It's not just that, even Canada's health care system is being strained to the brink from unchecked immigration. My Canadian friend died from an aneurysm, 2 weeks ago. He went to the hospital to get himself checked up for a health scare he thought he had a heart attack. The doctor was dismissive of his health scare that they didn't do a proper CT scan. He was sent back to the waiting room for SIX hours, until he gave up and left the hospital. He died hours later at his home from an aortic aneurysm. I'm still devastated by his passing.
Canadian living in California, I am .When I hear Americans talking about how absolutely wonderful the free healthcare in Canada is I take a deep breath and beginning educating them about the reality of Canada's health care. I have creditabilty because I have family and friends in Canada who have endured medical horror stories, like so many of us and I work for a major American Healthcare company. Canadian Healthcare has no baseline, services and competent care differ wildly. Canada Healthcare has failed on so many levels and continues to do so. It is a medical crisis that has been going on for decades. And now with the increase of immigrants, it is catastrophic. Canada doesn't understand infrastructure or preparing for the future, having a plan to meet the needs of the people and the ever changing demographics that the immigrants bring. It is crimminal how the politcans failed to do their due diligence. My heart goes out to all of you who have shared your stories and endured the heartache and loss of a loved because of political and professional incompetence .
the labor shortage is false, most employers with shortages are ones that offer unlivable wages so they can ship in more temporary workers to exploit instead of paying a market wage to fill those positions
When I was in vancouver in june to go on a cruise, there was probably a couple hundred indians outside of a job/career thing I don't know, it was strange.
Exactly what I just wrote. If you are a manufacturer, and missing certain positions; why not just take your other employees and tell them you train them for something else, and pay them more. Who will say no to that? Plus CAN has highly educated workforce. You can train a purple hair, nose ring, hipster barista, and train them to do just about anything.
I definitely believe a lot of industries and communities have labour shortages. The problem is they aren't the ones being serviced by immigration. When people move to Canada, they're moving mostly to Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and the GTA. These communities do not have shortages. If anything, they have massive surpluses (as seen by the hundreds of people lining up for a job at Timmys). Additionally theres a massive difference between a lot of the immigrants' credentials and what they're capable of doing. I interviewed someone from Punjab with a "masters" in computer science that couldn't code and ended up managing a Freedom Mobile store We have a shortage of tradespeople, what we don't have a shortage of is mobile phone kiosk employees.
As a business owner, we'll keep lobbying for immigration. Canadians demands so much but then they don't take pride of their work, and tries to slack off as much as possible. Our hires from HK, and India were much better. Grateful for the salary and work actual hours stipulated in the contract, rather than trying to drag lunchtime and toilet breaks out so they "work 8 hours".
any time a company or industry states that there is a "labor shortage" it's usually something along the lines of "we don't want to pay the existing market rates to attract skilled labor" or "we don't want to train labor to fill the shortage"
Very true. I work for a manufacturer in the US and executives have repeatedly gone public talking about they can’t get enough skilled labor, when in reality every factory position they post receives over 1000 applicants with at least 200 of those being applicants with experience in our industry.. the “labor shortage” has been nothing but a complete employers pushed myth. With the goal being to flood the labor market with even more people to push wages and benefits, and working conditions down.
"labor shortage" is an inherently relative term, there is and will always be a shortage of labor; and of course companies want to pay as little as possible, duh
To be fair, they'll all soon be Americans so they'll probably be thankful in the long run. Just imagine the salt that would flow from the Brits and the Russians when the United States more than doubles size.
I live in Montreal. I make a little over 28$/hr. I work 40-60hr a week. Any time over 40hr is 1.5x pay & Sundays are 2x. I’ve worked every Sunday for the last 5 years. Moved out at 21 with my girlfriend. Now 25. We Will be moving back to parents house next year. Was renting a 3.5 for 1600 that went up to 1900 so we took a 5.5 for 2270 with 3 parking spots. The upped it to 2440$. By next September they want 2620$. My parents are divorced. Both own a home themselves. Their mortgages together are less than my rent. This country is LOST.
It's so fucked. I'm trying to build on land I inherent. Abouslule clown show. 🤡 8gs in nothing but a run around. U need 8 Pakistan people to live with u.
@@Hifin8-ug2sr Supply and demand. They can jack prices if there's little competition. On top of which, when all their property taxes, repair costs, insurance rates, mortgage rates, and personal expenses increase, they require more revenue to cover that. Virtually all of it comes back to a crap economy created by a crap government.
@@tifoo1215 we Canadians have the talent we have people who can work but not for minimum wage which is fair like I said these employers are behind the mass migration bringing Indians into canada
There’s a LABOR SHORTAGE, huh? Well, as a young electrical engineer, EVERYWHERE I apply for a job there’s TWO HUNDRED other applicants. For ONE job. Could someone please make that make sense?
To put it shortly, there’s an abundance of people willing to do the same work as you for much cheaper… immigration, if done incorrectly, can have an adverse affect on the labour market. If you have a real shortage of skilled labour, it can solve your problem, on the other hand, if you import too much labour, the market becomes saturated with people from parts of the world that would die to earn a wage that a native would consider “miserable”. This is what I believe is happening in Canada.
I was a trudeau supporter at the start, and I had never seen someone fail so much. He literally made life more difficult. In the last 4 years, he never actually did anything to support the middle and lower classes. I pay so much taxes, and I literally get nothing back from the government. I feel like a second-class citizen compared to these temp foreign students.
Completely agree, it’s baffling to see people continue to support Justin when he shows time and time again he is greedy. The amount of tax increase since he’s been PM is crazy yet Canadians see almost none of the benefits. I recently finished college and the population of students was overwhelmingly international. I have nothing against international students but when I was only among the 30% of Canadian students on campus it made ME feel like the international student. Not to mention I will not only be competing with other local young adults but now millions of immigrants Justin has brought into the job and housing market.
I find it shocking when people tell me they ever supported him. Before he was voted in the first time I knew he'd be a bloody disaster, but everyone jumped on the anti-Harper bandwagon the media created.
No offense but these "temp foreign students" are literally spending billions, BILLIONS of dollars in Canada. They're literally pouring Money into Canada. A good administration would actually use these inflow of money to create RESOURCES. But Hey, I'm indian living in India who has seen Canada in 2010s
One reason why there is resistance to building new housing is a fear that it will lower property values. Most Canadians are in a huge amount of debt, with property being the only asset of value many Canadians, including older Canadians, own. So a lot of voters are pretty resistant to support pro-development politicians, out of fear what an abundance of new housing could do to the value of the property they currently own, and thus their personal wealth and ability to long-term plan.
In Canada all municipalities are nothing more than adjuncts of the province therefore there are only two actual levels of government. For example any Premier can force municipalities to do exactly what is required without further consent from any Municipal level of government
Housing development has no effect on house prices. Houses are built and sold at the market rate and house prices are inelastic. Only a drastic over production of houses could force a market correction and that is simply not possible given the flood of migrants and lack of construction supply. There will never be a political solution to the problem.
@@DidaMinecraftIt would appear he is Danish (assuming this as the channel is based in Denmark). I could also tell by his accent he’s North European, and his choice of phrasing ‘I regress’ rather than ‘I digress’ suggests he’s a non-native speaker. Anywho, the Danes are quite a handsome bunch, the eye candy is very welcome!
Are Canadian companies shorting pay rates to laborers so they can hoard massive profit margins, or has ten years of abysmal policy and anti-business/anti-economic-growth socialist policy finally caught up to reality and caused this current reality? It might be a small portion of the former, but I suspect very strongly it is much more the letter.
@ mm in my city they purposefully cut hours of employees to get a bonus for the higher ups, they pay for international students to work since 1, they can get exploited, 2, they can pay less and get away with it. Companies have been skimming tips from workers, they REMOVE the extra time you spend during a shift even if it was necessary/they told you that you have to finish up, but they won’t pay you the extra 30 mins you stayed, collectively that can be $20-50 for a minimum wage worker who is being told to stay and finish their work a couple times during that pay period, when I was an assistant manager I was told to change the time sheets to match what hours they WANTED, even if they went over and should’ve been paid, so for us, there is indeed a shortage on our paychecks
Sold my house and quit my job, finished with paying this government anymore of my money on taxes, taking my equity and going overseas to live anywhere but here
It’s very simple, it’s because Canadians themselves are the reason for their situation, Trudeau is simply the symptom and not the cause. They are a passive, sports ball watching non serious people as I say that as a Canadian who left. “But bro the convoy” I was there and it was nothing but smiling boomers reliving their youths or genetic dead end males. Canada deserves everything they are going to get for not including economics or politics in conversation opting for sportsball, Empowering and respecting the out of touch blood sucking elderly, and just being overall ignorant people. They are third worlders in a second world country
@@JimmySmith-r5etrades are only booming right now because of failed immigration. 4 years ago they were dried up and nobody could find work. LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE and NO HOUSING because we gave them all away to illegals
We have a pay shortage, I just lost my job as a welder with 11 years of experience and 3 certified specialization to a random spanish guy that barely knows english. I'm devastated and depressed, have been looking for a new job for almost a year now. Again, we do not have a labour shortage, we have a job for Canadian resident shortage. It's fucking horrible and i will never understand why people will take minimum wage for jobs that would pay them twice as much if they just respected their skills.
I just reached the top pay category for a teacher in Ontario. I can't get a mortgage. All of my pay goes to rent, my car and food. There's nothing left over.
Lmao I was just talking about this. I couldnt imagine when I was a kid that a teacher would have to live with roommates. When they are a staple to any country. We lost are first world country status!
There is no "skilled labour crisis" in Canada nor in America. There is an abundance of educated, skilled workers in both countries. The only "crisis" is that Canadian/American citizens aren't going to work for shit wages with little to no benefits. You know who would? Foreign immigrants.
umm i think stem jobs have labor crisis because they pay even foreigners a very high salary to fill up the positions but other than that i dont think canada has a labor shortage
@@ayushmishra1261 no, there is no labor shortage. That is a lie. Companies have laid people off, and tens of thousands of Indians have illegally migrated to the United States because of this.
@ayushmishra1261 They pay them high wages but still cheaper than what a citizen would want. Also if they're foreign working under a visa they can easily be abused by their employer because if they lose the job they're way more screwed than a citizen.
@@lombardo141 lmao you think it's an attempt to get more taxes? really? "government" is the problem, yet somehow every Western government is in some state of doing the same thing. Strange.
There's no such thing as a long term labour shortage and Canada certainly does not have one. Universities and other industries have been lying about labour shortages for years so that we can bring in cheap labour from elsewhere, as well as more international students who pay the universities (and then often leave after graduating).
If we removed every home built since the early 2000's, the GDP would be ZERO. It's absolutely bonkers that this country relies on housing to prop up gross domestic product. We never had a housing crisis like our neighbours to the south did, because we just propped up the housing market. What do we do when times get tough? Make housing loans more accessible. The entire system is flawed and never mind the gaps within that system, it's a huge gaping sink-hole that is going to be catastrophic, when the thin layer on the surface inevitably collapses.
@@maxhill1827 it artificially inflates property values because FOMO. If they made housing loans more accessible to renters/first-time buyers only, we'd be OK. But they deliberately enable "investors" with deeper pockets and existing equity in previous properties to access those loans, where they can outbid average people, and do.
Yep, this is identical problem in Australia. Same two big factors: 1. Letting in too many people 2. Actually, they are building a lot of homes, BUT they all get purchased by foreign investors Cycle repeats to keep inflation high and homes are unaffordable, jobs are scarce and underpaid
Yeah and that is why we have tons of traffic at night. I am also an immigrant that have the French ( Savoie ) /Canadian citizenship. When I came 10 years to Vancouver it used to be an amazing place, now it is just a FFA and ultra expensive. If you don't make $100.000 per year good luck ... Now i have to dodge some fantastic new truck drivers that swerve on the left lane just to do a tiktok with another truck driver ... We almost died my friend and i, just passing those NPC trucks ( 2 JDM Subaru Convoy) ...
Opening up more businesses looks good on paper but what are those businsses lol I live in a small town in BC population 40,000 and we have about 20 pizza places. We do not need that much pizza lol And about 6 fried chicken places. It seems every month a new fast food place is open and most of the people working there don't seem to speak english. It's crazy.
We know, we had our Trudeau under FDR, we got lucky and died before he could run again. We put term limits because before him it was just tradition. We never saw someone break it.
