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Canada and Europe should stay out of US politics, you backed a losing horse now you're reaping your reward

Republicans want to have Russian values now, everyone there is ALL White, Anti-DEI, Christian and submissive to ONE political party, Republicans want dictatorship with Eastern Values not Western, USA will end NATO and Europe allience to be totalitarian like Putin's Russia!

Would Canada take in skilled working class Americans on political asylum? I don't want to wait until Trump is s full blown dictator.

I'm sure Trudeau knows Trump is NOT smart at all!! But he was trying to be polite and say Trump was only being dumb in this particular circumstance.

One man thinking about his own country and his own people has Canada begging pleading whining about it...Boo hoo! Lazy Canadian Politicians. Corrupt Crony leaders benefitting their FAMILY FRIENDS and Friends of friends, never bothered to stand Canada on its own 2 feet! TRUDEAU and his Cabinet top that list of scoundrels. Doug Ford, the chubby pillsbury man follows next and CORRUPT PENSION HOGGER JAGMEET SELLOUT SINGH , corrupt Expensive Watch Lover comes next.\nAnd look at them crying now. What a shameful circus these rascals are putting up. So much so as asking TRUMP to be banned from Canada...Thats SELLOUT JAGMEET SINGH's 3rd world politics 101.\n\nPS I am a Canadian...and an embarrassed one at that.

Didnt even call him President, just Donald LMAO!! I love angry yet polite Trudeau ❤

Remember Yankees don't mistake being polite for weakness, you may learn the hard way...

If only JT had cared about his people for the last several years you may not have ended up in this situation. He screwed up Canada and now everyone is applauding him? Canadians are not polite, they only pretend to be, and then viciously turn and attack. You're all acting like the 30 year old still living in his parents basement that has been asked to pay rent or move out.

we are polite by choice!

As a European I would welcome Canada to join the EU a far more stable country, my absolute preference. The USA meddles in politics worldwide and we need to be independent of the US. The Trump administration is represented by incompetent individuals!

As a European I would welcome Canada to join the EU a far more stable country, my absolute preference. The USA meddles in politics worldwide and we need to be independent of the US. The Trump administration is represented by incompetent individuals!

Guys does anyone know who the people behind Trudeau are? I'm sorry I'm new to politics and have no idea. Thanks guys!

It should be interesting to hear Poilievre find fault with this for cheap political gain.

If there is ONE psychopath in the worlds politics it must be Trudeau .

He was being polite and saying that Trump was smart but that's a complete lie. Trump is an idiot. One of the dumbest people on the planet. He's going to destroy his country and he's on track to destroy much of the planet.

We're not really THAT polite. Trump's pissing off the whole world, except Putin and Netanyahu who Trump appears to be collaborating with to take over Ukraine and Gaza's economies.

All governors whether it’s Gavin Newsom or Trudeau or Pritzker should not cultivate antagonistic relationship with the president . They need to work with him inspite of political differences

As a Canadian, I'm actually proud of Prime Minister Trudeau. Canadians stand up to bullies, GOP need to be afraid (politically) of their constituents not Trump!

Fighting with a Canadian is like going to your family reunion and punching your cousin in the nose; neither polite nor sensible. I never met a Canadian I didnt like on my several trips there to hunt and fish.

No we know you're polite and it's in everything but don't let this bully bully you

As a foreigner I am so impressed at how the Canadians of all political parties have rallied together . Be proud of that. The world respects you Canada

GO canada ??, we are so polite. ❤

Is this interfiring with united states politics by a foreign president??????????????????????????? almost encourigin civil war????

Canadian being to fuckin polite when he shouldn't be !!! This is going to get ugly and build a split between two nations that have probably the closest bond in history !

It must be a bit of a shock for the American people to hear a political leader who speaks in sentences and who's words make sense!

You mean exiting Prime Minister, that Canada doesn't want, that is why Prime Minister Trudeau is backing down and quitting from his own political fight. Don't forget Prime Minister Trudeau froze Canadian citizens bank accoiunts for protesting goverment Covid-19 vaccination manfates.

Mr Prime minister i think we should keep our language politely harsh language dose not look good our side .

We're screwed, our leaders only see short term political gains in setting policy and not long term solutions. A long slow decline will continue, perhaps for decades.

