Carney and Poilievre FIGHT over ending foreign worker program
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Today, Conservative Party Leader, Pierre Polyvencic, said he wants to see the temporary foreign worker program come to an end. Prime Minister Mark Carney has now reiterated his support for the TFW program, which is quite possibly one of the least popular aspects of Canada s current immigration system.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. It's been a very good day rhetorically for Pierre Polyev and the
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Conservative Party. Since the federal election, you have to give them credit that they've been
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moving in the right direction when it comes to immigration. During the election, Polyev and
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the Conservatives merely ran on reducing the cap the Liberals had on new permanent residents from
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around 395,000 per year down to 200,000 to 250,000 per year, which feels like a tepid improvement
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when in fact the problem is there are already too many people here and we need the cap so low
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that we have more people leaving than coming in. And right now, Polyev's position is having net
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negative migration flow. But today he one-upped himself in a fantastic way by saying he wants to
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see the temporary foreign worker program come to an end. And somehow, Prime Minister Mark Carney
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completely fumbled this issue and he has now reiterated his support for the TFW program,
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which is quite possibly one of the least popular aspects of Canada's current immigration system.
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But we will be getting into the details in just a second. First off, I just want to remind you guys
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as a speaker. So check out the link below for that. But anyways, I want to start off with the video of
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Pierre Polyev making his announcement on the TFW program. It is a two and a half minute clip, but I
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don't perceive that I'm going to show the entire thing. I really want to jump over to Mark Carney trying
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to defend the TFW program. We have already seen in Abacus data, the Conservatives lead the Liberals
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around 51% on this issue. When you ask people who is best positioned to handling the immigration issue,
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you will literally have like 65% of people select the Conservatives and like 15% say Liberal. It's
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absolutely insane how even though the Liberals won the last election, a majority of Canadians, quite a large
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majority of Canadians, do point at Polyev and the Conservatives and say, yeah, those guys would
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probably be better at, you know, one of the biggest issues in the country. All the Liberals have, and
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they have it in shrinking fashion, is the issue of Donald Trump and the Americans because they're
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super anti-American, but that's proving not to be very effective in the long run. Anyways, but here
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is Conservative Party leader, Pierre Polyev, making this announcement today.
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And let's be honest, young people today form what I call generation screwed. Let's look at the situation
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for this generation is the first generation that cannot afford a home in Canadian history. And now
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the double gut punch, they have the highest or the worst employment numbers of any group of young
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people since the, since the late 1990s. So you can't get a job. And even if you did have a job,
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you can never buy a home after 10 years of Liberal government. Liberals doubled housing costs. They
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unleash crime and chaos in our communities with their soft laws. They broke our immigration system
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by allowing too many, too many, too fast, too easily to come into the country. And they have destroyed our
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economy by pushing investment out of our country. Now, Mark Carney promised that he would be different.
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He has been worse, worse than Justin Trudeau in almost every objective measurement. Let's go to the
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promises. He promised to build baby build. Well, far from doubling home building, as he promised,
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home building is expected to drop by 13 percent, according to his own housing agency.
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But I just want to quickly pause it on this point, because I know there are going to be some people out
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there arguing, well, he's only been prime minister for a little over 170 days. The problem with an
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excuse like that is that Carney was the economic adviser to Justin Trudeau. So he had influence
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over a lot of policy even before he became prime minister. And if he was truly going to make it easier
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to build in Canada, if he had already even made motions towards wanting to loosen regulations and get
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provinces to make it so that's easier to get a permit, I'm not in favor of blanket rezoning.
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What we need is just permits faster, not permits being super slow. But if you do get one as a
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company, at least we'll let you build something super big in a neighborhood that doesn't want it.
