Juno News - The True North Report： Alleged human smuggler charged by border officials

00:00:00.040 Good afternoon Canada, hello my name is Andrew Lawton, a fellow with True North

00:00:05.160 here for another Facebook live. The True North Report as we talk about things

00:00:10.480 that are happening around the world but more importantly things that are

00:00:13.880 happening in Canada or at least have a very direct connection to things that

00:00:19.000 really we're trying to raise awareness about in Canada and there's a lot to

00:00:23.720 talk about today if you're just tuning in which you couldn't have tuned in any

00:00:27.120 earlier because we just started it but we are going to go through not just the

00:00:32.640 breaking news that we actually released before the mainstream media did through

00:00:37.140 True North yesterday that Canada Border Services Agency had charged a woman it

00:00:42.900 alleges was smuggling humans across the border smuggling asylum claimants into

00:00:48.060 Canada illegally but also a lot of the backstory on not just this idea of human

00:00:53.880 smuggling in the last couple of years but also the history of what's happening

00:00:59.040 in regards to Roxham Road and when I say history I don't mean 10 20 years ago I'm

00:01:04.740 talking about the history from the last three years which can be more aptly

00:01:08.820 characterized as a living history so I'm going to talk about all of that but if

00:01:13.980 you missed the report I'm gonna read directly from CVSA here because Canada

00:01:19.020 Border Services Agency which and I think it's important to know they do very

00:01:23.220 important work they do very good work you've got very professional people

00:01:27.160 they're incredibly incredibly under resourced and understaffed so they're

00:01:32.700 having to make do with a lot less than they would like and that's because I mean

00:01:39.060 simple supply and demand I mean the demand for their services is going up but the

00:01:43.460 supply is of course nowhere near matching that of what they have to work with and the

00:01:49.860 CBSA which is responsible not just for securing and protecting the border and

00:01:55.320 also inland enforcement but the CBSA is also responsible for bringing people who

00:02:06.180 seek asylum through the channels so they can make that claim and if someone is

00:02:11.040 found to be worthy of deportation CBSA is the body responsible for making it

00:02:15.920 happen with that being said the report that came out yesterday from the Canada

00:02:20.520 Border Services Agency is that it charged a woman by the name of Olyinka

00:02:27.020 Celestina Opelai under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for organizing

00:02:33.000 illegal entry into Canada via Roxham Road in Monterey-Gi-Quebec for refugee

00:02:39.300 protection claimants in exchange for compensation the CBSA says that it

00:02:43.860 investigated and through the course of its investigation it found that in the

00:02:48.000 summer of 2017 so about a year and a half ago Ms Opelai allegedly organized the

00:02:54.360 illegal entry of several individuals into Canada and I'm going to go back to that

00:02:58.900 term several in a moment and also this is the more telling part of this it

00:03:04.660 alleges that Opelai was operating as part of a network of smugglers who organized

00:03:11.300 travel for these people in exchange for compensation and the CBSA as I noted in

00:03:17.840 my video yesterday when it comes to a regular migration quote says it works in

00:03:21.660 close cooperation with the government departments and agencies yada yada yada

00:03:25.120 as well as international partners so this may have been a cross-border

00:03:29.060 investigation it probably was and I'll tell you why I think that later on but in

00:03:34.340 this three paragraph long press release we have a few major takeaways here

00:03:38.220 number one is Roxham Road and the significance of that particular I don't

00:03:43.440 even want to call it a border crossing because it isn't officially a border

00:03:46.560 crossing but it's it's a dead-end road which is being treated like a freeway by

00:03:51.180 illegal asylum seekers and the other part of this is that the entry of several

00:03:56.880 individuals is alleged and Opelai is allegedly part of a network of smugglers and

00:04:03.220 and these few details are important here because one thing that wasn't in the

00:04:08.140 actual release from Canada Border Services Agency and this is rare because I

00:04:13.780 get police press releases all the time and they say oh you know so and so has

00:04:17.080 been charged with X and they'll give you the the very name of the charge and

00:04:21.760 typically the number in the act and CBSA didn't do this in its initial press

00:04:27.220 release the department said that they charged her with illegally smuggling or

00:04:33.040 organizing illegal entry but it didn't give the name of the specific offense and I

00:04:40.660 found that to be a little odd so I did a bit more digging and CBSA did

00:04:44.460 eventually clarify what the provision was and the section is 117 subsection 3 and

00:04:54.780 this is our subsection 3.1 raw or sorry just 3 3.1 something else but it's human

00:05:03.520 smuggling and trafficking 117 and I want to read what the specific language is in

00:05:10.740 this and you'll understand why it's important I'm sorry if I'm boring you

00:05:13.440 here but you'll get it in a moment no person shall organize induce aid or abet the

00:05:18.280 coming into Canada of one or more persons knowing that or being reckless as to

00:05:22.740 whether they're coming into Canada is or would be in contravention of the act so

00:05:26.820 that means no one can help someone come into the country knowing that they're

00:05:30.600 breaking the law but this is where subsection 3 comes in a person who

00:05:36.640 contravenes subsection 1 so that's what I just read with respect to a group of 10

00:05:41.700 persons or more is guilty of an offense and liable on conviction by way of

00:05:46.860 indictment to a fine of not more than 1 million dollars or to life imprisonment

00:05:51.280 which is or both so she's been charged with a provision that means she smuggled

00:05:56.020 allegedly more than 10 more than 10 people into the country now the next level

00:06:02.200 up is 50 persons so at 50 persons or more the sentence and the charge are

00:06:11.100 elevated so CBSA has not given much in the way of details here but their

00:06:15.900 allegation the basis of their investigation is that this woman

00:06:19.500 smuggled somewhere between 10 and 50 people now there's a big range there but

00:06:25.800 between 10 or 10 and 50 people allegedly and in exchange for compensation now I

00:06:33.480 don't know what the going rate is for smuggling an asylum seeker across the border I

00:06:38.160 don't know what the going rate is I know that if you live in Quebec and

00:06:41.580 apparently you don't like the economic situation there's apparently a way you

00:06:44.520 can make a bit of extra cash here and this is what this woman is alleged to be 1.00

00:06:48.480 doing but this is so so very telling because we have one person charged one

00:06:55.620 person in this particular case and police are saying she's responsible for 10 or

00:07:00.960 more but less than 50 but she herself is part of a network and every time

00:07:07.560 Justin Trudeau has said that there is no crisis taking place at the border or

00:07:12.300 Ahmed Hassan has said no no the system is working fine and the borders fine and

00:07:16.600 these legitimate claimants are going through the process we're vetting them

00:07:19.620 every time that happens what they are saying is that people like me and people

00:07:26.820 like Candace Malcolm and people like Anthony Fury are you insert the moniker they

00:07:33.900 use the ad hominem attack but we're the problem because we're raising it and when

00:07:37.560 we say there's a crisis at the borders when Andrew Scheer and Maxine Bernier say

00:07:41.280 there is a crisis at the borders and the government says no we fast forward to

00:07:46.440 this particular story and we see something that shows that proves

00:07:51.840 demonstrably that people are deliberately and willfully manipulating and abusing not just

00:08:00.900 our border but our asylum claim process I I've seen a number of estimates Rhonda in

00:08:07.620 the in the comment section hi Rhonda is giving that she's heard 5,000 a person

00:08:12.360 that's what she's heard I don't know I've seen I've seen lower I've seen higher the

00:08:16.080 specific dollar amount is not as relevant here although I did say that I was

00:08:20.400 curious I am but regardless of what it is you don't do that unless you are sure that

00:08:28.800 you've got a chain of custody of bringing the migrant to the border into the country

00:08:34.620 and again if we're talking about people that are paying someone to smuggle them

00:08:39.520 into another country it's not unreasonable that these people could be lying their

00:08:45.240 way through the asylum claim process because remember the government's vetting

00:08:51.060 of these asylum claimants is only as good as its ability to address what they 1.00

