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Something seems a little ironic about a french canadian talking about other people needing to adapt to the broader culture

Apparently it's not true that you just fall asleep if you die of cold. At the last, it's very painful, like being on fire, ironically. It happened to a whole family at the Manitoba border in 2022. I can't hear another story like that again.

I moved from Canada to the US 24 years ago. When I left I was worried about how expensive the US was, the crime rate, etc. It’s ironic that since then homes are more expensive, job opportunities have not kept pace with the US and the population has exploded. I am unabashedly pro immigration but the issue in Canada is a government that dramatically expanded immigration with no plan to address the housing stock until it was too late. That is ripping through the economy and tearing apart the country. I hope Canadians can find a good way out. ?

A long-time subscriber and seldom commenter, but as someone who seriously considered moving to Canada at one point and has been keeping a close eye on the country, I feel both sympathetic and ironic about your decision.\nWhichever corner of the world you land on, fair winds and following seas. You'll do great.

Germany needs more labor while Stuttgart seems not. The so called Ausländerbehörde is so incompetent that people need to wait a crazily long time to get the time slot for visa renew or pick up the residence card. How ironic it is!

Just last month I heard a recent Canadian immigrant blaming immigrants for the problems in Canada. Ironic.

Ironic thing, most of the people in this video are descendents of illegal immigrants from Europe.

Ironic that the people who survived the holocaust want to cause another.

What's Ironic, is it is nearly impossible for Americans to migrate to other nations...unless you have $$$$

So Ironic isn't it, the West invade other countries for a long time and know they deliberately get themself invade.

Are the people complaining about 'immigrants', not the descendants of mainly European 'immigrants', who took over someone else's country/continent? How ironic!

Its kind of ironic how i feel like i am a refugee and need to leave canada because\nrefugees took my home

So ironic to reupload this old clip with the current Palestine situation happening......

Ironically, the current system is very unfriendly to well educated, relatively wealthy potential immigrants with valid job offers and skill set confirmed by the Canadian authorities to be beneficial for the economy. Being such person, I've been trying to move there for a year now and am on the brink of giving up.

“Why are we brining so many immigrants here if we know they don’t have housing?”\n\nSo Anya, what was your commission take in 2022 and 2023? An agent asking that rhetorical question is beyond ironic. 5:04

The reality is that sufficiently high rates of migration put stress on an entire nation, and recent immigrants are, ironically or otherwise, hurt first and foremost by this.

As a Canadian, I find this video very ironic because we have a problem with people coming up through New York into Ontario and Quebec….\n\nImmigrants are fleeing to America and Americans are fleeing to Canada

Their trying to get the same result as what's happening in England. Just watch. Before you know it Mayor Adams will be talking about facial ID & banning you from the subway ?... You see why they don't house immigrants now... Immigrants are being used to sew discord amongst our communities so that the authorities can react in a certain way. It was never about progressive society. It was never about ridding facists & racists from our communities. Ironically all this has been put on the public by some very racist politicians who think they can use the plight of the worlds most vulnerable people as a weapon to gain more jurisdiction.

Ironically descentant of european colonizer Who wiped out real indians from their ancestral land canda want tell us its their land???

Ironic, it’s non Muslim countries that help them the most

Ironically due to the economic conditions and mass immigration, younger Canadians aren’t having children anymore due to it being hard enough to get by without any dependents. I’m in my mid 20s, lots of married friends, none will entertain the idea of kids.\n\nWhat I would prioritize changing:\nA more thorough immigration process that does not favour any country over another. And spread the people out to the smaller communities that need workers instead of turning Toronto into whatever it is. An end to the corporate alliance price fixing on things like insurance, cell phones, and air travel. Reduced taxes for your first property, but additional if you own several (a system similar to what Norway does). Reduced foreign ownership in our home real estate market (home should be for families, and not financial assets for international businesses).\n\nAnd like the video said some more darn infrastructure. In my childhood, I saw entire neighbourhoods being built in - timely fashions. Now it’s rare to see a single home under construction in my home city. Some smaller Canadian towns I know even lack potable water.\n\nWith the market so bad no one wants to build or buy which is just amplifying the issue.\n\nAnd no carbon tax. I apologize for getting political, but the last 10 years the federal government seems to be more concerned with values and foreign intervention than fiscally responsible decisions. The culture can dictate the values, I just want the government to make the trains run on time.\n\nI hope it gets better soon but I think we are cooked. Least for the foreseeable future.\n\nIt’s ludicrous to be taxed as much as we are here as well. If ur gonna take 40% of my paycheck least make sure its being put to good use. Had to do a double take last time I was in BC and the bill included a “carbonated beverage tax”

A White man and islam people calling other racists. IRONIC it is.

