The Candice Malcolm Show - The Trudeau Liberals are making a mockery of our immigration system

00:00:00.340 Elections have consequences and the Trudeau Liberals are making a mockery of Canada's immigration system and therefore our entire country.

00:00:07.380 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:14.300 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program. We appreciate you coming to True North for your news and analysis.

00:00:20.920 Hope everyone had a great weekend. And I want to talk today about this story that is just really shocking.

00:00:26.700 It's shocking, but it's not surprising. This is a story over in the Toronto Sun about the Liberals making changes to our immigration system to make it much easier.

00:00:36.740 Lauren Gunter broke this story over the weekend. Now I know you might be thinking to yourself, making Canada's immigration system much easier.

00:00:45.140 Canada's immigration system is already laughably easier. But yes, it is possible and we are watching it.

00:00:51.580 The Trudeau government is going to make Canada's immigration system even easier than it already is.

00:00:57.320 I'm going to explain that in a few moments. But first, I just want to say elections matter. Elections have consequences.

00:01:03.460 They have immediate consequences and they have long-term consequences for the country.

00:01:07.740 So the immediate things, more Liberals became members of Parliament. There's going to be more Liberals working in Ottawa, more staffers, more people in the civil service.

00:01:16.040 Ottawa will become a more politically liberal town. Those are the short-term kinds of things.

00:01:20.480 There are also long-term consequences. And we know this because we can look at the way that Justin Trudeau is spending.

00:01:25.940 We can look at the debt trajectory. The Parliamentary Budget Office predicted that we will be running deficits in this country until 2070 if we stay on Justin Trudeau's path.

00:01:35.100 So we know that the fiscal side of the country has consequences. We will all be poor in the future because of Justin Trudeau.

00:01:41.500 But there are also cultural consequences. There are also things that happen in an election that will shape the future of our country,

00:01:48.880 that will impact every single citizen in this country. And I'm talking about immigration.

00:01:54.280 So Justin Trudeau has now been elected for a third time.

00:01:57.780 And in the six years that he's been in power, he's been busy quietly and cynically unraveling our immigration and citizenship program

00:02:05.740 for the benefit of the Liberal Party and his own electoral success.

00:02:10.920 So in 2015, Justin Trudeau first got elected on this grand pledge to let 50,000 Syrian refugees into the country.

00:02:18.300 The program was a complete mess. I was one of the reporters that was constantly breaking news stories,

00:02:23.920 looking into this program, pointing out all of the problems with an immigration program based on an election campaign promise.

00:02:31.880 It was so rushed. It was so chaotic. Canada was literally willing to take any Syrian who was willing to come. 1.00

00:02:38.040 We weren't helping the people who were most in need. We were helping the people who were at the front of the line.

00:02:42.940 And the government skipped very serious immigration screening programs that were typically in place for people,

00:02:50.040 especially coming from a war zone like Syria, especially a civil war where there are sort of bad guys on multiple sides.

00:02:55.700 It's not like a clean cut. You know, when you think of a war like in Nazi Germany,

00:03:00.100 it was like the Jews were the ones that needed to be protected. The Nazis were the bad guys. 0.82

00:03:04.220 Our refugee system would not have taken Nazis. It was taking Jews. 1.00

00:03:07.800 In Syria, it was much more complicated, much more complex.

00:03:10.860 There were warring factions and kind of bad people on all sides.

00:03:14.120 Obviously, there's some good people, too, but bad people on all sides.

00:03:16.980 So it required a lot more precision.

00:03:19.540 And instead, Trudeau put us on this artificial expedited timeline to rush people in.

00:03:24.880 It was bad for the country.

00:03:25.940 And I started writing about it in early 2016.

00:03:29.660 I released a book called Losing True North, Justin Trudeau's Assault on Canadian Citizenship.

00:03:33.800 It became a huge seller.

00:03:35.380 People still, I still get messages and emails from people who have read the book and appreciate it

00:03:40.840 because I really outlined all of the concerns and problems I had with Justin Trudeau's citizenship strategy

00:03:47.500 and the way that they use the immigration system to benefit themselves.

00:03:50.880 And so some of the things Justin Trudeau did in his first room of office when he had that majority government, inexplicably,

00:03:57.240 he removed language requirements for many new Canadians.

