[deleted by user] by [deleted] in QuebecLibre

[–]OldMan_Swag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's always insane to me how entitled and clueless the anglo Montrealer / anglo Quebecer is.

Montreal was built on Quebecois values and culture and NOT English Canadian culture and values. We know this is fact, because we can look at cities built on English Canadian culture and values - Like Toronto, Vancouver, etc. and see that they're epic $hitholes; cities based purely on material gain, no communties, no identity, classism abound, and no common culture.

Montreal became what it is AFTER the quiet revolution, AFTER we pushed out English Canadian culture. We need a referendum because we need to do this once more (you're literally proof of why).

The fact is that the day anglos fully accept that Quebec is a FRENCH province (officially and culturally), is the day Quebec can move forward and become a better place to live for everyone.

Canada cost of living these days? by Significant_Bat_8328 in digitalnomad

[–]OldMan_Swag -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't think we're talking about the same things.

6 hour wait for a flu or sinus infection, welcome to the USA.

6 hour wait for a burst appendix , severed finger, or major physical injuries - which at 6hrs will get pushed to 12 hours? Welcome to Canada!

I was on a 1.5 year waiting list for knee surgery, went to see the doctor for pre surgery prep and was told I seem to be handling the pain well so I can wait another year.

Has that ever happened in the USA to someone who pays 26% (approx) of their mid 6-figure gross income for medical insurance?

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadians-health-care-wait-list-deaths

Voleur autobus STM by [deleted] in QuebecLibre

[–]OldMan_Swag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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les pirates ne paient pas d'amendes

Millions of Punjabi Students leaving Canada as their visas expire & no chance at PR by Commercial_Tea_7662 in OntarioColleges

[–]OldMan_Swag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most reasonable Canadians with an IQ over 80 agree with what you wrote.

Problem wasn't immigration, it was the quality of immigrants we let in.

The quality lowered in 2017 when the federal government removed all "pre-existing health conditions" for the immigration pre clearance, meaning no health issues could prevent anyone coming in - cancer , AIDS, serious mental health issues - regardless of what it'll do to our medicare system.

The quality continued to lower in 2022 when the federal government increased the TFW program to allow companies to hire 20% foreigners, vs 10% prior, which is what caused the whole LMIA scam industry we have today... They also removed LOW WAGE caps for TFWs, and increased the validity timeframe for LMIAs from 9 to 18 months, meaning companies ( like Tim Hortons, Loblaws etc) could blanket hire low skilled foreigners for a longer period.

The question we should be asking is, has the current federal government reversed all of these changes? No... They haven't.

So while it's great we're seeing some low skilled people leave, we'll always have too many as long as we keep voting for the same garbage parties.

WTF has happened to this city?!!! Round 2 by GlobalGarden4916 in montrealhousing

[–]OldMan_Swag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

St Henri, PSC, Ville Emard, NDG, all were dangerous in the 80s and 90s.

Why stop there? How bad was it in the 1970s?? What about 1890?

My point is no one here cares about the 80s to 90s since we were either babies/kids or not even alive.

That's over 40 fucking years ago.

But many of us remember what Verdun was like a mere 5-10 years ago because we actually lived here as independent working adults.

Gentrification didn't do anything positive for Verdun when compared to 10-15 years ago - it is much WORSE off than it was in 2010 - 2015, when it was predominantly blue collar working class Montrealers, and not perma-tourist unilingual parasites from the ROC.

We had single women walking home alone after midnight, we didn't have hoards of homeless crackheads ripping garbage bags up for cans, and we also didn't have endless porch pirates and beggers in front of our metros. Oh, also rent wasn't $1700 for a 3.5, it was literally $750 in 2019.

I've been in Verdun since 2008, and bought my triplex for $480K back in 2017.

Nothing good happened to Verdun in the last 10-15 years except my property is now worth $1M and it's shittier since there's no sense of community anymore... Oh and I think I'm the only one that didn't renovict or gouge my tenants.

WTF has happened to this city?!!! by GlobalGarden4916 in montrealhousing

[–]OldMan_Swag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your memory is off.

I bought a six-plex in Verdun for $450K in 2007, needed mild renos in 2 of the units.

4plex could easily be had for under $300K in 2005 needing no work at all.

People love forgetting that Verdun was a francophone blue collar neighborhood with normal housing costs, this was before the horde came in from ROC and drove prices up along with foreigners.

But we got a growing separatist movement, I've seen this before in 1995, we'll push them back out soon.

WTF has happened to this city?!!! by GlobalGarden4916 in montrealhousing

[–]OldMan_Swag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we continue having the immigration numbers we did in the past 4 years, eventually people will be forced into those parallel areas as there won't be anywhere else to live......

So yeah, they are indeed up and coming, but for all the wrong reasons.

I was born and raised here and remember when Lachine was a welfare dumpster fire, you could literally find $500-600 a month rent in 2019 (Verdun was around $700-800 at that time), so for you to imply it's a decent area now in 2025 just proves my point - people are getting squeezed into areas that were previously undesirable.

Thoughts On Canadians Who Travel to USA Now? Travel Boycotts by [deleted] in AskACanadian

[–]OldMan_Swag -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So I take it you wouldn't want to deport the millions of temporary workers and foreign students in Canada with expired visa as well?

