John Bolton - The SOLUTION to the Canadian IMMIGRATION PROBLEM no one is talking about

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel, 504 AM, Friday, September the 5th, one day

00:00:08.400 away from the weekend. I hope you're having a great start to your Friday. And thank you

00:00:12.780 so much if you are a subscriber here. If you haven't subscribed, please click on subscribe

00:00:18.900 and I will tip my big blue mug to you. Thank you very much. So today I want to talk about

00:00:24.480 an issue that is very prevalent in the news. Pierre Polyev has talked about this. Michelle

00:00:29.560 Rumpel-Garner, MP Calgary Nosehill, has written an article in the Toronto Sun about this.

00:00:33.960 I'll get to them in just a moment. It's regarding the temporary foreign workers program, immigration

00:00:39.440 as well. And everybody's looking for a quick fix here. And I think that's good. I think

00:00:43.520 we need a quick fix to this issue, but I don't think anybody's thinking long-term and that's

00:00:47.600 where I'm thinking. I like to think outside the box here. So I want to give you my solution

00:00:52.280 long-term to this issue in just a moment. Now, why am I talking about this today? Because

00:00:56.200 I came up with this article that I saw this morning, which went up yesterday. Chris Selle,

00:01:00.660 who's against Canadian jobs for Canadian kids instead of for foreign workers? No more temporary 0.98

00:01:06.360 foreign workers at Tim Hortons is a no-brainer policy for Polyev, especially if the Liberals 0.93

00:01:11.040 push back and they will, and they'll push back in the regular way, which I'll also get to in

00:01:15.200 just a moment. And it's exactly what you would expect the left to do when it comes to this issue.

00:01:19.700 Let's just read a quick little bit of this story. Youth unemployment stands at 14.6%,

00:01:25.160 according to Statistic Canada's latest release. That's the highest non-pandemic July figure since

00:01:30.660 2009 when it was at 15.9%. This is a winner for the Conservatives. This is a winning issue for the

00:01:36.960 Conservatives. Here's what Polyev had to say about this issue just the other day.

00:01:40.900 People today form what I call generation screwed. Let's look at the situation for this generation.

00:01:47.720 It is the first generation that cannot afford a home in Canadian history. And now the double gut 1.00

00:01:55.100 punch. They have the highest or the worst employment numbers of any group of young people since the

00:02:02.360 late 1990s. So you can't get a job. And even if you did have a job, you can never buy a home after

00:02:09.500 10 years of Liberal government. Tim Hortons has hired an unimaginable 1,131% more

00:02:17.660 temporary foreign workers in the last four years. In the first half of this year alone,

00:02:22.340 the TFW program has imported 74% more low-skilled labor than in all of 2015.

00:02:30.620 So that's Pierre Polyev on this. Michelle Rumpel-Garner tweeting this out just the other

00:02:34.920 day. Abolish the temporary foreign worker program. Canadian jobs should go to Canadians. 1.00

00:02:39.140 The typical response by the left coming up in just a moment. Here's her article,

00:02:44.420 link in the description. I want to just read this paragraph right here, but there's something very

00:02:48.560 telling in here, okay? Under the current government, Canadian employers have had access to a near

00:02:53.420 endless supply of temporary foreign labor. Instead of investing in training or raising salaries, 0.98

00:02:59.140 some businesses have come to rely upon the TFWP as a profit-maximizing crutch. Listen to this.

00:03:05.380 Subsidized by taxpayers who foot the bill for social services, these underpaid workers often

00:03:11.760 require, all the while allowing a temporary foreign low-wage underclass to become normalized in Canada.

00:03:18.260 And Pierre Polyev said the same thing. Now, I'm going to go here. And again, the typical left-wing

00:03:24.880 response to this coming up in just a moment. And I'm going to be lumped in with Polyev and Michelle

00:03:29.680 Rumpel-Garner on this. And probably you as well, because you're thinking like I'm thinking.

00:03:32.960 I've been aware of this situation for quite some time. And you probably have been as well. So,

00:03:38.100 I don't go to Tim Hortons all that well. I think Tim Hortons sucks. Okay? It sucks. But anyway, 0.99

00:03:44.800 I go into fast food restaurants and I often wonder why nobody looks like me anymore.

