John Bolton - Help Me Leave Canada

00:00:00.160 Hi there, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is Monday, December the 9th, down with my big blue mug in my basement around 5 o'clock in the morning.

00:00:08.200 I'm going to go upstairs and I'm going to refresh my coffee soon. This one's getting a little lukewarm.

00:00:12.720 Down here with my cat Blue today. He's going to help me out on this video or be a little bit of a distraction.

00:00:19.780 But, you know, there's a number of things happening in the world right now.

00:00:24.000 Not a lot of things bubbling under as far as politics or worldwide interesting stories.

00:00:29.380 There's probably something coming up later today, but I wanted to talk about an article I saw in True North on their website, tnc.news.

00:00:38.100 True North is a Canadian news organization. Candice Malcolm, a journalist here, started it up a number of years ago.

00:00:43.640 They have a great YouTube channel. You might want to check that out as well.

00:00:46.800 The article is, A Rush to the Exits, Forget Immigration, Canada Has an Emigration Crisis.

00:00:53.180 And the reason I'm bringing this up is because this is something I've thought about in recent years.

00:00:58.140 And I'll get to that in just a moment. I want to read you just one of the paragraphs from this story.

00:01:03.560 Who wrote this? Scott Innes wrote the story, okay?

00:01:07.360 Emigration is the flip side of the immigration issue, a side that has been largely ignored.

00:01:14.020 Statistics Canada estimates that more than 104,000 people left Canada in 2023-2024,

00:01:21.960 a number that has been rising for the past few years.

00:01:25.840 Another study put the number of Canadian citizens living abroad in 2016 at between 2.9 million and 5.5 million,

00:01:34.020 with a medium scenario of 4,038,700, or about 12.6% of the Canadian population that year,

00:01:43.900 the latest for which this kind of analysis exists.

00:01:47.040 That's a lot of people. We've got a population here of about 4 million people.

00:01:51.720 So why am I bringing this up? Because this is something I've thought about quite a bit.

00:01:57.540 It's no secret that I don't like Canada.

00:02:00.600 Now, don't get me wrong. I love Alberta. I love Calgary.

00:02:04.440 You know, where I live in southeast Calgary, if you go east, you're in the prairies.

00:02:09.140 If you go west, you're in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

00:02:11.540 It's an amazing place to live. It really is. I love it here.

00:02:15.480 In fact, whenever I tell people where I'm from, I don't say I'm from Canada.

00:02:19.180 I say from Alberta. All right? I'm from Calgary, Alberta. Proud.

00:02:22.680 And, you know, I lived in Ontario most of my life until 11, 12 years ago.

00:02:26.540 I lived in Ontario, and I would never go back after living here.

00:02:29.560 But I've thought a lot about getting the hell out of Canada.

00:02:33.940 I wish I could take Calgary and Alberta with me.

00:02:36.300 The reason is because, first of all, I hate the weather.

00:02:41.300 You know, I'm not Canadian, and people say Canadian, so you live in, you know, awful weather.

00:02:45.140 It's beautiful in the summertime. I love summer weather.

00:02:47.500 I absolutely love it. I love the heat. My wife doesn't. 0.98

00:02:49.940 I love the heat, but I can't stand winter.

00:02:51.960 As a matter of fact, it's only December 9th right now,

00:02:53.800 and I suffer from a thing called seasonal affective disorder.

00:02:57.080 And I get winter depression, and it's hit me early this year, really early.

00:03:00.960 And I've really got to hold on tight for March, which is months away now, okay?

00:03:06.460 Like, it's really bad.

00:03:08.420 As soon as it starts to get darker, I get gloomier, and it started real early this year.

00:03:14.420 But it's also the cost of living.

00:03:16.540 It's so damn expensive to live in this country right now.

00:03:19.680 Prices are going up all the time.

00:03:20.980 We've got a government that does not care about us.

00:03:23.260 And, you know, I was thinking about this as well yesterday

00:03:25.540 when I saw a video that the Conservative Party of Canada put out

00:03:28.400 regarding the leader of the New Democratic Party here in Canada, Jagmeet Singh.

00:03:32.760 Now, Singh has been propping up Trudeau for a number of years now.

00:03:36.780 And this video they put out is quite stunning

00:03:40.040 because it's Singh complaining constantly about the Liberals

00:03:44.080 and how they're hurting Canadians.

00:03:45.760 But he has been enabling Justin Trudeau for years now

00:03:49.280 to continue to hurt Canadians.

00:03:50.840 And people see it as him just holding on to get a big, fat pension,

00:03:55.460 which will pay off $2.5 million for the rest of his life

00:03:59.260 if he can get through February.

00:04:00.980 So this is kind of where I am right now.

00:04:03.080 Where the hell, or why the hell am I still in this country?

00:04:06.460 I don't like it here anymore.

00:04:08.000 And I would like to leave.

00:04:09.040 I'm like these people in this story from True North.

