Juno News - October 28, 2018PREVIEW： Maxime Bernier on Immigration
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with the People's Party of Canada's Peter Demerski to discuss immigration in Canada. We talk about why immigration has become so contentious in Canada, and why the party is the only party that speaks for less immigration.
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One of the big issues for us at the True North Initiative has always been immigration in Canada,
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wanting a policy-based approach to immigration, but one that doesn't really resort to,
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I think what you described very accurately this past summer, which is cult of diversity and very
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forced and contrived diversity. And I'm wondering why that issue has become so contentious in
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Canada, because you were speaking the truth on a lot of issues, and I didn't find anything I
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disagreed with about it, but you were still subjected to the name-calling of the racism and
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the xenophobia and all of these other isms. Why is that that that issue has become so powerful in
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that space? I think, first of all, because we are the only party who speak for less immigration,
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and as you know, we're against mass immigration. And Justin Trudeau and the Conservative Party of
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Canada, Andrew Scheer and the NDP, they're all asking for more immigrants. So I think the press
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and everybody is used to having more and more immigrants every year, and when you have a political
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party like our party, the People's Party of Canada, we are questioning that. That can be a surprise for
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everybody. But I think we are in line with 49 percent of the population, because 49 percent of the
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population, they want less immigration in Canada. They want to be sure that people who are coming
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here, they will integrate to our society, they will participate to our society. So, and I'm very proud
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to have that position, and we'll see what will happen. But what we, and we're very serious about it,
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because we were saying for the last couple of months that we must have less immigrants. About the
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average that we had under the upper government, 250,000 new immigrants a year. And like that,
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we'll be able to integrate them. And so that's our position. But, you know, it's too bad that some
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people are saying that maybe we, and personally, I'm a racist because of that. I think it's, first of all,
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it's not true. But it is not helping the cause. We need to have a real debate about immigration.
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Since age 1 and 2, it's not coming to my office, we may have to take all of that immigration in a vector.
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But there's a democraticgence that has mothers in Canada.
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And, to remember, are we most likely to have good news in a speaker about immigration in the language aboutойтиre
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So let's try getting those modifications in their besondere planners.