00:03:49.980 Remember, we have 14.6% of young people who can't find jobs. And generally, low-wage jobs are where

00:03:57.060 people get training for the future. People always say having a McJob or working McDonald's is a crappy

00:04:02.600 job. No, it's a good job because McDonald's is a well-run organization that teaches kids how to

00:04:07.500 work. And it's good for them to make minimum wage. I made minimum wage. I was a stock boy at Zeller's

00:04:14.540 when I was 16 years of age. And it taught me about working for a living. But I often wonder why I go in

00:04:21.300 and I can't understand the person who asks me for my order anymore. And I often wonder, this person might

00:04:27.100 be a Canadian citizen, but are they a temporary foreign worker? And why isn't a young Canadian 0.53

00:04:33.240 person asking me for my order? And again, these people might be Canadian citizens, but the number

00:04:39.360 of temporary foreign workers, as Paliyev says, is way up under the Liberal government.

00:04:46.520 What is the response of people on the left? Now, this is Vashi Kapelis. Listen to what this

00:04:54.260 woman says. This is the typical response. This is why nobody wants to talk about this. And I'm going

00:04:57.980 to look long-term here in just a moment, folks, because we have to look long-term.

00:05:02.580 Listening to that interview and watching that interview that you did with MP Rempel,

00:05:08.040 quite frankly, was infuriating. I'm going to be quite frank and honest. We are the Conservative

00:05:14.800 Party and Paliyev and MP Rempel are treading a very dangerous line of what I'm going to call a dog

00:05:22.280 whistle of racism. This is their answer to everything, the left. Addressing an issue is

00:05:28.420 racism. It's as if racism doesn't mean anything anymore. The late, great Charles Krauthammer,

00:05:32.920 I remember him writing an article years ago in the Washington Post. It was called

00:05:36.760 Racism, the Last Refuge of the Liberal Scoundrel. Now, this was years ago he wrote this. This is the

00:05:42.720 first refuge of the liberal scoundrel anymore. Scream racism. And we're told constantly that we have to 0.99

00:05:48.720 have more people in the country because it's good for our economy. But nobody's addressing the long-term

00:05:53.800 issue here, which needs to be addressed. I'll get to that in just a moment. I mean, here's Christia

00:05:57.620 Freeland. This is just a little over a year ago. She's finance minister. Listen to what she has to

00:06:01.780 say here. It's quite mind-boggling. Listen to this. As a country, Canada is probably the country in the

00:06:10.540 world, which is the most welcoming of new Canadians, which is the most welcoming of immigrants. And as

00:06:19.220 finance minister, I have to say that is a huge economic strength. It is a real driver of our

00:06:29.540 country's economic growth. And at a time when all of the industrialized countries in the world are

00:06:39.740 facing huge demographic challenges, we are extremely fortunate as a country that we have the social

00:06:50.020 capacity to welcome immigrants. Do we have the social capacity to welcome more immigrants? Our 0.99

00:06:57.280 country's broke, folks. And yes, our country is facing a demographic challenge, which is the

00:07:03.880 long-term solution that needs to be addressed by people like Pierre Polyev and Michelle Rumpel-Garner.

00:07:08.220 Yeah, we need a quick fix to this right now, but there's always another government down the road

00:07:12.220 that's going to push up the immigration numbers once again. I mean, what's Carney's solution to this?

00:07:16.300 He's asked about this. They're having a retreat. Polyev brings up the fact that we need to get rid of

00:07:21.240 the temporary foreign workers program. He hums and haws about that. But listen to his solution. 0.74

00:07:25.960 That program has a role. It has to be focused in terms of its role. And it's part of what we're

00:07:33.460 reviewing. It's part of what we will be discussing, how well the temporary foreign worker program is

00:07:37.520 working. He's got no solution. And how the overall immigration system is working. We've been absolutely

00:07:41.640 clear as a government that we want and we're putting in place policies so that the overall level

00:07:47.700 of immigration as a proportion of the population will decline from around 7% today to around 5%

00:07:54.260 several years from now. That's not enough. That's a huge amount of people.

