Why Nobody Likes Canada Anymore

Why are people leaving Canada? Housing Crisis, healthcare shortages, corrupt government, woke culture. Where is it all coming from?

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[Sparkplug]

Canadians would have more children if we could afford them. Our government is making life so hard that one cannot afford house, feed or cloth themselves

[evictioncarpentry]

I had no issue with Canada up to about 2012.
Since then its gone downhill in every way possible and has been in a freefall since 2015.

[ShomoGoldburgler]

As my Mexican friend once said, Canada is a third world country, with some nice buildings.

[avijitbasu]

Excessive immigration has been detrimental to Canada.

[WLLim_]

I was born and raised in Canada and recently left the country. This place is way overpriced, increasingly unsafe, and economic opportunities are rapidly dwindling. The bill for the Canadians' marxists delusions of the last decade is coming due, and it will take years, if not decades, to pay back. Many immigrants who recently came here quickly pack their bags and leave once they realize what this place is really about. Bad weather, cold and shallow people, lack of opportunities, debt slavery, authoritarian government and bureaucracy.

[sarafinavdh]

This person is so clueless. I’m an immigrant myself and have been here since I was a child. I have relatives that joined us as well. The reason people are leaving is because, no one can afford a home in the major cities, where the jobs are. Getting a family doctor is next to impossible these days. Try and book an MRI, it takes months now. I have relatives that go over the border to the US to get care. Canada was great at one time but unfortunately things are crumbling:-( The education system sucks too.

[amirtak]

Its crazy how almost 10 years of liberalism has ruined this country. Living in Toronto was so much better pre 2015.

[guilhermemaranhao]

Canada is extremely cold and we spend half of our years locked indoors. For someone to be willing to live under these conditions one of the two conditions must be met: strong family ties or strong economic environment. As an immigrant who came to Canada in 2014, I don't have strong family ties in the country. Also I noticed a steep decrease in purchase power since when I arrived. Not to mention increased drug consumption, increased crime rate and an authoritarianism that I've never imagined to be possible in this country. I have two Canadian kids, and I don't want to raise them in Canada anymore. That's why I'm planning to leave next year.

[debuthunter]

I love sooo many things about Canada. But the thing I dislike the most is this current liberal government (from a guy who never used to care about politics at all).

[joethi]

It has changed for the worse over the last few years. I don't like it much here anymore. It is depressing.

[nelson-al]

92% of canadians live very close the US border due the miserable freezing endeless and depressing cold weather. Nobody wants go north. Freezing weather makes life unbearable and extremely expensive. Now this cold people are becoming poor. It s too much. If we had a free US-Canada border, Canada would  be empty.

[Aubatron]

Yeah we should blame the current regime. When the government brings in 1.3 million people into the country, and the new housing construction is 240k, and average household is 2 people, the government made the housing shortage. Not to mention infrastructure and the medical system is being stretched thin by all these new people. Immigration is good, but you can't bring in more than double the amount of people than you have housing to house them. We need 500k new homes a year to support this level of mass immigration, and that is if we didn't already have a housing shortage to begin with. We'd need more like 750k a year to catch up to demand, and we make a measly 240k. It's too expensive to have kids, and the governments solution is to flood the country with more people and make it even more expensive. 100% on the current government.

You can change zoning laws to allow more multi-unit homes, but the amount of home developers is capped. It is composed of many skilled tradesmen, and that workforce has been diminishing because everyone thinks they need to go to college/university now days and everyone wants cushy jobs, and all the older guys are retiring. The immigrants don't have the skillset to build homes to code either. So even if the government changes zoning rules, it is a band aid solution.

[leloupdessteppes]

I’m sorry to say that but what these videos are saying is true. Homelessness, drug addiction, extremely expensive, etc. It’s real.

Montreal used to be a very nice city. Now it’s depressing as hell.

[patricklanglois]

I have a few problems with your video
1: You choose to leave out the titles in most of the graphs you use, the fact that you included them for death and births is a red flag to me, almost like you didn't really want to show what was being measured in the other graphs (total, permanent, student or temp worker)

2: when using graphs to talk about immigration (definition was not stated in video) your first graph conveniently cuts off at the 2014 mark. Trudeau took power in 2015 his policies are what people are angry about. Trudeau increased the numbers even according to your graph @4:57 showing over 300K in his first year in office.

3: You claim that on average Canada let in 250K per decade, you don't specify what decade so i checked using the same sources as you. from 2004 to 2014 (same data you used) total of 2 792 500 (2.8M if you want to round) landed immigrants(perm residence) that is and average of 279 250 per year, that is 29 250 above your claim per year for a decade meaning that is an extra 292 500 immigrants per decade . Big error some armies are smaller than that including our own....

4: You argue that the reason for the post pandemic bump was to compensate for the lack of immigration during covid based on your 250K|/year claim in #3. Again using your own data 2019-2020 showed 284 153 and 2020-2021 showed 226 314 that is and average of 255 233 immigrants per year within your claim addressed in point #3. This makes your argument for increasing immigration post pandemic invalid.

5: You leave out all students and temp workers (ie people on work visa or student visa). These numbers can be up to 400K/year for students alone.... all these people need housing, food and work and that in turn drives up the rental, food markets and depress wages. not to mention the added stress on our social programs when these people start struggling.

