Immigration Minister EXPOSED as totally clueless, 817K newcomers in 4 MONTHS + D-Day Tribute
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On June 6th, 1944, the first wave of Canadian soldiers to land on Juneau Beach in Normandy, France, became the first Canadians to ever land on the beaches of Normandy. Today, we remember this day as D-Day. And to honor the day, we have a very special guest on The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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We have Dr. Michael Bonner here to talk about immigration.
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We're going to do a deep dive and talk about a whole bunch of different areas to do with
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immigration, but first I want to stop and pause for a moment to recognize that today
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It is one of the most important days in Canadian history.
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And so three years ago on this show, I did a tribute to D-Day and to specifically Juno
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I don't think I can do any better today, so I'm just going to throw to a clip of the
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On June 6th, 1944, after months of planning, the Allied forces launched what was called
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Operation Overlord, the invasion of Western Europe, which had suffered under Nazi occupation
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At the time, the Allied forces were fighting across Italy, but with one foul swoop, the
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Allied armies created a new Western Front against Hitler's forces designed to ease pressure
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from the Eastern Front and weaken the Nazi war efforts.
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Operation Overlord, which was launched on D-Day, June 6th, was a coordinated attack against
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the Nazis along the beaches of Normandy, a 100-kilometer stretch of the French coastline across
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At the time, it was the largest seaborne invasion in military history.
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Allied infantry and armored divisions from Canada, the U.S., and Great Britain began landing
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The Normandy coast was divided into five sectors, Utah and Omaha, where the Americans landed,
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Gold and Sword, where the British landed, and Juneau, where our Canadian troops launched
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As you might imagine, the young men who landed there were under heavy fire from gun emplacements
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overlooking the beaches, and the shore was mined and covered with obstacles such as wooden stakes,
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metal tripods, and barbed wires, making the work of the beach-clearing teams difficult and
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Canada suffered some 961 casualties on that one morning while disembarking at Juneau Beach.
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The Normandy landings marked an unprecedented war effort, unmatched at the time.
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There were nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft vessels, carrying approximately 160,000 troops
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who crossed the English Channel on D-Day, with 875,000 men disembarking by the end of June,
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Allied casualties on the first day alone were 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead.
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Now, of course, this turned out to be a major turning point in the war, and by the end of
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August 1944, the Allies had reached the Seine River, Paris was liberated, and the Germans
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began retreating and were removed from northwest France, effectively concluding the Battle of
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The Allied forces then prepared to enter Germany, where they would meet up with Soviet troops
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Again, the Normandy invasion began to turn the tide against the Nazis, a significant psychological
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blow, it prevented Hitler from sending troops from France to build up his eastern front against
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The following spring, on May 8, 1945, the Allied forces accepted the unconditional surrender
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of Nazi Germany, and the efforts of the Canadians and the Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy
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were a clear turning point in the war and in the effort against fascism in Italy.
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Now, today, for this very special edition of the Candace Malcolm Show, I'm just so
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delighted to be joined by someone who was there, someone who fought and nearly died, someone
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who saw it all with their own eyes to defend Canada.
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Mr. Parks enlisted in the Canadian military at the age of 10.
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He joined the cadets, and then at the age of 16, two years before he was eligible to enlist,
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After enlisting, Mr. Parks began his training, first in Canada and then in the UK, which would
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Jim had five brothers who served in the Second World War, and his father and his uncle both
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So there he was on June 6, 1944, exactly 78 years ago.
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Today, he was part of the very first wave of Canadian soldiers to land on Juneau Beach
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in Normandy, France, and heroically beat the Germans.
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Mr. Parks and his fellow soldiers would eventually push the Germans town by town over the months
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with intense fighting that would result in significant Canadian casualties.
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By the war's end, Mr. Parks would find himself in Germany, having successfully liberated the
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Netherlands and pushing the Nazis into total defeat.
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There are very few Canadians who deserve the recognition and honour as a true Canadian hero,
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We are extremely lucky to have him on the show.
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So Mr. Parks, thank you so much for joining our podcast.
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Thank you for being with us, knowing the sacrifices that you made, where you were, the importance
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of your role in shaping the country that we now enjoy and that we're so privileged to live
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And I'm happy to report that he's still with us.
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And so back then when I interviewed him, he was 98 years old.
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I urge you to go over and watch the entire interview.
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And let me tell you that that tribute and that interview influenced me so much that that
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It was based on that reporting that day, that interview, and just the importance that this
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day had on our country, our nation, Canada, really became the country it is today because
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Obviously, there were other important moments, important battles, both in the First World
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War, Vimy Ridge comes to mind, and the Second World War.
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But really, the way that the Canadians fought had an outsized impact on the outcome of that war
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happened that day, D-Day today, that we pay homage to 81 years ago today.
