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guys I swear move to more northern parts of Canada, there’s still financial problems but it’s probably financially the closest to a Canadian dream currently

TLDR; I am an person from a wartorn, oppressive country, and I unfortunately do not have many options to choose from other than Canada to have a chance for a better life.\n\nLet me tell you from the perspective of a person whose dream is to come to Canada: I know all this already, I know things are going terribly and the cost of living has gone up significantly. But the unfortunate thing is, the country I am from, is currently in turmoil. I do not fit in there as a person and hate the culture. Its incredibly corrupt with no growth. I am more western, and open minded, and my original country is a strict Islamic country. I do not fit there at all.\n\nI know Canada has all these problems, but its my only choice for a better future, I dont want to go to US because I dont wanna die, also, EU wont accept me unless I am from EU myself or speak their language which is a catch 22. Australia is also becoming a shithole. That leaves Canada and NZ. NZ doesnt have that good of job prospects and limited scope and I love Canada, always have. The weather and everything that comes with it.\n\nYes its not perfect, but I think its more about knowing that I can go back to a place, that is not dangerous for me and my future family, where I will get good care if I am stable job wise. Once I am in Canada, I will probably buy my own land and use that to have a trailer home there since they are still cheap, save my money, and probably retire in Philippines. \n\nI dont believe everyone else should do that and yes I know trailer's costs depreciates with time, unlike a house, but I dont care about that. I dont think of houses as investment and I never will nor I will participate in that practice. Everyone has a right for home.

As a Canadian, my dream is to leave. \nHigh taxes, poor healthcare, no chance of affording a house.\nOh btw I make 6 figures in healthcare.\nThe social contract is broken.\nWhy work? It makes no sense you get nothing for it.

Canada is FULL..... dont come here, it is very unaffordable to live, there is no dream here

Just keep selling off peoples dreams to newcomers, keep the wheel turning.

Not a dream anymore but it’s a nightmare

I came to Canada as a toddler in 2001 and it was like a dream come true for someone from a poor 3rd world country. But as of 10 years ago, the quality of life as well as the quality of services has just been getting worse and worse. As an immigrant myself, i know i shouldn't be saying this, but we seriously need to put immigration at a halt so that the current inhabitants can pick themselves up.\n-The job market is in a crisis, you can have a Masters Degree and still make less than 50K a year\n-We're facing an economic crisis where the cost of living is higher than what you're making (Low-class & Middle-class)\n-Free Healthcare is no longer worth paying for but we have no choice because majority can't afford to pay for Private.\n-Education level is a joke in comparison to Asia and Europe.\n-Most people are too old to even realize that they're voting for the wrong parties to run the country.\n-Depression rate is higher than ever. Satisfaction of life is plummeting, Suicide rate slowly increasing every year.\n-Public services are becoming more expensive, which once used to be Canada's greatest selling point.\n-No one wants to work the jobs that are available and in demand because immigrants are getting to pick and choose.\n-Properties are being bought out by foreigners thus raising the price for citizens who can't afford to buy anymore.\n-Birth rate and relationship satisfaction is slowly declining giving immigrant families access to Citizen status facilities.

I am from India and many people dream to go to Canada for higher study and jobs but in last year I have many Indians professional are either returning back to India or going to Gulf or South European countries.

I can’t wait to move to Canada with my family in April, the land of dreams?

the new canadian dream is to leave canada ... and i came from Europe. Job opportunities were MUCH better there

