Rebel News Podcast - September 03, 2025


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Poilievre tackles the immigration crisis — blames Liberals, corporate elites


Episode Stats

Length

32 minutes

Words per Minute

175.7012

Word Count

5,736

Sentence Count

419

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

35


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I put a question to Pierre Paulyet today about temporary foreign workers.
00:00:06.300 I said, should you use your bully pulpit, your position to name and shame companies
00:00:13.580 that use foreign laborers? I'll show you his answer. I'll also show you the response by
00:00:18.580 Mark Carney. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to what we call Rebel
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00:00:32.380 which may not sound like a lot of dough to you, but boy, it adds up for us and it's how we pay the
00:00:36.500 bills because we don't take a dime from government and it shows. Tonight, Pierre Paulyet says he wants
00:00:42.860 fewer temporary foreign workers. Mark Carney says he wants more. It's September 3rd and this is the
00:00:48.940 Ezra LeVant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:00:57.120 I had another interesting day. I was invited to a Pierre Paulyet news conference
00:01:09.760 about temporary foreign workers. I went to one the other day about crime and I got a question in
00:01:15.960 and I thought it was, you know, I got a fairly good answer. So I went there today. The theme was
00:01:20.360 immigration and I went with my ears open. Let me play for you a video I recorded on the scene
00:01:28.000 in Mississauga. Take a look. You know, I've always been against a temporary foreign worker program in
00:01:33.300 the past. It's been very limited. For example, some farmers claim they just literally can't get
00:01:39.320 enough workers for a particular crop picking season. So they need the help. And I don't know,
00:01:45.360 I suppose that rings true to me. But again, very limited. Time specific, job specific, not
00:01:51.920 replacing Canadian workers as a general business strategy. That's exactly what's been happening
00:01:58.760 in Canada the past 10 years under Trudeau. Temporary foreign workers are not temporary at all. And
00:02:05.420 they've displaced a whole generation of young Canadians. Youth unemployment is out of control.
00:02:10.280 And here in Mississauga, where the Conservative Party, Pierre Pauliev, Michel Garnerempel,
00:02:16.500 and another MP, Garnerempel, had a news conference announcing their plan to, while I'll say it in
00:02:23.320 a word, scrap the temporary foreign workers program. You take a look at some of his comments.
00:02:28.000 Some very talented and hardworking people who cannot get jobs here in Canada. And let's be honest,
00:02:34.160 young people today form what I call generation screwed. Let's look at the situation.
00:02:40.280 For this generation is the first generation that cannot afford a home in Canadian history.
00:02:46.100 And now, the double gut punch. They have the highest or the worst employment numbers of any
00:02:53.400 group of young people since the late 1990s. So you can't get a job. And even if you did have a job,
00:03:01.260 you can never buy a home after 10 years of Liberal government. We have major problems in our job.
00:03:07.620 Let's look at the facts here. The unemployment rate for those aged 15 to 24 is now 14.6%.
00:03:15.160 The employment rate, the share of young people who are employed, is at its lowest level in over a
00:03:21.900 quarter century outside of the pandemic. 1.6 million Canadians were unemployed in July. 7.4% increase in
00:03:29.740 unemployment insurance requests since Mr. Carney took office. Almost 400,000 Canadians have been
00:03:36.440 continually searching for work for over two years, the highest share of long-term unemployment since
00:03:41.880 1998. There are 16,000 more people unemployed in Ontario than there were in the Great Recession.
00:03:51.480 Ontario has seen a massive increase in job losses and a massive decrease in home building.
