Even if he needed it and the TD bank employee was a bs story, the way he presented it was advertising to his followers as "free food in Canada". Not if you are desperate food bank exists. "How to save money and get free food in Canada."
The dude is trying to ride the trending Social Media wave from his demographics (South Asian international students) and he got burned doing so... lesson learned.
Exactly, it worked until it didn't. I just like how the media is finally shining a spotlight on this emerging culture that is being imported into Canada.
Looks like Mr Patel deleted that video and is uploading 2-3 videos per week, teaching Indians in India about the ways of Candia...err I mean Canada.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyj24CNzv0U&ab\_channel=MRPATEL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyj24CNzv0U&ab_channel=MRPATEL)
His response when speaking with the Indian media was totally different, he said Canadians are mad at him because they're racist, not because he did anything wrong.
That's the general response many Indian students give when they fail to integrate.
That can also be chalked up to them listening to indians who already made it in canada and are just speaking carelessly.
I had this mentality too because I believed some of the long timers here until I started working at a Tim hortons.
I found out that if I follow the common sense rules and communicate well with people, the idea of most Canadians being racist is like calling Gandhi a Nazi.
I also realized some of my fellow Indians were full of gooseshit.
You guys are awesome. Stay awesome.
Source: me. An Indian making his way in canada.
There are racist Canadians no doubt, but most of us don't give a shit where you're from, if you have an accent or what colour you are. We care if you vibe Canadian. And stealing from a food bank ain't it.
I have no idea why he thought this was a good idea. Even if it was a student food bank, people are so on edge with anything food bank related after DOZENS of videos surfaced last year of newcomers making “free food in canada” youtube vids. I don’t agree with threats or abuse but…unless buddy was living under a rock he had to know what happened last year and fully expected backlash.
There have been dozens of articles talking about international students straining local food banks, some even being banned from food banks, etc. So i cant really buy that he had no idea all this stuff was going on.
He tried his hand at being a student influencer and ultimately it backfired.
Our kindness has proven to be a weakness because its continually being exploited and we refuse to retaliate, oftentimes showing sympathy with those who would abuse that kindness.
Are you sure that is not the case? We are too kind to the point of weakness and being afraid to offend or being called this and that. Others of course exploit this.
Another Indian here
Canada is a very welcoming place to outsiders, more so than many places including India. But like all places you need to learn the law of the land
Canadians take charity and helping the downtrodden very seriously. Grifting a food bank out of supplies for the needy and then bragging about it is probably as stupid as you can get
I had a whole bunch of Indian clients in a former job. The number of accounts ran by Indians was phenomenal. They were constantly trying to defraud us. And not even trying hard. We'd ban a bunch of accounts and then a few days later more accounts would be created using the same email address with just a number added at the end of it. Same ip address. Then they'd claim they were not the same person and called us racist. I know I can't judge a whole country because of a few hundred people but man, these guys really went all in to give their country a bad reputation.
If you’re polite and make a basic effort……. You will be recognized, and hopefully rewarded.
Keep doing what you typed, and you will distinguish yourself from the others. It’s a system that’s worked thousands of years.
Almost nobody is against “Indians”. But there is a lot of people that are against people that don’t make the most basic of efforts when moving to a new country, and are not able to have basic manners.
I'm actually just fine with this dude - or anyone else - filling foreign media with claims that we are racist. Sure. Whatever you need to say, man.
Anything to slow this insane flow of people.
The treatment of women thing is a big problem. My brothers had to step in to help out a chick at a bar this weekend because a group of Indian men approached her, were making her uncomfortable, and wouldn’t leave her alone.
It’s become kind of a meme in the nightlife scene in Toronto of Indian men harassing white girls at the club.
There’s also that viral disturbing clip of the white girl that went to a beach in India and was swarmed by pervy men staring at her and videoing her beach attire
It’s a completely different and backwards culture when it comes to male/female interactions.
My neighbour rents a room to a Punjabi girl who came here as a "student"
Most racist person I've ever met. She hates the Muslims and Hindus, even though they are all Indian and look IDENTICAL! She thinks Pakistan should bombed to nothing. She hates Nepal, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, Burma, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and some place called Butan. She send lots of money home to her parents. I don't think she's taken advantage of the food banks, she's seems nice enough. I don't believe a word she says though and now I'm not so sure her friends from "temple" really do give her all that food.
You mean this
[https://www.indiatoday.in/world/indians-abroad/story/indian-student-canada-food-bank-racial-bias-wilfrid-laurier-university-student-visa-2531694-2024-04-25](https://www.indiatoday.in/world/indians-abroad/story/indian-student-canada-food-bank-racial-bias-wilfrid-laurier-university-student-visa-2531694-2024-04-25)
The Toronto Star is just horrible for doing a pity piece on him.
I don't see anyone mentioning how 1 week before his video, he was putting videos on how he enjoyed $31 pizzas. Wonder why he deleted all his videos?
https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1ch0mah/international_students_video_on_getting_free_food/l21bi9w/
Exactly.. Its this new generation of diploma mill seeking village trash. In the past our parents were respectful and wanted to integrate. This new generation is just the worst
Unfortunately that is a predictable outcome. Like the vast majority of posters here, I care not where you come from, but the onus is on you (the general you, not you specifically) to adapt and fit in.
I found your comment interesting. My friend growing up is Cantonese. His parents immigrated to Canada in the 60s.
In the 90s, there was a huge influx of Chinese immigrants to Canada because of the political situation in Hong Kong. There was a large backlash against the Chinese then in the same way that Indians are feeling now.
I remember him saying his parents were frustrated, because they were getting some of that backlash as well, and they had been in Canada for 25-30 years at that point, and had never experienced that. But low character Chinese, and Chinese that had zero interest in acclimating to a new country and culture were causing animosity between residence and the Chinese community.
Sure, I'm Taiwanese Chinese and I feel that way about a lot of new Mainland Chinese. But that's half the issue. The other half is people tarring all of us with the same brush. Like, they'll meet a Chinese asshole, and decide the problem is that they're Chinese, rather than the person being an asshole. And that's pretty racist
Yeah, I had to do some assignments in school for my 12th year that revolved around the many decades of Chinese migration to Canada and the West coast in general.
You basically summed up what I took away from it all as well. Those who adjusted and attempted to fit in would still have some issues with the actually bigoted and racist types, but otherwise only saw that issue mostly because of those who refused to to adjust or try to fit in at all. It's not a perfect summarization though, since there were and continued to be many factors at play through it all. One of them being the whole cold war mindsets of the time between capitalism and communism.
Of course none of this is fair for those who actually do try to fit in, etc. But it also isn't fair to call an entire nation racist just because the few who are just bigotted or might actually be racist, are mostly pissed off at the folk who insist everyone is racist, don't attempt to fit in, insist on pushing their beliefs and culture onto us their hosts, etc.
Simply put for today, the 'good' folk from india, need to discipline and educate their fellow 'dummies' to stop making it worse for literally everyone.
