Juno News - August 05, 2025


Mark Carney is looking more like Justin Trudeau every day


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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm and this is the Candace Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for
00:00:07.240 you folks. And I want to let you know that today's episode is sponsored by Unsmoke, but
00:00:11.660 more on them later. First, I want to drill in on a major deadline that happened last
00:00:17.980 week and over the weekend, which is that August 1st came and went and Mark Carney, Prime
00:00:22.800 Minister Mark Carney, did not negotiate a deal with President Trump and the Americans.
00:00:27.040 Remember that Mark Carney was elected on a promise. We were told that he was the one
00:00:31.880 that could get a deal with President Trump, that he was the one that could get through
00:00:35.540 to him. They called him the Trump whisperer and he was going to get it done for Canada.
00:00:39.600 Remember the whole elbows up campaign? Well, he failed to live up to that version of himself,
00:00:44.720 that promise, that campaign promise. He had high expectations. He set the expectations
00:00:49.320 high and then he let us all down. So we're going to go through that today and just talk
00:00:54.620 about the great disappointment that has been Prime Minister Mark Carney. So remember at the
00:00:59.960 G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta back in June, President Trump said that a trade deal could
00:01:06.180 be achieved within days. And Mark Carney said that the pair was working together to get something
00:01:12.060 done within 30 days. Let's play that clip. Do you think a deal is achievable within days,
00:01:18.240 within weeks? Is there that kind of runway? Yeah, it's achievable. Both parties have to agree.
00:01:24.020 Yeah, sure. Seeing progress that's been made, President Trump and I agreed to pursue negotiations
00:01:29.440 towards a deal within the coming 30 days. So usually you set the expectations low so that you can
00:01:36.340 overachieve, right? So you can go beyond people's expectation. Prime Minister Mark Carney did the
00:01:41.420 exact opposite. He set the expectations high. I want to read a little bit from Toronto Sun columnist
00:01:46.080 Brian Lilly, who wrote that Carney has failed to deliver on what he promised to Canadians. So he
00:01:51.280 says, how did Canada get to this point? We went from being a trade priority close to a deal with
00:01:55.840 Washington to not having a deal and not being a priority. Friday came and went and there was no
00:02:01.620 trade deal with Donald Trump. Mark Carney's point man on Canada-US relations, Dominic LeBlanc, left
00:02:06.920 Washington for Moncton, New Brunswick, a clear sign that the trade talks were not continuing in a
00:02:12.420 serious way. The Americans don't take weekends off if things are going well. Last week, by the way,
00:02:17.600 Trump announced trade deals with the European Union while he was on his golf course in Scotland
00:02:21.480 and his top trade negotiator, Garrison Greer, Damason Greer, was in Sweden doing trade talks with
00:02:27.840 China. And this past week in Washington, Canadian officials may have been in the American capital,
00:02:32.880 but they were not meeting with the top American officials. People like Greer were busy elsewhere
00:02:37.300 and they were relegated. Meanwhile, Carney couldn't even get Trump on a call. Yes, that's right.
00:02:45.060 Mark Carney was trying to get through to President Trump. Speaking to reporters on the eve of the
00:02:50.940 terror hike, President Trump said that he has not taken Mark Carney's call. Let's play that clip.
00:02:56.360 Canada moves forward with recognizing the Palestinian state. Is that a deal breaker?
00:03:01.100 Well, we're going to see. No, I didn't like what they said, but that's their opinion. I didn't like
00:03:06.120 that. Not a deal breaker, but we haven't spoken to Canada today. He's called and we'll see.
00:03:13.740 So President Trump doesn't want to take Carney's call. Why? Because Carney's off embarrassing
00:03:17.880 Canada by saying that they're going to recognize a terror state, a country run by terrorists,
00:03:23.020 and that is Palestine. Meanwhile, speaking on CBS's Margaret Brenner's Face of the Nation,
00:03:28.240 Canada's trade minister, Dominic LeBlanc, said that Carney had tried to reach out to Trump
00:03:32.600 and will hopefully speak to him in the next few days. Let's play that clip.
