In this episode, we discuss the Global Compact on Migration, a non-binding document that was drafted by the United Nation's (UN) agency, the UNDP, in response to the ongoing global refugee crisis. It seeks to address the problem of people not being able to live in their country anymore, and being displaced by war, terrorism, and other issues, and provide a framework for countries to work together to find a solution.
00:00:00.000So let's just get right into it. Let's get right into it. So the UN Compact on Migration. I've got the document right here. So the official title of the document is called the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration.
00:00:19.060Here it is right here. This thing was drafted over the summer. Apparently, according to Canadian officials, they've been working on this thing for two years, and they finally put together the actual text of the compact.
00:00:35.380And so that came out in July 2018. And the representatives of all these UN member states are going to be meeting in Morocco on December 10th and December 11th.
00:00:49.220So it's coming up in less than two weeks. The leaders of the representatives, the UN representatives of all these countries are going to be meeting to discuss this document and potentially sign on to it, ratify it, and become members to this agreement.
00:01:07.120So for people not really that familiar with the UN process and what goes on with that, I mean, basically, this is a non-binding document.
00:01:16.260It's basically like a constitution that these people have written that is not necessarily binding, but they're principles.
00:01:24.280They're aspirational principles that countries are to try to aspire to.
00:01:31.860So just like the UN Declaration of Human Rights, no country is bound by the human rights that are laid out in that document.
00:01:40.860But it's meant as a guideline for other countries as they're drafting their own constitutions or their own Bill of Rights.
00:01:47.760And so, you know, within the document itself here, they're pretty clear.
00:01:52.380They say that this is not a treaty. It's not an international treaty.
00:01:55.200It's not an actual binding piece of legislation.
00:01:59.100It's just a compact. So it's just purely aspirational.
00:02:02.820Now, you know, that's supposed to calm our, you know, calm people and make it seem like, oh, you know, it's no big deal.
00:02:09.700It's just a motion or it's just a compact.
00:02:12.660The reality is that if countries do sign on to it, they can take components of this and apply it to their own laws.
00:02:20.320And that is what typically happens. And so what does the migration, what does the compact on migration tend to do?
00:02:27.340Well, it seeks to create a framework for the sort of ongoing global refugee crisis, the ongoing crisis of people not being able to live in their country,
00:02:38.920not being able to remain in their homes or in their communities, in their villages,
00:02:43.380but getting displaced, whether that's because of war, terrorism or any number of things that are just continuing to plague much of the Middle East and North Africa
00:02:53.000and ongoing basically throughout the third world countries that just won't develop.
00:03:00.280You know, there's all kinds of people who are in those countries that just don't want to be there anymore.
00:03:03.920And so this creates a framework mostly for the rich countries, but also for the poor countries as a guideline to, you know,
00:03:12.120how are we going to move these people who don't want to be in these poor countries,
00:03:16.380but they'd much rather be in rich countries like Canada or Switzerland or Norway or the United States?
00:03:25.140And I mean, I think fundamentally there's a report in Breitbart the other day by Chris Tomlinson that talked about how it was really Germany that engineered this,
00:03:34.220that Merkel's people are kind of taking credit for this document.
00:03:38.640And the idea is that, you know, Germany opened its borders up in 2015 and welcomed a million Syrian refugees.
00:03:45.880Well, they hoped they'd be Syrian refugees.
00:03:47.740Of course, you know, so many other people came to Europe aside from just the Syrians.
00:03:53.800And so they basically just opened up their borders and let in millions of unscreened,
00:03:58.660unvetted individuals, self-selected refugees, people who probably wouldn't,
00:04:05.180many, many people probably wouldn't classify, wouldn't classify under international law as being an actual refugee.
00:06:34.080You have the right to do what you want.
00:06:36.480Maybe you have the right to your property or something like that.
00:06:38.860But the idea that you have the right to go into someone else's country and to live there, you know, the idea that that would be a right is just really a confused concept.
00:06:51.120It's never, ever been a concept in international law before.
00:06:54.080So you can just see that they're trying to work this in.
00:06:56.540And if you go through this document, they use the term right, human right, universal human right, basic human right.
00:07:05.140They use the term right hundreds of times, like over 100 times in this document.
00:07:09.340So to say that someone else, regardless of where you're born and where you're coming from and anything else in your past,
00:07:17.180that somehow you have the right to come into Canada and to become a citizen of Canada or to be treated as citizens are treated is is pretty alarming
00:07:27.240because it basically says that Canada and Canadians are no longer in charge of who they determine can become a citizen in their country.
00:07:34.040Right now, it's Canadians that decide who becomes a citizen of our country or it's Americans who decide if you want to come to America,
00:07:41.380these are the guidelines that you have to follow.
00:07:43.980These are the rules you have to abide by.
00:07:45.880And if you do, if you come and you follow these steps and you follow these rules, then maybe eventually you can become a citizen.
00:07:52.340Well, again, this flips this flips it on its head.
00:07:55.340And you can see there's one part in this in the documents.
00:07:59.640This is right in the preamble, section four right here.
00:08:04.040It says, I'll provide a link to this, but it says right here,
00:08:08.980refugees and migrants are entitled to the same universal human rights and fundamental freedoms,
00:08:14.160which must be respected, protected and fulfilled at all times.
00:08:19.980So it's saying that refugees are entitled to the same universe.
00:08:24.720Again, they're entitled to these rights.
00:09:12.240And, you know, you could just imagine how this invites absolute chaos of all the people from all around the world can just choose which country they want to be a part of without having any stake in that community,
00:09:23.180without really understanding the fundamental history and traditions and culture of that community.
00:09:28.660I mean, those traditions and that culture won't last for very much longer because, you know, Canada has a relatively small population compared to the world.
00:09:38.900And to say that any of the six, seven billion people around the world can just say I'm a Canadian.
00:09:44.560I have the right to be Canadian and show up at our door demanding not only all the rights and freedoms and safety and protection that we have in Canada,
00:09:52.920but also, you know, Canada has a huge social welfare state.
00:09:56.400You know, you're entitled to all that as well as a citizen.
00:10:00.360So you can imagine how it's just not really sustainable.
00:10:04.320And again, it just invites all kinds of chaos because there's no more community.
00:10:09.120There's no more concept of what it means to be Canadian.
00:10:11.520There's no more kind of basic agreement that we all share the same fundamental values and culture.
00:10:17.940You know, people with totally different values, totally different culture,
00:10:20.480that grow up with different educational expectations, that grow up potentially coming with all kinds of diseases.
00:10:27.200I mean, what's stopping everyone in the world who's sick, everyone in the world who has, you know,
00:10:31.800a terrible disease that could be infectious from showing up in Canada saying they have a right to be Canadian.
00:10:37.440Now, you know, it doesn't it doesn't come out and say it in the document that everyone has a right to be Canadian.
00:10:43.620But again, the language of creating a framework so that migration becomes a basic universal human right is certainly repeated throughout this thing.
00:10:57.200And then so that's obviously the first big concern.
00:10:59.600The second concern is that this document sort of conflates and it blurs the line between a refugee and a migrant.
00:11:08.460So as we know, a refugee is a person who has it is fleeing from war or fleeing from persecution.
00:11:15.620They have they're either displaced because of an actual war or they have a well-founded fear of persecution.
00:11:23.080That's the language that's typically used in international law that you have a fear of being persecuted.
00:11:29.700So you're being persecuted and it's well-founded.
00:11:31.920It isn't just, you know, it's not safe in my country or, you know, a lot of people have been targeting my country.
00:11:39.980No, you have to specifically have a case for you personally, why you are being persecuted, why you personally are being persecuted.
00:11:47.160So it's a very specific definition and requirement.
00:11:51.720And so what this document you'll see, it's just sort of used interchangeably.
00:11:56.640It's not just about refugees, but all migrants in that section that I read refugees and migrants are entitled to the same universal human rights.
00:12:05.360So it's not just refugees, it's migrants.
00:12:07.560A migrant is just anyone who wants to move to a better country, wants a better opportunity in the West, wants to move to a rich country.
00:12:15.700And a lot of the times, a migrant is someone who has come to the rich part of the world, the Western part of the world, without following the immigration rules laid out by that country.
00:12:27.500So we would typically say, you know, someone who's a refugee is someone who's been accepted according to international law as a refugee, whereas a migrant is someone who has not been accepted.
00:12:37.780So they've come illegally or they've tried to have a refugee application and it's failed.
00:12:44.560And so I think that this is really important because, you know, those are two very different types of people.
00:12:50.820They're two very distinct classes of immigration.
00:12:54.480And throughout this document, they use them interchangeably and it talks about the need to create this framework for both refugees and migrants.
00:13:05.800So that is the sort of second thing they try to slip on through there.
00:13:09.780And the third and final thing that I want to talk about, and I think this is, I mean, for me as a journalist, this is the most terrifying aspect, most disturbing aspect of this thing, is that if you go through it, there's an entire section.
00:13:27.120Well, part of it talks about how they want to create a whole of government approach to changing the concepts when it comes to migration, changing the way that people think about migration.
00:13:48.820And part of that whole society approach includes the media.
00:13:54.940And so if we go on to objective, here it is, objective 17, eliminate all forms of discrimination and provoke evidence-based public discourse to shape perceptions of migration.
00:14:07.580So there's a propaganda element within this UN document that they want to not only just eliminate discrimination,
00:14:37.360which is sort of an intangible, impossible thing to do, but also to shape perceptions of migration.
