Juno News - December 11, 2025


Carney eyes MASS IMMIGRATION ARCHITECT for U.S. Ambassador role

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indigenous land claims concerns land claims mess Eby BC NDP leadership race
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John Rustad Mark Wiseman David Eby Trevor Halford Aaron Gunn Trump Osman Caroline Elliott Pierre Paglia Cosmin Gerja Kevin Falcon John Horgan Cowichan Carney Juno
Canada’s lead negotiator QUITS as trade talks stall Majority in BC ＂concerned＂ about private property rights

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Prime Minister Carney s top choice for Canada s ambassador to the US is already coming under fire for his past statements. Mark Wiseman has not only been a keen advocate for a rapid increase in Canada s population, but has also been a harsh critic of Canada s regulated dairy industry. Conservative Party leader Pierre Paglia points to Wiseman as the architect of Canada's immigration mess.

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00:00:00.000 Well, he hasn't even been appointed yet, but Prime Minister Carney's top choice for the job
00:00:09.540 of Canada's ambassador to the United States is already coming under fire for his past statements.
00:00:15.500 Mark Wiseman has not only been a keen advocate for a 150% increase in Canada's population,
00:00:23.140 he's also been a harsh critic of Canada's regulated dairy industry. Conservative Party
00:00:28.920 leader Pierre Paglia points to Wiseman as the architect of Canada's immigration mess.
00:00:34.160 Who came up with the idea of radical open doors, liberal immigration that overwhelmed 0.99
00:00:39.580 our healthcare, housing and job market? Well, it turns out it was Mark Wiseman, the Prime
00:00:45.540 Minister's corporate crony, long time liberal elite and head of the Century Initiative whose
00:00:51.460 stated mission is to triple the population of Canada to 100 million people, a policy that
00:00:57.860 is designed to profit multinational corporations by driving wages down and housing costs up.
00:01:03.100 Why is it every time somebody comes along with an idea that harms Canadians and drives up their
00:01:08.160 cost of living, the Prime Minister gives them a promotion?
00:01:11.100 Now, back in 2022, Wiseman argued in favour of getting rid of any regulations limiting temporary
00:01:18.360 foreign workers. Let's listen. 0.98
00:01:20.100 Let the private sector move to bring people in and facilitate them being able to do that. And, you know, a lot of the screening and other stuff that we do, frankly, is just bureaucracy. It's a waste of time. Let's let people in, by and large. And if we have to do the screening ex post, that's fine. I can tell you, bad guys and bad women probably find their way into this country through means other than applying through permanent residency. A Canadian firm wants to
00:01:50.080 help to hire somebody from outside the country. They've identified them, they've interviewed them, they want to pay them, and that individual is going to be taxed as in Canada. Approved. What's that? What's that mortgage ad? Approved. Right? Like, we've got to, we should get those guys to be running our immigration system. 0.93
00:02:05.080 On the trade front, President Trump has mused about ending the trilateral free trade deal between the United States, Canada and Mexico. But Canada's minister in charge of trade says he has no reason to believe the Trump administration will drop the agreement.
00:02:19.080 This headline on National News Watch, LeBlanc believes the U.S. will keep Kuzma trade deal with Canada and Mexico. 85% of Canada's exports to the U.S. are currently exempt of taxes because of this agreement.
00:02:34.080 Well, could British Columbians soon be headed to the polls?
00:02:39.080 This Juneau News exclusive, BC snap election worries surge after NDP office rental hunt exposed.
00:02:47.080 An NDP organizer has approached a Vancouver landlord about a two month commercial office lease rental beginning at the end of January, raising concerns that Premier David Eby may be planning a snap election.
00:03:00.080 The move would leave the B.C. Conservative Party scrambling to find a permanent leader.
00:03:06.080 The party is in disarray since John Rustad was forced to resign in a caucus revolt last week.
00:03:13.080 An exclusive poll for Juneau News by One Persuasion finds the majority of British Columbians are worried that indigenous land claims could affect their own property.
00:03:25.080 57% of British Columbians say they are concerned that recent indigenous land claims could affect their own private property.
00:03:34.080 This follows the Cowichan court ruling in favor of an indigenous land claim in Richmond.
00:03:40.080 Now, 31% say they are very concerned.
00:03:43.080 26% moderately concerned.
