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Vacations once or twice a year? I definitely need to know this Canada you're talking about. I live here for 14 years and I never had that privilege... and like millions of qualified immigrants, I spend a lot of money and effort and life to come to this place that was never home. On the top, you're right. There's all this poverty going on like you're describing, but there's so much more than that... and it's going to get really worst after Trump gets back, next January. Oh yeah...

Listen young u know “those folks” will turn a blind eye ?️ …..free/cheap labor…. New food trucks,automobiles detailing, major companies pick them up …..oh yeah hay we’re the wht women @???

Oh good! It ain't that cold but at the same time I'm also Canadian. So yeah but I swear I go out in tank tops

Lol why do u think trump won..where has this guy been..apparently hes not listened..Oh yeah hes a democrat

deport deport deport deport deport deport such a sweet sounding word. get rid of those criminals. Trump, Homan, Noem oh yeah it will get done

Lol they really believe a dipshit that ran a casino into the ground is business savy. Pretty sure those are made to be in the HOUSES favor yet he fucked that up. Oh yeah those jobs are really coming back lol. Theyll close up, take their capital and go elsewhere. Alot of companies in the US arent exclusive to it. 1 hate fueld administration isnt going to change anything. These people literally saw their wealth skyrocket 64 billion collectively on election night, any fueds you see will purely be for public spectacle. He isnt turning his back on his gools ole boys.

NOW these ignorant repubs care about what the american people want???!!! ? O.k.!! Well we would like healthcare to be affordable.. to NOT gut social security/medicare..have term limits on the corrupt SCOTUS. let's start there shall we??!! Can you make any of those REAL issues better for us??!! Oh yeah..probably not..the Repugs are NOT the party of our for the people.. they are the party of corruption and chaos! YOU will fail!!! And fail ALL americans, but I have little sympathy for all those that voted for the convicted felon and his repulsive party!!! You WILL get exactly what you voted for..NADA!! Karma is a bitch?

Oh yeah, the effective and well working Trump policies ... he already had 4 years, fixed nothing on the border ... you stupid people just tend to forget that.

If the country fails that’s on you MAGA!!! And since you’re not keen on learning history just remember Grover Cleveland’s 2nd non consecutive term was a complete disaster that people just don’t forgive democrats for 4 elections in a row. Now this time it’s on you Republicans if you messed up like the last time you did Covid we’ll never forgive you!! especially you MAGA people that voted for him again and again. Oh yeah if he’s messed up I suggest don’t blame the liberals or woke stuff.

Cnn can you stop the hate it doesn't work maybe cnn would listen to America this doesn't work can ysll be more positive and stop the bias reporting and hate oh yeah smiling may help the way yall look on TV it shows how angry yall look sad,Do Y'al Ever smile??????

Why couldn’t he just walk away? Oh shoot! Yeah he wanted to make sure he goes “viral”. She’s vicious and he’s poisonous. And if any one of you point out that she’s being racist, we as Indians are the biggest racist there ever was is or will be. We don’t like our own people if they look different and we expect a whole race of people like us.

Oh no get this it gets even better Mrs. Harris wants to pardon all the millions that have come here illegally it’s OK and then and then also give them handouts. Yeah even the ones that came here but they didn’t know wherever they came from pardon people that came here illegally why did they have to come here illegally? They know what they did was wrong. I know why she’s a BAATCHHH.

Oh yeah. Our healthcare system is a nightmare. Want to get in front of a specialist? No problem, just what for 6 months. Need a surgery? No problem, just wait for 2 years. Want to two bedroom apartment in Toronto? Sure! Get 3k month ready

Oh yeah I bet , fake news

In Canada they have little toy schoolhouses you can burn down on some holiday (can't remember which) and you can form dykes in your backyard and pour in water in the winter to make your own ice skating rink. That's about it. Oh yeah, they have moose. But you can't get a gun to shoot them. Average home cost $700,000? --I'm not moving to Canada, no matter how much I can ice skate in my yard.

Makes me wonder, what happens 10 years ago that could tr@sh 0ut Canada? Oh, yeah! Justin Turd3au was elected!!!

The guy said : ''Oh yeah, its normal, I have to know the system''.\n\nAs if being dishonest, conducting yourself poorly in society and using loopholes was a prerequisite to living a good life hahaha

Oh wow yeah I wonder why?

