Why immigrants don't leave Canada, despite struggle

Hi, Merry Christmas! And to all my viewers and subscribers and all of you been writing to me, who's connecting with me, and we are talking Merry Christmas to every one of you. In this world of where discrimination on the basis of religion is being a constant factor, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. And, um, here today I'm going to talk to you majorly about my Likes and dislikes about Canada. So there are about five. I'll just quote five likes and five dislikes about Canada. So in my last video, which was which has huge views, why where I said the reasons for why immigrants are now leaving Canada. This this video may be on why immigrants decide to stay on despite all the problems. Number one is, okay, first of all, I wanted to show you, show to you the snowfalls outside. It's snowing incessantly outside from yesterday, and the temperature has plummeted to about -23 degrees. But we are at home, and I am inside, and it is, it is just normal. I mean, you just can't— you just wear your t-shirt inside, and you can just sit. It's, it's really warm inside, so it's not a problem at all. The snowfall is one of the best things I like about Canada. It's like this, the snow is just falling like a— I'd like to show it to you a little bit from near for those people who have not seen snowfall. Of course you've seen snowfall, but this is like right in your backyard, right in your balcony. So I don't know whether you can see it. It's falling like little fairies on the ground, and they make no noise. They're like silent fairies. It's very pretty. It is very pretty to watch the snowfall on the ground. So despite the fact that the temperature is very low, um, it's very pretty to watch it. If you're— even to wade through it, it's not very hard except for the cold. It's, um, It's not hard to wait. So the snow—that's my mother. She—I lost her last year, and she was very young, and she's very pretty, as you can see. And yesterday was her birthday, so I kind of decorated with blue rose. Okay, so I'll be talking about generally what I like about Canada. Is number one is snow. I just love the snow. Over here, and you know, it's like a dreamland. It's like living in a dreamland when you see the snow. But the snow, it's snowing for eight months in a row. That's that's not acceptable. So that becomes too much towards the end of the towards like till January. It's nice, but after February, March, April, May, it's still snowing. You just you just cannot. Take it, tolerate anymore. That becomes too much. But I would say that it is— this climate or weather is still tolerable. It's much more tolerable than having to prove your own existence in your own country. Okay, so that kind of insult, humiliation, I don't think one can tolerate. You can still tolerate, bear the cold. So this is one of the reasons why immigrants are not leaving Canada. Deciding to stay back. Number 2 is, uh, everybody is given equal importance and respect. You know what, when I came to Canada from India, I found true democracy here, true secularism here in Canada. Actually, India is the secular country, but Canada actually practices secularism in the true core of it. They, uh, here discrimination on the basis of religion or caste, creed, or color is completely unacceptable. And companies are given, in fact, given, um, kind of notices. They have been giving instructions that you have to employ somebody of color and somebody of the other religion, minority religion. So, um, it has been— it's a, it's a, it's It's practiced here in legal. It's legally practiced here. Okay, so you are given a respect just as a human being, as a person who has some knowledge, who has some education. Your education is not given so much of a priority. Okay, fine. As long as you're a good human person, good human being, you being able to interact with all your clients, interact with your colleagues in a nice respectful manner, you are You are safe in this country. But if you are trying to be, you know, the moment you step out of the house, you become a nice person. You become you're smiling to everybody. I understand that smile is not always genuine, like there. But again, you are so lonely. Sometimes you just want to talk to a stranger because just meeting somebody in the elevator, you just want to talk to the stranger. It becomes so. Like desperate over here. Sometimes the smile is genuine, and sometimes the concern is genuine. But again, when you leave and you turn your back, and you've forgotten about the person. So there is really nobody who genuinely cares for you. And but on the other hand, there's nobody who really interferes in your life. So you can put it in both ways, both perspectives, whichever perspective you want to watch, see it. But we get the respect as a human in the sense when you're crossing the road, all Cars will come to a standstill. Like, if you're