Juno News - Canadians are BREAKING DOWN under Trudeau's cost of living crisis

00:00:00.000 if you've spent any time on social media over say the last two or three weeks you've likely

00:00:11.360 come across videos that look like this i can't function anymore financially i just

00:00:22.880 i don't understand anymore where where are we supposed to live where can i live

00:00:27.120 in a place where i'm able to enjoy my life as well because i'm not enjoying it here i feel

00:00:34.720 so utterly stuck i don't know what to do anymore how the hell is anyone existing in canada like i

00:00:41.280 just i feel trapped but the cost of living is outrageous in canada it's just so frustrating

00:00:46.960 that like you do all the right things you go to university and then you come out you get a job

00:00:50.080 whatever and you can barely afford rent life in canada is now so miserable depressing and

00:00:56.160 demoralizing that well-educated and hard-working canadians are now filming themselves breaking

00:01:01.680 down crying and on the verge of just giving up because despite doing everything they were told

00:01:06.560 growing up to work hard to get educated and to save money the basic necessities in life are slipping

00:01:12.400 through their hands food prices continue to hit record highs rental prices in canada are also at

00:01:18.560 record highs the idea of owning a home forget it house prices rose again last month and even if you

00:01:24.800 do own a home mortgage costs have spiked over 30 another record but something doesn't seem right

00:01:30.640 the people that are in charge of this country you know the same people that caused this problem to

00:01:34.320 begin with look as though they're now taking victory laps on top of the dead dreams of struggling canadians

00:01:40.000 according to christia freeland wage growth has been outpacing inflation for the past six months and

00:01:45.840 that canada's debt to gdp ratio is the best in the g7 and according to justin trudeau can't you just

00:01:55.280 feel how much better we're all doing experts and economists have been yelling the solution as loud

00:02:00.400 as they can cut immigration into this country continuing to bring in record numbers of people 0.99

00:02:06.240 when supply can't keep pace with demand is a recipe for disaster but the immigration extremists that run 1.00

00:02:13.200 canada have no interest in heeding the calls of people who are much smarter than them it's really

00:02:18.240 too bad because the people who are hurt most by their reckless commitment to record immigration 0.74

00:02:22.960 aren't the ones in charge it's the people pleading for help on social media drop a like in the

00:02:27.600 video help us out with subscribing to the true north youtube channel and the common question for

00:02:31.360 the episode is this has life ever been more difficult for you than it is today let me know in

00:02:36.880 the comments and let's get into it take a look at this video which was posted a few days ago which

00:02:42.160 now has over 7 million views i want to know how the hell people in canada are even living

00:02:50.560 i generally consider myself a positive person well i know i'll never truly be homeless like i have

00:02:56.320 family to live with and you know like i have options like i'm luckier than a lot of other people but

00:03:03.280 how the hell is anyone existing in canada like i just i feel trapped and like like i just got a good

00:03:12.480 job i started in september but even with that job it pays less than 40 grand a year and it's a job

00:03:19.680 that requires like education and even on that job like i still can't do i can't buy anything i can't

00:03:25.920 afford the rent these days like i'm just i'm i'm just feeling so much despair like how is everyone

00:03:35.680 else and are you okay because the answer is probably no and i know i'm lucky i don't i don't have kids i

00:03:42.080 have like good family that will support me but i just i feel like i can't stay here

00:03:50.160 that i can't move anywhere else take that in for a minute think about the levels of hopelessness

00:03:57.200 of despair and depression someone has to be in to film themselves crying and breaking down and

00:04:02.720 begging for help people are being pushed to the edge in this country and none of it is normal one

00:04:07.520 thing that she said which really shocked me was when she said she was lucky to not have children

00:04:13.360 being this woman's age and not having children is not lucky it's horribly depressing and sad and if 1.00

00:04:18.880 you thought that was bad take a look at this video viewed more than 12 million times i'm having a day

00:04:28.400 or i'm having a life i don't know man i just don't know what to do anymore i'm sitting outside work

00:04:35.840 crying my eyes out in my vehicle because i can't function anymore financially i just

00:04:44.720 i don't understand anymore i don't understand how i make 34 an hour and i can't function

00:04:57.280 i can't function i can't pay my bills i am

00:05:04.640 i can't even literally keep gas in my car to get to work three days a week

00:05:10.800 because i can't afford it like i get paid and it goes to car mortgage

00:05:19.440 a couple little bills

00:05:23.200 and then maybe 80 in food for the week and i literally only buy groceries on my daughter's home now

00:05:31.360 on the weeks that she goes with her dad which is monday to monday what i've started doing is i buy a

00:05:40.800 loaf of rye bread and i work really hard to keep that one loaf of rye bread lasting me the whole week

00:05:46.800 34 an hour can barely survive and has to rely on maintaining a loaf of rye bread for a week here's

00:05:54.080 another one so i live in ontario and i need someone to tell me the pros and cons of living in america

00:06:01.360 because at this point canada just ain't it it's just like not it anymore like the the cost of living

