Why people want to leave Canada (but can’t) 

Canada has always been pretty on the outside and dirty on the inside. Now it has been rendered painfully raw due to exacerbating circumstances. Corrupt...but with a smile and a handshake. Poor, but looks rich. Racist, but acts openly diverse. Claims compassion, but kills citizens medically and gives narcotics to addicts instead of treatment options. Free medical care that is not free in any way, nor is it health care unless you can afford to seek care abroad. Speaks morally, but lacks morals. Canada exquisitely demonstrates hypocrisy!

The rapid decline of quality life here in the last 10 years is astonishing.

The Canada I grew up in is gone! I feel sorry for people coming here thinking they’ll get the 30+yr old Canada they’ve been sold. So many newcomers I’ve met want to leave…..so do i

47 years, born and raised. This is a country i no longer recognize. Time has come to leave

I have to work 12-16 hours a day now just to make ends meet. No family time. No vacation. Can't even afford a movie night out anymore. I'm seriously thinking of leaving after 13 years of living here.

It is a big trap, I am born in Canada and I can’t even find a stable job or own a home…

As a Canadian born and raised here we’ve been saying we can’t afford to keep bringing in more immigrants and then we get labeled as bigoted and racist. But it’s not about race. It’s about lack of resources. The push back is always we have lots of space and wood to build more houses but as you’ve pointed out the bureaucracy makes it difficult to build new houses and the ones they are building are huge million dollar homes.

I was born in Canada and after nearly 50 years, I can agree with everything you said but want to extend your sentiments beyond immigrants. Life in Canada is extremely difficult for most here. Many are clinging on to their homes and jobs, for if they lose either of those, life changes drastically and very quickly. You can be comfortable and suddenly poverty stricken within a very short time, with no prospects.

Canada should put a 100% halt on immigration for the next 5-10 years. This country is absolutely screwed.

This is the truth!! Even as a Canadian nurse. I can barely afford to live. Pay small mortgage, and have a used car... barely ever go out for meals. Choose activities that are free or reasonable priced. This is no country to live as a single.. an immigrant, or a young person. I work extra shifts to pay for vacation.

I'm an immigrant myself, I came here (GTA) in my early 20's in 1992 from Eastern Europe and started with nothing, I've done well financially, but only because I got into real estate very early, when things were affordable. Here are my random thoughts: 1. Canadian dream died suddenly, 6-8 years ago you could still buy townhouse or a semi in GTA for half a million, then things took off, prices doubled and an entry level in Toronto is now $1M, why? - central banks policies to ARTIFICIALLY keep interest rates at zero led to asset bubbles, stocks, real estate, if you got on the train you benefited, but if you had no assets to invest you got poorer and poorer. It applies to most of the developed world - foreign money inflows, money laundering: Canada is a small market, we're talking couple of big cities, Vancouver, Toronto, it is easy to be distorted. You have Chinese, Middle East, Russian money flowing in and getting parked in housing. I personally met a Chinese man who owns at least dozen houses in Toronto and 3 cottages. On my street alone I counted at least 5 detached homes that are 'investment rentals' all in the range of $1.6M, owned by overseas investors. Vancouver is practically owned my mainland China, nobody is doing anything to control that, why not? It wouldn't be nice, would it be racist? - government turned a blind eye to massive speculation, house flipping etc. Flippers made fortunes speculating, why work when you can make few hundred thousands doing nothing? Why hasn't the government done anything about it, tax the speculators to death etc?? 2. Uncontrolled immigration, infrastructure like roads, public housing, hospitals are all lagging behind, you can't bring millions of people here and have no place for them to live. Do you see any affordable rental units being built? All I see are million dollars condos. Totally insane, Trudeau is a disaster 3. Crime is on the rise, car thefts, house breake-ins. Not too long ago you could leave you car unlocked and now? 4. Unfortunately Canada is not alone, if you look at Europe most countries struggle with the same problems, open borders led to housing shortages, high rents etc. The list of countries that are good is getting shorter 5. Is Canada a good place to immigrate to? Absolutely not, if you're a professional you should not come here, your chance of making a better living at your own country is higher, in Canada fulfilling career path maybe only a dream, you will always be an ESL and will have disadvantages (like communication skills etc..) that will hinder your advancement. Besides, cost of living is so high that even when making six figures you will still be a debt slave, because most of your money will go to taxes. 6. Who can still come here? Unskilled labor, if you come from a poor 3rd world country there are still jobs (trades, truck driving etc) that can pay you enough to live better life than back home. 7. I don't know what advice to give to people. There was a time when I was coming back to Canada after visiting my homeland country and I had this feeling that it was coming home and I felt happy to be here. That feeling is long gone, things are now reversed, people back home live better lives than me. In general I think the Western world is declining, it may still look good from outside, but reality is different. Angry immigrant, thank you for putting up these videos, they help people like us

