The Candice Malcolm Show - September 04, 2025


EXCLUSIVE： Govt HIDING migrant data + Poilievre calls for END to temporary foreign worker program


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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for
00:00:06.060 you today, folks. We have Michelle Rempel-Garner, Conservative Immigration Critic, Shadow Minister,
00:00:11.340 joining us to talk about the temporary foreign worker announcement from her party yesterday.
00:00:15.600 But before we get into that, we are going to break some news here on The Candice Malcolm
00:00:19.820 Show. We usually just talk about the news, comment on the news today. We are breaking
00:00:22.960 some original reporting, which is that the government of Canada has begun to track exit
00:00:29.400 visas and exit data on people leaving the country. This is something that Canada should
00:00:33.880 have been doing for a very long time. In order to have an idea of how many people are in your
00:00:38.120 country illegally, you have to track not just those who are entering the country, but also
00:00:42.340 those who are exiting the country. Well, for years and years, Canada didn't do that. But
00:00:46.200 The Candice Malcolm Show has learned that starting in 2020, the Canadian government began tracking
00:00:51.780 exit visas and exit data so that we would have some idea of how many people are leaving the
00:00:57.460 country. But get this, folks, when we asked the Canadian Border Service Agency for that
00:01:03.040 data, they replied and told us that the aggregate data is not publicly available. In other words,
00:01:09.020 they are blocking the public from knowing how many people are properly exiting the country
00:01:14.120 and how many people are here illegally. So let me just read what the CBSA told us.
00:01:18.980 Quote, the Canadian Border Service Agency collects biographical information when travelers enter Canada
00:01:24.520 and also collects exit information in the land and air modes. Entry and exit data is pulled and used to
00:01:30.640 support officers' work on a case-by-case basis. Aggregate data on specific cohorts, including
00:01:37.060 international students and temporary foreign workers, is not available. So in other words, the government
00:01:42.240 has the data to know how many and whether temporary workers are actually leaving the country when their
00:01:48.540 visas expire, but they aren't sharing it. They don't want you to know. They don't want the public to know.
00:01:53.280 They would not let us here at Juno News have this information. Why not? Well, maybe because it shows
00:01:59.180 that these temporary workers aren't leaving as planned and as scheduled. Remember the story that
00:02:06.160 came out in November of 2024 that Ottawa's immigration plan for 2025 assumes that 1.2 million
00:02:15.100 temporary residents will leave the country once their visas expire. It's based on trust, purely trust.
00:02:21.760 We don't have enforcement methods. We're not going to do deportations. We're just going to sit back
00:02:26.280 and hope that the 1.2 million people whose temporary status will expire will just pick up and leave.
00:02:35.360 Do you know what, folks? There was a document that came out in March 2025 that showed that according to
00:02:41.460 a federal government briefing, there is an estimated upwards of 500,000 undocumented people in Canada.
00:02:49.640 In other words, over half a million illegal immigrants. And this doesn't even include
00:02:54.960 people who are making asylum claims. So people who enter the country illegally, people who cross the
00:03:00.120 border illegally at places like Roxham Road and put asylum claims down or people who come from other
00:03:05.600 countries on vacation or to visit family and then they don't want to leave. So they become an asylum
00:03:10.140 seeker. They say, I'm a refugee. It takes years and years and years for their system, for their paperwork to
00:03:15.420 get processed and for their case to be heard by a judge. Those people aren't even included in that
00:03:19.240 half million figure. So the idea is that there's actually probably way more than that. Another
00:03:25.600 stat for you here, as of July 2025, there were 291,000 asylum claims awaiting decision. This compared
00:03:34.000 to 232,000 one year earlier. And the asylum claim queue has nearly tripled in two years. You know,
00:03:42.800 back when Stephen Harper was prime minister, they made changes to the immigration system. I worked for
00:03:49.320 the government at that time in the immigration office. And the year that those changes were made,
00:03:53.740 we had about 10,000 asylum seekers, 10,000, 15,000 asylum seekers each year because we closed loopholes.
00:04:00.140 We put visas on countries that sent a lot of asylum seekers and people asking for refugee status.
