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Okay, so I wrote this as a reply yesterday, but figured it was worth cleaning up as a post since more people might see it. Sorry if it's a bit rambling – my laptop's dead and I'm stuck typing on my phone. Basically, Canada's in a mess for a few reasons: It's run by a handful of super-rich families – maybe a dozen – who pretend we're a real democracy. Seriously, just one or two billionaires control huge chunks of essential industries in each province. Think Patterson in BC, the Richardsons in the Prairies, the Irvings on the East Coast, the Westons with groceries, Rogers and Shaw with telecom, you get the idea. We've got a two-party system, but both Liberals and Conservatives work for these families. For 30+ years, they've just swapped places whenever people get mad, but every government just keeps expanding the same exploitative stuff, no matter what they say they believe. I'll get to why later. Right now, our economy is totally hooked on a housing and consumer debt bubble. It's what drives our GDP and "wealth," and it's one of the biggest bubbles in the developed world. Otherwise, we're stagnant. Lots of people make crap wages, but hey, they bought a house 20 years ago and now it magically earns $100k a year! So they can take out a HELOC loan and live large. Wages haven't budged in decades, but the house I grew up in went from $60k to $1.2 million in 25 years, with no improvements. And it's in a tiny, dying town that just has tourism and logging. The government won't fix it because they're making money off it and because a housing crash would nuke the whole economy. See the problem? Our population is aging fast, but nobody's having kids because it's too expensive to live here. This threatens the sacred "Growth Economics." If the economy stalls, those rich families start losing money. Our pensions and other services could go bust. So the "solution" is either tell the boomers to get lost (which is politically impossible) or pump up the population to fake GDP growth. During the pandemic, we finally saw wages go up a bit because there weren't enough workers. The federal government's answer? Mass immigration, no matter the cost. They want to crush wages and keep rents and housing prices sky-high. A one-bedroom in Vancouver was like $800 a month in 2016. Now it's $2900. Rents outside the city aren't much cheaper, but the jobs are way worse, so it's even harder to afford things. The feds have upped immigration to between 1.45 and 2.2 million people a year, counting students, temporary workers, and refugees. That's one of the highest rates per capita in the world, way more than the US. Most aren't even skilled immigrants anymore. We're just importing cheap labor from developing countries. This is killing our healthcare system because we don't recognize foreign medical degrees and protect domestic wages by only letting a few people graduate med school each year. Last year, the government scrapped work restrictions for international students (800k of them!), loosened rules for temporary foreign workers (adding six figures!), all to suppress wages. They're handing out visas to tech workers and skilled trades just to kill wage negotiation power. It's great PR to say Canada "welcomes" refugees, but it's not humane. Over 40% of homeless shelter users in Toronto are refugees who were brought here and then dumped on the streets with no support after a few months of payments. The goal isn't humanitarian, it's to have a constant stream of desperate people who will work for anything and don't know their rights. This has been swept under the rug to protect our "refugee business." Look around, that business is booming. Canada is heading for serious problems. The politicians in Ottawa and the provinces are controlled by a tiny group of rich people who only care about their quarterly profits. Our last housing minister owned three investment properties and was just replaced by the guy who started this mass immigration thing. When asked about the lack of housing, the old minister said, "Don't worry, they'll build their own housing." The Prime Minister said housing "is not a concern of the federal government." Now the new immigration minister says, "We may need to revise the targets higher." They're completely out of touch. Even the banks agree this is insane. This is a simplified overview. There are tons of other problems, like not investing in housing for 30 years, ignoring money laundering by foreign investors, no rules for AirBnB, turning student programs into work visas, not diversifying our economy, closing factories, not investing in infrastructure, etc. It's a total disaster. Again, it's not just immigration. We were already in trouble before Ottawa decided to add millions of people a year. But now we're on the verge of something really bad. I'm leaving the country next year. I'm at the top of my pay scale here and can't afford to live (six roommates and still struggling, rent is $1000 per room). I can more than double my wage somewhere else. Canada used to be stable with a high standard of living (built on debt), and we thought we were better than places like the US. The sudden drop in living conditions has been hard for people to accept. I don't want to see what my frankly racist and ignorant countrymen do when they blame the millions of immigrants for what's happening, instead of the politicians who decided to turn Canada into a corporate entity. After years of politicians calling any criticism of immigration "racist," the backlash will be severe. The core problem is that the people in charge don't care about Canada as a country. They just want a company town from coast to coast. You'll pay for housing forever, either with mortgages or rent to rich landlords, and buy everything from a few big companies that all lead back to the same families. You'll have to work endlessly for whatever you can get. Social stability, sane economics, none of that matters. The goal is to squeeze as much money as possible out of everyone, both locals and immigrants, and throw more people on the pile when they start to run dry.
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-*朝思暮想的少年叫Kris
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First generation Canadian immigrant here.

