The reality is my own countrymen love to scam the innocent , find loopholes in the system and abuse the good things. From lacking basic courtesy to say Please or Thank you , to finding ways to flout the law.

I see folks from various cultures including Filipinos , Southern Americans , Chinese etc who have integrated very well within the community except ours. We just like filth it seems . Come to Surrey (Vancouver) and you will see middle aged Indian gents spraying gutkas or paan masala on the street , to ogling women . You can change the country but you can't change people unfortunately. I believe it's time now , that we need to curb immigration from South Asia or make it stricter and only allow people who are culturally alligned to North American standards.

Lately I have seen that the Canadian immigration system is allowing too many Indian in a disproportionate manner. The system should stop accepting more applications from that country immediately no more student visas no more work permit.

I have seen that literally they can take over an entire organization and never allow others to be hired except Indians. The same way that they do, we need to stop hiring staff from India despite they can be qualified for the job. Again if you hire one they will take over. It is simple to start fixing this problem we need to start from the source. Don't hire Indians, don't sell or rent our houses or condos to them. Ontario particularly has decreased its quality of life for example now you can see that most of the car accidents are from Indian drivers plus they speed on the highwaysroads and they don't respect the rules. If you live in Brampton you pay more insurance just because that area is full of Indian and because of that all the time there are car accidents.

From what I am seeing, we don't need to bring more immigrants to fill a position., Thank God we have really extreme bad weather in winter otherwise we would have been invaded long time ago. Sadly this a political movement from the government to sell us an immigration plan that doesn't make sense. My personal experience have been really bad with the 90 % of Indian. When I was in college I could see how professional they can be cheating on an exam( This is one of the examples ) so why we are bringing these type of students and workers? To provide a really bad service in a bank or in a Tim Hortons. Canada needs quality over quantity. We still can save our country from this mess.

Absolutely. I try to be as open minded as possible but the canadian identity is being destroyed by indians. Now im not saying all indians are assholes, there are alot that try to endulge in our culture and thats great that what they should be doing. But im talking abojt the majority that come here and think its still india. Some of these people are the most rude, dirty, immature humans on this planet. One time when i worked at a marina a dude was trying to haggle with the owner for a lower rental price on the boat. Owner declined an told him to leave, bro tapped him on the shoulder like friendly pointing to the parking lot. The dude asked to use the bathroom, the owner thinking nothing weird of it agreed. The indian went in the bathroom, i assume put his asshole agaist the wall and shit and smeared his asshole arounf the wall. Then he proceeded to call the cops ok the owner saying he assulted him when he really lightly tapped his shoulder. I fully believe he should have been deported right then and there no questions no phone calls nothing. They should just be sent back and dropped off when they do this shit. But they arnt and cops will actively protect this behavior. This country use to be beautiful, people where happy. Now its a shithole and the under lying issue has always been immigration since castru took office. Thwy need to go. They should all he given test on canadian history an culture an if they fail they should be deported no questions asked. Thos would solve 90% of the issues in this country.

Let's help the people born here in Canada first. We have have had such an explosion of homelessness.

in 2019, I moved out of a woman's shelter. I rented a room in a basement suite suite from a family from Pakistan, who knowingly rented me a room in the basement of their own house that was infested with cockroaches. When I complained about this and other legitimate issues, he blamed me for causing "further problems", he gave me and the other two tenants N12s.

i was on OW at the time and this was the only place I could find $350/month.

later that year, just after the N12, I was approved for ODSP and would have a bit more money. I thought this would alleviate all my problems.

Instead of fighting the eviction, I decided to leave and look for a new place. what I experienced next shocked me to the core. And still angers me today!

