Dominion Society of Canada - Mass Immigration Isn’t Just Economics — Pierre Poilievre Misses This

00:00:00.000 As usual, what I care about is what he had to say about immigration, which wasn't much,

00:00:04.920 but here is what he had to say. I think it's a two minute clip. I'll try and get through it

00:00:10.760 without getting triggered. One of those things is immigration. Across the Western world, 0.98

00:00:16.680 the subject of immigration seems to be a bit of a winning formula for political leaders. If I think 0.91

00:00:22.120 about the UK, what Trump said about, you know, being invaded by rapists and murderers from the

00:00:27.960 southern border do you feel that it's a it's a sort of a weaponized divisive tool for people

00:00:33.600 to get elected complaining about the brown people or foreigners i'll just give you the canada first

00:00:40.040 of all i thought that was hilarious brown people are foreigners you can tell he's himself uh quite

00:00:46.700 quite nervous to discuss this topic i believe him himself he's a bots one in uh immigrant to 0.64

00:00:52.820 the uk or something so you can see he's quite uncomfortable talking about this topic maybe

00:00:57.260 experience so for roughly 200 years we had the most successful immigration system in the world

00:01:03.640 by far in fact other countries both republicans and democrats in the united states used to say

00:01:08.360 we need to study the canadian system because it has been so successful we had a point system

00:01:12.020 that that measured whether someone would be a good fit for our labor market whether they would

00:01:16.580 would integrate well into our our system and overwhelmingly people integrated intermarried 0.93

00:01:22.800 this is another ridiculous statement like I'm so tired of Pierre Polyev's dishonesty when it comes

00:01:31.640 to the the history of our country especially on immigration policy he says for 200 years we were 0.96

00:01:36.740 the envy of the world what the hell does that mean in 1826 our immigration policy what are you

00:01:42.840 talking about we were still settling this country there was no immigration policy we weren't even an

00:01:48.040 independent country yet. To say the point system, the point system wasn't around in 1826. It wasn't

00:01:55.660 around in 1876. In fact, it wasn't even brought into force until 100 years after Confederation in

00:02:01.480 1967 by Lester Pearson and the prime ministers that followed him. So to say we were the envy

00:02:11.100 of the world for 200 years is like such a absurd exaggeration uh you think we had the international

00:02:18.380 mobility program the temporary foreign worker program in in in 1826 in 1867 no for for 200 years

00:02:27.020 we had the best immigration system okay so does that take into account the the continuous journey

00:02:32.300 regulation that limited immigration from japan and india uh in muslim countries to prevent them

00:02:38.300 them from coming here? Does that include the Chinese head tax to make sure that workers on

00:02:45.340 the railway were sent back to their country at the end of their labor and prevent further ones 0.97

00:02:51.420 to come here? Is this what you're talking about when you say we had the best immigration system 0.65

00:02:56.300 for 200 years? Our immigration policy has changed dramatically over the period of 200 years. So to

00:03:02.640 just like give this superficial notion that we had the best immigration system for 200 years

00:03:07.460 is so ridiculous, especially considering the transformation of our immigration system that

00:03:13.540 has happened mostly over the last 50, 60 years. Let's talk about that. Not these vague notions 0.96

00:03:21.480 of having the best system for 200 years. Absolutely absurd. My wife is a refugee from

00:03:29.060 Venezuela. That is not an uncommon story in Canada. What we encountered was a very sudden

00:03:34.580 an inexplicable increase in the numbers in the period from 2021 to 2024 that was strictly out

00:03:43.060 of line with our our ability to absorb people into housing health care and jobs and this upset

00:03:50.420 the the social piece on immigration that we had had for two centuries leading up to it

00:03:55.220 and now everyone across the political spectrum agrees that it went too far too fast and the

00:04:03.700 The approach that we're taking is that we have to make it a lawful system, has to follow the rules.

00:04:10.640 People have to come in legally in numbers that we can absorb and ultimately integrate into jobs, society and our way of life.

00:04:21.060 Population cannot grow faster than the housing stock or you'll run out of places to live.

00:04:25.840 It can't grow faster than the number of jobs or you'll run out of paychecks for people.