00:08:56.040 themselves are saying and if the type of person that we're looking at here that

00:09:01.380 we're vetting is the same type that's going to pay someone however much the

00:09:05.820 dollar amount is to be smuggled into the country this is not a legitimate

00:09:10.020 claimant that it's not it's not a legitimate asylum seeker and we've got two

00:09:14.080 primary problems here number one is that it's not a perfect system when people

00:09:18.220 are abusing it and number two even if an asylum claimant is rejected the

00:09:24.540 backlog is so long that for up to two or even more years while waiting a hearing

00:09:31.180 you're on the taxpayer dole you're in the country you've made it into Canada and

00:09:36.440 you've got two years where you don't really have to worry about a darn thing

00:09:40.120 and maybe you leave at the end of it maybe you stay illegally maybe the

00:09:43.840 government supports you maybe they don't but the fact remains that you're

00:09:47.600 already here you are already here and if the price tag of that is worth it for

00:09:53.960 these people who maybe they have something to hide maybe they're just

00:09:57.100 desperate I don't know it doesn't matter but the fact that we have not just a

00:10:00.700 smuggler who's been now by police allegations by CBS's allegations caught but

00:10:06.580 someone who is part of what they say is a network that means it has to be

00:10:11.900 advantageous for them and for the people that are coming into the country that 1.00

00:10:15.440 way and if you are a genuine asylum claimant you don't need someone like

00:10:20.480 Olayinka if you're a genuine asylum claimant you don't need a fixer you don't 1.00

00:10:24.360 need a smuggler if you actually have a claim that is going to give you asylum

00:10:30.080 status in the eyes of Canada you don't need to do what these people are doing and

00:10:35.820 it's despicable but it's not an isolated incident and we've seen I knew of a

00:10:40.960 couple of cases but I looked into this a little bit further and found a number

00:10:45.520 of these types of situations a number of examples here one of them and this was a

00:10:51.280 big one back in Saskatchewan in 2017 so around the same time and this was the

00:10:57.260 border near I think it was Emerson Manitoba or or southeastern Saskatchewan it

00:11:02.200 was one of the two and this is a Canadian and an American the couple that it

00:11:09.280 sounds like were arrested for smuggling foreign nationals into the country

00:11:14.840 illegally and police ended up catching them I know they charged him I don't

00:11:19.120 know if they charged the wife we had another case back in 2016 where a

00:11:24.940 Cornwall man was arrested in a smuggling process across the border and this was

00:11:32.920 one that they found three foreign nationals again smuggling and and this is

00:11:39.520 something that we're seeing not just in Quebec at Roxham Road we're seeing across

00:11:46.360 the country and into Canada people from the US into Canada and I want to look at

00:11:51.700 some of the numbers here because it's very telling when you look at the

00:11:55.720 processes behind this here so Roxham Road is where about 96 percent the

00:12:02.980 latest number I've seen is where 96 percent of illegal border crossers into

00:12:07.180 Canada are crossing into so you've got the longest unprotected border in the

00:12:11.740 world between Canada and the US but somehow and people are gonna go across

00:12:15.640 illegally I get that but somehow 96 percent of everyone who does that does

00:12:21.160 it at this one particular part and I've never been there Candace Malcolm went

00:12:25.600 there and wrote a great column about it that you should check out but I have

00:12:29.680 never been there I have in my pilgrimages to go back in Montreal I've

00:12:33.520 never decided to go down to the land of lawlessness and it sounds like it must

00:12:37.920 be this you know terrain like something you'd see in Mexico where you've you've

00:12:42.280 got people under gunfire you know sneaking under the giant border wall but in

00:12:45.940 actuality and you can look it up on Google Street View it's a dead-end road it's a

00:12:51.140 dead-end road and at the end of it there's a sign and on the American side

00:12:55.820 or facing the Americans at least but on the Canadian side facing the US a sign

00:13:00.740 that says it's illegal to come in here and you shouldn't do it and it's mean

00:13:04.580 and then just past the sign and you don't see this on Google Street View but

00:13:09.500 just past the sign you have a whole bunch of things that have been done by

00:13:14.380 government and law enforcement in Canada to make it easier for people to come in

00:13:17.980 illegally so you've got a permanent CBS a babysitter which is not turning people

00:13:24.580 away you've got RCMP which are you know helping the illegals with their luggage

00:13:28.580 and I think like offering them a hot towel when they come in and perhaps a nice

00:13:32.440 welcome beverage like when you go to a Caribbean resort and you've got then again

00:13:37.240 I think there actually might even be a red carpet now I think there's a heritage

00:13:40.700 plaque and a red carpet there which is basically indicating the profound growth of

00:13:45.980 of the Canadian institution that this illegal border crossing has ended up

00:13:50.580 becoming and it's sickening because the RCMP and CBS a have conspired by order of

00:13:58.400 the government it's not them going rogue to set up structures as well they put up

00:14:02.720 buildings they put up processing centers and you know the suggestion that I

00:14:07.460 think everyone needs to embrace here is make this an official border crossing

00:14:10.920 making an official border crossing cut out the flow of illegal migrants into

00:14:15.580 this part of the country and if they cross illegally somewhere else keep doing

00:14:19.600 it and I am sorry we're only a few more thousand of these things away from having

00:14:24.220 to put up our own border wall anyway but make it an official border crossing point so

00:14:29.860 that someone who enters to seek asylum from the US can be turned away and I know 1.00

00:14:35.860 that for a lot of you this will not be new information you've heard this before

00:14:39.500 but for those who haven't let me take seven seconds to explain the safe third

00:14:43.900 country act basically says that Canada and the US are safe countries so if you

00:14:48.820 have status in one you cannot then go to the other and seek asylum because you've

00:14:54.940 already been you've already been given asylum that's the rationale but the safe

00:15:00.020 third country act only applies to people that cross at legal checkpoints so if you

00:15:06.040 know the border crossing from Port Huron to Sarnia Ontario is an official

00:15:13.180 checkpoint in Detroit Windsor is an official checkpoint and you know Derby

00:15:17.360 line Vermont and whatever the Quebec side Magog Quebec or whatever is an

00:15:22.640 official one you can go in the case of the land crossings you can walk like 20

00:15:26.740 meters to the right and if you do it illegally once you get to the other side

00:15:30.760 they cannot turn you back because oh you're an asylum claimant and by the way

00:15:36.060 asylum claims are meant to be for people that are genuinely fleeing something when

00:15:41.360 you can go through the process of paying a fixer to smuggle you across to guide you

00:15:46.800 to coach you to get you there this is no longer asylum this is now an industry and

00:15:53.840 a very lucrative industry what we're not talking about people that need saving

00:15:57.840 from anything other than what the state should be doing which is arresting them

00:16:01.100 and sending them home so 96% of illegal border crossroads into Canada are

00:16:07.280 crossing at that point and when we look at the numbers here some of the numbers

00:16:13.040 are just absolutely staggering we had in 2017 50,000 people that entered Canada

00:16:20.180 to file asylum claims in 2018 56,000 almost 55,700 in 2018 and this is from the

00:16:29.660 federal government and that's a combination of legal and illegal but the

00:16:33.740 rises we're seeing are coming from the illegal border crossers and in 2018

00:16:40.500 despite the government saying that they had dealt with this we saw steady

00:16:44.260 increases including at the end of the year we saw an uptick in this so when we

00:16:51.060 see this and we see the government's inaction on it and now we have people

00:16:55.700 charged with fostering this smuggling fostering it the question is why do we not

00:17:03.500 have a government that's willing to accept this is in fact a crisis why do we

00:17:09.060 not have a government that's saying all right well maybe we should deal with it

00:17:15.940 no and the government is complicit in this the government is absolutely

00:17:20.240 complicit and if you see this then you'll know that Trudeau's welcome to

00:17:26.260 Canada tweet has created this industry so when Justin Trudeau wants to say that you

00:17:31.500 know he has a good record of creating jobs yeah he's created a very booming

00:17:35.340 cross-border human smuggling operation I mean that's the only industry in Canada

00:17:40.640 that I think is actually creating jobs and creating wealth if you're a human

00:17:44.100 smuggler now is the time because we have a border checkpoint that is once you get

00:17:48.500 to Canada helping you do you remember okay so every now and then you'll hear in a

00:17:53.380 story and my wife's making me watch Breaking Bad and so far Breaking Bad doesn't

00:17:57.940 have like an inside man at like the DEA or something like that but you know what

00:18:02.500 all the crime movies and the mob movies you know there's always like the one

00:18:06.220 person in the government that's on the take that's helping the things go in this

00:18:10.100 case it's not one crooked person that's on the take in this case the CBSA and the

00:18:15.080 RCMP are actually doing the work of the smugglers like these institutions the

00:18:20.540 smuggler gets them to the border and then our government takes it from there like do you

00:18:25.400 realize how absurd and how disgusting it is that the human smuggler is only having 0.96

00:18:30.620 to do half the work because the Canadian authorities are doing the rest of it and

00:18:35.480 and this is so insane so insane that we now in Canada are part of this era where

00:18:44.120 our border is fluid and irrelevant and our immigration system is becoming a farce so 1.00

00:18:50.840 that criminals smugglers alleged and convicted know it and are profiting

00:18:55.760 from and like I said not a new problem going back 2016 2017 2018 since the very

00:19:02.800 beginning of this asylum crisis we've seen these cases but again there's very

00:19:10.020 little media attention to them I look at this one that came yesterday there was

00:19:13.740 one news report yesterday we had it out very very quickly and it wasn't until this

00:19:18.500 morning or late last night that the mainstream media started to pick up on

00:19:21.980 this and we still see very little information and I don't think there's

00:19:26.060 going to be much follow-up and I want to know who the rest of this network is

00:19:29.960 police say this woman was part of a network well where are the rest where are

00:19:33.960 the indictments coming around and what's happening to the people that she

00:19:37.280 smuggled allegedly but will the people that this woman is accused of smuggling

00:19:43.520 will they automatically have their claims revoked and will they

00:19:46.940 automatically be deported I don't think they will but they certainly should be

00:19:51.200 they certainly should be and I want to read another one of these bits of

00:19:58.040 information here and this one's from the US but I don't know if you've been

00:20:03.320 following the government shutdown Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez like the new I don't

00:20:08.000 the nickname I heard from her I heard for her yesterday that I love but I'm

00:20:11.840 probably gonna use is she Guevara so she Guevara Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the 0.99

00:20:18.520 only Democrat as I understand it to vote with the Republicans on whether to

00:20:24.200 reopen the government so the Republicans were all saying yeah you know let's

00:20:27.440 let's reopen the government or sorry the Democrats were all like let's reopen the

00:20:31.720 government the Republicans were saying no she voted with the Republicans and the 0.96

00:20:37.220 reason why you'll love this the reason why Ocasio-Cortez the freshman

00:20:41.840 congresswoman from New York voted with the Republicans is because the budget that

00:20:47.240 the Democrats put forward has money for immigration enforcement I just want you

00:20:54.920 to take a moment to because this is an attitude we have on the left in Canada as

00:20:59.540 well but she said that she refuses to vote for anything that gives money to ice

00:21:06.920 which is immigration and customs enforcement so so this would be like if

00:21:11.660 you know like a Nikki Ashton or a Michelle Rempel or a Ahmed has said I mean

00:21:18.440 some MP in Canada said I'm not voting for the federal budget because it has money

00:21:23.840 for CBSA this is the attitude so so when I say that people are willingly willingly and

00:21:32.920 willfully neglecting our borders this is not just incompetence this is not just

00:21:38.920 ignorance there are people that genuinely believe that a country should not be

00:21:43.000 enforcing its borders and enforcing its law and enforcing its immigration law and

00:21:49.380 Canada has not just allowed illegal immigration to become the norm Canada has

00:21:54.800 actively encouraged it by its in some cases actions in other cases in actions and

