Juno News - November 12, 2024Libs have NO plan to deal with IMPENDING migrant crisis
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As we near a second Donald Trump presidency, Canadians are growing anxious about an impending number of migrants. That s because Trump has promised to clean up America and send illegals packing. As the threat of deportation looms for migrants in the U.S., illegals south of the border will no doubt start looking for a new home where they can access free shelter and benefits. And Canada is only too obvious a choice.
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As we near a second Donald Trump presidency, Canadians are growing anxious about an impending
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number of migrants. That's because Trump has promised to clean up America and send illegals
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packing. As the threat of deportation looms for migrants in the U.S., illegals south of the border
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will no doubt start looking for a new home where they can access free shelter and benefits. And
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Canada is only too obvious a choice. After all, the federal government is currently spending $208
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a day per asylum seeker. So it's probably no surprise that 18,000 people claimed asylum in
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Canada in just June alone. In the past two years, we've seen an increase in so-called asylum claims
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of nearly 300%. So what's Ottawa's response to this growing anxiety among Canadian citizens?
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Nothing, really. Federal ministers claim to have a plan, but provide no details. They
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also insist that controlling the border is, like, really important. Unless we see a change
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in government soon, we are, as the kids say, totally cooked. I'm Rachel Parker, and you're
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Hey, everyone. I'm Rachel Parker. Welcome back to The Rachel Parker Show. Today, we are going to take
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a look at Donald Trump's plan to send illegals packing in the United States and how that could
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impact us here in Canada. I'm sure you guys have seen lots of speculation online. Reporters in Ottawa
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have started grilling the appropriate ministers about their plan to deal with a likely impending
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flood of migrants over to Canada, and they have really not been able to provide any specific details
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to the Canadian people. So let's take a look at all that today, starting with Donald Trump's plan
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to deal with illegal migrants in the United States of America. So he has a whole bunch of different
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parts of this plan. His deportation efforts, first of all, start with something called immediate action.
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So they're going to be taking a focus on the worst first, and that means targeting individuals with
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criminal records, national security threats, and public safety threats. Another part of the plan
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refers to priority on recent arrivals. That refers to targeting migrants who have arrived in the United
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States of America in the past two years. Those are labeled as illegal migrants who have no place in the
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country. I suspect that you guys might have seen some of the imagery of the United States southern border
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with Mexico. There's been video footage at times that have just shown hundreds and hundreds of migrants
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running in, running across the border, and you can see the border agents standing there. They have been
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made essentially powerless to do anything about this because of the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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administration and their policies on the border. And so this would really focus those illegals who came
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in under Harris and Biden with no repercussions and were essentially welcomed into the states with a flood of
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benefits awaiting them. That also, Donald Trump will also be targeting those benefits. He's going to be
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cutting federal funding that currently benefits undocumented immigrants, including federal aid to
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sanctuary cities. This is intended to restrict financial support and encourage self-deportation.
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So yes, obviously, the Trump administration is going to be sending federal agents throughout America
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to collect illegals, especially those with strong criminal records. But by cutting some of this funding,
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they're hoping that illegals will say, you know, the situation has changed over here,
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we no longer have access to free food, we no longer have access to free housing,
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we are going to pack up our bags and go move somewhere else. And of course, the fear among
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Canadians is that they are going to flood into Canada, where we still have these federal programs
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that essentially pays migrants to be here and to leech off the system. The Trump administration also plans to
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invoke the Alien Enemies Act. That's a 1798 law that allows presidents to deport or detain aliens deemed
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a threat to national security. As part of this plan, Donald Trump has announced a new borders are to
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target deportation. So one of the big scandals of the recent presidential election was that Kamala Harris
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was given the title of borders are under Joe Biden. And then the United States of America saw a record
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number of illegals flood through the border. I just spoke about those, that image, those imageries
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that you saw of hundreds of migrants running across the border into the United States of America with
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no repercussions, border agents standing there powerless to do anything to stop them. Well, and then,
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you know, there was that whole situation during the election that the mainstream media tried to run
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cover for Harris saying, Oh, no, no, she was never actually the borders are, even then it had already
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been written into the record. There was, there was a lot of evidence of Joe Biden even referring to
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Harris as the borders are. So now Donald Trump has named Tom Homan, a former acting ICE director
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as the borders are to oversee the deportation operation and secure the border. Now the actual
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numbers is, is shocking. The United States estimates that there's 11 to 20 million undocumented migrants
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living in the United States of America at the moment. So this is going to be a very hefty job for
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Tom Homan. He certainly has his work cut out for him. America, like Canada, it seems to be in a bit
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of a state of total disrepair at the moment. And what we're seeing under the Trump administration
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is, um, well, the expected Trump administration with the appointments that he's already named is
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he's looking to hire people who really know their areas that they're experts in their areas and are
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taking this job seriously. And you understand that they were given, you know, a massive victory by the
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American people. And they certainly have the mandate to make these changes. Remember Donald
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Trump won all seven swing states. So he has a absolutely massive mandate to continue and proceed
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with the things that he promised. And we're seeing that with some of his appointments, like the appointment
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of Tom Homan as borders are, and we'll get into Tom Homan now and talk a little bit about who he is.
