Mark Carney is looking more like Justin Trudeau every day
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The Candace Malan Show is sponsored by Unsmoke. In this episode, Candace talks about the disappointment of Prime Minister Mark Carney's failure to get a trade deal with President Trump. She also talks about Canada's decision to recognize the Palestinian state.
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Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for
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you folks, and I want to let you know that today's episode is sponsored by Unsmoke, but
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more on them later. First, I want to drill in on a major deadline that happened last
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week and over the weekend, which is that August 1st came and went, and Mark Carney, Prime
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Minister Mark Carney, did not negotiate a deal with President Trump and the Americans.
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Remember that Mark Carney was elected on a promise. We were told that he was the one
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that could get a deal with President Trump, that he was the one that could get through
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to him. They called him the Trump whisperer, and he was going to get it done for Canada.
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Remember the whole elbows-up campaign? Well, he failed to live up to that version of himself,
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that promise, that campaign promise. He had high expectations. He set the expectations
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high, and then he let us all down. So we're going to go through that today and just talk
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about the great disappointment that has been Prime Minister Mark Carney. So remember,
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at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta back in June, President Trump said that a trade deal
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could be achieved within days, and Mark Carney said that the pair was working together to get
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something done within 30 days. Let's play that clip.
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Do you think a deal is achievable within days, within weeks? Is there that kind of runway?
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Yeah, it's achievable. Both parties have to agree. Yeah, sure.
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Seeing progress that's been made, President Trump and I agreed to pursue negotiations towards a deal
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So usually you set the expectations low so that you can overachieve, right? So you can go beyond
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people's expectation. Prime Minister Mark Carney did the exact opposite. He set the expectations high.
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I want to read a little bit from Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilly, who wrote that Carney has
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failed to deliver on what he promised to Canadians. So he says, how did Canada get to this point?
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We went from being a trade priority close to a deal with Washington to not having a deal and not
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being a priority. Friday came and went, and there was no trade deal with Donald Trump. Mark Carney's
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point man on Canada-U.S. relations, Dominic LeBlanc, left Washington for Moncton, New Brunswick,
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a clear sign that the trade talks were not continuing in a serious way. The Americans don't
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take weekends off if things are going well. Last week, by the way, Trump announced trade deals with
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the European Union while he was on his golf course in Scotland, and his top trade negotiator,
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Garrison Greer, Damascene Greer, was in Sweden doing trade talks with China. And this past week in
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Washington, Canadian officials may have been in the American capital, but they were not meeting
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with the top American officials. People like Greer were busy elsewhere, and they were relegated.
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Meanwhile, Carney couldn't even get Trump on a call. Yes, that's right. Mark Carney was trying to get
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through to President Trump. Speaking to reporters on the eve of the terror hike, President Trump said
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that he has not taken Mark Carney's call. Let's play that clip.
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Canada moves forward with recognizing the Palestinian state. Is that a deal breaker?
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Well, we're going to see. No, I didn't like what they said, but that's their opinion. I didn't like
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that. Not a deal breaker, but we haven't spoken to Canada today. He's called, and we'll see.
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So President Trump doesn't want to take Carney's call. Why? Because Carney's off embarrassing
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Canada by saying that they're going to recognize a terror state, a country run by terrorists,
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and that is Palestine. Meanwhile, speaking on CBS's Margaret Brenner's Face of the Nation,
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Canada's trade minister, Dominic LeBlanc, said that Carney had tried to reach out to Trump
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and will hopefully speak to him in the next few days. Let's play that clip.
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Any plans for the two leaders to speak? I saw President Trump said your prime minister called
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them Thursday, and they just never connected. I mean, are tensions that high? And given the changing
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the conversations have been informative, constructive, and cordial. I would expect the prime minister
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will have a conversation with the president over the next number of days. That's certainly my plan,
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again, with Secretary Lutnik. Embarrassing, right? Trump won't take Carney's call.