The pro of term limits is for example Trudeau, the con is let's just say for example you get an utterly amazing PM and party that make the country thrive, why not let them stay as long as possible if they are doing good, though tbh I can't think of a time that this has ever happened.
*_"Americans, Trudeau is why you want presidential term limits."_* Nonsense, he had an approval rating of 65% not long ago, and if a prime-minister is doing a poor job, it's the people that will decide whether he can stay at the voting booth.
@@MichaelDomer when was that he didn't even win popular vote the last 2 elections? He maybe had 65% approval pre SNC lavalin anything after is straight lies.
But CAN has few people for its size, and it has lots of size. I mean a lot of size. CAN is 2nd largest country after RU, and less than half the population.
I came here 20 years ago under a skilled worker visa from an Eastern European country. Back then, the selection method only to qualify for an interview at the Canadian Embassy was really hard to achieve. Your trade had to be in high demand in Canada, your work experience, education, language abilities, and financial self-support until you presumably find a job in Canada had to meet a high standard. You and your family had to pass a complex medical exam at a certain approved clinic, and all the support documents that you came up with had to be translated, and the transtation had to be legalized. We are talking about years for the whole process. If all the documentation was flawless (a little glitch or if a further clarification was required, it took months of delays), then you were invited for an interview. Didn't mean that you'll get the visa for a permanent resident. All the years and efforts made to get to this point could've been thrown in the garbage by the canadian immigration officer if he (her) considered that you still shouldn't get a visa. (no explanation given, it was only a YES or NO) For me, it was a YES. When I landed in Toronto with my wife and my kid, the officer told me it was all good, but I had to show him the proof that I had the financial means to support my family for the next months until I find a job. I had $13,000 cash in my pocket (just the amount that was required), and he let us go. It's been 20 years since. I found a job 2 months after landing, and I'm working since. Do you think the immigration system under Trudeau is the same or better nowadays? Would there be a shortage of qualified workers? Would the unemployment rate be so high? By accepting unnumerous immigrants with no skills, "students," family and refugees that are unqualified and have to be supported by government funds, Trudeau added a good chunk on his plan to destroy the economy and ruin the life of canadians.
My country (Singapore) meanwhile has quite a differentiated immigration policy i.e. the laws can vary significantly between different kinds of careers. Each career often has a unique list of the countries that immigrants can be employed from e.g. the only foreigners allowed to be security guards are Malaysian, while domestic helpers traditionally could only be employed from Indonesia or the Phillippines, but Myanmar, Cambodia & India (& Vietnam?) have since been added to the list. So if you seen a certain nationality be predominently employed in certain industries, it may be due to the immigration policy e.g. Filipinos are commonly seen among service staff (maybe as they speak considerable amounts of English), while construction workers are often Indian/Bangladeshi (there may be smaller numbers of Thais too probably as their population is smaller, while there were more mainland Chinese too before their economy grew bigger & offered more domestic employment opportunities). Immigrants often have to get a job offer before they can start applying for a work visa/permit & the amount of restrictions it comes with can depend on your education qualification/salary level e.g. those for more blue collar careers often don't let you marry or get pregnant, & require you to go for medical checkups 2x annually, & you could get deported if you contract STDs. You also usually can't change job without leaving the country & re-applying for a new visa/permit. On the other hand, employers are legally required to arrange accommodation for lower-skilled migrant workers, though in the past some were less sanitary (so the pandemic was more widespread there & lockdowns were tougher there). Maybe the gov't finds that all these does more screening of immigrants before they enter the country, to avoid the social problems if they don't find employment here, though it has some controversies e.g. workers may fear retribution if they complain about bad working conditions, as employers could cancel their visas & then they'd soon have to leave the country. While our politicians have long said its important to remain open to talent, I think our immigration policy is actually more nuanced e.g. almost 40% of our population aren't citizens but among that 40%, almost 60% are blue-collar migrant workers whose visas have more restriction, & the country has also refused to take in refugees (I've heard things like "We're densely populated; we're in no position to take them in" "Think about whether the country can do it!" "If you want to let them in, you take them into your home, otherwise you're hypocritical"). On the other hand the gov't has also been awarding scholarships to foreign students for at least 50 yrs & say they could spur local students to work harder IIRC. If you're a higher skilled immigrant you probably can give birth here & your children could have a higher chance than you of getting citizenship though, maybe as they've spend more of their lives growing up here & can assimilate more easily, though I've also heard of conspiracy theories/anecdotes that some nationalities & races get approval more quickly, maybe to keep the proportion of races in our multiracial society constant while some races have higher birth rates than others, & then I imagine some will debate over how important it is to keep this constant. As for housing the gov't has built lots of public apartments & with them being subsidised, I guess property cooling measures are more universally politically acceptable, since it would be un-egalitarian to profit from them via speculation/flipping, though there was also quite a bit of talk about using property values to fund your retirement. Rising property prices e.g. over S/C$1000 per room per month, or ~S/C$4300 monthly for a 900' ^2 3-bedroom apartment ~20km from downtown (exacerbated by the pandemic slowing down housebuilding) is a bigger issue for private housing & foreigners (who can't buy public apartments, though they can live in one with a local if they marry them) to the extent that some foreign chambers of commerce e.g. Germany have warned it could make our economy less competitive. Here I've heard of multiple foreigners who share the same apartment (up to 6-8 are legally allowed) probably to split the cost of rent (I heard it can be up to 60% of their monthly income)
It's the same visa process today, nothing has changed. Only that many students who go to study in Canada stay there through post graduation work permits and then get a PR.
@@lzh4950 being half-Singaporean with longtime family ties in SG but an American citizen, this is probably why I was denied a Worker permit when trying to get F&B jobs. Why hire an "ang-mo" as a regular cook? Maybe could have been my lack of experience back then compared to the years I put in now, but the restaurants I'd apply in were enthusiastic about me and had gripes about locals/certain foreigners they hire (not saying these opinions are right), but it would always end in getting denied. Last interview I had before I decided to move to the USA after school, the chef just told me "Working here sucks, you should move to the US"
Setting his friends and family up for generations. Only real gain I can think of. Then again, I feel as if with the arrogance of that commie goof, this was never in the cards ! This was likely never even a possibility in his diluted mind. People will just live in a utopia. Btw you can't defend yourself, and I'll never go for your guns... I'm so sorry Canada 😢
Why multiple apartment complex aren't made? People they vote against the number of houses that can be built in a plot. People tend to act liberal until it's their house
More than that, the local infrastructure, the schools, hospitals, public transport etc will struggle to cope with a sudden spike in population. Roads will be congested and more parking space needed overall. This is why housing should have been increased gradually according to the needs of the population rather than being left to this point where they have essentially cornered themselves into a very difficult situation.
Some as in 5 million on temp visa about to expire end of 2025 alone. And they think they will leave "voluntarily". It will be interesting to see how it plays out as MOST Canadians really want them gone.
@@marcusantoninus1838 You gotta have strict laws and regulations so people on expired work permits can't work, but I'd imagine a lot of people will start getting paid under the table
LOL at skilled labor shortage. There is never a shortage; only one where they are not willing to do skilled labor at that low of a price point/wage. If a company really needed a certain skill, they can pay to train just about any Canadian. CAN is first world with first world education. Plenty of Canadians can learn any hardest skill. Or if you an individual who needs specialized work, can always fly someone one on temp basis, or travel to another country that has the skill. Especially when it comes to a field like Medicine/health.
But think of India who grew it's population by a Europe (750 mil ish) since 1980, they have to put their people somewhere. Also, remember, It's only colonialism when whites do it.
First world education 😁 is when a 15 y.o. Westerner is expected to have the same skillset as a 10 y.o. Asian. A typical western high school math test is a joke, why does anyone even need to go to school to become able to pass it? But at least westerners are good at gender studies. 😂
That is literally what a shortage means. Anyone would work virtually any job if they were offered a high-enough salary, but when employers are either unable or unwilling to offer higher wages to attract more workers, we get a labour shortage.
@@beyondeconomics...isn't that a service shortage? If there are available workers who are unwilling to do the work that seems like a management problem.
Canadians applying for work NEVER get a response to submitted resumes. Everything is done online now. So they can just ignore all of the well qualified resumes and claim they never got anyone with skills. Bull puckey. They get many every day, they just don't want to pay a living wage or there is some other grift going on.
I’m a Brazilian who worked in Montreal for a few years as an engineer. As a former immigrant, I think I had some insights that made me see this issue a little clearer. I believe that if your labour market has a legitimate shortage of skilled labour, immigration can definitely help with the issue, but as we’ve seen, that’s not what’s currently happening in Canada. I think that with the recent uptick in immigration, employers got a taste of a labor market that’s willing to die for wages way below what a native Canadian considers decent. What you consider a “shit salary” is something that an average Brazilian tradesman would consider a salary to die for. Now you have this clash between employers looking for cheap labour and the local workforce just looking for an average job to maintain a decent lifestyle. Canada took an immigration system that helped with internal issues and transformed it into a system that creates new ones.
A Brazilian might die for it, but not if they had to live here at these prices. It isn't as though you can just lounge around here. You have to put out a lot of money to cover the huge distances, and to heat the homes.
@@HondoTrailside yes, if you're working in Canada you're going to have to pay the Canadian cost of living. I've never been to Brazil, but I can believe it's still going to be a step up from a favela. But - if we keep going this up, it won't be! Canada will begin to look very much like these other places. It's already happening to a degree with many people packing into small apartments and the squalor in the downtown cores of several Canadian cities. People's standards are declining and quality of life is suffering as a result.
Most Canadians also have abysmal birth rates and younger generations are completely useless. It's always been a culture of trying to keep away from bad feelsies.
@@HondoTrailside Well from what I have heard there are people that are also making money from housing immigrants. They will buy a large house, put some bunk beds in each room and charge per bed per month to immigrants and that is where some live while working here. Then they send money home to places like Mexico or maybe Brazil where that money goes a long way there. They end up paying less for rent and the savings goes home.
Cheap labor only works if the immigrants take them as remote jobs in their home country. If not, then they'll be suffering the same financial problems as anyone else
Labour shortage? I've been applying for jobs of all kinds for over 1 year. Getting a response back has been nearly impossible! Even after phone calls and emails to follow up have left me hearing the sounds of crickets. It's not that there is a labour shortage. Its that companies are choosing foreign workers to save money and exploit. I applied for the Peel Catholic School Board in Mississauga, Ontario., as a Janitor but was told "I don't have enough experience" to push a broom, but they hired someone from South Asia immediately after arriving to Canada
After over a year trying to get back a job in my field of work (Welder) I finally spent my last cent and figured ''Well, guess i'll apply to be manoeuvers or for entry level jobs in a shop and work my way up to a welding position'' Nope. I was told i lack the experience. I have 3 specialized certificates and 11 years of welding behind me. Only to be told that Pedro is better at emptying the trash cans and driving the forklift because Pedro doesn't mind doing it for 15$/h. I'm sick of this shit, i really am.
I’m going to be honest, America actually looks like it’s going to start getting a lot better, after people thankfully had enough of all the BS that peaked during Covid. And I really hope that is the case. Same with a lot of European countries too thankfully.
No. They come on a student visa to jump the line and it has a temporary work permit attached to it. If you want to immigrate, finish your education and LEAVE. Apply from your home country like everyone else! Student visas are being abused and it has to STOP.
Hey OBF, Canadian here. Municipalities are actually creatures of provinces, and that means that ultimately, the provinces have complete control over their cities and can overrule any decision that is made locally. This can be seen very painfully with Doug Ford's Ontario administration blocking some proposed re-zoning laws in Mississauga because it would "diminish Mississauga's character" (the city itself is primarily single family homes). It's important to note that, despite many municipalities' best efforts to change these laws, we have provinces who are resistant to them and who ultimately control and overrule all of these changes. Ontario in particular struggles with its outlying suburban majorities making decisions for its urban cores (i.e. in the cases of Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Sudbury etc).
In Alberta, Edmonton City Council voted for inclusionary zoning (where 'x' % of new build must be "affordable"), but Danielle Smith's UCP vetoed it, and then spent millions advertising Alberta's 'more affordable' housing to foreign/extra-provincial "investors". Pigs at the trough.
