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I was born in B.C. but moved to Ontario when I was a young child. I always wanted to go back, so finally I did in retirement, settling in Kelowna, in the Okanagan. It was paradise and I loved it there. However, my husband had to move into a nursing home this year, and I was forced to sell our house, deciding to move to Calgary, Alberta. So far I like Calgary a lot. I'm used to the snow, coming from Ontario, but I miss Kelowna like crazy. At least my husband is still there, and it's only a short flight for me to go and visit him.

There's no way the United States can take care of all these people and that's not including the other millions of immigrants. This really has to stop. Go back home and help straighten out your own countries. We can't help y'all. We got our own problems to solve, we don't need anymore.

I don't want more Indians coming here. I'm not a racist or a bigot etc.(not that I even care anymore if people call me that). I'm a patriotic and cultural preservationist. They do not assimilate at all. They build grotesque eyesore temples and statues, they speak loudly to each other in Punjabi, sikhs are now bringing violence to our streets, they take all the entry level jobs, then men wear dresses and turbans, they don't wear poppies and they poop on our beaches. \nThey are NOT Canadians and they don't assimilate. They should go back home.

I don't want more Indians coming here. I'm not a racist or a bigot etc.(not that I even care anymore if people call me that). I'm a patriotic and cultural preservationist. They do not assimilate at all. They build grotesque eyesore temples and statues, they speak loudly to each other in Punjabi, sikhs are now bringing violence to our streets, they take all the entry level jobs, then men wear dresses and turbans, they don't wear poppies and they poop on our beaches. \nThey are NOT Canadians and they don't assimilate. They should go back home.

GOOD...GET OUT WE NEVER WANTED YOU HERE ANYWAY....SICK OF WORKING SO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAN COME AND BEG FOR HANDOUTS...GET OUT AND GO HOME AND DEAL WITH YOUR OWN PROBLEMS. PATHETIC

It isn't homelessness in Canada....it is illegal immigrants who don't belong in Canada in the first place and need to go home to their own place wherever they came from expecting handouts for nothing and forcing real canadians on the streets as well, and drug addicts who need to deal with their own problems and stop wasting tax dollars on their pathetic lives which they made by using drugs in the first place. We need to cut social spending so people get off their lazy asses and work otherwise it is their problem. I am done paying high taxes for this garbage. THIS IS NOT By accident THIS IS TRUDEAUS TOTAL INCOMPETENCE AND CORRUPTION. Please know what you are talking about so you report correctly.

Canada doesn't need Immigrants! Go home!

Time to go home

They don’t even go to school they come to trash Canada make a mess the girls live with there Indian boyfriends they scam ppl and just don’t care about our laws they pretend they are well educated back home when you get them to work they have no clue the truth

Go back home and study

It’s TIME to GO HOME

All students go back home

Enoud is enough we don't have work place and house so many indians take out pace , inject they events, culture and mind set in to Canadian's.! Just GO HOME!! And try legally entering in country and side way of use some jugar

Canada need to tackle and stop new asylum applications. Foreigners can go back to their home country.

We've had enough... I'm all for the ones that were here prior to Turdeau.. but all of the ones after can go home. No respect for my country and the hate is coming

Most of these international students are not even going to school ( most are India ) ??) they go to work or stay home . Or work permits in a company not even exist

They get their freebees, then go home.

This has been known for at least 50 years. Nothing new. As well, aren't international students supposed to finish their studies and go back home anyways?

The reality is that many skilled newcomers were underemployed and probably unable to thrive financially due to low incomes and the high cost of living. With the little they have it’s difficult to remain in Canada. Some will return to their home country and others will go elsewhere that is more affordable

The new immigrants are finding Canadians not so happy and friendly as advertised, since covid the streets are full of homelessness and sad faces, when you go to the grocery store the bill will put a frown on your face, the price of staple foods from back home is unaffordable in Canada, I'd flee back home to if I had a place to go, Canada is moving backwards at a rapid pace and only getting worse. I must mention the brutal cold winters.

