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2025-09-29 0
LIBERAL REPORT CARD (And this is only what we know so far...) - $60 Million ArriveScam - Hard Drugs called Safe drugs supplied in vending machines - $258 Million in projects to GC Strategies; - Winnipeg Labs - SNC Scandal - Aga Khan trip Scandal - $84k Jamaican Vacation - $6k/night for a single room for the Queen's Funeral - $1.3 Million on 3 'Affordability Retreats' - China Election Interference - Chinese Police Stations in Canada - Green Slush Fund Scandal - Funding Islamic groups who are protesting in support of Hamas - $1 Billion paid out for Hotels for Immigrants - $40 Million to fire staff - A Billion Dollars to CBC to collapse their credibility - Blocking Veterans Affairs Committee investigation - $29 Billion in cost overruns on TMX - Expanding MAiD into those with Mental Illness - $2 Billion to invest in companies that don't exist - $500 Million to fund abortions in other countries - WE Scandal - CPP increase and CPP2 - Highest inflation in 30 years - Highest interest rates in 30 years - Unsustainable immigration - Forcing Untested Vaccinations - Ignoring Vaccine Injured - 11 Million Canadians requiring Food Banks - Tent Cities in every major city - Housing and Rent prices skyrocketing - Healthcare Collapsing - Out of-control spending by the Governor General - Overpayment of CERB payments to prisoners, people who don't qualify, people who don't live in Canada - 10k Ventilators, purchased from a Liberal Friend, that never got used because they were never needed - $300 Million for storage of Mobile Hospitals that were never used - $400 Million for Quarantine Hospitals - Illegally using the Emergencies Act against Canadians - Firing Federal workers and not paying them El based on Vaccination Status - $30 Billion in making batteries for cars, while EV Manufacturers are divesting from EV Technology - $9 Million in Cricket factory for Human consumption - Accusing India of killing citizens on Canadian Soil - Soiling relations with China - Telling Germany, Japan and Greece that we don't want their business on LNG - Violent protesters allowed to escalate without recourse - Violated Canadian Charter of Rights - 2018 India Vacation Mr. Dressup - Elbow gate in HoC - 25% living in poverty - Housing is unaffordable. - Canadian forces made ineffective - Rising crime rate - Failed gun bans on lawful owner - An opioid epidemic - No progress on missing Aboriginal women - A divided country - Reduction of Canadian forestry management causing more forest fires - 6 billion to the Philippines for gender equality and fight climate change - 5 million ice rink on Parliament Hill - 8.6 million reno on the Herington Lake cottage - 2.5 million for the additional cottage at Herington lake for Sophie and kids - Safe injection sites, not so safe around children - Failed safe supply being sold for hard drugs - Legalization of hard drugs - Speaker Greg Fergus after partisan language appeared in an ad for an upcoming event in his riding - Fergus was found to have violated the act - Freeland by-election at by-election - Anthony Rota is thrown under the bus for the HoC Hunka clap-in. PMO’s office knew who he was before. - Mary Ng $17,000 ethical contract - Mary Ng named as one of the 11 MP's who allegedly conspired with foreign actors - Failed UN Security seat campaign of over 8.6 million - 300 million on redesigning the Canadian passport (what was wrong with the old design, not WOKE enough?) - 220k on in-flight catering Indo-Pacific trip, total for the trip over 2 million - Justin Trudeau bought his buddy Tom a $9 million condo in NYC - $28,000 to Randy Boissonnault’s former company - Randy Boissonnault faking indigenous to get grants/money - Randy Boissonnault steps away from HoC to be protected from his crimes - 25% of Canadians are living below the poverty line - Steven Guilbeault $30 Billion coverup - MP Joly’s husband top recipient of future entrepreneurs program - Immigration minister Marc Miller importing terrorists - $523K Joly Rush furniture order spending spree THIS IS NOT EVEN SCRATCHING THE SURFACE SHARE SHARE
2025-09-28 0
Broad Ethnic Groups (2021 Census) This classification focuses on larger panethnic groups. White: 72.9% Asian: 17.7% Indigenous: 5.2% Black: 3.5% Latin American: 1.5% Canada hasn't changed all that much, and certain cities having one ethnic group that is not even new. Little Italy? Cabbage Town? China Town(s), Ukrainian and Finnish areas in western Canada? Asians in Vancouver. This time, it's the Indians, but Brampton has been changing for years into Brown Town. Years!