Nice video. I watched it as I like to learn from other perspectives.\n\nI was born in Toronto, and I must say, this “no time for life and fun” is a new thing. This lack of access to health care is a new thing. I agree with your assessment. It now seems lonelier in Toronto. \n\nCanada used to be different because anyone with a good job could afford at least a condo, but life became unaffordable not just for immigrants, but for everyone unless you are in your 50s-60s and own a home. \n\nI have friends working double jobs supporting family back home in other countries, but for some of them the family back home sound like they are doing better than them and own a home. It’s like they are sacrificing their life to be in poverty or full of hardships and their families get to go out for dinners and drinks with friends. Not them. Not true for everyone, but for some yes and I worry about their own retirement because retirement in Canada without lots of savings means you might be homeless or forced to live with family even if it’s not your preference. \n\n without investments and savings, it will be hard to beat inflation. Getting into debt and getting bad credit can mean not getting an apartment. \n\nThe birth rate is going down because it is expensive to have kids and income isn’t enough to match with living costs. Getting help from government is really not something everyone gets access too. One person might get housing support, 10 others may get nothing. Different governments offer different things. Programs end and change often. \n\nIn Canada definitely bargain and shop around for good phone plans. one idea is to get a pay as you go until “Black Friday” then every year or two when your good offer expires there will be many others. It’s the time with the best deals saving almost half. For instance, I have 50 gigs for $25 for two years from a large provider. Telephone companies are the one place where people must bargain and even ask for better deals as a must.\n\nThe people you see living in big houses, will have kids that can’t afford the same. This is because prices keep rising. The system protects the very rich, but will also drain the middle class often within 1-2 generations. Do not link your business to your personal finance, or creditors can take your home. Some not knowing this lose everything and rich people know better. \n\nPeople live until they are very old, so inheritance is pretty much meaningless to rely on, so no matter what your parents have you must hustle in life. \n\nI do think Canada can become what we want over time. Citizens need to fight the trend of great community spaces, restaurants and bars going out of business and dumb corporations move in with bad boring restaurants. Like a McDonald’s where maybe a popular cultural hang out was. \n\nPart of the problem is a lack of mixed income housing areas, so it’s hard to stay living where you grew up. Artists and musicians help make a city great, but many cannot afford to live here.\n\nFamilies and communities staying together means more support for those with young kids and older relatives when they need help. Yet how is this possible in a city that is always pushing out lower income people when wealthier people desire the area. \n\nIn Toronto, every time you move you have to take what is available and that might mean moving an hour away from everyone you know. This weakens communities. Plus, if you live too far from your work you will have no time to socialize for most the week due to travel time. \n\nI think those who grew up in Toronto do have a certain culture of acceptance with others from many cultures, because your friends at school were from all over. But with new migrants sometimes it isn’t until the second generation that their social circles get diverse. This can be isolating and it’s even isolating as those from Toronto eventually leave dreaming of staying in one spot and not forced to move constantly when a landlord investor sells every house you move into. \n\n\nToronto really needs to protect affordability of housing for at least some housing in every section so that people can save money if they live in the city, and not have to leave their communities and be far from their friends and family. \n\notherwise eventually people get sick of the hustle and it’s too tiring to travel 1+ hrs each way to visit someone during Monday to Friday. \n\n20 years ago any professional could at least buy a condo. Not today. There is too much competition now and investors are allowed to buy up all the most affordable housing that once was a pathway to owning a home. \n\nRich policy makers got greedy and destroyed canada and hopefully diversity in leadership will help make Canada better. But they perhaps people knew to Canada can reject this lonely structure and help us rebuild Toronto into an amazing place. \n\nWe need to make sure everyone can afford housing with 30% of their income. I think that will help

How about UK?? Has it now become the dream destination for the unskilled and delusional ?

3rd generation Canadian here and it's been my dream for a couple of years to live in a van down by the river. I want a home on wheels and to not be caught up with a mortgage, when sh*t hits the fan im outta here lol

The problem with Canada's economy is Trudeaus happy sinister spending. Canada's is dead. Broken. Beyond repair to normalcy. The Canadian dream is a nightmare. A massive revolt is necessary to fix stupid.

It was a Canadian dream scam.

Canada is a scam.. They sell dreams of a better life.. But they're sucking you into the wage slave culture that is taxed to death and basic human needs like accommodation is unaffordable..

I used to live in Canada, left in 2017 ...why? No opportunities, high cost of living, bad food, really bad weather and increasingly cost of living and also increasingly woke culture. When I first moved into Canada in 2002 it was much better at that time, Canada was THE dream...today its just sad what has happened to that country ...glad I left I am much happier now

I wasn't born in Canada, but raised in small city of Fredericton since 10 and moved to Toronto for jobs and school in 2014. I don't even recognize my country anymore, it is such a big shame. At least, I had experienced a simple Canadian dream life back in New Brunswick.

I’m a Canadian who lived in Toronto during and after the pandemic (and now moved abroad). The city is not what it was when I was a kid. Completely run down, escalated crimes, homelessness outside my apartment building. Also many immigrants are given more opportunities to fill company’s quota of diversity. Good journalism on this video, thank you for showing the real Toronto. Many foreigners think Canada is a dream country and it’s simply not. Canadians are struggling in our own country, it’s just sad.

