The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney claims fentanyl is a ＂challenge＂ and not a crisis in Canada

00:00:00.000 There's been this extremely astroturfed media and political narrative about Mark Carney that he scares Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives because he's buttoned down and professional and his resume is going to make Canadians love him.

00:00:15.520 One, that's not how people actually vote.

00:00:18.240 And two, Mark Carney is extremely bad at this.

00:00:22.020 There's this great report out from The Breaker in British Columbia.

00:00:26.460 You guys should go give The Breaker a follow.

00:00:28.220 I will link this short article down in the description and pinned at the top of the comments below.

00:00:34.520 Mark Carney thinks that fentanyl is not a problem in Canada.

00:00:38.420 This is one of the most delusional things I have heard any Canadian politician say in the last few years.

00:00:44.260 Because if there is one issue that you do not downplay the seriousness of in Canada or just in North America in general, it is the opioid crisis.

00:00:55.200 But because Mark Carney is high on the idea that Canada is great and America sucks, he can't admit that our fentanyl crisis is as bad, if not worse, than the one in the U.S.

00:01:07.940 Take a look at this.

00:01:09.020 Can we influence Trump?

00:01:13.980 A bit.

00:01:16.480 A bit.

00:01:18.300 And then we got to pretend we didn't.

00:01:26.120 Are they piping in laughter?

00:01:28.400 Because I cannot see anyone actually laughing in front of them.

00:01:31.660 I guess all the other people who were laughing were behind the camera.

00:01:35.400 We got to respect, you know, part of it, we got to respect, look, fentanyl is an absolute crisis in the United States.

00:01:43.500 It's a challenge here, but it's a crisis there.

00:01:45.560 And us doing what we can to help them with that is absolutely appropriate.

00:01:48.780 And of course, securing our borders is in our interest as much as it is in their interest. 0.94

00:01:53.020 Okay, so fentanyl, the fentanyl opioid epidemic in Canada, he's standing in British Columbia while saying this, by the way, he was in Kelowna, you know, the province that is the capital of fentanyl overdoses, that fentanyl and opioids in general, that's a challenge in Canada.

00:02:14.620 It's not a crisis.

00:02:16.760 This reminds me of people pretending like, you know, massive business risk, like obvious things that they're doing wrong.

00:02:25.400 Well, no, it's not a risk that I'm taking on.

00:02:27.540 It's a challenge for me.

00:02:29.000 It's a personal challenge for Canadians to stop so many people from dying of opioid toxicity poisoning.

00:02:35.840 Do you know how many people have died from opioid overdoses since the beginning of 2016?

00:02:43.240 So during the entire span of Justin Trudeau's time as prime minister minus the latter half of 2015?

00:02:50.240 49,000.

00:02:52.280 And that's probably not counting most of 2024 because numbers tend to lag.

00:02:57.780 49,000 people have died of opioid poisonings.

00:03:02.360 And Mark Carney's sitting here calling it a challenge, but whatever the U.S. is going on, that's a real crisis.

00:03:09.220 And I want to get to also what he just said here that's completely hypocritical to the way himself and the Trudeau government have been positioning Canada on the border.

00:03:18.380 Before I get to that, guys, a reminder, if you like this channel, make sure to like this video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, you know, whatever you want.

00:03:27.840 Who do you think is going to win the Liberal Party leadership race?

00:03:31.140 Because at this rate, I could actually see Carney shooting himself in the foot enough that at a debate, he actually might plunge down in terms of his support.

00:03:39.480 Because the debate's happening well before anyone is actually allowed to mail in a ballot, which is good for, you know, Canadian democracy that this guy cannot be shoved through.

00:03:48.080 Again, I don't even care, really, in a certain sense, who the Liberals put forward as their leader.

00:03:53.860 At the same time, though, I'm interested in all Canadian parties being more open and transparent and more democratic with how they choose their local candidates all the way up to their leaders.

00:04:04.800 Again, I'm somebody who ran for a federal Conservative nomination and was arbitrarily kicked out because somebody at the top didn't want me to win.

00:04:13.860 Again, very petty, very silly. And why would you kick out people who were objectively doing better than others?

