Juno News - Trudeau welcomed 17,600 CRIMINAL immigrants, media FLIPS on Canada + the END of EV mandates？

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Thank you so much for joining us,

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00:00:25.880 content, including that fireside chat here all about our plans to replace the CBC and how we

00:00:32.300 are planning to do it. I want to talk about a bunch of different news items today. I'm going to get to

00:00:36.800 this crazy story in the Globe and Mail about 17,000 criminal immigrants who the federal government,

00:00:45.260 the liberal government, removed their criminal status so that they can stay in Canada because,

00:00:49.380 of course, it would be inadmissible. Otherwise, I'm going to get to that in a minute. But first,

00:00:54.080 I want to talk a little bit about Canada Day. I know it was Tuesday. I talked about it yesterday

00:00:57.880 on the show, and I put out that Dominion Day post on the day of. But I want to just sort of reflect

00:01:03.060 on how the legacy media, the liberal elites, treated our country, right? They act like they have

00:01:08.760 reclaimed Canada, that Canada is back, and that it is great to be patriotic and nationalistic again.

00:01:16.500 And I want to just start by saying that this is in complete contradiction to the way that they

00:01:21.440 have treated our country, treated our national symbols, and treated the very idea of being

00:01:25.900 Canadian for the last several years. They decided that being Canadian meant being racist, being

00:01:31.460 even genocidal, that the flag, the Maple Leaf, became a symbol of right-wing extremism and anger.

00:01:39.160 And so Ryan Gertzen over on X put together this perfectly, just showcasing exactly what the media

00:01:47.120 has said about the flag for the last several years. You can see here different headlines. You've got the

00:01:53.320 Toronto Star. Canada's flag appropriated as a symbol of right-wing rage. The Queen's University Journal,

00:01:59.180 the alter ego of Canadian freedom, has stained our flag. Next, we have another Toronto Star. When I see

00:02:05.460 the Canadian flag now, it hurts my heart as Freedom Convoy returns. There's a tug of war over the

00:02:10.420 Maple Leaf. Next, we have this Saskatoon headline. Convoy, federal government have shifted some people's

00:02:17.280 perspectives on the Canadian flag, according to a survey, Globe and Mail. Remember, those who wave 0.98

00:02:22.100 the Canadian flag do not get to define it for everybody else. I feel that way right now with the

00:02:27.700 elbows-up crowd. A couple more. CBC says debate over Canadian flag resumes as convoy protests return to

00:02:33.380 Ottawa. And finally, the Canadian flag and Freedom Convoy, the co-opting of Canadian national symbols.

00:02:39.980 So when conservatives wave the Canadian flag, it is a symbol of hatred and bigotry. But now that

00:02:45.900 Mark Carney's prime minister and the elbows-up crowd have taken it back, it is a great source of pride

00:02:51.740 for these people. And that is what we got a whole bunch of on July 1st. So here is Gary Mason

00:02:57.520 writing in the Globe and Mail, this Canada Day, we reclaim our flag. He writes,

00:03:02.620 not a long time after, whenever you saw a truck going down the street bearing a Canadian flag,

00:03:08.340 you likely thought, freedom convoy lover. Many of us were afraid to hang a flag outside our home

00:03:13.160 on Canada Day for fear of being associated with the bunch who had occupied our capital, 1.00

00:03:17.680 tried to bully our government, but not anymore. Perhaps the best thing about this Canada Day,

00:03:22.220 we have our flag back. May it never be hijacked again. Okay, so we get it. That's what the Laurentian

00:03:28.320 elite think. When blue-collar Canadians, hardworking Canadians, wave the flag, it is disgusting and

00:03:34.020 outrageous. But now that we have the Oxford-educated PhD, Mark Carney in government, and he did the

00:03:41.320 whole elbows-up shtick, we reclaimed the flag for the Laurentian elites. It wasn't just the Globe and

00:03:46.560 Mail. We have Martin Red Cone over in the Toronto Star. On this Canada Day, the Canadian flag is back.