2025-09-27 0
Where are the indigenous people of Canada? Were the driven out by the Europeans? Goes around comes around.
2025-09-23 0
The thing that concerns me about Westerners is their lack of global awareness. You let people in with vines-like culture and when the vines choke the indigenous plants, you begin to complain.
2025-09-21 0
So they literally developed the city, from a small town to a big city. What yall are complaining about? It’s not like European did better when they came in. Did European assimilate to indigenous culture? At least indians didn’t force their culture like Europeans did
2025-09-21 0
I am First Nations and I have been concerned about how the face and language of Canada has changed. The first thing we noticed in our small town was that the taxi companies were taken over by East Indians. Now days you are hard pressed to get a taxi anywhere in Canada and get a driver who hails from India. I used to like Tim Horton's until I needed an interpreter to make my order, one doesn't speak English so, she had to get another worker to take my order. You go into any 7/11 or any gas station, or convenience store. All are staffed by people from India. But, it isn't just Indians. There are many other immigrants coming to Canada from China, Japan etc. None of these immigrants do not speak very good English. I have faced prejudice from these people who do not recognize my rights as an indigenous person. Going for an xray, blood test the field is mostly Asian. I have to get cataract surgery and I couldn't understand the Chinese receptionist and had to spell most of what I said to her. That means their business is mostly with Chinese-speaking people. As a First Nations person my status will always be a minority. With every immigrant that comes to Canada my status as an indigenous person diminishes. Taking transit shows me that english or french are ever spoken. Canadians are the new minority.
2025-09-20 0
It seems the descendants of the Colonizers still have the mentality of a simulation to their ways just like they force, the indigenous people. Now expect everyone else to be the same way. Meanwhile the white washed system says the Canada is the most multicultural society 🤔 a load of bs. What happened to excepting everyone for the way they are??
2025-09-20 0
European terrorists and colonizers took over the land and businesses of Indigenous Canadians. For years, they have enjoyed a life of leisure and luxury by selling the resources of this country. But now they are unable to do so anymore, so they are targeting immigrants from other continents because they are jealous of their progress and cannot compete with their hard work and honesty. These European terrorist colonizers will never change.
2025-09-20 0
He's right! 3:17 once these brownnies get in office, or Canadian politics, that's there foot in the door to passing whatever laws they want because then they multiply like rats and take over. One day you non-brownnies will be the minority and the majority will be...guess who? And one day there will be a name change from canada to new india! Now you know how the Indigenous felt when you took over their lands, now the other indians are taking over! This is not being racist but a fact!
2025-09-20 0
Just asking how the indigenous people felt as a minority because of influx in f Europeans. And how does the Pakistan people assimilate by wearing hijab and demanding halal at every food joint. I don’t support illegal immigration of India or Africans. I don’t want to pay for people’s hotel room who came here on fake refugee status. But we shouldn’t only target only one community. Please check which community has more kids for ccb and comes as asylum to every western country. And the Indian students who came probably didn’t get a chance in Indian colleges.
2025-09-20 0
the homeless people who would rather starve at the shelter instead are just too racist to go to the gurdwara for free food, or to realise they immigrants are actually kind and hard working. Not everyone is like that in my experience, I'm not from brampton but I'm sikh and I have sikh friends who are white and indigenous as well. One thing people don't realise is a lot of Canadians are actually really racist. You clearly saw that from the interview of the guy and his wife who was an RN, they passed the exam fair and square but I feel like his lack of understanding of the English language didn't get his point across right. The point he missed was the quality of life is higher in Canada, In India it's way easier, the cost of living is way cheaper, there's tons of cheap labour to hire maids for all your house work for example which is common in their culture, but as you've probably seen online, India isn't the cleanest or friendliest place to be, and if he was a nurse in India he would probably be broke without a good job, and having the opportunity to find good high paying jobs in something that Canadians also do when they travel to the US if a position in their field isn't available in whatever local city they grew up in. The main issue stems from international students from like after covid, regardless of country, India is in the spotlight because there's just more indians compared to other countries international students but its all the same stuff, you have kids from all over the world that might not have learned the same cultural practices, fresh 16-18 year olds living alone for the first time that have to do all their own chores and don't even know how to take care of themselves in some cases or do laundry or anything like that and it doesn't mean they were illegal immigrants or anything, just that they never put in the effort to learn because they were too entitled, its the same with entitled kids that go to Korea or Japan from north America as well that don't learn their culture and customs and misbehave because they are too entitled, and once you understand that you can see the bigger picture more clearly instead of just defaulting to racism. Also I'm not saying they can't be frustrated, its frustrating for everyone, even for me but racism isn't the answer.