35 year old born and raised in Canada. Moved to Sweden a few years ago. Sweden has problems. But it's quality of life is at the standard I remember Canada being back in the 90s and 2000s. And for that I am extremely grateful to be living in Sweden.

As A Canadian,,,,,,the canadian dream is dead,,,,,,no more immigration

just for the record...I'm born and raised Canadian, not an immigrant. Life is an absolute struggle right now...and I own a car, own my home, etc. I do not know HOW people are living so financially careless right now. Hard times haven't even arrived yet, tbh. So buckle up. Leave Canada if you can!

I totally agree with you!! I’m brazilian and I went back to my home country after 5 years in Canada paying high rent and taxes. Brazil has a lot of problems, but I’m happier now. You defined correctly, it’s a scam!!

immigrating to canada destroyed my life. after YEARS of fighting, paying fee after fee after fee, for applications and required documents. Only to settle here....have a family, work myself near to death, lose job, lose home, and widowed at nearly 50 years old. now i pay 600 a month to sleep on someones couch and cant feed myself, house myself, or recieve ANY form of medical attention for mental health....I know now that i will most likely die alone in the woods sooner rather than later.....canada tempted me with a shiney carrot....and now ive been left to starve and die alone, unable to find a way out. DONT COME TO CANADA....YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING. and before you ask, I am a tradeswoman, 32 years painting residential and commercial , highschool grad, NO CRIMINAL RECORD AND NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL. CANADA HAS BEEN PREFECTILY HAPPY TO LET US SLIP THROUGH THE CRACKS AND NO ONE CARES

To the author or presenter of this video, thank you for your courage to tell this story. Regrettably, many people will not believe this is happening in Canada, and I hope too many do Not try and find out the hard way. Although, I admit that the same is happening in many countries. After living in Canada for over 48 years, I have exhausted most of my savings, by trying to help my six children move along the slippery slope. Today, I am living on my pension, almost like a hermit. True, when I came to Canada, my engineering diplomas, nor my practical experience in the Plastics industry were not recognized. I landed, because the government desperately needed my wife to work as a Specialized Psychiatric Nurse. YES! It is a scam, and getting worse each day.

I’m Canadian. Born here. It’s a hellhole. Don’t come. My kids can’t afford houses and still live with me. No one can get medical treatment unless you’re on the brink of dying and we are the only country in the whole world that does not allow private health for people who could actually afford it. It’s government controlled health or nothing. It’s winter almost half of the year where I live. It is also the worst country to try and leave from if by chance you’ve actually made any money because we have the worst expatriate taxes out of any other country. The income and other taxes are so insane. I’m leaving. I want a better life.

As an American nurse, I would see so many Canadians come to the hospital with the same pattern: 1. “Just visiting” 2. Felt “sudden pain” 3. Gets all the scans, blood work, etc 4. Request all of above to take home 5. Don’t seem shocked by the diagnosis 6. Refuse treatment after scans done and insist on going home I realized after some time that something was wrong The free healthcare system in Canada that I admired in reality was flawed. They actually came here because it took forever to have these things done, let alone see a doctor.😮