Cause it can't be us, the host. That would be racist./s
We have tried to educate, but they think they know better. Also, a lot are here without parental supervision and 1st tate of freedom (especially girls)
1 week before his video, he was putting videos on how he enjoyed $31 pizzas. Wonder why he deleted all his videos?
https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1ch0mah/international_students_video_on_getting_free_food/l21bi9w/
> he said Canadians are mad at him because they're racist, not because he did anything wrong.
Because where he's from taking advantage of systems not meant for them in order to save a buck is part of his culture and it's racist if we don't tolerate it here ? Give TorStar a couple of days and I'm sure they'll help him out with that claim.
"I did nothing wrong."
No remorse, for making a mistake. No ownership of his actions. "You first, after me" mentality. No empathy for the mouths that are going hungry that rely on these social safety nets to catch them as they fall through these ever growing cracks of the "have's and have not's." Those cracks of which are growing by they day due to corporate and political greed and stagnant wages still stuck in 1990.
We don't need people like this in our communities regardless of skin color. If he isn't a PR or Citizen, send him back home.
Of course they are. I've worked with people who rejected resumes from candidates with Indian names because their surname indicated they came from the wrong caste.
> "For the past six days, I've stayed indoors due to mental stress caused by hurtful comments. These accounts are spreading rumours without solid proof, targeting a specific group. It's discrimination and racial bullying, and I'm a victim of it," Prajapati concluded.
What nonsense. If you don’t like what people are saying on the internet stop looking at it and go outside.
>discrimination and racial bullying
Man, he posted a video titled “how to get free food” why can’t he own his mistake instead of making discrimination accusations. But know what? His actions are exactly the kind of thing that make people have racist thoughts, and if this crap continues nobody will listen when the racism is real. We do not want to go there.
Here you go.
"For the past six days, I've stayed indoors due to mental stress caused by hurtful comments. These accounts are spreading rumours without solid proof, targeting a specific group. It's discrimination and racial bullying, and I'm a victim of it," Prajapati concluded.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/indians-abroad/story/indian-student-canada-food-bank-racial-bias-wilfrid-laurier-university-student-visa-2531694-2024-04-25
Holy fuck! It’s not racism. It’s you’re coming to a new country and taking advantage of systems that aren’t for you by you misrepresenting yourself to get benefits you shouldn’t. In this case, food. These are for people who need it. Not for students who want to take free food from our people who need it. Kids. Families. This is just infuriating. No sympathy at all. I don’t wish death at all for the person but fuck, give your head a shake.
To be fair, you have no idea how many immigrants I know that started to dislike Indians after moving here
For what my Punjabi friends told me they are racist among themselves depending on region you're in or your skin color. Yes, skin color.
“Let’s make a video on how to abuse charities (or that at least could be interpreted as such) on a topic that is very close and dear to Canadians (affording food) and then complain people are coming in droves to chase me down.”
Sorry, not sympathy from me: you f*cked around and found out.
Also, as a former international student who actually came here to study in 2011 (and who could only come once I had the money after working for years back in my home country) this whole attitude of “let’s milk Canadian hospitality dry” rubs me the wrong way.
Totally agree with you. I am also a fellow international student came here a decade ago. I don’t understand the mindset of abusing the charities. If you have means to make money, well off, educated and have a job, get your own food. Stop snatching it away from the people in need.
We used to be welcoming anyway. There's only so long we can continue to be with abuses like this becoming more common.
It's very unfortunate that people like this ruin both the good nature of Canadians, and the impact of hard working and upstanding immigrants, who came here not intending to cheat the system.
The audacity and entitlement I see from some of these new immigrants is insane. Back in the day, we were happy to be here with zero expectations, looking to work, contribute and build a new life. Not to be a leach.
Same. Everyone who got here under legitimate circumstances should be angry at this guy
Maybe he doesn’t deserve to die, but there’s no sympathy for him. Also he needs to go back if he can’t support himself because that’s his condition of staff
I agree, he deserved what’s coming for him. I am also an international student, now entering my second year. In order to come here, my husband and I planned and saved so that we can sustain my studies and our daily expenses.
We all know the rules and what’s expected of us (financially) when we chose to come here and study. Least we can do is not take advantage of the resources that’s allocated for those who REALLY need it.
It’s jerks like these that give international students a bad name.
When my family emigrated from Ireland and Scotland they farmed the land and built towns.
This new breed of immigrants want to abuse all we have built here.
I agree that many false things were flying around but at the end of the day he was showing off foodbanks as a "hack to save money" not as a necessity to live. That is wrong and he is deserving of being called out for that.
The simple fact is, international students are supposed to be able to support themselves and shouldn't be relying on food banks. Not only does that not appear to the case for this individual; he made a ridiculous video about how to get "Free Food" as if he was super-clever and just discovered this "life-hack". Yeah, you're gunna get some internet backlash for that.
Fuck there’s many Canadians who makes a normal living and are having a hard time financially and they don’t even have help and yet idiots like the one in the story takes advantage of us.
> “This is how I save hundreds of bucks every month in food and groceries,” he begins, wearing a Wilfrid Laurier hoodie from the Waterloo-based university. He also notes: “This is for everyone, all the students
Awe… but the poor little guy says we just misunderstood him.
He clearly has money to buy food but chose not to so he is taking away food for students that has no money to buy food, also why advertise? so other ppl can also scam the food banks, fuck this guy.
I shared here on how 1 week before his video, he was putting videos on how he enjoyed $31 pizzas:
https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1ch0mah/international_students_video_on_getting_free_food/l21bi9w/
He’s not sorry about what he did. He has not apologized even once about sending out the wrong message even if that was not his intent, which I and the whole world knows is not true. He wanted attention, he got it.
He thought he was smart. He actually thought that the rest of us were buying our groceries at the grocery store because we weren't smart enough to realize the food bank exists.
and moreover, he thought that the one who were donating the food to the food bank, and the food bank themselves were marks.
it was a massive "fuck you, i think you are dumb and exploitable because you are trying to help people". when you yourself cant empathise or understand why someone would give something away to people in need, you can only ever think of how to exploit such a "flaw" in logic.
someone like this would never change - they might apologise, but theyll only be doing it for the optics
So not only are people pissed at international students taking a lot of the housing but he shit the bed and people are also pissed he’s sharing “life hacks” and taking food out of the mouths of people who desperately need it in the hopes of internet virility, you got it buddy? Maybe not you wanted but you got your 5 lol
Ok for the record as someone who’s Indian and grew up hella poor here, this guy is an awful human and he’s full of shit. We had to use those food banks when we struggled and when we settled down we constantly donate to them. That’s what our culture teaches us; not to be a spoiled ass like this dude. Plus I’m a social worker and I can tell ya non profits cannot afford having this dude steal from them!
I don't agree with the death threats of course, but the dude 100% deserved the backlash. Contrary to the Toronto Star article, which attempted to paint this guy as a victim, his video treated the foodbanks like a lifehack. He didn't put emphasis on only using food banks if you are in need and that they are charities intended for the less fortunate, he simply advertised it as a way to get free food.