00:03:56.400 Nearly 75% of temporary foreign workers that come into the country are for low-wage positions,
00:04:02.240 which means they compete with working class and young people that ultimately drive down wages and
00:04:08.500 drive away jobs. Tim Hortons has hired an unimaginable 1,131% more temporary foreign workers in the last
00:04:17.560 four years. In the first half of this year alone, the TFW program has imported 74% more low-skilled labor
00:04:25.920 than in all of 2015. TFWs, the number of temporary foreign workers, has now 2% of our overall
00:04:33.380 workforce and a staggering number, an unprecedented number. Now, the Liberals promised they would cap
00:04:38.520 the temporary foreign worker program at 82,000, but in the first six months, they've already handed out
00:04:43.660 105,000 permits. Canadian jobs for Canadian workers. Canada first, Canada always. That's why
00:04:52.820 Conservatives are calling on the Carney government to permanently scrap the temporary foreign worker
00:04:58.460 program and to stop issuing visas for any new temporary foreign workers coming into the country.
00:05:06.800 Under this proposal, existing permits would be wound down until the program is entirely eliminated.
00:05:13.800 Canadian jobs will go to Canadian workers first. It's time that Mr. Carney took the job seriously of
00:05:20.780 repairing the damage that his party has done. Well, I think that's a good idea. And I mean,
00:05:25.240 we've heard outrageous reports of how the temporary foreign workers program would be used in the past
00:05:29.780 where staff at a company were told to train their foreign replacements and then they were laid off.
00:05:36.320 You can't go into a retail restaurant, a drive-thru at 7-Eleven without having foreign workers. I'm not
00:05:43.240 talking about Canadian citizens who are ethnic minorities. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about
00:05:48.060 foreign nationals who were brought here. Really, let's not dance around it as a kind of slave wage
00:05:55.360 economy. I mean, obviously, they are not literally slaves, although some of them are exploited. They're
00:06:01.640 like indentured workers. They have to give a kit back to their employer. You know, I think throughout
00:06:07.940 time, slave economies have been sort of the secret juice to economies. They're free workers. They're low-cost
00:06:15.980 workers. It's how the United States used slaves in the early years of the Republic to pick crops,
00:06:22.980 temporary foreign workers. But they were permanent and they were indentured. I'm not saying that
00:06:27.740 temporary foreign workers as a program is morally as repugnant, as actual slavery. But it is of the
00:06:34.700 same solution, isn't it? We can't do this work, or we can, but we'd rather save a few dollars an hour
00:06:41.680 by bringing in foreigners to be an underclass. They are exploited. Now, it's better work for
00:06:48.100 them than staying at home if they were in Afghanistan or rural Pakistan or India. I can
00:06:53.660 understand why Canada is the dream place. And they all know they're a soft touch. They can apply to be
00:07:01.180 or refugees once they're here. Or they can just simply not go home. Who's going to enforce the law?
00:07:05.640 Mark Carney. So I think we have to scrap the temporary foreign worker program. That's exactly
00:07:11.700 what Polly had called for. But here's the thing. He is not the prime minister. The liberals will never
00:07:16.900 do that. So I put a question, these are them, and I just saw they came up with it on the spot. Is
00:07:21.680 there something here Polly could do in the meantime? Here's the question I put and the answer I got.
00:07:27.980 Hi, Ezra Levent from Rebel News. I thought it was very interesting about booster juice paying 36 bucks
00:07:34.020 to an hour to a foreign worker. And I think a lot of Canadians don't know how pervasive this is.
00:07:40.240 And that's an outrageous anecdote. I don't think the liberals are going to accept your advice here.
00:07:45.380 So I think your reforms wouldn't be able to bite until you become prime minister if that happens.
00:07:52.140 But I think there is something you could do in the meantime. And let me ask you if you would consider
00:07:56.800 this. I'm actually just doing some brainstorming here. Would you consider shining a spotlight using
00:08:03.900 your bully pulpit on the worst offenders? For example, maybe a company that really wraps itself
00:08:09.340 in the Canadian flag, like Tim Hortons. Would you consider having an event outside of Tim Hortons?
00:08:15.980 Would you consider writing to the board of directors of RBI and the Brazilian hedge fund? And I guess
00:08:22.800 what I'm saying is there's no downside to these companies hiring foreign workers. But if there was a
00:08:29.620 PR downside, if patriotic Canadians said, this is enough, I notice in the UK, there's a lot of
00:08:35.340 people waving British and English flags. It's their response to immigration crises. Would you consider
00:08:43.320 naming and shaming in the public domain abusers of the TFW program?
