Garnet Genuis, Conservative Party MP, talks about the new jobs report, immigration, and Iran, and the bizarre statement by the Prime Minister that it's not his job to tell you that Canadians were attacked by an Iranian drone.
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00:04:28.140If you ask the Ayatollahs to concentrate
00:04:31.260or distill their ideology, it's anti-Americanism
00:04:34.440and anti-Israelism because they want to snuff out any voices of democracy and liberalism that they
00:04:40.280think are contrary to the law of Sharia, Allah's law. They want to end the rule of man and bring
00:04:46.700in a theocracy around the world. And obviously America is the great bulwark against them.
00:04:52.300So they have military proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas, and they engage in terrorism. And of course
00:04:59.660they want a nuclear weapon, but unlike, say, Russia or China, they're not governed by secular
00:05:05.360rationale like mutually assured destruction. The reason we didn't have war, thermonuclear war with
00:05:11.740the Soviets during the Cold War, is precisely because they were rational enough to know that
00:05:16.140if they were to shoot missiles at America, America would shoot back and both sides would be
00:05:20.200obliterated. That is not a concern for the kind of people who believe in suicide bombing and people
00:05:25.920who believe in their cataclysm to bring about their religious outcome that they desire.
00:05:32.040So Iran is a very different kind of foe than a rational opponent, even, say, Kim Jong-un in North
00:05:39.000Korea. And I tell you that because Iran is very much on everyone's mind, given the Israeli-U.S.
00:05:44.900war against Iran, to degrade its ballistic missiles, its nukes, its navy, things like that.
00:05:49.560But there have been a series of asymmetrical responses by Iran, not just in the region, lobbing drones at civilian targets in Bahrain and Oman and Qatar and UAE.
00:06:01.920Like they're literally sending drones into hotels in these countries.
00:06:07.680Israel would accidentally hit a civilian site in Gaza and it would be a week worth of news in the West.
00:06:14.120Iran deliberately sends drones at civilian targets and the UN shrugs and the pundits in the West say, well, Iran is right.
00:06:22.660When are we stopping this war? But I think here in Canada and just very recently in the United States, we've seen that this asymmetrical strategy is not limited just to the Middle East.
00:06:34.500In the past few days, you've seen attacks on Jewish synagogues in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam in particular.
00:06:42.840and there was a number of others. There's too many for me to list. I think one of them was in Norway
00:06:47.900of all places. We saw an attack on a Jewish school in Michigan. I think there were several attacks
00:06:53.740and of course in our own country. Three different synagogues attacked by gunfire in five days and
00:06:59.540then the attack on the U.S. consulate. I think there's reason to assume that those are part of
00:07:04.400the asymmetrical warfare, the terrorism that Iran favors and we know that there's 700 Iranian agents
00:07:10.540in canada working unmolested we have their names the government obviously knows who they are
00:07:16.000they simply won't deport them which i find bizarre so that's what my answer would be if you said
00:07:20.840why don't you talk for a minute about iran i split it between the people who i think are quite liberal
00:07:25.620and western and they love america actually when they have massive iranian protests in toronto
00:07:31.180and vancouver they're not just flying the lion and the sun flag they're flying the canadian flag
00:07:36.440and the u.s flag there and the israeli flag um whereas the regime is the handmaid's tale come
00:07:42.280to life but that's just me i want to show you how mark carney thinks about iran and about islamism
00:07:50.480in general let me play you a clip from yesterday you'll probably recognize this because it's been
00:07:54.800making the rounds on social media here's mark carney talking about a very strange thing that
00:08:00.140happened almost exactly two weeks ago that he has kept secret until now take a listen
00:08:05.800if you can confirm in english if the if there was this if this attack happened and why did you
00:08:12.480you didn't end for in canadian before well uh i mean i'm not the only spokesperson for
00:08:19.220the government uh but i'll just confirm that canadian forces are the members of the canadian
00:08:24.980forces are all safe and sound. I reinforce, as I said in French, what you know, which is that we
00:08:36.460are not engaged in these actions of the U.S. and Israel. We're not engaged in offensive actions,
00:08:43.740and we will not be engaged in those actions. There's a lot in there. First of all, he sure
00:08:49.160says um a lot uh he reminds me of justin trudeau when he didn't have a teleprompter um i think it's
00:08:55.580absolutely outrageous the canadians were attacked by iran camp canada i didn't know he had that
00:09:01.280was attacked by iran and he kept it secret there was a deliberate targeting of canada by iran
00:09:10.600and thankfully no canadians were hurt but he kept that a secret and when he's asked about it
00:09:19.140He says he's not going to engage in offensive actions like what Israel and the United States are doing.