00:03:36.480 Any plans for the two leaders to speak? I saw President Trump said your prime minister called
00:03:41.920 them Thursday and they just never connected. I mean, are tensions that high? And given the changing
00:03:47.400 justification for the tariffs, do you really feel like you're negotiating with the other side in
00:03:53.760 good faith? Sure, we do. Of course we do. As I say, the conversations have been informative,
00:04:00.780 constructive and cordial. I would expect the prime minister will have a conversation with the
00:04:06.760 president over the next number of days. That's certainly my plan again with Secretary Lutnik.
00:04:12.200 It's embarrassing, right? Trump won't take Carney's call. Dominic LeBlanc goes to Washington and won't
00:04:17.660 even meet with his counterparts. He's meeting with low-level officials. They can't get them on the
00:04:23.720 phone. And so because we failed to meet that August 1st deadline, as reported by Juno News,
00:04:28.780 Carney fails to meet the trade deadline. And therefore, on August 1st, the White House imposed
00:04:33.580 a 35% tariff on Canadian exports not covered under the USMCA. Donald Trump signed executive order
00:04:40.820 raising tariffs from 25% to 35% on select Canadian goods, citing fentanyl trafficking and long-standing
00:04:47.820 trade loopholes. Not a good day for Canada. Not a good day for Prime Minister Montcarny. Okay. And to
00:04:56.160 discuss this a little bit more, I'm very pleased today to introduce a new guest on the show. But you
00:04:59.920 might be familiar with this individual because he's launched his own show here on Juno News talking
00:05:04.240 about Alexander Brown. So Alexander is the Director of Communications over at the National Citizens
00:05:09.600 Coalition. And he now hosts a show called Not Sorry on Juno News, which appears every Tuesday.
00:05:15.560 Alexander, welcome to the show. Great to have you on the program. Great to have you on the network.
00:05:20.120 Candace, thanks for having me. I've been a big fan of Juno and previously the work at True North. And so
00:05:25.860 to take my communications to your audience, to get to video podcasts with them and write for them as
00:05:33.080 well. It's a pleasure. Well, I was interested when I watched your first episode, I learned something
00:05:39.600 about the National Citizens Coalition. So Colin Brown started that organization. I think everyone
00:05:45.980 knows the National Citizens Coalition from the days that Stephen Harper led the organization. So Harper
00:05:51.420 ran the National Citizens Coalition from 1998 to 2002. But maybe you can share a little bit of the
00:05:57.740 history of the organization before Stephen Harper took over. Yeah. So it was, I'm a non-profit Nepo baby.
00:06:03.580 So it was founded by my grandfather in 1967 under Trudeau, the former, when there was wartime spending at a
00:06:13.480 time where we shouldn't have been spending that way, where business and taxpayers were starting to
00:06:20.240 realize, uh-oh, this guy doesn't know what he's doing. And so it's been a longstanding advocate for
00:06:25.360 the little guy for, for industry, for small businesses, for, for more freedom and less
00:06:32.420 government and, and has fought battles for decades on, on legal matters to, uh, election rights to
00:06:40.220 lowering your taxes and standing up for your personal freedoms. And very lucky to have Stephen
00:06:45.460 Harper as president, um, before, before finally becoming prime minister, which is a real feather in
00:06:50.500 the cap. And now I'm thankful for steering it. We're, we're running all kinds of campaigns. We ran a,
00:06:56.120 a really strong federal election advertising campaign. And right now really focusing on key
00:07:02.680 issues like, you know, helping get our energy to market, uh, giving people a voice to, to help fix
00:07:09.240 immigration, holding the Ontario provincial conservatives to account when they're not acting
00:07:14.240 all that conservative. And so it's, uh, it's a big task for all of us in the sort of common sense
00:07:19.860 community and, and, and building sort of a big tent to, to stand up for people who have,
00:07:25.260 who have been let down by government, particularly the last 10 years and, and proud of the work the
00:07:30.000 NCC does proud to stand up for our supporters and really thrilled to, to bring some of that, uh,
00:07:35.840 influence here. Well, that is excellent. And we're going to talk a little bit later in the show
