The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - The Liberals admit defeat on Immigration! (Reducing 100,000 new PRs)

00:00:00.000 Even though we obviously haven't gotten everything we want as conservatives on the issue of immigration,

00:00:06.920 I think we can chalk it up as a big win that even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's federal liberals

00:00:12.600 are having to put in place heavier restrictions on new permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, as well as foreign students.

00:00:20.800 This demonstrates that even they know that mainstream Canadian politics wants tighter immigration restrictions.

00:00:27.740 I think that we need to go all the way down to only 100,000 new permanent residents a year,

00:00:32.940 if not lower, with a very strict point system where unless you are going to be a net benefit to the economy and society,

00:00:40.640 we just don't need you right now. We don't have the housing for it.

00:00:44.220 And overall, I think it's just been too much all at once and you can't assimilate people 1.00

00:00:48.860 when you're having half a million of them come in per year and all basically settling in the same parts of cities,

00:00:55.040 not having to ever interact with other Canadians at all.

00:00:59.220 But this is a big step forward, having Mark Miller and Justin Trudeau with Liberal MP Suk Dhaliwal standing behind them,

00:01:06.700 who has always been big on mass immigration,

00:01:09.500 announcing that they will be cutting immigration rates down from 500,000 to 395,000

00:01:15.520 and then further reducing it from there.

00:01:18.220 Still too much, but still, this is a win.

00:01:21.760 Canada's permanent immigration targets and aligning them to our economic needs,

00:01:26.600 I'm here to announce and confirm that the current plan reduces next year's projections from 500,000 permanent residents

00:01:34.040 to 395,000, a net reduction of 105,000 permanent residents immediately in 2025.

00:01:41.180 After that, in 2026, a progression down to 380 to stabilize the numbers at 365 in 2027.

00:01:51.740 The lower permanent resident targets, as well as the temporary resident targets

00:01:57.400 that I will speak to in some length in the next few minutes,

00:02:00.860 will have and are expected to impact the housing supply gap by about 670,000 units by the end of 2027.

00:02:09.320 I was just getting up to that point, because I wanted to get to the point where Mark Miller

00:02:14.940 basically says what Pierre Polyev and the Conservative Party's point was on immigration.

00:02:20.660 Jamil Javani has been doing a great job on this issue.

00:02:23.640 I'm going to be linking his petition, petition E4956,

00:02:28.860 which is calling for heavier restrictions on immigration.

00:02:31.800 When the Conservatives were calling for heavier restrictions on immigration because of housing supply,

00:02:38.460 Mark Miller, six months ago or so, basically came out and said that was a xenophobic position.

00:02:44.680 And now he's standing next to Justin Trudeau and flanked by tons of minority liberal MDs,

00:02:50.320 stumping for these restrictions that he thought was bad, or he was at least trying to portray as bad,

00:02:55.540 even though he probably knew that this is what we needed for better housing affordability in this country.

00:03:01.620 You cannot keep throwing more demand onto a market where there is not enough supply.

00:03:06.720 It's always been the liberal myth that somehow if there's just a demand issue,

00:03:10.980 give people more money and then they can afford it.

00:03:13.040 But the problem is that there is not enough houses for people to purchase,

00:03:16.900 so it doesn't matter how much everyone has.

00:03:19.120 The problem is people are going to be left without homes,

00:03:21.540 and the entire immigration system has mostly just been subsidizing the liberals' awful economy.

00:03:27.400 Not been making it a better economy, but making it a more bloated economy.

00:03:31.840 We get our GDP going up, which makes Justin Trudeau look good for about five seconds,

00:03:36.720 until you realize that GDP per capita has been going down.

00:03:40.900 Because obviously adding more warm bodies to an economy is going to increase the GDP.

00:03:46.520 It doesn't mean that we actually are all better off,

00:03:48.660 it just means more people are here with the money that they make.

00:03:53.120 They might not be making very much because there's not much productive work for everyone to do,

00:03:57.980 but it adds something.

00:03:59.740 That's why India and China have massive economies compared to Canada,

00:04:03.940 even though their per-worker productivity is very low compared to us.

