Dominion Society of Canada - September 24, 2026


Let's talk about chain migration.

Hosted by
Daniel Tyrie
What is Remigration？ Let's talk Provincial Politics, BC and Quebec Elections ｜ Long Live Canada Ep. 21

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

186.22

Word count

462

Sentence count

17

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Toxicity

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

8

sentences flagged


Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00.000 All over the place, there's Sikhs like this hanging out in parks and big groups. 1.00
00:00:05.340 And many of them, they do not speak English. 1.00
00:00:07.460 And not only that, they're completely illiterate.
00:00:10.080 They can't read or write in their own language. 0.95
00:00:11.980 And the question is, how are these people coming to Canada? 1.00
00:00:15.780 How are we letting these people in? 0.98
00:00:17.460 It seems like a pretty obvious, reasonable bar that you should be literate in order to enter our country.
00:00:24.500 Obviously, you should speak English, but these guys can't even read or write in their own foreign languages.
00:00:29.180 They can only speak.
00:00:30.000 like this is not the type of person obviously that should be allowed into canada how do these
00:00:36.080 people end up here it's most likely through our family reunification system about a third of all
00:00:41.200 permanent residents that are taken in on an annual basis are through the family reunification system
00:00:45.860 and you would think that this would be limited to the an immigrant's immediate family because
00:00:51.440 economic migrants probably the most defensible channel for immigration not that i agree with it
00:00:57.480 but people that are coming here with skills are going to be best able to integrate into our
00:01:03.400 society they come here and you know it's reasonable to allow them to have their spouse
00:01:08.740 their children right but can this family reunification process go much further
00:01:14.720 grandparents can come over aunts and uncles can come over great grandparents it allows for a level
00:01:20.840 of chain migration through this family reunification system and all of these other people that are
00:01:25.480 coming tend to be dependents and if they're not dependents they're not offering unique skill if
00:01:31.260 people are coming to immigrate for a specific job they're fulfilling a gap in the labor market
00:01:36.280 ideally speaking at least but when their wife comes over and she needs a job as well she's not
00:01:43.020 offering unique skills all of a sudden she's competing with other Canadians or you know basic 0.56
00:01:49.600 jobs maybe maybe a fast food place or anything like this and that has the effect of driving down 0.99
00:01:55.100 wages in that other field. So it's one thing to have economic migrants who might offer unique 1.00
00:02:00.600 skills that can't be fulfilled otherwise. That there's an argument for. But as soon as you're 0.99
00:02:05.320 allowing dependents, as soon as you're allowing even spouses, you're having a lot larger negative
00:02:10.120 impacts on the overall economy. And you're making it easier for them not to integrate into our
00:02:15.000 society. But we go a step further. We allow grandparents to come over. I'm sorry, if you're
00:02:19.820 moving to Canada, you're not entitled to bring your whole family. You're not entitled to bring 1.00
00:02:23.560 your whole village to come with you just because we accepted one person. This is ridiculous. 0.98