Juno News - ＂Chain migration bill＂ now law, without Conservative safeguards

00:00:00.000 a bill granting citizenship to the foreign-born children of immigrants who became citizens is now

00:00:11.020 law amid a public feud between members of 1bc british columbia's newest right of center party

00:00:17.020 one of the party's candidates has announced he will no longer run in the party calling the dispute

00:00:22.700 a quote soap opera the canada border services agency reported seizing 30 stolen vehicles from

00:00:29.740 the greater toronto area bound for export last month hello canada it's tuesday december 16th and

00:00:36.280 this is the true north daily brief i'm cosmon georgia and i'm clayton demaine we've got you

00:00:41.020 covered with all the news you need to know let's discuss the top stories of the day and the true

00:00:46.320 north exclusives you won't hear anywhere else the liberal government's controversial quote chain

00:00:54.720 migration bill bill c3 is now law despite strong conservative objections the bill grants canadian

00:01:02.980 citizenship to the foreign-born children of immigrant citizens even if those children have never been to

00:01:09.700 canada immigration refugees and citizenship canada announced monday that the federal government's

00:01:15.800 bill c3 dubbed by conservatives as the chain migration bill came into effect monday the announcement reads

00:01:23.100 quote moving forward people born before december 15th 2025 who would have been citizens if not for

00:01:30.240 the first generation limit or other outdated rules will be canadian and can now apply for proof of

00:01:36.000 citizenship canadian parent born or adopted abroad can now pass on citizenship to their child born or

00:01:42.760 adopted outside canada today or in the future provided they can demonstrate at the time of application

00:01:48.980 that they spent three years in canada prior to the child's birth or adoption the bill passed in the

00:01:55.160 house of commons on november 3rd with the support of the ndp bloc quebecois and conservative amendments

00:02:01.060 to the bill which would have introduced a language requirements security checks and more substantial

00:02:06.340 proof of ties to canada were stripped despite passing in committee conservatives also attempted and failed

00:02:12.520 to pass an amendment to the bill would have required prospective citizens to have been born while one of

00:02:18.680 their parents was a citizen rather than retroactively granting citizenship to the children of new 0.86

00:02:24.640 citizens during a house of commons immigration committee in october liberal immigration minister

00:02:30.480 lena metledge diab avoided answering whether she could assure canadians that the new citizens

00:02:37.260 introduced by the bill would be vetted and would not pose a security risk to canada conservative mp brad

00:02:43.960 reticop also raised concerns that the bans to take a citizenship test you being canadian are allowed

00:02:51.760 to be canadian it's to give back and to restore that right to many that have lost it there's also

00:02:58.240 the substantial connection test that is extremely important we are here to to write iran as and that

00:03:05.760 is exactly why we're here today what are the canadian values what are the canadian values uh you obviously

00:03:14.520 one of them is protecting our uh our official languages in this country it is uh uh you know

00:03:21.600 uh helping uh each other i mean our canadian values are human values if it's protecting canadian

00:03:27.080 languages why is that not in the bill i'm surprised by that but i'm also concerned about another thing and

00:03:32.280 that is that there is no security check of any kind in this pathway so we know that in every pathway

00:03:36.960 to citizenship a certain percentage of people uh fail our security checks and are denied citizenship

00:03:41.580 because of that and your transition binder specifically talked about increasing scrutiny

00:03:46.080 resulting in higher refusal rates so some of these people will for sure have security problems and even

00:03:50.860 criminal records and admitting safe and secure people is paramount to canadian so are you okay that

00:03:57.200 this law will grant citizenship to people with criminal records playton when you read through this

00:04:01.900 bill a lot of scenarios hypothetical scenarios but definitely possible come to mind uh where there

00:04:09.060 could be loopholes or abuse of this system uh one thing that came to mind was like the adoption

00:04:15.140 addition because i mean adoption in other countries uh is not regulated in the same way and i could see a

00:04:23.660 scenario where adoption could be a service provided so that people can just automatically

00:04:30.220 uh get citizenship uh for children but what are some of the other criticisms that have been raised about

00:04:38.580 this bill yeah absolutely cosmon um aside from that point which uh conservatives haven't seemed to be

00:04:45.000 highlighting at least um and as you read in the article conservatives are concerned about a variety of

00:04:50.920 issues that come from this bill uh they do say it will lead to chain migration where all that needs to

00:04:58.720 happen is one immigrant gain citizenship in canada and they can bring their children skipping the 1.00

00:05:04.280 immigration process by giving the right to individuals who don't require security checks

00:05:09.960 or even have been in canada at all uh they say the bill will dilute what it means to be canadian even

00:05:18.040 further and as we just heard from that clip liberals uh who admit that part of quote canadian values is

00:05:25.600 upholding canada's official languages won't require that the new citizen even knows english or french

00:05:32.580 at a recent restore the north event last month the events that conservative mp jamil javani has been

00:05:38.400 hosting on canadian campuses i heard one woman holding a newborn baby in her hands get really

