Juno News - Canada's Mass Immigration CRISIS

00:00:00.000 Successive governments in this country, both conservative and liberal, since Pierre Trudeau,

00:00:10.700 have all embraced full-scale mass immigration.

00:00:14.560 But no prime minister has done it quite like Justin Trudeau.

00:00:18.240 In 2015, just as he was taking office as prime minister, he told the New York Times that

00:00:22.940 Canada had no core identity and that we'll be the first post-national state.

00:00:27.980 Well, every day since then, he has been working hard to make that a reality.

00:00:32.940 Canada's population is now one of the fastest-growing populations in the world, driven almost entirely by immigration.

00:00:40.720 Through both temporary foreign workers, international students, and permanent residents,

00:00:46.140 millions of people are coming to this country every single year, faster than we can assimilate them 1.00

00:00:51.920 and faster than our country can possibly handle and absorb.

00:00:55.760 While Canadians have had enough, polls are now showing that an overwhelming majority 1.00

00:01:00.760 of both immigrants and Canadians want immigration levels to be cut.

00:01:05.680 Immigration restrictionism is now one of the very few issues in this country

00:01:09.820 in which a majority of Canadians all agree on.

00:01:13.520 A truly remarkable turn of events over the past few years.

00:01:17.220 Meanwhile, the leader of the official opposition, Pierre Polyev, is completely silent.

00:01:22.980 He avoids any conversation or question about immigration as if it was the plague.

00:01:29.140 The truth is we are dealing with a problem that we have never had to face in this country before.

00:01:33.160 And very few political commentators are more committed to speaking out against mass immigration 0.56

00:01:38.320 than my next guest, Riley Donovan.

00:01:40.620 You can read his work over at the Dominion Review by following the link to the description in this video.

00:01:46.640 Well, we are now joined by Riley Donovan, the editor and founder of the Dominion Review.

00:01:52.220 Riley, thank you so much for coming on.

00:01:54.100 Thank you for having me.

00:01:55.400 So the big news still in regards to immigration is Justin Trudeau's abrupt concession last week

00:02:01.780 regarding temporary immigration into this country, saying that Canada has taken in more than we're able to absorb at the moment.

00:02:09.280 What do you think is behind this?

00:02:10.540 Do you think that Trudeau has had some genuine epiphany on immigration, or is he perhaps trying to drag Polyev into a debate over immigration

00:02:17.880 to perhaps change his fortunes in the polls?

00:02:20.420 I think that Trudeau is very cognizant of the fact that the views the political elite in Canada hold on immigration

00:02:28.260 have diverged significantly from those of the Canadian public.

00:02:32.500 There is a poll out by Abacus Polling, released in late November, which shows that 67% of Canadians want lower levels of immigration.

00:02:44.260 That includes 68% of the native-born population, as well as 62% of immigrants themselves,

00:02:51.340 which I think does a lot to dismantle the myth that this is entirely driven by xenophobia.

00:02:58.100 Further, in that poll, you see that every single demographic, male and female, regional, as well as political party membership,

00:03:08.860 every demographic breakdown opposes the current levels of immigration, which are being implemented by the Trudeau government.

00:03:17.020 And I think that he has made this concession on temporary immigration, international students and temporary foreign workers,

00:03:23.020 definitely not out of any sort of internal epiphany, but rather because he has recognized this divergence.

00:03:31.940 He is declining in the polls in every single province outside of Quebec, and he is forced at this point to make some sort of concession.

00:03:43.420 Well, his opponent, Pierre Polyev, seems to be so afraid to talk about immigration that he'd rather talk about simply anything else.

00:03:53.440 I think it was one of your articles I read where you talk about how the fact that there is such a popular consensus now in favor of reducing immigration,

00:04:01.640 it's one of the only issues in Canada that so many people actually agree on.

00:04:05.340 Given that, the line that we hear from Conservative Party fanatics, diehard supporters, is that Polyev simply just cannot get off of the messaging trail.