00:04:20.600 You are basically saying we want lesser candidates, but whatever.

00:04:24.160 The thing with Mark Carney here, if we go back here, he basically admits that Trump's kind of right on the border and that we shouldn't have been freaking out as much and being as obstinate around his fairly reasonable demands.

00:04:38.140 Again, was everything Trump said accurate? No. But was everything wrong? Not at all.

00:04:44.380 And us doing what we can to help them with that is absolutely appropriate.

00:04:47.660 And of course, securing our borders is in our interest as much as it is in their interest. 0.94

00:04:51.860 So he agrees it actually is, pretending that the opioid crisis is not a Canadian issue, it's just an American crisis but a Canadian challenge, that it's still appropriate for us to be helping the United States with border security, and that it actually holds benefits for Canadians too.

00:05:09.740 I can immediately name some, like preventing illegal weapons from getting into Canada, there's also drugs that enter Canada from the US, it's kind of a both ways sort of thing, even if more comes from Canada into the United States than the other way around.

00:05:24.620 Again, stats showing only 1% of fentanyl is seized on the Canadian border compared to the Mexican border.

00:05:30.900 Yeah, seized is the operative word here because that means you have found it.

00:05:37.680 When you don't defend the Canadian-US border, when the actual border security is pretty low-tech compared to what they have along the US-Mexico border, obviously you're not going to seize anything.

00:05:50.280 If you don't have any cops or prosecutors in a county, you might find out that you never charge a murder or a shoplifting incident because there's nobody around to do it.

00:06:00.280 That's kind of the problem we have right now in Canada.

00:06:02.800 We don't do all that much searching, so we don't find all that much.

00:06:06.280 But again, Mark Carney admits, it's good for us to actually be doing this.

00:06:10.680 Then why have we been shooting ourselves in the foot and basically begging for a trade war to happen?

00:06:17.360 Maybe it's because the Liberals want to pump up their poll numbers with an artificial trade crisis and try and recast themselves as the Canada Party.

00:06:25.240 We're the party standing up for Canada, even though we could have spent a fairly moderate amount of money on border security and avoided this entire thing.

00:06:33.800 In fact, actually helping Canadian-US relations.

00:06:37.860 Again, I'm not one to always give her praise, but Danielle Smith has been doing a very good job on actually repairing Canada-US relations.

00:06:47.540 I might make a video on this, but when all the premiers went down to Washington and visited the White House, it was very telling that in all the media that all the premiers put out, really it was only Danielle Smith who truly put out a statement of talking about how this is actually a good thing for us to be able to build Canada-US relations.

00:07:07.640 We can talk about our mutual interest in securing the border.

00:07:11.060 Every other premier is just sitting there saying, I'm going to tell them how much they need Canadian softwood.

00:07:16.440 I'm going to tell them how much they need blah, blah, blah.

00:07:19.160 It's like, guys, read the room.

00:07:21.400 It's not about that.

00:07:22.560 Stop posturing.

00:07:24.200 I know every single one of them.

00:07:26.480 When they enter that room and Trump and his advisors start talking about border security, none of them are going to chirp up and say, you actually need a bunch of our canola oil.

00:07:36.320 Do they?

00:07:37.480 Maybe.

00:07:38.220 But that doesn't really matter right now when we're talking about border security and you're in the room with the guy who has 10 times the GDP that you have.

00:07:46.740 My goodness.

00:07:48.960 Anyways, before I close out this video, I just want to comment on one more thing currently going on in Canadian political media or news.

00:07:57.840 So Pierre Polyev did a sit-down interview with Juno News, which is what the True North Center has changed its name to.

00:08:06.160 I guess Candace Malcolm and Kian Bexte are working together now.

00:08:09.440 But in a sit-down interview with Candace Malcolm, it appears, Pierre Polyev committed to reducing immigration rates from what they currently are at around, I think, 395,000.

00:08:22.260 They were previously 495,000 before Mark Miller did a fairly paltry 100,000 cut.

00:08:28.880 But Polyev is committed to having a range of 200,000 to 250,000 in line with the amount of houses being built every year.

00:08:36.640 I got to say it needs to be 100,000 less.