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And I definitely urge everybody to go watch that interview and take a moment to pay respects
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The Canada of 1944 was obviously a very different country than it was today.
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But the ideal that those men were fighting for should still inspire us and guide us today.
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Okay, I want to switch gears a little bit and introduce Michael Bonner, our guest.
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So Michael is an author, political consultant, and a former policy director with the Ontario
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Okay, so let's start with the immigration minister who just appears absolutely clueless when
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So yesterday, in question period, Michelle Rumpel-Garner, the MP from Calgary, asked
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a very reasonable question about immigration, just asking a very simple question.
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And the newly appointed immigration minister, Lina Dabb, accused her of lying and spreading
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Why did the Liberals bring half a million foreign students to Canada during a massive housing
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shortage and while youth in Canada can't find jobs?
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The Honourable Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.
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Mr. Speaker, thank you very much for that question.
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So that, isn't that just a typical response from a Liberal?
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Like, I don't like the numbers, so I'll just accuse you of lying and spreading misinformation.
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Well, unfortunately for Ms. Diab, the immigration minister, Michelle Rumpel came back with this
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I got those numbers from the minister's website.
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So in the middle of a housing crisis, she brought 500,000 people to Canada.
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These people compete with Canadians for jobs, require housing and health care.
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However, if her department's numbers aren't the real numbers, what are the real numbers?
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The Honourable Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.
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Mr. Speaker, let me give, let me give the opposite member a lesson on immigration and
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There's many applications and many individuals.
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We recognize that to balance our immigration and to balance and to, and have a good country,
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we need temporary and we need permanent residents.
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So she's quite animated there, but I don't think she's really making the point she's trying
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She's trying to say that what Michelle Rumpel-Garner doesn't really understand immigration and the
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reality is that we need temporary workers and permanent, but she doesn't really explain
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To me, I mean, that was just shows how totally clueless she is.
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She was totally exposed for being clueless, not only about the numbers in her own department,
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but also wildly out of touch with Canadians with regards to like what we want from our
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I mean, there's sort of the general sort of garden variety in competence, but there's also,
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you know, if we want to be charitable, we can allow for the fact that she's still being
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briefed up or, you know, not fully on top of the file.
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But I see all of that as secondary to a more fundamental problem, which is that the way
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immigration numbers are presented to the public is really untransparent, opaque, confusing.
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And, you know, the levels are set in a sort of quasi-secretive way by cabinet and so forth.
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What it means to have, you know, what exactly is temporary, in fact, about temporary immigration?
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You know, all of this stuff is sort of unclear.
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And as you say, the case for this stuff is pretty dubious if you actually sort of get into
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Multiple people might be or sort of a single individual might be holding multiple visas.
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And, you know, that number can be sort of confusing.
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People can disappear and go underground and what have you.
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But, you know, the numbers that get presented to the public when it comes to, you know, how
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many people actually come here every year, you know, whether we're talking about permanent
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residents, student visas, temporary foreign worker permits and so forth, you know, depending
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on how you present this information, you can either fudge it to make it look like there are
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far fewer people in the country, which I think is what she's trying to do there.
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Or if you actually look at the number of the number of permits and persons that are that
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are on the books at the moment, the number is significantly higher than I think most Canadians
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Well, I think survey after survey shows that Canadians almost unanimously want immigration
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This is True North reporting over at Juneau News just a couple of days ago.
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Canada took in eight hundred and seventeen thousand new immigrants in the first four months
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And to your point, Michael, this sort of like opaque, like, you know, they have different
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targets, they have different numbers, they have different streams.
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So it's like, OK, they'll say how many permanent residents come in and that's what they consider
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But then on top of that, they have temporary foreign workers.
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And on top of that, they have the student the student workers.
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And so when True North tallied that all up, we got eight hundred and seventeen thousand.
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The thing I want to go back to with the minister's point there is somehow she's like talking about
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how Canada needs both temporary and permanent immigrants.
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I think this is totally counter to what the liberals have long advocated for.
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When Justin Trudeau became prime minister, one of the first things he did was make it
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They cut the number of days you had to be in Canada.
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They cut the language requirements for almost all immigrants.
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And the justification was that they want the people in Canada to be like fully bought into
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the Canadian community and culture and society.
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They didn't like the idea that you could come and leave.
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Like they wanted everyone to have a pathway to citizenship and for it to happen quickly.
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And so the case for these temporary foreign workers and for the students, it doesn't align
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I think that post-COVID, Canada was experiencing a serious sluggish economy and Justin Trudeau
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And the easiest way to do that is just to open up the doors and let in as many people
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as they can find and basically say anyone who wants to come can come.
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We saw millions of people come to Canada that way.
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And yes, it boosts GDP, like just increasing the number of people in the country will increase
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But actually GDP per capita has been trending downwards.
