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It's one big Ponzi scheme, relying on the migrants to keep the real estate bubble afloat...\nAnd the students - keeping the colleges, and again, keeping rents from going down (see real estate bubble)

They were all lied to.\n Reality is this:\n\n1. No rents avail. anywhere below $1400 a month 1br.\n2. Food unaffordable.\n3. Houses unaffordable\n4. Crime out of control.\n5. Collapsed heathcare.

The prime Minister did a lot of mistake about the immigration system first He must to have a quotas numbers of immigrants in each province , students , temporary workers and refugees with a small pourcentage .But He tooks everyone he didn t think about the housing problem and the job market after the pandemic .Now they are huge consequence the cities are crowded , rent are expensive , crime and proverty is rising , people are struggling with cost living .People quite Canada because is not the eldorado they think .The problematic with certain refugees like soudanese and somalians create some problemin a country with crime .I don t said is all of them but they are unfortunately .

I live hour north in Barrie. It’s just as bad downtown homeless drug addicts. U should see check day the lines at the bank machine at 3am day after zombie mode activated And here I am on odsp paying 1200$ rent monthly for a 200sq fr basement studio I’ll be joining them soon

Toronto spends 100 % of income on rent? That makes no sense. I'd say it's more like 50-60%, I lived in Toronto for 7 years.

I'm a 28 year old Canadian, I don't want this to come off sounding like a pity party, so I'll keep it brief for all and any of those thinking of moving here. I live with my parents because I could never afford the rent (and I don't even live in a major city like Toronto); my buddies moved in together and paid 1600 a month for a SMALL 2-bedroom apartment and they STRUGGLED to find an apartment. everyone I talk to is struggling and scared about their mortgage payments. My parents built a new home just a few years ago and got screwed over at every turn and on every level, their only saving grace was that their lumber package was locked in so they didn't have to worry about the lumber inflation. the job market is straight up trash and we're taxed through the teeth for every little thing. On the news we see stories about immigrants having to go back to their country because they can't afford to live here or find affordable housing. don't move here, it's shit.

This is false, the cost of rent was never like this. A simple secretary could afford a 4 bedroom apartment in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Honestly you are absolutely right Toronto is very high on rent and the crime is just getting worse victims die right on the spot even though they are not involved in any crime so innocent people die by bullets or objects.Been to downtown and now Iususally keep away from there.Gangs are taking over Toronto and other cities.You are not being negative ,you are showing the points of facts what is really happening to Toronto and other cities.You are right there is better options where you can be safe and sound for your life.Thank you for breaking it down and clearing the facts of Toronto city Alina Mcleod.Nice name by the way

immigrants are the reason this country went to shit.. house prices, rent prices, crime, over saturated job markets, a decline in our culture and language. The problem is real canadians dont have another country to return to.

That is why I move to Edmonton Alberta from Burnaby BC, since 2013. Because I am a welder. Pay and job market in Alberta better than BC. Also housing rent is much more reasonable although still growing.

I was born and raise in Canada… Trudeau have destroy Canada in the last 8 years and have create so much new debts that it will take multiple generation just to bring back economy to a normal state… Massive immigration have create a big stress to a already fragile system… House and rent cost have explode and inflation too!!! I really REALLY want to move out of Canada in 4-5 years because i want to retire and with the present situation it will be impossible!!!

Stop going to American and European countries for education and stuff. They don't deserve us. Why do you have to go there and do jobs like pizza delivery and waiters? when you can stay here and do the same! Oh Because here People know you and you'll get embarrassed and you do it there for rents and stuff you say...?? Education is actually illegal in these countries.

I work 3 jobs and I still have to skip meals in order to ensure my household of 6 can eat. Not my own family, I can’t afford to start my own, I’m taking care of my parents and my siblings.\nI’ll never be able to afford a home of my own.\nI’m lucky I can afford rent, I’m the last able bodied person left on my family who can officially work-but I dunno how much longer my body can hold before I break.

Wrong not 500 000 immigrants its closer to 1.5 million when you include temporary workers in just a year. For a country with 40 million people that is a huge increase. Trudeau admits it sure but he does not take responsibility. He is directly responsible for the policies that created this situation. It is impossible to find affordable rent in Canada.