6: You argue that immigration is a net benefit because of the mandatory minimum funds, without disclosing what those are. here are the funds required:
1 family member or less 13.5K(CAD)
add ~~3.6K per family member..
not a massive boon on the

7: You say that we get doctors and engineers from immigration that is an outright lie. the best stat i could find is that 4.6% of health support staff are immigrants(ie people who clean patients, change patients and feed patients not saying those jobs aren't valuable, they just aren't doctors). As for engineers different places in the world have vastly differencing definitions of what is considered an "engineer". Do i think there should be a good pathway to recognize and supplement foreign degrees, YES.

basically you are being dishonest in this
sources :

[redsunsmr]

Sad that as a Canadian born, I want to find elsewhere to call home as Canada has fallen off so much it's unrecoverable.

[menguardingtheirownwallets]

Too many immigrants coming in = the cost of housing and everything is skyrocketing, but too few doctors/hospitals for those who get sick, and so many immigrants/foreign students competing for the few available jobs = declining incomes and impossible to get a new job anywhere. The result of increasing costs but decreasing income = homelessness / poverty. So to save yourself from a future of misery you leave for America where life is better and incomes higher.

[rossmacdonald]

This is no longer the Liberal party of the past, many former Liberal MPs have left the party and spoken openly on social and msm. There is no comparison. Trudeau bought in divisive & identity politics by contracting David Axelrod, Obama’s campaign mgr. and used him in the last 3 elections. Nothing about policy all social justice issues that affect less than 5-10% of no our population. High taxes, high debt, weak government no longer respected on the international stage. People need stable government, good policy and a strong economy that builds infrastructure, jobs and growth. Poilievere is being vilified because that his the new woke politics. How could he be any worse if not given an opportunity. Trudeau is a failure propped up by a failing NDP leader who is also self serving.

[libertas]

In the 1960s and 70s, my parents and some of their friends left authoritarian Yugoslavia for Canada. Now, some of their children are leaving Canada for the same reason. I personally know at least 10 people who left Canada permanently in the last few years.

[Juanmanuely]

Right on point. A broken system for very a long time. For new immigrants: very expensive and/or non-existing housing, much higher taxes, less professional opportunities, insecurity in the big cities, long medical waiting lists, less government services, a depreciated currency, and a corporate system that keeps outsourcing jobs outside Canada.

[zillathegorilla]

A few things:

1. Like others have said, things have taken a noticeable downward turn in the early/mid 2010s. The cost of housing has skyrocketed. Most homes have almost doubled (or more) in value in the last 12-15 years which is absolutely nuts and unsustainable. Part of this is trudeau’s policies but also the complete unregulated investment of foreign buyers and corporations of residential housing.

2. We have a liberal government that thinks the budget will balance itself. They have absolutely no control on spending. Sure there were extenuating circumstances because of Covid, Ukraine, etc but when they take it as a license to print money and send billions out of the country and don’t invest domestically on the major issues there’s going to be a problem.

3. Theres a liberal minority federal govt that’s imposing its moral ideology on the entire population and is going out of its way to destroy the energy and natural resources sector. If they would have supported the sector by responsible development of the resources that we have (oil and gas, mining, etc) we as a country would be living like kings. Proper health care, free advanced education, proper housing. Instead we have an environment minister who’s batshit crazy and is pushing his delusional ideological fantasies onto a population and acting like a tyrant child. There have been multiple instances where he has tried to impose regulations to ban certain things only to be overturned by the Supreme Court as being unconstitutional. The carbon tax that this govt is imposing is crippling. We as a country are such a small polluter on the global scale especially compared to the us, China, and India yet we have one of, if not the, highest carbon taxes in the world. And then they charge sales tax on top of the carbon tax. If the major polluters in the world are doing nothing to curb their outputs we as a society are being punished for nothing.

4. We don’t have skilled manufacturing jobs in Canada. In the 70s and 80s most western nations started outsourcing manufacturing to asia due to cost. In the US there’s been a shift to bring manufacturing back on shore but in Canada we seem to have doubled down on outsourcing pretty much all major manufacturing to China. The only real exception is the automotive industry in southern Ontario. We have also sold off a lot of our own companies to foreign owners. As a result we have to beg our neighbours to the south or across the Atlantic for medications in times of crisis.

5. Related to 4, we are a corporate oligopoly. Telcom is owned and operated by 3 players; bell, rogers, and Telus. Groceries are operated by 4 or 5 major players. The government actively blocks foreign companies from setting up in Canada and competing against Canadian companies which is why now that the cost of groceries is so high the feds are trying to entice American and European grocers to set up in Canada. This is another reason for why the cost of living is so high here compared to other western nations.

This is only the tip of the iceberg as to why people who have lived here their whole lives are angry and are resentful. It’s not that we are feeling this way towards you and other immigrants personally, it’s the government policies towards immigration. When citizens can’t make ends meat but immigrants are being brought in, given free housing in hotels and given a several thousand dollars a month allowance, free legal advice, free phones, and many other things that citizens can’t afford to pay for out of their own pocket and then hear immigrants complaining, yes we get angry. This video doesn’t help.