Are they leaving because they are actually illegals? If so eh good riddance. Also if you are a student get your time in and go home. In the future though how about our schools cater to the population and stop educating the rest of the world as that is not our responsibility.

I am not leaving , Canada is now my home . If another immigrants wanted to leave ,well be my guest.. Go ..

Just like many other naturalized citizen she doesn't know that she is on the menu too.. she don't seem to Hear about the revocation of Naturalized citizens. She may have to stand in line again for hours to go home ???

If you get scammed no matter who it is, that is your own doing. You let yourself to be scammed because you wanted to come here so badly, and we know you guys will not leave our country. A tactics that has been exposed because thousands of you doesn't want to go back home. Your VISA is done you go back, You guys should be thankful you experience Canada while millions of other people cannot or don't have the means. STOP coming here there are other coutnrys besides Canada. There are hundreds of countrys around the globe pic one or two and go!

No, students should go back to their home land.

NO MORE FREE ANYTHING! GO BACK HOME AND TRY COMING HERE THE LEGAL WAY!!! No more free money, debit cards, licences, healthcare, housing. You want to come here legally & struggle like everyone else that's fine. The American dream is no longer being given away for doing things illegally. Work for it like everyone else. Just know this. The American dream is dead for Americans. Go back home and protest the bullshit in your own country and try to make a change there.

Do like Singapore....you can't get a bank account, cable TV (internet) or cell phone without showing your passport and visa. Stop making it easy for them to be illegal and they will go home.

Ok I have a question. Right now the unemployment rate is 4.1%, if 12M illegal immigrants get deported, who largely work in food processing, constructions, and healthcare support, who is going to take those jobs? We have 7M unemployed and if we deport 12M, that's 5M jobs at a minimum that will no longer be filled. You think food costs a lot now, what happens to the cost of food without them? Or the cost of building new housing, it certainly won't go down? Or the cost of taking care of granny in the old folks home, is she coming home to the family to provide round the clock care?

Deportation doesn't mean they have to go back to their home country, deportation just means they can't stay here.

burn forests to make curry because God forbid you eat food grown here. derisive attitude toward Canadians as if you are better. drunken fights EVEY NIGHT in hotels. disgusting smell!!! yeah, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here

Apply and come right go home and fight for your country.. we did

It's easy to go back to their home country which is india not canada .

International students are just foreign students. They are NOT refugees. The deal is they go home after school and only some get to stay here. We are also getting too big numbers of some cultures. The numbers should be balanced so a few cultures don't dominate immigration.

LIKE COMING TO THE LAND OF THE FREE,AND HOME OF THE BRAVE SO,SO EASY?PLEASE,YOU'D BE TRYING FOR 100 YEARS...WAIT TILL HE TELLS YOU GO BACK TO YOUR PLACE OF BIRTH,A MAN MARRIED TO AN IMMIGRANT...THEY WERE SO LAZY TO APPLY TO BE LEGAL AFTER 30 YEARS? STANDING IN LINE IS ALL IT TAKES? DELUSIONAL!!! A BIG FUSS IN A LAND 92% EMPTY ..

Mexico go home\n\nAnd Canada needs a wall too

Go home we don’t want rags

Don't think Canada wants them, go back home, go south across border not north, don't you understand we can't afford you no more

True story:\nMy sister-in-law is a Mexican citizen. A beautiful, kind and intelligent woman. She is college graduate with a productive career and is a home owner. She has been trying to get her visa to VISIT the United States since my 10 year old daughter was a baby. Her next appointment is in 2025. It can be a very long and tedious process.\nPeople make it sound so easy. “Just do it the right way!” They have no idea what they’re talking about.\nMy sister-in-law doesn’t even want to move here, she just wants to visit her nieces and nephews and they make her jump through so many hoops.\nAt her last appointment, she answered a question honestly when they asked why she wanted to visit the United States, she said, “to visit my family.”\nThe interviewer told her, “ok, that is fine, but do NOT ever mention this again in any other interview. Say that you want to go to Disneyland or the malls or something. Do not let them know that you have family there, or they will think that you will try to stay!”\nThey have a script that you need to follow. They’re not looking for honesty.