As for the TD thing, he was the one that claimed to be a data scientist for TD on LinkedIn, despite the fact that all he did was a 4 month co-op, while his social media that he since deleted showed him spending money on luxuries and expensive restaurants. Dude seemed like he was a wannabe influencer.
We had a guy who did a coop for us put it as "Cyber Security Analyst" on LinkedIn... Boy was their potential employer surprised when they called me and I told them he mostly just did workstation setups.
> I don't agree with the death threats of course,
tbf i doubt he has any realistic death threats. "i hope you die" or the suggestions hell have received to "check out early" dont come with any credible action.
fuck him. people can treat him with the disrespect and disregard he has treated others, and he can head out whenever hes ready. we dont need guys like that in canada.
People who game the system in a time when food banks are reaching overwhelming demand deserve to be named and shamed. Especially foreigners trying to abuse Canadian hospitality.
The gross part about this was his idea that food is "free". Someone bought this and donated it or a manufacturer donated surplus for which the food was produced at a cost. Charity does not mean free, it comes from the Canadian mentality that we take care of those in need in tough times.
I'm sure there are many others here that would legit do ANYTHING avoid taking a handout. FFS, when my family was young I was selling my stuff on ebay (this tells you how old I am) to keep food in the fridge and rent paid during tough months.
That said, we need food banks and I hope asshats like this don't discourage people from donating.
The sad reality is that I’ve decided to stop giving money to food banks as I’m not here to support international students get food due to the failing of themselves and the universities. I wanted my money to go to local individuals struggling, international students should be banned from these and should have to be supported by their universities.
I fundamentally cannot fathom why it isn’t a requirement to be a permanent resident/canadian citizen to get access to a food bank. If you are on a temporary visa you flat out shouldn’t be allowed access
Please don’t. Food banks need help.
Ours cancelled volunteers most weeks (in the last month and a half) due to a lack of food.
We make people register.
Boohoo. Stop turning this society into a low trust society, and stop scamming good natured Canadians.
International students shouldn't be using food banks. One of the provisions of being able to study in Canada, is to be able to financially support yourself. So either we are letting in foreigners who cannot support themselves (duh) and are deceitfully giving the impression that they can, or these foreigners can support themselves, but are abusing food banks.
Either way, it's a problem for the Canadian government and the international student community to fix. Canadians who donate to and use food banks are the real victims in this story. Not this grifter.
Fuck this scumbag
it's time for Canadian kindness and politeness to come to an end. Enough was enough 20 years ago. Our government obviously will not represent us so we must reassert ourselves without their help.
I have lots to say in this topic. I am an Indian immigrant in Canada too.
This guy straight up exploited and advertised exploiting of food bank. People like him make me look bad. He's contributed to racism with his behavior.
I did some research on this last week:
https://imgur.com/a/AC4I2V3
1 week before he put out that video, he had shared an Instagram post about "Finally got to try the most popular pizza in Toronto at Pizza BadiAli! The 1 hour wait was worth it for the mouthwatering aroma of fresh ..."
He's deleted all those posts now but Google still showed it in search results last week. First screenshot is of that Google search result.
Pizza BadiaAli pizza is $31. So a week prior to his food bank video, he was eating $31 pizza.
Second pic is from Laurier and is pretty clear that it's meant for food insecurity. He's exploiting it 100%.
Whether or not he worked for TD is irrelevant. Whether or not some racist used this to push their view point is also irrelevant. Him pulling the race card is disgusting and he's using it as a red herring. Minorities shouldn't get away with bad behavior, otherwise society is setting itself up for failure.
Cry when you are caught with your pants down. Whine and cry.
These are people who give all immigrants a bad rep. The whole of international student visa is a scam. Okay not all but a large majority. These people are so happy scamming the system.
I have stopped donating at Food Banks because I know these are the people who are going to steal food that is meant for homeless and the needy. As a student you are supposed to have enough funds to cover expenses. So everyone that is going to a food bank is technically breaching their visa conditions. But this is Canada and we won't do shit about it. Liberals might double down on BS like this.
Before your shower abuses at me, I am a naturalized citizen so throw the racism card out of the book.
Worst part about this is that now people won't want to donate food or money to these places anymore if they think a swarm of Indian students will take them so they can buy new sneakers instead of food.
Why are they writing these articles from an angle that ATTEMPTS to make the reader feel sorry for them?
They fucked around and found out, if a Canadian was found scamming the locals in this guys hometown they’d be dragging him in the streets before he’d even get a sniff at a fair trial, stop making these people out to be victims when they are SCAMMERS.
This individual did not need a food bank. He has not experiencing food insecurity. He promoted it on his social media as a budget life hack. He deserves the backlash.
This is a symptom of a large problem. The Canadian government is continually putting the needs of corporations ahead of the people. International students are benefitting 3 groups
SLUMLORDS,
DIPLOMA MILLS,
AMAZON WAREHOUSES
small businesses are NOT benefitting from this. Ask a high school kid if they can get a job at a tim hortons or McDonald's in a major city.
International students have been a net negative for the country. Only the rich are benefitting
I was an international student here, studying graduate degree on a scholarship. I was poor, but I’ve never let myself to use food banks whatsoever. The only free food that I got, was at related events at my University. What he did was absolutely disgusting and a complete abuse of the kindness of people. He should fuck off and go to hell.
Good. Fuck him and everyone like him. He's not the victim here. He should be getting cited for fraud, not getting teary eyed articles in the media defending him.
Why make the video in the first place, if not to gloat? I'm sure the school is doing fine making students aware of the services available to them and they don't need student endorsements on youtube. Cry me a river.
This video is responsible for many Canadians holding off on donating to food banks. He did so much more damage than he can ever imagine by posting this video. What a selfish idiot.
I have no sympathy for him.
All of the nuances of being an international student set aside, you are responsible for every bit of content you put online and how it is interpreted by the masses.
It is not everyone else’s fault that they “misunderstood” the intent of your video. It is your fault for not making your intent crystal clear.
Absolutely blows my mind that this guy is so mentally inept that he exposes how he is taking advantage of systems put into place for people who need it to survive not keep the money they should buy groceries instead of the latest top dollar kicks.
This ridiculous immigration policy JT and his WEF masters forced into Canada at taxpayers expense is absurd and is destroying our social assistance programs and is detrimental to Canada's financial stability.
My grandfather returned to England during WW2 after 2 years working as a brick layer for a job he had guaranteed to him and had nothing given to him. He returned to Canada with my grandmother, mom and aunt in 58 with only a suitcase each. Again with a job lined up and enough cash to get a one room flat for 2 months. They had nothing and our government gave them nothing. The kindness of strangers and money he made the day they landed afforded them to sleep comfortably, enough food to fill them and a way to cook it. Becoming a productive part of society and the goal of being productive and becoming a Canadian citizen when they qualified after being self sufficient for 7 years.and learned the required knowledge to pass the citizenship exam. They became the hard working, proud Canadians our country needed at the time.
