In this episode, I talk about why immigration is still a hot topic in Canada, and why the Liberals should just stop talking about it. I also talk about the Syrian refugee crisis, and how the Liberals are using it to distract us from other important issues.
00:02:53.600The 2015 election, we had the horrific visuals of, you know,
00:02:58.640and Kurdi washed up on European shores.
00:03:01.640And that was an important polarizing aspect of the election.
00:03:05.360We we've had the evacuation of Kabul as a topic for the first two weeks of the last election.
00:03:12.680So we had to stop doing this in Canada, too, because what he's hinting at is that actually Canadians are going to be very open to more immigration because the evacuation of Kabul was horrifying to watch.
00:03:25.640So we should just let everyone from Afghanistan into Canada because things are bad.
00:03:29.020And that's what the liberals did in 2015.
00:03:31.300There is that Syrian child whose body was on the like some beach in Europe or whatever.
00:03:37.080He washed up on shore, had died and drowned from trying to cross the sea with his father.
00:03:41.920And the liberals dishonestly use that as a campaign image to say, if you don't support our mass immigration agenda, then you wanted this boy to die.
00:03:57.020And the vast majority of people who were crossing away from Syria were fighting age men.
00:04:02.720It was very dishonest the way that the sort of the fleeing from Syria took place.
00:04:07.780It was a lot of economic migrants taking advantage of the situation, leaving women, children and girls at home and then going to Europe.
00:04:15.200And that was one of the few children who was on the cross was on the boats crossing and had died tragically.
00:04:22.200And the liberals then said, if you're not in favor, if you want this kid to die, unless you want hundreds of thousands of people entering the country a year.
00:04:29.6801.3 million, in fact, entered the country back in 2023 is why people are fed up.
00:04:34.700And now he's trying to pretend like Kabul now gives the liberals license to say, just let anyone in.
00:05:31.680I think we could probably reduce it by two thirds, if not more, because we don't have enough houses for the people who are currently in the country, let alone the next 500,000 who the liberals are probably going to have enter the country.
00:05:44.820Even the permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, students, it's all way too high.
00:05:49.820We have the lowest rate of people getting jobs after becoming unemployed within an economic quarter that we ever have had.
00:05:57.320The idea that, oh, the immigrant, we need workers to come to Canada because these are jobs Canadians won't take for themselves.
00:06:05.580Immigrants don't want these jobs either for minimum wage.
00:06:08.600The problem if you're in Canada is that a lot of these jobs are only offered to you for $15 an hour, but an immigrant who comes from another country and takes that job gets the 15 an hour, plus they get another $3.50 or whatever the amount is that the government then throws in to incentivize the company to hire them, that they pay the immigrant even more so that they can hire these people at minimum wage.
00:06:30.020They get a top-up from the federal government.
00:06:32.540Anyone who would work a job who's especially around, like in their younger, who's in the university, would take a job for $18.50 an hour.
00:06:40.060The problem is Canadians don't want to work for $15.00.
00:06:42.720Immigrants don't want to work for $15.00.
00:06:52.800At some point, when an issue has gotten this bad, people aren't looking for just teasing around the corners of it, and actually I'm in favor of mass immigration if we just fix these two things.
00:07:03.840No, people are just mad at the entire system for good reason.
00:07:07.560When you dig into those numbers, to the extent the polls go into that level of granularity, are still very positive about immigration.
00:07:15.760They don't want it done in an uncontrolled way and in a way that doesn't...
00:07:19.920Then stop doing it uncontrolled way, Mark.
00:07:21.780It doesn't make sense for the economy.
00:07:23.340No one's saying you do have racism in this country, but I wouldn't ascribe that to all the sentiment and some...
00:07:32.340Not all the 60% of people are racist, but there's definitely some racist people in there.
00:07:37.340If you're ever having an argument, not an argument, but just a discussion about immigration, and somebody seeks to imply that you're racist, just respond back.
00:07:48.160If you think I'm racist for thinking that 1.3 million people entering the country cannot fit into 200,000 new homes, you're an idiot.
00:07:56.160If you think I'm racist for thinking that there's a math problem there, goodness.
00:08:00.380Some of the head scratching that you're seeing about the volumes that were coming in, those discussions that I have around the Christmas table with my relatives, those play themselves out on scale.
00:08:11.060And you have a range of differing views.
00:08:12.520And I think we have to be open enough as a country to have rational discussions about these things and not fall into sort of political dogmatism.
00:08:22.380I'll include the link to that tweet if you guys want to go check it out.
00:08:27.800Riley Donovan, an anti-immigration activist, not when I say anti-immigration, anti-mass immigration activist, put out that clip.
00:09:13.040We also you can't import 4% of the country's population in a single year, 2% of the country's population in a single year.
00:09:20.820And just expect that everyone's going to start, you know, acting like a Canadian.
00:09:25.420If people come in too fast with too many people from an area of the country they used to be from, there's going to be a lot of people who have no incentive to go, like, you know, to learn the culture, to hang out with people, learn the way that other Canadians do things.
00:09:39.120Yes, we don't have like a strong culture.
00:09:40.780It's not like if you come here, it's like going to Japan or going to Finland or going to China or going to Thailand where there's a very strong local culture.
00:09:50.160Sure, Canadian culture tends to be a little bit more mild, but there are certain ways we act, there are certain ways we do things.
00:09:56.500And when you have way too many people come in from any country en masse, there's no incentive to ever integrate because in your city there might be 100,000 people from the exact place that you came from.
00:10:07.480So why ever bother talking to anyone else from any other background?
00:10:10.860You can just hang out with people exactly like yourself who have the exact same home culture.
00:10:17.220And that is something that the immigration system right now is playing into.
00:10:21.640We don't really have that idea that everyone comes in here and, you know, it's a culture mosaic and we all hang out.
00:10:27.380We actually don't really hang out as much these days.
00:10:29.580And it's because of the mass immigration system disincentivizing everybody to kind of like talk to each other and share cultures and whatnot, that your block has people from 17 different parts of the world on it, but you're all Canadian.
00:10:42.640Now it's like everyone on your blocks in certain parts of cities, everyone's from India.
00:10:46.860Everyone's from a Central Asian country.
00:10:50.000It's better that, you know, that guy's German, that guy's Indian, that guy's Italian, that guy's British, that guy's from Thailand, that guy's Chinese.
00:10:56.580That's better than just having parts of a city turn into basically just different ethnic sections.
00:11:03.100That's not healthy for a country like Canada to be split up that way.
00:11:07.180Anyways, going on a bit of a rant here.
00:11:10.540Again, the link to that tweet's in the description below.
00:11:13.460If you guys want to donate to the legal fund, my Give, Send, Go link is also in the description below.
00:11:19.320Anything you can contribute really helps us out.
00:11:21.360But fighting back against a Chinese billionaire, suing us for defamation that in over two and a half years he hasn't been able to provide a shred of evidence for to claim that we somehow defamed him.