r/InCanada

Since it is government funded, I view it as permanently skewed towards whoever is funding it. This also applies under a Conservative government.

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Honestly, Canada might have the greatest immigration branding machine in the world.

From the outside, it sells this image of being calm, civilized, welcoming, progressive — the reasonable country in a chaotic world.

Then you actually enter the system.

That’s when the illusion starts falling apart.

The bureaucracy is unbelievably slow, opaque, and detached from reality.

And the obsession with “security screening” is absurd.

The United States moves faster.Australia moves faster.Even smaller countries with fewer resources move faster.

Meanwhile Canada behaves like every applicant is some kind of national security event.

People disappear into background checks for years with no timeline, no transparency, and no meaningful communication.

Not weeks.Not months.Years.

Your entire life gets suspended while the system keeps repeating:“Please wait patiently.”

At some point you stop feeling like an applicant and start feeling like a file sitting in permanent administrative purgatory.

And here’s the irony:

People often confuse institutional rigidity with competence.

Canada is extremely procedural, extremely controlling, extremely bureaucratic — but none of that seems to translate into actual efficiency or national momentum.

Quite the opposite.

This is a country dealing with collapsing affordability, stagnant productivity, overloaded healthcare, declining living standards, and growing economic anxiety — yet somehow its administrative culture still operates with breathtaking self-importance.

The machinery moves slowly, but the arrogance moves fast.

Everything is wrapped in polite language and carefully managed PR, but underneath it all is a system that rarely explains itself, rarely admits mistakes, and seems perfectly comfortable letting people’s lives remain in limbo indefinitely.

That’s the part immigration influencers never mention.

The emotional exhaustion.The uncertainty.The years you can never recover.

Canada still knows how to market stability.

Whether it can still deliver it is a very different question.

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If rates got back to 18%+ like it was decades ago, but a house in a place like Vancouver would cost $300k or so, would you be okay with that being the norm? Or do you see this creating a permanent exclusion of certain incomes entering the housing market?

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How can I find a job in Canada without a Canadian degree? Indian citizen, currently in the UK.

So I am a 22(F) software developer at a start-up company in India. I completed my bachelor's (BCA - 3 years) in may of 2025 but alongside my study I worked part-time for the said company as well. I mainly dealt with websites at the time. Now I am working full-time as software developer. I am also learning French alongside and my current level is A1-A2. Also pursuing an Msc. IT through distance education. My query is that can I use both my part-time and full-time work together for pr application? I am planning to apply by 2027 end. By then I will have 1.5-2 yrs of full time work experience. But I read on the official website of ircc that you can use your part time work even as a student if it totals upto 1560 hrs or more and mine qualifies for it as I've been with this company since almost the beginning of my studies.
I would appreciate any suggestions you have for me. Also, fyi my two biological sisters are also living in Canada, one is a citizen and the other is permanent resident.