The Liberal housing Minister was the former Immigration Minister for Liberals responsible for bringing in 3million in 32months how ironic he now oversees the mess he made and there now is no solution to the housing problem as the incoming outstrip the building by multiple millions egads it is going to get ugly in 2025 2026!

the video's title seems ironic given that it's from an Indian channel criticizing Canada while avoiding the problems and standard of living of their own country :)

So they can leave and lose the last land they have left??? ??‍♀️ And then, what, Israel will use their help to try to start yet another war w them? I love that Iran did not fall for that trap. If we had normal relations w Iran, Israel wouldn’t even have dared. That’s been their biggest scam and nonsensical trap that we somehow fell in anyway. They may have an iron dome but they don’t have the military numbers needed to wage war against Iran, Lebanon, etc. so, they want to use OUR soldiers and OUR money, to start WW3. Cause they failed to take us there w the Iraq war too. Which was also their doing by the way.

Ironic that Sunak an immigrant is advocating for controlled immigration and the native White British man want more immigrants... UK is doomed!

Ironic to hear a french speaking woman of Brampton saying she adapts to the canadian culture by not speaking french!

How about when your forefathers who came to Canada , killed the Natives , the ones that survived , they put them on reservations, take over their lands forcefully. Now you are complaining when visible minorities come peacefully , work in low paying jobs, ha ha so ironic.

It's almost to a point that if you're white, you might be the minority in malls such as Cross Iron Mills.

White dude complains about brown folks. Must be an election coming. Ironically, they’ll also run brown dude complaining about gay folks ads on ethnic channels.

Ironicly it’s the imigrants who pushed the housing cost up mostly all the chineese money used by home that are never used.

Ironic. It’s because of the immigration that housing is unaffordable! Any apartments that come up, there’s a line up of 150 non-Canadians competing driving the price up!

Isnt it ironical where the countries with monarchy have some of the best and strongest leaders in top postions while the so called democracies have nothing but dumbsters ?

“British were told for centuries to go back to their own country by those they colonised”. No they wasn’t, they had their hand out asking to be higher up in the improved systems the British elites created. Also, the colonial actions of historic British elites and governments have nothing to do with the views of working class brits today. They did not represent nor include the working classes in their decision making. Universal suffrage for working class men only came in 1919 so don’t peddle this old trope that the British were everywhere (and now it’s ironic that they tell others to get out of their country) when it was an elite minority which the majority could not make decisions about. The working class brits of today have a right to hold the view that we should stop immigration. The elites who are verifiably hereditary beneficiaries of colonialism do not and your trope actually stands up when it comes to them.

The press do not agree but I watched part of the debate and Starmer did not impress me at all. Even if he has policies he will change his mind. I am not saying that I am a Tory fan and some of the prime ministers they have given us have been disaster (mentioning no names Boris and Truss) but Sunak is a a distinct improvement. Here in. Norn Iron apart from whether they unionists the parties all say they want to improve the economy, public services, health et cetera, but don’t say how because they don’t know….

Not everyone—only some people. These individuals are leaving Canada because it's expensive and moving to cheaper countries, ironically driving up costs for locals, which is hypocritical.

Iron clad slap

Who were in Canada before white people migrated there? The Indigenous people went from being the ethnic majority to getting wiped out and white people claimed the country as their own. So it is ironic that white people are upset another ethnic group is now the majority. Canada, US and Australia are not white people countries. They murdered the Indigenous population and claimed these countries as theirs. They tried the same thing in many parts of Africa. Let me put it this way...Brampton is mostly Indians right? Let's imagine in 50 to 100 years it is completely Indian and the white people who lived there before are almost non existent except fora few. In other words, the same thing that happened to the Indigenous people at the hands of the white people. Then the Chinese migrate to Brampton ad take over so the Indians become the enthic minority. The Indians start complaining that Brampton is becoming like China and no longer resembles their Canada. Do you understand?

would i be ironic that canadians would need to create mass copulation to stabilize it without destroying it's culture . destroying it's culture in the process ?

