Juno News - June 06, 2025


Immigration Minister EXPOSED as totally clueless, 817K newcomers in 4 MONTHS + D-Day Tribute


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169.21463

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267

Misogynist Sentences

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Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:05.240 We have an excellent episode for you today.
00:00:07.840 We have Dr. Michael Bonner here to talk about immigration.
00:00:10.540 We're going to do a deep dive and talk about a whole bunch of different areas to do with
00:00:14.680 immigration, but first I want to stop and pause for a moment to recognize that today
00:00:19.860 is June 6th, which is D-Day.
00:00:22.400 It is one of the most important days in Canadian history.
00:00:25.660 And so three years ago on this show, I did a tribute to D-Day and to specifically Juno
00:00:31.860 Beach.
00:00:32.200 I don't think I can do any better today, so I'm just going to throw to a clip of the
00:00:37.040 tribute that I did back then.
00:00:39.040 Let's play that clip.
00:00:39.880 On June 6th, 1944, after months of planning, the Allied forces launched what was called
00:00:45.160 Operation Overlord, the invasion of Western Europe, which had suffered under Nazi occupation
00:00:50.180 for four years.
00:00:51.160 At the time, the Allied forces were fighting across Italy, but with one foul swoop, the
00:00:56.300 Allied armies created a new Western Front against Hitler's forces designed to ease pressure
00:01:02.000 from the Eastern Front and weaken the Nazi war efforts.
00:01:05.860 Operation Overlord, which was launched on D-Day, June 6th, was a coordinated attack against
00:01:11.100 the Nazis along the beaches of Normandy, a 100-kilometer stretch of the French coastline across
00:01:17.020 the English Canal from Great Britain.
00:01:18.560 At the time, it was the largest seaborne invasion in military history.
00:01:22.980 Allied infantry and armored divisions from Canada, the U.S., and Great Britain began landing
00:01:27.280 on the coast of France at 6.30 a.m.
00:01:29.920 The Normandy coast was divided into five sectors, Utah and Omaha, where the Americans landed,
00:01:35.340 Gold and Sword, where the British landed, and Juneau, where our Canadian troops launched
00:01:40.260 and were landed.
00:01:41.380 As you might imagine, the young men who landed there were under heavy fire from gun emplacements
00:01:45.740 overlooking the beaches, and the shore was mined and covered with obstacles such as wooden stakes,
00:01:50.680 metal tripods, and barbed wires, making the work of the beach-clearing teams difficult and
00:01:56.120 dangerous.
00:01:57.040 Canada suffered some 961 casualties on that one morning while disembarking at Juneau Beach.
00:02:04.080 The Normandy landings marked an unprecedented war effort, unmatched at the time.
00:02:08.360 There were nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft vessels, carrying approximately 160,000 troops
00:02:15.000 who crossed the English Channel on D-Day, with 875,000 men disembarking by the end of June,
00:02:22.080 including 14,000 Canadians.
00:02:24.420 Allied casualties on the first day alone were 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead.
00:02:31.060 Now, of course, this turned out to be a major turning point in the war, and by the end of
00:02:36.120 August 1944, the Allies had reached the Seine River, Paris was liberated, and the Germans
00:02:41.880 began retreating and were removed from northwest France, effectively concluding the Battle of
00:02:47.060 Normandy.
00:02:47.800 The Allied forces then prepared to enter Germany, where they would meet up with Soviet troops
00:02:51.880 entering from the east.
00:02:53.620 Again, the Normandy invasion began to turn the tide against the Nazis, a significant psychological
00:02:58.900 blow, it prevented Hitler from sending troops from France to build up his eastern front against
00:03:04.560 the advancing Soviets.
00:03:06.080 The following spring, on May 8, 1945, the Allied forces accepted the unconditional surrender
00:03:12.200 of Nazi Germany, and the efforts of the Canadians and the Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy
00:03:17.920 were a clear turning point in the war and in the effort against fascism in Italy.