00:06:09.200 it's just it's too much the wages are staying the same i can't afford to move out i'm 24 and i'm

00:06:15.760 embarrassed that i can't move out i can't leave my toxic household so what am i supposed to do where

00:06:21.040 where am i supposed to go what are the pros and cons of living in america and everyone's like oh

00:06:24.320 canada's so great this and that it's not anymore so where do we go at this point where where are we

00:06:30.560 supposed to live where can i live in a place where i'm able to enjoy my life as well because i'm not

00:06:38.320 enjoying it here i feel so utterly stuck i don't know what to do anymore you go to school you get a

00:06:46.400 degree and you're still not guaranteed a job 60k a year that used to be like a decent amount of money

00:06:51.680 not anymore so where do we go what are the pros and cons of living in america because i need to get

00:06:55.840 out of here goes to school works hard gets a degree finds a job for 60 000 a year and can barely

00:07:02.160 get by you notice a common theme in each one of these videos each person making this desperate plea

00:07:07.440 for help on tiktok has done everything they were told to do to work hard to save their money not to spend

00:07:13.200 like crazy not to live above their means doesn't matter because life is now so difficult and so

00:07:18.240 miserable that they can't keep up with anything the reason these videos have gone so viral is

00:07:23.680 because these videos are so relatable to the average canadian this is how canadians are feeling

00:07:28.640 right now they can't keep up with the cost of living and the comments underneath these videos 1.00

00:07:33.680 speak to that point exactly it's completely absurd the entire situation the absolute idiots in 1.00

00:07:40.240 charge keep shoveling in refugees and immigrants by the hundreds of thousands and into the major 1.00

00:07:45.360 cities no less not realizing that in three to four months time the country will become a frigid

00:07:50.000 wasteland this isn't california sleeping outside in a tent with your summer clothes on ain't gonna

00:07:55.200 suffice i'm lucky i don't have kids is the saddest part of this i completely agree if that's the

00:08:01.840 state of our country how do we even think this nation will survive we just moved our adult

00:08:06.720 daughter in with us because her rent was well over 2500 per month one bedroom 900 square feet 0.98

00:08:14.480 that's it struggling like never before unable to pay for groceries rent and basically anything else

00:08:21.360 well that doesn't make any sense because our prime minister back in march told us that canadians are

00:08:25.600 doing better than before we believe in investing in the middle class and people working hard to join it

00:08:30.400 and that's why canadians are doing better than they were before maybe the depressed and demoralized

00:08:36.320 canadians making these videos on social media and the millions of canadians that relate to these videos

00:08:41.600 are just experiencing inflation differently and again how could these canadians really be struggling

00:08:46.160 that badly when christia freeland this week told reporters that wage growth in canada has been outpacing

00:08:52.640 inflation for the past six months at five percent wage growth outpaced inflation in july just as it has

00:09:00.080 done for the past six months and at just 5.5 unemployment is near historic lows oh and last

00:09:08.080 month while that one woman was living off of one loaf of rye bread per week and having to conserve her 1.00

00:09:13.280 gas to go to her job where she makes 34 an hour and can barely survive christia freeland wanted to remind 1.00

00:09:19.200 all canadians that canada's inflation rate was the lowest in the g7 and to go with it she wanted to 0.73

00:09:24.080 remind us someone that canada's plan to fight inflation was working of course it is the reality

00:09:29.760 is that inflation in canada is out of control not like you really needed me to tell you that

00:09:34.320 inflation rose again in canada last month up 3.3 percent grocery prices continued to rise at eight and a

00:09:41.360 half percent mortgage costs were up thirty percent and electricity was up eleven percent oh and rent in

00:09:47.920 canada is at an all-time high up twenty one percent from july of 2021 average cost of rent in this

00:09:54.080 country over two thousand dollars a month but what's behind this out of control spike in the cost of

00:09:59.600 living well it's not because of the global response to the pandemic as some in the government like to

00:10:04.160 remind us it's not because of the war in ukraine as justin trudeau likes to remind us in fact

00:10:09.040 according to many experts it's because of record high levels of immigration two days ago scotia

00:10:14.800 bank's vice president and head of capital market economics said that canada's record high immigration

00:10:21.040 is spiking inflation as he says alas no one will win a noble prize in economics for observing that

00:10:27.520 when you add a massive surge of immigration into a market with no supply rents and housing prices will

00:10:33.040 push higher the argument that immigration could invoke balanced effects on demand and supply side

00:10:38.320 pressures on inflation that cancel each other out was never sensible and we're getting the kind of

00:10:43.600 persistent housing inflation i've warned about since last year when immigration numbers were skyrocketing

00:10:49.920 real estate experts in this country are saying the exact same thing want to buy a home here in canada

00:10:55.760 forget it last month royal le page warned canadians that house prices will again rise to eight and a

00:11:02.240 half percent by the end of the year according to them the national aggregate home price calculated from