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Dominic LeBlanc goes to Washington and won't even meet with his counterparts. He's meeting with low
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level officials. They can't get them on the phone. And so because we failed to meet that August 1st
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deadline, as reported by Juno News, Carney fails to meet the trade deadline. And therefore, on August
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1st, the White House imposed a 35% tariff on Canadian exports not covered under the USMCA. Donald Trump signed
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executive order, raising tariffs from 25% to 35% on select Canadian goods, citing fentanyl trafficking
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and long-standing trade loopholes. Not a good day for Canada. Not a good day for Prime Minister
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Montcarni. Okay. And to discuss this a little bit more, I'm very pleased today to introduce a new guest
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on the show. But you might be familiar with this individual because he's launched his own show here
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on Juno News, talking about Alexander Brown. So Alexander is the Director of Communications
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over at the National Citizens Coalition. And he now hosts a show called Not Sorry on Juno News,
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which appears every Tuesday. Alexander, welcome to the show. Great to have you on the program. Great
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to have you on the network. Candace, thanks for having me. I've been a big fan of Juno and previously
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the work at True North. And so to take my communications to your audience, to get to video
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podcasts with them and write for them as well. It's a pleasure. Well, I was interested when I
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watched your first episode, I learned something new about you, which is that your grandfather
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was actually the founder of the National Citizens Coalition. So Colin Brown started that organization.
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I think everyone knows the National Citizens Coalition from the days that Stephen Harper led
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the organization. So Harper ran the National Citizens Coalition from 1998 to 2002. But maybe you can share a
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little bit of the history of the organization before Stephen Harper took over.
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Yeah. So it was, I'm a nonprofit Nepo baby. So it was founded by my grandfather in 1967 under Trudeau,
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the former, when there was wartime spending at a time where we shouldn't have been spending that way,
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where business and taxpayers were starting to realize, uh-oh, this guy doesn't know what he's doing.
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And so it was, it's been a longstanding advocate for the little guy, for, for industry, for small
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businesses, for, for more freedom and less government, and, and has fought battles for decades
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on, on legal matters to, uh, election rights, to lowering your taxes and standing up for your
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personal freedoms. And very lucky to have Stephen Harper as president, um, before, before finally
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becoming prime minister, which is a real feather in the cap. And now I'm thankful for steering it.
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We're, we're running all kinds of campaigns. We ran a, a really strong federal election advertising
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campaign. And right now really focusing on key issues like, you know, helping get our energy to
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market, uh, giving people a voice to, to help fix immigration, holding the Ontario provincial
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conservatives to account when they're not acting all that conservative. And so it's, uh, it's a big task
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for all of us in the sort of common sense community and, and, and building sort of a big tent to, to
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stand up for people who have, who have been let down by government, particularly the last 10 years
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and, and proud of the work the NCC does proud to stand up for our supporters and really thrilled to,
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Well, that is excellent. And we're going to talk a little bit later in the show about immigration
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because it's one of the areas that's in your wheelhouse and it's great to see, uh, someone else
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talking about, you know, for years I was, I felt like I was the only one on political right. It was
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constantly ringing the alarm bell about immigration and, you know, trying to blow a whistle on all the
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many problems in the system. And so it's great to see you competently talking about those issues as
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well, but I want to bring it back to prime minister Mark Kearney and how he's dealt with the, the, the,
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the elephant in the room, which is president Trump, the tariffs and the trade deal, because, you know,
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we were told that he was the Trump whisperer. He said during the campaign that he has had
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experiences with president Trump, that he's negotiated with Trump, that he knows how to
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negotiate with someone like Trump. And yet, I mean, I mean, what I've seen over the past six
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weeks is just like a spectacular failing to even get in the same room as president Trump. Uh, it's,
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it's humiliating, especially, you know, we, we learned that Trump announced a 90 day pause
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for tariffs on Mexico. So Mexico is not going through this. It's just Canada. And rather than,
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you know, trying to get on the same page with the Americans, trying to say, you know, we, we,
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we believe that, uh, deindustrialization is a problem as well. We want to reindustrialize
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North America. Let's do it together as a team. Um, instead, it seems to be alienating, uh, the
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president, just like Justin Trudeau did before him. Uh, what, what do you make of all that?
