00:00:00.000Here is a story. Quebec border crossing sees a 277% surge in asylum claims. Data from CBSA shows
00:00:08.800over 10,000 asylum claims at one port of entry as of July 27th, more than double in the same
00:00:15.900period in 2024. So I thought this problem was solved. Turns out it hasn't. It's worse than
00:00:21.360ever. What do you think? Yeah, it just wasn't, you know, it wasn't covered the way it should
00:00:26.700of by the, the legacy press where it's, you know, the independents have been a massive
00:00:31.380Juno news has always done great reporting on this and formerly true North and a friend
00:00:36.200of mine, Cosman, who, who does great work with you is, is always on that beat, but even
00:00:41.380more troubling in, in that number, in that asylum claim number.
00:00:46.120And I've got another stat for you just off the top of my head, just from covering this
00:00:49.180stuff, which is like one in 88 of all people in Canada now are, are considered like asylum
00:00:55.940seekers are like through asylum of the last few years is that inland asylum claims have jumped.
00:01:02.860So you have these 3 million temporary residents now, and we wonder why rent has gone up and
00:01:10.180healthcare is overstretched, but their visa is expiring and they're turning around and going
00:01:16.540like, oh wait, actually, the family farm back home, I'm being persecuted back there. Even though
00:01:23.340like my parents sent me over here with money to go to what is largely considered a fake school to
00:01:27.980like cut like a cut the corner to a pr and look there's some really great people who've come
00:01:32.620there's no way around that but there's also been a scam network and and a scam network predominantly
00:01:37.040run through these really dodgy institutions that have popped up across the country but now we have
00:01:42.680hundreds of thousands of of what look like fraudulent asylum claims coming from inside the
00:01:49.320country from people on expiring visas and like we have to start saying no to that stuff and the fact
00:01:55.080that that number even coming across the Quebec border is that bad you know put all those together
00:01:59.780and we have a recipe for disaster if we're not going to take our border seriously and a country
00:02:05.020if it is to be a country has to take its border seriously well it's wild that people come to
00:02:10.940Canada on a temporary visa and then rather than leaving they just pretend to be an asylum claimant
00:02:15.960And there's so many ridiculous rules, like I was reading about this the other day, that while people have pending asylum claims saying that they're persecuted in their country of origin, sometimes they go back.
00:02:24.460They're allowed to go back and visit family and go and vacation.