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I lived in Canada for 11 years, 2008 - 2019, went to university and worked in Toronto. I come from an upper-middle class family in China, went to a top university in Canada, landed good jobs and I speak English like a native. I got my PR in 2015 and I remember the painful uphill battle I had to go through just get that. All the bureaucracy, redtape, unnecessarily rigid rules, high cost and long wait I received from CIC/IRCC felt like a humiliation to me. Every document was scrutinized and every step had obstacle that fealt unreasonable (my TOEFL examiner ask me why I had to do the language test required by CIC, and I had to visit a notary to validate my Chinese national ID card). It felt uneasy but I understood that these were the rules that everyone had to go through, and moving and integrating into a new society was never meant to be easy. I went back to Canada in 2021 and 2024, and it was evident that the country I once called home had gone down the hill. The streets were screaming crime, unemployment, inflation, drug and filth, it's total social rot. As someone who went through the whole immigration process (and many of my friends who went through the same have left Canada for good, like myself), I attribute much of this to failed immigration policy. I cannot help but feel confused, angry, betrayed and humiliated when I look at the recent immigration policies of Canada and their results, and compare with what I had to go through. The feeling sums up to: Canada penalizes the hard-working and law-abiding people, and rewards the undeserved and the cheaters. Example: when the US creates wars in the Middle East, why does CANADA bear the cost of bringing in refugees? I never regretted moving back to China and East Asia, and I feel bad for those who still truly think of Canada as home, as I am one myself. When the leadership of a country deviates from pragmatism, reason and common sense, and instead embraces idealogies, hypocrisy and political optics, this is what happens. The prices are paid by everyone, immigrant or not. For this, Trudeau deserves a court trial for his incompetence and dereliction of duty; and the people of Canada need some honest and serious retrospection. I will share some words of wisdom by the late Lee Kwan Yew: “Whoever governs Singapore (LKY was the PM and founding father of Singapore) must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards, this is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.” I hope the clownish weakling politicians in Canada (and, in much of the western world nowadays) can be enlightened a little bit.

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

While the end result is the actual "immigrant", you can tell these new immigrants all day and night to go back to their country... The immigrant themselves will be looking at you like... Huh? Why? Not understanding why people say that to them. Folks, the Trudeau/Carney Gov was the problem all along. Trudeau's campaign on bringing 500,000 a year made this a field day for everyone around the world... Furthermore the campaigns they would have in other countries to literally sell the idea for them to apply to become an immigrant in Canada. The libs are 100% responsible for what is happening now... For me to tell an immigrant, the he/she is not wanted here is not relevant... The government sold them the pitch to come here for a better life.... Trudeau allowed other loopholes to happen too.... Migrants through applying to colleges and universities, migrants through the liberal foreign work program and the list goes on. Now we have a problem and everyone sees it.... The question is what do we do as Canadians... I exercised my vote for blue...but we still had a majority of liberal supporters which was not just surprising but it seemed that people think Conservatives are bad people who are racist and want to follow trumps steps... i begged to differ.... I think what many of us are aiming for is a cleaning up of liberal policies... And stop immigration from ALL PLACES. Allow Canada to re-coop, reestablish and redevelop what it always was.

1st step government must stop face covering, prayers on the streets, and all desert clothing. Take all these immigrants send them to Trudeau's door steps and have him support them. He allowed them in without Canadusn consent.

