PJ The Belt - Alberta Says ENOUGH — Shocking Immigration Rules Begin!

00:00:00.000 we believe that those who are not here in a permanent status should be treated like tourists

00:00:04.320 and as a tourist you don't go to somebody else's country and say pay for my child care pay for my

00:00:08.080 education pay for my health care pay for my long-term care give me a pension we have to get

00:00:11.680 back to something approaching a consensus around immigration again okay so the premier of alberta

00:00:17.120 is finally saying out loud what most albertans have been thinking for a long time now the current

00:00:23.840 pace of immigration in this country is just not sustainable not for housing not for the health 1.00

00:00:30.720 care system and definitely not for alberta workers it's a freaking disaster caused by the liberal 0.99

00:00:38.560 government and of course we're the ones paying the price for it now in a recent conversation

00:00:44.720 she didn't dodge the question or sugarcoat it she said it plain and simple we need to slow this down

00:00:53.840 we need to get control back and we really need to reduce the numbers let's get into it

00:01:02.640 okay so she's having a year-end conversation with ezra levant and he brings up the immigration topic

00:01:09.520 and she talks about how she plans on reducing the number of immigrants coming into alberta salve listen

00:01:15.920 hey i want to ask you about some comments you gave earlier this week about immigration

00:01:19.840 and i and i remember your speech at the ucp convention a few weeks ago when you talked

00:01:24.400 about immigration that was one of the largest responses from the crowd in applause um tell me

00:01:29.440 some of your latest ideas you were thinking that newcomers maybe have a waiting period before they can

00:01:35.840 get into social services what are your ideas well i guess a couple things i'd say is that i think that

00:01:40.160 the federal government destroyed the historic consent the consensus we've always had in canada we used to

00:01:44.560 have an enviable immigration system based on points bringing in professionals giving extra points for

00:01:50.400 people who had degrees and could speak one of the official languages and they blew that up um that we

00:01:55.600 received a very large number of temporary workers uh refugees family reunification uh international

00:02:02.560 students pretty much everyone but the economic migrants that had had always been the source of its

00:02:07.520 success and we're seeing it it has brought our public services almost to the brink of collapse we were

00:02:13.200 that's one of the challenges that we face in our education system is we went from having a stagnant

00:02:18.160 enrollment in our system to having a net new 85 000 kids added 96 thousands of which speak english as

00:02:26.560 a second language basically meaning that 95 000 of them don't speak english they are learning english most

00:02:35.280 teachers are not adequately equipped to teach english because they're not english teachers right you got

00:02:42.320 teachers who are supposed to be teaching math teaching kids who don't speak english teachers are

00:02:47.280 supposed to be teaching social studies and science and they're having to teach these kids english because

00:02:54.400 they don't speak the language our english language learners which is double what we saw three years ago

00:02:59.680 is to put enormous pressure people are seeing the pressure in being able to get a doctor or nurse

00:03:04.080 practitioner they're seeing a pressure on buying a house getting rent uh the the price of everything is

00:03:08.720 going up and they're frustrated when i was going around with the alberta next panel we heard a heart

00:03:14.080 of parents and grandparents saying my my kid or my grandkid has applied for dozens of jobs even at

00:03:19.840 mcdonald's and tim hortons and can't get one so but the federal government's irresponsibility has put

00:03:24.800 huge costs onto our taxpayers you can already hear the liberal saying that oh it's not immigrants stop

00:03:30.640 blaming immigrants i don't blame immigrants as much as i blame them but of course it's an immigration 0.99

00:03:37.440 problem when you have way too many people trying to use the exact same services so you had 10 people

00:03:46.240 10 years ago that were using services and now you have a hundred people of course everything is

00:03:53.440 strained all services are strained you got more people demanding the same services more people requiring

00:04:02.080 and needing the same services it's going to affect everything it's going to affect housing because

00:04:08.320 there are more people looking for housing it's going to affect grocery prices because there are more

00:04:15.040 people than the country was ready to feed it's going to affect the job market because there are more

00:04:21.040 people than there are jobs available so it's just simple mathematics and yes it is an immigration problem

00:04:28.880 but i blame the liberals because they're the ones who just opened the floodgates and they've now ruined

00:04:36.320 what was a good working system and so what i've looked at in the uk keir starmer he's having this

00:04:42.720 conversation about whether you have to work for five years before you are able to receive social

00:04:48.080 services i believe that's their for their current policy they're talking about waiting making a person

00:04:53.120 wait 10 years and so you should come to alberta because you have a job you should be a taxpayer

00:04:58.720 first and then if you want to stay and become a permanent resident that's when you can bring in

00:05:03.520 your wife and your kids and you can start on the pathway to permanent citizenship we believe that those

00:05:09.120 who are not here in a permanent status should be treated like tourists and as a tourist you don't

00:05:13.440 go to somebody else's country and say pay for my child care pay for my education pay for my health

00:05:16.960 care pay for my long-term care give me a pension we have to get back to something approaching a

00:05:21.280 consensus around immigration again and so that's what we're going to be looking tell burns to see

00:05:25.120 if they want to give us a mandate to do that so people say well that's anti-immigration everybody

00:05:29.360 was an immigrant at some point everybody came from somewhere else if they came here 100 years ago or

00:05:35.040 they came here 10 years ago they're still an immigrant of course and that is true and the issue 1.00

00:05:40.080 isn't immigration the issue is the number of immigrants and the kind of immigrant that is coming in

00:05:46.240 what they call gimmigrants people who are coming in for what they can get not what they can contribute 1.00

