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@eustab.anas-mann9510

3 ай бұрын

*ITS* not "It's"

@nathangriffiths6218

3 ай бұрын

That pie chart at 4:55 has the labels for refugee and humanitarian immigrants mixed up, 76K should obviously be a bigger slice than 15K.

@Battleneter

3 ай бұрын

If you change the $US - $CAN exchange rate back to 2011 levels, all of a sudden GDP per capita is around the same, as GDP is measured in the local currency but converted to $US. The strength of the $US distorts this comparison , is the US actually more productive per capita !

@goofygrandlouis6296

3 ай бұрын

To sum up your video, Canada is a lesser USA. So why bother with second-fiddle when you can go top G. 😅

@goat9199

3 ай бұрын

Opera browser? Yuck.

As a Canadian living in Canada I can assure you it is absolutely not over sensationalized. It's absolutely wild watching our standard of living erode in real time.

@ragingfred

3 ай бұрын

Also, the housing crisis was nothing new since COVID. We've had this huge demand for years and nobody is building houses. Nobody is taking jobs in construction either.

@MrAlen6e

3 ай бұрын

​@ragingfred this is what people are not understanding, while sure the huge numbers of people coming does have a detrimental effect on service since they cannot keep up. They didn't create the crisis they EXPOSE IT. This is a 30 year issue in the making, outdated zoning, huge bureaucratic red tapes , commodity prices all affected housing

@gnomishviking3013

3 ай бұрын

My wife and I have always made between 110-115k a year for the last 10 years for our household. Our buying power has dwindled to nothing compared to even 5-6 years ago and we dont even live in an expensive city.

@zell863

3 ай бұрын

@@ragingfred Hallo you are importing Indians. Do you expect Indians to go to construction sites. Or maybe build a savage system. If they would be capable do it they would not sh at streets in theirs native country.

@BDee3126

3 ай бұрын

"Canadians have never been better than they were before." -Justin Trudeau

Canadian here. Many immigrants are now leaving Canada because of how unaffordable it’s gotten

@landwarrior348

3 ай бұрын

Only good high skills are the ones leaving. Shitty ones are not going anywhere. And we full with shitty ones now.

@RuthvenMurgatroyd

3 ай бұрын

😂👉🍁

@alpharomeo7575

3 ай бұрын

True, Pakistani, Syrian, African are left 😂 and all others have left😂. @@landwarrior348

@pattraverse778

3 ай бұрын

@@landwarrior348Exactly. We need qualified immigrants but they are the ones leaving so we are stuck with the ones that are uneducated and unqualified.

@NoahB693

3 ай бұрын

It's not just immigrants, Canadians are leaving Canada too. Between cost of living and an effective tax rate approaching 60% (between income tax and sales tax) I left Canada in December because why in Gods name would I ever want to stay?

As a Canadian, its now the norm for people in their 20's to live with several roomates in a basement suite, and not having money to go out with friends.

@xuimod

3 ай бұрын

Am I supposed to have sympathy for them? So what life is difficult for young adults. Let them learn and adapt, like anybody anywhere at any time in history.

@anthonyramirez8038

3 ай бұрын

The same thing happens in the United States,10 people have to live Ina single room to be able to afford rent

@Kiran37369

3 ай бұрын

@@xuimodok boomer

@dabluntz19

3 ай бұрын

Everyone and their dog I know has lived in a basement apartment in their 20s, it’s pretty much a right of passage. I had no money, still went out and partied, had fun got a useful degree. What kind of stupid comment is this

@Kiran37369

3 ай бұрын

@@dabluntz19 no one denied that they have to live in a basement at some point. But it’s a problem when a working professional with a degree can’t even afford to leave the basement. If you had critical thinking skills, and half a brain, you would figure that out.

Canada is NOT the same country I grew up in. Painfully high cost of living, laughably low wages, and oppressive taxation are crushing our quality of life, if not our spirits.

@fallingpizza11

3 ай бұрын

the world changes, nothing stays the same, grow up.

@zenon3021

3 ай бұрын

if Canada's so bad try moving to Afghanistan

@paulevans8348

2 ай бұрын

You must either live off of your parents or the govt@@fallingpizza11

@gauloise6442

2 ай бұрын

@@zenon3021 Why, when we've brought the Afghanistan experience here?

@zenon3021

2 ай бұрын

@@gauloise6442 I'm not an economist, but apparently Canada NEEDS lots of immigration for economic reasons. Although the mass immigration caused a housing shortage so housing prices skyrocketed... I'd be interested to know what would happen nation-wide if immigration in Canada stopped for a couple years (ie. what problems it would cause)

Duuuuuude I'm a Canadian and it's been brutal. My quality of life has dropped like a stone in the past 4yrs

@InstantLuc

3 ай бұрын

We have to take some blame here. Our peers allowed all of our main political parties to have policies that harm us and a government that has not prevented widespread fraud.

@ElectrostatiCrow

3 ай бұрын

What happened?

@SteveBennet500

3 ай бұрын

blame the guy with the nice hair

@suziemuench9208

3 ай бұрын

Same :(

@spartancanuck

3 ай бұрын

Biggest threat to my quality of life hasn't been immigrants. It's been so-called Canadians, of the decidedly yeehaw duh duh a crayon in every nose but muh numpty truck sorts.

500k per year are just permanent immigrants. If we count the students and the temporary residents (who usually find a way to stay), it's more like 1M a year.

@johnl.7754

3 ай бұрын

Every decision has a positive and negative effect. Without overseas students then either the tax payers or the students have to pay more. I’m not saying which way is better just that decision has its effects.

@jthadcast

3 ай бұрын

and that's a net positive!

@StarlordStavanger

3 ай бұрын

Oh no! So anyways..

@dantesfinferno7248

3 ай бұрын

Hopefully all will be deported soon

@boosterh1113

3 ай бұрын

That 1M number is as inaccurate as the 500K. The truth is somewhere in between. The 1M number is obtained by simply adding temporary visas + new PRs + new citizens. This method has two big flaws: In the first place, you are double/triple counting a lot of people. I.E. If a foreign student applies to become a PR after they graduate, and later becomes a Canadian citizen, that 1M/year number would count them three times: first when they entered the country as a student, again when they became a PR, and a third time when they became a citizen. As well, while a lot of people on temporary visas (work & student) do find a way to stay in the country, by no means all of them do. So people on temporary visas have to be measured based on turnover rate (i.e. how many are coming in vs how many are leaving), not just on the total volume issued.

One issue you didn't address in this video, is that importing skilled workers into Canada doesn't necessarily solve the skill shortage problem, because in many cases it's virtually impossible for skilled workers to actually get jobs in Canada, in their field of expertise. There are medically trained doctors from all over the world, living in Canada, driving taxis, because they cannot get certified to practice medicine. The medical associations in Canada, in order to protect Canadian trained doctors and nurses, put all kinds of barriers to foreign trained doctors and nurses to make it next to impossible for them to get certified. This is not specific to the medical field either. Foreign trained lawyers, accountants and architects also face the same barriers in getting Canadian certification. So Canada is essentially importing all kinds of skilled workers, to work at McDonald's, or to drive cabs or become nannies.

@ss_websurfer

3 ай бұрын

this! do you think there's ways to make doctors actually work in canada? like i dont see why the govt isn't doing anything. just make them take a course of a year or so to make sure they are at the standards canada needs and make them become doctors. is medecine, it is the samne anywhere in the world. my dad is a doctor and he obviously preferred staying in his country that coming here and not being able to work as a surgeon.

@pocobull

3 ай бұрын

@@ss_websurfer governments in Canada don't certify doctors to be able to practice, each province's Medical Association does. Until the MA'S change their policies, not much can be done.

@BenSilver10

3 ай бұрын

Agreed! I am an accountant, and my wife is a psychologist. Neither can work in our expertise areas because our professional certification is null here. If I want to "validate" my skills, I need to get a CPA, which costs around CAD 15k, which we can't afford at the moment. So, I work as a baker, and she's a cook. Don't get me wrong, both professions are beautiful, but I wouldn't say I came to Canada as a "skilled labour".

@Lucas-wn5wm

3 ай бұрын

So Canada technically imported taxi drivers....

@pocobull

3 ай бұрын

@@Lucas-wn5wm well let's put it this way, if you live in Vancouver, your chances of finding a Canadian born cab driver, of European descent is somewhere between slim and none. But chances are, they will be better educated than you.

I live in Calgary, after Covid, Inflation and being the so called "one of the most affordable cites in the world" rich people from mainly China and India, Toronto, and Vancouver have moved here and caused housing prices to rise super high and we have a lot of problems with homeless, crime and drug use all over the city now.

@petardetar5191

2 ай бұрын

And wages are on minimum now in Calgary, like never before :(

@alexchristopher221

2 ай бұрын

They've come to Canada to soak the country.

