Greg Wycliffe - October 02, 2024


Mass Immigration Is Destroying Canadaļ¼š Indigenous PPC Candidate Speaks Out


Episode Stats

Length

11 minutes

Words per Minute

174.56519

Word Count

2,091

Sentence Count

166

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I get called a misogynist, a biggest, all things under the sun.
00:00:04.940 I am Indigenous.
00:00:06.560 It might not look like it on the outside, but I am.
00:00:09.040 And I think people are scared of being labelled now.
00:00:12.580 Everybody's scared of not feeling like they belong because of their opinion.
00:00:16.180 And I think that's part of the reason why everything is being sheltered,
00:00:21.300 being blocked, being sugar-coated, and it's not okay.
00:00:26.420 There's a lot more to the story.
00:00:27.740 So I'm here with Pamela, and you are a PPC candidate.
00:00:31.500 I am.
00:00:32.300 And I believe you said you had your green card as well?
00:00:35.300 Green card.
00:00:36.160 I have my Native status card, my Indian status card in Canada.
00:00:40.020 Between the programs of international students and foreign workers
00:00:43.900 and the refugee program and, like, illegal immigrants,
00:00:47.500 some people are going as far as saying we need to deport some of these people.
00:00:51.240 Mm-hmm.
00:00:52.000 Yep.
00:00:52.620 And that is correct.
00:00:54.040 It's the only way to put our economy back on track in any realistic timeline
00:01:01.560 that's going to keep more Canadians off the streets.
00:01:03.920 Right now we're literally opening our doors to kick our own citizens out
00:01:08.720 into the parks, into encampments.
00:01:10.620 And we have families, just outside of my riding, but we have families hiding in the forests
00:01:17.320 because they're scared their kids are going to get removed from them
00:01:19.740 because they can no longer provide for their children.
00:01:23.180 Like, yeah.
00:01:24.480 I mean, the housing crisis, it's maybe not necessarily a housing crisis.
00:01:28.340 There's a lot of empty units, but it's because people can't afford anything anymore.
00:01:32.880 And that almighty dollar has made people greedy.
00:01:37.020 And here we are.
00:01:37.860 Everybody's taking a benefit to hire a foreign worker.
00:01:41.140 Everybody's taking a benefit to educate a foreign student.
00:01:45.480 But what about everybody here that needs jobs and needs education?
00:01:49.900 So, yeah, I mean, there's only so much space.
00:01:53.620 Mm-hmm.
00:01:54.240 Yeah, deportation is it.
00:01:55.640 And I'm, I, there's no other fix to this.
00:01:58.280 And I, I hate the thought of that because I'm a person, I'm an empath.
00:02:03.120 I want to help everybody.
00:02:04.060 I want to open my arms up.
00:02:05.120 I've got a big heart.
00:02:05.880 I wear my heart on my sleeve.
00:02:06.960 And that has screwed me over more times than not.
00:02:10.440 But the only thing that's going to protect my children's future
00:02:15.620 and my future grandchildren's future is to make Canada great again.
00:02:23.640 And I mean, that means we need our culture back.
00:02:26.600 And that means some of the other cultures need to go
00:02:28.740 so we can reestablish who we are as Canadians
00:02:30.840 and find our identity again because everybody's lost.
00:02:36.400 Scary.
00:02:37.300 What are your thoughts on all this?
00:02:39.340 These two different trends of mass immigration
00:02:41.180 finally being talked about in the mainstream,
00:02:43.260 but also DEI being pushed just as hard at the same time.
00:02:47.080 I think Canadians as a whole didn't understand the impact
00:02:51.500 that the immigration that they were speaking of
00:02:53.520 was actually going to have on our country.
00:02:55.280 I don't think the gravity was there.
00:02:57.540 And I think it's setting in now
00:02:59.300 because we have so many people that are in,
00:03:02.140 they can't find a job.
00:03:03.640 They're struggling to put food on the table for their families.
00:03:06.460 And I can speak on my own part with a broken foot
00:03:10.020 in the middle of the summer,
00:03:12.160 not the middle of the spring, sorry,
00:03:13.660 going to Service Canada
00:03:14.920 and sitting for hours waiting to be helped
00:03:17.740 for my benefits with my leg.
00:03:19.460 And there were busloads of immigrants coming in
00:03:23.880 that couldn't speak English.
00:03:25.080 And I'm sitting there experiencing this myself
00:03:27.180 and I'm just,
00:03:28.260 they have people coming out of the office,
00:03:29.980 all of a sudden it went from two booths open
00:03:31.400 to eight booths open.
00:03:32.880 They've got somebody speaking in other languages
00:03:34.600 that are telling everybody what to do
00:03:36.160 and they're siphoning them through this system.
00:03:38.260 And I'm sitting there and I'm like,
00:03:40.460 well, I've been sitting here for an hour and a half.