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You can you can still have like proper zoning laws as well as be building a lot. But the thing is that
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Carney has not been able to gird up confidence in our housing market at all. And you even had the
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housing minister, whatever, something Gregor or whatever, former mayor of Vancouver,
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he already assured people, no, no, no, we're not going to do anything that's going to lower the
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pricing of price of housing. It's like we're kind of at the point where you do need housing to be
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cheaper. Sorry, I don't care about the person who bought their house in 1992 and would like it to be
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worth five times more than they bought it for back then. You don't exactly you're not entitled to your
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house having a maintained like bubble value. You eventually do need to build enough homes so that
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people can live. But so, yeah, that he's absolutely right there that if Carney actually did his job,
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actually started trying to deregulate, actually started trying to put pressure on the provinces
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to permit faster without destroying zoning laws, you could actually have already had projections
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raised drastically of builders wanting to get into the market right now because it's about to become
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super easy to build. As for major national projects, five months in and there's not a single
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national project that Mr Carney has even identified, much less permitted, much less having shovels in the
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ground, not one pipeline, not one mine, not one major expansion of a port. All we have is meetings,
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offices, new bureaucracies, new high paid big shots with high with big salaries who have thus far
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achieved absolutely nothing. The time has come for decisive action to stop the liberals from using
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our immigration system to pad the pockets of corporate elites and other insiders at the expense
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of Canadian jobs. Again, the principle is very simple. The principle is very simple. Canadian jobs,
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for Canadian workers, Canada first, Canada always. That's why Conservatives are calling on the Carney
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government to permanently scrap the temporary foreign worker program and to stop issuing visas
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for any new temporary foreign workers coming into the country. Under this proposal, existing permit...
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And what you can also do with that, and we don't maybe need to listen to the rest of it because it's
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just becoming the detail. They also need to absolutely review whoever put into place the LMIA
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program, the labor market impact assessment, because those have been thrown out like candy.
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You can get a designation that you need a temporary foreign worker because you can't find a Canadian.
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In the most ridiculous of circumstances, I believe it was Jonathan Kaye or Tristan Hopper the other day,
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who showed that there were jobs being listed at $35 an hour, and yet somehow they couldn't actually
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find a Canadian to fill those jobs. It was like supervisor or manager jobs in which that's a good
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income, $79,000 a year to be a fast food restaurant manager. You're going to find a Canadian who's willing
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to take $35 an hour. That's a pretty good salary. Not like knocking people's socks off, but someone
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will accept that. But somehow, they ended up getting a labor force impact assessment saying,
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oh yes, you need someone from a different country. And then they bring in a worker who then has a
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subsidized wage in order to fill the job, despite us having very, very high unemployment right now,
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especially with younger men. But now we are going to move over to Mark Carney's response to all this,
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where he tries to justify the temporary foreign worker program. This was actually in the same press
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conference I highlighted earlier today in another video, where he got very perturbed at a journalist
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asking him about flip-flopping on the issue of Trump and the Americans.
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Mr. Paliyev called this morning on the government to scrap the temporary foreign worker program. Is it time
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to shut the program down? Well, I would say the following, which is that that program has a
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We are back into the ums and oz, Carney. As soon as he doesn't know what he's going to say,
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the ums and oz start parading out role. It has to be focused in terms of its role.
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And it's part of what we're doing. It's part of what we will be discussing how well the temporary
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foreign worker program is working and how our overall immigration system is working. We've been
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absolutely clear as a government that we want and we're putting in place policies so that the
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overall level of immigration as proportion of the population will decline from around seven
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percent today to around five percent several years from now. Now, the biggest contributor to
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immigration is not temporary foreign workers. It's a variety of other factors. But it is a major
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contributor to unemployment. And him saying, well, you know, the TFWs are not actually the biggest
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problem when it comes to the actual rise in the population because they are, you know, technically
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they are temporary and many to go back, although many do not go back. But it's like, well, it seems like
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you're now proving too much through your argument for the TFW program. Well, you know, it's not that
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bad. It's not really adding that many people. Well, yeah, because other things also need to be heavily
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reduced, like the amount of new permanent residents, like the amount of students. Those also need to be
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slashed heavily. And so when he says like, oh, we will have to review how well this program is working.