00:03:59.980 So anyone who was coming into the country who was already in their 50s no longer had to bother to learn French or English.

00:04:05.500 He made it easier for people to become citizens without even living in Canada.

00:04:09.780 So he loosened the residency required.

00:04:12.060 Can you imagine you get to come to Canada for a couple months, apply for citizenship,

00:04:16.140 and then you don't even have to stay in the country and you can still become a citizen even though you're not a resident of Canada.

00:04:21.620 It's absolutely wild.

00:04:23.700 On top of that, he also increased the family sponsorship.

00:04:27.100 So he reduced the economic category, increased the family sponsorship program

00:04:31.860 to allow more elderly immigrants to come to the country through a program called the Parents and Grandparents Program.

00:04:37.240 Just think about that for a second.

00:04:39.320 It's a complete contradiction to the stated purpose of our immigration system. 0.94

00:04:43.640 The whole idea behind why Canada accepts immigrants and allows people to come to our country supposedly is for economic reasons.

00:04:50.120 We have an aging population.

00:04:51.900 More and more Canadians are retiring and relying more heavily on our pension programs, the CPP, as well as other entitlements.

00:05:00.020 We have this very expensive entitlement state that needs to get funded.

00:05:03.540 We need more young workers coming into the country.

00:05:06.100 The whole system of our economic program is designed around rules-based and skill-based programs.

00:05:11.480 We have a point system that's the envy of the world.

00:05:13.460 A lot of other countries have come to Canada to study our point system to try to get a better idea of how to attract the best immigrants that are going to succeed in Canada.

00:05:22.020 Well, the Trudeau government started undermining that and allowing old people to come, allowing people who have no interest in living in Canada, 1.00

00:05:29.880 allowing people who have no interest in joining the Canadian community.

00:05:33.140 So essentially, the Liberals just began giving away citizenship, not to people who wanted to come to Canada, to join the Canadian family, to contribute to our society and our country,

00:05:42.320 not to people who wanted to become Canadian, just to people who potentially wanted to take advantage of our generosity,

00:05:48.440 get the Canadian passport, and then head back to wherever they came from. 0.60

00:05:52.520 These are not people who want to live here.

00:05:54.180 They don't want to bother learning the language.

00:05:55.620 They don't want to bother paying taxes.

00:05:56.840 Instead, many of them probably don't even care about Canadian values, our civil society, our communities, or our national unity.

00:06:04.360 They don't.

00:06:04.800 They care about the passport.

00:06:06.160 That's why they're doing it.

00:06:06.840 They want the Canadian passport.

00:06:08.100 It's like an insurance policy, except for one that you never have to actually pay into.

00:06:13.040 Instead, you just have this passport, and just in case something bad happens.

00:06:16.560 If you get sick and you want free health care, if the country you live in falls apart and you want a safe place to go,

00:06:21.420 if you have kids that want to go to university, but you don't want to have to pay international student rates,

00:06:26.460 you keep this passport.

00:06:27.660 That's what it's there for.

00:06:28.940 It's for the future.

00:06:29.840 It's like an insurance policy.

00:06:31.040 It's not necessarily about Canada.

00:06:32.580 It's not about our country and building a better country.

00:06:35.580 It's basically about giving away passports and making sure that these people will always vote for the Liberals.

00:06:41.080 That's why the Liberals also changed the law to allow people who don't live in Canada, 0.99

00:06:44.780 who are Canadian citizens, to vote in elections.

00:06:47.000 That's a key component of it, because you give away the passports, people go live abroad, 0.99

00:06:51.080 they're taking advantage of the generosity, but they can still vote in the election to make sure that the Liberals get re-elected.

00:06:57.840 So the Liberals don't care about any of this.

00:06:59.260 They don't care that there are people out there taking advantage of our generosity.

00:07:02.040 They don't care about the fact that Canada's citizenship, our passport, has been cheapened.

00:07:06.220 It's like becoming the laughingstock of the entire world.

00:07:08.800 People know how easy it is to get Canadian citizenship.

00:07:11.640 They know that we basically give it away for free, and so anyone who wants it can come and get it.

00:07:16.420 The Liberals don't care.

00:07:17.200 They want our immigration system to be a recruiting tool for Liberal voters.

00:07:21.760 That's what it's all about.

00:07:22.880 They're willing to sell everything.

