Juno News - November 13, 2026


Carney wants to bring MORE immigrants to Canada’s small towns

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00:00:00 Well, now that Canada's main urban centers are buckling under the weight of out-of-control
00:00:10 immigration, the Kearney government has turned its attention to smaller communities, towns.
00:00:15 At a news conference in Nova Scotia, Minister Laina Diab announced plans to shift the immigration
00:00:22 focus to those smaller towns.
00:00:24 I think everybody knows, and you're going to hear it again over and over again on Thursday,
00:00:30 budget 2026 was launched it was released and canada unveiled within that budget for the second
00:00:39 time this year our immigration levels plan at the same time and that is a blueprint for stable
00:00:47 sustainable immigration that will reduce pressures attract talent and propel our prosperity so what
00:00:55 What we are doing under this new plan is taking a targeted approach to immigration, one that
00:01:02 is focused on where newcomers can best support Canada's economy, including in small rural
00:01:11 communities facing labour shortages.
00:01:15 Well critics say it'll drive down wages and drive up housing costs in those smaller communities
00:01:20 as it has in the cities.
00:01:22 same critics accused the government of not being honest about their immigration agenda.
00:01:28 Juneau News reports up to 282,000 excluded from permanent resident targets,
00:01:36 immigration official confirms. That's a lot of people. So what's going on here? Our guest today
00:01:43 is Michelle Leahy Ferreri. She's a former Conservative Member of Parliament joining us
00:01:48 from Lakefield, Ontario. Welcome, Michelle. Thank you. I love that you got the Lakefield
00:01:53 in there, Mark. Everybody just says Peterborough, but when you know Lakefield, it's like a little
00:01:57 Star's Hollow. It's one of those beautiful rural communities that the immigration minister was
00:02:02 referring to. I couldn't help by watching that clip, Mark, that Sean Frazier and Lena Diab are
00:02:09 literally a perfect graph of how much immigration has increased under Liberals. It's a perfect
00:02:16 physical representation of skyrocketing immigration, Sean being liberal immigration
00:02:20 and Lena being where it started under, you know, where it was under the Harbour area.
00:02:24 Yeah, there's quite the gap in size between those two. I don't envy the camera people
00:02:29 trying to get both of those heads in there. She's way down there and he's way up there, 0.62
00:02:33 but I'm more concerned about the honesty of this government in terms of what they want to do.
00:02:39 You mentioned it yourself that this was sneaky. Why do you say that?
00:02:43 a lot of the thing they do is is sneaky nothing they've done is honest like nothing they've done
00:02:50 is honest like they are blatantly lying i did a video on this yesterday with you know the finance
00:02:54 minister says the the deficit is is lower no no it's not like that it's a blatant lie and like
00:03:01 you just have to do research for two seconds but the problem mark like they lie and then they lie
00:03:09 and then they lie and what happens the people go well it's okay and there's some kind of
00:03:17 psychological phenomenon like i did this this video the other day about this so i don't know
00:03:22 if you've watched the the number one documentary in movie theaters right now it's called you can
00:03:26 see everything and so elizabeth yeah so elizabeth holmes is the is the founder of that device i can
00:03:34 never remember the name of it what the hell is it called theranos theranos i can never remember the
00:03:39 name of that i just want to say thanos because it's the same principle but so you know and she
00:03:44 literally deceived people when you go watch this documentary the the director himself even says
00:03:50 michelle after the first day of filming both him and the other director looked at each other and
00:03:55 they had completely different experiences of what happened and that's what i find is happening in
00:04:02 canadian policy like when you understand what's going on you look at it you're like you're going
00:04:06 to bring 674 000 more immigrants in one year into canada when we don't have health care housing or
00:04:12 jobs and youth unemployment is sitting at what 13.7 percent like what are you doing and then 0.68
00:04:20 you have the other like so you're like you're you're you're crazy like you're literally destroying
00:04:25 us food bank usage is not just like it's out of control the people who used to volunteer at food
00:04:31 banks are now using food banks food banks are running out of food like it's insane and then
00:04:37 you have this other portion of the population that looks at our carney looks at the liberals
00:04:43 and defends the very policies that are destroying your community and your country and it's the same
00:04:49 phenomenon we see in this kind of master manipulation that elizabeth holmes finally 0.86
00:04:54 got caught for with with mass fraud right there were no results she she convinced um multiple
00:05:01 investors to give her hundreds of millions of dollars which is ultimately what mark carney is
00:05:06 doing and yet again what do we have yesterday 2200 job losses under stellantis that the government
00:05:14 gave we don't know how much hundreds of millions of dollars and nobody knows what was promised in
00:05:20 those contracts? Nothing. Where's your money? And now they want to extend that same failed
00:05:26 policy to smaller communities. Many of these communities don't have the infrastructure for
00:05:30 that. I mean, the bigger communities don't have it, right? I mean, we have a housing crisis in
00:05:35 Toronto and other cities that was created because Justin Trudeau brought in, I don't know, five
00:05:41 million or whatever it was. You know, healthcare is teetering on the brink of collapse almost. I
00:05:47 I mean, try getting some help at an emergency ward sometime.
