Juno News - Pierre Poilievre won’t say this about Canada’s housing crisis

00:00:00.000 If you've spent any time on social media over the weekend, you have likely come across Pierre

00:00:11.240 Polyev's new video on Canada's housing crisis. Slick editing, well made, right now it's got

00:00:17.280 over 3 million impressions on X and over 180,000 views on YouTube. Here's a preview of what is in

00:00:24.600 the video. After generations of affordable and stable Canadian home prices, it now takes 66%

00:00:30.560 of the average monthly income to make payments on the average single detached Canadian house.

00:00:36.100 Given that most of the remaining 34% of the family paycheck is taken up by taxes, there's literally

00:00:41.440 nothing left for food and recreation. And that all assumes that you have enough for a down payment

00:00:46.120 to get the mortgage in the first place. Saving up for that down payment in Toronto now takes an

00:00:51.560 average of 25 years. Not long ago, you paid off a mortgage in that time. Now a common refrain you'll

00:00:58.240 hear from Canadians who have become disillusioned with the state of politics in our country over

00:01:02.000 the past few years, which frankly at this point is everyone, is that politicians only care about

00:01:07.540 winning elections. They only care about staying in power. And if solving the problems that are faced

00:01:12.320 by Canadians every single day might get in the way of winning elections, it might jeopardize

00:01:17.760 their electoral success, then it's a pretty safe bet to assume that those problems aren't going to be

00:01:23.420 solved anytime soon. And the way politicians usually figure all this stuff out is by using focus groups

00:01:28.980 in public polling. But what happens when in poll after poll, year after year, the majority of Canadians

00:01:35.420 fall on one side of a major issue facing the country, let's call it maybe the biggest issue facing our

00:01:42.460 country at the moment. And politicians from both the Conservative and the Liberal Party fall on the

00:01:48.000 complete opposite side of the majority of Canadians, with no difference between both major parties.

00:01:53.620 I'm of course talking about mass immigration, the main issue through which all other issues in this

00:01:58.800 country stem from. The most obvious being Canada's housing crisis. Now if you go looking for a difference

00:02:05.300 between the Conservatives and the Liberals over mass immigration, you won't find anything at all. I find that

00:02:11.080 to be strange, and quite honestly, concerning. And I think you should as well. But before we get into

00:02:16.440 the video, drop a like in the video, help us out with subscribing to the True North YouTube channel,

00:02:20.280 and the comment question for the episode is this. How many public opinion polls need to be published

00:02:25.660 before Pierre Polyev releases an immigration strategy? Let me know in the comments, and let's get

00:02:31.160 into it. Here is some more of that Pierre Polyev video on the housing crisis in Canada.

00:02:35.920 Canadian prices, which are so much higher than in other countries, are determined by supply and demand.

00:02:42.180 We have the fewest houses per capita in the G7, even though we have the most land to build on.

00:02:47.960 We have fewer houses per capita today than we did eight years ago, as population has outgrown home

00:02:53.700 building. Canada built fewer homes last year than it built in 1972, 50 years ago. Consider this.

00:03:01.720 In 1972, Canada's population was 22 million, and we built about 230,000 homes. In 2022,

00:03:11.940 Canada's population was 39 million, and we built about 220,000 homes. In other words,

00:03:19.500 far more people, far less home building. Of course, Polyev gets some things right. The most obvious being

00:03:25.980 that homes just aren't being built. Also, massive federal deficits and overspending have shrunk the

00:03:31.660 value of the Canadian dollar through inflation. And because of that, the Bank of Canada has had to

00:03:36.440 hike lending rates, causing a wave of canceled home building projects. But for a brief moment there,

00:03:43.080 Polyev discussed supply and demand, and Canada's spike in population. But instead of saying what

00:03:49.020 every Canadian knows to be true, Polyev just skipped the part about capping demand. And Canadians,

00:03:56.880 in the comments section of his video, noticed that. End mass immigration. 1.2,000 likes. Get out by

00:04:05.760 stopping mass immigration. That is all. 1.6,000 likes. This is a great documentary, and it's encouraging

00:04:14.140 to see a future PM educating in a longer format than the usual rhetoric. There's one thing missing from this

00:04:20.100 doc. More needs to be said about mass immigration. It's a huge factor in housing pricing. You can't avoid

00:04:26.840 the topic. The Canadian dream of home ownership cannot die. Our children deserve what we had.

00:04:33.640 We need a moratorium on mass immigration immediately. Now this is where things start 1.00

00:04:38.900 to get a little concerning. Since Polyev became leader of the Conservative Party, he has refused

00:04:43.660 to touch the immigration issue at all. Many of his commitments are exactly what you would expect to 0.82

00:04:48.520 see from the Liberal Party. One of Pierre Polyev's promises is that he will institute a Blue Seal test

00:04:54.400 to get foreign workers credentialed in their professions within 60 days in Canada. But when

00:05:00.860 it comes to lowering immigration into Canada, the best Canadians have received from Pierre Polyev is a

00:05:06.380 commitment to move away from set numbers and targets and instead tie immigration to demand here in Canada.