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And so it's sort of like, you know, it was a cheap, cheap trick to try to boost the economy.
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And recall that Justin Trudeau actually came out and apologized and recognized that they
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In the last two years, our population has grown really fast, like baby boom fast.
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Increasingly bad actors like fake colleges and big chain corporations have been exploiting our
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We're reducing the numbers of immigrants that will come to Canada for the next three years.
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So, like if they announced that they made a mistake and that they were increasing it,
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yeah, Justin Trudeau blames other people, but it's his system that he set up.
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Like, why is it that here we are six months later and we're still experiencing those incredibly
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If only our economy could run on apologies from Justin Trudeau.
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You know, we might all be, you know, rich by now.
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But the per capita thing that you just mentioned is at the heart of the problem.
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And I think that a lot of politicians, and as far as I can tell, you know, the entire media,
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you know, don't understand what per capita means.
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But the kind of GDP growth that we have had, as you allude, is not the kind that we need.
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What we need is greater productivity in this country, which would normally imply a much higher level of skill
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A huge number of temporary foreign workers being brought in at the low wage,
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low skill end of the economy has, has had an extremely depressing effect on, on, on wages.
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And it has priced, you know, priced Canadians out of those, what are normally considered entry level jobs,
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especially in something like the service industry.
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I completely reject the idea, and I think most Canadians would agree,
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that there's anything about that equation that we actually need.
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What we need, if we, if we need immigration at all, it's at a higher skill level and at a higher wage.
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Okay, that is what we had until, for the most part, until, you know, comparatively recently.
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And what Trudeau has left out of his explanation or apology there is that the, the avoidance,
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you know, the, the avoidance of, of a recession or, you know, the, the kind of temporary boost
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to, to, to, to GDP or to economic growth that we had is, is kind of like, uh, you know,
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a drink in the morning to, to, to, to, to ward off a hangover.
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You know, it hasn't, it hasn't addressed the, the problem.
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Our economy has suffered since at least the early, uh, 1970s from underinvestment, low productivity,
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in fact, decreasing productivity and the per capita GDP has been slowly, uh, declining with
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maybe tiny bumps to, to, to, to the contrary along the way, but the general trend has not been,
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And, you know, the, the, the net, the net result is the, the kind of sluggishness and, and, um,
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almost like a kind of stagnancy that we all feel right now.
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The solution has nothing to do with bringing in more, uh, low wage, um, cheap labor.
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That is, that is the equivalent of an unhealthy government subsidy to unproductive, uh, un, un,
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un, unproductive, uh, businesses that don't want to invest in, in Canadians.
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Well, and it doesn't seem like the government is really listening because I think that, I mean,
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I mean, from my perspective, Canadians have just had enough of open border immigration.
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We saw Bill C2 introduced to crack down on some asylum seeker, seeker, uh, cheats.
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And we'll talk about that in a moment, but I want to just point to, uh, this chart that
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So the account Mario Narfal, which is one of the biggest news accounts on X.
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He posted that Canada's immigration graph just turned into a rocket ship.
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It's the biggest peacetime immigration spike ever for a country of its size.
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Now, I think that Mario might have misunderstood what, um, what, what was happening this year
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Um, but the graph is like, like the original graph from Stats Canada looks like this.
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It just, the one that Mario had added a year that I don't think he quite understood the
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So this is what the Statistics Canada graph looks like from 1952 to 2023.
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Like, it just doesn't make any sense that we would have this spike.
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In fact, during the election, Mark Carney even walked away from it.
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And yet we're, we're still getting those wild numbers.
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Earlier this week, we, uh, uh, the liberals tabled a new bill, see, uh, bill C2.
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We talked about it in depth yesterday with constitutional lawyer, John Carpe, and some
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of our concerns when it comes to civil liberties.
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But the purpose of the bill was to crack down on, in some ways, to, to, to, to, to help fix
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the border, to strengthen the border, protect the border, uh, to meet the demands of our
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And one of the things that I think is actually a step in the right direction is the changes
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So I'll just go through a little bit of what the bill actually did.
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The Strong Borders Act, um, that was, that was tabled by the liberal government this week.
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Uh, one of the things it does is it puts time limits on asylum claims.
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So there is a one year limit for in Canada asylum claims.
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I mean, honestly, I think there should be like a one day time limit.
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Like if you, if you, if you're actually fleeing persecution and you come to Canada, you should
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probably just declare refugee status or ask for refugee status the moment you get here.
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Um, instead what, what, what we're seeing happen is people come on visas and then their
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visas are about to get revoked or run out and they can't renew them.
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So they just make an asylum claim after being in Canada for like five years is really just
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So this is saying a one year limit asylum claims made more than one year after an
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individual's arrival in Canada, uh, will not be referred to the immigration refugee
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And so this is at least a step in the right direction.
