Juno News - June 30, 2026


Trudeau says immigration relies on ＂shared values＂


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

157.76

Word count

438

Sentence count

14


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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 All right, so you heard Justin Trudeau's comments about immigration,
00:00:03.920 and it prompted you to react to those comments.
00:00:08.300 He was talking about the need for integration
00:00:10.800 and how people should value Canadian values and fit in.
00:00:16.900 And you seem to be suggesting from your comments
00:00:19.940 that he had a very different point of view earlier on.
00:00:24.780 yeah listen i i think i i am actually glad to hear a former canadian prime minister
00:00:32.940 celebrate canadian values and recognize that our country is something that people want to be a part
00:00:41.280 of but it's a very different tune that now the retired uh prime minister is singing when then
00:00:49.100 when we were both serving in the 44th parliament because when those of us who dare to raise the
00:00:54.640 exact same points that he's now saying in retirement, he would imply that we were racist.
00:01:01.000 You know, there are times I remember in the house where they wouldn't overtly say we are
00:01:05.960 racist or bigots, but what he would say is something along the lines of, you know, saying
00:01:12.040 that we were putting out dog whistles and say everything but calling us racist, but
00:01:17.540 implying it throughout.
00:01:19.500 But for me, especially as a son of refugees, son of immigrants who came to this country,
00:01:24.160 There's never been anything racist about expecting newcomers to embrace the values that make Canada worth coming to or being a part of, right?
00:01:33.760 My parents understood that as refugees, Mark.
00:01:36.540 They didn't come here to recreate what they fled.
00:01:40.560 You know, they were persecuted by communists.
00:01:42.240 They lost everything to communism.
00:01:44.820 They were part of South Vietnam that, unfortunately, was a flawed but aspiring democracy, but they lost the war.
00:01:50.820 And so when they came here to Canada, they came to become Canadian.
00:01:56.440 And saying that doesn't make me a bigot or a racist.
00:02:01.300 And advocating for integration also doesn't either, right?
00:02:06.620 Integration isn't exclusion, which during the 44th Parliament,
00:02:10.940 I heard a lot coming out of the then Prime Minister Trudeau and his party.
00:02:15.840 because integration I think for me is something that my parents are actually very intentional
00:02:21.300 about and and it's part of the promise that I think we make to everyone who comes to Canada
00:02:26.040 that you know there are things that we stand for and you can be a part of it and you can belong
00:02:31.300 as a Canadian but there's things that you have to subscribe to right where if if you want to
00:02:37.580 be a part of Canada you need to subscribe to rule of law you need to subscribe to uh you know our
00:02:44.580 freedoms