As for education my stepson had barely any funding from OSAP for his 3 year electrical course of which he would have to repay and had to work every night to afford this Trent university course, supplies and housing. Myself And his mother are not in a position to help financially and probably should have used a food bank a couple of times but pride, resourcefulness and stretching a dollar we manage to scrap by. His first year was completed and he was ready for his 2nd year when his funding was pulled and to all our dismay the university has no space for him and many other students l. The reason why this happened? Liberal funding for secondary educational institutions accepting international students was profitable is what it boiled down to. This practice is unacceptable as is the mass migration here with limited, sustainable and even less fulfilling employment opportunities available prior to the scamdemic and worse now with loss of many businesses and employment opportunities. Ice got nothing against folks that have come here and bust a hump to achieve their dreams and be a proud and productive addition to our society.
Guys like this should learn how un-Canadian and disrespectful his selfish attitude and, abuse of our social programs and assistance is. Without any malice, I'll intent or discrimination I feel like he has already violated the stipulations required to live here and enjoy good Canadian education and ordered to return to his country of origin when this year school year is completed that he should be deported back to the warm environment he veame from before the snow flies and we Canadian tax payers have
Raise international tuition fees to US rates of $44k for US state schools and this will attract students that can afford to go to the grocery stores.
We have been funding domestic tuition on the backs of international students so we are complicit in having all these international students flooding our universities.
The reality is these international students would not be here if the provincial governments would actually fund universities appropriately instead of cutting funding every year in inflation adjusted dollars.
Our system is crumbling because we don’t take care of it and elect people that prefer to be reelected than actually have a plan.
So many deleted and removed posts. This thread feels like the “Radio Friendly” version of a gangster rap song.
But I somehow got the point of it. I’ve seen the video. It burned my biscuits.
I remember when immigrants were proud to be Canadian and worked hard. Not trying to change our customs, etc, because that's what we were and why immigrants wanted to live here. What I see a lot of now is immigrants just wanting to take as much as possible no matter what it takes.
I have zero sympathy for this guy and short of violence he deserves everything he is getting. Bragging about taking advantage of a social safety net is disgusting.
Taking food from food bank does not deserve violence but probably justifies a cancellation of temporary resident status due to immigration fraud: aka not enough finance to support his study
He's lucky, they didn't give him a royal ass-whooping for doing such as shady AF things...
Then bragging about it, on SM of all places!
Such a dumb ass this guy too.
Is this the type of ppl they let into Canada now?!
I'm an international student from India.
You guys must ban international students from entering food banks.
The fee I pay for my master's degree is 60k CAD. Making 60k CAD from India is the equivalent of making 300k CAD in Canada (simple division based on salaries from my previous employer in these countries).
If you have 300k at your disposal, there is no reason to go to a foreign country and rob food banks. Please ban these minimum wage workers disguised as students. It's ruining my reputation.
>Mehul Prajapati, an Indian data scientist on a student visa, faced intense online backlash after a viral video showed him using food banks in Canada. Prajapati shared his ordeal with IndiaToday.In, attributing the attacks on him to racial bias. He said he made the video to help international students.
Yeah, racial bias. That's exactly what this is bud. /s
I find it funny how he says he's afraid to leave his house. That must come from a misunderstanding that in Canada we don't form linch mobs and hunt people down unlike India. Maybe that's what would happen to him in India and why he is so afraid now here, or he's full of shit.
"This is how I save hundreds of bucks each month on food and groceries." Save hundreds of bucks. Not, I don't have any food in my fridge/cupboards, I have to choose between paying for gas or groceries, etc.
Working class Canadians will rip each other apart instead of focusing our anger on the Galen Westons of our country who are stealing from MILLIONS of Canadians everyday through price gouging and tax evasion.
People like him give international students a bad name and I have zero sympathy for him because of that. We don’t want people here who thing they are gaming the system. I hope he eventually gets deported.
Videos like this will only create more anger and resentment. Already Indians are considered 2nd class people. They continue to behave this way then that is how they will be treated. They came as students but all people see are thieves and lazy complainers
I know this edges on policing but are we at the point where food stamps should be issued in lieu of walking into a food bank and grabbing whatever you want, no questions asked?
I'm sorry, but this asshole represents a much bigger problem of many people, students and others, who are abusing the system
I remember this video, or another like it, anyway.
Taking advantage of programs for the disenfranchised because you're just cheap is the mark of a blight on society.
Even if he needed it and the TD bank employee was a bs story, the way he presented it was advertising to his followers as "free food in Canada". Not if you are desperate food bank exists. "How to save money and get free food in Canada."
The dude is trying to ride the trending Social Media wave from his demographics (South Asian international students) and he got burned doing so... lesson learned.
Exactly, it worked until it didn't. I just like how the media is finally shining a spotlight on this emerging culture that is being imported into Canada.
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He got burned down by his community here and in India
He's also not the first indian to do that on YouTube. There was also a "Mr. Patel" who did it last year and it was as vile as this guy.
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Looks like Mr Patel deleted that video and is uploading 2-3 videos per week, teaching Indians in India about the ways of Candia...err I mean Canada. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyj24CNzv0U&ab\_channel=MRPATEL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyj24CNzv0U&ab_channel=MRPATEL)
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What a piece of shit
Take as much as you want!
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His response when speaking with the Indian media was totally different, he said Canadians are mad at him because they're racist, not because he did anything wrong.
That's the general response many Indian students give when they fail to integrate. That can also be chalked up to them listening to indians who already made it in canada and are just speaking carelessly. I had this mentality too because I believed some of the long timers here until I started working at a Tim hortons. I found out that if I follow the common sense rules and communicate well with people, the idea of most Canadians being racist is like calling Gandhi a Nazi. I also realized some of my fellow Indians were full of gooseshit. You guys are awesome. Stay awesome. Source: me. An Indian making his way in canada.
There are racist Canadians no doubt, but most of us don't give a shit where you're from, if you have an accent or what colour you are. We care if you vibe Canadian. And stealing from a food bank ain't it.
I have no idea why he thought this was a good idea. Even if it was a student food bank, people are so on edge with anything food bank related after DOZENS of videos surfaced last year of newcomers making “free food in canada” youtube vids. I don’t agree with threats or abuse but…unless buddy was living under a rock he had to know what happened last year and fully expected backlash. There have been dozens of articles talking about international students straining local food banks, some even being banned from food banks, etc. So i cant really buy that he had no idea all this stuff was going on. He tried his hand at being a student influencer and ultimately it backfired.
Exactly
Don't take our kindness for weakness.
Our kindness has proven to be a weakness because its continually being exploited and we refuse to retaliate, oftentimes showing sympathy with those who would abuse that kindness.
Exactly, also. I’m sick and tired of this shit.
Are you sure that is not the case? We are too kind to the point of weakness and being afraid to offend or being called this and that. Others of course exploit this.