00:03:52.920 He writes, the Maple Leaf is misappropriated no more. No longer is our flag being hijacked by a 0.99

00:03:58.680 political fringe, converging in convoys in our capital, raging and rampaging against COVID vaccines.

00:04:05.040 Today, our flag is finally liberated from that virus. The Maple Leaf has been repurposed for

00:04:10.040 patriotism, repositioned as a beacon atop Parliament Hill, instead of relegated to pickup trucks, blocking

00:04:16.560 parliamentary precincts. These people are obsessed with the Freedom Convoy. Like,

00:04:20.800 one protest by not even right-wingers, right? Just regular blue-collar people who didn't want to get

00:04:27.540 the jab. Regular people who were just tired of the control that the Justin Trudeau government had over

00:04:34.500 all of us, said enough is enough. And these people are obsessed with it. Like, they really, really want

00:04:40.040 to make it Canada's January 6th. And they've decided that anyone who was associated with that was just

00:04:45.280 beyond the fray. Again, it wasn't just the fancy newspapers. We also saw a whole bunch of TV reports

00:04:51.780 like this. So here is CTV's report. Canadians reclaim Maple Leaf flag amid Trump threats. There

00:04:59.520 definitely has been a surge of patriotism, Matthew Hayde, professor and chair of the Department of

00:05:03.340 History at the University of Guelph, said in an email to CTV, flying the flag is no longer raising the

00:05:08.480 same sorts of suspicions that the person displaying it harbors sympathy for right-wing causes. Right-wing

00:05:14.980 causes like loving your country and driving a pickup truck. I will show you this clip just to show you

00:05:21.400 what we're up against. Here is global news. Canadians reclaiming the flag on Canada Day. Let's play that

00:05:27.380 clip. It comes after years of the flag being co-opted by protests. Or the country being forced to take a

00:05:40.200 hard look at its colonial past. So you see, like, we're supposed to hate our country because they've 0.94

00:05:45.500 decided because of one hoax put out and picked up by the legacy media a couple of years ago that

00:05:51.200 we're genocidal and that we have to be ashamed of being Canadian. And yes, the flag represents right 1.00

00:05:57.300 wing truckers. It's almost like these journalists all have, like, a group text together and someone

00:06:03.260 sent out the memo. Maybe it was Mark Carney. Maybe it was someone on his staff saying, hey, guys, here

00:06:08.360 are the talking points for the day. Distribute them. And the legacy media just did what they do,

00:06:13.540 disseminate the Liberal Party message and tell their base, Canadians, people who are glued to legacy

00:06:18.760 media, hey, we've got our flag back. It's okay to be Canadian. We still see through it. And guess what?

00:06:24.460 The radicals out there, the people who are trying to make you hate Canada, make you think that Canada

00:06:29.960 is a genocidal country and that you should be ashamed of Canada, that you should be embarrassed 0.96

00:06:32.960 to be Canadian, that waving the flag is a right wing thing. Those people were still out on Canada.

00:06:39.240 They were still out on July 1st. So here, a couple of examples, the Waterloo School Board

00:06:44.080 encouraged settlers to reflect. So this is a message put out on their Facebook page. It says,

00:06:48.980 as we prepare to acknowledge July 1st as Canada Day, we celebrate and we reflect. We also encourage

00:06:55.040 those of us who are settlers of this nation, that would be everybody, to take this opportunity to

00:07:00.780 learn about Turtle Island, embrace the hard truths of our history, and make a personal commitment

00:07:05.620 towards reconciliation. We have a responsibility to understand our country's history and become

00:07:10.400 aware of the indigenous roots on which it was built. Together, let's take the understanding and

00:07:15.320 create a better future for all based on peace, friendship, and respect while upholding the

00:07:19.500 treaty rights of indigenous people, the first peoples on this land. So this is like a really

00:07:24.140 confused look at history, right? Like when I was in school, we learned that the natives in Canada,

00:07:29.160 the people who were here before the Europeans came across the Bering Land Bridge and that they were

