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Canada is not a sovereign country. Canada has been captured without one bullet fired. How? Specific individuals corrupted and owned by people outside of Canada. The media does not speak about the “elephant in the room”, politicians won’t talk about, nobody knows what to do. Cowards.

The elephant in the room is the fact that the majority of immigrants come from one country. As someone who proudly escaped Canada I understand the difficulties of adapting and integrating into another culture. It is difficult and it would be far easier if there were just so many Canadians here that none of us have to adapt or learn a new language but could simply live in an insular community of Canadians and transplant our own culture here. When I go back to Canada I see that that is exactly what has happened there.

They have whole continents and ethnic nations for themselves. Now, we have little, mere, scant slivers of erable land while the rest of the world's nations still have plenty of land, except for those whom have already overpopulated themselves. While actual canadians have no opportunities and means to make products and services and compete in the marketplace for our people. Nobody seems to give a care about french and british isles canadians who built this country. Most of everyone else just moved in and out of those many just came for the government benefits and perks, and also the fact they could move their whole family and acquaintances. Let's be honest. A lot of people born here are descendants of scammers and grifters of the canadian system in some way. At this point, I think we should criticize all the various groups that have come here en masse. Most of the MPs have no spine. You can still have a liberal policy and still end immigration. It's the elephant in the room. End immigration and subsequent benefits and family unification policies.

You follow the money trail of China and Canadian dealings ,an investigative journalist did and found precursor supplies to make fentanyl heavily coming into Canada from China, being assembled in Canada, then shipped to mexico drug cartels from Canada, then entering US across mexican US border....so how is Canada not to blame when RCMP know of drug labs in Canada and turn blind eye as do the politicians, and meanwhile China launders the drug money through real estate and casinos. No one wants to address the elephant in the room. Life is easier while Blind, till it isn't!

Come on Palki, you can do much better! I have a huge respect for you so please don't make it sound like a political issue. \nThe primary reason behind these rejections are Indians lack in civic sense and really don't know how to behave while in overseas, a majority of them make other Indians look bad, us Indians don't have a good reputation overseas. Also, let's not forget to address the elephant in the room, a majority of them tend to overstay their welcome. Thank you

Let’s talk about the other elephant in the room (conveniently left out of this report): the Indians who are granted a visa and use it to either work illegally or file fake asylum claims. Strict visa conditions on Indian passport holders should continue to apply.

You didn't address the elephant in the room. When we go abroad we follow the same rules as we have in India. We start working which violates the regulations of tourist visas. I'm not surprised we have a high rejections rate, we are a nuisance everywhere we go.

Using terms like:fear,scared, and business loss. That is to distract people from the elephant in the room. Entering illegally is a crime.

Palki, as usual, misses the elephant in the room. The reason Indians are not wanted in many countries, is the crude way they behave, and the way they try to defraud every system by trying to overstay illegally, coming on toursit visa and taking up a job, lying and cheating to bend laws etc etc. The list is endless. It is much better for other countries if Indians just stay in India.

First of all this reporter is biased and always tries to hide the skeletons in the closet. I will tell you which is real elephant in the room. You know why countries like Cuba and their passports are more powerful than Indian passports? Because after the visit Cubans return back to their country whereas Indians will stay back in the host nation by any means. Plus most of the Indians do not represent their country well by their unsophisticated behavior.

Well the big elephant in the room should be incredible levels of dissimulations. Visa officers are no fools anymore. ??

The other elephant in the room : Indian overstayers. I guess that slipped out of her mind

Look the answer is simple, someone from Burkina Faso will not compete with an average European for his/her job. Indians will for sure. Instead of lobbying for better Visa equity, why not strive to make India more livable? We need to address that issue, that is the elephant in the room.

Congress had reciprocal arrangement. To boost tourism post negative PR following Nirbhaya incident BJP let go of it with evisas. Both sides have valid argument but real elephant in the room is behavior and respect of laws and etiquette by our desis. Imagine out of 55000 non compliant student visas in Canada that did not show up to school..20k were Indians. So unless Indians improve there, neither government Modi nor Congress equally can't do much.

Elephant in the room Palki Sharma omitted. Too many Indians on tourist visas don’t return.

Palki ji, The elephant in the room is the folks who go on visitor visa, and then don’t come back to their home country. They have been miss using this for a long time & now causing problem for innocent ones.

Thats a response to our growing economy and becoming richer middle class pains the countries you mentioned.But elephant in the room need to take proactive tackle that as an opportunity not a rejection....

Elephant in the room - backward Mentality and behaviour of some people from especially from north ?? common guys keep religion and cultural display personal ?? pleaseeee ….

Unlike the UK\n\nWho is letting pdfs out of jail, allowing the grape of their yngligs and jailing people for mean tweets\n\nAmerica is actually trying to do something about the elephant in the room

Hallelujah! Finally, someone addressed the elephant in the room. \nYes, The elephant!!