00:04:30.020 and so we need a controlled orderly system that's both compassionate and common sense

00:04:36.260 so there you go Pierre thinks that the first of all he views everything through an economic lens

00:04:44.220 it's all about paychecks it's all about houses that's the only problem with our immigration

00:04:48.640 system and he believes that our immigration system was fine the only problem was in

00:04:53.060 was in the last five years since 2021. And this just shows that he just doesn't understand the

00:05:00.560 problem that we're facing. The problems with the Canadian immigration system don't go back

00:05:05.800 four years. They don't go back five years. They go back about 50, 60 years. And what does that

00:05:12.020 look like? It was this shift towards this preservation around ethnocultural identity

00:05:18.860 towards this liberal multiculturalist conception of what the world should be in light of this kind

00:05:25.080 of post-war period that viewed nationalism as the ultimate sin and this is just not accurate

00:05:30.580 we saw through that period the the the restrictions around ethnicity and in countries of origin were

00:05:36.840 stripped away to allow anyone in the world to come here um again this this kind of reneges any sort

00:05:43.380 of responsibility that the conservative party has towards this flawed system it wasn't just

00:05:48.120 Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau who stripped away these kind of requirements, who imposed

00:05:54.600 multiculturalism, who invented and imposed multiculturalism on Canadian society. It's also

00:06:00.480 the Conservative MP, the Prime Minister, is Brian Mulroney. He's the one that moved us from the tap

00:06:06.500 on tap off system, which saw immigration rates increased at times of economic growth and

00:06:12.360 decreased economic stagnation towards a flat figure that has only increased and increased

00:06:18.400 and increased. It was Stephen Harper, Pierre Polyev's mentor, that expanded the temporary

00:06:25.240 foreign worker program, that brought forward the international mobility program, that built the

00:06:30.020 framework that Trudeau would then crank to 11 and totally transform our society within the course

00:06:36.600 of five years. Our immigration policy is deeply flawed in that it is only guided by economic

00:06:43.440 principles. That's the foundational problem and something that Pierre Polyev wants to perpetuate.

00:06:50.060 He very clearly thinks about this only in terms of economics. We need to have enough houses,

00:06:55.040 we need to have enough paychecks. That's the only problem here. No, the problem here is that

00:06:59.880 Canadians are being replaced in our homelands and our country is transforming into something 0.99

00:07:04.920 foreign that it was never intended to be. If Pierre Polyev is going to wade into immigration, 0.94

00:07:12.280 it's not enough to just talk about reducing the numbers and tweaking the programs. We need to

00:07:17.780 turn immigration policy on its head. We need to prioritize our ethnocultural identity. We need to

00:07:24.360 put forward a positive vision of what Canada is, a people, a nation, and accept that we need to

00:07:32.860 protect that, or we will become a soulless post-national economic zone with nothing tying

00:07:38.360 us together, with warring ethnicities playing out their blood feuds in our streets. This is not what

00:07:45.880 Canada was meant to be. This is what they've transformed Canada into through misguided or

00:07:50.560 malicious policy. They want to take your identity away from you. They saw us as a threat to the

00:07:57.940 liberal internationalist system we had the framework in canada from our very foundation

00:08:04.020 our counter-revolutionary traditional conservative illiberal system that was an alternative to the

00:08:12.020 the the american hegemony and as such as that threat on the american doorstep it needed to be

00:08:17.860 stamped out we saw jfk basically coup the canadian government impose lester pearson on us who took

00:08:23.940 took away our flag, who stripped down our immigration policy, who resulted in Pierre

00:08:30.080 Trudeau, who brought forward multiculturalism, who laid the groundwork for Stephen Harper and

00:08:35.740 Justin Trudeau to transform this society into something else. We need to recognize the problem

00:08:40.540 if we're going to be able to solve the problem. Canadians don't want to live in a post-national

00:08:46.760 economic zone. We want our high trust society. We want our communities that are vibrant and

00:08:54.520 familiar. And the only way to achieve this at this point is by completely not just ending mass

00:09:00.320 immigration, but reversing it. So we have the plan. We have the ideas. 11 steps. I can give 0.99

00:09:08.360 Pierre Polyev advice all day. But they need to be willing to grapple with the cultural impacts of

00:09:14.340 immigration because that's the most important thing it's Canada is not just

00:09:18.520 an economy Canada is a people a nation a family of families and if we lose that

00:09:23.440 I don't see the point of economics or any other policy that you might care

00:09:29.900 about we need to put our people first before they're gone forever

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Dominion Society of Canada - April 15, 2026

Mass Immigration Isn’t Just Economics — Pierre Poilievre Misses This

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