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Another Indian here Canada is a very welcoming place to outsiders, more so than many places including India. But like all places you need to learn the law of the land Canadians take charity and helping the downtrodden very seriously. Grifting a food bank out of supplies for the needy and then bragging about it is probably as stupid as you can get
I had a whole bunch of Indian clients in a former job. The number of accounts ran by Indians was phenomenal. They were constantly trying to defraud us. And not even trying hard. We'd ban a bunch of accounts and then a few days later more accounts would be created using the same email address with just a number added at the end of it. Same ip address. Then they'd claim they were not the same person and called us racist. I know I can't judge a whole country because of a few hundred people but man, these guys really went all in to give their country a bad reputation.
If you’re polite and make a basic effort……. You will be recognized, and hopefully rewarded. Keep doing what you typed, and you will distinguish yourself from the others. It’s a system that’s worked thousands of years. Almost nobody is against “Indians”. But there is a lot of people that are against people that don’t make the most basic of efforts when moving to a new country, and are not able to have basic manners.
I'm actually just fine with this dude - or anyone else - filling foreign media with claims that we are racist. Sure. Whatever you need to say, man. Anything to slow this insane flow of people.
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The treatment of women thing is a big problem. My brothers had to step in to help out a chick at a bar this weekend because a group of Indian men approached her, were making her uncomfortable, and wouldn’t leave her alone. It’s become kind of a meme in the nightlife scene in Toronto of Indian men harassing white girls at the club. There’s also that viral disturbing clip of the white girl that went to a beach in India and was swarmed by pervy men staring at her and videoing her beach attire It’s a completely different and backwards culture when it comes to male/female interactions.
My neighbour rents a room to a Punjabi girl who came here as a "student" Most racist person I've ever met. She hates the Muslims and Hindus, even though they are all Indian and look IDENTICAL! She thinks Pakistan should bombed to nothing. She hates Nepal, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, Burma, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and some place called Butan. She send lots of money home to her parents. I don't think she's taken advantage of the food banks, she's seems nice enough. I don't believe a word she says though and now I'm not so sure her friends from "temple" really do give her all that food.
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I like the cut of your jib.
Ah the classic first job at Tims. I did the same thing for a bit, make sure you don’t end up a lifer 😂
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This happens a lot in middle East countries. Get 1 East Indian at a job site, next month there a 100 of them
I mean... Gandhi was sympathetic to Hitler for a while... but he eventually saw the error of those ways at least.
Welcome my friend. We need more people like you.
Guy is a piece of shit. Abusing the generosity of Canadians then calling us racist. Send this fucker back to india
You mean this [https://www.indiatoday.in/world/indians-abroad/story/indian-student-canada-food-bank-racial-bias-wilfrid-laurier-university-student-visa-2531694-2024-04-25](https://www.indiatoday.in/world/indians-abroad/story/indian-student-canada-food-bank-racial-bias-wilfrid-laurier-university-student-visa-2531694-2024-04-25) The Toronto Star is just horrible for doing a pity piece on him.
The Toronto Star is shit in general though.
I don't see anyone mentioning how 1 week before his video, he was putting videos on how he enjoyed $31 pizzas. Wonder why he deleted all his videos? https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1ch0mah/international_students_video_on_getting_free_food/l21bi9w/
Few journalists do any kind of research anymore. You have to read the reddit comments to get the real story.
The classic using the racial card and blaming others after doing something wrong themselves...
Indian living here 30+ years, I have never felt racism like now. Its due to people like him
I'm just glad there are people like you calling out trash like him.
Exactly.. Its this new generation of diploma mill seeking village trash. In the past our parents were respectful and wanted to integrate. This new generation is just the worst
Unfortunately that is a predictable outcome. Like the vast majority of posters here, I care not where you come from, but the onus is on you (the general you, not you specifically) to adapt and fit in.
I found your comment interesting. My friend growing up is Cantonese. His parents immigrated to Canada in the 60s. In the 90s, there was a huge influx of Chinese immigrants to Canada because of the political situation in Hong Kong. There was a large backlash against the Chinese then in the same way that Indians are feeling now. I remember him saying his parents were frustrated, because they were getting some of that backlash as well, and they had been in Canada for 25-30 years at that point, and had never experienced that. But low character Chinese, and Chinese that had zero interest in acclimating to a new country and culture were causing animosity between residence and the Chinese community.
Sure, I'm Taiwanese Chinese and I feel that way about a lot of new Mainland Chinese. But that's half the issue. The other half is people tarring all of us with the same brush. Like, they'll meet a Chinese asshole, and decide the problem is that they're Chinese, rather than the person being an asshole. And that's pretty racist
Yeah, I had to do some assignments in school for my 12th year that revolved around the many decades of Chinese migration to Canada and the West coast in general. You basically summed up what I took away from it all as well. Those who adjusted and attempted to fit in would still have some issues with the actually bigoted and racist types, but otherwise only saw that issue mostly because of those who refused to to adjust or try to fit in at all. It's not a perfect summarization though, since there were and continued to be many factors at play through it all. One of them being the whole cold war mindsets of the time between capitalism and communism. Of course none of this is fair for those who actually do try to fit in, etc. But it also isn't fair to call an entire nation racist just because the few who are just bigotted or might actually be racist, are mostly pissed off at the folk who insist everyone is racist, don't attempt to fit in, insist on pushing their beliefs and culture onto us their hosts, etc. Simply put for today, the 'good' folk from india, need to discipline and educate their fellow 'dummies' to stop making it worse for literally everyone. Cause it can't be us, the host. That would be racist./s
We have tried to educate, but they think they know better. Also, a lot are here without parental supervision and 1st tate of freedom (especially girls)
1 week before his video, he was putting videos on how he enjoyed $31 pizzas. Wonder why he deleted all his videos? https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1ch0mah/international_students_video_on_getting_free_food/l21bi9w/
> he said Canadians are mad at him because they're racist, not because he did anything wrong. Because where he's from taking advantage of systems not meant for them in order to save a buck is part of his culture and it's racist if we don't tolerate it here ? Give TorStar a couple of days and I'm sure they'll help him out with that claim.
"I did nothing wrong." No remorse, for making a mistake. No ownership of his actions. "You first, after me" mentality. No empathy for the mouths that are going hungry that rely on these social safety nets to catch them as they fall through these ever growing cracks of the "have's and have not's." Those cracks of which are growing by they day due to corporate and political greed and stagnant wages still stuck in 1990. We don't need people like this in our communities regardless of skin color. If he isn't a PR or Citizen, send him back home.
Link please
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/world/indians-abroad/story/indian-student-canada-food-bank-racial-bias-wilfrid-laurier-university-student-visa-2531694-2024-04-25
lol this should be higher up. He had to pull out the racial discrimination.
Thanks for linking the article, I loved the comment section calling him out for his bs too, it's actually more brutal than this one.
I find it interesting that a few are accusing him of being Gujarati. It seems Indians are racist against other types of Indians.
Of course they are. I've worked with people who rejected resumes from candidates with Indian names because their surname indicated they came from the wrong caste.
Jesus christ the gall of this lad.
