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the discourse is very different when you think the price being raised is because of corporate greed, and then you learn that the rise of taxes is the reason why the prices are going up, a great example of it is the carbon tax, Trudeau tells you that it does not raise the price of any goods being sold, yet just the transport cost alone rose by 50% over the last 3 years when you put a tax on tax on top of another tax, the transport companies are not going to take the raise in cost and not raise their fees, the same for Farmers, so far they were not able to raise their prices for the goods they are selling, as we do not have a free market economy, the Federal Government are fixing the prices of all agricultural produces, but the transport fees, the carbon taxes to farmers have gone up sometimes by 300% if not more, the warehouse cost has gone through the roof, the energy cost is going up, salaries are going up, permit and fees are going way up, taxes at all levels, city, federal, provincial are going up, more regulations, more restrictions for Canadian companies, all of that make prices go up, the Groceries make the same profit margins, but all the prices went up, so yes if you sell for a million and make 10% on it, and then you sell the same things but it cost 10 millions because the Government took 9 millions more in taxes, well the same 10% will be much higher, it is not complicated. I work in manufacturing and I can tell you that our cost of energy, and transport are the main reasons for the higher prices of all goods we buy, and because of that, the salaries went up, so prices went up again.
@@acarriere8534 I would encourage you to check the profits of these companies and that might help you understand....here in America, corporations are making record profits. They don't have to charge so much to make a profit, but they do, why.. because they get away with it. Check the profits 👍
@@acarriere8534 MPs gave themselves a 4% increase in salary to over $196,000 plus tax free benefits, a GOLD plated pension plan, both parties cons and libs are responsible for the mess we are in.
The government seems to think that housing only means actual detached houses, and completely ignores the skyrocketing rent for apartments. It's not the lack of actual houses that's increasing the homeless population, it's that they can't afford the rent. It's said that people shouldn't be paying more than 30% of their monthly income on rent/mortgage. Well, I'm a low-income disabled person who is paying 75% of my monthly income on rent. On top of that I've got two utilities. I can no longer afford 3 meals/day, and I've been told the rent is going up again later this year.
@@Shan_DalamaniI am in low income housing and I have disabilities as well. BUT I only pay %30 of my income on housing. I don't know what province you are in but sound really sad😢
For me my top complaint is that we need affordable housing, my wife and I became homeless on September 27 2023 and spent the whole winter in a tent in Nova Scotia Canada where it gets lots of snow and wind in general we couldn't find something we could afford finally found a place on March 11th 2024
This will always be an issue because its an impossible challenge. Yeah, governments can minimize the problem, BUT, they will still get shit on by the public for the part they havent housed. The unwilling to take housing portion. This then demotivates them to help with the problem if all they are going to do is get criticized for not getting rid of the problem completely, even though its out of their control. I've seen it first hand here in Vancouver. I too was homeless (twice actually, first time for about 2 weeks, last time 6 weeks), and what I noticed when I spent 6 wks in a homeless shelter was, the amount of people who had options offered to them, but wouldnt take them, because it wasnt what THEY wanted. Either because of restrictions in the building on drugs or hours guests can stay, or, they didnt like the area they would be moving to (too far from their drug dealers). So they remain homeless out of choice, but the public doesnt see that part, they just see that theres 1000s of people without housing & think its the governments problem (which it partially is....but only partially). The ones who are interested in taking whatever housing is available, rarely are homeless more than a few weeks. There was enough units available when I finally got through the system to get offered a place, that I had 5 buildings to choose from. Two others from the same group as me had those same offers, I know for a fact both of them turned them down....they CHOSE homelessness over a place that wouldnt allow drugs in the building. My building has 43 units, and there is almost eternally 3 to 5 units that arent filled because applicants get here, find out theres no drugs allowed, and dont come back when offered the place. I do think there is a housing problem, actually, more a rental price problem. I just dont think its ALL on the government to solve it (but they are falling short on their share of the load).
@@Canadagraphs In all due respect, blaming the homeless problem on the homeless is pretty lame. I've been up one side of this problem and down the other many times over the last decade. The problem right now is greedy landlords trying to please greedy investors who want every penny they can get and don't care the first whit who they harm to get it. People, like our friend above, are simply being priced out of their homes.
Licensing for sure. I did my Education degree in Newfoundland. When I moved to BC, they said I needed five more courses and gave me a three year provisional teaching license. When I moved to ON, they said I had the best Education degree in the country and put me high up on the pay scale. Wild. I also had to pay fees in both provinces for them to even look at my credentials (on top of my annual fee).
My thinking is that these programs should all be standardized across provinces, rather than just making a license in one place automatically valid in another. You certainly shouldn’t have to pay these additional fees (maybe have it refunded by your employer upon hiring?) but I do see value in ensuring credentials are comparable between accrediting bodies in different provinces. However, if you are certified in another province with good standing, you should be paid for the additional time spent in additional courses. I can’t speak to the field of education, but other fields definitely have pretty sizeable differences between provinces that make a difference in how the job is done, so additional training should be required in those cases. But I struggle to understand how a field like education differs so significantly that it would require this much extra work!
Oh trust me the Federal Sales Tax was always there too... but it was hidden inside the price at the retail level. What they did was to move it from from being a tax on wholesale goods to a tax on retail goods. The big claim was that it was revenue neutral but magically prices didn't go down once the tax was off and of course 5% of the retail price is a lot more than 5% of the wholesale price.
In Australia , if, for example, a car is advertised as $19,995 and one gives the dealer $20,000. That person drives off the lot with five dollars in their pocket.