00:04:08.900 Anyways, I want to get to another part of this little press conference where Justin Trudeau talked,

00:04:13.500 because I find it just so satisfying that Justin Trudeau actually had to come out

00:04:17.960 and take this more, not hard-line stance, but take the stance that he obviously would have criticized any conservative for taking.

00:04:27.760 One of the things that has ensured that Canadians have and continue to have confidence in our immigration system

00:04:35.280 is that we have a robust, responsible immigration system that is also flexible.

00:04:43.120 Flexible? The whole point we're having to do this because you flexed it too far.

00:04:48.400 You had 1.3 million people enter the country in 2023 and like 900,000 or so in 2022.

00:04:54.920 And this year we were about to set another record.

00:04:56.940 And when you saw your polling numbers go whoop, then suddenly, wow, we can be flexible in the other direction

00:05:03.620 of having lower immigration.

00:05:05.560 Because the real reason that Justin Trudeau is doing this, and I said this on Richard Serrett's show on Saga 960,

00:05:11.660 is that they're doing it because they're losing Quebec.

00:05:15.520 That was their last stronghold, the island of Montreal.

00:05:18.900 And they started losing those seats.

00:05:22.240 And so now, suddenly, they want, they need to embrace heavier restrictions or the French won't vote for them either.

00:05:29.480 Frankly, Torontonians and every Canadian is actually wanting heavier restrictions on immigration.

00:05:34.780 But that was the final alarm bell that went off for Trudeau to actually back off.

00:05:39.260 And I guarantee he's also doing this to save himself from members of his caucus

00:05:42.180 who are having constituents complain to them all day, every day, that immigration is too high. 1.00

00:05:47.460 You idiots, that's why we can't build enough houses to actually, like, reduce the prices. 0.99

00:05:53.780 There have been many times over the past years and decades that Canada has adjusted its approach on immigration. 1.00

00:06:01.840 But the problem is you've only ever adjusted it up over the past nine years until today.

00:06:05.980 Just think about the pandemic, for example, where we stopped immigration. 0.53

00:06:10.800 We closed our borders for a long stretch.

00:06:15.640 That's just not true.

00:06:16.940 We had lower immigration, specifically in 2020 and 2021, maybe compared to previous years.

00:06:23.320 But that's like saying 150,000, 200,000 was closing our doors.

00:06:28.320 That was still too high for our housing crisis that we have going on.

00:06:32.620 And obviously, again, the problem is that there is zero checks on anyone entering the country.

00:06:37.300 So we have people from ISIS entering the country.

00:06:39.580 We had Roxham Road just allowing random people to walk across the border into Canada.

00:06:44.380 People who have fake medical licenses, people who don't actually have the credentials they say they have, who can't work more than minimum wage jobs, undercutting just, you know, teenage Canadians, people who need their first job. 1.00

00:06:57.680 I hate the stupid talking point. 1.00

00:07:00.280 Canadians don't want to work these jobs. 1.00

00:07:01.860 That's why we need outside foreign workers. 0.99

00:07:05.040 No, the foreign workers and the businesses don't want them for those jobs either.

00:07:08.860 That's why they need wage subsidies. 1.00

00:07:10.760 Canadians don't get wage subsidies.

00:07:12.720 You don't get $3.50 of the workers' wage subsidized by the federal government if you hire a domestic Canadian, only if you hire a foreign Canadian who likely cannot do the job as well. 0.74

00:07:24.420 But, you know, I think a lot of it is also just the education system has let down our work base.

00:07:29.880 When I was in BC, I was hearing about, like, how much you can get paid for pretty, like, manual labor-type roles on blueberry farms.

00:07:37.600 And it was like you could get $23 an hour or so.

00:07:39.960 A lot of young guys in high school would probably do those jobs if they knew about them.

00:07:45.000 But our entire education system is about trying to, like, get people into universities so they can get a degree they don't need.

00:07:51.760 And obviously, tons of university degrees are very useful.

00:07:55.220 But I think it's not a stretch to say that we have a few too many sociologists and anthropologists in our society and not enough people who work as electricians, plumbers, construction workers, all that sort of thing.

00:08:07.720 Trades jobs are often so much better than the degreed jobs that you get in university.

00:08:13.060 In order to keep Canadians safe, to respond to the crisis we were going through at that moment.