00:04:07.060 And so we had the number down to 15,000 a year. And it is now almost 300,000 people coming to Canada
00:04:13.340 and asking for asylum. It is unbelievable. Another story for you, Judo News broke this one. In July 2025,
00:04:19.900 border authorities unable to locate nearly 600 criminals due to deportation. So the system is
00:04:26.680 an absolute mess. You can't even deport people convicted of crimes, foreigners who should not
00:04:32.600 be in this country in the first place. And you can just see how, you know, they're starting to track
00:04:38.280 it. So they have the interest in fixing the system, but they don't want the public to know. All right,
00:04:43.880 folks, I am very pleased to introduce the guest on today's show, who is Michelle Rumpel-Garner.
00:04:48.800 Michelle is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Calgary Nose Hill, and she has done an incredible
00:04:54.240 job on this file of immigration. She is the Shadow Minister for Immigration, and she has been working
00:04:58.940 and pushing on the temporary foreign worker program to be abolished. Michelle, welcome to the show.
00:05:03.360 Thank you so much. Congratulations on all your work on this file. It was great to see Pierre's
00:05:07.080 announcement yesterday.
00:05:08.140 It was. And I just want to give a big shout out to, there's a lot of staff here in Ottawa that work
00:05:13.180 really hard on this. They've been working all summer with me, getting ready for the fall. And,
00:05:17.720 you know, yesterday's announcement's the first of several that we'll be making
00:05:20.800 on this really important file. It's affecting a lot of Canadians.
00:05:26.280 And so what is your reaction to the news that we just broke, that the Canadian Border Service
00:05:29.920 Agency is tracking exit information, collecting exit data, but they will not share it with us
00:05:34.980 at Juno News? What do you make of that?
00:05:36.840 This is so frustrating, Candice. Why wouldn't they share this? Conservatives, obviously we support
00:05:45.660 measures to have more transparency and data like this because it impacts so many different areas
00:05:53.420 of public policy, right? Like, for example, just the most basic question, how can the government
00:05:57.900 set immigration levels for the future if they don't know how many people have overstayed their visa
00:06:02.880 and are in the country or are left? And then, you know, the other thing I would point to is
00:06:08.540 back in June, I asked the immigration minister if the Liberals had a plan to remove people from the
00:06:18.900 country that we know already don't have any legal reason to be here. And the answer was kind of,
00:06:24.040 so how can we measure success, even if they had a plan, if we don't know what that data is? So there
00:06:31.820 needs to be more transparency. We'll definitely be pushing for that. And that data should be public.
00:06:37.320 It's absolutely ridiculous. So good for you guys for doing that digging. It's something I'll
00:06:43.660 certainly be following up on using my parliamentary tools. But, you know, it shouldn't take our
00:06:48.700 combined efforts. The government should just be doing this, right?
00:06:52.120 One hundred percent. One hundred percent. OK, let's get the audience up to speed on what happened
00:06:56.520 yesterday. So, folks, speaking in Mississauga at a press conference yesterday, Conservative leader
00:07:01.260 Pierre Polyev called for an end of Canada's temporary foreign worker program. Here is what that looked
00:07:07.260 like. The time has come for decisive action to stop the Liberals from using our immigration system
00:07:14.260 to pad the pockets of corporate elites and other insiders at the expense of Canadian jobs. Again,
00:07:21.080 the principle is very simple. The principle is very simple. Canadian jobs for Canadian workers. Canada
00:07:29.540 first, Canada always. That's why Conservatives are calling on the Carney government to permanently
00:07:35.180 scrap the temporary foreign worker program and to stop issuing visas for any new temporary foreign
00:07:44.160 workers coming into the country. So I'm going to play a few more clips in a moment, Michelle,
00:07:49.580 but I want to just get your comment on the temporary foreign worker program because it was a program that
00:07:54.560 was in place in the Harper years when Harper was prime minister, but it has just exploded under the
00:07:59.520 Trudeau government and now continued under Mark Carney. The whole concept never really made sense to me,
00:08:04.480 right? It's like if we have an immigration system where we want to welcome people into the Canadian
00:08:08.020 community, we want them to become Canadians. That's part of our story as a country. And so it's like
00:08:13.240 come to Canada, yes, and join the family, right? Become a citizen. And that's always sort of what the
00:08:18.360 Liberals push. They shortened the amount of time that you had to spend before you could become
00:08:22.340 citizen. And yet on the other hand, they're creating this sort of temporary scheme where you
00:08:28.580 have an underclass of people that don't really have political rights. They're not really part of the