As a Canadian born Caucasian, originally from BC, living in Ontario, and sub existing on ODSP. No word of a lie, 90% (a very generous underestimate, btw) of kijiji ads in my price range were by Indians restricting rental applicants. "Indian speaking only. Indians only. Indian women vegetarians only, etc,"

And then I had similar experience with someone who came to Canada from the Philippines. She was brazen enough to tell me (I wish I had this recorded!)…The excuse as to why she would not rent a room in her basement suite is cuz "I did not speak the language". All other tenants renting rooms in her basement were philipino.

I also came across similar ad on kijiji with Asian bias.. "Asian tenants preferred as Mandarin speaking tenants and Chinese live here. Japanese and Korean ok."

I had too much stress i my plate at the time. If my main priority had not been was looking for a place, I would be spending all day lodging formal complaints and with all the atrociously racist ads and landlords I came across!

One of the few places I looked (who did not specify race presence) was another family from India (husband, wife and two small kids and baby) posting ad on kijiji to are renting one bedroom in a small two bedroom apartment in Etobicoke. I viewed the place and was shocked to see that the entire family all living in the one room, and renting out the other to two other students, who would be moving out soon.

I finally found a room to rent in a basement suite in a house owned by a Canadian born Indian lady, in Brampton, along with three other Indian ladies renting the other rooms in the basement. And of course the Indian la least and her family upstairs. The city found out that the basement suite was illegal and not registered with the city. Unbeknownst to me, my complaining about her using the city designated composting bin for her personal empty alcohol bottles, would alert attention to an unregistered suite and even though I paid rent, I still got evicted. Again, I was homeless and was shipped off to another to "live" in another homeless shelter out of town.

There I experienced more reverse racism, this time by the the three black women who I happened to already living in the room to which I was assigned.

I went AWOL. And stored up in a couple storage lockers during the next 6 weeks. I met up with a guy who later turned out to be a real abusive asshole and moved with him to brantford. I eventually left when the local womens' shelter had a bed for me.

So here I was, homeless again. The city's low-income Housing department referred me to a lodging house, under new management called Magnolia Lodge, owned by an Indian family, who knowingly rented out a room to infested with bed bugs!!

ive been renting from the same slumlord (different house after going crazy for two months with bed bugs at magnolia lodge) only to fight about other things that need to be fixed, and housing and property standards and landlord responsibilities that are neglected.

just recently I hear that the reason why it's so hard to find a place here is because indian parents (I'm not Racist…. I loooove Indian food) have paid up in rent five years in advance for their child to live here in Canada whilst they go to school. The Indian students here get treated here better than the diesenfranchised locals, our own indigenous people and we "white folk" who here in the first place!

and it's us that are facing drastic homelessness, addiction and mental health problems!! Yet more money goes into propping up the immigration policy with India!

With the excuse is that Canadians don't want to do these jobs, I've heard time after time. Thats not the problem. Let's get to the root of the issue and admit that that is a human right to housing!

Even the ombudsman of Canada agrees!

As a recovering workaholic who has worked and "helped" her way onto government disability, sacrificing so much to help others, and then be treated like an outcast by the people who are fortunate to be allowed into this country in the first place. Yet in my country and my own government gaslights me and tells ME that I am not a visible minority! If I placed rental ads on kijiji like, "whites only. Canadian born English speaking people only", I would be the one facing racism charges!!

So let's focus on getting ALL of our own Canadian born citizens in stable affordable housing and mebtally and physically healthy and then you will see that we have a big and diverse enough work force to employ the country without resorting to insane immigration policies that just put more money into the pockets of the few.

Help our our own Candian citizens FIRST!!

I live in brampton ontario or i should say i live in an Indian province with some other ethnicities allowed to live here too. I no longer feel living in a multi cultural society. I live in a Sikh community and i should be grateful to be able to live among them. The mayor, and soon the prime minister will be indian too. Now i have nothing against indians. They are rather peaceful people compare to middle easterns where i ran away from, but i like canada to retain it's multiculturalism for ever and when my son is old enough too. I would have had the same concerns if any other ethnicity was in the same over representation too.

