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00:00:00.880 Hey guys, Candace Malcolm here with True North. We're live this Tuesday afternoon.

00:00:06.480 I want to talk to you about a couple of different stories that are going on in the news today,

00:00:11.600 as per usual. There was this bizarre exchange. I'm going to get to it a bit more in more detail,

00:00:18.080 but basically the conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel gave a press conference in

00:00:23.680 Burnaby, where she proposed something that's pretty straightforward, pretty run-of-the-mill.

00:00:30.080 In fact, it's something that conservatives have long been calling for.

00:00:34.000 The liberal immigration minister, in response, just gives a really, really completely over-the-top

00:00:41.040 response and kind of accuses her of saying something that she really, really didn't say.

00:00:45.440 Reminds me a lot of a 2006 liberal campaign ad that just totally,

00:00:51.600 totally did not work out as planned. It just completely failed. And so we're going to go

00:00:57.920 through that today. We had a breaking news report this morning with True North. My colleague,

00:01:04.000 Graham Gordon and I broke the news of the huge spike, a dramatic surge in asylum seekers coming

00:01:12.080 from Mexico. So the report basically found that Canada was on track to almost double, almost double

00:01:20.080 the number of asylum seekers welcomed from Mexico from 2017 to 2018. The numbers just skyrocketed.

00:01:27.920 So a bit of background on that issue. We used to have a big problem in Canada of Mexicans who came 1.00

00:01:34.240 to Canada as visitors. They claimed that they were coming to visit Canada and they just never left.

00:01:38.640 They put forth an asylum claim. They claimed asylum. One year we had almost 10,000 claimants. I think it was

00:01:45.440 2008. We had like 9,800 or something like that. The big problem, of course, is that most of those

00:01:52.400 people are not refugees. They're not bonafide refugees. About 90% of the cases would either be

00:01:58.800 withdrawn by the applicant, which mostly just meant that they left. They left Canada. So they

00:02:03.280 come claim asylum and they never actually go through the formal process of going in front of a judge.

00:02:08.080 We don't know what would happen to them. We don't know if they'd go on and try to get into the United

00:02:12.080 States from Canada or they'd go back to Mexico and the rest just had their claims rejected. So

00:02:17.280 it was getting really expensive, getting really out of hand. The Conservatives,

00:02:21.040 Conservative government, when it was Stephen Harper, who was Prime Minister, implemented a visa. So

00:02:26.000 all it meant was that people coming from Mexico visiting Canada, whether they wanted to go

00:02:31.600 on a ski trip or on a cruise or sightseeing or visiting friends or family, they just had to get a visa.

00:02:36.640 In the same way as me as a Canadian, when I want to travel to a host of countries, and I've been

00:02:43.040 through this because I love traveling, but when I went to Brazil, I had to get a visa. When I went to

00:02:47.840 Australia, I had to get a visa. When I went to Russia, I had to get a visa. It's pretty common in a lot of

00:02:53.840 the world that you have to apply for a visa before you can go to a country. And so Canada put the visa

00:02:59.200 requirement on Mexico and the number of asylum claims absolutely plummeted. It fell down to double digits,

00:03:05.840 like by 2013, 2014, we had like 80 claimants a year. The Liberals and Justin Trudeau ran on a campaign promise

00:03:15.120 to get rid of that visa. The Mexicans always hated it, and it was kind of like embarrassing to them, 0.99

00:03:20.480 so they didn't want it. And basically, Trudeau was pandering not to Canadians, interestingly, but to Mexicans.

00:03:28.640 So his campaign pledge wasn't to Canadians, it was to Mexicans. They could travel to Canada visa-free.

00:03:34.400 That happened, and lo and behold, huge spike in asylum claimants. We're not quite back up to the

00:03:41.120 highs that we used to have. We'd have 10,000 a year, but we had 2,500 in 2018 up until October. So the

00:03:49.920 first 10 months of the year, it's going to end up being higher. Take that from the 80 that we used to

00:03:56.000 have a year, now up to 2,500, and the costs associated with that. So check out that report.

00:04:00.560 It's an exclusive that myself and our investigative journalist Graham Gordon put out. You can find it

00:04:06.480 on True North's social media page, social media, and on our website, which is now tnc.news. So tnc.news is

00:04:15.840 the new website where you can find all of our reports and all of our news. So with that, let's get to the

00:04:20.800 story I want to talk about, which is this ridiculous comment by the immigration minister accusing

00:04:27.360 conservatives of wanting to militarize the Canadian border. So let's get this clip up and running here.

