frustrated. US social fabric is stressful and communication and social interaction there is stressful. Canada is not like that, but at least in America you can enjoy your money and eat to deal with the stress.
How dare you tell people that our glorious leaders don't care about us (sarc). Letting people know that we are being lied to .... Just commenting so you get some traction. I laughed (with saddness) when you put one of your points down if Canada debases the dollar this would be a reason to buy
It’s illegal to have any bedroom without windows. Windows are required for basic ventilation, but essential as emergency access or exit, such as in a fire. Report them to the municipality. But don’t expect they will actually do anything to enforce it, speaking from experience. I responded to an ad for a room rent in Vancouver years ago, nice house, nice neighbourhood, nice photos. Showed up at the address and a Chinese man arrived and said, oh, it’s not this house it’s the one next door. He then entered the (very nice) open home with marble floors and a swept circular staircase - and started down the hidden basement stairs. There were 13 people down there, all men, all Asian and none spoke English. “My” room was about 6’ x12’, no windows, just a single bed, table, wooden chair, and no privacy. I don’t even remember a lock on the door. I left, reported it and the misleading ad which required lengthy explanation in my complaint as the ad, remember, was for a different address (that’s how you skirt around rent licences, I guess).
Also those "landlords" have multiple basement suites in one house, cash rent. Here my neighbour came from india, built 11,000sq ft "megahouse" with 5 basement suites $2,000/mo cash, that's $10,000/mo cash, that's $120,000/yr unreported TAX FREE. It is good life in Canada for crooks and speculators.
@@kaiserbillxiv1245 thanks for hint, but it does not work like that in Lower Mainland (or in BC, or in Canada?). This country for the last 10 years appears to have developed into an horrendous corrupt mafia. Firstly I reported to city hall, because according to bylaws only one secondary suite is allowed. An inspector was allegedly sent and he wrote a report, cc to me, that there are no suites there. I live across the fence and once I spoke to a tearful tenant who told me that they pay $2,000 cash for one bedroom without window and tiny kitchenette. They live in fear of being evicted because there are no other accommodations under $2K available.
@@kaiserbillxiv1245 it is a mafia in this country everywhere, including RCMP and courts. Here is another example. I am defendant in a frivolous and fraudulent lawsuit, where the plaintiffs, an insurance intermediary, mind you not the insurer but a collector of premiums, sued me for repaying, to that intermediary company, NOT to the bone fide insurer who paid benefits, the LTD benefits paid to me 25 years ago by that bona fide insurer, when I was disabled for 1 year as result of work related accident. Plaintiff's' lawyer did not serve, the hired process server deposed perjurious affidavit. Plaintiffs' employee deposed a perjurious affidavit. With those 2 affidavits plaintiffs went to court and obtained judgement by default against my property, in my ignorance because they did not serve. I found out about the judgment incidentally 2 years later. I went to court, the judge ruled that the plaintiffs served because process server so deposed. I did not even live in Canada then. Deposing perjurious affidavit is crime under CCC. I went to RCMP with my affidavit and documentary evidence. RCMP officer (broken english) said that they do not investigate paper crimes. I went to Crown Counsel and I was told that according to law I must report to RCMP, so RCMP investigate and report to Crown Counsel.
Thank you for the clear perspective on the reality of moving to Canada. Most people who move to Canada live miserable lives and most feel stuck in the financial traps.
You are totally right, Alex; however, I don`t understand one thing - if you don`t like Canada, why do you stay there? Why do you continue to jeopardize your psychological wellbeing by living in a place which you don`t like? I also used to live in Canada and when I discover that it has more cons than pros, I just sold everything, packed up and moved back home - done deal.
It is not easy to do that when you uprooted to come to Canada and then spent your life savings to afford a living here. There is not much to sell if he doesn't own any property to be honest. So that may mean he would have to start from scratch again in his home country. That would be a disaster both economically and psychologically as people back home expect that you would be well off once you are in Canada.
@@FedUpwitU What do you mean? I lived in Canada as a PR, didn`t apply for Canadian citizenship to keep citizenship in my country (dual citizenship is not allowed in my case). When decided to go back home just dumped my Canadian obligations/rights, sold everything and flew away.
Bro wow I just watched a few of your videos. I am a 35 year old Canadian. Between an online business and a seasonal construction job, I am able to travel outside Canada during the winters for the last several years. People always ask me how is Canada and I try to explain to them that it's not actually that great, only the nature is nice. But your videos articulate the problem extremely well. I can never recommend to anyone to move to Canada but couldn't explain so well as to why. I knew something weird was going on with real estate and immigration but now it is much more clear. Even for myself, I have two bachelors degrees (science and engineering) from Canadian universities, but I work a trades apprentice job. And when I come in for the summers, the rents have increased so much in Alberta since I started this pattern 6 years ago. I used to just find a room online for $500-$600/mo and be good to go, but now rents for a single room are minimum $1000, or a private flat $1500 or more. So now for this year and the previous one I am living at my parent's house. My online business makes a steady $22k CAD per year after tax (it's a YT channel), and when I come to Canada, my hourly rate from my job is $25/h, so my income jumps by about $3,200 per month after tax while I'm here. But if I pay for the regular cost of living in Alberta (rent:$1500, car insurance/gas:$400, groceries:$500, phone:$50, WiFi:$50, socializing:$200, timmies etc.:$100, miscellaneous purchases (tools for work, things for house):$150 = $2,950. So if I did all that, $3,200 - $2,950 = $250. It's a net increase of about $250 per month, in exchange for working 40 more hours per week of hard labour. What about saving for retirement, or occasionally buying new things like a future vehicle, furniture, electronics, down payment for a house, a plane ticket, etc... It's impossible. Only by living with family in my particular situation does my net income jump by about $1,000 per month, which is barely worth it for the effort. I am so lucky to have my online income to supplement the actual employment income here if I choose to stay. But for me now I see that it's probably better to stay outside of Canada and enjoy life on my online earnings rather than all this BS.
Your story blows my mind. You sound like a smart, hard working, and entrepreneurial person who is willing to take risks. You are what most young people aspire to be, and yet for all these brains, blood, sweat, and tears this is your reward? If a person like you can't thrive in Canada who can? I dropped out of university and I'm in a similar position as you. Honestly it is such BS. I'm glad that you have at least some liberty to move around but honestly this news is just shocking.
@@JorgeRomero7 I mean hes 35 and doesn't have an actual local business.. he just said hes a laborer. I had a construction company at 20 (now 30) and made much more than 25 an hour, back when money had value. Not sure what hes been doing the last 15 years when a 25/hr trades job is something you can reach by 20.
I moved to Vancouver as a teen in the 90s and my family of 4 lived in a 1BR basement. Parents worked their butt off and eventually bought a half duplex for $200k in Vancouver then a house in Surrey for $310k in 2001. I bought a townhouse for $250k a few years later. Then about 10 years ago, bought my current house for $620k + $50k for updates and I'm still in Metro Vancouver (30km from Downtown Vancouver). Its current market value is $1.7m, which is bonkers and it means I'm paying lots in property tax. My wife ($100k in finance) and I ($200k in IT) make decent coin but don't feel rich since a big chunk of our money goes to taxes and everything's expensive. I don't think we can even afford our house if we were to buy it now. We're contemplating just selling everything and moving elsewhere. It feels like Canada was great up until Trudeau. Before, average folks could still buy actual houses.
Vancouver's property prices really shot up going into the Hong Kong handover. In recent years, a lot of wealthy Chinese bought properties in mainly metro Toronto and Vancouver speculatively and leaving even some properties idle to appreciate over time. This was one way they felt to safeguard their wealth from the PRC government. It definitely put a lot of pressure in the real estate market of these cities and definitely affected affordability for the average Canadian.
Of course you can't afford it now. Neither can my parents who are 55. Most people in Ontario or BC couldn't afford to buy the house they live in today. Talk about a scam.
I've commented on your channel before and I know you're planning to leave after getting your Canadian passport. Of course, this is unethical on the face of it, but you feel the government has been unethical with you, so it's a wash. In a way, I don't disagree. The only point of contention I have with your comments is that you think the 'rich' are to blame for your woes. It's more complicated than that. The so-called 'rich' have mostly earned what they have, and yet many feel the way you do about Canada. They're cornered on taxes from every direction and there's every indication that things will get worse (eg, I can't even get a family doctor myself after my family doctor retired). And they will get worse, as the future of Canada is not promising. For example, the OECD has predicted that Canada will have the lowest growth rate among all OECD countries until 2060 (not a typo). 2060! There are many economic indicators that point in the wrong direction. Simply put, the economic fundamentals are not in place in Canada, so economically the country is currently is in something of a free fall. I'm not an immigrant to Canada. My advice to immigrants or would-be immigrants is go elsewhere, for your own good. This is not an anti-immigrant comment, but an attempt to offer useful advice. Even highly educated non-immigrant Canadians are exiting in large numbers. The key is to give yourself options. Options equates freedom.
@@esparda07 To the extent you can explain being unethical, you rely on the wrong rationale. Except for a handful of jurisdictions (eg, the Cayman Islands), everyone pays taxes. That is not an appropriate justification for unethical conduct. Your strongest position would be to say that the Canadian government mislead you purposefully in its efforts to attract you and others to Canada, with the negative consequences that befell you. You make that point emphatically in your video. I'm sympathetic to your position, but you have to get the rationale straight!
@@esparda07. Every Canadian resident pays their taxes and it may not be a good fit for you, fair enough, but you likely left your country because it wasn’t all that great. You’re disappointed, I understand that but you could just move on. Waiting for citizenship before doing so, while complaining, is a bit hypocritical. Adapting to a new country, culture and language is not for everyone and it is difficult but it’s your responsibility. Good luck in finding your next home.
@@Booboonancy I disagree. He explained that it took all his life savings a significant investment to relocate his family to Canada. He brought a chunk of money he earned in Russia to Canada. To have done his best to make it work and leave poor with nothing to show would be such a waste. I think it is reasonable for him to get his citizenship before going. Also, don't forget it takes significant time to get citizenship, meaning the process was started likely long before he realized it was not going to work to stay here in Canada. It's not hypocritical to state facts about being mislead, he is not merely complaining. I lived in the USA on a fiance visa, got married, and then waited 4 years for my green card, and then left. Not because I wanted a green card, or am a hypocrite. I left because my husband was abusive!! Just because something doesn't work out it does not mean the system is being manipulated, and when someone discovers they have been lied to it does not make them a hypocrite to then complain about being lied to! Are you going to say I benefited by getting a green card so I shouldn't complain about being abused?? lol Alex is using this platform to warn potential immigrants due to his experience.
Correct. I am trained in O&G, worked in oil patch since 1980 in Calgay and Ft. Mac, later in the US. There was no stability. Now I am retired with 80% of pensions from other industries.
I'm an old immigrant, coming to Canada today is like buying stocks when the prices are red hot before the crash, the timing has never been worse, if you want to make money do not come to Canada, the US is a much better deal.
I moved to Canada 20 years ago and in the last ten years it's gone off a cliff. They are clearly exploiting immigrants for cheap labour, and to massively increase the cost of real estate, it's the only thing that makes sense. Healthcare has collapsed and literally everyone is a few paycheques away from homelessness. It's sad seeing demoralized young people from India and around the world working like slaves for a dream that will never happen.
I too lost all my life savings close to CAD 80,000 running after the superficial canadian dream life. The jobs available for me were manual labour jobs. I finally decided to leave canda for good this january. I learnt my lesson at the cost of my families future.
@@jthomson782004 Hola amigo 👋🏼👋🏼 We started off in the Yucatan now in Veracruz working our way to Oaxaca then to the Caribbean side. We document everything. 😁👍🏼
If I can make ties and figure out how to do it, moving to Mexico is looking like the only retirement option my husband and I have after decades of working and paying taxes is our country. It's heartbreaking, but one of us has to go first in order to pave the way for our friends as well. Good on you for figuring out how to escape this nightmare. ENJOY!