00:08:51.880 Yes. And thank you for the question. Michelle Rempel has already begun the process. She's been
00:08:59.620 publishing the most egregious cases of corporate elites profiting by shutting Canadians out of jobs
00:09:06.400 in favor of low-wage temporary foreign workers. And Michelle, do you want to add anything to that?
00:09:12.280 Sure.
00:09:12.600 Come on over.
00:09:16.200 No, thanks for the question, Ezra. It's absolutely egregious that these companies expect
00:09:20.640 that they can just maximize corporate profits on the backs of, and at the expense of Canadian youth.
00:09:28.180 It's a practice that has to end. We've been naming and shaming them all week. I want to thank my team
00:09:33.960 for finding those examples, but I encourage Canadians to go and look for themselves. There's been websites
00:09:38.940 that have been set up so that people can see what these companies are doing. But the more important
00:09:43.380 thing is, Ezra, that the Liberals are letting them do this. The Liberals are totally letting them do
00:09:48.540 this. You know, Lena Diab, where was she this summer, the immigration minister? Did she name and shame
00:09:53.640 any of these people? No, she didn't. And that's why we're here today. We're standing up for the people
00:09:58.260 that are behind us. Enough is enough. Canadian jobs have to go to Canadians.
00:10:03.720 Well, I think we have to name and shame these companies, and we have to do the opposite as well.
00:10:07.820 We have to praise companies that hire Canadians. I was in Costco the other day, and it's so clear
00:10:13.100 they have avoided the temporary foreign worker economy. Their staff are Canadians, and I say
00:10:19.280 again, they're from different ethnic minorities. This is not a racial comment. This is a national
00:10:23.660 comment. At Costco, they have a very strong human resources strategy. They pay well. They recruit
00:10:30.780 well. They have staff stick around for a long time, and I think it shows off in better customer service.
00:10:36.220 I think Costco is sort of world famous for customer service. That's a very different strategy than the
00:10:41.660 Tim Horton strategy of just bring in foreigners and shave off a dollar an hour or five dollars an
00:10:47.880 hour. You know what? Speaking as a consumer, obviously, we all want to save money, but if someone said,
00:10:53.820 would you pay an extra 25 cents for your coffee and have, and think about it, you know, how many
00:11:01.460 hundreds of coffees would any of these restaurants serve in a day? Just, of course, 25 cents per coffee
00:11:07.840 would pay for hiring a Canadian. And we heard an anecdote today of a worker at Booster Juice. You know
00:11:15.820 what Booster Juice is? It's just a restaurant chain that has smoothies and whatnot offering 36 bucks an hour
00:11:22.700 to a foreign worker. If you work 2,000 hours a year, which is sort of a full-time job, that's a
00:11:27.660 $72,000 a year job. Are you telling me there's no Canadians who have worked that? Here's a reference
00:11:33.900 to that number right now.
00:11:35.500 These job postings. I think it was, was it Booster Juice, the one you came up with yesterday? $36
00:11:40.460 an hour. Booster Juice offering $36 an hour to a temporary foreign worker. They specifically say
00:11:47.740 they want it to be a temporary foreign worker. Why aren't they offering those jobs to Canadian kids
00:11:52.300 first? And I'm not now speaking about any particular employer, but we know that there's a lot of abuse in
00:11:58.620 this system where the employers are asking for some of the wage back from their worker. I'm not
00:12:05.420 alleging that for Booster Juice, but it is happening out there. It is a, it is a very exploitative system
00:12:12.780 that has allowed corporate elites to profit off of driving wages down and driving jobs out. And we're
00:12:21.980 going to put an end to it. Yeah, I, I like the idea of knave and shame. And it sounds like they've been
00:12:27.020 doing a little bit of that, but I think they have to formalize it. I think they have to go heavy on it.
00:12:31.660 And I think they have to zero in on one particular company and just beat the living daylights out of
00:12:37.340 them pour encourager les autres. And I, and here's what I mean by that. What is the downside to using
00:12:44.860 temporary foreign workers in your restaurant? First of all, everyone else is doing it. So if you don't do
00:12:50.860 it, you might have an extra payroll cost. Second of all, we've all become numb to it, I suppose.
