Are you prepared for Canadaās DYSTOPIAN futureļ¼ Shocking report predicts ANOTHER decade of decline
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Canadians are poorer than they were a decade ago before Justin Trudeau was elected Prime Minister. Why is this happening? Is it because of liberal economic policies? Or is it because our housing crisis is so bad that we can no longer afford to buy a house?
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Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you so much for tuning
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in, everybody. We have a great episode for you. Now, I just want to start by saying that
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Canada is in deep trouble, OK? So according to a recent abacus poll, some 52 percent of
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Canadians think that Prime Minister Mark Carney is off to a good start. They're optimistic
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about the future. They think that they can trust him and that he's going to turn things
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around. And let me tell you, folks, we need things to turn around because when you look
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at the data, when you look at the numbers, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It's scary.
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The numbers are scary. And I am worried about the future of this country. So the media and
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the liberals have successfully memory hold Justin Trudeau. You never hear that guy's name
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anymore. You never hear anything about him. And the liberals and the media have basically
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convinced Canadians, or at least 52 percent of them, that the new liberals are very different
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than the old liberals, that the two have nothing to do with each other and nothing in common.
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But the economic reality, the cultural reality remains that Canada experienced a lost decade
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under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. I can explain that in just one fact. So our GDP per capita,
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which is basically the average income averaged out among Canadians, in 2013, the GDP per capita
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was 52,500. And in 2023, the GDP per capita was 53,000. So we're talking about the bare number,
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minimum growth. And then, of course, when you add inflation into that, and we'll talk about that
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in a minute, inflation is barreling out of control. You can see that our country is in decline,
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that Canadians are poorer now than they were a decade ago before Canada elected Prime Minister
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Justin Trudeau for the first time. And so what did the liberals do to try to fix their failing
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economic record? Well, they opened up the floodgates and they let in as many people as possible,
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as many people who are willing to come to Canada or welcomed with open arms. And they let in millions
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of newcomers each and every year. Now, more people does mean more economic activity. So yes, on the
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surface, it means that you can say that the economy is growing because you have more people,
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more bodies doing more work. Forget about culture, forget about community and integration,
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unity, peace, any of those kind of things. All the liberals cared about was more bodies,
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more jobs, so that they could say that the economy was growing. And that's why the GDP per capita number
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is the more important one. But the reality is that even with the increased immigration,
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the economics still didn't work. So more people meant more dollars, but we were also experiencing
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rapid inflation because of runaway government spending, runaway government debt, the printing
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of money. And of course, we still had the limited housing supply. So more people, fewer homes just
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meant that people couldn't afford to live. People couldn't afford to buy the homes that they wanted.
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And we've experienced that not just in big cities, not just in Vancouver and Toronto, but literally
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all over the country. I want to point your attention to this piece in the Globe and Mail written
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on Monday, Canada, prepare for a decade of thrift and lower living standards. Another decade, right?
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We've already experienced the lost decade under Justin Trudeau. And now the Globe and Mail is warning
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us that we are going to have another decade of thrift and lower living standards. Yes, thanks again
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to these liberal economic policies. I'm going to read you a little bit from this Globe and Mail article
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because it is really shocking. It's depressing, folks. It's depressing what has happened to our country.
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So this is written by John Turley-Uart, who is special to the Globe and Mail. He is an economic
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contributing columnist and a historian on Canadian banking. And this is what he writes.
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We are poorer than we think. Canadians running their retirement numbers are shining light in the dark
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corners of household finances in this country. The sums leave many anxious, fearful and sad about
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their finances. 52% of us worry about our personal finances. 50% feel frustrated. 47% feel emotionally
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drained. 43% feel depressed. Yes, that is what liberal economic policies do to Canadians. And so I want to
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kind of zero in on some more of the numbers here. It says, our debt to household disposable income has
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bumped up nearly 200% for years now. Putting Canada in first place among G7 countries, Canada's is
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185%. The average for all the GDP G7 countries is 125% according to Statistics Canada. So Canadian
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households collectively owe $3 trillion, almost three quarters of it in mortgage debt. So people are
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living beyond their means. That is obvious. He writes that today's Canadian dream is simply to make
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the next mortgage payment without having to borrow it. The housing crisis hasn't just hobbled the hopes
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of many Canadians seeking affordable housing. It is undercutting middle-class living standards.