00:10:31.180But if you think that's outrageous, look at this insanity from Gregor Robertson,
00:10:35.800the mayor of Vancouver, who's presided over the worst housing price increase in Canadian history.
00:10:40.740It's even worse than Toronto, actually.
00:10:43.100It's been going on for 10 years, and it's primarily driven by mass immigration.
00:10:47.160I mean, it's supply and demand. If you dump in one million migrants a year, even if they're staying six to an apartment or 10 to a house, you're going to have a shortage and supply and demand tells you the price is going to go up.
00:10:59.800But look at Gregor Robertson. This is how he uses Iran. This is what he thinks the main story is with Iran. Take a look.
00:11:07.620Well, it's no surprise that Canadians are challenged with buying homes right now when there's a war in the Middle East.
00:17:22.200how many terrorists are fleeing iran now thinking that the u.s is going to finish flattening the
00:17:29.620country want to get out there and know that if you are a supporter of the ayatollahs you are
00:17:35.120welcome in canada take a look at this video filmed at pearson airport yeah i think we're in
00:17:40.580an extremely unserious we have extremely unserious leaders in an extremely serious time i'm very
00:17:48.200worried about it. Hey, stay with us. An interview with Garnett Genuys, the conservative MP, is next.
00:18:02.100I think Canada has been in a de facto recession for years. Recession is typically defined as two
00:18:08.500economic quarters, two three-month periods, in a row of net economic decline. But Canada has
00:18:15.860been engaging in a kind of trick to hide that by massive in-migration. My point is if you bring in
00:18:25.400a half a million or a million people a year, just their activity, rent and food and getting a cell
00:18:32.180phone and just the basics of everyday life, that will juice the gross GDP number so that the total
00:18:40.000GDP of the country is not declining. That will hide a recession on a per capita basis. In other
00:18:46.720words, we're each getting poorer, but the fact that there's a million more of us every year
00:18:51.580hides that fact. Well, today's a statistic coming from Statistics Canada that is sort of impossible
00:18:58.740to hide. It's not just a loss on a proportionate basis. Canada as a whole, in terms of absolute
00:19:06.280numbers, had a loss of 84,000 jobs. Unemployment has ticked up to 6.7%. Double that, more than
00:19:17.280double that for youth. Joining us now to talk about this is Garnett Genuas, the Member of
00:19:22.480Parliament for the Conservative Party from Sherwood Park, Fort Saskatchewan, and the Shadow
00:19:26.380Minister for Employment. Garnett, great to see you again. Thanks for having me on, Ezra. Good to see
00:19:31.120Thank you. We meet to talk about bad news. I mean, to have an 84,000 job loss in February, that's troubling. And it really is across every sector, isn't it? Mainly the private sector, hitting young men in particular. What do you have to say about that?
00:19:50.600Yeah, so the jobs that I think are most important to highlight here, the numbers within that are over 100,000, 108,000 in particular, full time jobs lost. So the number you quoted is slightly lower, that's total number of jobs lost. But if you kind of sync out the full time and part time, over 100,000 full time jobs lost, and then approaching 50,000 youth jobs lost.
00:20:18.540That's between 15 and 24. So that's a lot of job losses, in particular for young people. Those first jobs are critical. They're not just about income. They're about getting your start on the ladder of learning and experience, and youth who miss those initial milestones have a lot of problems.
00:20:39.080So we're highlighting the overall challenges for the economy, job losses overall, and in particular, the pronounced problem of very high youth unemployment.
00:20:49.460The youth unemployment rate is over 14 percent for this country, which is out of.
00:20:53.360You know, it drives me crazy that we're bringing in temporary foreign workers, not for the traditional reason.
00:20:59.380I remember when temporary foreign workers was an idea 15 years ago, 10, 15 years ago, and it was exactly what it sounded like.
00:21:06.580For example, I knew a man in south of Calgary who had a Saskatoon berry farm, and there was a short period of time where they needed to pick a gazillion Saskatoon berries.
00:21:17.760And so he would bring in the same crew from Mexico every year for like a two month period.
00:21:22.940They would do that work that he couldn't get help with for that one specific project.
00:21:27.080And then they go back home. And I thought, well, OK, I mean, I guess it might be hard to get people to pick Saskatoon berries for a month.
