The Canadian Left wants crime to increase
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss how dangerous the Canadian political left has become on the topic of crime and criminal justice in Canada, and how they have become more and more pro-crimacist in their approach to crime.
Transcript
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Hello everyone, it's Wyatt here, and today I want to talk about an issue that I actually
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have a fairly strong research background in, and that is the issue of crime and criminal
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justice in Canada. I think that the Canadian political left has moved away from just being
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dumbly naive on the topic of crime to being flat out dangerous. I don't think it's an
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exaggeration to say that the Liberals and the NDP, federally and provincially, as well
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as many municipal politicians like Jody Gondek in Calgary and Olivia Chow in Toronto, have
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just become flat out pro-criminal. Their ideology has taught them to see criminals as somehow
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victims of society, that because criminals are naturally poor, that somehow it's the fact
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that they're poor is the reason why they're criminals, not just the fact that any criminal
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is naturally going to be poor because, you know, they don't have jobs because they're
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criminals. And I have a perfect story to highlight just how dangerous the NDP, specifically in
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Alberta's perspective has become on crime. You can easily apply this to any party on the
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left in Canada because they pretty much all share this perspective, but Janice Irwin from
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the NDP in Alberta seems to just say it completely out loud what the left's perspective on crime
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has become. So there's the story in Edmonton where the Edmonton Police Service was going to
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move about 150 homeless campers off the streets, naturally because it's just, you know, a criminal
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act to try and just live on the sidewalk in an encampment. It's loitering, it's illegal
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camping, they're usually using drugs, they're usually involved in theft and other sort of
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violent acts. And so naturally the Edmonton Police were going to move this. It actually
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concentrates the crime in the area and it vastly increases it once the criminals, and like you
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could say, are you trying to criminalize homeless people? No, but naturally homeless drug addicts
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usually are committing crimes. Any one of them, you could go up and probably find about seven
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illegal things they're doing per day. And they're not on the streets because they're poor. Poor
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people don't tend to just go and live on a tent on the street. They usually go and, you know, live with
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a family member, go and try and find ways of cutting expenses, having to switch jobs. Yes, it's terrible
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to be poor. Everyone sympathizes. People on the streets are not just experiencing poverty, they're
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usually experiencing drug addiction or some sort of mental illness. But Janice Irwin has the perspective
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that if we enforce the law on these people and we move their encampments and trying to actually force
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them to get help, that is criminalizing poverty. So here's her tweet right here. She says, and she
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tags Rachel Notley because Rachel Notley was putting out this letter basically going after the Edmonton
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police. And as insane as is, there has been now an injunction against the Edmonton police that they
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do not get to move this homeless encampment causing crime, hurting businesses in the area, and likely
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leading to many violent assaults. But Janice Irwin says, Rachel Notley and I are calling on the UCP
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Solicitor General to immediately put a stop to the plans to evict unhoused Edmontonians from their
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encampments. We must stop criminalizing poverty. We can't enforce our way out of the housing crisis.
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This is not a housing crisis issue. The reason that these people are on the street is not because
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they couldn't find an apartment. It's because they cannot get a job because they're on crack.
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That is not an issue that you can solve by keeping them out on the street. And I would love for Janice
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Irwin to tell me just how many months or years are these homeless people going to stay out there
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until they just sort it all out and they go get a good job and start living like a normal life again.
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It's not going to happen. If anything, she's basically stumping to have these people deteriorate
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on the street and die as her sympathetic approach to crime. The thing is that the best thing for these
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people would be to make sure that the law on loitering and camping was strong enough that
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these people would have never been able to settle out on the streets. I've talked to police officers.
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The problem with these encampments especially is that it centralizes where drug dealers go and sell
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drugs. And when these people don't have money, they naturally steal to be able to sell something or
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to steal cash in order to buy more drugs. Janice Irwin pretending that she's not criminalizing
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poverty by refusing to enforce the law on these homeless individuals is not being sympathetic.
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She's allowing them to destroy themselves and she's allowing them to destroy businesses and other
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people's lives along the way. She is absolutely pro-criminal. She thinks that because somehow these
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people are poor, that the reason that they're committing crimes, i.e. living on the streets,
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using drugs openly, buying drugs, and then stealing to buy drugs is somehow just because
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of the poverty issue. I can tell you through my research, poverty has very little to do with crime.