I agree with everything you have said but I have to add one thing: It is just as hard for any Canadians born after the 80s to "have a life" here. Every friend of mine in Generation Z is living in their parents basement or in one apartment with several roomates and barely have money for groceries. They often work multiple jobs and still struggle to make ends meet. The only group of Canadians who have it easier than everyone else are the older ones who already own property and already made their living here. Though they struggle in some ways as well. You can easily tell that anyone telling migrants or younger Canadians to "work harder" is from an older generation. There is no perspective nor compassion anymore from older generations. You mentioned not having access to healthcare, while that is unfortunate, we both know that the healthcare in Canada is not good. I had to move to Europe to try and recieve treatment at a reasonable speed. I kept being refused for tests over the course of 2 years and I had the doctors tell me they "found nothing" after a blood test and stop trying, despite still having health issues. As soon as I got to Europe, I got the testing i needed and recieved treatments. For example, I needed an MRI and was able to get one WITHIN A WEEK. I wish I could say that I had more friends that were leaving Canada but they all seem to stay and struggle. Their lives get harder every year. It is definitely hard to leave when you have no support system. I managed to leave because of my family's Kindness for letting me live with them and gain a savings. I truly feel bad for the people that came to Canada hoping for a better life, just to find out that the current Canadian government treats even its own citizens terribly.

I'm an American who immigrated to Canada seven years ago, to stay near my Canadian wife's daughter. Canada has descended into a nightmare of incompetence and tyrannical government.

I literally had to beg and plead in tears to family doctors receptionist to accept my husband as a patient. He is Canadian born citizen, I am not. We lived in BC since 2008. I never felt so reduced and dehumanized in my life standing in reception and begging for mercy fso my husband can see a doctor.. Our household income is 350K a year half of which is going to taxes. We are considering leaving.

I was living the dream when a Stephen Harper lead us. My income is a lot more now but we can no longer afford nice vacations. Now I just worry about my job.

I came to Canada from Thailand 25 years ago for post unfergrad education and have been living in Canada ever since. I have witnessed changes in Canada, particularly in housing affordability, unreasonably high food prices and lower accessability to healthcare, especially after the pandemic. However, people from outside, particularly those from developing counteies, view Canada as the place of their dreams. I was surprised when I went back to Thailand last year and learned about a girl who was coming to study at U of Saskatchewan. No offense abiut the university but did she know how nothingess Saskatchewan is compared to big city that never sleep like Bangkok??? I couldnt comprehend how someone would be paying a lot of money for international student tuition to be in the middle of nowhere and downgrade their lifestyle so drastically. For what???

"You'll own Nothing and be Happy" Klaus's minions hard at work

I grew up in Vancouver, BC. After High School, I served in the Canadian Armed Forces where I learned a skilled trade. After discharge, I was shocked to find that Transport Canada would not recognize my skills and wanted me to go through a trades school and apprenticeship program like I never had training nor work experience. Also, even in the year 2000, in Vancouver it was $500,000 CAD for just for a one bedroom condo. A single family house in Surrey and Delta was approaching a million CAD. Luckily, I met an American Woman, we got married and eventually moved to the United States. The American's version of Transport Canada had no problems accepting my CAF Experience and Training. I was easily able to write my tests and become a journeyman. Canada may have been a great country in the 1970s when my parents emigrated to Vancouver, but that Canada is long gone.

Every Canadian should see this video. I am a senior citizen and my grown daughter will never be able to afford a home. This country has been destroyed by a corrupt Liberal government. I do agree that immigration needs to stop as there are not enough jobs and housing for newcomers.

I am First Nations and I agree with everything you say. The image Canada tried to portray is false and there is a huge cost of living crisis, housing crisis and so much more. It’s so demoralizing living here 😐 it’s so creepy especially when I return from work trips I notice at the airports that there are advertisements for newcomers to apply for credit cards without any credit history, knowing that the job market here isn’t good it’s a predatory and sure fire way to use newcomers to fall into debt with banks

Came to Canada 18 and now I'm 32, the cost of a one bedroom was around 650 in a poor neighborhood and now it's 2000 plus.

20 immigrants working as a data analyst in a big Canadian cutting edge fintech at 25$/h living together in a basement. Canadian Dream. Use condollo to save on real estate lol

I was a landed immigrant in Canada and I became Canadian in 2002...After 20 years I moved back to my home country...Canada showed me that leaving my country was the worst thing I could do: If I would have stay in my country my pension would have been higher, retired at 52 and own a piece of land forever for me and my kids...I got scammed in this dream that I can have a better life...And I had a good life until 2015 when house prices got crazy high...I sold my house and left the country...My Canadian pension is a joke ...