crossing the road, if you're— even when they're, you know, gritting their teeth inside and they're inside their car, they're kind of giving you stabbing looks. But if you're crossing on the zebra crossing, on the stop sign, nobody will even— like, they will just stop. They'll stop and all cars will stop. Even big trucks will stop for you to cross the road because pedestrian rights come first. Okay, so that's kind of And then wherever you go, whatever you're talking, whoever you are, you can be rich and poor, you can be a big shot businessman, you can be just a new immigrant, you can be anybody, but you're given the respect of being a human being. That is the respect I never got in any other place. So this is the respect that Canada gives you. This is the major reason why nobody leaves, wants to leave Canada despite its problems. And it is also very low on corruption. So I've written it down because I tend to, uh, I'm a very bad speaker, so I tend to go off and drawl and people don't understand. So I'm trying to be, you know, a little organized for you. And okay, so I've written it down. It's got very— it's very low on corruption. So Canada is very low on corruption. It has its corruptions in its own pockets, but there's those, um, we general people do not see, not get to see. There has been a lot of hit on the health issues and a lot of hit on the— or like health cards being compromised and stuff like that. So that all happens in a very large scale, on a very higher scale, but not— does not affect our day-to-day lives. Okay, so number, uh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Number 5 is, um, Free doctor visit. So like I have this, what is it called, golfer's elbow. I have anything, any problem, uh, you just can walk into your clinic if you doctor visit, which is actually the charges of each visit is actually $300 to $400 per visit. So being a citizen or being a resident, permanent resident of Canada, you get to have as many doctor visits as you want in on a thing, like in one day you get to visit only once. That's that's the factor. Unless it's big emergency and you have you can convince them that you need to see the doctor, which I had to do once. I remember, and they kind of allowed me for for twice. But one day you can visit the doctor once, and you can keep on visiting the doctor as many times as you want to. So that is one thing. And even specialists, specialists and surgeons are all free of cost. You go to a specialist to visit a specialist. You talk to you take blood tests. You have routines. So many tests done because of the specialist. You can have, um, like ECGs and, um, every kind of things. In fact, Canada, um, like, uh, health, um, from the health from Ontario Peel region, they have been sending me, um, like, you have to do this test. They've been sending me letters that you have to do this test, you have to do this test, and all those tests are free of cost, okay? Mind you. There's nothing, there's no cost in this. So, and I am like being lazy and procrastinating. Okay, I'll do it, I'll do it in my time. Okay, I'm not unwell, I'm fine, I'll do it in my time. So you can imagine the kind of benefits you have in Canada. So it applies to everybody, all the immigrants, or everybody, whoever's coming to Canada. Actually, Canada doesn't have its real people. So those who call themselves white Canadians, or those who call themselves like Real Canadians? There's no real Canadians as such. You must be knowing that, okay? Because only real Canadians are the First Nation groups, the Inuits, who are living at the north end of Canada, who kind of live on hunting seals, and basically they have sledges, the kind of things we've seen in history books and we've read. So those are the real Canadians, the First Nation people, and everybody else is an immigrant, are immigrants. So whether you are a white person coming from Europe or Britain or Russia, Poland, or any other country, or Chinese or Japanese or Indian or South Asian or China or even from Africa. Everybody— this is a global melting pot, and everybody comes here from different backgrounds, from different places, from different war-torn zones, from Syria, from Afghanistan, from Iraq, Iran. There are like numerous people from Africa. So they all come here to find peace in this, in this land, you know, to find a peaceful heaven. And they want to live here and live here in peace. And that is something, uh, this Canada, this country offers you— peaceful living. As long as you, yeah, stay, remain in peace, as long as you are peaceful in your approach, as long as you do not do anything, uh, extravagant, extravagance about your own culture. Yeah, you can. You have every right to practice your own culture. It is much like— it is much encouraged. In fact, there are shops like lined up on every road end. The Sri Lankan grocery, Indian grocery, Pakistani grocery, Caribbean grocery. There are restaurants, Iraqi