Juno News - February 20, 2024


Trudeau Towns are taking over Canadian cities

Topics
Tent cities across Canada
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Harrison Faulkner
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Sprawling Trudeau Trudeau Towns Sean Fraser Local Newfoundland Justin Trudeau Justin Barkley
Convoy organizer reflects on two-year anniversary of Emergencies Act Justin Trudeau's ＂hate speech＂ ban is coming

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What was once a rare sight is now a common feature throughout our country, sprawling tent cities where people are desperately clinging to life. They re calling them Trudeau Towns, and seeing as the policies which have brought such destruction to our country have come from the namesake, there can perhaps be no better name to describe these new pitched-up shanty towns which dot the Canadian urban landscape.

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00:00:00.040 Sunny ways, my friends. Sunny ways.
00:00:04.260 How would you describe it?
00:00:07.200 It's like hell on Earth.
00:00:15.420 Well, you can now find them in every major city across Canada,
00:00:18.980 from Newfoundland to British Columbia.
00:00:21.140 What was once a rare sight is now a common feature throughout our country,
00:00:25.440 sprawling tent cities where people are desperately clinging to life.
00:00:29.020 They're calling them Trudeau Towns.
00:00:31.720 And seeing as how the policies which have brought such destruction to our country
00:00:34.880 have come from the namesake,
00:00:36.960 there can perhaps be no better name to describe these new pitched-up shanty towns, 0.80
00:00:42.020 which dot the Canadian urban landscape.
00:00:44.580 Spend any time on social media and you will see countless videos of these Trudeau Towns
00:00:49.500 in every major city.
00:00:51.700 Human rights groups are now calling this situation a human rights crisis.
00:00:55.840 In response, the federal housing minister, Sean Frazier,
00:00:59.820 who flooded this country with uncontrollable levels of immigration while he was the immigration 1.00
00:01:03.740 minister, is blaming all of us for the crisis happening in our country.
00:01:08.540 Of course he is.
00:01:10.080 Now before we get into it, drop a like in the video,
00:01:11.860 help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel,
00:01:14.280 and the common question for the episode is this.
00:01:17.280 Do you blame Justin Trudeau for the shocking rise in the number of tent cities across our country? 0.80
00:01:22.920 Let me know your answer in the comments below, and let's get into it.
00:01:25.920 Well, let's take a trip across Canada, shall we?
00:01:28.620 Let's take a look at these Trudeau Towns,
00:01:30.940 which can be found in every province in this country.
00:01:34.680 We started in Newfoundland, outside the Colonial Building in St. John's.
00:01:38.620 Take a look at this here.
00:01:39.980 Local Newfoundland journalist Justin Brake spent some time living in this tent encampment
00:01:44.720 with these homeless people,
00:01:45.760 and noted that many of them, unsurprisingly, are addicted to drugs
00:01:50.040 after having suffered severe trauma and intimate partner violence.
00:01:54.080 Many of these people here are women as well. 1.00
00:01:56.060 In Gatineau, Quebec, at one of these Trudeau towns,
00:01:58.940 homeless people have been given ice fishing tents to live in during the winter.
00:02:03.660 Practically a luxury compared to what we just saw in Newfoundland.
00:02:07.340 Ex-user Amazing Zoltan, who posted this video,
00:02:09.920 made a strong observation, wondering if the resident in this ice fishing hut tent city,
00:02:15.540 who has a baby stroller, would be eligible for $10 a day Trudeau child care.
00:02:20.800 Take a look at this tent city, which has been there for quite a while, apparently,
00:02:24.600 at St. George's Square in Guelph, Ontario.
00:02:27.220 Fittingly, right outside of a BMO bank.
00:02:30.120 Now take a look at this side-by-side shot of an intersection in Kitchener, Ontario.
00:02:34.620 In 2021, it was a normal-looking Kitchener intersection.
00:02:38.680 By 2023, it had turned into a sprawling Trudeau town,
00:02:43.320 right in the middle of the intersection.