Alina - it's not just Toronto that has these problems and issues. Welcome to the US where rent is high everywhere. The homeless population in California cities is horrendous. Cost of living unattainable for most.

Trudeau is a perfect PM-\n China interference -he thinks it's ok!\nCarbon tax-more money in his pockets-\nThe We charity scandal-everything black out\nImmigrations - overload\nCrimes-catch and release in one day\nDrugs-Weeds stores are more then Tim Hortons-20,000 Canadians are dying of overdose\nArrive scam-60 million dollars don't know where the money goes from the 2 clowns\nHousing-triple the price-renting from 700/month-now 1500$\nInviting a Nazi into the house of common-he did not know\nStand behind democracy-yet he runs the country like China\nSupporting Ukraine-yet he claim the Russians will win the war!\nA perfect PM for our country everyone!

Does he even know what he is talking about??\nWho has brought this situation today to this beautiful country..\nBe it immigration, housing, rents, taxes, groceries, etc...please resign respectfully Mr.Trudeau. \nThings have gone out of your hands...let somebody else take care of mess u created. ???????

CANADA GARBIGE MOST WORST COUNTRY. GOOD FOR OLD SOCIAL PEOPLE . NOT HARD WORKING .TOO MACH TAX.NO MONEY NOT DOCTORS, FOOD FULL OF HARMONES. HOUSE 1 BEDROOM 450.000 TAX NOT INCL GARAGE NOT INCL. SALARY WORK ALL DAY ALL WEEK AFYER TAX 1800 . RENT 3.000. PURE GARBIGE

Race to the bottom for Canada and Australia. In Canada were becoming the rooming house capital of North America. Vancouver $1000 a room. People are renting space in basements, laundry rooms, laneway homes, even campers and cars. Did I mention Vancouver has the lowest proprty tax in North America ?? Tax bill on a 1 million dollar property is only $ 2600 !! And your eligible for a rebate if the property is less than 1.4 million. Like Australia we have an endless supply of immigrant renters. It follows that we also now have an endless supply of investors /speculators who bid up the price on homes / rentable properties. Government incompetence.. at its maximum.Food bank use and crime climbing rapidly. BTW avg salary in Vancouver is 65k year. Avg home 1.2 million.

Rent is $2400 for all inclusive, and the salary available is $25,000 and 30K if you’re lucky \nWe are a failed economy

Immigration should have been halted a long time ago. Because it wasn't, we now have a housing crisis, extreme doctor shortages (too many people to care for), unaffordable rents, jobs with declining job pay due to the extreme number of applicants, rampant crime, unaffordable groceries, etc. etc. etc. ..... Trudeau has destroyed Canada's reputation, and the country itself.

Time to cement up the hole..These are not G8 countries looking to start fresh in a new country with job skills we need like Home builders Or doctors willing to stay in Canada They are 3rd world countries Looking for a loop hole to get into a open armed country Use its resources Health, Social services, food banks, on a student visa while applying for Perm rez. From that they move on to harder to get into countries that offer more wages..USA England France Germany Where before hand they would of been denied entry not being from a G8 country When you have 8 people from the same country living in a 2 bedroom home Of course the rent is high Because 8 people working on their share of the rent isnt a problem Times this by every dam city that has colleges near by \nTrudeau is intentionally trying to destroy Canada from within Farmers Truckers immigration Slush funded apps Food Gas Homeless military ...Word to the wise China has 200 million well fed troops

Trudy is a liar . My business is making enough to pay for rent . I have to deep in my own savings to pay for groceries and gas to get to work. Very Depression ? .

Jagmeet Singh wife renting 3 basement in Brampton charging students from India more then $3400 each basements cash. $10200 grand total every month.

A young French woman is renting a room in the same house that I am. She is here to teach highschool French. She hasn't lived here for a year, and wants to move to the US for better opportunities, cheaper living, teach at a university. She is expected to treat her students like children, and reward them with a candy/chocolate for answering a question correctly. All problems start in the home.

Im on disability and my income rised from 5000.00 CAD in 1984 to 18000.00 CAD IN 2024. Living in low income housing sector of government program and we are lucky with reasonable rent. But food, phone, internet, TV, meds outside the insurance, cost us an arm and a leg. We are here for 41 years. And are citizens. I understand why it is hard for new immigrants to keep heads above water and they leave for Afghanistan or Syria. Life is much cheaper in their old turf than in this honey and milk heavenly realm. Last pandemic restrictions and slave work thew our economy on knees and it will take time to rise the phenix from the ashes.