00:11:07.680 the median of all housing types is projected to rise eight and a half percent to eight hundred and

00:11:13.120 twenty one thousand four hundred and fifty four dollars by the end of the year up from seven

00:11:18.080 hundred and fifty seven thousand one hundred dollars in the fourth quarter of 2022 that is up

00:11:23.280 significantly from the four and a half percent increase royal le page predicted in its april survey

00:11:28.720 when it said that prices would end the year at seven hundred and ninety one thousand one hundred and seventy

00:11:33.840 dollars the company said an ongoing shortage of listings and demand from immigration mean pressure

00:11:40.320 on prices will continue to build bankers and real estate experts are sounding the alarm on record high

00:11:46.080 levels of immigration driving up the cost of living making life miserable for canadians here in our 1.00

00:11:52.160 country but the federal government doesn't care in fact their die-hard commitment to immigration

00:11:57.360 seems unwavering at this point what we're seeing is a federal government willing to sacrifice the future of

00:12:02.720 canadians in order to bolster gdp numbers to make sure that more jobs are added to the economy when in

00:12:09.120 reality the majority of these jobs are low skilled jobs which suppress the wages of canadians as christia

00:12:15.760 freeland always likes to remind us canada's debt to gdp ratio is the lowest in the g7 that's why the budget

00:12:22.800 i've tabled today will enable canada to remain the country with the lowest debt to gdp ratio in

00:12:32.720 the g7 continuing to focus on that metric gdp while cost of living spikes for canadians and while

00:12:39.920 quality of life plummets and while social cohesion is destroyed by mass immigration is the equivalent 1.00

00:12:45.840 to saying graph goes up world more gooder that's the kind of thinking that has led us to where we

00:12:50.880 are today this is the kind of leadership that results in people making videos like this where

00:12:55.440 despite working hard doing everything they're told they can't afford to live in this country anymore

00:13:00.960 they're lucky to not have families is that the kind of canada that we want where people have

00:13:05.360 to leave this country behind the country of their own ancestors just to get by it's a sickening

00:13:11.600 disgrace if you ask me all right ratio of the week time the winner this week is journalist teresa

00:13:19.120 right you see teresa right thought it would be a good idea to ask pierre polyev this question

00:13:24.240 hello mr polyev um a number of your own comments and actions have been um characterized as dog

00:13:30.480 whistling to the far right by who by a number of different but i think it's been characterized by

00:13:37.440 that way but are you trying to sort are are you trying to clarify sorry i just need to clarify by

00:13:42.320 who by a number of different experts and a number of who are the experts who work who who are the

00:13:48.800 experts okay well i think it's been established that this is this is a concern are you trying to

00:13:54.000 court the far-right vote i'm sorry who are these experts you say that there are experts who are saying

00:13:58.160 this who are they my question is are you trying to court sorry i'm sorry that your question uh

00:14:04.480 seems to be based on a false premise you can't even tell me who these experts are it sounds like

00:14:09.760 it's just a cbc smear job ah yes those experts the experts that no one can seem to be able to name

00:14:15.680 or source funny how that happens i guess she wasn't expecting a conservative to show a backbone 0.99

00:14:20.720 and confront a journalist for asking such a stupid question i have to say it's quite refreshing to 0.99

00:14:25.440 watch an interaction like that some of these journalists need to be put in their place anyway 1.00

00:14:29.440 teresa wright thought that it would be a good idea after getting humiliated by pierre polyev to id

00:14:34.960 herself to show the world that she was in fact the journalist who asked that fantastic question she's

00:14:40.240 really proud of her journalism here she says i tried to ask pierre polyev whether he is trying to court the

00:14:45.600 far-right vote he would not answer the question saying my question sounded like a cbc smear job and a

00:14:50.960 distraction from the real issues well it is a cbc smear job and of course it is a distraction from

00:14:56.160 the real issues after all when was the last time teresa wright ever asked justin trudeau or jagmeet

00:15:01.280 singh if they court the far-left vote in canada the ratio on this tweet is exceptional 7494 replies to

00:15:10.320 only 3280 likes shannon boshi responded to this saying you know one of the most fundamental human

00:15:17.440 rights is that when you're accused of something to know who your accuser is if you can't name

00:15:21.760 the accusers here it looks like you're just making stuff up good for him for calling you out on your

00:15:26.480 lies sean rickard wrote this i'd sit down before you publicly humiliate yourself any further and tim

00:15:33.120 hortons is hiring and look at this comment over 2 000 likes you were completely unprepared and burned

00:15:39.760 a bridge with the next pm you weren't ready with any quotes from notable experts only vague innuendo

00:15:45.280 colored by your personal biases that was a shameful display on your part and it's clear you're not

00:15:50.080 deserving of his respect very well put all right everyone that's going to do it for us this week on

00:15:54.800 the show thank you so much for tuning in my name is harrison faulkner and this is ratio

Juno News - August 17, 2023

Canadians are BREAKING DOWN under Trudeau's cost of living crisis

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