00:01:20.420So the same people that are in charge now made this happen.
00:01:27.400The same ministers, if you look at their front bench, it's the same crew, made this happen.
00:01:33.980So the media can't seem to connect the dots.
00:01:37.460And somehow it's going to be different this time?
00:01:39.800Somehow it's going to be way different this time.
00:01:42.280I don't know where or how, but some way it's going to be different.
00:01:46.400And you know what? If they don't figure it out, they're going to ask for more time, more patience and more money until they can figure it out.
00:01:53.460All the super smart people in Ottawa. Yeah. Unreal. I couldn't believe I saw that.
00:01:58.220It was circulating on social media. And of course, the comments got re-healed, right?
00:02:02.120Absolutely. The comments were like, we could probably point a map.
00:02:06.520We could probably draw a map. And still the media would cover and, you know, talk it away for the liberal party.
00:02:12.600It's the unfair world we live in. That's for sure. Unbelievable. Wow.
00:02:15.800Yeah, I can guarantee you, if Canada was poorer than the state of Alabama when Stephen Harper was in charge, or even now with Pierre Polyev in charge, the media would not be talking this way.
00:03:02.160We're going to start with the way the Canadian military is going to look at new ways to recruit soldiers.
00:03:08.180So we have the Immigration Minister making this announcement.
00:03:10.620It's about 60 seconds. Might tug on the attention span because this minister is is a tough one to listen to.
00:03:17.760And finally, we are creating a new category for skilled military recruits to attract highly skilled foreign military applicants.
00:03:30.660Eligible recruits with a job offer from the Canadian Armed Forces, including doctors, nurses, pilots.
00:03:37.080can be invited to apply for permanent residence.
00:03:41.080They will be subject to the same security and all military requirements.
00:03:47.080This new category will support our government's commitment to strengthen our armed forces,
00:03:54.080to defend our sovereignty, and to keep Canadians safe.
00:03:59.080This category and other priority categories supports Canada's defense industrial strategy, which Prime Minister Carney announced yesterday by adding a range of workers critical to support our sovereignty and security.
00:04:17.500There are some countries that do this already, right? Some, not all, but some countries do this already. So we're inviting in more military-aged men to join the ranks of Canada's armed forces because we can't seem to recruit soldiers. I think that should be the line itself. Why can't the Canadian armed forces make their recruitment targets in this current environment?
00:04:42.320Well, we used to be able to do it. We used to have, there were more than enough recruits in Canada that wanted to join the military, all the different forces that we have. And again, after 10 years of Liberals, that's not the case anymore. The military is messed up in such a way that it takes forever for a recruit to actually go through the recruitment process. And so guess what? They're not sticking around. They're going and getting a job somewhere else. And so now we've given up on Canadians. We're going to try to find people from other countries to fill our recruitment positions. I think it's embarrassing, quite frankly.
00:05:10.800I think it's also challenging for those young people that are considering their options in life, right?
00:05:16.300They're laying out their life where they want to go.
00:05:19.340And the liberals have just botched the military procurement process, just botched it.
00:07:35.680There's many, many things in that that are called supplemental health benefits that asylum seekers receive.
00:07:41.460Now, we're not against them receiving medical care when they need it.
00:07:45.060So there should be like a basic level of medical care that people receive.
00:07:48.160But the problem we have or I have with this is the extra supplemental benefits that they're getting, which is better than what Canadians get.
00:09:04.380And I mean, it lies, the blame lies squarely at the feet of the liberal government
00:09:08.440because they are the ones that allowed the asylum system to explode in terms of numbers, first of all.
00:09:14.280And then they are the ones who decided to put these very generous benefits to tag along with that asylum system.
00:09:21.340And so guess what? When you build a system that's very attractive, has really good benefits, people want to take advantage of that system.
00:09:27.440And that's what's happened in Canada. And so we have a large number of people that are claiming asylum that shouldn't be.
00:09:33.000And that's a whole other story. That's what's driving the numbers of asylum seekers in Canada.
00:09:38.400Not legitimate people, but people that are trying to game the system.
00:09:42.220So they see how generous Canada is. They sometimes falsify their application, and it kind of gets them that little, you know, ticket to get some added benefits that Canadians don't get, the Canadians who are paying the taxes.
00:09:59.720Yeah, I mean, it's one thing if somebody shows up on our border and says, I'm persecuted in my home country, I want to claim asylum here.
00:10:06.300That's a story that I think most of us can relate to, and if it's proven to be true, you know, let them claim asylum here.
00:10:11.900But what's really a problem right now is when somebody comes to our country, they're here,
00:10:16.960maybe a student or some other kind of person who's a non-citizen, they're here for a year or two years.
00:10:21.400And all of a sudden something happens, like they get arrested for a crime, which could cause them to be deported.
00:10:25.900All of a sudden, oh, they want to claim asylum two years later.