Brilliant documentary . . . a real eye opener for those with dreams of going to Canada

I used to want to be a father and have a big family. Now, I can't see myself ever owning a home and I make 80k a year in Ontario. This is unsustainable. I am 28 years old and have given up on that dream of a family.

Welcome to the liberal utopian woke dream!\nBetter enjoy it, because it ain't going away!

so they screwed up the peninsula of palestine all for a canal for trade..... arab nations doings. but no they wont help the people whose lands they reduced they would rather shift blame on israel and force palestinians to think its israel that caused their suffering, meanwhile they didnt compensate palestine for lost landand now they wamt to move north into the small country of jerusalem, they probably forgot but they also were the conquerors of palestine and surrounding nations for the last 2000 years so any conflict there is is originally a sin of the muslin caliphate, also if quran is so holy why do you have a newer copy of our bible with tons af added context that isnt in torah or the bible why is our tribes account and the jews account the same but yours is based of a dream of a warmonger and slaveowner, how is it holy revelations if his lifes remembrance is creating the slavic people of eastern europe

People who are leaving have been sold fake dreams. This is why talk to people who have lived here and bounced back not ghost agencies/consultant.

whatever you are saying that is correct but it is only one side bro, go and just ask international students what they have been promised here in Canada and how they are living here. Even most of the engineers, doctors and other professionals with foreign experience ended up doing general labor or uber driver jobs and even on the basis of their education and work experience they got permanent residency. No one likes to work on these hard jobs but they don't have any other option as most of skilled worker jobs either need their respective field license or Canadian experience. how much fees international student paying, what kind of job they are doing here, living far from family, managing studies and job, how much debt they took to study here and much more sacrifices doing here. Do not say then why came here because applied through legal process and full filled all the necessary criteria. Was it our fault that we dreamed about study and work here in Canada?. I know it is hard for you and your families that they are not getting jobs but don't hate international students. you can only understand anyone if you put yourself in their shoes.

*Another truth must be exposed ..Canadian Sikhs are looting Indian Sikhs by showing fake dreams*

the truth is that these students really did not come here to study but to get the Canadian dream.

They're living the Canadian dream, 6 to a basement in Brampton.

WELL THANKS TO TRUDEAU, CANADA IN NO LONGER A DREAM FOR ANYONE FROM ANYWHERE & STUPID CANADIANS ELECTED HIM TWICE!!!

Real victims are these immigrants themselves. Canadian govt , Colleges and Agents sell them a dream to scam them out of their savings. These people grew up in developing countries saw Canada as a first world country hence they flocked.

need to send back 900k students who came here on everything fake and now dreaming of becoming citizens

Canada is a beautiful country, the dream of any migrant is to live in Canada

Great video! And NO, it is not racist to oppose this massive immigration invasion! What about our young people, their dream and prospect of living in the city/country they grew up in is shattered!\nNo hope ahead! And whose parents pay taxes throughout their working life. Shame, shame, shame! Sad, Sad, Sad!

Punjab has a 60 million population.. so there is still a potential of doubling or tripling our population and fulfil Trudeau's dreams. India will surely not miss them. Jagmeet can do the one and only good thing in his life by pulling back his support

I don’t understand why WE need to rush rush rush to make things GOOD for newcomers, as if, the health and prosperity of Canada relies on some “Canadian dream” for outsiders.

3D printer creates an exact shape whether car etc. or house parts and then cast. Take 3D printer and create your own car chassis. create a base frame and 6-8 connections and you can drive your dream car of the week every week. Simply change the small crane or the trailer. There will be dreams for everyone, even those who don't have a lot of money.❤?❤

A rags to riches dream. For many poor people, millions are defined differently. To all the millions and billions of people who are doing well in the world, real love, peace, hope, friends, fun. We must not carry the cross of Jesus and close our eyes to the problems of commerce in our own systems. It's different with the poor, several million people who are doing well. Technology can really help. Paradise and Jesus and our dream.\n\nSorry shitt Google Translate frim German to English.\nI ts not so good.???