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People will point at the fact that, well, criminals are poor, ergo, they're stealing because they're
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poor. It's this idea that every... One of my favorite YouTubers uses this example, actual justice
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warrior, and he's absolutely right. The left sees criminals like Aladdin, that they're all just
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running around trying to steal televisions and other items so that they can go feed their hungry kids
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at home. It's not how it works. Crime has very little to do with poverty. It's actually crime that
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drives poverty, not the other way around. Because poor people, when you go to specific neighborhoods
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in different cities, do not commit crimes. If anything, it's an insult to pretend that someone
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who is materially sort of not well off is a risk factor of committing a crime. Through my research,
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I can tell you that I can go to one neighborhood in Toronto that has a high assault rate, and if I
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leave 10 minutes away to an area of Toronto that is actually less well off in terms of the median
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income, that place will have way less crime. And it's because they have two things. They have strong
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families, and they have a strong educational achievement culture. If you go to an area that has a lot of
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single parent households and low educational achievement, it doesn't matter if they make four
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or $5,000 more than another neighborhood on average, they are going to commit more crimes because they
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do not have strong social stabilities in their lives. You cannot give those people money and just
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bribe them to not commit crime, which is the left's perspective. That somehow, if we just give out
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enough social security sorts of benefits, if we have more welfare programs, somehow people are just going
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to decide to not commit crime. People who commit crime do so because they're criminals. You shouldn't
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overcomplicate this by pretending that if we just sort of give them enough benefits that they're
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somehow going to just, you know, skip out on the crime trade. Usually, you're not going to be able
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to pay for this person's drug habit. A lot of these people are going to just steal, they keep stealing
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so that they can buy more drugs. There's not a sort of an amount of money per month that will
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take them out of this lifestyle. It has become a lifestyle choice. And the idea, it's nutty that
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they put an injunction against the police moving this encampment. Somehow, leaving these people on
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the streets is good for them is horrifyingly unsympathetic. If you actually had empathy,
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you would want them forced off the streets into rehab programs where they're not going to freeze to
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death in the winter and they're not going to stay on the streets using drugs that could potentially
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kill them. The safe injection site culture that we have towards drug addiction is extremely
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dangerous. The idea that if we just supply safer drugs or we just allow people to use their drugs
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in safe, supervised areas, somehow we're going to crush the upward trend in drug use is insane.
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By putting a safety net out for drug addicts, you're not going to make them being less likely to
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use drugs. You're just allowing them to OD a few more times before they die. I would rather have a
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much more aggressive intervention to make sure they stop using drugs so there's no chance that they
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could OD. But the left thinks that somehow drug use is actually somehow, you know, a revolutionary act
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against the system. And that by trying to make sure that someone doesn't use drugs or force them to
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not use drugs, it's like the man coming down on them and trying to keep them safe. As if that's a bad
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thing, that if we keep people safe from themselves and we keep other people safe from people who are
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criminals, that we're criminalizing their poverty, that we're criminalizing their mental health
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issues. Basically, the left thinks that the way that you reduce crime is you stop considering things
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crime. If we stop considering retail theft crime, if we stop considering homeless encampments crime,
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if we stop thinking that assaults are crime, it's just a mental health issue. Somehow we can have a
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zero crime rate by just taking every single criminal act out of the criminal code. This is
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basically what the liberals want to do is lower penalties and eliminate crimes, pretending that
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we've somehow dealt with a problem when we've literally just ignored the problem. Trying to
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decriminalize drug use and selling of drugs does not get rid of the fact that is an immoral act that is
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hurting people. Pretending that by just writing into legislation, this is no longer a bad thing does not
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make it a non-bad thing, but this is where the left comes from on crime, that we can just legislate
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our way out of the issue and not actually have to do any enforcement whatsoever. The reality is,
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if you want less crime, you have to make it difficult to be a criminal. And that means very
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strong enforcement. It means police on the ground. And whenever someone tries to start a homeless
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encampment, they're moved along, they're pushed aside, and they are forced to figure out where they're
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going to live, whether it's a homeless shelter or they have to call up their sister and say,
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I'm going to crash on your couch for a couple months while I got a new job. That's what you
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have to do. You're never going to be able to soft hand people into responsible living. It has to be a
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bit of a hard shove at times. Every once in a while, we get a unicorn story where someone in a homeless
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encampment was handed a pamphlet about getting off drugs, and they do it. But that's not the majority.
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And we can't hope that people who are on drugs or criminals are going to act like law-abiding,
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rational citizens, and just determine that maybe this isn't the lifestyle for me, and figure out
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something else. It does have to be, at some point, society does have to come down hard on people who
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are making life harder for everyone else. But that's, I guess, it for me today. Hopefully, I didn't sound
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