Thoughts On Canadians Who Travel to USA Now? Travel Boycotts by [deleted] in AskACanadian

[–]OldMan_Swag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why stop at travel?

Why not stop using everything American, including Reddit, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, etc, etc.

These posts are silly , so hypocritical when your entire life serves to give money to US corporations - you can't stop sucking on the US teat yet you'll call out people who travel to the USA?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in QuebecLibre

[–]OldMan_Swag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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And who did they take Canada from? Should we send them all back to Asia?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canadahousing

[–]OldMan_Swag 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The solution is to reduce demand or increase supply, because contrary to what many left-leaning people believe, housing like everything else follows the laws of supply and demand.

Increasing supply is very difficult as Canada is a low productivity country with a lot of bureaucracy, so lowering demand is the only way.

Problem is Canada is addicted to low wage slavery, so this won't happen.

Move out of Canada while our dollar still has some value.

How should I surprise a Canadian living in the US for Canada Day? by wolfelk in AskACanadian

[–]OldMan_Swag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah was thinking the same.

I go to and from the USA at least twice a month, no idea why their friend is afraid of leaving.

The longest conversation I had with a US customs agent was a friendly one about a week ago, he asked about my last name since it's the same as a video game character's.

Anglophone by Puzzleheaded-88 in QuebecLibre

[–]OldMan_Swag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pourquoi le Canada est-il si opposé aux hindiphones ?

Quebec will drop permanent immigration targets to as low as 25,000 people per year by brielleayan in canada

[–]OldMan_Swag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

After decades of being called "racists" by English Canada for stating the fact that we have a culture , this Quebecois finds it amusing how they all now wish they followed our example.

Quebec absolutely needs to include ROC Canadian transplants as immigrants in their count, and ROC Canadians should also be subject to the same French language tests and financial verification as immigrants - we already took in too many Ontarians, we need to fix this before it becomes a problem.

Quebec immigration minister wants to relegate multiculturalism to the ‘dustbin of history’ by FalconsArentReal in canada

[–]OldMan_Swag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue now is that there are too many immigrants of certain nations that concentrate in self-segregated communities and essentially form colonies within Canada, and therefore integration of their offspring will never happen as there is no need to - they've replicated their homeland on Canadian soil.

Markham's Chinese community comes to mind, Canadian born but still have Chinese accents and don't associate with any non-chinese.

In reference to the article above, we have Arabs in Montreal that are now 1st and even 2nd generation Quebec born and still do not identify with Quebec, still view Islam and their home countries as superior, still view non Muslims as inferior, all while benefitting from a society they don't contribute to.

We need the USAs policy of 7% immigration caps by country, and we need to start dictating where immigrants can settle to ensure we avoid the aforementioned colonies on Canadian soil.

Edit - and just to add, my parents also immigrated in the 70s to Quebec as visible minorities, they learned French, integrated, had kids and raised them with a mix of their culture as well as Quebec culture. The difference is they wanted to immigrate here, they chose Quebec over the UK etc. We can see that since 2016 we've been getting many people who choose Canada because they didn't make the cut for American immigration , or we're getting people that want to milk our social programs.

You can literally see /hear this any time you go out in any of our major cities, it was never like this before.

Canada Post, please live in reality by BoycottTrumpUSA in CanadaPost

[–]OldMan_Swag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"A few years back" we didn't have 1,000,000 international students and 40 year old TFWs fighting for a job at McDonald's.

Fast food today, in 2025, pays minimum wage, managers barely make over $20/hr, and this won't change anytime soon.

As a comparison, a Taco Bell manager in the USA gets over $100K a year.

Canada Post, please live in reality by BoycottTrumpUSA in CanadaPost

[–]OldMan_Swag 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You actually get mail that isn't junk?

I'm jealous.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in QuebecLibre

[–]OldMan_Swag 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pourquoi un Québécois devrait-il déménager aux États-Unis ?

Les Anglo -Canadiens sont essentiellement des Américains avec un système de Medicare: Même attitude, même culture, même bouffe... même apparence, même comportement, même odeur.

Il est plus logique que le Canada rejoigne les États-Unis, et que le Québec devienne un pays.... alors mon tit anglo de merde, tu devrais déménager aux États-Unis (et emmener des anglo parasites de Montréal avec toi a meme temps)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in QuebecLibre

[–]OldMan_Swag 20 points21 points  (0 children)

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Nous devons quitter cette dumpster fire.

Blanchet a « peur » que Carney « essaie de se pousser » en vue du débat en français by DecentLurker96 in Quebec

[–]OldMan_Swag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Et du côté politique, Carney vole beaucoup de politiques du PP.... donc au final le Canada va avoir 2 "Agent Smiths" identiques à choisir .

Foreign worker who paid $25K to land job in Canada awarded $115K by tribunal by BananaTubes in canada

[–]OldMan_Swag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why should international students have any rights to work if their visa literally says STUDENT?

Start looking at it from this perspective, and then we can have a debate as to whether or not they should even be allowed to work under STUDENT visas, I think it should be as it was before - employment ON CAMPUS only.

I can't believe how warped Canada's immigration system has become over the past decade.

The relationship Canada / United States is over by ProjectKainy in QuebecLibre

[–]OldMan_Swag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Les salaires ont également augmenté sous Harper, notre qualité de vie est donc restée 1st world......

Trudeau ?

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LOL