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There isn't enough housing and it's all inflated now!⏫️?? In Southern Ontario the price of homes & rent has doubled in only 10 years time! It's supply & demand.???

Ah yes, the old reactionary tradition of making a mountain of an ant hill. \nAsylum seekers are returned home if not genuine refugees. \nMove on to something important and meaningful, like making sure every citizen and resident has strong healthcare, affordable food and housing.

Neo liberal economics at its best. Nationalise the housing market, simple.

We need services, housing, infrastructure. All this privatization and neoliberal (not the same as liberal) approaches which remove the system social safety net this is the outcome. Hating on immigrants is not where our minds need to go, looking at many of the issues outlined in this video is an important perspective to consider. It is policy that needs rethinking. And if you think Pierre or the Conservatives have the answers, unfortunately they do not, Pierre jusr jumps on the populist far right bandwagon, without talking frankly about some of the issues outlined in the video or in my commentary. We need new bold solutions. Practical immigration policies can play a part, but without addressing housing affordability as well as stagnant polarized wages and a lack of opportunities and upward mobility for millennials and immigrants, nothing will change.

Why is it just housing which is discussed ?along with a massive population? Increase comes a massive need for increased infrastructure… Hospitals and schools and highways… You can’t just build the houses… To say so. It’s grossly irresponsible and will lead to disastrous consequences as one can see in the Third World country.

It's pure exploitation, higher rent, house prices and suppressed wages benefit corporate monopolies and oligarchs, they asked for expanding immigration and got it.

Once they enter Miami they are given Benefits!!!! Free food, housing, and money

I’m silenced for just mentioning that there is a housing crisis due to immigration. Booted from relevant groups. Suspended account. Banned. You name it.

I'd risk it all to get free housing, free food and money by european countries too. Sucks for the People baying 44% tax to pay for them rhoigh

The Canadian government subsidizes the wages of workers from India through a work-study arrangement. Most of the unskilled work in my small town (fast food and restaurants in particular) is taken by these students from India, while the teens and adults who have lived in the town their entire lives cannot get jobs because of it. My tax dollars are helping huge corporations pay wages of foreign workers, and my own child and MANY others were turned down for employment by these same companies. Not sure where these workers are living, because there is also a housing crisis in our area. Our immigration system is failing immigrants and Canadians alike.

The problem is that people don’t understand that Canada is a federation. There needs to be coordination between the federal government and the provinces. Canada lets people in, provinces provide the services. Canada doesn’t build housing, provinces and municipalities do. Canada doesn’t build schools. Canada doesn’t build hospitals. This is a federation and until people understand the country they live in, they will never solve all the challenges ahead. Just like Quebec, all provinces should negotiate with the federal government to provide immigration permits according to their needs. The more Ottawa centralises everything, the bigger the problem will become.

So I dont understand why they dont just sayb?whoever has it now is it. No more housing for illegal immigrants who are not already housed. Free ride is over. They should put that into law if they will. No one in their right mind would want to come. Leave them to have nothing else from us. They would beg to go back to their own country.?

Because housing prices have doubled.

Canadians are accepting of immigrants. At a responsible and sustainable level. We don't need 10000 new entry level workers for our kids to compete against for cheap housing and their first jobs

Why does everyone expect us to welcome everyone with open arms? And why should my country (Poland) end up like England or France? that my girlfriend would be afraid to leave the house at night because someone would attack her. Someone who begins an interaction with my country by breaking its laws does not come there with good intentions.

Ok now I get the housing issue etc, but the real estate agent who\nHad a Rolex watch living in some shed cmon now ?

Too many immigrants. The left tries to silence common sense people from speaking out by labeling anyone who rightfully wants immigration numbers to drop to sustainable levels as racist etc. This narrative must stop. Common sense and the well being of actual Canadians must once again prevail! Tax dollars to get Canadians off the streets not to house thousands of immigrants in hotels.

Wow trudeau in my opinion ruined Canada now companies are allowed to advertise on government job board for 28 days if they claim no persond can do the job the can brong in temporary foreign workers so cheaper workers over 600,000 a year excempt from foreignbuyer rule and fast tracked to permanent residents. Plus, there are an extra 416,000 immigrants per year. No infrastructure for them, no housing jobs, no food, and not enough medical doctors, nurses, extra\nIt's not immigrants' fault, and many are ending up homeless \nIf immigration fill job needs, why are they not lowering tempory foreign workers\nTempory foreign workers in canada have lower checks. Now they dont need work visa or criminal records checks

Canada needs half a million new workers brought in every year to function. Not happy about that? Have more Canadian babies, and quickly please! But housing? Different beast. How much of this is because of foreign (Chinese) investments snapping up scores of apartments, just to park money? Apartments that will not be used for housing people. That is why housing costs have been driven up.

