The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - June 21, 2024


Pierre Poilievre wants immigration ＂much lower＂ (No Mass Immigration)

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immigration rates
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Wyatt Claypool
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Pierre Poilievre Sabrina Maddow Justin Trudeau Richmond Hill Mark Miller
Canada's Worst MP embarrasses himself and the Liberals again Trudeau's Liberals prove how little they care for Canadians

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In this episode, I talk about the new Conservative Party leadership candidate, Pierre Polyev's call for lower immigration rates, and the growing problem of temporary foreign workers in the construction industry. I also talk about a new student visa program, and give my recommendations for Conservative Party nominations.

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00:00:00.000 For all of us out there who have been pushing back against the mass immigration establishment in Canada and calling for lower immigration rates in order to get control of jobs, housing, and a lot of other aspects of Canada that are deteriorating these days, we just want a moderate victory with federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev in a French interview saying that immigration rates will be much lower when he's the Prime Minister.
00:00:25.160 I would like to see him repeat this in English, but this is good progress for our side of the conversation, wanting to mainstream the idea that a lot of things could be fixed if we stopped importing 1.2 million people into the country per year.
00:00:39.080 It's not me or you saying that we can't bring in more immigrants, it's math saying that we can't bring it in.
00:00:44.740 Plus also, when we haven't actually been doing values testing or any means testing on people, we're bringing in people who either don't want to be here or they can't afford to be here, and we're effectively forcing them to live in half a basement suite with three or four other people to just drive around for Uber Eats during the day to barely afford rent.
00:01:04.000 This is an unsustainable situation, and I'm happy that Pierre Polyev said this, but here's the clip from television of Pierre Polyev being interviewed on this and giving his answer.
00:01:14.460 And this is actually a kind of funny point that's being made here.
00:01:43.140 He says, there's no room, Quebec is at the breaking point.
00:01:46.680 And that's funny because actually Quebec has been taking in the fewest number of immigrants in terms of per capita percentages, because they actually have caps on how many immigrants coming into the country that they're willing to have settled in Quebec.
00:02:00.120 So Quebec has actually been having it fairly easy.
00:02:03.100 I guess the only places that have had it easier are places like Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon, where most people don't really want to move to.
00:02:10.000 And so it's good that we actually are going to reduce the rate, especially with temporary foreign workers. 0.76
00:02:15.640 I hate the stupid narrative that, oh, well, we need these temporary foreign workers because they're working jobs that Canadians don't want. 0.63
00:02:23.040 Well, maybe Canadians don't want them because these jobs are artificially only paying minimum wage and you can't get a raise because it's so easy to hire a temporary foreign worker, 1.00
00:02:33.060 especially when the government is giving businesses incentives to hire people who aren't Canadians.
00:02:38.040 That is not a way of running a country of favoring people who don't live here, who haven't paid taxes here, who parents haven't paid taxes here, property tax, all the rest,
00:02:47.780 and favoring the person who just arrived here probably on what is effectively a scam visa for a fake university or for some job that doesn't actually exist.
00:02:57.680 That happens all the time and our system does not make up for it.
00:03:01.080 The truly ironic thing is that I was removed from the CPC nomination in Calgary, Signal Hill, and I had people say, well, you probably were just too hard-lined on wanting immigration reduced by two-thirds.
00:03:13.720 And then Sabrina Maddow in Aurora Oaks, Richmond Hill, was effectively pushed out of that nomination. 0.73
00:03:19.980 She had suspended her campaign, but it was clearly, you know, the fix was kind of in for her, so she dropped out.
00:03:27.360 And we were both very hard-lined, you know, we need to reduce immigration candidates. 1.00
00:03:32.300 And so it's good to see that people are being proven wrong that it wasn't because the Conservative Party was going to go soft on those things.
00:03:37.540 Although, that does prove in our situations with the nominations, there are backroom people who still want to stack the party with people who are loyal to them,
00:03:45.960 even though they might not even agree with the agenda that Pure Polly is articulating. 0.97
00:03:50.320 This is the truly dangerous thing in nominations, but I'm not going to belabor that too much.
00:03:54.060 If you want to get on my form for nomination recommendations around the country, you can go sign up at WyattClaypool.com.
00:04:00.880 It's in the description below.
00:04:02.480 But this is a big vote-getter of an issue.
00:04:05.340 Even the Liberals know it.
00:04:06.400 But that's why they're starting to lower the amount of student visas that are being handed out.
00:04:11.100 Because we were bringing in, sometimes in a month, 40,000, 60,000 students in just a single month.
00:04:17.560 And now the Liberals have lowered it to only like 12,000, 14,000 coming into the country.
00:04:23.880 Part of that is because students were realizing from overseas that a lot of the universities that they were being accepted to
00:04:29.760 were effectively front groups set up by immigration lawyers just to get you into the country.
00:04:34.560 But we're not actually going to provide a real education.
00:04:37.280 And then part of, so that's why the Liberals put the cap in place.
00:04:40.500 Because I think they already knew that the immigration rate or the student visa rate was already falling naturally.