I myself am a Canadian, and one thing not mentioned here is that a very large amount of recent immigrants to Canada are coming from a single country: India. As more and more immigrants come from a single place, there is less of a need for them to integrate into wider Canadian society. There are ads for rentals now that discriminate (illegally) toward favouring Indians, posted by other Indians. It might be anecdotal, but I have seen it with my own two eyes. It is also more of a social issue than a purely economic one so I can see why it wasn't mentioned. Something more economic though is also the effect of immigration on wages. The video mentions that international students are more willing to fulfill minimum wage jobs that Canadians don't want to do. Canadians don't want to work these jobs because they simply don't pay enough for the work. While flipping burgers or working a cash register isn't high skilled labour, it can still be very stressful and combine that with minimum wage (which with our cost of living is just enough to stay at home with your parents and contribute to their mortgage), it's no wonder Canadians don't want to do it. In absence of immigrants willing to work these jobs, these jobs would have to either pay more or cease to exist. TLDR: many Canadians feel as though excessive immigration is leading to wage suppression in this country, especially towards lower-skilled and minimum-wage jobs.

@lord_of_love_and_thunder

3 ай бұрын

In the past, Canada got immigrants only from Europe. It was never flagged as a problem. Indians happen to constitute a large chunk of the world’s youth population, so it woudnt surprise an unbiased observer that a lot of immigrants come from there.

@braineaterzombie3981

3 ай бұрын

I still don't understand the problem. Just build more homes. Also foreign students bring so much money with them that they are more an asset . If that money is spent well , then there should be no problem.

@bustavonnutz

3 ай бұрын

@@lord_of_love_and_thunderEurope isn't a country, you're not going to have widespread integration when people from a single country become a significant minority.

@lawfulsoup8335

3 ай бұрын

​@braineaterzombie3981 building more homes is hard to do in canada. Most populations are centered around a few major cities, and to build housing. Even to build just one house is decided by the more wealthy population as they can complain to stop the proposal of apartments being built with bribes or they are already friends with the local politicians meaning the proposal to build the housing does not even make it past planning as you will ruin the millionaires view.

@Grizabeebles

3 ай бұрын

India was the 90s dude. You're just noticing them now because their kids are middle class. Any part of the world undergoing a population boom and diaspora is fair game. Ask around at a construction yard - Canada is recruiting from Nigeria and the Phililines now. In 30 years, there's going to be a wave of businesses being opened by *their* kids and grandkids.

Don't forget to mention that Canada has infrastructure for about 30 million. Living standards are plunging, and things are bleak. It's now impossible for workers to even think of having kids because housing is so hard.

@matthewbarabas3052

3 ай бұрын

wrong.

@everydaytwiceonsundays4498

3 ай бұрын

@@matthewbarabas3052Lol have you got an argument or you're just feeling a certain way?

@matthewbarabas3052

3 ай бұрын

@@everydaytwiceonsundays4498 its not that bleak. that guy just has a skill issue, because living standards arent actually plunging. housing isnt hard, its just expensive, since its supposed to be a lifetime purchase and our infrastructure is solid for 40 million people. otherwise. we wouldnt have 40 million people.

@everydaytwiceonsundays4498

3 ай бұрын

@@matthewbarabas3052 Lol have you looked around? Because if you had, you'd have seen the homeless population exploding, including with full-time workers and entire families, people being barely able to afford food anymore, food banks being empty, healthcare workers saying everywhere that demand has exploded while resources have stayed the same, making public healthcare - and most public services, really - completely unattainable to a large part of the population. I don't know what silver spoon is keeping you fed, but you better hang on to it, because if you have to join us workers on the ground you will *not* like it.

@everydaytwiceonsundays4498

3 ай бұрын

@@matthewbarabas3052 Ok, so food banks are empty. Food prices are through the roof. Rent has tripled while incomes have stayed the same. Healthcare and all public services are now unavailable to a large part of the population. I know workers up and down the food chain, retirees, students, and absolutely no one is ok. The only people who are fine are the super-rich who squeeze the workers dry.

Canadian here, recently went on a trip to the US and the job market is just a night and day difference. "Help Wanted" signs in every storefront, offering wages I can't even begin to comprehend as well as extensive benefits, on the job training and more. Contrasted to Toronto where even minimum wage work is competitive, it's honestly depressing to live in a place with such few opportunities.

@jean-philippemetras361

3 ай бұрын

I don’t understand because there is such a huge number of jobs everywhere! There are 1million + jobs right now in canada that need someone. It’s so easy to find work ( in Montreal and around at least)

@Flying-Chicken

3 ай бұрын

@@jean-philippemetras361 not in Toronto, he says or she. It's packed

@J-jizzy_

3 ай бұрын

I’ve heard it’s pretty bad in Toronto. I live near Vancouver and it’s similar but not as bad. I think it’s just because Vancouver and Toronto are seeing the most immigration. Montreal too though but maybe the frenchies are smarter than us smooth-brained Englishmen lol

@Alley00Cat

3 ай бұрын

@@J-jizzy_Frenchie from Montreal here. Not sure what’s up with Toronto, but I hear there’s a labour shortage everywhere, including Toronto and Montreal. That being said, Toronto housing cost is absolutely insane, so that could put a dent on some jobs

@TheEllord33

3 ай бұрын

@@J-jizzy_ Our politicians all allign toward less immigrants (they just disagree on how much less), but Quebec don't have full control over their immigration. So it make sense we struggle too but not as much.

There's never been a single shortage of skilled or unskilled labor in any 1st world country, only companies not willing to pay fair market value...

@sydneysummers5290

3 ай бұрын

Yes, it's this exactly.

@roymarshall_

3 ай бұрын

Fair market value isn't a perfectly known number, it is determined by employers and employees deciding what they are willing to accept.

@joshuarussell1165

3 ай бұрын

@@roymarshall_ Correct! which is why injecting the economy with millions of unskilled illegals and/or migrants gives companies the bargaining power to drop wages to through floor. This particularly hurts young native born people starting out in life, forcing them to compete with what are usually grown adults for unskilled jobs. This forces native born couples to delay starting families, or opt out all together due to financial strain. Meanwhile, your average migrant has no loyalty/roots with the host country, and after working for a few years returns to their home country, brining all the wealth they earned with them and out of the host country's economy. This dynamic is actually wrecking western economies slowly.

@paulevans8348

2 ай бұрын

Yup, you're one of the few on this chatboard who seems to get it. Immigration=cheap labour

@gauloise6442

2 ай бұрын

​@@joshuarussell1165 Importing illegals/migrants while simultaneously exporting jobs.

Regarding a housing pricing collapse: Various studies have shown that Canada is ~1.5 Million homes behind the G7 average of homes/population. Even if all immigration and visa's ended tomorrow, Canada is still short a Lot of homes. Prices would come down, but not nearly as much as many predict.

@jthadcast

3 ай бұрын

similar problems in the US, that is the occupancy rate has dropped while suffering simultaneously a shortage of affordable housing

@NumptyBrainStorm

3 ай бұрын

The only answer is to build as many houses as possible as fast as possible. Everything our minority government has done in the last decade has set us up for failure.

@aaz1992

3 ай бұрын

Sure. I'm sure everyone will keep their jobs during this recession

@alexissvetrev

3 ай бұрын

If government lowers its red tape problem would be solved easily within few years

@souslesbombes

3 ай бұрын

@@wotermelon_ By "here" do you mean the US, a country with school shootings, obesity rates skyrocketing, a lunatic ex president who loves russia and a civil war looming? If so I'll suggest most Canadians are fine in Canada.

As a Canadian that pays attention to this alot you missed a few things. One real immigration is double the rate that is showed. The numbers that you showed are only for permanent residents. Real immigration includes international students, and temp workers. Additionally most of the migrants are not allowed to use their skills in Canada. There is no way for a doctor from India to practise in Canada as the education is not to the same standard. So the majority of migrants are not effectively skilled and have to take menial jobs. Alot of the cashiers that I talk with are engineers, doctors, or lawyers from their home country and are not allowed to practise to any degree.

@joe97nsx

3 ай бұрын

Which means the labour shortages in healthcare and construction are actually exacerbated by these misguided immigration policies despite what our idiotic federal leaders say.

@GazalKwatra

3 ай бұрын

that's the problem. Doctors, nurses, skilled trades shouldn'e be let in if they are not allowed to work. any licensed profession should have a test for the applicant before being given the visa. applicants are given the visa first and then they have a huge redtape on getting back to those professions.

@wyldhowl2821

3 ай бұрын

Yes, the "student" path and "temporary foreign worker" path have both been used by the Conservatives and Liberals when in charge, as a way of importing cheap labour through immigration, while never having to put in the effort (money) to support the people they bring in with services and infrastructure. Basically, the system has a certain level of built-in dishonesty, because that is what the dominant political parties prefer. They are all connected to networks of "fixers" in ethnic communities, that politically are very powerful - enough to make or break any political candidate in many ridings. Therefore, they will knock accusations against each other politically, but never real fix the loopholes so the immigration system is more clear and honest.

@mahtabsoin7239

3 ай бұрын

The issue is not of low standards of immigrants - rather quite the opposite. The issue is not having a process to assimilate these much needed professionals. It's poor planning, bureaucratic ineptitude and overegulation all around. Canadian workers (including doctors and other licensed professionals) are NOT objectively the best in the world. The "Canadian experience" criteria and employment mindset is self defeating.