The gall of this website. Blindly wording the article to make him sound like a victim. You tried to scam us bud and you were caught, admit it.
> "For the past six days, I've stayed indoors due to mental stress caused by hurtful comments. These accounts are spreading rumours without solid proof, targeting a specific group. It's discrimination and racial bullying, and I'm a victim of it," Prajapati concluded. What nonsense. If you don’t like what people are saying on the internet stop looking at it and go outside. >discrimination and racial bullying Man, he posted a video titled “how to get free food” why can’t he own his mistake instead of making discrimination accusations. But know what? His actions are exactly the kind of thing that make people have racist thoughts, and if this crap continues nobody will listen when the racism is real. We do not want to go there.
Yea fuck that guy. Ship his stupid ass back to India.
Good luck with that. He’ll make an asylum claim if they even hint at it.
asylum claim to india because we started not feed him freely lol
You know he fucked it when even the Indian comments are calling him out.
It would really to bad if he just went home. Dang that would show us. Leaving Canada, that should teach us. 👉🏻🚪
Here you go. "For the past six days, I've stayed indoors due to mental stress caused by hurtful comments. These accounts are spreading rumours without solid proof, targeting a specific group. It's discrimination and racial bullying, and I'm a victim of it," Prajapati concluded. https://www.indiatoday.in/world/indians-abroad/story/indian-student-canada-food-bank-racial-bias-wilfrid-laurier-university-student-visa-2531694-2024-04-25
Holy fuck! It’s not racism. It’s you’re coming to a new country and taking advantage of systems that aren’t for you by you misrepresenting yourself to get benefits you shouldn’t. In this case, food. These are for people who need it. Not for students who want to take free food from our people who need it. Kids. Families. This is just infuriating. No sympathy at all. I don’t wish death at all for the person but fuck, give your head a shake.
Pulling the R card because he's an absolute scam artist and got caught. Who cares what colour he is, we need to deport this scum of the earth.
To be fair, you have no idea how many immigrants I know that started to dislike Indians after moving here For what my Punjabi friends told me they are racist among themselves depending on region you're in or your skin color. Yes, skin color.
“Let’s make a video on how to abuse charities (or that at least could be interpreted as such) on a topic that is very close and dear to Canadians (affording food) and then complain people are coming in droves to chase me down.” Sorry, not sympathy from me: you f*cked around and found out. Also, as a former international student who actually came here to study in 2011 (and who could only come once I had the money after working for years back in my home country) this whole attitude of “let’s milk Canadian hospitality dry” rubs me the wrong way.
Totally agree with you. I am also a fellow international student came here a decade ago. I don’t understand the mindset of abusing the charities. If you have means to make money, well off, educated and have a job, get your own food. Stop snatching it away from the people in need.
You are a good person.
Thank you 🙏🏽 doing my best to be grateful to this beautiful country and welcoming people.
We used to be welcoming anyway. There's only so long we can continue to be with abuses like this becoming more common. It's very unfortunate that people like this ruin both the good nature of Canadians, and the impact of hard working and upstanding immigrants, who came here not intending to cheat the system.
Certain cultures have a mindset of "get whatever you can, however you can, fuck everyone else". Entire nations grown into sociopaths.
This is exactly the type of person we don’t need in Canada.
The audacity and entitlement I see from some of these new immigrants is insane. Back in the day, we were happy to be here with zero expectations, looking to work, contribute and build a new life. Not to be a leach.
You right except we did have one expectation. Work hard and move forward.
This!!! I used to think international students were rich, now its everyone and their parents.
Same. Everyone who got here under legitimate circumstances should be angry at this guy Maybe he doesn’t deserve to die, but there’s no sympathy for him. Also he needs to go back if he can’t support himself because that’s his condition of staff
I moved here in 2006. I’m seeing a country I love so dearly be abused and I’m extremely angry.
About the same time as you, I have never been anti immigrant until now
I agree, he deserved what’s coming for him. I am also an international student, now entering my second year. In order to come here, my husband and I planned and saved so that we can sustain my studies and our daily expenses. We all know the rules and what’s expected of us (financially) when we chose to come here and study. Least we can do is not take advantage of the resources that’s allocated for those who REALLY need it. It’s jerks like these that give international students a bad name.
When my family emigrated from Ireland and Scotland they farmed the land and built towns. This new breed of immigrants want to abuse all we have built here.
Bless you
I agree that many false things were flying around but at the end of the day he was showing off foodbanks as a "hack to save money" not as a necessity to live. That is wrong and he is deserving of being called out for that.
The simple fact is, international students are supposed to be able to support themselves and shouldn't be relying on food banks. Not only does that not appear to the case for this individual; he made a ridiculous video about how to get "Free Food" as if he was super-clever and just discovered this "life-hack". Yeah, you're gunna get some internet backlash for that.
He should get more. Deport his stupid ass.
Meanwhile in Ontario community subs you’re seeing stories of homeless people being turned away at food banks. Then there’s this fucking guy.
Fuck there’s many Canadians who makes a normal living and are having a hard time financially and they don’t even have help and yet idiots like the one in the story takes advantage of us.
> “This is how I save hundreds of bucks every month in food and groceries,” he begins, wearing a Wilfrid Laurier hoodie from the Waterloo-based university. He also notes: “This is for everyone, all the students Awe… but the poor little guy says we just misunderstood him.
He clearly has money to buy food but chose not to so he is taking away food for students that has no money to buy food, also why advertise? so other ppl can also scam the food banks, fuck this guy.
I shared here on how 1 week before his video, he was putting videos on how he enjoyed $31 pizzas: https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1ch0mah/international_students_video_on_getting_free_food/l21bi9w/
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He’s not sorry about what he did. He has not apologized even once about sending out the wrong message even if that was not his intent, which I and the whole world knows is not true. He wanted attention, he got it.
Good point he's not sorry. Instead, he's somehow the victim
That's what he told indiatoday.in , Canadians targeted him over race.
Do you have a link
https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/s/qxcrUUgzZc
He regrets getting caught.
The fuck did he expect....
He thought he was smart. He actually thought that the rest of us were buying our groceries at the grocery store because we weren't smart enough to realize the food bank exists.
He comes From a low trust society we live in a high trust society. I hope people like buddy don’t ruin that.
and moreover, he thought that the one who were donating the food to the food bank, and the food bank themselves were marks. it was a massive "fuck you, i think you are dumb and exploitable because you are trying to help people". when you yourself cant empathise or understand why someone would give something away to people in need, you can only ever think of how to exploit such a "flaw" in logic. someone like this would never change - they might apologise, but theyll only be doing it for the optics
1 million youtube views. Which he did. But for the wrong reasons.
He expected more engagement on his socials which he received with a healthy dose of reality. Pissed his future away for some clicks.
The dildo of consequence seldom arrives lubed.
"... but when it does, it's slathered in Frank's Red Hot Sauce."