00:02:45.840 Vibrant and stunning, one ex-user commented.
00:02:49.700 Imagine this is happening all over the country,
00:02:52.300 and realtors are still pumping the market for higher prices.
00:02:55.340 If it continues, no good will come from it.
00:02:58.180 Hoovervilles, you saw this during the Great Depression.
00:03:01.040 It's happening before our eyes, but full employment
00:03:03.620 and stock markets at all-time highs are masking the problems under the surface.
00:03:07.960 People working, but not making enough to afford to live.
00:03:11.700 Our journey across Canada continues.
00:03:13.740 This time, we take a stop at Regina City Hall in Saskatchewan.
00:03:17.140 The CBC interviewed a woman living in this Trudeau town,
00:03:20.100 and her story is really difficult to listen to.
00:03:22.460 I came here originally just myself with just a shopping cart and a tarp
00:03:27.680 that I had found in the garbage bin.
00:03:30.240 Then I found a tent in the garbage bin as well.
00:03:33.580 I had really lost my way of, my path, I guess,
00:03:39.840 and I'm now here with a few friends and my street family.
00:03:43.820 We don't choose to live in tents.
00:03:46.780 The government forces us to,
00:03:49.240 because how else are we going to shelter ourselves
00:03:51.340 from the natural elements of nature?
00:03:53.780 No matter what you think of the situation that these people are facing
00:03:56.740 or how they got to where they are,
00:03:58.560 the reality is this is not normal for Canada.
00:04:01.340 And just because the United States has to deal with this problem
00:04:03.860 and other countries have to deal with this problem,
00:04:05.480 it doesn't mean that we should allow this situation to take over our cities.
00:04:08.980 One of the most famous Trudeau towns can be found in Kelowna.
00:04:12.160 Sunny ways, my friends, sunny ways.
00:04:16.480 This is what positive politics can do.
00:04:21.160 This is what a positive, hopeful, a hopeful vision
00:04:27.260 and a platform and a team together can make happen.
00:04:32.860 This sprawling tent city appears to go on for as far as the eye can see.
00:04:37.400 How about this Trudeau town in Victoria?
00:04:39.700 The CBC went to one of these Trudeau towns in Toronto
00:04:42.880 and interviewed some of the people living in these conditions.
00:04:46.660 Is this where you live?
00:04:47.700 Can you show us?
00:04:49.420 A tent in a downtown park shouldn't have to be anyone's home.
00:04:53.640 But for a growing number of Canadians, this is it.
00:04:57.080 Not that we're endangering anybody, God forbid,
00:04:59.300 but it's just, it's not normal for people to be living in tents outside in these situations.
00:05:04.340 As one homeless person rightly indicates, none of this is normal.
00:05:08.160 And of course, this is also dangerous.
00:05:10.380 Crime surges in these Trudeau towns.
00:05:12.460 Drugs proliferate these areas.
00:05:15.060 And sometimes, they catch on fire.
00:05:17.320 Now, instead of living in shelters, a lot of people prefer to live in these Trudeau towns
00:05:21.180 because the shelters themselves are in some cases more dangerous than living out in the street.
00:05:26.120 Listen to how one woman living in this Toronto Trudeau town
00:05:29.400 describes what it's like living in this condition.
00:05:32.940 How would you describe it?
00:05:36.160 Like hell on earth.
00:05:38.520 Now, when asked to comment about this crisis happening across our country,
00:05:43.040 Housing Minister Sean Fraser, instead of assuming personal responsibility,
00:05:47.420 like any good politician, blamed his own people for it,
00:05:51.120 describing it as a generational failure.
00:05:53.240 Do you see those encampments, do you see that as a policy failure,
00:05:56.860 that those encampments exist across Canada?
00:05:58.880 I think it's a generational moral failure
00:06:01.680 that there are people who are sleeping without a roof over their head
00:06:05.700 in a country as wealthy as Canada.