One doesn't need a house in Canada. You go rent an apartment and you may live. Of course, if you earn 2000.00 to 4000.00 CAD per month. Which is rather difficult for immigrants. Usually, your pay is 10.00 CAD per hour, which gives you 1600.00 CAD per month. Which is way too little for covering your bills. Government instead of building cheap communal blocks of flats is building condos. But the cheapest condominium costs 500K CAD and show me people who can afford it....? You buy and pay monthly rent, yeah 2500.00 4500.00 per month only to cover rent. Plus 186.00 for internet and TV, 30.00 for stationary phone, 45.00 for mobile, 600.00 for monthly food for 2, plus meds, dentist, cabbies, electricity, water, then you add toilette, laundry liquid, toilet paper, towel paper, cat food, dog food, then the bill goes over 6000.00 if you wanna live in the condo. You have always private sector housing where monthly rent is from 900.00 to 2500.00, which depends on the district and quality of the apartment. For the landlord, you must pay monthly and renew lease each year. If you have roaches or bed bags, it's a bigger problem for you. Not every landlord uses paste. They use spray, which is not a roach killer at all, and whole your apartment will stink for months. Private sector has thin ceilings and wooden floors, so loud noise of your neighbour's may disturb your night rest or cigarettes. Smoke may fill up your space. Beware when getting sick. Family doc is unavailable, usually if you have one or at all if you don't.

New Zealand has been offering hundreds of thousands of low skilled immigrants a life in New Zealand and handing out easy residency for at least the past 2 years now. We have not enough housing, rents are unaffordable and infrastructure is urgently at risk.

How do you spend over 100% of your income on rent? \nThat statement makes no sense. Am I missing something?

Too many foreign entities owned Canada's real estate, that's why prices of houses and rent are freakingly high af.

Someone is benefiting from all of this. Companies getting cheap labor? Owners of rental units renting their places at unaffordable prices? More voters for the left? Lets keep going...

Why did you leave Germany? While wages are not as high, I find the purchasing power much better. Rent is much cheaper. Work life balance also because of more vacation days. Also, travel between countries is very accessible.

welcome to Canadastan you can rent a mattress in the hall way for $500.00 a month now in my city

2 Words HOUSING BUBBLE. Remember that for the last 5 years we have been warned that the housing bubble will burst. Well these governments knew this and came up with a plan.\nIf Canada, Australia, UK and USA had not taken almost 10 million migrants the Housing bubble would have burst and property prices would have plunged at least 50% worse than in 2008, banks and major property developers would have collapsed and the building industry would have collapsed. and there could have been an economic collapse. \nSo they flooded our countries with every kind of Migrant, it did not matter, refugees, students, skilled etc. These millions of immigrants have rented rooms, flats, investors rushed in to invest thereby, leading to huge shortage and massive demand, which inflated house prices. Who is to blame? Politicians created the demand, Bankers were ready to lend increasing their assets and bonuses, Investors exploited the situation.

The housing bubble is too big to pop. The governments will continue to prop it up because they & their donors personally profit from it + voters won't accept a depression that would cause a price correction. Just get used to renting & waiting to inherit from parents. Get used to increased social problems associated with the widening wealth gap.

High rent and crime are problems across Canada right now. Larger cities will be more strongly impacted. \nThe root causes are actually quite simple. It's from decades of downloading responsibility for many services until they ended up in the hands of municipalities who had no capacity to fund them, then made 2x worse by the disastrous immigration policy of just the last few years.\nIt explains all three of the problems you identify, unaffordable rent, high crime rate, and underfunded social services.\nSo these are not problems with Toronto, but at the federal and provincial levels. Simply repeating that there are plenty of better options elsewhere doesn't make it true, unless you can give specific examples. Other places likely pay less, require longer commutes, don't offer small size rentals, have even worse social support, similar crime rates, or some combination of all those factors.\nToronto itself isn't as bad as this video makes it out to be. The downtown core skews all the averages, yet all the reporting, b-roll, and examples seen here seem to focus on the core. Of course the reason why it's worse in the core is because so many people want to live there! But I'm not going to concern myself about people who complain that they can't afford to live urban lifestyle, to be a part of 'the scene'. There are plenty of much more affordable options within a 30 minute subway ride of the core. Well inside city limits. But your friends won't think you're cool, so... oh no!\nYes, rents are still too high outside the core, of course. But they aren't as ridiculous as this video suggests. The city is massive. Grow some humility and find a place to that you can afford to live, within Toronto.