00:07:33.600 originating from Asia and Mongolia. And those are the people that are here today. So presumably they

00:07:39.640 would be settlers too. And actually we don't know who the first people on the land were because maybe

00:07:43.920 there was another population before. We don't have that information, but to just decide that the

00:07:49.460 first nations here today are the indigenous people that it's called Turtle Island, I'm going to just

00:07:54.500 reject all of that. If you're celebrating Canada Day, you have to reject that. And you have to say

00:07:59.100 that the reason that we celebrate our country is because of the Europeans, the European settlers who

00:08:04.820 came here and built a country and built a nation. And that is what we're recognizing. We're not talking

00:08:09.920 about the millennia of wars, right? Human history is a history of warring people and tribes and the

00:08:17.420 people who win the wars are the ones who write the history and the ones who get to build the

00:08:22.200 institutions. So we are literally here because of the institutions of the Europeans, of our ancestors

00:08:28.240 who built this country, not because of the people who were here before them, who did not build this

00:08:34.460 civilization, who did not build this country. Sure. They were partners. Sure. They, they were there.

00:08:39.300 You know, they're, they're part of our society. They're part of our civilization. But if they want

00:08:43.120 to reject the fact that this is our country, I mean, then we have to do the same thing right back. 0.97

00:08:47.500 It is ridiculous. Next, we have another person, interestingly, from the Waterloo region's district

00:08:52.960 school board. I know from Waterloo, like what is up with your city and the people that it produces,

00:08:57.320 but an anti-racism educator named Selem Debs wrote this on X. This just totally went viral,

00:09:05.060 by the way, ratioed. This is what she writes on X. To celebrate Canada Day is to celebrate settler

00:09:10.620 colonialism, genocide, enslavement, oppression, violence, extraction, exploitation, and attempted

00:09:14.600 annihilation of indigenous peoples, along with 250 years of enslavement of black African peoples.

00:09:20.880 Is she talking about Canada or the United States here? Because my history, my recollection of history

00:09:25.260 is that Ontario was the first jurisdiction, I think in the world to abolish slavery some 50 years

00:09:30.660 before the British empire abolished slavery. And they were the first in the world. They actually

00:09:34.020 fought wars to end the slave trade because the slave trade was still alive and well in Latin America,

00:09:39.420 South America, and the United States. It was the Brits who were the first to do it. And guess what?

00:09:43.720 Canada was Britain back then. So it was us. It was my ancestors and British ancestors who fought

00:09:48.960 the slave trade. Our history is not that of 250 years of enslavement of black Africans. That is

00:09:55.940 just wrong. Next, she says, today should be an opportunity to teach your family, friends, and

00:10:00.680 children the truth. Unlearn and give back what is owed. Hashtag land back. Hashtag reparations now.

00:10:07.920 Interestingly enough, uncovered by Melanie Bettett over at Trunor. This person gets money from our

00:10:12.760 taxpayer-funded activists right here. Next, we had a student group holds an anti-Canada Day event in

00:10:19.960 Montreal, far left McGill University group, hosting an anti-Canada Day barbecue on July 1st. According

00:10:25.860 to this report in June news, the event promoted on social media by the Quebec Public Interest Research

00:10:31.960 Group at McGill University, of course, government-funded, taxpayer-funded, it was titled

00:10:35.500 Decolonial Anti-Canada Day Barbecue and Fundraiser. Give me a break, guys. This stuff is over.

00:10:40.760 Canadians are over with this. This is like peaked in 2022, and now it's on the decline. We don't care

00:10:46.480 about this stuff anymore. We don't want to hear your whining. This stuff belongs on like the fringes

00:10:51.400 of university campuses. I'm glad it's happening at McGill and nowhere else. Leave it on those

00:10:56.560 university campuses. According to the organizers, the proceeds of the event will go to local

00:11:02.680 decolonial struggles. Okay, I wanted to move on and talk about this bombshell report in the Globe

00:11:09.000 and Mail. Thousands of foreigners' criminal convictions were forgiven by Ottawa over 11

00:11:13.260 years of his span, raising transparency concerns, written by Mary Wolfe in the Globe and Mail,

00:11:18.960 published on July 2nd. This story is unbelievable, folks. It's like, just when you think that the

00:11:23.940 immigration system wasn't bad enough under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, you learn about this,

00:11:28.360 and it just absolutely makes your blood boil. So let me just read from this Globe and Mail report.

