The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney and Poilievre FIGHT over ending foreign worker program

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. It's been a very good day rhetorically for Pierre Polyev and the

00:00:06.560 Conservative Party. Since the federal election, you have to give them credit that they've been

00:00:11.420 moving in the right direction when it comes to immigration. During the election, Polyev and

00:00:16.980 the Conservatives merely ran on reducing the cap the Liberals had on new permanent residents from

00:00:22.540 around 395,000 per year down to 200,000 to 250,000 per year, which feels like a tepid improvement

00:00:31.040 when in fact the problem is there are already too many people here and we need the cap so low

00:00:36.960 that we have more people leaving than coming in. And right now, Polyev's position is having net

00:00:43.300 negative migration flow. But today he one-upped himself in a fantastic way by saying he wants to

00:00:49.860 see the temporary foreign worker program come to an end. And somehow, Prime Minister Mark Carney

00:00:56.120 completely fumbled this issue and he has now reiterated his support for the TFW program,

00:01:03.160 which is quite possibly one of the least popular aspects of Canada's current immigration system.

00:01:09.260 But we will be getting into the details in just a second. First off, I just want to remind you guys

00:01:14.700 that if you like the channel, make sure to leave a like on this video, subscribe if you are not yet

00:01:19.060 a subscriber and help me get to 100,000 subscribers by mid-December of this year. And then also leave

00:01:25.220 a comment on this video on what you currently think about the immigration debate. What limits do you

00:01:30.860 think that should be put on the immigration system? If you think we need more, you can always leave your 0.70

00:01:35.560 comment in the section below and have people probably argue with you. But you know, that's your

00:01:41.240 choice. And also, by the way, if you live in Calgary or you're around Alberta, consider going to the

00:01:47.020 We Unify Reclaiming Conference being held at the BMO Center between the 19th and 21st. I will be there

00:01:53.100 as a speaker. So check out the link below for that. But anyways, I want to start off with the video of

00:01:59.660 Pierre Polyev making his announcement on the TFW program. It is a two and a half minute clip, but I

00:02:05.260 don't perceive that I'm going to show the entire thing. I really want to jump over to Mark Carney trying

00:02:11.540 to defend the TFW program. We have already seen in Abacus data, the Conservatives lead the Liberals

00:02:17.780 around 51% on this issue. When you ask people who is best positioned to handling the immigration issue,

00:02:25.540 you will literally have like 65% of people select the Conservatives and like 15% say Liberal. It's

00:02:34.020 absolutely insane how even though the Liberals won the last election, a majority of Canadians, quite a large

00:02:40.500 majority of Canadians, do point at Polyev and the Conservatives and say, yeah, those guys would

00:02:44.500 probably be better at, you know, one of the biggest issues in the country. All the Liberals have, and

00:02:49.540 they have it in shrinking fashion, is the issue of Donald Trump and the Americans because they're

00:02:55.220 super anti-American, but that's proving not to be very effective in the long run. Anyways, but here

00:03:00.260 is Conservative Party leader, Pierre Polyev, making this announcement today.

00:03:04.100 And let's be honest, young people today form what I call generation screwed. Let's look at the situation 1.00

00:03:12.420 for this generation is the first generation that cannot afford a home in Canadian history. And now

00:03:19.860 the double gut punch, they have the highest or the worst employment numbers of any group of young

00:03:26.820 people since the, since the late 1990s. So you can't get a job. And even if you did have a job,

00:03:32.660 you can never buy a home after 10 years of Liberal government. Liberals doubled housing costs. They

00:03:39.540 unleash crime and chaos in our communities with their soft laws. They broke our immigration system 1.00

00:03:45.220 by allowing too many, too many, too fast, too easily to come into the country. And they have destroyed our 1.00

00:03:52.420 economy by pushing investment out of our country. Now, Mark Carney promised that he would be different.

00:03:57.620 He has been worse, worse than Justin Trudeau in almost every objective measurement. Let's go to the

00:04:04.340 promises. He promised to build baby build. Well, far from doubling home building, as he promised, 0.55

00:04:12.500 home building is expected to drop by 13 percent, according to his own housing agency.