00:05:52.240 into the country people that came here 100 years ago they had to work really hard there were no

00:05:57.600 benefits for them there were no no welfare checks they have to work their butts off surviving in this

00:06:04.960 inclement weather and trying to make it farming the land ranching the land and that's how it should be

00:06:12.720 you don't come here for what you can get you come here to build the future you pay into the system

00:06:18.240 and when you've paid into the system then you can enjoy the benefits and she's now made her stance on

00:06:24.000 immigration public basically letting people know that even though immigration continues to be a federal

00:06:30.240 responsibility as long as alberta is still a part of canada she's going to do everything within

00:06:35.360 her power to discourage immigration into alberta from those people that are only here to take and 1.00

00:06:43.840 not contribute in any positive manner so this is a recent tweet that she put out and it goes albertans

00:06:50.000 are tired of the last 10 years of the federal government's unsustainable immigration policies

00:06:55.200 putting huge burden on your education healthcare and housing sectors it is time we start having a hard

00:07:03.360 conversation about exercising more control over immigration policy and whether the province should

00:07:08.880 limit eligibility for social services only to citizens permanent residents and individuals with

00:07:15.280 an immigration permit granted by the alberta government that sounds like common sense to me that's what

00:07:21.680 that sounds like common sense if you're not a citizen if you're not a permanent resident and if alberta

00:07:27.360 didn't approve you to come in you shouldn't have access to the benefits you shouldn't have

00:07:32.240 access to taxpayer funded benefits if you haven't paid into the system i've criticized premier smith on

00:07:40.240 this channel multiple times when she doesn't keep her promises but the fact that she's pursuing this

00:07:46.080 the fact the fact that she's going after uncontrolled immigration caused by the liberal government

00:07:51.360 that i'll give her tons of credit for good on her and of course you got the media talking heads 0.56

00:07:56.400 already trying to criticize her over this here's a tweet from a local radio guy it goes premier smith

00:08:02.080 is musing about new immigration reforms such as preventing newcomers from accessing social

00:08:07.200 programs like public health care or bringing their children over until they've been taxpayers for as

00:08:14.080 many as 10 years oh god forbid god forbid would require people to pay into the system before they benefit

00:08:22.080 from said system okay and here you have a recent article from the calgary herald reporting on this exact same

00:08:28.720 issue danielle smith speaks out on immigration the alberta premier is not holding back we're going to

00:08:34.800 read a little bit of it alberta premier danielle smith talks about a made in alberta immigration system

00:08:40.240 and it's got some rules this is exactly what i was talking about a week or so ago we need to take control

00:08:47.040 of our jurisdiction why doesn't alberta do like quebec and control its own immigration so i'm happy to see her

00:08:54.720 taking up that space that is there for her to take good the article goes when you ask about immigration 0.93

00:09:01.920 premier danielle smith has no time to dance around the elephant in the room smith warms up with what 0.99

00:09:08.720 some of you have heard before but this time it is just the beginning the alberta premier reminds us

00:09:15.680 after covet the liberal government in ottawa let way too many people into the country too fast 1.00

00:09:21.520 quote they didn't ask anyone they didn't ask the public they didn't ask the provinces says smith and

00:09:29.040 that is true they didn't ask anyone they just opened the floodgates and just brought in millions and

00:09:34.240 millions of people more than ever before without consulting the citizens and what did we get in

00:09:40.800 smith's mind it is clear pressure on health care and schools and housing prices and rental rates and food

00:09:47.680 prices and the job market all of that has been affected we'll say oh that's just inflation that's

00:09:54.720 just a global problem you know that's not that's got nothing to do with immigrants they're here contributing 0.95

00:10:00.880 look it's as simple as when you have way too many people when you have more people demanding services

00:10:08.640 than there are services to provide it's not gonna end well you're going to have backlogs you're

00:10:17.520 going to have delays you're going to have people going to a hospital and waiting 10 hours in the

00:10:22.800 emergency room to see a doctor which is common place in canada in the past 10 years you're going

00:10:29.200 to have overcrowded classrooms you're going to have kids looking for work at their local mcdonald's

00:10:36.560 or tim horns or a and w and they're not going to be able to get that job because they hired some

00:10:43.280 temporary foreign worker who just got into this country and we got some more good news on that

00:10:48.800 file it looks like it's already working what premier smith has been doing discouraging immigration into

00:10:55.840 alberta even though again it is not her responsibility it is a federal responsibility

00:11:02.160 what she's been doing which is basically trying to discourage immigration is already taking effect

00:11:09.040 this is the official government of alberta page and it talks about migration numbers and you can see

00:11:15.680 how it's gone down significantly and you love to see it so you have 2020 during the covet thing

00:11:25.600 obviously we had negative immigration because the border was shut down but then the floodgates were

00:11:30.880 open and in 2022 the numbers were higher than they had ever been before and if that wasn't enough the

00:11:36.800 numbers went even higher in 2023 peaking at 60 000 for for that for that particular time for that year

00:11:47.120 which is insane for a sub-national government literally the highest by far alberta had ever had

00:11:54.640 and since you love to see it it's been going down and now it's the lowest it's been in probably

00:12:01.120 five to seven years they got to keep doing that so what do you think what do you make of alberta

00:12:07.920 taking over the immigration file controlling more of a sovereignty when it comes to this particular

00:12:14.480 subject making sure that they take care of albertans first let me know what you think in the comments

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PJ The Belt - December 20, 2025

Alberta Says ENOUGH — Shocking Immigration Rules Begin!

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