But but but... in the UK they told us having an immigration point system would fix everything! (What the populists left out was that the points system was actually a liberalisation of the migration flow)... oh well. And yeah, you can whine about only letting in the people you need all you want - but the truth is low end service positions attract few applicants and it is easy for the proprietors to prove that they need outsiders to fill these posts.\n\nI can't help wondering which Treaty these protestors are...

oh yeah by the way when that idiot TREADU is gone things will change.

Such bs- oh yeah- the Palestinian really want to stay in one of the most densely populated areas on earth! And they just need more humanitarian aid that won’t actually reach them. Just a PC way of saying- NO- we are not going to help them and we don’t want them.

Had Canadian friends (couple) who lived in Long Beach and he worked in Torrence as an engineer. They took me on drives around LA and the county here and there before they had kids and yeah, the freeways were pretty incredible. It was like going to another time zone to visit LACMA lol. But I really loved those drives and we went along Mulholland! And also to the Getty! Venice Beach long before the tents and I loved it! My Canadian friend learned to drive in Long Beach at a driving school so she could attend college in Pasadena and she's now one of the best drivers I've ever been with because she learned in the LA area. Most Canadian drivers are pretty bad lol (eg here = Alberta). I also liked LB at the time, they lived close to the downtown and LB was not the glitzy BS of LA just regular people. Also: TACO TRUCKS oh yeah *drool*

Yeah, just those 40 million Canadians. Oh, and it's one of the most desirable destinations for immigrants. Everyone has a job, very little crime, stable democratic government, excellent schools and infrastructure. Other than that...

Oh, your protesting is not welcomed?? Yeah... how respectfull these girls would be at someone with a Star of David flag... \nTaste your medicine! You dislike?? Good!!!

Oh yeah?, for decades?, back to came from? Did he knows his ancestry came from Germanic - Saxon region? How about British colonized many Muslim countries for centuries?

Oh what they have the support of the communists! Well yeah we will let them stay with backing like that

Oh yeah, yeah, of course they are worroed. We know this by the fact that they locked down tbe border . Go figure

Some of the stats cited here are straight up wrong or... creatively employed, and there's a lot of contradictory information and the typical conservative 'the sky is falling' sensationalism and misattribution. That said, the bas supposition isn't wrong. The bubble we've been sitting on for 20 or so years has completely burst. As someone born and raised in the Toronto area, it's impossible for me to afford to own a house or apartment here on a teacher's salary. Even rent pushes me to the limit unless I want to live in a... less than nice area. I'm living hand to mouth and enjoying the benefits of living in a 'developed' country less. Here's why:\n\n1. Wages aren't really even close to keeping up with the cost of living. The first tick upwards a bit. The second just keeps rising on the back of housing, food, amenities, and inflation: the four horsemen.\n\n2. Our grocery cabal ruthlessly raise prices whenever we look away, and their lobbyists are all ensconced within the leadership of our three major parties, particularly the Conservatives (so if anyone thinks that electing them will help, they're in for a nasty surprise).\n\n3. We're experiencing 'labour shrinkflation': increasing duties are downloaded onto workers and more is expected: more productivity, more availability (almost 24/7 in some jobs), and higher qualifications. Meanwhile, real wages are decreasing relative to living cost, more positions are 'contract', which is basically a way for employers to not have to give you benefits, and job security is tenuous for a lot of people.\n\n4. Houses are being bought by investors and not owners. Foreign entities are money laundering. The wealthy upper crust of high population countries are moving here and buying property because Canada is (still) more safe and stable and less repressive than their home countries in most cases. \n\n5. There's a cycle beginning: as people are squeezed and forced to spend more on 'needs', they spend less on eating out, entertainment, and other 'wants'. These are significant drivers of the service economy and they're being hit hard. So, what can they do? They can let go of workers or lower product costs to remain profitable, but they their quality declines and, in a market where people are pinching every penny and looking for quality for their dollar, they're less likely to go back. They can raise their prices, of course, but then they price people out completely and their profits still tank. I went to a decent steakhouse for my dad's 60th last week. I can't remember the last time that I went to one before that. \n\n6. Our politicians and news cycles focus on the most niche and irrelevant stuff because it'll stoke anger and get tongues wagging. This carbon thing is almost a non-issue, but our conservative leader is harping on about it like it's singlehandedly the death of the Canadian economy when it's a drop in the bucket. Trudeau focuses on 'equity' measures, hoping for a bit of cheap good press, while his efforts are, for the most part, just window dressing and the issues, while meaningful, are often not of paramount importance or even applicable to the vast majority of the people who elected him. Meanwhile, the middle class is pretty much evaporating as he speaks. The NDP keep talking about this in a pretty real way, for what it's worth, but Jagmeet Singh is giving off an increasing vibe of just being another fat cat politician beneath his rhetoric these days. Also, third-party trolls and screeching conservatives try to bury him on social media whenever he speaks... a lot more than other leaders as well, oddly. I wonder why? Oh yeah, the Greens exist and there's Quebec and the conspiracy theory party.\n\n\nUltimately, what we're experiencing is the revenge of the feudal system. Instead of paying rents to your lord and doing labour on the land for him whenever commanded to, you pay rent to your landlord now and go to work even when you're sick or when work hours are over because you have no union protection or are working 'on contract'. Unless we want to live in the armpit of nowhere, 95% of us are going to be wage slaves living hand-to-mouth, not owning our own property, and working to please our corporate overlords if current trends continue unchecked. While some of Canada's problems are unique, I fear that most aren't. As for me, I'm headed to the 'armpit of nowhere' where I can at least have a ghost of a chance of affording life.