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There's also a 14 day deadline for us border entrance, even though, I mean, hello, the whole
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purpose of the safe third country agreement is that there should be zero applications coming
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So for a 14 day border, uh, uh, 40 day deadline for us border entrance is interesting because
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it's kind of saying, okay, well, we don't actually really care about the safe third country agreement.
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Uh, anyway, the bill also strengthens the safe third country agreement.
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So it introduces a measure to prevent circumvention of the safe third country agreement, which mandates
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that asylum seekers make their claim in the first safe country.
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Uh, maybe you can help me understand what, what's happening there.
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Um, next, they also have enhanced control over immigration documents.
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And so at least they're addressing that there is a problem when it comes to some, um, claimants.
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These are some of the reforms that have been needed for years upon years.
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Um, recall that, uh, the former prime minister, Justin Trudeau, uh, basically didn't apply this
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rule at all, the safe third country agreement, the entire debacle at Roxham Road for years upon
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years, we had a steady stream of migrants just walking across our border to be met by police and
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CBSA officers, putting them in buses and taking them to Montreal or Toronto.
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Um, like, like, yes, they finally closed that, but after years upon years of it happening.
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Um, so what, what do you make of these specific changes, uh, with regards to Bill C2?
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Well, as you say, I, I approve of tightening up the asylum
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The, you know, I, I have read as I, as I, as I think you have also that there are potentially
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aspects of the bill that, that could be susceptible to, um, constitutional, uh, challenges and which
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may be, uh, uh, on the wrong side of, uh, civil liberties questions.
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Um, if that's the case, you know, that, that would be unfortunate, but this is the reason
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why we should never allow ourselves to get into this position whenever the balance of public trust in,
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in, in, in, uh, policy, uh, is, is, uh, disrupted.
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There's always a reaction that has to go in the, in the opposite direction.
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And, you know, what the liberals did in the previous, in, in, in, you know, in the last,
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uh, uh, 10 years, uh, was to wear out public trust, to wear out public trust to the point
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where, um, some would say an overreaction, uh, is, is required.
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And, you know, this is not, this is not the position that, that, that, that we should be in.
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And it's not a good one to, you know, it, it can have potentially disastrous effects for,
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for civil civil, for civil liberties or for people who, you know, are, I don't know,
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I'm not sure. Like, there's a lot in there that seems to pertain to forcing people to hand over
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documents. You know, this, like the, it's not hard to foresee how that, how that could,
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how that could, uh, could go wrong, but keeping that equilibrium of, you know, a relatively generous,
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uh, uh, immigration system with one that the public is willing to support and tolerate,
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or at least not, uh, complain about, you know, that has been completely thrown out of whack.
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And that's why we are at this point, uh, right now. Now I, I can easily foresee
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some very difficult conversations and debates that will go on about this bill.
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Um, not, you know, from conservatives who, who are in favor of tighter, uh, who are in favor of a
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tighter regime, but who may, you know, be uneasy about, um, increasing, uh, government powers.
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And conversely, there, there will be the, the, the, the, the sort of inverse from, um, uh,
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more left-leaning organizations who would prefer to, to things to, things to, to, to go the opposite way.
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So the liberals are potentially open to a great deal of uncomfortable criticism and, uh, you know,
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sort of awkward, awkward political fights in the, in, in the coming weeks over this. Uh,
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so, you know, I wish them the best of luck in, in sorting this out, but the bill that we have before
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us right now may not be the one that eventually, uh, you know, gets, get, gets passed and so forth.
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But the answer to this problem is, you know, not to have got into this position in the first place.
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And, you know, for this, like, you know, the Trudeau regime is going to have to, uh, take most of the
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Well, it seems that the liberals aren't really getting the memo that Canadians want real change
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with immigration. You had a piece over in the hub saying it was time to basically drastically
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overhaul, totally overhaul our immigration system. I hope the liberals will go on over
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and read that because I agree. I don't understand why we have these temporary workers. I, I do see
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that there are industries that say that there are labor market labor shortages. Great. Let's train
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and hire Canadians to do those jobs. There is a lot of, there are a lot of young Canadians that are
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looking for work, looking for a career, and we should do a better job matching Canadians to industry
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as opposed to just importing a third world, uh, which we get all kinds of problems, uh, from that.
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Well, Michael, I really appreciate your time and your insights. I encourage everyone to go
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read Michael Bonner's piece over at the hub. Thanks so much for joining us today.
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All right, folks, we have an exciting bonus episode of the Candace Malcolm show coming out
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later this evening. I sit down with premier Danielle Smith, Alberta premier, and that is going to be
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streamed live at 8 PM on Juno news. You need to be a premium subscriber in order to watch this. I
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encourage you to head on over and check that out. It is going to be a great interview. All right, folks,
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