@MustafaAlmosawi

3 ай бұрын

As someone whose father came in 40 years ago - the system hasn’t changed. He had a masters in computing, and was denied job after job for ‘no-Canadian experience’. The assurances he was given by immigration services, was he was going to land a job for sure. Took him years, before he landed a job in his specialty, only after doing everything from selling knives and vacuum cleaners, to driving taxis, and burning through a lot of the capital he had brought with him. He was one of the lucky ones. Anyone commenting that this is ‘paying your dues’ has never experienced the bait and switch that skilled immigrants experience. The disconnect of immigration policy with other policies is a blight on Canada’s reputation.

As a Canadian its super rough here. My girlfriend and i work 50+ a week and arent any closer to having kids or owning a home then when we started

@MagicMike_101

8 күн бұрын

As a Canadian I start my phrases as a Canadian.

@fremontpathfinder8463

3 күн бұрын

I am really sorry to hear that.

This is a trend among first world countries. Bring immigrants rather than actually solving the root cause of their population problem

@MagicMike_101

8 күн бұрын

There is no problem; there is education, and the population is decreasing.

@stevensammons4062

6 күн бұрын

Absolutely. Right when both parents have to work 50+ hours to afford a home and all the things that come with a modern family. It's pure insanity to think this isn't going to crush the status quo eventually

Ironically, this never touches on the reason why there's a population crisis in the first place. The cost of having children and the cost of living have made it so that its unaffordable to have a home and children, and having somewhere to live comes before opting in to parenthood. If the median income was healthier, there wouldnt be a population crisis.

@itcamefromthedeep

3 ай бұрын

Cost of living is crushing fertility, sure, but even without that issue we'd be well below replacement. Cultural issues are a bigger driver here.

@GeoffryGifari

3 ай бұрын

@@itcamefromthedeep Non-Canadian here, how do you think cultural issues affect birth rate in this case?

@TCGdp

3 ай бұрын

@GeoffryGifari A combination of anti-natal propaganda, materialism (travel, drug use, 'sowing wild oats'), and generally looking down on stay-at-home mothers and forcing women into the workforce for an increased taxbase.

@theultimatereductionist7592

3 ай бұрын

Stop calling the population a "crisis". That is just your and this videomaker's biased political opinion. Everyone SHOULD stop having kids.

@theultimatereductionist7592

3 ай бұрын

Stop calling the population a "crisis". That is just your and this videomaker's biased political opinion. Everyone SHOULD stop having kids.@@TCGdp

All I know is that my rent has doubled here in less than two years. We're not doing well. Supply can't keep pace, food prices have also exploded. It's a tough time to be a working class family.

@matthewbarabas3052

3 ай бұрын

sounds like a skill issue. you should have negotiated for a fixed rent price.

@Aridanx

3 ай бұрын

@@matthewbarabas3052 a fixed rent price? What planet are you from man?

@hybbfr727

3 ай бұрын

@@matthewbarabas3052 hahah as if landlords would ever agree to that

@matthewbarabas3052

3 ай бұрын

@@hybbfr727 then there should be a law capping rent prices to reasonable standards.

@matthewbarabas3052

3 ай бұрын

@@Aridanx somewhere more reasonable.

The scary thing is you didn't take into consideration that yes we Canadians bring in 500k immigrants....and 900k foreign students most of which go for their permanent residency after they graduate through our point system. It should be noted that alot of the red tape for building houses are due to what we were doing in the 80s we were building on farmland this was causing a crisis. It was predicted that if we continued at the rate we were we would have to import the majority of the foods we normally produce locally. While canada is large alot cannot be grown on and alot cannot be built on.

@jayvandelay2026

3 ай бұрын

there is ZERO chance that we would not be able to produce enough food internally. Short of some produce that we dont grow due to climate. Agriculture and domesticated stock? Not even remotely close. Large net exporter of all things we do grow.

@toedrag-release

3 ай бұрын

@@jayvandelay2026 you can google it. I lived through it I remember it being discussed in parliament and plasted all over the news

@MB-xe8bb

2 ай бұрын

@@jayvandelay2026 The Prairies are almost a desert. If climate change makes them any drier, they will be like the Dust Bowl decade = no food. Southern Ontario and BC both building on prime, prime farmland.

I took an Uber with a driver from the Punjab region of India, he said he regretted coming (had been here 3ish years). There are investor houses in the suburbs of Toronto that are full of bunk beds with 10-20 single male "students" living in one house. Sounds nightmarish. Home prices will be propped up to preserve boomer retirement (their homes are their retirement funds). Yikes.

@ahmedzakikhan7639

3 ай бұрын

That's pretty common in US cities like NYC and LA, and its been like this sice decades . Canada just recently learned to emulate the US. US has one of the highest number of illegals in the world. Surprised that people are surprised to hear about it. Toronto is turning into another New York.

@awebuser5914

3 ай бұрын

"Home prices will be propped up to preserve boomer retirement..." What a pile of complete bullshit! "Propped up" by _who_ *exactly* ? Some mysterious cabal that wants to keep Toronto home prices high? Home builders build houses that are the most profitable to build, ergo, they build large single-family homes, or upscale townhouses. It's simple economics, not some mysterious conspiracy. If immigrants moved to PEI, Cape Breton, or Winnipeg they'd find _very_ affordable housing, but guess what, they gravitate to the tiny number of big cities because _it's what they are comfortable with_ !

@user-pz8oc8ju1i

3 ай бұрын

he can leave

@user-el2lh5ro9o

3 ай бұрын

@@user-pz8oc8ju1ithe debt that people take to move to Canada is the reason they gotta stay in canada.

@user-pz8oc8ju1i

3 ай бұрын

@@user-el2lh5ro9oAnd your point is 🤷‍♂️

Canadian here, born and raised in Vancouver. Moved to Japan in 2003 and never went back. In Japan I own a house, car, small business. My friends in Canada live lives of quiet desperation and working poverty.

@doublestrokeroll

3 ай бұрын

yeah...but that's all mostly because canadians have fallen for all the right wing myths and paranoia. This video is flawed with nearly every single "argument" not having any evidence. Literally none of this is sourced properly.

@finalfantasy8VIII

3 ай бұрын

@@doublestrokeroll you think its right wing paranoia that the cost of living is much higher than it was? And most wages have not caught up!

@ElectrostatiCrow

3 ай бұрын

​@@doublestrokerollIsn't Camada much more left wing than America. Yet, it's still not doing as well economically?

@davidames1746

3 ай бұрын

Which detail and provide your evidence@@doublestrokeroll

@doublestrokeroll

3 ай бұрын

@@davidames1746 Third. You say productive immigrants bring their unproductive family who "may" bring down GDP. Source for this? I searched the reuters article you had posted during that section but it says nothing about what you said in that article so that's pretty misleading on your part to imply that your information is sources. If we do look for actual sources about this there is a study by Rutgers law school (The Law and Economics of Family Reunification) in the US that shows there is "no sharp distinction in earnings by type of immigrant visa". So yeah. It's only one study looked for quickly but it's better than no source, and what appears to be pure speculation on your part.

Growing up as a Canadian and watching these kinds of videos about other less developed countries, its very weird to see it about your own country.

As a Canadian in my mid thirties, Canada is a s*&th@le. Everyone works two to three jobs, housing is out of reach for all but those with family wealth or very good luck, food is SO expensive, and primary healthcare physicians are nonexistent in urban areas. Privatisation, austerity, and little government intervention have ruined our chances for decent lives. More and more news stories focus on how immigrants move here to find out how unaffordable it is, and leave within a couple years. Brutal. Paradigm shift in politics, economics, and private property needed yesterday.

@martinpenwald9475

3 ай бұрын

What kind of shift do you think should happen ?

@simonr-vp4if

3 ай бұрын

For balance: As a Canadian in my mid 30s, Canada is fricking awesome. I work a job which I love, and which allows me to live wealthily by any standards. I own a home. The streets are safe. I can vote in open and fair elections. There are certainly problems, like any country. But on the whole, I love it here.

@edgarbenjoseph3879

3 ай бұрын

We can thank Trudeau for that.

@edgarbenjoseph3879

3 ай бұрын

@@simonr-vp4ifwhere in Canada ?

@edgarbenjoseph3879

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@simonr-vp4ifI’m in Vancouver and rent is terrible.

Canada focuses a lot on immigration and them goes surprise pikachu over the housing crisis.

@MVargic

3 ай бұрын

And basically all the immigrants come to already crammed dense overpopulated urban areas. Nobody is moving to the sparsely populated rural areas that actually could support a lot more people.

@JoshBorat

3 ай бұрын

It's not just migrants it's the rate of it and there's other issues with housing like interest rates it's insane how expensive homes are now

@UlulatoGarden

3 ай бұрын

​@@MVargicthat's not where the infrastructure and jobs are.

