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2 years, 10 months ago @brendaramsbottom8693 Out of the last seven winters we have spent six of them down in Harlingen, Texas and if my husband could get a green card and medical he would move there in a heartbeat 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @christinelavoie2644 No, not anymore. The place has gone crazy.\nReason number one, way ahead of any other: Violence. Gun culture is out of control, with any Tom, Dick and Harry able to buy assault rifles. Then there is the political violence encouraged and stoked by Trump and his MAGA followers.\nThere is the absolute lunacy of conspiracy theories everywhere, such as QAnon.\nThere is ultra-conservatism and the religious right and what they are doing to human rights.\nThere is the matter of health care. I have a serious chronic condition which would make me uneligible for health insurance.\nI used to love going to the US. My last trip was over 20 years ago to New York City, which I love. I did not realize it a the time, but that was my last time crossing the border. 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @lucymacdonald7601 Alberta wants to separate from Canada and become the 51st state. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @UTU49 The exact words I was thinking:\n\nThere is not a chance in hell of me ever moving to the United States.\n\nReasons.\n#1. Gun culture.\n#2. Health Care.\n#3. Christian Theocracy.\n#4. The Sheer Near Total Insanity of the Republican Party. This includes the state of the Supreme Court, and the current barbaric handling of abortion.\n#5. The racial issues... that are still today influenced by the history of slavery.\n#6. The Issues around the Electoral College that allow a candidate to become president while losing the popular vote. Also the lack of an independent body to oversee elections. That is sheer madness.\n#7. Denser populations, and, as a related issue, greater pollution.\n#8. The Presidential Pardon... which is a concept that seems designed to facilitate the abuse of power.\n#9. Fox News, and the rest of the deeply manipulative right wing media... which I should have put much higher on this list.\n#10. Military spending... which also should probably be higher on this list.\n#11. The myth of American exceptionalism.\n#12. American ignorance of the rest of the world, in general.\n#13. The Criminal Code including the Death Penalty, which was eliminated in Canada many years ago.\n#14. Education.\n#15. The drastically increased potential for political violence ever since Trump entered the political arena. This one also should be higher on the list. The United States could not even get through a transfer of power without violence. This is beyond pathetic. The peaceful transition of power is the #1 job of first-world democracies.\n#16. Attitudes toward social problems such as poverty and drug addiction. \n\nNotice that #4 - #7 could be subdivided into more than one reason.\nI thought this list was going to have 5 or 6 items on it. 4 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @misterwolf9227 Why? juat to have a naighbor from hell...or have some road rager freak out for not letting them in line.. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @coverdalegirl I would move to the US in a minute if it wasn't so difficult to immigrate. At least in the US you do have health care. Health care is practically unavailable here and now they are going to pass a lot to limit our access to vitamins and natural health supplements which I need to survive. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @lasorcieredenovembre695 I live in Québec, borned and raised here too. I would NEVER move to USA. There is no good reason to do that. As a woman, I would fear for my safety, my health and my rights on my body. Hell fucking no. This country feels like it's back to the 1800s with all these guns and archaic laws. The Far West era is far far away behind us, and it should stay right there. It was a very interesting video though :P I enjoy watching your content a lot! 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @lynngalibois1937 Ugh about the restraint against children not being shot everyday....yes there are...... 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @kbwaldron Totally agree with the batshit crazy comment. I’m there every winter many places, and have learned to avoid certain topics. Seemingly normal people are incredibly ignorant on some topics and have rabid beliefs based on virtually no logical data. They just believe it is because someone told them. Too many people are driven by their rabid prejudices. Absolute ignorance. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @snibdogg5057 A member of my family moved to the states but she's a racist Karen so she belongs down there. 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @CanadaBarb1 Listening to your comments about school safety... A Texas family came to Central Canada just prior to covid, for a work related few monthes. Covid hit and they decided to stay here. When their children asked about live shooter drills, the Canadian kids didn't know what they were talking about. Imagine that. ? 53 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @jelau4851 From Montreal here, I,ve been to Florida on five consecutive winters, before Covid, stayed in Pompano (Deerfield area), on day time, I never felt unsafe, but, I was told to never wander outside the resort for an evening walk, sometimes, in the night, we,d hear gunshots popping . This fact itself gives you something to think about. This whole gun violence situation is keeping people from enjoying Life like we should, .I was there (10 minutes away from( when parkland school shooting took place, enough to reinforce our feeling of Insecurity. NO, I would never consider moving to the States 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @hilareeek I have lived in different parts of Canada my whole life, but always seem to end up in majority conservative areas. I do not consider myself a conservative. Even though I don't agree with everyone's politics, I can still live here feeling relatively safe and accepted.