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I don't want to live in Canada and I was born here.

Its the greatest city in the world. I was born and raised here it has changed but still a great city.

It isn’t just immigrants the people born here too want to leave I’m one of them still working on it cause the cost of living is high enough as is but I’m saving up so soon hopefully

I AM A CANADIAN/QUEBEC. MY FAMILY ARRIVED HERE AROUND 1800. I'M BORNED NEAR MONTREAL. I M NOT ASHAMED OF MY COUNTRY. WE HAVE SO MUCH IF YOU COMPARE TO OTHERS. IT ALWAYS AS YOU SEE THINGS AND PEOPLE.?? to PEOPLE WHO WANTS TO COME HERE, DO NOT BELIEVE THIS VIDEO. SOMETIMES THEY MAKE MISTAKES.........................

I was borne and raised in Canada and never will leave because another countries grass is not greener (US) and especially because of the war in Europe etc. We are alot safer here like no wars, rarely see earthquakes or tornadoes etc.

What kind of question is why? Cost of living thanks to liberals is too high for even those born in this country. Can you imagine what it's like for a new Comer?

It's really a lose lose lose situation. Domestic kids born here have competition getting into classes in their own neighborhoods, international students pouring all their money and resources into coming here get a shxt education and the school loses valuable credibility and reputation

I'm leaving soon, and I was born here!

Most immigrants come from more conservative places. They don’t wave rainbow flags and get all libtarded about social issues. They see a prime minister that is a flaming liberal and large cities failing due to liberal policies. And most of all the pushing of liberal ideologies in public schools on children. They are not having it and I don’t blame them one bit. I welcome Islam as it is the only religion pushing back on the gender fluid rainbow flag waiving liberal Canadians. Islam is the best chance to get things back on track in North America. I am saying this as a Canadian born white guy.

Well I for one am okay with that. As someone who was born and raised here, and have all my family here, I can’t leave. Where would I go? Immigrants on the other hand, choose to come here, so, can chose to leave.

Canada has done a piss poor job historically in creating conditions where immigrants are recognized for the education and experience they bring in their own chosen professions. Among the many barriers is the question that is explicitly or implicitly asked - ‘What is your Canadian experience?’ The recertification process for a number of professions is arduous and designed to keep immigrants from picking up their professional careers. This country wants immigrants to fill jobs that are low paying and increasingly hard to fill with Canadians born here. \n\nAsk any immigrant who is a doctor, banker, architect, civil engineer and who had a high position and status in their home country which level they have been asked to start at - if at all given the opportunity- at the very bottom. \n\nThe skilled immigrant story is very different in the United States of America. Easy to certify and relicense, respect for experience already accumulated by the immigrant in home country.

Quit your whining....move on if its so bad....tired of hearing how hard people have it moving here....in case anybody wonders...theres lots of people born and raised here struggling that dont to leave....just want support.....

My family and I are doing the same thing, and I was born here, looking forward to leaving I'm not upset about it.

Even Canadians born in Canada are fleeing Canada - because of extra high costs of living and corrupt and tyrannic federal government. Immigrants are quickly realizing what they went into, and everybody that can, flees again.

The cost of living is too high in Canada. I am born and raised here but I have many immigrant friends, and lots of them are planning to go back home because it's easier there. It's too expensive here now, a lot of them work low paying jobs, and 10 years ago they could support their families with their wages, but now it's impossible. It's a sad day for Canada when a Filipino wants to go back home because life is easier there. The financial struggle is a burden on us all, except most of us don't have somewhere else to go. We're stuck here.

Is this title for real?\nWhy? Same reason born citizens are also fleeing. Communism incoming...

How many commenting here are born in Canada and unemployeed?

I was born here in 1954 and I haven't had a doctor since 2014. If I could afford to leave I would.

I was born here and I am leaving. Moving to Chile. Bought an ocean front penthouse apartment with a pool for 289k. Got a job lined up making the same as my old canadian salary but I can afford to live. LOL ADIOS

I'm 60 and born here and worked to the bone my whole life as a middle class worker.! It's just brutally to expensive to survive here. I am just a step above poverty now.

I know plenty of Indians overjoyed to come here and make minimum wage. I know many born-and-raised Canadians looking to go abroad. Every single person from my generation that I know who was born in Canada is poorer than their parents were. They had homes and families, we pay half our income to rent a shared apartment. Everything is broken.

They think that's bad Try being a born Canadian We get less than they do

This is what happens when Liberals buy votes with immigration rather than make natural born citizens second class...