00:07:39.800 about immigration is this one of the areas that's in your wheelhouse and it's great to see, uh, someone
00:07:44.820 else talking to you for years. I was, I felt like I was the only one on political, right. It was
00:07:48.720 constantly ringing the alarm bell about immigration and, you know, trying to blow a whistle on all the
00:07:53.400 many problems in the system. And so it's great, uh, to see you competently talking about those
00:07:57.900 issues as well, but I want to bring it back to prime minister Mark Kearney and how he's dealt with
00:08:03.360 the, the, the, the elephant in the room, which is, uh, president Trump, the tariffs and the trade deal,
00:08:09.380 because, you know, we were told that he was the Trump whisperer. He said during the campaign that he has
00:08:14.120 had experiences with president Trump, that he's negotiated with Trump, that he knows how
00:08:17.860 to negotiate with someone like Trump. And yet, I mean, I mean, what I've seen over the past six
00:08:23.040 weeks is just like a spectacular failing to even get in the same room as president Trump. Uh, it's,
00:08:29.020 it's humiliating, especially, you know, we, we learned that Trump announced a 90 day pause for
00:08:33.540 tariffs on Mexico. So Mexico is not going through this. It's just Canada. And rather than, you know,
00:08:39.380 trying to get on the same page with the Americans, trying to say, you know, we, we, we believe that,
00:08:43.540 uh, de-industrialization is a problem as well. We want to re-industrialize North America. Let's do
00:08:48.560 it together as a team. Um, instead, it seems to be alienating, uh, the president, just like Justin
00:08:54.540 Trudeau did before him. Uh, what do you make of all that? It's incredibly frustrating because it
00:08:59.120 ostensibly, it's why they won the election, that this is the steady hand. This is the guy you can
00:09:04.200 count on. Here's the Trump whisperer. They, they were buddy, buddy. They were the, he all but received
00:09:09.860 an endorsement for Trump as the preferred guy to work with. And that undercut, you know, years and
00:09:15.040 years of progress on the conservative side and pushed away all the concerns of, of, of many voters
00:09:21.500 who, who perhaps weren't lucky enough that Trump was their number one ballot issue. You can argue
00:09:28.260 it's a, it was a luxury belief because if you were struggling with housing, with, with crime in your
00:09:33.320 area, with, with healthcare needs, um, it, you know, pretty understandable that, you know, American
00:09:40.380 trade belligerence wouldn't be your number one issue. And so deeply frustrating to see that,
00:09:46.780 you know, we're not evidently getting anywhere. And then really frustrating to see that that might
00:09:51.860 not matter to a segment of the population, uh, who in some ways elbows up and the whole team Canada
00:09:59.140 thing was, was an excuse for them to, to run back the 10, you know, the last 10 years. And so
00:10:04.240 we got to work really hard to make sure that doesn't happen and, and to reach as many people
00:10:08.960 to, to prevent that from happening because elbows up, didn't work elbows down, hasn't worked.
00:10:14.560 You know, they've, they've done some smart things. Thanks to outrage from folks like us to, to,
00:10:19.640 you know, get rid of things like the digital services tax and, and some punitive measures, but,
00:10:24.820 but now we're just hurting people. Like our industries are just struggling. Like our, our,
00:10:28.080 our tit for tat stuff isn't working and we still got absolutely nowhere. So this can only be seen
00:10:33.960 as a failure. A hundred percent. And here is how Mark Kearney responded. He was, uh, in Vancouver
00:10:39.320 at the pride parade. And he said in response to us tariff hikes, he said that Canada is strong.
00:10:44.240 We'll continue to try to do something constructive with the Americans. Let's play that clip.
00:10:48.800 It's, uh, it's, uh, look, uh, Canada is strong. Uh, we can give ourselves far more than anyone can
00:10:54.880 take away. We're building this great country. I just met with the premier, uh, building BC,
00:10:59.280 building Canada, building in a Canadian way, uh, building sustainably, building together,
00:11:03.760 building positively. And that's what we're going to do. And yes, we will, uh, we'll come to something
00:11:07.760 with the Americans, something constructive with the Americans.