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It's incredibly frustrating because it ostensibly it's why they won the election,
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that this is the steady hand. This is the guy you can count on. Here's the Trump whisperer. They,
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they were buddy, buddy. They were the, he all but received an endorsement for Trump as the
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preferred guy to work with. And that undercut, you know, years and years of progress on the
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conservative side and pushed away all the concerns of, of, of many voters who, who perhaps
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weren't lucky enough that Trump was their number one ballot issue. You can argue it's a, it was a
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luxury belief because if you were struggling with housing, with, with crime in your area, with,
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with healthcare needs, um, it, you know, pretty understandable that, you know, American trade
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belligerence wouldn't be your number one issue. And so deeply frustrating to see that, you know,
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we're not evidently getting anywhere. And then really frustrating to see that that might not matter
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to a segment of the population, uh, who in some ways elbows up and the whole team Canada thing was,
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was an excuse for them to, to run back the 10, you know, the last 10 years. And so we got to work
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really hard to make sure that doesn't happen and, and to reach as many people to, to prevent that from
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happening because elbows up, didn't work elbows down, hasn't worked. You know, they've, they've done
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some smart things. Thanks to outrage from folks like us to, to, you know, get rid of things like the
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digital services tax and some punitive measures, but, but now we're just hurting people. Like our
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industries are just struggling. Like our, our, our tit for tat stuff isn't working and we still got
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absolutely nowhere. So this can only be seen as a failure.
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A hundred percent. And here is how Mark Kearney responded. He was, uh, in Vancouver at the pride
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parade. And he said in response to us tariff hikes, he said that Canada is strong. We'll continue to try to
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do something constructive with the Americans. Let's play that clip.
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It's, uh, it's, uh, look, uh, Canada is strong. Uh, we can give ourselves far more than anyone can take
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away. We're building this great country. I just met with the premier, uh, building BC, building
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Canada, building in a Canadian way, uh, building sustainably, building together, building positively.
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And that's what we're going to do. And yes, we will, uh, we'll come to something with the
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Americans, something constructive with America. So this is, this is, you know, speaking of prime
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minister, Stephen Harper, right. The steady hand, the economist, a competent leader. We were
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promised that with Mark Kearney, we were promised that he, you know, he has a PhD in economics.
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He's a central banker. He's a steady hand. And instead it seems to me, Alexander,
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that we're getting something more like prime minister, Justin Trudeau, uh, flamboyantly at
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a, at a pride parade. I don't know if they intentionally had this, but this picture really
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went viral of Mark Kearney embracing a man in a pink thong. I, I, I just, I can't believe
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that we are at a place in our world and our civilization where it would be appropriate for
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the prime minister of a G seven nation, a former central banker, an economist, uh, to, to, to
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be embracing, uh, physically touching, um, you know, a man that looks like he's about to
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participate in some kind of a, I don't even want to say, but like, you know, like we're,
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we're, we're celebrating public nudity and obscenity. Um, and you know, just unbelievable things,
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not, not, not family friendly, um, for, for our audience. Uh, like how did, how, how did this
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happen? And what did you make of that? Well, I was worried you were going to show that photo.
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I'd kind of blocked it out from my memory after seeing it yesterday, but it's, I think it's
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concerning that it just looks a whole lot like the last few years, because you have their failure to
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acknowledge that that parade was already ground to a halt by a mob and by, uh, uh, offensive and,
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and, uh, one that sort of pilloried our, our proud Jewish community. Uh, and yet you still have the
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window dressing of hugging naked people. And you know, that's what the last guy did. That's what
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the last guy did. And even in, in that interview before, where he's speaking in front of camera,
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the guy who's standing behind him is the architect of the Vancouver housing crisis.
