Despite Canada's reputation for universal healthcare and higher quality of life, the country is experiencing a severe cost of living crisis where average household income of $74,000 CAD is insufficient to cover basic expenses, with housing costs consuming over 50% of take-home pay, food prices rising 4.6% annually, and food bank visits doubling to 2.2 million monthly, contradicting the narrative that Canada offers a better life for Americans seeking escape from US economic pressures.
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Suddenly, after mocking us for decades, millions of Americans want to move to Canada for a better life.
>> Why are Americans moving to Canada?
Let's take a look at this list. So, this is from my new book, you are moved to Canada. All about navigating the financial and tax aspects of Americans moving to Canada. So, let's take a look.
This is what we've seen as crossber financial professionals. Number one, healthcare access. Canada's universal healthcare is a big motivator.
Obviously, having to pay for co-pays, huge deductibles, and going into debt in the US is no fun. I'm a scholar of the far right who has fled the United States to Canada and I need help. The situation in Canada is absolutely dire for Americans who don't know. The housing crisis here is worse than in the United States. I lived in LA for 6 years and I have not faced rent as bad as here. How the hell are is anyone existing in Canada? Like I just I feel trapped. Like I just got a good job even on that job.
like I still can't do I can't buy anything. I can't afford the rent these days. Like I'm just feeling so much despair.
>> I find it entirely shocking and completely unacceptable that in Canada the cost of living has gone up so much that people cannot afford the basics of life.
>> Look, we are in a cost of living crisis.
Okay? And this has been the defining issue of this government after eight long years. And they have taken no action at all. Baby formula has gone up 81% since this premier took office. Gas has been at $2 a liter in many regions.
Groceries are up more than 30% since this government was elected. People are being squeezed everywhere they turn. And now we find out that big tech companies are spying on us and they are using our personal information to jack up prices.
>> Mark Carney actually thinks that the past 10 years have been the best for affordability for Canadians.
Check out this clip with that statement versus what's really going on.
>> Affordability is the best it's been in over a decade.
>> Poverty and hunger are becoming normalized. Food bank visits continue to rise across Canada, reaching nearly 2.2 million monthly visits. That's double the number from 2019. According to a new survey, many people are skipping bill payments so they can buy groceries.
>> It's quite striking. I think in any other world, this would be considered an epidemic.
>> Container of strawberries is like $14 now compared to what it used to be. Even buying baby food, baby formula, I mean, it's tripled the price. Well, it's no secret that housing costs in Canada have skyrocketed in recent years. But a new report finds affordability in our province has never been worse.
>> Hi guys, welcome back to our channel. In case you're new here, my name is Maren and I'm Moren. So in today's episode, we're going to be talking about white Canadians who are bitterly warning Americans about moving to Canada and of course about the high cost of living in Canada. Right. As things went south in America or as things were getting worse in Donald Trump's government, we saw videos of Americans, especially white Americans, not only white Americans, but specifically white mas who are looking to escape America, right? And a lot of them were giving recommendations of moving to Canada, saying at least in Canada, Canada, they're going to be getting free health care and at least in Canada life would be much more affordable compared to where they're coming from. So today's episode, Canadians are going to be speaking, addressing such such kind of people or like-minded people, telling them the harsh realities of Canada and what to expect and what to of course what to expect when living in Canada, especially financially.
>> Mhm. So guys, let's watch what what is happening, then we come back and talk about it. You can let us know your thoughts and opinion in the comment section. Also, consider subscribing if it's your first time here. Let's watch.
Canada is becoming completely unaffordable and I don't know why more people aren't talking about it. So many people don't even have savings. Rent is insane. Groceries keep going up and healthcare might be free but accessing it is nearly impossible. And somehow the narrative is still that people are just bad with money. What money? People are working full-time. A lot of people are even juggling two jobs now because they have to. At what point do we stop blaming the individual and start acknowledging that the cost of living has simply outpaced reality? And because everything is this expensive, you have to know exactly where your money's going. Budget is not optional anymore.
It's necessary.