00:12:56.860 Oh, that's how things are now. So there's no cost. But if we can impose a cost on corporate
00:13:05.020 behemoths like Tim Hortons, a social cost, a PR cost, maybe they would say, all right,
00:13:12.220 we've got a choice here. Hire a Canadian at maybe a dollar or two more an hour, or have our market
00:13:19.180 share, sorry, market capitalization beat up. It's just like, I mean, Americans are really good at this.
00:13:24.020 Remember a few weeks ago, when Cracker Barrel, the restaurant, if you've never been there,
00:13:28.500 I recommended the next trip to the USA. They hire a new CEO that was very woke and got rid of,
00:13:34.260 there's a picture of a white guy and a barrel on their logo, and they purged it. And that caused a
00:13:38.700 big backlash. Cracker Barrel lost $200 million in market cap. That was their customers saying,
00:13:44.680 what are you doing? We like that old timey, sudden flavor. Don't go all woke on us. It's the same thing
00:13:50.300 that happened to Bud Light. It's the same thing that happened to Jaguar. So what if we could
00:13:55.020 impose a PR cost on the worst offenders of temporary foreign workers like Tim Hortons?
00:14:02.380 That's an idea I put to Pierre Polyev. And he basically said, yes. Now, I think he's in a
00:14:08.240 position to do it at a very high level. I think he could write a letter to the CEO and the board of
00:14:13.340 directors of Tim Hortons. By the way, if you think Tim Hortons is Canadian, you're living about 30 years
00:14:19.040 in the past. It is a foreign owned company. It's owned by RBI, Restaurant Brands International,
00:14:25.220 I think that stands for. And they in turn are owned by American investors and a large
00:14:29.360 Brazilian hedge fund. Isn't that crazy? If you think Tim Hortons is all Canadian, you are dead
00:14:34.700 wrong, my friends. Their largest owner is in Brazil. So not only are they pretending to be Canadian,
00:14:41.760 that's what gets me. If they said, all right, we're Brazilian. If they said, we're globalists.
00:14:46.160 All right. So you're admitting who you are, and that's your identity, and you're embracing it.
00:14:51.240 But if you fly the flag like Tim Hortons flies, but you refuse to hire Canadians, to hell with you.
00:14:57.820 That's a form of false advertising. You're a deceiver. I want to think some more about this.
00:15:03.220 And maybe Rebel News can get in on the action ourselves. You know, we've got that beautiful
00:15:06.520 billboard truck. And we have used that kind of campaign against Tim Hortons before. I don't know
00:15:12.840 if you know this. You've got to be an old timer like me. But 10 years ago, when Rebel News was very
00:15:16.680 young, Tim Hortons did an atrocious thing. They had these little TVs in their cottage shops back
00:15:23.200 then that they would allow companies to buy ads. So it wasn't just Tim Hortons stuff. It was, you could
00:15:29.100 be an advertiser. You could be a bank. And they were just very quick ads. And so I think it was
00:15:33.920 Enbridge, an oil pipeline company, took out a very neutral ad. And Tim Hortons banned them.