Um so tired of going to a store all immigrants working. Make a phone call it's answered by an immigrant. You can't understand them . I love on ccpd I don't get old age pension yet. I'm too old to get the child tax credit and I'm on a Canada pension disability. I get 713.00 a min to live on. Period. That's it. 😢😢😢 I struggle every day. I live in a seniors housing complex..so my rent is adjusted to fit my income. Thank God for housing I'd be homeless if it wasn't for them. 😢😢 But the immigrants have money. Have jobs. Drive new cars. Get free rent for a year. I waited 9.5 hours at the emergency😢😢 not the Indians they have Indian drs that work there for them. How in the hell is this ok. I ended up leaving the emergency I couldn't wait any longer. I sat there in pain all that time and two Indian families came in during that time and within 20 min at the most they were in and out. They even have an advertisement in the emergency room in their language with all the Indian drs working there. Wtf is going on. I'm tired of seeing these people. They are opening businesses here. Everything you see now is written in English, French and Indian. They call it our third language now. There are building going up that have only immigrants in them. A d I live in a small town but the city. Come on. They stopped saying the Lord's prayer in schools. They can't say Merry Christmas. Christmas concerts are called Holliday concerts now. Our kids don't know the national a them they stopped that. They don't know the Lord's prayer they stopped that. The schools are changed to not make other nationalities feel bad. They get their Holliday's off and our Holliday's off..why? We don't get their off. Yeah I'm just a plain white person who lived in Canada all my life. 64 years. I've never seen this in my days. Never. Everything is destroyed. This feels like India 😢😢😢. We have to stop this. They need to leave. They are not here because of war or danger for their lives. They are here to take the jobs, take over our culture and country. Now we have to be careful what we say or were called racist. I'm white I lived in the hood all my life. With black people. I have alot of black friends even family but this is so damn reducilous. Who are they a d why are they here. Canada doesn't take care of us any more. Or help us people who need it. We are homeless in the streets you don't see Indians homeless, hell no. So Carney step up a x fix what Trudeau ruined. Please. This is not the country I'm used to it's India. Not Canada. I have friends from Ukraine. Now they are brought here because of the war. I get it. But they have their own immigration dr. And they've been here 2.5 years if that and bought their own home a year ago. How is this possible? The first year Canada paid their rent for a year. I live on 713.00 a month. He's a month. I live in seniors housing. I can't get enough to live on. I struggle every day😢😢😢 no one will help me. I'm alone and have nothing while Canada is supporting these immigrants and saying to hell with you if your Canadian . Yes I said it. How can someone live in what I get a month. I don't get anything else and like I said if it wasn't for housing I'd be in the street while Canada brings over immigrants from India that are not here because of war. Just to make more money to send home and take everything from us. They are laughing at us everyone is. Wake up people. We are the minority in our own country😢😢😢😢😢 I'm so done

Hilarious that NP does a report on this AFTER Trudeau steps down. You're 5 years too late.

I thought trudeau stepped down??

Canadians are not that happy with President Trudeau, but compared to trump, he is 5 star President material. \n\nCanadians can be proud of how much their President has stepped up to manage this unfolding crisis.

Trudeau is a National Embarrassment- to himself - and to Canada.\n\nDo Canada a huge favor justin- step down- you have lost the respect of most of Canada - to me . And - no world leader has any respect for you either - to me.\n\nPathetic you are - to me.

Trudeau should be the last person to talk about making sense. Emboldened Khalistanis, encouraged illegal immigration, took the country down the tube. Radicals burning Canadian flag in the heart of Canada in pro- Palestine rallies. What step has he taken about it? At least Trump is “America first” president. Trudeau on the other hand is “everthing at expense of Canada”! Hopefully with right wing in administration in Canada, Trump will deescalate this. But all bets are off with him. \nAnyway, USA will never have Canada. People sacrificed themselves defending Canada’s sovreignty in the past. We will never give up Canada to anyone.

I stand by Canada but Trudeau you are trash and can’t wait for you to step down

trudeau really stepped up when resigned

Trudeau stepped up his game. Love this speech. As a Canadian, I am more than willing to go through pain to maintain our sovereignty and nationality. This is the beginning of the end of Americas' dominance. With the isolationism the White House is mandating, this will be the beginning of its downfall.

Trudeau, aren't you stepping down after running your country into the ground -eh? We'll buy elsewhere. We voters are w/ Trump.

Whether you have been in favour or not of Justin Trudeau. He has stepped up and has spoken for all of us Canadians. He is showing strength, class, democracy, and freedom, and his love for all Canadians. We thank you, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.!! ??❤️??❤️??

This is actually Trudeau fault because he allowed the flow of 500,000 illegals into Canada and trump wants no part of it. Trudeau needs to step down gracefully, again. This speech he just gave is nonsense. He’s always lied and been lying to the Canadian citizens. Now all of a sudden he’s a hero because he trying to fix something HE CREATED lol. Trudeau. Please just go away, and never come back

I’m a Canadian and this guy ‘Trudeau is a FAILURE’ he is supposed to be stepping down shortly. He is fake, he has made our country horrible, he imprisons his own people. He is evil, he is wicked. He should be put in prison for Life! He has broken so many laws it’s insane. The stupidity out of all these governments blows my mind. Time for grownups to run the show and actually keep their promises, and actually do what is right! Whatever you do do not listen to Trudeau he is evil(lover of Satan). I will spend my lifetime dealing with his failures. #trudeausucks #imprisonhim

Wow. Trudeau-stepping up.