00:08:00.700 Here's an article from the National Post's Jamie Sarkinack, Carney's immigration plan,

00:08:04.780 a recipe for more overcrowding. Many of Canada's problems in the last 10 years can be traced back

00:08:09.200 to over-immigration. He has committed, Carney, to capping temporary workers and international

00:08:15.840 students, the two types of non-permanent residents, to 5% of the population by 2027, consistent with the

00:08:21.700 plan set by former immigration minister Mark Miller last year. But this idea isn't poised to help us

00:08:26.780 out all that much. A 5% cap may sound like an improvement because non-permanent residents 1.00

00:08:31.100 reached 7.4% of the population in fall 2024, but it's still atrociously far away from restoring the

00:08:37.740 status quo. Before 2020, non-permanent residents never surpassed 3% of the population. There's no

00:08:43.640 solution here at all. And we have to bring more people in all the time, according to the former

00:08:50.060 finance minister, because it's good for the economy. Well, it's good for companies that want to

00:08:54.620 maximize their profits, profit maximizing crutch. Meanwhile, we're subsidizing people who come here,

00:09:02.420 taxpayers, you foot the bill, because these people are getting paid minimum wage. You cannot live on

00:09:07.540 minimum wage in this country anymore. So they have to use our social services with your tax dollars

00:09:12.320 to subsidize them so that they can live here and take jobs away from young people in this country. 1.00

00:09:17.640 14.6% unemployment with young people right now.

00:09:24.860 You can't afford to live here anymore. We need more people here that aren't from other countries. 1.00

00:09:31.080 I.e., call me a racist. Here's Peter St. Ange. I played a little clip of this exact video the other

00:09:37.060 day, but not this portion. This is a great video. Link in the description. He's a PhD. Canada enters

00:09:42.300 recession. He's talking about Canada here. I think he talks about West Virginia and Los Angeles here.

00:09:47.620 Listen.

00:09:48.120 In short, wages are West Virginia, while housing costs are Los Angeles.

00:09:52.360 Part of the OECD disposable income in Canada was left after taxes. It's just 57% what it is in the U.S.

00:09:59.700 In 2010, Canada was richer than the U.S. This is partly falling wages. Canada has four times the level

00:10:07.320 of migration of the U.S., and partly because Canadian taxes are nearly twice the level in the U.S.

00:10:14.720 I think I called this video the other day vomit-inducing. It's only four minutes long,

00:10:18.800 and he goes on for four minutes on how you are falling farther and farther behind in this country.

00:10:23.280 You can't afford anything anymore.

00:10:28.060 The liberal government is responsible for this, and I'm not putting all the blame on immigrants.

00:10:31.680 I'm not doing that. I'm not making them a scapegoat for the country's problems. I put a lot of that on

00:10:37.760 the government we currently have and that we voted in again on April the 28th. But nobody's looking at the

00:10:43.300 long-term solution to what's going on right now. Everybody's looking for the quick fix, and I understand

00:10:47.160 that. But Pierre Polyev hasn't brought up what we may need to do in order to replace the people that

00:10:53.920 we currently have in this country, as opposed to bringing in a lot of people from other countries.

00:10:57.440 I mean, Chrystia Freeland's not correct on very much, but she certainly was correct when she said this.

00:11:03.140 At a time when all of the industrialized countries in the world are facing huge demographic challenges.

00:11:13.060 What's the demographic challenge she's talking about?

00:11:17.160 And her solution to the demographic challenge is to bring in a lot more people. The demographic

00:11:23.520 challenge that she's talking about is we don't replace the people that die here. And maybe we

00:11:30.320 should be encouraging people to have more kids. Look at this. Canada's replacement rate is 2.1 live

00:11:36.540 burst per woman. I'm looking down the road here, folks, because we're getting very, very close 0.98

00:11:41.860 to a catastrophe in this country. You know, conservatives in the United States are called

00:11:50.500 conspiracy theorists for talking about a thing called the Great Replacement Theory.

00:11:54.720 Just replacing your population with immigrants. They're called racists, and they're called

00:11:59.480 conspiracy theorists for talking about that. I don't think they're conspiracy theorists.

00:12:04.160 Democrats have a name for the exact same thing. They call it Demographics is Destiny.

00:12:08.000 They realize if they flood the country with enough immigrants, eventually, if they get enough people 1.00

00:12:12.920 dependent on the government, they'll vote Democrat. And the Democrats will be forever in power. I think

00:12:19.420 that's the case with the liberals here. George Bernard Shaw, the politician that robs Peter to pay Paul

00:12:26.340 will always have a friend in Paul. Right? So here we are. We need to start replacing the people that are

00:12:35.520 dying. We don't do that right now. So we have to rely on immigration. Canada's replacement rate is 2.1 0.96

00:12:41.060 live burst per woman, a benchmark for a stable population that has not been reached since the 0.97

00:12:45.500 early 1970s. With a fertility rate of 1.26 in 2023, Canada's population is aging and increasingly

00:12:53.260 reliant on immigration for growth. The replacement rate is the average number of children a woman needs 0.98

00:13:00.360 to have for the population to replace itself, accounting for mortality and providing a small

00:13:05.000 buffer. We need to start looking long-term here. We need to encourage people to have more kids.

