Carney Liberals keep LYING and breaking promises! - Conservatives call out corrupt judges
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Wyatt Claypool talks about the incompetence of the Canadian government in its first three months post-election, and how they have managed to do so in the midst of the summer, when it should be hard to create scandals.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. If I had to characterize Prime Minister Mark Carney's
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liberal government in its first three months after the federal election, I would have to
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say it's been very amateurish. And amateurish because while they are technically trying
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to put on a more professional front, seem like they are different from Justin Trudeau's
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liberal government, they keep making unforced errors. It's the summer. The summer should
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be really hard to generate new scandals during because Parliament is out of session. Your
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opposition isn't grilling you in the House of Commons day-to-day, and you're not pushing
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any legislation forward, so it's really hard to break any promises. And yet, they have
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managed to do it. Well, let's go through a little bit of the timeline. One, we have a
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public safety minister who doesn't know what a Canadian gun license is, a PAL and an RPAL.
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We tried to implement a digital services tax in the middle of a trade negotiation with
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the United States that caused them to walk away from the table, and then we had to rescind
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the digital services tax. And then once we were back at the table, we put nothing on the
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table to offer to try and get rid of the tariffs. We didn't demand anything. We made no threats.
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We basically just asked politely that they would just remove the tariffs, saying, you know
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what? We work really well together. That was our pitch. And surprisingly, it didn't work.
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We blew past Mark Carney's trade deadline to get a deal by July 21st, and we didn't get
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one by August 1st. And now Trump's administration doesn't even really want to talk to us because
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we're not really negotiating. We show up, say, hey, guys, we should make a deal. And then
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they're like, do you have anything to offer? And we're like, no. And then that's why they
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want to talk to us. We recognized a terror state in Palestine, both the Gaza Strip run
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by Hamas and the West Bank run by Fatah, another terror organization. We, for some reason, were
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harassing a Christian musician trying to do a tour around Canada. And now the government
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has been exposed for breaking a promise, again, during the summer when it should be really
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hard to break promises because they've been fudging the immigration numbers, showing they're
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not actually serious on reducing immigration. Their promises were already super weak. They
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were going to take immigration from like 395,000 new permanent residents per year to like 370,000
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to like 365,000, which is still way too high, but they couldn't even follow that. And then
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in July, we've talked about this previously, but it's more crazy the more you think about
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it. We somehow lost jobs in the month of July, not a few thousand, 41,000 jobs at a time of
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the year where it should be very easy to onboard new employees because it's the summer. Students
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are away from university and high school and they can get summer jobs. And somehow we lost
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41,000 jobs, of course, from the private sector. No one in the public sector lost their jobs and
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were supposed to be led by the guy who had a plan. The guy who's worked at Goldman Sachs was the
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governor of the Bank of Canada in England. It's almost like people should have listened to former
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prime minister of the UK, Liz Trust, and said that when she said that Mark Carney messed up
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everything. He thinks that he's a genius and he really doesn't know what he's doing. The man needs
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adult supervision when doing anything. But now let's move on to some of these recent stories with the
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immigration numbers. And then I want to cut over to conservative MP Michelle Rempel, who did a very
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good press conference also going after the soft on crime policies of the liberal government through
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the court system. But before I get into it, guys, I just want to mention, hey, if you like the show,
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and I do enjoy scrolling through, seeing what people are saying and replying to a good handful
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of people. And now let's jump over to this Globe and Mail article where the headline is,
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Ottawa pressed to factor in 500,000 undocumented residents as it consults on immigration targets.
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So, yeah, we apparently have as many from 500,000 to 600,000 people who are in Canada illegally.
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They came into the country and applied to be asylum seekers. They were refugees and they were rejected,
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but they're still around. We had people on work visas or student visas or permanent residents who
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then were basically rejected and told to leave who have not left. And we are not currently factoring this
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in to the amount of people that we are still bringing in. We have half a million people who
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should not be here, but let's just bring in more anyways before we actually deal with this other
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problem. So down here, the article goes over the promises that the liberal government were making
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that when you read it, that really demonstrates how pathetic the changes to the immigration system
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are that the liberals are pursuing. They're like turning it down from a massive crisis to a big crisis.
