Juno News - August 27, 2024


Justin Trudeau REVERSES mass immigration agenda


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Justin Trudeau announces major cuts to the temporary foreign worker program, and threatens to reduce the number of permanent residency numbers as well. Is Justin Trudeau finally abandoning mass immigration after 9 years of mass immigration? Or is it time to slow things down now that Canadians have been pushed to the brink?

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00:00:00.000 Being able to welcome in people from around the world, particularly at this time of labour shortages, is good for our country.
00:00:05.800 There is no better time to hire and invest in Canadian workers.
00:00:11.740 These immigration levels allow us to bring in the skills and talent we need to fill the labour gaps.
00:00:17.040 We're looking at a number of options that, frankly, Canadians have been talking to us about on the permanent residency numbers.
00:00:30.000 Is Justin Trudeau finally abandoning mass immigration?
00:00:33.520 Well, at a cabinet retreat in Halifax yesterday, Justin Trudeau, it appears, decided that after nine years of mass immigration,
00:00:40.380 it may in fact be time to slow things down now that Canadians have been pushed to the brink. 0.58
00:00:45.400 Before a massive expose in the Toronto Star was to be released, which we will get into later on in the show,
00:00:50.660 about how the federal government intentionally fast-tracked the hiring of temporary foreign workers,
00:00:55.520 Justin Trudeau attempted to get out in front of the situation and put an end to all of the cheap foreign labour fun for corporate Canada.
00:01:04.260 Now, not only is the federal government now announcing major cuts to the temporary foreign worker program,
00:01:09.000 it also appears that the federal government is prepared to cut the permanent residency numbers as well.
00:01:14.580 15% of Canada's entire population has been added since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister.
00:01:20.160 That is simply an outrageous amount of people in a small country like ours.
00:01:25.900 Canada's population has never grown so fast, and now all of a sudden, it seems that the federal government is taking a major U-turn.
00:01:33.420 But the question remains, why?
00:01:35.940 Well, we're going to get into all of that on the show today.
00:01:38.600 But before we do, be sure to drop a like on this video, help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel,
00:01:43.380 and the comment question for the episode is this.
00:01:45.940 Would the federal government have reversed mass immigration if the Conservatives had fought this issue years ago?
00:01:53.840 Let me know your answer in the comments below, and let's get into it.
00:01:57.260 Well, after intentionally putting Canada on a path of self-destruction,
00:02:01.860 of ballooning Canada's population at record paces and neglecting the needs of Canada's youth,
00:02:08.140 Justin Trudeau has decided that actually, when it comes to the temporary foreign worker program,
00:02:13.000 it's time for a major U-turn.
00:02:14.920 It was okay after the pandemic to suppress Canadian wages, neglect Canadian youth,
00:02:20.160 and stuff the pockets of Canadian corporations.
00:02:23.380 But now, now that Canadians are really upset about this situation, it's time for a U-turn.
00:02:28.560 Take a listen to his comments yesterday.
00:02:30.300 Today's economy is very different from what it was two years ago.
00:02:34.180 Inflation has started to come down, employment is higher,
00:02:37.200 and we no longer need as many temporary foreign workers.
00:02:41.300 We need Canadian businesses to invest in training and technology,
00:02:46.440 and not increasing their reliance on low-cost foreign labour.
00:02:51.800 It's not fair to Canadians struggling to find a good job,
00:02:54.700 and it's not fair to those temporary foreign workers,
00:02:58.120 some of whom are being mistreated and exploited.
00:03:01.420 Well, what are those changes going to look like exactly?
00:03:04.020 In a nutshell, employers will no longer be allowed to hire 20% of their workforce
00:03:09.080 as low-wage temporary foreign workers.
00:03:11.820 That number will be reduced down to 10%.
00:03:14.500 What are these corporations possibly going to do
00:03:17.080 when one in every 10 employees is a temporary foreign worker?
00:03:21.520 The changes also include the government refusing to process work permits
00:03:25.020 in industries where the unemployment rate is 6% or higher,
00:03:28.660 with exceptions in the seasonal food, agriculture, construction, and healthcare industries.
