i live in Canada and believe me people dont want this much immigration.

Dont come to Canada. Got it.

As a Canadian who has always lived here; we cannot continue down this path. Our country is in shambles.

Why does Canada invite students who can't afford to live there?

Inviting millions upon millions of immigrants while housing prices go through the roof seems bonkers, but remember who the government prioritizes: asset holders. In other words, wealthy people. People who own multiple properties want to see the value of their properties continue to be pumped up. They don't want the government making housing more plentiful and affordable. And these are people who have far more influence than the average person.

Answer: No, it cannot afford the waves of people coming in.

The sheer incompetence in planning regarding to immigration policy is mind boggling.

Not enough jobs. Way too many low paying jobs. Companies don’t want to pay people. You cannot afford a house that costs 1 million dollars with a 20 dollar wage

I’m a Canadian (from an immigrant background) in their early 20s. I’m planning to leave Canada within the next 5 years. The Trudeau government has virtually destroyed this country. Housing, taxes, low productivity, and a broken immigration have absolutely brought this country to its knees.

I'm a Canadian. Lots to say, here's a few thoughts. There's nothing inherently wrong with immigration per se; we do have a lot of space and under-developed areas. When the video says "decades of under-investment in housing", sure, but why then such high levels of immigration in such a short time? The Liberals totally botched this. They could've first made those crucial investments, and THEN increased the rate of immigration once the housing situation was more accommodating. Same with healthcare. They really should've increased immigration more slowly and more commensurate with an increase in services. It feels more like our government is more interested in propping-up our housing market and importing cheap labour than it is in caring for its citizens. Yet our productivity is still lower than it could or should be... Just a few thoughts... Oh, and Justin Trudeau should resign, like 5 years ago...

Politicians did not think about the support system for newcomers: housing, healthcare, education, and transportation. Also after COVID-19, there was a surge in temporary residents ( international students and temporary workers) The other mistake is that Canada is bringing foreign workers and international students but not international investments for innovation, entrepreneurs, and financial capital.

When they say “Canada wants immigration”, what do they mean? This is not “Canada” wants, it is Canadian ruling class wants. There was no popular vote nor referendum about this, Trudeau and Freeland did not ask Canadians if they want more immigrant.

I'm a Canadian who is planning on leaving in the next couple of years. There's no future here

Too many people chasing too few goods 🤦🏻‍♂️

"This Country Wants Immigrants" Sure it does, gotta love propaganda

The student visa scheme has been a disaster because it discourages investment in the local populations

I am an international student in Canada. I am already planning to leave Canada after my studies.. Going Back to My Country..

I am in Canada. If you are planning to come here , rethink many many times

I was a foreign student in Canada (35 years ago). My student visa required proof of ability to support myself. It never occurred to me that the Canadian taxpayer should support me. Apparently things have changed. A lot.

As a Canadian, my dream is to leave. High taxes, poor healthcare, no chance of affording a house. Oh btw I make 6 figures in healthcare. The social contract is broken. Why work? It makes no sense you get nothing for it.

Look I have NOTHING against Immigrants. But housing has been long ignored by all parties and now we can't even support our own population let alone new immigrants with somewhere to live. It's INSANE. Housing prices are absurd. We are doing immigrants wrong by telling them this is a great place to live. That's just false advertising. My city is super multicultural and I love that about it, but more and more I meet uber drivers that used to be professionals in their country. They're struggling here and it hurts to see that. They deserve better. We ALL deserve better. Something needs to change, and considering how much Galen Weston makes and the fact that the rich keep getting richer, I think we have the means to solve this problem. The CRA has done next to nothing to close tax loopholes. It's gross.

Ugh this is so sad. I was in my mid 20s when I left Canada for the US because the housing situation there was out of control. The park they showed at the 2:44 mark was where I used to live back in 2021 and I remember it was filled with kids playing and people walking their dogs. Now it's a tent encampment for the homeless. Very sad to see the living condition deteriorate there and hoping they can turn it around.

Look at "How recruiters in India use false promises to lure students to Canada - The Fifth Estate."

The federal policies have gone a long way towards destroying this once great country

People who have lived in Canada all their lives can't find a job, see a doctor or buy a house and even afford groceries. I'm afraid international students are the least of our worries

They are taking lot of unskilled,semi skilled people who are becoming burden.

Lived here my entire life, used to love it. I'm honestly ashamed to be Canadian. A few years ago I could never imagine leaving, now I think about it every single day.

