Juno News - February 20, 2024


Trudeau Towns are taking over Canadian cities


Episode Stats

Length

9 minutes

Words per Minute

172.41502

Word Count

1,608

Sentence Count

95

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary


Transcript

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,
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
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?
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.
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,
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
00:07:05.780 who are entering this country at record paces
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.
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
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,
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.