Dumb neighbor from your south here… is there a way to change or “update” the law to empower the municipalities more effectively or does something like that need the federal government to help? I live in a very blue state so I am trying to understand the laws of Canada and Australia to help people through what could be a bad time in history. I’m hopeful that we’ll re-grow our collective brain and function as a nation and society again. Ok, thx for letting me babble. 🤐🫣
@ the provinces keep fighting for MORE power and then we have places like Toronto fighting for stronger mayor powers it’s a giant power struggle and blame game rn.
It's frustrating here. I used to work on 737 and 747 planes that carry 300 people, a job that pays $40/hour in the U.S. But here, they try to pay us minimum wage. This isn't a 'labor shortage'-it's about companies wanting to bring in workers who will accept low pay so they can keep their profits high.
These days, most news and documentaries feel made to create rage, to spark polarization and to radicalize people. This video, on the other hand, is very well documented, neutral and incredibly well narrated. You are one of the best youtubers right now on the platform, keep it up!
LOL at labor shortages. I'm a Canadian land surveyor. I'll never work in Canada ever again. 24/4 shifts are slavery. Hourly wages are bogus. No work, no pay. Beg your boss for work.
@@clydedufffyaway One person who really gets it. If they didn't bring in all these people from you know where country, it would be devastatingly obviously how safe and "effective" it really was at solving the pension issues among other things like overpopulation.
I can't adequately describe the *overwhelming* impact Trudeau's immigration policy has had on my community. I live in what is called a "designated settlement zone" which means a *very large* number of "new Canadians" are placed here. The nearest major city, which had a population of about 100,000 in 2016 is now pushing close to 200,000 people. All the outlying rural areas (where I live specifically) have also seen their populations surge - my home town going from 2,500 people to 5000 people in the last *four* years - with our counsel telling us that they've been ordered to "prepare for an expansion" of up to 20,000 people within the decade. At counsel meetings they tell us they haven no choice. They are told by the province who is told by the federal government: "these are the numbers you need to meet." How does this affect us? The larger city is almost unrecognizable in places. Entire stores such as Tim Horton's, Subway, WalMart, or Home Depot are seemingly owned and run by new Canadians. I have students who were fired from their jobs at such locations due to "restructuring" after they were bought by new owners, only to find they'd been replaced by "new Canadians." Language barriers are everywhere. Traffic is awful. Healthcare is suffering due to overwhelming numbers. Crime has increased : domestic violence, traffic offenses, sexual assaults, and - oddly, a high number of extortion rackets running where "new Canadians" are taking advantage of other "new Canadians." Housing is in such short supply that the prices have more than *doubled* here. Our economy is completely different with restaurants closing down and turning into completely different business catering to "new Canadians." We've had a movie theater that had operated for over 30 years close down after new management bought it and only played Bollywood films. I could go on and on. *NONE OF US ASKED FOR THIS.* We were fine with our small population on a massive land mass. We didn't want it and when we saw what was happened and asked questions - the Liberals lied and said it wasn't happening (and accused us all of bigotry in the process). I don't even recognize the place I grew up. How was any of this supposed to make our lives *better?*
It's not supposed to make things better. Trudeau doesn't work for Canadians, he works for those who want to break western countries. The country is being destroyed, so is the west in general, it is intentional.
I've finally watched the video. Thank you for posting it. Also, thank you, Oliver, for narrating it as a person with a face! To me, the video gave more of a homie vibe.
03:30 you showed my parent's house in North Vancouver when talking about luxury houses lmao. I had to move to Australia in 2019 to make enough to live myself.
@@michaelr.7805yeah I just looked it up. Average housing price in Australia is something like 8.4 years of average income. Which is a ton from my POV as an American. But Canada is 10.4. Essentially, the median mortgage in the USA is 29.9% of median take home pay. 74.5% in Australia. And an insane 94.7% in Canada. It’s insane that Canada is that much worse than Australia of all places, which has all sorts of affordability challenges. On the bright side, as an American, if I really wanted, I could score a home in a city like Montreal because Canada has completely debased their currency.
@@Haider.5343 there's a healthcare shortage because millions of unskilled immigrants are taking up resources instead of bringing in healthcare workers
I'm a Seattle electrician who has considered moving to Canada because of the US's terrible healthcare and housing situation but as far as I can tell the Canadian housing situation is even worse which doesn't make sense to me you guys have so much undeveloped land. I'm 38 now and don't want to do this job much past 60 because its hard on the body and I'm also concerned that moving to a different country will mess up my retirement. Also the last time I vistited BC I was shocked at the cost of groceries I think I paid more for Candian food even when the exchange rate was factored in.
Canadians of means are moving to the US because housing is more affordable and the jobs are more plentiful with much better wages. A great deal of Canada's undeveloped land isn't arable and is too difficult to build on.
Don't live near Toronto or Vancouver. Things aren't so bad in our small towns if you can find a place.... to be fair, there will be less work available, too.
@@alexrubin5955 people say that, but when you realize how much lower the cost of living is and you get a massive tax return every year because the province doesn't rob you like everywhere else you'll be singing a different tune.
Corporations are LOVING the high number of immigrants!!! Why would they not want a larger pool of people to choose from? A greater supply of workers means more competition for other workers keeping wages down. This is very basic. Not hard to follow at all. 😀 Also lots working under the table for $10/ Hr CASH. THIS IS VERY COMMON! Now go put in your application asking for $17/Hr and see where your resume gets filed. 🤣🤣🤣
It’s funny because it also served the purpose of distracting the fact that these companies are looting the treasury of the country by getting the working class to blame immigrants being paid below minimum wage in sub-par conditions
The temporary residency has been a huge problem. Tim Hortons and other minimum wage employers used it to keep wages low instead of raising them to a living level. They claimed a labour shortage when really it was a shortage of people willing to accept such low wages. People from poor countries compare what they would make here and think it's a huge amount of money, forgetting about the cost of living here. Then multiple counts of unpaid wages and other abuses showed that they don't care about people. I don't blame the immigrants for coming here. I blame companies for convincing the government they were in actual need.
And they dont care if they live like shit here after they make everything worse because its still better than their home…. the result will be worse than our country’s ever were in the last 200 years but still better than theirs. Until it isnt and they go back out of their own accord but then we will be done.
That type of job is entry level. You are only supposed to work at them when you don't know how to work yet. Learn how to work and get some skills and training and move on up to more valuable jobs. You are delusional expecting that kind of work to make you a comfortable living. Never has, never will.
Eye contact is an effective way to keep your viewers engaged, and you did a good job with that. I personally prefer it this way. Keep up the good work 👍
Asylum seekers get easier permits to work, than the educated/experienced people wanting to get the engineering jobs. Some unskilled international students get their assignments done by a third party/use bogus colleges to get entry and use illegal ways to crack interviews. The hard working international students that gave exams and did their assignments get nothing, drowned in loans from their country just return. The whole thing is clubbed under one immigration umbrella where asylum seekers with skills get top priority and universities keep pushing govt to let students in as they collectively benefit from the fees which is 2x the fee of a Canadian student.
Because the dregs of the earth, who are nothing more than international drifters looking for the country with the best welfare support, are flooding in. Not skilled people.
@@SUemprorx " Asylum seekers get easier permits to work, than the educated/experienced people wanting to get the engineering jobs. " depends on the country. In German speaking countries, it's actually impossible for asylum seekers to start working, unless they spend several years and several thousands of Euros for a slim chance to get a very very limited working permit
Hey Oliver, I live in Western Canada, a city close to Vancouver. I can tell you from experience that one of the reasons why municipalities are resistant to have so many people to take up a home into an apartment is just no infrastructure funds to help with the amount of people that are going to be living there. If you think a complex of 2 or more stories, and each apartment is about 2-4 people living there. There isn't a bus route, schools, local clinics or sidewalks to accommodate them. Local municipalities just doesn't have the money to do any of those upgrades at all. I fully agree with your video, and I hope they can do what Canada did in the early 80's til 90's, Federal Government just built social housing on their own :) this is me dreaming though.
I'm from the Toronto outskirts. You are 100% correct - the zonings have existed for so long that you can't just build on top of the land and expect infrastructures to magically appear. It takes years to upgrade the sewage, electricity grid, schools, hospitals, parks, and transits to accommodate for more residents. On top of this, NIMBYs whose entire fortune is tied towards their property don't want their property value to decrease if they allow more units to be built around them, and these NIMBYs happen to be the most vocal voters that can sway local elections of MPs, MPPs, and councilors. But coming back to infrastructure , it's more of a chicken and egg problem. New building permits are limited by current infrastructure , so no new buildings are allowed. Since no new buildings are being built, no new infrastructure upgrades are scheduled. The cycle continues and voila we got a housing crisis.
In the time you build houses you can upgrade/enlarge the schools. Also you can easily implement busses. Comparatively this is cheap easy and fast. On cost. Infrastructure cost goes down because fewer milage in pipes, electrical grid and roads can service the same amount of people. Also regarding the small clinics and small shops like bakeries. Those fit very well on the ground level of apartement building when those are on a connector road. No need for purity there.
But why build Social Housing for people that have yet to arrive here? I think we need to firm up our immigration standards. You'd be surprised how many of them come with their 3rd world living habits. It takes time, decades to learn and adapt to a culture. Open the doors without that and it stagnates everyone's else's standards. I'm not against immigration, it just needs to be a pace that does not disrupt the locals. And we should always be putting locals first. If your born in Canada, you should not have a harder time to get by then all the hand outs the Gov gives to people just getting off the plane.
@@HannibalUvvU Honestly man, it is easier said than done. The truth is you can't build/expand a school without the city, and provincial approvals. You need special zones for the development, also there are laws, for example you cant build a school close to a industrial complex in most municipalities. Secondary, for piping and sewerage systems, it is very complex... 2 completely different systems runs under the city, the storm one and the sanitary one... if you rushed and do not plan accordingly, floods will happen, the best example Abbotsford and Maple Ridge. Regards.
@@HannibalUvvU gosh the way elementary schools are built in this country ugh need portables surrounding them the year after their open like who designed these tiny things???? I remember freezing and sweating my butt off in those portables NOT FUN.
Australia has got the same issues: - few cities / housing crisis - cost of living crisis - mass immigration - immigration rorts by students to work in Australia - employers claiming there is a skills shortage / laying off Australian workers and hiring cheaper overseas tech workers
People always talk about Canada being the most educated country in the world, but ask how many of us are working in the careers we studied. So many of us went to colleges and universities but could not get a job, and we ended up working in jobs we are not passionate about it at all.
i guess its same case with most of the European countries where getting a degree costs little to no money. So people get degrees but not everyone uses it. Some degrees are worthless as well
There’s a big problem if your pay doesn’t even allow you to buy proper food and a roof over your head. yet it seems NOTHING is done. Also, amazing video. Great quality, very information and accurate. Keep up this awesome work!
As an American developer, I can tell you why multi family can be less attractive than single family from a development perspective. Single family projects involving one or more homes involve significantly less risk than building say 100 units in an apartment bldg. market risk can be a key risk but the main risk difference between the 2 is that a single family developer can stop in the middle of a larger single family project whereas a multi-family developer has to complete everything or nothing at all. There is no in between. Further… margins on single family homes can be greater than multi-family when delivering high end product. Ideally, consumers in North America (ie US and *ahem* the 51st state Canada) still prefer living in a single family home with its own backyard, etc. i can go on about other risk factors… but essentially… single family and multi family only share one thing… they are both residential but have significantly different risks
Biggest issue is that most Canadian households have all their value tied up in their homes. Any effort to build more homes means the existing ones become worth "less on paper" which owners don't want. This leads to extremely high rent, usually higher than a mortgage so younger people can never actually get enough money for a downpayment to achieve the mortgage, leading to any open stock being bought up as rental properties by people who have the resources/money and don't already need a place to live. It's a vicious cycle that's been going on for decades but the ol' VID blew up the problem even more.
Great video, Oliver. Very informative and accurate. I have not seen your other videos yet but would recommend continuing with this format. Well done, Thanks.
For as much grief the US gets on not having “free healthcare” there seems to be a lot of Canadians moving to the US and ironically our healthcare is better.
Your health care system is not better . If you are middle class, working class or low income the Canadian system is a much better system. Many Canadians who move abroad to the US , Europe and Asia don't actually think they are going to get sick enough to have to use the healthcare system in other countries to the point where they could have a series illness. It is only then do they deal with the reality of what is covered by insurance and what is not.
@ Yes, the financial side is far better in Canada when it comes to healthcare but the “health” part in healthcare is far better in the US there is no waiting or long lines i’ve heard countless stories of people either dying, or just leaving cause they can’t get in when needed. The top 10 hospitals in the world the top four are in the US only one is in Canada (Toronto General).