\nWhen things get a bit much and I feel like maybe home doesn't feel safe or match my values, I never look at the USA as my exit plan. I have considered Sweden, and Finland before anywhere else. I also wonder if it's just the sheer volume of people that Canadians aren't used to when they visit the states. Your population is massive compared to ours, and it's hard to imagine the quality of life that I have here being easy to emulate down there without drastic changes.\nThen there's my vacation and sick time at work. Maternity leaves etc... so many quality of life things to consider. I look at the housing prices and really wish I could get over the other things. But as a Medical Laboratory Technologist, I could never work in your fee for service word. I know what hospital CEOs are doing to your healthcare from the diagnostic side - the shortcuts that are being made to make more money - and I could never do that with my ethics.\nI hope Canada wasn't too rough on you - we can be pretty shitty some times lol... and not even be sorry about it. 6 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @Adde-jp7eb Swedish man here. I need to say many people I know in my country are quite worried by the number of school shootings you have each year. But I should not be surprised with your 350 mil+ population and gun laws. And we are also seeing these problems increase in Sweden these recent years, and all of Europe. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @Zartren Well, despite many of the answers here, there are more Canadians emigrating to the US than Americans immigrating here. Considering the population difference, the disparity is huge. To make things worse, most of the emigrants are highly educated in specialized industries. Often, it's for economical reasons as income in some industries is ridiculously higher in the US than anywhere else in the world, Canada included. This brain drain is one of the reasons cited for the expected poor economic growth for Canada in the coming decade, at least compared to other developed nations. The one saving grace here is that there are a lot more qualified immigrants coming in from other countries than Canadian emigrants. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @CeliaHakusho Sorry but no. You can’t excuse racism as a geographic thing. Maybe you have not personally noticed or experienced overt racism as a white male, it does not mean it is not occuring. Racism is so systemically embedded in our culture and instutions. I’m not saying Canada is better but please don’t disregard it as a personal experience thing. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @jonsim942 Spend the winter there in a snowbird white area. Can’t wait to get home in April. Guns medical cost an political fighting had changed the U.S. 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @AngeliqueNewman-bk2sh In my opinion before Prime Minister Trudeau Canada was a much better place to live. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @jerryeberts3726 Where in the U.S. has there been no gun violence? It is everywhere. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @jerryeberts3726 Tyler, you are so repetitive. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @jerryeberts3726 I was born & raised in Vancouver. Spent four months in Houston, Tx. Was threatened with a pistol once & a sawn-off shotgun once. Cops very, very aggressive. Overall, that’s an awful city. This was back in 1980 & I can only assume it’s much worse today. 2 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @anitamackeigan108 I think the US has lots of interesting places and practices; unfortunately, they also have batshit crazies like Marjorie Greene. That's enough to keep most of us on this side of the border, LOL. On a sad note, in 2022 the US had 51 school shootings. I love my American neighbours (yes, it has a u), but I don't think I could ever feel safe there. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @machiajenni My Canadian son and his girlfriend, both in their early 30's, have visited the USA many times. Each time they go, I worry constantly that something bad will happen to them (shot, injured or sick). My brother and his wife have a condo in Florida and I worried that during COVID they'd catch it and die because of DeSantis' batshit crazy policies, making Florida a cesspool of virus. Now he wants to turn it into Gilead. His wife clearly desires to become Serena from The Handmaid's Tale. Too bad because I used to love Florida. I'm also worried sick that if Trump is elected President again, he'll somehow cause such a catastrophe the like of which has never been seen before, and it will affect Canada too. Basically, as a neighbour of the US, I'm constantly worried all the time. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @robertjohnston8876 I always enjoyed a visit to the States. Not now\nMillions of people worship Trump\nThat tells me millions of people are as crazy as he is\nLove travel within Canada and the U.K. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @dee4607 I would be back in Canada in a flash if my children weren’t settled here. The politics, gun culture, religious extremism, healthcare costs are unbearable. Having said that, I have a good life but miss my culture and that Canada generally puts people before greed. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @almar8874 Would I move to the US? HELL NO! I wouldn't even go there for a day trip. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @DallasLaxton I would love to move to the USA. In a heartbeat 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @kymhocaluk9408 No freaking way. ❤️?? 3 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @EpiphAnnies Nope. I don't even want to travel there on vacation anymore. ❤?? 5 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @MargaretShane I visited the US often. People and places are wonderful. But the culture of fear and despair that permeates everything is exhausting. By day 4, I'm ready to return to Canada. 16 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @drdelewded 45 year old Canadian.. plan to move to the USA as soon as I can 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @pierrelarocque3214 No way, I have been a Canadian snowbird for 12 years, sold my house in southwest Florida and I am very happy, too many guns, out of control political extremism, and God created every one equal, not Americans first and then the rest of the world. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @GaryTheGray 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). 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @starbuckapollo I feel like you guys are the reason our kids have lock down drills up here....let that sink in for a minute 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @vincentprice4076 Buddy, give your head a shake. There have been almost 400 mass shootings in the US since the begging of the year and during the last long weekend. And “you are not going there” now that governments dictate what women are allowed to do with their bodies. You have learned nothing from doing this series. Nothing. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @stoverboo I moved from the US to Canada in the eighties, and I've never considered moving back. 3 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @dawnmccormick9387 I'm an American who moved to Canada. Would I ever move back? Probably not. The US is so screwed up right now that I can't imagine ever moving back into that malstrom. Most Americans don't realize the laughing stock Trump has made of the US. Trudeau isn't great but Donald Trump makes Trudeau look like a saint. And socialized medicine, while imperfect still beats the US medical insurance situation. Less litter, less congestion and more politeness. That's Canada compared to the US. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @collinsmith2872 its not that there are school shootings its the fact you wont do anything about it. assault weapons are designed for war not home defense or hunting. you have the right to bear arms, just not every kind. there are thousands of different guns you can own .some should be not allowed .that doesnt infringe on your rights. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @Jayjay-ji7ty I'd move if my wife would but she's not very smart 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @billschmut8736 Not on your life…or mine…USA has no health care and at least three guns per person… 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @Jasenspeed401 U.S. Ranks Last Among Seven Countries on Health System Performance Measures \n \nDespite having the most expensive health care system, the United States ranks last overall compared with six other industrialized countries—Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—on measures of quality, efficiency, access to care, equity, and the ability to lead long, healthy, and productive lives, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. 2 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @paulmakinson1965 The US is the only developed nation with dropping life expectancy and one of the highest maternal mortality rates. The first cause of death for children and teenagers is from gunshot.\nThe US is great if you are rich and healthy and like to live in a closed neighborhood. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @MelioraCogito 2022 *OECD* data comparing educational attainment outcomes around the world ranked *Canada* as 1st with *62.0%* of Canadians, age 25-64, holding a Post Secondary (tertiary) 2-year diploma or 4-year degree (68.4% women; 55.5% men); 31.1% of Canadians holding only a Secondary School (High School) diploma and 6.9% of having only a Primary School education level.\n\nThe *U.S.A.* ranks 6th in the world with 50.1% of Americans, age 25-64, holding a Post Secondary diploma/degree (54.3% women; 46.2% men); 41.4% of Americans holding only a Secondary School diploma and 8.3% having only a Primary School education level.\n\nIn the Post Secondary (tertiary) 25-34 year old age group, Canada ranks 2nd with *66.4%* (75.0% women; 58.0% men) behind S. Korea with *69.3%* (75.9% women / 63.5% men). The U.S.A. ranks 12th with 51.2% (56.9% women; 45.6% men).\n\nIn the Post Secondary, 55-64 age group, Canada ranks at the top with 51.7% (55.1% women; 48.2% men) and the U.S.A. ranking 5th with 45.4% (47.7% women; 42.8% men). 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @scubabecky I pay 0$ per month for healthcare in Canada. I had 12 months of maternity leave for my son. I’m terrified that someone would ‘pew pew’ me or someone I love. And most importantly, people take their dirty af shoes off when they enter my home. Oh…and many American people are just not educated about the rest of the planet and this would drive me nuts. 2 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @caseythiessen1646 Big reason for me is so many people in the US are at all times, fully prepared to harm or kill a person at a moments notice, carrying guns and knives everywhere they go.\n\nI've had friends who hitch hiked and would carry pocket knives for protection, but otherwise it's not normalized in our culture to get physical over altercations.\n\nThe US just feels like some people will pull out a gun for any small inconvenience, road rage, stranger at the door, homeless person acting weird, random argument, people just go all out on each other. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @caseythiessen1646 As a Canadian I think too many Americans are moving here. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @c.lyttle3017 You hit the nail on the head about Canadians being afraid of guns. You are too accustomed to the violence of guns in American society. Canadians are aghast that USA does not protect children and we are utterly thankful and appreciative that we do not need to worry about the safety of kids. That provides us a sense of peace. I used to enjoy the states (been to many), but I won't even visit now. Your politics have gone screwy. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @danielfrosh7598 My wife and I have talked about moving away from Winnipeg. We've floated a lot of ideas, but there were places where we'd have to learn a new language that ranked higher than moving just a short drive south, into the USA. We'd need to have a damn good reason to even consider it. 6 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @MerryWidow420 It's not that we're afraid of your guns. It's YOUR fear that we worry about. I don't know anyone who thinks that American gun culture is normal. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @foamyesque The only reason, in general, is the money. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
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