00:08:40.460 I would like the immigration rate to be 100,000 to 150,000 depending on the year.

00:08:46.340 We shouldn't be matching the amount of people entering the country with the amount of houses being built because we've had way too many people coming to the country over the past decade. 1.00

00:08:55.500 And what we need is we need a recovery period.

00:08:57.980 That doesn't mean zero.

00:08:59.420 Zero is inflexible.

00:09:01.140 I'm willing to have 100,000.

00:09:03.180 At the same time, I want a point system and I would even want regional caps because I don't want every single new immigrant coming from the exact same location of the world because it kind of hurts the whole, you know, assimilation thing. 1.00

00:09:15.640 When if you arrive to the country, you can just hang out with other people who came from your area of the world and you never have to learn English.

00:09:23.880 Canadians, young Canadians living in their parents' house cannot move out right now and buy a new house.

00:09:29.980 And if we want housing prices to actually fall or stabilize enough that these people can save and move out, then you're going to want an immigration deficit in comparison to what the housing build rate is. 0.86

00:09:43.520 Right now, every year, we build between 200,000 and 230,000 new units.

00:09:48.960 And again, the problem is, is that there's a certain amount of houses that get bulldozed.

00:09:54.420 And so there is probably about 10,000 to 15,000 units of housing that are just completely wiped out that are part of that new housing build.

00:10:02.280 So it's not like we completely purely added on top of what we already had.

00:10:06.160 And then again, a lot of people are trying to move out of other living conditions to new homes.

00:10:12.880 And so I don't want those homes to stay at their sky high prices.

00:10:16.820 We can't stay up here.

00:10:18.360 We need to come down here.

00:10:19.600 It's not enough right now just to stabilize.

00:10:21.800 We need to actually return to reasonable prices through stabilizing the market forces of supply and demand by not having artificial immigration demand on housing.

00:10:32.460 So I hope Polyev will reconsider.

00:10:35.100 It needs to be 100,000, 250,000, at least for five years.

00:10:39.460 Then maybe every year after that, you can increase it by 25,000.

00:10:43.460 I still want a point system in place, as well as I think visas.

00:10:50.260 We need to reform the system so that people cannot keep renewing temporary foreign worker visas.

00:10:55.300 Just stick around.

00:10:56.660 If you stay here for a two-year working stint, you should be going back to where you came from.

00:11:01.740 And then there should actually be a hold where you cannot reapply for another year.

00:11:05.500 So, again, it can't just be this chain of people sticking here forever, even though they're not actually citizens or even permanent residences.

00:11:13.920 We have three million people currently in this country who are not actually citizens.

00:11:18.500 They're temporary foreign workers.

00:11:20.240 And that they are coming up for renewal on their worker visas.

00:11:24.560 I think that the Conservatives should basically renew not more than 20% of them and let a lot of people leave, again, to take pressure off our current housing supply.

00:11:33.660 I would way rather have a glut in the housing market of not enough buyers or a little bit.

00:11:40.700 And then we can return to more, you know, slightly higher levels of immigration.

00:11:46.160 I don't want it crossing the 250,000 line because I think we've tried that for too long and it's proven to be mostly a detriment.

00:11:53.660 I know, yes, it helps the GDP to have all these temporary foreign workers around, but the GDP per capita has been deeply hurt. 0.94

00:12:01.760 Obviously, if you bring in people who are willing to work at bottom-level prices, it's going to help a lot of companies.

00:12:07.780 But the country does not run simply for the benefit of some companies or the government.

00:12:12.280 It has to be run for the benefit of everyone.

00:12:14.360 That isn't arguing for equity and everyone should make the same amount of money.

00:12:18.880 I don't care if someone makes a massive amount of money and some person doesn't.

00:12:22.780 The whole point, though, is I don't want there to be 95% of people making basically nothing because you can always bring in someone else who's willing to do it cheaper,

00:12:31.540 who doesn't really care about their living standards because they can always leave.

00:12:35.160 Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys, for realsies this time.

00:12:40.100 Remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, and I'll see you guys next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 13, 2025

Carney claims fentanyl is a ＂challenge＂ and not a crisis in Canada

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