00:03:24.300 Now, today, for this very special edition of the Candace Malcolm Show, I'm just so
00:03:28.820 delighted to be joined by someone who was there, someone who fought and nearly died, someone
00:03:33.640 who saw it all with their own eyes to defend Canada.
00:03:36.660 I'm speaking with Mr. Jim Parks.
00:03:38.520 He is a true Canadian hero.
00:03:40.580 Mr. Parks enlisted in the Canadian military at the age of 10.
00:03:44.540 He joined the cadets, and then at the age of 16, two years before he was eligible to enlist,
00:03:49.160 Parks joined the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
00:03:51.880 After enlisting, Mr. Parks began his training, first in Canada and then in the UK, which would
00:03:56.660 last more than two years.
00:03:58.280 Jim had five brothers who served in the Second World War, and his father and his uncle both
00:04:02.880 served in the First World War.
00:04:05.040 So there he was on June 6, 1944, exactly 78 years ago.
00:04:09.780 Today, he was part of the very first wave of Canadian soldiers to land on Juneau Beach
00:04:14.180 in Normandy, France, and heroically beat the Germans.
00:04:17.100 Mr. Parks and his fellow soldiers would eventually push the Germans town by town over the months
00:04:22.040 with intense fighting that would result in significant Canadian casualties.
00:04:26.300 By the war's end, Mr. Parks would find himself in Germany, having successfully liberated the
00:04:30.960 Netherlands and pushing the Nazis into total defeat.
00:04:34.180 There are very few Canadians who deserve the recognition and honour as a true Canadian hero,
00:04:39.000 more so than Mr. Jim Parks, my guest today.
00:04:42.080 We are extremely lucky to have him on the show.
00:04:44.980 So Mr. Parks, thank you so much for joining our podcast.
00:04:47.760 Thank you for being with us, knowing the sacrifices that you made, where you were, the importance
00:04:52.820 of your role in shaping the country that we now enjoy and that we're so privileged to live
00:04:58.220 in.
00:04:58.500 So thank you so much for joining the podcast.
00:05:01.020 God bless you.
00:05:02.160 And thank you again for everything.
00:05:04.860 Well, thank you very much.
00:05:05.860 It'd be nice to have you.
00:05:07.020 Now, as you can see, I interviewed Jim Parks.
00:05:10.720 Jim Parks is a tremendous, remarkable person.
00:05:13.280 And I'm happy to report that he's still with us.
00:05:16.120 He recently turned 100.
00:05:18.280 And so back then when I interviewed him, he was 98 years old.
00:05:21.180 It was three years ago.
00:05:22.480 And it was an incredible interview.
00:05:24.340 I urge you to go over and watch the entire interview.
00:05:27.500 We will link that below.
00:05:28.900 And let me tell you that that tribute and that interview influenced me so much that that
00:05:33.800 is why I named this organization Juno News.
00:05:36.660 It was based on that reporting that day, that interview, and just the importance that this
00:05:42.340 day had on our country, our nation, Canada, really became the country it is today because
00:05:47.020 of those efforts during the Second World War.
00:05:49.920 Obviously, there were other important moments, important battles, both in the First World
00:05:53.700 War, Vimy Ridge comes to mind, and the Second World War.
00:05:56.260 But really, the way that the Canadians fought had an outsized impact on the outcome of that war
00:06:03.320 happened that day, D-Day today, that we pay homage to 81 years ago today.
00:06:08.700 And I definitely urge everybody to go watch that interview and take a moment to pay respects
00:06:14.020 to those who fought for Canada, right?
00:06:16.260 The Canada of 1944 was obviously a very different country than it was today.
00:06:20.440 But the ideal that those men were fighting for should still inspire us and guide us today.
00:06:25.640 Okay, I want to switch gears a little bit and introduce Michael Bonner, our guest.
00:06:30.480 So Michael is an author, political consultant, and a former policy director with the Ontario
00:06:35.320 government.
00:06:36.140 We're going to talk all about immigration.
00:06:37.700 So first, Michael, welcome to the show.