We left Canada 2021 and could not be happier here in Mexico and wish everyone all the best trying to leave wherever you are. Great vid friend. ✌🏽💖

I spent around $10k on the whole express entry process, but decided to back out at the last step. Thank god …

The overwhelming number of newcomers end up living in basements in Canada, and employed in low paying manual jobs. It's mind boggling why many newcomers give up their well paying jobs and stable life for a chance to immigrate to Canada...Think 10 times before moving to Canada.

I have paid around $100 k as an international student in Canada. I earn around 60k. The thought of even starting a family just makes me paralyzed let alone having a house. Cell phone companies, grocery stores, developer all are monopolies. It became a good investment for the ultra rich to invest in properties where it’s citizens are barely scrapping by. I come from Bangladesh. I am really thinking to go back at least I can afford to have a family and a house.

Well said. From a first generation Canadian. Born and bred Canadians can't afford to live here either.

When an migrated person starts to understand you know we have a problem

Landed immigrant 2008, left 2012. Best decision ever.

Excellently explained. An eye opener to many people who live with a belief that the grass is greener on the other side.❤

I was born here. I can assure you no one thinks you aren't working hard enough. There are more Doctors working at 7-11s in Canada than in hospitals

A am Canadian and lived abroad for 14 years. I had to return during the Covid crisis The Canada I returned to is a different place now. And it’s getting worse. My quality Of life seemed so much better in other places. Canada is a poverty ridden place Compared to where I lived , people laying on the streets, rents so high they are barely affordable Food prices match Bermuda , homelessness like I have never seen. It is funny how my perspective of my own country has changed ….an absolute financial sewer. Yes everything said here is true …tax slaves.

Canada is quickly becoming a 3rd world country thanks to total mismanagement by successive governments. As a Canadian who was born and lived here all my life, 65 years now, I have never ever seen things so bad and would never recommend anyone ever move here, at least until things improve, hopefully they will.

I had a Canadian fiancé who I stayed with for 3 years , from Montréal. He wanted me to leave France and come to Montréal and get married. I told him let me come and try Canada, so I went 3 times 2-4 months every time….. we broke up ! No way I was gonna leave France for Canada. Montréal was dangerous , did not feel safe at all , expensive, rundown, infrastructures like bridges, roads , were on the verge of collapse, immigration to the point of invasion, horrible weather , obese people everywhere…. NO!

Thank you for well-explained info

Thanks for making and posting this video. As a Canadian-born woman, I am struggling financially. Divorced and childless, I have several degrees and have no problem finding a decent job. However, the cost of living has skyrocketed, and I barely get by. I am from Québec and currently residing in Toronto. If I could move tomorrow to a decent, affordable country, I would. It's tough for Canadians born here, so I cannot even imagine how arduous it is for newcomers. And my first languages are French and English, so I understand the struggle in French-speaking Canada as well.

Ah man the good old days.. moved here 18 years ago as a student. Life was different back then. Now at 35 years of age, I want to go back to my home country because there is barely any difference. Life is a struggle every single day.

I'm an immigrant in Canada too.. I confirm everything said in this video is 100% facts!!

Thank you for this informative video. Many times I have regretted not moving to Canada. Now I can rest my mind and be assured that I made the correct decision.

There is nothing new about the “Canadian Myth”. For decades many immigrants have come to Canada only to be disappointed with life here for a variety of reasons. The situation is definitely worse now. My wife arrived in 1999, and was surprised at how different things were relative to what she expected. And it’s true, Canadians in general are struggling, not just immigrants. It’s survival of the fittest, not just in Canada but in many parts of the developed world, including the US and UK. I guess anyone thinking about moving to Canada should do their research, and maybe read some online forums before taking the plunge.

I really appreciate your videos because they speak the unadulterated truth! I'm a Canadian and one of my main focuses is to make money online so i can leave this country. It's cold, too WOKE, high taxes, nothing being done with our tax dollars, scams and scandals from the government at least once a year, no real freedom (truckers convoy), freeze your bank and crypto accounts at a drop of a dime, no freedom of media or press (bill C-11 & C-18), the list goes on.