00:05:44.460 emotional about the idea that she'll be raising her children in a country where people don't even

00:05:49.660 share a common language and i'm sure she's not the only one concerned with that simple request that

00:05:54.920 canadians can at least talk to each other as many people in the audience applauded her but when you

00:06:00.580 have immigration officials say they won't have security checks for these new canadians because

00:06:05.900 canadian citizens aren't subjected to security checks it makes the issues with the bill really

00:06:10.980 apparent especially in a global climate where global terrorist attacks in western civilized countries

00:06:16.940 are occurring nearly monthly it seems and conservatives are also concerned about the lack of in-person

00:06:23.820 citizenship tests and ceremonies in general saying that quote uh new canadians don't have any

00:06:31.860 obligation to understand what it means to be canadian and canada's culture customs or norms don't have

00:06:39.180 any obligation to understand what it means to be canadian canada's culture customs or norms and the

00:06:45.580 liberals are just declaring that all of these foreign nationals with tenuous ties to canada

00:06:50.520 are somehow entitled to all of the same rights as people who have lived here and have been paying 0.99

00:06:55.740 taxes their entire lives i also wager that these new canadians will not be included in immigration 0.96

00:07:02.620 reports as they don't fall into the categories of typical temporary immigration or permanent residency

00:07:09.580 so liberals will be able to say they're only bringing in a certain number of immigrants or migrants

00:07:15.000 while obfuscating the real population growth that is sure to come from this bill

00:07:20.820 a one bc candidate has announced he will no longer run for the party as it reels from the removal of

00:07:31.000 interim leader dallas brody by the party board this follows a public feud between the former party leader

00:07:37.840 and the only other mla tara armstrong mike harris who ran as a bc conservative candidate in the 2024

00:07:45.780 election announced he would no longer run for one bc calling the situation a quote soap opera

00:07:52.080 signaling his departure from the party in a sunday post harris said quote hey folks i just want you

00:07:59.160 to know i've been watching the one bc situation and i'm out i didn't sign up for this soap opera

00:08:05.640 no hard feelings for the people this is just not who i am one bc's board of directors ratified the

00:08:12.800 removal of dallas brody as party leader over the weekend citing allegations of erratic behavior and

00:08:19.960 disputes over party assets brody has denied the allegations this caps a chaotic 36-hour implosion

00:08:27.240 that began with reports of senior staff firings and escalated into a public power struggle

00:08:33.920 according to a sunday statement the announcement dated december 14th 2025 from one bc press secretary

00:08:40.760 tim teelman follows a special board resolution passed saturday to remove brody the board alleged

00:08:47.480 it has launched an external investigation into what it's called unauthorized attempts to access

00:08:53.480 sensitive data the statement said armstrong one bc's house leader and mla for colonna lake country

00:09:00.840 coldstream the party's only other elected member said she has lost confidence in brody's leadership

00:09:07.820 so cosmon you've been following this story pretty closely with one bc seemingly in shambles and many

00:09:14.620 speculating online that it can't recover from the implosion that we've seen over the last week

00:09:20.220 what is the state of bc's only other conservative option the bc conservatives are there any updates to

00:09:27.180 that yeah so while the fate of one bc is largely up in the air and honestly i i think it's hard to look

00:09:34.820 at this and see how that party will recover from a situation like this with only two mlas that are

00:09:41.680 definitely not on good terms anymore but uh the situation with the bc conservatives is actually a

00:09:48.480 lot more stable than what it was a few weeks ago uh when john rustad was still leader and he faced his own

00:09:54.920 caucus revolt and it's funny because there's a lot of overlaps and parallels between the two situations

00:10:01.820 you have a board that doesn't like the leader uh has maneuvered to oust the leader which is

00:10:08.880 essentially the same thing that happened but with the bc conservatives it happened over quite a lot

00:10:13.960 longer timeline than just a few days that we saw over the last weekend where the bc conservatives are

00:10:21.340 right now uh well they have a new leader an interim leader trevor halford is now the interim leader of

00:10:28.500 the party and since that transition happened things have largely settled down in terms of caucus disputes

00:10:35.320 the internal drama has cooled it's not like there's no drama on display like it was uh with leaks all the

00:10:42.880 time uh and the caucus has stopped bleeding there's people there aren't any more mlas being kicked out 0.99

00:10:49.060 uh and sort of these internal happenings so essentially a lot calmer um but where the party

00:10:58.340 stands is that they have to establish the rules for a leadership race and that involves selecting a

00:11:05.040 leadership race organizing committee and that will involve you know picking a chair all the members of

00:11:11.440 that committee and releasing what rules the leadership race will be run on so that involves things like

00:11:19.540 the buy-in how long the leadership race will take there's a lot of speculation that there's going to be a

00:11:25.400 snap election uh we even reported that the bc ndp had volunteers out there looking for short-term

00:11:32.120 temporary office space so the party has a limited time but they have some runway and with the one bc