00:03:35.040 In a statement on Monday,
00:03:36.560 Employment and Social Development Canada,
00:03:38.660 the organization responsible for the mass expansion of the temporary foreign worker program,
00:03:44.280 criticized employers for refusing to hire talented Canadians
00:03:48.420 and being able to keep prices low by hiring temporary foreigners.
00:03:52.860 Now, that is the same government department
00:03:54.660 that actually rubber-stamped all of the hiring of temporary foreign workers.
00:03:58.840 So they're criticizing employers for taking advantage of a system that they started.
00:04:02.960 The same thing that Justin Trudeau is doing to employers.
00:04:06.180 There is no better time to hire and invest in Canadian workers.
00:04:11.900 But yesterday, Justin Trudeau's Employment Minister, Randy Boissoneau,
00:04:16.720 was desperately trying to defend the hiring of low-wage temporary foreign workers.
00:04:21.700 Some of the rhetoric out there is just downright unhelpful.
00:04:24.400 And we're talking about making sure that we have businesses in rural and remote Canada
00:04:27.600 that can actually stay open.
00:04:29.680 And if you're talking about 1 out of 10 workers,
00:04:32.820 or 2 out of 20 workers that actually keeps an inn working,
00:04:36.660 and that inn is the only restaurant in that community,
00:04:39.000 and that community is where the people who work to build that community reside
00:04:43.320 on a temporary basis while they're building up that community,
00:04:46.320 that's not something that I'm prepared as jobs minister
00:04:48.500 to see disappear in rural and remote Canada.
00:04:50.700 We'll get this.
00:04:51.500 The public pressure on the federal government to curb mass immigration 1.00
00:04:55.680 is so great that now we have Immigration Minister Mark Miller
00:04:59.120 announcing that he will be reducing permanent residency numbers.
00:05:03.880 I'd say, Marika, all options are currently on the table.
00:05:06.360 It's not a discussion that's been had by Cabinet yet,
00:05:09.600 but we're looking at a number of options that, frankly,
00:05:12.500 Canadians have been talking to us about on the permanent residency numbers.
00:05:16.100 Often at Cabinet we consider options that are pretty narrow.
00:05:19.580 This will be a broad set of alternatives to have a complete discussion on.
00:05:24.720 Look at where the country is currently, look at where the country is going,
00:05:28.640 and making sure that we adjust,
00:05:31.740 and so it'll include potential options on the upcoming year as well.
00:05:37.500 Last year, the federal government made history when it was announced
00:05:40.400 that they would be processing 500,000 permanent residency applications per year.
00:05:46.580 I'm pleased to share that Canada intends to maintain its target
00:05:50.560 of welcoming 485,000 new permanent residents in 2024 and 500,000 in 2025.
00:05:59.720 Starting in 2026, the number of newcomers we aim to welcome will stabilize at 500,000.
00:06:07.540 Because, of course, the argument we were being fed for years by the Trudeau government
00:06:11.260 was that there was a labor shortage that needed to be filled by immigrants,
00:06:15.580 that we needed to keep increasing Canada's population at record paces
00:06:19.440 because large corporations needed workers and Canadians weren't taking jobs.
00:06:25.680 Being able to welcome in people from around the world,
00:06:27.780 particularly at this time of labor shortages, is good for our country.
00:06:31.140 These immigration levels allow us to bring in the skills and talent we need to fill the labor gaps.
00:06:36.920 We're seeing right across the country the impacts of the labor shortage that we have,
00:06:40.780 whether it's in our health care system, whether it's small businesses
00:06:43.560 that can't stay open seven days a week like they'd want to.
00:06:46.700 We need more people.
00:06:48.100 Canadians understand the need to continue to grow our population
00:06:50.660 if we're going to meet the needs of the labor force.
00:06:52.500 And it's hard to find workers.
00:06:54.160 The reality is you don't need to dig into the stats to understand
00:06:58.040 that there was a million jobs available in the Canadian economy.
00:07:00.920 You need to walk down Main Street of any community in Canada.
00:07:03.620 You're going to see help wanted signs in the window.
00:07:05.700 So because of that, we're going to allow millions of international students into the country.
00:07:09.740 We're going to allow hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers into the country. 0.80
00:07:13.920 And we're going to welcome in half a million new permanent residents into the country each year.