00:11:32.400 More than 17,500 foreigners had their criminal convictions forgiven by the Immigration Department

00:11:37.940 over the last 11 years, removing a bar to coming to Canada. Federal government figures show disclosure

00:11:43.500 has raised transparency concerns about the type of offense they committed. Foreigners are, in general, 1.00

00:11:48.500 inadmissible to Canada if they've been convicted of an act that is considered a criminal offense in

00:11:52.600 this country. But Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Canada, it used to be called CIC when I worked

00:11:56.660 there. It's now called IRCC, has the power to grant an exception if five years have lapsed since a

00:12:03.660 person was convicted or finished their sentence. Okay? So if you've been five years without a criminal

00:12:08.400 record, the department can make an exception, but it has to be a one-time exemption. They actually

00:12:13.900 have to look at what your crime was. Government figures show that in the 11 years up to and including

00:12:18.120 2024, 17,600 people convicted of criminal offenses abroad were considered rehabilitated by the IRCC.

00:12:25.340 This meant that they were able to apply to Canada either through work or visa studies as permanent

00:12:31.240 residents or visitors. IRCC has not, however, released a breakdown of the kind of criminal

00:12:35.360 offense that were forgiven. It's said in a statement to the Globe and Mail that the immigration minister

00:12:39.020 would be involved in decisions relating to the most serious offenses. Last year, 1,390 people had

00:12:47.360 their criminal convictions forgiven by IRCC, while 105 applicants were refused. In 2023, 1,500 people were

00:12:54.760 considered to have been rehabilitated while 70 applicants were rejected. Conservative Immigration

00:12:59.840 Minister Michelle Rumpel-Garner said there needs to be more transparency about the type of convictions

00:13:05.320 being forgiven and the circumstances of each case if the public is going to have any confidence in the

00:13:11.000 immigration systems vetting process. I'm sorry, I don't speak for all the public, but I know a lot of

00:13:15.820 people do not have confidence in the system. When you see a story like this, heck, even before you see a story

00:13:20.380 like this, when you look at what's happening in our country with the break-in enters, with the home

00:13:24.320 invasions, with the car thieves, with criminals running rampant all over our country, this didn't

00:13:29.540 happen 10 years ago, right? And so we know that the government just let a whole bunch of criminals

00:13:34.420 into our country, and now it is being confirmed. I don't know how they can ever regain that confidence

00:13:39.160 in our immigration system. I'll continue to read, there have been questions about the adequacy of vetting

00:13:44.780 of many classes of people entering Canada, she said, adding that she may raise the issue at the

00:13:50.200 Commons Immigration Committee when Parliament resumes from its summer break. Foreigners applying to have 1.00

00:13:54.880 their crimes forgiven must show that they are unlikely to take part in future criminal acts,

00:14:00.160 according to IRCC. The department considers the number of offences and circumstances and seriousness

00:14:05.840 of each one, IRCC said, as well as the applicant's behaviour since the crime was committed.

00:14:11.760 IRCC said it also looks at the support they receive in the community, as well as the applicant's current

00:14:17.840 circumstances. The decision to approve or refuse an application for rehabilitation for less serious

00:14:23.520 offences is generally made by an IRCC official with the appropriate delegated authority, while decisions

00:14:29.660 for more serious offences are made by the immigration minister, said the spokeswoman Nancy Karen.

00:14:36.700 Okay, this is unbelievable. So 17,000 criminals in Canada, the government just said, hey, don't worry

00:14:43.040 about the criminal record. Let's just let them through. Don't worry about it. Don't look at it.

