Who Did You Vote For?

Trudeau's Canada:

Canada has the highest household debt to disposable income level of any G7 country, according to newly released Statistics Canada data.

Canadian households’ debt-to-income ratio has reached 185 percent—roughly 35 percent above the United Kingdom and nearly 85 percent higher than the United States, StatCan said in its Feb. 28 report. That means Canadians owe $1.85 for every dollar they make after taxes.

That’s up 17 points from the 168 percent ratio in 2018 and is a 119-point leap from 1980’s rate of 66 percent.

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Hundreds of people lined up in the cold and rain outside a Kingston health clinic for hours Wednesday morning, desperate to find a doctor.

It marked the second day this week a line stretched for blocks outside CDK Family Medicine and Walk-In Clinic on Sutherland Drive after the clinic announced it would be accepting new patients.

Prospective patients who filled out a re-registration form online were told to come to the clinic to “roster” starting Monday.

After seeing a line that stretched three blocks Monday afternoon, Dylan Beltrami decided to wait for a better chance at getting in.

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But you came here, anyway, and you and your confreres had no intention of making Canada your home:

When Raghunath Poshala immigrated to Canada from India in 2018, he was promised a better life for himself and his family.

"Everybody said it's a first world country — education and healthcare are free. So, I thought it'd be a better place for us to raise a family," the 39-year-old explained over the phone.

He didn't expect to spend the next five years struggling to find a well-paying job in his field that could support his family, let alone afford housing and the overall soaring cost of living in Canada.

"There is no living in this country; it's just surviving," he answered in a December survey that asked Canadian immigrants to share their stories.

Because of this, Poshala and his family are seriously considering leaving Canada.

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Fewer immigrants are applying for citizenship despite record immigration, new data show. Statistics Canada yesterday said it was at a loss to explain a 30-point drop in citizenship rates: “At this point the reasons are not well known.”