I have a lot in common with you. I'm a software engineer that moved back to Canada in 2020, choosing BC. Everything you say is correct, they do lie to immigrants. The housing market here is completely insane. It's not just Canada though, the same forces are at work elsewhere, like Australia and NZ. Some places are actually worse than Vancouver! Auckland is similar to Vancouver in a lot of ways. We love to insult the US for their treatment of cheap Mexican labour, but we're doing exactly the same thing here. The insane levels of immigration Trudeau has encouraged are causing massive amounts of harm, like you say. Insane rental prices, crumbling healthcare system, etc. I wouldn't expect things to improve with the conservatives though. These immigrants quickly discover the truth and are unlikely to stay. They'll head to the US or somewhere else. How does this benefit Canada? Cheap labour and other exploitation, I'm guessing. This also keeps salaries low for existing Canadians. Great for the elites! You're also right about the tech downturn last year. I got laid off and struggled to get an interview despite being very experienced and having a great resume. 😂 was being hounded in 2022 by recruiters then couldn't get any interest in 2023. It was a crazy time. I don't know if it's any better now. It was nearly impossible for me. Canadian jobs were total bs, they pay about half of what a decent SF area job pays. Even still, it was nearly impossible to get any response from job allocations. Thankfully I got a referral to a great company in SF and I'm working remotely from BC now. I have zero interest in working for a Canadian company. Exploitation is the norm. As an immigrant, it must be terrible trying to find a job here. The competition is crazy. I can see why this would make you angry. I honestly don't know how people survive in Vancouver on the crappy salaries they pay. Meanwhile I see people in their 20s driving Teslas and Rivians. I'd strongly suggest looking for a good remote job from the US if you have the skills for it. Getting your foot in the door is the hardest part. Startups are the most likely to give you a chance. Even though I'm doing well, things change quickly if you lose your job. EI will only help for a short amount of time. The safety net doesn't exist any more. Thankfully I own a house here so I'm not impacted by rental prices. The increase in house prices doesn't even help me, since the next house I buy will go up in price also. This makes it extremely hard for young people to get into the market. I can also see why they're angry. It's only the elites that are profiting from this. There's a lot to love about Canada but the downsides are huge and growing. Sometimes I think about living off the grid on cheap land somewhere, or living on a sailboat. I'd love to get away from the rat race but it's nearly impossible.
Thank you for your comment; it sheds some light into some questions that I've been having since I intend to immigrate in Canada as well (end 2024- beginning 2025). I'm a software developer, so which cities/towns do you recommend to settle in the first place ? Also, will it be safe for me to first of all have some Canadian experience or should I immediately look for opportunities in the US (full-remote jobs I mean)
You're right. I was stupid enough to quit a contractual position with one of the FAANG companies in late 2022. I was working from Canada but my team was entirely in the States. I was not able to find another job until late 2023. Woe is me! If I had stayed on at the FAANG, I might have been on my way to the US on a TN in a couple of years from now.
@@rr3775you don’t need a TN visa unless you’re living and working in the US as a non-US citizen. That doesn’t apply if you’re living and working in Canada for a US employer. It’s just a job. Amazon, Google, and any multinational company can have a global workforce and offer jobs to people in Canada. You just apply for the job and if you don’t have authorization to work in the US, you apply for the TN after accepting the job.
It seems critical to have a professional network if you want to get a job these days in the tech sector. Simply applying for jobs on LinkedIn is pretty much useless. When a new job gets 2500 applications in a day, something has changed! Of course, there's a lot of real applicants but I suspect there's a huge number of bots. Most companies are using ATS software to filter these applications. You absolutely need an ATS compliant resume, but even with that you're unlikely to get a response. I found the biggest companies to be the worst. There's zero humanity. Getting a referral is the best path. This is what was blocking me last year. Being new to BC I didn't know anyone in the tech sector here and was shut out. Thankfully I got a referral to a new company from a former coworker. This was also a remote job from the US. I feel so lucky and grateful. If not for that I would probably still be unemployed. Once you get a response and get to the interview process, that's just the start. You have to study up on everything they'll ask. All the CS type questions, the low level details of hash maps, etc. The Leetcode skills are also vital, even though it has very little to do with day to day work. So many hoops to jump through! I swear I had 7 interviews for my new job! We just finished more than a month of hard work. 10+ hour days, 7 days a week. It's not legal or respectful but I'll do it if it means I can keep this job. Thankfully, this is very rare. The job feels secure but they all do until you get laid off. I'm doing what I can to keep it.
Bro, I totally agree. My family immigrated to Canada in 1989, with generational wealth, and assets overseas that kept us living modestly for a number of years. But even then in the 90s people were saying Canada was ALREADY on the decline. My parents wouldn’t hear of it, because they were so brainwashed by the propaganda. Nowadays in my country of origin, unemployment is around 3.1 % (a country of approx 120 million) vs Canada’s 6-7.7% unemployment. Canada IS a third world country, masquerading as a first world country.
Canada used to be a country where you could come as an immigrant, put your head down, work hard, and eventually afford a reasonable home. My parents arrived aged close to their 40s and were able to buy a home within a 2 years time (on a mortgage of course). Now this would likely be impossible unless you are a very high earner (and even then you'd need to save for a downpayment).
And that's the problem... We all want to put our heads down and work work work work until we are rich.... We don't bother doing any research and learning how the government is structured and how it works, who the WEF are, how money is printed here, etc.... We just stay brain dead and focus on our work. This is the result of that ignorance.
@@michaela.5363 Talk. Talk to your friends, coworkers, etc... Spread the knowledge so people get more aware of these issues. Knowledge is power. The more knowledgeable we become, the harder it will be for the government to control and manipulate us.
I love your straight to the point opinion with very calm manner, and your English speaking is impressive! I chose to leave after living one year in Toronto, been there and see enough. Canada is a fail of state.
Why never mention rich Chinese buying all houses in Vancouver? I see the same problem in the US - millions of rich immigrants from China, South Korea, Brazil, UK and Sweden buying tons of real estate in Florida driving prices sky high.
From July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023 (2022/2023), Canada’s population grew by 1,158,705 people (2.9%) to an estimated 40,097,761. Source. Govt of Canada. In that year, we had to build the ~ of the city of Calgary to accommodate them all. Now of course, we did not build any new cites, all these (mostly) 3rd world economic migrants did what they have been doing for decades, crowd into existing cities, which drives up demand for....everything. Pair that with govt policy, and you have the situation Angry Immigrant is talking about here. There is no real economy in Canada to speak of. Consumption sure, and declining employment extracting resources from a a declining resource base. Forestry used to be a mainstay in BC but that has been in slow and steady decline for decades. I guess the future is writing apps to help immigrants find the quickest route to the local Wall-mart.
Lots of high quality jobs in canada (outside government ) are related to natural ressources and these industries are attack by anxious climate change activist. And guess who are ruling the country? These crazy activist ! And If you succeed finding a good job, you will pay lots of taxes
This is not the 1st time I have thought about the regimes fixation on rampant population growth. Years ago I thought about this and ran the #s. To expand on this, about every decade canada would have to build the equivalent of a city of Toronto. This imo, is madness since like I said, we dont build new cities. Every 10 years, we add a Toronto. Where is this supposed to end? Move to the north parts of the country? LoL, There is nothing there, the climate sucks, there few resources and again, no jobs. So everyone keeps piling into Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, Calgary etc and we end up with sprawl, endless traffic, pollution, and most important of all, a very high cost of living with services getting worse all the time.
0:40 - those rooms would not be able to be listed as bedrooms in America. A bedroom MUST have at least 2 exit points (usually a door & a window large enough for the average size person to fit through)
Отношусь к категории старых иммигрантов, но ненавижу во что превратилась Канада с постоянными поборами. Рассматриваем переезд в другие страны. Ни одна страна не стоит таких высоких налогов.
Good explanation of the problem in Canada. Australia's most popular cities in the eastern sea board are very closely mirroring Canada but very few have come out publicly to describe it.
It is nice to see you back. You are spitting facts!!! Hope the word spreads around more broadly. I can confirm that I was able to hear whispers from my roommates in all the houses that I lived in so far in Canada. Utterly shambolic.
I was born in North Vancouver and had a career in downtown Vancouver while raising a family. Long story short I was kicked out of British Columbia do you think the impossible cost for seniors to live indoors. I came to Quebec city and I can pay all of my bills and eat well. This is my 6th year and I found my place. I can't speak a word in French, but there are good people everywhere. I'm just so blessed to be inside. I see my sisters and brothers in downtown Vancouver, people who had careers and we're introduced to temptation of drugs. Those are just the ones who don't care if they live on the street. Leave the druggies alone. I'd like to talk to the judge. The one who decides who is worthy and who is not.
In my second year of university, I became friends with a student who turned out to be an international American student. He was sick of all the political culture wars of America, and wanted to come to a country which he felt was "boring and safe" and he felt inflation was also a huge issue, so he packed his bags and transferred into my college. It only took a single year for him to pack his bags and go back to Florida, there is 0 opportunity present in Canada, it is akin to modern-day slavery / aristocracy. There is 0 chance for you to ever have ANY kind of upward mobility in the slightest, salaries are piss-poor and housing is so incredibly expensive. It's actually insane how awful things are economically, i'm lucky enough to have received a full-tuition Law School scholarship to Cincinnati, an area where the average house is 300,000, and where I can easily afford a mortgage after around 2-3 years of saving after I become a lawyer at even an average salary, and I couldn't be more excited. I will never visit Canada ever again, and the only reason I am not getting rid of my citizenship to this awful corrupt elitist hellhole is because I have family who live here. But honestly, it really pisses me off how awful this country currently is, you will never afford anything and cannot live a life of dignity at all. For anyone who wants to own a house in the next 2 decades, the clock is ticking, in 20 years you will not be able to afford any houses and elitists will have taken all the housing and jobs. I recommend people to move to wherever they can with CHEAP affordable housing, make sure you OWN your house, make sure you invest in your retirement funds, invest in high-interest savings accounts, and transfer your money to your children. Do it AS SOON AS YOU CAN, save whatever money you can save, because not only Canada, but the world is going to become so expensive, that if you do not do it now you will be finished. It's so depressing how they have taken this once beautiful country, that was comparable to the United States and was beloved by all into a pseudo-communist shithole where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, where there is no hope in politics, or in law, or in rights to believe in.
Alex is back! Every word of what you are saying is so true and everyone who is still thinking of coming to Canada should really watch every one of your videos. In addition to housing problem there is also the issue of affordability : Canadians should be earning at least double the current wages in loonies (Canadian Dollar) to be able to afford the same what US residents can afford after all the massive taxing.
I haven't visited your channel in a while. Great video! Have you gone over the topic of Crown Land? Most of Canada is still 94-96% Crown Land. Yet the population is growing drastically. No one seems to be talking about this much. I have trouble understanding why in Rural Japan some municipalities will give you abandoned houses if your willing to bring them up to spec. A small land mass with lots of people. Yet in BC. You can go as far as you like into the hinterland. And prices are still insane. Why? Lorne.
"Prices are insane. Why?" Because it's always Trudeau's "current year." Translation: Bad is good; worse is better. Misery all around. Driving Canada into the ground is Trudeau's mission.
The government will not give up crown land. They want to keep the prices of land (and therefore houses) artificially high by maintaining scarcity. I live on Vancouver Island where there must be hundreds of thousands of unused acres of land, but almost none for sale. It's all crown land, often leased to logging companies. Total scam.
Its been 8 years I am here and I came only because my husband is Canadian. From day 1 I could see that this country is just over marketed. You are soooo right about all the points. I am looking forward to leaving one day soon to start a new life in a new country with my husband.
