Juno News - July 11, 2018


BORDER CRISIS： Doug Ford's ＂Tone＂？

Hosted by
Andrew Lutton
Mentioned
Doug Ford Mehdi Hassan Justin Trudeau John Tory Speaker McLeod
Doug Ford says NO to Justin Trudeau BRIAN PALLISTER'S PUSH FOR FREEDOM

Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

164.32

Word count

553

Sentence count

35


Summary

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In this episode, Andrew Lutton talks to the immigration minister Ahmed Hussen about the growing crisis at the border, and what he thinks about the federal government's handling of the situation. The government has been accused of not doing enough to deal with the growing problem of illegal border crossing by asylum seekers.

Transcript

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00:00:00.200 Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Toronto Mayor John Tory were united in calling out the federal government for its inaction
00:00:07.280 and its ability to allow this border crossing crisis to actually become a crisis.
00:00:13.580 Doug Ford and John Tory went to the government and said,
00:00:15.980 Look, we need help. We're not going to pay for it. This is your mess. You have to fix it.
00:00:21.420 Well, the Immigration Minister, Ahmed Hassan, actually responded.
00:00:24.720 He responded to the call from these two heads of government in Ontario and Toronto.
00:00:30.500 And what did he say? He didn't like Doug Ford's tone.
00:00:35.940 Yeah, have a listen to Ahmed Hassan's comments here.
00:00:39.440 And I'm very concerned by Premier Ford and Minister McLeod really making statements that are difficult
00:00:53.960 to understand when it comes to how they are describing asylum seekers.
00:00:59.440 These are people who we have a legal obligation to give a fair hearing to.
00:01:04.880 And so we are applying Canadian law, we are applying international law,
00:01:09.260 and that requires all levels of government to work together.
00:01:11.740 So we have a full-blown crisis.
00:01:14.680 We have a wait time for an asylum hearing at 11 years
00:01:18.680 because agents and the system itself is tapped out.
00:01:21.920 You have hundreds of asylum seekers in Toronto that are going to get kicked out of their dorm rooms
00:01:26.880 because, well, they need the dorm rooms for actual students.
00:01:29.780 You've got millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars,
00:01:33.000 owed to jurisdictions like Toronto to deal with this.
00:01:37.620 You've got a problem that's still underway.
00:01:39.560 You've got all of the challenges that we are facing as far as security is concerned,
00:01:46.780 the strength and integrity of the system, and, yes, the cost.
00:01:50.680 And Ahmed Hassan, the immigration minister,
00:01:52.880 is concerned about the tone that Doug Ford uses in criticizing the government
00:01:58.120 for allowing the aforementioned crisis to take hold.
00:02:01.080 What is it that he doesn't like?
00:02:02.240 What is it about what Doug Ford said when he looked at the government and said,
00:02:06.320 you've got to rein in this illegal border crossing problem?
00:02:09.660 What is the problem there?
00:02:10.920 Is it the word illegal?
00:02:12.760 Because even Justin Trudeau in the House of Commons
00:02:15.560 referred to border crossing illegally as illegally.
00:02:19.480 Take a look.
00:02:20.520 Crossing a border between official border crossings is illegal.
00:02:25.460 Now, Mr. Speaker, what the members...
00:02:27.460 But the fact of the matter is he doesn't like that he is under the microscope.
00:02:32.340 He doesn't like, like none of the representatives of the federal government, by the way,
00:02:37.440 that their failings are being showcased here.
00:02:40.480 Their invitation, Justin Trudeau's tweet,
00:02:42.600 come one, come all, come to Canada.
00:02:44.320 That is the reason that the problem has gotten as bad as it has.
00:02:48.920 So don't you dare criticize your critics' tone
00:02:52.280 when your policies are rightfully being called into question right now.
00:02:58.040 Is it the word illegal?
00:02:59.220 I don't know.
00:02:59.780 I mean, the government likes to call it irregular, irregular border crossing.
00:03:04.240 Now, when I hear them talk like that,
00:03:05.440 it makes me feel a little bit irregular, quite frankly.
00:03:08.040 But when they're focused on the language and not the crisis,
00:03:12.080 they have proven to Canadians that they don't care about our borders.
00:03:16.900 And it's time that they actually get held to account for that.
00:03:19.940 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.