00:13:10.000 How do you do that when the economy is crap? Well, we need to get rid of the liberal government. We need 0.98

00:13:16.440 to lower taxes. We need to make life more affordable here. We need to cut down on deficits and debt.

00:13:21.520 We need to stop spending so much damn money. And maybe we need to encourage people to have more

00:13:27.240 kids. Now you might say, John, I don't want to be subsidizing people to have more kids. You're

00:13:31.580 subsidizing temporary foreign workers right now. Like Michelle Rumpel-Garner said, wouldn't you rather

00:13:37.820 the money go to people who live here right now, Canadian citizens? Not only that, the temporary foreign

00:13:44.600 workers are taking jobs away from your kids. When I was a kid, you may remember this. When I was

00:13:51.460 a kid, I remember hearing this word. I did not know what it was. I was born in 1965. And I remember

00:13:56.580 the words baby bonus popping up around my house on occasion. I hear my mom or my dad say the word.

00:14:02.320 So I looked online here. In Canada, the 1970s saw the baby bonus. Officially, the family allowance

00:14:07.480 undergo significant changes, including an increase in benefits to $20 per child monthly in 1973. Now,

00:14:13.780 you might think that's a very low amount of money. But adjusting for inflation, this would be $150

00:14:19.540 per month per kid. A lot of money. Back when families were getting this, making under $18,000 a

00:14:29.580 year. Now, $18,000 a year in 1970s, today it would be $150,000. I mean, giving $150 per kid, and we had

00:14:42.580 three of them in my family, to my mom and dad would have been a huge boost to us. And it might be an

00:14:47.380 incentive for people to have more kids, but they can't afford them right now. And I'm not saying

00:14:52.120 it's just going to be $150. It could be more than that. And again, you're going to say, John, why do

00:14:56.760 I want to give money? Well, because we have a demographic problem here, folks. And we're paying

00:15:02.320 people from other countries right now with our tax dollars. Why not pay Canadian citizens? Now,

00:15:06.840 I think this might be a solution, but I've got some rules with this. If you want to take part in this,

00:15:14.960 you must be a Canadian citizen. You must be employed, and you must be married. 0.89

00:15:19.740 We don't want to incentivize young single women to have children. Because believe it or not, 1.00

00:15:27.940 if you want to avoid poverty, there's three things you need to do in life. You need to finish high

00:15:32.900 school, don't have a kid before 20, and be married if you have children. So we don't want to encourage

00:15:38.560 single people to have kids. You must be employed, married, and a Canadian citizen to take part in this, 0.98

00:15:43.560 because we have to look at this issue long term. We do have credits right now. We have the Canada

00:15:48.620 Child Benefit. But maybe we should be encouraging Canadians now to have more children. So we don't 0.66

00:15:54.440 have to rely in the future so much on immigration. Because folks, our population is changing right now.

00:15:59.480 And I don't think it's changing for the better. You see people marching in the streets on a weekly

00:16:04.740 basis here right now. I don't think all cultures are equal. I don't. If all cultures were equal, 0.93

00:16:13.740 we'd be running off to the Middle East all the time. We're not. They're coming here. Why? Because 1.00

00:16:18.680 we're better. But we need to look at this issue on a long term basis. And nobody's talking about this.

00:16:25.520 I think we're on a fast train to demographic Armageddon if we don't get a handle on this

00:16:37.160 issue right now. And maybe encouraging married couples, married employed couples, married Canadian

00:16:46.280 employed couples to have more children is an answer to the problem we've got when it comes to 1.00

00:16:52.220 immigration. And somebody needs to start talking about it. Tell me what you think in the comments.

00:16:57.060 I appreciate you being here. If you like the video, please give me a thumbs up. Subscribe to the

00:17:00.680 channel. Ring the bell for notifications. Thinking outside the box here today, folks. I'll see you in

00:17:05.720 the next one.

John Bolton - September 05, 2025

The SOLUTION to the Canadian IMMIGRATION PROBLEM no one is talking about

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