The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 04, 2024


Liberal Minister makes insane statement on Mass Immigration


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

190.26622

Word Count

1,539

Sentence Count

81

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

In response to Conservative Party leader Pierre Poutine's call for immigration to be limited to a rate that doesn't drive up housing prices, immigration minister Mark Miller said it's unhealthy to link housing to the number of people seeking refuge and asylum in Canada.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I have for you here today one of the most absurd statements I've ever heard a Liberal Party
00:00:05.620 minister make on the issue of immigration. They know that they're stuck on this issue and they
00:00:10.700 are deeply unpopular with their stance on mass immigration. And in response to the standard that
00:00:16.400 Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev has set out that immigration should be lowered to the
00:00:20.980 rate that it's not driving up costs of housing in this country, this is what Immigration Minister
00:00:26.140 Mark Miller said in response. It is unhealthy to link housing to the volume of people that are
00:00:36.040 coming here to seek refuge and asylum. Equally unhealthy to relate it to immigrants that
00:00:44.860 the price of houses has jumped as a result of interest rates and affordability has jumped as
00:00:52.300 a result of that. That isn't because of volumes that we are seeing. At the same time, and these
00:00:57.640 are two truths that can be the case at the same time, it's no surprise that people that are here
00:01:03.120 temporarily as economists measure do put pressure on what they call the cost of shelter. This is more
00:01:10.720 of a humanitarian challenge because the type of shelter that we would deploy as a responsible
00:01:16.280 country to welcome these people. Affordability has struck every single part of the country and
00:01:22.000 that is not something that asylum seekers have created, nor should they be held responsible for.
00:01:27.560 So we shouldn't hold the rate of immigration responsible for the increased price of housing.
00:01:34.100 Mark Miller, a skull crushing moron, but then went on to say, well, temporary workers do put upward
00:01:40.660 pressure on the price of shelter. Well, why not regular immigrants and why not refugees and asylum
00:01:46.660 seekers? It's just silly too, that Canada is like the destination for refugees and asylum seekers. I
00:01:53.200 have nothing against Canada taking in some refugees, but it's always weird that we're taking refugees in
00:01:58.580 from the other side of the planet and bringing them to a country that they just can't afford to live in
00:02:03.120 unless the government is going to cough up enough money so that they can sustain themselves here.
00:02:07.500 It would be better if the government literally just quartered the amount of support and gave them
00:02:12.060 money so they could buy shelter in a different country. Bringing them to Canada doesn't help
00:02:16.560 anybody, especially the immigrants themselves. This man, Mark Miller, is only our immigration
00:02:22.240 minister right now because he was part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wedding party back in the
00:02:27.220 day. There are so many people in ministry positions inside of the liberal government who are
00:02:33.720 completely incompetent, but they had some weird personal relationship with Justin Trudeau back in
00:02:38.620 the day. And that means that they're allowed to stick around as ministers. Like Seamus O'Regan is this
00:02:44.740 way. Other people who are ministers are just people who knew Justin Trudeau back in the day when he was
00:02:49.420 even more of a useless twit with no skills. I guess you could say he really hasn't gained any skills
00:02:54.180 since then other than covering up corruption. But the idea that we can, at all costs,
00:03:00.740 we cannot talk about immigration rates is stupid. The liberals know that this is a losing issue.
00:03:06.920 That's why Mark Miller is falling all over himself in that clip. But he's been given orders from on
00:03:11.920 a high that he is not allowed to acknowledge that there is issues with immigration when it comes to
00:03:16.700 housing prices, the speed that public services get delivered, and all this stuff. Whenever you look
00:03:22.480 at polling, you'll actually find, even more so than Canadian citizens who have been here like 10 plus
00:03:28.840 years, it's actually immigrants who are the people most likely to tell you that the immigration rate
00:03:34.520 is too high. They are like 67% saying that immigration rates are too high in this country.
00:03:40.100 And that makes sense. Have you ever been on an airplane before and thought, wow, this airplane's
00:03:45.160 a little bit overstuffed. I wish there were fewer seats so we could all get a little bit more leg room.
00:03:50.600 You probably have thought of that because that's a normal thing for a traveler to think.
00:03:54.320 You don't just think, I wish they would really stuff this plane even fuller with people because
00:03:58.480 I'm pro-travel. That's not how anyone actually thinks about situations like that. So immigrants,
00:04:04.960 people who have gone through the system of Canada, and then have come out the other side,
00:04:08.960 either as permanent residents or citizens, seeing how few resources there are available for the sheer
00:04:13.780 amount of people in Canada, seeing how high the housing prices are, and just seeing how bloated the
00:04:18.740 immigration system is in general, they're telling us 500,000 is too much. And so that's why in my
00:04:26.080 riding, I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination. I always plug it,
00:04:30.880 but this is what the riding looks like. It's on the west side of Calgary. I'm running to reduce
00:04:34.640 immigration rates because it's something that will make everybody's lives better. Young people will
00:04:39.700 be able to afford homes. New immigrants will actually be able to afford homes too because they're
00:04:43.500 competing with less other immigrants as well. It will help everyone out. And there's still people.
00:04:48.320 In my race, and when I say other people, I mean every other candidate I'm running against. There's
00:04:52.680 like 14 people running in my riding. All the other candidates, they still just talk about the fact
00:04:58.140 that we need to build more homes. We cannot build more homes to take care of this issue. There is not
00:05:03.560 like a large enough amount of housing starts that we can realistically start in order to combat this
00:05:10.000 issue. We actually build in Canada homes fastest and in the most great quantity per capita out of any
00:05:17.960 other G7 country. And we still cannot supply enough housing for the crazy amount of population that we
00:05:24.700 bring in every single year, both through organic growth, as well as through immigration, temporary
00:05:30.100 foreign workers and foreign students. It just cannot work. And yet I have like former MLAs running against
00:05:36.140 me for the Conservative Party nomination who should know better saying, well, we just need to build houses
00:05:40.940 faster. We can't. We cannot. If you say something like that, you sound like a liberal to me,
00:05:46.240 like Mark Miller just saying, well, it's not immigrants fall. It's just that we just need
00:05:50.160 to expand our shelter capacity. We can't. We've already done as well as we can. And there's always
00:05:55.400 this weird argument, like we can bring in immigrants so that they could help us build homes. The skill
00:05:59.560 set to building a home in Canada is like so much different to other countries. I have talked to
00:06:04.720 developers. They say you actually can't hire many of these people, not because they lack skills. A lot of
00:06:08.600 them have great skills. It's just that the sort of skills you need to build a house in Canada,
00:06:13.060 the sort of like infrastructure framing work, insulation work that needs to be done are skills
00:06:17.940 that you would need, like upgrades to your certifications in order to take part in
00:06:22.420 confidently. Anyways, this drives me up a wall whenever we see liberals coming out and just
00:06:27.940 pretending like adding 500,000 people to the country per year is not going to put pressure on
00:06:32.700 homes. And the liberals housing plan is not working at all. Our current housing minister,
00:06:39.160 Sean Frazier, keeps ballyhooing his plan, his like, you know, housing acceleration fund. They're
00:06:44.700 just throwing money at municipalities, pretending they're going to build homes faster. Our home
00:06:48.780 starts, our new housing starts have fallen year over year for three years now. It's not getting
00:06:55.660 better. And it turns out that when you throw money at a bloated system to build houses faster,
00:07:00.200 it just means that the money gets just burnt up faster too. You actually need to change housing
00:07:06.200 policy as well as reduce immigration if you actually want to be able to make sure you can
00:07:10.900 build homes that people can afford. Anyways, that should be it for me today. If you live in my
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