00:14:46.760 They won't even give us a breakdown. Look, I am open to admitting that, hey, if someone was convicted

00:14:51.360 of a crime, say like a political crime, say whether a political criminal in China and they come to Canada

00:14:55.940 and Canada says, look, we don't consider that to be a real crime. That's BS. We're going to forgive that

00:15:00.640 crime. I'm here for that. I'm okay with that. That's okay. That's something that we should be doing.

00:15:04.560 But that's not what's happening here. And the fact that the minister won't even say so, that they won't

00:15:09.480 have any transparency, that they won't let you know how many of these people were actually violent

00:15:13.720 criminals, victims, perpetrators of crimes where there are victims, like sexual assault, aggregated

00:15:20.060 assault. So like, we don't even know. We don't know. The fact that the ministry had to look at each

00:15:25.120 individual case and the minister, I highly doubt that they looked at 17,000 cases. I just don't believe

00:15:31.560 that. And so the idea that they just kind of like rubber stamped everyone, this is unbelievable.

00:15:36.900 This is scary. This is dangerous. This is just reason number 10,000 why the Trudeau government

00:15:42.040 was absolutely reckless when it came to immigration. They absolutely destroyed the system and our 1.00

00:15:47.720 country. Let me just read a little bit more from this gold male piece. To protect Canadians and in

00:15:52.960 the interest of transparency, IRCC should be open about the type of convictions that have been forgiven,

00:15:57.700 said Richard Curlin, immigration lawyer based in Vancouver. In many cases, particularly convictions

00:16:01.860 in authoritarian states for political offenses, rehabilitating a person is justified, he said.

00:16:06.240 Some crimes are minor, he added, and committed decades ago by people who have never re-offended.

00:16:11.180 But he said applicants convicted of crimes against the person, including sex offenses and domestic

00:16:16.120 violence, should face a higher level of scrutiny. If they enter Canada and cannot be removed for a

00:16:22.000 considerable period of time, people could be at risk. The issue is highly relevant, he said,

00:16:26.140 with people with criminal convictions facing deportations from the United States, they may

00:16:30.080 seek coming to Canada. Yeah, no doubt. They read this story in the Global Mail yesterday and said,

00:16:35.540 hey, yeah, I may be part of Trendy Aragua or some other immigrant gang group in the United States.

00:16:41.280 Why would I leave and get deported back to my country when I just go to Canada? They'll probably 0.97

00:16:44.820 just forgive my criminal record. Anyway, this is just another reason why Canada, it's just not a

00:16:52.100 serious country. Like, a serious country doesn't do this kind of thing. A serious country removes people

00:16:57.460 who are criminals. Or, hey, how about not letting them in in the first place, bringing in more

00:17:02.020 screening, bringing back more checks on people, stop them from coming in the first place. It is

00:17:07.640 absolutely outrageous. Okay, I want to jump to a special interview that I did with a Juno News sponsor.

00:17:15.040 So let's go over to that. Okay, we're going to change gears here a little bit and talk about the

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00:18:06.740 thank you so much for joining us. And thank you for sponsoring our network and our journalism here at

00:18:11.160 Juno News. Terrific. Thank you very much, Candice. It's a privilege to sponsor Juno News. We really

00:18:16.620 appreciate the alternative news. As I don't have to tell you, the mainstream media in Canada is really

00:18:22.280 bought and paid for by the political establishment. And we need good objective information in the

00:18:28.300 marketplace. So thank you very much for the work that you're doing. Well, you had an interesting op-ed

00:18:33.880 over at Juno News the other day, the resource boom and the green agenda. You said that the green agenda

00:18:39.140 is nothing but a smokescreen. The left's obsession with renewables has little to do with saving the

00:18:43.840 planet, a lot more to do with controlling people's lives. A little bit of good news on that front.

00:18:48.380 Yesterday, we had Brian Kingston, who's the head of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association.

00:18:53.060 He was heading into a meeting, Prime Minister Mark Carney. And I was pretty surprised by what he said.