00:15:43.160 And they made some statement about it being outside their ethical taste or something. Like
00:15:48.220 Tim Hortons was morally superior to Enbridge. Coffee, Tim Hortons, which is beloved by the
00:15:55.260 oil batch, all these oil and gas guys stopped by Tim Hortons for a coffee and a donut. And Tim
00:16:00.420 Hortons basically said, F you. You're not good enough for us. It was outrageous. And
00:16:05.040 we had a boycott Tim's campaign. And I should tell you, look at me, you don't get a body like
00:16:09.480 this without having the odd donut. I personally, for 10 years, have kept that bad. In fact,
00:16:16.440 that's what pushed me to get to know McDonald's coffee, which I think is actually an excellent
00:16:20.760 coffee. By the way, I don't think McDonald's is off the hook here. I haven't checked, but it
00:16:25.340 wouldn't surprise me if they have temporary foreign workers too. I think any company that
00:16:30.760 emphasizes its Canadian-ness should be held to account if they have an anti-Canadian job
00:16:38.320 platform. And I'm just thinking off the top of my head, like McDonald's, you know, the
00:16:41.480 apostrophe in McDonald's is a little Canadian maple leaf. You know that? And I think every
00:16:46.780 company with the maple leaf in their logo or that tries to brand itself as Canadian, I think
00:16:52.420 they need to be named and shamed. I think it should be done at the high level by people
00:16:56.320 like Pierre Polyev writing to their boards of directors. But I think it should be done
00:16:59.920 at the grassroots level. And I think you can have it as a general rule of thumb, but I think
00:17:04.480 the most successful way would be to focus like a laser on one or two of the worst behaved
00:17:09.740 companies. And maybe we Canadians could try and get a little bit of that U.S. consumer
00:17:15.460 rebellion, like happened to Cracker Barrel or Bud Light. And even what's going on in the
00:17:20.240 UK right now? You know, I love to follow the battles in the UK. And there's a real response
00:17:24.560 to the government. People are flying their national flags, the Union Jack, and then the
00:17:30.200 other country flags like England and Scotland. I think we've got to do that. We've got to
00:17:34.620 push back. And yeah, that's my report today. I enjoy going to these press conferences and
00:17:38.420 I try and think of a useful question. Hopefully you thought it was. Cheers.
00:17:42.560 Well, that's my theory, is that Pierre Polyev has good ideas, but they're not necessarily
00:17:46.800 going to become law until one day if that conservative party becomes government. Temporary
00:17:53.020 foreign workers, it would be possible to get that law passed with the current parliament.
00:17:59.280 Unlikely, because I think the Liberal Party won't do anything that Pierre Polyev wants, but there is
00:18:04.140 a component of the left that actually still cares about working people. And there is no greater
00:18:10.320 threat to the income of working people than bringing in cheap foreign labor specifically
00:18:16.880 to undercut Canadian labor. I mean, it couldn't be clearer that is the purpose of temporary foreign
00:18:22.780 workers. It once may have been about meeting a specific shortfall of a specific kind of worker
00:18:28.640 for a specific period of time, but it's no longer that. It's just the mass importation of, I'm not going
00:18:34.340 to say slave labor, but near a slave labor competitor. So there may be some socialists
00:18:40.140 and NDPers and blockists that actually support Polyev's changes. I'm not so sure. But I think
00:18:48.020 that shaming and naming the abusers of the system is something that might be able to get some change
00:18:54.720 before then. Anyways, I went outside and I bumped into Michelle Gardner-Remble, the immigration critic
00:19:00.800 of the Conservative Party. And we spoke for a few minutes about her view. Here's how that went.
00:19:05.840 Nice to see you. Thanks for taking a moment with us. Yeah, no problem. Nice to see you too.
00:19:09.400 I love the idea of naming and shaming because a lot of these companies really wrap themselves in
00:19:13.440 the Canadian flag. And yet they have an anti-Canadian hiring plan. What can you do?
00:19:20.040 Well, you know, obviously I'm going to start by saying the liberals are enabling this behavior,
00:19:23.880 right? So we're starting with announcing that we're going to be very, very massively pushing for the
00:19:30.600 abolition of this program in the House of Commons. So that's step one, right? Because you have to
00:19:34.860 look at it from both ways. But yeah, I've already been out there looking at some of these really
00:19:40.440 egregious examples. I actually think it was one of your reporters or editors had one that I was going
00:19:44.880 to post yesterday. There's a school, a private school in, I think it was Oakville, that was hiring
00:19:51.200 a teacher as a temporary foreign worker. So yeah, of course these, like, you know, there used to be a
00:19:57.860 social contract where employers would offer Canadians, young Canadians, their first jobs,
00:20:04.160 they would be, you know, dining and building a skill, domestic labor first. Like my first job
00:20:09.360 was at an ice cream shop, right? I learned a lot of skills there, but that's not happening anymore.