2025-09-19 4
Dear everyone, Culture is a constantly changing phenomenon. If you had visited Canada 500 years ago, you would have seen Indigenous tribes living on this land with their own cultural values. Two hundred years ago, European culture became more prominent, but it was still a very different place from what we see today. Family values were strong, and who your family was often determined much of your future. Now, Canadian culture is changing once again. The arrival of Indian immigrants will inevitably influence Canadian culture, whether people like it or not. Some may try to resist—perhaps through a kind of “Trumpism”—but that will only provide temporary comfort. In the long run, Canadian culture will continue to evolve with the influx of newcomers. Today it is Indians; in the coming decades, it may be another nationality. The key point is to embrace change—and perhaps change ourselves in the process. For example, the rise in homelessness is tied more to social and economic issues than to immigration. Family structures among white Canadians are becoming less central in people’s lives, and religion is also losing influence. Parenting values are often shaped by fleeting psychology trends and “helicopter parenting,” leaving many children without the strong foundation they need. Perhaps there is something to learn from Indian immigrants about building families, fostering strong connections, and strengthening community ties. Thank you.
2025-09-19 0
White people viewing Indian immigrants unfavourably as if they are indigenous to Canada themselves 😂
2025-09-19 2
Ethnicity - Brampton: South Asian 52%, European 19%, Black 13%, Latin 2%, South East and East Asian 6%, West Asian and Middle East 2%, Indigenous 1% and others European : Others ≈ 1 : 4 so approximately one fifth of the Brampton populations are whites. European : SA ≈ 2 : 5 so approximately for every 5 South Asian/Indian there are 2 whites. Brampton you have been successfully invaded by the true East Indian Company @ The Great India 🤣🤣🤣
2025-09-19 0
White Racist that Migrated from Europe and Hating Minorities. Native Americans Indigenous people are the First People. White Europeans Invaded Canada and Murdered Many of The Native American Indigenous People and The Native School Children were Slaughtered and burned on school grounds. The White people are living on Stolen Land that belong to The Native American Indigenous People.
2025-09-19 0
If you aren’t indigenous, YOU ARE ALSO AN IMMIGRANT.
2025-09-19 0
Systematic takeover of a nation just like the British and the French did to the native indigenous Indians. In 25 yrs this place will be like South Africa.
2025-09-19 0
Remember the British stole $44 Trillion from Indians during colonial era. India controlled over a quarter of the world trade before they arrived. India was a bigger economy than US adjusting for inflation. The Industrial revolution was built on back of Indian slaves paying 70 percent taxes to the crown. Canada, UK and Australia were built on this stolen money. They stole money from the Indians and they stole land from the indigenous. This video shows nothing but prejudice. People only have a problem with brown immigrants. I remember 35,000 European immigrants arrived in the city in 2021 even before the Ukraine war and no one cared. Brampton has 27% Indian people so they're clearly not a majority but they are a majorly targeted group because of this prejudice. I don't have the Canadian numbers but in the US 6% of tax comes from Indians and they're 1% of the population. You don't have to trust me you can look it up. The motives of this look racist because when you try hiring white folks the retention rate is extremely low, these past 6 months I have seen 8 employees in managerial positions who quit less than 2 weeks and it's impossible to retain them no matter what salary you offer and then when you go hire an Indian they just don't quit and work harder. But again that's an anecdote, that doesn't mean white folks don't work hard. Everyone has different experiences so stop, putting half baked stuff out on the internet and stop embarrassing yourself. You got a problem, go back to your country. Why don't you go back to jolly old England and serve the queen.