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So earlier this year at a conference with Canadian bank CEOs, Peter Rutledge, who leads Canada's bank
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regulator, alluded to the bleak financial reality many Canadians are facing. He said that in 2025
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and 2026, it will be challenging years. So as of September 2024, 65% or 3.8 million mortgages are set
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to renew by the end of 26. So this is people who had a five-year mortgage cycle. They got locked in
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with low interest payments in the years after COVID and their mortgages are going to come up for renewal,
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of course, because the government has been spending so much money, printing so much money. They've had to
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increase interest rates in order to just stop the inflation or at least try to curb the inflation.
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And so people are going to have to re-sign those mortgages with higher interest rates, which means
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higher monthly payments. So people are going to get squeezed. People are going to get squeezed. It's
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going to get a lot worse. He writes, he continues with higher mortgage payments layered atop elevating
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living costs that Canadians have endured over the past five years, materially increasing the price of
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basic goods, basic goods, such as food. There is less money to put aside for retirement using the
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Bank of Canada's inflation calculator. What cost $100 in 2020 now costs $120. So 20% inflation is just
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five years. Just think about that. If you had $100 in 2020, now just five years later, what would cost
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$100 would now cost $120. So yes, we're going to have a decreased standard of living because our
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money goes less far because we've spent so much and borrowed so much. And then for anyone who has
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a mortgage, people who are lucky enough to already be in the housing market, keep in mind that pretty
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much anyone under 35 has basically been blocked out of the housing market. People who are a bit older,
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people who are more financially ready to buy a house, the cost of borrowing, cost of servicing
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that debt continues to go up. So it just means less money to go around. This piece really does
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paint a scary picture for a country. It paints a picture of another 10 years where Canadians will
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just not be able to get ahead. Well, things will slowly get worse and worse. You know, folks,
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it reminds me of this report that came out during the federal election. This came out on April 7th.
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Blacklock's reporter had this headline, Fed report predicts collapse. Okay. The story was the Privy
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Council in a report quietly released predicts Canada in 15 years may be so dysfunctional that
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wage earners flee the country and the poor resort to illegal hunting for food. It's plausible,
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said the report titled Future Lives, Social Mobility in Question. Just to read a bit more from
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Blacklock's social mobility predicted city dwellers who remain and are affluent enough to own property
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will crowd into gated communities for protection against social, economic, and political conflict.
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In the wider community, the poor would resort to illegal hunting to feed themselves. Now, remember,
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there's a bit of a controversy around this report because Blacklocks reported it and then many other
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outlets, the Toronto Sun, the Western Standard, and others reported as well to the point where the
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conservatives started talking about it because it was so shocking, the details of this report.
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And then the liberals and the media went into overdrive to spin and they claimed that this wasn't a
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government report. This was just like a third party think tank that put out like a thought piece
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and it really had nothing to do with the government. Folks, just look at the report itself. Okay.
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Let's go to the primary source here, right? Future Lives, Social Mobility in Question. Look at the logo on
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the top of the page. Government of Canada. Government of Canada. Published by the government of Canada.
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These are bureaucrats and they are predicting this reality that will happen in 15 years. The Globe and
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Mail likewise is explaining how that will happen. Well, sadly, I mean, this is what we were reporting
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here at Juno News. This is why you have to support independent media. That bleak dystopian future is
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already here. You know, that report said that the poor would result, it would resort to illegal hunting
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to feed themselves. Well, here you go. In September 24, a viral Bowmanville Creek net fishing video
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prompts conservation investigation. The Ministry of Natural Resources is investigating after a group of
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men were discovered fishing with nets and bagging salmon found in Bowmanville Creek, a salmon spawning
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area and popular spot for sport fishing in the township. Tip Talk user, Justin Newell posted a
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video, which now has over 2 million views, exposing a group of mostly men fishing with nets in the creek.