Canadian government is telling/ordering companies to hire migrants over Canadian born citizens. That is why young people are not getting jobs, they apply and never get called, yet the stores advertise ¨Help Wanted.¨

I'm looking for a way to leave until the election and I was born here.

People born here and spent most of their lives here are looking to leave because we are being taxed to death, people can't afford to stay in their homes, pay property taxes, buy groceries, pay their power bills, the list goes on and on!

Even Canadian born want to leave. Way to go Trudeau

No jobs for us ????yet born in Canada ?? i live in a homeless shelter ?? wrong !!!!!

If immigrants come here because they want a better life I fully support their goals. If they come here expecting Canadfa to provide them a better life, they should stay home. We as Canadians born and raised are not given anything .We work for what we get. If an immigrant expects to be provided a job upon arrival that is not realistic. Buying a house takes the average Canadian years of working and saving to afford it. What makes it any different for an immigrant to Canada?

I was born here in Canada 45 years ago. I leave my motherland of Canada this Nov 28th. Bye bye Canada. Good luck. We out.

Lots of Canadians born here are also leaving this hell, costs, housing, authoritarian mandates and completely degenerate government policies.

Maybe because we’re not as great as we think and don’t even treat people who were born here well. We have billions for war and whatever benefits the not regular Joes, but can’t even properly take care of our own.

I don’t blame them, $800,000 for houses that are worth a quarter of that. Heck I want to leave and I was born here.

Canada is completely falling apart. It's not surprising so many people are leaving including naturally born citizens. We have insane shelter costs, a healthcare system that is beyond broken, low wages, high taxes, rising crime rates everywhere. There is no future for anyone under the age of 30 at all in this country. Canada will be a third world country at the current rate by 2035.

There should be a two tiered health care system. Anyone who’s not a Canadian born citizen should be behind someone who is and who pays their taxes and actually pays for the medical system. I don’t know how many times I’ve sat in waiting rooms and not heard one word of English. They’re clearly fresh off the boat and clogging up the system. Have they paid Canadian taxes?? It’s a disgrace, i liken it to being overrun by locusts. If you’re not paying taxes here you should have to pay for your own medical treatment. The entitlement is off the charts and I noticed a huge change since JT has come to power, they are the chosen class over Canadian citizens.

A lack of an “open mind” is not why people are leaving. Canada is one of the most “open” countries in the world. If you cannot afford a home, groceries and basic necessities why would you stay? Canadians born here are leaving.

?? Canadian born citizens are leaving or have left like myself due to the nonsense by the government! Since the pandemic freedom is non existent in Canada ?? when the government decides what enters your body, you can’t say you re free next thing you know they will force you to wear clothes they want you too! Keep voting Liberal/NDP and see what happens

I can't even get a healthcare because I'm homeless and I'm born here

The high cost of living has made it 'unlivable' for even native Canadians who are earning 6-figure incomes. So many of them are now planning on moving to Asia where the cost of living is much lower, or to Italy where the aging population is resulting in houses costing only a few thousand dollars to buy. You get born in Canada, then you rush to leave before you starve to death here, unemployed and living in a tent due to lack of jobs, lack of housing.

Federal Liberals destroyed Canada not just for the born and raised but for the immigants also. Thats very pathetic!!?

Bye. More housing for the people who were born here

Canadian born professional moving to USA

Lots of born Canadians are getting ready to go . We are taking our pension money, savings and investments. Trudeau and his corrupt liberals have caused this.

The same reason a lot of us who were born here are leaving, cause it's an awful place with no traditions or background. Woke policies have destroyed Canada.

I am a born and raised Canadian, but me and my family are wanting to leave this horrible country ! It's not a good place to raise a family that's for sure !

Because it is not Canada anymore, as Mother born in this Country. I don't blame them and wish someone would care enough to help all Citizens. Newcomers and oldtimers all , the wealthy only people who benefit here now.

my family left their country after ww2 and went to canada and buildt a great life....i was born there and 47 years later i went back to their birth place and now i have a better life.....i miss canada and i lost everything moving....but my kids deserve a fair shot at life...canada literally offers NOTHING TO FAMILIES...JUST POLICE CHILDREN'S AID, HIGH TAXES AND TRANS TEACHERS....being a tax payer in canada means nothing now.

I was born here and it’s my ultimate goal to leave one day. ???

I love Canada. My mother immigrated here in 1958, and I was born here. Canada was good to her she said, and she was able to build a great life. Opportunity here is nuanced, it’s not easy, but with struggle, often to much.

Trudeau destroyed Canada. The “better life dream” is on life support not just for immigrants but Canadian born.