00:06:39.620 It's great to have you.
00:06:40.740 Pleasure.
00:06:41.120 Thanks for having me.
00:06:42.520 Okay, so let's start with the immigration minister who just appears absolutely clueless when
00:06:49.240 it comes to immigration.
00:06:50.440 So yesterday, in question period, Michelle Rumpel-Garner, the MP from Calgary, asked
00:06:55.640 a very reasonable question about immigration, just asking a very simple question.
00:07:00.860 And the newly appointed immigration minister, Lina Dabb, accused her of lying and spreading
00:07:06.880 misinformation.
00:07:07.500 Let's play that clip.
00:07:09.000 Why did the Liberals bring half a million foreign students to Canada during a massive housing
00:07:13.840 shortage and while youth in Canada can't find jobs?
00:07:16.760 The Honourable Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.
00:07:21.640 Mr. Speaker, thank you very much for that question.
00:07:25.420 The, those figures are inaccurate.
00:07:28.740 It's misinformation.
00:07:30.520 So that, isn't that just a typical response from a Liberal?
00:07:33.860 Like, I don't like the numbers, so I'll just accuse you of lying and spreading misinformation.
00:07:37.900 Well, unfortunately for Ms. Diab, the immigration minister, Michelle Rumpel came back with this
00:07:43.900 doozy.
00:07:44.780 I got those numbers from the minister's website.
00:07:48.280 I went on the website and I read them.
00:07:54.120 So in the middle of a housing crisis, she brought 500,000 people to Canada.
00:08:00.280 These people compete with Canadians for jobs, require housing and health care.
00:08:03.700 However, if her department's numbers aren't the real numbers, what are the real numbers?
00:08:12.160 The Honourable Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.
00:08:16.980 Mr. Speaker, let me give, let me give the opposite member a lesson on immigration and
00:08:24.360 on numbers and on permits of visas.
00:08:27.600 There's many applications and many individuals.
00:08:31.540 We recognize that to balance our immigration and to balance and to, and have a good country,
00:08:37.960 we need temporary and we need permanent residents.
00:08:41.500 So she's quite animated there, but I don't think she's really making the point she's trying
00:08:45.660 to make.
00:08:46.160 She's trying to say that what Michelle Rumpel-Garner doesn't really understand immigration and the
00:08:50.360 reality is that we need temporary workers and permanent, but she doesn't really explain
00:08:54.200 why that's the case.
00:08:55.580 To me, I mean, that was just shows how totally clueless she is.
00:08:58.800 She was totally exposed for being clueless, not only about the numbers in her own department,
00:09:03.740 but also wildly out of touch with Canadians with regards to like what we want from our
00:09:08.400 immigration system.
00:09:09.440 Michael, what do you make of it?
00:09:10.740 Yeah, I would agree.
00:09:11.720 I mean, there's sort of the general sort of garden variety in competence, but there's also,
00:09:18.480 you know, if we want to be charitable, we can allow for the fact that she's still being
00:09:21.880 briefed up or, you know, not fully on top of the file.
00:09:26.260 But I see all of that as secondary to a more fundamental problem, which is that the way
00:09:31.920 immigration numbers are presented to the public is really untransparent, opaque, confusing.
00:09:42.520 And, you know, the levels are set in a sort of quasi-secretive way by cabinet and so forth.
00:09:51.320 What it means to have, you know, what exactly is temporary, in fact, about temporary immigration?
00:09:58.900 You know, all of this stuff is sort of unclear.
00:10:03.720 And as you say, the case for this stuff is pretty dubious if you actually sort of get into
00:10:10.600 it.
00:10:11.240 Multiple people might be or sort of a single individual might be holding multiple visas.
00:10:18.120 And, you know, that number can be sort of confusing.
00:10:22.460 People can disappear and go underground and what have you.