00:22:01.120 there is no answer that will make sense there's no answer that's going to

00:22:06.280 satisfy my concerns about this or yours because you have two different stories

00:22:10.380 going on you've got what Justin Trudeau is saying and you've got what the facts at

00:22:14.680 the border are saying and the two of them do not meet the two are like oil and

00:22:18.800 vinegar or NDPers and good ideas I mean they just you're never gonna find any

00:22:23.780 intersection there and even then there's a CBC story from a little while ago about

00:22:31.100 a protest that was taking place at Roxham Road and this is from May there was a

00:22:35.600 big rally there a bunch of people that were against illegal immigration were

00:22:38.960 protesting and the story was not about illegal immigration the story was about

00:22:43.100 far-right groups gather at Canada US border that's the headline far-right

00:22:47.840 groups rally over asylum seekers at Canada US border and I was looking at this

00:22:55.780 some of the photos from that and you had some people and I talked about it then

00:22:59.840 you have some people that are are kind of your ne'er-do-well types that that are

00:23:03.900 probably not there for the right reasons and certainly whose message I don't

00:23:07.280 like but the people that are most outraged about this are in fact Canada's

00:23:12.280 legal immigrants these people who find it tremendously offensive that there is 0.99

00:23:19.300 this industry now this booming industry in Canada to bring people into the

00:23:23.680 country illegally and so very little attention paid to so very little

00:23:28.180 attention given to it by the media and clearly by the government at this point

00:23:32.860 so this woman who's been accused just to reiterate if you're tuning in just now

00:23:38.260 has been accused of something that if convicted could give her a 1 million

00:23:44.440 dollar penalty or alternatively could give her years in prison her entire life 0.98

00:23:52.840 in prison and if you do this with less than 10 people fewer than 10 people your

00:23:58.060 first offense is no more than 10 years in prison if you do it with more than 10

00:24:04.240 people you can get life imprisonment so this right here should tell you the

00:24:07.840 letter of the law thinks this is important the letter of the law the

00:24:11.640 Immigration and Refugee Act says that this is something that should give you life 1.00

00:24:16.540 in prison if you smuggle more than 10 people across the border illegally we're

00:24:20.800 not talking about an insignificant problem here but if people themselves are

00:24:25.520 coming in under false pretenses if people are smuggling others if people are

00:24:31.340 manipulating the asylum system at a certain point we have to say we aren't

00:24:35.380 going to open our doors or our borders to this and I know that the idea of a 1.00

00:24:39.820 border wall has become Trumpist I mean in nature you can't talk about a wall

00:24:44.740 without it becoming to certain subsets of the population farcical but we need to

00:24:51.200 do something to start turning people away if we know this problem is going on and

00:24:57.080 that doesn't mean shutting down our asylum claims process but it means enforcing this

00:25:03.340 act the US is not an unsafe country and what was interesting as well there was

00:25:07.660 another report a CBC says that 50% and this was 20 back in summer of 2018 but

00:25:13.480 50% of the people that were making these claims at the border had some form of

00:25:18.820 legal status in the US so that's important for two reasons number one it

00:25:23.680 means that almost half of them are illegal in the US like they're almost

00:25:27.820 illegal or they're only there on a visitor visa or something like that so about

00:25:31.900 half of them don't even belong in the US we shouldn't be offloading them or

00:25:35.980 letting them offload here but the other part of that is that it means that half

00:25:39.340 of them do have status in a safe country a safe country so at that point if

00:25:43.900 you'd like to immigrate to Canada do it the way anyone else does go to the 0.93

00:25:47.740 lottery system get a job here get a work visa if you have family here come 0.99

00:25:52.220 with them there are any number of legitimate and viable means for people to

00:25:57.820 come to Canada it's not difficult to come here go through that process but

00:26:03.560 instead you have queue jumpers and when the Liberals say that queue jumping is not

00:26:08.800 a problem at the border then why are people paying why why are people paying

00:26:14.740 money to cross here if not because of queue jumping so we're as a country dealing