00:11:09.760 So this is, this is, you know, speaking of prime minister, Stephen Harper, right? The steady hand,
00:11:14.800 the economist, a competent leader. We were promised that with Mark Kearney, we were promised that he,
00:11:19.360 you know, he has a PhD in economics. He's a central banker. He's a steady hand. And instead it seems to me,
00:11:24.240 Alexander, that we're getting something more like prime minister, Justin Trudeau, uh, flamboyantly
00:11:29.120 at a, at a pride parade. I don't know if they intentionally had this, but this picture really
00:11:33.360 went viral of Mark Kearney embracing a man in a pink thong. I, I, I just, I can't believe that we
00:11:42.320 are at a place in our world and our civilization where it would be appropriate for the prime minister
00:11:48.240 of a G7 nation, a former central banker, an economist, uh, to, to, to be embracing, uh, physically
00:11:56.160 touching, um, you know, a man that looks like he's about to participate in some kind of a, I don't
00:12:02.960 even want to say, but like, you know, like we're, we're, we're celebrating public nudity and obscenity,
00:12:10.240 um, and you know, just unbelievable things, not, not, not family friendly, um, for, for our audience.
00:12:17.600 Uh, like how did, how, how did this happen and what did you make of that?
00:12:21.200 Well, I was worried you were going to show that photo. I'd kind of blocked it out from my memory
00:12:24.960 after seeing it yesterday, but it's, I think it's concerning that it just looks a whole lot
00:12:31.200 like the last few years because you have their failure to acknowledge that that parade was already
00:12:37.920 ground to a halt by a mob and by, uh, uh, offensive and, and, uh, one that sort of pilloried our, our
00:12:47.360 proud Jewish community. Uh, and yet you still have the window dressing of hugging naked people.
00:12:52.800 And you know, that's what the last guy did. That's what the last guy did. And even in,
00:12:56.560 in that interview before where he's speaking in front of camera, the guy who's standing behind
00:13:01.280 him is the architect of the Vancouver housing crisis. And he's proudly standing behind it. And that's
00:13:07.440 the guy that he wants to be his trigger man for evidently solving these generational crises. And
00:13:13.200 so that seems a lot like a Trudeau esque appointment. And then a day of Trudeau esque behaviors where,
00:13:19.920 you know, I got no problem with him, you know, marching in, in, in parades where, where folks
00:13:25.280 are wearing clothes and everyone's, you know, behaving themselves, but he's, he's doing the half naked
00:13:29.440 thing. He took a picture with a guy in like a, like a furry mask, which is, I'm glad most of your
00:13:34.800 listeners won't know what this is, but it's like a kind of fetish as well. And you're going,
00:13:39.760 this guy is the political instincts of a baked potato. Like he doesn't, he doesn't know how to
00:13:44.240 act in public with these folks. Trudeau was, would take pictures with, with every topless person he
00:13:48.640 ever saw. And so, gee, if you're sitting at home and you're frustrated and you feel like we're spinning
00:13:54.800 our wheels, that's going to look really familiar and not in a good way.
00:13:58.800 Trudeau Well, especially on the, you know, in the aftermath of the trade failure and the
00:14:04.080 spectacular fail of him to live up to his own image, we're going to get to the blocking of the
00:14:10.400 pride parades and the various intersectional feuds. In just a second, Alexander, I want to take a quick
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00:15:08.160 so the pride madness continues. Over at Pride, we showed how Carney hugged. I mean, I wonder if it's like,
00:15:15.680 maybe the people running his advance, maybe his comms team are like the same people held over from Trudeau,
00:15:20.240 and they didn't really get the memo that the new guy doesn't want to do the same kind of creepy,
00:15:24.000 gross stuff that the old guy did. Or, you know, maybe he just couldn't help it. But there was also
00:15:29.760 a cloud of controversy among these pride praises here. We've seen some past years, but it seems
00:15:34.480 like it has heated up. So we saw anti-Israel protesters block the pride parade. And this is
00:15:40.320 the problem with the various coalition of the extreme left is that they don't all get along. They
00:15:46.240 don't all agree with each other. They don't all believe in the same stuff. And for these people,
00:15:50.400 the anti-Israel, the pro-Hamasnic crowd, every issue has to be about them. They have to put themselves
00:15:56.320 in the center. And so here we saw some great reporting by the Western Standard.