@fungo6631

3 ай бұрын

@@JoshBorat It's because of a lack of supply and dumb zoning as a result of Canada trying to be Amerimuttistan from Aliexpress.

@divitkarekar5803

3 ай бұрын

​@@wotermelon_ keep talking bs Canada has had lesser crime rates, gun violence and there's a much more stable healthcare system here And you telling it's a worse version?lol

The comfortably habitable area of Canada is the size of a ‘middle’ European country - like Poland or Spain…both of which are in the 40 million category - where Canada is now. The fact is, most immigrants don’t move to ‘Canada’ - they move to Toronto and Vancouver. Canada could hit 100 million people and it would have two cities of 30 million. The rest of the country would be as empty as it is now.

@naif8493

3 ай бұрын

well, canada isn't exactly a hospitable place for the most part

@arspsychologia4401

3 ай бұрын

Just let the Alberta and BC separatists have their way, all the immigrants will leave when they can't steal money from an affluent tax base.

@Jhartun

3 ай бұрын

​@@arspsychologia4401 lol now we know that isn't the responsible path to take. Maybe paving better communities up north is a start?

@arspsychologia4401

3 ай бұрын

@@Jhartun No, that's the completely responsible path to take. If they won't stop using a parasitic system, take away the host.

@TiberianFiend

3 ай бұрын

Globo womo will turn Canada into a tropical paradise any second now.

I make significantly more than the average wage and I can’t buy the average house in Canada. Our economy needs a correction.

@catmr8470

3 ай бұрын

我猜你可能住在温哥华？

Australia is also facing a housing crisis. Many of the reasons for it in Canada apply equally to Australia, but I'd add in the prevalence of the "AirBNB" rage, which has taken a lot of permanent rentals out of that market. The shortage of rental accommodation is driving some people into homelessness, while the cost of houses is so high that most young people cannot afford to buy a home without financial help from parents etc. 😬

@duaneswaby622

3 ай бұрын

That’s also a factor in Canada, he just didn’t touch on it specifically. Lots of house hoarding for short term rentals, though many municipalities have started to crack down on that.

@danielcorrigan8805

3 ай бұрын

Both countries suffer from living in the shadow of their much more productive neighbours (east Asia, and the USA respectively) and having most of their land being uninhabitable (for opposite reasons) so populations can only live in. the few habitable areas.

@awebuser5914

3 ай бұрын

"...AirBNB" rage, which has taken a lot of permanent rentals out of that market." Complete bullshit. The percentage of units removed from the rental market is completely insignificant, and more importantly, typically far too valuable to ever be considered typical rental accommodations. This is just echo-chamber nonsense.

@randyg4571

3 ай бұрын

i kind of agree with you even though I do not have statistics to back it up. I live in Miami and own my own place but I've noticed, from talking to friends who rent and are seeking a home ,that rental places have been becoming increasingly difficult from about the last ten years. Even in once low income neighborhoods some homes that would normally be rented, are gradually being taken off the market and advertised as Airbnb.

@maxhugen

3 ай бұрын

@@awebuser5914 While real estate agencies and govt agencies quote AirBNB as being _one_ factor of rental scarcity, you sound like you're quoting *"trust me bro".* 🤣

"Skilled migrant" was used a lot in this video, but most migrants we receive are far from skilled. And the skilled ones, tend to leave to the US or go back home after facing the realities. Even worse, well-educated people born and raised in cities like Vancouver/Toronto are leaving those cities due to HCOL leaving even fewer skilled workers for employers to choose from. Thus, making it even worse for a business to setup shop here.

@Snake369

3 ай бұрын

Yes, skilled migrant is very frequently a lie and used to trick people into supporting mass migration under the belief they're filling gaps in the economy instead of increasing downward pressure on wage growth.

@mr.uthamaputhiran9790

3 ай бұрын

Plenty of migrants are skilled but are asked for "Canadian experience". They come here spend their savings which supports your small businesses and then leave after they run out of luck. Your country is running the biggest scam in the world and Canadians seem to be blind to it.

@user-lb8bg6kj9m

3 ай бұрын

Pretty sure you can substitute the words "skill shortage" and "skilled worker" with low wage worker in many cases. When central banking / govt steps in to pick winners and losers, and the loser is inevitably the worker who gets his wages suppressed and indentured into debt to profit banks, it destroys the foundations of Capitalism. We have Crony Capitalism for banksters and the oligopolies.

@Trust_but_Verify

3 ай бұрын

Train them to be construction workers so houses can be built more affordable? Canada has a lot of land...

@ShitWrangler

3 ай бұрын

@@Trust_but_Verify That's free mason domain, look at the symbol for the union of North American carpenters, what do you see? Compass and square. Good luck getting anything done with that old boys club.

Always surprising when people don't seem to get that bringing more people in to a population doesn't fix the underlying problem that was causing low birth rates.

@chrisj-zk1tg

3 ай бұрын

Yt people in the usa and Canadian must accept they are the new minority

@Ammothief41

3 ай бұрын

When your paycheck depends on not understanding it.....

@switzerland

3 ай бұрын

Switzerland is playing the same game

@jasonhaven7170

3 ай бұрын

Which is that educated women simply don't want many kids. Look at Sweden and Finland, free universal healthcare and generous benefits, low birthrate. Hungary was paying women to have kids, low birthrate.

@Rasaiel

3 ай бұрын

Kids are an expensive hobby. Some people like them, but to keep up the population, it would require every person to have this hobby. The only reliable way to boost birth rate is to decrease social stability. When you feel Ike the only reliable way to keep you feed in old age is your own children and not your bank account, then there will be a baby boom.

It's not about need for skilled labor. It's about control the labor pool to reduce the cost of labor.

@enticingmay435

2 ай бұрын

Exactly. The only people mass migration benefits are the rich and their corporations who gets endless supply of cheap labor that they can exploit. Yet the government and media keep shoving down our throats the idea that mass migration benefit us all. How is more competition for the same limited and even diminishing resources (housing, education, healthcare, infrastructure) good for the locals?

Also, what's the point of a city if only the mega rich can afford to live in or nearby? Someone has to operate your favorite restaurant and stores you shop in. People aren't put into standby mode when they leave the doors of their employers, they have to live somewhere.

Canada's population is either 41 million if you believe the official stats, or more like 42 million because Stats Canada presumed that anyone with a temporary visa would leave within 30 days of the visa expiring. That's nuts given how visa overstays are the primary driver of illegal migration South of the border.

@Jhartun

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's probably bordering 42-44million

@itcamefromthedeep

3 ай бұрын

@@Jhartun Pardon me, I'm probably thinking of last year's numbers. 😆

@kovona

3 ай бұрын

Knew a couple who lived in Toronto for 28 years illegally, fake driver's license and all. Once the Liberals relaxed immigration policy, they finally came out of the ground because the "wife" wanted to get legally married 😂.

@lioneldemun6033

3 ай бұрын

So has now CND overtaken Cali ?

@morimoko

3 ай бұрын

yeah didn't they basically come out or get caught being off by 1-2.5 million in their visa numbers.

It is a sad fact that Canadian employers DO NOT VALUE overseas experience. Expect your standard of living to drop if you move to Canada from another developed country. I moved to Canada and -- unable to get a job in my field (a well-paying, white collar role) -- left again and moved back overseas. Also, the wages are relatively low compared to, say, Australia or the U.S. for professionals.

@joanneburford6364

3 ай бұрын

Yes I've heard that, we're getting a lot of professionals coming in now 🇦🇺

@rosco6033

2 ай бұрын

This is definitely part of the problem

I went to a masters level program where 80 percenf of the class was from china in toronto. Educational institutions have transititioned into full businesses here

@kaze-xo

Ай бұрын

I mean, most master/PhD STEM students in UT/UBC are east asian, particularly Chinese (and some Indians), but I wouldn't consider them as diploma mills

@Tudor-jf9in

Ай бұрын

@@kaze-xo why

They open up the floodgates and look what happened. Now there's no places to rent. The price of a house is ridiculous. The price of food is ridiculous. The price of gas is ridiculous. I could go on and on and on😮

I live in Canada. Its a Dumpster Fire up here. We no long live up to the stereotype that the world see us. We have fallen so far from that in the past 20 years.

@Shieftain

3 ай бұрын

It was already not so good 20 years ago IMO. Your collapse essentially started when trudeau senior more or less opened the flood gates back in the 70s, and it's been downhill ever since.

@MichaelDavis-mk4me

3 ай бұрын

@@ShieftainCanada was more productive than the US in 2013, it was it's peak.

@andriidiuh7826

3 ай бұрын

and what people do about it? - not so much... all my Canadian co workers are apolitical, don't care about anything only to get a paycheck, get to the next weekend and smoke some weed... when I try to talk about politics, strikes, changes... they toss it away and would rather talk about some bs

@MichaelDavis-mk4me

3 ай бұрын

@@andriidiuh7826Speaking of politics is an excellent way to speedrun being fired if you weren't aware,

@andriidiuh7826

3 ай бұрын

@@MichaelDavis-mk4me not in NB, also we are a mechanical shop, with some sales too, and there are like 15 of us… what you said could be true for a big company in reacher province.. also it is kinda toxic. You have to talk openly about things that are going on in your country otherwise it is straight way to 1984

I have a high end tech job. Rents in Vancouver and Toronto are insane. My rent in Northern Japan is less than $200 USD a month. Never going back lol

@redman6790

3 ай бұрын

Is this sustainable in the long-term? What if your next job calls you back? I want to digital nomad but worried about my future employers asking for me to come into office.