00:10:25.580 But, you know, the numbers that get presented to the public when it comes to, you know, how
00:10:30.640 many people actually come here every year, you know, whether we're talking about permanent
00:10:35.420 residents, student visas, temporary foreign worker permits and so forth, you know, depending
00:10:46.400 on how you present this information, you can either fudge it to make it look like there are
00:10:50.900 far fewer people in the country, which I think is what she's trying to do there.
00:10:55.580 Or if you actually look at the number of the number of permits and persons that are that
00:11:01.820 are on the books at the moment, the number is significantly higher than I think most Canadians
00:11:08.980 would be would be comfortable with.
00:11:11.500 Right.
00:11:11.640 Well, I think survey after survey shows that Canadians almost unanimously want immigration
00:11:16.200 to go down significantly.
00:11:18.240 This is True North reporting over at Juneau News just a couple of days ago.
00:11:22.640 Canada took in eight hundred and seventeen thousand new immigrants in the first four months
00:11:27.000 of twenty twenty five.
00:11:28.200 And to your point, Michael, this sort of like opaque, like, you know, they have different
00:11:32.000 targets, they have different numbers, they have different streams.
00:11:34.360 Right.
00:11:34.600 So it's like, OK, they'll say how many permanent residents come in and that's what they consider
00:11:38.620 immigration.
00:11:39.120 But then on top of that, they have temporary foreign workers.
00:11:41.340 And on top of that, they have the student the student workers.
00:11:44.520 And so when True North tallied that all up, we got eight hundred and seventeen thousand.
00:11:50.160 The thing I want to go back to with the minister's point there is somehow she's like talking about
00:11:55.660 how Canada needs both temporary and permanent immigrants.
00:12:00.260 I think this is totally counter to what the liberals have long advocated for.
00:12:04.180 Right.
00:12:04.260 When Justin Trudeau became prime minister, one of the first things he did was make it
00:12:08.460 much, much easier to become a citizen.
00:12:10.560 They cut the number of days you had to be in Canada.
00:12:12.540 They cut the language requirements for almost all immigrants.
00:12:15.700 They made it easier in every single way.
00:12:17.760 And the justification was that they want the people in Canada to be like fully bought into
00:12:22.340 the Canadian community and culture and society.
00:12:25.220 They didn't want two tiers of people.
00:12:26.880 They didn't like the idea that you could come and leave.
00:12:29.280 Like they wanted everyone to have a pathway to citizenship and for it to happen quickly.
00:12:32.780 And so the case for these temporary foreign workers and for the students, it doesn't align
00:12:40.160 with it.
00:12:40.980 I think that post-COVID, Canada was experiencing a serious sluggish economy and Justin Trudeau
00:12:48.260 needed fast growth.
00:12:49.660 And the easiest way to do that is just to open up the doors and let in as many people
00:12:55.100 as they can find and basically say anyone who wants to come can come.
00:12:58.620 We saw millions of people come to Canada that way.
00:13:01.440 And yes, it boosts GDP, like just increasing the number of people in the country will increase
00:13:06.080 the GDP.
00:13:07.020 But actually GDP per capita has been trending downwards.
00:13:10.440 And so it's sort of like, you know, it was a cheap, cheap trick to try to boost the economy.
00:13:14.700 It didn't work.
00:13:15.640 And recall that Justin Trudeau actually came out and apologized and recognized that they
00:13:20.400 let in too many people.
00:13:22.240 This was back in November 2024.
00:13:23.820 Let's play that clip.
00:13:26.040 Immigration.
00:13:27.240 Let's talk about it.
00:13:28.320 In the last two years, our population has grown really fast, like baby boom fast.
00:13:33.720 Increasingly bad actors like fake colleges and big chain corporations have been exploiting our
00:13:39.140 immigration system for their own interests.
00:13:41.460 So we're doing something major.
00:13:42.840 We're reducing the numbers of immigrants that will come to Canada for the next three years.
00:13:47.760 So, like if they announced that they made a mistake and that they were increasing it,
00:13:52.780 yeah, Justin Trudeau blames other people, but it's his system that he set up.
00:13:56.440 Like, why is it that here we are six months later and we're still experiencing those incredibly
00:14:01.320 high numbers of immigration?