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And he's proudly standing behind it. And that's the guy that he wants to be his trigger man for
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evidently solving these generational crises. And so that seems a lot like a Trudeau esque
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appointment. And then a day of Trudeau esque behaviors where, you know, I got no problem with
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him, you know, marching in, in, in parades where, where folks are wearing clothes and everyone's,
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you know, behaving themselves, but he's, he's doing the half naked thing. He took a picture with a guy
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in like a, like a furry mask, which is, I'm glad most of your listeners won't know what this is,
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but it's like a kind of fetish as well. And you're going, this guy is the political instincts
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of a baked potato. Like he doesn't, he doesn't know how to act in public with these folks. Trudeau
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was, would take pictures with, with every topless person he ever saw. And so, gee, if you're sitting
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at home and you're frustrated and you feel like we're spinning our wheels, that's going to look
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really familiar and not in a good way. Well, especially on the, you know, in the aftermath
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of the trade failure and the spectacular fail of him to live up to his own image, we're going to get
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to the blocking of the pride parades and the various intersectional feuds in just a second,
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over at Pride. We showed how Carney hugged. I mean, I wonder if it's like maybe the people running his
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advance, maybe his comms team are like the same people held over from Trudeau and they didn't really
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get the memo that the new guy doesn't want to do the same kind of creepy, gross stuff that the old
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guy did, or, you know, maybe he just couldn't help it. But there was also a cloud of controversy among
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these pride praises here. We've seen some past years, but it seems like it has heated up. So we saw
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anti-Israel protesters block the pride parade. And this is the problem with the various coalition of
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the extreme left is that they don't all get along. They don't all agree with each other. They don't all
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believe in the same stuff. And for these people, the anti-Israel, the pro-Hommasnic crowd, every issue
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has to be about them. They have to put themselves in the center. And so here we saw some great reporting
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by the Western Standard. This is not solidarity. Anti-Israel demonstrators clash and blocked the
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Vancouver pride parade. So for the second year in a row, anti-Israel demonstrators blocked the Vancouver
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pride parade, bringing the fun and festivities to a grinding halt. Demonstrators stopped on Pacific
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Street, placing a banner, no pride in genocide on the road. The group faced backlash for members of
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the crowd and eventually kept moving. And you saw one exchange where two people were just yelling at
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each other like, hey, this is our event. This is our, you know, event that we have to celebrate our
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homosexuality and pride and openness, whatever else. And shame on you for trying to make every
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single thing about Palestine and Hamas. Let's play that clip.
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March with us. You didn't stop you from marching in a parade, but you're blocking us from our parade.
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You never stopped you from participating, but you're blocking us now. Shame on all of you.
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You say the word solidarity. That is not solidarity. You're just showing you're bullying. Bullying.
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I mean, I'm not going to disagree. I'm not going to sit here and take one side or the other either.
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I find it amusing. Both these sides love to push your ideologies in our face. Both sides act like
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bullies a lot of the time. But it was interesting to see someone calling out that behavior. What did
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you make of it, Alexander? Yeah, it's I mean, I think it just tells you and because Toronto had a similar
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issue with sort of what some of these parades have morphed into when you have all these different
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special interests and often federally subsidized special interests that become these kind of
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radical groups, which is, you know, they the last few years, they started to see these blockades
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on on the parade line, which which had never happened before. Like Pride in Toronto was always
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like a pretty cohesive, you know, well run thing. And then I think it was like the BLM summers that they
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started grinding to a halt. And then all these other activists don't know what to do because it's you
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know, you don't want to get yourself canceled because it's a real, you know, sort of trap,
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you know, because it's a high wire act, right? It's a high wire act. They've limited their language
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so much. And they're supposed to be these professional solidarity folks.
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Well, they all believe in being allies, right? And they all want others to be allies. And it's
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funny that you mentioned Toronto, because remember, during BLM, they banned police officers from attending.