Chicken come home to roost❗️ The Western world has a tendency of overlooking nefarious jihadi industry cultivated by Pakistani system in its school textbook curriculum. Government approved state boards in pakistan that publish school textbooks start Hinduphobia & Antisemitism as early as grade 4 for social studies. \nNo wonder a pakistani child born and brought up in that environment may grow up to become like this Canadian PR- card holder Muhammad Shahzeb Khan!\nWestern media rather capitalises in lambasting China or India at the first instance of an untoward incident - while ignoring the elephant in the room that is Pakistan.\nIt has genesis in the very birth of Pakistan when it was carved out of India by the leaving-Brits in the name of Islamic separatism.\n And then the Afghan jihad that USA+ had waged against Soviets - with the help of Osama's AlQaeda in 1979-89. CIA instructed the then Military dictator of Pakistan Mohd Zia to open 5000 radical Islamist madarsa schools across his country to produce jihadi children to fight Soviets in Afghanistan. Chicken come home to roost ‼️

The elephant in the room is the massive Indian immigrant specially the fake Indian students. This has caused a lot of hate against the Indians, rightly so.

Awesome in addressing the elephant in the room, but this is nothing new in Canada. Over our extensive history of immigration our country has experienced chronic separatism, racism, exclusion and of course, bigotry. The *us-against-them* rhetoric is as old as humanity and not exclusionary to Canada. Euro settlers were racist against natives, then blacks, then Eastern Europeans, then Italians, Latinos, Asians, Arabs, Africans and so on. The blame? You called it. It's complicated, but failed economic policies are the root cause. People acting horribly does not help either. Having said that, as a proud Canadian here's a Pro-tip for any newbie emigrating to new pastures - anywhere in the world; Learn the new house rules and behave. Feel free to keep your customs, but respect your new home. Nobody is forcing anyone to stay so love it or leave it. Above all else, be respectful, a good human and a good neighbour. If you ever think things were better elsewhere maybe that's where you should be.

Oh so do tell why he'd face problems in Kenya.. the elephant in the room?

The real tragedy here is that workers need to become landlords to shore up their retirement, this is one of the key culprits in the housing crisis - you have to take someone else’s house and force them to pay you rent because you got there first. In the end, they’ll be no retirement for either the landlord or the “tenant” - not because of disputes, but because of the real elephant in the room. Instability, founded on inflation - you can’t create wealth without sacrificing stability - the Romans tried opulence and ended up printing lead coins. What we call from money comes from thin air, but really is worth it’s source. People fighting people when the problem is really the weight of the future.

Immigration is essential. Blame the leaders for failing to provide infrastructure. This is also true outside of the immigration issue. We have not addressed or overcome the slashing and burning of the 90's. Don't blame the need for immigration. Blame politicians for ignoring the elephant in the room. They have to spend money to properly integrate folks. It's not fair to anyone.

Talk about the 'Elephant in the room.' Canadian government ought to invest in the infrastructures but that is never seen in practice for uncertain reasons. The government is one of the wealthiest in the globe. Proof is the recent military aid money given to the Ukrainian cause which could have been diverted to investing in commodities to afford the influx of immigrants. So, stop the cap and go to the root cause that has brought this imbalance in the system.?

Elephant in the room: THE DEMS…

Can we address the elephant in the room? Be precise, just say INDIAN. SENT THEM BACK. No INDIAN and Muslim Middle East

What about the elephant in the room !!! 90% of these students are in non-Credited colleges these guys need to end this joke of a system

india is the elephant in the room.

the elephant in the room is the fact that the real motive behind anti catholic trudeaus immigrant push, is to overwhelm and subdue the judeo christian populace, and replace it basically, with pagans...ironically, this is being done intentionally through hatred...just look at all the native 'graves' that were presumed to be filled with the victims of the catholic churchs native abuse victims, but which in fact WERE EMPTY!!!

India is the elephant in the room.

Mass immigration is the elephant in the living room?

Canada was built by immigrants no doubt. When Canadians are unwilling to do the low pay hard labour, and give birth to kids, there has to be immigrants to fill the gap. Housing crisis is the elephant in the room, it has been around for quite a while. Remember one decade ago in Vancouver #donthaveonrmillion? Its worse now. International students became easy solution/target for politicians to blame because they cannot vote. They were considered as solution of labour shortage back during Covid then there was a labour shortage. Sean Fraser the minister of immigration back then made it super easy for international students to stay in Canada permanently. When he takes the office of Minister of Housing, he starts to point fingers to those students. Who let them into this country in the first place? We need more roads more houses. IRCC needs to work faster to get more skilled workers doctors into the country. Putting a cap on current immigration level is not a good idea.

The elephant in the room here is race. Everyone ignores it but new immigrants aren't like old immigrants and now it's irreversible.

The man's genius in not addressing the elephant in the room is legendary. Never ever underestimate the wisdom from the children of the one Jesus expelled from Heaven.

Ignoring the elephant in the room while offering no solution. Gaza is ruled by a terrorist organization that is sponsored by Iran, who's nation goal is the destruction of Israel. Palestinians have declined all the peace offers from there last 30 years (and you can Google how many were there), so maybe something needs to change...