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After Newman confronts them, the men were seen throwing large fish into bags. So yes, that idea that you have
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migrants who have different cultural backgrounds that want food, they can't afford it. They just go out and,
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you know, hunt and poach animals, regardless of, you know, whether it's a public park or whether,
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you know, there's restrictions around when you can fish, when you can hunt, etc. It's happening.
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It's happening. And it's not just that, right? We have other symbols that are happening in Canada.
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Soviet bread lines. Like, this just never fails to just amaze me when you see this kind of activity
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in Canada. Soviet bread lines, not for bread, right? In the Soviet Union, they rationed food,
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so people had to line up to get their daily bread. In Canada, it's food banks. It's people who donate
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money, donate food to help the needy. And look at these lines, look at the cues of people lining up
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in our country just to be able to get a free meal. So again, True North reporting this. Toronto Food
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Bank see unprecedented demand surpassing the city's population. According to the Daily Bread Food Bank
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and North York Harvest Food Bank's annual Who's Hunger Report, there were 3.5 million client visits
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in just Toronto alone between April 1st, 23 and March 31st, 24. The city's population is just over
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3 million people. And we have 3.5 million visits, marks nearly a 1 million person increase from the
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previous year and a 273% increase since before the pandemic five years earlier. And, you know, the food
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line, the cues for food banks isn't the only Soviet bread lines that we see in our country. Look at what
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happens when a company advertises just a basic level job, right? Service level jobs, entry level jobs. We've seen
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these pictures as well. They've gone viral. Cues of people lining up. This one's for an LCBO, the Liquor
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Control Board of Ontario. Look at the way these people are behaving and just look at the numbers. Look
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at the numbers of people who are lining up for food. You go onto Reddit and you can just find hundreds of
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these kinds of images. People lining up, hundreds of thousands to work at a restaurant, to work at a
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Tim Hortons, to work in a warehouse. Basic entry level jobs. This is what happens when you let millions of
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people into the country and they are competing against young Canadians, teenagers, right? When I
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was growing up, people started working when they were 15, 16 years old, you know, whether it would
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be working at a restaurant or like mowing lawns or anything, people were working. Compare that to now,
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teenagers just don't work the same rate that they used to. And it's not necessarily their fault.
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They're competing against people who have much more experience, much more education coming from
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foreign countries who are much more desperate and they're willing to work longer hours, lower wages,
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worse conditions. It's really driving them down. Final Soviet era cues and bread lines that I want to
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show you. This, remember this story, we covered it on the show back in January, but this is what it
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looks like when people have the opportunity to get a family doctor. One of the other crises facing our
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country is that you can't see a family doctor. If there's an emergency, heaven forbid, you have to go to
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the ER, expect to wait, I don't know, 10, 12 hours to have help. Here we had this, this is in
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Walkerton, Ontario, and a local doctor opened up and said that they were taking new patients and look
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at the queue of people desperate, standing in the snow, standing in frigid, cold Ontario winter weather
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just for the chance to get a family doctor. There are only 500 spots. And look at this headline
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in the CBC, we're seeing a Hunger Games across Ontario, hundreds in this town line up for the
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chance to have a family doctor. Not too long ago, that was considered kind of like a basic right of,
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like everybody got one. Everybody had access to a family doctor. Canadians who go around bragging about
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our government healthcare, our universal healthcare, thinking that it's some kind of prize. I mean, the
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reality of it is that there's just not enough to go around. It's what happens when you ration things,
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right? It's just like the Soviet era, bread lines, people waiting in line just to have a family
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doctor. Really in a country like Canada, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, we should
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have a family doctor. You shouldn't have to wait in negative 20 degree weather and just hope for the
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chance that you get a spot. It is unbelievable. And again, just to point this out, overall unemployment
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rate for youth. So I mentioned when I was a teenager, I worked at a fish and chips stand. I was,