00:21:33.400that i can understand even if someone might say you know there are locals who would do it but
00:21:38.860having temporary foreign workers who do entry-level jobs in a tim hortons drive-through
00:21:44.500or a 7-eleven that i can't understand because those jobs are supposed to be the the first rung
00:21:51.940on the ladder type jobs so we're seeing the unemployment amongst those entry-level youth
00:21:56.680jobs and we're still bringing in countless temporary foreign workers what do you have to
00:22:01.160say about that so we did a study at the human resources committee on youth unemployment in
00:22:06.320the fall and had a lot of really good analysis of the situation in terms of youth jobs and
00:22:11.440we brought in witnesses to speak about these dynamics around immigration i think they're
00:22:15.440really important immigration policy has to be finely tuned to meet the needs of the country
00:22:21.760in terms of overall numbers but also identification of and recognition of skills and my view is that
00:22:28.660under the Liberals, it's been way out of whack and confirmed by the economists we heard from
00:22:33.020at this committee that the way in which the immigration system has been structured under
00:22:38.420the Liberals has really exacerbated competition for those entry-level positions. So as you know,
00:22:46.300Conservatives have proposed getting rid of the temporary foreign worker program, but I think
00:22:50.440there are a number of other issues in terms of how the program has been structured. I mean,
00:22:56.360credential recognition is an important part of it too. If you have people coming who aren't having
00:23:01.420their credentials recognized, then they're more likely to be competing for entry-level positions.
00:23:07.560We should be assisting youth here in Canada accessing those entry-level positions,
00:23:16.380and we should be looking at how specific skill gaps as an interim measure can be filled in
00:23:23.320other ways. But yeah, even for higher skilled positions, the goal should be to provide training
00:23:28.160to Canadians to be able to fill those jobs where they exist. You know, I have a friend who's a
00:23:32.920Tim Hortons franchisee, and he always debates me and challenges my points. One of the things he
00:23:39.340said that I accept is that a lot of the people working in those entry-level jobs are not temporary
00:23:45.200foreign workers. They're foreign students, they're international students. And often they get into
00:23:50.720Canada with some sketchy career college that's actually just an immigration laundromat where
00:23:56.980they where the tuition is really a payment to get them into the country as students and then they
00:24:04.000work. What's your opinion about the ability of one million international students? I think that's
00:24:11.440the number. There's about a million international students. So they're not even here as foreign
00:24:17.460workers they're here to learn but my my friend who's the tim hortons franchisee and others
00:24:24.500the cfib admit they're the bulk of these workers that we see in in fast food drive-thrus do you
00:24:34.020think that international students should have the right to just go get a job when they're here as
00:24:40.540students? Well, I think that there's issues of policy and also issues of enforcement around some
00:24:48.200of that. There are supposed to be limitations, but I think there has been a lot of abuse as well.
00:24:54.760There have been a lot of instances of students who are taken advantage of. I recall a case that
00:25:01.780I did some advocacy around where basically students were given fake college acceptance
00:25:07.740letters and um and and the immigration department didn't even check with the institution like it
00:25:16.040would have been the most simple scam to um to verify or to to disprove all you would have had
00:25:21.880to do is is check with the institution they're supposed to be studying at um and uh and the
00:25:27.780immigration department didn't even didn't even do that so i think there are look there are a lot of
00:25:32.380problems in our immigration system. And obviously, I think you've spoken recently to our shadow
00:25:38.840minister who's leading on the particulars of that. But are there effects on the job market? Yes,
00:25:44.420I think there are. And I think there are a lot of different failures when it comes to immigration,
00:25:51.260the abuses in the international student program. We have very high level of asylum claimants,
00:25:58.400and it takes far far too long for those claims to be assessed and adjudicated and we also have
00:26:07.080people who come here with specific skills that they could be putting to work at a kind of higher
00:26:11.580level and maybe catalyzing job growth for the economy and yet they're not recognized in those
00:26:17.320skills so they're competing for entry-level positions our youth jobs plan that we put out
00:26:21.800in the fall, highlighted four areas, unleashing the economy, fixing immigration, fixing job
00:26:28.600training, and then also building homes where the jobs are. So immigration isn't the whole
00:26:33.580picture, but it's certainly part of the picture. You know, I keep looking at that demographic of
00:26:39.620young men. And those are people who want to move out of their parents' house, get their own house.