@InstantLuc

3 ай бұрын

Depends on your job, area of work and what passports you hold. Doing this solely as a Canadian is tricky given our small job market, but with a UK or EU passport, finding another remote job is easy. An open work permit is another option. Also the amount of money I save by being here makes things easy. Also domestically some Japanese employers are allowing work from home which is nice. @@redman6790

@antunsimic985

3 ай бұрын

@@redman6790maybe he works for a Japanese company there.

@xMoomin

3 ай бұрын

I live in northern Japan aswell, speak Japanese and work for a local tech firm.. rent is 400, 10 minutes train from downtown Sendai@@antunsimic985

@mattchang3266

3 ай бұрын

One, you’re already well paid, it doesn’t matter where you live as you’re way above middle class. Also, Japan has its downsides as well even if cost of some living is cheap. Also, I’m assuming you don’t have kids that you are raising in Japan?

We should also talk about bringing in unskilled labor. There are fast food places getting the paperwork to bring in temporary foreign workers (often through lying) and then SELLING that visa as a way for a person to buy their way into a Canadian visa.

Born and raised in Canada. I never thought that I'd be making plans to leave my country permanently but the outlook here is getting worse everyday . Over the last few years Canadian culture has seemingly evaporated. There's nothing left of what once was. I no longer feel at home here.

@eternalcanadiandevyt

3 ай бұрын

"Canadian culture" There is no such thing. This is just a dogwhistle.

@hellraiserzaneriss

3 ай бұрын

​@@eternalcanadiandevyt The fact you think this is a dogwhistle shows you don't know how to identify Canadian culture and just lump it in with the US because of the similarities. If you actually spent time in Canada and the states you'd know the cultural differences and they're absolutely everywhere. The tipping culture, the infrastructure, the multiculturalism, the cleanliness of our public places, the fact our entire country is built for the snow, the safety of Canada, our huge film and games industries, 25% of our population speaks french as a first language and you're saying we have no culture. Dumb take, so many people have this brain rotted idea that Canadian culture doesn't exist because their understanding of what culture is to them is as basic as unique food, exotic holidays and speaking different languages. And because Canada is beside the US and speaks a lot of english it has no culture, ignoring the massive glaring differences between the two countries that you can see clear as day if you just spend a little time in both. But yeah you're right there's no such thing as Canadian culture, its all an alt-right dog-whistles Poutine Hockey and Tim Hortons am I right?

@eternalcanadiandevyt

3 ай бұрын

@hellraiserzaneriss Wall of text. If you're going to engage in debate in good faith, make concise clear arguments instead of obfuscating nonsense behind the veneer of intellectualism by having alot of words.

@uvixazazaichkinXD

3 ай бұрын

​@@eternalcanadiandevyt Vaush fan detected, go watch horse hentai

@Willburrrrr

3 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠@@eternalcanadiandevytHe makes a solid point. And in a pretty narcissistic way you’re also generalizing “in good faith”.

Good video. As a Canadian, you pretty much summarized the issues we are facing. One point I'd like to bring is that immigration is very hard to do for any countries. In Canada, I feel we use immigration to do a quick fix on our economy instead of addressing the real issues. In Quebec, where I live, we had labour shortages for years, well before the pandemic and the provincial government keep announcing new projects and new investments to create more jobs. We keeps asking where they find people to fill these jobs. It's much more popular to announce new projects, than announcing investments to improve productivity and quality of life of workers. another point is that immigrants don't live in a vacuum. They might fill a needed job in a sector of the economy, but they have the same needs as anyone else with places to live, to shop, to send kids to school and such. On average, each new immigrant creates a demand for another person in the economy. When there a labour shortage, the quick fix is to have another immigrant, and thus we have a vicious circle.

@tyvrabel1696

3 ай бұрын

The reason Quebec has a labour shortage is because cause all the good workers come to Alberta 💪🏼

@amossimon3438

3 ай бұрын

Immigrantation for Canada and the big corporations. . It's cheap labour.. The fact that Canada only exports. there resourses. To other countries. .There is no long tern future. .When the resourses are mined out. There is nothing left in the area.

there was a job fair in toronto yesterday for airport job openings. thousands of people showed up for a few job openings lol

@moonshot3159

3 ай бұрын

very interesting! does this event have news coverage? any articles or something?

@tonespeaks

3 ай бұрын

@Curling_Rack Canada has a pretty low unemployment rate, but it really depends on the type of job that is on offer.

@j.jsamra

3 ай бұрын

​​​@@moonshot3159 It's quite normal to have stuff like this. You see it alot on social media. It's far too normalized for it to be on news media

@johnl.7754

3 ай бұрын

Maybe people just like government jobs

@LeiSnows

3 ай бұрын

No one wants to work. This generation is so lazy.

I've lived in Canada my whole life. Watching the rapid decline and deterioration in real time seems unreal... But it's happening and it's very sad. Not a very happy place at the moment for the vast majority of Canadians.

@fremontpathfinder8463

3 күн бұрын

It is similar in the US. The only thing that is helping a bit is that in blue states (Democratic states) there are strong unions and higher pay and better benefits. Biden's public service loan forgiveness and other loan forgiveness programs have also helped

Regarding our productivity: We also suffer from many of our largest industries being huge oligopolies, and from our regulators being infiltrated by ex industry executives (ex: telecommunications and the CRTC), which has allowed for more consolidation, and disincentivised any type of research and development to be more competitive/producitve - because there are fewer and fewer firms to compete with. Also, we are incredibly risk averse culturally, and have a relaitively weak entrepreneurial spirit.

@michaeljames3229

3 ай бұрын

Umm, I disagree with that last bit. Probably a good 80% of the people I know are small business owners or work a PT job and have a small business on the side. I don't think we're risk averse by nature, but I do see that most Canadians don't want the "live to work" lifestyle. We value our free time and if you've ever run a business, you know how much more you work vs. just working a job mon-fri. Perhaps that's just semantics, but I don't think we shy away from risk as a root cause, it's more thought involved than that.

@theultimateartist4153

2 ай бұрын

@@michaeljames3229Canada is weak from an entrepreneurial stand point , it exports very little culturally , American is always pushing something on the market

@michaeljames3229

2 ай бұрын

@@theultimateartist4153 I guess? If you want to ignore things like the telephone, basketball, hockey, the CanadArm, Bombardier, the De Havilland Beaver (Alaska wouldn't have been settled without it) More recently RIM created the BlackBerry, far advanced for its time and was exclusively used by US gov't for years. Not to mention our artists, comedians and writers!! US Hollywood would look a lot different without Canadians. There's so much more, like medical discoveries ect. Maybe some Canadians could add their favourites? But I do agree, America puts A LOT out into the world, most of it is not very good. SO, I know you're education system doesn't acknowledge other countries existence, but we are here and we do MUCH more than what you've been taught. Canada and Canadians are a hellufa lot stronger than you realize. Thanks bud. :)

@theultimateartist4153

2 ай бұрын

@@michaeljames3229ALL those stuff you listed are Americans Marketed and refined it and while Canada is still in their shadow , US hollywood was making big money with or without Canadians btw I am from Alberta but you visit and American turned every idea into a megacorp if it can

@j4yd34d5

2 ай бұрын

@@michaeljames3229 bruh, we're putting out a couple crates of maple syrup and some mountee figurines at best 😂

This video is far too simplistic, and failed to mention Canada being a global money laundering hub with a high level of mortgage fraud, banking fraud, and legal/judicial corruption. A shortage of skilled workers should trigger investment in domestic education first, and better jobs/wages and improved standard of living for Canadians and select, productive newcomers. Instead we are importing low- and no-skilled (and their families), and a remarkable number of "realtors" and real estate "investors". Canada's immigration strategy isn't just a tool to drive down wages for the benefit of wealthy slum-employers, it's also a surefire way to keep the exponentially-bloating housing bubble and debt-bubble from exploding. Canada already had a serious housing-affordability problem in 2008, except our bubble didn't burst back then, it just kept going, and going, and going, and going... So now we bring in over a million new immigrants per year - far more wealthy rentiers and poor wage-slaves than skilled workers - giving slumlords and speculators more incentive to evict long-term tenants because they can earn more money herding 10-20 students into one home like cattle, meanwhile our homelessness population, tent-encampments, addictions, mental health, petty-to-serious crime and social-breakdown are exploding - a revelation this video is sorely lacking. Psychological trauma is everywhere. Trust is hard to come by. Canada's entire economy now rests upon housing speculation and debt-servicing, and has become nothing more than a giant Ponzi scheme.