Due to the recent changes in US visa rules and many visas getting rejected, some software companies are using rather misusing Canada as workaround. They are deputing their employees from offshore to their offices in Canada. These deputies work for US clients. This is also happening in those cases where people complete their 6 year cap on US H1B visa. If their GC process is initiated, but the I140 is not approved before 6 year cap, they have to ideally go back to India. However, companies are sending them to Canada instead. These companies bill them with the same rates as US deputies, but they are actually paid as per the Canadian standards. This is a profit for those companies as they get US billing, but paying less to employees than they actually deserve. This is doing no good to citizens of Canada who are qualified to do those jobs. Remember one thing - 95% of these deputies are not doing any advanced technical jobs. Whatever they are doing can be easily done by any bachelor degree holder in Canada with Computer Science background. These companies should ideally recruit Canadian citizens for those kind of jobs. Not sure to what extent US immigration can address this situation, but the Canadian immigration authorities should conduct an audit on this and come up with strict guidelines. Otherwise, Canada will simply become a workaround for these companies to escape from the stricter US visa rules.

Shouldn’t the Canadian government put a stop by not allowing a company hire immigrants from one country only? That way nepotism would be curbed and they’d enforce REAL DIVERSITY.
They could even enforce it in a progressive way as they like, by calling things by its name DISCRIMINATION.
Those would be anti-discrimination laws, not allowing Indians to discriminate Chinese, Latinos, Europeans, Africans (or any other) immigrants.
For instance, if a company already has already hired an Indian immigrant worker, the next one cannot be Indian, if they really need to give the job to immigrants, they’ll have to choose from other country.
Would it be possible to establish anti-discrimination laws this way?

I am very sorry to say this but it is a fact. The Canadians know that that the whole world wants to come here so they have designed in their system road ( work related) bumps.

They will not let you get a job, make money, get rich, live well.

It is essentially a life living from paycheck to paycheck. Even your paycheck will be smaller.

Immigration is just immigration. A business for them. Transfer of your wealth from your home country to Canada since you love it so much without knowing anything about it.

Canadians are part of the British population with a British mindset. Even if you live your entire lifetime there you will not be considered anything better than an immigrant. If you do not get a job or some kind of work you will spend your money there and eventually come back home.

They take good care of themselves but not immigrants. You are an outsider. And you will remain an outsider forever. An Indian living in Canada and thinking he is canadian is like a Canadian living in India and thinking he is Indian.

Out of millions of immigrants some are bound to succeed no matter what the road blocks because such is life. So don’t look at the other person and think you can succeed too. People from Goa think they are half Portuguese and they are Christian hence they can get their foot in. So we don t know what skills may help you. But I am sure 99 % should fail. Do you think Canada makes 350 000 jobs each year for immigrants they bring in? Not likely.

For new immigrants. To keep you out of a job even when you are most deserving of it they will ask you if you have “Canadian Experience” ? How can an immigrant have Canadian experience ? And if no one will employ you in any position how will you get Canadian experience ?

So what is the meaning of Canadian experience ? It means even if you are able to land a job you will be paid so poorly that you will not be able to afford anything or the good things of life. So your struggle is of no use. The sooner you realize this the better for you.

Read this again if you are serious.

Addiction is an odd term to use in this case. Immigrants are people, not mind altering substances. Indeed, Canada was built by immigrants.

As a relatively young country, with enormous geographic size, it was necessary to obtain workers, so farmers and labourers were sought, to develop the country. Now more skilled workers and professionals are in demand, all over the country. Either way, several hundred thousand (target is now 350,000 annually) are accepted each year, via a points system. Contrary to what some people may think, not everyone is accepted, and this number is only about 1% of its population.

As for refugees, who are a quite distinct group of immigrants, Canada does accept a number of these annually - now about 30,000, on average. Until recent policies in the US made emigrating there more difficult, that target was easier to control here. These entrants, too, are documented and assessed as migrants.