00:07:25.000 They're willing to diminish the value of our passport, diminish the value of being Canadian,

00:07:29.180 all in exchange for the power and the ability to run this country.

00:07:33.780 It's completely cynical.

00:07:35.300 And again, I outlined all of that in my 2016 bestseller, Losing True North.

00:07:39.520 Now, since I wrote Losing True North in early 2016, another fatal weakness in our immigration 1.00

00:07:45.060 system has presented itself, this time in the form of rampant illegal border crossers coming

00:07:50.660 into Canada via places like Roxham Road or in Emerson, people coming into Canada illegally 0.55

00:07:56.540 crossing the border so that they can get refugee status.

00:08:00.460 And I detail all of this in a second book I wrote about Canada's immigration system called

00:08:04.480 No Border. 0.59

00:08:05.300 This one talks about the various threats to our country through this policy of essentially

00:08:09.640 not enforcing our immigration rules.

00:08:11.800 There are national security threats, there are rule of law threats, and not to mention

00:08:15.900 the exorbitant cost of housing and welcoming all of these refugee claimants, many of whom 1.00

00:08:20.980 are bogus.

00:08:22.360 And so the whole idea, the very first thing that you are doing in Canada, like the first

00:08:27.100 thing you're doing in the new country that you want to live in, is breaking the law and

00:08:31.300 crossing into the country illegally.

00:08:32.800 What does that say about the people who are coming and what does it say about their respect

00:08:36.860 to the country?

00:08:37.760 They don't even respect the basic laws of Canada.

00:08:40.740 How can we expect them to be contributing members?

00:08:43.580 If they're starting off the relationship in Canada on a lie, on doing something illegally,

00:08:49.320 that's what No Border is about.

00:08:51.060 And I encourage you to go check those out.

00:08:53.960 Well, it's only been one week since Justin Trudeau and his Liberals have been re-elected for

00:08:58.100 a third time, and we already learn about the latest iteration of the Trudeau Liberals using

00:09:03.480 our immigration system to their own partisan political advantage, basically eliminating 0.92

00:09:08.460 our rules-based system and replacing it with a big everyone-welcome sign.

00:09:13.160 So again, I'm talking about this report in the Toronto Sun this morning, written by Lauren

00:09:16.300 Gunter, says Liberals to make immigration to Canada much easier.

00:09:20.700 So I'll just read a little bit from this story.

00:09:23.200 It says, the Trudeau Liberals are planning to remove nearly all grounds the Immigration 1.00

00:09:27.440 Department uses to exclude applicants, the Toronto Sun has learned.

00:09:31.260 It has been the Trudeau government's goal since 2020 to increase Canada's intake of

00:09:35.440 immigrants and refugees by nearly one-third to 400,000 annually.

00:09:39.800 How they plan to achieve this elevated level is outlined in an internal draft document sent

00:09:43.700 to immigration and refugee judges, documents that have been exclusively shared with the Sun.

00:09:48.920 In an email sent to staff and adjudicators on September 20th, Richard Wex, the

00:09:53.160 Liberals appointee as chairman and chief executive officer of the Immigration and Refugee Board

00:09:57.900 of Canada, laid out a massive expansion of the reasons immigrants can be allowed to enter

00:10:03.040 and stay in Canada.

00:10:05.040 Under the new guidelines contained in a document marked draft and covered by solicitor-client

00:10:09.780 privilege, civil service officers who do initial screenings of immigrant and refugee

00:10:14.120 claims, plus the immigration and refugee judges who hear appeals of the officer's decisions,

00:10:19.820 are instructed to accept any applicant who has an intersectional claim.

00:10:24.800 So let me just explain what this is saying.

00:10:26.900 So basically when an asylum seeker comes to Canada, like I described, the ones that cross 1.00

00:10:30.300 illegally at Roxham Road or some people come with an illegal passport and land at the airport,

00:10:35.640 others just come as visitors and then stay and decide to make a refugee claim, and then others

00:10:41.000 are applying from all over the world.

00:10:42.480 So any of these applications, they come into immigration offices and many of them are presented

00:10:46.880 in front of a refugee judge.

00:10:48.520 So if you are making an asylum claim by Canadian law, you're given the right to a fair hearing

00:10:53.000 and due process, and that includes presenting your case in front of an immigration judge.