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So when we talk about people being air experts in their field, Tom Homan is a perfect example of that.
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He's a former American police officer. He's a former immigration official
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and he's a political commentator. He also served during the Obama administration and the first
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Trump administration administration. Sorry. He served as acting director of the U S immigration
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and customs enforcement, otherwise known as ice from January, 2017 to June, 2018. And he advocates
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for the deportation of undocumented immigrants and opposes sanctuary city policies
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within the Trump administration. He was among the most strident proponents of separating children
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from their parents as a means of deterring illegal entry into the country and curbing human trafficking.
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Okay. So when we talk about what we're seeing in the United States, we obviously have a huge
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push from progressives like Bernie Sanders, like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, like the Clintons now,
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and, you know, people like Congresswoman AOC, who really advocate for these insanely progressive
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polities, things like sanctuary cities, things like welcoming migrants across the border without any
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vetting, and then paying for them for their benefits, paying for them to be put up in hotel rooms,
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giving them in some cases, giving them visas where they can essentially go prepaid visas, where they can
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go and buy what they want with it. You know, giving them brand new clothes, giving them new shoes.
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On the opposite side of that spectrum, you have someone like Tom Homan, who, among, you know,
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sort of the establishment American class, would be considered quite controversial for his strong
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stance on immigration. And I think this just shows how far the scale has slid in terms of
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conservatives and liberals or Republicans and Democrats. That his views, you know, a few years
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ago would have been considered maybe a little bit to the right, maybe slightly mainstream. And now he's
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considered quite radical in this field. But that is essentially what we need to see in both America
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and in Canada, we need to see a radical response to the flood of migrants who are coming to our
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countries. And, you know, leeching essentially off of our benefits and our systems and our generosity.
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And, you know, the Trump administration is promising to take this seriously. It was obviously a
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pinnacle campaign promise during the presidential election campaign. But our fear is that over here in
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Canada, we do not have serious political leaders, we do not have a political will in Canada to begin
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deporting these migrants. And I don't know that the situation is going to get any better. And now with
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the United States taking this so seriously, it's all too easy for migrants in the states, illegals in
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the states to head up to the board to the United States shared border with Canada and walk across.
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And in some cases, they will be detained temporarily. But it is all too easy for them to claim asylum
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status. And you know, to be put up in a hotel and to have their food paid for until they you know,
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they seek a pathway to permanent residency here in Canada. So Tom Homan, I said he's someone who's
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going to be taking his job very seriously. Take a listen to this clip of him in an interview with Fox
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News a while back, you can see here that this is someone who he's not beating around the bush,
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he is being very plain and direct about how he views illegal immigration. And it is refreshing
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to see somebody with this much candor being appointed to a position with as much power as
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the borders are. Take a listen. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was out stumping for Bernie Sanders
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in Iowa. Let's take a listen to what she had to say on Saturday.
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Organizing is about tipping people off if you start to see that ICE and CBP are in communities
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to try to keep people safe. I'm here because Senator Sanders has actually committed to breaking
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up ICE and CBP. Tom, your thoughts on that statement?