00:07:18.480 For a better understanding and a visual as to just how quickly Canada's population has ballooned
00:07:23.960 over the past just four years,
00:07:26.080 economist Mike Moffitt, who was also one of Justin Trudeau's economic advisors,
00:07:31.420 put this tweet out yesterday.
00:07:33.520 And he wrote this,
00:07:34.520 At the end of 2024, we will only be through four years of this decade.
00:07:39.140 Despite that, Canada will have added more people to its population
00:07:43.160 than we did in any of the four previous decades.
00:07:47.580 And what has come from all of this growth?
00:07:49.740 Has Canada's economy boomed?
00:07:51.700 Well, actually, Canada's per capita GDP has been decreasing.
00:07:56.380 Crime seems to be increasing.
00:07:58.840 Do Canadians feel safe in their cities anymore?
00:08:01.480 I think we all know the answer to that.
00:08:02.920 Youth unemployment has skyrocketed.
00:08:06.320 Housing starts have actually managed to decrease.
00:08:10.180 So Canada's housing market has become even more difficult to break into.
00:08:15.000 Canadians are getting poorer.
00:08:17.080 Young Canadians are struggling to find work.
00:08:20.080 Young Canadians and, frankly, Canadians of all ages
00:08:22.620 are having extreme difficulty finding housing and being able to afford rent.
00:08:27.480 And I think it's pretty safe to say that social cohesion across this country has fallen apart as well.
00:08:34.440 So that's what we get with all of this population growth.
00:08:37.120 What a gift.
00:08:38.060 Thank you so much for this.
00:08:39.720 But where does this sudden U-turn really come from?
00:08:43.120 It certainly doesn't come from political opposition from the Conservatives.
00:08:46.980 They've basically been holding the Liberal government's hand with immigration over the past nine years.
00:08:51.760 It comes from grassroots public outcry.
00:08:55.160 It came from Canadian citizens, patriotic citizens, exposing the massive LMIA immigration fraud taking place in this country. 0.93
00:09:05.200 It came from Canadians relentlessly calling out mass immigration for the housing crisis taking place in our country.
00:09:12.500 I would say that a big shout-out for this massive change in public policy deserves to go to the patriotic Canadian citizen
00:09:20.820 who mapped out all of the positive LMIA applications given to employers in Canada on the LMIA map.
00:09:28.720 So Canadians could zoom in on their town or city and find out who was abusing the temporary foreign worker system.
00:09:35.300 And no doubt, a lot of it came from this Toronto Star expose into the temporary foreign worker program that was released today.
00:09:43.400 Government officers told to skip fraud prevention steps when vetting temporary foreign worker applications Star investigation finds.
00:09:52.660 According to this incredible piece of journalism from the Toronto Star, believe it or not,
00:09:57.300 I know it is in fact possible for them to do some good journalism.
00:10:01.260 This is one example of it.
00:10:02.460 From the Toronto Star's piece, according to internal ESDC documents obtained by the Star in interviews with a current ESDC employee,
00:10:11.740 routine checks meant to ensure the system is not abused by unscrupulous employers have been suspended in an effort to process applications faster.
00:10:21.160 Those checks include contacting employers to confirm they actually applied to hire a worker,
00:10:26.520 verifying that lawyers and consultants applying on behalf of employers are in good standing with their regulator,
00:10:31.480 and clarifying the overtime, vacation and benefits promised to the worker.
00:10:36.060 So the federal government didn't actually bother to do any checks into the temporary foreign worker program
00:10:42.600 before just fast tracking the applications and allowing the program to expand.
00:10:47.680 Allowing the program to expand to hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers.
00:10:52.860 Hundreds of thousands of workers who are being abused in many cases, are unaware of their rights,
00:11:00.840 are potentially and quite likely being paid under the table, being paid under minimum wage,
00:11:06.660 and suppressing the wages of Canadians, resulting in not only just harm to these workers,
00:11:13.080 but harm to Canadian people.
00:11:15.720 For what benefit?
00:11:16.800 Who wins?
00:11:17.440 I've tried to say this before, and I'll say it again.
00:11:20.380 Who wins in this situation?
00:11:22.120 It's not the Canadian people. 0.99
00:11:23.720 We know that.
00:11:24.600 It's also not the temporary foreign workers.
00:11:27.020 The winners are employers.
00:11:29.300 The winners are these large employers hiring these temporary foreign workers.