Prior to 2015 you could actually buy a property, after that the real estate market went crazy, I remember because I bought a condo in 2011 for 190,000 same condo today 700,000 isn't that nuts, a 9 bedroom house with two two bedrooms 700sq foot house in Surrey in 2010 you could buy for 620,00 same house now 2024 1,900,000. Nuts A. It was claimed that the former Liberal party in British Columbia caused this to happen by inviting off shore investors to buy hundreds of properties here as their investment, while no one lived in any of them, driving up the prices, I have seen real estate way back in 1990 the average new home or used home in the lower mainland was around 100,000 in 1993 same house went to 250,000 prices have been heading North for 30 plus years.. it's going to tumble they say really. After 39 years going north really.
I immigrated to Canada in 2005, and it was a great place to raise my kids-a land of promise, positivity, and opportunity. However, the Trudeau government quickly broke all of that in 2015. I will have to leave if this does not change in the next election.
I rent a place in BC. A few blocks away a Filipino immigrant rents a 5 bdr house to 24 misfortunate migrants, for that she takes at least 500 a head(or more for some). Calculus shows she makes $12,000 per month. And she is working on marrying a Canadian who owns multiple homes. How so i know? She told me. She is sweet and innocent... In the home where I rent there is another suite housing immigrants from Mexico, awesome people. A lady from Mexico rents it as an 'agent', cranks up the rent to $2000 and pays the owner $1500 taking $500 for herself. Nice thing to do to your fellow Mexicans.... You cant make this stuff up...
LoL 😆 I saw exactly the same thing when I was working in Surrey BC. 12 migrants living in a 5 bedroom house paying $1000 per month each. The neighbors were furious. There are houses like that scattered all over Surrey. The rent is being paid in cash. Much of that money is being wired back to India and no taxes are being collected. Immigrants are destroying Canada. It's true.
Thanks for your video again. I am very happy that these assholes rejected my application. I stayed in the Philippines, I met an amazing girl over a year ago that we are very happy together, I learnt web development and got a good remote job. I am very happy now, thanks to the fate that they rejected my immigration application! By the way, such super "democratic" country as Canada is so democratic that they still haven't returned my refundable immigration fee. It's been more than a year, btw. They just don't reply to my numerous webforms. Very democratic. Of course, it has nothing to do with my nationality, oh no. It's bad to be biased to people based on their nationality if you say that you don't try to hide it, but if you say that you respect all the nations while actually discriminating them, it's totally fine, right?
You got lucky by not coming here. I just married a Filipino lady and the Canadian gov't refused to allow me to bring her over, so i am going to go live in the Philippines. A very nice country with a lot better weather.
They’re not ignoring your web forms because of discrimination. The government is so wholly incompetent and understaffed getting any response from any govt agency in a timely manner is nearly impossible here. It is THAT bad
Correction: Global TV is not state owned - it's the largest privately owned broadcaster in Canada. Also, the two factions that have governed Canada are both right wing - the easiest way to identify that is because they do NOT PLAN the economy - they let the MARKET forces determine how much housing will be built, what wages will be paid, etc., if you had a real left party in power you'd have a lot of your complaints addressed because they would PLAN on correcting market deficiencies - just like they do in China and Cuba where there is no homelessness and ample free or very affordable public services in order to meet the needs of people rather than corporations.
The problem is that many of the third worlders coming here are living a better life than they would back in places like China and India. As long as the crooked criminals we have in power keep the gates open they'll keep coming.
Every place in Canada is expensive for what you are getting. A comparable city in the United States might only cost half as much, and the United States isn't a cheap country either.
Overall very well done. Bang on. I am born and raised here in Alberta. My Great Grandfather used to own what is now Refinery Row just outside of Edmonton. I am in part one of those "Old Stock" Canadians(Nova Scotia Colony) with some Indigenous blend. I am saddened by what my country has become. I so so glad my grandparents are not able to see what has happened. My grandfather served this country proudly, and I am glad he was cremated so he can't roll in his grave. You can see the change in ANY SCHOOL That is over 40 years old that has the class photos over the years. You will see the change really start in 1988 when Multiculturalism (Trudeau Sr) was made our policy. Justin put that into a steroid induced overdrive. It has only gotten bad since Justin Trudeau has been Prime Minister. Then he opened the floodgates with the intention of pushing Canada to 100+ MILLION people and cleary did not care who they brough in at all. I totally agree they pushed an immigration scam on us. I saw this back in 2019 when the PPC started. They were called racists, bigots. xenophobes, etc...and now 5 years later....well...looks like they were right. I'm sorry...but no one has a RIGHT to come to Canada. Canadians are allowed to say No More. It's not in any way predjudiced to say that there is only so many any Country can absorb and Assimilate into their culture. Canada used to go with Ups and downs in immigrqtion....to allow new immigrants time to assimilate and not form ghetto communities. We need to shut the door to immgration for a few years or more. While also encouraging many of those who came recently to go back. Many are going back of their own free will when they wake up to how bad it has got here. I wish there was somewhere else for me to go home to as well.
I feel your pain. It's so discouraging to realize all the hype about Canada was just that, bs. I'm thinking Mexico might be a better place for me.Better climate, cheaper everything and aside from the drug cartels I hear the people are super friendly too. Take care and treat yourself well.🤙
It wasn't bad in 1988, you're just a bigot. Yes immigration is corrupt and a scam now but you're using the situation to spread your bigotry you brought from Nova Scotia. You pollute the topic with your racism and bigotry.
I moved from B.C. to Alberta 3 years ago. The trade off really depends on your lifestyle, your job, and what type of house you end up with and what city you live in. Overall the property tax, utilities and maintenance are more in Alberta. But there are many high paying jobs here, and if you dont need a huge house you can get a condo or smaller home with a manageable payment you will be much better off. All things considered I am happy with the move, B.C. is great but the government has turned the province into a nanny state beyond what our current federal government is already doing, and the taxes in B.C. just compound on top of that too.
If that's in BC, those windowless bedrooms are actually illegal according to BC building code. There are also minimum bedroom size requirements when closets aren't provided. Seems like either people aren't reported violations enough or there's a shortage of inspectors.
Hey don’t worry about it you honestly don’t want to live here, especially BC. I’m born in Canada 34 years old making 135k working 6 to 7 days a week and I still live with my parents in the basement so that I can try and buy a place in my mid 40s. My income tax last year was 35k + 12% on most things I buy.
The eastern part of the country is still cheaper than BC or Ontario, but rapidly catching up. For Ontarians, the taboo that once existed regarding moving to Quebec has vanished with the pandemic, which made the prices skyrocket even more in QC. As a homeowner here, my only consolation is that they'll prop up my home value for a couple years until I can cash out and GTFOH after.
Where there's no winter and where I can pay for private healthcare when needed vs having shit weather+being gaslit about free healthcare that I can't even get access to.
Well said. I would focus on the layers of taxes and rules on construction that keep elevating in $$ and complexity. And what is the role of banks in relation to federal policies. I appreciate your observations. As a second generation Canadian I am one of the lucky ones born in the 60s. And sadly canada has more traits of a third world country than a first.😢
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I realized it was like this two weeks after I arrived. Highly educated professionals are lured into Canada for a few main reasons:
1. Toil to pay the mortgage of someone who already lives here, preferably by living in their basement.
2. Bring their life savings here, but you can't find a top-notch job at first. Canada installs many barriers so you have to start over. If you arrive and simply find a great job, you won't spend your life savings and thus won't heat up the economy. They also suggest you might need to "go back to school," so you'll end up subsidizing higher education for people who are already here by paying 3x more tuition. But the media, and politicians too, are going to lie to everyone by saying you get grants and free rent, or even a free car on arrival.
3. After spending the money you brought from your country and paying for someone else's mortgage, you'll start looking for a place of your own to buy. This is another purpose of immigration. Now you'll increase the value of the houses of those who were already here.
4. Paying interest. After depleting your savings, you'll start paying interest to the banks here and also finance the retirement pension of people who are already here. And while you pay interest, you have to watch banks' CEOs blaming YOU, the immigrant, for the their own mismanagement of the economy.
5. Canada works as a lure that causes brain drain in U.S. competitors worldwide, thus helping to keep "in development" countries permanently "in development."
6. Canada's main business is mining natural resources worldwide, with 75% of all mining companies operating from Canada. By bringing immigrants from all over the world, it becomes easier to exploit their countries of origin by applying knowledge of local regulations and culture to establish mining operations abroad.
7. You bring not only money but also hundreds of thousands, potentially millions, of dollars that your nation spent on your education, from childcare to the doctorate level. Canadians get all of this for free.
We're the cash cows, and we're badmouthed in every province of this land. Those of us who are smart enough get their citizenship and leave.
What aggravates me the most is how some people who were born here act as if we're "taking advantage of what they built". What did they built, exactly? A homeless dystopia? I had never seen so many homeless people dying all over, you can't even take public transit in most cities of this country without risking your life. Is this what they built? This horrible healthcare too? It's far worse than anything we had in my homecountry. These people are completely delusional.
Each and everything you said
It's so true
It's the great loot!!
After all of that ranting against Canadian-born sheople, I'm guessing that you left Chinada after your 2-week realisation? You're no better. That same propaganda that has been fed to taxpaying-sheople in EVERY country (not only Chinada), you also swallowed, because you went to Chinada. You were gullible. We fiefs (peasants) are all gullible. To the victors go the spoils. The Eli tes use dirty rotten methods. They lie....always have. And the dumb peasants continue trusting them.....like you did.
Amen!
You are absolutely right. Unfortunately, I fell for this Hell of an Immigration Scam called Canada and I wasted more than a decade of my life there before deciding to leave for good. I will never go back to Canada, no even for visiting or for connection flights.
I agree with everything you said up until the last sentence. You can call Canadians delusional however everything we complain about was never ever EVER like this before Trudeau. Why do you think the entire country hates him? We consider him by far the worst prime minister in our history and he would have been out last election if he didnt form a coalition government for the first time in our history. The state of the country is lightyears away from the one I grew up in. Example: my childhood home was 75k less than 25 years ago, and is now worth more than 750 thousand. Make it make sense. Healthcare was amazing before mass immigration and covid vaccine requirements for medical staff deteriorated the ability to have a decent hospital experience, all transit was safe, we literally never ever feared anything in transit. Its not about what was built also, aside from an amazing country, many of us like myself have multiple family members dead in the war and have a duty to preserve what they fought for which is clearly intentionally being destroyed.
I say the people that are still coming here are delusional, with a little research over the past few years you would easily see the mass deteriorating of the entire country under trudeau, and could make a proper decision. Instead people listen to their immigration consultants who sell them an imaginary dream and in turn, most newcomers show up and are completely baffled at the lies they've been sold.
Its sad most newcomers end up in the same boat, you seem very competent in your English however we see literally thousands of immigrants who dont speak english, are incentivized in the workplace with our tax dollars, mass LMIA scams, and not to mention most have literally zero intention of becoming true Canadians. This is simply a landing place for them to obtain citizenship and send our money back to their homeland. Another example; there's about 15 Punjabi men working on a house next to mine, none speak English, theyre all paid cash untaxed, and they will surely be sending whatever they can back to their families. Also, people coming here are surprised there's no housing. If you were Canadians you'd know that almost everyone lives in the south although Canada is massive. There's no housing for us or you so yes we feel taken advantage of when we've paid tax since our first purchase here yet we are prioritizing foreigners everyday in our country.
Its clear to those born here that so much money was pissed away during covid that our government is scrambling in any which way to get foreigners to recoup their pockets which in turn makes Canadians feel similarly taken advantage of as you.