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Everyone knows the program is not working. That's what always signals to me that Carney is really not
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going to reverse a lot of orthodox liberal dogma, like dogma policies while he's at the prime minister,
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because if he wanted to, he could have already done it. In fact, I would be sitting here praising him
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right now. If he got rid of the TFW program or slashed immigration by like 80%, I'd be like,
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you know what? Maybe he's a liberal I can at least approve of sometimes. At least he's actually
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somewhat doing a good job in certain areas. Hasn't touched any of them. He could be popular if he
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wanted, but there's something inside him that truly believes these things that, you know, it would be
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evil to reduce immigration. That would be somehow like not liberal of him to do. I'm not sure if I have
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this statement saved, but I want to find a tweet I had earlier where somebody was saying that like,
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oh, no, no, it was about Danielle Smith opposing the TFW program and just the level of immigration
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in general, because Alberta has been taking on so much. And she was talking about it in her Calgary
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Next panels in these different town halls around the province. And there was this person interviewed
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by CTV News and they're like, well, I don't like when we start talking about there being too many
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immigrants, because it feels like we're scapegoating people or like we're scapegoating
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immigrants as the problem. It's like, well, no one's looking at like, it's that guy right over
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there and like, get them. But nobody's doing that. We're saying the number that we are bringing in
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is not helpful to the country. There are too many people. There are too few houses. There are too few
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available jobs. And so we don't really want people from other countries moving in in mass, especially when
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we have not had a very good record of assimilation. We very much have a lot of enclaves around Canada.
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That's why Surrey, that's why Brampton, that's why Abbotsford, you end up with basically them
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becoming enclaves specifically for South Asian or Pakistani or Muslim Canadians. It's not good for
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the country to have these areas where suddenly you go in and it's just 70% people from a very specific
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region of the world who have only been here for a generation or two, because then you end up getting
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cultural gaps all over the country, whereby crossing the street, you're basically not in
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Canada anymore, because those people don't really know what Canada even is. They moved into a
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neighborhood where everyone came from, generally the region they were from, and so they've never
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really cared about certain values that are in our charter and our Bill of Rights.
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Anyways, getting back to the Carney clip, I'll let him keep fumbling around here.
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And I will say, when I talk to businesses around the country, especially, particularly in Quebec,
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but elsewhere across the country, their number one issue is tariffs and their number two issue is
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Okay. Oh yes, of course. That's the two big things for people. They just want more of them. What was that?
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Number two issue is when I talk to businesses around the country, especially, particularly in
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Quebec, but elsewhere across the country, their number one issue is tariffs and their number two
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issue is access to temporary foreign workers. He's lying. He's either lying or business owners
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are so whipped at this point that they don't even say, can you lower my taxes? Can you lower regulations?
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Can you make it easier for me to pay employees? Instead, maybe, maybe there are some business
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owners who know the answer is no. And so their only way of actually becoming more profitable in any way
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is asking the government, can you give me more subsidized workers? But that will eventually run out.
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And I am actually disappointed in the business community for putting up with stuff like this.
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Just ask for a tax cut. Say, if you do not give me a tax cut, I and all my friends will vote
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conservative because I actually want to run my own business the way I want to, rather than begging so
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that I get subsidized employees just so I can make it to the end of the year. It's one of those big
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kind of blind spots in Canadian politics. We just, not we, but you know, people who vote liberal,
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just let them get away with the idea that they're standing up for the Canadian economy
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when they won't even cut taxes. Oh, but they are bringing in a middle class tax cut,
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1% off the rate of taxes or people making under $50,000 a year. I know that applies to everyone's
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income under 50,000, but for most people, big whoop, that doesn't even abstractly make their lives much
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better at all. But the thing is like, why, if you truly care about Canada, why not make it easier to
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do business in Canada than it is to do business in the United States?
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For the moment, it's clear that we can improve our overall immigration policies. We're working on
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So thank you for rebel news for clipping that today. I've been using a few of their clips today,
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but my goodness, he could have just said, okay, I do see that people have a lot of problems with the
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TFW program and with the LMIA reports. How about we, you know, we're, we're going to probably ratchet
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back. If he just said that it would be like, oh my goodness, at least he listens. He was like,
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well, we will review it. And then the only thing he said about the program is, you know,
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Quebec business owners love it. And considering how much the liberals rely on Quebec for seats,
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if that's truly something he's heard, which I don't even exactly believe, at least I believe
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he thinks that that's what people think, that he is not going to back off this at all. Because
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when pressed on TFW programs, the only thing he could talk about was how much certain people he's
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talked to really like it. So it's not going to change. Anyways. So with that being said,
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