OP is quite on point.

I have spent the last 25 years in Canada. I first came in 1993 to Vancouver, and finally was able to immigrate in 98/99.

Canada gave me the freedom to work hard, earn and have some control of my destiny. I built a business. Sold the business. Made some money. Bought some real estate. Sold some real estate.
I think so far as reality is concerned I believe I’m the embodiment of the “immigrant dream.”

That dream is now dead.

I know it is; its basic arithmetic. I can only speak for what got me to my dream, and the basic math no longer works. The wages, combined with the quadrupling of living costs since the early 2000’s makes my success impossible if starting today, because saving up capital by working 12-16 hour days in a comparable position to get ahead doesn’t produce enough savings with the current cost of living and lack of wage growth. I was able to earn 25/hr in early 2000’s, similar positions today pay $30/hr.

Its a realization so depressing, that I ruminate on it often. How can it be that in two decades the dream has all but vanished?

What was once an unfathomable thought to me, is circling in my head more and more; do we cash out and move back to our home country? Can Canadas standard of living really fall so badly that I would return?

We live privileged lives - I work part time, we travel, we have own housing with a tiny mortgage that I don’t want to pay off. And yet; I have a fear in my gut that tells me the stability of Canada is being threatened and I don’t know if I want to be around to find out if my gut is right.

Especially when you consider the leaps of improvement in many countries around the world.

Canada is coasting on an image and brand built over decades. A dream thats no longer possible.

Its shocking to me to even type this post out, I owe my financial good fortune to this country. But I can’t help but feel like I’m on a long, long train, but not too long to tell the engine upfront already has the nose over the cliff, and the train still isn’t slowing down.

It’s depressing to be typing this. It makes me swing from guilt to fear to sadness.
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Kelly2
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Our healthcare is not sustainable right now. We’re feeling the effects of cutbacks in medical school enrolments made on the federal level in the early 1990s. Baby boomers are about age 57-77 right now. Family medicine practices usually are run like businesses. Except the costs keep rising and the fees for services provided do not. Add in burnout of doctors and nurses and other healthcare professionals (early retirement, scaling back of work hours, change of practice). Also factor in a lack of hospital beds and long term care spaces pretty much nationwide. More complex diseases (type II diabetes wasn’t really a common thing 30-40 years ago) and people living longer.

There’s too much demand and not enough supply.

So let’s add a million people per year.

This is just healthcare. OP talked about housing and jobs. What about the impacts of mass immigration on education? Social services? The environment?

I am not against immigration. But we can’t open the floodgates when we already can’t provide for our own. I remember social studies classes in elementary school where we learned the process of immigrating to Canada and the points system. This was a part of the curriculum at the time because there were standardized work sheets. We had to decide which hypothetical applicants were allowed in. On one hand, this selects for people who will contribute to Canadian society. If you flip it around…it could also save the applicant from misery. For example…your PhD will not find you meaningful employment in your field here in Canada. You will have to do something else. The unemployment rate is x% right now and the average wage will amount to a net income of x to y dollars a year after tax. The average home is x dollars and the average rent is x dollars. These are the costs of childcare, food, utilities, transportation, etc. for a family of 4 in these provinces. Given that you know this information about what it will cost you to be home and food secure, are you better off coming here or staying where you are or moving elsewhere?