Having said this, Canada has a low birth rate, and immigrants tend to have larger families. Immigrants also replace the Canadian citizens who die each year (plus about 100,000). And, contrary to what some seem to think, the vast majority of immigrants contribute to Canadian society. Most of them work, pay taxes and obey laws, in return for the priveleges of living here.

And virtually all Canadians were immigrants at some point.

I'm 27, Single, Software Developer. I recently recieved my PR and was able to get 5 offers in a span of 3 weeks.

This means multiple things:

1. There are plenty of tech jobs. really good jobs. why? because silicon valley and seattle is taking away more than 70% of Canadian youth from top universities. (For those who don't know, Canadians can work in US very easily because of TN1 visa which is part of NAFTA)
2. This also means I pay more than 35000$ in taxes
3. I buy a car and other things in Canada and help the local businesses.
4. After all this, I max out my RRSP and contribute to CPP and basically putting money back into Canadian economy.
5. Unless something terrible happens, I'm not really going to use any healthcare.
6. I rented an apartment for 1700$, again putting back money into economy.

Reader can decide whether people like me are welcome or not.

So the “too many immigrants” question is very hard to answer. I can say in high tech jobs, they can allow people and it's at healthy rate. CIC wants near native speaker fluency to give PR and Master's degree and youth. But there are refugees and parents/grand parents programs, which get the whole immigrant system very bad reputation.

I hate it too. But Canada government is not dumb, they curtailed parents and grand parents PR programs to 20000 per year. If they reduce it even more based on the burden on healthcare and take “appropriate” number of refugees, we should be OK.

Finally non politically correct statement:

I personally don't like people of a religion who follow very strict rules without change from hundreds of years, I would personally vote far right to keep them at bay even though I'm not Christian for a peaceful future Canada.

As someone who works in the education sector, I see this as a transition phase- let me explain

1. Most immigrants from India come on student visa. Not illegally. They pay 4 to 5 times the tuition then citizens or PR. (That is life savings for several middle class indian families) . In a way by paying such high fees they subsidize the education of locals. Canadian univ. and colleges need that money to stay profitable. China was another big source for international students. But that has dried up a bit. Thanks to relations going south between China and Canada and economic progress in China. Now who will fill the gap that China leaves behind? Of course the only country that can replace immediately, is India. BTW canadian universities encourage getting Indian students not just to make up their quota for higher fees but also because Indians have been hard workers and contributors to North american societies and their economic successs.
2. The transition will be complete in few years when you will have a more equitable distribution of foreign students from canadian universities and India grows as an economic power. ( it's already 5 th largest world economy and growing)
3. Indians have been great contributors to the economy wherever they go. Look at US where 1% of Indian americans pay 6 % of overall taxes. They lead companies like google, microsoft, adobe, mastercard etc etc. They have a family value system that encourages them to be positive contributors, work hard and follow the law. How many homeless people, criminals or drug rehab people you see as Indians? Of course, you will find a small minority of Indians who are not the best representation of the majority. But that's true for any race. I would only urge you to look at scientists, doctors, engineers, professors etc and see how many Indians work tirelessly in those professions and contribute and pay taxes. Taxes that help fund Canadian social safety net, build the social fabric of tomorrow and replace the ageing workforce.
4. As someone who has immigrated and have seen several people go through the struggle, I have a lot of respect for immigrants. It is very tough to let go of your country of birth, your friends and family and move to a new country and culture. It is a very bumpy road. So to all the people who have been throwing around muck in the comments, pls know that your ancestors or you also came to Canada as immigrants.
5. I understand fully the fear of over migration and diversity in immigration demographic. Indeed Canada needs to focus on better selection policy for students ie. STEM and have skills based immigration. Right now the education institutes ( including mine) also look at this as a money making business and offer admissions to foreign students in most random courses. This must be fixed by the government of canada. Canada is a small country population wise. But I think Indians have and will always add sweetness to the society wherever they go.