restaurants, Pakistani restaurants everywhere. So you are encouraged to follow your own religion and your own faith, but it is It is because the country is giving you so much. It is, it should be your decency that keep your faith and keep your worships and keep your religion, religion, cultural interaction to yourself. Like little subdued. You don't like fly flags out on the streets saying that this is my country. So you come to a different country. So you have to obey certain rules of that country, right? So that is, that's the way it is in Canada. And I quite appreciate it, quite regard it. Okay, and then there is free education for all. So all of you who are coming in with children, you can be assured that your children's education is free the day you land here. The day my son landed, we landed in Canada, I had brought with myself all kinds of paperwork, all his transfer certificates, recommendations from his principal, his report cards. I was very scared. His marks were low, not that good. So I was very scared whether he'll get into a school like this. You know what they asked? All they asked was his PR card and his passport, the landing papers and his passport. And that is the passport to check his age. And according to the passport, he was given the standard grade, grade he was going to go. And according to the landing papers, he was given the admission to the school. And the next day, he was assigned the school bus, and they just told him, send— would send him with his lunchbox and nothing else. And the school bus is going to come and pick him up from his home and drop him back to his home, free of cost. So that is incredible. That was such a shock to me in the beginning. I was, what? I don't have to pay for the school bus? I don't have to pay for the school? I didn't need any of the papers that I took? What? It was, it was like that. It was just as simple. Okay, so yeah, and then, then there is no apparent discrimination on the basis of rich, poor, uh, religion, color, anything. There's no apparent discrimination. Discrimination, I'll talk about the discrimination, um, a little bit, uh, later, uh, after 2 minutes. Yeah, there are no apparent discrimination and this anti-discrim being like if you're discriminating, that's in Illegal, completely illegal. You can put a person under arrest for this, for doing, saying any discriminatory words or doing anything discriminatory. You can, you can actually arrest the person. Okay, so that kind of thing is here. So I found true secularism, true socialism in Canada, because socialistic countries are the countries which kind of gives, helps the poor and raises the raise the— like, kind of reaches all its services out to the poor and the rich alike. So the education and health is, is for all. It's not— it's free for all. If you— there is no place where you can pay for your ed— for your health. In education, you can go to private schools, that is up to you, which is very expensive. But in, in health You just don't need to go to any, like, paid health checkup. There is no concept of paid health checkup. Yes, there is a big waiting line, but just for small things like, uh, small emergencies like a headache or pain here, a pain there, or some kind of a fever, cold, you can just walk into a clinic, walk into a doctor, and your doctor will see you and Give you a medication. You can just medicine. You have if you cover it. The medicine is not covered by the Ontario Health Program. So if you have your health medicine covered with your company or there are other other coverages which are available also, like Trillium Health Coverage and Trillium Health Coverage. So you can cover your medicines through that. And once you medicines are covered. 80% of it is covered, so you pay only 20%. Okay, so it soon seems like a utopian country, right? Now it's looking more and more like a utopian country where you can go and spend the rest of your days. Oh, okay, so I won't go any further. Let's— let me put in what I dislike about this place. Loneliness. It's something I told you, and I've been repeatedly telling this to all. I've made an entire video on Loneliness, I think. So that's terrible. Nobody really cares for you unless you knock on their doors. Nobody really unless you call 911. Nobody will know. Of course, that's very true that unless you tell people, how will people know that you're you're lonely or you don't have friends? So you have to have your own group of friends. You have to have your own social gatherings, which can be very structured if you want. But the moment you get into a depression, if you get lonely and depressed, there is nobody who can save you. You have to save yourself, otherwise it's just— it just goes spiraling down, down, down, down, down. So the cold, as I said, for 8 months is killing. It's really torturing. And these are times I kind of escape to India in the warm countries. So it's— yeah, when I— when