@@crandonborth I have heard countless stories of people dying in America due to being denied due to their insurance for profit companies . Every system has its pros and cons no matter what country you are in. The health part in health care is not better in the US unless you are upper class. I have enough family members born and raised in the US who can support me along with countless studies and their co workers and friends. As someone who has a parent who had to deal with serious illness and complications , he got treatment quickly and from excellent oncologists along with home care and it didn't cost a dime upfront. Whatever list of hospitals you are talking about ( who knows the criteria used to make that list) I can tell you we have great hospitals and clinics throughout the country.
@@melissagreye8445 and now Canadians can't even see a doctor because there aren't enough healthcare professionals compared to new immigrants, and barely any are skilled immigrants
The US Insurance system is seriously messed up, the healthcare is strictly designed to be capitalised for maximum profits. At least a working class Canadian citizen can receive some form of healthcare unlike the US where an insurance company usually declines your claim and you end up in crippling debt or you might as well die in the street.
Feedback on new format: Great to see a face behind the voice, I prefer this format but it’s subjective. You could polish up the background a tiny bit. Overall you look very confident showing your face, one would guess you were always doing it so.
There is no labor shortage in Canada, there is a shortage of business/companies willing to pay a living wage. Immigrants come here, mostly as refugees recently, offering no economic skills or growth to the country... It's a shame. Also, it's not sustainable to build high rise apartment buildings... who the heck wants to raise a family when you got 200 people around you 24/7.
Props for the video including you in it! Little critique here: your studio is quite dark but the webpages you show are bright, its like a flashbang watching this video at night. Love the videos!
The non-White population in Australia has increased to nearly 40%. That's the real issue. You guys need the White Australia policies back. Mass deportations. Why can't White people just be left alone and have their own countries?
I spent 13 years in Winnipeg. I survived easily on minimum wage renting $1000 a month with no car or kids. It’s definitely getting more expensive to rent , even in Manitoba..
*There is no shortage of skilled workers in Canada. There is a shortage of companies actually willing to hire new guys and allow them to become skilled workers.*
The Canadian Government have really failed at understanding the appropriate way they should deal with this. They've been making it worse. Why did it become a "bad thing" to even mention chilling out on immigration is probably a smart idea when our country is facing such a massive issue with unaffordable housing even for Canadian born citizens.. (it's actually a compassionate approach to all of this if you really think about it) The US, Canada, UK, Ireland, etc. are seeing CLEAR issues develop from this stuff. One of the biggest issues that's been occurring in these countries is the people who were born & raised there are deeply struggling to get by but no one is doing anything about it. While at the same time seeing that their nation is providing anyone who shows up from somewhere else with assistance & amenities. Where the people born & raised here get none of that treatment. In fact they get the complete opposite treatment. How do these governments think no stress will come from that? People are frustrated with how much they struggle to get by nowadays. BTW This is not about "racism" even tho politics & the media have been dead set on that narrative.. Our people have been multicultural forever. This is the government failing it's own people and communities. How did they not think that all of this might create a lot of division and frustration??
All because the government is told what they will do by McKinsey, the WEF, Canada-China trade organizations etc. The goal is 100million population and they really don't care what to trample on to get there. Everything else is white noise.
"While at the same time seeing that their nation is providing anyone who shows up from somewhere else with assistance & amenities." This is _deeply_ false, at least in the US. Illegal immigrants pay taxes here but do not have access to any social services.
the reason you're comfortable in a third world country is because you have canadian dollars, your currency is worth much more there, you're a burgioise there, exploiting the people
I'm an American and I am being priced out of my lot rent for my mobile home... I don't like the idea of living in my car... Sooner or later greed must stop
It’s not greed as much as it is basic economics. There is a lack of supply, good apartment units, denser neighborhoods, and lack of affordable and good transportation kills these cities. Don’t blame greed blame the politicians and the system for not allowing change when it was necessary
@@princecommander5757 How much you wanna bet that illegals have driven up the housing market and taken the jobs, that left him essentially homeless? Mass deportations now. Trump will solve it all.
Young Canadian with a family here. I saw the writing on the wall a while ago, which is why my wife and I decided to move us and our 2 daughters to Europe. We didn't see a future there and we couldn't be happier with our decision to leave. Trudeau destroyed the country and the damage is irreparable.
People didn’t move from around the world to one of the largest countries in the world to live in an apartment…. It’s really that simple. People move to Canada because they want space.
I work in homebuilding. It’s not that it’s more profitable to be a luxury builder; it’s that it’s so expensive to build affordable housing that it doesn’t make sense to build it since you’ve already priced out the low income buyer profile who would typically buy it. Thus luxury builders become the only ones willing to buy land in these cities. The true problem is with the municipalities: outlawing multifamily housing, 2-4 year plan review cycles, and ridiculous architectural and land development guidelines which drive costs through the roof (e.g. requiring masonry facades, clay roof tiles, EV charging, windows on every room, etc). The only way to fix this is to get local politicians to understand this issue, but unfortunately, they are typically just figureheads for the political party who know they’ll get reelected regardless of what they do.
Thanks for the video, it was seriously insightful. My family is Canadian, but I grew up in Europe and Asia. Parents were shocked at the state of Canada when they came back decades later to send me to university. Suffice to say, I do not plan on staying after grad.
It's not just that, even Canada's health care system is being strained to the brink from unchecked immigration. My Canadian friend died from an aneurysm, 2 weeks ago. He went to the hospital to get himself checked up for a health scare he thought he had a heart attack. The doctor was dismissive of his health scare that they didn't do a proper CT scan. He was sent back to the waiting room for SIX hours, until he gave up and left the hospital. He died hours later at his home from an aortic aneurysm. I'm still devastated by his passing.
Deepest condolences ❤❤❤
how horrible. im so sorry for your loss and for the corruption canadians face.
Really sorry to hear that man, RIP. Godspeed in your time of healing.
Very sorry for your loss buddy :(
Canadian living in California, I am .When I hear Americans talking about how absolutely wonderful the free healthcare in Canada is I take a deep breath and beginning educating them about the reality of Canada's health care. I have creditabilty because I have family and friends in Canada who have endured medical horror stories, like so many of us and I work for a major American Healthcare company. Canadian Healthcare has no baseline, services and competent care differ wildly. Canada Healthcare has failed on so many levels and continues to do so. It is a medical crisis that has been going on for decades. And now with the increase of immigrants, it is catastrophic. Canada doesn't understand infrastructure or preparing for the future, having a plan to meet the needs of the people and the ever changing demographics that the immigrants bring. It is crimminal how the politcans failed to do their due diligence.
My heart goes out to all of you who have shared your stories and endured the heartache and loss of a loved because of political and professional incompetence .
the labor shortage is false, most employers with shortages are ones that offer unlivable wages so they can ship in more temporary workers to exploit instead of paying a market wage to fill those positions
When I was in vancouver in june to go on a cruise, there was probably a couple hundred indians outside of a job/career thing I don't know, it was strange.
Exactly what I just wrote. If you are a manufacturer, and missing certain positions; why not just take your other employees and tell them you train them for something else, and pay them more. Who will say no to that? Plus CAN has highly educated workforce. You can train a purple hair, nose ring, hipster barista, and train them to do just about anything.
I definitely believe a lot of industries and communities have labour shortages. The problem is they aren't the ones being serviced by immigration. When people move to Canada, they're moving mostly to Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and the GTA. These communities do not have shortages. If anything, they have massive surpluses (as seen by the hundreds of people lining up for a job at Timmys). Additionally theres a massive difference between a lot of the immigrants' credentials and what they're capable of doing. I interviewed someone from Punjab with a "masters" in computer science that couldn't code and ended up managing a Freedom Mobile store We have a shortage of tradespeople, what we don't have a shortage of is mobile phone kiosk employees.
Thats the plan in EU as well...replacing locals with cheaper new arrivals from India, just as EU take in north Africans
As a business owner, we'll keep lobbying for immigration. Canadians demands so much but then they don't take pride of their work, and tries to slack off as much as possible.
Our hires from HK, and India were much better. Grateful for the salary and work actual hours stipulated in the contract, rather than trying to drag lunchtime and toilet breaks out so they "work 8 hours".
any time a company or industry states that there is a "labor shortage" it's usually something along the lines of "we don't want to pay the existing market rates to attract skilled labor" or "we don't want to train labor to fill the shortage"
100%, such companies are the ones pushing this narrative of labor shortage.
Very true. I work for a manufacturer in the US and executives have repeatedly gone public talking about they can’t get enough skilled labor, when in reality every factory position they post receives over 1000 applicants with at least 200 of those being applicants with experience in our industry.. the “labor shortage” has been nothing but a complete employers pushed myth. With the goal being to flood the labor market with even more people to push wages and benefits, and working conditions down.
@@craigeslim7212 I think this is why they are making getting an H1B visa easier
It's not skilled labor they wanted its permanent low skill workers.
"labor shortage" is an inherently relative term, there is and will always be a shortage of labor; and of course companies want to pay as little as possible, duh
You know it’s bad when you made even the chillest of Canadians angry
To be fair, they'll all soon be Americans so they'll probably be thankful in the long run. Just imagine the salt that would flow from the Brits and the Russians when the United States more than doubles size.
@@ryelor123 did you have a stroke?
cnuuy 😭💢
@@ryelor123you forgot your meds lil bro?
How come your pfp passes?
I live in Montreal. I make a little over 28$/hr. I work 40-60hr a week. Any time over 40hr is 1.5x pay & Sundays are 2x. I’ve worked every Sunday for the last 5 years. Moved out at 21 with my girlfriend. Now 25. We Will be moving back to parents house next year. Was renting a 3.5 for 1600 that went up to 1900 so we took a 5.5 for 2270 with 3 parking spots. The upped it to 2440$. By next September they want 2620$. My parents are divorced. Both own a home themselves. Their mortgages together are less than my rent. This country is LOST.
Hang in there, man. You're not alone - there are millions out there feeling the same pain. Things will get better.
The boomers had it all and proceeded to screw us over
Landlords raising rents has nothing to do with goverments, its their own greed.
It's so fucked. I'm trying to build on land I inherent. Abouslule clown show. 🤡 8gs in nothing but a run around. U need 8 Pakistan people to live with u.
@@Hifin8-ug2sr Supply and demand. They can jack prices if there's little competition. On top of which, when all their property taxes, repair costs, insurance rates, mortgage rates, and personal expenses increase, they require more revenue to cover that. Virtually all of it comes back to a crap economy created by a crap government.
Correction there is no skilled labour shortage crisis there is lack of good pay crisis.
That's cuz too much migration and unemployment rate is near 7%
At least if companies refuse to pay us more, then give us job security. Job security is rarer these days.
There's an overabundance of useless degree crisis, a lot of people should've gone into trades. Not disqualifying your statement though
What do u expect when everyone's trying to become famous and rich using the internet and no one is getting degrees or learning useful skills
@@tifoo1215 we Canadians have the talent we have people who can work but not for minimum wage which is fair like I said these employers are behind the mass migration bringing Indians into canada
There’s a LABOR SHORTAGE, huh? Well, as a young electrical engineer, EVERYWHERE I apply for a job there’s TWO HUNDRED other applicants. For ONE job. Could someone please make that make sense?
To put it shortly, there’s an abundance of people willing to do the same work as you for much cheaper… immigration, if done incorrectly, can have an adverse affect on the labour market. If you have a real shortage of skilled labour, it can solve your problem, on the other hand, if you import too much labour, the market becomes saturated with people from parts of the world that would die to earn a wage that a native would consider “miserable”. This is what I believe is happening in Canada.
Did you ever fall for people offering to trim your armor for free? They're lying. It's really that simple.
@ i’m not sure I understand what you mean.
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@@nelf6355 "done incorrectly" lmao theres always an excuse that it "wasnt done right" no, you just got exactly what/who you voted for.
I was a trudeau supporter at the start, and I had never seen someone fail so much. He literally made life more difficult. In the last 4 years, he never actually did anything to support the middle and lower classes. I pay so much taxes, and I literally get nothing back from the government. I feel like a second-class citizen compared to these temp foreign students.
Thanks btw!