00:20:14.320 And so, yeah, these employers shouldn't be using this program. It should be abolished. But, you know,
00:20:21.240 from a parliamentary perspective, the liberals shouldn't be allowing this, right?
00:20:24.840 I agree with you. And if the conservatives form government, there'd be a lot of changes you can
00:20:30.000 just make. But I think until then, your power is your rhetorical power, your moral power.
00:20:35.200 I was going to disagree with you a bit on that, because I actually think you can move the chains
00:20:39.120 from the opposition bench. It is going to be very difficult. I'm personally going to make it,
00:20:43.640 and so is Pierre. Very difficult for the liberals to justify keeping this program. There's no justification
00:20:49.940 for it. You know, and I think that this is something that just resonates across party lines,
00:20:56.100 too, because there's people of all political strike that can't find a job right now. So fair enough,
00:21:00.460 in terms of, it's been interesting to watch, you know, just sort of average Canadians put little
00:21:06.880 short videos on X, on YouTube, on different, you know, I've seen them on Instagram. I'm just taking
00:21:12.500 one of these posts, like you can go on, there's numerous websites that are aggregating these jobs
00:21:19.260 that are being offered, and then just showing them and going, I've seen Reddit posts, right? So
00:21:23.780 everybody can do that. We will continue to do that, and I'm going to continue to hold the
00:21:27.820 immigration minister to account. How tough are you willing to get with a company? I use Tim Hortons
00:21:33.320 as an example. By the way, they're a majority foreign owners. Are you willing to call for a boycott
00:21:39.640 of Tim Hortons? Are you willing to write a scorching letter to their CEO? Because I think
00:21:44.980 if Canadians had like a bud light consumer rebellion, that would make these companies wise
00:21:51.040 up. But if you're not going to get tough, if you're going to be diplomatic, I don't know if it's going
00:21:54.760 to move the needle. How tough are you going to get? Well, I know you're pretty tough, and you started
00:21:58.460 that here. I have to be tough on the Liberals, right? That's why my constituents pay my salary.
00:22:04.280 But again, I agree with you. Like these employers, like it's an egregious abuse of it. That's why Pierre put
00:22:09.160 the, you know, the Tim Hortons is the example in his announcement. What was it? Over a thousand?
00:22:15.060 What's it? Why'd she say this? So, you know, like, you know, but what I can say is this. You know,
00:22:20.180 you want tough? You got to get tough in the House of Commons, I suppose. So, Lena, I'm looking for
00:22:24.160 you this fall. But after you're talking a little bit, sir, you have it. That's Michelle Rambelgarner,
00:22:28.320 the immigration critic for the Conservatives. Funny enough, after that press conference, she made a tweet
00:22:34.340 showing me that indeed she was naming and shaming individual companies that were preferring foreign
00:22:41.300 cheap workers to Canadian workers. In this case, she mentioned a particular pizza parlor. So, I like
00:22:47.680 the fact that they're willing to do that. Now, I think they can be tougher, and I think Rebel News
00:22:51.540 itself may well have a role here. I just don't think it should be completely scot-free that companies
00:23:00.460 can say, no, I'm not going to hire any Canadians. I'm going to bring in foreign workers to undercut
00:23:05.520 them. I just don't think that should be allowed. And right now it is, shall we say, all the negative
00:23:11.220 externalities are foisted on the community. So, Tim Hortons can hire only foreigners. And what's the
00:23:18.540 harm there? Well, the harm is to young Canadians who don't get a job. There's some other harm. I mean,
00:23:23.800 customer service typically goes down. People feel alienated. But like I say, Tim Hortons can
00:23:28.880 externalize all those problems onto the community. And since all the other companies are doing the
00:23:36.100 same thing, no one really, you know, it's just, it's the worst of all worlds. But if Tim Hortons
00:23:42.400 or another company like that could be made to internalize the costs, if the community shunned
00:23:48.760 them, if their revenues went down, if customers started to boycott them, then they would have pros
00:23:56.320 and cons now for dealing with temporary foreign workers, not just pros. The cons would be
00:24:01.520 patriotic Canadians simply refusing to do business with them. What I'm talking about
00:24:05.060 is a consumer boycott like they had for Bud Light. Anyways, that was an interesting conversation
00:24:10.320 with Pierre Polyev and Michelle Gardner-Remple. And I was glad I went there. And I suppose they had
00:24:16.320 sort of talked about those things already. But I feel like, you know, I certainly clarified my own
00:24:22.420 thinking about it. And I think I got them a little bit excited about going on the war path using their
00:24:27.400 bully pulpit against these companies. Anyways, I came back to the office. And what do you know,
00:24:32.340 the regime media put to Mark Carney, the prime minister, Pierre Polyev's proposals. And I thought,
00:24:38.420 well, you know, the liberals have sort of walked away, at least rhetorically, from their extreme
00:24:42.880 immigration. They're still going full tilt in reality. But they're now at least acknowledging they
00:24:47.620 went too far. Boy, was iron. Mark Carney, I'll let you see it for yourself. Here he is saying
00:24:52.240 he wants more cheap, foreign, exploitable workers, not less. He wants more temporary foreign workers.