00:10:56.800 So basically this new edict is going out to all of these people, anyone who is applying

00:11:01.540 legally through offices around the world, or people who have come to Canada illegally

00:11:05.780 or on false pretenses and are making applications.

00:11:09.040 All of these people are all being told this one edict, which is basically to accept anyone

00:11:14.380 who has an intersectional claim.

00:11:16.800 So I'll keep reading from this story from Lauren Gunter over in the Sun.

00:11:20.200 It says, intersectionality is defined as two or more of the following, race, religious, being

00:11:26.280 indigenous, political beliefs, socioeconomic status, age, sexual orientation, culture, disability,

00:11:33.500 or immigration status.

00:11:35.000 And these are things that impact an individual's lived experience of discrimination, marginalization,

00:11:41.000 or oppression.

00:11:42.300 Okay.

00:11:42.560 So just think about this for a second.

00:11:43.880 And we're talking about people who come to Canada and make a refugee claim or people

00:11:48.440 who want to come to Canada through our legal immigration system.

00:11:51.580 And they have to fit two or more of these categories, right?

00:11:55.200 So race, I don't really know what that means.

00:11:57.980 Presumably it just means anyone who's not white.

00:12:00.200 Religion, again, I don't know what that means.

00:12:01.940 Presumably it just means anyone who's not a Christian.

00:12:04.620 Being indigenous, presumably that just means anyone who's from a different place. 0.88

00:12:09.260 Anyone can be an indigenous of any place.

00:12:11.600 That's the term indigenous means that.

00:12:14.460 Political beliefs.

00:12:15.600 Okay.

00:12:15.980 So I guess that would mean someone who's a minority, who's of the minority political

00:12:20.260 beliefs.

00:12:20.660 So if you just disagree with your country, disagree with the government.

00:12:24.460 Socioeconomic status.

00:12:25.440 So people who are poor, presumably most immigrants are not wealthy people. 0.99

00:12:29.160 Presumably most of them have a lower socioeconomic status.

00:12:32.420 Age.

00:12:32.800 I don't know, again, if that would be people who are very young or people who are very old.

00:12:37.680 Sexual orientation. 0.59

00:12:38.420 That's always been a deciding factor in our immigration system, or at least it has been

00:12:42.040 for the last few decades.

00:12:43.780 That if you come to Canada and claim that you are being discriminated against because you're

00:12:47.820 gay and you come from a country that doesn't accept gay people, Canada lets you. 1.00

00:12:51.080 And that's part of our immigration. 0.98

00:12:52.420 That's part of our refugee determination system.

00:12:54.520 So that one's not new.

00:12:56.280 But culture.

00:12:57.500 So what?

00:12:58.240 Someone who's not Western.

00:12:59.880 Disability or immigration status.

00:13:02.080 Immigration status is part of being intersectional.

00:13:04.400 So just by virtue of them wanting to come to Canada, their immigration status would be

00:13:08.400 that they're not citizens and therefore they're discriminated against.

00:13:11.600 So this is basically saying any person, any person on planet Earth, anyone in the entire

00:13:16.180 world, perhaps aside from Europeans or affluent people, anyone in the entire world, even affluent

00:13:21.660 people from developing countries, could find a way that two or more of those things would

00:13:26.760 apply to them.

00:13:27.380 So essentially, this is saying that anybody, for any reason, who wants to come to Canada

00:13:31.580 can come.

00:13:32.360 So our entire immigration system is now based on innate characteristics, things that you're 0.89

00:13:36.560 born with that you have no say over.

00:13:38.680 This is race-based identity politics.

00:13:41.020 This is dividing our country.

00:13:42.920 Instead of creating unity, we're dividing ourselves into these categories and we're often

00:13:47.620 pitted against each other.

00:13:48.940 In this case, if you can check off enough boxes, you get to come to Canada.

00:13:53.320 No questions asked.

00:13:54.300 I'll read a little bit more from this Toronto Sun story.

00:13:56.240 It says no longer will claimants need to prove, for instance, that they face torture or death

00:14:01.000 if forced to return to their home countries, nor will they have to satisfy the UN's definition

00:14:05.500 of a refugee.

00:14:06.860 Now, if they merely claim they have been discriminated against or persecuted for being poor and old,

00:14:12.380 indigenous or holding political views targeted by some developing country strongmen, in the

00:14:16.900 liberals come.