My family has lived in Vancouver for over a century, the only reason I can live like it do around this city is because of the generational wealth that was acquired over the past 30 years of the insane real estate gaming. I have absolutely no idea why people keep immigrating to this city, especially post 'rona. Current day you need at least $500k CAD converted per person now to move here to live middle class. If you're a little below ($350k-500k) that then you will get trapped by a money sucking mortgage. If you're a lot below that ($0-350k) you will live in a "leased existence" and be trapped in forever renting property and leasing cars, you will have no assets to pass on to your children living here; You will be poor, they will be poor, your grandchildren will be poor. I genuinely feel bad for refugees coming to Canadian cities and I wish I could tell them to find somewhere, literally anywhere else to live for the time being. They'd be better roughing it out in Sask, Manitoba or going East Coast than dealing with this terrible quality of life the major cities have. In 2015 we had a Federal Election. One of the major deciding factors of that outcome was immigration. The Conservative government announced that it was planning to reduce immigration if re-elected and this soured a lot of Canadians in major cities, especially those had received recent citizenship and were afraid their family or friends would be barred. They mistakenly turned to the Liberals, ignoring the double edged sword. Sure they'll allow people into Canada, but they didn't expect everything in the country to become more expensive. Lifelong Canadians know the Liberal Government believes in spending and subsidies, it doesn't believe in things like budget balancing and budget cuts, when it needs more money they just create more taxes, compound taxes and compound on compound taxes. They think people aren't wise to them taking your money and then giving it back in subsidies, but only if you "do the right thing". They also create a lot of blackhole money, significant amounts of money that just seems to disappear as they hold no accountability to spending and who (usually their friends) they're spending it on (see CanApp). On the Federal and Provincial Government levels, there's been an outright failure of both BC and Ontario with regards to Vancouver and Toronto cities as they are offshore tax shelters and money laundering operations. The government is 100% getting a kickback indirectly from inflated property values and I would not be shocked if they also had a illegal direct kickback for allowing it to continue even until present day. Residential Real Estate values will never go down in these cities apart from our friends to the South going at with China or a major disaster like an earth quake which completely sinks Richmond. Every other case of property value decline will just have them and friends dump in more cash to prop their investments back up. As you asserted, immigration is being used by the Liberals to suck money into the country. Rich or poor they don't care, they want you here for your money and hard work, but mostly money. The Liberal government is great at "selling the dream" and many people find out the hard way that it comes at a cost. An actual straight up non-figurative cost, and a significant one. They didn't tell you that your education isn't recognized by Canada so you'll have to re-study and work at Crappy Tire for $15/h for 2 years? That once you do get back to your career you might make $70k/y but only actually take home $50k? Of that $50k/y net everything you purchase still has taxes attached? That S D house prices are now $1.2M and you simply don't qualify for a mortgage for that amount and never will? Of course they didn't! It's always a laugh when Vancouver gets placed in the "Best places to live" articles. It's a joke. It's the best if your Mr. Peanut big bucks, it sucks for 99.99% of the rest us who have to slave day in and day out around this place, especially now a bunch of Tranq-ed out zombies and skids roam around a great part of downtown thanks to "safe supply". If you think it's bad today, it's going to still get worse thanks to electing this Fed Lib-NDP coalition in '21. They can't build enough houses in the cities for the people they want to bring in the next few years. As mortgage rates decrease we can expect more huge property value jumps as well as insane fighting and increased rates for places to rent. With re-zoning from single detached homes to multiplexes and new highrise developments in smaller communities we do not have the infrastructure for this. We don't have the roads, public transit, parking, healthcare, police to deal with this. Vancouver traffic is already horrendous and now the Feds and Province think it's fine to 2-4x the density everywhere? They're out of their minds. The absolute mess the Fed Conservatives are going to inherit next year will take them a whole term just to figure out how to solve it. They will need minimum 3 terms to get somewhat back on track. /rant

Houses are so expensive,it takes long to see a doctor and job markets not strong enough.