00:08:17.300 What that meant was once the pandemic closures were done, we had significant labor shortages.

00:08:26.980 We needed to get our economy rolling again.

00:08:29.220 Why do we have such high unemployment rate and even a low workforce participation rate if we suddenly have all these jobs that need filling?

00:08:37.680 No, no, no. You get business lobbyists who lobby for these temporary foreign workers to come into the country because they're subsidized labor. 0.73

00:08:46.860 And they say that Canadians don't want to work these jobs because they don't get to pay Canadians artificially lower the way you do with a temporary foreign worker.

00:08:56.320 And it's basically just modern day slavery. Having a bunch of people show up, like 15 guys, sharing half a basement suite, driving for Uber Eats and working for Tim Hortons.

00:09:05.920 And that's supposed to be the normal labor base for an economy. That's crazy.

00:09:10.500 That's like what Qatar does to people who come in and work construction and whatnot. 0.80

00:09:15.360 They take away your passport and you can't leave because they don't let you have enough money to be able to buy a plane ticket.

00:09:19.680 We listen to business. We listen to colleges and universities. And we boosted the number of people coming into this country.

00:09:28.140 That was a response to the COVID slowdown and shutdowns. But now our economy is in a different place.

00:09:35.700 We've seen massive population growth over the past years, particularly in the area of temporary workers and temporary residents.

00:09:44.880 And we are now saying, OK, we need to let our communities, our infrastructures catch up to the population.

00:09:54.320 And that's why we're pausing population growth by reducing immigration numbers for the next two years.

00:10:00.800 It doesn't pause it if you're still bringing in over 300,000 people.

00:10:05.820 It's crazy. I'd have to explain this to somebody like Prime Minister Trudeau.

00:10:09.640 And he's acting like this is such a novel idea that maybe we need to let our infrastructure catch up with the population by not adding more population onto it.

00:10:19.240 But also, too, the thing is, and this goes back to just so many fundamental issues with Canada right now, it goes back to the government being too big.

00:10:27.460 The reason why companies want this really cheap, low-skilled labor is because their taxes are too high.

00:10:33.600 Income taxes, corporate taxes, the carbon tax, everything is such a high cost.

00:10:38.300 They're trying to nickel and dime their way to stay within profitability, to stay profitable.

00:10:44.640 You can't blame them by working with the government's current framework around high immigration and using that to their advantage so that they can be able to actually afford to keep the lights on.

00:10:54.440 But hiring in Canada, hiring domestic employees is a little bit tougher.

00:10:58.880 You can't under the table pay them less.

00:11:00.900 You can't do a lot of other things.

00:11:02.400 You can't get subsidized labor with domestic Canadians. 0.99

00:11:06.440 And so these businesses are demanding more foreign workers and these universities because we haven't increased domestic tuition in so many provinces in decades.

00:11:15.400 And when I say we haven't increased it, I mean that it technically goes up every year, but it lags behind inflation so much that students today barely pay anything compared to students 20 years ago.

00:11:27.340 And so because domestic students are so heavily subsidized by taxpayers and they pay so little into education,

00:11:33.840 the only two options we have are either taxpayers directly subsidize the universities more or you bring in foreign students who can pay double or triple what a domestic student is paying.

00:11:44.500 And so universities played in the framework the liberals had created in different provincial governments and started making half of their classes foreign students.

00:11:53.140 And then when we put caps on them, then they started having to make program cuts.

00:11:57.140 I used to be on the general faculty council in the Mount Royal University.

00:12:00.760 I can tell you they do need program cuts because they waste a lot of money.

00:12:04.280 But overall, nobody wants to address the idea that we tax taxpayers so much to subsidize universities without having a thought.

00:12:12.700 Maybe the person getting this degree should pay a little bit into it, especially if they're taking something that's probably not going to be beneficial in the future.

00:12:20.060 Maybe someone having to pay $6,000 a year to go into or $7,000 a year, $8,000 a year to go into anthropology.

00:12:27.820 Well, think to themselves, if they're actually going to be able to pay these student loans back with those skills that they're going to get from the degree.

00:12:34.020 I don't think an engineer is going to be dissuaded from going to university when they have to pay higher prices.