Calling our people delusional would mean we dont see the current state of things. Is that what you think? Don't you see the liberal disapproval rating? Its like 90% lol the entire country knows that its burning. Canadians never batted an eye at immigrants until the past few years when we've realized were being put aside for them; its quite the opposite, most people here are proudly multicultural and love this fact of our country but when you lend an inch and everyone takes a mile, it is human nature to be upset.
Anyways all this to say, our government is fucked, and they are ruining both Canadians and newcomers lives and this entire debacle is truly their fault.
Canada is getting so bad that even people born in Canada are leaving.
I left a year ago. I spend my modest military pension money here and do pretty good. Canada now sucks the big one.
@Johnny84mm-sn4gj ....to some third world country with horrendously devaluated currency to gentrify it by earning over 20 times the average income and not having to pay income tax at all as they won't work for local employers (not all but most Canadians who emigrate do this, and this is not only a tendency among Canadians. Most Americans, Aussies, West Europeans do this as well.
@@ddaniel987xand is it bad?
@okman9684 and do you even ask? No wonder why in such countries people have started to hate the "expats".
@@ddaniel987x so its better if i don't spend my cash here? Im esentially dumping money into their economy. And the government here makes good bank on my immigration fees.
As someone who was born in Canada, lived here my whole life, this country is intentionally being destroyed. If your a new comer its a trap. I feel terrible for those who have to find this out them selves.
Agreed 💯
dont worry. justin said on cbc today he has a good plan to fix us.
@@PUX420 It's not called MAID is it..
lol you are on crack
@@PUX420 😂😂 more taxes and control 🛂
You now work to live in Canada. I seen this getting so bad over the last ten years getting out of control. And the standing government now will tax you for everything even rain water.. We have a problem with corruption and greed here.. And our government is a big part of it..
We always lived to work in Canada but had equity. Now it's just working
Nope, your population is THE reason why all this is happening. Your government is merely a consequence of mass stupidity of the population.
North America is just rotten unfortunately, we only work and work and work. We are obsessed with credit scores and financing. My family in Spain lives way better than me and they have never ever financed anything nor have worried about a credit score. We are on a downfall so bad it is making me suicidal for real.
@@richiandino8187 I have had three people I knew that went the suicide way last year. Everything is not good in Canada at all..
You live to work ....
As a born Canadian, the state of this country infuriates me.
We watch as the Canada we knew and grew up in is being purposely destroyed by an idiot we can't get rid of who is supported by bigger fish.
Couldn't agree more. The fact that stupid assholes in Ontario STILL want a Liberal government "leading" this country is insane. I PRAY WESTERN CANADA LEAVES THIS CRAP COUNTRY AND MAKES THEIR OWN! IM ALL FOR IT
do something about it instead of complaining on yt
@@Anon-tt9rz Thanks for the useful tip.
You get the Govt you vote for!
Fully agree with everything you've said. For anyone watching who isn't living in Canada: he's not exaggerating. Not even a little. It really is this bad here in Canada. Immigration is completely out of control, relative to the amount of services available, and finding an affordable place to live is basically impossible for almost everyone who isn't rich to begin with.
This can no longer be considered immigration but population replacement.
Even the rich are having a hard time finding houses. $1mil+ homes are being sold in a week.
As a 31 years old Canadian making very good money, I am contemplating leaving and getting my first home in South America. I would like a house before I retire where I can raise a family, period.
People don't want 2000$ apartments, they want houses and land that they can own. Rentals should be a temporary situation for anybody understanding the value of their hard earned money and their limited time on earth.
Very wise. Many countries in South America are on the rise while Canada is sadly in decline.
Exactly, the government has very little or zero regard for its citizens and their quality of life.
Panama 🇵🇦
@@HypocriticYTPanama isn't in South America
@@Liam25025 that's for sure! It's better, very low crime, uses the US $ and excellent healthcare
You forgot to mention --> " If you live in Toronto, PLEASE make sure to leave your CAR KEY outside, so the criminals can steal your car without hurting you/your family"
It is, such a joke
Ya.....screw this place. My family was so much better off in our home country. Now i work as a grunt in a factory.....FML. And im stuck...i can't go back.
Where is your home country ?@@Holion5604
and pay rain Tax
😂
As a born and raised Canadian I am ashamed of the lives that are being destroyed by the lies being told.
*THANK YOU* I am a Canadian/Alberta citizen in my 50s, I have been watching this country in free fall for the last 8 years. Prior to this Liberal/NDP gov lead by the UN and WEF, *_WE DID HAVE_* the country you described believing you were moving to. It WAS a country of opportunity, reasonably priced homes, utilities.. fairly good socialized healthcare.. but still GROSSLY overtaxed, now taxes have surpassed even that to the point of insanity and rising more using 23% carbon tax scam every single year.
I have watched all the jobs our students and those recently graduating once used to learn skills and pay their way till they found their jobs.
Those jobs are now GONE, (as are care and service jobs, plus owning local small businesses like fast food and corner stores/gas stations..), they are filled instead by newcomers and temp foreign workers.
Our Liberal and NDP governments tell us we are RACISTS and anti immigrant for being upset our jobs being taken over, and our housing costs skyrocketing. We are told WE are raacists because now our children and grandchildren may never own a home of their own and that in order to have a successful life, marriage and children, we may lose our families who for generations built this country in work and our taxes, to CANADIANS BEING FORCED TO IMMIGRATE!
Yes, Canadians are upset, but don't for one second believe the government as they LIE using the Canadian people as their scapegoat. It is this Liberal NDP government who ripped open mass immigration and flooded the country with zero plans or preparation to how they would accommodate millions of new people or what it would do to the citizens of a country who built and paid for it!
*_THIS IS THE GOVERNMENTS FAULT_* following the Century Inituative and UN Sustainable development agendas... and worse is coming.
Now he will roll out billions and billions more spending and promises (ZERO previous promises like his big housing announcements in 2016 and 2019 have produced nothing), next is this ridiculous renters bill of rights and MODULAR HOMES!
This insane modular home plan is meant to produce cardboard like homes that will be stacked and piled into areas with no yards, little parking and enrich his lifelong family friend who is on the board of the company who produces these units! It's the most corrupt government of my life time.
I've watched dozens of videos of immigrants who want to leave Canada and I have changed my mind at who is at fault. It is 100% the federal government of Canada and their partners!!
I see how the governments, colleges, other immigrants, immigration lawyers...all put out the call to come here and sell this country as a bastion of freedom and a positive future... when that was destroyed with mass immigration.
Again thank you for trying to get the word out, we will never rebuild this to be the Canada it was while the swindlers and eliets cont to lie.
Your lives, our lives, this country's futures are ALL ruined by these people.
Trudeau has made our once great country now unrecognizable to most of us. The new immigrants who are moving here still envision the Canada of 10-15 years ago, sadly that is no longer the case.
As an immigrant, no you are not racist. We have been scammed and so have you.
Thank you very much for your comprehensive update. Reading all the way from Sri Lanka
Very well said !Trudough and his cronies must go !
Well said.
We Canadians have been brainwashed into being so “nice” and “polite” (read: weak and complacent) that we are afraid to ferret out those corrupt individuals and string them up.
My wife is mexican... I am born and raised canadian. I made a huge mistake and sold my house in 2008 and never got back in to real-estate... so we invested in mexico, and now have a passive income and will be moving for good in June. Can't take the druggies overdosing outside my house.
What's worse is they're sponsored by your taxes. Ain't that a doozy?
Why would you want to take the junkies with you?
@@RyanKeys-i6z lol
What will you do for work in Mexico?
@@MayDayDevinciSinaloa Cartel
My new coworker is a brand new immigrant and just found out about taxes AFTER he calculated his budget. He lives in someone’s garage now.
Canada is a scam !!!
So sad
Really so sad to hear.
its ok he was probably use to living in a mudhut before🤷♂️
@@StinkyIndianStudent What kind of comment is this, Canada steals only the elite of other countries.. You think they would give PR to someone living in a mudhut? No dear, they want people they can scam, no, they want a doctor who can work as a taxi driver
I agree there needs to be a ban on immigration. Like you said, my family too was tricked into donating our generational wealth to this shitty government. I saw my mother cry regreting coming here, we can't return because our home country does not allow dual citizenship, and you can't go back easily. My parents used to be upper middle class in our home country and now we are completely broke. My Parents speak very poor english and have been surviving on minimum wage because no one wants to hire them despite both of my parents graduating from top universities in our home country. Canada is complete Bullcrap. The amount of nepotism in the workforce. Its very difficult to move up by merit alone. You have to be somebody's important's child if you want to be promoted.
Learning English is important for getting jobs especially university grads. However Canada has been run by a losing government that hasn’t helped anyone except themselves
PREACH!!!!!
@@julielumsden5184 Exactly!
If I moved to China, I would have to learn Chinese in order to work no??
Grass isn’t always greener on the other side!
Own nothing, rent everything, pay your taxes, stay in debt, head down, do your job and shut up. Canadian dream.
You forgot most critical line, "you will own nothing and be debt salve for your life"
If you work hard you get up from bottom of ladder! Been there,done that came here with $20 now retired and own a million dollar house! Lots of Filipinos do it!
@@AuralioCabal That was coming from the PAST
@@dobrenkijbog5156 lazy bums go to the Soup Line, seen it since I got to Canada,of course you can rob a bank or deal drugs, Fast money!! " Free Housing" Club Fed!
And if you are depressed about your situation, the govt will give you a couple of options to get over the depression, MAID or drugs.
This country is messed up. The fact that me and my wife earn over 100k and still cant afford a decent home for our kids is the saddest thing ever. Such a messed up country. Living hand to mouth on rent.
You need a household income of $250K + to enjoy a good life. 100K simply won’t cut it.
Hey, just an idea, you could put your money into rural Sask, Man and park your money in a couple of rental properties. It’s still possible out here. 100-200k houses
@@jordanpankofinance I have considered that but doesnt that create issues of affordability for the people living in those provinces? Unless I relocate myself I dont think its a viable option. And my job says i can move anywhere in ontario but not outside.
@@furtalance_x don’t move, just buy. With inflation, you are purchasing in a place that is still possible, hold the real estate and use the equity/appreciation to purchase a place in your province
A 200,000 property through appreciation and equity in the property, you should be able to pull the $50-60k out in 5 years
100k is the new 50k. It only took a few years for the government to double the money supply, it’s why we have massive inflationary forces.
It's definitely a PROPAGANDA. Many of my friends asked me if it's worth, I said : "no, stay away!". I , myself, will not stay here. Just saving enough to get back to my country. I am just sad for the Canadians born and raised here who are struggling and don't have somewhere else to go to because, imagine you live in a country where you can't afford to buy a house or even , if you rent, you will be budgeting and cutting on food because of the rent and bills... let's not even talk about healthcare!
Don't feel bad for people who ALLOWED this to happen.
The narrative of corporate Canada is that there is a labour shortage hence the need for out of control population growth and both parties have bought into this. With decade after decade of 'multiculturalism' drilled into our minds its extremely difficult for the working class to go against this even though it is ruining their quality of life (wage suppression, high rents).
Yeah it's a really evil narrative. Truth is that pay hasn't kept pace with inflation in over 5 decades in Canada. Tim Horton's, Wendy's and Walmart wouldn't have any problem finding workers if they RAISED THE STARTING WAGE. No. It's far easier to say "Canadians don't wanna work" and ask the government for foreign worker visas.
Not that difficult to go against rhis, anyone with eyes in the last decade knows there is a huge and growing problem.