00:05:14.580 My policy, my common sense policy on immigration will be driven by the number of vacancies that

00:05:21.040 private sector employers want to fill, the number of charities that want to sponsor refugees and the

00:05:29.340 families that want to reunite quickly with loved ones. Let's base it on common sense, not on

00:05:35.420 Justin Trudeau's ideology and incompetence. And that's how we'll restore the immigration system 0.99

00:05:42.500 that is before his arrival been more successful than any other great immigration system on earth.

00:05:48.100 But that is not a commitment to lower immigration at all. In fact, a Polyev government could simply 0.90

00:05:52.400 just say that the Canadian economy requires more immigrants than what we are bringing in right now.

00:05:57.500 Because of that, more will have to come. So saying that you will move away from set numbers and targets

00:06:03.020 and instead tie immigration to demand is not really a commitment to lower immigration. Meanwhile,

00:06:09.280 a new public opinion poll produced by Abacus Research shows that 67% of respondents, 67% of Canadians

00:06:18.000 think immigration is too high compared to just 2% that think immigration is too low. That number, 67%

00:06:27.060 that think Canada's immigration targets are too high, is almost mirrored exactly by immigrants 1.00

00:06:32.960 themselves. 62% of immigrants, according to Abacus Data, also think that Canada's immigration targets

00:06:40.280 are too high. And only 15% of respondents to this Abacus Data poll said that they felt their community

00:06:46.840 needed more immigrants. Only 15%. And here is the kicker when it comes to this Abacus Data poll.

00:06:53.380 69% of Canadians who responded to this poll feel that new immigrants have a negative effect on the cost

00:07:00.860 and availability of housing. Wow, go figure with that one. Talk about a common sense plan. And that was

00:07:06.800 only from one poll, which just so happened to be published last week. At the end of October,

00:07:11.400 Canada's longest running poll on immigration showed a sharp drop in the public support over high

00:07:17.940 immigration targets. According to BNN Bloomberg, some 44% of respondents now agree with the statement

00:07:24.460 that there's too much immigration to Canada compared with just 27% last year. Although those who disagree

00:07:30.920 with that statement are still the majority, they now make up just 51%, the lowest since 1998. That's a

00:07:38.900 decrease from 69%, previously the highest level on record. Or take this Nanos research poll commissioned by

00:07:46.880 Bloomberg News back in August, which showed the exact same figures. 68% of Canadians surveyed said

00:07:53.700 they believe increased immigration targets will either negatively impact or somewhat negatively impact

00:07:59.320 the cost of housing. It's poll after poll where the results are the same. Yet for some reason,

00:08:04.940 the opposition in this country won't talk about the issue. So it's kind of strange that Pierre

00:08:10.680 Polyev can make a 15 minute video on the housing crisis and not mention immigration once. Not even

00:08:16.860 use the word immigration. And what's even weirder is that it's not just Pierre Polyev who's refused

00:08:21.540 to talk about immigration. It seems as though every single Conservative MP has been told to stay

00:08:26.900 silent on the issue or just to support more immigrants coming into Canada. Take, for example,

00:08:32.440 the housing shadow minister for the Conservative Party, Scott Aitchison. He was asked a few days ago

00:08:38.180 about this new poll, which shows that Canadians, three in four Canadians, think that high immigration

00:08:44.180 targets are having a negative effect on the cost and availability of housing. What did Scott Aitchison

00:08:49.500 say? We need more Canadians and immigration is not the problem. Two thirds of Canadians are linking

00:08:55.440 higher immigration levels to the housing crunch and worsening health care pressures in the health

00:09:00.960 care system. Well, there's no question that this government hasn't planned for anything. There's no

00:09:08.000 question we need more Canadians to help us fund an economy that's struggling to find people that work.

00:09:13.040 And so it's part of the problem. But this is another classic situation where you have a federal

00:09:18.340 government that is long on photo ops and talking points and short on results. But you believe that

00:09:23.580 higher immigration levels are part of the problem that we're facing with housing right now? I don't

00:09:27.240 think they're a problem. I think that they're part of the situation. The situation is that we have a

00:09:32.420 general lack of supply. We need more units. And we haven't been planning for more units for decades

00:09:37.620 now. And this government's just finally starting to wake up to the fact that they've bungled the file.

00:09:42.460 And it's not racist or xenophobic to say that lowering immigration levels will help solve the

00:09:48.400 housing crisis. It's basic mathematics. It's basic facts. In fact, Canada already did this to solve a

00:09:55.800 housing crisis, a housing shortage in the 1970s. Canada cut back on immigration to solve the housing

00:10:02.700 crisis back then. It's a basic supply and demand question. Canada had to get demand back in check

00:10:09.360 with supply. In fact, I asked Pierre Polyev this exact question a few months ago, if he was prepared

00:10:14.940 to lower immigration targets in order to solve the housing crisis. Of course, he sidestepped the

00:10:20.660 question and refused to talk about lowering immigration. In the 1970s, the Canadian government

00:10:24.840 was able to solve the housing crisis by lowering immigration and building more homes. So far,

00:10:29.340 you've refused to commit to cutting immigration targets. But would a Polyev government adopt the

00:10:33.540 same strategy that worked so well in the 70s to build more homes? To build more homes? Absolutely.

