What’s wrong with Montreal? 

It's a nice city, but I agree with the Moroccan , there is discrimination unfortunately sorry to say but that's true , priority is given to local French 100% fact , and not much Jobs for those who don't know French It was the biggest city once upon a time because of separatists anglo left Montreal , and today, Toronto twice the size of Montreal. Thanks to separatists.

​​​​@@satellitekhan2300 "yeah", go to New York, or London, or Los Angeles, and demand a management position (in any place of employment), just because you are a graduate of l'Université de Paris, or l'Université de Montréal, see "how well that would go" for you; also, you Can Always Leave Montréal, if living in a city where French Is The Main Language Of Communication, is such a big issue for you!

@Marius Matei I've been to New York many times , and you see all kinds of people doing all kinds of jobs in NY , you are not aware of New York sorry. I've also been to Toronto again all types of people are doing all Jobs , in Montreal 90% of STM drivers are french, am I right ??? , In MTL, 95% police officers are French white , construction French white , fire fighter 100% french and white , ambulance drives 100% french and white and list goes on

@Marius Matei Sorry but French people in Montreal are Xenophobic very sorry but it's true , I'm not generalizing.

​@@satellitekhan2300 so, in other words you're unemployed? Also, the (Moroccan) guy from the video wasn't talking about any type of job (at all); he wanted a (top) management position!

On dirait que la vie serait beaucoup moins stressant si t'as jeté ton char. Aucun de ces problèmes me derange 🚴‍♂🚇🚌

@@toastsandwich2862 I wish! West Islander problems 😟 Maybe in the future

BMW Bus Metro Walk

@@tehDanielRuiz Well the West Island roads aren't at all managed by the actual city of Montreal. Each municipality there takes care of that.

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Affordable housing was always a huge advantage for Montreal and made the city a wonderful place to live. It will be sad if things get worse.

The govt faux in all level creative the problems and keep destroying the city...

same - as an anglo immigrant from Australia who chose to move here and start a family, i now feel like our rights and wellbeing are increasingly threatened by the inability to use english in urgent situations; like healthcare for our infant daughter. We are highly skilled immigrants with PR, initially invited by the province for work in our industry which has a huge shortage. Despite being on the other side of the world from family, we still chose to settle in Montreal because it's such a fantastic place. But because of recent language laws we're actually considering leaving the province altogether. It all just leaves us feeling a bit uneasy and unwelcome. To be clear we highly support french too, it's part of why we love the city. It's interesting that from an objective outsider's experience with no prior knowledge of the province's language history, we arrived highly enamoured and eager to learn french to assimilate fully. But the government's hostile and oppressive attitude has actually had the opposite effect, to the point we are reluctant to stay. I think they really miss the point that the abundant bilingualism is what makes this part of the world so special and unique.

@@justathumb All I have to say is AMEN! Please know that you and yours are very welcome here, don't let small-minded arseholes drag you down.

@@justathumb Very well said from someone looking in (not born here) your response is spot on 👍🏾

Yes, according to some in the video, MTL would be a better place without those francophones who refuse to speak English and insist on living differently.

Who invited you here 😂

French is an annoying and useless language. People from montreal want to speak english

I mean, according to the political and social framework of Canada, that IS racism and hate. Nobody has any right to expect everyone else to think and speak like them. Everyone should be free to speak their own language. Immigrants should not be turned away strictly based on their native language. The government should not purposely make access to services more difficult based on your language, or DEMAND that you not practice your own native language. Quebec is practicing open, explicit racism. If "Canada" were equally as obsessed with social cohesion and identity, they would remove all the special privileges afforded to Quebec and force them to speak English.

@@Schlabbeflicker I disagree, more diversity in a country is good. I'm glad French is spoken in Quebec, it gives it its own unique flair. There's enough people speaking English in the world as it is.

@@mothball2802 Every Prime Minister ever elected doesn’t have a problem with immigration except Legault & his party. And guess what? The next Prime Minister won’t have a problem either.

Yes we actually pay twice to get health care but people still seem to think our system is ''free''. People are delusional.

