Juno News - January 30, 2019


＂Are you demonizing your critics to try to silence them？＂


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

192.91937

Word Count

465

Sentence Count

24


Summary

The Prime Minister says critics of his immigration policies are "intolerant" and "fear-mongering." But who exactly is the Prime Minister referring to? And why is he demonizing critics of the immigration system and the border?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 One of the concerns as this becomes a big election issue is that your government, both the immigration minister and the prime minister, have politicized this issue.
00:00:08.480 Is your party demonizing critics who fairly, they're not racist, they're not, they're just criticizing the immigration system and the border.
00:00:18.260 Are you demonizing your critics to try to silence them?
00:00:22.960 I'll tell you what we are doing, Evan.
00:00:24.460 We're working hard to make sure that Canadian law is upheld and applied appropriately and that we're managing these systems on behalf of all Canadians and every part of Canada in an efficient and effective way to protect the safety and security of our country and also to live up to our international obligations.
00:00:39.160 We have had a long history of being a country where people have come seeking protection and this is a place where they can receive it.
00:00:45.780 Tell me exactly when the prime minister says critics on immigration are, quote, fear-mongering.
00:00:51.500 There's intolerance. There's fear. There's misinformation.
00:00:53.560 Who's doing this fear-mongering?
00:00:55.680 I just want, I'm trying to get an example.
00:00:57.460 Why is it fear-mongering to ask how to stop tens of thousands of people from irregularly marching across the border?
00:01:03.360 Whether they're families or not, a border is a border.
00:01:06.180 What is fear-mongering about that?
00:01:08.120 What is intolerant about that?
00:01:10.140 Seriously, give me an example.
00:01:11.000 Can I tell you, Adam, that in my, Evan, in my experience, fear is truly the greatest enemy of public safety.
00:01:16.880 And when we become afraid of each other, then we become less safe.
00:01:20.160 That wasn't my question.
00:01:21.500 My question was, who is the prime minister referring to?
00:01:25.900 Who exactly is fear-mongering about the border?
00:01:28.280 Who's intolerant?
00:01:28.940 I just want to know.
00:01:29.540 Who is it?
00:01:29.920 I think the prime minister is quite rightly reminding all Canadians that we are a country of immigrants
00:01:35.600 and that when people come to our country seeking refuge, we uphold and apply Canadian law.
00:01:40.960 And for those who need our protection, we are a welcoming country.
00:01:43.900 And for those who are not eligible for that protection, our processes work to quickly resolve that and determine their eligibility.
00:01:50.440 And if they're not, they're not.
00:01:51.160 To be fair, to be fair, the municipalities and provinces are not.
00:01:56.660 Look, nobody's against immigration.
00:01:59.480 And we have obligations for refugees and for asylum seekers.
00:02:02.200 But how can you defend a border where you have tens of thousands of people walking across
00:02:07.800 and then it forces Canadians to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to process them to see if they belong here
00:02:14.540 or in a safe third country like the United States?
00:02:17.040 How can you defend that system as working when it clearly isn't?
00:02:21.520 Actually, and what we're trying to do is work very hard to make sure it works.