I’m a third generation Canadian from Ireland and Italy. I’m currently living in the worst time to make money and afford to live no matter how hard you work. My parents tell me they feel bad for us young ones. We are living in a scam

In 1965 my dad made $5 000 a year. The house my parents bought was $7 000. The car cost $1 500. Today the same house in Toronto is $1 000 000 and both parents are working and can’t afford to have kids.About half the income also goes to taxes !

I immigrated to Canada in 2006. In 2018 I left Canada and went back home, broken in all aspects of my life. I totally agree with what you said on this video. Canada is a scam, an immigration casino, an imposture.

I really like your channel because the problems you mentioned are very relatable to everyone without your own political view involved. They're all close to home problems that both immigrants and Canadians are facing on a daily basis. I went to college in Canada with a hope that I'd be able to make a living there, but then it dawned on me that there's no future for me. All the problems you mentioned are just too real, even Canadians are struggling so bad, I don't know how my 20 year old self with very little knowledge of the world could make it. I didn't even like the weather. It was too cold for me. I was so depressed. I felt stuck. I'm so glad I don't have to be there anymore. We are lower middle class in Vietnam but even so my quality of life is way better in Vietnam than Canada.

I been in Canada since 2009. Everything here is an illusion. Hard work isn’t rewarding in anyway. The only way to make a living here is to be on welfare, live in housing, have multiple kids and drive a taxi for cash. You take one step forward and 10 steps back. I worked from 10$ an hour to 25$ an hour and I still worry about the end of the month. This is ridiculous.

I was born in Canada but worked overseas for most of my adult life. I wss shocked when I csme home in 2020. Almost three and a half years and I couldn't get assigned a regular doctor. I have since gone overseas again and my quality of life has improved.

They did the same when they began to encourage immigration to Canada during 1880's. They told them it was good farm land when in fact it was rock, lakes, and forest for the large part.

7:24 Before Canada, an immigrant was 28 years old. 3 years after moving, he is 35 years old. Time runs so fast in Canada...

Merci pour ta video, tu m'as appris beaucoup. (Thx a lot your video learn me a lot)

As a black American whose origins is Mississippi and growing up in a passive aggressive society I decided to immigrate to Canada. I couldn’t believe the overt racism and the condescending behavior of the people including the immigrants. After 10 years I returned home.

NOT moving to Canada was the best decision in my life💯

Spot on! This video is very accurate.

You say it best. very good reasoning and all the point spot on. New immigrant in 2021 starting to see the lies and moving back to my home country really soon. I am very fortunate to be able to move back, but not many people.

I feel your pain. I was born in Canada, but my wife and I are out of here in two years. This country is a sinking ship.

I came to Canada 25 years ago. I am planning to go back to Europe. Canada is getting very expensive, crime rate is good up, diversity and inclusion b.s. .. I worked 2 jobs for 10 years and never been one day on social assistance, learn language, raised 2 boys, both of them finished University, very responsible children. But those new imigranats that are coming lately is insane they want everything free ,not to work always blaming someone for their lazy attitude. Criminals has more rights than hard working people....

This guy touches on many real things I and many others are finally acknowledging 😢

wow. Thanks! it really felt a bit weird getting all those adds on social media about moving to Canada

Thank you! I'm Canadian and my husband is a Bangladeshi immigrant. I used to be pro-immigration, and now I'm adamantly against it in 90% of cases. For all the reasons you mentioned in this video. It's so refreshing to see an immigrant Canadian understand the depravity of these topics and subjects, because from my experience, when trying to explain how we don't even have the infrastructure and resources to support our own Canadians first, let alone ensure masses of immigrants and refugees have access to housing and resources, immigrant folk get offended & go on the ''colonizer'' narrative about how we allegedly ''stole'' this land, which, newsflash - we didn't. These are the folks coming here, yet haven't even the slightest knowledge of our history, nor appreciation of it's land and people. They just want this fantasy life that Canada has sold to them. It's a destructive relationship. The immigrants want to use us for our resources & send their wealth back home to support their economies, and Canada wants to likewise, milk them dry & use them for our labor force. And in return, we have a society of native citizens who are angry with immigrants and our destructive immigration policies, making things more hostile for newcomers. When our focus should be government bodies. How is it that my ancestors, had acres and acres of land - even my great grandmother bought her plot of land for like $700, which they built a large home on; and here I am, living in a slum apartment building in shameful conditions, overpopulated with newcomers coming from a single demographic, living paycheck to paycheck, with no foreseeable possibility of owning our own home? This is the reality most native Canadians of my generation are experiencing; hence the conservatives will likely gain political power & nothing will change. It's a sham for sure. Just watch the house of commons debates & you'll get a better picture of the clowns running our parliament. They act like grown children tossing around insults all day long, and taking zero accountability. I'm glad you're speaking on this issue, even if it persuades newcomers not to come here. The situation is the same in America too, there is no ''American dream''. It's time we stop selling this fantasy.