00:04:37.120 This is going to be, if I can get this clip to play, which my wi-fi has been acting up a little bit,

00:04:44.320 then I will play it. Okay. I just really want to slow this down. I'm going to play this clip a couple

00:05:03.520 of times because I just want to break it down what he's actually saying. So this is in response to

00:05:08.480 Michelle Rumpel gave a press conference. Michelle Rumpel is a conservative immigration critic. I'll play

00:05:13.280 part of her press conference. She was in Burnaby and she basically just said that the conservatives

00:05:19.120 are calling on parliament to do an extra review when it comes to screening and vetting of migrants

00:05:26.000 and asylum seekers coming to Canada. So all they're saying is we want more screening and we want to

00:05:31.920 look at the screening procedures that the government currently has in place and see if we can approve them,

00:05:37.200 which is a pretty bland, pretty generic, pretty conservative proposal. It's nothing groundbreaking,

00:05:43.120 nothing earth shattering, nothing really to fear monger about. So this is a response that the

00:05:49.600 the liberal immigration minister has to that. Okay. So he says, I haven't seen anything from the

00:05:56.160 conservatives. They don't have a plan. Okay. So that's, that's a pretty bold statement. They say,

00:06:02.160 he's saying that they're just criticizing us, but they don't have their own plan. So, so, so take that

00:06:06.080 point that he just says, they don't have a plan. And then listen to the next thing he says.

00:06:09.600 I've managed to militarize the border and place a CBSA official or a RCB official every 100 meters.

00:06:17.440 So how can you not have a plan? And then he says, do you know what their plan is

00:06:21.840 to militarize the border, to put a CBSA official every 100 meters? Well, you know,

00:06:26.640 it's one or the other, right? You can't say simultaneously that they don't have a plan,

00:06:31.280 but that also that their plan includes something as ridiculous as putting a CBSA official every 0.64

00:06:37.600 100 meters across a border that spans the entire continent. Like I've never heard anyone call for 0.59

00:06:43.920 that. I've never heard anyone actually say, do you know what we need? We need a full military presence

00:06:50.800 or full Canadian border services presence across the entire border. I don't think anyone's arguing

00:06:56.080 that. In fact, there are two locations across the entire Canada border where the overwhelming

00:07:02.400 majority, like, like 98, 99% of illegal crossings take place. Roxham Road in rural Quebec and Emerson,

00:07:09.280 Manitoba, rural Manitoba. Those are the two locations. So, so, so, so I don't, I don't think that anyone's

00:07:15.040 ever called for a CBSA official every 100 meters across the border. Maybe just those two locations,

00:07:22.480 right? Those two locations. But somehow the immigration minister is accusing the conservatives

00:07:28.960 about not having a plan and that their plan is something so absurd that it's akin to militarizing

00:07:37.120 the border. So, you know, I think that that accusation is just pretty absurd. I'll just play it

00:07:43.600 through so you can see his whole, his whole comments here. I haven't seen anything from conservatives.

00:07:48.240 They don't have a plan. You know what their plan is? To militarize the border and place a CBSA official

00:07:53.360 or RCMP every 100 meters. We don't have the resources for that. Nobody's calling for that.

00:07:59.280 We don't have baked, you know, an impractical plan. And by the way, we've been talking to Canadians

00:08:05.680 before we got into office, after we got into office for the last three years and more. Consultations.

00:08:12.000 I do town halls everywhere that I go. So does the practice. To get feedback on some of the programs

00:08:18.320 that are working so well in immigration, such as the Global Skills Strategy. It came from the community.

00:08:23.680 When did the conservatives start to talk to Canadians about immigration last fall? That's when they got

00:08:29.440 around to talking to Canadians. Okay, that's enough. But anyway, you can tell we're in full-on

00:08:34.560 campaign mode. You know, it's not, we're not, we're not now talking about policy. We're not talking

00:08:38.800 about what's best for Canadians. We are comparing the liberals to the conservatives. And he's

00:08:44.480 criticizing conservatives for not talking to Canadians. I just find it kind of absurd that he

00:08:50.160 would accuse them of militarizing the border when, again, nothing, nothing to that sort has been called

00:08:56.320 for. I'm just going to go ahead and show you parts of Michelle Rumpel's press conference here.

00:09:02.880 Let me just pull it open here because she, so basically she was speaking in Burnaby,

00:09:07.680 British Columbia. This was on January 16th. So it was last week. There's a by-election happening

00:09:13.200 in Burnaby. So she was there with the conservative candidate. And then also just, you know, Burnaby,

00:09:19.840 British Columbia's location. Sadly, the tragic crime that took place in the summer of 2017,

00:09:26.560 when 13 year old Marissa Shen was murdered, the person accused of murdering her is a Syrian refugee

00:09:33.840 who is believed to have come to Canada under Trudeau's Syrian refugee program, which was totally

00:09:39.120 rushed, totally out of control. I wrote an entire book about how terrible Trudeau's plan was when it

00:09:45.680 came to Syrian refugees and the threat and the risk that we face in the way that they did it, not necessarily

00:09:51.520 in bringing Syrians to Canada. I think that Canada probably should have brought some Syrian refugees.