Completely agree, it’s baffling to see people continue to support Justin when he shows time and time again he is greedy. The amount of tax increase since he’s been PM is crazy yet Canadians see almost none of the benefits. I recently finished college and the population of students was overwhelmingly international. I have nothing against international students but when I was only among the 30% of Canadian students on campus it made ME feel like the international student. Not to mention I will not only be competing with other local young adults but now millions of immigrants Justin has brought into the job and housing market.
I find it shocking when people tell me they ever supported him. Before he was voted in the first time I knew he'd be a bloody disaster, but everyone jumped on the anti-Harper bandwagon the media created.
No offense but these "temp foreign students" are literally spending billions, BILLIONS of dollars in Canada. They're literally pouring Money into Canada. A good administration would actually use these inflow of money to create RESOURCES. But Hey, I'm indian living in India who has seen Canada in 2010s
How is temporary foreign workers making you feel like second class students ?
What do they get that you don’t ?
One reason why there is resistance to building new housing is a fear that it will lower property values. Most Canadians are in a huge amount of debt, with property being the only asset of value many Canadians, including older Canadians, own. So a lot of voters are pretty resistant to support pro-development politicians, out of fear what an abundance of new housing could do to the value of the property they currently own, and thus their personal wealth and ability to long-term plan.
Foolish
You should make a video on the current crisis
In Canada all municipalities are nothing more than adjuncts of the province therefore there are only two actual levels of government. For example any Premier can force municipalities to do exactly what is required without further consent from any Municipal level of government
@ and under Trudeau, provinces have never been weaker. All roads lead back to Ottawa.
Housing development has no effect on house prices. Houses are built and sold at the market rate and house prices are inelastic. Only a drastic over production of houses could force a market correction and that is simply not possible given the flood of migrants and lack of construction supply. There will never be a political solution to the problem.
Nice to see face behind the voice. Keep up the good work and great videos.
took the words right out of my mouth
A rather handsome face it would seem 😊
@thecrimsondragon9744 yeah mans looking spiffy
@@DidaMinecraftIt would appear he is Danish (assuming this as the channel is based in Denmark). I could also tell by his accent he’s North European, and his choice of phrasing ‘I regress’ rather than ‘I digress’ suggests he’s a non-native speaker. Anywho, the Danes are quite a handsome bunch, the eye candy is very welcome!
Agreed. I’ve been watching for a little bit now, and I feel more comfortable seeing someone speak (I see facial expressions)
There is never a shortage in workers, there is a shortage on our paychecks.
Are Canadian companies shorting pay rates to laborers so they can hoard massive profit margins, or has ten years of abysmal policy and anti-business/anti-economic-growth socialist policy finally caught up to reality and caused this current reality?
It might be a small portion of the former, but I suspect very strongly it is much more the letter.
@ mm in my city they purposefully cut hours of employees to get a bonus for the higher ups, they pay for international students to work since 1, they can get exploited, 2, they can pay less and get away with it. Companies have been skimming tips from workers, they REMOVE the extra time you spend during a shift even if it was necessary/they told you that you have to finish up, but they won’t pay you the extra 30 mins you stayed, collectively that can be $20-50 for a minimum wage worker who is being told to stay and finish their work a couple times during that pay period, when I was an assistant manager I was told to change the time sheets to match what hours they WANTED, even if they went over and should’ve been paid, so for us, there is indeed a shortage on our paychecks
Sold my house and quit my job, finished with paying this government anymore of my money on taxes, taking my equity and going overseas to live anywhere but here
Hope the best for you🙏
Where? I want to leave Australia and move to the United States to start a business
Why do 28% of Canadians still approve of Trudeau? It boggles the mind.
It’s very simple, it’s because Canadians themselves are the reason for their situation, Trudeau is simply the symptom and not the cause. They are a passive, sports ball watching non serious people as I say that as a Canadian who left. “But bro the convoy” I was there and it was nothing but smiling boomers reliving their youths or genetic dead end males. Canada deserves everything they are going to get for not including economics or politics in conversation opting for sportsball, Empowering and respecting the out of touch blood sucking elderly, and just being overall ignorant people. They are third worlders in a second world country
They are federal civil employees
Freeloaders and Mass Formation Psychosis Sheeple...
1 in 4 ppl who work are govt employees.
Ge created a society of dependent parasites.
Identity politics, his supporters are the type that have blue hair and still wear masks
I just lost my entry level engineering job to someone with a PHD. We do not have a labour shortage
Was it tech related?
We do have a labour shortage just not in that industry
@@JimmySmith-r5etrades are only booming right now because of failed immigration. 4 years ago they were dried up and nobody could find work. LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE and NO HOUSING because we gave them all away to illegals
@@JimmySmith-r5ewhat industry
We have a pay shortage, I just lost my job as a welder with 11 years of experience and 3 certified specialization to a random spanish guy that barely knows english. I'm devastated and depressed, have been looking for a new job for almost a year now. Again, we do not have a labour shortage, we have a job for Canadian resident shortage.
It's fucking horrible and i will never understand why people will take minimum wage for jobs that would pay them twice as much if they just respected their skills.
I just reached the top pay category for a teacher in Ontario. I can't get a mortgage. All of my pay goes to rent, my car and food. There's nothing left over.
Are you just teaching classes full of muckaluck children? Are there any real Canadians left?
Are you just teaching classes full of muckalucks and no real Canadians are left?
how much money is going into rent car and food by curiosity you don't have to answer if your not comfortable with it
Lmao I was just talking about this. I couldnt imagine when I was a kid that a teacher would have to live with roommates. When they are a staple to any country. We lost are first world country status!
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There is no "skilled labour crisis" in Canada nor in America. There is an abundance of educated, skilled workers in both countries. The only "crisis" is that Canadian/American citizens aren't going to work for shit wages with little to no benefits. You know who would? Foreign immigrants.
umm i think stem jobs have labor crisis because they pay even foreigners a very high salary to fill up the positions but other than that i dont think canada has a labor shortage
@cadman05 SH14.
@@ayushmishra1261 no, there is no labor shortage. That is a lie. Companies have laid people off, and tens of thousands of Indians have illegally migrated to the United States because of this.
@ayushmishra1261 They pay them high wages but still cheaper than what a citizen would want. Also if they're foreign working under a visa they can easily be abused by their employer because if they lose the job they're way more screwed than a citizen.
@@garrettwilson9664 thats true but seriously 100k+ is it not upto the standards of canadians ?
It wasn't a miscalculation, it was on purpose
How is it possible that every country has this sort of "miscalculation?"
Taxes , they wanted more money. Greedy government
Exactly! World wide "crisis" going on.
@@lombardo141 lmao you think it's an attempt to get more taxes? really? "government" is the problem, yet somehow every Western government is in some state of doing the same thing. Strange.
The great replacement
They're all Capitalists
Migrants are a free, instant and sometimes high value resource and they like being greedy
There's no such thing as a long term labour shortage and Canada certainly does not have one. Universities and other industries have been lying about labour shortages for years so that we can bring in cheap labour from elsewhere, as well as more international students who pay the universities (and then often leave after graduating).
B i n g o
source? ask genuinely
The America & UK plan for societal dissolution!
What about our declining birthrate?
It's very real in manufacturing. Nobody wants to work in a factory. It's too unfulfilling for the average Canadian
If we removed every home built since the early 2000's, the GDP would be ZERO. It's absolutely bonkers that this country relies on housing to prop up gross domestic product. We never had a housing crisis like our neighbours to the south did, because we just propped up the housing market. What do we do when times get tough? Make housing loans more accessible. The entire system is flawed and never mind the gaps within that system, it's a huge gaping sink-hole that is going to be catastrophic, when the thin layer on the surface inevitably collapses.
Justin said he liked how the Chinese Gov handled things...
@@maxhill1827 it artificially inflates property values because FOMO. If they made housing loans more accessible to renters/first-time buyers only, we'd be OK. But they deliberately enable "investors" with deeper pockets and existing equity in previous properties to access those loans, where they can outbid average people, and do.
Your first claim is crazily dumb.
Its not like this is unique though *cough* China.
neighbors to the south? just say america lil bro
Yep, this is identical problem in Australia. Same two big factors:
1. Letting in too many people
2. Actually, they are building a lot of homes, BUT they all get purchased by foreign investors
Cycle repeats to keep inflation high and homes are unaffordable, jobs are scarce and underpaid
uk the same !!
Singapore same problem since the 90s
It’s kind of funny but I’m actually an Australian trying to get permanent residency in Canada 🤦♂️😂
@@garypearson4007 Canada, Australia and New Zealand share the exact same problem money from China drove the cost of living into the stratosphere.
@@chiefbadmonwhy? I live in Canada and we have identical problems to Australia, but it’s cold all the bloody time here
Canada has enough uber drivers, Takeaway deliverers and night shop owners for centuries now... Thank you Trudeau
Yeah and that is why we have tons of traffic at night. I am also an immigrant that have the French ( Savoie ) /Canadian citizenship. When I came 10 years to Vancouver it used to be an amazing place, now it is just a FFA and ultra expensive. If you don't make $100.000 per year good luck ... Now i have to dodge some fantastic new truck drivers that swerve on the left lane just to do a tiktok with another truck driver ... We almost died my friend and i, just passing those NPC trucks ( 2 JDM Subaru Convoy) ...
You realize these people go to school to further their careers right?
@soccerchick1 No they don't lmao, they bribe degree mills
Opening up more businesses looks good on paper but what are those businsses lol I live in a small town in BC population 40,000 and we have about 20 pizza places. We do not need that much pizza lol And about 6 fried chicken places. It seems every month a new fast food place is open and most of the people working there don't seem to speak english. It's crazy.
@@soccerchick1No they don't.
Americans, Trudeau is why you want presidential term limits.
We know, we had our Trudeau under FDR, we got lucky and died before he could run again. We put term limits because before him it was just tradition. We never saw someone break it.
The pro of term limits is for example Trudeau, the con is let's just say for example you get an utterly amazing PM and party that make the country thrive, why not let them stay as long as possible if they are doing good, though tbh I can't think of a time that this has ever happened.
Canadians could elect another government if they wanted even without term limits. If they keep re-electing this drama queen it's their choice.
*_"Americans, Trudeau is why you want presidential term limits."_*
Nonsense, he had an approval rating of 65% not long ago, and if a prime-minister is doing a poor job, it's the people that will decide whether he can stay at the voting booth.
@@MichaelDomer when was that he didn't even win popular vote the last 2 elections? He maybe had 65% approval pre SNC lavalin anything after is straight lies.
A lot of Canadians see real estate as their pension. More supply and less demand means less value for their assets
Yea, and screw the next generation
How do you sell something no one can afford
Your house should not be your pension. We need to change everything.
@@dev4statingx90 exactly
But CAN has few people for its size, and it has lots of size. I mean a lot of size. CAN is 2nd largest country after RU, and less than half the population.
I came here 20 years ago under a skilled worker visa from an Eastern European country. Back then, the selection method only to qualify for an interview at the Canadian Embassy was really hard to achieve. Your trade had to be in high demand in Canada, your work experience, education, language abilities, and financial self-support until you presumably find a job in Canada had to meet a high standard. You and your family had to pass a complex medical exam at a certain approved clinic, and all the support documents that you came up with had to be translated, and the transtation had to be legalized. We are talking about years for the whole process. If all the documentation was flawless (a little glitch or if a further clarification was required, it took months of delays), then you were invited for an interview. Didn't mean that you'll get the visa for a permanent resident. All the years and efforts made to get to this point could've been thrown in the garbage by the canadian immigration officer if he (her) considered that you still shouldn't get a visa. (no explanation given, it was only a YES or NO)
For me, it was a YES. When I landed in Toronto with my wife and my kid, the officer told me it was all good, but I had to show him the proof that I had the financial means to support my family for the next months until I find a job. I had $13,000 cash in my pocket (just the amount that was required), and he let us go.
It's been 20 years since. I found a job 2 months after landing, and I'm working since.
Do you think the immigration system under Trudeau is the same or better nowadays? Would there be a shortage of qualified workers? Would the unemployment rate be so high? By accepting unnumerous immigrants with no skills, "students," family and refugees that are unqualified and have to be supported by government funds, Trudeau added a good chunk on his plan to destroy the economy and ruin the life of canadians.