2025-09-19 0
i doesn't understand why these white candian gets offended by the Indian origin people like these whites were also immigrants to Canada they just conquered the Canada and just wiped out the indigenous people and now behaving like they are living there for generations
2025-09-19 0
Sons and daughters of white colonial christians who butchered (k****ed) native indigenous populations 😅😅😅
2025-09-19 0
Anti Immigration / refugee protests on an already occupied land eradicating indigenous populations by European settlers is nothing but a joke. The mere fact your ancestors arrived here 2-3 generations back, doesn't offer entitlement as owner of the land. Do you remember how many slaves European Colonizers have killed? King Leopold, Algerian war of Independence against France, how many African slaves lost their lives to build the Congo-Ocean Railway? Spanish demolition of Aztec and Inca empire in South America, did you remember the Encomienda system?! Why did Taino people vanish on Caribbean Island?! Portuguese forced labor policies in Angola, Mozambique?? Millions of them lost lives to fight against Portuguese colonizers. Then our favorite East India Company, the British empire where Sun Never Set. They decimated India, Australian Aboriginal, New Zealand Māori and Red Indians, native Americans who migrated to America from Asia long back. How many natives' indigenous populations countries after countries, continent after continent, their father mother daughter son wife husband grandparents your ancestors have killed???? Do you have any count????? In this civilized world no Supremacists be it Right or Left wing, especially Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin like White Supremacist have no place anymore, you have done enough good for the world. You cannot justify your stand using a Charlie Kark.
2025-09-19 0
The native Indian story doesn't help your cause if you Indians from India are doing the same thing as white people did. You're not advocating for indigenous people either.
2025-09-19 0
As an Indian, you Indians in parilament will have to add more diversity to school circulums. If you don't want to assimilate with white people, then fine but you'll at least have to advocate for indigenous languages to be pushed into Canadian schools.
2025-09-19 0
That sentence is offensive af lol 😂 they shouldn’t even be called that the indigenous have been called Indians for a long ass time. Why did we have to change our name soon as they started flooding in, I had a girl ask me how she gets a status card, I said your not the same kind of Indian as me. 🤣🤷🏽‍♀️
2025-09-18 3
Funny how some people get upset about immigrants coming to Canada… forgetting that Europeans were the first “immigrants” here, who stole the land from Indigenous people. Now they’re getting a tiny taste of what Indigenous folks felt when settlers showed up and changed everything.
2025-09-15 0
I agree with you to the extent of your understanding of Canadian culture. However, immigrants to Canada should be aware that the First Nations and indigenous people of Canada often have to seek a better life in other countries because colonizers and their descendants show no regard for treaty rights and have disenfranchised First Nations. The government hides the facts about the plight of indigenous Canadians and lie to Canadian immigrants and citizens, always to divide and conquer. Immigrants often don't realize that most indigenous Canadians are living in worse conditions than what the immigrants themselves came from, and few live as comfortably as white Canadians. When white people talk about how hard they have it because of immigrants, they should think about what First Nations have to deal with everyday because of them. Why is there a French-speaking province and not a Cree or Anishnabe speaking province?
2025-09-11 0
It's true though. I couldn't get a job for over two years, I applied EVERYWHERE, they would say they're not hiring, then a week later I'll see a new worker or two being trained and guess what? they're indian/punjab (sorry, unsure all the proper terms of people or the differences). Not to mention that they treat indigenous women the way they would back home.... Pretty much every person I know (I'm indigenous and have experienced it myself) has experienced some sort of harassment or assault or whateva with them... And yes, I know it's not all of them, I also know some great people that are indian/punjab but I'm not going to act like there isn't a problem....... Then people think indigenous people get "hand outs"... I was broke for over two years, I tried welfare, it's not as easy as it seems to people lol Also, I'm sure I'm wrong, but I always assumed Immigration was like... reserved for people that need it kind of like refugees.