00:14:48.280So to help basically distort the reality and force one type of thinking upon all people.
00:14:55.380And so within this section, they seek to eliminate all forms of discrimination, condemn and counter expressions and acts and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, violence, xenophobia, and related intolerance against all migrants in conformity with international human rights.
00:15:18.780Now, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, we shouldn't want to have any kind of racism or racial discrimination, especially not violence.
00:15:27.780You know, the idea of xenophobia or related intolerance.
00:15:32.360I mean, those are just such vague, mushy terms that it's really subjective and really strange as to why a UN sort of document is aimed towards government would have anything in it about trying to eliminate types of discrimination and tolerance.
00:15:52.380And then it goes on. So one of the things that it seeks to do is is a section C here is promote independent, objective, quality reporting and media reports, including Internet based information,
00:16:12.100including by by sensitize by sensitizing and educating media professionals on migration related issues and terminology.
00:16:19.060And then there's a part here, stopping the allocation of public funding or material support to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other types of discrimination towards migrants.
00:16:33.960And this is the part that sort of just like stops you right in your tracks.
00:16:39.480So the idea is that they want governments to not only promote reporting that promotes migration.
00:16:48.780So if you're a journalist and you're a reporter who's trying to tell positive stories about migrants and trying to make it seem like everything is just rosy and gray and that migrants are all wonderful contributors to society.
00:17:02.860Well, they want that government to reward you and promote you, whereas if you're telling the other side of the story, if you're talking about, hey, you know, there are some cases where migrants commit more crimes or there are some cases where migrants are just not culturally attuned to live in this part of the world.
00:17:22.060Maybe they participate in things that we don't want in our country, in rituals or, you know, involved in criminal activity, whatever.
00:17:33.900If you want to tell that side of the story, the U.N. is telling the government to stop the allocation of funding and material support to those media outlets.
00:17:45.640So this is the U.N. calling on the government to actively intervene in the media to determine which outlets and which reporters and which journalists are being good and following their ideology and which ones are being bad and telling the other side of the story.
00:18:03.980Now, why why would the U.N. want the government to get involved, not just to, you know, mediate and maybe make sure that there's balance, which, again, I don't see that as a role of government whatsoever.
00:18:16.680But but but but to actively enforce what is fundamentally a radical, a radical document, a radical ideology, the radical concept that there shouldn't be any borders, that citizenship doesn't really matter, that everyone has the right to go and live wherever they want.
00:18:33.620I mean, again, these are very, very radical concepts that have no precedent in international law, in immigration law.
00:18:41.420And suddenly the U.N. is saying not only do we have to accept these, but the government is going to actively intervene to tell which to tell media which stories to tell, to punish media and journalists that tell the wrong stories and to reward journalists and media that tell the correct stories or that mimic the correct way of thinking.
00:19:02.400I mean, it's dangerous. It's no longer a free press. It's no longer a free society.
00:19:06.220So when you look at this document, you could just say, oh, whatever, it's just another stupid U.N. initiative, a bunch of, you know, out of touch elites meeting in Europe, meeting in Morocco to pat themselves on the back and promote their own worldview.
00:19:22.720But within this document, you could see how there are several elements that undermine our democracy, because fundamentally, right now, it's up to Canadians to decide who we let into our country and who we let into our community, who gets to have the privilege of being a Canadian citizen.
00:19:38.300Well, they're saying that that's no longer something that should be ruled by the people.
00:19:43.020This should be something that comes from the top down, from these U.N. elite bureaucrats and federal politicians like Justin Trudeau, who agrees with all this stuff and not the will of the people.
00:19:53.600It undermines our state sovereignty and the rule of law, because it says that, again, we don't get to set our own immigration rules.
00:20:00.060The immigration rules are coming from this insane document.
00:20:02.640And then the idea of the free press, that the journalists should be able to report what they see as being important issues, not what issues are dictated by, again, far left extreme bureaucrats who are telling them what beliefs they should have.
00:20:22.120And I think that this is, again, connected to Justin Trudeau's recent announcement of a $600 million media slush fund.
00:20:30.520We don't know exactly what the criteria for that slush fund will be, but we do know that, first of all, there's a lot of dying media companies in Canada that are, you know, on the verge of not existing in a couple of years because they're so poorly run that we're all celebrating this fund.
00:20:48.900And, you know, we don't know how the money is going to be doled out, but in the last budget, in the mini budget that came out last week, Trudeau's finance minister sort of alluded to it, that there is going to be some kind of a panel that determines which media qualify and the money is going to get doled out that way.
00:21:09.600So is this migration pack going to have an impact on that?
00:21:13.600Is this the language that's used in here about, you know, responsible reporting and, you know, systematically not including reporters that, you know, they determine tell stories they don't want out there?
