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Vancouver, Surrey, Metro Vancouver all the same.

Surrey is 90%. Its projected to pass Vancouver in population.

It’s the same as Vancouver remember it’s Hongcouver it’s all Chinese it’s very rare to see a Caucasian person.

Birds of a feather flock together. Remember the 1970’s Vietnamese immigrants….all left prairies to Toronto, Vancouver.

The joke in Vancouver is” what river separated India from China?”\nThe Fraser River

I know young men that are getting overlooked for jobs because they are not the minority?? You have to fill your quota. This is ruining the future of our young Caucasian men. If you go to Vancouver there are areas where you will not see the English language, does not look like Canada.

Well Vancouver is now a second China,especially Burnaby and downtown...well Canada is no longer the country you knew, In Vancouver companies only hire PEOPLE WITH THOSE EYES.

Go have a look at Vancouver. It is nothing but Chinese.

What about the Chinese in Vancouver ... and all over Canada?

I once applied for a teaching job at BCIT in Vancouver (Burnaby)... during the interview i was told that i needed to speak Punjabi.... im way too old for that i said...and walked out

I am amazed about Canadians talking about Indians, who make an attempt to fit in. Yet they have no problem with the millions of Chinese that have no desire to blend. Toronto and Vancouver have more Chinese than Canadians. Trudeau controls the narrative, he is owned by the Chinese government so he won't say anything about them and the fact that they have driven the cost of housing out of control for all Canadians.

English is a second language in B.C. jusr visit the millions that live outside of Vancouver.

Moved from Vancouver bc to get away from them and thx to Sean Fraser and his Liberal leader they have followed me to Nova Scotia...getting over run again..who is being COLONIZED now..wake up people

Try Vancouver!

Next week Old Scot Road, in Vancouver. I played as a child on my grandfather's farm, with fields and an old barn. Today that specific area is full of mosque temple, Indian architect, malls, densely populated, and I am shocked at what was once Canadian and now Canada has sold it's soul to the over populated countries of the world that did not keep population under control. Sad fact. China and India.

HAS ANYONE SEEN VANCOUVER OR KELOWNA????

I want my country back. I want the surrounding areas in Vancouver, BC to be Canadian again. I'm sick of feeling like I am living in someone else's country whenever I walk around my neighbourhood or take public transit to see the majority of bus/skytrain passengers are from South Asian countries. If that isn't bad enough, seeing them use our country as a platform for their religion/politics that belong on the other side of the world and not on Canadian soil.

i don't think BRAMPTON. is more or less dangerous than TORONTO, LONDON or VANCOUVER. The expression TOO MANY really does sound racist. Too many Blacks? Too many Jews?? Yikes. Let's not go there. TOO MUCH VIOLENCE on the other hand....

Lol. Gotta love these new Canadians. ?. Remember. NIMBY new people. Stay in Toronto and Vancouver.

Waiting for my job offer letter...will join you soon in Vancouver

I visited Vancouver last year. I thought I was in mainland china ??.

Zombie apocalypse in Vancouver.

I thought Vancouver was worst....

homeless capital of canada is definitely vancouver. have you been to DTES?

The Trudeau government is scrambling now to address the housing crisis. In the next few weeks you'll see a myriad of announcements to prep for the election. Don't fall for it. Not saying the Conservatives are any better but I think we are due for some change in one way or another.\n\nMyself and most of my friends are in the top 1% of earners and we are nowhere near close to buying houses/apartments in Toronto and Vancouver. Our generation is truly in trouble.

Please don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe so I can pay for my 300ft $3600 a month apartment in Vancouver!

Something else contributing to the insane housing prices in Vancouver that you didn't cover is the black market housing happening in Richmond. I read an article on it 15 years ago. TLDR is illegal immigrants have been paying loan shark mafia to buy houses for them because they aren't allowed to, and then they pay the loan shark 400% of the original cost. Our government, both federally and provincially have known about it for decades and do nothing to stop it. I wouldn't be suprised if it's happening in other major cities as well.