This labour shortage narrative is such bullshit. We never had any issues before this "mass immigration". Early 2000s was great rent was cheap housing was affordable
It's not just recent immigrants who go through this. Canadians born here also struggle similarly. I'm 43 and still renting because I have never been able to save for a down-payment to buy a house. About 80% of my income goes to rent, I have a college education, spent many years paying off student loans, now have a small business, my husband works full time as well and we both struggle to get by. We cant afford to have kids either.This country is very badly managed by the government. The liberal government delays new house projects, developers have to wait about 7 years to build houses. They purposely make it hard for people to survive, they just use Canadians as cash cows that pay a lot of taxes, they don't want people to keep their money. They bring in too many new immigrants while have no there is a housing shortage. The economy is bad here, job shortages, not a lot of development going on and also the government charges a lot of carbon taxes here for pollution. Canada pollutes 1.5% of the worlds pollution, which is extremely low but we have to pay more and more taxes for the the air we breathe because it's a money scam. Canada is a hard country to survive in, the quality of life is actually very low because you spend most of your earnings on rent or a mortgage and have to cuts costs on food for example. Canadians have a lot of debt and most live paycheck paycheck and are not able to save any money. If you have a choice, go somewhere else, don't come here because you will struggle for the rest of your life.
The only problem - nowhere to go. It is not canadian problem, it happens everywhere. Free ride is over.
If I could put in here 1,000 thumbs up.
Someone in this forum wrote "In Canada there are only two industries: 1. immigration 2. real estate flipping"
You failed to realize you need a household income of $250,000 to have a good life in Canada. It is something you could have achieved but avoided. Now you and a lot of your Canadian friends are suffering the consequences of your ignorance. Too bad, so sad.
Once you live as an average person in a third world country you'll realize the reason why people will still come here and perhaps realize that Canada isn't that bad. Besides all first world countries have very similar issues like Canada to not say the same, actually there are countries where you are even more taxated than here.
Canada is honestly a pretty shitty place to live currently. Things are extremely expensive, and taxes are insane. The weather is shitty, the infrastructure is lacking. I was born here and am actively investigating leaving.
Same here. This isn't Canada anymore. I feel sorry for people who've been lied to about how great this country is. My advice is stay where you live and avoid the disappointment.
I left over 30 years ago. It was a good decision because Canada has gotten much worse since then.
Any alternative?
@janclod3114 That's the problem. Not many alternatives and that's a shame.
this isn't a shitty place, get the heck out then
Thank you for your work, after living in Canada for 8 years, and working in the Insolvency Field, I was shocked how everything is outdated and inefficient. I was waiting 2 months for gastroscopy exam, meanwhile I had a horrible stomach pain and I couldn't get treatment for 2 months, packed everything and I left to Russia, got a job there in less than 3 days in the same field with only Cad $1000 difference
"Outdated and inefficient." That's Canada. Exorbitant taxes/outrageous home prices/sub-arctic climate/colorless; bland/bogus carbon tax. Oh! Excuse me--carbon "pricing"/(fill in the blanks.)
Russia bro? Common
@@freedombro believe it or not... Russia is way more developed. It's the same as Spain, everyone says Canada is way more developed than Spain, but it just isn't true.
@@freedombroi know 😂😂😂, but i got treatment for my stomach pain on the next day after i landed, i paid around 80 bucks including all exams, which were performed right away, and salary wise even i make less, i have way more to spend,i think that in Canada i was basically overpaying for being in "democratic" country
@@richiandino8187 as a Canadian, I've never heard anyone say CANADA is MORE developed then Spain 🇪🇸 😂
However russia, is not developed outside of Moscow or st pete .
Do you dispute this ?
“They don’t invite donkey to a wedding to party, but to bring water” - an old proverb from Balkans
That's such a good proverb for the situation!
Who the hell drinks water at a wedding, especially if it’s an open bar?
Fuck the water bring the booze
Good point!
So true. I came here in Canada in late 2019. So disappointed.
As a Canadian, i fully agree with you
The sad part is that the authorities will label you a radical for questioning immigration.
or worse, they'll label you a terrorist if you point out which foreign government controls the police
you spelled Racist wrong.
But a lot of us do it too.
Soon the `thought police` will put you and me in jail for even thinking those thoughts.
1984 was a paperback book we too up in grade 11.
I didn't think it was real history book!
For nature lover which one is good , British Columbia or alberta or Washington State ? Please reply ❤
canada is a mess ... rent is high , mortgage is going up ... its not worth to start a family ... this country is no longer livable !
I can summarize since I emigrated here beginning of 90's that Canada did full "salto mortale" since "our" PM took office almost decade ago. Lower Mainland is without healthy future. We sold everything and moved to Calgary. More sunny days' continental Mountain climate. I understand your frustration, few days ago my older Son showed me a video about food prices in Moscow. Wow, in German owned mega grocery store' bread is around 1$, chicken breast bonles skinless 4 times less compared to our local prices. Apples fruits and vegetables 5 times less, gass price 3 times less compared to Vancouver. If there wasn't current "special operation" going on, I would move there. No hard feelings, but Canada is "free range working camp" . I asked my nice if she was planning to move from Serbia to Canada. She told me "uncle Borko, Canada dropped to 18th spot according to UN statistics "real statistics" as for quality of life.
You put into words what I have not been able to. In Canada you can freely travel and work but you still feel like a wage slave. Free range work camp is EXACTLY what it feels like here.
Living in the house/appartment/ shack WITHOUT WONDOWS will hurt your mental health, please don't go for this☝️
It’s also ILLEGAL!! I put in a LEGAL basement suite in my home as a mortgage helper. Legal suites are extremely expensive to build but they are safe, to the building code and they have passed city inspection at various stages. It is a major fire hazard to have a bedroom without windows. Windows also need to big enough that a fireman, with all his equipment on, can easily get into the bedroom in case of fire….and easily get the occupants out.
If you ever view a space that doesn’t even have windows in the bedrooms, run!!!!! And report this landlord/slumlord to the city!!
In my city a decade ago, 3 young renters perished in a fire because the windows in the 2 bedrooms were 50 yr old windows..very small and they couldn’t get out.
@@tonysopranosduck416Nobody is interested in enforcing laws in Canada.
@@tonysopranosduck416 If you want something legal then it will cost a lot more.
It's either this or the street
Not to mention it’s not up to building and fire codes.
I owe attached garage house in Silverado SW Calgary. Here is my monthly bill WITH NO MORTGAGE: $320 electricity, $180 gas, $400 property tax, $140 insurance plus garbage plus Silverado area fee. So I pay about $1200 for my house without even mentioning mortgage !!!!!!!! Insane.
Rent your basement out bro
It is not worth to own a property under those circumstances. By the way we are close neighbours.
Here in the U.S. I'm paying about $2500 for the things you list ... per year, not per month!
@@Richard-Burdett-Bow
Or we make Alberta leave Canada! We shouldn't have to rent out our homes to live with foreigners to be able to live normally! (Not to mention the fact that not all houses are built to give outside access to the basement!) Because of trudeau we sold our house in 2021 we went to Europe we came back a year ago and now we realize that we will never be able to buy another
House ... in Alberta !!!
Renting a part of the house or the entire house if possible are the only options to save money. Or sell and buy in Dubai
Small windows or no windows in a basement suite would be an illegal rental unit in AB.
It is in BC as well 😅
It is illegal everywhere, but who is enforcing?
Do you think windows just appear magically if it make it "illegal" to have no windows? Nope, there would be only less units available to rent
Government mines us as a resource. Immigrants keep wages low to boost corporate profits. Corporate has vast sums to pay kickbacks to politicians. The WEF is a group of billionaires looking at how to squeeze us more and they become trillion aires. The illusion of freedom is just that, an illusion 😢
If BC cracked down on illegal suites, 3 quarters of renters would be on the streets.
Canada is a waste of time.
and money ... a lot of it
Canada is making Canadians placeholders for when they decide to eradicate us with drones.
I’m not giving up yet. Lived through Pierre Trudeau,so his punkass stepson isn’t going to bring me down. His shelf life is overdue.
waste of life, the thing you can never get back
It wasn't like that 30 years ago. I have family that immigrated that is doing great from the 90s. I have family that immigrated today and I cringe about the difficulties they will have, but they are oblivious to it so far since everything is so new and exciting.
Canada: It's cold, expensive and dilapidated. If you're a migrant who has professional skills you'll end up in the USA sooner or later.
That has been my case.
please don't
A friend of mine moved to the USA two months before Trudeau became Prime Minister in 2015. He said he'll never come back to Canada. He loves the weather, and the standard of living is better than it is in Canada.
Caucasian Canadian Born citizens pray ALL Refugees and immigrants leave ASAP!
US is not much better 😂
Imagine that - if you buy a house you can't even afford to live in it on your own.
True
That's depressing
Keep in mind. You "buy" a house and onw it only if you paiy in CASH whole amount. Otherwise, bank owns it for next 25 to 30 years. You are still renting it from them. Proof needed? Skip couple of mortgage payments, see what happens next😂
@@GuessWhoBC No truer comment has been said
Everything said in this video is true. I am a canadain PR, and have seen this beautiful country go downwards cos of massive immigration and lack of jobs. Will soon find my square root
❤😂
I am an immigrant. When I tell potential and new immigrants the truth, they tell me that I am a hater.
Let them pay the price.
Do they tell you this:
"Look another Indian wanting to close the door after he/she has emigrated"?
@@petergriffin513 yes. They think I don't want them to have as much success as I have (not that I have, lol).
I told one to go back home to live on a farm. I also know she can't do that because her family will be opposed to it. Too much money has been sunk into coming here so they'll think she's crazy. She currently knows it's a bad idea but she's trapped.
@@Sikhinduim trying to do that to koreans too. So much hatred for nothing lol. Im only trying to tell people the truth!
You are 100% right! Fortunately I came to Canada in the mid-70's, but I have seen the country deteriorate through the years, but precipitously since J. Trudeau took over with his unfulfilled promises and "woke" measures.
Vote the Lying,Hypocrites out!! Make Canada Great Again
As an immigrant living in Canada for more than a decade I can tell you that you are telling precisely what is happening in this country. About immigrants resumes, I went through different agencies as I was said to improve my resume, so I could find a good job, and after being here and there I realized my resume never liked them it always needed to be fixed, also they asked immigrants to remove any specialization or high degree from their resumes, after all kind of changes I ended up with a low qualification resume. It was clear to me, that my education and professional experience would be never appreciated in Canada, no matter what.
Why you compare renting in vancouver to buying in edmonton?
Why don't you compare renting in vancouver to renting in edmonton? Or buying in vancouver to buying in edmonton?
The difference would make much more sense.
I moved from BC to Alberta and it has been best financial decision of my life.
Of course you need a plan for your job, but your personal situation isn't the same for everyone.
I agree with you on the immigration propaganda though.
Because he can't afford to buy in vancouver
I would think a Ukrainian software engineer in 2024 would have better job prospects and standard of living in Kraków than in Vancouver. Few would have said that in 2010.
Welcome to Canada. Immigrant or native Canadian citizen most are living on the line of or below the poverty level. Become a corrupt politician or corrupt corporate entitie and you’re all good.
Corporate employees are scraping by too. It's just the ones on the top and upper management
My son is living here and united stay with me. We are both Canadian and he wants to go back to Canada. He is young and dumb and frustrated with the social atmosphere here. Here you can buy a home and spend your time killing your money and not worry about everyone's attitude towards you. For now, I think the US is a better deal. I'm gonna send him this video.
US is the same garbage like Canada
US is not paradise but still much better than Canada...Canada is a 2 star hotel who would make u pay for a 7 star hotel in order to live here...
@@dees900 100%. The US has its problems but it is the last beacon of hope in the Western world right now. Those people they call red necks or hillbillies have a lot more common sense than one thinks. And I'm a total city slicker/white collar worker. Have been all my life.
US gives you more for your money but I understand why your son is frustrated. US social fabric is stressful and communication and social interaction there is stressful. Canada is not like that, but at least in America you can enjoy your money and eat to deal with the stress.
Tell your son to go to Brasil. He will be happy there.