It's modern feudalism, the system is well designed for ordinary people in the end lost it all, through housing monopoly and high cost of living. Don't hope for climbing economics ladder unless you are already inherit from the oligarchy.

Trudeau has a fix for this, bring in more immigrants.

Who says “this country” wants more “immigrants” (aka mostly Indian foreign students)? Has there been a unanimous agreement on immigration among the population?

I moved here 16 years a go (6 years in Calagary + 10 years in Toronto). I've witnessed the high and low of Canada, about 6 years ago, I already started seeing the dwindling quality of life. Limited job opportunities/security, deteriorating health care and public safety, skyrocketing rent/cost of living, and people are becoming less tolerant/welcoming. Of course the pandemic made it worse, and it exposed the social ills in the country. Still better than a developing country, but definitely not Canada I used to know and experience.

Foreign students are supposed to have abilities financially before being approved to come in. I think it's a false assumption for foreign students to be expected to work and earn money while in the country.

I'm also Canadian and currently looking for an opportunity to leave this country. Trudeau has made this country so miserable.

That title man, no we don't want more immigrants. We need stability right now not more people. Trudolf wants more people, i want an affordable home. I was born here, there is no room for others let alone us born here, thats the real issue

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

PLEASE don’t come to Canada, it’s really not worth it. There is a long list of reasons; search any KZfaq video and you’ll know why. I’m an immigrant myself who came here 8 years back but just cannot sustain myself anymore and will be leaving Canada this year.

I live in a big city and I haven't had a doctor for over 10 years. Now my wife's doctor also retired and she has no doctor now. Canada is fast becoming a disaster. I suspect people are leaving in droves.

Totally agree. Canada is not the place it used to be.

Its going downhill. Dont go here.

The flood of new people has totally overwhelmed our services: housing, health care, affordabiity.

Birth rate is falling because young generation is late starting families and produce kids, primarily because they have no place to live. Packing young people into 500 sq feet one bedroom apartments is not stimulating child birth, right?

From my American perspective, every time I look at problems in Canada or hear from my Canadian friends, it seems like housing is the single largest policy failure. On paper it should be quite possible for a country to quickly adapt any of its systems to high population growth if it has the luxury to pick and choose who it allows to immigrate -- a luxury Canada has had. Canada has the land and natural resources to support a significantly larger population while still maintaining a lot of its wilderness and countryside, and a high rate of immigration could be a boon to its economy that benefits everyone IF there's adequate housing where people want to live. When there isn't enough adequate housing, we instead see rising hopelessness and dampened economic prospects. Until 2023, roughly 70% of Toronto's residential land was zoned to make everything illegal to build except single-unit detached houses. In the zoning reform last year, most of that land was merely expanded to allow multiplexes. How can Toronto possibly have enough housing for a population boom if it's been literally illegal to densify the vast majority of the city? This is decades of artificially constrained supply reaching a boiling point that's causing massive socioeconomic problems. And unfortunately the previous decades of shortsightedness will now take decades to fix. This same story of artificial supply constraints causing serious problems has been playing out in city after city throughout the English-speaking world in the past decade, but Canada serves as the most egregious example because of its very high immigration rate. We're shooting ourselves in the feet by continuing to allow these restrictive zoning laws in high-demand metropolitan areas. The only people it benefits are speculative real estate investors, but even then, those people are also members of our society and they're going to live in a lesser society as a result of these ridiculous laws.

Our current PM is allowing too many migrants in for the current support system. Trudeau has to go.

love how all of the shots of homeless tents in parks are from the same encampment that i can see from my condo window

I love how this documentary just completely glosses over the greed, the corporate rule and corrupt politicians.

I came to Canada as an immigrant in 2020 and immediately went back to my original country. However, I feel sorry for the nice people of Canada that unfortunately don't have other choices. You feel that the Canadian system is designed to make people poor.

Instead of going to Canada go to Africa. The entire African continent needs development not the USA and the Canada. Don't go to Canada let their population be reduced, they're highly developed countries. Now we need to develop Africa, it's a future. Those who are an aspiring entrepreneurs they should go to the African continent to develop new technology and to train those people with multiple skillsets! Leaving USA, Canada, UK and Australia is the key!

23% of Canadas population is immigrants...population went from 38m to 40m....Indians are the largest immigrant population with 8m...Trudeau gave 540k and 450k work visas visas to students/workers for two consecutive years in a row.....this was bound to happen...

No. It cannot afford any of them. Period.

