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Canadians are exposed to American media on a daily basis, and because of the extreme polarization in politics, the portrayal of the USA is that of a country teetering on the edge of self destruction. Canadians are exposed to constant horror stories of gun violence, crooked police, the loss of human rights, and school shootings. Having said that, you did a pretty good job of trying to stay neutral in your presentation on what is a very touchy subject. Leaning one way or another on social media would get you bashed in the comments section (which is another place where we see that polarization).

acha huwa comments section se sab samjh aa gaya? huwa kya inko jo lad rahe the mjhe laga window seat k liye lad rahe the ?....mere ko kya me to cinema hall me ye sab bakchodi karne pe bolta hu jo laat maar raha uski maa ka ???

I'm canadian and I came to see how many canadians came to the comment section to continue the reddit thread lol.\n\nAlso, I'd move there if musk became my boss and let me play with skynet level stuff.

The irony, ignorance, and racism in this comment section is just unacceptable.

This comment section is so wack!\nYou people should be ashamed!\nThese are REAL HUMAN BEINGS!\nThe country they were unlucky enough to be born in is UNSAFE AND UNSTABLE!\nGod forbid ANY of you privileged idiots had to run away from a bad situation, to then only be demonized by a bunch of over opinionated pieces of garbage like y’all.\nShame on you guys!

When you come to comments section for full story but everyone is doin loda lassan.

For all those Latinos in this comment section acting as if that’s everyone else but you guys. You are no better than any shite a$$ rac!st! You know d@mn well those are VENEZUELANS who are used to and expect hand outs! Venezuelans aren’t coming here to work! Ask anyone who works with Latinos! They’ll tell you! The fact that Mexicans try to fall back into privilege as if you’re better than any other Latinos that do come here to work and sometimes even provide jobs for others, you disgust me!

Pretty sure most people complaining in the comment section voted democrat???

Everyone in this comment section will try to reason or make sense of this..let me end it here...the copies..mutations will always hate the originals..I said what I said!Canada is babylon..get out if u still can.

Wow this comment section is full of uneducated indians justifying his knife or what ever

comment section displays a pretty jingoistic lack of compasion or humanity for the situation, full of lots of naive and easy to say comments for people who very likley have no clue about what situation such people left and what nightmares they have been though along the way....like imagine making it to the us border all the way from venazuela, and i wanna say us foreign policy in the region, along with our economic and political impact makes this whole situation so complicated, there often arent paths for things like immigration or asylum for these groups in many of the countries they pass through, or they get held up in camps for processing that become bizarre legal limbos

CNN, your comment section is against you.

This comment section is unexpectedly reasonable.

Any democrat in the comment section look what you voted for. Spend and send trillions, flood the country, then crash the economy and housing market. Leave with billions in the bank

The xenophobia in this comment section is a good sample of how many Americans understand the true issues here and how it really affects Americans

To the people in the comment section PLEASE read my statement Canada has mass racism. There is a massive Native American population here and they BOTH hate each other, Canadians actively encourage each other to hate Natives and the tension gets worse the more north Canada you go. DO NOT BE FOOLED CANADA WAS BUILT ON RACISM

This comment section is out of control

Hahahahaha you are all the same people in this comment section that cried over Trump enforcing the borders lol

I see a lot of Naturalized citizens in the comments section who did it all legally. I've got two responses to them: 1. Congratulations! And 2. Thank you for sharing your stories of how to become a citizen legally. I've got a lot of respect for you all (for what it's worth).\nHave a great life!

Man this comment section is so absolutely inhumane, I’ve never heard people complain about people running for their life’s

This comment section does not pass the vibe check.

I deeply appreciate this comment section.

Why haven't we done anything yet on the right side has gone as far as burning down buildings and constantly charging a former president not giving up we just run to the comment section. This right here is in fucking invasion it does not matter who or what is trying to illegally get through our border it's just that part right there illegally get through our border that is invading Invasion why are we not at War right this second I am so freaking sorry I'm so sorry probably thousands of wonderful people in that group but we need to stop them that is an invasion I know it sounds horrible but just look up invasion you look up logs illegal and how it would wreck our country that would damage us that's what you do at War you try to damage the other country

This comment section will be enlightening and full of calm and rational conversation ???