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It's ridiculous. It's an extremely stupid statement made by somebody I never considered real smart
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anyways. But here's the elected lawmaker. She's a congresswoman standing on the stage
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telling people how to obstruct ICE, tipping off people that ICE is looking for. And she needs to
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realize 9 out of 10 of everybody ICE arrested last year was a convicted criminal or pending criminal
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charges. Let me talk about last year. 137,000 criminals, 2,000 were murders, 12,000 sex offenses,
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45,000 assaults, 62,000 drug offenses, 10,000 weapons offenses. And she wants the community to tip
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these people off the ICEs in the neighborhood operating. You know, ICE's job is already extremely
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dangerous. Now she's making it more dangerous. You know, and she's one of these Democrats keep saying
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no one's above the law. The president is above the law. We need to impeach the president because
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he's not above the law. But apparently illegal aliens are above the law because ICE isn't allowed to
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arrest him. It's a ridiculous statement. I love those kind of disarming attacks.
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Most of all, he basically, you know, calls it for what it is. He says it's stupid.
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And then he explains why AOC's logic doesn't really work out. She's always talking about how
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the president shouldn't be above the law. She believes that illegal migrants in the United
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States of America are above the law because they can cross the border into a country where they
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shouldn't have access and they don't have citizenship. And then they can commit all these crimes.
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And she doesn't want them to be held responsible for the crimes that they commit.
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Okay. So moving to take a look at Canada, what are Canadian politicians saying about this impending
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threat of migrants flooding to Canada? Well, some people are already raising the alarm.
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We have Quebec Premier Francois Legault, who says that is something he's concerned about.
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You guys are going to want to make sure that you're looking at the video version of this,
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which I know most of you do to hear what he has to say. Take a look at the Quebec Premier.
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We have 600,000 immigrants temporarily in Quebec. It has doubled for two years. It has
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been causing important impacts on the employment market. We have already had a slowdown in the
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way, but in the last few years. In the last few years, we don't want to see, in plus, an
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arrival massive of immigrants who come via the United States. Because that could really
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balance the market of employment. And already, our capacity of support, our capacity of
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to be over-percentage. But with the asylum seekers, we are really at a point where it's really
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over-percentage, our capacity to over-percentage. So we're going to get in touch with the federal
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government. It's the responsibility of the federal government to protect our borders.
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Okay. So for those of you that are listening to the audio version, Quebec Premier Francois Legault
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says that we have 600,000 migrants in the province currently, an amount that has doubled in the past
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two years. And we, as a province, are already totally overwhelmed in our ability to intake and
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integrate these asylum seekers. We do not have space for any more. And it is already starting to
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destabilize the job market. And any additional migrants would totally destabilize that job market.
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And then he implores the federal government. He said, this is the federal government's
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responsibility to ensure that we are not overwhelmed with a flood of asylum seekers. So you can hear him
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there imploring the federal government to make sure that they are making these changes and that they
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have a plan to deal with what everyone rightly suspects will be a flood of migrants at our shared land
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border with the United States of America. So this is something that has been atop most people's mind.
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It was also something that federal ministers up in Ottawa were grilled about the day after the U.S.
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presidential election, Wednesday morning, and federal ministers were pressed on their plans
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and their thoughts on a potential flood of migrants at our land border. And they really didn't have
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anything much to say about it. They gave some vague platitudes, the type that were not reassuring to
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me at all. And I'm sure it won't be reassuring to you because it seems even when they do have a very
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specific plan of action, they really struggle to implement that. So when it's vague platitudes,
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we know that it is essentially meaningless. Here's Chrystia Freeland responding to some of the questions
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about what she plans to do about controlling the border. She says that it is, quote, really important.
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Thanks for the question, Mackenzie. And again, what Americans choose to do, what America's
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incoming elected administration chooses to do in the United States is a decision for Americans and
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American leaders. The decision for Canadians and what's important for Canadians is to control our own
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border. And that is something that's really important. It's fundamental. And I do want to assure
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Canadians that we absolutely recognize the importance of border security and of controlling our own border,
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of controlling who comes into Canada and who doesn't. And we will do that.
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Well, she said that she was trying to reassure you guys. Do you feel assured?
