Explained | Why are many Canadians deciding to live abroad?

so the high cost of living is just one reason more Canadians are choosing to live abroad there's a spike in the number of people making a move ctb's Kamel carali tells us which countries have the biggest Canadian expat populations and what challenges they face when they move more and more Canadians are waving goodbye to their Homeland for the size of our population there's a huge amount of Canadians kind of no matter where I go and moving abroad uprooting for reasons including housing and health I've been priced out of my own country and on top of that the weights for services for example especially Medical Services is is really really pathetic the latest data estimates around 4 million Canadians live abroad roughly 11% of the country's population that number a huge increase a 36% jump from the number of Canadians who lived elsewhere in 1990 more than a million Canadians that's over oneir live in the US with 300 ,000 in Hong Kong and more than 70,000 in the United Kingdom it's much more difficult to climb up in Canada than it is in the United States Greg L moved to California and hasn't looked back do you feel forgotten yeah and I wasn't really worried about it it didn't appe me in any way but again there's no two-way connection the report from Mill Institute for the study of Canada says Canadians abroad have received little attention from Consular services to healthcare tax ation and community building the diaspora has been largely left to its own devices Canadian um post s for SE need to upgrade uh their services they need to put more staff in there but others argue the onus is on the individual you would almost expect that exp Patriots should have some responsibility they should be able to check the Ontario website for HealthCare coverage for example some experts now predicting the housing and Health crisis will continue to push Canadians to other countries if change doesn't happen soon

Channel: CTV News

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Length: 2min 4sec (124 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 28 2024