00:04:17.540 But I just want to quickly pause it on this point, because I know there are going to be some people out

00:04:22.660 there arguing, well, he's only been prime minister for a little over 170 days. The problem with an

00:04:28.900 excuse like that is that Carney was the economic adviser to Justin Trudeau. So he had influence

00:04:35.060 over a lot of policy even before he became prime minister. And if he was truly going to make it easier

00:04:41.380 to build in Canada, if he had already even made motions towards wanting to loosen regulations and get

00:04:48.980 provinces to make it so that's easier to get a permit, I'm not in favor of blanket rezoning.

00:04:53.860 What we need is just permits faster, not permits being super slow. But if you do get one as a

00:04:59.540 company, at least we'll let you build something super big in a neighborhood that doesn't want it.

00:05:03.620 You can you can still have like proper zoning laws as well as be building a lot. But the thing is that

00:05:10.580 Carney has not been able to gird up confidence in our housing market at all. And you even had the

00:05:15.860 housing minister, whatever, something Gregor or whatever, former mayor of Vancouver,

00:05:20.980 he already assured people, no, no, no, we're not going to do anything that's going to lower the

00:05:24.900 pricing of price of housing. It's like we're kind of at the point where you do need housing to be

00:05:30.580 cheaper. Sorry, I don't care about the person who bought their house in 1992 and would like it to be

00:05:37.060 worth five times more than they bought it for back then. You don't exactly you're not entitled to your

00:05:42.580 house having a maintained like bubble value. You eventually do need to build enough homes so that

00:05:48.180 people can live. But so, yeah, that he's absolutely right there that if Carney actually did his job,

00:05:55.300 actually started trying to deregulate, actually started trying to put pressure on the provinces

00:05:59.860 to permit faster without destroying zoning laws, you could actually have already had projections

00:06:07.380 raised drastically of builders wanting to get into the market right now because it's about to become

00:06:13.060 super easy to build. As for major national projects, five months in and there's not a single

00:06:19.220 national project that Mr Carney has even identified, much less permitted, much less having shovels in the

00:06:25.940 ground, not one pipeline, not one mine, not one major expansion of a port. All we have is meetings,

00:06:33.860 offices, new bureaucracies, new high paid big shots with high with big salaries who have thus far

00:06:43.060 achieved absolutely nothing. The time has come for decisive action to stop the liberals from using

00:06:49.700 our immigration system to pad the pockets of corporate elites and other insiders at the expense

00:06:55.940 of Canadian jobs. Again, the principle is very simple. The principle is very simple. Canadian jobs,

00:07:03.780 for Canadian workers, Canada first, Canada always. That's why Conservatives are calling on the Carney

00:07:10.580 government to permanently scrap the temporary foreign worker program and to stop issuing visas

00:07:18.660 for any new temporary foreign workers coming into the country. Under this proposal, existing permit...

00:07:24.740 And what you can also do with that, and we don't maybe need to listen to the rest of it because it's

00:07:28.740 just becoming the detail. They also need to absolutely review whoever put into place the LMIA

00:07:35.540 program, the labor market impact assessment, because those have been thrown out like candy.

00:07:43.860 You can get a designation that you need a temporary foreign worker because you can't find a Canadian.

00:07:49.700 In the most ridiculous of circumstances, I believe it was Jonathan Kaye or Tristan Hopper the other day,

00:07:55.540 who showed that there were jobs being listed at $35 an hour, and yet somehow they couldn't actually

00:08:02.820 find a Canadian to fill those jobs. It was like supervisor or manager jobs in which that's a good 1.00

00:08:08.820 income, $79,000 a year to be a fast food restaurant manager. You're going to find a Canadian who's willing

00:08:15.860 to take $35 an hour. That's a pretty good salary. Not like knocking people's socks off, but someone

00:08:22.580 will accept that. But somehow, they ended up getting a labor force impact assessment saying,

00:08:28.340 oh yes, you need someone from a different country. And then they bring in a worker who then has a 0.54

00:08:33.060 subsidized wage in order to fill the job, despite us having very, very high unemployment right now,

00:08:39.700 especially with younger men. But now we are going to move over to Mark Carney's response to all this,

00:08:46.900 where he tries to justify the temporary foreign worker program. This was actually in the same press

00:08:52.420 conference I highlighted earlier today in another video, where he got very perturbed at a journalist

00:08:58.020 asking him about flip-flopping on the issue of Trump and the Americans.