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She thinks that controlling the border is really important and that Canadians want to ensure that
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they know and get to decide who's coming in. So why hasn't that been happening for the past decade
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under the Liberal government to the point where in the past two years, we've seen a flood of asylum
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seekers of increasing in 300%. Again, the Liberals could have expected that this is something that they
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would have been questioned about in the follow-up of the US presidential election. There was only two
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possibilities of who was going to win. Either we were going to have Kamala Harris and we would not see
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a change in border policy in the US because as Kamala Harris already stated in an infamous and explosive
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and possibly the most detrimental interview she did on the campaign trail was that she can't think of
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anything she would do differently than Joe Biden. So the Liberals could have assumed that border policy and
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immigration policy in the US would have stayed the same under Kamala Harris. It isn't that much to
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think, oh well, if Trump wins one of his major campaign promises, deporting illegals, I'm a federal
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minister, Canadians are so concerned about immigration right now, I should be prepared to respond to this.
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But like in so many things in Canadian politics, the Liberals seem so unprepared to deal and respond to the
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most obvious questions, the most obvious concerns that are top of Canadians mind. I think that's why
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we're seeing a 20-point increase for the Conservatives consistently, it's because the Liberals are so out
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of touch with what matters to Canadians and they continue focusing on these outrageous social policies
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and their climate initiatives that don't impact us and don't address our concerns at the moment.
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So it's clear from watching that that Chrystia Freeland does not have a plan to respond to potential
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migrants flooding in across the US. Federal Immigration Minister Mark Miller was also asked
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about what his thoughts on illegals showing up at the border of Canada and the United States. Here's what he had to say.
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I'm an important partner and they have a democratic process that we fundamentally respect. When it comes
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to immigration, when it comes to the work that I do, I've spent the last 18 months making sure that we
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have an immigration system that is disciplined, that is controlled, that has a controlled flow of
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migrants to this country, that work will continue. Our interests are aligned with the US in making sure that
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we have a northern border that is secure and that has a managed flow of trade and and that'll continue.
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This will always be an issue of making sure that for us what is in the best interest of Canada and
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So totally doesn't answer the question. I also love how both Miller and Chrystia Freeland started
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off with saying, well, you know, this long-winded answer about respecting the United States process
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and how the US has the ability to determine their own policy. Yes, we know that. No one was arguing about
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that. You don't need to start off talking to us like we're two-year-olds. We understand that the
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United States is its own country with its own defined border, its own government that will
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make policies to benefit that country. That's not the issue at hand here. The issue at hand here is
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whether your, as our government officials, are going to deal with a potential impending border
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crisis at our land border with the United States of America. And they're not able to answer that
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question there. Instead, they give these platitudes about how Canadians want to ensure they know who's
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coming into the country and that the border is already controlled. Well, we know the border isn't
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under control. We know that because of how much the government is spending on asylum seekers who are
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currently living in Canada. We're living in hotels that we, the taxpayer, are putting them up there
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to pay for and to feed them, which I would say is inappropriate basically at any time in Canadian
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history, but especially now when we continuously see how the Canadian people are suffering under the
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weight of inflation. It's not just me saying this. The Canadian Mounties are also on high alert
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as they prepare for a potential flood of migrants. Take a look at this next clip.
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All of the eyes are on the border to see what's going to happen in the next few hours,
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So there's Sergeant Charles Poirier of the RCMP base in Montreal, who said that they are paying
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attention to what's going to happen. He even starts by saying in the next few hours, meaning in the
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immediate hours that was taken on Wednesday after Trump was elected president last week,
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seven days ago, in the immediate hours after Trump was elected president, the RCMP were already aware
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to be on high alert. That's because they can read and they follow the news and they realize that,
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like I mentioned before, there is only one of two outcomes for the US presidential election.
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One, which would signify a dramatic shift in US immigration policy starting in January when Trump
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is inaugurated as president. And so, you know, they were already prepared to have a response.
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Why were our liberal officials, some of the highest paying, highest paid politicians in Canada,
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not prepared to respond to this in the immediate aftermath of the presidential election?
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That is the question we should all be asking ourselves, why they couldn't have prepared a
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response for something that is top of mind for most Canadians right now.