Indeed, there have been a few articles in the big newspapers about immigrants returning home or going to the US because it’s been a struggle in Canada. But I don’t think this is widely known/acknowledged.
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George
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It's sad as a Canadian that I am now contemplating RV/Van living, and I live in a "low budget" province. As a single truck driver, maybe I should reno the biggest sleeper cab I can find? I knew a guy who would drive all week, then stay in his truck during his off time. Looked very sad and lonely though.

As an aside, the Canadian government is doling out a lot of money to people with disabilities. There is a new tax benefit that will see people who have been on disability for years receive a payment retroactive up to 10 years. The average single lump sum payment per individual in that scenario is expected to be $15,000 CAD.

The government is also extending the income threshold for disabled people to have employment income without clawbacks. They can now collect benefits and make $1000 employment income per month after taxes without penalty. For those in affordable housing situations, that means a pretty good standard of living on a part time job. Housing paid and $2300 left over (in Ontario) for expenses every month. It's a better life than I have working full time, paying taxes, and getting squat for my contribution to society.

I trucked throughout the pandemic classified as an essential worker, being allowed to cross back and forth into the U.S when the border was shut. I wonder how many other essential workers throughout the economy admirably served on the front lines and didn't receive anything but a thank you. I didn't expect or ask for anything, but many people collected CERB while not really needing it and living easily. CERB was necessary and essential, but not well thought out. A lot of CERB recipients had the rude shock of having to pay back benefits now to no fault of their own. The government didn't inform them that they might not actually qualify retroactively, and they now have to pay back those benefits. Now, a lot of people have to repay this debt and deal with our affordability crisis because of our incompetent government.

I don't begrudge the disabled for these new benefits. It's been a tough road for them for a long time, and I am happy for them. No natural Canadian should be priced out of their own homeland, period. Wealthy people fleeing *cough* China *cough* should be paying through the nose to come here. Their assets in China will lose more value than what they will pay to preserve some of it here. Better to take a 50% haircut coming to Canada than lose it 100% in China. Take their "wealth tax" and put it into affordable housing for the rest of us. I am not a racist (look at my avatar), but the class warfare is real globally. Forgive my political incorrectness here, but I have no appreciation for wealthy immigrants who are allowed to come here and price the natives out of a standard of living while they enjoy their overpriced and appreciating properties in the big cities living the good life. It's not called "Hongcouver" for nothing.

I suppose what I am saying is that much of Canadian government policy is incoherent, misguided, or perverse. I reckon it will hurt more people than it helps. The super wealthy benefit most certainly. The disabled benefit (which is great), but the rest of us continue to lose ground. Our Liberal / Conservative duopoly governments will never act in our best interests. We have / had a potentially great country to build upon, but that hope is slipping away fast.

End of rambling rant. Thanks for reading.
心好烦
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As somebody who lives in Vancouver, this is exactly my opinion, feelings and etc.

Canada isn't really a country in the same way other countries are countries. Our beginnings with the history of Hudson Bay.

Canada sells this image of being a "friendly green county" where really, they exploit anybody and everybody and use the most natural resources of any other country. It's green cause there's not a lot of people when you compare populations, but when you look at the resources per person -- Canada, especially in Alberta has some of the most inefficient wastes of resources in north america.



Vancouver and BC as a whole makes most of it's GDP on corruption and lax gambling and international investment laws. Every major port and hub of trade is owned by a foreign company. And it makes the most money above-board via international students who use our exporting of education as a stepping stone to places they otherwise wouldn't be able to go.

"The Vancouver Money Laundering Scheme" is literally a "thing." People in eastern countries literally pack their kids with millions of dollars they get in the country via illegal means to escape eastern currency laws. I dated a chick who had millions in the bank, dumped at the age of 16 in Canada.

Every dollar was from her mom to escape the east with, they paid a % to illegal gangs to launder it internationally via the casino and investment markets.