00:14:03.220 Yeah.
00:14:03.420 If only our economy could run on apologies from Justin Trudeau.
00:14:07.880 You know, we might all be, you know, rich by now.
00:14:10.560 But the per capita thing that you just mentioned is at the heart of the problem.
00:14:19.100 And I think that a lot of politicians, and as far as I can tell, you know, the entire media,
00:14:26.120 you know, don't understand what per capita means.
00:14:30.060 But the kind of GDP growth that we have had, as you allude, is not the kind that we need.
00:14:38.600 What we need is greater productivity in this country, which would normally imply a much higher level of skill
00:14:52.220 being deployed within the economy.
00:14:56.800 A huge number of temporary foreign workers being brought in at the low wage,
00:15:05.420 low skill end of the economy has, has had an extremely depressing effect on, on, on wages.
00:15:16.200 And it has priced, you know, priced Canadians out of those, what are normally considered entry level jobs,
00:15:26.760 especially in something like the service industry.
00:15:30.320 I completely reject the idea, and I think most Canadians would agree,
00:15:36.180 that there's anything about that equation that we actually need.
00:15:40.940 We don't need that.
00:15:43.600 What we need, if we, if we need immigration at all, it's at a higher skill level and at a higher wage.
00:15:50.380 Okay, that is what we had until, for the most part, until, you know, comparatively recently.
00:15:59.460 And what Trudeau has left out of his explanation or apology there is that the, the avoidance,
00:16:09.200 you know, the, the avoidance of, of a recession or, you know, the, the kind of temporary boost
00:16:16.500 to, to, to, to GDP or to economic growth that we had is, is kind of like, uh, you know,
00:16:23.560 a drink in the morning to, to, to, to, to ward off a hangover.
00:16:27.740 You know, it hasn't, it hasn't addressed the, the problem.
00:16:31.780 Our economy has suffered since at least the early, uh, 1970s from underinvestment, low productivity,
00:16:41.360 in fact, decreasing productivity and the per capita GDP has been slowly, uh, declining with
00:16:49.660 maybe tiny bumps to, to, to, to the contrary along the way, but the general trend has not been,
00:16:55.820 uh, positive.
00:16:57.660 And, you know, the, the, the net, the net result is the, the kind of sluggishness and, and, um,
00:17:06.100 almost like a kind of stagnancy that we all feel right now.
00:17:11.240 The solution has nothing to do with bringing in more, uh, low wage, um, cheap labor.
00:17:20.360 That is, that is the equivalent of an unhealthy government subsidy to unproductive, uh, un, un,
00:17:29.400 un, unproductive, uh, businesses that don't want to invest in, in Canadians.
00:17:34.240 It's that simple.
00:17:34.880 Well, and it doesn't seem like the government is really listening because I think that, I mean,
00:17:41.200 I mean, from my perspective, Canadians have just had enough of open border immigration.
00:17:45.860 They want change.
00:17:46.780 We saw Bill C2 introduced to crack down on some asylum seeker, seeker, uh, cheats.
00:17:52.600 And we'll talk about that in a moment, but I want to just point to, uh, this chart that
00:17:57.880 was sort of going viral on social media.
00:17:59.920 So the account Mario Narfal, which is one of the biggest news accounts on X.
00:18:04.220 He posted that Canada's immigration graph just turned into a rocket ship.
00:18:08.260 Canada's bringing 2.5 million people by 2025.
00:18:10.420 It's the biggest peacetime immigration spike ever for a country of its size.
00:18:13.600 The chart literally goes vertical after 2021.
00:18:15.780 Blink, the population jumps 25%.
00:18:18.100 Now, I think that Mario might have misunderstood what, um, what, what was happening this year
00:18:22.780 in 2025.
00:18:23.340 Um, but the graph is like, like the original graph from Stats Canada looks like this.
00:18:29.660 It's the same graph.
00:18:30.440 It just, the one that Mario had added a year that I don't think he quite understood the
00:18:34.400 real immigration numbers.