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And it was, I think it was Chicago that invited Toronto police down because, you know,
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these are people that might want to participate in something like this. And the fact that you don't
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have police, and then, you know, a blockade happens. Well, I don't feel bad that the police
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aren't there to help out when you ban them from attending your your parade, all the all the ACAB
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people hate cops until someone breaks into their house, and they actually need them, you know, like,
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it's there's no activist in a foxhole. And so it's really disappointing that it's, you know,
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there's, again, this, like, permissibility thing they've granted themselves, where it's like,
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where these were these equity folks, we we are just professionally aggrieved about all the world's
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issues. And like, we can't stay over the target on like, the one thing that is supposed to really
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matter to us. But it's okay, if we, you know, if we discriminate against Jewish Canadians, or against,
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you know, whichever group that, you know, doesn't have this sort of permission slip in the moment.
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And it's, it's not what it's supposed to be about. Like, it's, it's, it, it was supposed to be
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about this kind of first, second wave, you know, let's have equal rights, and that's great, and we
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should. And, you know, it's all come together and have a happy day. And now it is just about this,
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it's a degree of indulgence, and a degree of vanity, in a sense, where it's just,
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just every problem imaginable, and every real or perceived disability or disadvantage imaginable,
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when it is, it was principally about everyone just kind of like being strong together. And now
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it's just about like, what grievance can I use to, to gain more social clout over you? And that's not
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good for anybody. And it's, it's certainly not good for Canadian society.
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Well, and this is happening. I mean, here it is, Pride Montreal, or Ferté Montreal,
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also banned Jewish groups from participating in the march. So two Jewish groups said they've been
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excluded from participating in Montreal's upcoming Pride Parade next Sunday, the Jewish LGBTQ plus
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group in Quebec and the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs, a large public political,
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community political organization. So they were informed by the organizers that they would be barred
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from attending a public statement from Ferté Montreal published later in the day,
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does not name either group, but explain that the festival's board of directors had made the decision
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to deny participation in the Pride Parade to organizations spreading hateful discourse.
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So I guess just being Jewish is now a hate crime. I don't know.
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Yeah. Because that hateful discourse, especially if you looked at these groups in the, in the windows
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of permissible speech, they're even allowed to operate within some of that self-inflicted,
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it would be like, Hey, we don't agree with everything. Like our, the Israeli government is doing
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that's word Jewish Canadians. Let's have a nice day together. And that still wouldn't be enough.
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That would still be hateful discourse, which kind of gives away that it's like,
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Oh no, it's just antisemitism. Like, it's just what it is. We've seen it before. It's one of the
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world's great ugly phenomenons. It, it, it, you know, it's ugly head rears itself every, every decade
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or so. And we're sadly going through it again because no, these groups are, they do walk the
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high wire act. They get, they get funding. They, they, they, they say all the right things. They're,
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they're very progressive and they're, you know, friends to all and welcoming and, and that,
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that isn't even enough tells you absolutely everything. Yeah. Part of the problem. And I
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know you've talked about this before Alexander is that when you come to Canada, you're kind of
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expected. I mean, I think that like the history of Canada is you come, you integrate, you assimilate,
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you become Canadian and more and more people who come to Canada are not given that message at all.
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And instead they're told to just sort of remain exactly as they are. And so you have the Palestinian
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special interests and Arabs where their number one issue, like ahead of any issue in Canada,
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their number one issue is about a foreign conflict. One of the many problems with immigration. I want
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to talk to you about this story that came out from Juneau news last week, temporary foreign workers
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now account for 19% of the private sector economy. So one in five workers in the private sector is now
00:22:54.280
not even a permanent resident, not even on track to become a citizen, just someone who's here
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temporarily to, I don't know, provide cheap labor for large corporations or other groups that want
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that kind of worker in. And I mean, it's just, it's just totally wild that that is the priority.
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That is a way that we are organizing our economy. What did you make of the story?
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Yeah, it's, it's, we've never seen anything like it and on not sorry for, for Juneau, I've got a big
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guest this week. I'm excited to share that episode and we're going to really be going into that. But
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for example, like my wife and I, we were on the sunshine coast of British Columbia this weekend.