00:04:15.200 If he ventures away from his talking points, axing the tax, building more homes, if he says anything about immigration, it will only hurt him in the polls.

00:04:23.900 It will only cause him more trouble.

00:04:25.380 What do you think of this tactic?

00:04:26.740 Do you think that it makes sense to avoid this issue altogether?

00:04:30.020 Pierre Polyev is afraid of losing votes in the ethnic enclaves outside of Toronto, Vancouver, and in Montreal.

00:04:40.500 This is the strategy that the Conservative Party has pursued for most of the 21st century and several decades leading up to it.

00:04:49.180 This is an incorrect strategy from a pure polling perspective because the majority of immigrants do actually want lower immigration for a variety of pragmatic reasons.

00:05:01.480 The housing crisis, it's a simple issue of supply and demand, is driven by the fact that 1.2 million newcomers entered Canada in 2023.

00:05:13.460 The overwhelmed infrastructure, the crowded hospitals, these things are becoming tangible and palpable in the everyday experience of both foreign-born Canadians and native-born Canadians.

00:05:25.840 This strategy by the Conservative Party is pure cowardice.

00:05:29.560 At the end of the day, they are more concerned with making a very small amount of ethnic lobby organizations angry and in breaking the political correctness norms which are enforced by the media.

00:05:47.240 And they would rather avoid this issue entirely, despite the fact that 82% of Conservative voters, the highest out of any political party outside of the People's Party, want lower migration levels.

00:06:04.100 It seems very strange to me that the Conservatives are not only just avoiding this topic, but when the question does get asked to them, which is a rarity, I would expect the Canadian legacy media press to be pounding this question to them every single time because it's forcing them to respond to their base.

00:06:21.320 Every time they get asked the question, Riley, they end up not just avoiding it, they end up basically sounding as though they want to go even further than the Liberals sometimes.

00:06:29.540 We've heard Trudeau calling, sorry, it's easy to mix them up when you talk about immigration.

00:06:34.080 We've heard Polyev call for direct flights to Amritsar, for example.

00:06:37.640 We've heard several Conservative MPs say that actually they want life to be more easier for international students.

00:06:45.560 They want to be able to bring more international students to Canada, despite the fact that we know the numbers are against this.

00:06:51.200 And we also have provincial premiers who call themselves Conservatives, who are basically immigration extremists,

00:06:57.260 like Tim Houston in Nova Scotia.

00:06:59.460 You've written about Tim Houston's immigration stance, but for Canadians who are not quite aware of what's going on in Nova Scotia,

00:07:06.420 talk to us a little bit, a little more about what Tim Houston is trying to do here, because I couldn't believe it.

00:07:11.140 Sure. Well, many Canadians will by now be aware of the Century Initiative, which is a national lobby organization,

00:07:18.940 which I have uncovered is funded to a significant degree by banks and corporations,

00:07:24.400 which wants to grow the national population to 100 million by 2100.

00:07:30.220 Now, that would mean growing Toronto alone to 33 and a half million people.

00:07:35.340 That would mean tripling the population of Vancouver, tripling the population of Montreal.

00:07:39.920 That would mean creating a mega region in the prairies that they call Calgary-Edmonton,

00:07:46.500 which would be 15 and a half million people.

00:07:49.620 But what people are maybe less aware of is that a number of provincial premiers essentially have their own

00:07:57.480 miniature versions of the Century Initiative.

00:07:59.920 Daniel Smith in Alberta, very strong, professed conservative, who is very willing to break taboos on certain issues like gender ideology,

00:08:10.800 at the same time has expressed a favorable view of growing Alberta's population to 10 million.

00:08:17.600 And you have a similar situation in Saskatchewan.

00:08:20.880 And you have perhaps the most dramatic example in Nova Scotia, where the premier, Tim Houston,

00:08:28.700 wants to double Nova Scotia's population from 1 million to 2 million by the year 2060.

00:08:38.460 It's incredible.

00:08:39.980 And correct me if I'm wrong, but he actually wanted to go to 3 million and he had to pull himself back?