00:04:46.620 So they put the cap in place to make it seem like they're taking it seriously.
00:04:49.580 Especially when, right before they did that, Mark Miller was coming out and making ridiculous statements about how Polyev and the conservatives were just not as pro-immigration as them because they were xenophobic.
00:05:00.740 Purely absurd, but it's good that we're doing this.
00:05:03.160 Because 67% of the country, I think it's 68% of Canadians and 62% of foreign-born individuals are in favor of reducing immigration.
00:05:13.300 I door-knocked over 6,000 doors in my riding, and granted it is a more conservative riding, but I'd bump into permanent residents who were in favor of me reducing immigration by two-thirds if I could get that pushed through.
00:05:25.560 It doesn't matter if you've lived here for multiple generations, your family's been here for multiple generations, or you just got to Canada three months ago.
00:05:33.280 You know that you can't have this number of people coming into the country. 0.99
00:05:36.720 Obviously, an individual who gets into the country recently will want to stay, but even they know, yeah, the flow of people in here is just ridiculous.
00:05:45.000 And they realize that once they got hit the ground, they couldn't afford rent because they're having to compete for every single available unit with 80 other people who either just got here, or they're trying to move out of their parents' basement and everything's completely unaffordable. 0.56
00:06:00.040 Like a crap apartment in Calgary could cost you like $2,000 a month, can cost you like $1,500 a month for something that's basically a broom closet.
00:06:08.600 There are houses in my riding in Calgary-Signal Hill in the Sierra Marina area, it's in the southern part of the riding, where foreign investors are buying up houses and then renting out each individual room, like guest bedrooms, couches even, for $500, $600 a month. 0.99
00:06:27.740 And they're having sometimes six, eight, 10 people stay in that one house, all basically collectively paying $5,000, $4,500 in rent a month.
00:06:38.060 That is a crisis that you cannot build your way out of.
00:06:41.000 That's Justin Trudeau's plan, the idea that, well, you know, we're going to softly cap some stuff in the background, but then we can just build more houses, throw an acceleration fund, even though the acceleration fund is literally reducing the amount of houses being built every year.
00:06:55.720 Because the accelerator money requires more federal bureaucracy to get it, it requires more federal inspections and all these other requirements you have to hit.
00:07:04.280 And to even get the money from the federal government to build more houses, you then necessarily become a slower builder because you have to follow and jump through all of the new federal hoops that are being set up.
00:07:15.360 That's why it doesn't matter how much money the liberals offer, it doesn't matter what laws they force municipalities to change, house building has been going down by tens of thousands every year.
00:07:25.100 I think this last year we only built like 220, 230,000 homes and in the previous two years we had built like 240,000, 250,000 homes and it's going down despite the money going up because it wasn't a money issue, it was a government bureaucracy issue and also immigration rates are never going to be overcome even if we doubled house building, which is impossible.
00:07:46.880 You can't overcome that sort of a rate of population increase.
00:07:50.660 We're a country that in 2019, I believe we had 37 million people who lived here.
00:07:56.700 And now in the year 2024, we have 42 million people living here.
00:08:01.980 That is not organic demand-based growth where people wanted to move here, they had a skill that Canada could use, that's why we want to bring them to the country.
00:08:10.340 They knew a lot about oil and gas, they were an engineer, they're an imperial programmer.
00:08:13.880 That's how we used to do things.
00:08:15.440 Now we're just basically saying there's a lot of benefits on the other side if you can get into this country.
00:08:20.400 And even if that's a false promise, people are jumping at it and getting on planes and showing up here assuming that it's going to be an easy life with tons of opportunities when it's not.
00:08:29.740 Effectively, we're just tricking immigrants to show up here to work cheap jobs on behalf of corporations with government connections. 0.98
00:08:36.140 But anyways, that's enough for me today, enough of my rants.
00:08:40.420 You guys can donate to my legal fund in the description below.
00:08:43.840 It's the Give, Send, Go link down there if you guys want to help the legal defense fund because we're being sued by a Chinese billionaire for no particular reason.
00:08:51.460 He's suing us for defamation and in two and a half years has still not provided any evidence for how we have defamed him in any way.
00:08:58.560 He's just throwing paperwork at us to try and hurt us.
00:09:00.620 And then again, I urge you guys, if you want, to stay connected with me and have me recommend in your local areas if there's any good nomination candidates in your area or if there's any ways you can get involved in local races and help out, make the country better, you can sign up onto that list.
00:09:15.220 I might end up basically never emailing you because you're out in some riding where there's not much of a local connection that I have and I don't know who to recommend.
00:09:22.760 Or, you know, you live in a Caliwet and I don't know about your local politics, but you can go sign up there and I'll basically try and keep you guys in touch with what I'm doing, as well as with the ways that you can get involved to make the country more conservative.
00:09:34.960 Not simply by just telling you, go and work for the Conservative Party, but specific people you can back, specific initiatives you can jump on, and how even you could potentially run for office in the future yourself.
00:09:45.440 Which I will 100% help you out with if we happen to line up with our values, which, if you like this show, I assume that's generally pretty accurate.
00:09:54.240 But that's it for me today, guys. Have a good one.