I WOULD HONESTLY LEAVE IF I COULD,AND THAT'S BEYOND SAD.IMAGINE WANTING TO LEAVE YOUR COUNTY BECAUSE OF HOW YOUR COUNTRY LEFT YOU YEARS AGO

Bless your work sir

Well put!!

And that's the nail on the head... People came and rushed right into things, bought a house... Then realized they can't keep a stable job, the weather is miserable, the taxes are high, your purchasing power is low, you've got all these payment still. The best option for many is to declare bankruptcy and leave.

Canada was good place 30 years ago. Houses in Vancouver were cheap.

The cost of living in Canada is insane, especially when minimum wage is well below the livable wage and the vast majority of jobs are minimum wage. If you want to be able to live by yourself with the current minimum wage you'd need to work around 12 hours a day 6 days a week just to make ends meat, and have fun actually finding a job that'll even offer that amount of hours because most businesses will only hire part time so they don't need to provide benefits. The real estate market is just the extra punch to the gut. Everything is priced out of this world

from 28 to 35 in 3 years is a rapid pace for sure

I'm a 19 year old Canadian Local born & raised, living in the Remote Province of B.C, Jobs here are Scarce especially for the Locals, to the Point where the Only way for Someone like me to make a Sustainable living Requires me to Die in a Coal or Uranium mine Further North, I'm Still Struggling to Find an Ok job a Whole year after leaving the Previous one, I Hope one day I Can Escape this Country cause I Know Regardless of Liberals or Conservatives in Power we're Stuck this way...

As a 34 year old Canadian, lived here my whole life. I appreciate you making thia video.

Can’t speak for other areas but I have grown up in North West GTA my whole life (I’m 43). In around 2005 the Ontario scam Liberal party introduced a greenbelt all around the GTA. I’m talking millions of acres circling Toronto. I noticed immediately housing prices shot up and have only continued to increase. I think the artificial scarcity of land (created by the government) was just the beginning. I was 25 and wanted to buy a house at the time but thought it would be tight on one income. Now married with two incomes and owning a home is pipe dream. I just missed the cutoff of getting into the housing market and it really pisses me off.

You are right on point.

There is a lot of truth in your video. I’m a second generation immigrant and can’t imagine what new immigrants are going through. My mother bought her home in the early 2000’s for 300k and has rocketed 5 fold. Not sure how I can ever buy a home with a blue collar salary. The healthcare system here is something I am no longer proud of but instead am filled with anxiety if I ever have to use it with the wait times and lack of services. Oh and our justice system is a joke…

I'm a US citizen. Twenty years ago, I was considering moving to Canada. I'm very glad now that I stayed home in America.

You’ve spent 4 years… imagine how those of us who grew up here feel about the rapid decline in quality of life thanks to Justin & his Liberals.

Born and raised Canadian here. I cant wait to leave Canada. I dont recognize the country I grew up in.