00:08:44.800 Yeah, no, he is such a proud member of Canada's cult of growth, population growth.

00:08:51.640 It is a very simple way to achieve an illusion of economic success, simply growing the gross population of a region.

00:09:01.540 He initially wanted to go to 3 million.

00:09:03.880 And after some internal discussions with his advisors, he decided on the conservative approach of growing Nova Scotia's population to 2 million.

00:09:11.100 Of course, we are seeing in the urban centers of Nova Scotia, a massive spike in rents.

00:09:18.860 We are seeing homelessness increase as the provincial migration programs, the nominee programs overseen by Tim Houston's government are increasing year by year.

00:09:33.400 And for those who are not aware, Canada's fertility rate is very low.

00:09:38.960 And so Tim Houston, his strategy and that of the Century Initiative, et cetera, is to essentially grow Canada's population solely through immigration.

00:09:52.020 And that would be the case in Nova Scotia as well.

00:09:53.820 And let's get into this a little more, because this is something I simply just have no clue as to why this is taking place in Canada.

00:10:01.460 It seems that in other countries, they're starting to wake up to this reality that they have to start having more children.

00:10:06.180 They have to take their birth rates seriously.

00:10:08.160 But no one in this country, no one at a political level, at a political leadership level,

00:10:13.000 I think, has ever had the conversation about fertility rates in Canada at a serious level.

00:10:19.640 I don't think they've ever sat down and said, what's our policy going to be to increase birth rates in Canada?

00:10:24.360 Instead, it's just a sole reliance on immigration.

00:10:28.340 There seems to be no interest in this birth rate question, and yet it's disastrously below replacement level.

00:10:34.540 What do you think is behind this?

00:10:35.760 Why is that conversation not being had at all?

00:10:38.480 Well, if you think about it, their argument is that Canada needs large-scale immigration

00:10:44.920 to make up for the fact that we have an aging demographic caused by low fertility rates for some decades now.

00:10:53.580 Their argument is beset by the single biggest issue, which is that their own immigration policy does not accomplish this.

00:11:03.940 There is an entire stream in the family reunification category, which is for grandparents.

00:11:09.780 Many people in their 50s come from India or China to retire here.

00:11:14.920 And there is, among the temporary immigration subset, there is a massive over-representation of single males.

00:11:23.980 If their argument was carried through to its logical conclusion,

00:11:28.660 we would see almost exclusively young families being brought to Canada.

00:11:31.620 But for the sake of argument, let's take it at face value that we need a large influx of newcomers

00:11:40.700 to make up for the fact that we are not having enough kids in Canada.

00:11:45.540 Now, this is predicated on the assumption that an aging population is a disaster. 0.99

00:11:53.400 An aging population is a problem, but it is something that we can deal with internally. 1.00

00:12:00.500 Their solution to bring in endless amounts of immigrants per year is essentially a Ponzi scheme, 1.00

00:12:09.080 where over time, those immigrants, when they move to an industrialized, western, wealthy country like Canada,

00:12:16.360 will come to adopt the same lifestyle that we have here, which leads to lower fertility rates.

00:12:23.000 Their solution at that point, once the fertility rates of immigrants drop, would be, you guessed it, add more immigrants. 0.99

00:12:31.200 This would increase ad nauseum and would not solve the fundamental problem,

00:12:37.500 which is that Canadians here at the moment are not having enough kids to reach the 2.1 level, which is the replacement rate.

00:12:45.220 However, another major issue with the current immigration policy is that it is, in and of itself, causing the fertility rates to be artificially lowered

00:13:00.220 because the housing crisis, which is driven entirely by immigration, is a major reason, if you talk to young people,

00:13:09.980 people in their 20s, even in their 30s, they will say, look, where am I going to raise my kids?

00:13:15.060 Am I going to raise them in a shoebox apartment in Toronto for $3,000 a month?

00:13:20.200 People want a detached house to raise their kids. 1.00

00:13:24.720 That's an ideal environment.

