The SOLUTION to the Canadian IMMIGRATION PROBLEM no one is talking about
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In this episode, I talk about the growing problem of youth unemployment and the use of temporary foreign workers to fill the void left by the aging baby boomers, and why it s time to get a grip on this issue.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel, 504 AM, Friday, September the 5th, one day
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away from the weekend. I hope you're having a great start to your Friday. And thank you
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so much if you are a subscriber here. If you haven't subscribed, please click on subscribe
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and I will tip my big blue mug to you. Thank you very much. So today I want to talk about
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an issue that is very prevalent in the news. Pierre Polyev has talked about this. Michelle
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Rumpel-Garner, MP Calgary Nosehill, has written an article in the Toronto Sun about this.
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I'll get to them in just a moment. It's regarding the temporary foreign workers program, immigration
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as well. And everybody's looking for a quick fix here. And I think that's good. I think
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we need a quick fix to this issue, but I don't think anybody's thinking long-term and that's
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where I'm thinking. I like to think outside the box here. So I want to give you my solution
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long-term to this issue in just a moment. Now, why am I talking about this today? Because
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I came up with this article that I saw this morning, which went up yesterday. Chris Selle,
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who's against Canadian jobs for Canadian kids instead of for foreign workers? No more temporary
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foreign workers at Tim Hortons is a no-brainer policy for Polyev, especially if the Liberals
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push back and they will, and they'll push back in the regular way, which I'll also get to in
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just a moment. And it's exactly what you would expect the left to do when it comes to this issue.
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Let's just read a quick little bit of this story. Youth unemployment stands at 14.6%,
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according to Statistic Canada's latest release. That's the highest non-pandemic July figure since
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2009 when it was at 15.9%. This is a winner for the Conservatives. This is a winning issue for the
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Conservatives. Here's what Polyev had to say about this issue just the other day.
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People today form what I call generation screwed. Let's look at the situation for this generation.
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It is the first generation that cannot afford a home in Canadian history. And now the double gut
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punch. They have the highest or the worst employment numbers of any group of young people since the
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late 1990s. So you can't get a job. And even if you did have a job, you can never buy a home after
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10 years of Liberal government. Tim Hortons has hired an unimaginable 1,131% more
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temporary foreign workers in the last four years. In the first half of this year alone,
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the TFW program has imported 74% more low-skilled labor than in all of 2015.
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So that's Pierre Polyev on this. Michelle Rumpel-Garner tweeting this out just the other
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day. Abolish the temporary foreign worker program. Canadian jobs should go to Canadians.
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The typical response by the left coming up in just a moment. Here's her article,
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link in the description. I want to just read this paragraph right here, but there's something very
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telling in here, okay? Under the current government, Canadian employers have had access to a near
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endless supply of temporary foreign labor. Instead of investing in training or raising salaries,
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some businesses have come to rely upon the TFWP as a profit-maximizing crutch. Listen to this.
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Subsidized by taxpayers who foot the bill for social services, these underpaid workers often
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require, all the while allowing a temporary foreign low-wage underclass to become normalized in Canada.
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And Pierre Polyev said the same thing. Now, I'm going to go here. And again, the typical left-wing
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response to this coming up in just a moment. And I'm going to be lumped in with Polyev and Michelle
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Rumpel-Garner on this. And probably you as well, because you're thinking like I'm thinking.
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I've been aware of this situation for quite some time. And you probably have been as well. So,
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I don't go to Tim Hortons all that well. I think Tim Hortons sucks. Okay? It sucks. But anyway,
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I go into fast food restaurants and I often wonder why nobody looks like me anymore.
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Remember, we have 14.6% of young people who can't find jobs. And generally, low-wage jobs are where
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people get training for the future. People always say having a McJob or working McDonald's is a crappy
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job. No, it's a good job because McDonald's is a well-run organization that teaches kids how to
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work. And it's good for them to make minimum wage. I made minimum wage. I was a stock boy at Zeller's
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when I was 16 years of age. And it taught me about working for a living. But I often wonder why I go in
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and I can't understand the person who asks me for my order anymore. And I often wonder, this person might
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be a Canadian citizen, but are they a temporary foreign worker? And why isn't a young Canadian
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person asking me for my order? And again, these people might be Canadian citizens, but the number
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of temporary foreign workers, as Paliyev says, is way up under the Liberal government.
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What is the response of people on the left? Now, this is Vashi Kapelis. Listen to what this
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woman says. This is the typical response. This is why nobody wants to talk about this. And I'm going
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to look long-term here in just a moment, folks, because we have to look long-term.