00:03:43.040 How do I get on the bus?
00:03:45.020 So I get helped.
00:03:45.980 And for me, that's not when my eyes opened,
00:03:49.480 but I watched many people in that waiting room's eyes open that day.
00:03:52.460 And I have had many people comment on the waiting lines
00:03:56.600 outside of Service Canada.
00:03:57.880 Like you go by at seven o'clock at night in some areas
00:04:00.560 and they're lined up on the street.
00:04:02.720 The immigrants are sitting, camping out
00:04:05.160 to get into Service Canada.
00:04:06.400 So people take time off work to deal with
00:04:08.080 regular everyday issues that they need to deal with
00:04:11.140 in our government offices.
00:04:12.480 And now our citizens that are citizens
00:04:16.220 and pay taxes and function here
00:04:18.220 are struggling to get access to those resources
00:04:20.800 because we are now tailoring to people we're bringing in.
00:04:24.600 And I think that that's what is starting.
00:04:26.840 It's when it's hitting people's pockets.
00:04:28.940 It's when they can't get a job
00:04:30.200 and they can't put their kids in extracurriculars
00:04:32.480 because they no longer can afford it.
00:04:34.340 And they can't go to the grocery store
00:04:36.940 and buy whatever it is the kids want for dinner that night
00:04:38.920 because it's just too damn expensive now.
00:04:41.140 And they can't get a job.
00:04:43.520 And like it's just, it's, you walk into a store now
00:04:47.180 and you're lucky to get somebody that can speak
00:04:48.940 one of our two national languages and it's scary.
00:04:52.220 What do you think of Truth and Reconciliation Day?
00:04:55.980 I think it's a long overdue celebration of,
00:05:02.220 and I call it a celebration
00:05:03.340 because it's talking about a lot of Canadian history
00:05:07.340 that has not been spoken about in a very long time.
00:05:11.540 My family gave up their status when I was 18
00:05:15.580 was when I obtained status again
00:05:17.340 because my family's heritage
00:05:19.300 was afraid of being known as Indian.
00:05:21.900 And I think it is important that we celebrate
00:05:26.060 what our ancestors have gone through,
00:05:28.220 what has been sacrificed, what has been done.
00:05:32.700 But I also believe that sometimes there's negative light
00:05:37.660 shed on Truth and Reconciliation Day.
00:05:40.060 Sometimes it is overshadowed by other things.
00:05:42.360 And I think for me, it's a deep dig to my roots,
00:05:48.340 where the country came from, and most importantly,
00:05:51.460 I think that the world needs to understand
00:05:53.260 that people didn't come here and wipe out our ancestors.
00:05:57.400 They didn't wipe out our community.
00:06:00.540 We actually did live and coincide and get along together.
00:06:05.340 And I think that needs to be highlighted more
00:06:07.220 than the conflicts that have gone on
00:06:08.820 is actually what goods came of.
00:06:11.780 How can we move forward?
00:06:13.280 And how can we better the recognition of the day?
00:06:18.720 Can it be more of a celebration instead of a solemn day?
00:06:21.400 Does everything need to have a negative connotation to it?
00:06:24.840 Does it, or can we bring it back to years ago,
00:06:28.300 we had Black History Month?
00:06:29.600 I don't, I'm like, I don't even know
00:06:31.100 if they celebrate that the way they used to in schools.
00:06:33.660 But in February, when I was in school,
00:06:35.340 it wasn't all just about slavery and negativity.
00:06:38.040 It was about culture.
00:06:39.980 And so I think we're on the right path,
00:06:42.860 but should it be longer?
00:06:44.660 Maybe it needs to be a month.
00:06:46.320 Maybe it needs to be something that's more than just a day
00:06:49.220 or overshadowed by other things.
00:06:51.140 But it's a solemn day.
00:06:52.340 And it shouldn't necessarily be a solemn day.
00:06:54.100 It should be a day celebrating the culture
00:06:55.680 and who we are and where our country came from
00:06:58.420 and what it was before people settled here.
00:07:00.940 When it comes to the history,
00:07:03.160 it feels very oversimplified.
00:07:05.660 Like, I feel like there's more to the story.
00:07:07.000 Like you were kind of saying, it only focuses on the negative.
00:07:10.380 Yes.
00:07:11.880 Why do you think that is?
00:07:14.620 I think in society now,
00:07:17.580 the way that we are talking about history,
00:07:20.040 we're trying to rewrite history.
00:07:21.600 We're trying to make history what we want people to think history was.
00:07:25.740 And if you attended today's event, you heard,
00:07:29.700 history is not always what you think it is.
00:07:31.460 There is always the deep, dark, what's gone on actually,
00:07:33.900 what actually happened.
00:07:35.400 There's three sides to every story.