00:13:25.780 But the immigration-driven housing crisis is making that impossible. 0.72

00:13:30.280 So the argument is beset with contradictions, just like every argument for the unprecedented policy of mass immigration.

00:13:37.220 It's just an endless cycle, it sounds like, and it's a cycle that eventually results in a country that has simply no founding culture,

00:13:45.000 no founding national unity to call itself, because eventually, as this goes along, it'll just become basically all new immigrants, 1.00

00:13:53.860 and there's no discussion about Canadian culture, Canadian values.

00:13:57.940 And I've noticed this, Riley.

00:13:59.500 Whenever people on social media, like yourself and like myself, sometimes we speak up about Canadian culture and Canadian values

00:14:06.100 and the fact that many of those values are being eroded through mass immigration, we're immediately called racists.

00:14:12.780 We're immediately attacked, described as the worst people in the country for daring to care about our founding values

00:14:20.480 and principles as a country, which are slipping away.

00:14:23.800 Why do you think it is that so few people are willing to actually have this conversation,

00:14:28.880 are willing to speak up for what they know to be right,

00:14:30.700 and why is it that it's now totally normal to attack anyone for daring to speak about values and culture?

00:14:37.100 Well, Canada at the moment is 23% foreign-born.

00:14:42.760 That's nearly one in four Canadians.

00:14:45.120 As of the year 2036, this will increase to 30%.

00:14:49.000 One in three Canadians will come from somewhere else.

00:14:52.420 We are increasingly becoming a country where the population is made up of people who come from other countries.

00:14:59.080 This is absolutely antithetical to the preservation of French-Canadian and Anglo-Canadian culture in Canada.

00:15:08.980 And most Canadians, I think, know this, and they feel it internally,

00:15:13.360 but they are filled with all sorts of psychological barriers which prevent them from vocalizing this opinion in public in a conversation.

00:15:24.060 So, for example, you will often hear someone sort of start to question our policy of immigration,

00:15:30.960 and they will say, look, I am concerned about the housing crisis.

00:15:34.700 I'm concerned about overwhelmed health care system and rents going up and things like that.

00:15:40.200 Or even I'm concerned about the growth of ethnic enclaves where English or French is not spoken.

00:15:45.820 And then they will say something curious.

00:15:47.680 They will say, well, at the end of the day, we're all immigrants, though, so I don't quite feel comfortable questioning this policy.

00:15:58.060 And, of course, this is compounded by the fact that the media, universities, and the political class themselves

00:16:05.640 are all thoroughly ensconced in this set of norms, political correctness norms,

00:16:12.840 which essentially lead Canadians to believe that any criticism of our immigration policy

00:16:21.700 or even any sense of nationalism is equated with a hatred of the other, a suspicion of foreigners,

00:16:28.700 and ultimately is a sort of parochial, regressive, close-minded thing of the past.

00:16:38.240 And where do you think this all began?

00:16:40.120 I mean, you've done your research on this, and I think a lot of people point to Pierre Trudeau's official multiculturalism

00:16:47.900 and also to Brian Mulroney, for example, who was an ardent supporter of not just mass immigration

00:16:53.100 but the Century Initiative itself.

00:16:54.940 Where do you think this all began in our country?

00:16:56.600 It began, ultimately, with Pierre Trudeau.

00:17:00.960 He implemented multiculturalism in 1971.

00:17:04.620 It's coming on 50 years, and the present-day population of Canada largely treats this as a state religion.

00:17:12.280 They view this as our central ethos, and they are proud that we are distinguished from the rest of the Western world

00:17:19.300 by elevating all sorts of different cultures within our polity.

00:17:24.800 However, it is less known that in implementing official multiculturalism in 1971, Pierre Trudeau,

00:17:34.160 he actually rejected the findings of a royal commission, which was in the late 60s, 1967,

00:17:43.040 the Royal Commission on Biculturalism and Bilingualism, which found that the Canadian nation is ultimately derived and founded by Anglo-Canadian and French-Canadian culture.