00:25:02.620 See for yourself. Take a look.
00:25:04.800 Mr. Polyev called this morning on the government to scrap the temporary foreign worker program.
00:25:09.200 Is it time to shut the program down?
00:25:10.640 Mr. Well, I would say the following, which is that that program has a role. It has to be focused
00:25:21.100 in terms of its role. And it's part of what we're viewing. It's part of what we will be discussing,
00:25:26.220 how well the temporary foreign worker program is working and how our overall immigration system
00:25:31.300 is working. We've been absolutely clear as a government that we want and we're putting in place
00:25:36.600 policies so that the overall level of immigration as a proportion of the population will decline
00:25:42.200 from around 7% today to around 5% several years from now. Now, the biggest contributor to immigration
00:25:49.480 is not temporary foreign workers. It's a variety of other factors. And I will say,
00:25:54.120 when I talk to businesses around the country, especially, particularly in Quebec, but elsewhere
00:26:04.060 across the country, their number one issue is tariffs and their number two issue is access
00:26:09.660 to temporary foreign workers. Okay?
00:26:11.820 And for the moment, it's one of the big demands of Quebec government and it's one of the big
00:26:18.620 demands of Quebec companies. So, you have to keep this program, not eliminate this program.
00:26:26.060 But what is clear is that we can improve the program in total, the whole of immigration. As a whole,
00:26:38.380 it's clear that we can improve our overall immigration policies. We're working on that and we're setting
00:26:45.420 clear goals to adjust.
00:26:47.340 How tone deaf do you have to be? I mean, Mark Carney himself is an oligarch. I suspect he's a billionaire,
00:26:54.060 given that he has 600 different companies in his portfolio. It's crazy. And he's asked about temporary
00:26:59.980 foreign workers. And you just know where he's coming from because he says, well, actually, no,
00:27:04.060 I asked all the big industrialists. I asked all the big employers in Quebec. And if anything,
00:27:08.940 they want more foreign workers. So, we're going to do it. Hang on. So, you spoke to other billionaires
00:27:14.300 and other oligarchs and other industries. And they all agreed, cheap labor is better. So, well,
00:27:19.420 case closed, I guess. I mean, it would be like saying, well, I talked to the landlords and they
00:27:23.660 like high rent. So, I'm just doing what they say. Well, you didn't take into account the other part
00:27:28.860 of that, which is Canadians won't be hired. You're driving down wages. I mean, just the ease with which
00:27:36.540 he just said, oh, well, other billionaires like low wages, cheap labor, sort of an indentured servant
00:27:43.260 class. So, duh, of course. There's not even a flicker of recognition that maybe there's other
00:27:50.300 stakeholders in our community, like Canadian citizens who might have a say. And there's no
00:27:55.500 flicker of recognition that temporary foreign workers typically were brought in to help pick
00:28:00.380 a crop that needed to be picked for a few weeks. And then it was done. And then they went home to,
00:28:04.860 say, Mexico, where a lot of them came from. No, I reject the idea that you can bring in temporary
00:28:12.860 foreign workers to just generally replace low income workers in that first rung on the ladder
00:28:18.060 of life. Those are in some ways the most important job. Which is the most important job
00:28:22.140 in your mind? The first job that a young person gets that may be just above minimum wage, but it
00:28:26.940 teaches them, show up on work on time. If you're in the food service industry in a clean uniform, hold
00:28:33.580 your tongue if there's a customer service moment that frustrates you. Work for the good of the
00:28:38.060 companies, don't steal, have some teamwork. Like there's so much you learn in that first job
00:28:44.780 that, you know, 10, 20, 30 years later in life, you probably don't think of it that way, but it puts
00:28:50.060 you on the path. And if we've cut out that first rung on the ladder of life and we've given away
00:28:54.940 to foreign workers just to save huge employers a few dollars an hour, that's just outrageous.
