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It's not a Liberal or Conservative issue any longer. Unless someone is hiding under the rock, there is no way to avoid facing the effects of Liberal disastrous immigration over past 10 yrs. Before 2015, illegal immigration = 0 🟢By end of 2026, temporary residents with expired and illegal status = 2.6 million ⏳Illegal immigration is promoting a vast underground economy and destroying Canada each day. *20,000 deportations/year is just a drop in the bucket-it needs to be 100,000+ for real change.* ✈💥

And still just a drop in the bucket

Hundreds? A drop in the bucket

This is a drop in the bucket, Canada needs mass remigration NOW 🤨

2015 - Zero illegal immigrants. 2016 - 2.6 million illegal immigrants. 20,000 deportation per year is just a drop in the bucket. *Need to raise it to 100,000 per year to see real results.*

Before 2015, Canada had virtually zero illegal immigration. Today, by the government’s own data, that number has surged to roughly 500,000. Worse still, official projections show that by the end of 2026, another 2.1 million temporary residents will see their status expire, many at risk of slipping into illegality. This failure of policy has already fueled a growing underground economy across the country. Deporting just 20,000 people a year is a drop in the bucket. *The only credible response* from the Carney government demands decisive action—raising *deportation* numbers to well over 100,000 annually to restore integrity to the system.

They need a moritorium for 5 years. These numbers are just a drop in the bucket

A drop in the bucket

still just a drop in the bucket.

It’s not even a drop in the bucket. Canada is dead. I’m moving to Alberta before they leave and I have to immigrate there.

Smoke and mirrors! This is a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of thousands that should never have been let in the door..... Retired LEO.

Drop in a bucket!!! Liberals should feel ashamed for the state they have put Canadians in over the last 10+ years!

Metro Vancouver went from 2.5 mil to 3.5 mil since the pandemic. In that same window almost all my friends left the city as part of a massive exodus. 78k is a drop in the bucket, we've brought in millions and millions who we don't have space for. If you can't add lanes to our bridges we shouldn't be growing at this pace. How do we get rid of these millions? Are you going to intentionally make this cost as much as possible so that we give up and accept the new normal? You planned this in advance, you don't want Millennials to have kids.

A drop in the bucket. Canada needs to increase deportations by a factor of 100. So instead of deporting 18,000, they need to deport 1.8 million. And even that isn't enough.

The number has increased because Trudeau and the Liberals let millions of unvented people into Canada. It takes years to remove them. This is a drop in the bucket.

A drop in the bucket compared to the money we tax payers have shelled out to house bogus Roxham roaders. These so called refugee lawyers, advocates, and NGOs have a vested interest in keeping a steady stream of illegals coming through because that's how their bread is buttered but more importantly its a specific world view. But the media is all in on this worldview so its an echo chamber.

A drop in the bucket. I see 5000 daily that should be booted immediately.

Trudeau can stuff it. Canada is a drop in the bucket. We don't have him to study

25% on 150 billion. It'll be a drop in the bucket if we get 100% of 300 billion back from Ukraine. Canada's economy is nothing compared to the US. US GDP is quite literally 10x larger than Canada's.

Bro, Canada tariffs are a drop in the bucket... You don't buy enough from us to make a dent on that front.. Btw, you're speaking to a bunch of people who lost the election... STFU and drive your square -wheeled car to a library and read a book while you resign and let that other guy run your country your corrupt POS.

What a crock of crap! The USA has the problem of weak borders, so they need to step up their border patrol. Canada is securing their borders because of the frequent and much more abundant cases of drugs and guns being smuggled into Canada! The stepped up Canadian border enforcement was already well underway months before Trump made his tariff threats. \nThink about it, the 43lbs of fentanyl that was smuggled in from Canada, at the US border, is a drop in the bucket in comparison to the flow of it that comes in through the ports. Also think about when you cross a border, it’s the country you are crossing into that checks you out. Classic case of Trump blaming others for US failure.