The healthcare here is humiliating

The addition of the big University research centers haven't done anything as far as waiting time is concerned. As a matter of fact, things got worst in the '90s and the early 2000s. One was a policy of the PQ's Pauline Marois when she was the Health Minister. "Le virage ambulatoire" was supposed to send more nurses to the neighborhood clinics. Thereby taking some pressure off the hospital emergencies. It was a good idea at first, but when came time to implement the second phase of the policy, there wasn't quite enough money in the budget to do it well. Considering the fact that when it comes to nurses and their working conditions, there's NEVER enough money in the budget! For the change to be efficient, there was a need for "super nurses". They would be able to act as a doctor in certain well defined areas. Either they would need a bachelor's degree, which would take a few years, or they could be given an equivalence depending on the number of years they had been a nurse, and in what department they had practiced nursing. For that, the complete participation of the doctors was essential. Doctors being very jealous of their God like status in hospitals, there was a lot of resistance, especially from the "old guard". Long story short, things never worked out the way they were intended to, the PQ lost the next election to Jean Charest's Liberals, and Dr Philippe Couillard became the Health Minister. He had other ideas on how to fix the system and, unsurprisingly, those ideas didn't fit with the PQ's policy. The budgets for the second phase never made their way to the clinics. Not enough doctors participated and there weren't enough "super nurses" for a few years to make a difference. Couillard's solution was to allow more private clinics to enter the system. Perfectly in tune with Conservative thinking. Government is incompetent. The private sector can do everything better and cheaper. Supposedly... Except that's just not true. If a clinic sees it's not making profits when it does X Y or Z. They're just gonna stop doing it! On top of that, many doctors and nurses left the public clinics and hospitals where they had been working, in favor of the new private clinics thinking their salary and working conditions would be much better. Which wasn't the case. Again the transition wasn't well implemented. The system lost 5000 very experienced nurses in the first year! Seeing their working conditions not get better and unable to go back to the public system because they had resigned, thereby losing their years of seniority, they chose early retirement, and here we are today... My mom was a nurse, and I have many friends that work in healthcare. A few years ago, I found out that Couillard had allowed more medical acts to be performed in private clinics. They got permission to perform surgeries that weren't minor at all, and for which the clinics need the very expensive machines you find in hospitals, which are paid for with our tax dollars. Private clinics not wanting to invest THEIR OWN money, and having a "friend" in the system in the person of the Minister, they negotiated with Couillard (who had money invested in private clinics himself!) a sweet deal! They would have exclusive access to those publicly funded machines for a certain number of hours per week. So now, when we're told by a public hospital that we can't have an appointment before 6 months. It's not because the resources aren't there. It's because some of the equipment needed is tied up with private clinics. It comes in conflict with the number of hours the private clinics have exclusive access! So even if the machines aren't necessarily in use by said clinics, they're not available to the public at large because they can't schedule appointments during those periods of time.There could be double booking of the equipment. Also, since the hospitals aren't supposed to use that equipment during those periods of time, they don't staff those departments like they would usually do. They don't want to pay salaries to people who might end up not being able to work in some of those periods, because a clinic is using the equipment for 4 hours of an 8 hour shift!!! That's the problem with the hybrid system we have today. On paper, it was supposed to remove pressure from the hospitals. What has happened instead is MORE pressure on the available equipment and staff! Which in turn is having a very negative impact on the staff's working conditions, so their moral is going down. There are more burnouts, and so on and so forth... Sorry for the length of the comment. It's a complicated issue and it's important to understand the situation. Conservative planning is to render the government unable to function as it should, so as to appear incompetent and wasteful! Then the benevolent private sector would swoop in and save the day! This is happening at every level of government. Weather municipal, provincial or federal, the same type of situation shows up in one way or another. More and more jobs are sub-contracted out to the private sector, and the rest is history... The salary is often superior, but there are less benefits and retirement isn't as good. It saves a bit of money to the government in the beginning, but in the long run, it's going to end up costing more. The private sector won't do something they can't turn into profit. But eventually, if that thing isn't profitable but is essential never the less, who do you think is gonna end up picking up the slack??? You and I thru our tax dollars!! Can you tell I'm against ALL privatization of any part of what the government does at the moment?

Partially why I left the province

Thanks Andres!

There is even a bank with your surename heeheh

Montreal is absolutely incredible!

Word of a advice from a born and raised Montrealer: if you want all of your dreams and goals to die literally, move here. There is no future here and unfortunately this city is declining at an uncontrollable rapidity. There is zero advancement here.

@@missgeorgina5338 What is the cause of the decline, in your opinion? Thanks.

@@missgeorgina5338 Your right. All these people saying different aren't even born or raised here 🤔

I'm black, I lived my whole life here and I approve what the Moroccan said, a lot of compagny will put white people to position like manager or director, even if they don't have a degree while minorities, even if they have a Phd, will still get stuck at the bottom. I saw it all my life, and still continue to see this injustice up to this day.