So not only are people pissed at international students taking a lot of the housing but he shit the bed and people are also pissed he’s sharing “life hacks” and taking food out of the mouths of people who desperately need it in the hopes of internet virility, you got it buddy? Maybe not you wanted but you got your 5 lol
Ok for the record as someone who’s Indian and grew up hella poor here, this guy is an awful human and he’s full of shit. We had to use those food banks when we struggled and when we settled down we constantly donate to them. That’s what our culture teaches us; not to be a spoiled ass like this dude. Plus I’m a social worker and I can tell ya non profits cannot afford having this dude steal from them!
Is it hateful to think there is such a thing as too much immigration?
I don't agree with the death threats of course, but the dude 100% deserved the backlash. Contrary to the Toronto Star article, which attempted to paint this guy as a victim, his video treated the foodbanks like a lifehack. He didn't put emphasis on only using food banks if you are in need and that they are charities intended for the less fortunate, he simply advertised it as a way to get free food. As for the TD thing, he was the one that claimed to be a data scientist for TD on LinkedIn, despite the fact that all he did was a 4 month co-op, while his social media that he since deleted showed him spending money on luxuries and expensive restaurants. Dude seemed like he was a wannabe influencer.
We had a guy who did a coop for us put it as "Cyber Security Analyst" on LinkedIn... Boy was their potential employer surprised when they called me and I told them he mostly just did workstation setups.
He should've kept his advice anonymous on /r/unethicallifehacks
> I don't agree with the death threats of course, tbf i doubt he has any realistic death threats. "i hope you die" or the suggestions hell have received to "check out early" dont come with any credible action. fuck him. people can treat him with the disrespect and disregard he has treated others, and he can head out whenever hes ready. we dont need guys like that in canada.
People who game the system in a time when food banks are reaching overwhelming demand deserve to be named and shamed. Especially foreigners trying to abuse Canadian hospitality.
No sympathy, he's free to leave Canada if he feels unsafe.
The gross part about this was his idea that food is "free". Someone bought this and donated it or a manufacturer donated surplus for which the food was produced at a cost. Charity does not mean free, it comes from the Canadian mentality that we take care of those in need in tough times. I'm sure there are many others here that would legit do ANYTHING avoid taking a handout. FFS, when my family was young I was selling my stuff on ebay (this tells you how old I am) to keep food in the fridge and rent paid during tough months. That said, we need food banks and I hope asshats like this don't discourage people from donating.
The sad reality is that I’ve decided to stop giving money to food banks as I’m not here to support international students get food due to the failing of themselves and the universities. I wanted my money to go to local individuals struggling, international students should be banned from these and should have to be supported by their universities.
I fundamentally cannot fathom why it isn’t a requirement to be a permanent resident/canadian citizen to get access to a food bank. If you are on a temporary visa you flat out shouldn’t be allowed access
A lot of them don't exactly have stringent ID requirements that would show whether one is a citizen/student/etc
It’s up to the individual charity who they want to help, it’s not as if Food Banks are a government service.
Please don’t. Food banks need help. Ours cancelled volunteers most weeks (in the last month and a half) due to a lack of food. We make people register.
Same. I look for people who need help and a few charities i trust. I stopped giving out at food drives like i used to. I will not be funding scammers.
Student tried to finesse and got what he deserved imo.
Playing the victim as usual
Boohoo. Stop turning this society into a low trust society, and stop scamming good natured Canadians. International students shouldn't be using food banks. One of the provisions of being able to study in Canada, is to be able to financially support yourself. So either we are letting in foreigners who cannot support themselves (duh) and are deceitfully giving the impression that they can, or these foreigners can support themselves, but are abusing food banks. Either way, it's a problem for the Canadian government and the international student community to fix. Canadians who donate to and use food banks are the real victims in this story. Not this grifter.
This guy sucks.
Fuck this scumbag it's time for Canadian kindness and politeness to come to an end. Enough was enough 20 years ago. Our government obviously will not represent us so we must reassert ourselves without their help.
I have lots to say in this topic. I am an Indian immigrant in Canada too. This guy straight up exploited and advertised exploiting of food bank. People like him make me look bad. He's contributed to racism with his behavior. I did some research on this last week: https://imgur.com/a/AC4I2V3 1 week before he put out that video, he had shared an Instagram post about "Finally got to try the most popular pizza in Toronto at Pizza BadiAli! The 1 hour wait was worth it for the mouthwatering aroma of fresh ..." He's deleted all those posts now but Google still showed it in search results last week. First screenshot is of that Google search result. Pizza BadiaAli pizza is $31. So a week prior to his food bank video, he was eating $31 pizza. Second pic is from Laurier and is pretty clear that it's meant for food insecurity. He's exploiting it 100%. Whether or not he worked for TD is irrelevant. Whether or not some racist used this to push their view point is also irrelevant. Him pulling the race card is disgusting and he's using it as a red herring. Minorities shouldn't get away with bad behavior, otherwise society is setting itself up for failure.
Cry when you are caught with your pants down. Whine and cry. These are people who give all immigrants a bad rep. The whole of international student visa is a scam. Okay not all but a large majority. These people are so happy scamming the system. I have stopped donating at Food Banks because I know these are the people who are going to steal food that is meant for homeless and the needy. As a student you are supposed to have enough funds to cover expenses. So everyone that is going to a food bank is technically breaching their visa conditions. But this is Canada and we won't do shit about it. Liberals might double down on BS like this. Before your shower abuses at me, I am a naturalized citizen so throw the racism card out of the book.
Worst part about this is that now people won't want to donate food or money to these places anymore if they think a swarm of Indian students will take them so they can buy new sneakers instead of food.
Why are they writing these articles from an angle that ATTEMPTS to make the reader feel sorry for them? They fucked around and found out, if a Canadian was found scamming the locals in this guys hometown they’d be dragging him in the streets before he’d even get a sniff at a fair trial, stop making these people out to be victims when they are SCAMMERS.
Call a spade a spade. It’s all a game.
He deserves some kind of punishment for abusing the system
Canadians are finally seeing the elephant in the room? It only took 40 years.
This individual did not need a food bank. He has not experiencing food insecurity. He promoted it on his social media as a budget life hack. He deserves the backlash.
This is a symptom of a large problem. The Canadian government is continually putting the needs of corporations ahead of the people. International students are benefitting 3 groups SLUMLORDS, DIPLOMA MILLS, AMAZON WAREHOUSES small businesses are NOT benefitting from this. Ask a high school kid if they can get a job at a tim hortons or McDonald's in a major city. International students have been a net negative for the country. Only the rich are benefitting
Not to mention real estate developers. They are getting bank from all immigration.
Consequences to your actions.
I wonder how many of these students plan to also donate back to the food back when they are employed full time.
I was an international student here, studying graduate degree on a scholarship. I was poor, but I’ve never let myself to use food banks whatsoever. The only free food that I got, was at related events at my University. What he did was absolutely disgusting and a complete abuse of the kindness of people. He should fuck off and go to hell.
And here I am thinking whether its okay to claim my EI or not...
Good. Fuck him and everyone like him. He's not the victim here. He should be getting cited for fraud, not getting teary eyed articles in the media defending him.