00:16:01.120 This is not solidarity. Anti-Israel demonstrators clashed and blocked the Vancouver pride parade. So
00:16:07.760 for the second year in a row, anti-Israel demonstrators blocked the Vancouver pride parade,
00:16:11.760 bringing the fun and festivities to a grinding halt. Demonstrators stopped on Pacific Street,
00:16:17.200 placing a banner, no pride in genocide on the road. The group faced backlash for members of the crowd
00:16:22.000 and eventually kept moving. And you saw one exchange where two people were just yelling at each other,
00:16:26.480 like, hey, this is our event. This is our, you know, event that we have to celebrate our homosexuality
00:16:32.400 and pride and openness, whatever else. And shame on you for trying to make every single thing about
00:16:38.000 Palestine and Hamas. Let's play that clip. March with us. You didn't stop you from marching
00:16:43.520 in our parade, but you're blocking us from our parade. You never stopped participating,
00:16:50.240 but you're blocking us now. Shame on all of you. That is not solidarity. You're just showing your bullies.
00:17:01.200 I mean, I'm not going to disagree. I'm not going to sit here and take one side or the other either. I
00:17:05.520 find it amusing. Both these sides love to push your ideologies in our face. Both sides act like
00:17:11.440 bullies a lot of the time. But it was interesting to see someone calling out that behavior. What did
00:17:16.640 you make of it, Alexander? Yeah, it's I mean, I think it just tells you and Toronto had a similar
00:17:22.080 issue with sort of what some of these parades have morphed into when you have all these different
00:17:27.280 special interests and often federally subsidized special interests that become these kind of radical
00:17:33.360 groups, which is, you know, they the last few years, they started to see these blockades on on
00:17:38.720 the parade line, which which had never happened before. Like Pride in Toronto was always like a
00:17:42.800 pretty cohesive, you know, well run thing. And then I think it was like the BLM summers that they started
00:17:48.480 grinding to a halt. And then all these other activists don't know what to do because it's,
00:17:52.640 you know, you don't want to get yourself canceled because it's a real, you know, sort of trap,
00:17:58.320 you know, because the high wire act, right? It's a high wire act. They've limited their language so
00:18:02.080 much. And they're supposed to be these professional solidarity folks. Well, they all believe in being
00:18:07.520 allies, right? And they all want others to be allies. And it's funny that you mentioned Toronto,
00:18:11.280 because remember, during BLM, they banned police officers from attending. And it was I think it was
00:18:16.960 Chicago that invited Toronto police down because, you know, these are people that might want to
00:18:22.560 participate in something like this. And the fact that you don't have police and then, you know,
00:18:26.800 a blockade happens. Well, I don't feel bad that the police aren't there to help out when you ban
00:18:31.280 them from attending your, your parade. All the, all the ACAB people hate cops until
00:18:36.080 someone breaks into their house and they actually need them, you know, like it's,
00:18:39.360 there's no activist in a foxhole. And so it's really disappointing that it's, you know,
00:18:44.400 there's again, this like permissibility thing they've granted themselves where it's like,
00:18:48.880 we're these, we're these equity folks. We, we are just professionally aggrieved about all the
00:18:53.600 world's issues. And like, we can't stay over the target on like the one thing that is supposed to
00:18:58.480 really matter to us. Um, but it's okay if we, you know, if we discriminate against Jewish Canadians or
00:19:04.080 against, you know, whichever group that, you know, doesn't have this sort of permission slip in the
00:19:10.480 moment. And it's, it's not what it's supposed to be about. Like it's, it's, it, it was supposed to be
00:19:15.840 about this kind of first, second wave, you know, let's have equal rights and that's great. And we
00:19:22.480 should, and, you know, let's all come together and have a happy day. And now it is just about
00:19:28.800 this. It's a degree of indulgence and, and a degree of, of, of vanity in a sense, where it's,
00:19:36.320 just every problem imaginable and every real or perceived disability or disadvantage imaginable.
00:19:43.040 When it is, it was principally about everyone just kind of like being strong together. And now it's
00:19:47.520 just about like, what grievance can I use to, to gain more social clout over you? And that's not
00:19:54.960 good for anybody. And it's, it's certainly not good for Canadian society. Well, and this is happening.
