What are the bad, ugly and best sides of Canada for Immigrants?

Bad:

• You start from zero here. Like, literally, being reborn.
• You realize that what was good or right or fair or wrong or ugly in your home country, what you held as dearest from your country, has no meaning here. The set of values is not better not worse, it is simply different. You are expected to adapt to it. Yes, you will always be able to keep your values and culture for yourself, but once here, you need to become Canadian.
• For most cases, you cannot get a job in your area of expertise because you don’t have Canadian experience. You need a job to acquire Canadian experience. It is a vicious circle, but sooner or later you will break it.

Ugly:

• Despite having driven a car in many countries for 30+ years, when you come here you start over and have to go through an often humiliating process of getting a Canadian driver's license. (Now looking back I think this is good, some immigrants have so bad driving habits from their home countries)
• Car insurance is astronomically ridiculous. There’s this joke: in Canada you buy insurance and the car is almost for free
• All telecommunication services (home phone, internet, cable tv and cellular phones) are unbelievably expensive, prices never go down despite the fact that there is “free” market. Besides, all those services are mediocre here.
• Banking. In an internet era, banks for some misterious reason do not update your balance automatically when you perform a transaction (debit or credit). I remember that my banks in Mexico years ago updated it in seconds. You always knew how much you had in your balance. Here that doesn't happen. Nope. Charges to your credit card may take a week to show up.

Good:

• Free social security
• Kids can still go out and play by themselves with their friends
• A government that nobody cares much about. They make the country work despite which party is ruling
• Respected and honourable police, firemen and armed forces corps
• Diversity of nationalities, skin colours, languages, traditions, religions, backgrounds, clothing, sexual preferences and opinions. I have been to many countries in Europe and the Americas, no country is as diverse as Canada
• Weather: Four full seasons. Amazing fall colours, incredible green summers, awakening springs and white winters
• Quality of life
• You actually see your taxes work. Canadians often complain about the “high” taxes here, but the rates are not off from what I paid in Mexico, the only difference is that down there your tax money is used for political goals, not to keep public services and infrastructure working. That is really different.
• Excellent school system. Many immigrants complain that elementary schools in their home countries were much more demanding (in some teaching them to read and write at the age of three!), more subjects, more homework and deeper knowledge. Perhaps, but here, kids are allowed to grow and mature at a slower pace, a a better pace. What is the rush? What is the reason to tie kids to a desk or table in the afternoons for hours to do homework instead of playing and discovering the world? Once in high school, when kids are older enough, the school system brings the needed pressure as preparation for college or university
• With time, once you get Canadian citizenship, you feel proud of your adoptive country, but no one gets overly patriotic as in other places. This is good and makes us Canadians homogeneous and Canada a nice country to live in
• Breathtaking natural landscapes

Best:

• Canada accepts that the country owes its progress to immigrants for centuries. Almost everyone I know says they have a certain immigrant background. A friend of mine says his family comes from Ireland who settled here 150 years ago. This happens more or less with immigrants who their ancestors were Brits, Welsh, Scotts, Dutch, Italians, Portuguese, Germans and above all French. I have never heard a Canadian say “this is our land, go away”, they all are first, second, tenth, twentieth generation immigrants and they all know we need more immigrants to keep progress building up. That is why we welcome 250,000 new immigrants per year.

I could go for many bullets more, but I think you get the idea.