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you know, selling fish and chips out of a little stand when I was 17. And that was great. It was
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my first job. It gave me experience to get more. Well, today, the youth unemployment for age 15 to
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24 rose to 13.5% in June. And that's only of people who are actively looking for a job. So if
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you're in university and you're not looking for a job, you don't get counted in that. Basically,
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it's going up. It's up 2% from last year. And on top of that, right, we have these problems,
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all of these problems that I'm outlining. And lo and behold, this story comes out in the Toronto
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Star a few days ago. Canada sets a record for the number of refugee claims. These numbers were
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shocking to me. Like I used to work in the Ministry of Immigration. I was press secretary to the Minister
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of Immigration back in the Harper government. And just how much the numbers have changed. I'm going
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to lay it out for you. So last year, Canada received a record 174,000 new refugee claims
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of the 3.1 million global refugees in the world. 174,000 of them are coming to Canada. Canada's
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second largest resettlement country globally, welcoming 49,000 refugees. So 49,000 through
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official refugee channels coming from United Nation camps and being sponsored sometimes through families,
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sometimes through churches, and sometimes through the government. 49,000 is a huge number,
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folks. That is leaps and bounds higher than we used to. It is incredibly generous for Canada to
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welcome that many people because the data shows us that refugees don't tend to have the same kind of
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economic advancements and achievements as other immigrants, right? When you welcome in a refugee,
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you kind of assume that they will forever be a refugee. They'll forever at least be
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receiving more in benefits than they pay in taxes. I'll put it that way. But then on top of that 50,000
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that we let in through the United Nations, according to the government department, IRCC,
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Canada also had 171,000 refugee claims. So people who come to Canada throw up their hands and say,
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I'm a refugee, I can't go home. And so Canada has to accept them and process them. And they go through
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a whole system where a judge determines whether or not they're a true refugee. They find ways to game
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the system. They find ways to stay longer and longer. The vast majority of those people never
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leave. They just continue to drag on their welcome. And they basically just take advantage of our system.
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I just want to compare this, folks, to what it looked like under the Harper government and what
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it used to look like, what a sane immigration program would look like, right? So here is the
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numbers between 2011 and 2016. I worked in the government in 2011 and 2012. And so you can see we
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undertook serious changes to stop the abuse of people coming to Canada and claiming that they are
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refugees. And so just the bottom line here, in 2011, we had 25,000 claims. In 2012, it was 20,000.
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And then because of the reforms that happened while I was there, we had got the number down to 10,000.
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So we had 10,000. In 2013, there were 10,000 refugee claims. Compare that to 171,000 in 2024.
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That's 17 times. That's 17 times more people coming to Canada. Why? Because the Trudeau government
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basically got rid of all of the requirements that would stop this kind of behavior, right?
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We used to have visas from countries that were bad offenders when it came to people coming
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and claiming refugee status, like countries like Mexico. And the Trudeau government eliminated the
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visa for people from Mexico. So anyone can come. There were all kinds of things, like just making
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sure that, for instance, a person has a return flight, making sure that they have some money in the
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bank account, basic checks and balances to protect our country, protect our system. Trudeau government
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did away with them. And lo and behold, a 17 times increase in the number of people claiming
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asylum. And you know that these people get basically gold-plated welfare. They basically
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get better welfare services above and beyond what Canadians get. They get money in the mail,
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mail checks every month. They get better health care. They get access to dental care. They get all
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kinds of perks that you and I don't. So I was glad, actually. This is a bit of a tangent,
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but I want to point this out. Earlier this week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced that she
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was going to basically be surveying the people of Alberta, asking them a series of questions. It's
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called the Alberta Next Panel. And one of the questions was on immigration and on refugees.