>> So I live in Gatnau, Quebec, which is basically right across the river from Ottawa. And over the years, I have watched the encampment of tents of in-house people grow from a handful of tents to an entire parking lot literally packed full of them. And it pisses me off beyond belief that the Quebec government would allow this to happen to people. Our vacancy rate for rental housing is critically low. And because it's critically low, landlords can be extra picky. And if you have less than perfect credit, you're probably not going to get a place. And if you do, good luck affording it. I live in a basic two-bedroom apartment, just me and my daughter, and we pay almost $2,000 a month for this place. There's public housing technically, but the wait list can literally be years long. You can be on a waiting list for public housing for years. And the bad thing about that is public housing is pretty much all that people living on disability benefits can afford because in this market, the amount of money that they're actually given isn't enough to pay the rent, let alone anything else. Meanwhile, the Quebec government is more preoccupied with being offended over Muslims praying in public or English people saying bonjour, hi than they are about the fact that people are literally living in tents and can't afford to live. It is disgusting. Oh, and the housing that is being built, all luxury condos, all that people can't afford.
>> So, I saw one of the comments on my videos that said, "We're, you know, we're doing everything right and we're still we're still falling behind. We're still failing." And that's that's the part people are finally starting to wake up to because this isn't about bad decisions anymore. This is about people, you know, it's not about people being irresponsible. It's about the math simply not working the way it used to.
And when you break it down, it becomes really obvious why people feel stuck.
The average household now needs somewhere in the range of, you know, 75 to $80,000 just just to cover basic living expenses in many parts of Canada.
And that's not luxuries. That's, you know, housing, food, transportation, child care, basics. And yet a huge percentage of people, you know, are either at that level or below it, which means there's no margin. There's no buffer. And when there's no buffer, every unexpected expense becomes a problem. Like a a car repair, a utility spike, a grocery bill that's higher than expected. And it all adds up. And you know, at the same time, you you know, have record household debt levels pushing past, you know, $2.5 trillion, which tells you something else. People aren't just cutting back. They're bridging the gap with credit. And that works for a while until, you know, until it doesn't. And that's where the pressure really starts to build because now it's not just a matter of making ends meet. It's it's, you know, it's about managing the cost of trying to make ends meet. And what's frustrating for a lot of people is that they've already made the adjustments they were told to make. They've cut subscriptions.
They've reduced spending. They're, you know, couponing, they're delayed purchasing, you know, they they've done everything that falls under the category of being responsible and it still feels tight. And that's where the disconnect is happening because the advice people are getting doesn't match the reality they're living in. And when those two things line up, it creates frustration.
Not because people don't want to take responsibility, but because they feel like they already are and it's still not enough. And that's why you're seeing more conversations around this, more people speaking up, more people saying this doesn't feel right because it isn't just an individual issue anymore, okay?
It's something broader. It's something structural and you don't have to look very far to see it. You see it in rising rents. You see it in grocery bills that keep creeping up. You see it in people working full-time and still feeling like they're just holding on. Tell me again that Canada is doing hunky dory when banks, all the banks in Canada were forced to drop their NSF fee. Some my bank $50 for an NSF. I've had two NSFs in my life. One was years ago and one was today, $10.
They made 600 million off the backs of Canadians who obviously didn't have enough money in their account to cover a bill.
And Canada, Canadians are doing good, right?
This happened the the beginning in mid-Marchch. If Canada's doing so good, then why are NSFs like Oh, and you can't get an like people are like literally getting NSFs one after another after another. Each one was costing $50 and then so they've made it so that within a two or three day business period they can't charge you another NSF. these banks, they get a they get away with murder.
How the hell are is anyone existing in Canada? Like I just I feel trapped. Like I just got a good job even on that job.
Like I still can't do I can't buy anything. I can't afford the rent these days. Like I'm just feeling so much despair. How is this young millennial not able to afford rent when she has a good job in Canada? It seems like every time I open up TikTok, I'm seeing one of these terrible videos.
Let's break it down and see why GBT How much does the average household in Canada bring home after tax? Very important. In Canada, average income is $74,000 for the household after tax. So that gives us about $6,100 per month to spend. Well, I'm scrolling Zillow and for the average detached house, which if you're a couple and you have a child, you're going to want a house in Kitchener Water, not even GTA, not Toronto, rent is around $3,100 a month.
And as we can see, like it's it's nothing special. Well, it's just an average house. That means rent for the average detached house in Kitchener Water, not even Toronto, is 50%, just over 50% of a household's take-home net income. Now, I asked the same question.
How much does a household in Texas take home after tax for comparison? $80,000 a year, $6,666 a month. So, I scrolled Zillow in Austin, Texas, a much bigger city than Kitchener. Here's a comparable, you know, not so nice house, just kind of nice enough to live in. Anyway, $2,50 a month for the same details as the other one. That means rent in Austin, Texas for something similar makes up only 30% of someone's income, which is exactly the golden metric. No more than 30% of your income for household expenses. So, let's break this down. People in the US, I've done so many videos, are making more money, right? The average household in Texas makes $80,000 a year USD.
