The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 14, 2024


Pierre Poilievre opposes mass immigration

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Wyatt Claypool
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Pierre Poilievre Maxime Bernier Erin O'Toole Trudeau
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Maxime Bernier's comments about mass immigration have been misconstrued to make it seem like he supports mass immigration. In fact, he is not in favor of mass immigration at all, and has long opposed it in other interviews.

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00:00:00.000 I just want to make a quick video to respond to the subject, a quick one, because I really don't think it actually deserves that much of my time.
00:00:07.520 But PPC leader Maxime Bernier is going around, as well as a lot of other PPC influencer accounts on social media, claiming that Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev is in favor of mass immigration.
00:00:19.240 No, Pierre Polyev is not in favor of mass immigration.
00:00:21.940 Pierre Polyev opposes mass immigration.
00:00:23.640 He has already said as much in other interviews, but they are taking this one interview clip of him talking and twisting it as hard as they can to try and find an angle in which it seems like Pierre Polyev supports mass immigration.
00:00:37.100 I will show you the clip and I will explain why this is not supporting mass immigration.
00:00:42.660 First, though, I actually do want to show you what Bernier specifically claimed about the post.
00:00:46.980 He said, Polyev says he will give permanent residency to millions of temporary workers and refugees that Trudeau is bringing to Canada.
00:00:54.440 PPC is the only political voice that opposes mass immigration.
00:00:57.880 Support us so that this voice becomes stronger or else nothing will change.
00:01:01.660 And here's the clip.
00:01:03.160 Mr. Polyev, there are about one million people who are here on work permits or refugees or, you know, they have very well in maybe a few months they will be running out of status.
00:01:16.980 All those one million people whose work permits won't be renewed or they're expiring.
00:01:23.160 So would you, with the stroke of the pen, will make them permanent residents of Canada or you let them go out of the country? 0.82
00:01:31.240 Well, there's not a, I can't do anything with a stroke of a pen.
00:01:35.240 And what I would do, though, is on a case by case, people who are making a contribution, paying their taxes, following the law, honoring that they honor the conditions of their work permits and are still needed in our economy should stay as permanent residents.
00:01:50.600 If someone is here and they haven't worked, haven't paid taxes or have broken rules, worked under the table, that's a different story.
00:01:58.560 Yeah, that is not support of mass immigration.
00:02:01.360 I don't know why I even have to explain this to Maxime Bernier.
00:02:05.100 Okay, what Pierre Polyev is saying and what he said in other interviews, like first let's say what he said in other interviews.
00:02:10.420 Pierre Polyev has already said he will restrict immigration to the point that our housing supply can actually handle our current citizen population as well as whatever limited amount of immigrants that we can bring in.
00:02:22.160 So he will lower the rate of immigration so that we can make housing cheaper again.
00:02:26.860 So immediately, not in favor of mass immigration, wants to restrict immigration.
00:02:30.960 And then in this video, what he's actually saying is that he wants a strict standard on temporary foreign workers who get permanent residency, that you actually have to be paying significant amounts of taxes.
00:02:41.480 You actually have to still be working in a field that you are needed in.
00:02:44.760 It's not just that you have had a job at some point while you're in Canada.
00:02:47.240 You must still have that job, that job must still want to employ you, and then maybe you can stay in as a permanent resident.
00:02:53.400 Even then, it makes it a case-by-case basis, not just the fact that you have a job so sure you can be a permanent resident.
00:02:59.320 You'd be working in specific fields, you'd be paying taxes, you cannot have broken the law, and you can't be sort of, you know, working sometimes, not working sometimes, and collecting benefits from Canadians.
00:03:08.520 It is actually only letting contributors stay in the country, also provided I would like to see things like values tests and other things, but Pierre Polyev wasn't talking about that in this interview.
00:03:17.780 It just wasn't part of the subject matter.
00:03:19.620 And so really, what he is saying is that we are both going to restrict immigration in favor of not actually having the housing crisis continue, and then some temporary foreign workers can become permanent residents, but they must hit these bars in order to actually qualify.
00:03:34.900 And there's nothing wrong with giving permanent residency status to temporary foreign workers.
00:03:39.540 If anything, it's actually kind of ideal.
00:03:41.660 Let's say, in theory, we restrict the immigration rates to just being one-third of what they are today.
00:03:47.640 If anything, it's actually good to make temporary foreign workers permanent residents rather than bringing in new people to be permanent residents, but then some of the temporary foreign workers are still here.
00:03:57.100 I would rather reduce the amount of temporary foreign workers and immigrants and just make people, just bring in permanent residents and just stop doing the whole temporary foreign worker thing. 1.00
00:04:06.620 If someone's going to be a worker here, they could just be a permanent resident as long as, again, they hit those bars of showing that they're qualified to work here.
00:04:14.580 If anything, it's actually kind of a good pass.
00:04:16.500 If they first show up, show that they can be contributing taxpayers who won't commit crimes.
00:04:20.460 And if they can do that for a few years, maybe then they can be a permanent resident, and then later on, maybe they can be a citizen, rather than bringing in people sight unseen to be permanent residents when they haven't proven that they can actually contribute to tax revenues in Canada, and they're not simply, like, takers.
00:04:36.340 They actually give, like, productivity and services to other people, and they're actually needed in the field of their employment.
00:04:43.680 But, again, the PPC's only, the only way that they can actually keep any relevancy is claiming that the Conservative Party is not pure enough.
00:04:52.360 It's just purity testing nonsense, and the PPC really doesn't have any reason to exist.
00:04:57.600 Bernier, it's frankly his fault that the party's collapsing in on itself because he hasn't done nothing to actually grow credibility with Canadians.
00:05:04.780 He sits on social media all day, not maintaining his EDAs.
00:05:07.800 That's why so many of them keep getting deregistered and complaining that Conservatives are not nearly as conservative as he is.
00:05:13.680 A man who sits on his couch all day and then speaks at a few rallies of only his most closest supporters.
00:05:19.700 Anyways, annoying.
00:05:21.100 Quickly want to plug, I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Conservative Party nomination for the riding of Calgary Signal Hill.
00:05:27.840 If you live on the west side of Calgary here, in these new riding boundaries that will take effect in April, buy a membership.
00:05:33.940 Check out my website, WyattClaypool.com.
00:05:36.240 And then also, we have the TNT Legal Fund linked in the description of this video as well.
00:05:41.700 We're being sued by a billionaire developer.
00:05:43.960 It's a ridiculous case where he has no evidence. 0.84
00:05:46.120 We defamed him.
00:05:47.000 And our guest writer who wrote about him, about him donating to Aaron O'Toole during the 2020 leadership campaign, simply referenced Globe and Mail reporting about him.
00:05:56.560 We basically said nothing new about him, but he didn't want to see the Globe and Mail because they could fight back.
00:06:00.980 And he tried to sue us, even though nothing we said was actually wrong.
00:06:04.580 Anyways, you contribute to that to help lighten the load of our legal burdens.
00:06:08.300 We paid over $26,000 into defending ourselves.
00:06:10.800 And we didn't even ask for anyone's money for like a full two years before starting up the Give, Send, Go because we wanted to exhaust our own funds before asking for anyone else's.
00:06:20.520 Anyways, that should be it for me today.
00:06:22.540 Hopefully, this is the last time I have to actually address this subject.
00:06:25.120 We'll be right back.