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And the question was, should the province withhold social services for immigrants? So if Alberta isn't
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satisfied with the number or kind of newcomers moving to our province, we may have the option to
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withhold provincial social programs to any non-citizen or non-permanent resident who does
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not have an Alberta-approved immigration status. That's a step in the right direction, right? We have
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to have safeguards. We have to have checks and balances. We have to stop people who are just
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trying to take advantage of our generosity, who are only in Canada because they want to be on the
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dole. They want taxpayers to provide them with a cushy life. That's not the point, right? You can come
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to Canada, you can work hard and you can join the Canadian middle class, join the Canadian dream.
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Coming here to just take advantage of our system, get paid in different various benefits and try to
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cheat and try to undermine the rules, that doesn't work. And Canadians need to get smart and get serious
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about it. Otherwise, our country will just continue to decline. And so, you know, I talked about at the
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beginning the Globe and Mail story about just how people's personal finances are getting tighter and
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tighter people are in, a great deal of debt. Well, I think that the population, the Canadians,
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you know, not being necessarily fiscally responsible, they're taking cues from their
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government, right? So again, the legacy media and the Liberal Party are trying to memory hole
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Justin Trudeau, but his legacy remains, okay? This is from the Fraser Institute, a report that they did.
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Justin Trudeau's legacy was distinguished by unprecedented levels of government spending. The numbers don't lie.
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From 2018 to 2023, Justin Trudeau recorded the sixth highest level of spending in Canadian history,
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even after excluding emergency spending during the pandemic. So for context, this means the Trudeau
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government spent more per person during those six years than the federal government did at any other
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time during the Great Depression, during the two world wars, during the height of the global financial
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crisis in 2008-2009. Unsurprisingly, the Trudeau government was unable to balance the budget during
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any of his nine years in power after first being elected in 2015. Trudeau, of course, infamously promised
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to run modest deficits. He said he would balance the budget by 2019. Instead, he ran nine consecutive
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deficits, including an astonishing $61.9 billion deficit in the 23-24 fiscal year, the largest deficit
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any year outside of COVID. The result, what do you expect? Historically high levels of government debt.
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So look at this. This is debtclock.com. They have the debt clock. Canada's federal debt currently sits
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at $1.26 trillion. Your share of that is $30,000. Not just your share, $30,000 for you, $30,000 for your
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spouse, $30,000 for each of your children, right? This is how much we owe in government debt. Just for
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reference, this table went a little viral during the election. You've probably seen it before.
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All the total federal debt of all prime ministers. So every other prime minister in Canadian history
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managed to rack up a combined $634 billion. And Justin Trudeau himself, $659 billion. What an
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absolute disgrace. And so for the liberals who say, you know, Carney's different. It's a change. 52% of
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Canadians say that they're optimistic with the direction of the country. What has Mark Carney
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done, right? First of all, he refuses to introduce a budget. So we don't know exactly where his money
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is going. But even when he's out there, right, today he's doing a photo op with NATO and he's out
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there, you know, championing Canada's new alignment with the European Union. And look at this headline,
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National Post, NATO to take a quantum leap with 5% military target spending. So yes,
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Mark Carney has announced that he will up Canada's defense spending up to 5%, right? We were struggling
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to get to 2%. That's the basic requirement. You're supposed to have Canada historically never made
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it that far. Like we were down at like 1.2. Look, I'm for funding a military. I'm for spending the
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money on that. One of the few things that the federal government should do is keep our territory
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secure, keep us safe, including from rampant immigration and people coming to take advantage of
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generosity. But also through defense, yes, our military desperately needs an upgrade and we need
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more spending. But the thing I worry about with these liberals is the way that they'll define the
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spending, the things that they'll include, the kind of pork and barrel spending that we will see,
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the inevitable green schemes that benefit liberal insiders. It's all the same. We've seen this movie
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before. And here it is. It's just giving the liberal social license to just spend even more money
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out of control. So an interview with CNN and their host, Christine Ampour, Mark Carney said that NATO's
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new defense spending target could cost Canada up to $150 billion a year. Of course, we don't have the
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economic growth to support that. So where's the money going to come from? Well, they're just going
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to borrow it. Liberals have no problem with borrowing to leverage our future. Let's play a clip of
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Prime Minister Mark Carney saying that. Let's take the 5% of GDP figure, which is a big,
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huge chunk. Big number. How much is it actually for you?