00:06:07.260 I will not be able to say with a straight face
00:06:11.120 that I have properly addressed the housing crisis
00:06:13.600 if we still have to walk past people who are sleeping on the streets in Canada.
00:06:18.680 We have to ask ourselves, not just as a government, but as a society,
00:06:22.400 and this includes other levels of government as well, by the way,
00:06:25.060 what kind of country do we want to live in?
00:06:26.700 Do we think it's acceptable to have people
00:06:28.820 who are not able to reach their full potential
00:06:30.740 because they can't find a place to live?
00:06:32.340 Oh yeah, because we're to blame for the fact that Trudeau towns
00:06:35.000 now occupy major parks in almost every major city.
00:06:39.340 Thanks to a die-hard commitment to mass immigration, 0.99
00:06:42.140 the problems faced by Canadians have only gotten worse.
00:06:45.900 Housing is now unaffordable.
00:06:47.440 Inflation is out of control.
00:06:49.580 The standard of living for so many in this country
00:06:51.640 seems to have fallen off a cliff.
00:06:54.000 One in five single adults in this country are now living in poverty.
00:06:57.660 But is this really a generational failure?
00:07:00.260 Or is this a failure of the current federal government?
00:07:03.840 Is it the tens of thousands of migrants 1.00
00:07:05.780 who are entering this country at record paces 0.78
00:07:07.960 living in these tent cities?
00:07:09.880 Well, when they were living on the street,
00:07:11.920 the federal government quickly rushed to make sure
00:07:14.180 they could be housed in hotels
00:07:15.600 and spend money to put a roof over their heads.
00:07:18.960 Meanwhile, it's Canadians who are living out in the streets. 1.00
00:07:21.820 It is native people who are living out in the streets.
00:07:24.260 It's our veterans who are living out in the streets.
00:07:26.880 Now, what better way to keep these Canadians 1.00
00:07:28.260 living in these awful conditions
00:07:29.740 than to pursue a policy of so-called safe supply
00:07:33.460 to decriminalize the possession of hard, dangerous drugs?
00:07:36.940 And of course, if these people no longer want to live
00:07:40.080 in these third world conditions in Trudeau towns, 0.50
00:07:43.480 well, they can also apply to have themselves killed
00:07:46.000 through the MAID program.
00:07:47.880 The federal government really wants you to know
00:07:49.740 they take this so-called generational problem seriously,
00:07:52.920 despite the fact that they themselves
00:07:54.560 are pretty much solely responsible for this crisis.
00:07:58.240 Their solution now appears to be creating sheds,
00:08:01.900 sheds where you can live in.
00:08:03.240 So we're going to just put a roof over your head
00:08:05.420 and we're just going to see where it all goes.
00:08:08.100 Take a look at this luxury Trudeau town now in Kelowna.
00:08:11.520 I hope this is the life you envisioned yourself
00:08:13.340 because it's now coming across the country.
00:08:16.180 Peterborough also did the same thing.
00:08:18.140 And instead of the drab gray colored sheds
00:08:21.180 you can live in in that luxury Trudeau town,
00:08:23.340 you can live in these sheds, which are colorfully painted.
00:08:26.640 Instead of a nice gated Trudeau town community,
00:08:29.500 you can have a barbed wire fence.
00:08:31.380 But don't worry, I'm sure that will keep out
00:08:33.220 all the drugs and all the crime.
00:08:34.980 I guess we're all just going to have to chalk this one up
00:08:36.900 as yet another legacy item of the Trudeau government.
00:08:40.820 Sprawling Trudeau tent cities.
00:08:43.280 All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us today on the show.
00:08:45.180 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:08:46.660 My name is Harrison Faulkner and this is Ratioed.
00:09:01.380 I'm just gonna hit this one.
00:09:04.820 We'll see you next time out.
00:09:05.940 Bye.
00:09:13.440 Bye.
00:09:16.520 Bye.
00:09:16.840 Bye.
00:09:19.220 Bye.