2025-09-10 0
Think about this what goes around comes around it doesn't matter if it takes a 50 years of 100 years the indigenous people felt the same way when when people came and run them off the land just a different time
2025-09-08 0
its true immigrants get special treatment all the jobs housing money given two them me and my daughter where in housing and they kicked me and my 11 year old daughter on the street December problem family of 8 father works the mother get income support payment no I hate this its are country I'm indigenous from NWT immigrants get treatment get all the jobs get good home nice cars it most stop no more of this muslims are racist again people like me no more it's time you start thinking about us people born and raise indigenous I'm from HayRiver NWT
2025-09-01 0
We are all immigrants, ask the indigenous peoples.
2025-08-30 3
As a indigenous here, I always laugh, you're all welcome let's be fair, we're all people. Respect each other
2025-08-29 0
You are a colonizer. You are NOT indigenous to ANYWHERE on the planet except Europe/Eurasia
2025-08-28 0
Oh the IRONY! If you aren't First Nations, you ARE an immigrant. Why don't you actually all make an effort to learn at least a few words in our languages; the ACTUAL languages of Our country 🙄. You can't be that dumb. I'm not trying to be harsh, but most of us speak our language and 1 or 2 languages from the European settlers here. It really suits everyone here to never bring Indigenous people into your conversations while you call it "Your country, your 'Canada', you culture". Everyone who's ancestors aren't from need to do better. It blows my mind how you come here and fight against each other while being immigrants yourselves. You demand assimilation from others while you yourselves aren't Indigenous, and don't make the slightest effort to assimilation to OUR culture. Complete hypocrites.🤣🤣🤣 If I were you, I'd be ashamed. I can't see myself ever going to someone else's country, living in it, let alone being born in it, and have the audacity to act and speak with that amount of utter continuous ignorance and disrespect the way most of the European settlers and other settlers/"Canadians" do. Do better before complaining about each other cause, you're no better and immigrants yourselves. Oh ya, and film Native Child in the background at 7:06, the place not First Nations operated known for stealing our children and getting tons of funding to line their pockets while almost all reserves have no clean drinking water, houses breaking down, unable to get work outside due to racist from all types of immigrants (yes, including European 'Canadians'), but putting a video of a European 'Canadian' talking about not being able to afford cable and her bills. Because these things are happening to European settlers/ 'Canadians', now it's finally a problem. The IRONY.
2025-08-28 0
I'm a proud Canadian Immigrant of Indian origin. I came here to do specialized studies in Game Development. I took my time, and studied 6 years as an international student, paying 3x the tuition, sank $200,000 of hard earned money into the Canadian Education system — Not as a fast track gimmick to immigrate, but so I could achieve my dream as a Game Developer. This money was family income, earned on 1/4th the salary, taking 4x longer to save. I was a great privileged to me. Today 15 years later, no one would ever think I'm from India. I sound Canadian, I behave Canadian, I have Canadian values, and I am Canadian. I came here because I loved Canada. I would watch hours upon hours of indigenous history, and on my Citizenship day, I watched Juno Beach to celebrate. However I must say this... I suffered through s*icidal depression here for 8 years, because I had far less leverage here than in a developing country, and it's really telling what sort of situation we're all in... Rent caps in Canada were removed... The housing market was open to foreign investors / and real estate monopolies with a 20% year-on-year rise... Rents went from 1000$ to 2100$ MINIMUM for a 1 bedroom through Trudeau's term and the govt said "It's not a federal responsibility"... Auto insurance is like 2.5-3.5k a year in Ontario and if you get a dent, you pay a deductable... I was quoted 8500$ for two wisdom teeth surgeries while it costed me 260$ abroad... During Covid - property owners, banks, and grocery stores exploited our misery and made record profits!... The govt stopped filtering through it's immigrants with "interviews", and it's operating like a scam — "Bring all your foreign money, convert it to CAD, and keep our GDP stable.. while we neither have the infrastructure, nor the job market to support these numbers". I think some accountability is due... these issues are "symptoms", not the problem — The problem is our Liberal govt / policies, and our wonderful voting body who voted Liberal term after term after term while complaining. Why does this govt safeguard extremism, foreign politics, foreign separatism? Khalistanis are as much of a threat / nuance to India than it is to Canada, but in Canada they actually have a unrestricted platform. Instead of resenting immigrants, we need to start resenting how mismanaged Canada is by our govt, and hold our voting body accountable. We had a chance to vote differently, but once again a repackaged and rebranded Liberal term. Because my ethnicity is Indian, I've become an object of collective resentment / hatred, and I don't think that's fair.. Please direct it at your vote, and govt level policies. Why should I (and other's like me) be crucified with the sins of other immigrants? It's like hating all your neighbors in a burning building, when the management has been lighting the fire.