If Trudeau is such a great PM why is he stepping down and why he now putting more security at the borders

You know what, I still can't believe the Americans were stupid enough to elect trump. And according to the recent poll I saw on CNN 50% of Americans like what he's doing, and only something like 34% see Russia as an enemy. So far from being an accident, trump with his stupid ideas was elected on purpose. The stupidity over there seems to be deep-rooted. I think we all need to take a step back and re-think our relationship with this adolescent nation which has always been a bit gauche but has now definitely gone rogue. Well spoken Mr Trudeau. Thank God for you and Canadians.

trump wants to be a dictator & nazi in lock step with putin!!! Trudeau is a sane kind democrat! I celebrate you for the wonderful & beautiful Canada!

Pls don't get me wrong. I love my president right or wrong. But Trudeau makes a very compelling point. This is not the smartest thing to be doing with these tariffs. Someone pls correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the reason President Trump brought the imposition of tariffs on Canada and Mexico in the 1st place was for them to do more about stopping the flow of Phentenol (excuse if spelling is wrong) into our country. I thought both countries have stepped up to do just that already. No? If so then why continue with this stupidness?

I wasn’t a fan of Trudeau before, but I’ve got to give him credit—he’s really stepping up for his country now. Firm, reasonable, no BS. Gotta respect that.

If we are going to be an authoritarian, antidemocratic, fascist dictatorship, we have to shed our old friends who would get all judgy about the the human rights abuses. So, step one, destroy relationships with friends. Step two, buddy up to Putin and other dictatorships who will be glad to trade and associate with us even if we do run concentration camps or whatever.\nOr Trump is sucking Putin's butt again for mysterious reasons. He likes it so much, like a drug addict, he is willing to lose everything . If it were just a matter of his individual tastes, I don't get it, but none of my business. Except by dragging the whole country down for his kink, it is out business. So, I think we should cut Trump lose to go to Russia and run around on his knees chasing Putin as much as he likes. Meanwhile, we need a president and I can only say F-no to Vance and I don't know how many other dictator butt goblins in the line of succession, so, since Trudeau is going to be looking for work, lets make and exception and hire him for president. I'd much rather have one with a pro-Canada bias than one one who seems to think he is Putin's Elon Musk.

What a display of leadership! Justin Trudeau really stepped up as the adult at the table. \nI hope the rest of the world follows suits!

Thankyou Trudeau , you took advantage of US trade with your leftist crap. \n\nChile and Argentina , Australia. Thankyou .. destroyed that relationship . Other countries will now step in with cheaper products

Lol you can't win a trade war. Trudeau is a tyramt and not a serious person. Step down

Trudeau your country already told you to step down, Americans agree. If you cared about Canadians, you wouldn't have waited til now to do something

Mmm....????.\nWhy are we even listening to a guy who resigned to lead our nation ?\nNobody understands he and his party are the root of the problem ?.\nHe's a complete incompetent, and he's the one responsible for all this mess.\nNow, he's worried about the border and the fentanil crisis, when everyone in BC knows that the mountains are full in laboratories producing fentanil..\nNow, he's worried about Canadians and crisis..\nWhen he's leaving the country sunk in the biggest debt of all times...\nSeriously, this is FUBAR.\nEnough is enough Trudeau, you already did enough damage, step away for the benefit of Canadians.\nGo, just go away and forever.

I wish Trudeau did not step down. He wasn't perfect but no politician ever was...

Did Trudeau step down or not ? I thought he stepped down. So he has nothing to say ??

I am annoyed with CNN for turning this into a WAFFLE Soapy...At Last Trudeau has grown BALLS and he was presenting a Polite, Rational, Understandable, Logical, Factual explanation NOT only to AMERICA BUT more so to Canada and the World that Trump is NOT actually a SMART man but rather a deranged and dangerous illiterate with NO interest other than HIS EGO...SO CNN in your wisdom you ignored Trudeau's replies to questions from the press and gave oxygen to your WAFFLE MONGERS LIGHT WEIGHT comments.\n I have never been a supporter of wishy washy Trudeau....until this polite and measured presentation by him which was brilliant as an Educational tool not only for the American People BUT also for ALL of those ALLIES in the FREE World that TRUMP has absolutely NO RESPECT for and has been singularly responsible for the FREE World ALLIES to seriously rethink their allegiances with Chaotic America due to Donald's apparently Love affair with Putin as a fellow Dictator.\n America listen up.... The U.K./Europe are cranking up their home based on their door step DEFENSE INDUSTRIES etc which will be GREAT for Europe.... BUT not so GREAT for America''s employment going SOUTH.\n I was born in 1936 in the U.K. and have first hand experience of the TORTURE Ukraine is experiencing as the RESULT of Putin INVADING Ukraine....Donald and his Attack dog Vance are dangerous illiterates.

