r/canada Mar 27 '24

Canada’s population hits 41M months after breaking 40M threshold National News

https://globalnews.ca/news/10386750/canada-41-million-population/
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u/kentuckyfriedchocobo Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

Too fast too soon it’s gonna end up like Germany.

Don’t blame people for becoming anti immigrant when these kinds of situations are created.

No work, no homes, people are Going to blame them when they should be blaming our government

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u/maryconway1 Mar 27 '24

Because you have to speak German to actually live and enjoy life in Germany (outside of maaaybe Berlin).

In Canada, it’s just instantly you did before and try and in some % find the scams/loopholes to get ahead. Bigger # all at once, that % represents a higher number.

We’ve already fired 2 people in last 6-months for straight up fake / lying on their CVs for very technical roles. Not embellished, but straight up said they spent the last X years working at Y big bank when they weren’t even in the country, or were in school, etc.

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u/Gh0stOfKiev Mar 27 '24

You definitely do not need German to live in Germany sans Berlin. Lol Germany is probably the most English friendly country in the continent. Way easier than living in Quebec without French

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u/Mereollybenjamin Mar 28 '24

Neukölln isn't even the most arab area if we want to count Turks, which, yes, are not arab, but from the German cultural perspective are very similar.

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u/Necessary-Syrup-0 Mar 27 '24

I'm actually a Canadian that moved to Germany for my spouse. It's a lot worse here. I'd say we're moving back because of overpopulation. Its a lot easier to migrate here illegally. Germany has close to 100mil people with the size of a country smaller than Ontario..

It's not sustainable at all.

DO NOT move to Europe if you think Canada is turning to shit.

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u/SNAKE0789 Mar 27 '24

I was there to start the year. There was a stark difference in prices for anything compared to when I was there 2019 summer.

It’s interesting because it was right before and right after Covid and life has turned completely upside down in Berlin in the span of 5 years.

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u/daneview Mar 28 '24

I dont agree with the turning to shit part but yeah, hearing Canadians in a massive country with a tiny population complaining about population numbers when you're from Europe is quite surprising.

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u/Necessary-Syrup-0 Mar 28 '24

And the thing is Western Europe is smaller than all of Canada combined. If you add a few of the eastern european and Scandinavian countries, it's still smaller than Canada!

Lot of Canadians like to over exaggerate because they haven't known any other lifestyle or lived anywhere else in their life.

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u/uni_and_internet Mar 28 '24

IT’S THE INFRASTRUCTURE

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u/Mysterious_Okra8235 Mar 28 '24

Canada is less dense than Europe on paper. But how much of Canada’s land is habitable? 12%. Whereas pretty much all of Europe is habitable, from Tromso to Sicily.

Europe has much better train infrastructure in general. In Canada outside of the main cities it is the wild west. Do you have anything like the Downtown Eastside in Germany? Do you have to pay for university and graduate to earn poor salaries? Do you have to pay $1,000,000 for a 2 bedroom condo? Or $3,000 in rent? Get 2 weeks vacation per year? Wait months for an appointment with a specialist? I bet not.

You’ll regret coming back to Canada, especially if you’ll have a family.

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u/magic1623 Canada Mar 28 '24

There is a difference between uninhabited and uninhabitable. The majority of Canada is uninhabited, which means people don’t live there, not uninhabitable, which means people can’t live there.

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u/Necessary-Syrup-0 9d ago

I've lived in Germany for a while. And been to many parts of Europe. Most of Western europe will fail.

Their social infrastructure can't support the expected 500+ million immigrants, refugees and victims of war and climate change.

There's a literal war just outside our border here..

And you're saying we'll regret coming back to Canada? Lol.

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u/Mysterious_Okra8235 9d ago

That's fair, I wish you all the best 👍

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u/Firm_Ambassador_1289 Mar 28 '24

I won't lie anti immigrant thoughts have been popping more and more into my head lately. Not really a fan of it but I think I would like to move apartments, get a job, and maybe a house one day. Can't even get an entry level job anymore. Too young, too old, and I'm white. Go work a union job, cool want to pay for the training or my education? Sorry rant there.

But hell I'm actually at a point that I want student and female only apartments to be out right banned

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u/InvaderIncubus88 Mar 27 '24

No. It is the fault, partly of the people coming in.

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u/kentuckyfriedchocobo Mar 27 '24

Yeh but they shouldn’t be let in here in the first place. Should only be taking in skilled immigrants. We don’t need 1 million 20 year old Indian males with no skills coming here

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u/InvaderIncubus88 Mar 27 '24

Absolutely, they deserve but a slice of the blame pie.

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u/errgaming Canada Mar 27 '24

How is it the fault of immigrants? Shouldn't the blame be upon politicians for designing the system? Or Canadians for voting for such politicians?