Nevermind the scapegoating, only 2 things can get us out of this, less people coming in and more housing. So the governement feel the pressure to build more and the people feel the pressure to leave.

This piece is misleadingly titled. It's not that Canadians are anti-immigration. It's that the Government is not preparing the country for the influx of the immigration it's attracting. There's no housing, there's no schooling, there's no social structures in place to support the newcomers. Canadians are not against immigration. Canadians are against mismanaged social structures and lack of leadership in running the country in a sensible way.

kamala supports this, paying, feeding and housing migrants shes not planning on closing the border, an extention to what biden has done.

7:58 This lady is not correct. \n\nIt's fairly obvious that immigration causes demand for housing, which in turn raises prices.

WOW IMAGINE THAT: Canada deports illegal immigrants and does not offer them FREE HOUSING and food, money etc...MAYBE THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SHOULD THE U.S. TAKE EXAMPLE????????????????????????

Canada's cost to house and dine refugees is ridiculous. It's $224 per day or $6720 per month **per claimant**. It's more than the average Canadian household spending.\n\nWHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE WELCOME TO CANADA BONUS? Individuals who hold a valid Permanent Resident Card issued in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 or Temporary Workers with a valid work permit are eligible.

I've been trying to get gov assistance for months... the exact walmart order I used to get for the week now cost 300 more and they will not give me any assistance... while these ppl get the assistance housing without doing a damn thing

The govt has lost the plot, they add 1.5 million immigrants every year. There aren't jobs, houses, roads, hospitals, infrastructure for this huge addition.

Have Canadians ever considered that building more middle density housing and not caring about property values would fix most of this?

Thankfully JD Vance isn't our housing minister anymore. (/s) \nBut then again the previous one pretty much did the same thing. The cycle needs to stop and hopefully the Liberals begin hinting at that.

It's genuinely exhausting to watch even so-called progressive outlets like the guardian foment fear and anger against migrants and refugees rather than someone, anyone, possibly questioning whether the incentives for property developers and landlords might, in-fact, be a potential factor in the ongoing housing crisis. But sure, it must be immigration to blame for the exact same housing crisis happening across Canada, Australia, the US, the UK and half of Europe, must be just that one simple factor and definitely not any other systemic or economic factors which might underlie how housing, governance, and migration are linked. \n\nBecause all of those countries certainly have one thing in common, and you're all correct, they all have identical immigration policies, right? Right? Couldn't be the hyper-commodification of housing and development rights stoked under the neo-liberal systems of governance which ACTUALLY forms a shared commonality between these countries. But that would be hard to think about, best just to blame the immigrants, makes life easy breezy. Can't see any problems down the line with that line of thought, right Britain? We'll just keep doing race riots every decade then, instead of actually trying to agitate against any of the problems at the heart of this issue. Solved. Too easy.

Immigration is one of the factors causing housing crises, but not the main reason. It is the free market capitalist system and the rich who exploits the system.

Canada is huge but only has handful of cities that offer employment opportunities, if govt wants to continue immigration they have to build new cities and cheap houses.

It's bizzare how people think of housing as a right like water. Have they ever done the work of building a house? Could they? It's quite the ask of other people to call it your right.

One word: collapse of the middle class. Inflation without wage raise, housing is not affordable anymore, and on top of that, you need to go to college to be poor.\nWell done.\nAnti immigration sentiment is a symptom (scapegoat), not the reason.