Canada 74,000 Canadian, which is 54,000 USD. They're paying less taxes and housing and food and everything else is way cheaper. I can tell you this as a Canadian who now lives in the US. Yeah, I'm not in Canada. Clearly, guys, in Canada, you're being lied to.
>> Um, Canada is a great example of this because we have 10 times as much land per person as the second closest G7 country. And yet, we have the fewest homes per capita to live in. Mark Carney actually thinks that the past 10 years have been the best for affordability for Canadians.
Check out this clip with that statement versus what's really going on.
>> Affordability is the best it's been in over a decade.
>> Poverty and hunger are becoming normalized. Food bank visits continue to rise across Canada, reaching nearly 2.2 million monthly visits. That's double the number from 2019. According to a new survey, many people are skipping bill payments so they can buy groceries. It's quite striking. I think in any other world, this would be considered an epidemic.
>> Container of strawberries is like $14 now compared to what it used to be. Even buying baby food, baby formula, I mean, it's tripled the price. Well, it's no secret that housing costs in Canada have skyrocketed in recent years. But a new report finds affordability in our province has never been worse.
>> What a delusion. In the past 10 years, things have been rapidly declining in terms of affordability, not the other way around. I was just listening to the head of the food bank in Alberta and she was stating that they did research for seniors who are forced to go to the food bank due to not having sufficient amount of money from their fixed income that is um so in and difficult for them to even afford to live to feed themselves to have fuel in their cars. And even given the example that some of the seniors were even at the point where they had to have one protein a week and that was a sacrifice that they had to make in order to make it through and then it gets to the point where they have no other choice but they have to go to the food bank. That is awful and that's no way to treat our Canadians especially our seniors. And Carney thinks that things have been great for affordability. We're doing so well.
>> Food affordability remains a major concern for Canadians. There's new information out just this morning. It shows 34% of consumers have had to draw on savings or borrow money to buy food.
This is according to a report by the Agra food analytics lab at Delhausy University. The report surveyed 3,000 Canadians in March. It revealed household food spending is still going up, reaching an average of $519 per month. That is up 4.6% year-over-year.
Affordability now dominating food choices. 45% of respondents are choosing the more affordable option instead of choosing nutrition or taste.
>> That is scary. I find that a very scary clip. the fact that so many people are having to rely on dipping into their savings to pay for basic needs like groceries. And again, when it comes to these stats, it's not, you know, excess food. It's not luxury food. These are like basic groceries, basic needs. Um, and it should scare us all that uh, you know, basic food prices or our diets as as a whole are being dramatically impacted by our wallets as opposed to like our taste and preferences.
>> I really hate to be the one to say this, but this is just stupid. You're writing return to sender on census letters. Do you really think someone in the Canadian government is sitting there reading your little protest note? Come on. This is exactly the problem in Canada right now.
People are frustrated and rightfully so.
So am I. But instead of doing something that actually moves the needle, they will do this symbolic nonsense. They don't care if you toss it in the garbage. At most, you get flagged as non-compliant. And before anyone says, "Oh, you're defending the government."
No, I'm saying if you're going to push back, at least do it in a way that has an impact. I find it entirely shocking and completely unacceptable that in Canada the cost of living has gone up so much that people cannot afford the basics of life. The basics to simply sustain themselves, food, rent, owning a home, car, vehicle, whatever. You know, all of these things, the costs of everything has gone up so high and is continuing to climb.
and all the manipulation of interest rates and you know monkeying around with that is not actually having any impact on inflation at all. All it's doing is it's making it harder for the hardworking Canadian to go out and buy a home, take out a loan, buy a car, whatever it happens to be. And they need cars in order to be able to get to their jobs, which by the way are not going up in terms of salary with the cost of living, right? So if you are in this situation, you can relate. Like I know my good friend of mine is having he's 53. He has to move out of his apartment because he cannot afford a one-bedroom apartment anymore.
Can't afford an apartment even though he has a good paying full-time job. That's nuts to me. That is nuts to me. And this guy does not have any debt. Okay? He has zero debt. He doesn't have investments or anything like that, but he has no debt. So everything that he's bringing home is his, right? I mean, after a ridiculous amount of tax, of course, but he can't afford to live in his home in his apartment. He's going to have to go and rent with a bunch of students or something. That's nuts to me. That is absolutely crazy.
So, I was refusing to let this happen to me. I was refusing to lose my home because I was on the verge of of losing my home. And I said, "Absolutely no. No way."