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Listening to that interview and watching that interview that you did with MP Rempel,
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quite frankly, was infuriating. I'm going to be quite frank and honest. We are the Conservative
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Party and Paliyev and MP Rempel are treading a very dangerous line of what I'm going to call a dog
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whistle of racism. This is their answer to everything, the left. Addressing an issue is
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racism. It's as if racism doesn't mean anything anymore. The late, great Charles Krauthammer,
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I remember him writing an article years ago in the Washington Post. It was called
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Racism, the Last Refuge of the Liberal Scoundrel. Now, this was years ago he wrote this. This is the
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first refuge of the liberal scoundrel anymore. Scream racism. And we're told constantly that we have to
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have more people in the country because it's good for our economy. But nobody's addressing the long-term
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issue here, which needs to be addressed. I'll get to that in just a moment. I mean, here's Christia
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Freeland. This is just a little over a year ago. She's finance minister. Listen to what she has to
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say here. It's quite mind-boggling. Listen to this. As a country, Canada is probably the country in the
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world, which is the most welcoming of new Canadians, which is the most welcoming of immigrants. And as
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finance minister, I have to say that is a huge economic strength. It is a real driver of our
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country's economic growth. And at a time when all of the industrialized countries in the world are
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facing huge demographic challenges, we are extremely fortunate as a country that we have the social
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capacity to welcome immigrants. Do we have the social capacity to welcome more immigrants? Our
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country's broke, folks. And yes, our country is facing a demographic challenge, which is the
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long-term solution that needs to be addressed by people like Pierre Polyev and Michelle Rumpel-Garner.
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Yeah, we need a quick fix to this right now, but there's always another government down the road
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that's going to push up the immigration numbers once again. I mean, what's Carney's solution to this?
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He's asked about this. They're having a retreat. Polyev brings up the fact that we need to get rid of
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the temporary foreign workers program. He hums and haws about that. But listen to his solution.
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That program has a role. It has to be focused in terms of its role. And it's part of what we're
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reviewing. It's part of what we will be discussing, how well the temporary foreign worker program is
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working. He's got no solution. And how the overall immigration system is working. We've been absolutely
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clear as a government that we want and we're putting in place policies so that the overall level
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of immigration as a proportion of the population will decline from around 7% today to around 5%
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several years from now. That's not enough. That's a huge amount of people.
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Here's an article from the National Post's Jamie Sarkinack, Carney's immigration plan,
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a recipe for more overcrowding. Many of Canada's problems in the last 10 years can be traced back
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to over-immigration. He has committed, Carney, to capping temporary workers and international
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students, the two types of non-permanent residents, to 5% of the population by 2027, consistent with the
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plan set by former immigration minister Mark Miller last year. But this idea isn't poised to help us
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out all that much. A 5% cap may sound like an improvement because non-permanent residents
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reached 7.4% of the population in fall 2024, but it's still atrociously far away from restoring the
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status quo. Before 2020, non-permanent residents never surpassed 3% of the population. There's no
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solution here at all. And we have to bring more people in all the time, according to the former
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finance minister, because it's good for the economy. Well, it's good for companies that want to
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maximize their profits, profit maximizing crutch. Meanwhile, we're subsidizing people who come here,
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taxpayers, you foot the bill, because these people are getting paid minimum wage. You cannot live on
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minimum wage in this country anymore. So they have to use our social services with your tax dollars
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to subsidize them so that they can live here and take jobs away from young people in this country.
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14.6% unemployment with young people right now.
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You can't afford to live here anymore. We need more people here that aren't from other countries.
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I.e., call me a racist. Here's Peter St. Ange. I played a little clip of this exact video the other
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day, but not this portion. This is a great video. Link in the description. He's a PhD. Canada enters
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recession. He's talking about Canada here. I think he talks about West Virginia and Los Angeles here.
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In short, wages are West Virginia, while housing costs are Los Angeles.
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Part of the OECD disposable income in Canada was left after taxes. It's just 57% what it is in the U.S.
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In 2010, Canada was richer than the U.S. This is partly falling wages. Canada has four times the level
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of migration of the U.S., and partly because Canadian taxes are nearly twice the level in the U.S.
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I think I called this video the other day vomit-inducing. It's only four minutes long,
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and he goes on for four minutes on how you are falling farther and farther behind in this country.
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The liberal government is responsible for this, and I'm not putting all the blame on immigrants.
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I'm not doing that. I'm not making them a scapegoat for the country's problems. I put a lot of that on
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the government we currently have and that we voted in again on April the 28th. But nobody's looking at the
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long-term solution to what's going on right now. Everybody's looking for the quick fix, and I understand
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that. But Pierre Polyev hasn't brought up what we may need to do in order to replace the people that
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we currently have in this country, as opposed to bringing in a lot of people from other countries.