00:09:56.800 I probably would have preferred that we brought the people who were being persecuted like the Yazidis and 0.95

00:10:02.240 the Syrian Christians. Anyway, there was a lot to criticize about the way that Trudeau brought in

00:10:06.960 those Syrian refugees. Sadly, a young Canadian was killed allegedly by one of those Syrian refugees. So

00:10:16.400 Michelle was in Michelle Rumpel was in Burnaby. And this is what her press conference looked like,

00:10:23.120 if I can get this to load. Let's see here. Well, if I can, I can try to summarize it. Basically, she just 0.74

00:10:31.760 talked about a few instances of known criminals, like known people who had criminal records, people who had

00:10:42.080 extensive criminal records, who were able to come to Canada, the examples that she brought up were

00:10:46.880 folks who came through the border. So they crossed illegally. And then for some reason, they were

00:10:53.840 able to stay. So she points to those issues, she brings up the fact that a young girl was killed in

00:11:00.960 Burnaby from allegedly because of a refugee by refugee that hasn't been proven in court yet. But court case

00:11:09.520 is going underway later this month. And anyway, my video is not going to load here. I'll give it a second

00:11:19.120 and see if it loads. And then she calls basically her call is for Parliament to study the issue. She's

00:11:25.840 saying that she is calling for the same thing that the Conservatives called for last year and the year

00:11:30.800 before, which is just a study and a review of the security procedures and protocol, and that it needs to

00:11:38.640 be reviewed. So that's not really anything groundbreaking. It's certainly not a call for the militarization of the

00:11:46.640 Canadian border. And certainly not a call for CBSA officer every 100 feet or every 100 meters, as the

00:11:55.920 immigration minister mistakenly claimed. This is just all reminds me of this ad. I, you know, this is what

00:12:04.240 I tweeted. This is what I alluded to. But this is the ad for folks who are too young or who don't remember. In 2006,

00:12:11.600 this was the ad that the Liberals played. The quality is really bad. It just shows you how much better

00:12:17.200 we've gotten at technology in the last 12 years or 13 years. But this was the ad that the Liberals ran,

00:12:22.800 trying to kind of drum up fear against the Conservatives and what a Conservative government

00:12:27.680 would stand for. And so this is how they were trying to paint Stephen Harper. Stephen Harper

00:12:34.880 actually announced he wants to increase military presence in our cities. Canadian cities. Soldiers

00:12:44.480 with guns. In our cities. In Canada. We did not make this up.

00:12:54.400 Oh, scary. Those scary, scary, scary, scary Conservatives. They wanted to militarize Canadian

00:13:05.120 cities. Of course, the reality was really anything but what was portrayed in that ad. The ad immediately

00:13:11.120 got pulled like they played it. And it just very quickly got mocked and ridiculed by everyone. And the

00:13:17.280 Liberals pulled it. It was kind of like prime fear mongering by the Liberals against the Conservatives.

00:13:23.520 And it really just kind of I mean, it was ridiculous, you know, that the idea that we're

00:13:29.200 like militarizing our country kind of gates the idea that those would be Canadian soldiers in the

00:13:36.000 cities, not like some foreign occupation, like they made it sound like it was like, you know,

00:13:40.560 the Nazis are coming or something like that. You know, they were Canadian soldiers. I've got the actual

00:13:45.760 policy here that the Conservatives were proposing at the time. And then the Liberals really just spun it out

00:13:52.320 of context to an absurd extent. And they had to withdraw that. And then they ended up losing the

00:14:00.480 election. So interesting, interesting stuff. Let's just see what the actual it was like, the proposal

00:14:09.760 was to have like 100 additional soldiers being available in cities or something like that. It was

00:14:15.120 something like super minor, and the Liberals turned it into that campaign ad. So again, we're kind of

00:14:21.920 back to where we were a decade ago or longer, where we have the Liberals just sort of making stuff up

00:14:29.360 and fear mongering against the Conservatives for pretty straightforward policies. I wish that the

00:14:36.880 Conservatives were going further in their proposals and what they're saying. Like I said, you know, I

00:14:43.040 obviously don't think that we should militarize our border. I don't think that we should build a wall

00:14:46.560 across the border. However, you know, when there's two locations, we know that Roxham Road in upstate

00:14:53.520 New York going into Quebec accounts for 95% of all illegal crossings into Canada. Okay, maybe not build a

00:15:02.560 wall across the whole border. But why don't you start at the location where 95% of the crossings happen?