00:26:44.960They want to get that first job and then get that second job. They want to work hard. They're ready
00:26:48.420to work hard and they're having the toughest COVID even according to these latest numbers
00:26:54.080and I see that in the polls they are the least likely demographic to vote for or to support
00:27:01.140Mark Carney's liberals and then add in if you want a geography to it like a single young man
00:27:08.340in Saskatchewan I don't know there's like maybe a 10% chance he's going to vote liberal and it's
00:27:13.580not necessarily a cultural thing it's that every single thing mark carney supports hurts that guy
00:27:21.120with his chances immigration exacerbates it all that from the house you know housing prices going
00:27:27.240up to wages going down to all these things and my theory is the reason why mark carney does so well
00:27:35.040amongst boomers is that they don't actually experience any of the pain that a young man
00:27:42.900looking for work does their house is paid off in fact it's their nest egg now they're going to make
00:27:47.240millions in capital gains their pension is fine or good enough they're probably in a safe
00:27:53.560neighborhood they don't have to worry about crime although crime will find them like i just think
00:27:57.760that a boomer who watches mark carney look very prime ministerial looks like a banker he's flitting
00:28:04.240around the world announcing you know ethereal job promises the boomers love him because he sounds
00:28:10.980good, but young men have literally had no help at all. And I think they realize that Mark Carney
00:28:16.760is a fibber, or he's just a man with an empty suit. I think one other way of maybe saying
00:28:25.020something similar to what you just said, Ezra, is that voters are going to think about what they're
00:28:31.080seeing on their television, and they're going to think about what they're seeing in the refrigerator.
00:28:36.120You know, these two appliances in everyone's home, right? The television and the refrigerator.
00:28:39.780And on the television, you might be hearing these messages about Mark Carney and the image that he's trying to create for himself and so forth.
00:28:49.860But then if you look at the refrigerator, how you're doing economically, how much food and other basic essentials are costing you, that's going to tell a different story.
00:29:00.340So I think if people are thinking about the concrete impact on their life, how they're actually doing, and how liberal policies are impacting them, that will point them to see the significant problems.
00:29:13.680Now, are there different demographics in terms of, well, one, how younger people are consuming news or not, and also maybe different people's economic positions and how those play out?
00:29:25.620But, I mean, I do want to say I think there are a lot of older folks that are struggling right now as well, and it depends a lot on other aspects of their circumstances.
00:29:34.760What the job numbers show is that there is a dropping presence in the labor market for young people as well as for people in core age, that middle age group.
00:29:45.640I think a lot of older people are actually working longer because of the cost of living crisis, that as they see food and other expenses go up.
00:29:55.340They feel the need to work more, work longer than they had expected to.
00:29:59.620So there's challenges across the board.
00:30:01.520And I think what's important for us to do is point people to what are the practical realities?
00:30:09.700What are the real impacts of government policy on your life?
00:30:12.660And who is putting forward a real plan that's going to make your life better?
00:30:16.760Yeah, I mean, of course, not all boomers are liberals.
00:30:18.780I've just, if you look at the age breakdown, the older in Canada, the more liberal.
00:30:23.840And by the way, it never used to be that way.
00:30:26.120I remember 30 years ago when the Reform Party had real trouble getting young people.
00:30:31.440Now the conservative parties have the youth.
00:30:33.740It's the liberal parties that do well with the seniors.
00:34:00.560Just to make one other point, though, look, I think in the last few weeks
00:34:06.000we've seen that this Mark Carney super genius narrative is on the way out
00:34:12.320and we're seeing the chaos and the inconsistency that really is evident in his premiership.
00:34:20.900I mean, most evident on the Iran file, I think, a different position for every day of the week, and then Mark Carney hiding from a debate that his party had asked for.
00:34:31.120I think as the realities fall so far behind the promises, we're going to start seeing the decline of this Mark Carney super genius narrative to be replaced with a sobering assessment of the realities.
00:34:48.100You know, Edmonton, they had Matt Jenner who crossed the floor and there's an MP there's a lot of questions about anyways. But I got to say that, I mean, I'm very sympathetic to Alberta independence. And I got to imagine that if an Albertan thinks, well, look, we elected a conservative MP fair and square just a year ago. And that's the rules of the game. You win an election, you win the seat.
00:35:12.540but through some sneaky process we know nothing about even when we win we lose the system is
00:35:20.260rigged always has been always will be this so-called mou to get pipelines built hasn't got
00:35:26.680any pipelines built and we see the rest of the world oil coming on stream from venezuela and
00:35:31.720who knows maybe even iran and and i feel like mark carney's bad behavior on everything from
00:35:40.280immigration to foreign policy to this undemocratic majority he's seeking would make an Alberta
00:35:48.700independence movement so you see what they're offering by alternative isn't even the status quo
00:35:56.380it's it's getting worse and even when we play by the rules and win we still lose and i know that
00:36:04.040you are part of a federalist party the conservative party of canada and your leader has made that
00:36:08.560clear it. And I'm sure you're sitting in the Canadian parliament as a federalist.