00:18:59.280 He said point blank that the Liberals' mandate, EV targets, was not sustainable and that it probably

00:19:06.480 had to go. Let's play that clip. I'm here to talk about the importance of the auto sector and

00:19:11.640 ensuring its continuing success. Is the EV rebate dead? Is the EV mandate dead? We'll be discussing

00:19:17.960 EV mandates, of course, as well as a range of other policies to make sure the sector succeeds.

00:19:23.140 Do you think that's sustainable, though? Well, the EV mandate itself is not sustainable. The targets

00:19:27.880 that have been established cannot be met, and that will be part of the discussion. What will you be

00:19:32.640 asking the Prime Minister for? I'll talk to you when I get out. So you heard it there,

00:19:37.800 Jonathan, that the mandate is not sustainable. The Liberal government target is 100% zero emissions

00:19:45.460 vehicle car sales by 2035, which might seem, you know, in the distance. Really, we're talking about

00:19:50.180 10 years. They want to get rid of gas-powered cars and automobiles. It seems absurd, ridiculous.

00:19:57.520 It hasn't been scrapped already. So I'm wondering what your thoughts are on that.

00:20:01.600 Yeah, the EV mandates are absolutely ridiculous and not workable. So you can look at everything

00:20:08.220 from the cars and how batteries operate in cold climate like Canada and the distances that we have

00:20:14.980 to drive and the lack of technology really behind the cars to the needs that are required in terms

00:20:21.920 of mining and extracting resources to develop the batteries, the nickel, the copper, the cobalt,

00:20:27.340 I mean, magnities, you just go on and on, all of these different resources that are really not in

00:20:32.280 large supply. So we have short supply on them. To the ability to plug in and our electrical grids

00:20:38.660 are not sufficient. Also, in terms that they take all of the electrical demands. I mean, we have

00:20:43.880 governments across our country in different provinces telling us to turn, you know, turn down

00:20:47.680 the power when it gets hot now in the summertime. How are we going to plug in all these vehicles?

00:20:51.980 And then you have the United States, which is our most important trading partner.

00:20:55.180 We've got a lot of the cars that come from the United States. They have turned their back upon

00:20:59.480 all of these mandates. And so they're not going to be producing these cars. So on every single level,

00:21:04.900 it makes no sense to mandate to 2035. They should leave it to the market. There's many technologies

00:21:12.100 that are developing everything from hydrogen to EVs. There's other alternatives that will develop over

00:21:17.560 time and let the market determine the pace at which it should go. Government should get out of it.

00:21:22.940 They don't have a clue what they're doing. And the money that they've put into these battery

00:21:26.580 facilities in Ontario in particular is outrageous. And that's, again, going to be proved to be,

00:21:33.220 you know, to basically take our money and to squander it. So, yeah, I agree with that analysis 100%.

00:21:40.520 Well, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Prime Minister Mark Carney and his negotiations with

00:21:48.980 President Trump, because we saw basically humiliation or turnaround with the digital sales tax,

00:21:55.460 which I can't believe that Carney didn't retroact, like get rid of it, you know, before having these

00:22:00.600 conversations with Trump. We know that the Americans don't want these extra taxes. They don't want

00:22:04.100 their industries to be punished by Canadians. So, you know, the fact that he doubled down on it only

00:22:09.840 to have to reverse under Trump, I wonder if the same thing will happen with this EV government target

00:22:16.520 for 100% electric vehicles. What do you think of all this?

00:22:21.740 I believe that would be exactly the case because it's impossible. It's not workable. And Canada can't

00:22:27.240 operate in a void and a vacuum from the United States. And when it comes to almost any industry.

