Alberta Says ENOUGH — Shocking Immigration Rules Begin!
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The premier of Alberta is finally saying out loud what most Albertans have been thinking for a long time now. The current pace of immigration in this country is just not sustainable. Not for housing, not for the health care system, and definitely not for workers. And of course we're the ones paying the price for it.
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we believe that those who are not here in a permanent status should be treated like tourists
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and as a tourist you don't go to somebody else's country and say pay for my child care pay for my
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education pay for my health care pay for my long-term care give me a pension we have to get
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back to something approaching a consensus around immigration again okay so the premier of alberta
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is finally saying out loud what most albertans have been thinking for a long time now the current
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pace of immigration in this country is just not sustainable not for housing not for the health
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care system and definitely not for alberta workers it's a freaking disaster caused by the liberal
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government and of course we're the ones paying the price for it now in a recent conversation
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she didn't dodge the question or sugarcoat it she said it plain and simple we need to slow this down
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we need to get control back and we really need to reduce the numbers let's get into it
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okay so she's having a year-end conversation with ezra levant and he brings up the immigration topic
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and she talks about how she plans on reducing the number of immigrants coming into alberta salve listen
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hey i want to ask you about some comments you gave earlier this week about immigration
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and i and i remember your speech at the ucp convention a few weeks ago when you talked
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about immigration that was one of the largest responses from the crowd in applause um tell me
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some of your latest ideas you were thinking that newcomers maybe have a waiting period before they can
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get into social services what are your ideas well i guess a couple things i'd say is that i think that
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the federal government destroyed the historic consent the consensus we've always had in canada we used to
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have an enviable immigration system based on points bringing in professionals giving extra points for
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people who had degrees and could speak one of the official languages and they blew that up um that we
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received a very large number of temporary workers uh refugees family reunification uh international
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students pretty much everyone but the economic migrants that had had always been the source of its
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success and we're seeing it it has brought our public services almost to the brink of collapse we were
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that's one of the challenges that we face in our education system is we went from having a stagnant
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enrollment in our system to having a net new 85 000 kids added 96 thousands of which speak english as
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a second language basically meaning that 95 000 of them don't speak english they are learning english most
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teachers are not adequately equipped to teach english because they're not english teachers right you got
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teachers who are supposed to be teaching math teaching kids who don't speak english teachers are
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supposed to be teaching social studies and science and they're having to teach these kids english because
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they don't speak the language our english language learners which is double what we saw three years ago
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is to put enormous pressure people are seeing the pressure in being able to get a doctor or nurse
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practitioner they're seeing a pressure on buying a house getting rent uh the the price of everything is
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going up and they're frustrated when i was going around with the alberta next panel we heard a heart
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of parents and grandparents saying my my kid or my grandkid has applied for dozens of jobs even at
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mcdonald's and tim hortons and can't get one so but the federal government's irresponsibility has put
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huge costs onto our taxpayers you can already hear the liberal saying that oh it's not immigrants stop
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blaming immigrants i don't blame immigrants as much as i blame them but of course it's an immigration
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problem when you have way too many people trying to use the exact same services so you had 10 people
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10 years ago that were using services and now you have a hundred people of course everything is
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strained all services are strained you got more people demanding the same services more people requiring
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and needing the same services it's going to affect everything it's going to affect housing because
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there are more people looking for housing it's going to affect grocery prices because there are more
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people than the country was ready to feed it's going to affect the job market because there are more
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people than there are jobs available so it's just simple mathematics and yes it is an immigration problem
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but i blame the liberals because they're the ones who just opened the floodgates and they've now ruined
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what was a good working system and so what i've looked at in the uk keir starmer he's having this
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conversation about whether you have to work for five years before you are able to receive social
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services i believe that's their for their current policy they're talking about waiting making a person
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wait 10 years and so you should come to alberta because you have a job you should be a taxpayer
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first and then if you want to stay and become a permanent resident that's when you can bring in
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your wife and your kids and you can start on the pathway to permanent citizenship we believe that those
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who are not here in a permanent status should be treated like tourists and as a tourist you don't
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go to somebody else's country and say pay for my child care pay for my education pay for my health
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care pay for my long-term care give me a pension we have to get back to something approaching a
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consensus around immigration again and so that's what we're going to be looking tell burns to see
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if they want to give us a mandate to do that so people say well that's anti-immigration everybody
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was an immigrant at some point everybody came from somewhere else if they came here 100 years ago or
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they came here 10 years ago they're still an immigrant of course and that is true and the issue