It destroyed my life twice over and ironically I am a 1st generation Canadian, son of an immigrant father and 1st gen Canadian mother...it is criminal what the government is doing to Canadian citizens.

If you come as a student, don't complain about the job market. You came to study not to work.

The way Toronto has changed in the past 30 years is madness. I cannot believe what I'm seeing. I moved to get some life experiences 20 years ago and couldn't go back home if I wanted to. The place I grew up in doesn't exist anymore.

By the looks of all the tents in Canada I would say we cannot afford more immigration. We should be dealing with the current housing crisis while pausing immigration until the housing sector catches up. I fail to understand how adding to the housing crisis will help anybody?

Forced Multiculturalism

The crime rates are very high in Canada and many people lost their vehicles to stealers. and robbers. The government just plays catch and release game

The health care system is broken and housing is extremely expensive.

"Most international student don't want to stay in Canada" Neither do citizens, I wish I had somewhere else to go...

Our primary issue is that we make it extremely easy for unskilled immigrants to come to Canada. But we put up many barriers to prevent skilled workers from migrating here.

In the past 7 to 10 years, Canada seems to be broken. I know so many people that are leaving Canada. I don't know why anybody would move to Canada anymore, especially with the access to information on your phone, you can easily check how bad it is here. Ya, our birth rates are low, only 1.33.

I know many Indians who have come back from Canada because the ROI is not worth it anymore.

Immigrant with my parents. My father spoke English with a Doctorate. Sponsored and job obtained prior to sending for the family. Contrast that today with 1000s of questionable asylum claimants and mostly Indian students that are looking for a PR card via the back door. Housing supply is millions of units less than required. That's insane! Stop opening the tap until Canada clarifies our needs and ability.

how dare that guy come to canada and be homeless and also flying his homelands flag where he fled from?? Make it make sense.

I used to study in one of Canadian colleges back in 2018 and lately graduated in 2021s. My parents paid the college instead of me , fortunately around 300K CAD for a college tuition fee to grocery fees to monthly room rentals in Toronto. I am a Korean national and i see there is no benefit for me to move in to Canada as Canadian cities have extremely high housing rentals compared to major cities in the US. I do hope US govt bridges and gets the internatinoal student in Canada approval for a work visa and possibly let them move in to small cities in the US.

No we can't.

Canada turned into a third world country in just 10 years… it’s so depressing. We don’t have a decent healthcare system (I’ve been looking for a family doctor since 2019), terrible housing, terrible public transit system, etc..

The world's ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion -at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a day- during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99 percent of humanity fall and over 160 million more people forced into poverty.

The Government desperately needs find more potential taxpayers so it can keep spending us into oblivion.

It cost me more money to stay in Canada and do nothing than travelling abroad, stay in a hotel and eat all 3 meals in restaurants.

They want qualified professionals, not immigrants. If your job is not on their list, you're out.

A very similar story is also found in Australia and New Zealand - both countries are also cranking up immigration and international student enrolments.

What Canada is doing is completely irresponsible from an environmental perspective as well. Can't believe Canadians are allowing this to happen.

Canada is going downhill for the past 20 years. The list of problems faced by Canada are many, this includes unaffordable housing, a dysfunctional health care system with never ending wait times, over taxation with little or benefits in return, an exploding homeless population, and an economy dominated by monopolies which leads exorbitant high prices. Trudeau believes the solution to all of Canada ills is to increase immigration to a recklessly high number and double the size of the federal government, this recklessly high number of immigration is exacerbating Canada’s problems and not improving it. Thanks to Trudeau Canada is headed for third world status.

Australia is suffering the exact same problems no housing, price of everything rising, immigrants complaining. Government wanted to increase it's tax base straight away and didn't have the patience to actually plan around the highest immigration numbers in history. And make no mistake that wasn't an accident. I'm not against immigration but 1 million people in 3 years is a little bit extreme. I can't even imagine how bad it is in Canada, feel for you guys, apart from New Zealand I see Canadians as our other brothers from across the pond.

The age old saying remains true, Go Woke - Go Broke.

I am Canadian I don't want anymore immigration. Its not Canada anymore its India.

too many Indian people coming to Canada we are becoming India

These international students using foodbanks need to be deported. If you can’t afford to support yourself while you study here than you shouldn’t be admitted into the country

Canada sucks I returned to mexico 😊

As a comparison, Australia is experiencing similar issues. Not surprising really, it is perhaps the nation state with the most similar geopolitical, socioeconomic and historical background to Canada. I would not be surprised if, as a percentage of population, Australia’s recent immigration would mirror that of Canada.

1M new Canadians in the last 12 months - I wasn't aware we had that many new homes for them all. Maybe they all going north to build a new Utopia in the Arctic?

We don’t. We really don’t.

Why did Canada almost collapse in 1970's ? Answer - Trudeau Why is Canada a joke right now? Answer - Trudeau

I'm a canadian in my late 20s and now I can't even afford a home. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against all the people that have came here, but there has been too many in too short of a time period. The government should've propped up the infrastructure to accommodate these immigrants before initiating this plan of overimmigration. Sure you are giving us a first time home buyer credit and only allowing individuals with a PR to purchase a home, but there is still an underlying issue of how born and raised citizens are now struggling. I cannot imagine how much worse it is for those who are coming here for an education. Not to include the lack of jobs, it is a tough job market out there as well, I may have to move to the US to have a professional career, which is not ideal because I want to stay in Canada.

If international students are struggling with $5, why bother coming at all ? You've got to prove your finances before even coming here

What? You mean a system with more consumers than producers isn't sustainable? Who'd have thought it...?

this needs to be played on every tv on repeat for 2 weeks

what's wrong with their countries where they come from

I do not see a problem having international students. They shall have their own money for tuition, accommodation and food. Our taxes shall not subsidize foreign students. Also as soon they have finished their schools they shall go back to their countries. And if they want to immigrate they shall stay in general line for all applicants. Why Canada promises PRs for foreign students and their families? It may be one inexperienced graduator in family and the rest a bunch of low skilled workers immediately asking for welfare to survive. I do not see any benefits for Canada.

Did Canadians ever vote for complete and total Indianisation?

Im generally pro-immigration, but highlighting students who choose to go to a foreign country while paying exorbitant tuitions and then complain about the cost is...not a situation that garners sympathy

I'm a Canadian, this government is turning Canada into a chaotic place. Yes we want new immigrants to this country, but the not kind of immigrant this Canadian government is bringing in costing hundreds of millions of tax payer's money with 0 return.

To anyone who thinks of coming and immigrate to Canada. My advice to them is not to come. Canada is not what you think. Lack of opportunities, non existent health care, terrible services, and very poor quality of life. Non-stop stress from the moment you land here, not to mention the inhumane depressing cold weather.

This is happening in Australia as well 😭

I came here as an international student, back then you could only get your PR if you studied at an accredited university, not a career college. Back then skilled workers were required, and that is how you were able to get a PR. Canada has changed so much, multicultural has left and more and more there are two cultures dominating. I came here because I use to visit for our annual holidays then decide I liked the culture and wanted to study here. The landscape has shifted , Canadians will soon be the minority and that is not the Canada I want to be paying taxes in. There are always protesters waving foreign flags demanding that the government help their families, love ones in another country, meanwhile Canadians here are loosing their homes , can't afford food, basic life necessities and living in tents. Charity should start at home first. Responsible tax payers cannot afford to have kids, why because the taxes we pay are too high, if we're struggling to survive why would we subject a child into this world to experience the same. However, there are millions of dollars in incentives for people who never paid in to come to Canada with their extended family members who are dependent on government support, that we the taxpayers have to finance. The aging population could be address if the affordability could be address for citizens living here and PAYING taxes. If the government wants to bring in aging populations who never worked in Canada, their families should be funding their living here including healthcare, not taxpayers. Invest in your people first , help Canadians become more skilled to fill positions that there are shortages, lower taxes to allow Canadians to have said families and replenish the population , these are the people who would always put Canada first.

The birth rate falls when young people can’t support themselves let alone children. Civilized countries have the means to choose whether or not to have children. Those who responsibly choose not to have children they can’t afford end up paying for everyone else’s children through exorbitant taxes and government mandates.

I'm just glad I dropped my Canada Immigration plan I was 100 percent sure 2-4 years about moving to Canada for a masters and a job

there are no jobs in Canada

We don’t want them

I'm not sure about the details, but despite Germany having a massive housing crisis, it's illegal for the owner to leave the apartment unoccupied. That or they have to pay a penalty / much higher tax.

Immigration should never be encouraged at the cost of the existing residents and that is what has happened to this country. Growth should never be at the cost of destruction ofo somethign else. Politicians do everything for the the votes to stay in power and the greed for money and power has what ahs caused the collapse in the qualifty of life and everything else in Canada. I blame not only the policians of all the parties but also the shortsightedness and the selfishness of the voters.