Very good summary. I will add that our I know you wanted to be concise and you nailed it. For anyone who is curious about how our politics make everything worse for us federally, let me explain it in a short time.\n\nTrudeau as of the day of this video, March 3, 2025, is STILL the PM. He said he WOULD resign once a new leader was picked through a democratic process. Right now, he's basically just doing photo ops in Ukraine, UK and anywhere else on our dime because Parliament is prorogued and the party in power, Liberal, is having a leadership race. So, while he may resign within the week once that leadership race is done, he's still technically in charge.\n\nWhat makes that race and the PM's prorogation so bad is that we're in the middle of a crisis - several actually - caused in part directly by Trudeau and his Liberals (and the NDP supporting them). The latest would be Trump's tariffs starting today, March 4, 2025. Trudeau always disappears during a crisis, leaving us to fend for ourselves - (1) COVID, he was at the cottage using every excuse not to be accountable for anything or using unconstitutional powers to crush a protest he didn't know how to handle, (2) Chinese spies, he's ignoring our intelligence service, (3) federal worker strike, he's in NYC at some gala.... I could go on but there's a reason we're hurting so bad.\n\nWe have zero federal leadership, and a federal government that makes things worse for us with things like: over-regulation, subsidizing media to keep us misinformed, nerfing select natural resource sectors but favoring others (oil and gas suffer, while coal is fine... probably because we sell it to China, but I digress), letting criminal out of jail, uncontrolled immigration, passing policies like the FHSA that drive home prices higher and higher, and of course, more and more taxes. I could go on about the billions in taxpayers' money the government blows - it's like a black hole - or the fact that MPs keep getting raises - April 1 is their fifth since COVID - and most federal and government employees are all getting raises at a time when the rest of us are learning to get by with less and less because we're taxed so much and housing, groceries, etc. are so unaffordable.\n\nI have applied for US citizenship. I want to stick around to fix Canada, but I think it's too far gone. We have too many socialists/communists in power and they're not getting voted out any time soon. It's been fun Canada, it's been fun.

Your comparison to Spain doesn't apply here because we don’t have a construction bubble—the primary issue is that companies aren’t building enough single-family housing. This is a provincial issue, but it’s poorly covered because Americans don't understand our political system. Essentially, an unhealthy percent of our economy is tied up in speculation on *existing* real estate. So the solution might ironically be what Spain did and attract foreign investors to build in the country.

One of the lessons that Canada could learn from Singapore is the implementation of a 99-year ownership lease. In societies with high home owner occupancy, it's difficult to introduce property cooling measures without political pushback from majoritarian home owners. A limited term lease allows for renewal within the property market, allowing new entrants and preventing accrual of property capital wealth.

The *enormous* problem with this video is the idea that _living_ in Canada is the same as the US! If you want to sell your soul and live in a country with rampant crime, gun-obsessed citizens and essentially zero social safety net, go nuts! Canada has a lifestyle which is far more aligned with Nordic countries than it is with the US; polite discourse, care for the needy and elderly, and a far greater desire for work/life balance. Higher GDP per capita is _irrelevant_ *if you have a basically dysfunctional civil society to go with it* .

Suggestion: How the US/Canada would do on the leaderboard with Canada as 51st or 51-60th states? Although not politically correct, Canadian resources combined with US capital/investment. I think it would be an economic powerhouse the world has never seen before.

Canada can't be fixed. In theory these problems are VERY easy to solve. In practice literally impossible. \nCanadians have the political sophistication of a 6 year. Anyone with the opportunity to leave is leaving or has left.

We just had an election in Ontario and basically nothing changed. Ontario has been one of the worst performing provinces in Canada for the majority of Doug Ford's mandate over Ontario but people seemingly don't care enough to want change. One of the major problems with Canada in terms of politics is that the aging population has some of the largest block of voters and can pretty much overrule anything that would benefit the younger generation if it would hurt their investments.

As a Kiwi, I feel like you were talking about NZ here. Same housing obsession, same political lockout.

This video is horrible. I don't know what political angle is, but the real problems are very well known and have nothing to do with what you said. First, housing is incredibly difficult to build in Canada because of regulations and land title problems, I.e., you don't own that land, the indians do. On top of that, there is a constant influx of immigrant that require housing that doesn't exist. Children cry because they cannot leave their parents' houses because they can't move anywhere, so they can't find any jobs locally, and they're trapped. There is no will in the canadian government to change these immigration policies, to change the land rules so that people can own land and build houses, or do anything about their incredibly micro managed economy that makes it impossible to do anything. If so, yeah, they go to the US to have a future while Canada stagnants and dies.