What the gentleman said is true. If you are from a visible minority you’ll suffer to get a decent job other than general labour in Montreal, even if you have a high degree. It’s so sad but it’s the truth

Just a victim who needs to cry and complain. Moreover just look at him and his way of dressing and you easily can see the type...

@@nitram9646 Wow wow wow! You’re judging someone based on what he’s wearing. That also tells alot about you.

@@aminachark9692 if you say so I don't give a damn

Talking to strangers mexico edition? :p

@@TheNewTravel ooohh now that would also be superb. Why not? Let's do this!

J’aime pas le mierdique j’prefere videos au Pérou :).

They don't like us 🤣 Cause we're not a fully "French" city.

Legault c't'un criss de cave! Y va bin finir par perdre une esti d'élection, tabarnak! Québec Solidaire all the way esti!

French is grotesque.

Oh please ! This is peanuts compared to what has happened the other way around ! Do you think Americans cared when they destroyed Irak, or when the Brits destroyed India or the Acadians ? No. Karma's a bitch : what goes around, comes around.

Are you stupid or a collaborator? At least 95% of Anglos want the French language to disappear and they have the greatest contempt for you.

@@jean-francoismorin9337 Tout a fait Camarade

Idk about well maintained lol maybe in the bigger cities.

And it's actually very representative of what reality is: people, anglo and franco, trying to speak to the other one in their mother tongue or congratulating them for their effort in speaking the other language. Of course, there are people to ruin that and medias push to make us believe it's the majority and instill fear and separation between us. I love these kind of videos because it shows that we have more respect for each other than what it's portrayed in the media.

I am a bilingual Anglo born in Montreal General Hospital in 1961. I still live within 30 km of the city and it used to be much more ‘cosmopolitan’ and diverse. Like a mini New York. French should be used officially. But unlike the rest of Quebec is that what makes Montreal special is it’s diversity and what makes the rest of Quebec special is it’s unique culture as the largest population of Francophones outside France. So in short Montreal should Qualify for special laws within Quebec. It’s almost half the population of the province and the economic engine of the province.

she's a racist old fool

@@johngore7744 The Democratic Republic of Congo has 96 million inhabitants and it is a French-speaking country. So they have more population than in France. And other French-speaking countries where there is a lot more population than in Quebec there are plenty.

@@thomasharter8161 true 👍

The french spoken in Louisiana will be hardly understood by a french from France because it's a mixed creole/french language but you're right more and more american borned in Louisiana want to recover their ancient roots....

Amazing to see actual self awareness from our friend down there, Bonne journée !!

@@lesamisdelacuisineprovenca9534Its all a question to get used to it, like any languages.

Louisiana french and quebecoise will not disappear any time in the near future. I don't get why people get all up in arms then promote bullshit like "speak English in America!" I was born in an area the was part of Spain, then México, and then was taken over by the gabachos. Many centuries of history and we still speak Spanish. I am proud to be able to speak it fluently. I know for damn sure Spanish isn't going to disappear, even when a lot of the youth seem embarrassed to learn, or their parents don't teach them to in order to avoid racism or prejudice. Our languages, including English will still be thriving. If y'all want to talk about languages or cultures that are definitely disappearing, look at many of the native languages.

@@lesamisdelacuisineprovenca9534 We understand it just fine, it's definitely not creole.

You're always welcome my friend. Tu es le bienvenu mon cher!

also Mainer 6 hours away. just visited and I had a fantastic time, go for it!

You argued with Québécoise for 2-3 years???? Are you crazy? Hahaha! Thanks from a Québécois 🥰

exactly

Les socialistes de montréal moi jvais te dire je suis pu capable. C'est vraiment l'île aux rats.

@@terreur4631 😀😃

Oui, je suis d'accord🆗

@@terreur4631 7gv

speak English loser

Si t'es francophone, je suggère que tu retournes à l'école .

Doesn't help that the city removed most of the garbage bins. Surely to save on the staff costs 🙄

Aucunement, beaucoup de préjugés mensonger

Trump vilify everybody.

As a child of first generation Korean immigrants I agree. It is unjust to let illegal immigrants break the law and then give them services paid for by our taxpayer money which is meant to serve the citizens. To not enforce the law is an insult to the many immigrants who went through so much just to do everything correctly.