My country (Singapore) meanwhile has quite a differentiated immigration policy i.e. the laws can vary significantly between different kinds of careers. Each career often has a unique list of the countries that immigrants can be employed from e.g. the only foreigners allowed to be security guards are Malaysian, while domestic helpers traditionally could only be employed from Indonesia or the Phillippines, but Myanmar, Cambodia & India (& Vietnam?) have since been added to the list. So if you seen a certain nationality be predominently employed in certain industries, it may be due to the immigration policy e.g. Filipinos are commonly seen among service staff (maybe as they speak considerable amounts of English), while construction workers are often Indian/Bangladeshi (there may be smaller numbers of Thais too probably as their population is smaller, while there were more mainland Chinese too before their economy grew bigger & offered more domestic employment opportunities). Immigrants often have to get a job offer before they can start applying for a work visa/permit & the amount of restrictions it comes with can depend on your education qualification/salary level e.g. those for more blue collar careers often don't let you marry or get pregnant, & require you to go for medical checkups 2x annually, & you could get deported if you contract STDs. You also usually can't change job without leaving the country & re-applying for a new visa/permit.
On the other hand, employers are legally required to arrange accommodation for lower-skilled migrant workers, though in the past some were less sanitary (so the pandemic was more widespread there & lockdowns were tougher there). Maybe the gov't finds that all these does more screening of immigrants before they enter the country, to avoid the social problems if they don't find employment here, though it has some controversies e.g. workers may fear retribution if they complain about bad working conditions, as employers could cancel their visas & then they'd soon have to leave the country. While our politicians have long said its important to remain open to talent, I think our immigration policy is actually more nuanced e.g. almost 40% of our population aren't citizens but among that 40%, almost 60% are blue-collar migrant workers whose visas have more restriction, & the country has also refused to take in refugees (I've heard things like "We're densely populated; we're in no position to take them in" "Think about whether the country can do it!" "If you want to let them in, you take them into your home, otherwise you're hypocritical"). On the other hand the gov't has also been awarding scholarships to foreign students for at least 50 yrs & say they could spur local students to work harder IIRC. If you're a higher skilled immigrant you probably can give birth here & your children could have a higher chance than you of getting citizenship though, maybe as they've spend more of their lives growing up here & can assimilate more easily, though I've also heard of conspiracy theories/anecdotes that some nationalities & races get approval more quickly, maybe to keep the proportion of races in our multiracial society constant while some races have higher birth rates than others, & then I imagine some will debate over how important it is to keep this constant.
As for housing the gov't has built lots of public apartments & with them being subsidised, I guess property cooling measures are more universally politically acceptable, since it would be un-egalitarian to profit from them via speculation/flipping, though there was also quite a bit of talk about using property values to fund your retirement. Rising property prices e.g. over S/C$1000 per room per month, or ~S/C$4300 monthly for a 900' ^2 3-bedroom apartment ~20km from downtown (exacerbated by the pandemic slowing down housebuilding) is a bigger issue for private housing & foreigners (who can't buy public apartments, though they can live in one with a local if they marry them) to the extent that some foreign chambers of commerce e.g. Germany have warned it could make our economy less competitive. Here I've heard of multiple foreigners who share the same apartment (up to 6-8 are legally allowed) probably to split the cost of rent (I heard it can be up to 60% of their monthly income)
Your qualifications were legit and checked out. Today nothing is checked out even criminals can end up emigrating to Canada.
It's the same visa process today, nothing has changed. Only that many students who go to study in Canada stay there through post graduation work permits and then get a PR.
@@lzh4950 being half-Singaporean with longtime family ties in SG but an American citizen, this is probably why I was denied a Worker permit when trying to get F&B jobs. Why hire an "ang-mo" as a regular cook? Maybe could have been my lack of experience back then compared to the years I put in now, but the restaurants I'd apply in were enthusiastic about me and had gripes about locals/certain foreigners they hire (not saying these opinions are right), but it would always end in getting denied. Last interview I had before I decided to move to the USA after school, the chef just told me "Working here sucks, you should move to the US"
These aren't mistakes, it's intentional.
All W.E.F/jewish planned the kalurgi plan.
What’s their ultimate goal though (at least in the long run)?
@@HalloweenHalloween-sc4joReplacement.
Setting his friends and family up for generations. Only real gain I can think of. Then again, I feel as if with the arrogance of that commie goof, this was never in the cards ! This was likely never even a possibility in his diluted mind. People will just live in a utopia. Btw you can't defend yourself, and I'll never go for your guns... I'm so sorry Canada 😢
Think of all the countries that are known for being nice
Best video I've seen on this wicked topic
Yooooooo
Woohoo, another favourite RUclipsr! 🎉🎉
Aint no way
Nice to see you hosers 😊
I like your work
Why multiple apartment complex aren't made? People they vote against the number of houses that can be built in a plot. People tend to act liberal until it's their house
Yep
No budget for infrastructure for high density living. It's a non-starter.
More than that, the local infrastructure, the schools, hospitals, public transport etc will struggle to cope with a sudden spike in population. Roads will be congested and more parking space needed overall. This is why housing should have been increased gradually according to the needs of the population rather than being left to this point where they have essentially cornered themselves into a very difficult situation.
It's all the NIMBYism and strict isolationist zoning laws in a lot of English speaking countries. Japan does a lot better with zoning.
The parking! Think of the parking! I have a birthright to park a car lot downtown for free
90% of indian international students definately didnt come to study
I’ve worked with a lot of them, they’ll tell you they don’t intend on going back to India.
Yeah, they can go back...
I mean canadian universities have to drop down their admits but they wont because they surely love the money.
@@vioseven3799Caucasians should move back to Europe too
It's your government who is letting them in.
"Some employers... "
"Some International Students..."
My friend I hate to inform you but "Some" in this case is a massive understatement. It's bad.
Some as in 5 million on temp visa about to expire end of 2025 alone. And they think they will leave "voluntarily". It will be interesting to see how it plays out as MOST Canadians really want them gone.
@@marcusantoninus1838 You gotta have strict laws and regulations so people on expired work permits can't work, but I'd imagine a lot of people will start getting paid under the table
More like nearly all..
@@marcusantoninus1838 "Some" Canadians want them gone ;)
@@marcusantoninus1838racist?
LOL at skilled labor shortage. There is never a shortage; only one where they are not willing to do skilled labor at that low of a price point/wage. If a company really needed a certain skill, they can pay to train just about any Canadian. CAN is first world with first world education. Plenty of Canadians can learn any hardest skill. Or if you an individual who needs specialized work, can always fly someone one on temp basis, or travel to another country that has the skill. Especially when it comes to a field like Medicine/health.
But think of India who grew it's population by a Europe (750 mil ish) since 1980, they have to put their people somewhere. Also, remember, It's only colonialism when whites do it.
First world education 😁 is when a 15 y.o. Westerner is expected to have the same skillset as a 10 y.o. Asian. A typical western high school math test is a joke, why does anyone even need to go to school to become able to pass it? But at least westerners are good at gender studies. 😂
That is literally what a shortage means. Anyone would work virtually any job if they were offered a high-enough salary, but when employers are either unable or unwilling to offer higher wages to attract more workers, we get a labour shortage.
@@beyondeconomics...isn't that a service shortage? If there are available workers who are unwilling to do the work that seems like a management problem.
Canadians applying for work NEVER get a response to submitted resumes. Everything is done online now. So they can just ignore all of the well qualified resumes and claim they never got anyone with skills. Bull puckey. They get many every day, they just don't want to pay a living wage or there is some other grift going on.
I’m a Brazilian who worked in Montreal for a few years as an engineer. As a former immigrant, I think I had some insights that made me see this issue a little clearer.
I believe that if your labour market has a legitimate shortage of skilled labour, immigration can definitely help with the issue, but as we’ve seen, that’s not what’s currently happening in Canada. I think that with the recent uptick in immigration, employers got a taste of a labor market that’s willing to die for wages way below what a native Canadian considers decent. What you consider a “shit salary” is something that an average Brazilian tradesman would consider a salary to die for. Now you have this clash between employers looking for cheap labour and the local workforce just looking for an average job to maintain a decent lifestyle.
Canada took an immigration system that helped with internal issues and transformed it into a system that creates new ones.
A Brazilian might die for it, but not if they had to live here at these prices. It isn't as though you can just lounge around here. You have to put out a lot of money to cover the huge distances, and to heat the homes.
@@HondoTrailside yes, if you're working in Canada you're going to have to pay the Canadian cost of living. I've never been to Brazil, but I can believe it's still going to be a step up from a favela. But - if we keep going this up, it won't be! Canada will begin to look very much like these other places.
It's already happening to a degree with many people packing into small apartments and the squalor in the downtown cores of several Canadian cities. People's standards are declining and quality of life is suffering as a result.
Most Canadians also have abysmal birth rates and younger generations are completely useless.
It's always been a culture of trying to keep away from bad feelsies.
@@HondoTrailside Well from what I have heard there are people that are also making money from housing immigrants. They will buy a large house, put some bunk beds in each room and charge per bed per month to immigrants and that is where some live while working here. Then they send money home to places like Mexico or maybe Brazil where that money goes a long way there. They end up paying less for rent and the savings goes home.
Cheap labor only works if the immigrants take them as remote jobs in their home country. If not, then they'll be suffering the same financial problems as anyone else
It's my first time watching a video of yours Oliver, thank you for giving us a bit of insight on the issues many Canadians are facing.
Labour shortage? I've been applying for jobs of all kinds for over 1 year. Getting a response back has been nearly impossible! Even after phone calls and emails to follow up have left me hearing the sounds of crickets. It's not that there is a labour shortage. Its that companies are choosing foreign workers to save money and exploit. I applied for the Peel Catholic School Board in Mississauga, Ontario., as a Janitor but was told "I don't have enough experience" to push a broom, but they hired someone from South Asia immediately after arriving to Canada
After over a year trying to get back a job in my field of work (Welder) I finally spent my last cent and figured ''Well, guess i'll apply to be manoeuvers or for entry level jobs in a shop and work my way up to a welding position'' Nope. I was told i lack the experience. I have 3 specialized certificates and 11 years of welding behind me. Only to be told that Pedro is better at emptying the trash cans and driving the forklift because Pedro doesn't mind doing it for 15$/h.
I'm sick of this shit, i really am.
@@carlthegamer9215 fuckin insane man.
I've been told by 3 newcomers they were hired direct from their home country, or shortly after they got here.
And at jobs that I applied for myself.
As a newcomers i applied at least for 50 jobs per day for three months. Only then did i get a part-time job. @entity0x
same buddy, going to be close to 1.5 years now. Fake, ghost job posting is detrimental to this once great country.
Everytime I think the US is doomed and can't get worse, I think to myself "at least I'm not Canadian"
I think that about most countries tbh. God bless the USA.
I’m going to be honest, America actually looks like it’s going to start getting a lot better, after people thankfully had enough of all the BS that peaked during Covid. And I really hope that is the case. Same with a lot of European countries too thankfully.
Same. I’m thankful I’m not Canadian or British.
Trump over Trudeau. Any day!
@@Leviathan02464 Even if the price of gas jumps 25% on Jan. 20?
Canada is cooked. Millions must work as temporary students.
No. They come on a student visa to jump the line and it has a temporary work permit attached to it. If you want to immigrate, finish your education and LEAVE. Apply from your home country like everyone else! Student visas are being abused and it has to STOP.
They can leave :)
Hey, annexation is much easier when its not only voluntary but outright demanded. Our flag needs more stars.
I'm a Citizen. I should be working first before any temporary students or workers
@@entity0xWhat happens when they get citizenship? Would you place them equal to yourself or below? Who dictates that?
we have angry Canadians before gta 6 guys
Hey OBF, Canadian here. Municipalities are actually creatures of provinces, and that means that ultimately, the provinces have complete control over their cities and can overrule any decision that is made locally. This can be seen very painfully with Doug Ford's Ontario administration blocking some proposed re-zoning laws in Mississauga because it would "diminish Mississauga's character" (the city itself is primarily single family homes). It's important to note that, despite many municipalities' best efforts to change these laws, we have provinces who are resistant to them and who ultimately control and overrule all of these changes. Ontario in particular struggles with its outlying suburban majorities making decisions for its urban cores (i.e. in the cases of Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Sudbury etc).
In Alberta, Edmonton City Council voted for inclusionary zoning (where 'x' % of new build must be "affordable"), but Danielle Smith's UCP vetoed it, and then spent millions advertising Alberta's 'more affordable' housing to foreign/extra-provincial "investors". Pigs at the trough.
DOUG FRAUD
@@Robespierre-lI Because toronto's suburbs are just as populous and they vote conservative.
