Juno News - July 29, 2026


Juno News presses Carney and Smith on illegal international students, Carney left clueless!

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Mark Carney Danielle Smith Alexa Poza Juno News
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00:00:00.000 Hi everybody, Alexa Poza with Juno News. I'm here on location at Red Deer, Alberta, where
00:00:04.700 Mark Carney just made a housing announcement. Now with being independent media, getting here
00:00:09.820 is half the battle. Getting my question in was very difficult, but it appears as though
00:00:13.760 Mark Carney isn't afraid to answer tough questions from the independent media.
00:00:18.560 Now I asked him about international students and how they're protesting here in Alberta
00:00:24.020 because they felt a rug was pulled from underneath them for not getting work permits after spending
00:00:29.080 tens of thousands of dollars on their education but what do you say to people who say with
00:00:33.080 canada's too full we need to slow down the immigration okay that is good question like
00:00:38.600 canada's too full okay you guys are right so i'm just curious if they do say no to your temporary
00:00:44.120 to your bid to stay will you go home it's depend on that time because first my thought and our
00:00:50.440 all-friend thought is like to just gain three years experience which we are not even getting
00:00:54.600 it's a very important question though is like will if the if the government says
00:00:58.740 okay you guys are your times up will you go home I don't know like why are you
00:01:07.380 asking like this kind of question it's just because it's a lot and that's why
00:01:10.140 you guys are here protesting but after asking him that question it appeared as
00:01:14.100 though he has no idea what's going on in our country regarding that however
00:01:19.040 Premier Daniel Smith essentially said if you don't have a legal work permit you
00:01:24.860 need to leave Prime Minister are you prepared to deport the students of
00:01:28.540 Portage College who are hunger-striking to stay in Canada despite having no
00:01:32.720 permit to remain and to Premier Smith are you prepared to start to certifying
00:01:36.560 diploma mills in Alberta I'm not familiar with a specific case I'm afraid
00:01:42.200 and I would but so and we have we have processes to make those decisions and
00:01:48.720 they need to be they need to be followed and if people are not here you know if they don't have
00:01:54.200 authorization to stay in there don't have right to claim asylum then there's a process that would
00:01:59.680 be followed but I'm not familiar with the details of the question our view is that if you come here
00:02:04.620 as an international student and your visa expires and you don't have permanent residency you need
00:02:08.440 to go home but it also goes to the prime minister's earlier point that if those students have the
00:02:14.260 skills that we need then we're best positioned to be able to offer them permanent residency
00:02:18.180 At the moment, we only have 6,400 spots.
00:02:21.340 I think we've got 40,000 people who have sought permanent residency from us,
00:02:25.860 and so that's why I think we need a bit of a better balance.
00:02:29.080 Quebec is able to choose about 45,000 of their permanent residents through a different program.
00:02:34.860 And so if you're looking at the scale, we think that we need to be able to have more autonomy to do that.
00:02:39.540 And then that would allow us to address some of the pressures that we're hearing about in the news
00:02:43.000 and also make sure that those who go through those programs with the hope of getting permanent residency
00:02:48.100 As long as we can identify a pathway where there's a job that is one that cannot be filled by an Alberta worker,
00:02:55.060 then I think that we can work with the federal government to find more opportunities for us to make those choices.
00:02:59.520 What brought you out today?
00:03:01.420 I am for Alberta independence.
00:03:05.320 I want to just sow support for that and I want Carney to see that.
00:03:11.880 I hope I get to see him.
00:03:13.880 I hope he realizes that we're serious here.
00:03:16.580 my mom passed five years ago back in Windsor Ontario we were the first ones
00:03:22.820 in Canada back at Canada that stood up we blocked one lane and we got thrown in
00:03:30.380 jail what not beaten up what not but nothing compared to what happened to 0.93
00:03:36.860 your coots men and when mom passed and then when the Canadian government said 1.00
00:03:41.620 we're not allowed to travel I just said to myself what am I doing I've got to 1.00
00:03:46.520 travel across all of our provinces and i got through six of them and i'm still standing up
00:03:51.960 and i don't know if i'm going back to ontario i don't think i am i've been in alberta
00:03:56.760 for the last two years standing up for all of our provinces and territories to stand in
00:04:03.720 independence and especially to stand up for our children mother earth animals and us all
00:04:10.360 blessings to you all and if you had one message to mark carney what would that be
00:04:16.520 I wouldn't be very nice. I would like to see him change but I don't think he will and I want him to know we mean it. We're serious out here in Alberta.
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