@cameronsix

3 ай бұрын

Well said, you hit the nail on the head.

100k isn't even enough to put a down payment on a townhouse here in Vancouver. Hardly enough for a condo...

As a Canadian the issue is immigration. No housing, heck, not enough food. All of it is causing runaway inflation and scarcity. One can 100% be for lower immigration, and not be anti immigrant.

@MagicMike_101

8 күн бұрын

As a Canadian I start my phrases as a Canadian.

@darwinsilvow1578

9 сағат бұрын

THe problem is not to lower migration...the problem is not giving enough supplies for the increased population that is not able to keep up... and the harsh conditions where you need to go to such lengths to practice smth from their home country...so he works as a cashier to adapt..... also you can limit immigrants living in major cities...because in developing or poor countries most resources (if there is any) are in the major cities and almost non existant in urban areas (i'm from egypt a poor country)

Just a small correction, Toronto no longer has single family zoning as of last year. EDIT: Like someone mentioned in the replies, this doesn't mean that there is going to be a bunch of multi-family housing springing up all of a sudden. Still lots of red tape left but it's a start.

@buk6708

3 ай бұрын

LETSSS GOOO TORONTO

@PWingert1966

3 ай бұрын

A little history. The reason single-family zoning was implemented in the 1920s was to exclude lower-income people during the Depression from occupying rooming houses in affluent areas. Most of these low-income people were seasonal dock workers or workers from ships that would winter in Toronto. It was written so that even small apartment buildings of less than 100 units could not be built or that apartment buildings had to be at least 10 stories (At the time which was unheard of since most buildings were timber and brick.) One other item. Lower Sherborne was the equivalent of Rosedale today. Look at all the very large manor homes and the proximity to the Gooderham and Worts brewery. Sherman and Dundas were like Forrest Hill. But it was also close to the shipyards. Toronto was a fraction of its size back then too. Just a few years further back in time the other side of the street from St. Martins in .the fields were farmers' fields! Near Spadina and College! (There is a picture of this in the church!)

@jupiterjames4201

3 ай бұрын

Overhyped - minneapolis did this years ago - not much happened...

@unrealengine1enhanced

3 ай бұрын

but the fentanyl and meth boats from asia will still bring in the drugs and those same asians will still buy up our real estate GOOGLE IT UP GUYS. wake up. WAKE UP.

@MrAlen6e

3 ай бұрын

Is doesn't however much red tape remains that's almost same as having single family zoning. They need to end apartment bans, reduce red tape , less procurement process and end all parking minimum

Slowing immigration, and in particular being more selective about student visas, will in no way hurt housing prices. That's nonsense. The result will be a stabilization of housing prices that allows supply to be better in line with demand.

It’s getting so bad honestly. No one can afford anything and our healthcare system is overloaded. Housing markets worse than the states

as someone from toronto who is currently in school to become an urban planner, i feel like the so-called 'immigration crisis' is mostly just an extension of the housing crisis. the increase in cost to the standard of living is almost entirely due to a lack of affordable housing. diploma mills are obviously a problem, but aside from cracking down on those it seems to me like the obvious solution is to reform zoning laws and incentivize mixed and low-income housing developments. one interesting option i've been studying is establishing (either directly through municipal/provincial programs or through tax incentives for third parties) co-op housing on a large enough scale that it can actually compete with private housing developers, thereby lowering market rates. it's certainly not a perfect solution, but it's helped cities like vienna keep rent more affordable. it also sidesteps a lot of the issues with rent controls and subsidies.

@danielcorrigan8805

3 ай бұрын

Exactly, add onto this that in the 90s/2000s the government "didn't want to waste money on infrastructure" and most municipalities only approved single family zoning and you really start to see the issue. Especially when you contrast rents in cities like Montréal that have been very pro urbanism and Vancouver which has been pro single family zoning.

@fadybarsoum9969

3 ай бұрын

Would you please recommend a couple of books on these topics?

@mbogucki1

3 ай бұрын

Bingo. Few people want to talk about how decades of terrible zoning and urban planning (thanks "Urban Renewal and Car Culture") completely warped housing costs and availability while putting a terrible burden on infrastructure. We used to build cities for immigration and people but that stopped after WWII.

@ravenkarunanayake2550

2 ай бұрын

And there goes the Green Belt

The problem with current Canadian immigration from a social context is that 60% of ALL immigrants to the country hail from one problematic region in India known as Punjab. Too many of these folks have zero ability to assimilate and adapt to democratic ideals of a western country. They live in enclaves or ghettos where they feel they have no reason to become Canadian or understand what it means to be a Canadian. This will lead to resentment among the current population against the people of an entire country like India which is very diverse and economically worlds apart when you move just a few hundred miles. Canada should concentrate on attracting highly skilled immigrants and fix the current problem with low salaries and terrible housing costs.

@poomanjones4853

3 ай бұрын

You hit the nail on the head. they also create bad workplace culture of only wanting to work with people who look like them/share the same culture.

@jmd5600

2 ай бұрын

Did the gypsies originate from that area as well?

@marieljackman1850

2 ай бұрын

@@jmd5600 Yes.

@marieljackman1850

2 ай бұрын

They are so good at anything ilegal. They are vicious and arrogant. Do you want fake papers? Well, they know how to! Ask them.

@Sagar-vv9gd

20 күн бұрын

Economically others regions of India are way more poor then Panjab.

Canada is not selective, and immigration is lowering the average productivity. It is also putting huge upward pressure on housing prices. A more balanced immigration approach is needed.

I am glad you touched on that Canada might be a huge country, but also a dense country. Most of the country lives in similarly dense conditions to someone in Europe. We have a lot of land, but most is inhospitable tundra and forests. Everyone moves to a couple cities where the jobs are and it isn't miserable to live. We consider ourselves a huge sparsely-peopled country but we are more like a medium-sized and dense country with a huge backyard.

As China has showed, a property bubble is more painful if you burst it later than earlier. Close down the diploma mills and limit temporary migrants to acquiring one home per non-family visa (ie the student can buy a home but their spouse can't).

The single most serious problem for Canada is it's regulation on housings and NIMBY rights, which can in short be called "housing crisis"

@andrasbiro3007

3 ай бұрын

Not just Canada, all developed countries.

@tmghui888

3 ай бұрын

California has a serious problem of this.

@RUHappyATM

3 ай бұрын

Maybe zone for more medium density housing, eg terrace double storey houses, with a smaller garden, say 10M frontage and 40M deep.

@danieljones6862

3 ай бұрын

As someone working in construction can attest to this being spot on. Further the calculation of land value (via a residual land value calculation) ensures land owners are rewarded handsomely for doing absolutely nothing. The planning departments allowing only low rise residential keeps hundreds of thousands of civil servants in jobs that shouldn't exist and the local housing plans ensure that cronies will always exist

@6th_Army

3 ай бұрын

@@andrasbiro3007 For us it's different. Our government is the reason why we lack homes. Our government is spending the entire housing budget on increase the bureaucracy on building homes instead of actually building them.

The main problem is housing. There's a lack of affordable housing in most large Canadian cities. Middle housing is nearly completely absent from Canada's third largest city, Vancouver. Zoning needs to be reformed and immigration need to be capped at like 350-400K, not 500K. More investments going towards mid size city like Quebec City, Halifax, Hamilton, Regina, Saskatoon, Sudbury and other could alleviate some of the pressure on the larger cities like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Build more affordable housing in large and medium size cities, mainly appartements and not condows or single family homes close to city centers so people dont have to own car and get stuck for hours in traffic, reduce the number of immigrants, especially permanent residents and invests in job making ventures in the far north, away from the large cities.

@ericanthony23

3 ай бұрын

Skipped right over Winnipeg but mentions Saskatoon. Lol.

@ephraimboateng5239

3 ай бұрын

@@ericanthony23 I dont consider Winipeg to be Mid-size thought

@MB-xe8bb

2 ай бұрын

@@ephraimboateng5239 Winnipeg has a hockey team, so not mid-size.

@MB-xe8bb

2 ай бұрын

Businesses need to move out of the big cities. There are lots of smaller cities within a few hours of the big cities. Would cut costs for the business and the employees.

@AbdulKhader-786

10 күн бұрын

Problem is anything beyond Toronto or Vancouver is unliveable due to extreme cold weather

It's hard reading the comments of my fellow Canadians' on a video like this. We are truly in trouble, no matter which way we spin today's issues, they are very real for us who live here and we need to start standing up for ourselves instead of expecting the government to make the right decision for us.

It almost feels like a hack being born in Saskatchewan (a province in Canada). Its stupid cold here and a lot of new immigrants to Canada want to stick around major centres which have better weather. Saskatchewan housing is not nearly as bad as Ontario and British Columbia, you just need to survive temps as low as -50 with wind and then Canada becomes affordable to live in 😅

@Tudor-jf9in

Ай бұрын

what about edmonton and winnipeg

@MagicMike_101

8 күн бұрын

But I like this idea. It should be part of the immigration agenda. It involves people who could make it to the Sasky level.