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We need immigration reduced by like 80%. And I fully agree with Pierre Polyev, his new stance on
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immigration saying that we need net negative migration. We need more people leaving the country
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for the next decade than we have entering the country. I'm fine with allowing some people in,
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you know, you're, you're an engineer, you work in oil and gas, you're a computer programmer,
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we need you in our economy. That's fine. You're an actual skilled doctor. Great. But if you're just
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here to work at some sort of like service job, no, we already have enough people doing that. It's
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ridiculous. But this article says in this line, in October, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and
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then Immigration Minister Mark Miller unveiled plans to reduce permanent resident numbers from 500,000 to
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395,000 in 2025. And from 500,000 to 380,000 in 2026. They set a target of 365,000 permanent residents
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in 2027. Mr. Trudeau said reducing the number of permanent residents would pause population growth
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over the next two years. And goodness, if you think this small reduction is going to reduce population
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growth, you're insane. But now let's jump down to another part of the article where it talks about
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the undocumented people in Canada. I would say that they are illegal migrants or illegal immigrants or
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people illegally overstaying visas. It says here, a 2024 Department of Finance briefing document
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released through access of information laws established, estimated that there are up to 500,000
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people living in Canada without the required immigration papers. The briefing note from the
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Deputy Minister of Finance said, quote, this could include those who have overstayed visas or have had
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asylum claims rejected through evidence in this area, although evidence in this area is rather poor
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and possibly unreliable. Mr. Miller previously estimated that there could be up to 600,000 people
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living here without valid immigration status, though he said nobody really knows. And yet,
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we are still bringing in apparently another 375, 380,000 people in the year 2025. It's ridiculous.
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No, we need it to be way, way less. And this is not taking into account issues around temporary foreign
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workers, students, and then fake refugee claims, which these days probably the vast majority of refugee
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claims are absolutely fake. The idea that you have to come to Canada if you're a refugee is patently
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absurd. So what we've had is liberals will say something like, oh, we're going to reduce the
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amount of permanent residence. Well, temporary foreign workers and students, they're also reducing a bit,
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but what they've done in a bit of a weaselly fashion is that they are just re-rolling people who
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were in the TFW program and the student program and giving them visa extensions, which means the people
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that we used to assume would then leave are not going to leave. And even some of the people ordered
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to leave are not leaving. And so the problem with the TFW program is the idea is it was supposed to be
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a limited amount of workers here for a limited amount of time. They were going to go and anyone
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new is basically just taking the spot of those people who had just left. Now we have new people coming
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in, maybe a slightly reduced amount compared to what the liberals were previously doing,
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but we are giving out record numbers of renewals. So nobody's leaving. The rate of increase has gone
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down, but the rate of people leaving has gone way, way down. So we are in the exact same bad situation
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that we were in in the first place. But now I do want to jump over to the press conference
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that Michelle Rempel-Garner put on. I actually don't usually agree that much with Michelle Rempel on a lot
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of issues. She's more socially liberal. I'm more socially conservative, but she's been knocking
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it out of the park when it comes to immigration and justice issues. Actually, before I get to that,
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I do want to read this tweet that Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev put out today because
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I thought this was a good scorecard of how the liberals have been doing on trade issues and the
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economy. Pierre Polyev says here, since master negotiator Mark Carney took office,
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he's twice missed his own deadline for a Canada-US deal. The US has doubled existing tariffs and
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added new ones while giving Mexico and China extensions. China's hit us with a new 75%
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tariff on canola seed. Carney has backed down to Trump on the digital services tax and counter tariffs,
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getting nothing in return. Mexico snubbed Canadian ministers who flew down to Grovel for a bilateral
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deal. And Europe has agreed to buy 750 billion in US energy and $0 of Canadian energy. The ugly truth
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is Carnia's losing abroad and Canadians are paying the price at home. And this last line here is very
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important. I see liberals on places like Twitter talking about how, well, we don't need the US. We
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just signed a new deal with the UK. We just signed a deal with France. We were talking to the EU.
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I guess so. But what are we actually getting though? Because even if we get a free trade deal with
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them, those countries don't have any money to invest in Canada. Not only because they are obligated to
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buy goods from the United States, including cars and energy, but because the thing is that Canada's
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economy is just mediocre. We're not really producing much of anything unique. We have a very difficult time
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exporting energy products. And so we have increased our exports abroad outside of the United States.
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But when I read the numbers, it was like we've increased non-US exports up 14%. But our US exports
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have gone down 12%. And if you know anything about Canadian trade, we were trading with the US more than
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80%. So that 12% is way larger than that small increase of 14% with the minority of our exports.
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But now we can actually jump over to the thing I was promoting first. And that is this press conference
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with Michelle Rempel. She is calling out the practice of Canadian judges, giving lighter sentences
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to people who are permanent residences, TFWs and students so that they don't get deported.