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5% of our GDP would be about $150 billion. I mean, that's a lot. It's a lot of, it's a lot of
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number. Per year? Per year. That's a lot. Of course it's, it is a lot. So it means that that's stuff
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that you can't give to your own citizens. Well, okay. Socialism. Let's start to, let's start to,
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let's start to break it down. So part of it, a little more, a little less than a third of that
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overall number is spending on things that quite frankly, we're already doing to build the resilience
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of our economy. So he's basically admitting that, you know, it's stuff that we're already
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doing. We're just going to start counting it under NATO spending and under defense spending. It's all
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just, you know, trick, accounting tricks. Mark Carney, the global banker, that's his specialty,
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right? And so again, right, kind of laughing away the fact that you're not spending money on your own
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citizens. You're spending it on other things. This is more like Justin Trudeau. This is more
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Justin Trudeau-esque. And I want to breeze around and talk about our friends over at the Canadian
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Taxpayers Federation have an annual award ceremony called the Teddies. And the Teddies is the waste
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award where they highlight the absolute worst examples of governments just recklessly wasting
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taxpayer dollars. They interestingly gave a lifetime achievement award to Justin Trudeau. I'm sure that
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Franco's going to cover this, but I just want to point this out. Justin Trudeau added 99,000 extra
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bureaucrats. He billed taxpayers $6,000 a night for a hotel suite in England. They spent six figures on
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airplane food after the government promised to cut those costs. That was Justin Trudeau's legacy.
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And it looks like we have someone else following in his footsteps with Mark Carney, but I'm going to
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send it over to Franco Teresino, who's going to walk us through some of the highlights of
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that Teddy Waste Award. Over to you, Franco. Well, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation held our
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annual Teddy Waste Awards, where we give out big golden pig-shaped trophies to the worst
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waste offenders in all levels of government. And of course, we had our mascot Porky, Porky the
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waste hater with us, you know, this big old pig. And he was there to help me hand out these golden
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pig-shaped trophies to the politicians and bureaucrats who are wasting your money. So let's go over some of the
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highlights here. The municipal government winner for waste was the city of Calgary. So the city of
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Calgary spent $65,000 on this art project that allows people to call the Bow River. Yeah, you heard
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that right. The city of Calgary spent $65,000 so that when people called a 1-800 number, they could talk
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to the Bow River, El River. So here's what I think the phone conversation would go like, okay? Something
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like this. Hello, you've reached the Bow River. I can't take your call right now because I'm a river.
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Please leave a message after the sound of your tax dollars being flushed down the drain.
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Well, folks, I guess there is one silver lining. It's now easier to get a hold of a river than the CRA.
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Our provincial government waste winner was New Brunswick. So New Brunswick spent $77,000 on an
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eight-day trip to Europe to get Europeans to visit the province. Because, hey, why go to the Roman
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Colosseum when you can go to the Moncton Colosseum? But, you know, the craziest part of this is that
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the ads that were used to promote tourism in New Brunswick were just full of wrong information.
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So one ad went along like this, okay? One ad said, hey, come to St. John, the provincial capital.
00:27:42.620
Well, St. John is not the capital of New Brunswick. Fredericton is. Another ad was,
00:27:49.400
relax before your flight to St. John, New Brunswick's largest city. Well, St. John is not
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the largest city. Moncton is. Another ad was like, check out the Martello Tower. Well, that sounds nice,
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but the tower has been closed for nine years. Another ad suggests visiting the New Brunswick Museum.
00:28:09.160
Well, the museum has been closed for two years. Another ad also suggests taking the family to the
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Terrybrook Zoo. The zoo had been closed for five years. So you know what their tourism ad should
00:28:21.580
have been, hey? It should have been, check out New Brunswick. We don't know where anything is,
00:28:25.480
and everything is closed. And let's move on to the federal government waste winner,
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and that was Global Affairs Canada. And that's because they're spending $51,000 a month on alcohol.