00:08:32.740 community. And yet they're sort of like undercutting wages for young Canadians. They're, I mean, so many
00:08:39.480 companies just sort of take advantage of this program. And so I'm wondering, like, how did it get
00:08:44.040 this way? Why do we have a temporary foreign program in the first place? And why did the Liberals,
00:08:49.100 you know, blow it so out of proportion? I was so excited to talk to you specifically about this
00:08:54.420 issue because you and I were both kind of around when Jason Kenney made the reforms that he did to
00:09:00.780 the program in 2014. It was like massive pearl clutching from some of the big lobby groups that
00:09:07.260 depend on this. They use the program as a crutch to maximize profit, to essentially have government
00:09:13.720 sanctioned indentured labor. And the reforms that Jason made back in the day, the Liberals,
00:09:20.100 almost one of the first things they did was to reverse all of them. And not only reverse them,
00:09:24.640 but like juice them. So, you know, what you said was absolutely accurate. The program morphed into this
00:09:31.900 system where I don't think it's hyperbole to say that it actually normalized the existence
00:09:38.360 of a temporary low wage foreign underclass in the country. And that's both exploitative to the people
00:09:47.040 who are coming to the country. And because I'm not sure if your listeners know, like if you come to
00:09:52.240 the country under on a temporary foreign work permit, you're actually for the most part, in most cases,
00:09:57.200 tied to one employer. So this is why like the UN, the UN called it akin to slavery. Then to your point,
00:10:05.340 it suppresses wages, right? Like obviously it's going to suppress wages. It takes away
00:10:09.980 opportunities from young Canadians. And, you know, you hear the Liberals, you hear other people
00:10:14.820 talking about how artificial intelligence is disrupting the economy, how the economy is sort
00:10:19.240 of teetering on a recessionary precipice right now. Well, why not do the one thing that is in
00:10:25.280 control of the government, which is to abolish this program that is completely negative all the way
00:10:31.860 around. So, you know, it's there's no reasons for its existence today that youth unemployment's
00:10:37.500 through the roof. You were talking about that. There's a large pool of unemployed labor, particularly
00:10:43.040 young people in the country. Let wages, you know, get back to where they need to be. Let Canadians have
00:10:51.160 Canadian jobs and let's bet on our kids in this country instead of allowing companies to, you know,
00:10:56.580 exploit foreign workers on a temporary basis. You're spot on. Well, I want to play Prime
00:11:02.560 Minister Mark Carney because he was at the Liberal Party's cabinet retreat in Toronto yesterday. He
00:11:07.640 was sort of like nonchalant. He was like, well, businesses want it. And so that's why we're going
00:11:11.900 to keep it. Let's play this clip from yesterday. Mr. Polly, I've called this morning on the government
00:11:17.980 to scrap the temporary foreign worker program. Is it time to shut the program down?
00:11:21.720 Well, I would say the following, which is that that program has a role. It has to be focused
00:11:32.180 in terms of its role. And it's part of what we're viewing as part of what we will be discussing
00:11:37.200 how well the temporary foreign worker program is working and how our overall immigration system
00:11:42.420 is working. When I talk to businesses around the country, especially, particularly in Quebec,
00:11:47.860 but elsewhere across the country, their number one issue is tariffs and their number two issue
00:11:53.440 is access to temporary foreign workers. So what's your response to that, Michelle?
00:11:58.460 I mean, what did you think? So what I took from that was, here's this guy that's so out of touch
00:12:03.680 that he doesn't understand. Has he read about, you know, the hundreds of resumes that kids have
00:12:09.720 been putting out this summer and not even getting a nibble back? No, he's like, no, well, you know,
00:12:13.980 I'm listening to businesses who use this as a profit maximizing wage suppressing tool.
00:12:19.540 That's their number one thing. Like, it's like, yeah, sure. I'm sure all these lobby groups are
00:12:23.960 up in his grill asking for these things, but who's standing up for Canadian workers? And like,
00:12:29.520 there has to be a paradigm shift. This is government sanctioned wage suppression. And like,
00:12:35.780 Candace, honestly, I could not believe he walked into that yesterday. Like he walked into it.
00:12:40.080 And we were all shocked here. We're like, I cannot, did he actually just say that? And he did. So
00:12:44.820 yeah, we are going to like ram that clip down his throat for the rest of the fall, because he needs
00:12:52.120 to be standing up for Canadian workers. And if he's, I'm sorry, I got to get this rant out. If he's
00:12:56.460 supposedly standing up for like a one Canada economy, why wouldn't you be doing more things to,
00:13:03.420 you know, address labor mobility? Why would you be having this program that
00:13:08.240 suppresses that? Anyway, like, yes, rant, rant reaction to his.