Been in Canada for approximately 25 years. I can say that the effect that Canada has on a legal immigrant is neither here nor there. If you can make lemonade out of any lemon you’re dealt, you will thrive in Canada (and anywhere else where your efforts are not overwhelmingly quashed by corruption, blatant racism or other forms of segregation). \n \nLynn, I was a lecturer in Kenya, went back to school here in Canada after wallowing in culture shock the first year, then circled back to teaching in college again after an arduous journey in school, but this time in a different field. \n \nAfter becoming a single mother of four kids, I had to also hustle on the side to build a small business empire along my life’s ladder. Partnership with God, goal clarity, the get-up-and-go, and relentlessness truly work. It isn’t the size of the dog but the fight in the dog that does it, regardless of where you live. \n \nThe starting point for a new immigrant can be very low due to the weather, unpreparedness and culture shock, but if you know that the only way is up, and are self-motivated, those challenges are soon behind you as the tests become testimonies. \n \nBy comparison people have more human rights here regardless of their status. The wheels of justice grind slow but they do grind fine. Women and children have equal rights with men. Politicians are mostly there to serve not necessarily to exploit. \n \nOpportunities for self-development galore - including being trained to become employable and going to school at any age (sometimes for free while you are still at the bottom of the ladder). There are food banks so you never go hungry if it came to that. The disabled are better treated with dignity. \n \nThere are prolonged parental leaves for both moms and dads for up to 18 months. Commensurate with earnings, parents under certain thresholds are given Canada child tax benefits and other supplements for each child under 18 years of age. \n \nDepending on the number of kids and their ages, the money can add up handsomely. Not to mention that there’s no tuition to pay for primary and high school students. Tuition fees start at post-secondary level. \n \nTo see a doctor is free as it is paid for by taxes. It the meds that you and/or your insurance pays for. Some medical equipments may be paid for by either or both the individual/insurance and the government depending on eligibility. \n \nBy and large, there’s cleanliness of common spaces. There’s also safety and relative peace. At least wherever I have lived, I can’t tell you how many times I forgot to lock my door with impunity. \n \nThere’s a lot more stressful work here in my opinion, but like you said Lynn, systems work a lot more efficiently and effectively. \n \nThe elephant in the room is the extra hard work that those living abroad must put in to fulfil expectations back home. Also known as black tax, the overwhelming financial dependency of relatives on their diasporan loved ones places undue stress on many here, especially because there are no short cuts to getting money here. \n \nAnyway, Lynn, thanks for such a great topical issue you’ve shared. I have to stop here as I have written a lot. Hope this helps someone on this forum. \n \nAnd last but not least, you’ll be proud to hear that even though Canada has been good to me, my face may now be turning towards home to see how I can be of use to mama Africa. Super excited!

Sadly, you have essentially described Vancouver as well. The elephant in the room is immigration. When you count refugees, immigrants, international students, etc. there are about 1 million people coming to the country annually! Even in the 1990s, CSIS even warned the government that high immigration would lead to a housing crisis. And that’s really sad as immigration has now tuned into a net negative for Canada. I personally think it is an invasion at this point. And things are far worse than the 1990s. Honestly, if I wasn’t settled in a place I bought near Vancouver 20 years ago, my family and I would have to seriously make other plans!

The problem actually isn't inflation, at least here in Kenya. Currently inflation went down from 7.3% to 6.8% . The elephant in the room, call it over taxation. Eventually, things will balance out because really, there is so much a government could tax it's citizen before equilibrity is achieved. I opine that we all calm down, relax. Things will fall into place. Just hold on. I'm not one to give hope, but on this issue I'm sure, a utopian settlement is near.

& LET'S REMEMBER THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM - THE CARTELS ARE GETTING RICH & KILLING AMERICANS & CHILDREN ARE BEING TRAFFICKED BC OF GRANDOA JOE PUTTING OUT THE WELCOME MAT!!!!??

You've missed the elephant in the room. Due to the open US/Mexico border and flooding of illegal migrants, the illegal migrants hurt those who've gone through the system legally and have essentially cut in line. If you flood the economy with migrants (both legal and illegal), most who are considered low skill, due to the aforementioned border crisis, it'll drive the wages of Americans down to unlivable levels and cause those who are in the immigration system to continuously be in the perpetual waiting system. By failure to mention this big topic issue, you have done a disservice to this video and have missed key points, rendering this video as incomplete and false. I hope you read this and want to have conversation, thank you.

The real elephant in the room is the cost of housing in Canada

He didn't mention the elephant ? in the room. Guns!!!

Why are we not talking about the big elephant in the room? biden did this.

omg...and nobody talks about the big elephant in the room...all these videos about people leaving Canada, and nobody talks about the main problem, let me give you guys a clue, it has something to do with government measures over the past 2-3 years...

The elephant in the room: Don't normal countries make their own children?

Documentary misses a major issue. PR aspirants taking study visa route and filling up Canadian career colleges is the elephant in the room.

Sweet, 2 white girls speaking about Canada, spoke about everything but coolly ignored the elephant in the room, “ blatant racism “.