BIDEN LET IN 7000 ILLEGALS IN EVERYDAY FOR 4 YEARS STRAIGHT ON THE LOW END. SO 500 PEOPLE IS A DROP IN THE BUCKET BUT ITS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND GLOBAL'S BIASED REPORTER TRUMP HATING JACKSON PROSKOW BIDEN SUPPORTER IS STILL REPORTING THE BIASED NEWS

These stats are a drop in the bucket. All show We are a terrible neighbour to the USA and deserve all we get for the insane policies we have executed over the last 9 years.

Wait until the conservatives take office\n ... they will make two thousand look like a drop in the Bucket.

a drop in the bucket

Just a drop in the bucket a couple of million more need deported !!!!!!

They are all crying about how much the terrifs will cost us. What about the equipment we left in Afghanistan, what about the trillions of dollars we have spent on losers and criminals. They’re crying that we may lose 78 billion of buying power if the tarrifs are enacted. Big deal a drop in the bucket from what we’ve been suffering from the Biden administration just throwing money into an open pit for fun. It’ll be worth 78 billion.

Canada has a “marginal” or “progressive” tax rate system. Making more money doesn’t “bite you in the ass”. The higher tax rate is only charged on the money that is above the margins of the previous tax rate. The majority of what you make stays at the lower tax rate no matter what- unless you are an elite earner who makes so much that your initial income is only a drop in the bucket.

Good 7000 astart but just a drop in the bucket Theres millions that need to be deported

India migration is like only A a drop from the bucket considering India has 1.47 billion people indian decent living outside asia is less than 40 million these actions could backfire the talented indian now will stay in India and build big businesses in India instead which could destroyed manufacturing outside India and china as far as operation cost is concern

This guy is down playing the crisis calling it a drop in the bucket . You can't really know the numbers.

Government gives incentives for companies to hire foreigners. TRAITORS. 70k is a drop in the bucket, deport ALL ILLEGALS, asylum seekers, anyone who entered Canada illegally. Stop feeding, clothing and housing them and they will leave soon enough.. We owe them nothing.

70k is a drop in the bucket. 700k would be better

A few YT people are fair with wages, but them becoming the drop of YT paint in the world's bucket of color. Fear of anything of color. Afraid of becoming what they tried to erase throughout their history. Afraid of becoming the Neanderthal, extinction of their color. As if color is a measure of their soul. They will inbreed themselves to their demise, A hybrid is always better than the original the future of humanity. It's not their woman, mostly the men the Patriarchal leaders that poison the world with war and greed. Everyone else has to do better reward excellence , despise ignorance only then we all will rise.

All this hate talk. Canada has a population about the size of California. We will never be overcrowded. Tokyo has 14 million people, so Toronto is a drop in the bucket, and yet Tokyo is a great city. The whiners say it is not racism, yet I am sure they would not bat an eye if it was all Americans moving up here or Europeans. The mass movement of people has been going on for eons, as people tend to move from bad areas to better ones.