00:09:01.700 Mr. Paliyev called this morning on the government to scrap the temporary foreign worker program. Is it time

00:09:06.660 to shut the program down? Well, I would say the following, which is that that program has a

00:09:15.620 We are back into the ums and oz, Carney. As soon as he doesn't know what he's going to say,

00:09:20.100 the ums and oz start parading out role. It has to be focused in terms of its role.

00:09:27.220 And it's part of what we're doing. It's part of what we will be discussing how well the temporary

00:09:30.980 foreign worker program is working and how our overall immigration system is working. We've been

00:09:36.020 absolutely clear as a government that we want and we're putting in place policies so that the

00:09:41.620 overall level of immigration as proportion of the population will decline from around seven

00:09:47.300 percent today to around five percent several years from now. Now, the biggest contributor to

00:09:52.900 immigration is not temporary foreign workers. It's a variety of other factors. But it is a major

00:09:58.100 contributor to unemployment. And him saying, well, you know, the TFWs are not actually the biggest

00:10:03.540 problem when it comes to the actual rise in the population because they are, you know, technically

00:10:07.860 they are temporary and many to go back, although many do not go back. But it's like, well, it seems like

00:10:12.900 you're now proving too much through your argument for the TFW program. Well, you know, it's not that

00:10:19.220 bad. It's not really adding that many people. Well, yeah, because other things also need to be heavily

00:10:24.500 reduced, like the amount of new permanent residents, like the amount of students. Those also need to be

00:10:30.260 slashed heavily. And so when he says like, oh, we will have to review how well this program is working.

00:10:36.980 Everyone knows the program is not working. That's what always signals to me that Carney is really not

00:10:43.700 going to reverse a lot of orthodox liberal dogma, like dogma policies while he's at the prime minister,

00:10:50.340 because if he wanted to, he could have already done it. In fact, I would be sitting here praising him

00:10:56.260 right now. If he got rid of the TFW program or slashed immigration by like 80%, I'd be like,

00:11:02.340 you know what? Maybe he's a liberal I can at least approve of sometimes. At least he's actually

00:11:07.780 somewhat doing a good job in certain areas. Hasn't touched any of them. He could be popular if he

00:11:13.380 wanted, but there's something inside him that truly believes these things that, you know, it would be

00:11:19.300 evil to reduce immigration. That would be somehow like not liberal of him to do. I'm not sure if I have

00:11:25.780 this statement saved, but I want to find a tweet I had earlier where somebody was saying that like,

00:11:30.340 oh, no, no, it was about Danielle Smith opposing the TFW program and just the level of immigration

00:11:34.820 in general, because Alberta has been taking on so much. And she was talking about it in her Calgary

00:11:39.940 Next panels in these different town halls around the province. And there was this person interviewed

00:11:46.180 by CTV News and they're like, well, I don't like when we start talking about there being too many

00:11:50.740 immigrants, because it feels like we're scapegoating people or like we're scapegoating

00:11:55.860 immigrants as the problem. It's like, well, no one's looking at like, it's that guy right over 1.00

00:12:00.020 there and like, get them. But nobody's doing that. We're saying the number that we are bringing in

00:12:06.500 is not helpful to the country. There are too many people. There are too few houses. There are too few

00:12:12.580 available jobs. And so we don't really want people from other countries moving in in mass, especially when 1.00

00:12:19.700 we have not had a very good record of assimilation. We very much have a lot of enclaves around Canada. 0.98

00:12:25.460 That's why Surrey, that's why Brampton, that's why Abbotsford, you end up with basically them