@MagicMike_101

8 күн бұрын

@@Tudor-jf9in Edmonton has oil money but sucks. Winnipeg just sucks.

This is the fundamental issue and why it is significantly different between Canada and the United States. Even if the top cities in United States get incredibly expensive there are tons of mid tier productive cities that are used to accommodating immigrants. Places like Ann Arbor, Cleveland Ohio, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Houston Texas are all midteir cities that are significantly cheaper then the New York City’s and San Francisco’s of the world. The US also has pretty cheap big cities such as Philadelphia and Chicago. There’s enough diversity in space which makes it easier for the US to absorb immigrants. Honestly Canada should think about building new cities.

@theholodomorisnttaughtinam2796

2 ай бұрын

Climate is an issue. People could build cities like Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton or in Northern Ontario, but hardly anyone wants to live in a place where winter is 6-8 months long and where -40° weather is nearly an every day occurrence for three of those months (neither of which is the case in the cities you mentioned).

It's not complicated; Canada has many very restrictive municipal land use and development regulations that make it impossible for housing to keep pace with population growth. The supply shortage is completely self-inflicted, and it's been going on for fifty years! This surge in immigration is just making it particularly apparent.

@PerciusLive

3 ай бұрын

Part of the supply shortage is the amount of investment properties

@peterdowdy174

3 ай бұрын

@@PerciusLivethat’s not very intuitive; people buy investment homes to rent them out; this increases supply, rather than decreasing it

@havenless3551

2 ай бұрын

@@peterdowdy174 As a professional land use planner in Ontario, you have zero clue what you're talking about

@peterdowdy174

2 ай бұрын

@@havenless3551 If I were a professional land use planner in Ontario, I'd keep that to myself.

Canada may have a lot of land, but most of it isn't a desirable place to live. That's why the bulk of the population lives so close to the US border.

What is often overlooked in this debate, is the cost of increased usage of our infrastructure too. This will be impacting municipalities in the coming years.

@tiffany.Elizabeth.

3 ай бұрын

No kidding! Didn’t even think of this point.

@MagicMike_101

8 күн бұрын

Everywhere in the planet, lol

Married folk with kids contribute the most to any country’s future, time to recognise this and stop regarding kids as some kind of fun luxury, like an expensive car

How nice to know that my home country faces all the same issues as my current place of residence in Australia 😕

@enticingmay435

2 ай бұрын

It’s because both countries (and pretty much the rest of the western world) have the same policies. Yet people keep voting for these same politicians so I guess they have no one to blame for their problems but themselves

Skilled immigration also reduces local wages, or at least can, and has in Canada. So lower earnings, but hyper-demand for things like housing. Hmm, no wonder personal debt in Canada is sky high.

The fact that Canada is so big, but also has a housing shortage is really odd. It is even more baffling when you consider that lumber is historically one of the largest industries in the country. I am one of the few who moved from the USA to Canada and I have witnessed first hand the skyrocketing housing prices. It has gone up by half since I moved. I personally work in an industry that pays well in Canada, but tech workers are getting poached by the USA. An entry level tech worker in Canada starts out making just above minimum wage. I had a friend who studied CS and he made more money working at a winery than his first tech job. In the USA, a tech intern makes $50-100/hr and it goes up from there. If they want good tech workers to stay, Canada needs to up the wages.

The top pay in vancouver, $40/ $45 per hour , you wont have any savings after the monthly bills. Unless your a single bloke.

@user-pz8oc8ju1i

3 ай бұрын

Or a indian ..can you live 10 in a basement and share a big pot of curry with your roomates ?Thats what they do ..indian food is cheap too

@clintkrum

2 ай бұрын

I would say you would save more if you have a partner sharing the flat with you. I earn $43 per hour and split it every month for car, insurance, bills, groceries, and rent @ around 1.5k each. I still would be able to save 1k a month?

@clintkrum

2 ай бұрын

And I wouldn’t say its the top pay. I’m just a junior of a mid level position in our company. And I know a lot of people in my field (Im not in Tech) and others who earns double my salary.

The challenge with Canada is that it tends to welcome more immigrants than necessary, resulting in issues such as housing crises, heightened insecurity, and cultural integration struggles, as observed in Brampton. Moreover, Canada's economy lacks diversification, making it difficult for all newcomers, especially students, to find immediate employment. While there should be immigration controls in place, the government often overlooks this, possibly to gain support from immigrant communities.

@benitzers8858

3 ай бұрын

true

@Snake369

3 ай бұрын

hahahaha brampton. yeah, it's so bad that brampton has now spread out all across southern ontario.

@bunnystrasse

3 ай бұрын

Trudeau

@minedgravy380

3 ай бұрын

started under harper. @@bunnystrasse

As an American (who likes Canada a lot & has traveled there often) I wonder if one approach would be to steer economic & population growth to current "secondary cities" such as St John NB, Trois Rivieres PQ, and Prince Rupert BC, try to grow them into bigger cities & take real estate pressure off the current large metros.

@Tudor-jf9in

Ай бұрын

the city you mention can not be called the secondary city,they more like the forth city

I immigrated to Calgary in 2000. Worked hard and got my undergraduate degree at UofC. Couldn’t get into a Canadian medical school so went to a Caribbean med school, became a doctor and passed all my board exams without a problem. Currently practicing in the US. Tried to get my licensure in Canada and the fees for maintaining your doctor’s licensure in Canada is astronomical. For now, I am staying in US. Every time, I go back to Calgary, it is unrecognizable…has massively expanded and my family complains of lack of jobs and high living cost. Immigration is important but it needs to be done gradually and deliberately. The current rate of immigration is displacing the current Canadian citizens out of the jobs they need to afford their livelihoods.

Canada is a frigid icebox for most part.. if it wasnt for infinite growth economy ideas.. wont a small population be ideal for such a geographic region?

Best EE video in a while, I was unaware of the lenient student visa issues

@mmmu09

3 ай бұрын

I didn’t know they had an exemption to buying homes

People should remember: poverty is not an accident, a coincidence or an inevitability. It is something which is manufactured by the step and actions we takes, investment has been confirmed to be a sure means in gaining financial stability

@johnalex4006

3 ай бұрын

You're right, that's why I urge everyone to start somewhere now no matter how small it's

@jessicasaunder6965

3 ай бұрын

you've remind me of what someone once said "The mind is the man, the poor is in it and the rich is it too". This sentence is the secret of most successful investors. I once attended similar and ever since then been waxing strong financially, and i most tell you the truth..investment is the key that can secure your family future.

@JosiahHelloy

3 ай бұрын

exactly! That's my major concern and what kind of profitable business or investment can someone do with the current rise in economic downturn

@philominafashi1662

3 ай бұрын

Obviously these investment requires much cash and concentration to start?

I did a working holiday in Canada, for the majority of which the government ended up PAYING ME to do nothing, in the form of EI (employment insurance). I took the opportunity to just sleep through the days and go out every night. Fun at the time, but I remember thinking my god this can't be sustainable

@pandora9630

3 ай бұрын

How’s this possible?

@fletchergull4825

3 ай бұрын

@@pandora9630 I worked a season as a tree planter. When the season ended I had technically "lost my job through no fault of my own" and qualified for welfare. All the tree planters do this. It's bonkers they let non-residents do this.

So basically its "Housing Crisis" Consumer goods: +5% Stability: -15%

@jakebeaudry3888

3 ай бұрын

A HOI4 reference I sense?

@juimymary9951

3 ай бұрын

Is that a stellaris reference?

@mooripo

3 ай бұрын

Haha loving HOI4

@jakebeaudry3888

2 ай бұрын

@@anime0965 "Modern Zoning Laws" notably increase building slots.

@midnightrc9054

2 ай бұрын

boy the c**sor tube

As a Canadian citizen, we need to stop bringing in immigration to Canada we have enough let’s look after our own people …. Plus look at the housing problems and rent , where will all this end?.,,,

I always appreciate EE's take, and as a Canadian, seeing a video on Canada is super cool because it allows me to attest to the fairness of the analysis. Really reinforces my love of this channel. Keep up the good work!

Always interesting, thank you.

As someone currently building a house in Canada, even if you get the permits and so on (which take a bit of time due to bureaucracy) the cost of labour and materials is pretty high. If I started building my house before 2020 it probably would've cost me half of what I'm currently paying. Then all the housing we get in big developments are single bedroom apartments, so good luck raising a family in them...

While this video is extremely accurate at describing the problems that Canada is facing, it's frustrating that it doesn't address the political structure of this country, and how our decentralized system makes things worse. While the federal government is responsible for the number of people who come into the country, education and the "colleges" that these "students" attend are regulated by the provinces which have all turned a blind eye to standards, all the while reducing funding for education itself. Meanwhile the restrictive zoning in cities is a decades long municipal issue where upper level funding of cities has been stripped and replaced largely by development fees.

The problem is the price is high in a few major cities but lowers greatly as you go to smaller centers in middle Canada. Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and places between.

@MagicMike_101

8 күн бұрын

All these places suck. After a while, people move. It's natural.