00:03:47.080 And it's not just conservatives.
00:03:49.080 45% of New Democrat voters say they are concerned.
00:03:53.080 That number goes all the way up to 77% for conservative voters.
00:03:59.080 I'm now joined by Editor-in-Chief of True North Wire, Cosmin Gerja.
00:04:04.080 Welcome to the show, Cosmin.
00:04:06.080 Thanks for having me, Mark.
00:04:08.080 Well, let's start off with polling, exclusive polling, that shows that the majority of British Columbians are worried after the court ruling that awarded land claims decision to the Cowichan Group since then.
00:04:24.080 And you can well expect that.
00:04:25.080 A lot of people in Richmond are going, what happened?
00:04:27.080 I thought I owned my property and now I find that it's, you know, indigenous property. 0.98
00:04:32.080 And this has spread right across the province, hasn't it, in terms of concerns about their own private property?
00:04:39.080 That's right.
00:04:41.080 Juno News polled, commissioned a poll that asked British Columbians how concerned they were about current or future indigenous land claims and their effects on private property.
00:04:55.080 And the poll turned out that 57%, which is a good majority of British Columbians, are worried about this.
00:05:04.080 Now 45%, this includes 45% of BC NDP voters.
00:05:10.080 So this is an issue that is crossing partisan lines.
00:05:16.080 People have been awakened to this in the past few months.
00:05:20.080 I think for a while it was flying under the radar until we saw the ramifications of the Cowichan decision, which is essentially a decision by the BC Supreme Court, which gave the Cowichan First Nations a recognized Aboriginal land claim.
00:05:39.080 Which is kind of this disputed sort of quasi legal claim on land and it's interferes with traditional land claims, which, you know, Western societies are accustomed to.
00:05:56.080 And it has blown this up entirely blown up the prospect of actually owning property in British Columbia.
00:06:05.080 And a lot of people are worried that where they live, the house they own, the property that they have is at risk.
00:06:14.080 Yeah, I would be worried too if I owned land in British Columbia.
00:06:19.080 I mean, you've got 31% saying they are very concerned, the 26% moderately concerned.
00:06:26.080 And to your point, it's not just Conservatives because a good number of New Democrat voters are also worried.
00:06:32.080 Could this end up being an election issue?
00:06:35.080 Because there is talk of a possible snap election called.
00:06:39.080 Juneau News has an exclusive that suggests that an NDP staffer was looking for property to rent.
00:06:46.080 And that usually is a sign that the party is ready to go to the polls.
00:06:51.080 I mean, it wasn't long ago since the last election though, was it in British Columbia?
00:06:55.080 No, it wasn't.
00:06:56.080 The last election was in 2024.
00:07:02.080 But this has really caused problems for Premier David Eby.
00:07:07.080 And particularly because he's been a advocate of adopting UNDRIP, for example, the United Nation Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People into law in British Columbia.
00:07:20.080 His government has pushed for these sorts of land back movements.
00:07:26.080 We also have to remember that David Eby himself comes from a background as an activist lawyer.
00:07:33.080 He wrote, you know, books on how to how to encourage criminals to sue police officers.
00:07:41.080 He has been solidly a part of this left wing activist movement, and it all overlaps with, you know, land back, etc.
00:07:51.080 But when we look at how his government has actually handled this file, it's been shrouded in secrecy, keeping people in the dark.
00:08:01.080 Richmond landowners had no idea that their property was up for was being questioned, whether their land claims and titles were actually being questioned in this land ruling.
00:08:13.080 And it wasn't until the city informed them and brought them all into this recent town hall that they woke up to the fact that perhaps they might not own their home or land anymore.
00:08:26.080 That is absolutely wild. To what degree will Eby bear the brunt of the blame for this mess as far as land claims go?
00:08:37.080 I mean, I understand he's also been critical of the of the court decision, which, by the way, is still subject to appeal, if I'm not mistaken.
00:08:45.080 But I mean, will British Columbians of all parties, maybe at least some of them look at Eby as the guy who kind of created the mess to begin with?
00:08:56.080 Yeah, absolutely. And I think just looking at it from the insular perspective that, OK, the government is going to appeal this and then fight this particular issue ignores the fact that there is a whole groundwork of legal arguments made by First Nations that apply not only to the Cowichan ruling, but to other rulings as well.