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we talk about the cost to Canadians. I just wanted to go over some of these numbers for you guys so
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you can realize exactly how severe this is. Yes, I mentioned that we are spending $208 a day per
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asylum seeker that we are housing in Canada right now. But let's actually dive into some of the numbers
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a bit more specifically. This is from the Epoch Times. Ottawa spent more than $100 million on hotel
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rooms for asylum seekers in Niagara Falls alone over a year after nearly 5,000 individuals were
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transferred to the city between February 2023 and February 2024. Then the IRCC said the average cost
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for asylum seeker is $208 per day. That includes rooms, meals, services, and security. That security
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part is really noteworthy to me. Why are we paying for them to have security? I don't even have security and
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I'm like a right-wing conservative commentator who would be considered like fairly controversial
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in some circles. I don't know why these refugees need security. That is bizarre. So that is in
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Niagara Falls alone. And part of the reason that so many of these asylum seekers were sent to Niagara
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Falls is because Quebec basically said we're full and we don't have any more space for them. So the
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federal government decided to start housing them in Niagara Falls. And if you go look through Niagara
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Falls reviews of hotels, you'll see that it is crippling the hotel industry because nobody wants
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to stay in Niagara Falls hotel anymore because of how overrun they are. That last line there,
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it said that in some cases, six people were being housed in one hotel room. Typically a hotel room,
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you know, there's room for anywhere from one to four people to sleep with four already being considered
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pretty packed. And that would mean that there's already two people sleeping on the floor of a likely very
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small hotel room or even a motel because there's many motels in Niagara Falls. You know, the issue
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here is not that we need to be leasing more hotel rooms for these asylum seekers. It's that we need to
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be telling them, sorry, we're full. You're going to have to find somewhere else to go. The other question
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that I often ask myself, and I think we've seen sort of like a change in narrative from a lot of,
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I think even like Indian students who are coming to Canada as they'll kind of report to people back at home,
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and they'll be like, don't come. It's really expensive. Like the quality of life here is a lot
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lower. It's like, I have to wonder, like for the people who are coming here and living in hotels,
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if they were like, oh yes, this is everything that we thought it was going to be. Canada is also an
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extremely cold country. So typically in the winter, a lot of Canadians spend a lot of time inside.
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I live in Alberta. So like a good six months of the year, you spend most of your time outside.
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If you're someone who doesn't like the cold, like I do.
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So for these people who are oftentimes coming from warmer climates, you know, I have to think
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that I just can't imagine they're here and be like, oh, this is everything I've ever wanted and more.
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Now, the last little tip of information that I wanted to share with you guys is when we talk about
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this flood of migrants expected at the shared Canada-US land border, we're already hearing
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initial reports that migrants in New York are making plans and are currently headed to Canada.
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So this is from an account on X called Viral News New York City. Actually, my friend Leroy runs the
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account. So he does amazing coverage in New York City of the migrant crisis. As you guys know,
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New York City has been absolutely flooded with migrants. So I trust him. And basically he reported,
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I was told by a source at a migrant shelter that buses are pulling up at certain times of the hour and
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picking up migrants and driving them to Canada. I'm being told a majority of the migrants leaving are
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from Venezuela. I messaged him about this. And I said that I wanted to share it on the show today
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and asked him if he had any or more information to share. And he said, an African migrant tipped me
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off about this and told me they are leaving because they are scared of Trump, which is exactly what we
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all expected. This is not rocket science. We all see this coming, everyone apparently, but our liberal
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government, who was totally unprepared to respond to those questions and those concerns, who obviously do not
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have a plan in the immediate aftermath of the US presidential election. And to be honest, I suspect
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their plan would probably be to welcome these migrants with open arms and to continue forcing
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billing the taxpayer to put these migrants up in hotels when we really can't afford it in Canada right
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now. Let me know what you think in the comment section below. Do you think that the liberal
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government will take this problem seriously? Or do you suspect what I said is true, that we will continue
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being billed to house these asylum seekers in hotels all across the country?