Dumb neighbor from your south here… is there a way to change or “update” the law to empower the municipalities more effectively or does something like that need the federal government to help? I live in a very blue state so I am trying to understand the laws of Canada and Australia to help people through what could be a bad time in history. I’m hopeful that we’ll re-grow our collective brain and function as a nation and society again. Ok, thx for letting me babble. 🤐🫣
@ the provinces keep fighting for MORE power and then we have places like Toronto fighting for stronger mayor powers it’s a giant power struggle and blame game rn.
Any talk of the Canadian economy needs a chapter on corporate consolidation, of lack of competition, of money in politics
Canadian here, people are so used to this they don't even realize just how protected and monopolistic all our industries truly are.
It's Trudeauver
His days in office are numbered, surely. Unless of course the Canadians have lost their marbles…
It's Trudeont not Trudeover.
@@thecrimsondragon9744 His own party is done with him, minus the cultists. His whole cabinet shuffle was to put in true believers
Huh? 🤔
....but there will be a new beginning as all Canadians become Americans with the stroke of a pen. We haven't updated our flag in while.
It's frustrating here. I used to work on 737 and 747 planes that carry 300 people, a job that pays $40/hour in the U.S. But here, they try to pay us minimum wage. This isn't a 'labor shortage'-it's about companies wanting to bring in workers who will accept low pay so they can keep their profits high.
These days, most news and documentaries feel made to create rage, to spark polarization and to radicalize people. This video, on the other hand, is very well documented, neutral and incredibly well narrated. You are one of the best youtubers right now on the platform, keep it up!
LOL at labor shortages. I'm a Canadian land surveyor. I'll never work in Canada ever again. 24/4 shifts are slavery. Hourly wages are bogus. No work, no pay. Beg your boss for work.
Labour shortage = safe and effective
@@clydedufffyaway One person who really gets it. If they didn't bring in all these people from you know where country, it would be devastatingly obviously how safe and "effective" it really was at solving the pension issues among other things like overpopulation.
Where do you work now?
@@b1_ferg France
I can't adequately describe the *overwhelming* impact Trudeau's immigration policy has had on my community. I live in what is called a "designated settlement zone" which means a *very large* number of "new Canadians" are placed here. The nearest major city, which had a population of about 100,000 in 2016 is now pushing close to 200,000 people. All the outlying rural areas (where I live specifically) have also seen their populations surge - my home town going from 2,500 people to 5000 people in the last *four* years - with our counsel telling us that they've been ordered to "prepare for an expansion" of up to 20,000 people within the decade. At counsel meetings they tell us they haven no choice. They are told by the province who is told by the federal government: "these are the numbers you need to meet."
How does this affect us? The larger city is almost unrecognizable in places. Entire stores such as Tim Horton's, Subway, WalMart, or Home Depot are seemingly owned and run by new Canadians. I have students who were fired from their jobs at such locations due to "restructuring" after they were bought by new owners, only to find they'd been replaced by "new Canadians." Language barriers are everywhere. Traffic is awful. Healthcare is suffering due to overwhelming numbers. Crime has increased : domestic violence, traffic offenses, sexual assaults, and - oddly, a high number of extortion rackets running where "new Canadians" are taking advantage of other "new Canadians." Housing is in such short supply that the prices have more than *doubled* here. Our economy is completely different with restaurants closing down and turning into completely different business catering to "new Canadians." We've had a movie theater that had operated for over 30 years close down after new management bought it and only played Bollywood films. I could go on and on.
*NONE OF US ASKED FOR THIS.* We were fine with our small population on a massive land mass. We didn't want it and when we saw what was happened and asked questions - the Liberals lied and said it wasn't happening (and accused us all of bigotry in the process).
I don't even recognize the place I grew up. How was any of this supposed to make our lives *better?*
What is that larger city exactly?
The people at tel aviv are laughing right now
Is speaking Urdu better than German?
It's not supposed to make things better. Trudeau doesn't work for Canadians, he works for those who want to break western countries. The country is being destroyed, so is the west in general, it is intentional.
@@nicolaspoule6853 Barrie, Ontario is my guess.
I've finally watched the video. Thank you for posting it.
Also, thank you, Oliver, for narrating it as a person with a face!
To me, the video gave more of a homie vibe.
didn't even realize i had never seen you before, you're a natural
Yeah same here only realized it at the end
03:30 you showed my parent's house in North Vancouver when talking about luxury houses lmao. I had to move to Australia in 2019 to make enough to live myself.
id say Australia is even worse imo
@@crodizz salaries are much higher in Australia, and cost of living is comparable. I too moved to Aus in 2019 and never going back to Canadustan
@@michaelr.7805 Australia is heading towards Canada
@@michaelr.7805yeah I just looked it up. Average housing price in Australia is something like 8.4 years of average income. Which is a ton from my POV as an American. But Canada is 10.4.
Essentially, the median mortgage in the USA is 29.9% of median take home pay. 74.5% in Australia. And an insane 94.7% in Canada. It’s insane that Canada is that much worse than Australia of all places, which has all sorts of affordability challenges.
On the bright side, as an American, if I really wanted, I could score a home in a city like Montreal because Canada has completely debased their currency.
Deep cove
THERE WAS NO LABOUR SHORTAGE.
(Cheap) labor shortage...
There was (slave) labour shortage.
There was uninformed voter shortage.
Or ballot stuffing shortage, which is the same thing.
@tiffany
what about healt care professionals.
Hope u get checked when ever you like😂😂😂😂
@@Haider.5343 there's a healthcare shortage because millions of unskilled immigrants are taking up resources instead of bringing in healthcare workers
Proud of your work and for being able to show your face behind your amazing work...
Keep it up!
Australia probably have same bubbling issues
Entire English speaking world is having this issue, if not the entirety of Christendom.
Australian wages are way higher. I'm a Canadian in Australia and much more comfortable here.
@@ChrisJohannsenyep as a Canadian living in Aus the quality of life is better here. Hoping I don’t have to go back
@@jorkendavsam stop bragging
rich nations are becoming poor
miserable nations are rising to poor
and poor nations are stagnating at poor
I'm a Seattle electrician who has considered moving to Canada because of the US's terrible healthcare and housing situation but as far as I can tell the Canadian housing situation is even worse which doesn't make sense to me you guys have so much undeveloped land. I'm 38 now and don't want to do this job much past 60 because its hard on the body and I'm also concerned that moving to a different country will mess up my retirement. Also the last time I vistited BC I was shocked at the cost of groceries I think I paid more for Candian food even when the exchange rate was factored in.
Canadians of means are moving to the US because housing is more affordable and the jobs are more plentiful with much better wages. A great deal of Canada's undeveloped land isn't arable and is too difficult to build on.
@@lynb1022 A lot of Canadians hate America...
Don't live near Toronto or Vancouver.
Things aren't so bad in our small towns if you can find a place.... to be fair, there will be less work available, too.
your healthcare is a bit mroe because its superior do not leave usa for this frozen wasteland just go to texa or florida
Don't forget the grass is greener on the other side of the street.
I didn't even realise that it's your first time showing your face
Keep it up!
My favourite channel
Bro saw this video and said "you right my bad fam" and left
😂
Even the infills and “skinny homes” built on newly zoned lots in Edmonton are insanely expensive sometimes with no yard to speak of
And built as high as allowed so they can fit multigenerational families.
Would rather be dead than live in Deadmonton, never mind the price of the homes. LOL
A true shit hole of epic proportions @@alexrubin5955
@@alexrubin5955 people say that, but when you realize how much lower the cost of living is and you get a massive tax return every year because the province doesn't rob you like everywhere else you'll be singing a different tune.
@@alexrubin5955 Alberta is the only province to live in Canada, otherwise you're boned
Corporations are LOVING the high number of immigrants!!!
Why would they not want a larger pool of people to choose from?
A greater supply of workers means more competition for other workers keeping wages down.
This is very basic. Not hard to follow at all. 😀
Also lots working under the table for $10/ Hr CASH. THIS IS VERY COMMON!
Now go put in your application asking for $17/Hr and see where your resume gets filed. 🤣🤣🤣
Exactly! When my telecommunications provider sends someone round to investigate my poor internet it's obvious they have not been in Canada very long!
It’s funny because it also served the purpose of distracting the fact that these companies are looting the treasury of the country by getting the working class to blame immigrants being paid below minimum wage in sub-par conditions
The temporary residency has been a huge problem. Tim Hortons and other minimum wage employers used it to keep wages low instead of raising them to a living level. They claimed a labour shortage when really it was a shortage of people willing to accept such low wages. People from poor countries compare what they would make here and think it's a huge amount of money, forgetting about the cost of living here. Then multiple counts of unpaid wages and other abuses showed that they don't care about people. I don't blame the immigrants for coming here. I blame companies for convincing the government they were in actual need.
When they raised minimum wage inflation skyrocketed and look what happened to Subway. $5 footlongs to $50 footlongs
If it's anything like the US the "convincing" was actually bribing (lobbying and campaign contributions).
@@falsejaguar That didn't happen. What are you talking about? Wages didn't go up, just inflation.
And they dont care if they live like shit here after they make everything worse because its still better than their home…. the result will be worse than our country’s ever were in the last 200 years but still better than theirs. Until it isnt and they go back out of their own accord but then we will be done.
That type of job is entry level. You are only supposed to work at them when you don't know how to work yet.
Learn how to work and get some skills and training and move on up to more valuable jobs.
You are delusional expecting that kind of work to make you a comfortable living. Never has, never will.
Eye contact is an effective way to keep your viewers engaged, and you did a good job with that. I personally prefer it this way. Keep up the good work 👍
How do you have an immigrant crisis but also a skilled labor crisis??? Happened to Europe, now it’s happening to Canada
Easy, they just ignore all the skilled resumes that come in. Basically, they are lying.
This is all by design, in order to impose their Global Agenda NWO Plan...
Asylum seekers get easier permits to work, than the educated/experienced people wanting to get the engineering jobs.
Some unskilled international students get their assignments done by a third party/use bogus colleges to get entry and use illegal ways to crack interviews. The hard working international students that gave exams and did their assignments get nothing, drowned in loans from their country just return. The whole thing is clubbed under one immigration umbrella where asylum seekers with skills get top priority and universities keep pushing govt to let students in as they collectively benefit from the fees which is 2x the fee of a Canadian student.
Because the dregs of the earth, who are nothing more than international drifters looking for the country with the best welfare support, are flooding in. Not skilled people.
@@SUemprorx " Asylum seekers get easier permits to work, than the educated/experienced people wanting to get the engineering jobs. "
depends on the country. In German speaking countries, it's actually impossible for asylum seekers to start working, unless they spend several years and several thousands of Euros for a slim chance to get a very very limited working permit
A well done analysis. Showing one's face on this informative and comprehensive analysis adds a level of authenticity. Keep up the good work.
Hey Oliver, I live in Western Canada, a city close to Vancouver. I can tell you from experience that one of the reasons why municipalities are resistant to have so many people to take up a home into an apartment is just no infrastructure funds to help with the amount of people that are going to be living there. If you think a complex of 2 or more stories, and each apartment is about 2-4 people living there. There isn't a bus route, schools, local clinics or sidewalks to accommodate them. Local municipalities just doesn't have the money to do any of those upgrades at all. I fully agree with your video, and I hope they can do what Canada did in the early 80's til 90's, Federal Government just built social housing on their own :) this is me dreaming though.
I'm from the Toronto outskirts. You are 100% correct - the zonings have existed for so long that you can't just build on top of the land and expect infrastructures to magically appear. It takes years to upgrade the sewage, electricity grid, schools, hospitals, parks, and transits to accommodate for more residents. On top of this, NIMBYs whose entire fortune is tied towards their property don't want their property value to decrease if they allow more units to be built around them, and these NIMBYs happen to be the most vocal voters that can sway local elections of MPs, MPPs, and councilors.
But coming back to infrastructure , it's more of a chicken and egg problem. New building permits are limited by current infrastructure , so no new buildings are allowed. Since no new buildings are being built, no new infrastructure upgrades are scheduled. The cycle continues and voila we got a housing crisis.
In the time you build houses you can upgrade/enlarge the schools. Also you can easily implement busses. Comparatively this is cheap easy and fast. On cost. Infrastructure cost goes down because fewer milage in pipes, electrical grid and roads can service the same amount of people. Also regarding the small clinics and small shops like bakeries. Those fit very well on the ground level of apartement building when those are on a connector road. No need for purity there.
