Canada is a country that encourages overseas immigration, many domestic people will immigrate to Canada to live, so how is life after immigration? This is also a lot of people abroad are more concerned about the issue, and immigration column I came to understand the life of immigrants to Canada is crueler than imagined, welcome to read.
Life in Canada is crueler than imagined
In the impression of many Chinese people, immigrants to Canada, such as high welfare countries, basically relying on the government to support after the old. The real situation is very different.
Immigrating to Canada may mean the beginning of a new and completely different life for most Chinese people.
This new life was once the dream of many people. Nowadays, many people's dreams have come true, but some people are waking up from their dreams.
Generally speaking, there are two ways for Chinese to immigrate to Canada: before 2008, skilled immigrants, and after 2008, investment immigrants.
David Li, a Beijing-based immigrant, was part of the pre-2008 wave of skilled immigrants to Canada.
In 1988, as the tide of friends immigrating to Canada began to rise, David Lee went through a Beijing-based immigration company to apply for skilled immigration.
He paid $5,000 in fees on two separate occasions*** and finally landed in Canada in 1999.
Filled with longing for a new life, stepping on foreign soil, David Li's first impression of Canada's natural environment is very beautiful, the sky blue, green grass, clear water, mountains, flowers everywhere, people are happy.
Soon after, he was looking for a job and encountered obstacles everywhere, only to realize that "a real Canada". The first time I saw this, I realized that my family was far away, I had no friends to rely on, the Chinese were not treated well in the region, business was difficult, work was hard, the road ahead was uncertain, and I didn't know when I would be able to make it.
Canada has become a "tough place to live" in reality, from the legend of "everyone taking" to the reality of "tough big".
Although David Li obtained Canadian citizenship by virtue of his skills, he was originally excited to set foot on the Canadian soil, and even doubt life, which is mainly attributed to the introduction of skilled immigrants in Canada in a strange phenomenon.
Canada in the introduction of talent in different categories, emphasizing "expertise". But after the introduction, people's overseas education, professional qualifications and work experience outside the country is difficult to be recognized, and even if someone is working in the Canadian enterprises outside the branch, the same was told after immigration "lack of local experience.
As a result, many Chinese people always have difficulty in getting a satisfactory job, and wander around in the circle of low-paying, non-fixed "hourly jobs" for a long time, which makes many skilled immigrants feel that they have no chance of getting a job. "The first time I saw this, I was able to see that the whole thing was a bit of a joke.
David Li said that before immigration agencies will advocate Canada's good living environment, social welfare, wages are higher than the domestic, but did not mention that Canada's frighteningly high tax burden.
"Even if the annual salary of 100,000 Canadian dollars, but once you pay up to nearly 45% of the tax after your actual income is only a little more than 50,000," said David Li, "the original foreign enterprises in the monthly income of 6,7000 yuan with Canada's more than 2000 Canadian dollars than, quite regrettable! The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley.
However, after 2008, the Chinese who mainly invested in Canada didn't have this problem.
These affluent people, who had their pockets full in China, obtained Canadian citizenship through a variety of means, including federal investment immigration, federal entrepreneurial immigration, and provincial nominee economic class immigration.
"In addition to the money and card nothing to bring", once landed on the busy look at the house, buy a house, and even some people immigrants have not yet done, has been in Canada to buy a good independent house.
These tycoon immigrants to Canada, although not as skilled as the past Chinese immigrants to the elbow, hate to immediately beat the drum, but immigrants to Canada also found some of the immigration agent in the mouth of the "high welfare" has a lot of water.
Let's take a look at some of the immigrant brokers who talk about Canada's universal "free healthcare" system.
It's true that Canada has a universal health care system, and not only its citizens, but also foreign immigrants and international students who have the right of abode in the country, are entitled to publicly funded health care.
However, free health care often means having to put up with low quality health care.
It may seem hard to believe, but in Canada, which has some of the world's leading medical technology, public hospitals are constrained by funding, and hospitals are not equipped with the most advanced equipment: minimally invasive equipment and nuclear magnetic **** vibrators at Richmond Hospital in British Columbia, Canada, were purchased through charitable fundraising and self-funding.
In Canada, low levels of care are not a problem, but waiting for people to die is.
According to a survey, due to the large number of patients and fewer hospitals, patients waiting in line for surgery for an average of 18 weeks. The long waiting times have led to delays and even deaths in medical malpractice lawsuits, which are not uncommon in Canada.
It has been reported that an elderly person went to the doctor because of lung problems, but several times this link to the specialist was told "not urgently needed to arrange for surgery, and when it was determined that the need for surgery, the old man's physical condition is not as good as it used to be, and ultimately, on the operating table has been overwhelmed, and unfortunately, passed away.
In addition, in Canada, medicine is separated. Usually the doctor writes the prescription and the patient goes to buy the medicine himself.
It's just that medicine is expensive. Ordinary cold medicine such as Tylenol, a course of treatment is also tens of Canadian dollars. That's why the president (ID: topnews-9)'s friends in Canada often lament that "you can't afford to be sick in Canada".
Some people may say that public hospitals are unreliable, and private hospitals are not?
Well, if you go to a private hospital, it's really not that big of a deal. An appendectomy is only a few tens of thousands of Canadian dollars (about 10-20 million RMB).
After talking about free healthcare, let's take a look at the Canadian "high welfare society" pension system, which is overrated by many people.
In the impression of many Chinese, immigrants to Canada, a high-welfare country, are basically relying on the government to support them in their old age. The real situation is quite different.
Generally speaking, Canada's pension system consists of three major components: Old Age Security (OAS), Old Age Pension (CPP), and Retirement Savings Fund (RRSP). In addition, there are some supplementary parts such as spousal allowances and private pension savings.
And it is only the Old Age Pension component that is the responsibility of the increased government.
Only those who have lived in Canada for 10 years and reached the age of 65 are eligible to receive the Old Age Pension; those who have lived in Canada for 40 years are eligible to receive the full Old Age Pension.
In 2010, Canada's full old age pension was 516.96 Canadian dollars (about 2,671 yuan) per month; if only settled for 10 years, only 129.24 Canadian dollars (about 667 yuan) per month.
Immigration has always meant movement and upheaval for a person or a family, and it takes a lot of hard work and effort to re-establish roots in an unfamiliar land.
The wave of Chinese immigrants in Canada in recent years also shows that the life of an immigrant is not as simple as we think.
Canada is not a paradise, and every immigrant country is not a paradise. If immigration is a "dream", then only great determination and hard work can turn it into a "dream".