Canadian health care is provincially managed, some provinces are worse than others. The maritimes (eastern provinces) are the worst. In the really bad ones there is a shortage of doctors. As someone on the Reddit thread mentioned, the wait lists are years long. That comes with a whole set of problems regarding the standard of care … which include, but aren’t limited to, the following: 1. The doctors we do have are juggling way too many patients so they don’t have time to get to the bottom of many medical issues. 2. Mandy people are suffering from the lack of (or the wrong) diagnosis because there is no option for a second opinion. 3. Emergency services are over crowded with non-emergencies, so many people are sitting and waiting 12-24 hours before even seeing a doctor. 4. The nurses have to contend with triaging an overwhelming number of people and deciding what is and isn’t considered an emergency. This inevitably results in some emergencies being misclassified as non-emergencies. Worst case, people are actually dying. At best, it’s causing even more problems for these patients in the long run. 5. Once they actually do see a doctor, the process is rushed, critical tests and imaging are often skipped over for the sake of having to see as many patients as quickly as possible. This means they often end up having to send people home (due to lack of beds) that would otherwise be admitted. Example: I fractured my spine last year. I waited 11 hours before seeing a doctor and I wasn’t waiting in a bed. I was sat in a wheelchair praying for death (metaphorically). The nurses cannot administer anything other than acetaminophen or ibuprofen, so anyone in pain is just left there to suffer while they wait. When I did finally see a doctor, I physically could not get on the table to be examined because I couldn’t get out of the chair. They wheeled me into a hallway and said to wait for someone from imaging to come get me. Hours later I was wheeled to the X-ray room where the two techs struggled through the whole process. I had my doubts as to whether they got good quality images. An hour after that the doctor told me they couldn’t see anything on the X-ray and that I had to show them I could get up and go to the bathroom on my own before they could send me home. I tried, and literally could not even get out of the chair and stand up. So they eventually agreed to do more imaging - a CT scan. I waited 3 more hours for that. By then it was a different doctor, who confirmed that I had 2 fractured vertebrae but thankfully they were non-displaced. That means the bones were all still where they belonged. Thank goodness! They sent me home without critical care instructions. They just said “do you have a doctor? Someone needs to follow you on this”. Yep, I do. I will call him. It took me 18 days to speak with my doctor. I called every day and pleaded with the receptionist to have him call me. When I finally did speak with him, the worse was over. But he didn’t really do anything for me anyway. I found out 8 weeks later that I should have started physiotherapy 2 weeks after the injury. He hadn’t even mentioned it!
In the really bad ones? No, every single province has a shortage of doctors. 1 in 5 canadians don't have a family doctor, and it's getting worse every year. Some provinces, such as BC and Quebec, have passed a rule so that nurses can take up the same functions as a family doctor and open a practice (with just a few limitations).
I’m terribly sorry for your experience - that’s a horrible scenario to be in… my friend and her husband moved to Halifax and he had debilitating hip pain in his 30s. He couldn’t even get in to see a specialist for 2+ years. Ended up coming back to Ontario just to get scans but still waited more than 2 years just to get referred for surgery. He was unable to work, and was out of the work force for 5 years total because of his disability… terrible.
Ontario used to be great but it’s been going downhill for a while. Autism program waitlist is 5-6 years long, anyone north of Barrie has to travel for a specialist, and by the time I have my surgery at the end of August, I’ll have been waiting exactly 3 years and 1 month. There is a hospital in my city, but we don’t have the specialist I need so arranging care in Ottawa has been a long, painful process. Not the doctor’s fault, he’s done everything he can, the system is just severely underfunded.
@@jacks6094 The problem is in Canada/USA we don't pay most staff in restaurants a proper wage - especially in USA. That's why the tipping culture exists here. Most waitstaff in Canada make minimum wage, so it's not quite *as* necessary, but still appreciated for good service. In the USA, they have weird laws that allow the waitstaff to be paid way under minimum wage, if at all an hourly wage, so they survive on their tips. This doesn't even start to dive into the world of tip pools to pay the kitchen staff. I don't like it or agree with it. A restaurant needs to do better. If they can't survive by paying their ALL their staff a proper wage, then they really have no business being open.
Alberta sales taxes were always in the price; they still are. Then the GTS was invented and made mandatory country-wide. IMO, speaking as someone who always leaves a tip when I can, tips should not be included in the restaurant price; that is a choice that should be left to the customer. With that said, all restaurants should pay their staff the minimum wage at least and let them keep their tips.
@@noseboop4354 yeah, but have you been to a grocery store in France, Germany or Italy? the prices of everything are about 30% less or more than here, Dairy, meat, vegetables, nuts, everything is so less expensive, even big items like ovens, refrigerators, kitchen units, and furniture, everything is less expensive and it has 20% taxes included in them, here we pay something like 50% more for those items and they are way worse quality and we pay 12% + 5% taxes over it. Transport is way more expensive as well.
Proportional representation "PR" is not something you have in the United States nor in Canada. It's an electoral system where a party receive the exact same amount of seats as the percentage of votes they receive in an election. Example; Liberal receive 30% of the votes in the election then they receive 30% of the seats in the parliament, etc. Most European countries work like that. It would be so much better and fairer. Cause at the moment, we're always going back and forth between the Liberal and the Conservative parties. Other parties don't have a damn chance to be elected or to be well represented (Green in example). Our actual system lead to parties who have a majority in parliament while not the majority of the population voted for them. Inversely for the minority ones. PR is so much better.
This is the main thing I am unhappy with the liberals for, because they promised electoral reform and then really didn't try very hard at it. It would be smart for them to revisit it now. I'm not sure why other people are so unhappy with them, it seems like they've been doing good work otherwise, pharmacare, dental care, MAID, childcare, legalizing pot, etc.
@@kmacgregor6361 Turns out the electoral reform issue was basically the liberals hoping to rig the elections. They issued a committee to research various electoral systems and when they came back supporting some type of proportional representation the issue immediately got shelved. Trudeau himself said that he wanted ranked ballets, and guess what ranked ballets means in Canada: The liberals always being first or second choice due to supposedly being the centrist party.
@@kmacgregor6361 Personally I'm a lib and for sure I don't understand the hate when our Liberal government has done so much for the population. But listen, I think it's a cycle, people are frustrated for everything all the time and this time there's a lot at the same time (Inflation, Housing crisis, etc) Human likes to point the fault at someone (Most of the time the actual government) but it's not a black or white situation... the right is going up almost everywhere in the Occident. Sadly, populism and disinformation are everywhere. I don't think there's a lot we can do about it, people will learn that a conservative government is bad for Canada when they'll elect it and we're going to change again after some years. And yes it's frustrating that Liberals didn't pushed PR much. But hey, it's difficult to change an electoral system when conservatives exist, it's in the name, they like the past and the statu quo.
@@kmacgregor6361 the federal pharma care, dental plan and childcare are a joke, no dentist has taken part in the plan, medicare covers something that is already available to all provincial systems, childcare is already organised by the provinces, and the federal is not available to the majority of people except friends of the Liberals. MAID has been a very nasty thing the Liberals as done, now instead of helping Veterans or old people, they OFFER to kill them instead, because helping a veteran to get a wheelchair that costs 2000$ is too much but spending 10K to kill them is what they like to do. the vote reform would not have been made any more honest than what they always do. they are NATSTY, NASTY, NASTY and among the most corrupt of all parties.
@@kmacgregor6361yup me too. This was the reason that I voted for liberals years back. We need this change unfortunately it hurts the more powerful parties so it's so hard to get the change. But I'm not freaking out about them either 😂
Governments are terrible for the Disabled communities, not sure about physically Disabled individuals, but for us mentally Disabled. It's terrifying. If we were to have housing for all individuals on all levels of experience, and have trained people to help them learn how to take care of themselves, that would be wonderful, and if they aren't able to care for themselves fully, they should have moderate to full support, or whatever level of support would help them grow and learn. I do know that housing for the Disabled is really needed. Especially for those who have some independence but not full independence. For example. I know someone who can do laundry but can't travel far. Can do dishes, but can't cook very well. Can clean but can't drive. Etc. All because their mental illnesses prohibit them to an extent from living a full and meaningful life. They live with their parents and can't move out because if they do, they will most likely end up homeless, all due to not having a job and not being able to hold a job, having money bellow poverty line. also due to not being able to take care of some things properly. If we were to focus on something, we should be focused on health care, housing, and leading a country like Abraham Lincoln, or George Washington, and we need to be more focused on mental health/illnesses and improving mental health/illnesses instead of going to Mars, or shooting cars into space. We have a world, and it's our home. We should be focused on improving our home. Improving on who we are, living our values, supporting one another, by loving and being kind to each other.
Thank you for ur eloquence, I suffer from exactly what u described. We do need more mental health help, helping those who r self medicating on their own increasing addictions and no counselling or psychological help available, in BC they pay for 10 sessions in total for ever which is unbelievable as mental health issues won't improve without consistent help as it fluctuates some days or weeks r better then others and situations change
Yeah, it's happening with the physically disabled as well. Twenty or thirty years ago there was a big push to make everything accessible to everyone. Now new buildings are being built without ramps, washrooms that aren't wheelchair accessible... the gains of the '80s and '90s seem to be forgotten.
@howardhales6325 @howardhales6325 Can I ask what province or territory you live in? As a physical challenge individual, yes, we still we are still below the poverty line, but I thought MOST of the street where I live has accessible for individual.
False. It was Liberals who recently introduced the Accessible Canada Act giving disabled people many more rights. And it was conservatives who tried to block financial support and stronger policies to help disabled people during covid, conservatives stalled financial help for disabled people for months. Conservatives are the biggest problem in Canada for low income people, for disabled people, for seniors, for Aboriginal people, for the middle class.
The only problem with a leadership change is that idiotic people like Doug Ford from the Conservatives will get in instead. None of the parties are good enough to be in charge lately but at least the Liberals use "lube" when they bend us over and screw us. Conservatives just go in dry.
The stop of the name change to Dundas Square. Over 30,000 people signed a petition and the government just laughs it off because it was made on Change.
@@dewflower7298 the street and square are named after Henry Dundas who was apparently not against slavery. They are trying to rename after a place in Ghana which also doesn't have its fair name as it to is not a great name, also built on slavery. Dundas -Sankofa- Square
Sankofa. This area, which we now know as Ghana and the Ivory Coast, is where many (if not most) of those who were captured and sold into slavery bound for the “New World” originated. The word itself means, “to return and get it” (san - “to return”; ko - “to go”; fa - “to fetch, to seek and take”).
That whole licensing thing is no joke. As a tradesman with a red seal I can work anywhere including in the states, but not in Quebec or British Columbia unless I want to do their Provincial testing even though I have spent 4 years in school, 4 levels of government testing and done a red seal “inter-provincial” exam. But I can work outside of Canada no problem .. makes no sense
I agree to a certain extent, the trades should be a national licensing system, but that requires the training be consistent across the country, which is not true for some trades. This could be changed fairly well with inter-governmental agreement on standards.
@@ninemoonplanet I don’t know what a red seal is, so I’m not sure what the field is, but I feel like any attempt to get Quebec to standardize with the rest of the country is an impossible task 😅 it feels like they do it out of spite sometimes 😂
Don’t get me started on Quebec. In 2016 we were coming from another province and wanted to buy a property with 20 acres (8.1 hectares). We were told we weren’t allowed to buy anything over 4 hectares (9.8 acres) because we were not Quebec citizens (no Quebec income tax return)
The red seal program for electricians has been harmonized. All apprentices learn the same thing and carry their knowledge across provinces without missing out on anything. Red seal journeymen can work in any province. That's the entire point of the IP/red seal after all. Quebec might be different, but BC is not.
@@Lau3464l Well, you should know that we do not have the same law system as the rest of Canada, (you have the North American British Act, and we have the Napoleon civil code) that is one thing, so any dimensions (the laws use French foot system, not British foot system, just as an example), regulation and law are different in Quebec than the rest of Canada. Liabilities and laws are completely different so you have to learn them to do any construction, electrical, plumbing or any other trades. Also, I should remind you, that Anglo Canadians made sure that Quebec is NOT IN THE CANADIAN constitution and never will be because of Anglo Canadians, so why should we feel like we have to change anything to accommodate people that do not want us to be included and never did, to begin with, I never voted to separate nor did I ever think about it, but I am old enough to know that growing up the enemy were the Anglos, as a 7 YO I had to make detours to avoid being beaten by 17 Yo Anglos, going into a department store If I dared to speak French in the second biggest French city in the world, I was immediately made invisible and not being served, so yes we demanded to be treated as equal and we had to pay a very high price for it, but 1982 was the true revelation of how Anglo Canadian were to us. So we live in 2 different universes, because of the way it is.
A change to the rules of parliament. Currently, an MP can run as a candidate for one party and if they win their seat they can later decide to switch to another party without having to be elected into their seat, they just announce they are changing to the other party. If they want to move to a different party, they should be required to resign their seat and then run for the new party in a byelection for the seat.
@@ShawnHCorey If the multitude of liberal MPs set to lose their seats were really in Ottawa to represent their communities, they would have crossed the floor a year ago. Clearly their constituents are telling them they don't approve of the current govt, but those MPs keep toeing the line anyway. If all MPs were independent, your theory would hold water, but as is, MPs are mostly just another pawn on the board for their party leader.
@@Jarsia On paper, the MPs are independent. But they rely on their parties to help fund their campaigns. If they switch parties, there's no guarantee they'll get the same amount of funding.
@ShawnHCorey On paper. Did that riding I'm Quebec really want a teenager that didn't speak French well and had never been to the riding? Or did they vote NDP because they liked Jack Layton. To be fair to her, she did get reelected.
@@ShawnHCorey MPs are SUPPOSED to represent their riding. That isn't always the case. Regardless, they achieved their seat by running as a candidate for a specific party, they should be required to resign their seat and run as a candidate of the other party if they want to regain that seat. The alternative would be to have the election with none of the candidates saying which party they were running in and then finding out what the party was if they were elected.
The tax included in prices changed in 1991 when we switched from FST(Federal Sales Tax) to GST(Goods and Service Tax) which is a 5% sales tax on all goods and services not counting things like food and medicine but in the Maritimes and Ont it's like 13 to 15% then you have the PST(Provincial Sails Tax) unless your in Alberta they have no tax other then GST
The thing about taxes being part of the price is half true. Prior to 1989 (I remember the year because it was the same year my oldest was born) we had provincial sales tax and federal sales tax. The provincial sales tax amount varied from province to province and was added to the price. The federal sales tax was 13% of the wholesale price but was included in the price people saw on the price tag and most people didn't know they were paying it. But in 1989 the federal sales tax was replaced with the 7% Goods and Services Tax (GST). People hated the GST and one joke was that it stood for "Go Shop Tops". They thought it was a new tax and didn't realize that the amount of tax they paid would remain relatively the same because adding 7% at the till was replacing adding 13% when the store bought the product Then after a few years the federal government worked out deals with some of the provinces and in those provinces the GST and provincial tax were combined into the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) and each government took their cut. Here in Ontario the 8% PST and 7% GST were combined into a 15% HST, but that amount was later lowered
Canada has political donation caps federally as do some provinces like BC and Quebec. I believe it's $1,000 per person or company. I remember the first federal election after the changes were made, one big entity was giving the Conservatives a donation on behalf all of their employees. They were caught when the employees went to make their donation to the party of their choice and couldn't because they had already reached their limit. I wonder why.
I was born in 79 and don’t remember a time where taxes were included in the price. Having said that, I wasn’t really buying stuff before I was 12 years old.
The federal GST had always been included in prices in Canada as is the case still with the Value Added Tax in Europe. So in Europe what you see is what you pay. Mulroney implemented the GST for among other reasons to separate it out from the price of goods and services so we all would know what those taxes amounted to. You’re correct in that provincial sales taxes have always been added to the listed price to my knowledge, and I’m 60.
It's all relative. What is going on in the rest of the world has no bearing on the fact that we have families here that cannot afford food or rent for a place to live. It isn't complaining...it's concern. And if you aren't concerned about what's going on in this country, then perhaps you need to take another look.
@@swgroove most of the problems are Provincial; housing, welfare, education, health, the federal government can't do much or the Provinces start yelling about the feds getting into provincial jurisdiction
@@robertjulianagnel1100 The problems may be provincial, but the reason for the problems are federal. Are you honestly giving JT a pass on all of this? Haha. Please. The reason we are having record numbers of homeless families and a shortage of housing is because the liberals have let in a disproportionate amount of people...not to mention the crazy numbers of illegals and foreign students that are gaming the system and using the student visas to gain residency. This is strictly a federal issue and a huge mistake...but this is what the liberals have always done throughout history. The carbon tax is insane. It does nothing for the environment and it is a surge on the tax payer. They keep talking about how many people are getting money back. if you're one of them, good for you. I don't know w single person that has received one rebate. But it's a ridiculous tax anyway. Money grab to pay for things they have no business paying for. The federal government keeps sending money all o ver the world when we have massive issues at home. The root source is the federal government...then he says...hey..that's a provincial jurisdiction...nice cop out.
@@swgroove I didn't give Truddie a pass he is a sleaze but PP is no better, both are weak leaders. and neither is good for Canada and neither will get my vote.
@@swgroove Nobody is not concerned for what's happening in their country. What he's simply stating is that despite the problems Canada is facing at the moment, it still remains as one of the best countries in the world to live in. And thats a fact. He's just acknowledging that we have a lot of things far better than 80-ish percent of the world. I have Bangladeshi ancestry and I know for a fact that no Canadian or any westerner would want to move to Bangladesh. But I know that many Bangladeshis would move to Canada or any western country without hesitation. So no, it's not all relative.
Here in nova Scotia iur justice system is broken beyond belief. A close friend of mine was murdered by her husband and he did 1 year in a shrink ward and was then awarded full custody of there kid and given her life insurance pay out.
I believe the first one is referring to things like service charges and fees associated with certain purchases, like concert tickets, hotel rooms, etc. These types of things will often list a cost like $80 for example, and then when you’re going through checkout it has $40 service charge and $20 other fees and then the government tax on top, so will be entirely different than what it’s listed for. Same with hotels and things in certain places like Banff where there are always tourism levies as well. If it is just referring to government tax, I personally want to see that separately. I want to know what the actual item costs and then how much the government is taking from me in addition so I can shake my fist at them.
We have doctors from other countries driving taxi because their credentials are not recognized. Meanwhile we have a crisis with shortage of doctors. Simple solution is to give them whatever upgrading they need to practice here.
Same thing with nurses and other specialized medical pratitioners. Then you see the govm't recruit frim other countries and give them the needed passes to practice. But not if they are already here. Its mind boggling.
I agree with this to an extent. In other countries the educational requirements are not nearly as strict as they are here. I know for engineering for sure, there's not a lot of schools in Asia that are directly recognized in Canada. They typically require at least one semester of classes to get the extra education required to even begin to start the path to being a P.Eng in Canada. I don't want someone with subpar education practicing in a professional capacity. But I do agree we need to make it easier for them to access the upgrades they need to make it happen here!
This isn't the fault of the government, it is the medical association of doctors that made this rule and enforces it. In theory the government could pass a law to change this, but doctors would very likely protest, and maybe even go on strike, like they did in South Korea.
I know of Construction, so building a house in Mexico or even Florida is not at all the same as in Canada, here we have to take structural factors such as snow and ice, thermal insulation, and weather in all aspects, just to start, plumbing needs to be insulated and installed in a way that does not freeze, all things many countries do not care about because it does not apply to them. so in other practices, laws are a big factor as well, so I guess, if the doctors or any other professionals are willing to take the courses to perfect their knowledge, they will be accepted, but not just coming in and asking for a right to practice. even though the school systems in France and Quebec are not the same, a BAC in France is not the same as a first degree in a university here (BAC) , their BAC is the equivalent of a CEGEP degree. not the same at all.
I don't know how it works in other provinces, but here in Quebec, there are government run clinics called CLSCs. There's one pretty much in every neighborhood. They're free if you have a health card. There is a wait time for a family doctor, but not 3 years. And you can always use a CLSC for medical care, even for referrals to specialists. It's a service provided for everyone. I waited for a little over 8 months to get a family doctor. But the free clinic was always there. Last week I saw my doctor because I needed a referral to see a urologist. My appointment to see the urologist is next Wednesday. Maybe waiting 10 days to see a specialist is just too long for some people. If it's urgent, there's an ER.
It depends a lot on where you are. In my city, when I moved here and needed a doctor, I signed up for the system that connects you with a doctor and was assigned one in about 3 months. There are also walk-in clinics here if you don't have a family doctor. But in more rural and remote areas, it can be hard to attract doctors and they may not have walk-in clinics either.
Depends where you live. We have 10 doctors but some are part time, some have admin jobs in the hospital. We are a city of 11,000. In bigger cities they gave 1 Dr per 200 patients. Not many Dr wives want to live in an old mining town.
To enlighten the topic of free trade. There was a previous version that was established in 1995 known as "AIT". The revamped agreement, properly known as CFTA (THE CANADIAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 2017) Section 121 of the Constitution Act stated that "All Articles of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any one of the Provinces shall, from and after the Union, be admitted free into each of the other Provinces". Despite this, provinces could continue with pre-existing customs and excise laws on elements outside of this law.
Proportional representation does not mean there are areas underrepresented in parliament; it means there are _parties_ that are underrepresented. Without PR, if a region votes 40% Conservative, 30% Liberal, 20% NDP and 10% Green, there will be one seat filled by a Conservative MP. With proportional representation, the total percentage of votes across the whole country affects what parties get seats, so if the Green Party gets 10% of the vote nationwide, they get 10% of the seats, where they might get NONE under the current system.
19:20 I think they are talking about a tax called the Federal Sales Tax, FST which was something that went bye bye when NAFTA came into play I'm a senior and I dont remember EVER seeing our prices labelled like they do in Europe ie all inclusive. I believe all countries there have a VAT, or value added tax. I've always seen the cost of the item plus whatever taxes are added.
I completely agree. I'm 70 yrs old, and I don't ever recall seeing a price tag with the tax included. I've seen it in other countries, mainly Europe, but never in Canada.
We need referrals to specialists. The family Dr is only trained for minor things and the ability to diagnose so he/she can then refer tou to the correct specialist.
The worst in America is Citizens United. Canada does not have that and hopefully never will. I think that all lobbying should be recorded for prosperity and honesty
I was on the waitlist for a family doctor for 11 years from 18 until 29 years old in Quebec. They called me the week I moved in with my boyfriend (now husband) in Ontario and I had to tell them I moved and they took me off the list. Back onto the Ontario family doctor list (got one eventually) then moved back to Quebec and now on a waitlist again. I pay for my family doctor in Ottawa just so I can have a doctor I can go to when my kids are sick. Canadian healthcare is great but also could be better. Some things are good some things are BAD. For example our local hospitals have very long wait times in both Ontario and Quebec. When I was pregnant in Dec 2022 I waited 8 hrs to see a doctor at the ER because I was vomiting because of extreme morning sickness every hour on the hour and was dehydrated. When I was 2 months postpartum (after giving birth) to my second child in Sep 2023 I waited 10 hrs in the ER to see a doctor because I had a kidney stone (didn't know that's what it was at the time I'd never had one). So sitting in an ER for 10hrs straight in extreme unknown pain surrounded by other sick while trying to exclusively breastfeed my 2 month old in the ER waiting room while my husband watched our toddler was extremely unpleasant. Both of those visits were not something I could just make and appointment with my family doctor because it was after business hours. So yeah not great. BUT on the other hand I am visually impaired with a rare eye disease called Retinitis Pigrmentosa and ANYTHING related to my eye condition is taken very seriously and I'm sent to see all the specialist and all the eye doctors I need to help with my condition at no cost and in a timely fashion. So yeah emergency stuff not so great, routine things well it depends could be quick and good or slow and bad.
I agree with the opening statement about the price of good/services and how it should have the final price that you have to pay. When I buy something (other than essential food items which are tax free), I have to pay 15% tax, so I would LOVE to see the price on the store shelves be exactly what I'm going to pay at the cash register. That would be amazing! Cheers from 🇨🇦.
I was born in Ontario in 68 and lived here all my life. I don’t ever remember the taxes included in prices. I am all for that though. I just visited the UK and they are set up that way with the VAT. Your receipt shows the separated taxes. I really like that system.
We have a lot more monopolies because we are so sparsely populated the costs of individual suppliers would drive living costs up. Places like loblaws take a loss running stores up north and make up sort it in the south
18:56 in some European countries, the price on the sticker is what you pay at the cashier, but the receipt will tell you "Total: xyz Euros, Of Which, abc Euros is VAT (tax)" .... which makes more sense to me..... a very small percent of the population might be exempted from paying taxes; let those few people hang on to the receipt and claim it from the govt.!
@@jeffskfarmer7394 i thought other provinces had a unified form. There was talk of it in Québec, but there's no way our politicians would give ground to the federal level on this. Too hard to skim off the top, otherwise...
@@jeffskfarmer7394 In Quebec, it's a completely separate set of forms and we send that declaration to Revenu Quebec instead of the CRA. We also send a declaration, with the same forms as the rest of Canada to the CRA, but if you look at some forms or lines, there are some that are specific to Quebec, such as the "abattement" (whatever that means).
Phone plans are more expensive in Canada because they cover EVERYWHERE, (just about) & NOT just the place they can make the most money on as in the United States - that means they cover areas with almost no population in the 80% of our country with very few people. Since SOME Canadians live in that 80% region & even more visit/stay for a little in the 80% region, we need phone coverage there - even though it is NOT profitable to phone companies to do so. THAT is why we pay more. I remember during my last trip to the States in the 90s, I was expected to make a phone call back home. It turned out to be a problem! NOWHERE could I make a phone call - at the hotel or ANYWHERE in town - to TORONTO. I am NOT talking about some Northern place in Nunavut. I am talking about NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE A PHONE CALL TO TORONTO - a pretty populated, major city, just North of the country I was visiting! When I was shocked about this (& asked all of the places), I was told that they didn't cover Toronto - because "IT WASN'T PROFITABLE ENOUGH TO DO SO!" I have been in "3rd WORLD COUNTRIES, HALF-WAY AROUND THE WORLD!" & I have been able to call Toronto! - sometimes you have to wait around a bit - BUT YOU CAN DO IT! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WITH CORPORATE GREED & WHEN COMPANIES OWN & RUN POLITICIANS & THEREFORE GOVERNMENT. (The person I was with had their CANADIAN cell phone with us, so I was able to borrow that phone - & YES, USING THE CANADIAN phone system, I was ABLE to CALL SOMEONE IN CANADA. OUR phone system didn't care that we were in a place in the United States that virtually NO CANADIANS GO - so NOT PROFITABLE - BUT THEY COVERED THE CALL! The IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION is MORE IMPORTANT IN CANADA - as it SHOULD BE, JUST FOR SAFETY! - OVER profit!) CORPORATE GREED DOES NOT BENEFIT PEOPLE. (We are seeing this now with our grocery stores - who have [& CURRENTLY still ARE] price-fixing!)
This !!!! I had no idea about all of this but this makes so much sense !! You see in the American horror movies they always have no signal whatsoever ?? And I'm like ??? Dude wherever I go in Canada even the deepest rural areas I can still call ? Wth 😂 That seemed so unrealistic not having signal in 2024 with all our technology. Now I get it. And my mobile plan also can make calls from the US when I travel there no problem ! 😊
The U.S. has a similar issue when it comes to licenses. Some states don't recognize other states' licenses. If you want to see housing costs soar, let the GOVERNMENT get involved. Anything the GOVERNMENT touches skyrockets in price. Interest rates went through the roof, no pun intended, because inflation went through the roof because the GOVERNMENT went on a spending spree to appease the environmentalists that said if you DON'T spend money where we say you need to spend it we will vote you out of office. I have seen other videos where the Canadian and American healthcare systems are compared and the comments saying that the American system is better far outnumber those that say Canada's is better. Again, when the GOVERNMENT gets involved, quality goes down and costs increase. Doctors make much less in GOVERNMENT healthcare than private healthcare and drives many doctors into the PRIVATE system. Yes, I said private. Most countries that have universal healthcare provided by the government also have a private system for the RICH so they don't have to deal with the poor quality and wait.
A lot of these concerns come down to provincial government issues. As someone who has apprenticed in a trade, even when I complete my apprenticeship I need to complete a standardization test called a "red seal" exam which qualifies me for inter-provincial work in my trade. The trade of goods across province lines as well as standardized the list price come down to provincial taxes as well, each province has provincial taxes that differ from province to province
They have funding caps in the US to.... they just do not enforce it the same as we do here. Would be better to have either a ban on corpo donations of any kind, or the politician has to have all of their corporate doners patched on their suits nascar style!
Health care is not universal in Canada. Dental work, medications, holistic treatments, foot care, physiotherapy and acupuncture, optometry (eye care), ambulance services, none of which are covered in Canada unless you have health insurance. With insurance you usually end up with what you Americans would refer to as a co-pay (which is paid after you receive service) or when you receive an invoice. Our insurance refers to co-pays as a deductible. These things are very expensive in Canada. For me personally, is affordable housing. When you buy a house hear you can only lock in for five years at the current rate. After the five years, you pay the going interest rate at that time.
The only place or instance where the price listed includes sales tax is the LCBO. The gov't operated liquor store, which is a monopoly. Here in good old Ontario only the gov't can retail spirits. This makes it the largest spirits purchaser at least in NA, and also the most expensive. I can't afford to be an alcoholic if I wanted to.
The LCBO being a government run monopoly means they have no profit motive. They charge only what markup is necessary to keep the lights on and the workers employed. The rest of the price is all excise taxes. I guarantee that privatizing liquor sales would cause prices to increase, not decrease. Also gas stations have all taxes included on the price displayed at the pump, but the receipts must break out the HST included.
The licensing issue actually has good resson. Very different laws and policies in each province. The US has the same issue (each State works differntly, legally). Any profession needs to apply for licensing across state/provincial boundaries because of different laws across borders.
The trade barriers between provinces is a bit ridiculous in fact. I live in Ontario and I can easily find fruits from all around the world but finding something from British Columbia for example is nearly impossible. It's actually illegal to purchase alcohol in one province with the intention of consuming it in another province. a few years back a man from New Brunswick went to Quebec and purchased, a year's worth of beer and whiskey. He was charged and fined but he decided to fight it, the case went all the way up to the supreme Court of Canada. They upheld the charges and the man was made to pay the fine.
8:38 Potentially_Canadian is referring to trades that fall under provincial jurisdiction. If a nurse moves to BC and wants to work for the province and the province is going to be responsible for said nurse, then BC is going to want to make sure the said nurse knows wtf they're doing. Liability is at stake.
Affordable housing is the most relevant thing in this video for me as an 18 year old. Between 2020 and 2024, most houses went from 150k-300k to 400k if you're lucky, unless you want to live far far in the countryside
CRA has no idea if you have allowable expenses/deductions on your return. Nor do they know how much rent/mortgage you pay that would count towards your monthly/quarterly benefits. Download a free tax program and you can do your taxes in less than 30 minutes.
The reason we have the licensing and trade barriers is the nature of our confederation. Before Canada, each colony had autonomy under the British Crown. Part of the deal when we agreed to form a united country was that the provinces maintain some of that autonomy. This means that each province has its own medical licensing systems, motor vehicle licensing systems, etc. As well as an ability to protect their provincial interests in trade. We are not really a country, we are, like Americans a group of united individual states. Thats why many things are the way they are and why Quebec (or any other province) can leave anytime they decide to.
The worst part is, if they included the fees and taxes on the list price they could round them up and make extra money and the clientele would be none the wiser. We have online filling for taxes and if you know what you are doing you can be done in 20min, first time might take you 2-3 hours. Trudeau must go would be top of the list for Canadians.
Yeah, for most people it takes like 10 minutes to do your taxes, and with the online systems you can log in and have it automatically fill in all the info the CRA already has so you only have to add in anything the CRA doesn't already know about. I actually am amazed every year at how well it works and how easy it is. Now my husband's small business taxes... that is a chore. Re: Trudeau, it's currently 68% who would like Trudeau to step down, so not quite the 80% threshold. And much less agreement on who should step up.
The trade barriers, are some provinces have ZERO alcohol sales privately and you have to buy from the province, that an lottery tickets, for specific provinces. When the tax from lottery goes to that province, and some provinces want to keep their money for their services. Its mainly on government taxed and controlled goods, not on normal goods.
I worked at a store 30 years ago that did combine the taxes into the price to show the overall price for everything in the store. It was a nightmare repricing everything in the store when they set up a new tax the GST, Goods and Service Tax. The store went under in less than a year due to everyone assuming that our prices were higher. Even with the break down.
@@justinleonard6183 Lack of refining for one. Most of our oil has to go through the US to get to the population centres from Ontario east. Also, most of the reserves are foreign owned, and we have to pay world prices. We had a national oil company once (PetroCan), but the government sold it, along with our national railway (CN) and airline (Air Canada).
For taxes at least in Ontario you just multiply by 1.13 to get the total… cus tax is 13% unless you’re buying food as in groceries (not snacks) food in general has no tax.
Good video. T4 is a piece of paper that your employer gives you once a year that says how much you made and how much taxes you already paid. A lot of people don't have a family doctor and rely on walk in clinics. I don't remember taxes included in the price. That must have been very early 80s, not 90s. Also, a lot of monopolies in various goods and services, if not straight-up monopolies, then one huge company or crown corporation, and a few dinky ones.
Including taxes and fees in the ticket price would mean they could be raised without the consumer being aware…the percentage and amount would not be on the receipt. Also, some customers are exempt from some taxes and fees.
You have barriers to protect and preserve local good like wine or foods so businesses in your province or even state have a chance to survive. In America they give peanut farmer subsidies. It’s won’t go away because of local regions need to protect there assets.
When the federal sales tax was introduced, the law allowed prices to be posted with or without the tax included. Some major chains included it while others didn't. The public found it confusing because they had difficulty comparing how much an item was at each store. In turn, the retailers who included the tax felt they were at a disadvantage because many in the public thought those stores were charging more than the ones who didn't include the tax. Slowly, all stores shifted to not including the tax and that has remained to this day. Stores still have the option to display the prices tax in but lack the courage to start the switchover. Chimo
Alberta DID have a tax, but that was back in the 1930's... So I can't blame you for not knowing that. And GST has been around since the early 1990s. But at some point that will bite your province in the ass, once the oil royalties start to dry up. The government always should have been charging a nominal PST rate to put into a slush fund for when you guys might need it.
The whole tax mess we’re in right now with people needing to pay back CERB and unexpectedly not getting the refunds they were expecting is infuriating.
I took a ride to the hospital in an ambulance last night. I'm good though. I think the ambulance ride costs $40. But they gave me a voucher to pay for the cab ride home. I didn't see that coming.
I live in the largest city in Canada and next month I get to see the heart specialist that I was referred to by my GP in January 2023. Our healthcare is not great.
Licensing is usually regulated by the various provincial boards and organizations. It's fairly easy to get or transferred your license for other provinces but you have to pay your regulatory board fees and some regulations are different between provinces example engineering in Ontario doees not require continued education but Alberta engineering license does. Honestly it's just small irritations. I'd definitely say housing, oligopolies are definitely a problem. I think most would also want a change in how our government elects our mp's.
PP has never had a job other than being a politician. professional politicians like him and Trudeau are the reason we have bad public policy. these guys never had to get up at 6am to catch a bus to work, never had to decide if we pay a bill our get the kid a birthday present. both are part of the Canadian 1%s
I have ALWAYS believed that we should NOT have interprovincial trade barriers! We are a FANTASTIC country - with TONS of bounty - from fishing, oil, agriculture, gems & minerals, manufacturing, lumber, maple etc. IF we PULLED TOGETHER & SHARED OUR PROVINCIAL BOUNTIES with the REST of the country - BEFORE going for higher profit in foreign markets - we may NOT be as wealthy in dollars, but we WOULD be MUCH better off IN LIFE, as Canadians, as a WHOLE - & THAT'S the way we should be.
It sucks that when I want to buy a BC wine in Ontario it’s not available, or it’s vastly more expensive than a French wine. The tax comment was misleading. The GST was traditionally embedded in the price (like the VAT in Europe) until the Mulroney government implemented it to improve transparency, among other policy objectives. Those provinces with PST always added the taxes before the GST was implemented.
Canada's electoral system does not use proportional representation. It's actually similar to the electoral college, except that our 'electors' go on to form the government as Members of Parliament or Provincial Parliament. The leader of the party with the most elected MPs or MPPs becomes prime minister or premier. So sometimes a party might win the popular vote but not become the governing party. For instance, in both the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, the Conservatives won the popular vote, but the Liberals won more parliamentary seats and therefore won the election.
the same happens in provincial elections, in Quebec, if you live in Montreal, your vote is equivalent to half a vote at best, as the regions have twice the power for every vote, Montreal region is half the population of Quebec but gets 25% of the seats, so the Prime Minister is rarely one in favour of doing anything to help Montreal, the proof is the last 2 elections, the regions got all the power Montreal has no voice, yet 75% of the revenue comes from Montreal area.
Canada has a Westminster Parliamentary system, based on the Parliament of England. Citizens vote in their ridings for Members of Parliament to represent their riding in the House of Commons. The candidate with the most votes wins the seat. The party that wins the most seats becomes the government, and their leader becomes Prime Minister (PM), as stated. The second place party becomes the Official Opposition, and its leader becomes Opposition Leader (OL). After election, the PM appoints members to his Cabinet to manage the government ministries, and also Speaker of the House to preside over the proceedings of the House. The OL also appoints a cabinet of official critics. Most of the debates and questions are between these cabinet members. There is also an upper house, The Senate, which plays the same role as the British House of Lords, and must approve all bills from the House of Commons before they may become law. Senators are also appointed by the PM. Most provinces have long since abolished their upper houses. Finally, we have a Governor General, the head of state, standing in for the reigning British monarch, who calls the government, reads the Throne Speech (an outline of the goals and directives of the new session) at the beginning of Parliament, and dissolves Parliament when it's time for the next election. This is an old system that has served us well, and while it is not perfect, no country has a perfect system.
Empty condos are rampant here in the greater Vancouver regional district (GVRD), and the civic, provincial and federal governments refuse to fully address it. Most of the empty condos are foreign owned.
There are some fields in which companies have to agree to the laws of both province to do business. The best example that comes to mind is construction and financial security companies. A construction company is stuck in his province because the laws of construction are not the same from one province to another. Financial Security companies work like that as well. But, yep, if you're a licenced whatever in a province, you can only work in your province. There are deals between some provinces though. In Canada, we don't have a standardized Federal Security and Exchange Commission, it's on a by-province basis so insurance and financial companies are stuck in their province. Depending on the type of business, some fall under the provincial authority and others fall under the federal authority. You gotta read the Canadian Constitution, lol, it's very different than how you guys work in the US. The provinces are totally sovereign in their fields of power. Even internationally, provinces have to be included in discussions. In Canada, businesses are not allowed to give money to political parties, so they influence by lobbying and by becoming members of some political parties. It's not as bad as in the US.
Ummmm. I don't remember taxes EVER being included in the price in Canada, and I also am old enough to remember. Dinindalael is wrong, at least in his time line (I can't verify it wasn't included in the 60s or before, but I don't think it was - definitely not in the 70s, 80s or 90!). Britain has a 19% tax!!!! But it's already included in the price, so what you see is what you pay. So much easier to work with.
Most of Europe already includes sales tax in the sticker price. It makes perfect sense. On the family doctor issue ... I'm not the only Canadian who hasn't had a regular doctor since the early 1990s.
I don't know much about the licensing issue, but I do know that there are different laws in each province so there would need to be some "education" when you relocate, but is it enough to require a new license I don't know. I think they meant more modular than you did on the "proportional representation" We have, like you mentioned, representation by population, so... I'm guessing they meant something more like it Party A gets 25% of the votes they get 25% of the seats, not the one person running who got 40% of the vote while others got less (say 3 opponents at 30, 20, and 10%) wins, but the party. But maybe I'm putting my "understanding" of how things work over what they are saying and misunderstanding them.
Seriously? Some Canadians can't figure out what the tax would be and do the math in their head? Every province has different sales tax so each province would have to price their own items, which make it difficult for large companies that sell goods in several provinces. They'd have to price items separately for each province before shipping them. Just do the math. It's good to use. your brain. And what trade barriers exist between provinces? I've never heard of that and I've lived in Canada for all of my 63 years. Oh, and CRA does not know how much you owe. They have no idea what deductions you have, i.e. charitable donations, tuition paid, etc. My husband does our taxes online every year and it only takes him an hour or so in an evening. Not really a chore and only once a year.
There are trade barriers for alcohol (wine, spirits and beer), marijuana, cigarettes, and some products with instruction manuals not translated in french (for Quebec only). Here in Quebec, we cannot order wine on the Internet other than on the SAQ website. Those barriers generally have to do with the government of each province imposing special taxes and base prices. As an example, in Quebec, you cannot have a promotion on beer saying 50% rebate on all 12 packs, because you cannot sell a 12 pack under a given price determined by the government. It's the same for milk and bread. For the CRA not knowing how much you are owed, it could easily be determined. For many deductions, you have forms that are sent to the CRA and you. If you make a donation, you get a receipt. The charity then sends a copy of that receipt to the CRA in one form or another. The CRA could easily know if you are married or single. There are laws for people living in a civil union about the time they have to live together to be considered in a civil union. They already know all of that based on your adresse and where they send your documents. They know if you are the parent of a kid and if you have custody. They generally know if you have RRSP and such placements because the bank also sends the CRA documents and forms about it. In fact, there is very little things that the CRA does not already know or couldn't easily determine based of the information they receive during the year. Such cases could be filed differently. Over 50% of Canadians live from paycheck to paycheck. It means those people have a T4 at the end of the year and not much else. Their taxes could be done very easily by the CRA.
@@danylatulippe So CRA knows how much some people earn. But the amount of work it would take to do everyone's tax return for them, taking into consideration charitable donations, tuitions, etc. would mean they would have to hire more staff to do that work. That would likely mean that taxes would go up in order to pay these extra public servants. As for alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana ... it's not like there's any urgency to remove trade barriers for those. It's not like they are necessities.
@@kflowersmith for CRA, everything is digitized. Computers could easily do tqxes for most Canadians. Indeed, they are not necessities, so that's why most people don't really care. Trade restrictions are still there even though they should not, within the same country.
In Europe, the VAT (Value Added Tax) works different from country to country, yet they all manage to include the tax in the displayed price. So no calculating is required at the till. The price you see is the price you pay. Could be done in the USA and Canada, but the powers that be choose to keep the cumbersome old system of adding taxes and fees at the till.
@@danylatulippe The CRA does not normally have access to your information from other departments and agencies. There are privacy laws that must be followed, and departments and agencies can't share your personal information without your consent.
We used to have hidden tax in manitoba, but people were always griping because our prices were so much higher , not getting that other places had tax added, it became a provincial election issues, and we git tax added
The Federal Government approved the merger between Shaw and Rogers (internet) and Shoppers Drugmart and Loblaws (grocery). They could have chosen not to. The Federal NDP told them not to. On paper, our campaign financing laws are better than the USA's. There are spending limits - how much a party can spend during elections. The thing is nothing happens when they do break the rules.
As far as Taxes go, I was blown away when I temporarily worked in New Zealand. Log into a Government website, review your income, which has already been reported by the employer, hit "I agree with this" and confirm where your surplus/deficit gets applied to. I was done in less than an hour, and it only took that long because I was unfamiliar with it.
What about all the deductions we are allowed. Especially for sole proprietors but even regular folks. Rental income, income from planes, yachts on lease arrangements. Investment income/expenses. I am done in less than an hour to, I use Quicken Online, many of the T slips are on line now.
