Foreign protesters suffer MELTDOWN after receiving criticism from True North
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Summary
In this episode, we cover the protests in Prince Edward Island, where a group of Indian students and temporary foreign workers are demanding that they be given a right to work and stay in PEI. We talk to some of the protesters, and find out where their sense of entitlement comes from.
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We don't have any space for more of these people.
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Alright, well, we just landed here in beautiful Prince Edward Island,
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but also one of our most historically important.
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The reason we're here is because the focus of the country
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For the past week, a large group of Indian students and workers
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with expiring permits and relatively low skills in our economy
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and demanding that they be given a right to work and stay in PEI.
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Of course, with the eventual idea that they would get permanent residency.
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and they're not planning to change the provincial nominee program rules.
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After all, I don't think PEI or any province in this country, for that matter,
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really needs more Tim Hortons workers and retail service workers.
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The foreign protesters are now staging another demonstration in downtown,
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And they're saying that if the province does not meet their demands
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these protesters are now going to go on a hunger strike.
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What exactly that is going to do for their cause, I'm not quite sure,
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but it's one of the things we're here to figure out.
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We're also here to figure out on what basis are these protesters here in the country right now.
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We're also here to figure out where their sense of entitlement comes from,
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where they're making demands of a provincial government like PEI.
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And we're also here to figure out whether or not these people will actually leave
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if the province does not grant them what they are demanding,
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if the province does not grant them a work extension.
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Then I made a decision to come in PEI for my better future.
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then we got into industry of sales and service factor.
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where we have to have an experience of six months.
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Once we are done with the experience of six months,
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And in the beginning of, I would say, January 2024,
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We don't know, like, whether you guys were international students
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So were most of you, did most of you come as students?
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And did most of you study in Ontario first before coming to PEI?
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It's not only about, like, most of them come from Ontario.
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It doesn't matter whether they are from British Columbia
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Did they all come as international students originally?
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What was their basis for coming to Canada in the first place?
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Yes, so basis of them was they came in as international students
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on study permits, but the government allows us,
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the provincial governments and federal government.
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I mean, if the province says, listen, there are too many people here,
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we have an abundance of people with a set of skills
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they have a right to say, we can't have you guys live here.
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No, I don't agree with that at all because we have been here.
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So there were programs here with only six months
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You were nominated for your provincial nominee program.
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So why were those programs introduced at the first place then?
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now you have to leave because we are already here.
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We are living here and we have already got one or more one year
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We have devoted our time, our money, and we have devoted everything here.
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So what happens then if the government doesn't extend your permits?
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So we wouldn't be able to stay as our work permits expire.
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We are here to raise our voices till it is heard by the government.
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Now, if there are too many people with service industry skills,
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whether that be in the retail or in food and coffee and whatever,
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where will you guys work with your skills if there are already too many here?
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That's a question I think people are curious to know about.
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You want, if you want to go in a skills job, let's say carpenter or any job,
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at least you need six months of training in it.
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Or you need to work a labor, then you will go on as a promoted as a skilled job.
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So for that, how could we at least need a time for that?
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Like two months ago, our permit extension, they were saying that we are accepted.
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People, let's say you say us, we are without skilled people.
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But now they say only skilled people are accepted.
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So at least we need six months to get our skills.
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So it is drastically impacting not only us, but also the employees and also the employers.
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No, I'm posting a video based on what was publicly available.
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Like, thank you for taking your time to come in here.
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You should have contacted us first so you would know what's happening here.
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I've got a question since you brought up the video.
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Do you think that it's right to try to get people to try to censor Canadians' opinions on your protest?
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Then brother, you should know what's protest about.
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What did I say about the protest that was not accurate?
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Well, if you are out of, if there's no space in Prince Edward Island for more service workers.
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If you're about to keep doing this shit, keep posting, no, I'm not going to post.
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If you don't have the information, the accurate information.
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You're saying Indians are holding Canada hostage.
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When did I say they were holding Canada hostage?
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I said that there is no more space in Bridgewater Island for service workers.
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Even when all the fucking people don't want to help me.
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But nobody on this island wants to help me as a person.
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We're here to speak with Islanders about the situation.
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You said that there is no more space in this island.
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If we get permission from him so that you guys can post it.
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So if the organizer doesn't want us to upload our own video, we're not going to upload our
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Okay, well, I mean, yeah, well, we recorded it, so, I mean, it's, yeah, yeah, no, I know,
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but it's not going to be, it's not going to be a thing where we're not going to upload
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Will you say the fact that maybe the province says we don't, we don't have any space for
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Would you care to clarify what you mean by these people?
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Because you might want to watch your language a little bit, too.
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They're protesting, they have the right to do that, and making rules after the fact
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So they came in under a program that said this work would be eligible work.
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You can't say in a baseball game, oh, I'm not going to play nine innings, let's only do
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Do you think that the country needs more people who are in the service industry?
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Do you think the province needs more people who are working in the service industry?
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That's what their plan is to recruit for that anymore, or to have that be a possible path
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to citizenship, but you can't change the rules in the middle of the game.
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Do you feel like there's a worker shortage in PEI and you need more people?
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Does it feel as though there's not enough housing supply?
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I think certainly our population growth in the last five years or so I think has outpaced
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So there has to be a little bit of leveling out somehow.
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Our population of older than 60 is growing and they're going to need more care and they're
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So we've come all the way to Charlottetown to report on this protest, which is receiving
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It's really become one of the focuses of the country because the mass immigration debate
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is playing out here in the streets of Charlottetown.
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We found some very interesting information, like, for example, that these people were international
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students who came to study in Ontario before coming out to PEI to get a permanent residency
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They've come through the diploma mill scheme in this country and now they are demanding to
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be able to stay in this country, demanding that the provincial government change their
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rules to allow them, without any required skills in the economy, to be permanent residents
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Quite the interaction we had with the protest organizer and that pink-haired radical activist
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who decided to get in our way as well and to get up in my face, tell me that I had to
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It was also Rupinder, the leader of the protest, who, of course, is not from Canada.
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He is not a Canadian, he's not a permanent resident here, but he asked if I was from
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I think the reality is I know more about this country than he does and I have more of a
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right to talk about what's going on in this country than he does.
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Well, that wraps up our coverage here of the Indian migrant protest taking place in Charlottetown
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We're going to be back out on the streets of Charlottetown tomorrow to talk about the housing
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crisis here and the rise in population that has made housing unaffordable in this province.