00:14:18.080 One of the principal tasks of the immigration officers and judges is to determine whether a

00:14:22.140 claimant is telling the truth.

00:14:23.340 The true to liberals have covered that one too.

00:14:25.900 Chairperson Wex instructs his staff and judges to remember that trauma, whether physical or

00:14:31.060 emotional, can cause people to recollect information or incidents incorrectly.

00:14:36.660 Therefore, if applicants provide evidence that turns out to be false, it may not be because

00:14:41.120 they're lying.

00:14:42.100 Rather, they might just be misremembering due to the lingering stress caused by trauma.

00:14:47.620 Don't exclude them.

00:14:48.660 So again, folks, this is just making a complete and absolute mockery of our immigration system. 1.00

00:14:54.060 About 10 years ago, I worked in the immigration department.

00:14:56.640 I was press secretary to the immigration minister.

00:14:59.680 And let me just say, I saw a lot of things that made me much more cynical when it came

00:15:03.460 to our immigration system.

00:15:05.100 I liked the idea that Canada was open.

00:15:06.960 I liked the idea that we accepted people from all over the world and gave them a shot to come

00:15:10.780 to Canada to have a better lot in life.

00:15:13.140 People who wanted to come to Canada, people who love Canada.

00:15:15.520 And let me be clear, I saw a lot of that.

00:15:17.600 And I think that that is still the majority of people who want to come to Canada come in

00:15:22.600 this category.

00:15:23.560 However, what I did notice and what I didn't know before was that there is a significant

00:15:27.680 part of the immigration program that is filled with people who don't have these intentions,

00:15:32.040 people who want to come take advantage of our generosity, people who don't care about

00:15:35.720 Canada, people who only care about either abusing the system and trying to find ways to benefit

00:15:41.020 themselves, people who might be from nefarious adversarial countries like Iran, who are coming 1.00

00:15:47.140 to do harm to our country or to try to manipulate it, people coming to, for instance, raise money

00:15:52.440 for terrorist groups, those sorts of things.

00:15:54.720 I saw a lot of things that made me much more hardened when it comes to our immigration system.

00:15:59.900 And I think it's important that we just not be naive, that we not be naive, that we

00:16:03.200 recognize that people do come.

00:16:05.020 The thing that I took solace in, however, when I worked in immigration, was the civil servants

00:16:09.560 who work in the immigration department, the judges, the officials, the people who preside

00:16:13.420 over the system, they've seen it all.

00:16:15.400 They've seen it all.

00:16:16.480 Many of them are much more cynical even than me.

00:16:19.560 They recognize that there are people all over the world who want to cheat the system, who

00:16:22.800 want to come to Canada, who want to take advantage.

00:16:24.880 And because of that, they didn't put up with this kind of nonsense.

00:16:28.080 They believed in the letter of the law.

00:16:31.380 They followed the rules to the T.

00:16:33.180 And Canada actually has a significant body of rules and laws that protect our country from

00:16:38.700 nefarious actors and from people trying to take advantage of our generosity.

00:16:42.280 The system is there.

00:16:43.260 The laws are there.

00:16:44.020 The rules are there.

00:16:44.820 It's actually quite hard to come to Canada if you're following the letter of the law.

00:16:48.660 But this is the problem, is that all of these schemes and all of these changes that the

00:16:52.220 Trudeau government is making are designed to weaken the system, designed to prevent those

00:16:56.960 civil servants and those judges from doing their job and making sure people aren't coming

00:17:00.740 in for the wrong reasons.

00:17:02.480 And instead, just taking away, chipping away at our laws, making it easier and easier

00:17:06.820 and easier and easier.

00:17:08.140 And here we are today where you don't even have to tell the truth.

00:17:11.660 You can be caught lying about your application.

00:17:14.300 They just count that up to trauma and they say that it's okay if you lie because it's not

00:17:19.980 your fault.

00:17:21.260 You can still come to Canada.

00:17:22.660 This is a complete and utter joke.

00:17:24.820 Canadians need to know about this.

00:17:26.140 Canadians need to be aware of this.

00:17:27.680 Canadians need to stand up against this.

00:17:30.080 Otherwise, our rules and laws simply no longer apply.

00:17:33.660 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

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The Candice Malcolm Show - September 27, 2021

The Trudeau Liberals are making a mockery of our immigration system

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