Juno News - February 08, 2024


Trudeau spending HUNDREDS of MILLIONS to house migrants

Topics
immigration minister Mark Miller frustrations
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Harrison Faulkner
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Mark Miller Justin Trudeau Francois Legault Rick Hillier Arturo Nava Biden Rafa
Poilievre (finally) gets it right on the trans issue Danielle Smith on transgender policies, Alberta energy, and Justin Trudeau

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After making life unaffordable for millions of Canadians, making the dream of home ownership impossible for millions more, and for allowing refugees and asylum seekers to enter this country at record numbers, the federal government has finally decided to step up and do something. They re now going to use your tax dollars to house migrants and Asylum seekers.

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00:00:00.000 After making life unaffordable for millions of Canadians, making the dream of home ownership
00:00:10.520 impossible for millions of Canadians, flooding the country with the highest levels of immigration 1.00
00:00:15.080 in the world, and for allowing refugees and asylum seekers to enter this country at record 0.97
00:00:20.360 numbers, the federal government has finally decided to step up and do something. They're
00:00:25.660 now going to use your tax dollars to house migrants and asylum seekers. Over $300 million
00:00:31.300 to be exact. After all, it appears the federal government doesn't want the optics of migrants 1.00
00:00:36.420 sleeping out on the sidewalk to deter more of them entering this country. And if you 1.00
00:00:41.200 think the situation is bad right now, just wait. Even though we have Ukrainian refugees 1.00
00:00:46.500 already living in tents, the federal government is expected to take in 90,000 more in the next
00:00:52.760 two months. Asylum claims from Mexicans entering this country have increased 2,000% since Justin
00:01:00.140 Trudeau dropped visa requirements from the country. Temporary resident status is set to be given
00:01:04.660 to 1,000 people fleeing from Gaza in the coming weeks. And according to New Stats Canada data,
00:01:10.960 nearly half of all of Canada's government-funded refugees are still relying on government handouts
00:01:17.220 and assistance. Before we get into the show, drop a like in the video, help us out by subscribing
00:01:21.200 to the TrueNorth YouTube channel. Stick around for the ratio of the week. And the common question
00:01:25.560 for the episode is this. What needs to be done to fix Canada's immigration system? Let me know
00:01:31.660 your answer in the comments below and let's get into it. Last week, it was announced that the federal
00:01:36.500 government would be issuing $362 million of your tax money to Toronto and Quebec to house migrants.
00:01:44.920 According to Mark Miller, this program is important because it gets shelters over people's heads,
00:01:50.520 particularly with the temperature that it is outside. But it needs reform and that's something
00:01:55.580 that will have to be worked on in the coming months. Quebec Premier Francois Legault has urged
00:02:00.040 the federal government to slow the flow of asylum seekers entering Quebec because government services
00:02:06.500 are being pushed to their breaking points. According to the CBC, as of two weeks ago,
00:02:11.980 more than 7,300 asylum seekers were staying in about 4,000 hotel rooms provided by the federal
00:02:20.920 government. It's nice to see the federal government taking the concerns of homeless asylum seekers
00:02:25.940 seriously. I can only imagine what it must feel like for perhaps a homeless veteran in this country
00:02:31.760 or a homeless First Nations person who reads that from the immigration minister and is wondering,
00:02:37.120 well, where's the support for them exactly? $370 million is certainly not nothing. And of course,
00:02:43.760 it's important to remember that the federal government's first responsibility is to take
00:02:47.720 care of its own citizens first, not those of people who are seeking asylum in Canada because it's a 0.99
00:02:53.200 better country than where they came from. The Toronto Star just couldn't hide their excitement when they
00:02:57.280 found out that your tax dollars would be sent to house asylum seekers. Here's the headline from that 0.98
00:03:02.880 outlet. Ottawa finally comes through with refugee funding for Toronto. Finally, the feds have housed
00:03:10.620 asylum seekers. Of course, what the legacy media really doesn't want to say is that it was struggling
00:03:16.320 Canadians who can barely afford rent, gas, and housing for themselves and their families who paid
00:03:22.560 for housing asylum seekers. And when the federal government prints money to solve the problems that
00:03:28.800 they created, such as flooding the country with asylum seekers and migrants, well, then it's 1.00
00:03:33.420 inflation that hurts struggling Canadians the most. Just like when Justin Trudeau wrote on Twitter,
00:03:38.200 welcome to Canada, Canada is open to the world. These federal incentives to house migrants and asylum
00:03:44.240 seekers operate as a giant green light to those around the world who want to enter Canada on visas,
00:03:50.740 but then immediately claim asylum. This was uncovered last week by Global News, who are at Pierre Elliott
00:03:56.260 Trudeau Airport in Montreal and uncovered just this phenomenon taking place with Mexicans entering 0.96
00:04:02.640 the country. Take a look at this report.
00:04:05.660 Arturo Nava is fresh off a flight from Mexico City, ready to start a new life in Canada. The petrochemical
00:04:12.500 engineer traveled on a tourist visa, but as soon as he landed at Montreal's Trudeau Airport,
00:04:17.820 he requested refugee status.
00:04:19.340 He says there's a lot of talk in Mexico about how supportive Canada is to refugees,
00:04:26.120 though he admits he didn't have much information about what the process entails.
00:04:36.740 Engineers from Mexico arriving on fake tourist visas to only immediately claim asylum in Canada.
00:04:43.120 In 2023, Quebec processed more than 25,000 asylum claims at the airport, more than double the
00:04:53.820 amount of 2022. In general, asylum requests in Quebec have exploded in the past two years.