00:15:08.240 That's, that would be a pretty good place to start. You don't need to militarize the whole border or

00:15:13.600 place CBSA officials across the whole border when 95% are happening in one location. Why don't you just

00:15:19.040 stop the crossings at that one spot, which could be done with a fence? With a fence. I visited that

00:15:25.760 location, Roxham Road. I did some reporting from there last May. And, you know, there's a big sign that says

00:15:31.680 it's illegal to cross. And everyone knows that they just ignore that. They walk in, the Canadian 0.99

00:15:38.080 government actually built a land bridge, like it used to be a ditch that went down. And they filled

00:15:43.280 it in so that the migrants would no longer have to walk through a ditch. They just kind of walk across 0.96

00:15:48.160 this like filled in area, right to where the Canadian officials are. Canadian officials say like,

00:15:54.240 stop, you're about to be arrested. What you're doing is illegal. Are you sure you want to cross? And the

00:15:59.360 migrants like they've been trained, they've spoken to obviously, like a human smuggler or someone,

00:16:03.840 someone in their community, because they know, you know, if I was in a foreign country, and a police

00:16:08.800 officer told me to stop what I'm doing. And if I continue forward, I will be arrested. You know,

00:16:14.800 there's no way that I'm going to continue forward, right. But obviously, the people who are crossing 0.80

00:16:19.840 here have been coached, they've been told just, you know, ignore the police, they'll tell you to stop,

00:16:24.480 just ignore them, say that you want to get arrested, go in, they get arrested. I didn't

00:16:30.160 see anyone get handcuffed, I didn't see anyone get detained, they just bring them in. And then that's

00:16:35.600 when they start processing them and filling out their asylum claim form. So there's basically no

00:16:40.880 punishment, they get, they supposedly get screened. And if they have a national security red flag,

00:16:46.480 then they get kicked out. But that I don't think that happens very often. And as Michelle Rumpel

00:16:53.760 brought up in that press conference, she did, unfortunately, I couldn't get the video to load. But

00:16:57.200 we can share, we'll share parts of that press conference a little later on True North. She has

00:17:03.600 a couple of examples, really bad dudes, really bad people that were able to cross the border

00:17:08.640 illegally and managed to get their way into Canada, despite having national security red flags that

00:17:14.560 were known about by Canadian officials. So again, calling for screening review isn't militarizing the

00:17:21.440 border. And frankly, building a wall and or building a fence and blocking people from entering at that

00:17:26.960 one spot or rocks and road would also not be militarizing the border, it would simply be

00:17:32.800 enforcing the border, enforcing the border laws. Again, there's a big sign that says it's illegal to

00:17:37.280 cross. And yet, we had, you know, I think something like 20,000 people crossed illegally last year,

00:17:44.640 it was like, basically the same as the year before we had 55,000 asylum claims last year,

00:17:51.040 compared to 50,000 the year before. So that number is going up. And, you know, whatever,

00:17:56.640 whatever the government is doing is not working. I'd like to see the conservatives come up with a much

00:18:01.520 more detailed plan, and a much more aggressive plan. Frankly, the liberals are going to throw

00:18:06.800 everything at them, they're going to accuse them of putting soldiers with guns in our cities and at our

00:18:11.520 borders. But I think that a lot of people will be okay with that if it meant that we were, you know,

00:18:17.840 stopping the flow of illegal immigration, that we were stopping the gravy train for illegal migrants 1.00

00:18:24.160 coming into Canada, and that we were securing our border. So I'm going to leave it at that today.

00:18:29.280 Thank you so much, guys, for tuning in. And don't forget to check out our new website, tnc.news,

00:18:35.760 got that report you really want to see about Mexican asylum seekers coming to Canada and the massive 1.00

00:18:41.040 spike that Canada has experienced since the Trudeau government got rid of that visa. The visa worked, 0.99

00:18:48.000 the visa policy worked, it got rid of the problem that we had with thousands, tens of thousands even, 0.88

00:18:54.640 of Mexican asylum seekers. Canada fixed the problem, got rid of it, for some reason, we don't know why,

00:19:00.960 Trudeau reversed it, and now we've got the problem, it's back again. So check out that report,

00:19:06.400 and thank you so much for tuning in. Have a great rest of your week.

Juno News - January 23, 2019

The True North Report： SOLDIERS WITH GUNS. ON OUR BORDERS. WE DID NOT MAKE THIS UP.

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