00:10:39.260 In fact, in 1972, we built more houses than we built last year. Think about that. 50 years ago,

00:10:48.980 we built more homes than we did last year. So let's do the math. In 1972, Canada's population was 2.2 million

00:10:56.580 people. Sorry, excuse me. 22 million people. 22 million Canadians. We built 250,000 homes. Last year,

00:11:04.460 our population was 39 million people. And we built 219,000 homes. So with nearly double the population,

00:11:12.080 we're building fewer houses. And CMHC expects that we will build, this year, we're going to build 32%

00:11:18.120 fewer homes. Last month, True North's Lindsay Shepard reached out to Pierre Polyev's office to see if they

00:11:23.680 would offer up their own immigration targets so Canadians could know if there's any difference

00:11:27.940 between liberals and conservatives on the issue of mass immigration. Of course, Polyev's office

00:11:32.640 responded, but they refused to provide their own immigration targets. Instead, all they did was

00:11:38.160 point True North to the direction of a previous Pierre Polyev interview in which he says that he

00:11:43.100 will tie immigration figures to demand. And as Lindsay Shepard rightly points out, saying you're going

00:11:49.580 to tie immigration to demand doesn't at all mean you're willing to actually lower immigration. In

00:11:54.520 fact, it could just mean you're willing to raise immigration levels. From the way Polyev's statement

00:12:00.060 is worded, it sounds like he may prefer to scale up home building and healthcare worker hiring to keep

00:12:05.220 up with Trudeau's immigration levels, or perhaps even increase them. Since we haven't been afforded an

00:12:10.140 answer, we can only speculate. So what is actually going on here with Canada's conservative party?

00:12:15.220 Immigrants themselves, 63% of them, according to abacus data, think immigration targets are too

00:12:22.140 high. Canadians in poll after poll have shown that they think immigration is negatively impacting the

00:12:27.800 housing crisis. The demand for housing is way out of pace with supply, and the liberals keep

00:12:34.020 increasing immigration. The same thing, by the way, is happening in the United Kingdom. The fake 0.85

00:12:38.860 conservatives led by Rishi Sunak, who talk a big game on immigration, but instead have done absolutely

00:12:44.120 nothing to solve it, are losing voters to new right-wing parties willing to actually address

00:12:50.320 the issue. Tory fears mount over huge immigration driving voters to reform UK. Meanwhile, look no

00:12:57.160 further than what just happened in the Netherlands. Geert Wilders, a man who has committed his career

00:13:02.940 to stopping mass immigration and the Islamization of the Netherlands, has just won the Dutch elections

00:13:10.080 in a shock victory. He recently sat down for an exclusive interview with Ezra Levant of Rebel News.

00:13:16.280 And listen to what he says about the immigration question.

00:13:20.280 Other countries like Canada, the conservative party is pretty conservative and pretty freedom-oriented,

00:13:26.060 but it still has an open borders immigration policy. In the United Kingdom, the conservative party

00:13:32.440 open borders policy every day across the English Channel. What advice would you give to freedom-oriented

00:13:39.820 conservative parties who are obviously afraid of losing the vote of new immigrants? What advice

00:13:49.420 would you have for Canada or the United Kingdom?

00:13:51.020 Well, don't be afraid. First, don't be afraid. A lot of people will support you. Secondly, it's

00:13:56.900 a totally misconception that the immigrants would disagree, because maybe for some people, surprisingly,

00:14:04.160 the immigrants agree. Many of the immigrants agree. For in Holland, many of the immigrants, 0.97

00:14:08.640 even many Muslims, voted for my party, because they know that when there is too much influx of 1.00

00:14:14.640 immigration, that the integration and the success for them will only diminish. So they also are in

00:14:21.880 favor of less immigration. They know, they see what will happen with the housing, with the income,

00:14:27.640 with the jobs, or with everything. So surprisingly, it's not surprisingly, but surprisingly to many

00:14:32.400 people, they are often our allies. They don't want more immigrants to come as well. 1.00

00:14:38.020 Conservatives have to stop acting scared over the issue. Stop being afraid of being called a racist.

00:14:45.120 Immigrants will support you. Canadians will support you. But tackle the issue of the day

00:14:49.900 and stop being afraid. Listen to what he has to say here.

00:14:52.860 Despite having all the public data you could possibly want, showing you that it is a safe

00:14:58.440 and winning issue to talk about mass immigration, to be willing to lower these mass immigration

00:15:03.820 targets, for whatever reason, the Conservative Party of Canada, who love to bill themselves as

00:15:09.160 the common sense alternative to Justin Trudeau, just won't touch the issue. Do you find that

00:15:14.920 strange or is it just me? Let me know in the comments. My name is Harrison Faulkner and this

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Juno News - December 04, 2023

Pierre Poilievre won’t say this about Canada’s housing crisis

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