My daughter relied on me. She looked at me with her big, you know, big blue eyes and said to me, "Daddy, you know, are we going to lose our home?" And and I could not face that. I could not face that. I knew I had to do something in order to be able to bring in extra income.
It's not, hey, I'm going to go vegetarian because I, you know, feel strongly about it. Um, I'm going vegetarian because I can't afford meat.
Um, and that's yeah, that's that that rubs me the wrong way. There's a couple things I want to show you. This is right from Stats Canada. Um, and I ran it. I wish you could clean up this data a little bit more, but um, they track a bunch of very common food items. Um, and I pulled up data from January 2025 to February 2026, which is their latest data. And I find some of these numbers horrendous. Obviously, some not all of them are increasing dramatically. Um, but that top line there, beef, uh, stewing beef went from $18 a kilogram to now almost $24 a kilogram. Um, same with I mean, basically all beef has gone up through the roof. Um, ground beef was $138 a kilogram. Again, this is an average across Canada. It's now up to $1646 a kilogram. Yeah. I mean, when you look at this um list, this is mainly produce.
Um, some of it has gone down. Um, but it's hard to know based off of seasonability. Produce is so flu, it fluctuates so much. Um, you know, there's a lot of factors that go into it. Um, so it's at least somewhat nice to see lower numbers on some of these.
Um, where was I looking? Uh, I mean, apples have gone up, but oranges have gone down. Um, again, in these categories, again, seasonality, um, time of the year, yada yada yada. But this is a different kind of excerpt from a different report from Stats Canada. Um but basically again capturing what we already know that food prices have increased 4.4% for all food kind of across the board um purchased from stores from March to March. Um which is up you know.3% over February. Uh but scary look at that climb of vegetables.
So you know 7.8% 8% March to March um increase for vegetable prices which is only seconded by August 2023 um which you know was still kind of pandemic times but it's it's crazy. It's it's really alarming and I don't know about you I I go to the grocery stores all sorts of grocery stores and all the time um seeing what's good what's happening checking pricing comparing it to what we're up to at cause and um it's alarming. I, you know, went for a a sandwich, a pre-made sandwich cuz we were on the run uh over the weekend and two sandwiches came to $26 just the sandwiches. It's crazy. And they were so so sandwiches.
>> So guys, welcome back. Let us know what you think about this episode on the comment section. Yeah, you know, it was just last year that we saw an American move to Canada. She upped and lived, packed her everything in her house, her dog, her partner, you know, and they went to Canada. Shortly after she was seen on the internet begging for donations saying that the area she moved to was quite expensive for her to be able to live but and she didn't want at the same time to go back to America you know and the rest of the world is asking yeah why is it that uh you have managed to single-handedly destroy not by not as an individual but as a collective destroy where you're coming from because there's a reason why once upon a time people used to regard to America as the American dream and everybody wanted to go there. So right now you see a lot of Americans looking for escape routes, right? We saw others going to Mexico and they went to Mexico and they were still trying to act as colonizers. They didn't want the locals there to play mariachi and they were trying to colonize the beaches for the white people. They were trying to whitify the spaces if you can uh put it in those words. And we saw locals coming up and protesting against this, right? And there was other ones who went to um was it um I don't remember the island that specific island in the Caribbean. And >> was it in St. Luca?
>> I don't know if it was St. Luca, but I remember it going viral. Guys, you can remind me on >> they were trying to privatize the beach in that island in the Caribbean.
>> Right. You tell me. You go to a place, you find public spaces, public beaches that help the locals there and then you go there try to buy property near there and also assume that the beach comes with the property.
>> Right. And these are the kind of things you're saying. You can't go to people's homes and do as you want or practice the same behaviors you're coming from uh from the country you're running away from and expect something different to happen, you know, right? So what we are seeing that is very similar between uh Canada and America is the fact that the politicians are really trying to minimize the how how the high cost of living are rising right so they're trying to make uh Canadians feel like they're not valid in complaining about the high cost of living and we've even seen one one guy there who was uh advising people because Canada recently had its census right and when they were doing their census people were writing notes of protest on their sensor cards, right? And he was telling them if they wanted an impact to to come of what whatever they were doing, they needed to stand up and take a stance. Uh doing that in the sensor cards would not change anything cuz of any if anything those cards would be gotten rid of after they've served their purposes, right?
But guys, picture this, right? This earth is so big. The resources are are too plenty. And when God created earth and God create if wild animals can live sustainably in their environments, why is it that us human beings are finding are right now finding resources?