00:05:50 Walk in there and wait 10 hours to see a doctor.
00:05:55 So all of these shortages, if you want to call them, that in the bigger cities, I think, you know, they're going to be just exacerbated.
00:06:03 I don't see how they're going to be any different when you move to smaller communities, small towns like Lakefield, for instance.
00:06:09 I mean, can you imagine if they decide, okay, we're going to increase the number of people coming to Lakefield.
00:06:14 were going to bring in, I don't know, three, four, 500 families or whatever. I mean, you think that
00:06:20 would have an impact on your community? I would suggest that it would. You don't have the
00:06:24 infrastructure for it. Or am I wrong? It's not a suggestion. It's just facts. It's just facts,
00:06:30 Mark. It's like common sense. It's like we are in the twilight zone, my friend. You want to talk
00:06:35 about healthcare. So these are the latest Canadian waitlist numbers. So this is according to Second
00:06:40 Street Org's 2026 report. So waiting for surgery in Canada, 628,919. Waiting for diagnostics,
00:06:49 1.6 million. Waiting for specialists, 1.3 million. Estimated total backlog, 4.9 million.
00:06:58 According to Habitat for Humanity, Canada has the highest incidence percentage of people who
00:07:04 believe they will never own a home and you're going to bring in 678 000 new people when we
00:07:14 don't have jobs housing or health care make it make sense it doesn't make any sense and so
00:07:21 i think you're gonna see i hope i hope you're gonna start to see you know i say you can recover
00:07:27 from being a liberal you know i just shared a video of a girl i interviewed carla and she's
00:07:32 i was a liberal and i realized quickly it wasn't working and i'm like welcome welcome whatever like
00:07:38 whatever we have to do to get rid of the label it this is about your country this is about the the
00:07:45 prosperity of your children and your grandchildren and yourself and your ability to to feed yourself
00:07:49 the food professor did this video this morning and he was saying our purchase power has decreased by
00:07:55 11 so i was like what does that look like so you know how does that translate for people because
00:08:02 i think people hear these numbers trillions of like we're a trillion dollars in debt right it's
00:08:07 like it means nothing to people so just for just for uh clarity if your family spends 300 to 400
00:08:15 dollars a week on groceries an 11 drop in purchasing power means buying that same food
00:08:20 now costs approximately 37 to 49 more per week which is about 214 dollars per month which is
00:08:27 about two thousand five hundred and seventy one dollars more per year and your wages have stayed
00:08:32 the same so like none of it makes any sense and i think mark you understand your audience probably
00:08:42 is just we're kind of in an echo chamber because we already know like immigration makes no sense
00:08:48 so what do we collectively have to do well we collectively have to demand better and we have
00:08:54 have to get louder and we have to have conversations you know i went to this meeting last night and
00:08:58 this woman says to me michelle i lost two friends because they're liberal and i can't even have a
00:09:02 conversation with them anymore and you know it's the irony is the more dangerous and divided society
00:09:09 that mark carney loves to mention 3 000 times per speech he's creating it yeah it's true and and so
00:09:16 how do you then convince people to at least understand it and i think you know you have to
00:09:23 say to them how was your grocery bill like how are things for you like how are you doing like
00:09:28 how are you how are you finding it and people want like a simple like quick fix because they're
00:09:36 they're so frustrated they're so upset they're so angry but it is slow and I'll tell you corruption
00:09:43 and the economy will will bring Mark Carney down and I it's just it's a consistency thing that you
00:09:50 have to expose and your work and what you're doing is really important and telling people like did
00:09:55 you know like i had a lady phone me she goes michelle is it true they're bringing 678 000
00:10:00 immigrants into canada and you know the number one person the number one group of people to
00:10:05 complain to me about immigration mark immigrants hundred thousand percent every time like i wrote
00:10:12 a substack article that has i think a million views because it's creating racism and i talked
00:10:18 about it on your show last time where the you know he's an indo-canadian he's like michelle i'm
00:10:23 getting painted with the brush of the bad people i'm not the bad people right and and this is what's 0.70
00:10:30 causing the dangerous and divided society that mark carney he himself is the architect of yeah i
00:10:35 mean the government knows that this is a toxic issue they've done internal polling for sure
00:10:40 which probably explains the way they tried to sneak it into the budget the way they did you know
00:10:45 um and so because they can they're determined to move forward on this i think this is an issue this
00:10:53 is uh a hill to die on for them they're going to bring in more people into this country and i you
00:10:59 know you can ask and speculate as to the reasons i mean i think it's one way of trying to prop up
00:11:05 and reinflate the housing bubble in toronto and vancouver and montreal these places you know
00:11:10 because a lot of the housing values real estate values are starting starting to fall you know
00:11:14 You're seeing homes selling for 20%, 30% less than they're asking prices.
