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A significant driver of Canada’s housing affordability problem is the treatment of housing as an investment rather than a basic human need. Housing has increasingly been treated as an investment rather than just a place for people to live. Homes are seen as vehicles for wealth accumulation rather than places to live. This approach has attracted large institutional investors (multinational corporations) who buy up properties, raising prices and squeezing out potential homeowners, especially first-time buyers. This problem iget worse because of the use of homes as a tax shelter, benefiting those with capital to invest in markets like Vancouver and Toronto. Greed and profit. Failure of our government to ignore this issue and dodge their obligation of providing a country where Canadians can live reasonable and thrive. Unfortunately it's happening around the world. Immigrants are NOT causing the problem. They are the scapegoat.

My experience has been different. Came at age 48 with family mostly for children future. Initial struggle followed by more than 20 years full time work in a company owned by Canadian but most of us working immigrants from different countries. Had a wonderful experience working as a team. Company grew from 5 including owner to about 30 when I retired. Most of of my contribution was from skills I obtained on the job. The flexibility I got was help to spouse and children. The three of them achieved good outcomes. Taxes are high. I never worried about that as children had professional education with no financial help. Only my steady basic facilities provided as I had steady though lower income than what I had back home in relative terms. What we get back from taxes we pay in health civic facilities education for children is great return of taxes paid. What I got was quality living. No luxuries. My purpose of coming here more than fulfilled. Happy family. Grand children now enjoying higher quality of life than what I had or my own children had. I do notice recent trends of immigrants expectations not very encouraging. I have enjoyed the multicultural atmosphere friendship and regard for each other. My colleagues and I have been of great asset to the company we worked in.

Good, stop it all together. Its affecting everything!\nSo many africans and south asians came to the country its like if the agents at the head of these immigration centers were basically from these countries and got all their people in.\n\nI havent seen any French, Turks, Greeks come into the country even jf they have a rough economy. But we got a influx of the areas I named above.

Everyone that was struggling before, is struggling even harder Now, everyone is feeling this burn in any way, shape or form, and the cost of living in Canada is insanity. Services that were helping people, survive, are being cut and money being removed for other things. This doesn’t make sense. The basic necessities are becoming more of a problem to get and or too expensive to buy like for instance, toothpaste, deodorant…You cannot find it for under $10 for one stick of deodorant.

Mass sponsored paid for immigration in Canada ?? and the US has artificially kept the economy from imploding. Deportation in the US an cuts in Canada will be the economic rug pull. The financial system will collapse in 2025. But don't worry, your Digital universal basic income has already gone thru parliament. The next economic shif and monetary reset will trap the sheeple.

On my LinkedIn I get people from all over the world who want to come, from Europeans to Brazilians and all these people contact me looking for opportunities. Our gov't prioritized low wage workers who they can practically enslave with minimum wage short term then turn around and kick them out.\n\nThis is the most egregious thing I've ever seen and they do it the most Canadian way too, with a smile and popish attitude. \n\nAll these Walmart, Tim Hortons, basically all these service jobs should be going to locals and locals ONLY! I've never seen an indian eating from Tim Hortons but 100% of the people who work there are indian. Why? because they're working in slave labor.

So smartly you have skipped the major problem of Punjab …. “Violation of Riparian law “\nInstead of misleading with just partial information and creating narrative , please do detailed research on River water issue in Punjab ( long term violation of basic riparian law , and what Punjab is facing because of that ) \nThat would need some unbiased attitude and openness to talk truth\n\nNo one wants a separate nation , all they want is stop discrimination and address the root problem. .. river water issue \n\nSikhs are dedicated , committed and generous people , any smart leader would like to keep them included \nI do not understand why governments after governments not addressing their minimal basic asks and obstructing justice … Punjab is dying .. cancer , drugs , migration .. multiple problems \n\nMany problems can be solved by just addressing two major asks \n1) respect Riperian law \n2) Give justice for all that happened in 80s and 90s

He is basically saying the poor Palestinians have to take the weight off themselves, they are on their own!

She's not wrong. This is what happened in Bangalore also. North indians coming to bangalore and taking up all jobs. Starting businesses etc. so basically real bangaloreans has less opportunities and jobs . Now canada , usa,uk. Next is germany. ? . We are more notorious than invaders ?

Have been saying it for years to many international students from India lived in qc there were so many international students coming from Punjab to qc. They will go just about anywhere in Canada if it means it will get them a PR wow left qc and moved to Ottawa so far have not seen so many international students . Even as a Born Canadian my parent came from India back in the 80s\nDon’t want to live with Indians . That came from India in 2024 they are rude to girls on the bus have no shame . Ben living in Canada for 40+ years only know there has been a. Influx of migrants from India. Before the people come they at least new basic English and got usto the way of living the new once they don’t even know basic English and don’t have any common sense how they pass is beyond me . Blame TRUDEAU for opening the flood gates. Indians that have been living in Canada for years were finally getting respected and it all went down hill .

