Wave the Canadian flag？ Then hire Canadians.
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Matt Spokes of Project Ontario to talk about the impact of the federal government's decision to pull funding for Ontario's long-term asylum seekers program, and why it's a bad idea.
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I was happy to be in the hub on Monday morning, first thing in the morning before this walkback
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started, with Matt Spoke of Project Ontario. And we together were writing about how the first job
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is disappearing and young Canadians deserve better, with a particular focus on Ontario and
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the Ontario job numbers that are grim. And it builds on the advocacy that I have engaged in
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with the National Citizens Coalition, which is Canada's sort of founding conservative
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nonprofit advocacy group founded in 1967 by my grandfather.
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And he would have been appalled with what's happened over the last sort of what we refer
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But he would have been particularly appalled by the fact that the companies now claiming
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to, you know, that wants you to buy Canadian and some of these folks waving new flags that
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they just bought on Amazon or Timu and, you know, pay for our stuff for cheaper, they're
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not hiring Canadian. And what Ford just attempted to do was compound that problem. There is
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a case to be made that, yes, having all these asylum seekers in hotels and the feds are
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finally set to pull funding for this. What the heck is he supposed to do with a problem that
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has largely been put on his front door by the federal government? But it wasn't this. No one
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was asking for this, except for maybe, maybe some shadowy lobby groups, such as the Century
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Initiative, which is Canada's sort of mass immigration advocacy effort, which their
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corporate sponsors include three of the major banks and the Globe and Mail. Maybe this was
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dreamed up over his supposed late night campfire tale with Mark Carney during that first minister's
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week. This is a man that he ostensibly endorsed during the federal election while Ford and some
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of his inner circle were busy lobbing bombs at the federal conservatives. And I know you don't
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recall asking for what he just tried to pull. And so many groups like the Coalition, now Project
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Ontario, you know, they're fighting for the little guy here, Michelle Rempel, the shadow minister
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of immigration in the House. She's been absolutely terrific. And the real concern here right now is
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that we don't want to be talking about immigration during a summer slowdown.
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But there's a concerted effort to further undercut these kids,