Juno News - Politicians are finally talking about immigration this election

00:00:00.000 in monday night's english language leaders debate immigration was given the importance

00:00:15.040 and significance in this election that it's due a robust and at times tense discussion on

00:00:20.480 immigration took over the stage with a great many people including one of the moderator's

00:00:25.440 questions taking aim at maxime bernier and the people's party of canada's position

00:00:30.000 on immigration and on extreme multiculturalism the pbc wants to cut immigration into canada

00:00:36.000 roughly by half at 150 000 with a priority on economic immigrants and those who share canadian

00:00:43.760 values now the idea of canadian values and immigration is a contentious issue it's

00:00:48.240 something that stephen harper was pilloried for dancing near and kelly leach was absolutely

00:00:53.680 eviscerated by the media for talking about values-based immigration screening but in the

00:00:58.960 post-debate scrum one thing that maxime bernier brought up is that he would like to see a return

00:01:04.480 to mandatory face-to-face screening which would include screening for canadian values of all

00:01:10.640 immigrants i asked the question in two parts actually the first was on if you're screening

00:01:16.240 for values and the economic migrants are the ones being prioritized why do you need to cut the numbers

00:01:21.920 and the second logical step to that is what does it mean to screen for values how do you mandate

00:01:28.000 and how do you do that enforcement here's that exchange between maxime bernier and i mr bernier

00:01:33.040 andrew lawton from true north you have talked about the need to prioritize economic immigrants and

00:01:38.720 immigrants that share canadian values because that's the way to integrate immigrants into canada

00:01:43.360 you've also talked about the need to cut immigration numbers why do you need to cut the numbers if the

00:01:48.160 immigrants you're bringing in are by your own metric of success better suited for integration yeah first

00:01:54.240 of all as you know we want to uh be sure that we'll have people that will come here and share our

00:01:59.760 canadian values but the most important it is easier for a new canadian to be part of our society when

00:02:07.520 they have a job and it's easier for that person to integrate our society so right now we will i think

00:02:13.600 we're having 320 000 newcomers a year we want to have fewer immigrants 150 000 a year that will be

00:02:21.360 the maximum but the most important not 26 percent of them must be economic immigrants a person that

00:02:28.400 is coming here because we need their skill so we need to increase that ratio that proportion and my

00:02:35.840 proposal is to have at least 50 percent of our newcomers they must be economic immigrants they must come

00:02:43.200 here because we need that person to be able to fulfill our economic needs how do you propose to

00:02:51.280 either mandate or screen for canadian values first of all you know we need to have a face-to-face

00:02:57.120 interview which each one of them and we'll have that and second yes we'll have some questions about

00:03:04.400 their values and i think that's normal to do that we want people who share our canadian values we want

00:03:10.720 people who believe in freedom in free markets in the equality between men and women equality

00:03:19.440 equality before the law the separation of state and religious so yeah let's have a discussion with them

00:03:25.840 and that's why we are proposing an interview where we will ask these kind of questions

00:03:31.600 so what maxime bernier is calling for is a return to that mandatory face-to-face interview which right now

00:03:37.920 is a part of the immigration system at times but is not mandatory and is not guaranteed it was in

00:03:43.920 canada for the longest time until the previous liberal government before stephen harper had gotten

00:03:49.600 rid of it as a cost-saving measure but anyone who's worked in the immigration system will tell you

00:03:55.520 that the officers say it works human intelligence is the greatest asset we have in our intelligence

00:04:01.680 agencies our national security and our law enforcement and that intelligence comes from

00:04:06.720 talking to people among many other things oftentimes people will out themselves as being a problem if you

00:04:12.880 give them the opportunity to do so so when maxime bernier comes out and says this it's a very sensible

00:04:18.080 policy but one that hasn't been talked about probably because of the media's evisceration of kelly leach

00:04:25.200 for bringing up the idea of canadian values when she was running for the conservative leadership

00:04:31.360 although andrew sheer is in a very unique position right now despite left-wing parties claims that

00:04:36.640 talking about immigration in a way that is critical of the current government's record is racist or

00:04:41.920 bigoted in some way andrew sheer is actually the favorite of canadians when it comes to handling

00:04:47.600 the immigration file an angus reed poll found that more people thought andrew sheer was better suited to

00:04:53.440 deal with immigration than any other party leader including the prime minister justin trudeau more

00:04:59.280 over 56 percent more than half of respondents found that justin trudeau has been too lax and too soft

00:05:07.440 effectively on asylum seekers and we've seen literally the visual representations of this as people

00:05:13.280 have flooded across the border illegally and the federal government has done nothing about it you can't

00:05:18.400 have a strong country without a strong and robust immigration system whether you think that this means

00:05:23.360 slashing the numbers in half as bernier has suggested or even doing things a bit smartly

00:05:28.240 it's apparent that canadians are not happy with the status quo so the liberals the new democrats have

00:05:34.160 to stop insulting and attacking those who are critical of their file because that's the majority

00:05:39.760 of canadians right now from the campaign trail and mississauga for true north i'm andrew lotten

Juno News - October 09, 2019

Politicians are finally talking about immigration this election

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