Race to the bottom for Canada and Australia. In Canada were becoming the rooming house capital of North America. Vancouver $1000 a room. People are renting space in basements, laundry rooms, laneway homes, even campers and cars. Did I mention Vancouver has the lowest proprty tax in North America ?? Tax bill on a 1 million dollar property is only $ 2600 !! And your eligible for a rebate if the property is less than 1.4 million. Like Australia we have an endless supply of immigrant renters. It follows that we also now have an endless supply of investors /speculators who bid up the price on homes / rentable properties. Government incompetence.. at its maximum.Food bank use and crime climbing rapidly. BTW avg salary in Vancouver is 65k year. Avg home 1.2 million.

It’s too late.\nI’m in construction in Vancouver.\nLots of “immigrants “.\n\nThey all work as subcontractors..,\n\nNo tax deductions whatsoever and no reason to file income tax.\n\nThe underground economy is thriving in all sectors!

In Vancouver, the skytrain is filled with East Indians! There opened up a garbage “college” near my house called Coquitlam college. Now, there’s hundreds on east indians swarming in the neighborhood. It’s horrible!

People from Vancouver and Toronto… Stop coming to Montreal (Quebec). You are creating a higher demand on real estate and you guys think Quebec is cheap compare to Ontario or BC. Now it becomes like Toronto here, so expensive…

1:25 the thing with that is EVERYONE is coming to Toronto because Vancouver's too expensive and Montreal is French which isn't as useful a language as English (unless you speak French then you'll probably go to Montreal)\n\nNormally this wouldn't be an issue but since the housing laws are so bad we cant get as many apartments as we need for these immigrants making housing prices skyrocket

Worse than Vancouver? How is that possible?

Worse than Vancouver? How is that possible?

Great video and hits a lot of real pain points\n\nI for one am leaving Canada, born and raised in Alberta, lived in BC most of my adult life. Sorry but see ya!\n\n1 I am tired of the weather -40 is a no no and most of our country hits it a few times a year. 52 years and this is my LAST winter. What a Relief!!\n2 I am tired of the MASSIVE greed in real estate that has been allowed to flourish. No way most of Gen Z will ever be able to own homes, if the are lucky they will get one passed down to them, shame you have to wait for a family member to DIE to own your own home :( Benchmark prices for home in Victoria 1.2 million, Vancouver 1.18 million, Kelowna 1 million. Very few people can afford a 6k+ a month mortgage. Shame on our govts that allowed this to happen.\n3 I am tired of the degradation of the family unit. Western morals have gone for crap, crime is up and people are happy to threaten each other. \n4 I am tired of the lack of available health care. All i can get is a 3 minute phone call after booking 4 weeks in advance??? wow \n5 I am tired of the people too, but in different ways. Way too much like USA now, people that pride themselves for ignorance, willfully ignoring science and safety or even common sense.\n6 I am tired of the governments, provincial and federal. ALL of the parties suck and will not do what is needed here. We are getting as bad as the USA. (which will soon tear itself apart!!)\n\nCanadians are a LOT more xenophobic than we might show. Most of us from the prairies (Boomers/GenX) never saw anything but seas of white people and native Americans. You probably never saw a foreigner maybe you knew someone that did... This is not the same country i grew up in. Good or bad I do not know, but it is way different!\n\nGrowth and thinking Growth will make a country flourish is a lie, and it destroys country after country. Canada is next. It populace will continue to grow with no room, no jobs, no hope.

Homeless capital of Canada is Vancouver

Lol. Bc number one? “High quality of like if you want to pay for it” lol more like if you can pay for it or want to have 3 roommates. Wait… you need $50k to live in Vancouver? Lol. Are you high?

One of the scariest things in Canada is Canada law is so generous for criminals, see Peng and Eddie case in Vancouver. Eddie go to jail for 14 years for killing Peng ,his friend go to jail 7 years and some of his team jail free. That why Canada is one of the most destination for immigrants and criminals.