00:11:35.120 And when it comes to international students,
00:11:37.540 the winners aren't even the students.
00:11:39.900 The winners in this instance are the colleges and again the employers who have been allowed to hire these international students.
00:11:48.180 And the losers are all of us.
00:11:50.960 You know, in 2019, People's Party leader Maxime Bernier was the only politician to actually address mass immigration in this country.
00:11:59.540 It was a key policy point in his 2019 election campaign.
00:12:03.900 Say no to mass immigration. 0.99
00:12:05.580 Do you remember seeing these billboards around your city or maybe reading about them in the news?
00:12:10.620 Reading about how racist and divisive this messaging was?
00:12:14.920 That's what the legacy media tried to tell us about Maxime Bernier's message in 2019.
00:12:20.020 And that's also what the Federal Conservative Party tried to tell us as well about Maxime Bernier's message in 2019.
00:12:28.620 Because if you will recall, in 2019, the Conservative Party hired an outside PR firm to smear and attack Maxime Bernier as a racist for calling out mass immigration.
00:12:41.420 Not only did the Conservatives say nothing at all about immigration,
00:12:45.440 they actually went out of their way to attack the only party addressing the issue.
00:12:50.160 Have Conservative politicians actually really said anything at all about immigration?
00:12:55.580 The number one issue facing this country?
00:12:57.580 We know what Pierre Polyev has said about immigration.
00:13:00.960 He has repeated the line that Justin Trudeau has broken Canada's immigration system.
00:13:05.640 It was a convenient phrase for him to use to avoid actually addressing the issue and to say something,
00:13:11.940 but without any real substance, to say that the immigration system is broken.
00:13:15.660 In a French language interview, Pierre Polyev did say that the number of international students admitted into Canada would be lowered significantly.
00:13:22.940 After, of course, the federal government announced cuts to that program.
00:13:28.380 When it was unpopular in the legacy media and the political circles in Ottawa to speak about mass immigration,
00:13:36.260 but popular across the country to speak about immigration,
00:13:40.200 Pierre Polyev and the Conservative Party were nowhere to be found.
00:13:43.200 It's fair to say, actually, that the Conservatives never actually stood up with the majority of Canadian people
00:13:51.260 to speak about this issue back in 2022 and at any time, really, in 2023.
00:13:57.420 It's all kind of similar to what the Conservative Party did during the Freedom Convoy and during the pandemic,
00:14:02.580 if my memory served me right.
00:14:04.680 They waited until the public pressure, the bottom-up, citizen-led pressure,
00:14:09.740 forced the federal government to actually make a change before the Conservatives said anything at all.
00:14:15.560 Once Canadian citizens were sufficiently smeared as conspiracy theorists and the fringe minority,
00:14:21.700 when the ball had been put on the one-yard line away from the end zone,
00:14:24.760 that's when the Conservatives picked up the ball, ran the one-yard into the end zone, and celebrated a victory.
00:14:30.560 Now, are we going to see the same result?
00:14:33.800 Now that Canadians were attacked as racist and xenophobic and anti-immigration,
00:14:39.180 now that the public pressure has finally paid off on the government to actually do something about this,
00:14:43.900 are the Conservatives now finally going to speak about this?
00:14:47.340 What would have happened if, back in 2019, the Conservatives actually did address mass immigration?
00:14:52.960 What if this issue was mainstream back then?
00:14:55.880 Might Canada's per capita GDP have increased?
00:14:58.820 Would young Canadians be facing the unemployment issues that they are right now?
00:15:03.020 Maybe wages would have increased for low-skilled jobs, attracting young Canadians to these jobs. 0.99
00:15:08.380 Just maybe the housing situation might not be as bad.
00:15:12.200 It would have been nice to see the political opposition fight and oppose the government
00:15:17.000 when it was unpopular to do so, but the right thing to do.
00:15:20.840 Not just once the legacy media and the federal government themselves have already made the change.
00:15:27.620 But I guess we'll never find out.
00:15:29.980 All that being said, a victory is a victory,
00:15:33.020 and to those that have been fighting this issue for many years,
00:15:36.580 including Maxime Bernier,
00:15:38.920 this should feel like some major vindication.
00:15:41.940 All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us today on the show.
00:15:43.960 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:15:45.020 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.