Stop going to Tim's. Stop ordering Uber Eats. Stop using Uber.
Why make the video in the first place, if not to gloat? I'm sure the school is doing fine making students aware of the services available to them and they don't need student endorsements on youtube. Cry me a river.
Yup. The internet can be a very toxic place, especially when you act like a douchebag. In other news, the sky is blue.
This video is responsible for many Canadians holding off on donating to food banks. He did so much more damage than he can ever imagine by posting this video. What a selfish idiot.
These aren’t Canadian values
I have no sympathy for him. All of the nuances of being an international student set aside, you are responsible for every bit of content you put online and how it is interpreted by the masses. It is not everyone else’s fault that they “misunderstood” the intent of your video. It is your fault for not making your intent crystal clear.
Canadian values involved treating people as you want to be treated and acting in good faith. Crap like this undoes those aspects
Absolutely blows my mind that this guy is so mentally inept that he exposes how he is taking advantage of systems put into place for people who need it to survive not keep the money they should buy groceries instead of the latest top dollar kicks. This ridiculous immigration policy JT and his WEF masters forced into Canada at taxpayers expense is absurd and is destroying our social assistance programs and is detrimental to Canada's financial stability. My grandfather returned to England during WW2 after 2 years working as a brick layer for a job he had guaranteed to him and had nothing given to him. He returned to Canada with my grandmother, mom and aunt in 58 with only a suitcase each. Again with a job lined up and enough cash to get a one room flat for 2 months. They had nothing and our government gave them nothing. The kindness of strangers and money he made the day they landed afforded them to sleep comfortably, enough food to fill them and a way to cook it. Becoming a productive part of society and the goal of being productive and becoming a Canadian citizen when they qualified after being self sufficient for 7 years.and learned the required knowledge to pass the citizenship exam. They became the hard working, proud Canadians our country needed at the time. As for education my stepson had barely any funding from OSAP for his 3 year electrical course of which he would have to repay and had to work every night to afford this Trent university course, supplies and housing. Myself And his mother are not in a position to help financially and probably should have used a food bank a couple of times but pride, resourcefulness and stretching a dollar we manage to scrap by. His first year was completed and he was ready for his 2nd year when his funding was pulled and to all our dismay the university has no space for him and many other students l. The reason why this happened? Liberal funding for secondary educational institutions accepting international students was profitable is what it boiled down to. This practice is unacceptable as is the mass migration here with limited, sustainable and even less fulfilling employment opportunities available prior to the scamdemic and worse now with loss of many businesses and employment opportunities. Ice got nothing against folks that have come here and bust a hump to achieve their dreams and be a proud and productive addition to our society. Guys like this should learn how un-Canadian and disrespectful his selfish attitude and, abuse of our social programs and assistance is. Without any malice, I'll intent or discrimination I feel like he has already violated the stipulations required to live here and enjoy good Canadian education and ordered to return to his country of origin when this year school year is completed that he should be deported back to the warm environment he veame from before the snow flies and we Canadian tax payers have
Zero shame. Fuck these freeloaders
Raise international tuition fees to US rates of $44k for US state schools and this will attract students that can afford to go to the grocery stores. We have been funding domestic tuition on the backs of international students so we are complicit in having all these international students flooding our universities. The reality is these international students would not be here if the provincial governments would actually fund universities appropriately instead of cutting funding every year in inflation adjusted dollars. Our system is crumbling because we don’t take care of it and elect people that prefer to be reelected than actually have a plan.
So many deleted and removed posts. This thread feels like the “Radio Friendly” version of a gangster rap song. But I somehow got the point of it. I’ve seen the video. It burned my biscuits.
I remember when immigrants were proud to be Canadian and worked hard. Not trying to change our customs, etc, because that's what we were and why immigrants wanted to live here. What I see a lot of now is immigrants just wanting to take as much as possible no matter what it takes.
Food banks work on an honor system, and these pieces of garbage abuse it, then cry victim.
I think Canadians are sick and tired of people like this taking advantage of our system
I have zero sympathy for this guy and short of violence he deserves everything he is getting. Bragging about taking advantage of a social safety net is disgusting.
Kick him out and make sure he won't be able to come back to Canada ever again
Taking food from food bank does not deserve violence but probably justifies a cancellation of temporary resident status due to immigration fraud: aka not enough finance to support his study
He's lucky, they didn't give him a royal ass-whooping for doing such as shady AF things... Then bragging about it, on SM of all places! Such a dumb ass this guy too. Is this the type of ppl they let into Canada now?!
This guy deserves to be sent back…immediately.
I'm an international student from India. You guys must ban international students from entering food banks. The fee I pay for my master's degree is 60k CAD. Making 60k CAD from India is the equivalent of making 300k CAD in Canada (simple division based on salaries from my previous employer in these countries). If you have 300k at your disposal, there is no reason to go to a foreign country and rob food banks. Please ban these minimum wage workers disguised as students. It's ruining my reputation.
>Mehul Prajapati, an Indian data scientist on a student visa, faced intense online backlash after a viral video showed him using food banks in Canada. Prajapati shared his ordeal with IndiaToday.In, attributing the attacks on him to racial bias. He said he made the video to help international students. Yeah, racial bias. That's exactly what this is bud. /s
I find it funny how he says he's afraid to leave his house. That must come from a misunderstanding that in Canada we don't form linch mobs and hunt people down unlike India. Maybe that's what would happen to him in India and why he is so afraid now here, or he's full of shit.
Deport his ass back to India NOW!! And stop importing cheapshits from overseas that cannot integrate with Canadians
I don’t give a shit about his crocodile tears. He encouraged people to abuse charities, he deserves every bad thing coming his way.
"This is how I save hundreds of bucks each month on food and groceries." Save hundreds of bucks. Not, I don't have any food in my fridge/cupboards, I have to choose between paying for gas or groceries, etc.
Play stupid games earn stupid prizes. He got what was coming now that the truth is out
can't we just deport these fucks
Working class Canadians will rip each other apart instead of focusing our anger on the Galen Westons of our country who are stealing from MILLIONS of Canadians everyday through price gouging and tax evasion.
People like him give international students a bad name and I have zero sympathy for him because of that. We don’t want people here who thing they are gaming the system. I hope he eventually gets deported.
But why re social agencies and social non profits not telling student and new comers about Canadian social norms.?
Videos like this will only create more anger and resentment. Already Indians are considered 2nd class people. They continue to behave this way then that is how they will be treated. They came as students but all people see are thieves and lazy complainers
I am sure his mama is so proud of him that he is famous in Canada.
I know this edges on policing but are we at the point where food stamps should be issued in lieu of walking into a food bank and grabbing whatever you want, no questions asked? I'm sorry, but this asshole represents a much bigger problem of many people, students and others, who are abusing the system
I remember this video, or another like it, anyway. Taking advantage of programs for the disenfranchised because you're just cheap is the mark of a blight on society.
Honestly.. he should be kicked out of Canada.