Western Standard - Poilievre Blames Housing Minister For Breaking International Student Program

00:00:00.000 But he's in a retreat today in more than one way. Yes, there's the expensive retreat of

00:00:05.740 liberal ministers who are coming together to pat themselves on the back and spend your money on

00:00:10.500 luxury for themselves. No, it's not just that he's back from vacation having spent $86,000 of other

00:00:18.620 people's money on himself. He's in retreat in another way. He's retreating on everything he

00:00:25.380 has done over the last eight years, right? After eight years of Trudeau, life costs more,

00:00:31.500 work doesn't pay, housing costs have doubled, crime, chaos, drugs, and disorder are common in

00:00:36.340 our streets, and he divides to distract from all that he has broken. Justin Trudeau is not worth

00:00:43.220 the cost. And now he wants you to know he's a changed man. He's not the same Justin Trudeau

00:00:50.420 over the last eight years. He's going to be completely different. He's in retreat.

00:00:55.380 After two years of me warning about the inflation crisis his deficits and money printing were

00:00:59.920 causing, he admits that things cost too much. After me worrying that his massive carbon tax

00:01:05.960 would drive millions of people to food banks, he now gives a pause and retreats on that as

00:01:12.200 well. After my warnings that him giving money, billions of dollars to incompetent local bureaucracies

00:01:18.880 and mayors to block housing construction that we would have a crisis, he admits that the crisis

00:01:24.260 is real and claims that he's changed his approach and mind on that as well. After my warnings that

00:01:31.280 if you let out repeat violent and property criminals again and again on early bail and parole and have

00:01:37.220 weak borders that we would lose cars to theft, he now admits that that is a problem too, and he's going

00:01:42.620 to hold a big summit to talk about it. And after he spent eight years ruining our immigration system, a system 0.80

00:01:51.700 that was the best in the world, the system that brought my brilliant and beautiful wife here. He now admits that he

00:01:58.160 screwed that up too, and he is retreating on that by cutting back by over a hundred and fifty thousand the number of

00:02:06.440 international students. This is a problem of his own making. His own incompetent, incompetent and incompetent 1.00

00:02:13.460 minister, Sean Frazier, was the one that allowed the program to grow, in the words of another liberal minister,

00:02:22.460 out of control. So you have sixteen people crammed into basements in Brampton, you have housing costs

00:02:32.840 rising faster than at any time in Canadian history and anywhere else in the world, you have what the

00:02:40.080 liberals now admit were fake and phony colleges for which liberals were the ones that issued the study

00:02:46.740 permits. Now they tell you they've changed their mind. Justin Trudeau is a new man. He admits now that he was wrong on

00:02:54.540 inflation, housing, immigration and crime. He wants you to forget the last eight years and elect him as a brand new

00:03:01.860 man. We don't need the prime minister to change. We need to change the prime minister. We need a common sense,

00:03:09.540 conservative prime minister who will axe the tax to bring home lower prices, cap spending and cut waste to balance the

00:03:16.640 budget, bringing down inflation and interest rates, lower income taxes so people bring home more powerful

00:03:22.220 paychecks and hard work pays off. That we link federal infrastructure dollars for each city to the number of

00:03:27.720 homes they allow to get built so that we reward those who get out of the way and let builders build and

00:03:33.160 penalize those that block new construction. We need to sell off 6,000 federal buildings and thousands of acres of

00:03:39.680 federal land to build, build, build. We want those homes to be in safe neighborhoods. So we need jail and not bail. 0.55

00:03:46.000 Jail and not bail. Jail and not bail for repeat violent offenders and other criminals who have

00:03:51.680 terrorized our streets. We need treatment, not decriminalized crack and heroin to bring order and

00:03:57.720 safety to our communities. And we need a prime minister that puts the people ahead of the government.

00:04:04.160 That is the common sense of the common people united for our common home. Now, let's bring it home.

00:04:16.000 Thank you.

00:04:17.000 Thank you.

00:04:18.000 Thank you.

Western Standard - January 22, 2024