00:21:32.980You know, if you, if the Trudeau government considers you a racist or xenophobic or intolerant, are you going to be blacklisted?
00:21:42.960I mean, we know the Trudeau government and Trudeau himself goes out of his way to name call and mudsling against any opposition that talks about immigration, that according to the liberals in Canada, if you oppose their dogma on immigration, on multiculturalism, on diversity, they'll call you racist, they'll call you xenophobic, they'll call you intolerant.
00:22:07.960Someone on Twitter reminds me, it happened with Maxime Bernier, it happened with Lisa McLeod, the Ontario provincial minister.
00:22:18.060There was one point in the House of Commons that Conservative leader Andrew Scheer asked Trudeau a question about ISIS fighters and terrorism, and in Trudeau's reply, he called the Conservatives Islamophobic.
00:22:33.240So, you know, worrying about ISIS and terrorism makes you Islamophobic according to these liberals.
00:22:40.620So, you know, again, it leaves you thinking, you know, is this really the point of that fund?
00:22:47.200Is it going to be tied with, you know, whether or not you're following this absurd guideline in this UN document?
00:22:53.660So, again, a week Monday is when these world leaders are going to be meeting in Morocco.
00:23:00.440And, oh, you know, one other argument, you know, some people might say, oh, again, it's just a UN scheme, it's not real, it's not, you know, they're not really going to implement this thing.
00:23:11.360Well, okay, there was an opinion article in McLean's magazine in September, and you can see the headline there,
00:23:21.040Why Canada Will Lead the Charge on the UN's Global Refugee Plan.
00:23:29.060It says, the UN's Global Compact on Refugee will be a game changer, and Canada is well-placed to make it a reality.
00:23:36.560And this article is written by Canada's Immigration Minister, Achmed Asen, and Canada's International Development Minister, Marie-Claude Bebeau.
00:23:49.780So, and then also Canada's representative to the UN.
00:23:54.840So, here you have it, right from the ministers themselves, right from the Trudeau government.
00:24:02.100Canada's taking a lead on this UN refugee plan.
00:24:04.200It's going to be a game changer, and Canada is a well-placed to make it a reality.
00:24:10.460And the whole thing is about how, oh, you know, there are a few moments in history where the world come together to devise a new plan that holds a promise to improve the lives of millions of people.
00:24:20.960The UN Compact has the potential to be one of these moments.
00:24:24.920It's not just a bunch of words on paper.
00:24:27.060It represents a common understanding, political commitment to find solutions for refugees.
00:24:31.560Like, basically, you know, they're like, this is like the most exciting thing they've ever done in their careers.
00:24:37.100And they can't wait to just impose this insane document onto the whole world.
00:24:44.200I think that it really is Canada and Germany that's behind this whole ridiculous UN scheme.
00:24:52.280They think that people from anywhere in the world should have the right to come and live in our country without following our rules or following our culture or having any stake in Canada's future.
00:25:02.620And I think that that's pretty absurd and that, again, maybe you would hear about this more in the media if the journalists themselves weren't so afraid of getting into Trudeau's bad books or they weren't so afraid of the funding that could potentially be tied to their media organization if they were to criticize this document.
00:25:27.180And make no mistake, this is an absolutely radical document.
00:25:30.860It could fundamentally change everything about our country, everything about the world that we live in, our current understanding of the world as nation states divided by borders, where people have lived by the same rules and we live by the rule of law.
00:25:46.000This migration combat would throw that all away, basically just say anyone has a right to live anywhere.
00:25:54.140They're trying to make migration a universal human right, which is just fundamentally wrong.
00:26:02.180And I think that there's so many problematic elements.
00:26:04.340It's sad that journalists haven't covered it.
00:26:16.000I'm talking about this document and warning about it.
00:26:19.380And it's unfortunate that you're not going to see stories about it.
00:26:25.200You're not going to hear about it on the radio or you're not going to see it on CBC News.
00:26:30.700But again, you know, the worldview that these people at the UN hold is the same worldview that the people who run the CBC have and the people who run the federal government have.
00:26:40.560It's just a very different worldview than most normal people around the world and certainly people who are watching this broadcast.
00:26:49.700So spread the word, let people know what this document is, what's going on.
00:26:56.740If Canada and the Trudeau government want to brag about taking a leading role and helping this compact get implemented, well, they should have to answer to that.
00:27:08.020And it's a shame that journalists seem to be afraid to ask those tough questions because probably they don't want to get into the government's bad books.
00:27:17.380They don't want to be one of those journalists that are determined to break the rules on talking about migration and therefore not get funding.
00:27:28.240So, you know, this is definitely a problem.
00:27:31.700And I think that more Canadians need to know about it.