00:10:28.980You know, that doesn't make any sense.
00:10:31.760And that's, I think, where the government, the liberals have let people game the system through methods like that
00:10:37.060to not only claim asylum and get the benefits of a health care system,
00:10:40.420but actually avoid prosecution of law and the ability to avoid, you know, going to court or being convicted of a crime or going to jail.
00:10:49.020So that's, it's just not, it's not right.
00:10:50.640And we on the opposition have been trying to fix this as well, that if those that are not citizens are committing crimes,
00:10:57.400that perhaps they should be elsewhere because, you know, we have crime happening everywhere.
00:11:05.020Like the crime is going off the charts here.
00:11:07.540So clearly, the revolving door justice system is a problem.
00:11:12.340But at the same time, we can't seem to hold anyone anyway.
00:11:16.680Right. Well, there's actually a couple of problems there.
00:11:18.480One is that because there's a law that says if you're convicted of a crime with greater than six month sentence, you have to be deported.
00:11:26.360What judges are doing is they're saying, well, you know, you should be a normal Canadian would be would be charged with a year in this or given a sentence of a year in this case.
00:11:33.840But because this person is a non-citizen and they could be deported, we're going to back that sentence off to less than six months just to be nice to them.
00:11:41.700And so we've created this two-tier sentencing system in Canada.
00:11:59.980Yeah, I can see that being frustrating for those Canadians that are following the letter of the law, doing everything, paying their taxes, everything possible to live a law-abiding life.
00:12:12.740And then all of a sudden there's two-tiered system.
00:12:17.100I can see how that would irk a few people.
00:12:19.720And it also, you're very right about that.
00:12:21.920It also upsets immigrants who came here through the normal process, right?
00:12:25.960They went through all the right channels.
00:12:27.960They crossed all the T's, dotted all the I's, waited for a long period of time, got their paperwork.
00:12:32.440And then they see someone else who just skirts the whole system by claiming asylum.
00:12:36.300And all of a sudden, they have better benefits than they do.
00:13:20.520Well, imagine being a business owner and receiving this cryptic letter saying,
00:13:24.080you need to pay me a million dollars or someone's going to be in trouble, we're going to shoot you
00:13:27.880up or whatever. And this is, these are, they seem, it seems unbelievable in a country like Canada
00:13:32.600that you would wake up in the morning and find that taped to your business door, but that's
00:13:36.000exactly what's happening. And there are fires, shots being fired, there are people being injured
00:13:41.060and even killed, and people are being arrested. Surrey has a whole investigative unit that's
00:13:46.280focused on extortion investigations, and it's sadly become a really big problem in Canada.
00:13:51.180There was an incident not too long ago in Vaughan, I believe, just north of Toronto, where people broke into a person's house.
00:14:00.960He was there with his child, and he was executed in front of the child.
00:14:04.760There was another video, I believe, Vaughan in Richmond Hill, somewhere, same area, and someone was executed, shot right on the street.
00:14:11.040Yeah, yeah. And I think in Syria, I can't remember the exact number, but it's something like 35 or something like that incidents in the month of January this year alone of extortion charges that were laid by the police. And it's just a very troubling thing. And it's a big problem in Canada.
00:14:27.540So we want to see equality in our justice system. We want to see it toughened up so it's not this revolving door justice system.
00:14:33.660And then those people who get charged, what do they do?
00:18:39.280And when we have price inflation, currency inflation, because of what the government is doing, it's bringing everything up.
00:18:44.620But the wages are going down or not moving up as fast as they should.
00:18:49.260That's very true. And so we've allowed our economy to become dependent on temporary foreign workers, students, people that are in the country that need to work. And so guess what? Employers, there's a lot of unscrupulous employers that have taken advantage of them as well. I mean, there's lots of great employers that are doing really good work, and that's great. But there are unfortunately unscrupulous ones who take advantage of these people who are very vulnerable. They're not in a very strong position. They have to have money. They want to stay in Canada. And so they can be exploited. And that's a problem too.
00:19:18.880But it also has kept those wages down so that ordinary Canadians don't want those jobs because the wages are minimum wage jobs.
00:19:26.960And so I think there's cases where those wages do need to go up a little bit to allow people to be attracted to them.
00:19:49.480We see it in the number of temporary workers and temporary people that are in our country.
00:19:54.220Even the normal regular number of permanent residents that we admit has been a very high number.
00:19:59.260And so these have to get back under control.
00:20:01.700We need to employ our youth who are unemployed.
00:20:05.360We need to get our wages a little bit higher.
00:20:07.040And we need to trust that our Canadians, our youth, and our Canadian seniors, people who don't have jobs, trust that they actually can do the jobs that need to be done.
00:20:15.380and we need to rebuild our system and get it back to where it was 10 years ago
00:20:19.080when we had a great system that all Canadians were proud of.
00:20:21.980Brad Redekop, Member of Parliament for Saskatoon.