00:18:35.440 So this is what the Statistics Canada graph looks like from 1952 to 2023.
00:18:40.780 Like, it just doesn't make any sense that we would have this spike.
00:18:44.400 Nobody's asking for this.
00:18:45.660 In fact, during the election, Mark Carney even walked away from it.
00:18:49.460 And yet we're, we're still getting those wild numbers.
00:18:52.200 Earlier this week, we, uh, uh, the liberals tabled a new bill, see, uh, bill C2.
00:18:57.620 We talked about it in depth yesterday with constitutional lawyer, John Carpe, and some
00:19:01.120 of our concerns when it comes to civil liberties.
00:19:02.760 But the purpose of the bill was to crack down on, in some ways, to, to, to, to, to help fix
00:19:09.620 the border, to strengthen the border, protect the border, uh, to meet the demands of our
00:19:14.400 American counterparts.
00:19:15.400 And one of the things that I think is actually a step in the right direction is the changes
00:19:20.180 for asylum seekers.
00:19:21.580 So I'll just go through a little bit of what the bill actually did.
00:19:24.780 The Strong Borders Act, um, that was, that was tabled by the liberal government this week.
00:19:28.460 Uh, one of the things it does is it puts time limits on asylum claims.
00:19:31.560 So there is a one year limit for in Canada asylum claims.
00:19:34.920 I mean, honestly, I think there should be like a one day time limit.
00:19:38.460 Like if you, if you, if you're actually fleeing persecution and you come to Canada, you should
00:19:43.060 probably just declare refugee status or ask for refugee status the moment you get here.
00:19:47.520 Um, instead what, what, what we're seeing happen is people come on visas and then their
00:19:51.800 visas are about to get revoked or run out and they can't renew them.
00:19:54.600 So they just make an asylum claim after being in Canada for like five years is really just
00:19:57.900 a way to game the system.
00:19:59.140 So this is saying a one year limit asylum claims made more than one year after an
00:20:03.500 individual's arrival in Canada, uh, will not be referred to the immigration refugee
00:20:07.520 board, the IRB for a hearing.
00:20:09.340 And so this is at least a step in the right direction.
00:20:11.840 There's also a 14 day deadline for us border entrance, even though, I mean, hello, the whole
00:20:16.800 purpose of the safe third country agreement is that there should be zero applications coming
00:20:20.920 from the United States border.
00:20:22.000 So for a 14 day border, uh, uh, 40 day deadline for us border entrance is interesting because
00:20:28.100 it's kind of saying, okay, well, we don't actually really care about the safe third country agreement.
00:20:31.960 Uh, anyway, the bill also strengthens the safe third country agreement.
00:20:35.960 So it introduces a measure to prevent circumvention of the safe third country agreement, which mandates
00:20:40.020 that asylum seekers make their claim in the first safe country.
00:20:44.340 Uh, maybe you can help me understand what, what's happening there.
00:20:47.520 Um, next, they also have enhanced control over immigration documents.
00:20:52.360 And so at least they're addressing that there is a problem when it comes to some, um, claimants.
00:20:57.580 These are some of the reforms that have been needed for years upon years.
00:21:01.460 Um, recall that, uh, the former prime minister, Justin Trudeau, uh, basically didn't apply this
00:21:07.780 rule at all, the safe third country agreement, the entire debacle at Roxham Road for years upon
00:21:12.660 years, we had a steady stream of migrants just walking across our border to be met by police and
00:21:19.060 CBSA officers, putting them in buses and taking them to Montreal or Toronto.
00:21:23.380 Um, like, like, yes, they finally closed that, but after years upon years of it happening.
00:21:28.180 Um, so what, what do you make of these specific changes, uh, with regards to Bill C2?
00:21:34.100 Well, as you say, I, I approve of tightening up the asylum
00:21:42.660 regime.
00:21:43.300 I approve of that in principle.