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Right? $51,000 a month on alcohol. So they're wasting money faster than taxpayers can say bottoms
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up. But remember, folks, like, this is the same department, Global Affairs Canada, that spent $1,700
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on a musical about lesbian pirates. They spent $8,800 on a sex toy show in Germany titled Whose
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is this? Crazy. And like, hey, maybe I'm a little old fashioned, but if the Germans want to have a sex
00:29:07.440
toy show, they should pay for it themselves, not with Canadian taxpayers money. And of course,
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Global Affairs was also the same department that spent $12,000 on a show where senior citizens in
00:29:19.520
other countries wanted to talk about their sex lives in front of live audiences. Like, crazy,
00:29:25.800
right? And these aren't even Canadian seniors. The government was outsourcing old people sex
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stories. So let's recap. Global Affairs spent $1,700 on a lesbian pirate musical. They spent $8,800
00:29:38.020
on a sex toy show in Germany. And they spent $12,000 on a show where seniors in other countries
00:29:43.860
talked about their sex lives in front of live audiences. Well, how did all this spending get
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approved? It must have been the $51,000 a month on booze. And then finally, we also had a very special
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Lifetime Achievement Award for Waste. And this year's winner, very well deserved. We may never
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see another one like him. The Wayne Gretzky of Waste, Justin Trudeau. And you know, of course,
00:30:09.320
Trudeau won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Waste. I mean, he doubled the debt in less than a decade.
00:30:14.480
He ballooned the bureaucracy. You're now paying for 99,000 more federal bureaucrats today than you
00:30:20.200
were 10 years ago. But then remember the crazy examples of government waste, right? It was Trudeau
00:30:25.720
who stayed in the $6,000 per night hotel suite in London, England, right? It was Trudeau who doubled
00:30:32.620
the Governor General's outrageous airplane food tab when he spent $220,000 on airplane food,
00:30:40.160
him and his entourage during his six-day trip to the Indo-Pacific region. And like, remember too,
00:30:46.600
it was Trudeau who billed taxpayers for $61,000 in Manhattan hotel rooms during a two-day star-studded
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conference. Now, what was that conference about? Fighting poverty. Okay, so, you know, how was Trudeau's,
00:31:04.920
what was Trudeau's solution to fighting poverty? Well, the only way he knew how was selfies,
00:31:10.280
room service, and a big bill for taxpayers. So, you know, because he doubled the debt,
00:31:15.600
because he ballooned the bureaucracy, and because he was the goat of government waste,
00:31:20.460
Justin Trudeau is a very, very worthy recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Waste.
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And, you know, if you want to learn more about all the winners or all the government nominees
00:31:31.100
for the Teddy Waste Awards, you can find that all at taxpayer.com.
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Thank you, Franco. Now, yes, it is good to poke fun at these politicians and these bureaucrats
00:31:41.680
for wasting our money and being just so ridiculously irresponsible. But the sad reality is that we're
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living in an era where governments live beyond their means, they borrow and leverage our future,
00:31:51.660
and citizens are following suit, and they're likewise failing to be fiscally responsible
00:31:56.080
because they just can't keep up with the cost of living, inflation, the cost of housing,
00:32:02.000
everything combined is making it so our dollars go less far. And we are poorer and poorer than we
00:32:08.220
were a decade ago, or than our parents were when they were our age, or grandparents. We're heading
00:32:12.820
in the wrong direction, folks. And this, the result is just crushing debt, anemic growth,
00:32:17.920
diminishing standards of living. And yes, our country is heading in the wrong direction.
00:32:22.160
And the 52% of Canadians that are optimistic about the future, I think they're just not
00:32:25.880
paying attention. I think that they're not looking closely enough because when you look
00:32:29.080
at it and you examine what's going on, it looks pretty scary. All right, folks, thanks so much
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for watching. We'll be back again tomorrow. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm
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