I think the country is still in recovery mode from Covid and may take several more years to get back to where it was. On rent you are correct. Over populating major cities with immigrants has caused a housing crisis especially with greedy landlords gauging people.\n\nI've been here 22 years and would not go back to the UK. My hometown is a total dump now.

As someone living in Quebec I can confirm.. housing prices just seem unreasonable for someone with a modest income. pretty much had to keep living with family and pay them a rent that is liveble with.. Heard other people who can't count of family had to share single person appartments with friends and sometimes even random people in similar situation. Its honestly terrifying to think about potentially having no home despite getting a modest income..\nThe medical scene is probably a bit better but still not that great looking. Quebec had (dunno how it works in other provinces) a system of Family doctors that the medical system sort of relied on. yet there is barely no family doctors left. I can't buy the meds I need without a doctor giving me the prescription but I no longer have a family doctor for the last 5 years. I've been jumping through hoops and all just to get somehow to extend or give me another year of prescription.. I need those meds for life though....\nFood situation.. I guess sure the prices have increase but for the most part we(me and family) are still hanging on fine. However restaurents have gotten too pricy so we had to cut luxury out of our life.

Justin Trudeau and His Liberal Must be Voted out of power ...What Labour shortage when we Canadians Cannot get jobs in this struggling economy ...many dont have money to pay rent ...Buy Groceries that they are going to Food Banks which are over loaded ...yet they keep on taking more and more immigrants each year and all these immigration lawyers make tons of money

Canadian born and raised Electrical Engineer here, still living w my parents and cannot afford rent, let alone groceries. The ZOG needs to go.

Every single problem in Canada is caused by immigration. ALL OF IT. HIGH RENT, NO DRS. YOU DID IT. I ❤❤ listening to immigrants complain about problems they caused.

Too much taxes, cost of living is thought the roof, renting is too expensive while income is barely enough

Your landlord here. Thanks to a complete lack of supply and reckless mass immigration, my property value is exploding!\n\nI have to continue to raise the rent too, due to inflation/interest rates. But there are so many applicants looking, i have no trouble getting 3200/month. \n\nThe next 5 years look like much the same. More immigrants means more demand!

That big man is right A to Z. The refugees still enter the country via roxham road, I think its the problem , Like France 1 year ago. I live in a province next to ontario, at 1000 km from any border and we cant find appartments, we never see FOR RENT, nowhere , never, since covid. The food and everything , yeah its a problem but they HAVE to close the border a bit.

No it can't. This country needs immigrants but the targets that have been set are way too high. There is not enough affordable housing available and it is driving up rent's so that they are unaffordable for the average Canadian. Many of the new immigrants are older family members and will never contribute to the system and only burden our overtaxed services.

AHHHHH yes come to Quebec, rent prices have doubled, people no longer know where to stay. \nIt's the same problem for foreign students who arrive in Quebec. \nYou could have at least visited the town of Monytéal as well

Can't afford it is right! Spending $6448 per month per person to house illegals while the rest of the population can barely afford rent. And having closed emergency rooms is unacceptable. Adding half a mill per yr of newcomers while our country is currently broken needs to stop

its not been true since covid rent and home ownership costs are out of this world they went up by 2 - 3xs food prices up selections down and the list goes on people are leaving

Immigration helps oligarchs and the immigrants. \nIt devalues the working poor, middle class wages and inflates the cost of rent, housing, cost of living. \nIt is clearly unpopular, 'liberal democracy' refuses to relent on this issue because it benefits oligarchical interests. \nThe oligarchs and their paid for agents don't care about consent of the governed and instead pathologize dissent as an abstract hatred.

cant find work at minimum wage in my own country cause immigrant will work under minimum wage and 80 hour a week\nand i cant pay rent 40 hour minimum wage\nlol. immigration make me starve... oh well immigrant win, country win . i starve