The comments section went from talking about border issues to being racist in no time

Im surprised by the comment section nice

F ALL the rightwing victims over here in the comment section

Hmmm I can't send you email I have something to ask and it's kinda important it's related to this video. I hope I can send you my question... I can't post it here in comment section... I hope I get a response from you.

This comments section did not disappoint! Go broke, go woke!

lol In this comment section the same debate is going on as in europe right now.... the only difference is that in Europe we are being flooded by Africans and Arabs and not by South Americans.\n\nDefend your borders with all means!\n\nI hope that this madness will soon come to an end for us in Europe and for you in America.

Oh look. The Great America? why everyone so salty in comment section??

The worst comments section. You’re all rotten to the core.

Alll i see is a bunch of liberals in this comment section

Should CBC leave comment section open all the time?

LMAO all these privileged Muricans whining about migrants in the comment section with a surprised Pikachu face while completely ignoring (1) the extent to which the Global South is exploited by the First World to keep most of the people in poverty, and (2) climate change, which is overwhelmingly driven by First World emissions thanks to hyper-consumption, is only going to accelerate immigration.

Your ridiculous CBC! Open the comments section on all of your videos! We deserve that as the taxpayers WHO PAY YOU!!!!!!

Wow. The xenophobia of this people in the comments section. And yet Canadians claim to be better than the US in racism topics. Wow.

After reviewing this comment section, it's kind of sad that people are arguing with each other, instead of looking at the real problem: the Canadian Govt as it currently stands. Trudeau needs to *GO* - Will that solve everything? Of course not. But it sure is a step in the right direction.

Why didn’t you have the comment section when you guys covered the Patel family case?!? Canada ?? is taking advantage of these kids!!!

8:00 Nah, your tap water taste like swimming pools.\nBut our tap water is more toxic than a redpill vs feminist debte comment section lol

Great video Veerji!! Very hard work done In explaining details of each section. My mother visa was rejected so I guess where it says in 16:32 “Have you ever been denied”so it will be Yes right\n\nAnd as you mentioned in one of your comments to fill the missing or mistakes that agent did in last application, can I do this in LOE and can I show what we did as improvement or better strong home ties. Looking for your valuable advise

People in the comment section are the kind of neighbour I dream to have?

Fantastic! ? After the last question was asked I was about to head to the comment section to say if Canada's claiming the others, they should also take responsibility for Bieber.. ?

I think some people in a comment section are so dumb they apologized for what happened and some fucking people from India criticizing that they should follow the rules lol even in Europe we have right to carry kirpan bcoz maybe gore can understands Sikh religion more then some people in India

Damn this comment section got some dumbass people

To all the people sayimg that university is not a ppace to carry knives , should learn about sikhism and sikh faith. This kind if arogance shows how much educated you people are and how much respect you in your hearts towards other religions or cultures! Firstly, Learn one thing that american law allows sikhs(baptised sikhs only) to wear kirpan everywhere, evem the Uk and canada have the same laws for sikhs! These things arr considered very important in sikhism , the weapons are the reason for the existence of sikhs in present times! Our religion tella us to respect weapons like food and tells us to possess the most advance weapons, not for any kind of criminal activity but for self defence, good deeds and the race of existence! And Dont forget the 2nd amendment! At last i want to ask that why all hindus are against the sikh? Are'nt hindus living in the same country as sikhs? Should'nt they be aware of sikh faith and traditions? Hindus in thia comment section are a disapointment! What can we expect from others if our own people are acting like brainwashed sophisticated freaks!

Very interesting to watch. Comments section is powerful ???

It's the argument in the comment section for me lol, what most people don't understand is not everyone is destined to travel outta their birth country, for some people their progress might just be when they do travel, while some it's in their mother Land, or just to chill for vacation and stuffs, e never reach fight guys calm down oh??

I’m not gonna hate on you, but I am gonna say something that is directed towards your comment section and your opinion. I’m sick of Americans and Canadians bitching and saying Europe is better. Europe most of the time sucks, especially Eastern Europe where I originally grew up. Europe happens to be more depressing also than the USA/Canada in my opinion. For me personally moving to Ontario was the best decision ever and I would never, in a hundred years move to Europe. Maybe Italy or the Netherlands are one of the only countries in Europe which life would be as great, as it is here.

This comment section is surprisingly civil