00:17:58.620 The commission did certainly acknowledge the contributions of later waves of immigrants, including Italians and Eastern Europeans and particularly Ukrainians and so on.

00:18:10.520 However, Pierre Trudeau, much like his son later on, ultimately believed that any expression of nationalism would ultimately lead to some sort of violence or oppression against minorities within the nation.

00:18:29.680 And he even said that the very notion of nation-state is absurd, and he wanted to essentially defuse both French-Canadian and Anglo-Canadian identity at the same time by dismantling the national culture.

00:18:45.760 He, this legacy was certainly carried forth by Justin Trudeau later on, and he is well known for his quote that Canada is a post-national state with no core identity.

00:18:59.840 And these two men have done an incredible degree of damage to Canada, not only overtly in their immigration policies and their support for multiculturalism,

00:19:10.360 but in essentially leading to a situation in which Canadians feel that any expression of their own culture is a form of xenophobia.

00:19:21.180 Do you think that there is any merit to the point that, you know, the longer this goes on, the more the more that Canadians have to have to accept this destruction of their culture,

00:19:35.160 this watching themselves basically become slowly become more and more of a minority in their own major cities?

00:19:43.260 Do you think that there's going to be a backlash eventually if this keeps going at the pace it is right now?

00:19:48.120 Well, I hope that when the backlash comes that it will be purely political.

00:19:55.840 What needs to happen is that Canadians need to contact their member of parliament.

00:20:00.720 They need to contact their national parties, and they need to let it be known that they are not consenting to this unprecedented policy of mass immigration 0.59

00:20:12.260 immigration, and to the policy of official multiculturalism, which is downgrading Anglo-Canadian and French-Canadian culture within our country.

00:20:21.360 And the fact is that every political party, the Greens, the NDP, the Conservatives, the Liberals, they are not representing their constituents.

00:20:33.500 A majority of the membership of every political party is opposed to the current levels of immigration and would like to see them reduced.

00:20:41.500 Now, the divergence between the political class and the people in the country, the only way to bridge that gap and to allow the population to exert its own will once more

00:20:57.740 is for the political class to be scared of a political backlash against their current positions, which are at odds with the people.

00:21:09.340 I hope that the backlash will come in that form.

00:21:13.840 Yeah, I am concerned.

00:21:16.220 You know, I can feel there start to be a change in attitude, in national attitude toward this policy.

00:21:24.480 I understand that a lot of people are frustrated.

00:21:27.020 People who I speak to, they all say the exact same thing, and I'm sure it's similar with you, Riley, the people you speak to about this.

00:21:33.020 People are fed up with this.

00:21:34.160 And my concern is that a backlash will be far worse than what the political class is expecting.

00:21:40.140 And I don't think that's what anyone wants to see, because ultimately we are a great country and we don't want to have this major turn for the worse.

00:21:49.740 Now, what do you think about the possibility that Pierre Polyev will actually come out of his shell if he wins and address this immigration issue head on?

00:21:58.420 Do you take the word from Conservative Party supporters that he will do it once he wins?

00:22:03.780 He just won't speak about it, though?

00:22:06.180 His position on immigration has evolved.

00:22:09.420 Over the past year, starting in the spring, I was consistently calling him out, as well as a number of his MPs, for essentially supporting the Trudeau policy on immigration.

00:22:19.800 I called out Tim Uppel, in particular, for having pledged in a speech in Winnipeg to abolish the English and French testing requirement for new immigrants.

00:22:33.160 I called out Scott Aitchison and a variety of other MPs and Pierre Polyev himself.

00:22:39.200 I posted their videos on Twitter, and it gained a huge circulation, and there was a lot of anger I could see in the comments section of Conservatives saying,

00:22:48.800 look, we thought that the Conservative Party is the policy of common sense on immigration, and that's just what we implicitly assumed.

00:22:57.860 However, we're seeing that there is essentially no difference between the Conservative Party and the Liberal position on immigration.

00:23:04.200 However, recently, I have seen that he has pledged to enact some sort of mathematical formula which will essentially tie population growth in Canada to the housing stock and the healthcare capacity.