This woman is nuts to follow a man who says immigrants are poisoning the blood of this country, Trump is basically talking about her and I think she is wrong to be so unfeeling about her family.

Honest question, why the hell is everyone packing their bags and going to Canada?\nAlso why the hell Canadian govt allowed so much visas?, while they clearly couldn't even provide basic necessities, neither thier population isn't very supportive of non-whites.

Ok, but basically.. so we are just washing our hands!

Thanks for sharing, I believe the immigration system here before granting visas should test every newcomer’s understanding of rules and Canadian culture along with all existing requirements. And the consequences for breaking some of the basic rules must be severe so that no one breaks them in first place. And we certainly need the quotas, Canada does not have the infrastructure to host a billion people.

I’ve visited the states on like week long vacations, the first thing I noticed is how bad, artificial, and not fresh the food tastes, and I was in Washington and Oregon which has a huge farming population so I assumed the food would at least taste fresh. And I’m talking about basic ingredients like veggies and fruit, not processed food even though that also doesn’t taste as good

So basically c riminals exports of India are ruling Canada.Not Canadians..

Canada is basically heading towards Communism and is no longer a trusted ally of the West.

Glad to see a lot of comments supporting her. \nOf course , I don't support being abusive or violent to other people. But what she's saying is true. Especially, a lot of us Indians don't know how to behave when we go abroad , we bring our illiteracy & unethical behavior to these foreign places & pollute it. \nWe need to relearn the basics 1st and then expect others to respect us.

I love how this is a huge issue now all of a sudden. People have been talking about this for years and years but all get called racists. It’s basically too late now…

Even I feel why Indians have to migrate. Live a respectable life back home instead of making people outside uncomfortable in there on land. Nobody like there population dynamics changing in front of there eyes. \n\nI can see in India. Indians do not like seeing Nigerians around them, they they do no rent there homes to them. Basically these immigrants are getting taste of their own medicine. I would suggest shut up live low life or come back home.

Basically, “no, we don’t want Palestinians over here.”

Yeah so he basically says the Arabs aren’t going to do anything about it and wait for the west to clean up the mess? Nothing new here

I’m sorry, but Walmart, Tim Hortons, SKIP and Amazon have literally changed the population of Canada. The Canadian government is in on the scam. It’s basically indentured slavery and India has an endless revolving door by sheer population. This will continue until Trudeau is out. Polievre will likely be corrupted once he learns the true wealth he can accumulate for him and his future generations to “keep the ball rolling” so to speak.

Basically....hell no we ain't taking them.

In Canada, there is not enough housing and jobs are scarce, especially for anyone at the entry level or basic wage. We've been absolutely swamped. This is not the fault of the immigrants or the students, it's the fault of our extremely stupid and short sighted government. Most of those immigrants I encounter are good people, polite and considerate. But some, well I understand where the complaints about rude and inconsiderate behaviour come from, because it only takes a few bad experiences to get people angry. I've experienced it myself, but most of it (from my experience) seems to be from students who are very loud and impolite on public transit. The housing situation here is INSANE, prices are sky high and very little to choose from. A lot of seniors now can only afford to rent a room (after having worked all their lives and very little to show for it), and prices are up about 50% from only 5 years ago. The government says inflation is a fraction of what it is in real life, and living expenses have exploded. As I understand it, some people made a lot of money offering services to bring students and low wage workers in, with no consideration to the damage they were doing to all of us who were born and raised here - they wanted to make their million dollars. Another problem is that once someone arrives here, what they find is NOT what they were led to believe. What students and immigrants are told they need to live here is an absolute lie, living here in Canada has become very expensive. Many workers are severely under paid, and never even see the legal minimum wage, and the problem with that is, almost no Canadian will be hired on to those jobs - the reasons are that imported foreign workers will work below minimum wage because they are trapped here, and the Canadians already know that they will only struggle if they take jobs that pay so poorly. So yes, a lot of Canadians are VERY angry, and you really can't blame them. Once again, the Canadian government is responsible for much of this, and crooked employers who are willing to take advantage of low wage labour. It's an absolute mess.

Every refugee doesn't want to leave their land and deserve everything he said. So he basically said nothing. If the west said the same about Syria or Syrians it would be seen as imperialist...

Rofl. That Punjabi relative of the host such fake accent. Also seems to me they do not understand basic cost of living idea. In India 10K rupees is equivalent to 3K Canadian dollar based on purchasing power….

Basically in the 21st century it’s still about the land but not people.

She’s basically asking why they won’t help displace these people

Basically, they're selling the lie that life will be much better for immigrants in Canada to get cheap labor (and votes). But when the immigrants do go to Canada and see that the cost of living there is actually much higher than in the countries which they came from, they end up leaving. I like this because we're always focusing on how many immigrants are coming in but never how many are leaving. ?