00:11:41.300 situation unraveling uh i suspect there's probably some relief from the bc conservatives because they

00:11:47.580 no longer have to worry about their right flank and they can tangle with some of the questions that i think

00:11:54.440 one bc brought to the forefront and they did uh they rightly brought them to the forefront questions

00:12:00.540 about you know the kamloops narrative uh questions about the power indigenous uh lobby groups have over

00:12:09.180 uh vetoing certain projects and i think the conservatives now can comfortably uh bring attention to these

00:12:18.480 issues while not also being hounded from that flank because essentially with one bc now no longer having

00:12:26.600 two mlas the bar in the bc legislative assembly to have official party status and all the benefits that come

00:12:34.000 with that is two mlas and that was reduced by the bc ndp not too long ago but without the two mlas

00:12:42.020 being in a coherent party and tara armstrong the other mla of one bc has said she refuses to sit in the

00:12:49.940 same caucus as dallas brody uh that is gone they're no longer an official party they will no longer have

00:12:58.780 the same visibility they did before uh because having an official party status gives you more time

00:13:05.920 at question period and just being an independent mla you will not get that much speaking time you will

00:13:12.940 not get any committee time and essentially the amount of resources you do have are severely limited

00:13:20.360 the canada border services agency seized 30 stolen vehicles that were about to be shipped out of the

00:13:29.660 greater toronto area last month bringing the total number of intercepted stolen vehicles

00:13:34.940 to over 1500 nationwide this year the canada border services agency recently reported that it

00:13:41.060 recovered 30 stolen vehicles valued at over 800 000 destined for export last month the announcement

00:13:48.740 was made in a post on x which included a slideshow of the recovered vehicles according to the cbsa's

00:13:55.400 report on combating illicit trafficking at the border 204 stolen vehicles from the greater toronto area

00:14:01.740 were intercepted at the border by the end of november 2025 this marks a more than three-fold decrease

00:14:09.220 compared to the 680 vehicles recovered in 2024 though december data has yet to be reported local police

00:14:17.420 in the gta suggest auto theft crimes have been trending down peel regional police disclosed an over 23 percent

00:14:24.940 decline in auto theft reports from 2023 to 2024 in its annual report september toronto police services

00:14:33.420 reported that calls for service for auto theft in their jurisdiction declined by 33 percent in 2024

00:14:40.620 compared with the same period in 2024 a report by the cbsa said quote export examinations are part of the

00:14:49.100 cbsa's export control regulatory mandate border services officers are responsible for conducting

00:14:56.300 these types of exams at ports of entry across the country cbsa officers in local export units have the

00:15:03.020 authority to conduct daily audits of export declarations primary examination and select containers of

00:15:09.420 interests for secondary examination at docks or warehouses so even nationally clayton we're seeing a decline

00:15:18.220 uh in car recoveries is that an indicator that the government is doing better at preventing car

00:15:25.820 thefts and what are some concerns uh that have been raised by experts looking at this situation well it's

00:15:32.940 interesting because car theft reports are on the decline in the gta by about the same numbers as vehicles

00:15:39.420 being seized at the border although we will have to wait till the end of the year to see what the real

00:15:46.060 numbers of illicit trade being stopped at the border are but at a security committee this october christian

00:15:52.220 luprecht a professor at the royal military college of canada warned that canada currently lacks

00:15:58.780 infrastructure to inspect the majority of exports and imports to the country he said because of the

00:16:04.380 sheer numbers of illegal trade such as cannabis and other drugs leaving the country a lot of canada's

00:16:10.060 neighbors and allies feel that canada is not holding up it's part of the bargain and it could lead to

00:16:16.940 these countries not wanting to cooperate or work with canada in the future which could pose security

00:16:23.020 risks down the road he argued that with lacks border security and underfunding in those areas canada is

00:16:28.780 allowing exports to countries who are being overrun by products they have criminalized such as cannabis

00:16:35.820 he specifically mentioned canada's lack of quote exit controls leading to a bolstered domestic auto

00:16:43.180 theft market and when there's incentives for criminals to sell stolen vehicles abroad that leads to an

00:16:49.420 increase in auto thefts in canada because there's a lot of money to be made there luprecht also brought

00:16:55.740 up that this lack of enforcement on contraband exports from canada has already been a point of contention with

00:17:02.060 the u.s as u.s president donald trump explicitly called out canada's fentanyl exports as a reason to

00:17:08.860 to justify his tariffs on canadians another border security expert mark weber the president of a

00:17:15.740 customs and immigration union raised similar concerns to an immigration committee in november he noted that

00:17:22.460 the liberals border security bill bc12 tries to address the export enforcement issues and lack of access to

00:17:31.340 import and export facilities but that the changes would mean little until the cbsa's lack of staff

00:17:39.580 and facilities were fixed and funded um and let's not forget the liberals still plan to cut about 10

00:17:46.540 from the cbsa's budget in the next several years

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Juno News - December 16, 2025

＂Chain migration bill＂ now law, without Conservative safeguards

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