2025-08-28 0
We are all immigrants other than the indigenous and Inuit. My father’s family can be traced back to 1538. He is French Canadian and native. My mom was an Irish American from Cleveland Ohio. This country has changed so much. I am at a loss. We need to speak out our opinions. I have lived here all over Canada, all my life. Why can we open up the the immigration doors when we did not have the infrastructure. It was insane. It hurt the original Canadians. The migrants are treated special. There should not be kickbacks. The govt has created this racism by giving immigrants priviliges
2025-08-27 0
White folks act like the world was made for them and for them only. White people are not indigenous to to Canada. Did white Canadians learn any indigenous languages? So why do they complain about assimilation? The world is changing.
2025-08-26 0
So-called white people are colonizers. And the Asian Indians are immigrants just like so-called "white" people. The land belongs to the indigenous people of Canada not the immigrants or colonizers. This wicked and racist system called white supremacy is falling. And the "Times of the Gentiles" is coming to an end.
2025-08-26 0
My family immigrated here in 2011. First, I want to express gratitude—to the Indigenous peoples who have always been the true stewards of this land, and to the other immigrants , despite a complicated history, built a nation where opportunity is possible. We cannot erase the past, but we can acknowledge it and learn to live with respect. But to the wave of immigrants who came after 2017—listen carefully: you are ruining the very country you ran to for safety and opportunity. Too many of you are uncivilized. You don’t respect others. You lie, you cheat, you act without humility or integrity, you always go for short cut, you stink. You take advantage of a system you never helped build, and you give nothing back in return. This country was built on respect, honesty hard work, and accountability—values you seem to ignore. If you cannot live by those principles, then you don’t belong here. Canada is not here to lower itself to your standards. Either rise up, learn the values that make this country strong, or stop pretending you deserve the opportunities that others fought for. Never mind, just leave!!!!!!!
2025-08-26 0
“ hello Canadians and all immigrants stop blaming kids. They’re youngsters. They left home for higher education just the way British came to India for spice. The displacement of Indians come on man Canadian give them a break. Look at Vancouver Eastside, the lump we’re all people Unless you are Indigenous, we are all immigrants here. Instead of blaming immigrants, we should focus on the real problems: low wages, lack of affordable housing, and exploitation. International students also bring money into Canada—they pay high tuition, rent, and living costs, which supports our economy. Many take jobs that others don’t want. Displacing the blame on them isn’t fair. Give them a break—we need unity, not division.”
2025-08-26 0
“Canada was built by immigrants. Unless you are Indigenous, every Canadian’s family came here from somewhere else. Instead of blaming immigrants, we should be addressing the real issues: wages that don’t keep up with the cost of living, lack of affordable housing, and job exploitation. Many immigrants work hard in low-wage jobs that others don’t want to take. Pointing fingers at each other doesn’t solve the problem—working together for fairness and equality does. We need unity, not division.”
2025-08-26 0
“Canada was built by immigrants. Unless you are Indigenous, every Canadian’s family came here from somewhere else. Instead of blaming immigrants, we should be addressing the real issues: wages that don’t keep up with the cost of living, lack of affordable housing, and job exploitation. Many immigrants work hard in low-wage jobs that others don’t want to take. Pointing fingers at each other doesn’t solve the problem—working together for fairness and equality does. We need unity, not division.”