Such a beautiful nation sustained by so many lies about being progressive, and prosperous for common folk. I miss my friends but very little about the many dissapointing things about Vancouver and the rest - from the CCP owned economy, the rudeness of the countless who are the opposite of progressive, to the very in your face racism that only got bolder after the orange guy became president of 'Murrica and Trudeau got tired of pretending he's any different.

Canadian gov't needs to spread its population out of big cities, e.g., Toronto, Vancouver, to suburbs and invest more into infrastructure. I live in the US but have relatives in Toronto and I went to Toronto, Canada, back in the 90s. And I went to Toronto about two years ago, traffic congestion on 401, 404, and QEW highways were nightmare, no new highways built.

What a great video. For my personal experience the current recession and how it has affected the job market and the interest rates (inflation) is the root cause of all this. I also came as student BEFORE COVID and it was also hard to study and work to keep up with your basic expenses BUT at least there were jobs. Now the problem is the lack of jobs. Criminality is very relative and as you mentioned depends of your own expectation and environment prior arriving to Canada. The homeless and drug adicts problem is really concerning, specially here in Vancouver where I live. What I do is avoiding the downtown as much as I can. I would not mind to live in a smaller city or town as long as the salaries are good enough however the problem is that the living cost there are as high as here in the cities.

Toronto and Vancouver do not define the identity of Canada but Asia ... India , China and has been this way for the past 30 years ... expensive , nothing Canadian , homeless , crimes , drugs ... Blame Provincial governments of Ontario and BC for having no interference and does not care .... Mayors of Toronto have been scandalous stories time after time

Vancouver Island is the best place ever!!!

Come to Vancouver at night.\nIts like watching a horror movie.

No we cannot afford the rate of immigration that we have had recently. We don’t have the infrastructure in all our institutions. If you can’t provide quality healthcare to the citizens then clearly you can’t be accepting hundreds of thousands new immigrants per year. No citizen should have to wait fir over a year for any surgery. Also, our healthcare system fails to cover therapies to address chronic pain which has significant impact on overall health and even mobility. Also I’m so sick of hearing about Toronto and Vancouver. The cost of housing is a huge problem in all cities. There are no job opportunities for most students not just international.

As a Canadian this video is only touching the tip of the iceberg. #1 Canada was built by immigrants (like my late grandparents) for immigrants, Immigrants regardless if they are here on a work or study permit are not the problem but the solution, always have been and always will be. Yes the part of the problem can be attributed to an inadequate affordable housing and yes the federal government does deserve blame for that. However as the 2nd largest nation in the world by land mass yet with a population less than California, we have a lot of underdeveloped areas from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and that is also the fault of the federal government regardless of political stripe. Regardless if people come to Canada to work or study, the federal government needs to make it more attractive to them to reside outside the BIG 3 cities of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver which have become overwhelmed with immigrants hence the strain on housing and healthcare

Identical situation in Vancouver, but I think pretty much everyone knows that now.

Vancouver, at least on a per capita basis, and view on the streets is even worse.. sad to see its getting real bad in Toronto too. What's happening to Canada man..

FYI Vancouver is the 2nd city in the world where the most languages are spoken. More than 170. I lived in Vancouver for 30 years and my grandparents from the late 1930's until they died. All in all, Vancouver was part of my life for over 50 years. You can not compare Van with TO. Vancouver is very multiculteral with not alot of segregation depending on where in Van you are. TO is much larger. No mountains. No oceans. No big evergreen forests or close by trails, ect. I liked the people I met in TO but would never live there again. Van NO ice storms. But yes, Van rains much. It is West Coast after all. Victoria has many more annual sunlight hours. Van is land locked, surrounded by ocean. Most of those from TO speak negatively about BC in general. We would ask them why they are here (VCR) then. I left 12 years ago as Van is now ruined; nothing like it used to be.

This isn’t the homeless capital of Canada, go to Vancouver