00:09:24.960 Well, there are other First Nations within B.C. that have disputed land claims.
00:09:29.960 They claim, you know, unseated territory. And when you look at left wing politicians and how much they've adopted making land acknowledgements, how much they've advocated for, you know, UNDRIP and all of these globalist international so-called laws that have been introduced and trying to make them legislation within their jurisdiction.
00:09:56.240 It totally affects so many different things. And they're not actually addressing those root causes and their advocacy of the this ideology that has promoted.
00:10:10.240 And this this particular ruling is just a single a single instance of that.
00:10:16.100 I mean, this could be an explosive, an explosive issue for the NDP.
00:10:19.400 I mean, I mean, I understand that they want to capitalize on the disarray and the conservatives right now because they just ousted their leader and they're having chosen a permanent leader.
00:10:30.080 But this issue is percolating. And I suspect a lot of British Columbians, we know that based on the exclusive poll that was done for Juneau News.
00:10:40.700 They are looking at this and worried about it.
00:10:43.860 And so you go to the polls now and the conservatives could certainly make hay on this and say, look, this is the guy who caused the problem.
00:10:52.740 You know, it's his support of UNDRIP and these other globalist policies that have encouraged these land claims.
00:10:59.140 And now we have this, you know, the court decisions that could end up undermining your private property, your rights to your own property, which you thought you owned maybe for decades.
00:11:08.800 So this is it's going to be really interesting going forward.
00:11:12.480 But in the meantime, I guess we're still looking at a level of disarray in the conservative camp.
00:11:17.420 Correct. I know you've been following this.
00:11:19.300 Yeah.
00:11:19.520 Mostly John Rustad was ousted due to a caucus revolt.
00:11:25.260 This was I believe it was last week.
00:11:27.600 And so where's the party at? I mean, are they in any position to fight an election right now?
00:11:32.100 Well, when you look at the polls, even under John Rustad, the conservatives were performing competitively.
00:11:41.860 Right. So the B.C. NDP are currently sitting at around 45 percent.
00:11:48.220 And that's based on like aggregate polling, the combined polls that have been out recently.
00:11:53.880 And the conservatives are at around 42 percent.
00:11:58.040 And this was under John Rustad.
00:12:00.880 And I will just say that the conservatives, including John Rustad himself, the former leader, supported adopting UNDRIP in the B.C. legislature.
00:12:11.500 Now that position immediately changed when Trevor Halford took over as interim leader.
00:12:19.260 One of the first things he announced just a few days ago was an attempt to call back the legislature to repeal UNDRIP from law.
00:12:32.480 So that was adopted as a bill by the British Columbia government.
00:12:36.320 So there's obviously a shift.
00:12:39.000 The B.C. conservatives are attempting to transition away from certain things that tied them, because we also have to remember John Rustad was the Minister of Indigenous Relations.
00:12:53.480 He oversaw certain files that included aboriginal land claims back in the day around 2017, I believe, or prior to that.
00:13:03.600 But yes, absolutely.
00:13:05.800 You also mentioned earlier that the B.C. NDP is attempting to capitalize on that.
00:13:10.380 And I wanted to talk about the story we put out last night.
00:13:14.800 And essentially, we got a tip that there were B.C. NDP activists and volunteers out looking for rental space.
00:13:25.040 I've heard of multiple spaces in Richmond, British Columbia, but we were able to verify one space in downtown Vancouver where a B.C. NDP volunteer, and not just a volunteer, it was actually a field organizer.
00:13:41.360 So the type of person a party will put out there when they're preparing to assemble all their resources to get into campaign mode, was out looking for a two-month rental beginning at the end of January.
00:13:57.800 Now, that would be pretty unprecedented for David Eby to call an election while the opposition are on their back foot without a permanent leader or an elected leader.
00:14:10.540 I don't believe the B.C. Conservatives have yet announced the rules for the leadership race, but it wouldn't be entirely unprecedented because we saw John Horgan, the former NDP premier, actually call an election at the height of the pandemic just a week after he told the media he would never do such a thing.
00:14:36.520 So I really wouldn't put it past them.
00:14:38.520 Yeah, and they ended up winning.
00:14:41.960 And they won, yeah.
00:14:43.480 Oh, yeah.