00:21:46.820 The, you know, I, I have read as I, as I, as I think you have also that there are potentially
00:21:54.580 aspects of the bill that, that could be susceptible to, um, constitutional, uh, challenges and which
00:22:02.260 may be, uh, uh, on the wrong side of, uh, civil liberties questions.
00:22:08.660 Um, if that's the case, you know, that, that would be unfortunate, but this is the reason
00:22:16.660 why we should never allow ourselves to get into this position whenever the balance of public trust in,
00:22:23.060 in, in, in, uh, policy, uh, is, is, uh, disrupted.
00:22:29.300 There's always a reaction that has to go in the, in the opposite direction.
00:22:34.100 And, you know, what the liberals did in the previous, in, in, in, you know, in the last,
00:22:40.820 uh, uh, 10 years, uh, was to wear out public trust, to wear out public trust to the point
00:22:48.180 where, um, some would say an overreaction, uh, is, is required.
00:22:54.260 And, you know, this is not, this is not the position that, that, that, that we should be in.
00:23:00.340 And it's not a good one to, you know, it, it can have potentially disastrous effects for,
00:23:06.420 for civil civil, for civil liberties or for people who, you know, are, I don't know,
00:23:12.340 potentially tourists crossing the border.
00:23:14.020 I'm not sure. Like, there's a lot in there that seems to pertain to forcing people to hand over
00:23:18.820 documents. You know, this, like the, it's not hard to foresee how that, how that could,
00:23:23.620 how that could, uh, could go wrong, but keeping that equilibrium of, you know, a relatively generous,
00:23:31.140 uh, uh, immigration system with one that the public is willing to support and tolerate,
00:23:36.740 or at least not, uh, complain about, you know, that has been completely thrown out of whack.
00:23:42.020 And that's why we are at this point, uh, right now. Now I, I can easily foresee
00:23:49.300 some very difficult conversations and debates that will go on about this bill.
00:23:53.940 Um, not, you know, from conservatives who, who are in favor of tighter, uh, who are in favor of a
00:24:03.060 tighter regime, but who may, you know, be uneasy about, um, increasing, uh, government powers.
00:24:10.020 And conversely, there, there will be the, the, the, the, the sort of inverse from, um, uh,
00:24:18.900 more left-leaning organizations who would prefer to, to things to, things to, to, to go the opposite way.
00:24:26.580 So the liberals are potentially open to a great deal of uncomfortable criticism and, uh, you know,
00:24:33.140 sort of awkward, awkward political fights in the, in, in the coming weeks over this. Uh,
00:24:40.580 so, you know, I wish them the best of luck in, in sorting this out, but the bill that we have before
00:24:45.220 us right now may not be the one that eventually, uh, you know, gets, get, gets passed and so forth.
00:24:52.420 But the answer to this problem is, you know, not to have got into this position in the first place.
00:24:57.940 And, you know, for this, like, you know, the Trudeau regime is going to have to, uh, take most of the
00:25:02.980 blame.
00:25:03.940 Well, it seems that the liberals aren't really getting the memo that Canadians want real change
00:25:09.620 with immigration. You had a piece over in the hub saying it was time to basically drastically
00:25:15.380 overhaul, totally overhaul our immigration system. I hope the liberals will go on over
00:25:20.980 and read that because I agree. I don't understand why we have these temporary workers. I, I do see
00:25:25.700 that there are industries that say that there are labor market labor shortages. Great. Let's train
00:25:31.060 and hire Canadians to do those jobs. There is a lot of, there are a lot of young Canadians that are
00:25:35.300 looking for work, looking for a career, and we should do a better job matching Canadians to industry
00:25:40.900 as opposed to just importing a third world, uh, which we get all kinds of problems, uh, from that.
00:25:46.500 Well, Michael, I really appreciate your time and your insights. I encourage everyone to go
00:25:50.260 read Michael Bonner's piece over at the hub. Thanks so much for joining us today.
00:25:53.540 Pleasure. Thank you.
00:25:54.900 All right, folks, we have an exciting bonus episode of the Candace Malcolm show coming out
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