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We live in Vancouver and we were up in Gibson's and, and went further up the coast and out there
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because it's hard to get to, there's not some big highway. There's a barrier to entry to things like
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the TFW program. And, you know, let's be real, a litany of fake schools. They just don't exist out
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there. And so you actually saw local kids, local 20 somethings, local 30 somethings working in the
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jobs that they've always been able to work in before. And you come back to Vancouver,
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you go to Toronto, you, you go to Calgary, Edmonton, that doesn't exist anymore. And then
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we turn around, we see that 19% stat we see in cities like Toronto, youth unemployment right now
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is estimated to be around 20%. It's probably higher. And we're failing to launch these kids. They're at risk
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of not getting that foot in the door, not getting these sort of seminal experiences
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that they need to develop confidence, to, to, to be part of a team, to, to break out of the bubble,
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to, to, especially with the, the rise of technology and the fight for every second of their attention
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span. It's like, they need to be out there and they need to be working. And the worry is, is they're
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not. And unless we, we hold these sort of TFWP abusers to account and really like force the, the
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government to, to stick to its apparent claims that it wants to revise targets and do a bit of a better
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job, we're going to lose hundreds of thousands of kids just off the bat who are going to just be
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spinning their wheels and miss these key years. And then we're going to turn around and wonder why we have
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even more problems. And then the only solution to that for these companies, and if it's a liberal
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government will be like, well, then let's bring in even more temporary foreign workers. It's like,
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it's a vicious cycle. Right. And here, uh, earlier this summer in the financial post,
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Canada's youth job market slumps among world's major economies. So young Canadians are facing a
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labor market that has deteriorated faster than in any other major advanced economy. So you can't just
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shrug your shoulders and say, this is a global phenomenon. It isn't, it is particularly pronounced in
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Canada. Just check out this chart, Canada's youth unemployment up sharply in two years. That pink
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line folks, that's Canada way above the, uh, the trend of other advanced wealthy nations and the OACD
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average. Um, this is a problem in Canada. Yes, it's a problem in other countries as well, but it's worse
00:25:52.360
in Canada. And Alex, I want to talk to you about this surge in illegal asylum seekers, illegal border
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crossers. They cross into the country. They're not supposed to, right? They come from the United
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States, which is a safe country. And as the safe third country agreement lays out, if you, if you're
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actually a refugee, you'll declare refugee status in the first safe country you arrive in. They don't
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do that. They come across an unmanned border. And here is a story. Quebec border crossing sees a 277
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percent surge in asylum claims. Um, data from CBSA shows over 10,000 asylum claims at one port of entry
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as of July 27th, more than double, um, in the same period in 2024. So I thought this problem was solved.
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Turns out it, it, it hasn't, it's worse than ever. Uh, what do you think?
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Yeah, it just wasn't, you know, there wasn't covered the way it should have by the, the legacy press
00:26:43.760
where it's, you know, the independents have been a massive Juno news has always done great reporting
00:26:47.700
on this and, and formerly true North and a friend of mine, Cosman, who, who does great work with you is,
00:26:53.440
is always on that beat, but even more troubling in, in that number, in that asylum claim number.
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And I've got another stat for you just off the top of my head, just from covering this stuff,
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which is like one in 88 of all people in Canada now are, are considered like asylum seekers or like
00:27:11.380
through asylum of the last few years is that inland asylum claims have jumped. So you have these
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3 million temporary residents now. And we wonder why rent and has gone up and healthcare is, is
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overstretched, but they're, you know, their visa is expiring and they're turning around and going
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like, Oh wait, actually, um, the family farm back home. Like I'm being persecuted back there.
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Even though like my parents sent me over here with money to go to what is largely considered a fake
00:27:42.020
school to like cut, like a cut the corner to a PR. And look, there's some really great people who've
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come. There's, there's no way around that, but there's also been a scam network and a scam network
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predominantly run through these really dodgy institutions that have popped up across the
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country. But now we have hundreds of thousands of, of what looked like fraudulent asylum claims
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coming from inside the country, from people on expiring visas. And like, we have to start saying
00:28:07.680
no to that stuff. And the fact that that number even coming across the Quebec border is that bad,
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you know, put all those together and we have a recipe for disaster. If we're not going to take
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our border seriously and a country, if it is to be a country has to take its border seriously.