>> We're fighting for resources and we are finding it hard or difficult to survive on this earth that was meant to sustain us. I think it's because there is the 1% of the world that has a larger population of the world and that which they cannot get. They create a situation like the Middle East, the current crisis in the Middle East right now so that they can get all those resources to themselves and get the rest of us people in the world to work for them. Right?
And I also can blame one thing in this whole entire scenario and that is capitalism. I do blame this on what is happening in the world today because um the beginning of people finding value in money and people monetizing everything was the beginning of uh that creating that scarcity on earth because like literally earth is big is supposed to sustain us right but what happens let's say for example let me just give you for example a place like New York right we cut down all trees we come up with um fashionable homes that you're telling people unless you you know you're living in a a home structured in this manner you're not living well right so what happens people take interest in fashionable homes mansions you cut down trees >> I don't think that fashionable homes is the problem problem really >> no let me just explain and then you will tell me your point right so New York ended up once upon a time I do believe that America didn't look the way it looked industrialization happened and in this industrialization there was someone who was benefiting so what happens if you build an apartment complex in a place where probably there was a lot of trees. trees which pro produced fruits for people like our ancestor let me not even say our ancestors let me just go back um two three generations here in Africa how did they used to survive and Africa still does not look like America we used to have organic foods still do but that margin is going is reducing with time because people are cutting down trees we affecting the ecosystem of the world literally everything rivers are being polluted by big companies that are creating things that people people are the consumers of. You get what I'm saying, right? That is why I'm saying it's not even about um people building stylish apartment complex. It's just the grid of a few big corporations and people, you know, because for there to be scarcity of food, someone is definitely purposefully creating the scarcity of fruits. There was a video that was going viral on Tik Tok just the other day. I I think it was the other week of a guy who was walking down his street and and he noticed something very interesting. Of all the trees that were in that neighborhood, he says all of them were male trees. There was no female trees and that is how he cracked the code as to why that neighborhood did not have any fruits.
>> Oh wow. Wow. Someone is intentionally creating that scarcity. You see guys, can you picture what farming used to be uh generations back and what farming is right now? If you find large scale farming, you'll find that it's corporations who are doing it in order to export or to package and sell or process like things like tomato sauce tomatoes. They're doing this in order to gain massive benefits. But there was a point in life even here in Africa where you didn't have to have special skills or to go to schools. If you become a farmer, if you had if you learned the skills from your mother, your father.
>> Exactly. And that created a sustainable system where people didn't lack food.
>> Neither did they rely heavily on the government as they relying heavily on the government right now because what is also um very similar with these two countries. You see in America it's very illegal for someone to plant uh crops from the previous harvest to use seeds from the previous harvest. Like for example that was a very big practice like for example here in Africa even in even in Kenya people used to use that system but right now uh laws and legislations have been introduced where in certain root government remember it's it hasn't been that long cuz we still do they actually in rural areas there people are still doing that but if you're caught you are penalized heavily >> and that is a practice being it being made illegal is something that has been introduced in Rut's current government, >> right? So, what does that system tell you? It's messing with the people's sustainability structure. Meaning, if you you're going to get to such a point where farmers are going to be forced to buy seeds, it's it means that you're going to be reliant on the government.
So, it will get to a point organizations that run the government, >> right? These specific seeds, it's going to get to a point where there's a specific farmer maybe in the rural area, even here in the city, who are not going to be able to be affording these seeds.
What will they do? they'll have to sell their land and then that land maybe a developer will buy it and build apartments on that land. You see now you see how that system is being broken down and they're building a system of dependency. That's how we got here and I think it's not only in America or Canada but all over the world really cuz I feel like all these issues that people are facing are kind of similar in each and every aspect of each and every country in the world right now. And uh there's something that we usually say here in Kenya that um the citizens are are many than politicians. So if citizens in Canada and America could come together, work together in order to hold the government accountable, I do believe by first changing the policies is how this situation is going to be um what is it called? rememedied because one of our speakers today was speaking and she said that the biggest problem right now in Canada is that the cost of living has surpassed reality the reality of the normal Canadians.
>> Why should that happen? you know >> for them to even reach to that point >> I do believe it's us citizens who are allowing ourselves to reach to that point >> right and the government is honestly creating not just in America or Canada it's worldwide they're creating a dependency system where its citizens are its people are going to be forever themselves and they're going to be dependent on them so if they say move this way you're going to move that if if they say come back this way they're going do that, you know. But guys, let us know what you think about this episode on the comment section. Also, consider subscribing if it's your first time here, and we'll catch you on our next episode. Thank you so much for always tuning in.
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