00:12:39.100 But I think that those who are taking soft skills, arts degrees, might think twice.

00:12:44.600 And I'm saying this as someone who got an arts degree, but I knew why I wanted it and what I was going to use it for.

00:12:51.100 Oh, also annoying.

00:12:52.560 And the thing I'm going to also just mention here when it comes to Pure Polyev and the conservatives is I do want them now that the liberals have said that they want immigration restrictions.

00:13:03.120 I want Pure Polyev, Jamil Javani, and because he's actually taking a lead on immigration.

00:13:08.540 Again, go sign his petition.

00:13:09.720 It's in the description below.

00:13:11.180 They need to start naming the number that they want.

00:13:14.260 And I think they should say we want $100,000.

00:13:16.860 Around $100,000 a year for the next decade is how we stabilize things.

00:13:21.140 We need to lower taxes or let people have their own families, not say like, oh, my goodness, I can't believe people are having kids when they give half their income to the government every year.

00:13:31.240 Goodness, just go out of people's way and they actually might be able to increase the population themselves.

00:13:36.620 But I want to quickly jump on.

00:13:38.940 This is a wacky video I want to show you from Sean Fraser, the man who used to be the immigration minister before Mark Miller.

00:13:47.700 His deputy minister said that immigration rates are too high for housing, and now he's going to try and shame the conservatives on affordable housing.

00:13:56.360 When their leader was actually in the position of housing minister, he got only six affordable housing units built across the entire country.

00:14:03.460 We're going to focus on what matters to Canadians, not the distractions that they try to put on the floor of the house economy.

00:14:08.520 $195,000 was the number, and that's a number that that minister would only dream of building.

00:14:12.680 Six is the number of affordable housing units that the government helped build.

00:14:17.300 They're trying to take credit for the number of homes that Canadians built.

00:14:20.540 But Mr. Speaker...

00:14:21.680 But that's what the current government's doing, Sean.

00:14:24.720 This is a video he posted himself.

00:14:27.400 The whole point is that the government gets to take credit for the behavior they enable when they're in government.

00:14:33.760 So if you're a government that reduces crime because you had tougher on crime loss, it's not because you were jumping in front of bullets and stopping crimes as they were occurring.

00:14:41.540 It's that you create an environment where less people commit crimes.

00:14:44.180 If you create an environment where more housing is built, more affordable housing is built, that means that you get to take credit for that.

00:14:50.780 The liberals are trying to take credit for a plan that hasn't even worked yet, which is to build 4 million new homes.

00:14:56.420 Did they actually say that they were going to build them themselves?

00:14:59.240 Obviously not.

00:15:00.780 They're going to try and incentivize house buildings so it would reach 4 million homes built by 2031 or whatever their number was.

00:15:07.780 That's impossible.

00:15:08.900 Their housing restrictions make it impossible to do.

00:15:11.260 And their taxes make it impossible to do.

00:15:13.400 But obviously the liberals understand this.

00:15:15.620 Yes, the federal government, when Pahaliev was the housing minister, only specifically built six buildings that were government projects.

00:15:24.540 Even then, I think that's not necessary.

00:15:26.100 You could have probably just let a developer do it with a tax incentive and that would have been fine enough.

00:15:31.200 But that's the point.

00:15:32.440 Sean Fraser has had housing builds go down every single year while he's pretending that he is the one in control of the housing market.

00:15:40.460 And by his own logic, he's been failing because house building has been going down over time.

00:15:45.340 Absolutely nuts.

00:15:47.040 Anyways, this is the stuff that drives me up the wall here.

00:15:50.160 I think there's one more clip related to immigration going on that I wanted to talk about.

00:15:55.220 Oh, yes.

00:15:55.580 Here is this Mark Miller thing right here.

00:15:57.480 They start asking him about on the day of the immigration announcement what he thinks about Justin Trudeau staying on as the liberal leader.

00:16:06.200 You know, before we're done, Minister, I do have to ask the question because we can't ignore the fact that at the end of your news conference today, the questions asked of the prime minister were about his future as liberal leader.

00:16:15.640 Not so much about your policy change, which makes me wonder, is Mr. Trudeau's leadership now a distraction for your government?