00:13:14.480 I love it. I love it, Michelle. Well, you know, it does. When I saw that, I was like,
00:13:18.560 doesn't he have staff that kind of brief him in advance to say like, hey, Mr. Prime Minister,
00:13:22.180 maybe we should at least not sound like Mr. Burns when you're responding to it's like, well,
00:13:26.980 the big companies told me to do it. So I'm going to do it. It's like, just totally out of touch with
00:13:31.720 the Canadian public. And, you know, most people, I hear about it a lot that, you know, when you walk
00:13:38.700 into a restaurant, you walk into Tim Hortons, or you walk into a fast food place, it used to be
00:13:43.420 filled with Canadian teenagers. And some places are still like that. But instead, you just have like
00:13:48.440 a pure lineup of people that don't really speak English very well, making you think that they're
00:13:51.860 probably here temporarily, like you can't ever really tell. But it just seems that your jobs
00:13:57.100 that used to be held universally by young Canadians are now universally held by foreigners. I want to
00:14:02.120 play this clip to the audience, which is of Pierre Polyev. He was asked a similar question. What are
00:14:07.260 businesses telling you? What is the impact on removing this temporary foreign worker program
00:14:11.780 for businesses and consumers? And here is how he replied.
00:14:15.440 In most cases, I don't think they do need temporary foreign workers. I think they
00:14:20.760 hire them because they can pay them less. And it's that simple. They don't want to pay the prevailing
00:14:28.860 wage to the Canadian worker. And so they hire someone from abroad who might be in a desperate
00:14:34.660 situation and willing to take less. It is a very exploitative system that has allowed corporate
00:14:41.120 elites to profit off of driving wages down and driving jobs out. And we're going to put an end to it.
00:14:49.160 It's such an interesting juxtaposition to have the Conservative Party leader, the one speaking out
00:14:54.780 about exploitation and helping young Canadians and have the supposed liberal, like left-leaning
00:15:00.320 leader be the one in the pockets of foreign workers. Michelle, I'm going to get your reaction
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00:15:47.200 one of the crazy things that we reported on earlier this summer is that temporary foreign workers now
00:15:52.160 make up nearly 20 percent of the private sector economy in this country. Nearly one in five workers in
00:15:59.260 the private sector is temporary. You know, I'd like to hear your comments on like how this impacts
00:16:05.080 wages and how this how this hurts young Canadians.
00:16:08.020 So there was a StatsCan report that came out that showed in the first quarter of 2025,
00:16:13.940 the lowest 20 percent of wage earners in Canada actually saw their wages drop. So, you know, you've got
00:16:21.700 some of these lobby groups yesterday. I saw there was a few spinners that came out. They're like, oh, no,
00:16:26.000 it doesn't suppress wages. Well, the data's right there. Right. And then today, Desjardins came out with a
00:16:32.120 report, a really damning report that talked about how this program actually, you know, not only does it
00:16:37.480 remove opportunities for students, but like it's talking about the other things we've been talking
00:16:41.640 about here to do. So there's all sorts of proof outside of what your own eyes can see. And, you
00:16:46.340 know, the one I was so glad PR came out on this yesterday because I think it is a it's an
00:16:53.080 acknowledgement that our movement includes workers like working class Canadians see themselves
00:16:59.480 represented by our party and we have to fight for them. And this is such obvious low hanging fruit.
00:17:03.660 The one thing that, you know, I would add to what Pierre said about the wage suppression issue is
00:17:09.220 just to reemphasize the fact that like this is indentured labor for the most part. Like why do
00:17:14.740 people rely on TFWs or employers? Well, because it's somebody who can't complain, who is tied to a job
00:17:21.040 for a set period of time. So when you think about what that has, the impact that has on productivity,
00:17:26.340 on working conditions, like the impacts are so far ranging.
00:17:32.480 You know, like the last thing is this, like we had people from across the political spectrum,
00:17:36.600 even on the left, like the progressive left going, yeah, they're right yesterday. So
00:17:42.120 the number of permits they should be issuing through the TFW program this year is zero.
00:17:46.900 It needs to stop right now.
00:17:48.400 Well, I just I'm so happy that you've been pushing this issue and it was so great to see your party
00:17:52.800 come on board. Because I know during the election, this wasn't the position that you took. It's too
00:17:56.600 bad. I wish you had taken this position six months earlier. So can you explain like, what do you think
00:18:01.500 the change like, why did this come now?
