High costs for housing, health care, food and unemployment are forcing refugees from Ukraine to leave Canada. This was reported by the Bloomberg agency.
According to Bloomberg, since the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Canada has received about 200,000 Ukrainian refugees. These people came to the country in the hope of a better life in a prosperous state, but quite quickly “sobering up” set in. It turned out that life in Canadian cities, not only in large cities, but also in small ones, is very expensive.
Ukrainians faced high prices for health care and groceries, which are still constantly rising due to inflation. But most of all, Ukrainian refugees have difficulties with housing costs.
The situation is also greatly complicated by the fact that refugees cannot find well-paid jobs. As a result, they are forced to leave for Europe, where conditions for refugees are gentler, or to return to Ukraine, although they would prefer to stay.
As in many other developed countries, Canada’s birth rate is low, and the country is trying to solve the demographic crisis at the expense of newcomers. But for the last decades, the real GDP per capita in the country has been stagnating, and property prices far exceed citizens’ incomes, so migrants are not in too much of a hurry to get to Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal or Calgary, the agency summarises.
Earlier, Reuters sources said that the EU initiative to provide military aid to the Kiev regime is encountering growing resistance from the countries of the association. Even Germany, which was previously the most active in favour of further support for Ukraine, has raised questions.