00:19:59.840 I mean, here it is pride Montreal or fear to Montreal, uh, also banned Jewish groups from participating in
00:20:05.760 the march. So two Jewish groups said they've been excluded from participating in Montreal's upcoming
00:20:10.320 pride parade next Sunday, the, uh, Jewish LGBTQ plus group in Quebec and the center for Israel and
00:20:16.240 Jewish affairs, a large public political community, political organization. So they were informed by
00:20:20.880 the organizers that they would be barred from attending a public state statement from fair to
00:20:25.280 Montreal published later in the day, uh, does not name either group, but explain that the festival's
00:20:30.480 board of directors had made the decision to deny participation in the pride parade to
00:20:35.440 organizations spreading hateful discourse. Uh, so I guess just being Jewish is now, uh, a hate crime. I
00:20:42.720 don't know. Yeah. Because that hateful discourse, especially if you looked at these groups in the, in the
00:20:47.440 windows of permissible speech, they're even allowed to operate within some of that self-inflicted. It would
00:20:53.120 be like, Hey, we don't agree with everything. Like our, the Israeli government is doing that's word Jewish
00:20:58.880 Canadians. Let's have a nice day together. And that still wouldn't be enough. That would still be
00:21:03.440 hateful discourse, which kind of gives away that it's like, Oh no, it's just antisemitism. Like,
00:21:08.880 it's just what it is. We've seen it before. It's one of the world's great, ugly phenomenons. It, it, it,
00:21:15.120 you know, it's ugly head rears itself every, every decade or so. And we're sadly going through it again
00:21:20.880 because no, these groups are, they do walk the high wire act. They get, they get funding. They, they,
00:21:26.720 they say all the right things. They're, they're very progressive and they're, you know,
00:21:32.720 friends to all and welcoming and, and that, that isn't even enough tells you absolutely everything.
00:21:39.600 Yeah. A part of the problem, and I know you've talked about this, uh, before Alexander is that
00:21:43.520 when you come to Canada, you're kind of expected. I mean, I think that like the history of Canada is
00:21:48.480 you come, you integrate, you assimilate, you become Canadian and more and more people who come to
00:21:53.520 Canada are not given that message at all. And instead they're told to just sort of remain exactly
00:21:57.840 as they are. And so you have the Palestinian special interests and Arabs where their number
00:22:02.480 one issue, like ahead of any issue in Canada, their number one issue is about a foreign conflict.
00:22:07.920 One of the many problems with immigration. I want to talk to you about this story that came out from
00:22:12.080 Juneau news last week, temporary foreign workers now account for 19% of the private sector economy.
00:22:20.560 So one in five workers in the private sector is now not even a permanent resident, not even on track
00:22:27.120 to become a citizen to someone who's here temporarily to, I don't know, provide cheap labor for large
00:22:33.680 corporations or, or other groups that want that kind of worker in. And I, I mean, it's just, it's just
00:22:39.680 totally wild that that is the priority. That is the way that we are organizing our economy. What did you
00:22:44.320 make of this story? Yeah, it's, it's, we've never seen anything like it and on not sorry for, for
00:22:49.840 Juneau, I've got a big guest this week. I'm, I'm excited to, to share that episode and we're going
00:22:54.160 to really be going into that. But for example, like my wife and I, we were on the sunshine coast
00:22:59.200 of British Columbia this weekend. We live in Vancouver and we were up in Gibsons and, and went
00:23:04.640 further up the coast and out there because it's hard to get to, there's not some big highway. There's a
00:23:09.280 barrier to entry to things like the TFW program and, you know, let's be real, a litany of fake
00:23:14.960 schools. They just don't exist out there. And so you actually saw local kids, local 20 somethings,
00:23:20.640 local 30 somethings working in the jobs that they've always been able to work in before.
00:23:25.680 And you come back to Vancouver, you go to Toronto, you, you go to Calgary, Edmonton, that doesn't exist
00:23:32.320 anymore. And then we turn around, we see that 19% stat we see in cities like Toronto, youth unemployment
00:23:38.160 right now is estimated to be around 20%. It's probably higher. And we're failing to launch
00:23:45.520 these kids. They're at risk of not getting that foot in the door, not getting these sort of seminal
00:23:51.200 experiences that they need to develop confidence, to, to, to be part of a team, to, to break out of
00:23:58.800 the bubble, to, to, especially with the rise of technology and the fight for every second of
00:24:04.400 their attention span. It's like, they need to be out there and they need to be working. And the
00:24:09.040 worry is, is they're not. And unless we, we hold these sort of TFWP abusers to account and really
00:24:16.960 like force the government to, to stick to its apparent claims that it wants to revise targets
00:24:22.960 and do a bit of a better job, we're going to lose hundreds of thousands of kids just off the bat
00:24:29.440 who are going to just be spinning their wheels and miss these key years. And then we're going to turn
00:24:34.240 around and wonder why we have even more problems. And then the only solution to that for these
00:24:38.880 companies, and if it's a liberal government will be like, well, then let's bring in even more temporary
00:24:43.040 foreign workers. It's like, it's a vicious cycle. Right. And here, uh, earlier this summer
00:24:47.920 in the financial post, Canada's youth job market slumps among world's major economies. So young
00:24:52.480 Canadians are facing a labor market that has deteriorated faster than in any other major advanced
00:24:57.600 economy. So you can't just shrug your shoulders and say, this is a global phenomenon. It isn't,
00:25:01.360 it is particularly pronounced in Canada. Just check out this chart, Canada's youth unemployment up
00:25:06.960 sharply in two years, that pink line folks, that's Canada way above the, uh, the trend of other advanced
00:25:14.640 wealthy nations and the OECD average. Um, this is a problem in Canada. Yes, it's a problem in other
00:25:20.240 countries as well, but it's worse in Canada. And Alex, I want to talk to you about this surge in illegal
00:25:27.040 asylum seekers, illegal border crossers. They cross into the country. They're not supposed to,
00:25:31.120 right? They come from the United States, which is a safe country. And as the safe third country
00:25:34.960 agreement lays out, if you, if you're actually a refugee, you'll declare refugee status in the
00:25:39.760 first safe country you arrive in. They don't do that. They come across an unmanned border. And here
00:25:44.560 is a story. Quebec border crossing sees a 277% surge in asylum claims. Um, data from CBSA shows over
00:25:53.520 10,000 asylum claims at one port of entry as of July 27th, more than double, um, in the same period
00:26:00.640 in 2024. So I thought this problem was solved. Turns out it, it, it hasn't, it's worse than ever. Uh,
00:26:06.320 what do you think? Yeah, it just wasn't, you know, it wasn't covered the way it should have by
00:26:11.760 the, the legacy press where it's, you know, the independents have been massive. Juno news has always
00:26:16.640 done great reporting on this and, and formerly true north. And a friend of mine, Cosman, who,
00:26:21.840 who does great work with you is, is always on that beat, but even more troubling in, in that number,
00:26:29.200 in that asylum claim number. And I've got another stat for you just off the top of my head, just from
00:26:32.960 covering this stuff, which is like one in 88 of all people in Canada now are, are considered like
00:26:39.920 asylum seekers or like through asylum of the last few years is that inland asylum claims have jumped.
00:26:47.120 So you have these 3 million temporary residents now, and we wonder why rent and has gone up and
00:26:54.480 healthcare is, is overstretched, but they're, you know, their visa is expiring and they're turning
00:27:00.080 around and going like, Oh wait, actually, um, the family farm back home, like I'm being persecuted back
00:27:06.960 there. Even though like my parents sent me over here with money to go to what is largely considered
00:27:11.440 a fake school to like cut, like a cut the corner to a PR and look, there's some really great people
00:27:16.560 who've come. There's, there's no way around that, but there's also been a scam network and a scam
00:27:20.560 network predominantly run through these really dodgy institutions that have popped up across the
00:27:24.880 country. But now we have hundreds of thousands of, of what looked like fraudulent asylum claims
00:27:32.320 coming from inside the country from people on expiring visas. And like, we have to start saying no to
00:27:37.680 that stuff. And the fact that that number even coming across the Quebec border is that bad,
00:27:42.400 you know, put all those together and we have a recipe for disaster. If we're not going to take
00:27:46.880 our border seriously and a country, if it is to be a country has to take its border seriously.