00:36:12.180But what would you say to Alberta independent supporters who would say, look,
00:36:16.940everything we've been talking about here for the last 15 minutes
00:36:19.700points to the fact that Canada is not serving the interests of Alberta or Saskatchewan for that
00:36:26.580matter. And how could Alberta be worse on its own? What would you say to a good faith Alberta
00:36:33.540conservative who is fed up with this, who wanted Pierre Paliyev to win, and surprise,
00:36:41.080another liberal term. What would you say to such a person? Maybe even me.
00:36:45.880Yeah. So I guess a few thoughts on that. First of all, I would characterize my position as that of
00:36:50.680a Canadian nationalist. I love this country, and I want to restore this country. I think in the last
00:36:57.820few years we've seen how liberals and their fellow travelers on the left have attacked this country
00:37:05.560attacked its history uh tried to undermine its its sense of pride in itself um i think there
00:37:12.560are certainly things about how federalism has worked under the liberals that are not fair or
00:37:18.960not just and are not right and i want to restore my country the country i love a country that um
00:37:27.400that embodies so much virtue and goodness uh and i think alberta can it should be a part of that
00:37:33.720look i believe in uh respectful polite civil conversation with uh with people who disagree
00:37:39.880on on the side of separatism um but i'm very much a canadian nationalist because i don't want to
00:37:45.560allow um the far left or people on the separatist side to take away the country that i love i think
00:37:50.760think there are things we we can do to restore it um and uh and that's the work that we we try
00:37:57.340to do every day it's not easy but uh but we had 10 years of very good government under stephen
00:38:02.600harper um previous previous governments uh of of all stripes were were generally speaking not
00:38:09.920nearly as bad or as radical as the last 10 years of liberals have been uh and it's that historic
00:38:15.520greatness of this country that i want to restore well thanks for asking that question and it's a
00:38:20.020whole other conversation that we don't have time for today, but I appreciate your answer. Thanks
00:38:24.560for coming on the show and talking about the economy. I know you are the shadow minister for
00:38:28.660employment. So that was a great to have you on the show. Appreciate your time. Thank you for
00:38:33.000having me. Our pleasure. There you have it, Garnet Genuous. Stay with us. Your letters to me next.
00:38:38.200oh hi welcome back here's a couple of letters from you my viewers on musqueam and the concept
00:38:53.940of aboriginal title trudy edgecombe says could this be the way the world economic forum agenda
00:38:58.6402030 accomplishes their goal you will own nothing and be happy give the natives all the land rights
00:39:04.320from the majority, and then it's much easier to take it from the minority. You know, land is the
00:39:08.580essential asset, isn't it? Real estate. As they say, they're not making any more of it. And so
00:39:14.840many things, if you look at them through that prism, make a lot more sense. I remember back to
00:39:20.260when the Amish in Ontario had a lien put on their farms by the government of Ontario because they
00:39:26.800didn't pay their COVID fines. Well, imagine seizing their farm, seizing their property over
00:39:33.660a covid dispute so yeah it's a fair question to ask to destabilize the west by casting doubt
00:39:40.180on your property rights uh you know i don't know if it's connected to the world economic forum but
00:39:44.680it would certainly suit their agenda tracy ralph says this is a u.n mandate the u.n is evil the
00:39:51.600indigenous are making deals with china to sell the land to them i'm tired of these grifters
00:39:55.160yeah you know what i believe in honoring the treaties and if you watch my show regularly you
00:40:00.700would have seen me go through treaty six and it's a document of surrender but there were certain
00:40:05.080things that the crown promised to give indians in return farm equipment seeds school medicine
00:40:12.460things like that and i think we should honor those treaties like any contract but they in no way
00:40:17.460contemplated this massive land grab on a racial basis just no way at all and i think that aboriginal
00:40:26.660people risk starting a new era of resentment by doing by by overreaching it's sort of like
00:40:35.120when gay marriage became adopted okay do the victory lap but no instead going on to transgenderism
00:40:42.500adding the t to lgbt you're going too far you're going to lose the support of ordinary people
00:40:49.000i think there was a lot of tolerance for gay people but if you add that t to it and say men
00:40:54.960and women's change, you've lost people.