00:12:31.300 becoming enclaves specifically for South Asian or Pakistani or Muslim Canadians. It's not good for

00:12:37.940 the country to have these areas where suddenly you go in and it's just 70% people from a very specific

00:12:43.620 region of the world who have only been here for a generation or two, because then you end up getting

00:12:48.900 cultural gaps all over the country, whereby crossing the street, you're basically not in

00:12:53.620 Canada anymore, because those people don't really know what Canada even is. They moved into a

00:12:58.260 neighborhood where everyone came from, generally the region they were from, and so they've never

00:13:03.060 really cared about certain values that are in our charter and our Bill of Rights.

00:13:07.460 Anyways, getting back to the Carney clip, I'll let him keep fumbling around here.

00:13:11.620 And I will say, when I talk to businesses around the country, especially, particularly in Quebec,

00:13:22.180 but elsewhere across the country, their number one issue is tariffs and their number two issue is

00:13:27.860 access to temporary foreign workers. Okay?

00:13:30.420 Okay. Oh yes, of course. That's the two big things for people. They just want more of them. What was that?

00:13:36.420 Number two issue is when I talk to businesses around the country, especially, particularly in

00:13:42.580 Quebec, but elsewhere across the country, their number one issue is tariffs and their number two

00:13:48.180 issue is access to temporary foreign workers. He's lying. He's either lying or business owners

00:13:55.060 are so whipped at this point that they don't even say, can you lower my taxes? Can you lower regulations?

00:13:59.940 Can you make it easier for me to pay employees? Instead, maybe, maybe there are some business

00:14:06.020 owners who know the answer is no. And so their only way of actually becoming more profitable in any way

00:14:13.620 is asking the government, can you give me more subsidized workers? But that will eventually run out.

00:14:19.460 And I am actually disappointed in the business community for putting up with stuff like this.

00:14:23.700 Just ask for a tax cut. Say, if you do not give me a tax cut, I and all my friends will vote

00:14:30.980 conservative because I actually want to run my own business the way I want to, rather than begging so

00:14:36.740 that I get subsidized employees just so I can make it to the end of the year. It's one of those big

00:14:42.180 kind of blind spots in Canadian politics. We just, not we, but you know, people who vote liberal,

00:14:48.100 just let them get away with the idea that they're standing up for the Canadian economy

00:14:52.660 when they won't even cut taxes. Oh, but they are bringing in a middle class tax cut,

00:14:57.380 1% off the rate of taxes or people making under $50,000 a year. I know that applies to everyone's

00:15:03.780 income under 50,000, but for most people, big whoop, that doesn't even abstractly make their lives much

00:15:09.380 better at all. But the thing is like, why, if you truly care about Canada, why not make it easier to

00:15:16.580 do business in Canada than it is to do business in the United States?

00:15:20.100 Okay.

00:15:20.900 For the moment, it's clear that we can improve our overall immigration policies. We're working on

00:15:40.980 that and we're setting clear goals to adjust.

00:15:43.860 So thank you for rebel news for clipping that today. I've been using a few of their clips today,

00:15:49.380 but my goodness, he could have just said, okay, I do see that people have a lot of problems with the

00:15:55.460 TFW program and with the LMIA reports. How about we, you know, we're, we're going to probably ratchet

00:16:01.940 back. If he just said that it would be like, oh my goodness, at least he listens. He was like,

00:16:06.180 well, we will review it. And then the only thing he said about the program is, you know,

00:16:09.860 Quebec business owners love it. And considering how much the liberals rely on Quebec for seats,

00:16:15.460 if that's truly something he's heard, which I don't even exactly believe, at least I believe

00:16:19.620 he thinks that that's what people think, that he is not going to back off this at all. Because

00:16:24.180 when pressed on TFW programs, the only thing he could talk about was how much certain people he's

00:16:29.700 talked to really like it. So it's not going to change. Anyways. So with that being said,

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 04, 2025

Carney and Poilievre FIGHT over ending foreign worker program

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