Zero-net population growth or very slow growth is desirable for a host of reasons. Immigration is not inherently a virtue. Not inherently a vice either. Its value depends entirely upon the context in which it is taking place. Here are some reasons why Canada should reduce immigration to achieve eventual zero-net population growth.\n\n(1) The ecology: Canada is possibly the world's worst country per capita in producing waste – certainly among the worst. (a) As of now we have a population of 40 million. At its present rate of growth our population will reach 50 million in 2041. This will require a 20% reduction in waste production per capita simply to keep waste production at the present level. This reduction will not happen. (b) In addition, freshwater resources cannot be expanded at all, really (desalinization can only produce a drop in the bucket). Hence, look for shortfalls in water availability. (c) From a global perspective, it is the rich countries, such as Canada, that pollute the most, both absolutely and on a per capita basis. Therefore rich countries should not increase their populations. Immigrants do not come to rich countries to be better ecologists than the citizens of those countries. Immigrants to Canada want to live like Canadians, as Canadians. The problem here is not that they will not assimilate to Canadian ways, but that they will. \n\n(2) Housing: with 500,000 new immigrants a year, housing starts cannot keep pace. The result: ever-inflating housing costs. Rich immigrants compound the problem. \n\n(3) Suburbanization: most of the new housing in Canada is in highway suburbs (over 80%), with their car-driven way of life. Once again, this is bad for the country’s ecological health. In addition, the result will be ever-growing geographies of nowhere. We will not be creating more Victorias or Quebec Cities. We will be creating more Surreys. \n\n(4) Downward pressure on the incomes of most people: the law of supply and demand is very simple: when there is a surplus of any commodity, that commodity becomes cheaper. When a commodity is scarce, its value rises. Labor is a commodity. Workers rightly do not want there to be a surplus of labor. Their livelihoods are threatened. \n\n(5) Future care of the old: the more people we add now, the more people we will have to take care of later, when their working lives are done. Adding immigrants now to pay for the care of the old is therefore a pyramid scheme. Eventually, in a generation or two, the population of the world is set to decline, and the well of immigrants will run dry. Canada should aim for fewer, rather than more, retirees – as preparation for that coming moment.

in 50 years canada will be an indian state. there are 1.4 billion indians wanting to come to canada, what's 500,000 more indians in canada per year? for india, a drop in the bucket.

Some of the stats cited here are straight up wrong or... creatively employed, and there's a lot of contradictory information and the typical conservative 'the sky is falling' sensationalism and misattribution. That said, the bas supposition isn't wrong. The bubble we've been sitting on for 20 or so years has completely burst. As someone born and raised in the Toronto area, it's impossible for me to afford to own a house or apartment here on a teacher's salary. Even rent pushes me to the limit unless I want to live in a... less than nice area. I'm living hand to mouth and enjoying the benefits of living in a 'developed' country less. Here's why:\n\n1. Wages aren't really even close to keeping up with the cost of living. The first tick upwards a bit. The second just keeps rising on the back of housing, food, amenities, and inflation: the four horsemen.\n\n2. Our grocery cabal ruthlessly raise prices whenever we look away, and their lobbyists are all ensconced within the leadership of our three major parties, particularly the Conservatives (so if anyone thinks that electing them will help, they're in for a nasty surprise).\n\n3. We're experiencing 'labour shrinkflation': increasing duties are downloaded onto workers and more is expected: more productivity, more availability (almost 24/7 in some jobs), and higher qualifications. Meanwhile, real wages are decreasing relative to living cost, more positions are 'contract', which is basically a way for employers to not have to give you benefits, and job security is tenuous for a lot of people.\n\n4. Houses are being bought by investors and not owners. Foreign entities are money laundering. The wealthy upper crust of high population countries are moving here and buying property because Canada is (still) more safe and stable and less repressive than their home countries in most cases. \n\n5. There's a cycle beginning: as people are squeezed and forced to spend more on 'needs', they spend less on eating out, entertainment, and other 'wants'. These are significant drivers of the service economy and they're being hit hard. So, what can they do? They can let go of workers or lower product costs to remain profitable, but they their quality declines and, in a market where people are pinching every penny and looking for quality for their dollar, they're less likely to go back. They can raise their prices, of course, but then they price people out completely and their profits still tank. I went to a decent steakhouse for my dad's 60th last week. I can't remember the last time that I went to one before that. \n\n6. Our politicians and news cycles focus on the most niche and irrelevant stuff because it'll stoke anger and get tongues wagging. This carbon thing is almost a non-issue, but our conservative leader is harping on about it like it's singlehandedly the death of the Canadian economy when it's a drop in the bucket. Trudeau focuses on 'equity' measures, hoping for a bit of cheap good press, while his efforts are, for the most part, just window dressing and the issues, while meaningful, are often not of paramount importance or even applicable to the vast majority of the people who elected him. Meanwhile, the middle class is pretty much evaporating as he speaks. The NDP keep talking about this in a pretty real way, for what it's worth, but Jagmeet Singh is giving off an increasing vibe of just being another fat cat politician beneath his rhetoric these days. Also, third-party trolls and screeching conservatives try to bury him on social media whenever he speaks... a lot more than other leaders as well, oddly. I wonder why? Oh yeah, the Greens exist and there's Quebec and the conspiracy theory party.\n\n\nUltimately, what we're experiencing is the revenge of the feudal system. Instead of paying rents to your lord and doing labour on the land for him whenever commanded to, you pay rent to your landlord now and go to work even when you're sick or when work hours are over because you have no union protection or are working 'on contract'. Unless we want to live in the armpit of nowhere, 95% of us are going to be wage slaves living hand-to-mouth, not owning our own property, and working to please our corporate overlords if current trends continue unchecked. While some of Canada's problems are unique, I fear that most aren't. As for me, I'm headed to the 'armpit of nowhere' where I can at least have a ghost of a chance of affording life.