Criminal Illegal Aliens. Not 'migrants'. Victims of police brutality are getting compensated in millions. \nSo why not apply the same approach to crimes committed by illegals?\nLet's keep the DIMS busy this year. \nVictims of crimes committed by Illegal criminal Aliens living in the U.S \nshould file a $50 billion class-action lawsuit against agencies at all \ngovernment levels for failure to enforce existing laws. \nProactively seek legal advice and engage in wholesale activism on the political front

As a Canadian who has lived my whole life here, in my opinion there were two major factors that need to be highlighted that started this mess: fiscal policy and focus on fringe politics. First, Canada came out of the 2008 meltdown relatively unscathed due to following a markedly different strategic path than other major countries, namely tight banking regulations as well as 15 years of paying down the national debt. However, several years after 2008, sentiment shifted to adopting the same MMT-led fiscal policies as other nations: lower interest rates and deficit spending. Secondly, at least 10 years ago, there was a major political shift to start emphasizing fringe social issues (climate, race-based, gender, etc.) instead of standard issues such as the economy or military to name two, and it was strongly evident in academia and in the media. The result was little governmental, public or media attention being paid to core economic concerns such as the massive growing government and consumer debt levels, highly inflationary housing market, or decreasing productivity. When COVID hit, the government further doubled the existing federal debt and when they found that unsustainable, opened the doors to massive immigration levels to bring the Debt-per-Capita ratio down which while helping in that one metric, has further inflated the housing market all while forcing wages down. We now have unsustainable public debt levels, unaffordable housing, decreasing wages, decreasing productivity, and a troubling reactionary political swing towards extremist right-wing ideologies. Top that off with the US administration seeing Canada is on an economic precipice and threatening to take the country over, there couldn't be a more perfect storm.

You said there's no reason that people would pick Canada over the US but given the current political and sociological climate in the United States that's not true anymore.\n\nPeople want access to healthcare, paid parental leave, a social fabric that isn't toxic, access to women's healthcare, lack of gun violence, consumer protections etc.\n\nJust like many Europeans won't leave Europe for the US, many Canadians won't either, especially now.

I'm glad you mentioned the emigration and brain drain part. I'm a 30 year old engineer and I'm tired of living in Canada, I don't even identify myself as culturally or politically canadian anymore. Here's to me hoping I move to the USA with my useless degree and start over my life.

It is in the interest of politicians to talk about lowering house prices (to avoid alienating non homeowners) but at best; only slowing the increase -property owners generally have more money, more voter turnout and thus political power...slashing the value of their biggest investment is probably a lousy campaign strategy.

The reason real estate prices have gone 300% but incomes only 100% is because of low interest rates. If you factor in carrying costs, the numbers aren't as extreme. The challenge now is that interest rates have increased to stave off inflation generated primarily during the covid years. While this has somewhat abated, real estate carrying costs remain elevated and price growth has stagnated, while the Canadian dollar has fallen, effectively resulting in reduced housing valuations (in US dollar terms). Can we ride this out until incomes catch up? Will productivity increases promised by leading political challengers (election coming this year) move the needle? Are tariffs and 51st state rhetoric just a negotiating tactic and bluster, or something real? Nobody knows, but we will find out..

Tax sale of primary residence. Reinvest in infrastructure. Only way out and a big sell for any political party. It's gotta happen though.

Canada has many problems and disadvantages which will need to be determinedly addressed in the coming years. However, we have one key advantage over our friends to the south, and one I hope that over time this will increasingly bear fruit: we are not governed by a fascist-adjacent government. Our only political party with policies resembling the American Republicans is polling in the low single digits.\n\nSetting aside the question of whether American Republicans are 'fascist-adjacent', the truth is that much of the world perceives it as such. Our economy is so tied to the US that I would not wish them ill, or at least not very much. However, I think in the competition for talent American politics will be like a 'mark of Cane' on that country for a generation. My guess is that our - in comparison - boring politics will be a key advantage in the years to come.

And of course; everything Trump does is reflected badly on Canadian conservatives because people just can't fathom that politics are different in different countries.

Canada is heading in the wrong direction—high housing prices due to students from India and China,also a political Indian candidate in Canada claiming that Frénch is not Canada's official language, issues with economic diversification, security problems, and many others.

We Indians are mostly calm and polite until u surpass our patience level .

Your words shows what kind of mother you have and your behaviour shows what kind of father you have. Stop being abusive or hatredness to others. You can solve anything just being polite and understanding situations

Yes, you have some beautiful places to see, however there are WAY too many reasons not to move there? Gun culture? Blows my mind. Health care? I don’t want to live under a bridge after a major health issue. And don’t get me started on the bat shit crazy politics. I could go on and on….