We are not in the same Canada. Unaffordable housing, food and healthcare crisis.

@MagicMike_101

8 күн бұрын

You are, but life changes everywhere.

As an Australian, we can identify similar problems here. First, immigrants prefer the big cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, etc. That’s why the government is making more incentives for immigrants to settle in regional areas like in the outback where their skills are badly needed. Second, there are many so-called students are more focused on working instead of studying, that’s they the government has become more strict. That’s why what is happening in Canada is being looked closely by Australia and to a lesser degree…New Zealand. Thanks for this documentary.

@georgesharonr

3 ай бұрын

Australia instead of looking and watching, should start taking drastic measures before anarchy sets in.

@elmeribarra9966

3 ай бұрын

@@georgesharonr it’s actually happening especially with the war between Israel and Gaza.

@FNA27601

3 ай бұрын

​@elmeribarra9966 what does the israel war have to do with Australia's measures??

@korbi2275

3 ай бұрын

Haha, the outback is 100 times more fun than the cities anyway

@K.C-2049

2 ай бұрын

Australia has traditionally had higher wages and better protections for workers though. Canada is a mixed bag of American neo liberalism but also high taxes and low social benefits, labour laws with about a billion loopholes, middling wages, and obscene cost of living. it's ridiculous. my friends from Australia are all shocked by how we "live" here.

Canada should try a tax on foreigners buying real estate. Then use the proceeds to add dense housing to the supply or build infrastructure to support more market rate housing.

I stopped watching about 20-30 seconds because the whole premises of the video is wrong. It keeps mentioning SKILLED. The problem is that Canada is no longer bringing SKILLED immigration - as I came in 2000, qualifying on the obsolete job list, having to show that I posses 13,500 USD for my family, paying over 1000 USD for immigration papers. Nope, it just brings a lot of unskilled immigration. There is a lot of family reunion, and a lot of middle-age or even old people who are not literate in their own language, let alone speak other languages, coming without a job and not much hope for training.

@sydneysummers5290

3 ай бұрын

💯 agree. No standards. No skills. Illiteracy seems to be a criteria to get in. Accepting all U.S. green card rejects. Accepting the entire world's rejects. It is not a first world nation. It's become a 3rd rate s*******.

@lauravergot9995

3 ай бұрын

The video said exactly the same later on...

@andivalachi8247

3 ай бұрын

Not my fault that in the desire to appease all spirits the authors chose to beat around the bush as if this is an ordinary immigration issue @@lauravergot9995

@MB-xe8bb

2 ай бұрын

We do, however, need farm workers. Some skills, but can be taught outside of school. Mostly just hard, hard work that Canadian-born kids don't want to do.

nice video with high quality, thx❤

As an immigrant to canada, this is probably the first ever video which properly explained to me the immigration concerns of canada, without needlessly berating immigrants.

@MrHogadog

3 ай бұрын

It's a bit of a machine here. I talk to folks from India that come over. They are promised a great quality of life, jobs, housing etc. definitely not the case. Everyone is fooled. It's not the land of milk and honey that politicians and developers want us to believe. But keeping up that image keeps investors investing here and that's all they care about. That along with GDP numbers.

@cedricdavis513

2 ай бұрын

People berate immigrants because the majority of them do not assimilate into Canada.

Worst thing about Canada is that 90% of the rentals available are rented by foreigners. And i use the term foreigner loosely here, because there are a lot os citizens that are quite foreign to Canada.

Exactly relevant in Australia right now. Great video.

@HyperIndian

3 ай бұрын

Except Australia is much more conservative. It's already severely overhauled its immigration strategy

Yea... It's not over sensationalized my friend. It is BAD over here. As a lot of my fellow Canadians can attest to.

Granted, I do live in the region of Canada where immigration is one of the highest, stats Canada has reported that the population of my area is 90% 1st/2nd/3rd generation immigrant. To say that demographic shift is occurring is the understatement of the century. I get to feel like I’m living in a foreign country but the down side is I’ll never afford my own house.

@Willburrrrr

3 ай бұрын

@marekcracovia4061Sounds like SW Ontario

Only a sixth of the video in, but my hypothesis for why Canada is feeling a bigger burden is because its starting population is lower than countries like the US and UK. That means that each immigrant brought in has a bigger impact. It's like if a hundred people tried to move into a small village (no pun intended) at once, versus if those same hundred moved into a big city (which is better able to absorb them).

Big problem is lack of rapid transportation…the major roads are saturated and there is no TGV or rapid train that runs from rural towns to big cities…so big cities are overcrowded…the planing wasn’t plan at all for the mass immigration of past few years…combined that with big cities lack of small affordable rentals and lack of students rooms, ex: student don’t succeed to have a room at student facilities they rents a 3 rooms apartment together with other students, but this apartment should be available for a family that can’t find one…but they don’t do nothing about that because of money they don’t want to spend and they hope the private sector will do it but they don’t because it’s not enough profitable..also, low income and social security people don’t have enough rentals available the waiting list is to long, but the gouvernement give money every where on the planet but don’t build social rentals and and other things that his population needs…

Loved the video. But it was funny that the clip you have of Parliament was also of the 2022 Convoy 😂.

Honestly Canada has the chance to become a powerhouse. the only thing is it needs is more mega cheap housing, and the government need to be the ones doing it at big scale in every city.

@tsingtsao568

3 ай бұрын

Then a bigger problem ,who would still pay unaffordable rent? The house investors couldnot find tenent who prefer to pay unaffordable rent, more foreclosure,bankrupcy,

@samanthanelson5143

3 ай бұрын

Government and their night walkers lobbying the system, need to stop molesting the people and let them by default prosper.

@pwnknight5419

3 ай бұрын

@@tsingtsao568thats the point... make more housing available to bring down the value of property/rent, so price gauging landlords cant keep the prices up and have to bring it down to a more reasonable price. its not our fault if they take out loans out at high rates because they know they can still make a profit as theres nowhere to live. some of them will go bankrupt and thats good as a whole. property is viewed like stocks/cash cows now but it wasnt always that way.

@tsingtsao568

3 ай бұрын

@@pwnknight5419 sir, fir me, I like the Elon Musk type of Boxbal prefab tiny house very much, @50k, you can equip with solar and I can dig a well. Distance is not a problem and I actively seeking a place so that I can grow a hobby farm some animals. There are capsule mini house beautifully made and luxury, order online and shipped worldwide,people can use in Norway winter thiscan happen with a week to solve the whole Canada housing problem,will this happen,even allowed?

Because of the horrendous problems caused by over-immigration into Canada, the dream of many young people is to move to some other place (like Japan), where there is a good possibility that the person can be able to get a good job AND afford to buy a house within 10 years of moving to that country. In Canada, it takes over 20 years just to save up for a downpayment and over 100 years of hard work to be able to pay off the mortgage (no one lives that long).

@InstantLuc

3 ай бұрын

I live in Japan in Tohoku. Grew up in Toronto, lived in Vancouver for awhile. There are whole houses here that are going for $50k USD, which was less than the price of a parking spot in my last condo in uptown Toronto. Japan is not the solution for everyone depending on particular lifestyle needs, but my rent here is under $200 USD for over 1000SQFT. Other things are quite cheap here. It's a nice place if you can work remote or find western style of employment.

@seadkolasinac7220

2 ай бұрын

@@InstantLuc those two at the end are big 'if's

Nice unbiased informative video on the topic! Really nice to see

I wish the stakeholders across Canada's economy weren't obsessive of maintaining a decades old status quo across wages and using cheap temporary labor or imported labor to keep those wages depressed / highly competitive. Feels way harder to get a job today than it was 10 years ago, and you're fighting over stuff that all doesn't pay for rent anyways, or for increased grocery costs etc too. Gouging across real estate and other service industry is being done basically blatantly and these same stakeholders are itching at the opportunity to buy up national assets like our public health care system to gouge us back America style through that too. All of the financial stress in this country seems incredibly manufactured and intentional given even 15 yrs ago when I was still in school, what is now happening with real estate was already being screamed / warned about, what was happening with wages was already being screamed about, etc. And 15 yrs later I can still start somewhere and earn what I did in like 2008 because of how little improvement labor has seen in light of the growing corporate capture of our state.

Canada has the same problem of being too car centric and not building walkable cities.

@johnl.7754

3 ай бұрын

But that’s what the current population wants (with NIMBY housing restrictions)

@jakewert8551

3 ай бұрын

I'm not sure about other places in Canada but I at least think the GTA is very walkable

@wv9529

3 ай бұрын

this car centric critisim is getting out of hand. Do you really believe its fun moving around in public transport during the Canadian winter. Canada needs to think about building new cities if it wants to maintain massive inflows of immigrants.

@wv9529

3 ай бұрын

well these evil NIMBY people paid the price for low density housing not high so what you are asking them is to take a 30-40% hit on their real estate value for the "greater good". And there's also a quality of life question@7754

@graceneilitz7661

3 ай бұрын

@@wotermelon_ Denmark and Norway are also much smaller countries, making it much easier and less expensive to have public transportation.