More ironic comments from NON indigenous people of Canada - based from colonial narratives

Lol NATIVE CANADIANS! Suuuuuurree. How ironic huh

I agree with most of the things said in this video, but i am sorry a Pakistani guy saying that he is scared of Indian students is ironical to say the least ?

Ironic how The Pakistani guy talking about Indians and crime ? like bitch please

What was ironic is almost everyone you spoke to looked like an immigrant or if not first generation Canadian. Yes immigration is way, way too high.

How ironic that descendants of European settlers who displaced the original inhabitants of Canada, bringing in a new, vastly different culture, should now complain about immigrantion

I live in Carbondale Illinois. I'm born in Chicago. People from other places tend to be more successful because it takes a go-getter to travel. I'm a go-getter and I do pretty well here, ironically I'm a Chicano (Mexican born in the US) and I'm considered a foreigner here. People get jealous because they think I'm a foreigner being successful.

I’m a Canadian nurse and I lived in the US for 10 years during my career. I did it when I was young to gain work experience and travel with friends. It gave me a lot of insight in how it feels to live in both countries. I’ve been a nurse and patient in both counties so I also know how it feels to work, live and be a resident in both. \n\nI cannot articulate enough how it has confirmed to me how fortunate I am to be Canadian. The perks to living in the US were very superficial and frivolous things that matter very little in the broad scheme of things,….which I see as more restaurant chains, cheaper restaurant food, more shopping options, etc. As a young person when I lived there,…those things seemed amazing but matter far less as I get older. \n\nWhen I lived there, I paid a fraction of the income taxes that I paid in Canada but it’s only short term gain for long term pain. The cost of health care, the amounts of gov funded benefits (disability, EI, pension, etc) in the US makes it well worth paying taxes to offset these things as in Canada. I have had cancer 3 times in 5 years and I’ve not paid a cent for treatment, scans, surgery, etc in Canada. My employer held my job for 2 years and I received long term disability of 70% of my yearly wages and my employer paid my full pension and benefits as I was off of work. After 2 years, my cancer returned and was deemed incurable so I will continue to receive this pay and benefits until I’m 65 and can retire as I can no longer work. I have no financial worries as I battle cancer. \n\nTo contrast,…my US employer was a world reknowned hospital that had excellent pay and benefits. Had I been working there when I was diagnosed with cancer, I would only have gotten full pay for 6 weeks until my sick time and vacation time was used up. Then I was eligible for a fraction of my income for 3 months, which would not be enough to live on. I would not have had my pension paid. After that, I’d receive no more pay and my employer would hold my job without pay for 6 months and then I’d be let go. My cancer required nearly 2 years off of work so after 5 months of this minimal pay, I’d have no income, no job and no benefits with a new pre existing condition to ensure that I’d have a snowballs chance in hell of getting future coverage. Meanwhile during that 5 months of some pay, I’d still need to pay huge costs of treatment despite having insurance but that would disappear after I was let go from my job. I’d have to return to work during my treatment just to afford to continue it. I have many US friends that had a similar cancer that worked throughout to cover basic cancer care while I was able to recuperate without working or fearing being unable to pay. There is nothing comparable to this when you are sick. It is everything!\n\nSadly, many of my American friends are very ill informed on how health care works in other countries and don’t see the shortcomings in their own. Ironically though, they are willing to argue it without proper information so I often find that bizarre. While lived there I felt as though I was in a bubble where the only news that I saw was US news. I saw no info or minimal about Canada in my whole time there,…aside from falsehoods about health care to scare people away from seeking change. “Canadians are all dying while waiting”, “they are all coming to the US for care”, “they pay 80% income tax” etc. All propaganda,…some from politicians or those that should know better. It was truthfully mind boggling to me how educated people could know so little about the world. It almost felt as though they heard so much propaganda about how terrible other places were while only having knowledge of the US, that it ensured that things would stay the same without anyone wanting beneficial changes to dysfunctional policies (like health care, cost of meds, lack of gun regulations, etc). It’s very bizarre.

Ironically he said all this outside of m&s ?‍♀️

It is ironic and funny to see English/European people complaining about invading land, not following their culture, not speaking their language etc.?

8:18 This Will go right under the radar at this point in the Nation's decline. Talk about ironic EH?