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This is absolutely absurd. We've been knowing this has been going on for a while. And I think this is a
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great issue for the Conservative Party to grab a hold of and push because there is no excuse for giving
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lighter sentences for somebody who is already only a guest of this country, because we don't want them to
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be deported. So we're not serving justice. And we're not serving justice to somebody who doesn't
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deserve the benefit of the doubt, because they're a guest. They're not naturally supposed to be here.
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We are allowing them to be here to see if they can become a citizen, or they're only here for a few
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years to do work we need them to do. Yet they are costing taxpayers money by committing crimes.
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But here's Michelle Rempel going after this practice.
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Today, I'm announcing that Conservatives will introduce legislation to amend the Criminal Code
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and restore the value of Canadian citizenship by ending the practice of judges considering
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a non-citizen's immigration status in sentencing. Since 2013, a Supreme Court ruling has permitted judges
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to consider immigration status when sentencing. This has been seen in several recent high-profile cases.
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For example, a permanent resident received a conditional sentence after being convicted of trying to
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purchase sexual services from a 15-year-old, as a stronger penalty would have hindered him and his
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wife from obtaining Canadian citizenship. Another non-citizen in Canada on a visitor's permit was
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convicted twice of groping an 18-year-old woman's genitals at a bar, yet received a discharge to avoid
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a permanent criminal record and to allow for an appeal of their deportation. Anyone seeking residence or
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citizenship in Canada has responsibilities as well as rights. When it comes to sentencing non-citizens,
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Canada has essentially adopted a form of two-tier justice where judges can and have given lighter
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sentences to individuals who are non-citizens by virtue of this ruling. This offends all principles
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of fairness that should be foundational to our justice system. This is why once the House of Commons resumes
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this fall, Conservatives will introduce legislation to amend the Criminal Code to rectify this issue.
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Our bill will add a section after Section 718.202 of the Criminal Code, which will expressly outline
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that any potential impact of a sentence on the immigration status of a convicted non-citizen offender
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or that of their family members should not be taken into consideration by a judge when issuing a sentence.
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So I thought that was a brilliant thing for them to be putting forward, but I would like them to
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also extend it to the GLADU principle, which also brings race into account. And this is why you get
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people from different backgrounds getting much lighter sentences than, you know, let's say a white
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offender would get. Obviously, all offenders should be getting the same sentence if they committed the same
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crime. And in fact, all criminals should be getting far larger sentences than even the maximums that are
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currently being given out because we are so soft on crime in this country. Yesterday, I did a video
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on the whiteboard where I went over how the media is effectively like squinting to pretend that crime
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is really going down. Crime is not going down. Was crime higher in 2023 than it is in 2024 overall?
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Sure. But you don't measure from the peak and say, wow, crime's down 4%, which it wasn't. I actually
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looked at it was only down 3.4%. And when you factored in that Alberta was one of the actual
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leaders in reducing crime, basically crime was unchanged in most parts of the country. Like
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Quebec, it was down 0.6%. And Ontario is down 1%. But in Alberta, it was down 8.6%. So really,
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crime isn't down in Canada, there is a slight reduction everywhere else that's like not even
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worth considering. And then in Alberta, it was down substantially. BC was also down, but they also
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don't enforce the law on drugs. So I don't believe their numbers. But we have the media pretending
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that crime is not a problem. Look, it's going down. Yet, violent crime has basically remained
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unchanged. Overall, crime in most provinces has basically remained unchanged. And when we are
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talking about the actual five to 10 year window, it's way up. You don't measure crime from the peak.
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You don't just say, oh, wow, this is the highest point. And we're a little bit down. I want to know where
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we were at back 2015. Because if we're here now, and this was 2023, and now we're here,
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this was 2015. We're way up. And then we had a slight reduction from the absolute mountain peak
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that we had in 2023, which I guarantee you could easily be dwarfed in the next few years unless they
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change a lot of these laws. In fact, if you are a judge giving out lighter sentences to non-citizens
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than you would to a citizen. Also, again, we'll take care of the race based stuff to get rid of
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that. But if you're giving anyone lighter sentences, or political or identity considerations,
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I would hope a conservative government in the future would start saying you will be removed
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from the bench if you are not actually dealing out justice. A judge is supposed to bring their own
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judgment to the trial. But the sentences should be the sentences if they are found guilty for a crime.