I was in India for 42 years, I did not ever want to come to any other country but to live in my own country, my own birthplace. But after 42 years, I came to Canada. And 42 years I'd been in India. Now I'm here for more than 10 years, and I'm thinking of going back and settling and spending the rest of my days in India. But the turmoil that India is in right now, maybe, you know, I'll think about going back and going there for 6 months and coming here and settling for 6 months. That's, that's how I work. So That's what probably it will be. And about the 4th point which I dislike is however much you kind of try to bring into people together from all areas of the corners of the world into a global melting pot, what they call a global melting pot, and try to, you know, promote harmony and, and togetherness among them, uh, there is a certain amount of discrimination inside people's hearts, and they group together in, in, uh, in groups that, that is very— like Indians are together, Caribbeans are together, grouped together, and they feel at home with their own groups. So it's really not a very, you know, utopian society where everybody kind of ignores each other's colors. No, they, they that's the first thing they notice, that whether you're a brown or a black or a white. So that's the first color they notice. I would see when I do, so it's not, uh, it's not very unnatural, you know. So that's the first thing they notice, and then, um, it goes on from there. Whether you are open to accepting others' cultures and how much is it you're accepting, that is up to you. That is your culture, your education, your background. That It's absolutely up to you. So otherwise, some people do not accept other people's culture. They are completely closed to it, which is not like being an Indian again. That kind of thing is very—I would say—that's incredible because in India, like I said, these days discrimination is being forced onto you, right? In our days, I still do not remember. Still. You know, think and remember. Oh, okay. Tasneema was actually Muslim. She was my schoolmate friend. Oh, Arwa is actually Muslim. What happened to Umama? Umama is Muslim. Now I'm thinking of their surnames and I'm connecting and I'm thinking, oh my God, that neighbor we had is a Muslim. Now I'm thinking all those things. So Indian politics is actually. Doing the opposite. They're, they're kind of trying to instill the discrimination within you, and people of India are actually rejecting it. See the difference? That is why I love India so much, because people are rejecting their discrimination, and Hindus are fighting for the Muslims, and the Muslims are fighting for the Hindus. Okay, so it's, it's completely safe, dear guys. Whatever the politicians are imposing on you just will pass. This has been happening from the British age, British colonization. This has been happening always. So don't worry, you guys will survive because you are the king. You are the king. You are— you, whether you're Muslim or Sikh or Parsi or whatever, it doesn't matter because you guys are friends. Okay, and here it's just the opposite. The government imposes anti-discrimination law, but there is a discrimination in the hearts of people. But in India, in the hearts of people, there is no discrimination, and the government is trying to promote discrimination. They are stupid people, stupid government. And then they'll go on their own time, and they'll need to mature. The government of India needs needs to mature and lot lot more, and stop this and concentrate more on the elevation of poverty and on elevation on giving jobs and a whole lot of other things. Okay, so they need to just stop promoting discrimination in among Indians who will refuse to be discriminated. So okay, so guys, you you have an enjoyable Christmas, and I don't know whether I can prom. I can, you know, upload another video for New Year. So you have a very, very happy 2020. So I just hope 2020, you know, erases all discrimination from the Indian subcontinent and everybody gets back to being harmonious. And governments will come and go and they'll try to do something. Just ignore that and continue with your daily lives as good citizens of India. And Canadians who are watching this, Merry Christmas to all of you. I am a Hindu, but I practice Christmas all my life. So there's nothing, you know, like Christians have to practice Christmas. No, it's not that. Christmas is for everyone. It's a spread of goodwill and cheer. And here's my Christmas tree to prove that we've been putting this up ever since we came to Canada, this one particularly. And in India, we used to have small trees and Santa Claus, and Santa Claus would give us gifts. So You need to learn a lot from Indians about being anti-discriminatory at heart. So that's— there's a lot to learn from Indians. And I just wish all of you a very Merry Christmas. Thank you. Have a great, great year. Thank you.