Juno News - January 23, 2019


Trudeau's Immigration Minister says Conservatives want to militarize the border


Episode Stats

Length

58 seconds

Words per Minute

180.61224

Word Count

177

Sentence Count

14


Summary

In this episode of the podcast, I talk about the Conservative immigration proposals, and why they don t go far enough in listening to Canadians and what they should do about it. I also talk about some of the things that have worked well in the past, like the Global Skills Strategy and the Global Entry Strategy.


Transcript

00:00:00.040 I haven't seen anything from the conservatives. They don't have a plan. You know what their plan is? To militarize the border and place a CBSA official or a RCMP official every 100 meters.
00:00:10.620 We don't have the resources for that kind of, you know, half-baked, you know, impractical plan.
00:00:17.880 And by the way, we've been talking to Canadians before we got into office, after we got into office for the last three years and more.
00:00:25.820 Consultations. I do town halls everywhere that I go, and so does the Prime Minister and everyone else.
00:00:30.000 To get feedback on some of the programs that are working so well in immigration, such as the global skills strategy.
00:00:35.980 It came from the community.
00:00:38.040 When did the conservatives start to talk to Canadians about immigration? Last fall.
00:00:42.980 That's when they got around to talking to Canadians.
00:00:45.680 So a lot of the ideas that they put forward reflect the fact that they don't even talk to anyone.
00:00:51.420 They're impractical.
00:00:53.260 So, you know, I hope that they can bring concrete, reasonable proposals.