00:16:22.720 I don't think I think it's it's a distraction to who we need to be focusing on, which is Pierre Polyev in the current iteration of the Conservative Party, which is extremely toxic.

00:16:32.660 And I think fundamentally you just endorsed the Conservatives immigration philosophy of lowering it just today.

00:16:41.120 If elected would be destructive to Canada.

00:16:43.500 The Canadians are starting to realize that he's not only an unqualified, unpleasant character, he's starting to roll out policies and points of views that we've seen him take in the past over the last 20 years of his incessant talking in the House of Commons about what he would do to this country.

00:16:57.600 Canadians need to focus a little more intensely on that and everything.

00:16:59.680 Every minute spent on sort of this internal liberal stuff is a minute that we're not spending focusing on the real threat that is Pierre Polyev.

00:17:06.800 And that's where the real threat, which is Pierre Polyev, who you've just taken part of his immigration policy from, because he's toxic and he's like his incessant talking in Parliament the last 20 years.

00:17:18.520 He's an MP.

00:17:19.680 What was he paid to do like paperwork in his office?

00:17:22.340 Obviously not.

00:17:23.080 He is paid to speak and represent his constituents.

00:17:25.420 But I guess that's a tough concept for Mark Miller to understand anyways.

00:17:30.380 So what I want from the Conservatives from here on out is that we need a very solid number of immigrants that we are saying that we want per year. 0.99

00:17:37.800 I think temporary foreign workers should be reduced by like 80 percent or more. 0.98

00:17:41.020 It's just not needed.

00:17:42.760 And the thing is, I don't want to just lower it and then say deal with it, business community.

00:17:46.560 I want it lowered while we lower taxes.

00:17:48.880 So I want taxes on the federal government level, income tax brackets, lowered by 3 to 5 percent.

00:17:55.060 Corporate taxes need to be lowered by 3 to 5 percent.

00:17:57.780 And we'd actually bring in more tax revenue if we did that.

00:18:00.460 It's the classic Laffer curve scenario.

00:18:02.820 We are at such a high fever pitch tax rate right now, tax burden, that we are bringing in less revenue because people are leaving the country or they're working less.

00:18:10.920 They're retiring early.

00:18:12.100 All that stuff.

00:18:13.080 So that's what we need to do.

00:18:14.440 We need to lower temporary foreign workers. 1.00

00:18:16.020 We need to let get, no, we don't even need to cap students.

00:18:20.040 We just need to make it so that domestic students actually pay for more than 25 percent of their education. 1.00

00:18:26.320 For domestic students pay nothing.

00:18:28.060 I paid for a degree where there was no tuition capping.

00:18:32.060 It's not that difficult.

00:18:33.460 I had to pay a lot of money per semester, more than I would even say that domestic students would have to pay for an undergrad.

00:18:38.700 But it's possible.

00:18:40.140 And the thing is, if it's a degree that's worth it to you, you do it happily.

00:18:43.160 Anyways, so we need to lower taxes, put a heavy cap on temporary foreign workers, get rid of these wage subsidies for temporary foreign workers.

00:18:53.040 And we need to reduce new permanent residents to around 100,000, 80,000 to 120,000 is a good year-to-year range with a real values test, with a real test of the person's ability to be productive. 0.63

00:19:07.080 And that's how we get on the right track.

00:19:09.600 And the conservatives need to push a solid plan on those things because I don't want them to just basically make sounds about the immigration system is broken.

00:19:17.180 I like Pierre Polyev. I thought actually his response to Mark Miller and Trudeau's announcement wasn't quite right because he talked about how they broke the immigration system, which is true when it comes to them letting ISIS terrorists across the border and all this other stuff hurt the country.

00:19:30.360 But I think that we need a solid number to then pressure the liberals towards, if not achieve once they're in government.

00:19:37.280 Okay, that's it for me today, guys.

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00:19:55.200 That's also where the petition is from Jamil Javani that you should all sign.

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00:20:06.440 Thanks for watching, guys.

00:20:07.640 I'll talk to you later at another date about another issue.

00:20:10.660 Thank you.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 26, 2024

The Liberals admit defeat on Immigration! (Reducing 100,000 new PRs)

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