Pierre Poilievre says new immigrants are warning people off Canada — but are they?
In a 10-minute video posted by Nishant Kalia, a Calgary-based YouTuber and recent immigrant who runs the In The North – Canada channel, discusses the possibility of a recession, rising rents and layoffs as he walks the streets of the city with his partner.
“If you think life in Canada would be glamorous from the very beginning, you would be making tons of money and buying multiple properties within three to five years as you see on YouTube, then that’s not the reality for majority of the immigrants,” he said in the December post, entitled Should you move to Canada in 2023?
His partner chips in and asks prospective newcomers to be ready to work two jobs and be reliant on different “income streams” to survive. She added that people should “reconsider” their decision to immigrate if they are already making a good living and not spending “too much” on rent in their respective hometowns.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre thinks that kind of video is part of an ongoing internet trend that has immigrants trying to discourage others from moving to Canada.
“There’s actually an internet phenomenon now, where immigrants are warning potential newcomers at how unaffordable and dangerous life is in Canada,” he said at an Ottawa press briefing on Aug. 1, amid a series of statements against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s immigration policies.
But that’s not quite what the admins of five popular social media channels in Canada say. They regularly post videos primarily linked to immigration and have at least 100,000 subscribers or followers, but said they’re more interested in showing the realities of moving to this country rather than warning people to stay away.
Take Kalia, who moved to Canada in 2019. He said he isn’t against
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