Canada it's enough, the people and the poverty. The country itself, donations and church. Technology is the help. Waterworks, sewage treatment plant, energy, automatic work, even private. Be it with solar, magnetic field or hydrogen, motor or encoder. I really want to finally help our people in this world. Small country houses built and properly expanded do not have soup and at night they have to fight for survival on the streets again. The technology makes follow-up costs unnecessary but creates the opportunity to help in the long term. People also have dreams, even the poor ones. You just have to give everyone a fair chance in this whole commercial system. Help those who need it, they are from your own people or do you want to be just as hypocrites as the laws and systems themselves Humanity. Even technology and you can grow food yourself, also learn for others and continue to help others. Small gardens and notice that they are really being helped, new courage means hope and continue to help others, get involved in systems and pass on good knowledge. Whether drones or small robots, free energy and power. Don't help here and there. It is your own people that you are making to suffer and are making excuses and hypocrites of Jesus? Finally, really help yourself and, above all, yourself and the systems and keep your eyes open - all the technology you need is there and it's not expensive anymore. The excess production destroys the market but creates these unlimited possibilities to help poor people in systems. Really the belief in humanity of Jesus and to create paradise.\nInterceptor m arcel,m agnet❤?❤

Yeah go home nothing to do in Canada , the dream is over for the low income people, Canada is persuading highly educated people for jobs in technology, medicine, engineering, accountants, Doctors, etc.

You are not giving us the entire picture. More people are still coming than are leaving. Who even knows the number of people in this world that still believe in the 'Canadian Dream' and would be here in a moment if they could. All these videos about people leaving en mass are just stirring things up. Of course some people will leave but more will come.

Every single aspect of this video was spot on, it sucks to say this but Canada is a broken dream. The amount of stress that people go through here is insane. What a shame :( :(

Canadian dream? Hight taxes, cold winters, raising crime, unaffordable housing, high inflation and last but not least Trudeau

What is the benefit of coming to Canada now? \nWhen Canada opened up in the seventies, there were many advantages to coming to Canada. Back then there was a lot of work in the lumber industry in western Canada and big factories in eastern Canada. In those days, if you were willing to do any work, you would get a job within 8-10 days. \nIn 1990, a bachelor apartment went for $500 a month and a one-bedroom was $600 a month. \nAlmost all would get their 3-4 bedroom house within 10 years. \nGroceries used to be so cheap that $200 a month could support the entire family. The telephone bill was $10 per month. A Vancouver-Toronto bus ticket was only $100. \nSchool education was good, children had to give exams. It used to be very easy to see a doctor. Buses were less crowded. \nNow the standard of education has gone down so much that children become like robots after finishing school. If you have to go to the hospital, you have to wait for 8-10 hours to see the doctor. \nNew immigrants find basements for shelter. Getting your own house has become a dream now. Those who have bought houses will have to pay the mortgage for a long time. Many homeowners are paying interest only, there is no reduction in the principal. \nBus service is so sparse that sometimes more than 100 passengers wait for a 38-seater bus. \nInternational students are in a very bad situation. Spend 25-30 lakhs, live 4-5 together in basements and do hard labor jobs (warehousing, retail cashier, security). Even if they do 2 years diploma they do not get any good job, only minimum wage jobs. \nThose with good jobs or jobs (income of eighty thousands or more) should come to Canada with a lot of thought, because when they come here, they are all considered workers and they have to find low-paying jobs and have to live in often in basements. \nProf. Kuldip Pelia \nSurrey, Canada

Canada was never a dream. Very Boring….

i hate hearing this because this is the usa too. when u dont land well right out of school you gotta fight ..get it..and dont let it go. but also try to stay in canada..live your dream..AND possibly get a regular full time job like a school bus driver instead of some hip cooler dream gig. educated type people think they have to have the LOOK and end up looking delusional. im sorry but if you come to the usa youre going in the wrong direction. canada is big and free.. and were crazy and WE'LL ROB YOU in the us. so...

yes true before my dream is go to canada but now im here its like a nightmare for me too expensive high standard of living even food rent and services too high !

Wait till you need Specialist Care and then the “Canadian dream” will turn into a nightmare very fast.\n\nI am surprised the student said the healthcare is great, because he probably never really used it since he’s still young at this time.

Its sad whats happening in Canada. Hopefully it gets better over time. Alot of dreams fading. Just sad but at the same time some persons are thriving.

Don't play,these politicians gimmick when politicians wanted Canada was a dream back then and now there is an issue between politicians now they are brainwashing not to move to canada

I also live in Canada since childhood and am Muslim. I think you guys did perfect choice. I also dream to move in a muslim country for my children. I can feel your situation. May Allah give you more strength and courage to follow your deen. May Allah protect you and your children from all the bad things!