2025-08-26 0
So there was nobody here before the Europeans came &…changed the culture? Is French indigenous to that continent? Did Europeans make efforts to integrate? Where is the native representation in Canadian identity? Now Europeans are acting like victims when the same is done to them. It IS about race. Would they feel the same if the immigrants looked like them? I doubt it
2025-08-26 0
If your not indigenous your an immigrant.
2025-08-26 0
I am so happy people are starting to speak up. Sadly, I am changing. I am becoming angry. Angry at immigrants and the system. Am I becoming racist? Or just so lost at how things seem so wrong. My main upset is for my teen son. Turned 16 after Christmas. So excited about looking for a part-time job, earning some money, getting experiences and (unbeknownst to him ) expanding his social circle. This excitement came from me. LIke all us Canadians who remember our first part-time jobs (mine was at a McDonalds), I regaled my son in stories of that first part-time job. How much I learned from it, and the so many benefits it would have for me as I got older. He listened, and couldn't wait to turn 16. Also, like most parents, I raised him on the benefits of working hard in school, getting good grades, learning, getting involved, etc. Do these things son, and you will have a good future. He listened. Honours student all his life. Played on school teams. Performed in talent shows, Volunteered his time, etc., etc. Not a bad resume for a first time teen seeking a job. It is now heading into September. He has applied at all the traditional teen job hotspots, (all the fast food joints, grocery stores, drug stores, etc). Dozens of resumes, online and in-person applications. Not a single response. Then I walk into the local Burger King. Not a single Caucasian, Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, or Far Eastern employee. All East Indian (or Pakistani). Suddenly I am really noticing this trend everywhere, especially in the franchise fast food industry; especially upsetting when I even see it in a Harvey's (even more Canadian than Timmies). It's either East Indians or Arabs. I don't know for how long I have been hearing about diversity and fair hiring practices (which I have always supported); but to see this trend makes me furious. Are the owners of these franchise exempt from fair hiring practices? Are they not taught we are a diverse country? This is wrong. I want to finish with two sad situations which we should all be concerned about. When my eldest was looking for part-time work after the pandemic, he walked into a Mr. Submarine. He asked if he could leave his resume or fill out an application. The Arab cashier told him in broken English they were not hiring. As he was walking out, a young Arab man walked in. He approached the same cashier and asked for an application. She gave him one. WTF. My last comment, is the most concerning of all. My 16 year old, who works so hard at school, and at everything he does, recently commented, after yet another non-reply after handing out a slew of resumes, "Dad... what's the use of working so hard if I can't even get a job at McDonalds." I wonder how many other Canadian teens are feeling the same way. Not just white teens. Black, Hispanic, Indigenous and East Asian teens. Seems the broken English East Indian and Arab teens and young adults aren't asking themselves that. How long until my son thinks I am just spewing BS about this hard work thing? This is not about racism. This is about fair hiring practices, especially in more and more franchises; however, I do find myself listening to more and more of these videos, and find myself developing sucb negative feelings towards these two cultures. This is not Canadian. To be thinking this way, especially, is not Canadian. What do we do? Speak up, and we are racist. Stay quiet, and our teen kids move into adulthood without job experience, money put away, or just having a life experience that any of us over 30 (no matter our race) experienced. Something has to change; but I haven't a clue how to do that.
2025-08-26 0
Wait a minute didn’t the French colonize a land that was home to the indigenous Native Americans.Now you know how it feels to be Native.
2025-08-25 0
LIES ! Lies Lies ! As Neil deGrasse Tyson would say it ! Pretending to be decent people…….THAT “”white/Cream ”” woman ! In the 51 years I have lived in Ontario as a Canadian Citizen……Canada have always been a Racist Country Starting with The Indigenous people Of Canada !!! Remember Mike Harris the Butcher !!!
2025-06-20 0
Canada is built on and by immigrants. At some point you were an immigrant unless you're indigenous
2025-06-06 0
Thank God. We can’t afford them at all and should prioritize helping INDIGENOUS CANADIANS OVER NEW COMERS!
2025-04-17 0
I hope they deport government officials that ant indigenous to the land and all them greedy white privileged government officials that stealing indigenous peoples land I hope everyone of them gets vasia revoked all punjab immigration
2025-03-04 0
Yo….Trudeau…give back Indigenous land
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