00:11:19 So especially condos, it has been a collapse in the condo market.
00:11:23 And so you, you, you bring more people in and it tends, you know, the increased
00:11:27 demand suggests that, uh, you know, maybe they can reinflate the housing bubble.
00:11:32 The other thing is I, I'm convinced that they're trying to create another
00:11:35 voting block for themselves. 1.00
00:11:37 I really do because the, you know, the older crowd, the elbows up boomers
00:11:42 that supported them en masse and loved Mark Kearney, you know, it's an aging demographic. 0.79
00:11:48 If you look at the Gen Xers, you know, the Zs, a lot of them don't like the liberals. 0.67
00:11:54 They're not big fans of Kearney at all because of all the things that you mentioned, which is
00:11:58 the trouble that young people are having with the economy. And so they need to bring in a whole 0.99
00:12:03 bunch of new people who are beholden to the liberals. And they've done this in the past
00:12:08 and can count on votes in the future.
00:12:11 At least that's why I think they're doing it.
00:12:13 Do you have any theories?
00:12:15 Well, I mean, it's not going to hurt them, right?
00:12:17 I don't know that it's,
00:12:19 I don't think it's the driving factor,
00:12:21 but I think it's like an added bonus.
00:12:25 You know what I mean?
00:12:25 Like it's the long game that maybe it is, you know?
00:12:29 I mean, Pierre Elliott Trudeau did this.
00:12:31 I mean, you know, you look at the Italian communities
00:12:33 that were just so liberal loyal
00:12:35 because they came over and they got a great life.
00:12:38 and and they were like the you know pierre elliott trudeau brought us here we're liberal loyal and
00:12:43 and then they've switched like one of the biggest communities that have switched from liberal to
00:12:47 conservative are the italians because they were like wait a minute like what what the hell is
00:12:52 going on here and so i think um i think that's been interesting so to say that it's never been
00:12:58 done is is not true and i think you know history has all of the lessons we need to learn but i
00:13:04 think the driving force behind it um is a couple of things like what you said but i think it's this
00:13:11 you know michelle rample garner talks about it and i think she's on to something with this corporate
00:13:15 lobbyists and if you listen to the joe rogan podcast with cali means um i can't stress this
00:13:23 enough this is a trump insider who explains the ear of politics and how it works and mark carney
00:13:29 has shown time and time again that it is his friends and insiders who benefit right and there's
00:13:36 no scrutiny to this like you've identified something in this conversation mark that i
00:13:41 think needs to be said this budget is out of control like it is it is spending that we have
00:13:46 never seen before from any prime minister and that's really saying something when we had justin
00:13:50 trudeau as a prime minister but there's nothing to stop him he is he has destroyed every measure
00:13:57 right now to stop him so he's shutting down committees he's bought floor crossers he's bought
00:14:03 this majority he is he doesn't care and so he bought them and he bought them again like you
00:14:12 know i just on the record need people to hear this because people don't know this never before
00:14:17 in the history of a government has there been government subsidized newsrooms this is a
00:14:25 conversation i got into with a liberal the other day they said no no the government's always given
00:14:29 subsidies i said to programming to programming that's very different a documentary or the nature
00:14:35 of things or something to that effect not a newsroom not a journalist who is now so compromised
00:14:42 by the paycheck they can't tell the truth like to to loop it back to theranos theranos was only
00:14:49 exposed because of good journalism and that is the ultimate destruction that is why your channel
00:14:57 this is why i talk to you mark this is why we have to have this and any panelist who is tied to a
00:15:03 party needs to say that you need to tell people what like i am a former conservative mp my lens
00:15:11 is conservative the people know that you know and it's it's absolutely atrocious that they are
00:15:19 manipulating people with your money to become a mouthpiece for the government without you knowing
00:15:25 it it's awful awful nuts how do people find you online because you're doing some some great work
00:15:32 as far as your videos go thank you so we are now launching our own sort of media channel it's
00:15:37 household matters media so you can find us on instagram our podcast has just launched so we're
00:15:42 just ramping that up i'm on social as well as michelle ferrari canada but household matters
00:15:47 media join the conversation we have an email list that we're now joining you know it's it's
00:15:53 we have to band together mark as independent creators and we have to build communities and
00:16:00 we have to get people talking and thinking we have to get people thinking and you know i would
00:16:06 leave you with this regardless of liberal conservative whoever is in positions of power
00:16:11 you must have accountability, and you must work for the people. And that is what we are missing
00:16:19 in this country. And it is dividing us as neighbors, but the people responsible for it
00:16:25 are the liberals. Michelle Freire, thank you so much for coming on the show.
00:16:30 Thanks, Mark. Thanks for doing what you do. Appreciate it. If you enjoyed the show and
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