How dare you tell people that our glorious leaders don't care about us (sarc). Letting people know that we are being lied to .... Just commenting so you get some traction. I laughed (with saddness) when you put one of your points down if Canada debases the dollar this would be a reason to buy
It’s illegal to have any bedroom without windows. Windows are required for basic ventilation, but essential as emergency access or exit, such as in a fire. Report them to the municipality. But don’t expect they will actually do anything to enforce it, speaking from experience. I responded to an ad for a room rent in Vancouver years ago, nice house, nice neighbourhood, nice photos. Showed up at the address and a Chinese man arrived and said, oh, it’s not this house it’s the one next door. He then entered the (very nice) open home with marble floors and a swept circular staircase - and started down the hidden basement stairs. There were 13 people down there, all men, all Asian and none spoke English. “My” room was about 6’ x12’, no windows, just a single bed, table, wooden chair, and no privacy. I don’t even remember a lock on the door. I left, reported it and the misleading ad which required lengthy explanation in my complaint as the ad, remember, was for a different address (that’s how you skirt around rent licences, I guess).
Also those "landlords" have multiple basement suites in one house, cash rent. Here my neighbour came from india, built 11,000sq ft "megahouse" with 5 basement suites $2,000/mo cash, that's $10,000/mo cash, that's $120,000/yr unreported TAX FREE. It is good life in Canada for crooks and speculators.
@@andydandyb You cant try reporting via Crime Stoppers, or CRA anonomously.
@@kaiserbillxiv1245 thanks for hint, but it does not work like that in Lower Mainland (or in BC, or in Canada?). This country for the last 10 years appears to have developed into an horrendous corrupt mafia. Firstly I reported to city hall, because according to bylaws only one secondary suite is allowed. An inspector was allegedly sent and he wrote a report, cc to me, that there are no suites there. I live across the fence and once I spoke to a tearful tenant who told me that they pay $2,000 cash for one bedroom without window and tiny kitchenette. They live in fear of being evicted because there are no other accommodations under $2K available.
@@kaiserbillxiv1245 it is a mafia in this country everywhere, including RCMP and courts. Here is another example. I am defendant in a frivolous and fraudulent lawsuit, where the plaintiffs, an insurance intermediary, mind you not the insurer but a collector of premiums, sued me for repaying, to that intermediary company, NOT to the bone fide insurer who paid benefits, the LTD benefits paid to me 25 years ago by that bona fide insurer, when I was disabled for 1 year as result of work related accident. Plaintiff's' lawyer did not serve, the hired process server deposed perjurious affidavit. Plaintiffs' employee deposed a perjurious affidavit. With those 2 affidavits plaintiffs went to court and obtained judgement by default against my property, in my ignorance because they did not serve. I found out about the judgment incidentally 2 years later. I went to court, the judge ruled that the plaintiffs served because process server so deposed. I did not even live in Canada then. Deposing perjurious affidavit is crime under CCC. I went to RCMP with my affidavit and documentary evidence. RCMP officer (broken english) said that they do not investigate paper crimes. I went to Crown Counsel and I was told that according to law I must report to RCMP, so RCMP investigate and report to Crown Counsel.
No one is interested in enforcing laws in Canada.
He's back! Thanks for your time Alex.
Thank you for the clear perspective on the reality of moving to Canada.
Most people who move to Canada live miserable lives and most feel stuck in the financial traps.
So on point. And theres no way out
You are totally right, Alex; however, I don`t understand one thing - if you don`t like Canada, why do you stay there? Why do you continue to jeopardize your psychological wellbeing by living in a place which you don`t like?
I also used to live in Canada and when I discover that it has more cons than pros, I just sold everything, packed up and moved back home - done deal.
It is not easy to do that when you uprooted to come to Canada and then spent your life savings to afford a living here. There is not much to sell if he doesn't own any property to be honest. So that may mean he would have to start from scratch again in his home country. That would be a disaster both economically and psychologically as people back home expect that you would be well off once you are in Canada.
Learn the process of becoming a citizen somewhere else.
It's not exactly cheap or easy.
@@fairplay7003 I lived through it... Not easy ; however, nothing dramatic.
@@FedUpwitU What do you mean? I lived in Canada as a PR, didn`t apply for Canadian citizenship to keep citizenship in my country (dual citizenship is not allowed in my case). When decided to go back home just dumped my Canadian obligations/rights, sold everything and flew away.
He has kids
Bro wow I just watched a few of your videos. I am a 35 year old Canadian. Between an online business and a seasonal construction job, I am able to travel outside Canada during the winters for the last several years. People always ask me how is Canada and I try to explain to them that it's not actually that great, only the nature is nice. But your videos articulate the problem extremely well. I can never recommend to anyone to move to Canada but couldn't explain so well as to why. I knew something weird was going on with real estate and immigration but now it is much more clear. Even for myself, I have two bachelors degrees (science and engineering) from Canadian universities, but I work a trades apprentice job. And when I come in for the summers, the rents have increased so much in Alberta since I started this pattern 6 years ago. I used to just find a room online for $500-$600/mo and be good to go, but now rents for a single room are minimum $1000, or a private flat $1500 or more. So now for this year and the previous one I am living at my parent's house. My online business makes a steady $22k CAD per year after tax (it's a YT channel), and when I come to Canada, my hourly rate from my job is $25/h, so my income jumps by about $3,200 per month after tax while I'm here. But if I pay for the regular cost of living in Alberta (rent:$1500, car insurance/gas:$400, groceries:$500, phone:$50, WiFi:$50, socializing:$200, timmies etc.:$100, miscellaneous purchases (tools for work, things for house):$150 = $2,950. So if I did all that, $3,200 - $2,950 = $250. It's a net increase of about $250 per month, in exchange for working 40 more hours per week of hard labour. What about saving for retirement, or occasionally buying new things like a future vehicle, furniture, electronics, down payment for a house, a plane ticket, etc... It's impossible. Only by living with family in my particular situation does my net income jump by about $1,000 per month, which is barely worth it for the effort. I am so lucky to have my online income to supplement the actual employment income here if I choose to stay. But for me now I see that it's probably better to stay outside of Canada and enjoy life on my online earnings rather than all this BS.
Your story blows my mind. You sound like a smart, hard working, and entrepreneurial person who is willing to take risks. You are what most young people aspire to be, and yet for all these brains, blood, sweat, and tears this is your reward? If a person like you can't thrive in Canada who can? I dropped out of university and I'm in a similar position as you. Honestly it is such BS. I'm glad that you have at least some liberty to move around but honestly this news is just shocking.
@@JorgeRomero7 I mean hes 35 and doesn't have an actual local business.. he just said hes a laborer. I had a construction company at 20 (now 30) and made much more than 25 an hour, back when money had value. Not sure what hes been doing the last 15 years when a 25/hr trades job is something you can reach by 20.
I appreciate your input. This is a corrupted country and it’s refreshing to have a new set of eyes to call out the BS
I moved to Vancouver as a teen in the 90s and my family of 4 lived in a 1BR basement. Parents worked their butt off and eventually bought a half duplex for $200k in Vancouver then a house in Surrey for $310k in 2001. I bought a townhouse for $250k a few years later. Then about 10 years ago, bought my current house for $620k + $50k for updates and I'm still in Metro Vancouver (30km from Downtown Vancouver). Its current market value is $1.7m, which is bonkers and it means I'm paying lots in property tax. My wife ($100k in finance) and I ($200k in IT) make decent coin but don't feel rich since a big chunk of our money goes to taxes and everything's expensive. I don't think we can even afford our house if we were to buy it now. We're contemplating just selling everything and moving elsewhere.
It feels like Canada was great up until Trudeau. Before, average folks could still buy actual houses.
Vancouver's property prices really shot up going into the Hong Kong handover. In recent years, a lot of wealthy Chinese bought properties in mainly metro Toronto and Vancouver speculatively and leaving even some properties idle to appreciate over time. This was one way they felt to safeguard their wealth from the PRC government. It definitely put a lot of pressure in the real estate market of these cities and definitely affected affordability for the average Canadian.
Of course you can't afford it now. Neither can my parents who are 55. Most people in Ontario or BC couldn't afford to buy the house they live in today. Talk about a scam.
Immigration : Come - spend your money - leave.
That’s it. Exactly.
I've commented on your channel before and I know you're planning to leave after getting your Canadian passport. Of course, this is unethical on the face of it, but you feel the government has been unethical with you, so it's a wash. In a way, I don't disagree. The only point of contention I have with your comments is that you think the 'rich' are to blame for your woes. It's more complicated than that. The so-called 'rich' have mostly earned what they have, and yet many feel the way you do about Canada. They're cornered on taxes from every direction and there's every indication that things will get worse (eg, I can't even get a family doctor myself after my family doctor retired). And they will get worse, as the future of Canada is not promising. For example, the OECD has predicted that Canada will have the lowest growth rate among all OECD countries until 2060 (not a typo). 2060! There are many economic indicators that point in the wrong direction. Simply put, the economic fundamentals are not in place in Canada, so economically the country is currently is in something of a free fall. I'm not an immigrant to Canada. My advice to immigrants or would-be immigrants is go elsewhere, for your own good. This is not an anti-immigrant comment, but an attempt to offer useful advice. Even highly educated non-immigrant Canadians are exiting in large numbers. The key is to give yourself options. Options equates freedom.
This may be unethical but I've paid my dues to Canada (taxes), so I don't feel bad at all.
@@esparda07 To the extent you can explain being unethical, you rely on the wrong rationale. Except for a handful of jurisdictions (eg, the Cayman Islands), everyone pays taxes. That is not an appropriate justification for unethical conduct. Your strongest position would be to say that the Canadian government mislead you purposefully in its efforts to attract you and others to Canada, with the negative consequences that befell you. You make that point emphatically in your video. I'm sympathetic to your position, but you have to get the rationale straight!
@@esparda07. Every Canadian resident pays their taxes and it may not be a good fit for you, fair enough, but you likely left your country because it wasn’t all that great. You’re disappointed, I understand that but you could just move on. Waiting for citizenship before doing so, while complaining, is a bit hypocritical. Adapting to a new country, culture and language is not for everyone and it is difficult but it’s your responsibility. Good luck in finding your next home.
@@Booboonancy I disagree. He explained that it took all his life savings a significant investment to relocate his family to Canada. He brought a chunk of money he earned in Russia to Canada. To have done his best to make it work and leave poor with nothing to show would be such a waste. I think it is reasonable for him to get his citizenship before going. Also, don't forget it takes significant time to get citizenship, meaning the process was started likely long before he realized it was not going to work to stay here in Canada. It's not hypocritical to state facts about being mislead, he is not merely complaining.
I lived in the USA on a fiance visa, got married, and then waited 4 years for my green card, and then left. Not because I wanted a green card, or am a hypocrite. I left because my husband was abusive!! Just because something doesn't work out it does not mean the system is being manipulated, and when someone discovers they have been lied to it does not make them a hypocrite to then complain about being lied to! Are you going to say I benefited by getting a green card so I shouldn't complain about being abused?? lol
Alex is using this platform to warn potential immigrants due to his experience.
It is illegal to have a bedroom without a window big enough for an adult to climb thru! It is for fire safety! Otherwise you cannot call it a bedroom!
Where are inspections of the basement suites?
Indians live 10 in a 1 bedroom basement ..nobodys complaining
Yet, tons of them in every city. Authorities are not interested in enforcing laws.
If you want something safe and legal then it will cost more.
@@sexygeek8996 People advertising illegal accommodations need to be investigated and fined. Bottom line.
@7:08 You nailed it! There are only two functioning industries in Canada: 1. immigration 2. real estate market.
The energy industry in Alberta cranks out $30 billion a year. Chump change?
Oil jobs are temp jobs not stable . Can’t . Lay offs every 3 monthes
Correct. I am trained in O&G, worked in oil patch since 1980 in Calgay and Ft. Mac, later in the US. There was no stability. Now I am retired with 80% of pensions from other industries.