Get the Chinese who are master builders in to build, in no time they will build a million housing for Canada right

build houses and make it easier to build houses or just stop bringing immigrants problem solved lol (but no. better generating conflicts and hate for potential civil war why not)

Canada offers free health care child tax benefit free schooling..ongoing funds to fund housing etc .lots of new people to canada

Similar things happening in parts of Australia, high rents people being pushed out of suburbs where they use to live, Immigrants, uni students doing Uber or Doordash just to get by and finding careers they study for won’t exist or over saturated. Families living in tents as houses they go for have multitude of applications not enough affordable infrastructure,\nWe also need smart migration

As of the start of 2023, $150.7 billion was the cost for 22+ million illegal immigrants - at the federal, state, and local levels, [$66.4 billion in federal expenditures], \naccording to FAIR (Federation American Immigration Reform). \nThe cost attributable to illegal aliens is staggering. \nDems award migrants \nYour jobs, \nfood, housing, $monthly stiped, healthcare, homeownership, college, DL & vehicles, & benefits+. \nFixing the problem for the Dems is hiring more ICE agents to process more migrants across the border. \nThey could immediately close the Border by executive order today.

1/4 Canadians are in poverty and we’re bringing in more third world people. Housing is up, cost of living is up. We don’t want a forever anti immigrant mindset just temporarily until we get our feet back under us.

I got laid off 5 weeks ago ( no renewal of contract).. after 7 years working for that NFP.. I applied for snap and unemployment… while applying for jobs( social worker field)… first, they ask for so many documents… including my bank account….( again I was laid off .. not fired nor left my job, nor finding reasons not to work all those years ), department of labor had a mandated zoom meeting to discuss what I needed to do 4 weeks after I was laid off( like i don’t know)… I ve been working for years and paying taxes… a lot of them in NYC, I was also told that I have to show what I am doing to search for work and eventually should take a job( even if the salary is low..ridiculous)… I was also informed that I may get a call from investigator from DOL..they may call individuals receiving unemployment benefits($441 a week after taxes?)… to verified that I was searching and applying for jobs( even though I enter my activities related to work weekly on their website…..)….. meanwhile… people with 0 legal documentation are entering the US and living here, free snap, free housing, free health insurance!!!! Lala land!!!! Can’t wait for this non sense to stop!!! Every corner of NY , you see families begging for money. Food…I feel bad as a human being, but refuse to help or I ll be joining them too… welfare system needs to change too! The politics NEED to change!!!All the best !

There’s lots of affordable homes in areas like Niagara. \nPeople need to stop trying to find housing in Toronto. It’s just not affordable.

Wow never know about this. Absolutely crazy this is allowed to go on. So many of us including me are living on the edge barely scraping by, and now we’re being flooded by new people who will take all the cheaper housing. Not there is any cheap housing. And sleeping in your vehicle is now being banned all over because of all the unhoused, which really puts a damper on traveling in an RV or van. My friends think this was all a grand scheme, and I’m not sure that they are wrong.

your gov should be building more hosuing. HK and Singapore dont have problems with housing. you got big land mass

Exact same issue in Australia. High immigration levels despite the ongoing housing crisis and cost of living crisis. Local people are living in cars and tents, but the government wants to bring in millions more foreign immigrants. It doesn't make sense and it's not racist to say so.

Most people realize this has nothing to do with a persons race. Its population size. When you increase population size drastically it effects infrasture when government dont invest x amount of dollars into system. You have to plan. Look at our housing market. SUPPLY AND DEMAND ISSUES. When you increase population size and there's not enough homes to house people that only increases the costs. Whats going on is suicide to alot of people. Also media does not want to report why Liberal government has 4x increased immigration in a yr span compared to 1x. Also why is there racial preference for India? The amount of immigration coming in from India is much higher then other races. I'm curious about that.

With an aging population, immigrants are mandatory. With a lack of government housing, we’re seeing inevitable homelessness.

Most Canadians are tolerant to immigration. However, we are fed up with the large number of immigrants the Federal government keeps bringing in. We have a massive housing shortage and they still increase immigration despite the shortage. The Federal Liberals believe housing speculators are the problem, so they put in a vacant home tax to prevent it, but how do you enforce this?\nThe real solution is to roll back immigration to 250,000 new Canadians a year until the housing shortage is somewhat taken care of.

Perhaps if we werent all complacent in causing instability everywhere, we wouldn't have to deal with influx of people fleeing their homes. The amount of immigrants flowing in is too much to handle for most countries. Especially when you have an already strained housing availability. All resources are strained. And the migrants don't get a fair chance at assimilation. It is a lose lose situation.

Lol yeah lets blame government lack of capability to balance the budget and allow enough housing to be built on the weakest sectors of society, immigrants.\nLower beaurocratic barriers created by governments and we will have more than enough housing!