Is it true that living and surviving in canada is difficult for immigrants particularly new ones?

I heard that Canada is not really a dreamland contrary to what is portrayed in websites. Can anyone please tell me the real scenario? I even heard that professionals from foreign lands including nurses needs to study there again before they are allowed to take the exam. I heard also that many prefessionals there are working manual jobs and they are the last priorities in terms of hiring. Rents and housing as well are high. Even canadians are leaving. Please share any knowledge, info or experience related to my question.

I live in Canada and what your hearing is wrong, do you believe everything you hear? If any of that was true then none of the Immigrants would come to Canada, some of them do have to study again because our laws are different then theirs, just like in the United States. Come here to see for yourself what Canada is like and use your own judgement...don't go by what other people say if that were the case nobody would go to the States. I hear different stories about the States, scary ones too, but that doesn't stop me from going cuz everybody has their own opinion about everything. To me Canada is the best place to live, its beauty takes your breath away, but like I said thats one opinion.

Thats why they come to America the land of the third world pigass.Even a monkey can be the president.And pig out on the stupid tax payers,wipe on the flag and just stinkydown.

Depends on what you mean by dream land.. if you mean just sitting off your *** and someone will take care of you... then yes it is false. Like everywhere else, you've got to work to survive, and yes coz Canada got to protect its reputation, they've got to make sure that you really are qualified to do the job that your papers says so... remember that in some countries, paople can falsify their documents including their school diplomas or degrees/transcript of records etc etc... so if you're a degree holder in your country, once you arrive in Canada, you've got to go through what they called upgrading, meaning going back to school for 6 months to 1 year to educate yourself with the Canadian system or law in regards to whatever degree you've got.... regulated ones like nursing, doctorate, engineering degrees are defo required to do upgrading then go for the licecing exam.....
As a Canadian, I would defo say that Canada is a very lovely country to live in...