oh yeah the governmnet......in 5 years there will be a surplus and than ...

Oh yeah

Oh yeah, a real change … tent cities everywhere. Costs going up.

Oh yeah, old IOF propaganda agenda question, as she knows

Oh yeah. Purely racist bullying. Evil and disgusting.

Now you know how Serbians felt after they allowed 100's of thousands Albanians into kosovo after 1945 and it took 60 years for Albanians to kick out Serbs and get their own second albania country...oh , yeah, Canada was involved in that theft and helped Albanians. Well, karma is a biotch

Oh yeah, love Toronto

Toronto used to be a wonderful beautiful very clean and proud CITY it was reverd as one of the BEST known all over the world ?\nNow I refuse to even go there OMG\nI used to work Contruction all across Toronto in the early 80's it's truly a very sad thing\nI tend to shutter a the thought of what it will be like in a nother 10 to 20 years \n(Oh yeah I'm a VERY proud CANADIAN and most proud of all to be able to that my Grandfather fought at Vimy Ridge)\nIt's time to turn things around and make it a proud,clean CITY AGAIN!!!!!

Cause they don't like it, people are nasty and they're used to a higher personal standard living in countries they lived before. What's difficult to understand? Oh yeah, the Canadian propaganda that has Canadians convinced they're the best country in the world so this is all so very confusing to them now.

Oh yeah we need more immigrants so we can make the lines for employment longer because the lines are not big enough

Oh yeah the CANADIAN “hospitality”

Oh yeah this is way canada is boulding suppers jails this for making sure we are safe government of Canada may be we have people working for there own benefits,!! Sickness hope there liveing fine

Oh yeah, it's hell on earth here. I don't know how any human being can stand so much suffering. It's criminal. There isn't a worse place on earth. Or anywhere in this galaxy. It's just brutal.

Im pretty sure this has a name...oh yeah a Ponzi Scheme

Tell them the rest. The Arab world doesn’t like Palestinians and in some cases driving them out. More Palestinians live in Israel than in Egypt. Oh yeah, because they hate and have tried to destroy Israel they still provide Palestine with arms, as a proxy army.

Oh yeah our poor paycheck to paycheck life here. Go live in yemen!

What’s with the free Palestine cap? Oh I get it, yeah it’s a horrible situation all around. For the Israelis and the Palestinians.

This is all true. It's impossible for most people to buy a home now, especially with Chinese and Ruzzian money laundering in the housing market driving prices out of touch with reality. The health care system should change its name to human plumbing operations department so people don't get too optimistic about their chances of survival. Food is unbelievably expensive and booze and cannabis are true luxuries, but necessities in such a depressing society. A hockey game, our pastime, will cost you two days pay for an average salary. Traveling, from local transit to airline, is double any other country I've been to. What's missing? Oh yeah, Winter!

Oh yeah, I can't take the cold in ohio. I go to texas for the winter. Although that has its negatives too. Good for you and your adventurous spirits to take the big step to move. I myself have always wanted to move to Scotland. Enjoy. Can't wait to see where you end up.

oh yeah? the territory was originally populated by jews, then christians. islam conquered that territory and got rid of most jews and christians. now a new conquest has happened and muslims right to hold that territory is being challenged. but if we are discussing territorial rights by genes and religion than jews have the obvious right to that territory.

Oh yeah, in the meantime europe is footing bills for corrupt ukraine

Oh yeah bro take the refugees. Bruh nobody is going to leave their homes. Just take 3 million refugees what’s the problem? Um they have a home that’s the antithesis of a refugee…