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You cannot downgrade what someone's crime is preemptively so that you don't have to hit them
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with a big charge. Prosecutors should have to charge what they committed. They cannot downgrade it if
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there wasn't some other offense. Yes, I know there's some dealing with criminals. We'll knock your
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sentence down if you tell us about what this guy was doing. But you can't take somebody that you've
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just caught dead to rights doing something and you don't need information from him and say,
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well, it wasn't really attempted murder. It was an assault. It's attempted murder if it's attempted
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murder. You don't get to knock it down just because it makes the trial faster. And this is actually
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one area of government where funding is actually low. We need way more money for more judges and
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bailiffs and prosecutors. It's just an area where cases get dropped all the time because there's not
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enough court resources to go through all the cases. So some cases age out after a few years and justice
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has never actually served. But anyways, now I want to jump over to another clip of Michelle
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Rumpel from the same video or from the same press conference. This, I thought, was another great
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point that she made talking about the current wildfire situation in Canada and how, no, this is
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not an issue of climate change. This is an issue of poor forest management. Not that she said those
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words specifically, but she's calling up the poor preparation for wildfire seasons every single year
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that have now caused certain governments across Canada, like in Nova Scotia, to start saying that
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you are banned from hiking, even if there's no fire risk in the area. And by the way, do you want to
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correct myself? Newfoundland's premier, Corey Hogan, has been far more sensible in all this. I believe
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it's Corey Hogan or something like that. I might be mixing up with another person. But the premier of
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Newfoundland, he has increased fire, like for the fire penalties where you might go to prison or you might
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have to pay like $170,000 if you like start fires in dry conditions. Same time, it might be a little
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harsh, but he hasn't put in place the hiking bans. And in fact, even condemned other provinces for doing
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it by saying it's a completely ridiculous thing to try and enforce. And it is not what is actually
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causing fires. It's, you know, people live in rural areas. The idea that you can prevent them from walking
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through the woods is ridiculous. The bans that are in place of hiking and other recreational
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activities in forested areas in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, given the wildfire considerations right
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now? Sure. Well, first of all... And shout out to Raheem Muhammad for being the one who asked that
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question. I can recognize his voice from anywhere. The fear that people experience during wildfire season
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is something that a lot of Canadians know. You know, I think back to what happened in Jasper National
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Park last year as an Albertan. And so my hearts are with them and their concern. And also with the
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firefighters and first responders who put their lives in harm's way during these situations.
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But I also think about the utter lack of action from the federal government on the issue of forest fires.
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I think it's four seasons ago now. Four full wildfire seasons ago, the Liberals promised
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more water bombers, more firefighters. Where are they? The other thing is that my conservative
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colleague Mark Dalton put forward a bill to increase the penalties for people who commit arson that causes
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a wildfire. So these are both measures that could have prevented and contained wildfire. And the Liberals
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have done nothing. So wait, my concern is this. Whenever there's a major crisis, what the Liberal
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government has done by their inaction has conditioned Canadians to expect that the only response they
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can see out of their federal government is to restrict their movement. And again, I understand that
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people like I understand the fear and concern of people in the Maritimes right now, but that the
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only response they get from their federal government is a tacit, well, I guess you're going to have to
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restrict your movement. That's not right. So, you know, today we're calling upon the federal government
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to actually get serious about this issue, pass our bill, put forward the resources that they promised so
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I honestly, they've been doing a really good job on put on basically raising the bar for the
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Liberal government. I've been saying this to the party in general, what you really want to do is
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run on a big audacious vision that you are not just going to be different than the Liberals, you are
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going to be the opposite of the Liberals. And I think stuff like what Michelle Rempel is suggesting
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there and going after this issue one is a good step forward. If this was another conservative party
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under like O'Toole, you would have had them basically just saying, oh yes, I stand in solidarity
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with Tim Houston, not allowing people to go hiking. You got to go after the policy failures of the
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Liberals or you're letting them get away with stuff. But anyways, so that should be it for me today,
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guys. I do just quickly want to plug the fact that I will be one of the speakers at the We Unify
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event in Calgary this September. I believe it's September 19th to 21st. Naturally, I'm going to be
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there. I live in Calgary. But if you want to come out and see me and other creators, politicians,
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whatnot, do some speaking events and sit around and do some roundtables and stuff like that,
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that will be going on in September in Calgary. So you can check out the link in the description
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below if you want to swing by. I believe you have to buy a ticket, but you can also, it's like
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the way I've had it described to me is that you can buy a ticket, but you can also just show up in the
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sense that you can buy one if you want to help the event, but if you can't afford it, that's okay too.
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But yeah, so that's going on in this next month. I will likely be there. And also,
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again, just a reminder to like the channel, subscribe, leave a comment,
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