00:29:01.900 I think this is not just an economic battle and a way of solving our youth unemployment. It's a moral
00:29:09.580 battle. Imagine saying, no, we prefer, we prefer foreign indentured workers to our own. That's the
00:29:18.300 liberal party today, at least under the billionaire oligarch of Mark Carney. Last point, I want to share
00:29:26.220 with you a website that I was sent today that I did not know existed. And here, just take a look at it,
00:29:31.100 and we'll click through some of it. It is an official government website. This is not someone
00:29:35.420 who set this up. This is the government of Canada. You can see by the web domain. And it has thousands
00:29:42.220 of jobs for which they are hiring foreigners. And what's so interesting is it's everything.
00:29:48.780 There's a job in there I saw for a psychiatrist. They're willing to pay up to $400,000.
00:29:54.940 Are there no Canadians who will be a psychiatrist for $400,000? But you also have on the other end
00:30:01.580 of the spectrum, the most menial jobs, the entry level jobs for a pittance. Basically, the entire
00:30:09.820 country is for sale to foreigners who want to come here and to be entry level or top level. And you come
00:30:17.260 straight into our country and basically buy your way in. If you're Canadian citizen looking for work,
00:30:23.580 well, sucks to be you. I think this is a critical issue of our time. And let me quote Mark Andreassen,
00:30:30.380 who was asked, why are so many young people communists these days? Why are so many people
00:30:35.580 rejecting capitalism? I see it. I was in Montreal the other day, and I literally saw posters on the street
00:30:42.780 for communism. Now, of course, those were paid to be put up. But why is it appealing to people?
00:30:47.420 Why is it ringing true? As Mark Andreassen said, young people, their only interaction
00:30:52.940 with capitalism these days is negative. They'll never buy a house. They'll just be renters. They
00:30:58.460 can't afford houses. They'll never be able to pay off their student debt. And in the United States,
00:31:03.660 that debt, you can't erase it through bankruptcy. So your only experience with capital and capitalism
00:31:10.220 is negative. You can never get out of debt. You can never save enough to buy a house. Your jobs will
00:31:15.980 be pitiful. As the World Economic Forum says, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy. Well,
00:31:21.580 they're not happy about it. We have got to realign things. You will not have support for a free market
00:31:28.380 economy if you're bringing in the world's cheapest laborers to compete. And you will not have support for
00:31:34.380 a free market economy if you're driving up the cost of housing so it's impossible for young people to
00:31:40.140 start a family. There's so many terrible things going on rooted in this mass immigration. And I
00:31:45.660 haven't even talked about what it's done to our universities and colleges with the education,
00:31:50.780 international students. And yeah, a very interesting day out there. Certainly got me thinking. And I tell
00:31:56.140 you, in the days and weeks ahead, look for more from us on this issue. I think we've got to start
00:32:02.700 fighting back and, you know, let Mark Carney have the oligarchs and the billionaires. I think there's
00:32:08.060 just so many people, especially young people who are just sick of it, who are just sick of it. Let's
00:32:12.860 see if we can start a consumer revolution. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow,
00:32:18.060 on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
00:32:32.140 You
00:32:33.580 Oh
00:32:35.580 Oh
00:32:36.780 Amen.