But why build Social Housing for people that have yet to arrive here? I think we need to firm up our immigration standards. You'd be surprised how many of them come with their 3rd world living habits. It takes time, decades to learn and adapt to a culture. Open the doors without that and it stagnates everyone's else's standards. I'm not against immigration, it just needs to be a pace that does not disrupt the locals. And we should always be putting locals first. If your born in Canada, you should not have a harder time to get by then all the hand outs the Gov gives to people just getting off the plane.
@@HannibalUvvU Honestly man, it is easier said than done. The truth is you can't build/expand a school without the city, and provincial approvals. You need special zones for the development, also there are laws, for example you cant build a school close to a industrial complex in most municipalities. Secondary, for piping and sewerage systems, it is very complex... 2 completely different systems runs under the city, the storm one and the sanitary one... if you rushed and do not plan accordingly, floods will happen, the best example Abbotsford and Maple Ridge. Regards.
@@HannibalUvvU gosh the way elementary schools are built in this country ugh need portables surrounding them the year after their open like who designed these tiny things???? I remember freezing and sweating my butt off in those portables NOT FUN.
Here after trudeau resigns
Australia has got the same issues:
- few cities / housing crisis
- cost of living crisis
- mass immigration
- immigration rorts by students to work in Australia
- employers claiming there is a skills shortage / laying off Australian workers and hiring cheaper overseas tech workers
Whitlam cooked Australia
@@longiusaescius2537 you're thinking of ScoMo, you supported and expanded a bunch of these policies just like Trudeau
Well maybe stop voting for Labour and Liberals then
@@MrPolandball *Labor
People always talk about Canada being the most educated country in the world, but ask how many of us are working in the careers we studied. So many of us went to colleges and universities but could not get a job, and we ended up working in jobs we are not passionate about it at all.
i guess its same case with most of the European countries where getting a degree costs little to no money. So people get degrees but not everyone uses it. Some degrees are worthless as well
Love the new style! Great to finally put a face to the iconic voice, keep up the great work my friend!!
There’s a big problem if your pay doesn’t even allow you to buy proper food and a roof over your head. yet it seems NOTHING is done.
Also, amazing video. Great quality, very information and accurate. Keep up this awesome work!
Great video mate! Happy to see whos been educating us all this time
As an American developer, I can tell you why multi family can be less attractive than single family from a development perspective. Single family projects involving one or more homes involve significantly less risk than building say 100 units in an apartment bldg. market risk can be a key risk but the main risk difference between the 2 is that a single family developer can stop in the middle of a larger single family project whereas a multi-family developer has to complete everything or nothing at all. There is no in between. Further… margins on single family homes can be greater than multi-family when delivering high end product. Ideally, consumers in North America (ie US and *ahem* the 51st state Canada) still prefer living in a single family home with its own backyard, etc. i can go on about other risk factors… but essentially… single family and multi family only share one thing… they are both residential but have significantly different risks
Biggest issue is that most Canadian households have all their value tied up in their homes. Any effort to build more homes means the existing ones become worth "less on paper" which owners don't want.
This leads to extremely high rent, usually higher than a mortgage so younger people can never actually get enough money for a downpayment to achieve the mortgage, leading to any open stock being bought up as rental properties by people who have the resources/money and don't already need a place to live.
It's a vicious cycle that's been going on for decades but the ol' VID blew up the problem even more.
inflation is the only way out of a debt crisis because then everyone's housing is in the black again and their debts erased
Nice to meet you, thank you for making videos with your voice, it's like an BBC Broadcaster..
how the hell is his approval 28% it should be at like 2% this country is bonkers
Mainly people that still approve of him are scared of conservatives and won't vote ndp or green for some reason
Immigrants and boomers vote for him, they are affraid of things changing if they don't i.e: Immigration laws, welfare, gov aid programs and pensions.
"You will own nothing, and you'll be happy."
It's all going according to plan.
Except for the "happy" part. Many Canadians are getting very aggravated about the situation.
It'll be funny seeing the Russians whine when the United States more than doubles in size thanks to the Canadians finally throwing in the towel.
@@ryelor123 Americans really don't have an appetite to annex Canada. It isn't Russia, dude.
Life in the big city
The labor shortage thing is a total lie. Always has been.
Great video, Oliver. Very informative and accurate. I have not seen your other videos yet but would recommend continuing with this format. Well done, Thanks.
Canada, Germany, Australia, UK, it's happening everywhere.... Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works.
USA also
This whole earth is hell… God/nature is cruel.
W.E.F
All driven by a 3 letter organization proclaiming climate change is their cause.
The common denominator, all of these countries leaders belong to the WEF. Still think it's conspiracy theories???
For as much grief the US gets on not having “free healthcare” there seems to be a lot of Canadians moving to the US and ironically our healthcare is better.
Your health care system is not better . If you are middle class, working class or low income the Canadian system is a much better system. Many Canadians who move abroad to the US , Europe and Asia don't actually think they are going to get sick enough to have to use the healthcare system in other countries to the point where they could have a series illness. It is only then do they deal with the reality of what is covered by insurance and what is not.
@ Yes, the financial side is far better in Canada when it comes to healthcare but the “health” part in healthcare is far better in the US there is no waiting or long lines i’ve heard countless stories of people either dying, or just leaving cause they can’t get in when needed. The top 10 hospitals in the world the top four are in the US only one is in Canada (Toronto General).
@@crandonborth I have heard countless stories of people dying in America due to being denied due to their insurance for profit companies . Every system has its pros and cons no matter what country you are in. The health part in health care is not better in the US unless you are upper class. I have enough family members born and raised in the US who can support me along with countless studies and their co workers and friends. As someone who has a parent who had to deal with serious illness and complications , he got treatment quickly and from excellent oncologists along with home care and it didn't cost a dime upfront. Whatever list of hospitals you are talking about ( who knows the criteria used to make that list) I can tell you we have great hospitals and clinics throughout the country.
@@melissagreye8445 and now Canadians can't even see a doctor because there aren't enough healthcare professionals compared to new immigrants, and barely any are skilled immigrants
The US Insurance system is seriously messed up, the healthcare is strictly designed to be capitalised for maximum profits. At least a working class Canadian citizen can receive some form of healthcare unlike the US where an insurance company usually declines your claim and you end up in crippling debt or you might as well die in the street.
Feedback on new format:
Great to see a face behind the voice, I prefer this format but it’s subjective. You could polish up the background a tiny bit. Overall you look very confident showing your face, one would guess you were always doing it so.
bardziej rzułtą mordę niech mu zrobią
There is no labor shortage in Canada, there is a shortage of business/companies willing to pay a living wage. Immigrants come here, mostly as refugees recently, offering no economic skills or growth to the country... It's a shame. Also, it's not sustainable to build high rise apartment buildings... who the heck wants to raise a family when you got 200 people around you 24/7.
Props for the video including you in it!
Little critique here: your studio is quite dark but the webpages you show are bright, its like a flashbang watching this video at night.
Love the videos!
This is very similar to what Australia has done. It is all funded by exporting minerals.
The non-White population in Australia has increased to nearly 40%. That's the real issue. You guys need the White Australia policies back. Mass deportations. Why can't White people just be left alone and have their own countries?
I spent 13 years in Winnipeg. I survived easily on minimum wage renting $1000 a month with no car or kids. It’s definitely getting more expensive to rent , even in Manitoba..
You've earned a subscriber man! Great content
*There is no shortage of skilled workers in Canada. There is a shortage of companies actually willing to hire new guys and allow them to become skilled workers.*
They want people to have 50 years of experience and to certified/licensed for the job before they even hire anyone.
The Canadian Government have really failed at understanding the appropriate way they should deal with this. They've been making it worse. Why did it become a "bad thing" to even mention chilling out on immigration is probably a smart idea when our country is facing such a massive issue with unaffordable housing even for Canadian born citizens.. (it's actually a compassionate approach to all of this if you really think about it) The US, Canada, UK, Ireland, etc. are seeing CLEAR issues develop from this stuff. One of the biggest issues that's been occurring in these countries is the people who were born & raised there are deeply struggling to get by but no one is doing anything about it. While at the same time seeing that their nation is providing anyone who shows up from somewhere else with assistance & amenities. Where the people born & raised here get none of that treatment. In fact they get the complete opposite treatment. How do these governments think no stress will come from that?
People are frustrated with how much they struggle to get by nowadays.
BTW This is not about "racism" even tho politics & the media have been dead set on that narrative.. Our people have been multicultural forever. This is the government failing it's own people and communities. How did they not think that all of this might create a lot of division and frustration??
All because the government is told what they will do by McKinsey, the WEF, Canada-China trade organizations etc. The goal is 100million population and they really don't care what to trample on to get there. Everything else is white noise.
They didn't fail to understand. They even didn't make an effort to understand...
"While at the same time seeing that their nation is providing anyone who shows up from somewhere else with assistance & amenities." This is _deeply_ false, at least in the US. Illegal immigrants pay taxes here but do not have access to any social services.
Canada is a fucking test server, innit
@@yuyutubee8435 You're lying
They cost America $109 Billion every year
It's so bad, I left the country as a life long Canadian to go live in a third world country and I'm actually more comfortable.
There's actually so few real Canadians, we could all just go somewhere else and the World would absorb our numbers quite easily.
the reason you're comfortable in a third world country is because you have canadian dollars, your currency is worth much more there, you're a burgioise there, exploiting the people
Which country
Import the third world become the third world.
@@Kingnews256I would like to know as well
This aged so well
It scares me how similar this to Australia sounds
And Ireland. These liberal governments and politicians are playing from the same playbook.
It is to ensure the UN 2030 Global Agenda!!
@sgill4833 At least Ireland is awake
We in America have aipac instead
And the UK, and every major country in 2024... including the US.
@@longiusaescius2537 At last, someone who is aware of the JQ in the comments.
When things look so bad they look malicious and deliberate
I'm an American and I am being priced out of my lot rent for my mobile home... I don't like the idea of living in my car... Sooner or later greed must stop
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It’s not greed as much as it is basic economics. There is a lack of supply, good apartment units, denser neighborhoods, and lack of affordable and good transportation kills these cities. Don’t blame greed blame the politicians and the system for not allowing change when it was necessary
@@princecommander5757 How much you wanna bet that illegals have driven up the housing market and taken the jobs, that left him essentially homeless? Mass deportations now. Trump will solve it all.
Great video great explanation edits and cinematography thank you
Great video and good to see you bro!
Helt OK Du gør et flot stykke arbejde så bare fortsæt!
Who's here after he resigned:
Well I am,
@ question truly answered 😆 👍
This is my first video from this channel and you look great!
Im mad asf bro. How A country once so respected internationally has hit rock bottom?
Because majority of people just accept it
Ask the voters
Young Canadian with a family here. I saw the writing on the wall a while ago, which is why my wife and I decided to move us and our 2 daughters to Europe. We didn't see a future there and we couldn't be happier with our decision to leave. Trudeau destroyed the country and the damage is irreparable.
I think we're all coming to terms with the fact that soon our flag will have 60 stars and a new golden age will begin.
It's exactly the same in Europe though
@@GandalfTheGay98Not all of Europe, tbf
which country did u guys move to if u dont mind sharing?
@ash___777 Switzerland
I'm Canadian and this is spot on
I like this over hearing a voice. This was like watching a documentary how you switched between showing your face and proof. Keep it up.
People didn’t move from around the world to one of the largest countries in the world to live in an apartment…. It’s really that simple. People move to Canada because they want space.
I work in homebuilding. It’s not that it’s more profitable to be a luxury builder; it’s that it’s so expensive to build affordable housing that it doesn’t make sense to build it since you’ve already priced out the low income buyer profile who would typically buy it. Thus luxury builders become the only ones willing to buy land in these cities.
The true problem is with the municipalities: outlawing multifamily housing, 2-4 year plan review cycles, and ridiculous architectural and land development guidelines which drive costs through the roof (e.g. requiring masonry facades, clay roof tiles, EV charging, windows on every room, etc). The only way to fix this is to get local politicians to understand this issue, but unfortunately, they are typically just figureheads for the political party who know they’ll get reelected regardless of what they do.
I usually don't mind a video with or without a face, as long as it's informative
Thanks for the video, it was seriously insightful. My family is Canadian, but I grew up in Europe and Asia. Parents were shocked at the state of Canada when they came back decades later to send me to university. Suffice to say, I do not plan on staying after grad.