This video is very true. As an immigrant in Canada, you're there to feed their elites and retirees. The cost of living is unbearable and the taxes don't make any sense with absolutely nothing you receive in return. I was so lucky to be able to leave last July. I was targeting Dubai and Qatar for a job but ended up getting a job in Kuwait. I'm not saying that Kuwait is a perfect place by any mean but I'm much happier now as I'm closer to my loved ones, able to make money and save a good amount of money every month, laid back and relatively relaxing job (I understand the work experience I used to gain in Toronto was better but there're always pros and cons) and finally, I'm able to travel 4 or 5 times a year. I went to Central Asia last autumn, to Kazakhstan again in the new year, I'm going to Bosnia after 2.5 weeks, and in June I will probably visit Russia or another place. I'm still grateful for living in Canada as I grew there a lot and I learned it the hard way that Canada isn't the perfect place I was hoping to find but I'm even more grateful for the opportunity of being out of Toronto and of getting my salary in full without paying any silly taxes and without extremely expensive groceries, insurance, entertainment, etc... Bottom line, if you're an immigrant and can live somewhere else where you can make more money or save more money and where you can travel and enjoy life then do it and do it quickly. Otherwise, you will end up burning yourself for nothing in Canada.

Born and raised in the gta and have tried to tell everyone who would listen to get out of the city for as long as I can remember, long before the 'vid hit us I'm glad you're getting the word out to people, but im sorry you had to find it all out this way

Immigrant from Australia, landed 2013. Been trying to get into a skilled job since forever, keep retraining at colleges to hope something can work out. Now due to bad luck ive simply been priced out of my future. I will be taking my stem degree to the states since I met an American, now. We didn't have to think hard about which one of us moves. Were both tech, and tech people know how little Canada pays.

Very articulate. There some great points here

Love this video! Everything you said was true!

I live in my homeland, Greece, which is not exactly a developed country, like Germany or the Netherlands or USA or Canada. The wages are low, meaning that we have to count every cent we take to make ends meet, the cost of products is high,housing is really expensive and the only thing that works is healthcare, which is available to anyone without costs,in most cases. I have lived and worked in two developed European countries in the past,three years in the UK and almost six years in Germany. I speak both languages almost influently. Well, Greece may not be developed but I will never leave it again. I have my own house. I have a steady work and I only need about seven minutes (on foot !!) to get to my workplace. In comparison to other people around me, I earn enough money to put at least 150 euros in the side, having covered all my bills and needs. Mind you, I don't earn very good money, just enough to say that I can live almost comfortably and without stress. The weather ? Well, the lowest temperature this winter was something like -1 degrees and this only during the night and it lasted less than two weeks. I reached to the point where I (and everyone else actually) prayed for a little bit of snow maybe ? It's sunshine most of the time and we the Greeks won't miss the chance to go out, have a coffee and socialise with the others. I don't describe paradise now. I earned almost two and a half more money in Germany, but I was always feeling away from home - a stranger, no matter how many people I got to know and make friends with. It's not always about money. To me, there's no place like home. And I guess it's better to fight for your life in the country where you were born, because it is your real home. I was thinking about moving to Canada once, but no, thank you.

This Dude has figured out Canada than most or others will never Do.

Thanks man, it was suspicoous that cheap ads everywhere trying to get you yo move to canada, it was great idea, 40 years ago.

You are totally right my Friend !!!!!

Yeah, this is why I've decided to put my Canada migration on hold.

Im so glad people are talking about this. I can not believe how much things have deteriorated here. We pay so much for taxes and for what? Trying to get basic health care here is nearly impossible. Sit in a walk in clinic, you have to get there early in the morning and then be prepared to wait for hours still. You have to take a whole day off work to see a doctor who probably won’t be helpful and if you need a referral, or an MRI or x-ray, haaaa, maybe next year. I can’t stand it here.

Perfectly articulated. Barbs and truth bombs without being strident. People don’t want to honestly confront their situation. In the rare event that they do, they won’t go further to share their experience with others. An honest commentary that will play its part in opening the eyes of countless ingenues out there.

Thank you for sharing truth ❤

My quality of life went down so much in Canada and my standard of living also. I was much better off staying in my country than believing in this stupid place called Canada. What a scam. I wish I had never gone. I got so ripped off out of my life.

It's a weird feeling because I see all these nice condos being built all around, nice livable communities, and as I walk through these communities I know it'll never be something I can afford. There isn't a place for people to start out on the bottom anymore, it feels like you're either "in" or you're forever "out". I feel like an outsider in this country even though I was born here. I make $30 an hour, save most of it that I can without going out at all, and feel like I am just treading water above the poverty line.