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Okay, now I want to take a few minutes and respond to some of your comments from last week
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when I interviewed the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, President John Carpe,
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who is just a brilliant scholar in his field. I really enjoyed having him on the show to share his
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insight on digital IDs. I reported last week that the federal government and federal bureaucrats are
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quietly working on a plan to develop a national digital ID system. You guys are definitely going
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to want to go check out that episode if you haven't yet. The first comment said, do not comply. So there
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was a lot of comments that basically said, do not comply. I think if it was a situation where we were to
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actually see a digital credential system being pushed across the country, that would be a time for us to
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get rid of our smartphones. Like that would be a time for us to be like, oh, sorry, you know, I don't have a
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smartphone. I can't access those types of things. Sort of like when you go into a store and they don't
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allow you to pay with cash, like I'm very often tempted to leave. And if I can get the specific
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thing I'm looking for someone out somewhere else, I typically will leave. You know, for cash is one
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of those things, if you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And then they're going to usher in this
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age of people only having credit cards. And that will further bolster a digital ID system where
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everything that you do is tied to your digital ID, even to the point where your credit cards could be
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turned off and you wouldn't be allowed to buy certain things. Such as, for example, if they
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start following your carbon footprint, oh, well, you've bought too much, your carbon footprint is
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too high this year. Sorry, we're going to turn off your ability to buy anything else until your carbon
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footprint is a little bit lower. That's sort of the fear with a digital ID. And so when people talk
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about do not comply, I think if it were ever to the point that we had to, I think people would need to
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be willing to give up, you know, a lot of their technology, a lot of the luxuries that we have today
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to ensure that we are not essentially forced to live like slaves to the federal government.
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Something I always think is funny is like for parking nowadays, like when you're in the city
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and you have to pay for parking basically everywhere now seems to have gotten a lot worse.
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I feel like when I was growing up, it was like occasion, the occasional time you'd have to pay
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for parking in the city. Now it's basically everywhere you go. And even in smaller municipalities
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that have no business paying for charging people to pay for parking, you have to pay for parking.
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I think it's something that I saw a lot of places usher in during COVID probably to make
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up some of the money that they lost having so many of their services being closed. But it just
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bothers me. And nowadays, so often you have to pay on your iPhone or like you have to pay on your
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smartphone. And I always think about like, what about the old people that don't have smartphones?
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My grandparents certainly don't have smartphones. I'm always kind of tempted to just be like,
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oh, no smartphone. I can't pay. But I usually risk not paying when I park in the city anyways.
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Don't do that in Calgary. In Calgary, they're like always there really quickly. Not worth it.
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Okay. And then someone else commented on our last week's episode, is Trudeau trying to lose? That's
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the question that I keep asking myself. And even with a story like today, like the liberal government,
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it would be so easy for them to prepare a comprehensive response to Canadians anxieties
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about illegal migration being even worse than it already is because of Trump's plans to deport
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illegals. It would be too easy for them to come up with a comprehensive plan to address those anxieties.
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And with there being so much concern about migration, I think that would really help them
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in the poll numbers. For any liberal pundit who's listening to me right now, Christia Freeland,
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this is something that you could do that would actually help your case. If Canadians
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saw what you were doing and said, oh, the liberal government's actually taking immigration seriously,
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and they're not going to let our country be overrun by migrants trying to escape
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Trump's deportation. That is something that Canadians could get behind. But the liberals won't do it
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because it's something that actually impacts Canadians, something that Canadians actually care about.
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And they don't have any interest in making policies to benefit you or I. Often seems more like they are
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trying to drive this country into the dump, if you ask me. I say the same thing about the Alberta
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government, like obviously fairly popular right now, but I think a really easy thing a Danielle Smith
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government could do to improve her popularity among her base and among the general population is to do
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some of those tax breaks that we were promised when she ran during the provincial election here in 2023.
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We were promised an income tax break. We were promised relief at the fuel pumps. We haven't
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seen either of those things. And it's such an easy policy to push for that would be so popular. But
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I think they're just unable to do it because of how much the Alberta government is spending right now.
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Seems like the politicians often miss the most obvious things.
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All right, everyone, that's all we have time for today. Don't forget to let me know in the comment
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section below what you think the liberal government will do. Are they going to take this threat seriously?
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Are they going to welcome migrants into Canada and expect you, the taxpayer, to pay for their security,
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food and hotels? I will see you guys next week. I hope that you have a great rest of your week and God bless.