Correction: healthcare here in Canada is paid via taxes.. it is NOT free. But everyone is about 75% covered with services, including major procedures. The rest we must pay out of pocket. I am an American living in Canada for 20 years. The longer I live here the more subtle differences I notice. Also you did not mention the big difference in government: republic (US) vs parliamentary democracy(Canada). Otherwise your observations are basically correct.

Basically they act like Indian's from indian and don't adopt the rules and regulations of the country

Someone can have my spot; I'm leaving. Earned more money in both China and US than in Canada, plus cost of living was a tiny fraction in China vs Canada. Could eat out every day, never cooked, comfortably traveled abroad once a month, saved more than 50% my net income each month. In Canada can't even cover basics with my Canadian income, have to tap into savings I earned abroad for basic monthly expenses. I don't know what kind of life and jobs and living conditions these people who like Canada had before coming but for me this is a gigantic downgrade in quality of life and purchasing power.

Its funny how no arab countries want to take Palestinian refugees. He basically said its not our problem.

Basically, they don't want no Palestinian to destabilize their country like they did with Jordania and Lebanon. Egyptians, who has border with Gaza don't want them neither.

Basically he said hell nah

So basically he said “we don’t want to help the Palestinian people” \n\nThey are there as an excuse for the destruction of the only Jewish state in existence!!! Israel ??

So basically he's saying we're not helping lol

They outsource so much of their work to India as well so they can pay them basically nothing. Is North Americans can’t find scent jobs because they don’t want to have to pay actual wages

Brampton is pure chaos not to be racist. People think it's multicultural but 80% of the residents are South Asian. Not very multicultural if you ask me. Brampton is not faring so well compared to other cities in the GTA such as Mississauga and Toronto. This sudden spike in Indian immigrants isn't just in Brampton but basically everywhere in Southern Ontario. Brampton just so happens to be where most South Asian individuals reside. These recent 20 years is where Canada saw much more immigrants originating from South Asia and the Caribbean. This same issue took place more than a century ago when Chinese immigrants migrated to Canada. Eventually, people will get used to the Indian population and it shouldn't be looked down upon. So sorry for this essay of mine, couldn't shorten my thoughts :)

As a landlord it’s not really my choice to push the rent up. I basically can’t afford to live there on my own and have moved back to my parents place and rent out my condo. I’m still losing 1k a month on renting it out. This country is a lose lose for everyone

That is the very basics of my moral understanding, which I want to teach to children.\nThe interviewer behaves as if there were a natural disaster in Gaza...

4 millions new people in 5 years for a countries of 41 millions if about 10% grow in only 5 years … only 2% of this grow is link to the baby born vs dead the rest 98% is about immigration … it is to much and bring the price of the houses to expansive offer and demand this is the basic of the economcis not rocket science i living in Canada and the housing bubble should have burst but not due to the demand to hight

A Canadian from Mississauga. I left in 2012, bought a home in the heart of Istanbul Turkey for just $35,000, and now I'm living rent free, with my total basic cost of living (food, metro, internet, gas, electricity) just $280 a month, and I'm not even compromising on anything. I work online and spend only %5 of what I make on living expenses, but in Canada, I would be in the minus on the same salary.\n\nThe amount of stress when you no longer ever have to pay a rent again was all worth moving out, not to mention the depressing Canadian weather.

Muslim speaking basic,real behind person trying violence hiding agenda, force seek force will be back beyond pretending?

Having a smile opn your face. Don't be hostile for no reason. Treat others with common respect. Apologize when your wrong. basic human stuff.\ndon't bring your conflicts with you. Leave your discrimination and hatred at home. We got no time for it.

I've been hated on by Punjabi's in the past, they were my landlords and they were hating on me. They caused the hatred between us, not me. They were basically trying to evict me for no reason and playing stupid games in order to evict me. Before that experience I was very favourable towards Indians, I can't say I am that way anymore because They ruined my experience with them. Not to mention I've been in abusive relationships with Indian men as well. I defended myself as I should have and I believe some Indian men didn't like that because women don't have a proper status in Indian culture. As I believe from my experience.

Its not just Canadians, even other nationalities have a problem with the way Indians behave, \n\n-Loud and obnoxious\n-drives loud cars thinking they are cool\n-no basic public etiquette\n-drives like shit\n-exploits food banks\n-commits crime and gang activity\n-doesnt assimilate to the culture\n-doesnt respect women\n-bad hygiene\nEtc..

Every thing has to be regulated on basic of supply and demand , and done gradually, I think we brought millions of new comers in short period of time without calculating the consequences.

Whilst Canadians are overdosing on the streets and cannot afford basic living, Our government only cares to help foreigners who abuse the system.