00:18:05.540 I mean, I wasn't the immigration critic six months ago, but I'm kidding. I think that, you know,
00:18:11.280 I really appreciate the position that the party took in the election. We had, you know,
00:18:18.840 the fact remains, we had the best turnout of any election we've ever run in. And it was because Pierre
00:18:25.020 was focusing on issues that are in that working class voter coalition, cost of living, you know,
00:18:31.520 the carbon tax, crime, which will still continue focusing on homes and housing. Like those are still
00:18:38.760 the issues of Canada. You know, I think that our Canadians, I think that right now, there's so much
00:18:48.860 data to support this position that it's a no brainer for us to take and push on. So, you know, I
00:18:55.280 I'm going to push back a little bit to our party has focused on immigration, you know, my predecessor,
00:19:03.400 Tom Kimmack, who, you know, very well, he, he did a marvelous job in the last parliament showing like,
00:19:11.260 like exposing this data, paving the runway for some of the announcements that I'm able to do too.
00:19:16.760 So, you know, what I would say is sometimes it takes in, you know, in parliamentary, the
00:19:22.260 parliamentary life, it takes some time to move the needle both on public perception, but also to find
00:19:28.640 out find the right public policy path. And I want to thank everybody in my party that's worked
00:19:33.120 so hard on that over the last several years. And here we are today. But we are going to have a very
00:19:38.400 aggressive posture on this file. Once the House finally sits in the next week or so.
00:19:45.580 Well, we're very much looking forward to that. I want to just share what, you know, your advocacy
00:19:49.960 on social media has been amazing to watch on this, Michelle, really exposing the scam system, the labor
00:19:54.640 market impact assessment program. And one of the things you post is just hilarious, that in Mark
00:20:00.460 Kearney's own backyard in Ottawa, a Mucho Burrito is putting out a job offer for a temporary form
00:20:06.260 worker in a city that has unemployment of 47,000 people. Youth Unemployment Ontario is 199,000
00:20:13.800 people. And yet here is Mucho Burrito, so a fast food restaurant offering $36 an hour, 36 bucks an
00:20:20.980 hour for a temporary form worker and claiming that a Canadian won't take that job. I'm sorry,
00:20:24.360 $36 an hour equates to $75,000 a year. That is well above the medium income in Canada. And yet
00:20:31.440 this company is claiming that they need a foreigner, they need someone from India to come and do this
00:20:35.540 job is unreal. Michelle, tell us a little bit about this tweet.
00:20:38.940 Well, you know, it's been really interesting. I actually have to give credit to a colleague in
00:20:42.900 the OLO for just sort of pitching to me. He's like, why don't you, why don't you put out graphics
00:20:46.880 showing this data? And it went like it exploded like wildfire. You know, I've seen so many influencers
00:20:54.460 from across the political spectrum sort of take this up and expose all of these employers across
00:21:00.620 the country that are doing exactly the same thing as the one that you just mentioned. There's no
00:21:04.780 reason for these employers to be doing that given the youth unemployment stats in the country. So I think
00:21:09.960 it's really important. And I would just encourage other people to do the same thing. There's several
00:21:14.780 websites that are now posting these, you know, where these temporary foreign worker, these LMIA,
00:21:22.280 these labor market impact assessment jobs are. And people should absolutely be highlighting them
00:21:27.540 and saying, no, why, why are the liberals letting this company bring in a TFW when there are tens of
00:21:34.400 thousands of unemployed kids in the same region? There was one in Calgary, Candace, it was a Tim Hortons,
00:21:40.480 and I think it was like basically down the street from a high school. And it was, you know,
00:21:44.780 looking for a TFW. There's no excuse for that. So, you know, we will continue to be pointing out
00:21:50.740 which employers are doing this. And I would just like for employers that are listening to this,
00:21:55.880 there is no reason for this. We've talked about, you know, there are legitimately hard to fill
00:22:01.640 positions in agriculture and agri-food. That should be a separate stream. But like, you know,
00:22:09.020 end the practice and come out and say, we're not going to do this anymore. We're betting on Canadian kids.
00:22:13.900 I will celebrate those employers. I commit to that right now.