00:22:32.440 And what Carney did in terms of the digital tax service was just outrageous. I mean, he knew Donald

00:22:37.980 Trump did not like it. The Biden administration did not like it. And then they had the nerve to put

00:22:43.580 that in, you know, up in front of Trump at the same time we're negotiating and then go back a couple

00:22:48.020 of years and think that they were not going to irritate Trump in the middle of negotiating tariffs

00:22:53.360 where we need to be protecting as best as possible our manufacturing sector and some of our resource

00:22:58.140 sector and having better positions in terms of leverage. And we gave that away by just being

00:23:03.820 absolutely foolish. And so, I mean, again, Mark Carney is just demonstrating that he's incompetent. 0.99

00:23:09.160 And I think people are going to realize that when you put a central banker into position like that,

00:23:15.680 just because they have a lot of degrees and they, you know, they look like their resume is full,

00:23:19.900 central bankers are notoriously big government. Their ideology is that it should be top down.

00:23:26.120 They're not bottoms up. They really don't understand the free market economy. It's all

00:23:30.480 about control. And that's what central bankers do. And so I think, you know, Canadians are going to,

00:23:35.180 again, continue to be shocked and horrified at the liberal government that it is an extension of

00:23:39.600 Justin Trudeau, just with someone wearing a different suit, maybe not as fancy socks, but

00:23:44.580 it's the same, it's the same thing. So I think Carney will have to back off because that is reality.

00:23:49.980 At some point, reality does settle, set in, and you cannot pretend that the reality is something

00:23:57.000 different.

00:23:59.200 Well, I think for so many Canadians that reality is settling in that, you know, as much as the media

00:24:05.360 lauded Justin Trudeau for being progressive and woke, the impact of that on Canadians has been a

00:24:12.300 sheer disaster, specifically just with the cost of living, like everything is more expensive because

00:24:16.360 of their inflation and their printing of money, right? The mass opening of the immigration borders 0.87

00:24:21.400 means that it's hard to find a place to live and everything is more expensive. So I'm wondering if

00:24:26.440 you can comment on the liberal policies, how they have created this cost of living crisis, and what are

00:24:32.180 some things that you're watching and that you hope this Carney government might do differently than

00:24:36.200 Justin Trudeau?

00:24:36.900 Yeah, I think the major issue is if you're influencing the economy, the government should

00:24:44.220 not be running the economy, the private sector should run the economy. But if you're influencing

00:24:47.880 the policies, the regulatory regime on a private economy, and it should be geared to producing

00:24:54.620 and production and making more things. If you're not into growing the economy and producing more

00:25:01.220 products and services efficiently, more effectively, then you're going to be putting a stranglehold on the

00:25:06.280 economy. So if you look at what Donald Trump is doing in the United States, what's he doing?

00:25:09.880 How am I going to bring capital back? How am I going to loosen regulations? How am I going to

00:25:13.720 encourage his businesses to set up shop here? How am I going to lower their costs by, you know,

00:25:18.200 drill baby drill, keeping energy costs down? That's what we should be focusing on. So what,

00:25:23.160 what Justin Trudeau did over the last, you know, his nine to 10 years in power was he scared capital out of

00:25:29.080 the country, put more regulations on, he increased costs of doing business, of increase, you know,

00:25:33.960 building homes and so forth. So, and so what's happened is, you know, you can't redistribute

00:25:38.760 that which you don't produce. And so the focus should always be on production. The biggest issue

00:25:43.480 for Canada is how do we get capital back into our resource sector? How do we develop our uranium,

00:25:49.080 our oil, our gas, our copper, our gold, and so forth? All of these resources, lumber, timber,

00:25:56.280 how do we, again, continue to produce aluminum at the best cost possible? We've got some of the best

00:26:02.200 assets in the world. But if you scare the capital away, and you don't make it easy to develop these

00:26:07.160 resources, of course, money is going to leave the country, it's going to go elsewhere. And I think as

00:26:12.760 Pierre Polyev said in the last election, I mean, we chased 500 billion at least of capital out of the

00:26:18.520 country over the last number of years. And we're paying up for that now, because it's putting a

00:26:23.880 stranglehold on our GDP, we're not growing our GDP. And it's hurting our productivity. And so if you're

00:26:30.200 not growing, and you're not being more productive, you're not putting capital in, you're going to

00:26:34.760 really hurt the economy. And that's exactly what's happened. So for Carney has to do first thing he

00:26:38.840 should be doing is listening to Danielle Smith, and Scott Moe and opening up as many projects as

00:26:44.680 possible to develop our resources, the capital would come back. And we would see a large uptick

00:26:50.520 in growth in the economy over the next two, three years, if you were to do that.