00:05:00.740 In 2021, Quebec received a total of just over 10,000 requests, compared to more than 59,000 in 2023.
00:05:09.000 In 2021, there were more than 1,300 requests from Mexican citizens. In 2023, the government received
00:05:16.420 more than 15,000 requests. A high number of people with Haitian and Colombian citizenship
00:05:22.200 also requested refugee status in the province. For the first 15 days of 2024, Quebec's Labour
00:05:28.740 Ministry says there have been nearly 10,000 requests. That's an average of 656 per day. An
00:05:35.940 estimated 30 percent come from asylum seekers. The comments on this YouTube video from Global News
00:05:42.140 really speak to the fact that Canadians are running out of patience with this system, and
00:05:46.140 how can you possibly blame them at this point? Offering payments to foreigners to ignore our 1.00
00:05:50.660 immigration laws is insane, one user commented. It was a matter of time before Biden's open border
00:05:56.500 policy affected Canada. Taxpayers cannot afford to pay for others who cannot support themselves.
00:06:01.360 We have seniors, veterans, and individuals living at poverty levels, using food banks to survive.
00:06:07.140 It's disheartening that refugees receive benefits and favorable treatment without actively working
00:06:11.640 and contributing to Canada. What about the hardworking Canadian citizens, veterans, and seniors who have
00:06:17.240 played a significant role in building this country? I'm frustrated that our hard-earned money is being
00:06:21.520 directed to these individuals and countries rather than prioritizing our own needs. Canada's former chief of the
00:06:27.180 defense staff, General Rick Hillier, said that there's a Ukrainian family living in a tent
00:06:31.380 in downtown Toronto, and that Canada, as he says, is so bad that this family is going to return to
00:06:37.140 war-torn Ukraine instead of staying in Canada. And in the next 60 days, 90,000 more Ukrainians are
00:06:43.560 expected to come to Canada. Now, where exactly are these people going to live? Is the taxpayer going to
00:06:48.520 be responsible for housing these Ukrainians as well? Over the past two years, Canada has already taken in
00:06:54.640 over 250,000 Ukrainian refugees. Here's the thing. Canadians are good people, probably the nicest
00:07:01.280 people in the world. We want to help people who are in need, and we have a history of doing that.
00:07:06.420 But Canadians themselves are struggling like never before. Go to your local food bank. Take a look at
00:07:11.620 the living conditions that many young Canadians are faced with today. There aren't enough houses for
00:07:16.600 Canadians who have lived here, whose families have been here for many generations and have served this
00:07:21.620 country, let alone millions of people coming in from the rest of the world and hundreds of thousands
00:07:27.020 of asylum seekers and migrants and refugees from all over the world. If you want to try and build
00:07:32.200 resentment in Canada and maybe turn the Canadian population against newcomers, well, this is exactly
00:07:38.360 what you might be doing. So none of this is helping anybody. It's not helping immigrants. It's not 0.99
00:07:42.700 helping refugees and asylum seekers. And most importantly, it's not helping Canadians. And according to new data
00:07:49.200 from Statistics Canada, only 56% of government sponsored refugees are participating in the labor
00:07:56.240 market. And that's not just having a job, by the way, that participation in the labor market includes
00:08:02.220 people who are looking for a job. So if you're looking for a job, the federal government assumes you're
00:08:07.320 participating in the labor market. Only 56% of them. So close to half of government sponsored refugees in this
00:08:13.620 country are not participating in the labor market and are not even looking for a job. Compare that now to
00:08:18.760 the privately sponsored refugees, where between 2014 and 2019, those refugees who were reporting
00:08:24.520 positive income within their first year of landing in this country never fell below 70%. And what is
00:08:33.340 described as a blended visa office referred refugee, those who came to this country in their first year
00:08:39.520 and reported positive earnings on an income never fell below 40%. So just remember, when you pay your taxes
00:08:48.120 to the government every year, just know that some of that money is going to house asylum seekers and
00:08:53.120 migrants. All right, time for a ratio of the week. The winner this week is immigration minister Mark
00:08:58.080 Miller. He could have won it for many different social media posts, but he wins it for this.
00:09:03.060 After expressing frustration with the Israeli government that Gazans with Canadian connections
00:09:08.260 are not able to get out of Gaza and come to this country. As we work to get Gazans with Canadian family 0.96
00:09:13.820 connections to safety, it is beyond frustrating to see little movement from local authorities
00:09:18.200 and facilitating passage through the Rafa border crossing. Canada won't be deterred in trying to
00:09:23.240 get these people to safety. Well, it appears Canadians on social media don't seem nearly as disappointed
00:09:28.260 about this situation as Mark Miller is. In fact, Miller only was able to get 296 likes to 581 replies
00:09:35.940 on this video he posted. As one user writes, strange that no other Arab nation wants to welcome the
00:09:41.700 Palestinians for a reason. Good enough for the liberals though. Serious question. Are they trying 1.00
00:09:46.640 to ruin Canada? We've already seen the blocked roads, six feet under threats, stock at MP homes,
00:09:53.660 harassing seniors at skate parks. This is what we already deal with now, but let's bring in more 1.00
00:09:58.540 people from Gaza that 70% supported Hamas. Great idea. I do get frustrated here in Winnipeg. I do invite 0.77
00:10:05.760 you to Winnipeg and see homeless people waiting for food and shelter and medical services on Main Street
00:10:10.600 or asking for money. Everywhere else, that happens in all of the cities. Are you proud?
00:10:15.860 Truly disappointing to see this at a time when so many Canadians are struggling themselves.
00:10:20.200 All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us this week on the show. Thank you so much for
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