In Canada, there are no rules, and even fewer consequences. The Supreme Court ruled this past week that non-citizens arrested for a violent crime cannot be deported until convicted. And guess who pays for the lengthy court case that usually sees them get off on a technicality, presuming it even goes to trial? The Canadian taxpayer, that's who.

Agree…. It was hell😢

I was 14 with a fractured orbital and zygomatic bones, they made me wait 12h in ER lmao

@@potatopoison1130 so sorry to hear that! I hope you're better now.

@@denizsezenakademi yeh most deffinetly just goes to show our health care system is mad flawed

@@potatopoison1130 that's insane, imagine how many people died because of the wait time alone? Free healthcare in this country is a joke.

Quebec city

I took a class at McGill called income inequality and we talked about how Montreal has a proven hiring discrimination towards Arab sounding names. Like the exact same cv with a white Franco name is more likely to get hired than if they put a Arab name on it and change nothing else

Even with a Canadian degree, there is discrimination. My husband is Arab (with a very Arab name) and he got two Canadian degrees, but barely saw any upward mobility at the bank (and he always had outstanding performance reviews). One of my best friends, who is European is pretty high up in the banking world and has told me most people on the "upper floors" are white. She even knows that she was favoured for being white because her hiring manager (an Indian guy) preferred white women. It's just the way the cookie crumbles. So my hubby started his own financial firm and is very successful now. But it's true that you have to pave your own way when you are POC. No disillusions. Ignoring the racism is part of the problem.

C'est la reconnaissance des diplomes mais ça ce n'est pas qu'à Montréal. C'est dans la province entière. C'est au gouvernement du Québec qu'il faut se plaindre. Des délégations sont envoyées dans différents pays pour recruter des gens mais quand ils arrivent au Québec, ils ont de la difficulté à se trouver un emploi car leurs diplomes ne sont pas reconnus.

@@511Colin I mean, sure, but that is true everywhere. I remember seeing two similar studies, one from the UK and from the US. Both had more or less the same name: Is it easier for John/Jake to get a job than it is for Jameel/Tyrone?

@@pratiquetonespagnol452 Et ce n'est pas qu'au Québec, mais au Canada, aux ÉU, au Royaume Uni etc. Et parfois, il y a de bonne raisons pour ne pas reconnaitre les diplomes. Je me souviens d'une discussion avec un étudiant étranger en médecine du Brésil qui disait que son cursus et le notre étaient très différents. Le leur comportait une plus grande portion sur les maladies tropicales et sur les blessures par balles et par armes blanches, mais beaucoup moins sur le cancer, le diabète, la vieillesse.

Merci

Montreal is kind of like Europe in that way. They even have ‘bring your own wine’ to restaurants. Not like Puritanical rest of the country.

You need to thank vos Monsieur Trudeau et son WEF capos.

And we have a woke mayoress who wants to eliminate all cars and doesn’t do a single thing about the housing problem. We don’t have enough places to house everyone but she wants more migrants, making the problem even worse. We also have a big homelessness crisis that she just ignores.

You have a point! There is a difference between reasoned immigration and invasive immigration where the state cannot manage the massive inflow of different people not ready to integrate. I remember a time when immigrants came here, full of hope and the will to PARTICIPATE in building society, not impose their values. Today, all we get is DEMANDS.

I’m planning to leave…..lol

@@maralgarabedian8277 why? And if so are you renting an apartment? I’m having trouble finding one right now. It’s like they’re making it tougher for people who want to move there.

Montreal is cheap because everyone who isn't Québécois and French speaking find the city and its politics unbearable.

Peel pub 💪🏾

That's from your own anecdotal experience and doesn't reflect the real statistics that have been gathered about the topic. In short-the guy is right.

@@mikeamber2528 well mine it was the same in my factory my warehouse and my refrigerirated ware house was 50 50 except in my new job where only white are boss but most come from outside montreal and the job is outside montreal

@@mothball2802 his anecdotal experience matched what scientific studies find. that's the difference.

Quand ils disent "speak white " cela mérite un coup de pied au luc .

Canada without Quebec is U.S.A light.

@@redMaple_QC Definitly not. The healthcare and other social things , make the difference.

@@holger_p Hence the "light"

@@redMaple_QC Than you can also say, Quebec is France, with different roads and architecture. The public transport is also a good copy.

Montreal it's ok...but the rest of the province is racist

I wish someone would be this young Arab’s mentor. Get this silly white superior syndrome out of his head

2nd generation immigrant tend to act like victim of racism when they probably lived a lot less racism and general problem than their parents or even their grandparents wich didn't immigrated

key word, you "visited", its a different reality if you live here and are immigrant/children of immigrants

@@lilxsad5430 facts 💯

because its all ran by the mob, they bribe govt officials and they should be investigated

You can thank the PQ and bill 101 for that!

I mean of course the city is going to be French forward since the vast majority of people are native French speakers, but it is nice how Bilingual the city is as well. Bilingualism is rising in Anglophones in the rest of Canada, but they have a long way to go, but hopefully as French immersion and as French universities in Toronto and Alberta get more popular, the French learning and resident French speaking populations of those places can continue to grow and spur on further bilingualism in those areas.

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As if no anglos in Québec speak French. I'm bilingual, yes, I have a problem with certain laws, and no, I won't be leaving my home. Mais merci pareille! 😊

@@KRL1999 I never said no anglos in Quebec speak French! Don't put words in my mouth... If you don't appreciate why francophones in Quebec are protective of their language, then you don't deserve to live in la belle provence... 😉

​@@KRL1999 From what I gather, what I believe he was actually saying when he said "anglos" as in "anglophones".

You didn't learn 'Paris' french. You learned basic french, the exact same french that I learned as a francophone in school in Ontario. The same way English Canadians learn basic English. 'Paris' french is like saying that one speaks 'London' English. There is no such thing. Québec french is the same language as the one spoken in France (with some regionalisms and a different accent). If you learned the basics properly, all you have to do to improve it, is to converse often with your fellow Québécois.

Its being asked since long time but more pressing issues and scandal took it on the back

Again, double standard against the Quebecois from an anglophone. They have no obligation whatsoever to provide YOU with free classes. It's quite entitled to think so, or to assume this is what will make the language survive. You just want to learn the language to benefit yourself in the end. Do you not think you should pay for this service? The quebecois society will continue to exist in French regardless, they don't need an anglo savior or whatever.

What a big Whale. Please, leave Québec

But like why tho? They wanna keep their French culture and French speakers but they’re doing nothing about it. Even if it’s Montreal, it’s still Canada. Of course people mostly speak English. This is why I hate Montreal. Loved being there and grew up in Montreal but people are just stupid and being racist. Too many racist in Montreal

Not like LA at all!! And there's no chance the police are gonna do what LA cops do! Don't get me wrong, our cops are still cops. Cop is gonna do what cops do. But they're not American cops. They're Quebec cops. Makes a difference. Plus our governments aren't corporate owned and our social network and community organizations keep an eye on them. I know. That's what I do. Outreach work with vulnerable populations.

It's a province thing, not only in Montréal. I'd say the advantage of being in Montréal is there's a lot pf clinics close by, but you'll need to look a lot to find one

Yeah it's hard to get a doctor and the government doesn't help by limiting the amount of doctors allowed to practice in Montreal because of the PREM.

It can take 2-3 years on a list to get a family doctor, but make no mistake, if you get an urgent issue, you will immediately get treatment at the hospital.

healthcare has become problematic worldwide with the shortage of doctors and nurses. that being said i agree with you that the healthcare is another negative. i too have been trying to get a family doctor for years. basically you have to be seriously ill to be assigned a doctor. so much for preventive medicine.

To answer bluntly: yes. If you're at risk of dying, we're great at saving you, but if you need less pressing health treatments, you'll likely have to wait. To give you an idea, I broke my foot this summer. I went to the emergency, and said my pain level was around 2/10, and I expected to wait a long time... And I wasn't wrong. I was there for 12 hours total, but I didn't pay one cent (except for the walking boot a specialist had to bring in from his office, which was 160$). I had follow up appointments in the next months, all without costs (and without having to wait forever), and overall I feel very lucky... But you have to wait a LOT for So. Many. Things. Some stuff isn't covered. I needed a root canal this summer too and that was 1600$ (despite the infection being dangerous to my health, what's covered is only an extraction, to save your life, not the root canal). So healthcare is "free", but not dental care, not glasses, and if, like me, you need weird stuff like orthotics for your feet because of chronic conditions, that specialist and the orthotics themselves aren't covered. And yes, a family doctor is a truly precious resource 😅 (having chronic conditions, like diabetes, etc, can speed up the process greatly). I definitely have very mixed opinions about our healthcare system 🙃 You brought up very good points.

Exactly right! It's all good!