???... Trudeau ain't even Canada PM since he step down. CNN when will u stop ur fake news ?

the absolute best thing that Trudeau could do right now, as a patriot. is to call the election and step aside

Next step - Donald trump impose 100% tariff on Canada and Trudeau crying in corner

I hope you go to jail Trudeau. You are the worst kind of dictator, a weak coward. Step down. Go dress up and be racist. You screwed all Canadians and harmed everyone waaaay before these tariffs came into effect.

Anti-Americanism is right. Im glad Trudeau stepped up so quickly. Well done. From the rest of the world (specifically the UK)? We'll be doing the same. \nThis is your leaders fault, not the peoples, and I feel bad for you all. \nThose 3,800 down voters? You deserve this. For some odd reason, you arent getting the memo.

As a Canadian, \n\nTrudeau is stepping down because he is hated by the majority of this country. He has suspended parliament for his parties own special interest, making it it impossible to properly respond to anything. \n\nTrudeau does not speak for Canada. He’s the reason we’re in this mess. You Americans do not want Trudeau as your president he has ruined this country.

Our Prime Minister Trudeau would have said what he said regardless if he was stepping down. Canada strong and proud!

I’m an Indigenous American here, I say if Canada was really our friend then they would understand that they have been taking advantage of our countries kindness for too long and it’s time they step up.. If us trying to do something good for our own country for one time instead of everybody else and it’s a problem like this then maybe we weren’t friends anyway.. That means u were only friendly bc u were taking advantage.. \nPlenty of other countries has decided to pick up their own slack and it’s time Canada and America and the other countries start focusing more on their own citizens.. \nThis man is ready to send Canadian soldiers to die in Ukraine right now for something that has nothing to do with them and now instead of negotiating an agreement it’s all about relation and hurting your own people to get back at others over something you took personally..\nI always liked Trudeau but if that’s how he feels about our country then that’s how we feel about his.. \nwe don’t care about Canada anymore except justing Bieber and Linus media group.. everyone else can go lol..

I rarely speak...yet I should have been there before this happened and voted in the favor of Justin Trudeau. Shocked by fellow people claiming his behavior. But I see he stepped out on his own to own it. I'm a very proud Scientologist and believe in you. I believe in Mr Hubbard yet no one has seen the world to freedom as Trudeau is. All else are speculation and worry of doubt and incapable abilities that help no one. Huh.

Please keep in mind, that all the issues we have in Canada are because of Trudeau. He's been in power for almost a decade. The widespread drug abuse and crime is because of him being weak on policy and handing out drugs like candy paid by tax payers. More people died from fentanyl in Canada than our soldiers in WWII. That is all on his watch. He is only making these changes because of Trump. What kind of a leader is Trudeau to only become Canada first when a person from outside the country threatens him? He is a horrible leader and a traitor to the Citizens and the Country we call Canada. Regardless of what his speech is, he cannot be trusted with his globalist agenda. He has stepped down (thank goodness!!) and Canada is looking forward to having Pierre Poilievre as our PM.

Have to say Trudeau stepped it up on this one Thankyou. No winner is correct.

Great job representing our awesome country. This is a terrible time for Trudeau to step down. Right now he has the respect of all other counties. What am amazing speech.

Trudeau is Big Mad. Trudeau is a Puppet Prime Minister, like Biden was, and stepping and fetching for the foreign interest who actually control Canada. Basically, Canada's Government has made policies and taken steps that imposed US Tariffs on Canada. You will need to thank Justin Trudeau, an authoritarian leader who is currently Dictator of Canada.

Nobody cares what Trudeau has to say. Didn’t he step down? Isn’t he walking out of office this month? Who knows what his successor will do. But Americans aren’t going to rally behind the French Canadian government against our own. Laughable.

Govenor Trudeau lol. Yall should move to Canada and find out how ya like it. Dont talk smack, step up and head north if they so great.

Trudeau wants to make Canada an Islamic country. Liberals and NDP should step down from Canada.

I am a proud to be a Canadian! I have not bought anything American since this crap has started. Justin Trudeau, you have really stepped up to the plate! Well done! You have proved you do love Canada, unconditionally! ♥️♥️♥️♥️??????????????

Stupid comments here, see a clown like Trudeau and praising him because of his tan and tone, not knowing the slightest thing. He is not an actor; he is the PM of Canada. Hating Trump doesn't make this clown any better. Ask Canadians whether they think he is the next coming of Christ. Clown who has even stepped down because of his failures. Americans stop being ignorant.