Come to Surrey BC! I've lived here all my life, and live about 7km's from the house I was brought home as a baby, so I've never left this city, and I, like that gentleman and lady you talked to, often feel like I am the only Caucasian in Surrey! Go by any elementary school, and you'd find it difficult to see any hair colour than straight black! Like when I went to school, so many now are driven to school by parents or grandparents that where brought over to Canada as well, so traffic around schools very often is chaotic at best! The once peaceful sound of birds singing, is now taken up with sirens, from ambulance and fire trucks, it's hideous! I too would love to move, but we keep asking, 'where'...as we'd like to be in an area with just caucasians, to feel 'at home' again! It's not that I don't like the people, but most in Surrey, are much more well off than the average Canadian, driving high end cars, and even their teenage kids have high end vehicles. So, like many Canadians, I'd just like to see normalcy & common sense once again, and a complete end to immigration, until ALL of our crisis's are taken care of!

Take the loss, go home.

Go home

Good job president trump they need to go the hell home go home imagrints?

What about Trump and Vance wifes they are immigrants as well and do they have to go back to their home country or they don't count because they're special

Just go home and apply for permanent resident like we do before we become a citizen.

Send them home no more room no jobs if thay go to Quebec then take government take care of them then problems solved no money in Vancouver BC full

I agree with this lady, same here family members who needs to go home, not doing a damn thing with their lives but take drugs. ??‍♀️??‍♀️

Most Nigerians in Nigeria are quite ignorant, this video was share a few days ago on X (Formerly Twitter), a lot of Nigerians in Nigeria were accusing in of faking his experience, they are asking him to comeback home etc and He is probably trying to prevent his relatives from coming to Canada ??? - This is how dumb most of them are. He was probably like them before he moved to Canada, in Nigeria he would be the man due to his profession, he would have drivers, house helpers etc, he has probably sold all his stuffs in Nigeria to relocate to Canada, and now can’t afford to go back to Nigeria (Which is one of the things those dumb Nigerians always tell others to do - “Why don’t you come back then” ????

I am a third (if not more) generation Ontario resident. I’m almost thirty and I have little to show for it. No, I haven’t always made the best decisions, but even friends of mine who have are in no better shape. You can have one thing in life; choose kids, career, or house. You cannot have it all without running yourself into the ground. As much as I don’t want to leave everyone I know, I can see no desirable future here. It will be more of the same; work and go home to dream. I don’t plan on leaving the country, but I’ve just about resigned myself to the reality that I can’t stay here.

I am truly disappointed in a lot of immigrants who after becoming citizens have that tupe of attitude . They’ll charge them rent to sleep on the back porch. Even in the dead of winter. But they’ll have to go else where for bathroom facilities and eats. They have to sit outside till the owner gets home to open the gate so they can get around to the back porch. I was shocked to see a family sleeping together one Christmas on a concrete floor between 2 sheets the children 2and 4yrs old between them to keep them warm. Unbelievable !! I took them home with me.I am American born.

All of these people that are trashing this seemingly inarticulate woman for putting herself and her family first are a bunch of HYPOCRITES! I can honestly tell you that I have spent the majority of my 47 years of life helping people, doing favors for people, helping the homeless, feeding and rescuing stray dogs, lending money I didn’t have, an in essence helping my fellow neighbor. It is in my nature to think of others before myself, but guess what? Guess where that got me? No favors returned, the money is never paid back, when I needed a favor, no one was available, and when I rescued the dog, no one can help me find a home. so I think the lesson here is help yourself as in the flight attendants say before you can help your fellow neighbor if you don’t believe me question yourself how many people have you helped in your life returned the favor? SLIM TO NONE. if you don’t believe me, go ahead and ask people around you to help you pay your rent next month and see the turnout you get. This is your responsibility. Nobody is going to come save you