Carney's Budget
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the Trudeau government's new plan to make 115,000 asylum seekers permanent residents, and how the government is going to pay for it. I also talk about how much money is being spent on asylum claimants, and why it's a bad idea.
Transcript
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This plan brings up the issue of asylum claimants
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and it provides a sort of solution for 115K of them
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Like the asylum system has been rife with abuse
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about a hundred thousand of them a year. So they're just going to circumvent it by making
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a bunch of these guys permanent residents. But at the same time, the budget also included a bunch
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of line items to handle these asylum claimants. In there, there was $67 million over the next year
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for lodging for asylum claimants for their hotel stays. There was also a billion dollars over the
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next two years for healthcare for asylum claimants. These people are not citizens. I don't know why
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they get access to any of our social services. Why is the average Canadian taxed 40%? It's
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because we're paying for a billion dollars in healthcare for asylum claimants. And the last
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one I do want to bring up, this last budget line item I want to bring up, there's also half a
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billion dollars for asylum system and legal aid. So not only are we paying for their lodging and
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their healthcare while they're here, we're paying for their lawyers so they can prove that they can
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stay here no way yeah what so we're paying for their lawyer and like can you give an example of
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like what the lawyer would be like what would the case be it's like no my client needs my my client
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is an asylum seeker he like his claim to asylum is legitimate that's what we're paying lawyers to do
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to argue yeah yeah going through the legal proceedings to prove whether or not their
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asylum claim is legitimate what and we'll be paying for both sides of that like what it's
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So people ask us all the time, how are you going to pay for re-migration?
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We're spending billions of dollars on asylum claims and complete nonsense around maintaining
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We're going to axe all of these programs and repurpose this money to fund our re-migration
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program so we can start putting our own people first.