00:04:11.960 I would like to get out of Dodge.

00:04:13.400 Now, you have to say, well, how are you going to do that?

00:04:15.300 You have to have the means to do that.

00:04:17.060 Well, you know, I'm semi-retired.

00:04:19.060 My wife still works.

00:04:20.940 She works out of our house, so she could work anywhere in the world. 1.00

00:04:25.140 Now, where would I go?

00:04:26.900 Here's the problem.

00:04:28.760 Where would I want to go?

00:04:29.780 Well, I'd like to go south.

00:04:31.220 I'd like to go into a nice red state, a Republican state,

00:04:34.280 down south where it's warm.

00:04:35.940 That would be great.

00:04:36.780 Now, would I want to go to Florida?

00:04:37.980 No, I like living in a place that's got mountains.

00:04:40.620 I lived in a flat place in Ontario for years,

00:04:43.440 and as soon as I moved out here, I was near the mountains,

00:04:46.420 and I love it.

00:04:47.120 So I don't want to go to Florida.

00:04:48.540 I don't want to go to California because it's loopier than Canada

00:04:51.100 when it comes to left wing, or at least it's on par with Canada.

00:04:54.180 But it's so damn expensive to live here,

00:04:55.980 and it's expensive to live in the United States as well.

00:04:58.960 Not as much if you're an American.

00:05:01.880 But I checked out the dollar exchange this morning,

00:05:04.420 and the Canadian dollars were 71 cents

00:05:07.480 against the United States dollar right now.

00:05:10.100 71 cents!

00:05:11.140 I had some friends over on Saturday,

00:05:14.200 and for years we've been talking about going on a mountain bike trip

00:05:16.860 to Moab, Utah.

00:05:18.660 Moab's sort of one of those meccas,

00:05:20.560 kind of on my bucket list for mountain biking.

00:05:22.660 And we were going to do it about four years ago,

00:05:25.160 but unfortunately something happened

00:05:26.520 that kept us from going into the United States at that point.

00:05:29.280 But they were here on Saturday,

00:05:30.620 and I was thinking about,

00:05:31.340 we can't go there, and I mentioned it,

00:05:32.920 we can't go to the United States

00:05:34.700 because our dollar's only worth 71 cents.

00:05:37.640 It's a 30% hit on the dollar.

00:05:39.740 So, you know, for us to move into the United States right now

00:05:42.080 would be absolutely insane.

00:05:43.340 So where do you go?

00:05:44.140 How do you get away from all this insanity?

00:05:46.720 And the big part of the dollar being so weak

00:05:49.420 is the crappy government we've got right now.

00:05:52.060 I was talking to somebody the other day,

00:05:53.680 I think I was taking a cab ride,

00:05:56.440 and they mentioned a few years back,

00:05:58.100 I think it was Stephen Harper was our prime minister at the time,

00:06:00.540 our dollar was on par,

00:06:02.280 or maybe a few cents better than the United States

00:06:04.860 for a very short time.

00:06:06.500 So things are bad here.

00:06:07.840 Canadians are leaving.

00:06:09.180 I want to leave.

00:06:11.320 But do I want to fly overseas?

00:06:13.300 No, I don't think so.

00:06:14.320 I don't think I want to go that far.

00:06:16.180 You know, we have a good relationship with the United States.

00:06:19.160 I feel very much a kinship with Americans.

00:06:21.820 We're very much the same.

00:06:23.640 Except for we live where it's ice cold all the time,

00:06:26.560 almost it seems,

00:06:27.460 or at least, you know, nine months of the year.

00:06:29.280 And here in Calgary,

00:06:30.100 you know, we basically have summer,

00:06:33.180 and then we go into winter pretty quick

00:06:35.040 before spring pops up.

00:06:36.700 So that's just the way I'm feeling.

00:06:38.000 That's a lot of people leaving Canada

00:06:39.740 because people are thinking the same way as me.

00:06:41.880 If you're a Canadian, let me know.

00:06:43.080 If you had this thought,

00:06:44.540 I want to get out of Canada

00:06:45.940 because I just don't like it here anymore.

00:06:48.000 I don't like how much it costs anymore.

00:06:50.000 I want to move somewhere where I feel more free.

00:06:52.340 I haven't got government oppression.

00:06:53.840 I mentioned the other day,

00:06:54.620 I felt like I'm always under attack here.

00:06:56.940 Are you feeling the same way?

00:06:58.060 And if you're from somewhere else, let me know.

00:06:59.960 Is there a good place I can go that's warm?

00:07:03.920 That I don't have to worry about dollar exchange

00:07:06.020 absolutely destroying me

00:07:07.460 with a 30% reduction in salary coming into the house?

00:07:11.300 Let me know what you think.

00:07:12.680 I appreciate you watching very much.

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00:07:20.800 Talk to you again soon.

John Bolton - December 09, 2024

Help Me Leave Canada

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