Mark Carney thinks that fentanyl is not a problem in Canada. This is one of the most delusional things I have heard any Canadian politician say in the last few years. Fentanyl is a real crisis in Canada, and it's not just an American problem.
00:00:00.000There'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.
00:00:15.520One, that's not how people actually vote.
00:00:18.240And two, Mark Carney is extremely bad at this.
00:00:22.020There's this great report out from The Breaker in British Columbia.
00:00:26.460You guys should go give The Breaker a follow.
00:00:28.220I will link this short article down in the description and pinned at the top of the comments below.
00:00:34.520Mark Carney thinks that fentanyl is not a problem in Canada.
00:00:38.420This is one of the most delusional things I have heard any Canadian politician say in the last few years.
00:00:44.260Because 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.
00:00:55.200But 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.
00:01:28.400Because I cannot see anyone actually laughing in front of them.
00:01:31.660I guess all the other people who were laughing were behind the camera.
00:01:35.400We got to respect, you know, part of it, we got to respect, look, fentanyl is an absolute crisis in the United States.
00:01:43.500It's a challenge here, but it's a crisis there.
00:01:45.560And us doing what we can to help them with that is absolutely appropriate.
00:01:48.780And of course, securing our borders is in our interest as much as it is in their interest.
00:01:53.020Okay, 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.
00:02:52.280And that's probably not counting most of 2024 because numbers tend to lag.
00:02:57.78049,000 people have died of opioid poisonings.
00:03:02.360And Mark Carney's sitting here calling it a challenge, but whatever the U.S. is going on, that's a real crisis.
00:03:09.220And 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.
00:03:18.380Before 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.
00:03:27.840Who do you think is going to win the Liberal Party leadership race?
00:03:31.140Because 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.
00:03:39.480Because 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.
00:03:48.080Again, I don't even care, really, in a certain sense, who the Liberals put forward as their leader.
00:03:53.860At 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.
00:04:04.800Again, 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.
00:04:13.860Again, very petty, very silly. And why would you kick out people who were objectively doing better than others?
00:04:20.600You are basically saying we want lesser candidates, but whatever.
00:04:24.160The 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.
00:04:38.140Again, was everything Trump said accurate? No. But was everything wrong? Not at all.
00:04:44.380And us doing what we can to help them with that is absolutely appropriate.
00:04:47.660And of course, securing our borders is in our interest as much as it is in their interest.
00:04:51.860So 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.
00:05:09.740I 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.
00:05:24.620Again, stats showing only 1% of fentanyl is seized on the Canadian border compared to the Mexican border.
00:05:30.900Yeah, seized is the operative word here because that means you have found it.
00:05:37.680When 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.
00:05:50.280If 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.
00:06:00.280That's kind of the problem we have right now in Canada.
00:06:02.800We don't do all that much searching, so we don't find all that much.
00:06:06.280But again, Mark Carney admits, it's good for us to actually be doing this.
00:06:10.680Then why have we been shooting ourselves in the foot and basically begging for a trade war to happen?
00:06:17.360Maybe 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.
00:06:25.240We'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.
00:06:37.860Again, 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.
00:06:47.540I 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.
00:07:07.640We can talk about our mutual interest in securing the border.
00:07:11.060Every other premier is just sitting there saying, I'm going to tell them how much they need Canadian softwood.
00:07:16.440I'm going to tell them how much they need blah, blah, blah.
00:07:26.480When 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.
00:07:38.220But 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.
00:07:48.960Anyways, before I close out this video, I just want to comment on one more thing currently going on in Canadian political media or news.
00:07:57.840So Pierre Polyev did a sit-down interview with Juno News, which is what the True North Center has changed its name to.
00:08:06.160I guess Candace Malcolm and Kian Bexte are working together now.
00:08:09.440But 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.
00:08:22.260They were previously 495,000 before Mark Miller did a fairly paltry 100,000 cut.
00:08:28.880But Polyev is committed to having a range of 200,000 to 250,000 in line with the amount of houses being built every year.
00:08:36.640I got to say it needs to be 100,000 less.
00:08:40.460I would like the immigration rate to be 100,000 to 150,000 depending on the year.
00:08:46.340We 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.
00:08:55.500And what we need is we need a recovery period.
00:09:03.180At 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.
00:09:15.640When 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.
00:09:23.880Canadians, young Canadians living in their parents' house cannot move out right now and buy a new house.
00:09:29.980And 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.
00:09:43.520Right now, every year, we build between 200,000 and 230,000 new units.
00:09:48.960And again, the problem is, is that there's a certain amount of houses that get bulldozed.
00:09:54.420And 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.
00:10:02.280So it's not like we completely purely added on top of what we already had.
00:10:06.160And then again, a lot of people are trying to move out of other living conditions to new homes.
00:10:12.880And so I don't want those homes to stay at their sky high prices.
00:10:19.600It's not enough right now just to stabilize.
00:10:21.800We need to actually return to reasonable prices through stabilizing the market forces of supply and demand by not having artificial immigration demand on housing.
00:10:56.660If you stay here for a two-year working stint, you should be going back to where you came from.
00:11:01.740And then there should actually be a hold where you cannot reapply for another year.
00:11:05.500So, again, it can't just be this chain of people sticking here forever, even though they're not actually citizens or even permanent residences.
00:11:13.920We have three million people currently in this country who are not actually citizens.
00:11:20.240And that they are coming up for renewal on their worker visas.
00:11:24.560I 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.
00:11:33.660I would way rather have a glut in the housing market of not enough buyers or a little bit.
00:11:40.700And then we can return to more, you know, slightly higher levels of immigration.
00:11:46.160I 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.
00:11:53.660I know, yes, it helps the GDP to have all these temporary foreign workers around, but the GDP per capita has been deeply hurt.
00:12:01.760Obviously, if you bring in people who are willing to work at bottom-level prices, it's going to help a lot of companies.
00:12:07.780But the country does not run simply for the benefit of some companies or the government.
00:12:12.280It has to be run for the benefit of everyone.
00:12:14.360That isn't arguing for equity and everyone should make the same amount of money.
00:12:18.880I don't care if someone makes a massive amount of money and some person doesn't.
00:12:22.780The 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,
00:12:31.540who doesn't really care about their living standards because they can always leave.
00:12:35.160Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys, for realsies this time.
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