00:27:53.360 Well, it's wild that people come to Canada on a, on a temporary visa and then rather than leaving,
00:27:58.240 they just pretend to be an asylum claimant. And there's so many ridiculous rules. Like I was reading
00:28:02.160 about this the other day, um, that while people have pending asylum claims saying that they're
00:28:06.080 persecuted in their country of origin, sometimes they go back, they're allowed to go back and
00:28:09.680 like visit family and go and they go back for Christmas. And so how persecuted are you?
00:28:13.920 Exactly. This is, this was a big story, maybe a decade ago. I don't know if you're paying attention
00:28:17.200 to politics back then, Alexander, but Mary Amonsef, who was a minister in Justin Trudeau's government
00:28:21.760 was in this situation, right? She claimed to have been born in Afghanistan. Turned out she was born in
00:28:26.160 Iran and she would frequently go back and go on vacation and go visit family in both Afghanistan
00:28:31.840 and Iran. And I just wonder like, how can you be a persecuted person? How can you claim
00:28:35.680 with a straight face and how can a judge agree with you that you would be persecuted? You would,
00:28:39.520 you have a, a, you know, a well-founded belief in persecution. If you can just literally go back
00:28:44.880 and visit family and go on vacation, like to me, those two things don't connect at all.
00:28:49.600 Yeah. If you're going back for your birthday and, uh, you know, someone's grandma is, is turning a
00:28:54.720 hundred, some big, beautiful centennial. It just, it, it's a system that's just being taken advantage of.
00:29:00.560 And whether this was like a willful ignorance thing, or we thought in our good nature that no one
00:29:07.440 would ever just completely hoodwink us. Well, there's like a cold reality of like the modern era,
00:29:13.280 which is there is an industrial complex of scammers and scumbags and these sort of military aged males,
00:29:22.480 the world over who are giving Europe a hard time as well that want to take advantage of your potential
00:29:28.640 kindly nature or your willful ignorance. And so it's, it's, we have to adjust. Like, I don't want
00:29:35.920 to be having these conversations in August. I just want like a, it's supposed to be a wonderful,
00:29:40.000 relaxing summer, but we have a country like that just keeps cutting itself off at the knees. Like
00:29:45.200 we talk about Trump, you know, and, and, and some of the problems he's given us these days,
00:29:50.080 but like no one gives Canada bigger problems than Canada. And like, if we're not even going to be
00:29:55.040 serious about real asylum claims and there are real asylum claims and they're good people who
00:30:01.120 are in tough situations that like would be happy to integrate and we could do right by instead,
00:30:05.840 we're just letting everyone in. They all were going to these hotels and in, in like places like
00:30:10.320 Etobicoke and we were giving them cash and they were doing next to absolutely nothing. And then Ontario
00:30:16.160 premier Doug Ford almost made matters worse by saying, I'm going to just give them all
00:30:19.920 jobs during a youth unemployment crisis in Ontario. I saw that. And it's, it's truly unbelievable. I
00:30:25.680 mean, we reported this at Juneau news, $2.6 billion just spent on hotels for asylum seekers. We had
00:30:32.640 another big story about how the majority, 64% of immigrants are not paying their bill
00:30:38.720 on a government loan. Governments were handing out zero interest loans. People are not even bothering
00:30:44.000 to make the payments. This is just the tip of the iceberg, Alexander, which is why we're so pleased to
00:30:47.680 have you, uh, part of Juneau news and bringing these reports, uh, to our audience. Folks,
00:30:52.000 check out Alexander Brown's new show, not sorry here on Juneau news. Thank you so much for joining us
00:30:56.960 today. Hey, thanks for having me. I'm really excited for our episode this week and a big fan and, uh,
00:31:02.400 look forward to, uh, to hearing more. All right. Thank you so much and focus all the time we have for
00:31:06.800 today. Thank you so much for tuning in. We'll be back again tomorrow with all the news. I'm Candace
00:31:10.080 Malcolm. This is a Candace Malcolm show. Thank you. And God bless.
00:31:17.680 Thank you.