Carney's Canada - Circling the Drain
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Summary
We don't have a list of all the job losses in Canada since Mark Carney became Prime Minister, but here are some of the big ones. Canada is facing a record number of foreign workers leaving the country, and in the first six months of 2019, the government handed out 105,000 temporary permits for temporary workers.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is 4.18 a.m. Wednesday, October the 29th. I hope
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you're having a great start to your Wednesday morning. I have my big blue mug of coffee with
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me this morning. Thanks for clicking on this video. And over the last couple of weeks,
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I've mentioned a couple of times on videos, just in passing, that we don't really have a list of
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all the job losses in Canada since Mark Carney became prime minister. Well, I guess maybe since
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the beginning of the year when the liberals kind of stepped down and Justin Trudeau stepped down back
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on January the 6th and we were thrown into a liberal leadership race. We don't have a full list. It's
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very strange because at times I've gone on Siri, I've asked ChatGPT, Microsoft Pilot, can you give
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me an itemized list of all the job losses in Canada since the beginning of the year? And it
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doesn't come up with very many. In fact, it misses some of the big ones at times. It's almost like
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it's being held back. It doesn't want to give us the bad news. So I took a little bit of time here.
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This took a pretty good amount of effort. I hope you'll appreciate that. But here's just a little
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bit about what's going on here in Canada, the job losses. And you can blame as much of this on
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Donald Trump as you want. But ladies and gentlemen, eventually somebody in this country,
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somebody who's going to lead us, has to do something about it.
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On the breaking news in Canada's auto industry, Stellantis is moving Jeep Compass production
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that was planned for its Brampton, Ontario plant to the U.S.
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Tragically, 3,000 auto workers in Brampton learned that the prime minister had sold them out and failed
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them in your negotiations with the United States of America. To make matters worse,
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this Liberal government and this Liberal finance minister forked over $15 billion tax dollars
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to the company that is moving their jobs south. So surely the government would have negotiated
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a jobs guarantee for every single Canadian Stellantis employee. Will they release that guarantee
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and the entire contract so Canadians know where their dollars went?
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Last night, you might have seen that ConocoPhillips, a major global oil and gas company and long-time
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contributor to Canada's economy, announced layoffs at its Canadian operations. That means just weeks
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before Christmas, workers in Calgary, Northern Alberta and British Columbia will have to go home
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and tell their families that they've lost their jobs.
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This week, Imperial Oil announced it will lay off 20% of its workforce and relocate its headquarters
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out of Calgary. The Stampede City gets the shaft again. This prime minister has the power to eliminate
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C-48, C-69, the emissions cap and the industrial carbon tax. But he doesn't care about the average Canadian.
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He doesn't have to tell his family. He doesn't know how they will pay the mortgage or put groceries on the table.
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There's people here that are making their living in this building,
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producing a good product and you want to bring it somewhere else.
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I know it's just a stroke of a pen for them, but it's not a stroke of a pen for me.
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Not for my family. Not for my dad. Not for my nephew. Not for myself.
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So this is what I think about Crown Oil. That's what they can do. And I think everyone else should do the same thing.
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It is the private sector that is condemning his ideology, not with words, but with actions.
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With 86,000 job losses, with the second highest unemployment rate in the G7, with $54 billion of investment fleeing this country.
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So the truck manufacturing plant in Quebec, in St. Therese, Quebec, just north of Montreal,
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where we're getting news that 300 jobs are being eliminated. This plant makes heavy trucks,
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the Peterbilt brand of trucks. And now the union involved is condemning those layoffs,
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saying the 300 workers are the latest victims of Donald Trump's trade war.
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Canada's auto sector has suffered another blow as General Motors is ending production of its Bright
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Drop electric delivery van in Ingersoll. The company says the decision is related to low demand
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and production won't be moved elsewhere, saying this is not connected to Trump tariffs.
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Now at the highest level since 2010, youth unemployment in Canada sits at 14.6 percent,
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and in Alberta, it's much higher. Now the Liberals promised they would cap the temporary
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foreign worker program at 82,000, but in the first six months they've already handed out 105,000 permits.
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To put this into perspective, if they do the same number of permits for temporary foreign workers
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in the next six months than the last, they will break the record again with over 200,000 temporary
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foreign workers coming in to take jobs when our own young people are facing record unemployment.
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Today I stand before you again, and I'll put it plainly, we can't walk anymore. We need to run and fast.
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The last 10 years have been a competitiveness disaster. I believe we can build. I believe we
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can compete. I believe we can win. But winning requires decisions. Urgent, confident, investable
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decisions. Decisions that will lead Canada to becoming the best place in the world to build energy,
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infrastructure and critical resource projects that fuel jobs and growth right across our entire economy.
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My short video certainly doesn't account for all the jobs that have been lost. I think it was Sandra
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Cabino in that short clip. The MP from New Market, Aurora, that said 86,000 jobs. There's more every day.
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And I thought about this this morning. Liberals out east, and I throw Doug Ford in there as well,
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they're like an alcoholic that doesn't want to take the first step to recovery, and that's admitting you've got
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a problem. Instead, they point all of their blame south of the border. That's what Doug Ford's little
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ad campaign, the Ronald Reagan ad campaign, which is still running its way through the news cycle,
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was about. It didn't do any good. Mark Carney says our relationship with the United States is over.
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He's not solving the problem. Everything is Donald Trump's fault. And like I said the other day,
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until we start looking within, instead of without, and within, that's where the danger is. This isn't
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going to be solved. But we need somebody to step up. And unfortunately, we haven't got a government
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right now that's going to do that. And unfortunately, if we're thrown into an election on November 4th,
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I still feel that the Liberals could end up with a majority just in time for Christmas. And wouldn't that be
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