The life of immigrating to Canada is more cruel than expected.

Canada is a country that encourages overseas immigrants, and many people in China will immigrate to Canada to live. So what is life like after immigration? This is also a concern of many people who go abroad. With the immigration column, I gradually understand that the life of immigrating to Canada is more cruel than I thought. Welcome to reading.

The life of immigrating to Canada is more cruel than expected.

In the impression of many people in China, immigrants to Canada, a high welfare country, are basically supported by the government when they get old. As everyone knows, the real situation is quite different.

For most people in China, emigrating to Canada may mean the beginning of a completely different new life.

This new life was once the dream of many people. Now many people's dreams have come true, but some people wake up from their dreams.

Generally speaking, there are two ways for China people to immigrate to Canada: skilled immigrants before 2008 and investment immigrants after 2008.

Li Dawei in Beijing was one of the skilled immigrants before 2008.

1988 With the tide of friends emigrating to Canada, Li Dawei handled skilled migration through an immigration company in Beijing.

He paid $5,000 twice and finally landed in Canada at 1999.

Full of longing for a new life, when Li Dawei set foot in a foreign land, his first impression of Canada was that the natural environment was very beautiful, with blue sky, green grass, clear water, high mountains and flowers everywhere, which made people feel relaxed and happy.

Not long after, he hit a wall when looking for a job and realized "a real Canada". Relatives are far away from home and have no friends to rely on. China people are unpopular in the local area, business is difficult to do, work hard, and the road ahead is boundless. I don't know when I can come out.

Canada has changed from the legendary "everyone takes" to the real "difficulty".

Although Li Dawei obtained Canadian citizenship through technology, he was originally in high spirits. After he set foot in Canada, he was at a loss and even doubted his life, which was mainly attributed to a wonderful phenomenon in the introduction of skilled immigrants in Canada.

Canada classifies talents and emphasizes "professionals". However, after the introduction, people's overseas education, professional qualification certification and overseas work experience are difficult to be recognized. Even some people who work in overseas branches of Canadian enterprises are told that they lack local experience after emigration.

As a result, many people in China have never been able to get satisfactory jobs, and they have been wandering in the circle of "hourly workers" with low salaries and irregularities for a long time. "Lack of talents" and "overqualified" have become a true portrayal of many skilled immigrants to Canada.

Li Dawei said that before emigration, the intermediary companies always advocated that Canada had a good living environment, good social welfare and higher wages than domestic ones, but never mentioned Canada's alarmingly high tax burden.

"Even if the annual salary is 65,438+one million Canadian dollars, once you pay nearly 45% tax, your actual income is only a little over 50,000," Li Dawei said. "It turns out that the monthly income of foreign-funded enterprises is 67,000 yuan compared with more than 2,000 Canadian dollars in Canada. I regret immigrating to Canada."

However, after 2008, Chinese who immigrated to Canada mainly for investment did not have this problem.

These wealthy China citizens obtained Canadian citizenship through various channels, such as federal investment immigrants, federal entrepreneurs immigrants and economic immigrants nominated by provinces.

"Nothing but money and cards." I was busy looking at the house and buying a house as soon as I landed. Some people even bought independent houses in Canada before the completion of immigration.

After these local tyrants immigrated to Canada, they couldn't wait to retreat immediately, although they weren't as hard-pressed as skilled immigrants from China. However, after immigrating to Canada, they also found that the "high welfare" in the mouth of some immigration agents has a lot of water.

Let's take a look at what some immigration agents call Canada's "free medical care" system.

Indeed, Canada implements universal health insurance, and not only citizens, but also foreign immigrants and students with the right of abode can enjoy free medical care.

However, free often means having to put up with low-quality medical services.

It may be hard to believe, but in Canada, where medical technology is world-leading, public hospitals have limited funds, but hospital equipment is not advanced: minimally invasive equipment and MRI machines at Richmond Hospital in British Columbia, Canada are purchased through charitable donations.

In Canada, the low level of medical services is not a problem, but "waiting for death".

According to a survey, due to more patients and fewer hospitals, the average time for patients to wait in line for surgery is 18 weeks. Medical disputes caused by long waiting time are not uncommon in Canada.

It is reported that an old man once went to see a doctor because of lung problems, but when he went to a specialist, he was told several times that he was "in no hurry to arrange surgery." When it was determined that surgery was needed, the physical condition of the old man was not as good as before, and finally he fell on the operating table and died unfortunately.

In addition, in Canada, medicine is separated. Generally, doctors write prescriptions and patients buy their own medicines.

However, the drug price is very expensive. Common cold medicines such as Tylenol cost tens of Canadian dollars for a course of treatment. Therefore, friends of the President of Canada (ID: Top News-9) often lament that "it is absolutely impossible to get sick in Canada".

Some people may say that public hospitals are unreliable, so why not go to private hospitals?

Well, going to a private hospital is actually nothing. A small appendectomy will cost tens of thousands of Canadian dollars (about10-200,000 RMB).

After talking about free medical care, let's take a look at the pension system of Canada's "high welfare society" which is overestimated by many people.

In the impression of many people in China, immigrants to Canada, a high welfare country, are basically supported by the government when they get old. As everyone knows, the real situation is quite different.

Generally speaking, Canada's pension system is mainly composed of three parts: pension (OAS), pension fund (CPP) and pension savings fund (RRSP). In addition, there are some supplementary parts such as spouse allowance and private pension savings.

It's just that pensions increase the responsibility of the government. Moreover, in order to receive this part of the money, you have to meet the following conditions:

Only after living in Canada for 10 years, can you qualify for a pension after reaching the age of 65; After living for 40 years, you are eligible for a full pension.

In 20 10, Canada's full old-age pension is 5 16.96 Canadian dollars per month (about 267 1 RMB); If you have only lived in 10 years, then you only have a poor 129.24 Canadian dollars (about 667 yuan) every month.

For a person or a family, immigration always means migration and turmoil. It takes hard work and a huge price to re-establish roots in a strange land.

The wave of Chinese immigrants in Canada in recent years also shows that the life of immigrants is far from as simple as we thought.

Canada is not a paradise, nor is every immigrant country a paradise. If immigration is a "dream", then only great determination and efforts can turn it into a "dream".