3. banking 4. lawmaking 5. insurance 6. stock exchange fraud
@@casawi4760 Make your money when things are good and save enough for the bad times.
I'm an old immigrant, coming to Canada today is like buying stocks when the prices are red hot before the crash, the timing has never been worse, if you want to make money do not come to Canada, the US is a much better deal.
I moved to Canada 20 years ago and in the last ten years it's gone off a cliff.
They are clearly exploiting immigrants for cheap labour, and to massively increase the cost of real estate, it's the only thing that makes sense.
Healthcare has collapsed and literally everyone is a few paycheques away from homelessness.
It's sad seeing demoralized young people from India and around the world working like slaves for a dream that will never happen.
I too lost all my life savings close to CAD 80,000 running after the superficial canadian dream life. The jobs available for me were manual labour jobs. I finally decided to leave canda for good this january. I learnt my lesson at the cost of my families future.
Cheers from 2 Canadians 🇨🇦 living in Mexico 🇲🇽✌🏼
What part did you go to. Thinking about it.
@@jthomson782004
Hola amigo 👋🏼👋🏼
We started off in the Yucatan now in Veracruz working our way to Oaxaca then to the Caribbean side. We document everything. 😁👍🏼
If I can make ties and figure out how to do it, moving to Mexico is looking like the only retirement option my husband and I have after decades of working and paying taxes is our country. It's heartbreaking, but one of us has to go first in order to pave the way for our friends as well.
Good on you for figuring out how to escape this nightmare. ENJOY!
I just read your reply to someone else.. do you have a channel?
@@LorettaLaz Hola yes of course, gracias
I have a lot in common with you. I'm a software engineer that moved back to Canada in 2020, choosing BC.
Everything you say is correct, they do lie to immigrants. The housing market here is completely insane. It's not just Canada though, the same forces are at work elsewhere, like Australia and NZ. Some places are actually worse than Vancouver! Auckland is similar to Vancouver in a lot of ways.
We love to insult the US for their treatment of cheap Mexican labour, but we're doing exactly the same thing here. The insane levels of immigration Trudeau has encouraged are causing massive amounts of harm, like you say. Insane rental prices, crumbling healthcare system, etc. I wouldn't expect things to improve with the conservatives though.
These immigrants quickly discover the truth and are unlikely to stay. They'll head to the US or somewhere else. How does this benefit Canada? Cheap labour and other exploitation, I'm guessing. This also keeps salaries low for existing Canadians. Great for the elites!
You're also right about the tech downturn last year. I got laid off and struggled to get an interview despite being very experienced and having a great resume. 😂 was being hounded in 2022 by recruiters then couldn't get any interest in 2023. It was a crazy time. I don't know if it's any better now.
It was nearly impossible for me. Canadian jobs were total bs, they pay about half of what a decent SF area job pays. Even still, it was nearly impossible to get any response from job allocations. Thankfully I got a referral to a great company in SF and I'm working remotely from BC now. I have zero interest in working for a Canadian company. Exploitation is the norm.
As an immigrant, it must be terrible trying to find a job here. The competition is crazy. I can see why this would make you angry. I honestly don't know how people survive in Vancouver on the crappy salaries they pay. Meanwhile I see people in their 20s driving Teslas and Rivians.
I'd strongly suggest looking for a good remote job from the US if you have the skills for it. Getting your foot in the door is the hardest part. Startups are the most likely to give you a chance.
Even though I'm doing well, things change quickly if you lose your job. EI will only help for a short amount of time. The safety net doesn't exist any more.
Thankfully I own a house here so I'm not impacted by rental prices. The increase in house prices doesn't even help me, since the next house I buy will go up in price also. This makes it extremely hard for young people to get into the market. I can also see why they're angry. It's only the elites that are profiting from this.
There's a lot to love about Canada but the downsides are huge and growing.
Sometimes I think about living off the grid on cheap land somewhere, or living on a sailboat. I'd love to get away from the rat race but it's nearly impossible.
Thank you for your comment; it sheds some light into some questions that I've been having since I intend to immigrate in Canada as well (end 2024- beginning 2025). I'm a software developer, so which cities/towns do you recommend to settle in the first place ? Also, will it be safe for me to first of all have some Canadian experience or should I immediately look for opportunities in the US (full-remote jobs I mean)
You're right. I was stupid enough to quit a contractual position with one of the FAANG companies in late 2022. I was working from Canada but my team was entirely in the States. I was not able to find another job until late 2023. Woe is me!
If I had stayed on at the FAANG, I might have been on my way to the US on a TN in a couple of years from now.
But how do you work for a US company and live in canada? Is it the TN Visa? What is the process? Is there any guide on how to get this done?
@@rr3775you don’t need a TN visa unless you’re living and working in the US as a non-US citizen.
That doesn’t apply if you’re living and working in Canada for a US employer. It’s just a job. Amazon, Google, and any multinational company can have a global workforce and offer jobs to people in Canada. You just apply for the job and if you don’t have authorization to work in the US, you apply for the TN after accepting the job.
It seems critical to have a professional network if you want to get a job these days in the tech sector. Simply applying for jobs on LinkedIn is pretty much useless.
When a new job gets 2500 applications in a day, something has changed! Of course, there's a lot of real applicants but I suspect there's a huge number of bots. Most companies are using ATS software to filter these applications. You absolutely need an ATS compliant resume, but even with that you're unlikely to get a response. I found the biggest companies to be the worst. There's zero humanity.
Getting a referral is the best path. This is what was blocking me last year. Being new to BC I didn't know anyone in the tech sector here and was shut out.
Thankfully I got a referral to a new company from a former coworker. This was also a remote job from the US. I feel so lucky and grateful. If not for that I would probably still be unemployed.
Once you get a response and get to the interview process, that's just the start. You have to study up on everything they'll ask. All the CS type questions, the low level details of hash maps, etc. The Leetcode skills are also vital, even though it has very little to do with day to day work. So many hoops to jump through! I swear I had 7 interviews for my new job!
We just finished more than a month of hard work. 10+ hour days, 7 days a week. It's not legal or respectful but I'll do it if it means I can keep this job. Thankfully, this is very rare. The job feels secure but they all do until you get laid off. I'm doing what I can to keep it.
Bro, I totally agree. My family immigrated to Canada in 1989, with generational wealth, and assets overseas that kept us living modestly for a number of years. But even then in the 90s people were saying Canada was ALREADY on the decline. My parents wouldn’t hear of it, because they were so brainwashed by the propaganda. Nowadays in my country of origin, unemployment is around 3.1 % (a country of approx 120 million) vs Canada’s 6-7.7% unemployment. Canada IS a third world country, masquerading as a first world country.
Canada used to be a country where you could come as an immigrant, put your head down, work hard, and eventually afford a reasonable home. My parents arrived aged close to their 40s and were able to buy a home within a 2 years time (on a mortgage of course). Now this would likely be impossible unless you are a very high earner (and even then you'd need to save for a downpayment).
Trades bri....get a trade Jon!
And that's the problem... We all want to put our heads down and work work work work until we are rich.... We don't bother doing any research and learning how the government is structured and how it works, who the WEF are, how money is printed here, etc.... We just stay brain dead and focus on our work. This is the result of that ignorance.
@@ThePhilosophicalOne Even if you are aware, what can you do about it other than to leave the country?
@@michaela.5363 Talk. Talk to your friends, coworkers, etc... Spread the knowledge so people get more aware of these issues. Knowledge is power. The more knowledgeable we become, the harder it will be for the government to control and manipulate us.
What a fucking joke.
The speaker is correct. We are getting used in order to fund the Canadian government.
I love your straight to the point opinion with very calm manner, and your English speaking is impressive! I chose to leave after living one year in Toronto, been there and see enough. Canada is a fail of state.
The beauty is that you can always move on. No use being so unhappy. Life is short. Move.
@@vasyland Well, I suppose then be thankful for small mercies.
Im sorry. You cant tell people to shut up.
Many Thanks for exposing this scam and making people aware of the real truth. Really appreciate it very much. Kudos to you...!!
Just downloaded Ground News. Might be the exact thing i have been looking for. Thanks!
House prices are much higher than $450 k in Calgary nowadays. Alberta is no longer really affordable anymore. Canada has been completely destroyed.
People from Toronto and Vancouver are buying cheaper properties in neighboring provinces, so the prices can't stay low for long
@@dmitrydk92 a lot of investors from out of province are pushing up prices, it is a cancer that is spreading
Calgarys not cheap
Why never mention rich Chinese buying all houses in Vancouver? I see the same problem in the US - millions of rich immigrants from China, South Korea, Brazil, UK and Sweden buying tons of real estate in Florida driving prices sky high.
From July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023 (2022/2023), Canada’s population grew by 1,158,705 people (2.9%) to an estimated 40,097,761. Source. Govt of Canada. In that year, we had to build the ~ of the city of Calgary to accommodate them all. Now of course, we did not build any new cites, all these (mostly) 3rd world economic migrants did what they have been doing for decades, crowd into existing cities, which drives up demand for....everything. Pair that with govt policy, and you have the situation Angry Immigrant is talking about here. There is no real economy in Canada to speak of. Consumption sure, and declining employment extracting resources from a a declining resource base. Forestry used to be a mainstay in BC but that has been in slow and steady decline for decades. I guess the future is writing apps to help immigrants find the quickest route to the local Wall-mart.
And from June 2023 to March 2024 it grew another million!!! 😮🙄
Or writing apps to get their groceries and food delivered to them! Skip the dishes and Uber are laughing all the way to the bank.
Lots of high quality jobs in canada (outside government ) are related to natural ressources and these industries are attack by anxious climate change activist. And guess who are ruling the country? These crazy activist !
And If you succeed finding a good job, you will pay lots of taxes
This is not the 1st time I have thought about the regimes fixation on rampant population growth. Years ago I thought about this and ran the #s. To expand on this, about every decade canada would have to build the equivalent of a city of Toronto. This imo, is madness since like I said, we dont build new cities. Every 10 years, we add a Toronto. Where is this supposed to end? Move to the north parts of the country? LoL, There is nothing there, the climate sucks, there few resources and again, no jobs. So everyone keeps piling into Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, Calgary etc and we end up with sprawl, endless traffic, pollution, and most important of all, a very high cost of living with services getting worse all the time.
Yea no new city
0:40 - those rooms would not be able to be listed as bedrooms in America. A bedroom MUST have at least 2 exit points (usually a door & a window large enough for the average size person to fit through)
Отношусь к категории старых иммигрантов, но ненавижу во что превратилась Канада с постоянными поборами. Рассматриваем переезд в другие страны. Ни одна страна не стоит таких высоких налогов.
в какие страны думаете ехать?
By the middle of this video, I did not even know when I clicked subscribed... Men. Truth lovers loves these truth... Thanks bro.
Good explanation of the problem in Canada. Australia's most popular cities in the eastern sea board are very closely mirroring Canada but very few have come out publicly to describe it.
It is nice to see you back. You are spitting facts!!! Hope the word spreads around more broadly. I can confirm that I was able to hear whispers from my roommates in all the houses that I lived in so far in Canada. Utterly shambolic.
Canada’s strength is it’s BS.
I was born in North Vancouver and had a career in downtown Vancouver while raising a family. Long story short I was kicked out of British Columbia do you think the impossible cost for seniors to live indoors. I came to Quebec city and I can pay all of my bills and eat well. This is my 6th year and I found my place. I can't speak a word in French, but there are good people everywhere. I'm just so blessed to be inside. I see my sisters and brothers in downtown Vancouver, people who had careers and we're introduced to temptation of drugs. Those are just the ones who don't care if they live on the street. Leave the druggies alone.
I'd like to talk to the judge. The one who decides who is worthy and who is not.