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I mean, Chrystia Freeland's not correct on very much, but she certainly was correct when she said this.
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At a time when all of the industrialized countries in the world are facing huge demographic challenges.
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What's the demographic challenge she's talking about?
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And her solution to the demographic challenge is to bring in a lot more people. The demographic
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challenge that she's talking about is we don't replace the people that die here. And maybe we
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should be encouraging people to have more kids. Look at this. Canada's replacement rate is 2.1 live
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burst per woman. I'm looking down the road here, folks, because we're getting very, very close
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to a catastrophe in this country. You know, conservatives in the United States are called
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conspiracy theorists for talking about a thing called the Great Replacement Theory.
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Just replacing your population with immigrants. They're called racists, and they're called
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conspiracy theorists for talking about that. I don't think they're conspiracy theorists.
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Democrats have a name for the exact same thing. They call it Demographics is Destiny.
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They realize if they flood the country with enough immigrants, eventually, if they get enough people
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dependent on the government, they'll vote Democrat. And the Democrats will be forever in power. I think
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that's the case with the liberals here. George Bernard Shaw, the politician that robs Peter to pay Paul
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will always have a friend in Paul. Right? So here we are. We need to start replacing the people that are
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dying. We don't do that right now. So we have to rely on immigration. Canada's replacement rate is 2.1
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live burst per woman, a benchmark for a stable population that has not been reached since the
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early 1970s. With a fertility rate of 1.26 in 2023, Canada's population is aging and increasingly
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reliant on immigration for growth. The replacement rate is the average number of children a woman needs
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to have for the population to replace itself, accounting for mortality and providing a small
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buffer. We need to start looking long-term here. We need to encourage people to have more kids.
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How do you do that when the economy is crap? Well, we need to get rid of the liberal government. We need
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to lower taxes. We need to make life more affordable here. We need to cut down on deficits and debt.
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We need to stop spending so much damn money. And maybe we need to encourage people to have more
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kids. Now you might say, John, I don't want to be subsidizing people to have more kids. You're
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subsidizing temporary foreign workers right now. Like Michelle Rumpel-Garner said, wouldn't you rather
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the money go to people who live here right now, Canadian citizens? Not only that, the temporary foreign
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workers are taking jobs away from your kids. When I was a kid, you may remember this. When I was
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a kid, I remember hearing this word. I did not know what it was. I was born in 1965. And I remember
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the words baby bonus popping up around my house on occasion. I hear my mom or my dad say the word.
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So I looked online here. In Canada, the 1970s saw the baby bonus. Officially, the family allowance
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undergo significant changes, including an increase in benefits to $20 per child monthly in 1973. Now,
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you might think that's a very low amount of money. But adjusting for inflation, this would be $150
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per month per kid. A lot of money. Back when families were getting this, making under $18,000 a
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year. Now, $18,000 a year in 1970s, today it would be $150,000. I mean, giving $150 per kid, and we had
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three of them in my family, to my mom and dad would have been a huge boost to us. And it might be an
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incentive for people to have more kids, but they can't afford them right now. And I'm not saying
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it's just going to be $150. It could be more than that. And again, you're going to say, John, why do
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I want to give money? Well, because we have a demographic problem here, folks. And we're paying
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people from other countries right now with our tax dollars. Why not pay Canadian citizens? Now,
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I think this might be a solution, but I've got some rules with this. If you want to take part in this,
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you must be a Canadian citizen. You must be employed, and you must be married.
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We don't want to incentivize young single women to have children. Because believe it or not,
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if you want to avoid poverty, there's three things you need to do in life. You need to finish high
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school, don't have a kid before 20, and be married if you have children. So we don't want to encourage
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single people to have kids. You must be employed, married, and a Canadian citizen to take part in this,
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because we have to look at this issue long term. We do have credits right now. We have the Canada
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Child Benefit. But maybe we should be encouraging Canadians now to have more children. So we don't
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have to rely in the future so much on immigration. Because folks, our population is changing right now.
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And I don't think it's changing for the better. You see people marching in the streets on a weekly
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basis here right now. I don't think all cultures are equal. I don't. If all cultures were equal,
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we'd be running off to the Middle East all the time. We're not. They're coming here. Why? Because
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we're better. But we need to look at this issue on a long term basis. And nobody's talking about this.
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I think we're on a fast train to demographic Armageddon if we don't get a handle on this
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issue right now. And maybe encouraging married couples, married employed couples, married Canadian
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employed couples to have more children is an answer to the problem we've got when it comes to
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immigration. And somebody needs to start talking about it. Tell me what you think in the comments.
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