00:26:53.720 I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Carney's new Bill C5, which really just forces moves to force

00:27:03.480 big natural resource projects through he says he wants to make Canada an energy superpower,

00:27:07.720 it even made Danielle Smith seem optimistic. She came on my show and said that, you know,

00:27:13.400 Mark Carney seems to be nothing like Justin Trudeau. So do you think that this is a step in the right

00:27:18.280 direction? Do you think he's actually going to follow through with it? Can he convince the radicals in

00:27:21.960 his own party? I mean, Stephen Gilboa is still in cabinet. You know, how can he circle that square

00:27:27.240 within his own party? And do you think that he'll actually do what he's saying he's going to do?

00:27:32.600 And I haven't been able to look at the Bill C5 in detail. But my understanding is, instead of

00:27:38.200 allowing the private sector to thrive and make the decisions, it's going to be top down again,

00:27:42.360 it's going to be through Ottawa, and that will not maximize the opportunity at all. That's the biggest

00:27:47.640 problem I see with Bill C5. Again, having not looked at it in a lot of detail. But we do not

00:27:53.880 want major projects going through Ottawa. And we don't want them deciding what projects are going

00:27:58.760 to be developed. And we don't want, you don't need Ottawa's money. And so the focus should ultimately,

00:28:05.640 private sector, let the private sector decide. They are the ones that will take the risk. They will also

00:28:10.520 build these projects at much lower costs, and free up the regulations. And that's, I think,

00:28:16.120 that really the focus it should be. Again, they have a hard time giving up that kind of power. I

00:28:20.440 mean, Carney, he wants to, again, control top down. And that's going to be a big hindrance to any

00:28:25.480 development of our resources. Well, this is Jonathan Wellam, the founder and CEO of

00:28:31.640 Rockling Investment. Jonathan, why don't you tell our audience a little bit about Rockling and how they

00:28:35.480 can find you? Sure. The best way to find us is on the internet, rocklink.com, which is link with a C at

00:28:44.040 the end. So it's a little bit different, R-O-C-K-L-I-N-C.com. And you can email us just at info at rocklink.com. 0.97

00:28:51.480 We're registered across all 10 provinces. We're disciplined, long-term money managers. We have

00:28:56.840 an exceptionally good track record. And we have clients right across the country. And so if you're

00:29:02.840 not sure about your investments, not happy with your current advisor, you want someone to review

00:29:07.880 your investments for free and see where you stand, then just contact us. We're all conservatives and

00:29:14.200 focused on building wealth and protecting your wealth from the different challenges that we have

00:29:19.480 out in the marketplace, everything from the government to inflation and so on. So we're not

00:29:23.400 afraid to go into sectors that a lot of people aren't interested in. And so we'd love to hear from you.

00:29:31.240 Excellent. Excellent. And we know there's lots of challenges in the Canadian economy these days.

00:29:34.760 Well, Jonathan, thank you so much for your time. Thanks for your support of Juneau News and

00:29:38.040 independent journalism. And we really appreciate your time and your insights today.

00:29:41.400 Terrific. Thank you very much, Candace. I really love Juneau News and I'm glad it's expanding and

00:29:46.600 having more influence in the country. Oh, thank you so much. All right, folks,

00:29:49.640 this is all the time we have for today. We'll be back again soon with the Candace Malcolm Show.

00:29:52.760 I'm Candace Malcolm. Thank you and God bless.

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Juno News - July 04, 2025

Trudeau welcomed 17,600 CRIMINAL immigrants, media FLIPS on Canada + the END of EV mandates？

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