00:26:25.960 with the consequences of this there is not just a an economic consequence there

00:26:31.420 isn't just an economic price we're paying in the literal sense from the cost

00:26:34.700 to run the system the cost to provide the social services the cost to deport the 1.00

00:26:39.960 cost to enforce but there's a human cost in this country when you have the

00:26:44.860 cultural fabric of the country disrupted by lawbreakers and and this is

00:26:49.580 not an indictment of immigrants or immigration it's an indictment of illegal

00:26:53.680 immigration and and not once not once even in let me just pull up the the seat

00:26:58.720 the ctv story here or the Canadian press story so this is the story that we're

00:27:03.760 seeing everywhere about the woman charged woman faces charges of smuggling

00:27:08.300 asylum seekers not once in the story does the word illegal appear not once in the

00:27:14.920 one story in another it does but there's one of the stories here where illegal does

00:27:20.980 not appear it's we're still using this nomenclature of irregular and the one

00:27:26.520 that CBC loves to use they don't CBC doesn't even like irregular now because

00:27:30.140 irregular is a buzzword for illegal everyone knows they're the same so CBC

00:27:34.660 will just say crossing between border points which just makes it sound like oh

00:27:39.860 yeah so you know I just crossed the street not at the crosswalk like CBC

00:27:43.480 thinks this is like jaywalking like oh yeah you know because they can they view the

00:27:46.740 whole country as a welcome so if you're allowed to cross at a border point you're

00:27:51.660 allowed to cross at a non border point and you just you know once you get in

00:27:55.020 here you check in on the other side like that you know a hotel you know I just

00:27:58.980 checked in on the app and here I am it's ridiculous and I would love to see how the

00:28:06.360 Liberal government is going to respond because in an election year people start

00:28:10.200 paying a bit more attention to the news and you know in a lot of cases we might

00:28:15.060 actually see more of these stories because the government wants to thump its

00:28:18.540 chest and start bragging more about how oh we're making busts and we're enforcing

00:28:22.940 but I want to know where the enforcement has been the last two years I want to

00:28:27.240 know where the enforcement apart from these cases that look isolated but but

00:28:30.600 really aren't where it's been and and that's not happening we have a media

00:28:36.060 that's not paying attention we have a government that's being complicit in the 0.79

00:28:39.600 problem by not acting we've got agencies that are responding to the agenda of the

00:28:44.880 government and not doing what their mandate is and I want to make clear this

00:28:48.420 is not the fault of RCMP officers or CBSA officers they take their orders on

00:28:54.000 stuff like this from the politicians so we have to look at the politicians and

00:28:59.040 again no one is driving this discussion and when I came on board it was back in

00:29:04.500 July with True North one of the big reasons was because I wanted to be with a

00:29:09.500 platform that was not just unafraid to tackle the issues but but was doing it

00:29:14.240 with the facts and holding people to account over it I mean doing the

00:29:18.560 research but also the advocacy and the reporting on it and I'm proud that we're

00:29:22.640 doing that I mean I'm here today doing this and talking about this issue in a

00:29:26.060 way that no one else is and before I wrap up I do have to on that note tell you

00:29:32.000 that we can't do that without your support we just can't I'm gonna put a link in the

00:29:36.560 chat box over to the right here that we need your help I mean if you want us to

00:29:41.160 drive these issues I see a lot of people right now that are outraged about what's

00:29:44.480 happening in Canada well we need people that are gonna bring truth to it I'm a

00:29:48.080 part of that team Candace Malcolm is Anthony Fury is we need your help to do

00:29:52.580 it if you can chip in even a couple of dollars a month or ten dollars a month to

00:29:57.060 join the Heritage Club it goes a long way to making sure that there's some

00:30:00.800 accountability on this because we need it that's it for me I hope you have a

00:30:04.400 wonderful weekend we'll talk to you next week for true north I'm Andrew Lawton

00:30:07.940 thank you god bless and good day Canada

Juno News - January 25, 2019

The True North Report： Alleged human smuggler charged by border officials

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