00:28:23.440
Well, it's wild that people come to Canada on a, on a temporary visa and then rather than leaving,
00:28:28.480
they just pretend to be an asylum claimant. And there's so many ridiculous rules. Like I was reading
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about this the other day, um, that while people have pending asylum claims saying that they're
00:28:36.400
persecuted in their country of origin, sometimes they go back, they're allowed to go back and like
00:28:40.100
visit family and go on vacation. Yeah, they go back for Christmas. And so how persecuted are you?
00:28:44.260
Exactly. This is, this was a big story maybe a decade ago. I don't know if you're paying attention
00:28:47.460
to politics back then, Alexander, but Mary Amonsef, who was a minister in Justin Trudeau's government
00:28:51.600
was in this situation, right? She claimed to have been born in Afghanistan, turned out she was born in
00:28:56.520
Iran and she would frequently go back and go on vacation and go visit family in both Afghanistan
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and Iran. And I just wonder like, how can you be a persecuted person? How can you claim with a
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straight face? And how can a judge agree with you that you would be persecuted? You would, you have
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a, uh, you know, a well-founded belief in persecution. If you can just literally go back
00:29:15.100
and visit family and go on vacation, like to me, those two things don't connect at all.
00:29:19.880
Yeah. If you're going back for your birthday and, uh, you know, someone's grandma is, is turning a
00:29:25.080
hundred, some big, beautiful centennial. It just, it, it's a system that's just being taken
00:29:30.280
advantage of. And whether this was like a willful ignorance thing, or we thought in our good nature
00:29:35.960
that no one would ever just completely hoodwink us. Well, there's like a cold reality of like the
00:29:43.040
modern era, which is, there is an industrial complex of scammers and scumbags and these sort
00:29:50.740
of military aged males, the world over who are giving Europe a hard time as well, that want to take
00:29:57.260
advantage of your potential kindly nature or your willful ignorance. And so it's, it's, we have to
00:30:04.640
adjust. Like, I don't want to be having these conversations in August. I just want like a,
00:30:08.880
it's supposed to be a wonderful, relaxing summer, but we have a country like that just keeps cutting
00:30:13.700
itself off at the knees. Like we talk about Trump, you know, and, and, and some of the problems he's
00:30:19.520
given us these days, but like no one gives Canada bigger problems than Canada. And like, if we're not
00:30:24.780
even going to be serious about real asylum claims and there are real asylum claims and they're good
00:30:30.720
people who are in tough situations that like would be happy to integrate and we could do right by
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instead, we're just letting everyone in. They all were going to these hotels and in, in like places
00:30:40.320
like Etobicoke and we were giving them cash and they were doing next to absolutely nothing. And then
00:30:45.880
Ontario premier Doug Ford almost made matters worse by saying, I'm going to just give them all jobs
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during a youth unemployment crisis in Ontario. I saw that. And it's, it's truly unbelievable. I
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mean, we reported this at Juneau news, $2.6 billion just spent on hotels for asylum seekers. We had
00:31:02.680
another big story about how the majority, uh, 64% of immigrants are not paying their bill
00:31:08.680
on a government loan. Governments were handing out zero interest loans. People are not even bothering,
00:31:13.840
uh, to make the payments. This is just the tip of the iceberg, Alexander, which is why we're so
00:31:17.660
pleased to have you, uh, part of Juneau news and bringing these reports, uh, to our audience
00:31:22.040
folks, check out Alexander Brown's new show, not sorry here on Juneau news. Thank you so
00:31:26.360
much for joining us today. Hey, thanks for having me. I'm really excited for our episode
00:31:30.160
this week and a big fan and, uh, look forward to, uh, to hearing more. All right. Thank you
00:31:35.480
so much. And focus all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for tuning in. We'll
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be back again tomorrow with all the news. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm