Juno News - April 23, 2026


Canada Summer Jobs program DISCRIMINATES against white Canadians


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00:00:00.000 the youth unemployment rate in canada for march was at 13.8 percent just slightly lower than it
00:00:14.560 was in february when it was over 14 percent but in toronto canada's largest city youth unemployment
00:00:21.040 in 2025 was at over 20 percent according to td bank roughly one in five young canadians who live
00:00:29.120 in toronto we're out of work now all of this paints a bleak picture one you are no doubt aware
00:00:34.720 of and you probably don't need a reminder of it as well which is why the federal government has
00:00:39.200 launched the canada summer jobs program just in time to help resolve this situation such a great
00:00:45.360 initiative from the federal government to ensure that all young canadians can find a way to enter
00:00:51.440 the job market right well not if you happen to be a young white canadian who lives in or around a
00:00:58.160 city that's because employers with the canada summer jobs program are literally de-prioritizing
00:01:06.320 the applications from white canadians who are not gay and who are not disabled sounds like a joke
00:01:14.240 but i'm going to show you the receipts they are openly advertising that they will prioritize
00:01:19.680 applications for quote youth who face barriers to employment we are almost at the stage in canada
00:01:25.680 where we are going to have notifications on job applications that say white man need not apply.
00:01:31.820 Can I say that now in Canada? Or is that considered hate speech? Nothing quite like breaking down
00:01:37.320 barriers to the job market for youth, quite like putting up barriers for just one set of job
00:01:42.800 applicants. We're dealing with youth unemployment here. And the federal government is playing
00:01:47.340 identity politics with this. And by the way, just to rub salt in the wound, all of these jobs are
00:01:52.840 being subsidized by your tax dollars. This discrimination is paid for by you. All of it is
00:01:58.820 honestly disgraceful and the federal government deserves to be ridiculed about this from the
00:02:03.720 opposition. If we can't agree that youth jobs should be free of identity politics, then honestly
00:02:10.040 we're completely lost. Meanwhile, over in Winnipeg, a bunch of foreign temporary workers are once
00:02:16.620 again protesting the federal government and demanding to be given permanent residency.
00:02:23.080 There's nothing more important for the future of a country than protecting its young people.
00:02:27.900 And for the last six years, the federal government has been failing them.
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00:03:01.320 the episode is this have you noticed a significant number of unemployed youth in your neighborhood
00:03:08.200 and in your city let me know your answer in the comments below and let's get into it i don't know
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00:05:12.620 of your personal information. I told you I wasn't joking about this blatant discrimination taking
00:05:18.260 place with the Canada Summer Jobs Program. Just so you know that I'm not making it up,
00:05:23.580 I'm going to walk you through this step by step because it's so ridiculous that if I don't do
00:05:29.260 this people might accuse me of making it up all right so this is the landing page for the canada
00:05:34.700 summer jobs program job bank let's just do this let's just search up toronto
00:05:42.180 okay camp coordinator this is the first one so let's see what happens if we click on this
00:05:52.800 first job application. Camp coordinator for one voice, one team.
00:06:03.120 And here we go. Youth facing barriers to employment. All youth are welcome to apply.
00:06:09.580 The employer will prioritize the recruitment of the following youth who face barriers to
00:06:14.400 employment. Racialized youth and black youth. Interesting. Let's go back and see what else we
00:06:22.420 can find. Muslim Association of Canada. Here. Collection supervisor for the Textile Museum of
00:06:34.040 Canada. Once again, as we scroll down, you will see all youth are welcome to apply. The employer
00:06:42.640 will prioritize the recruitment of the following youth who face barriers to employment.
00:06:47.040 Indigenous youth, racialized youth, black youth, youth with disabilities,
00:06:51.040 youth in rural remote northern or fly-in communities, youth in an official language
00:06:55.680 minority community, and 2SLGBTQI plus youth. It goes on like this, job after job after job on the
00:07:05.520 job board the federal government subsidized program tells applicants that if they are a
00:07:12.880 white canadian who lives in or around a city that isn't gay that is not disabled well their
00:07:20.960 application will be deprioritized here is liberal mp leslie church promoting this program just a
00:07:28.320 couple of days ago on social media look at how happy she is because she really feels like she
00:07:33.520 is solving the youth jobs crisis it may not be summer everywhere in canada but canada summer
00:07:39.360 jobs are now open we've just added a hundred thousand new jobs to the federal job bank
00:07:45.600 so if you're between the ages of 15 and 30 now is your chance to go online and find a great job in
00:07:51.440 your community for this summer all you need to do is apply at jobbank.gc.ca slash youth and find the
00:08:01.280 the one that's right for you and as you can see with this social media post from leslie church
00:08:06.680 canadians aren't letting her get away with it they're starting to notice under the comments
00:08:11.700 unless of course you are a white canadian will you be hiring any canadians overt racism is alive 0.97
00:08:18.280 and well in canada's government white people need not apply disgusting now if you read the press 0.95
00:08:25.080 release released by the government about the canada summer jobs program this year you will
00:08:30.720 notice of course that they're not really hiding the fact that they want to prioritize applications
00:08:37.280 for equity seeking youth here in the quick facts section can't miss it the csj program helps improve
00:08:45.000 access to the labor market for youth especially those who face barriers to employment this
00:08:50.240 includes youth with disabilities black youth racialized youth indigenous youth 2s lgbtqi plus
00:08:56.840 youth, youth in rural and remote areas, and youth in official language minority communities.
00:09:02.360 Look, this isn't about saying that we shouldn't have programs that help underserved youth in
00:09:08.360 our country. Not at all. This is about the fact that what we are dealing with is a youth
00:09:13.880 jobs crisis. In the GTA last year, almost 20% of youth were out of a job. In Ontario,
00:09:22.360 the youth unemployment rate is over 17 across the country it's at almost 14 young canadians
00:09:30.680 are unable to break into the job market and yet the federal government is playing games with them
00:09:35.960 the federal government is saying that we will subsidize the job market we will make it easier
00:09:41.320 for you young canadian to get a job but if you happen to not be a member of an equity seeking
00:09:47.720 group, you're going to be deranked. And by the way, the federal government has been doing this
00:09:53.580 now for many years. They just can't help themselves. They can't help themselves but to
00:10:00.380 encourage discrimination. Discrimination, of course, against the only group in Canada that
00:10:05.940 you are allowed to discriminate against. In 2024, the federal government, in an effort to get more
00:10:11.160 people to join the trades were dishing out subsidies for wages. Here's the catch. An
00:10:18.160 employer who signed up for this program would get $5,000 for each eligible new first year
00:10:25.100 apprentice hired, but they would get double the money if the apprentice hired is from an equity
00:10:31.580 deserving group. The eligible equity deserving groups include women, persons with disabilities,
00:10:38.200 indigenous people members of the 2s lgbtqi plus communities racialized communities and newcomers
00:10:46.680 so you get five thousand dollars from the federal government if you hire a white apprentice but if
00:10:52.520 you hire anyone else you get 10 000 bucks double the money i wonder how that played out by the way
00:10:59.000 oh and by the way if you apply to a federal government position you will be encouraged to
00:11:05.720 sign a self-declaration form that outlines your skin color your sexual orientation any disabilities
00:11:13.880 you might have because as the government tells you when you apply for these jobs it is a voluntary
00:11:19.880 form but it is to your advantage if you do sign it they also state that for some jobs only equity
00:11:28.680 seeking individuals will be considered so in that case it quite literally is white man need not
00:11:34.600 apply for this job look we all know that this is just racism it is just discrimination but for
00:11:41.880 whatever reason we're not allowed to call it what it is we're not allowed to make an issue out of it
00:11:46.440 we're not allowed to say anything that might ruffle some feathers it would be a lot better
00:11:52.040 actually if the federal government just admitted what it was doing didn't pretend to be the
00:11:56.520 champions of breaking down institutional racism and if it has told us that they were going to
00:12:02.120 discriminate against white people, young white men, for example, it'll be a lot easier to digest.
00:12:08.440 It's the fact that they won't say it. The fact that they are pretending to be these great
00:12:14.880 champions of equity while being blatantly discriminatory is what really gets to me.
00:12:20.140 And here's the other thing. Can you really blame a young Canadian, a young Canadian male
00:12:27.520 whose job prospects are shot who has seen his entry-level job positions that are in his 1.00
00:12:34.240 community taken up by new immigrants by newcomers whose prospects of ever owning a home are out of 1.00
00:12:42.000 reach who wants to find a job who sees the Canada Summer Jobs Program goes online looks for a job 1.00
00:12:50.540 but notices that actually his job application will be deprioritized because he is not gay 0.99
00:12:57.800 because he's not disabled because he doesn't live in a fly-in community how can you blame that young 0.74
00:13:04.320 canadian for believing that the government actually just hates him and wants him to fail
00:13:08.920 has anyone in the federal government actually thought about the long-term consequences of
00:13:14.200 radicalizing a bunch of young men who have basically nothing to lose and feel like the
00:13:20.540 government is working against them? The government will give you just enough money to sustain
00:13:24.980 yourself and not starve to death. They'll also give you access to hard drugs if you want. They'll
00:13:31.240 make your life easier to do nothing while actively discriminating against you when
00:13:37.300 you're young. And just for good measure, we once again have a group of temporary migrants 1.00
00:13:43.240 protesting in our streets, demanding to be given permanent residency in Canada.
00:13:49.080 Take a look at this protest in Winnipeg last weekend.
00:13:52.120 The group, made up of mostly former international students now in the workforce,
00:13:56.540 wants an extension of at least two or three years for those whose permits expire in 2026.
00:14:02.260 We all are literally suffering. We want some sort of status here.
00:14:07.860 We are contributing, we are paying taxes, so we deserve a little fairness, I would say.
00:14:13.240 Parnit Khar graduated from U of M before getting a job as a restaurant manager.
00:14:17.660 She says living with the uncertainty of being sent home is weighing on her.
00:14:21.160 Time is passing. We have really, really limited time.
00:14:25.460 My work permit got expired last year and I'm on applied status right now.
00:14:32.100 And I don't know how much time is left for me.
00:14:36.540 I want to highlight this ridiculous article from the CBC.
00:14:40.560 In this article, they have two profiles of protesters.
00:14:44.840 There is a Chinese woman, Yan Li, who came to Canada two years ago from Wuhan, China.
00:14:52.080 Now, she really doesn't want to go back to Wuhan, China.
00:14:56.160 What could be so bad about Wuhan?
00:14:57.940 I don't get it.
00:14:58.900 What could be so bad about Wuhan, China?
00:15:01.520 We're in a new age of cooperation with the Chinese government.
00:15:04.740 hasn't she read that in the news that there's a new world order and Canada and China are going to
00:15:10.260 be a part of that together? What's so bad about China? Then you have this interesting case here, 0.75
00:15:18.540 Sukvir Singh. Now he's been in Canada, according to the CBC article, on a temporary work permit
00:15:24.840 for eight years. He just had a baby seven months ago, which is really convenient if you ask me.
00:15:31.740 the article says quote he isn't sure what he and his wife and their seven month old daughter will
00:15:37.760 do if his work permit expires before an extension is granted he isn't sure what to do well there is
00:15:45.160 one option of course and that is to leave canada when your temporary visa expires to go back to
00:15:51.060 india again like with china what could be so bad about moving back home to india it's a democracy
00:15:59.380 after all. But in the very likely scenario that all of these people on expiring permits decide 0.63
00:16:07.340 to stay in Canada to not leave, thereby breaking the law, obviously they're going to have to be
00:16:14.120 deported. Not to worry, take a look at this clip from the newly minted Deputy Minister of Immigration
00:16:20.240 in Canada at a committee meeting yesterday. He was outlining the federal government's deportation
00:16:25.980 plan the problem with the plan of course is that it relies on these illegals to deport themselves
00:16:34.140 take a listen you mentioned encouraging people to do the right thing and if you could further
00:16:40.700 elaborate on that i think that would be great because to do the right thing ultimately is the
00:16:46.860 right thing but to get people to do that can sometimes be a lot more easier said than done
00:16:53.100 So what are some steps that you would take to encourage people to do the right thing?
00:16:57.480 Well, the first is you can't rely on people doing the right thing totally.
00:17:00.980 And so there has to be a consequence past that, actually.
00:17:03.520 And so we have to make sure that there's a full continuum from telling people the rules to reminding them nicely to reminding them forcefully.
00:17:10.640 And then we have to ensure there's a follow-through.
00:17:12.500 And I know the CBSA has made efforts to increase enforced removals.
00:17:17.520 And so, you know, part of it is the threat of no return visa.
00:17:22.320 And so to be really candid and direct, we have to make sure that that's a real threat.
00:17:28.160 We have to make sure that IRCC is applying that rigorously and then use that to kind of nudge people to do the right thing.
00:17:35.220 And so I think back to the question about culture change, we can't fully rely on people to do the right thing.
00:17:40.580 I think we want to create opportunities for them to do the right thing.
00:17:43.240 I think we want to create an environment that incentivizes them to do the right thing.
00:17:47.060 um and then i think we also have to be clear that if they don't in the first instance then there is
00:17:52.040 a second and a third instance where more aggressive action is taken i'm sure that will work they've
00:17:56.700 only been protesting for two years now when demanding permanent residency when it's time
00:18:02.460 to go they'll all just pack up their bags and walk away so let's just summarize this situation right
00:18:09.120 now canada imported millions of temporary immigrants into the country either as international students
00:18:16.500 temporary foreign workers as part of the international mobility program or as part
00:18:22.180 of family reunification over the past few years millions meanwhile young canadians can no longer
00:18:29.680 find work unemployment rates for youth in this canada are far too high at the same time the
00:18:37.960 federal government sponsored program the canada summer jobs program is literally telling young
00:18:43.540 white canadians that their application will be deprioritized if they're not gay or if they're not
00:18:49.140 disabled for another equity seeking applicant and to cap it all off the government is expecting
00:18:56.100 illegals to deport themselves to voluntarily leave canada they do know that there are approximately
00:19:01.940 500 000 illegal immigrants in canada right now it's unbelievable and this is the kind of issue
00:19:07.220 that the opposition needs to hammer the federal government on the the line of attack is simple
00:19:14.980 the federal government is discriminating against young canadians to score equity points to play
00:19:22.100 identity politics with youth jobs telling already hopeless young canadians that because they don't
00:19:29.380 tick certain boxes on a form that they will be deprioritized for others the federal government
00:19:37.140 is trying to score political points off the backs of unemployed youth. It's as simple as that.
00:19:41.580 That's the line of attack. If we can't hammer the federal government on this, honestly, what are we
00:19:48.520 doing? It can't be allowed to continue. It's blatant discrimination. Call it out and address it.
00:19:56.220 No young Canadian should have their job application delisted or de-ranked because of the color of
00:20:03.660 their skin, or their gender, or their sexual orientation. It goes both ways. It goes across
00:20:09.780 the board. But yet, no. In this country, you are allowed to discriminate against people.
00:20:15.800 Just one group of people. Unbelievable. All right, everyone, we're going to leave it there.
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00:20:32.200 video have you noticed a significant rise in unemployed youth in your neighborhood or city
00:20:38.360 let me know your answer in the comments below my name is harrison faulkner and this is ratio