00:22:18.260 Something you just said really stands out because it's like, let's invest in Canadian kids,
00:22:22.260 right? Like the idea is, to your point that you made earlier about indentured servants,
00:22:25.660 it's probably easier for a company to say, okay, I'm going to sponsor someone from India or someone
00:22:29.960 from the Philippines who is very poor, who has very little rights when they're in Canada,
00:22:33.560 and they can't leave my company. I know they're going to show up for work. I know that I can grind
00:22:37.020 them and work them to the bone and pay them very little. They're not going to complain because they
00:22:40.140 can't leave. Whereas if you have to take a bet on a young Canadian who has never had a job before,
00:22:45.400 you know, it could go well and it could go wrong. Maybe a kid won't show up for work one day or
00:22:49.020 something like that. But the idea is that this is our country and what's our future going to look
00:22:54.700 like if young people don't get their first job? They don't have that experience. You know,
00:22:58.680 as a teenager, I held many jobs. I worked at a fish and chips stand. I worked at American Eagle and
00:23:03.240 sold jeans, right? Ice cream store. That was my...
00:23:05.540 There you go. And that builds your character and it teaches you about accountability and it teaches
00:23:09.120 you about teamwork and all kinds of other things. And if young Canadians aren't having that first
00:23:12.900 opportunity, like what's our economy going to look like in 20 years? So to all these business groups
00:23:16.780 that are saying, oh, well, we need these temporary workers. We need someone to work at Mucho Burrito,
00:23:21.720 make $36 an hour and Canadians won't take the job. Like, no, invest in Canadians.
00:23:25.520 And also, you know, going back to what we were talking about earlier, like normalizing
00:23:30.420 this scenario where the government is sponsoring a permanent unlimited supply of a temporary foreign
00:23:41.120 low-skilled underclass, that doesn't incent... It normalizes that young kids shouldn't have jobs,
00:23:49.460 right? Like I hear from like some of these lobby groups, oh, well, kids don't show up for work and
00:23:54.700 stuff. It's like, well, are you hiring Canadian kids? Are you trying? And I would just say like
00:23:59.660 Canada existed and did just fine without this class of immigration before. It will be fine. Just,
00:24:08.380 it will be just fine again. I guarantee you. You know, we had, I met some students or some young
00:24:15.920 Canadians that are in this boat at Pierre's announcement yesterday and they were ecstatic
00:24:23.360 that we were making this announcement. And I think that in the long run, I think the government's
00:24:31.620 going to have to abolish this. In the long run, it'll be a very positive change just overall
00:24:37.500 for the working paradigm that Canadians are expected to both interact with and enter.
00:24:46.000 Well, Michelle, I really appreciate your time. Just one final question before you go. I don't know
00:24:49.220 if you saw the news story, but Elections Canada is investigating Juneau News and our reporter
00:24:53.820 Kim Bextie for some very thorough, well-vetted, corroborated story that he released during the
00:24:59.200 election campaign, which embarrassed the Liberal government. And now they're coming after us.
00:25:03.200 I'm wondering if you can comment on the story.
00:25:06.100 Yeah, I mean, I don't know all of the details of the story. Admittedly, it's been a busy week for me,
00:25:11.400 but, you know, particularly for me and all of my conservative colleagues, we believe in free
00:25:19.140 speech. It's why we opposed. And you've done such a good job on this, too, opposing the liberal
00:25:24.020 censorship bills, Bill C-11, C-18. I think the, knowing what I know about the story, the part of
00:25:31.760 the bill that they're, you know, using. Yep. Section 91. We oppose that, right? Conservatives
00:25:39.940 did. So, you know, we stand on free speech. And, you know, the role of media in Canada is to hold
00:25:45.580 people like me and the government to account. And, you know, you've seen the Liberals use a variety of
00:25:52.400 mechanisms over the last several years. You know, I just mentioned two of those bills to suppress
00:25:59.080 independent journalism, to suppress, you know, we've got news bans in Canada we never had before.
00:26:04.980 So, you know, shout out to your listeners, make sure you subscribe and get around those news bans.
00:26:10.000 But we have to see a change in that we won't have growth and innovation in Canada or government
00:26:16.600 accountability if the government's, you know, primary objective is to suppress freedom of speech.
00:26:23.360 So, you know, we're, of course, we're going to stand up for that and hold the Liberals to account.
00:26:30.340 Well, I really appreciate your words. Michelle Rempelgarner, the MP for Calgary,
00:26:35.200 Nose Hill, always appreciate your time and keep up the good work over there. Thank you so much.
00:26:38.740 All right, folks, this is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm
00:26:41.420 Candice Malcolm. This is Candice Malcolm Show. Thank you and God bless.