We praise ourselves for our intense multiculturalism and say all of these things about being progressive, but the reality is all these different groups of people have little to no bonds outside their own bubbles. Surrey, BC is mostly punjabi and eastern people.

Richmond is massively populated predominantly by east asian cultures. Mandarin, Taiwanese, Korean, etc. And all these cultural groups basically just segregate. They don't meld, combine or actually live "Multiculturally" -- they live Multi-Tolerant with a lot of picket fences and a lot of colors of picket fences in their minds, the "tolerance" disappears quickly when these groups actually have to interact in a meaningful way.



I used to work for various people in the tax industry, you wanna know what they spend their millions of dollars on? Harems of underaged girls in impoverished countries. They set up houses, groom girls off the street, hire assistants and have "amazing vacations."

Canada and especially BC is one big tourist/immigration/world wide money laundering epicenter. A stepping stone. A "way in."

When you go downtown in vancouver, you literally walk over dead people on east hastings and see dozens of Ferrari's, Lambo's, ridiculous cars with "N" sticker or New Driver stickers indicating new licenses. People are dead or dying in bushes right outside multi-million dollar homes that haven't had a soul in them in over 10 years other than to avoid empty-housing taxes.

I seen a gold mclaren being driven by a 21 year old last week when I talked to him, he never worked a job in his life.

BC is the leading place that young people leave. It's literally over half of everybody born here under the age of 30 can't afford to live here. The numbers are all built up via immigration.

Canada doesn't care about it's citizens. It uses the image of caring as a means to be a worldwide stepping stone into north america for other countries to extract wealth from them and act as a vassal.

The average american loves to talk about our free healthcare, but what they don't know is people wait on cancer lists to die here. If you have a real medical issue, a auto immune disease, or anything that's "too costly" to fix, you basically don't get help.

In Canada, Private health care is completely illegal in practical terms. We live in a country where if your dog gets sick, you can spend every dollar you have and do anything you want to try to save your dog.

But if your child gets a rare disease, or etc. It's illegal to get help outside the publicly provided care. Even if you have all the money in the world, meaning you need to have all the money in the world and seek that help elsewhere in the world. Your child will die. Your dog? Might live. There are few countries in this world that have anything like that.



Break an arm? You don't gotta pay a relatively low, inconvenient fee. But my god, you get cancer or something REALLY bad happens and you get no support whatsoever, and a life is broken down into dollars. Dollars you can't even spend if you have them. Only the government gets to tell you how much your life is worth and how far your help can go.



A great example of the corruption in this country and the double standards is our government has literally taken people who have stolen from The Bank Of China, given them false identities and laundered/took the stolen money. We have given asylum to criminals in other countries -- to get kick backs. And that's documented. Kwok Chung Tam.

The canadian government hid him, knew he smuggled heroin, knew everything there was to know. His connections with the powers at be allowed him to avoid deportation for nearly 30 years. The justice system of canada AND the immigration systems of canada willingly and knowingly harbored an international criminal. That's all officially documented.

That's what Canada Really is.
People up here are mentally deficient. And the image of Canada is a big smoke and mirrors lie.

We point fingers at Americans, Europe. But we're a broken non-country owned by a few ogliarchs actively being a corrupt stepping stone for the east to have greater access to the west, and a majority of the things people are doing and the reasons they come -- are NOT the classic reasons for immigration.



I ain't Racist. I grew up predominantly surrounded by Punjabi people, I'm native indian myself, and I have nothing but admiration for a lot of these cultures on a deep level. But what's really going on here isn't a topic of immigration, it's a total topic of corruption and a country with little self-power gaining it via corruption.

I would NOT be surprised if one day as America is itself collapsing, that they get really fucking sick of Canada allowing foreign influence and might damn well just turn into the next Russia. And honestly, I wouldn't give a single shit. It's clear to me that this country wasn't founded on principles worthy of being a country, and we've done nothing but sink further since.

Overpopulation and overconsumption, has driven the value of a human life down to near zero.
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