Juno News - October 21, 2020


Trudeau wants to bring in more immigrants


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5 minutes

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217.4452

Word Count

1,111

Sentence Count

4

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 immigration used to be a very hot topic but somehow with the global pandemic it's really
00:00:11.040 gone to the back burner that's why i was a bit surprised to see this story from bloomberg saying
00:00:16.640 that the trudeau government is going to continue to push for higher immigration levels despite the
00:00:21.520 pandemic travel restrictions now this bothers me for a couple of reasons first the immigration
00:00:26.960 it bothers me because according to some recent surveys 76 percent of canadians thought that
00:00:32.080 there should be a pause on immigration until a vaccine is found and then another survey had 41
00:00:37.760 of canadians believing that immigration quotas should be reduced now these make a lot of practical
00:00:43.200 sense we don't understand where our economy is going we don't understand what the country is
00:00:47.200 going to look like what businesses what industries are going to be left standing six months a year from
00:00:51.360 now the restaurant industry has taken a huge huge pounding a number of industries are just
00:00:56.640 not going to be able to recover um you know the tourism industry who knows some of these
00:01:00.640 attractions some of these businesses they're just going to go bankrupt and it's going to have just
00:01:03.840 a domino effect as we've been speaking about for the past couple of months so on a purely practical
00:01:08.640 level it just doesn't make sense to bring in masses of immigrants some of which may not have skills or
00:01:15.920 may have some issue finding a job especially now during these difficult times it doesn't make sense to
00:01:22.080 bring in people who are not going to be able to fully participate in the labor force or fully
00:01:25.520 participate in society because of the circumstance and and this has nothing to do with any particular
00:01:30.480 type of immigrant for any particular region or anything like that it's simply we have to deal
00:01:35.120 with problems we have at home before we'd like to bring in more people because we have some very
00:01:40.240 very serious problems it's it's not just you know we we have to uh take care of the poor here before
00:01:45.040 we bring in others that's sort of cliche might make sense but really the entire country is teetering on
00:01:51.600 a very very delicate point we've already been downgraded on our credit rating the deficit is
00:01:56.400 skyrocketing there's just so so much to to consider here and and to think about when you're talking
00:02:01.200 about immigration but the other part that really bugs me about the overall immigration story is a
00:02:05.680 two-parter and the first part is this this is a story from usa today where justin trudeau talks
00:02:10.320 about the canada u.s border staying closed until america gets its coven 19 gets its coven 19 response
00:02:14.880 under control now i understand that you don't want to bring in people from hot spots you don't want
00:02:20.240 them to infect canadians you don't want people to be hurt or killed god forbid until uh you know
00:02:24.800 we get a vaccine or maybe you assess that under control which again is a very vague term but fine
00:02:28.880 let's leave it leave it there but you know on one hand then you want to bring in immigrants possibly
00:02:33.760 from the same countries which have very very high uh high covet rates so you want to bring in these
00:02:38.880 people and you know i don't really know why there's sort of no issue with that one and a very high
00:02:44.880 issue with this one it bothers me even more because of this story tens of thousands of passengers
00:02:49.840 connect from international flights to domestic flights before going into quarantine so you fly
00:02:53.760 in from another country you have to make two or three maybe connections and so you don't have to
00:02:58.000 quarantine until you get to your final destination again this one makes practical sense and on the
00:03:02.320 face of it okay i guess there's no problem what can you do aside from maybe putting in some travel
00:03:06.560 restrictions but all together the the story about increased immigration the story about banning people
00:03:12.560 from coming across the border and the fact that we're still letting international travelers
00:03:17.200 just you know go wherever they need to until they get to their final destination without quarantine
00:03:21.680 it really seems like the government is flying by the seat of their pants on a lot of these issues
00:03:26.160 and that is disturbing and it's not just some it doesn't just bother me because it's logically
00:03:30.560 inconsistent and i you know i just don't like how it sounds and you know you're holding two opposing
00:03:34.160 views i am disturbed by this because these things have real life consequences if you are so worried
00:03:40.480 about bringing in people who may cause infections again or may create new hot spots in canada
00:03:45.120 canada then why are we picking simply on u.s weekend travelers or u.s travelers why are we
00:03:50.640 allowing international travelers that's going to be the argument if there is no argument then why are
00:03:54.880 we not allowing the americans and in general the immigration levels not only because of covid but
00:03:59.680 what are we going to do with the people who are here what are we going to do with the economy it's a
00:04:04.320 very very messy situation now i don't know how much more there really is to say because it's just
00:04:09.920 the most confusing thing that i've seen come out of the government lately and i think this is really
00:04:15.440 a larger issue that canadians get a sense that something is just not right something is off with
00:04:20.880 the planning and there seems to be no no understanding of the larger issue of what it
00:04:25.760 is that we're facing and that i think is the worst thing for all canadians because when you start
00:04:29.440 losing faith in the government's ability i don't mean the you know the political a lot of people
00:04:33.200 have lost faith in the prime minister himself as uh having the ability to govern but when you lose
00:04:37.760 faith in the general government response and i'm talking about all departments you start losing
00:04:41.600 faith because it seems like the experts are just getting wrong and nobody seems to have any answer
00:04:45.760 when you lose faith in government that is a terrible terrible thing for society and it could become
00:04:50.080 very dangerous so a lot of stuff to think about a lot of stuff to worry about hopefully things will
00:04:54.640 turn out for the best but uh you know we're always watching so uh again for true north i am sam
00:04:59.520 ashkenazi hopefully you enjoyed this video and thank you so so much for watching