00:08:35.400We just take them over the border like normal people, you know.
00:08:38.460But these are, Mark Carney, you know, asserting that China is safer for Canada than the United States is, well, that's patently insane.
00:08:49.960Hey, speaking of Chinese things, let's go to number two.
00:08:53.800Olivia Chun is Vice Premier. He, Lai Feng, was in Vancouver yesterday. And we're just going to watch a real quick video of this together.
00:09:03.620We had constructive discussions on extending the current tariff exemption measures, expanding the scope of tariff exempt products, quotas for electric vehicles and increasing direct flights.
00:09:16.800We signed an MOU on fiscal cooperation, a cooperation agreement for the financial regulatory and supervisory dialogue.
00:09:25.500And we also, China will issue 14 billion RMB's sovereign green bond in Canada.
00:09:33.720Both sides will continue to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation in traditional energy, finance and other areas,
00:09:40.060and fully tap the potential of emerging areas such as clean energy and modern agriculture,
00:09:45.000and keep adding more items to the corporation list.
00:09:48.740The Chinese side will encourage Chinese companies
00:09:51.380to invest in Canada on commercial principles.
00:09:54.840And the Canadian side has committed to creating a fair,
00:09:59.000just and non-discriminatory business environment
00:34:03.960okay everybody welcome back welcome back to a topic that is on the top of everybody's minds
00:34:19.960uh the one of immigration the one that is displacing regular canadians out of housing
00:34:26.920out of opportunity out of jobs out of health care uh we have a post it's number 12 on the list this
00:34:35.800is from our friend next door in alberta michelle rempel gardener um she she's asking if immigration
00:34:44.760levels uh can be judged without looking at the economy olivia can we can we pull up michelle
00:34:52.280rample garner this is just great i'd probably challenge you on the one point you made that
00:34:58.560we've had mass migration for the last 10 years i think we've had mass migration for a lot lot
00:35:03.380longer spanning all the both major political parties but the last 10 years particularly the
00:35:09.340last half of those were open borders mass migration totally unrestricted mass migration
00:35:14.780and you're missing one point too okay so i think that uh if you looked so first of all
00:35:20.9002026 is not 2015. In 2015, we had an economy that was growing. The per capita GDP of Canadians was
00:35:29.760largely kept pace with Americans. That delta has spread. We see a stagnant economy federally today
00:35:38.880across the country. And so when you were setting levels in 2015 or earlier was a much different
00:35:45.600exercise in setting levels today, right? So I think a lot of people that compare apples to apples,
00:35:51.260like I don't think anybody could say that like the economy or cost of living today is close to
00:35:57.760where it was in 2015. Life was better in 2015 by those metrics. So when you have an economy that
00:36:04.200is structurally weak, we can buy a decade of liberal policy that is failing to create jobs,
00:36:11.060It's shedding jobs that is failing to create houses, and then you couple even the same immigration levels over that structure, never mind juicing them to the levels that the Liberals have.
00:36:23.460Of course there's going to be problems.
00:36:25.580So, you know, I just would push back on that and say conservatives always strive to match immigration levels with housing, health care, and jobs, the capacity for newcomers to integrate into Canada's social, not just economic fabric.
00:36:39.300We don't see that today because the Liberals have, you know, institutionalized post-nationalism in even our justice system, right? You know, you and I have talked about the bill that I put in place to stop the two-tier justice system that we see judges giving lenient sentences to non-citizens convicted of serious crimes so that they avoid deportation. That wasn't happening in 2015.
00:36:59.320um we can yeah we can cut it right there talk talk about juicing the system scarlet grace
00:37:07.720talk about juicing the system we have another quick post this one number 10 olivia from cbc
00:37:13.640watcher on x uh ottawa has a one-time plan to grant permanent residency to 200 000 temporary
00:37:25.160residents scarlet grace whatever happened to temporary whatever happened to temporary uh
00:37:33.960what do you think this is going to do to to housing and and jobs in the country just saying
00:37:39.400200 000 people yep you can stay you're in you're good to go you're good to stay
00:37:44.120yeah this really breaks my heart because our our systems are already so overwhelmed as it is do
00:37:50.840they want them to entirely collapse at this point and i love immigration when it's done properly0.92
00:37:59.960and not in such a way that is going to collapse our health care our economy um housing for people0.86
00:38:08.040because when you do immigration properly and you have people who come here the right way contribute
00:38:13.960and follow our values um everyone who watches my stuff knows i'm so close with the iranian
00:38:19.800community they're just like in my you know the perfect immigrants they come here and they carry
00:38:25.880our flag more than we do you know so when it's done properly i think that's like a huge part of
00:38:31.560what canada is um but this is it's just insanity at this point um i saw a really heartbreaking
00:38:40.120video last night you know our friend lynn brooks who's always on the ground in toronto doing
00:38:44.680independent journalism uh she posts these really like horrifying clips from the ttc
00:38:50.120and just how it's basically a homeless shelter now um and basically you know drug use etc and
00:38:56.440there was just this really elderly man who looked like he lived there all his belongings around him
00:39:02.600like changing on the bus and oh my god there it is and i just thought the housing the help that
00:39:10.200could go to that man who's probably lived here his whole life versus who it's probably being handed to
00:39:16.840someone from far away oftentimes leeching off the system you know it's it's just heartbreaking
00:39:25.000why we're not taking care of our people and just bringing in i can't even look at it this is um
00:39:34.200well it's deplorable listen this is deplorable and this should not be acceptable to a civilized0.99
00:39:38.600society that our old people would be um that be would be relieved of all of their comforts0.55
00:39:45.880um all of their supports at the at the end of their you know in the end part of their life
00:39:52.520uh scarlet grace i i join you in in your kind of outrage about this in we were in vancouver not
00:39:59.320too terribly long ago excuse me not vancouver victoria uh and we experienced a little old0.96
00:40:04.680lady she was over 70 years old she was uh when we encountered her she was only homeless for two
00:40:10.520weeks she was only homeless for two weeks but British Columbia at the time was bringing in
00:40:14.52010 000 people a month and that pushes the most vulnerable out of their housing and so this is
00:40:20.680why we have entire populations of um of of Canadian senior citizens living on the streets0.73
00:40:26.760um and this again this should not be acceptable to uh to a civilized society nobody should treat0.95
00:40:32.440their old people no no country that treats their old people like that is a good country0.97
00:40:37.160or a good functioning country so that's not enough for the people to demand
00:40:40.920change like i i just don't know what is how can it be worse than that no that's0.75
00:40:47.640well senior citizens living in the backs of buses and out of shopping carts
00:40:52.040in this place a place so richly blessed that we should be like the dubai you know what i mean we
00:40:56.920should be the north american dubai we have so many natural resources richest nations in the world if
00:41:02.280we just did what needed to be done it's it's horrifying and it seems so intentional well it
00:41:09.480it really does and then uh you know when the reality of these people's lives get to be too
00:41:14.760much they offer them made if you're too burdened here's here's your made hey speaking of made
00:41:21.000uh we want to talk about the western standard this is number 14 on the list