Dominion Society of Canada - April 21, 2026


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1 minute

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315

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27

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In this episode, I sit down with a group of teens to talk about immigration and the current state of the labour market in Canada. They talk about their experiences with immigration and how it affects them, and how they feel about it.

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00:00:00.000 How old are you?
00:00:00.900 I'm 16.
00:00:01.820 You're 16.
00:00:02.360 How about you?
00:00:03.300 16 too.
00:00:03.960 So you guys are some young guys.
00:00:05.180 You say you agree with what's on my sign.
00:00:06.900 I do, yeah.
00:00:07.660 Okay, why?
00:00:08.540 I just feel like it's really hard to get jobs right now,
00:00:11.060 especially as teens.
00:00:12.500 I mean, I have a job myself, but it was really hard to get it,
00:00:15.720 and it took me quite a while.
00:00:17.000 I sent like 500 different resumes over at places.
00:00:21.160 You think this is attributed to immigration?
00:00:24.220 Yeah.
00:00:24.620 Maybe taking those jobs from you? 1.00
00:00:26.000 Yeah, I think there's too many people that are getting immigrated here 1.00
00:00:28.140 and living here, so yeah.
00:00:29.640 Where is your background from? I guess you were born in Canada.
00:00:33.060 I was born in Canada. My parents were born in Canada.
00:00:35.160 But their parents were born in Kashmir. 1.00
00:00:37.680 So ultimately you do think immigration is a good thing?
00:00:41.060 From my family perspective, yeah, because we came from a place of war. 0.86
00:00:44.060 So we had to go to somewhere safe.
00:00:46.120 But I feel like now they're accepting way too many people.
00:00:49.740 And a lot of these people aren't doing good things.
00:00:51.740 If you could see all these videos online,
00:00:53.340 and they're all saying like, they're all doing like these crappy things
00:00:56.580 that are making lives like, making it hard to live here.
00:00:58.940 So that's mostly why.
00:01:00.700 I'm happy that you had the courage to come talk about your experiences.
00:01:04.940 I think a big problem with the employment crisis is this massive spike in temporary migration.
00:01:09.420 We have temporary foreign workers coming in to work, you know, fast food jobs, Uber Eats and all this stuff. 0.99
00:01:15.500 Maybe not what I expected, but, you know, there's positive reactions to this.
00:01:19.440 People across Canada support this.
00:01:22.480 Like, it's a majority of both, like, white and non-white Canadians reject mass immigration and are looking for solutions. 0.59