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isn't immigration the issue is the number of immigrants and the kind of immigrant that is coming in
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what they call gimmigrants people who are coming in for what they can get not what they can contribute
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into the country people that came here 100 years ago they had to work really hard there were no
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benefits for them there were no no welfare checks they have to work their butts off surviving in this
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inclement weather and trying to make it farming the land ranching the land and that's how it should be
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you don't come here for what you can get you come here to build the future you pay into the system
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and when you've paid into the system then you can enjoy the benefits and she's now made her stance on
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immigration public basically letting people know that even though immigration continues to be a federal
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responsibility as long as alberta is still a part of canada she's going to do everything within
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her power to discourage immigration into alberta from those people that are only here to take and
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not contribute in any positive manner so this is a recent tweet that she put out and it goes albertans
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are tired of the last 10 years of the federal government's unsustainable immigration policies
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putting huge burden on your education healthcare and housing sectors it is time we start having a hard
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conversation about exercising more control over immigration policy and whether the province should
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limit eligibility for social services only to citizens permanent residents and individuals with
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an immigration permit granted by the alberta government that sounds like common sense to me that's what
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that sounds like common sense if you're not a citizen if you're not a permanent resident and if alberta
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didn't approve you to come in you shouldn't have access to the benefits you shouldn't have
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access to taxpayer funded benefits if you haven't paid into the system i've criticized premier smith on
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this channel multiple times when she doesn't keep her promises but the fact that she's pursuing this
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the fact the fact that she's going after uncontrolled immigration caused by the liberal government
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that i'll give her tons of credit for good on her and of course you got the media talking heads
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already trying to criticize her over this here's a tweet from a local radio guy it goes premier smith
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is musing about new immigration reforms such as preventing newcomers from accessing social
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programs like public health care or bringing their children over until they've been taxpayers for as
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many as 10 years oh god forbid god forbid would require people to pay into the system before they benefit
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from said system okay and here you have a recent article from the calgary herald reporting on this exact same
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issue danielle smith speaks out on immigration the alberta premier is not holding back we're going to
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read a little bit of it alberta premier danielle smith talks about a made in alberta immigration system
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and it's got some rules this is exactly what i was talking about a week or so ago we need to take control
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of our jurisdiction why doesn't alberta do like quebec and control its own immigration so i'm happy to see her
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taking up that space that is there for her to take good the article goes when you ask about immigration
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premier danielle smith has no time to dance around the elephant in the room smith warms up with what
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some of you have heard before but this time it is just the beginning the alberta premier reminds us
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after covet the liberal government in ottawa let way too many people into the country too fast
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quote they didn't ask anyone they didn't ask the public they didn't ask the provinces says smith and
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that is true they didn't ask anyone they just opened the floodgates and just brought in millions and
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millions of people more than ever before without consulting the citizens and what did we get in
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smith's mind it is clear pressure on health care and schools and housing prices and rental rates and food
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prices and the job market all of that has been affected we'll say oh that's just inflation that's
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just a global problem you know that's not that's got nothing to do with immigrants they're here contributing
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look it's as simple as when you have way too many people when you have more people demanding services
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than there are services to provide it's not gonna end well you're going to have backlogs you're
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going to have delays you're going to have people going to a hospital and waiting 10 hours in the
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emergency room to see a doctor which is common place in canada in the past 10 years you're going
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to have overcrowded classrooms you're going to have kids looking for work at their local mcdonald's
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or tim horns or a and w and they're not going to be able to get that job because they hired some
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temporary foreign worker who just got into this country and we got some more good news on that
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file it looks like it's already working what premier smith has been doing discouraging immigration into
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alberta even though again it is not her responsibility it is a federal responsibility
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what she's been doing which is basically trying to discourage immigration is already taking effect
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this is the official government of alberta page and it talks about migration numbers and you can see
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how it's gone down significantly and you love to see it so you have 2020 during the covet thing
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obviously we had negative immigration because the border was shut down but then the floodgates were
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open and in 2022 the numbers were higher than they had ever been before and if that wasn't enough the
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numbers went even higher in 2023 peaking at 60 000 for for that for that particular time for that year
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which is insane for a sub-national government literally the highest by far alberta had ever had
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and since you love to see it it's been going down and now it's the lowest it's been in probably
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five to seven years they got to keep doing that so what do you think what do you make of alberta
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taking over the immigration file controlling more of a sovereignty when it comes to this particular
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subject making sure that they take care of albertans first let me know what you think in the comments
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