Juno News - The True North Report： The UN Compact on Migration is a radical proposal

00:00:00.000 So 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.

00:00:19.060 Here 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.

00:00:35.380 And 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.

00:00:49.220 So 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.

00:01:07.120 So 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.

00:01:16.260 It's basically like a constitution that these people have written that is not necessarily binding, but they're principles.

00:01:24.280 They're aspirational principles that countries are to try to aspire to.

00:01:31.860 So just like the UN Declaration of Human Rights, no country is bound by the human rights that are laid out in that document.

00:01:40.860 But it's meant as a guideline for other countries as they're drafting their own constitutions or their own Bill of Rights.

00:01:47.760 And so, you know, within the document itself here, they're pretty clear.

00:01:52.380 They say that this is not a treaty. It's not an international treaty.

00:01:55.200 It's not an actual binding piece of legislation.

00:01:59.100 It's just a compact. So it's just purely aspirational.

00:02:02.820 Now, 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.

00:02:09.700 It's just a motion or it's just a compact.

00:02:12.660 The reality is that if countries do sign on to it, they can take components of this and apply it to their own laws.

00:02:20.320 And that is what typically happens. And so what does the migration, what does the compact on migration tend to do?

00:02:27.340 Well, 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,

00:02:38.920 not being able to remain in their homes or in their communities, in their villages,

00:02:43.380 but 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

00:02:53.000 and ongoing basically throughout the third world countries that just won't develop.

00:03:00.280 You know, there's all kinds of people who are in those countries that just don't want to be there anymore.

00:03:03.920 And so this creates a framework mostly for the rich countries, but also for the poor countries as a guideline to, you know,

00:03:12.120 how are we going to move these people who don't want to be in these poor countries, 1.00

00:03:16.380 but they'd much rather be in rich countries like Canada or Switzerland or Norway or the United States?

00:03:22.960 How are we going to manage this?

00:03:25.140 And 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,

00:03:34.220 that Merkel's people are kind of taking credit for this document.

00:03:38.640 And the idea is that, you know, Germany opened its borders up in 2015 and welcomed a million Syrian refugees.

00:03:45.880 Well, they hoped they'd be Syrian refugees. 1.00

00:03:47.740 Of course, you know, so many other people came to Europe aside from just the Syrians.

00:03:53.800 And so they basically just opened up their borders and let in millions of unscreened, 0.97

00:03:58.660 unvetted individuals, self-selected refugees, people who probably wouldn't,

00:04:05.180 many, many people probably wouldn't classify, wouldn't classify under international law as being an actual refugee.

00:04:11.860 But they're self-selected refugees.

00:04:13.520 They identify as refugees.

00:04:15.200 They came to Europe. 0.80

00:04:15.800 So the idea behind this is basically, you know, let's help Germany.

00:04:19.040 Germany bit off more than it can chew. 0.73

00:04:20.780 Germany is welcoming way more people than they can actually integrate,

00:04:24.620 than they can actually house, that are actually going to be able to create any kind of a life or future for their country.

00:04:33.940 So let's get a whole bunch of other Western nations to help shoulder the burden more or less.

00:04:39.860 That's kind of background of it.

00:04:41.100 So you read through the document and it's just kind of typical international jargon talking about, you know,

00:04:49.180 the purpose of having a global conversation and a dialogue between nations about migration.

00:04:56.100 Now, whatever.

00:04:57.560 If a bunch of bureaucrats want to get together and talk about best practices or talk about, you know,

00:05:02.940 their own strategies for dealing with migration,

00:05:05.120 I think it's a waste of money and I don't want to pay for it.

00:05:08.020 But there's not necessarily any harm to that.

00:05:10.440 Now, this document itself is quite different because fundamentally what it seeks to do and why I say it's radical,

00:05:17.540 why I think it is cause for concern is because essentially what it tries to do is create a new precedent in international law

00:05:26.060 and international norms that says that migration, that migration is a universal human right.

00:05:33.800 You hear that language reiterated over and over again in this document.

00:05:39.640 They want to create a expectation that people have the right to migrate.

00:05:47.220 It is a universal human right.

00:05:49.620 It's a right.

00:05:50.380 It's not a it's not a privilege.

00:05:52.000 It's not something that is an honor bestowed upon people.

00:05:55.440 It's not a decision that's made by the citizens of a community or of a country to decide who to give that privilege to.

00:06:01.680 It's not something you earn.

00:06:03.940 It's not something that you apply for and receive.

00:06:07.540 But it flips the equation around and says, no, no, it is a right.

00:06:11.660 It is a right.

00:06:12.820 You have a right to migrate, which is totally unprecedented.

00:06:17.600 It sort of baffles the whole concept of what is a right, because if you think about what is right,

00:06:25.660 properly understood, it's usually freedom from like government persecution.

00:06:31.620 Like you have the right to freedom.

00:06:33.020 You have the right to life.

00:06:34.080 You have the right to do what you want.

00:06:36.480 Maybe you have the right to your property or something like that.

00:06:38.860 But 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.

00:06:51.120 It's never, ever been a concept in international law before.

00:06:54.080 So you can just see that they're trying to work this in.

00:06:56.540 And if you go through this document, they use the term right, human right, universal human right, basic human right.

00:07:05.140 They use the term right hundreds of times, like over 100 times in this document.

00:07:09.340 So to say that someone else, regardless of where you're born and where you're coming from and anything else in your past,

00:07:17.180 that 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

00:07:27.240 because it basically says that Canada and Canadians are no longer in charge of who they determine can become a citizen in their country.

00:07:34.040 Right 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, 0.77

00:07:41.380 these are the guidelines that you have to follow.

00:07:43.980 These are the rules you have to abide by.

00:07:45.880 And if you do, if you come and you follow these steps and you follow these rules, then maybe eventually you can become a citizen.

00:07:52.340 Well, again, this flips this flips it on its head.

00:07:55.340 And you can see there's one part in this in the documents.

00:07:59.640 This is right in the preamble, section four right here.

00:08:04.040 It says, I'll provide a link to this, but it says right here,

00:08:08.980 refugees and migrants are entitled to the same universal human rights and fundamental freedoms,

00:08:14.160 which must be respected, protected and fulfilled at all times.

00:08:19.980 So it's saying that refugees are entitled to the same universe. 0.83

00:08:24.720 Again, they're entitled to these rights.

00:08:26.720 This isn't a privilege.

00:08:27.880 This isn't something they have to earn.

00:08:29.360 They are entitled.

00:08:30.240 So anyone could just show up at your doorstep and say, I'm entitled to live in your house.

00:08:35.920 And I'm entitled to the exact same privileges as anyone else who lives in the house, which is pretty, again, pretty alarming.

00:08:45.260 So many arguments against something like this.

00:08:47.740 It undermines national sovereignty, the rule of law to say that you don't have to follow Canadian immigration laws.

00:08:54.800 You don't have to follow our rules and our laws.

00:08:57.480 You just have to show up and then you're entitled to the same rights and privileges as Canadians.

00:09:06.680 And it's a basic human right.

00:09:08.840 It's it's pretty shocking.

00:09:12.240 And, 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,

00:09:23.180 without really understanding the fundamental history and traditions and culture of that community.

00:09:28.660 I 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.

00:09:37.260 There's 35 million of us.

00:09:38.900 And to say that any of the six, seven billion people around the world can just say I'm a Canadian.

00:09:44.560 I 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,

00:09:52.920 but also, you know, Canada has a huge social welfare state.

00:09:56.400 You know, you're entitled to all that as well as a citizen.

00:10:00.360 So you can imagine how it's just not really sustainable.

00:10:04.320 And again, it just invites all kinds of chaos because there's no more community.

00:10:09.120 There's no more concept of what it means to be Canadian.

00:10:11.520 There's no more kind of basic agreement that we all share the same fundamental values and culture.

00:10:17.940 You know, people with totally different values, totally different culture,

00:10:20.480 that grow up with different educational expectations, that grow up potentially coming with all kinds of diseases.

00:10:27.200 I mean, what's stopping everyone in the world who's sick, everyone in the world who has, you know, 0.95

00:10:31.800 a terrible disease that could be infectious from showing up in Canada saying they have a right to be Canadian. 0.69

00:10:37.440 Now, you know, it doesn't it doesn't come out and say it in the document that everyone has a right to be Canadian.

00:10:43.620 But again, the language of creating a framework so that migration becomes a basic universal human right is certainly repeated throughout this thing.

00:10:57.200 And then so that's obviously the first big concern.

00:10:59.600 The second concern is that this document sort of conflates and it blurs the line between a refugee and a migrant.

00:11:08.460 So as we know, a refugee is a person who has it is fleeing from war or fleeing from persecution.

00:11:15.620 They have they're either displaced because of an actual war or they have a well-founded fear of persecution.

00:11:23.080 That's the language that's typically used in international law that you have a fear of being persecuted.

00:11:29.700 So you're being persecuted and it's well-founded.

00:11:31.920 It isn't just, you know, it's not safe in my country or, you know, a lot of people have been targeting my country.

00:11:39.980 No, you have to specifically have a case for you personally, why you are being persecuted, why you personally are being persecuted.

00:11:47.160 So it's a very specific definition and requirement.

00:11:51.720 And so what this document you'll see, it's just sort of used interchangeably.

00:11:56.640 It'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.

00:12:05.360 So it's not just refugees, it's migrants.

00:12:07.560 A 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.

00:12:15.700 And 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. 0.99

00:12:27.500 So 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.

00:12:37.780 So they've come illegally or they've tried to have a refugee application and it's failed.

00:12:44.560 And so I think that this is really important because, you know, those are two very different types of people.

00:12:50.820 They're two very distinct classes of immigration.

00:12:54.480 And throughout this document, they use them interchangeably and it talks about the need to create this framework for both refugees and migrants.

00:13:05.800 So that is the sort of second thing they try to slip on through there.

00:13:09.780 And 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.

00:13:25.460 Let me just see if I can find it.

00:13:27.120 Well, 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.

00:13:48.820 And part of that whole society approach includes the media.

00:13:54.940 And 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.

00:14:07.580 So there's a propaganda element within this UN document that they want to not only just eliminate discrimination,

00:14:37.360 which is sort of an intangible, impossible thing to do, but also to shape perceptions of migration.

00:14:48.280 So to help basically distort the reality and force one type of thinking upon all people.

00:14:55.380 And 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.

00:15:18.780 Now, 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.

00:15:27.780 You know, the idea of xenophobia or related intolerance.

00:15:32.360 I 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.

00:15:52.380 And 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,

00:16:12.100 including by by sensitize by sensitizing and educating media professionals on migration related issues and terminology.

00:16:19.060 And 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.

00:16:33.960 And this is the part that sort of just like stops you right in your tracks.

00:16:39.480 So the idea is that they want governments to not only promote reporting that promotes migration.

00:16:48.780 So 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.

00:17:02.860 Well, 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.

00:17:22.060 Maybe they participate in things that we don't want in our country, in rituals or, you know, involved in criminal activity, whatever.

00:17:33.900 If 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.

00:17:45.640 So 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.

00:18:03.980 Now, 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.

00:18:16.680 But 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.

00:18:33.620 I mean, again, these are very, very radical concepts that have no precedent in international law, in immigration law.

00:18:41.420 And 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.

00:19:02.400 I mean, it's dangerous. It's no longer a free press. It's no longer a free society.

00:19:06.220 So 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. 0.77

00:19:22.720 But 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. 0.86

00:19:38.300 Well, they're saying that that's no longer something that should be ruled by the people.

00:19:43.020 This 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.

00:19:53.600 It undermines our state sovereignty and the rule of law, because it says that, again, we don't get to set our own immigration rules.

00:20:00.060 The immigration rules are coming from this insane document. 0.64

00:20:02.640 And 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.

00:20:22.120 And I think that this is, again, connected to Justin Trudeau's recent announcement of a $600 million media slush fund.

00:20:30.520 We 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.

00:20:48.900 And, 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.

00:21:09.600 So is this migration pack going to have an impact on that?

00:21:13.600 Is 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?

00:21:32.980 You know, if you, if the Trudeau government considers you a racist or xenophobic or intolerant, are you going to be blacklisted?