In my second year of university, I became friends with a student who turned out to be an international American student. He was sick of all the political culture wars of America, and wanted to come to a country which he felt was "boring and safe" and he felt inflation was also a huge issue, so he packed his bags and transferred into my college.
It only took a single year for him to pack his bags and go back to Florida, there is 0 opportunity present in Canada, it is akin to modern-day slavery / aristocracy. There is 0 chance for you to ever have ANY kind of upward mobility in the slightest, salaries are piss-poor and housing is so incredibly expensive. It's actually insane how awful things are economically, i'm lucky enough to have received a full-tuition Law School scholarship to Cincinnati, an area where the average house is 300,000, and where I can easily afford a mortgage after around 2-3 years of saving after I become a lawyer at even an average salary, and I couldn't be more excited.
I will never visit Canada ever again, and the only reason I am not getting rid of my citizenship to this awful corrupt elitist hellhole is because I have family who live here. But honestly, it really pisses me off how awful this country currently is, you will never afford anything and cannot live a life of dignity at all. For anyone who wants to own a house in the next 2 decades, the clock is ticking, in 20 years you will not be able to afford any houses and elitists will have taken all the housing and jobs. I recommend people to move to wherever they can with CHEAP affordable housing, make sure you OWN your house, make sure you invest in your retirement funds, invest in high-interest savings accounts, and transfer your money to your children. Do it AS SOON AS YOU CAN, save whatever money you can save, because not only Canada, but the world is going to become so expensive, that if you do not do it now you will be finished. It's so depressing how they have taken this once beautiful country, that was comparable to the United States and was beloved by all into a pseudo-communist shithole where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, where there is no hope in politics, or in law, or in rights to believe in.
Alex is back! Every word of what you are saying is so true and everyone who is still thinking of coming to Canada should really watch every one of your videos. In addition to housing problem there is also the issue of affordability : Canadians should be earning at least double the current wages in loonies (Canadian Dollar) to be able to afford the same what US residents can afford after all the massive taxing.
I haven't visited your channel in a while. Great video!
Have you gone over the topic of Crown Land? Most of Canada is still 94-96% Crown Land. Yet the population is growing drastically. No one seems to be talking about this much.
I have trouble understanding why in Rural Japan some municipalities will give you abandoned houses if your willing to bring them up to spec. A small land mass with lots of people. Yet in BC. You can go as far as you like into the hinterland. And prices are still insane. Why?
Lorne.
"Prices are insane. Why?" Because it's always Trudeau's "current year." Translation: Bad is good; worse is better. Misery all around. Driving Canada into the ground is Trudeau's mission.
The government will not give up crown land. They want to keep the prices of land (and therefore houses) artificially high by maintaining scarcity. I live on Vancouver Island where there must be hundreds of thousands of unused acres of land, but almost none for sale. It's all crown land, often leased to logging companies. Total scam.
First of all bud. That first place with no windows is a fire hazard and most likely illegal as a dwelling…
Its been 8 years I am here and I came only because my husband is Canadian. From day 1 I could see that this country is just over marketed. You are soooo right about all the points. I am looking forward to leaving one day soon to start a new life in a new country with my husband.
Prior to 2015 you could actually buy a property, after that the real estate market went crazy, I remember because I bought a condo in 2011 for 190,000 same condo today 700,000 isn't that nuts, a 9 bedroom house with two two bedrooms 700sq foot house in Surrey in 2010 you could buy for 620,00 same house now 2024 1,900,000. Nuts A. It was claimed that the former Liberal party in British Columbia caused this to happen by inviting off shore investors to buy hundreds of properties here as their investment, while no one lived in any of them, driving up the prices, I have seen real estate way back in 1990 the average new home or used home in the lower mainland was around 100,000 in 1993 same house went to 250,000 prices have been heading North for 30 plus years.. it's going to tumble they say really. After 39 years going north really.
Edmonton not a place to live with that crappy weather which makes you super depressed .
I immigrated to Canada in 2005, and it was a great place to raise my kids-a land of promise, positivity, and opportunity. However, the Trudeau government quickly broke all of that in 2015. I will have to leave if this does not change in the next election.
I rent a place in BC. A few blocks away a Filipino immigrant rents a 5 bdr house to 24 misfortunate migrants, for that she takes at least 500 a head(or more for some). Calculus shows she makes $12,000 per month. And she is working on marrying a Canadian who owns multiple homes. How so i know? She told me. She is sweet and innocent...
In the home where I rent there is another suite housing immigrants from Mexico, awesome people. A lady from Mexico rents it as an 'agent', cranks up the rent to $2000 and pays the owner $1500 taking $500 for herself. Nice thing to do to your fellow Mexicans....
You cant make this stuff up...
LoL 😆 I saw exactly the same thing when I was working in Surrey BC. 12 migrants living in a 5 bedroom house paying $1000 per month each. The neighbors were furious. There are houses like that scattered all over Surrey. The rent is being paid in cash. Much of that money is being wired back to India and no taxes are being collected. Immigrants are destroying Canada. It's true.
@islandguy9380 just buy a home and pack at least 15 migrants in it and charge them 1000$ each month. Canadian dream is working 💪 ❤
Thanks for your video again. I am very happy that these assholes rejected my application. I stayed in the Philippines, I met an amazing girl over a year ago that we are very happy together, I learnt web development and got a good remote job. I am very happy now, thanks to the fate that they rejected my immigration application! By the way, such super "democratic" country as Canada is so democratic that they still haven't returned my refundable immigration fee. It's been more than a year, btw. They just don't reply to my numerous webforms. Very democratic. Of course, it has nothing to do with my nationality, oh no. It's bad to be biased to people based on their nationality if you say that you don't try to hide it, but if you say that you respect all the nations while actually discriminating them, it's totally fine, right?
You got lucky by not coming here. I just married a Filipino lady and the Canadian gov't refused to allow me to bring her over, so i am going to go live in the Philippines. A very nice country with a lot better weather.
So happy about you. Reading all the way from Sri Lanka.
They’re not ignoring your web forms because of discrimination. The government is so wholly incompetent and understaffed getting any response from any govt agency in a timely manner is nearly impossible here. It is THAT bad
@@shannongreen4057 I can see that. More than a year. They talk a lot but they do nothing.
If you were indian they would let you in lol..looks like mini india here
Correction: Global TV is not state owned - it's the largest privately owned broadcaster in Canada. Also, the two factions that have governed Canada are both right wing - the easiest way to identify that is because they do NOT PLAN the economy - they let the MARKET forces determine how much housing will be built, what wages will be paid, etc., if you had a real left party in power you'd have a lot of your complaints addressed because they would PLAN on correcting market deficiencies - just like they do in China and Cuba where there is no homelessness and ample free or very affordable public services in order to meet the needs of people rather than corporations.
First generation Canadians here. Besides grandma and father we are the only ones left in Canada.
The best and most realistic video about Canada I ever seen
This is all so true. Great video!
im born Canadian and you are spot on your assessment you work hard for nothing here
This is all facts. People coming should listen. Living this now is sufferable.
The problem is that many of the third worlders coming here are living a better life than they would back in places like China and India. As long as the crooked criminals we have in power keep the gates open they'll keep coming.
I totally agree that BC is crazy and imposible, but... Edmonton too?
Edmonton like whole country is garbage for homeless, drug addicted and other marginalised groups.
Every place in Canada is expensive for what you are getting. A comparable city in the United States might only cost half as much, and the United States isn't a cheap country either.
@@sexygeek8996 yeah I agree on that
Hey Alex, good job on those videos.
I was in the army back in my country and it was brutal, but i never ever thought about killing myself or doing harm to my body until i came to Canada
Hope you get therapy.
Absolutely do not get therapy. They will prescribe you some MAID
Overall very well done. Bang on.
I am born and raised here in Alberta. My Great Grandfather used to own what is now Refinery Row just outside of Edmonton. I am in part one of those "Old Stock" Canadians(Nova Scotia Colony) with some Indigenous blend.
I am saddened by what my country has become. I so so glad my grandparents are not able to see what has happened. My grandfather served this country proudly, and I am glad he was cremated so he can't roll in his grave.
You can see the change in ANY SCHOOL That is over 40 years old that has the class photos over the years. You will see the change really start in 1988 when Multiculturalism (Trudeau Sr) was made our policy. Justin put that into a steroid induced overdrive.
It has only gotten bad since Justin Trudeau has been Prime Minister. Then he opened the floodgates with the intention of pushing Canada to 100+ MILLION people and cleary did not care who they brough in at all. I totally agree they pushed an immigration scam on us. I saw this back in 2019 when the PPC started. They were called racists, bigots. xenophobes, etc...and now 5 years later....well...looks like they were right.
I'm sorry...but no one has a RIGHT to come to Canada. Canadians are allowed to say No More. It's not in any way predjudiced to say that there is only so many any Country can absorb and Assimilate into their culture. Canada used to go with Ups and downs in immigrqtion....to allow new immigrants time to assimilate and not form ghetto communities.
We need to shut the door to immgration for a few years or more. While also encouraging many of those who came recently to go back. Many are going back of their own free will when they wake up to how bad it has got here. I wish there was somewhere else for me to go home to as well.
Well said!
I feel your pain. It's so discouraging to realize all the hype about Canada was just that, bs. I'm thinking Mexico might be a better place for me.Better climate, cheaper everything and aside from the drug cartels I hear the people are super friendly too. Take care and treat yourself well.🤙
Amen 👏🏻
It wasn't bad in 1988, you're just a bigot. Yes immigration is corrupt and a scam now but you're using the situation to spread your bigotry you brought from Nova Scotia. You pollute the topic with your racism and bigotry.
Dude, this is hand down one of the most honest video I’ve seen lately about immigration.
I moved from B.C. to Alberta 3 years ago. The trade off really depends on your lifestyle, your job, and what type of house you end up with and what city you live in. Overall the property tax, utilities and maintenance are more in Alberta. But there are many high paying jobs here, and if you dont need a huge house you can get a condo or smaller home with a manageable payment you will be much better off. All things considered I am happy with the move, B.C. is great but the government has turned the province into a nanny state beyond what our current federal government is already doing, and the taxes in B.C. just compound on top of that too.
You are correct on all points. Sickening what has happened in the last eight years. It’s unacceptable and needs to change immediately.
edmonton is crime and drug heaven.
No worse than the lower mainland in B.C though.
BC is worse
Whole Canada is now.
If that's in BC, those windowless bedrooms are actually illegal according to BC building code. There are also minimum bedroom size requirements when closets aren't provided. Seems like either people aren't reported violations enough or there's a shortage of inspectors.
Yes, but who cares, people here are living multiple families in those basements anyways, basically slums.
Hey don’t worry about it you honestly don’t want to live here, especially BC. I’m born in Canada 34 years old making 135k working 6 to 7 days a week and I still live with my parents in the basement so that I can try and buy a place in my mid 40s. My income tax last year was 35k + 12% on most things I buy.
The eastern part of the country is still cheaper than BC or Ontario, but rapidly catching up. For Ontarians, the taboo that once existed regarding moving to Quebec has vanished with the pandemic, which made the prices skyrocket even more in QC. As a homeowner here, my only consolation is that they'll prop up my home value for a couple years until I can cash out and GTFOH after.
And go where exactly?
@@michaelt1349 to the moon!!!
Where there's no winter and where I can pay for private healthcare when needed vs having shit weather+being gaslit about free healthcare that I can't even get access to.
@@michaelt1349 Northern US. Easily the best place since it's similar lifestyle to Canada but have a lot of things Canada doesn't have.
Well said. I would focus on the layers of taxes and rules on construction that keep elevating in $$ and complexity. And what is the role of banks in relation to federal policies. I appreciate your observations. As a second generation Canadian I am one of the lucky ones born in the 60s. And sadly canada has more traits of a third world country than a first.😢