00:23:22.520 Now, if he were to follow through with that, that would be a great improvement on our present immigration policy.

00:23:29.020 It would mean probably a massive reduction in newcomers and a cut in both the temporary foreign worker streams, international students, and also permanent residents.

00:23:43.340 I believe that he will follow through with this to an extent.

00:23:48.800 I think that he is likely to reduce permanent resident levels to something like they were under Harper.

00:23:57.260 The problem is that the immigration issue in Canada, it has gotten so bad that we need serious and deep reform.

00:24:09.260 The international student program needs serious reform beyond the present cap that the Trudeau government has put in, as well as the foreign worker stream.

00:24:18.880 And permanent residency levels were already too high for Canada's assimilation capacity under Harper.

00:24:27.040 They were 250,000, roughly, depending on the year.

00:24:32.240 And so currently they're double that, but they were already too high.

00:24:36.620 And you'd mentioned Mulroney earlier.

00:24:38.520 They were actually already too high under Mulroney.

00:24:41.360 He had tripled immigration levels, and the most significant thing that he did was he departed from our previous policy, which was called a tap-on, tap-off policy.

00:24:52.440 At certain years, when our economy needed it, we would have a greater influx of newcomers.

00:24:58.340 In other years, we would shut the spigot off, so to speak.

00:25:02.240 Mulroney, he basically scrapped that policy, and he made the continuous inflow of immigrants into Canada not based on economic circumstances.

00:25:16.380 He made that a norm, and that became the consensus going forward.

00:25:21.500 He was actually the first prime minister to raise immigration levels during an economic downturn, and ever since then, with slight variations, immigration has increased.

00:25:35.900 And you saw during Harper's years that he would occasionally throw some red meat to the base.

00:25:41.580 He would say, oh, well, I'm opposed to the wearing of kneecaps in a citizenship ceremony.

00:25:46.420 Or he would say, comment about old stock Canadians that was sort of designed to ignite some sort of controversy.

00:25:55.560 However, the levels continue to increase.

00:25:58.440 Our housing prices continue to go up.

00:26:01.460 Healthcare was beginning to be overwhelmed, even throughout the early years of the 21st century.

00:26:07.320 And the capacity for assimilation of immigrants was already exceeded at that time.

00:26:13.100 We were seeing large growths in ethnic enclaves, both Chinese and Indian suburbs, outside of the major cities, even in the Harper years.

00:26:23.240 And the problem with what Paliyev is proposing now is twofold.

00:26:30.940 It's that it's not extensive enough.

00:26:33.440 That's the first problem.

00:26:34.660 And the second is that he's not emphasizing it enough.

00:26:37.240 He should be going out in his rallies and the very first few lines should be devoted to, hey, have you guys heard about Trudeau's immigration levels?

00:26:47.060 They're half a million a year.

00:26:48.440 And I heard that there's this group of hoity-toity individuals called the Century Initiative that wants to triple Canada's population to 100 million.

00:26:58.000 He almost never emphasizes it in his rallies and he should.

00:27:01.260 Yeah, absolutely.

00:27:03.520 Well, Riley, this has been a great conversation.

00:27:05.240 I've really enjoyed reading your work over the past year or so.

00:27:09.320 Where can Canadians find your work on social media and on your website?

00:27:14.080 Sure.

00:27:14.480 Well, I'm the founder, as you said, of Dominion Review.

00:27:16.960 You can find all of my work on dominionreview.ca.

00:27:20.120 On the right-hand sidebar, you can see the Twitter for the publication and my own personal Twitter, as well as my Patreon.

00:27:27.580 So everything is on dominionreview.ca.

00:27:30.420 Amazing.

00:27:30.940 And a link to Dominion Review you can find in the description of this video.

00:27:34.520 So, Riley, thank you so much for coming on.

00:27:36.720 Thank you for having me.

00:27:37.540 Thank you.

00:27:37.600 Thank you.

Juno News - April 09, 2024

Canada's Mass Immigration CRISIS

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