Juno News - February 20, 2024Trudeau Towns are taking over Canadian cities
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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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Well, you can now find them in every major city across Canada,
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What was once a rare sight is now a common feature throughout our country,
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sprawling tent cities where people are desperately clinging to life.
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And seeing as how the policies which have brought such destruction to our country
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there can perhaps be no better name to describe these new pitched-up shanty towns,
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Spend any time on social media and you will see countless videos of these Trudeau Towns
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Human rights groups are now calling this situation a human rights crisis.
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In response, the federal housing minister, Sean Frazier,
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who flooded this country with uncontrollable levels of immigration while he was the immigration
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minister, is blaming all of us for the crisis happening in our country.
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Now before we get into it, drop a like in the video,
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and the common question for the episode is this.
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Do you blame Justin Trudeau for the shocking rise in the number of tent cities across our country?
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Let me know your answer in the comments below, and let's get into it.
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Well, let's take a trip across Canada, shall we?
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which can be found in every province in this country.
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We started in Newfoundland, outside the Colonial Building in St. John's.
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Local Newfoundland journalist Justin Brake spent some time living in this tent encampment
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and noted that many of them, unsurprisingly, are addicted to drugs
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after having suffered severe trauma and intimate partner violence.
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Many of these people here are women as well.
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In Gatineau, Quebec, at one of these Trudeau towns,
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homeless people have been given ice fishing tents to live in during the winter.
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Practically a luxury compared to what we just saw in Newfoundland.
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made a strong observation, wondering if the resident in this ice fishing hut tent city,
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who has a baby stroller, would be eligible for $10 a day Trudeau child care.
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Take a look at this tent city, which has been there for quite a while, apparently,
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Now take a look at this side-by-side shot of an intersection in Kitchener, Ontario.
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In 2021, it was a normal-looking Kitchener intersection.
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By 2023, it had turned into a sprawling Trudeau town,
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Imagine this is happening all over the country,
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and realtors are still pumping the market for higher prices.
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Hoovervilles, you saw this during the Great Depression.
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It's happening before our eyes, but full employment
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and stock markets at all-time highs are masking the problems under the surface.
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People working, but not making enough to afford to live.
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This time, we take a stop at Regina City Hall in Saskatchewan.
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The CBC interviewed a woman living in this Trudeau town,
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and her story is really difficult to listen to.
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I came here originally just myself with just a shopping cart and a tarp
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Then I found a tent in the garbage bin as well.
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and I'm now here with a few friends and my street family.
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because how else are we going to shelter ourselves
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No matter what you think of the situation that these people are facing
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And just because the United States has to deal with this problem
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and other countries have to deal with this problem,
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it doesn't mean that we should allow this situation to take over our cities.
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One of the most famous Trudeau towns can be found in Kelowna.
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This is what a positive, hopeful, a hopeful vision
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and a platform and a team together can make happen.
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This sprawling tent city appears to go on for as far as the eye can see.
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The CBC went to one of these Trudeau towns in Toronto
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and interviewed some of the people living in these conditions.
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A tent in a downtown park shouldn't have to be anyone's home.
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But for a growing number of Canadians, this is it.
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Not that we're endangering anybody, God forbid,
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but it's just, it's not normal for people to be living in tents outside in these situations.
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As one homeless person rightly indicates, none of this is normal.
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Now, instead of living in shelters, a lot of people prefer to live in these Trudeau towns
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because the shelters themselves are in some cases more dangerous than living out in the street.
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Listen to how one woman living in this Toronto Trudeau town
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describes what it's like living in this condition.
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Now, when asked to comment about this crisis happening across our country,
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Housing Minister Sean Fraser, instead of assuming personal responsibility,
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like any good politician, blamed his own people for it,
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Do you see those encampments, do you see that as a policy failure,
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that there are people who are sleeping without a roof over their head
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that I have properly addressed the housing crisis
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if we still have to walk past people who are sleeping on the streets in Canada.
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We have to ask ourselves, not just as a government, but as a society,
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and this includes other levels of government as well, by the way,
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Oh yeah, because we're to blame for the fact that Trudeau towns
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now occupy major parks in almost every major city.
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Thanks to a die-hard commitment to mass immigration,
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the problems faced by Canadians have only gotten worse.
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The standard of living for so many in this country
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One in five single adults in this country are now living in poverty.
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Or is this a failure of the current federal government?
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who are entering this country at record paces
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the federal government quickly rushed to make sure
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and spend money to put a roof over their heads.
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Meanwhile, it's Canadians who are living out in the streets.
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It is native people who are living out in the streets.
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It's our veterans who are living out in the streets.
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Now, what better way to keep these Canadians
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than to pursue a policy of so-called safe supply
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to decriminalize the possession of hard, dangerous drugs?
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And of course, if these people no longer want to live
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in these third world conditions in Trudeau towns,
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well, they can also apply to have themselves killed
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The federal government really wants you to know
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they take this so-called generational problem seriously,
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are pretty much solely responsible for this crisis.
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Their solution now appears to be creating sheds,
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So we're going to just put a roof over your head
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Take a look at this luxury Trudeau town now in Kelowna.
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I hope this is the life you envisioned yourself
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you can live in these sheds, which are colorfully painted.
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Instead of a nice gated Trudeau town community,
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I guess we're all just going to have to chalk this one up
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as yet another legacy item of the Trudeau government.
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All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us today on the show.
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My name is Harrison Faulkner and this is Ratioed.