00:14:44.500 It'll be interesting to see what happens because there could be a level of backlash against the NDP if they do call a snap an election because people might say,
00:14:54.800 well, we just had an election in 2024.
00:14:57.260 Why would we want to go to the polls again just because you happen to be able to maybe catch the Conservatives flat-footed?
00:15:04.040 How do you see the party now, once they get a new leader, moving forward and shaking off what took place with Rustad and that long period of uncertainty with the party?
00:15:17.360 I mean, will they be able to find themselves, find their foot again, and galvanize enough support in preparation for a possible election?
00:15:28.420 Yeah, I think it's an exciting opportunity for the party because essentially it very much is a soul-searching mission.
00:15:39.360 You have to understand that the BC Conservatives were assembled from a upstart sort of conservative grassroots movement within British Columbia
00:15:51.880 that then adopted and swallowed some of the former BC United candidates in the last election when former BCU, BC United,
00:16:04.200 and before that they were the BC Liberals' leader, Kevin Falcon, struck a deal to step out of the race with John Rustad and removed some candidates.
00:16:15.860 But a lot of those candidates were folded over into the BC Conservative umbrella.
00:16:19.960 So you essentially have two factions in this party, one that you could call the common sense, you know, modern-day conservative
00:16:29.580 with some, like, streaks of populist conservative, social conservative even, elements within it.
00:16:37.940 And then you also have the BC Liberal faction.
00:16:41.940 And from what I've heard, some of the candidates that will represent the BC Liberals are actually even leaning on federal liberal resources and support
00:16:53.420 to attempt to, you know, win this leadership.
00:16:57.600 So I think ultimately a leadership race will come down to two candidates, two solid candidates from both of those camps.
00:17:05.340 And there's quite a few names being put forward.
00:17:09.680 Now, nobody has officially announced, but we've seen Juno put out an article about Aaron Gunn strongly considering this.
00:17:17.560 I saw a tweet by him yesterday where he admitted that it was on his mind and he was really weighing his options
00:17:24.080 and he would make an announcement by the end of the year or near the Christmas break.
00:17:31.240 And we've also seen attempts to draft Caroline Elliott, who is an outspoken advocate against this UNDRIP nonsense
00:17:38.800 and the Aboriginal land claims.
00:17:41.240 And then we've also seen rumors of other candidates also entering into the fray.
00:17:48.400 So this will be a battle for the soul of the party, really, and the direction of this party going forward.
00:17:54.080 I mean, if Aaron were to win, for instance, then that would sort of lay the groundwork for, you know, a solidly conservative, you know, platform for the party.
00:18:05.620 And if a Liberal wins, well, a very different story.
00:18:10.920 But it is interesting that they've held firm in terms of their numbers, despite the uncertainty around this.
00:18:16.580 So I understand there hasn't been any polls since Rustad resigned.
00:18:21.180 Is that correct?
00:18:22.620 Yeah, no polls yet, particularly on Trevor Halford or his leadership, him as interim leader.
00:18:30.580 But usually with BC polls come out once a month, they're not really that frequent.
00:18:38.140 And I would expect one to come out soon.
00:18:41.560 And I'm sure people are out in the field trying to get a gauge on where the party sits, what the leadership change has done for the party.
00:18:51.020 We know, at least with regards to fundraising, the party is claiming that they've done a really good job, broken records fundraising, immediately after Rustad had stepped down.
00:19:03.520 And that was one of the reasons that Rustad was forced out, that fundraising dried up.
00:19:08.740 Donors were saying, I'm not going to donate to this party as long as he is a leader.
00:19:14.480 And when you look at fundraising, that is a good indication of how much support your leader can actually curry and bring to the table when an election is called.
00:19:26.900 So it does seem their prospects have changed on that field, but we have yet to see any polling, as you said.
00:19:35.520 Fantastic.
00:19:36.920 Osman, thank you so much for coming on the show.
00:19:38.880 We really appreciate your insight on these issues.
00:19:41.620 Thank you, Mark.
00:19:42.540 Osman, Georgia is Editor-in-Chief of True North Wire.
00:19:46.740 And that is it for this edition of Straight Up.
00:19:48.940 Appreciate you tuning in.
00:19:50.320 Let's do it again soon, shall we?
00:19:51.560 Bye-bye for now.