In my opinion, if more people left Canada, it would reduce the load on housing , health , education and nature. 17% in 20 years is a drop in the bucket. we need more people to leave. The whole world needs a reduction in population to save this beautifull planet from certain doom..

This is a drop in the bucket, but we do have huge distances to ship goods and extraordinarily high food standards. So we already had more expensive food before inflation took off like a rocket.

This video is misleading. It is based only on legal immigration data, which is just a drop in a bucket of total immigration. Canada doesn't even come close to the number of immigrants it accepts. Not even mentioning this fact is disingenuous.

Yes this is sad for the individual. But we have all seen the marbles ted talk. If you haven't it is basically the idea that the US can only take a drop in the bucket when it comes to immigrants. Even if we took the same percentage as Canada did, its still nothing compared to the amout of people trying to get in. It is better for thier home country for them to live here for a little bit and go back. The US essentially only takes the best and brightest people from other countries. People that could be making their home countries a better place to be.

For all the amazing things the US has to offer, right now we don't even want to visit there, let alone move there. We've talked about it a lot, but nope. In Canada, generally speaking (although there are exceptions to every rule) we have no idea what political leaning our neighbors favor. Political campaigns last no more than 51 days; they do not start the day after the last election and go on for years. This way, elected officials actually do some work instead of campaigning. Right now, the politics in the US, as well as the judiciary, are literally insane. Gun violence in the US is insane, as is the attitude towards guns. It shouldn't take a shooting that affects you personally to make you care about it, and it's not just at schools. The US has had 28 mass killings, with 140 victims, in 6 months... but the problem is that no one down there cares about that enough to stop it, or even discuss ways to stop it. The politics is so sold out to corporations that what is good for the people just doesn't matter. It is capitalism run amok. Environmental protections? They are an inconvenience, and most of them were rolled back a few years ago under the presidency of He Who Must Not Be Named. So politics, elections, shootings... but wait. There's more. I have a wonderful friend in the US who has amazing health care, and yet when he got cancer, he was screwed. We do pay a health care premium up here, but it is a drop in the bucket compared to what people in the US pay for private insurance. Yes, you have the best hospitals in the world, but it doesn't matter if you can't afford to walk in the door. Now dump the intolerance -- racism, homophobia, religious zealots, misogyny (yes, I am talking women's rights, equal pay, access to health care, etc) -- throw in the crazies with guns, and now ask the question again. I absolutely know that Canada is not perfect, and that the tolerances and attitudes towards all these subjects differs from region to region, but overall we are a country that tries to respect the rights and needs of others, that has empathy for others, that wants to help others, and that is a pretty firm foundation to make us want to stay here. (please don't interpret this as all Americans and all areas of the US have no respect etc... but the predominant issues of health care, politics, religion, corporate greed, and violence, now all supported by a bat-crap crazy SCOTUS, sadly spills and taints it all. I know there are amazing, generous, kind people all over the US, but I don't know where the crazies are or where they might pop up).

Just imagine the money he made doing this...do you think he claimed the income and paid the taxes on that.The fine was just a DROP in the bucket.