00:21:42.960 I 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.

00:22:07.960 Someone on Twitter reminds me, it happened with Maxime Bernier, it happened with Lisa McLeod, the Ontario provincial minister.

00:22:18.060 There 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.

00:22:33.240 So, you know, worrying about ISIS and terrorism makes you Islamophobic according to these liberals.

00:22:40.620 So, you know, again, it leaves you thinking, you know, is this really the point of that fund?

00:22:47.200 Is it going to be tied with, you know, whether or not you're following this absurd guideline in this UN document?

00:22:53.660 So, again, a week Monday is when these world leaders are going to be meeting in Morocco.

00:23:00.440 And, 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.

00:23:11.360 Well, okay, there was an opinion article in McLean's magazine in September, and you can see the headline there,

00:23:21.040 Why Canada Will Lead the Charge on the UN's Global Refugee Plan. 0.50

00:23:26.940 Okay, it's an op-ed.

00:23:29.060 It says, the UN's Global Compact on Refugee will be a game changer, and Canada is well-placed to make it a reality.

00:23:36.560 And this article is written by Canada's Immigration Minister, Achmed Asen, and Canada's International Development Minister, Marie-Claude Bebeau.

00:23:49.780 So, and then also Canada's representative to the UN.

00:23:54.840 So, here you have it, right from the ministers themselves, right from the Trudeau government.

00:24:02.100 Canada's taking a lead on this UN refugee plan.

00:24:04.200 It's going to be a game changer, and Canada is a well-placed to make it a reality.

00:24:09.240 Well, well, well.

00:24:10.460 And 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.

00:24:20.960 The UN Compact has the potential to be one of these moments.

00:24:24.920 It's not just a bunch of words on paper.

00:24:27.060 It represents a common understanding, political commitment to find solutions for refugees.

00:24:31.560 Like, basically, you know, they're like, this is like the most exciting thing they've ever done in their careers.

00:24:37.100 And they can't wait to just impose this insane document onto the whole world.

00:24:42.520 So, there's that. 0.94

00:24:44.200 I think that it really is Canada and Germany that's behind this whole ridiculous UN scheme.

00:24:52.280 They 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.

00:25:02.620 And 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.

00:25:27.180 And make no mistake, this is an absolutely radical document.

00:25:30.860 It 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.

00:25:46.000 This migration combat would throw that all away, basically just say anyone has a right to live anywhere.

00:25:54.140 They're trying to make migration a universal human right, which is just fundamentally wrong.

00:26:02.180 And I think that there's so many problematic elements.

00:26:04.340 It's sad that journalists haven't covered it.

00:26:07.720 There are a few exceptions.

00:26:09.200 My colleague Anthony Fury in the Toronto Sun has written about it.

00:26:12.380 I have an article out today.

00:26:14.040 It's online right now.

00:26:16.000 I'm talking about this document and warning about it.

00:26:19.380 And it's unfortunate that you're not going to see stories about it.

00:26:25.200 You're not going to hear about it on the radio or you're not going to see it on CBC News.

00:26:30.700 But 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.

00:26:40.560 It's just a very different worldview than most normal people around the world and certainly people who are watching this broadcast.

00:26:49.700 So spread the word, let people know what this document is, what's going on.

00:26:56.740 If 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.

00:27:07.000 They should have to explain it.

00:27:08.020 And 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.

00:27:17.380 They 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.

00:27:28.240 So, you know, this is definitely a problem.

00:27:31.700 And I think that more Canadians need to know about it.

00:27:37.240 So please like this video, share it.

00:27:39.380 If you haven't already, like my Facebook page, Candice Malcolm, it's linked in the description there.

00:27:46.200 And I think Canadians need to wake up and need to fight back against this kind of government meddling and top-down bureaucracy.

00:27:55.340 Because it's very undemocratic and it can create lots of problems for the future.

00:28:00.560 So I'm going to leave it at that.

00:28:01.460 Thanks so much for watching, guys.

00:28:02.720 Have a great, great weekend.

00:28:05.180 And we'll see you next week.

Juno News - December 01, 2018

The True North Report： The UN Compact on Migration is a radical proposal

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