breeza said:
Have we all taken the time to research and talk objectively to people in Canada who are not your cousin or close friend about the real hardships of ever enjoying professional success and growth in Canada. Maybe let me rephrase this; you are currently fed up with the way things are in your third world country that has given you a respectable education for a lot less if not free and you want to take your family to Canada. The catch is you might not be able to earn enough to afford your child the kind of education you got and your child will have to slave through her life just to payoff university debts and still not be fully accepted in the community as a citizen because she is different visually, culturally, stature even though she has an accent of a canadian. I have not experienced Canada, I too am planning to go there, but after being sold out by the UK tier 1 visa and the same barriers I described above compounded by the fact that I am back in the 3rd world and its issues I am in limbo.
Please post and share your opinions on this. I will include one of many links of frustrated Canadian immigrants of all races below:
You need to paste this on google as I can't post links: "canadianimmigrant.ca/community/why-some-immigrants-want-to-leave-canada"
Hi breeza
I would like to participate in this discussion.
Your terminology of "
your third world country that has given you a respectable education for a lot less if not free" is a little more than a surprise as I can't really vouch for that. I don't know which 3rd world country falls into that description. I know mine doesn't.
I have lived in Canada for a very short period so I will come upfront and say i am not someone talking out of experience.
I agree that I have been told by people living in Canada that the start is not all candy-floss and rainbows. I know its not the same even in my home country and here in the UAE where I live presently. I know its not in Singapore where my close friends live. Therefore, this cannot be generalized to one Country.
The Government in Canada supports child education until high school (I believe) as is in the UK. In most other countries 'Schooling' in itself is a black hole (a giant gaping one at that).
Racism - its in Europe, its in the far west, its bestowed upon countrymen in their own 3rd world country by their own countrymen (its 3rd world for a reason after all). Hence it will not be fair to put Canada in a spot for this.
Here's something I have always tend to believe in - If their is grief, failure, disappointment or tragedy, it is always there for you to read, chat and tweet about. How many success stories are there out on the Internet about immigrants in Canada ? Not a lot I would guess. Its because when things wind up well and happy - people move along with it and they are not really made into a newsflash.
I hope you get my point.
Also - as a side note - in the URL you have provided; there was an immigrant from Switzerland earning $350 an hour immigrating to Canada expecting to earn more. His choice should have been UAE and not Canada. Canada is not known for it flamboyance when it comes to higher pay grades (in general). Then there is a guy from Pakistan who fails to become the chief executive of a Company being very good at what he does (according to him). I am not saying what has happened is fair but if the same guy were to face the same sort of situation in his homeland (very much happens) he would just plain and simple live with the fact, because no one really cares. They are all the same in one's home country.
He would still not be 'happy' there, but life will go on. So it does for all of us.