00:07:37.960 There's A and B, but there is what happened in the middle
00:07:40.500 and what the actual truth is.
00:07:42.060 And I think not a lot of that is being spoken of.
00:07:45.120 A lot of hate crimes started happening
00:07:46.920 when we started talking about what happened.
00:07:48.600 And we saw churches getting burnt down.
00:07:51.820 We saw people being discriminated against.
00:07:55.860 We saw people getting very angry.
00:07:58.660 Emotions were very high.
00:07:59.900 And I think that if the people in power keep people in turmoil,
00:08:05.300 it keeps everything negative.
00:08:06.900 And I think that's part of the reason we don't have access to the information
00:08:09.920 that we should have access to anymore.
00:08:11.560 Why it's not okay for us to have free speech right now
00:08:16.120 and to be able to talk without being worried about being...
00:08:20.840 I get called a misogynist, a biggest, all things under the sun.
00:08:26.380 I am Indigenous.
00:08:28.060 It might not look like it on the outside, but I am.
00:08:30.600 And I think people are scared of being labelled now.
00:08:34.100 Everybody's scared of not feeling like they belong because of their opinion.
00:08:37.520 And I think that's part of the reason why everything is being sheltered,
00:08:44.120 being blocked, being sugar-coated.
00:08:48.740 And it's not diversity, it's division, right?
00:08:52.320 So how can we divide people, make them highlight their differences,
00:08:56.580 make people highlight what's been negative about their cultures
00:08:59.980 or their upbringings or their social circles?
00:09:02.680 And how can we make them not want to get along?
00:09:08.560 How can we...
00:09:09.280 Like, again, I think the world needs to know
00:09:11.520 that people didn't settle here and everybody killed everybody
00:09:13.960 because that's not how it went down.
00:09:16.140 That's not what we're like.
00:09:17.620 That's not humanity.
00:09:19.620 I think of the burning churches.
00:09:22.320 I think of statues of Sir John A. Macdonald being torn down.
00:09:26.060 And I have my own opinion, and that's, I really feel like this day
00:09:30.300 is almost about justifying the resentment and hatred of, like, our European history.
00:09:37.600 I would have to say I would probably agree with you
00:09:41.480 because it has that negative connotation to it.
00:09:43.680 Because we're talking about only the bad things that happened,
00:09:46.500 and now it's almost like a condescending joke of every time you go in anywhere,
00:09:53.280 a treaty is written, read, or there's an acknowledgement read.
00:09:57.240 You have a Maxis4Me pin on, so you're a PPC supporter.
00:10:02.160 Yeah!
00:10:03.100 Tell me about that.
00:10:04.140 How long have you supported a PPC?
00:10:05.500 I've...
00:10:06.380 In the 2021 election, just coming up to it,
00:10:09.820 I read every platform for every party.
00:10:12.340 I was a diehard Conservative.
00:10:13.340 I couldn't get on board with the policies and the platform
00:10:16.900 that the Conservatives were running with,
00:10:18.800 and that was heartbreaking for me.
00:10:20.500 So I sat down, like a level-headed Canadian, I thought,
00:10:24.040 and I read every single party platform,
00:10:26.160 and the only one I could resonate with,
00:10:27.980 the only one that settled with my morals and values,
00:10:30.600 and what I stand for as a person, was the People's Party.
00:10:33.680 So I reached out to the headquarters
00:10:35.940 and asked if they needed a candidate in my area
00:10:38.200 because I was worried we didn't have representation.
00:10:40.880 At which point I stepped in with our old candidate,
00:10:43.060 and I worked as his volunteer coordinator
00:10:45.360 and campaigned through the last election,
00:10:47.520 and I have been relatively diehard since.
00:10:49.880 I mean, I've had people tell me that,
00:10:51.220 no, you're involved with extremist groups,
00:10:53.560 and I'm like, hang on, you've known me for how many years?
00:10:55.400 Am I an extremist?
00:10:56.400 Like, no, this is the party that when I read every platform
00:10:59.480 and I looked at what my morals and values are as a person
00:11:02.160 and where I want to have my say,
00:11:03.780 it was the only party I could actually vote for consciously,
00:11:06.120 and if that's why people aren't voting
00:11:07.540 is because they can't find a party
00:11:08.780 that they can vote for consciously,
00:11:10.180 they need to read the platforms.
00:11:13.660 And, like, the People's Party platform needs to be read.
00:11:17.000 Don't be afraid to speak about what you believe.
00:11:21.520 Don't be afraid to start a conversation.
00:11:24.320 Do you know that the PPC is the only party
00:11:26.520 that is fighting for peace and prosperity
00:11:29.180 here in Canada and across the world?
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