Trudeau’s desperation bid for re-election will bankrupt generations
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This week on The Cory Morgangan Show, we discuss the latest on the Trudeau Government, the Canadian economy, and the future of the country. We also have a special guest interview with Ontario s premier, Danielle Smith.
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good day welcome to the cory morgan show got a good one this week i like to think they're all
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good some are better than others we got to get realistic with things and yeah today's a good
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one it's really addressing a pressing issue in a little while i will have premier daniel smith
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on it was actually a recorded interview we rarely do that here but when you know the premier's
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schedule is tight and i just couldn't get her on live so when that runs though i mean i still it's
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going to be running live on here. Use the comment area. Send your comments, ideas, questions on there
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and I can address them after the interview. Interact with each other. I like you seeing that
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comment scroll being used. It reminds me that we are live. Just keep things civil. Good to see you
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there, Rusty and Paradoxy and others. Feel free to check in. And of course, there's going to be the
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rest of the news and other things going. So I'm going to start things off on a federal note. One
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of my pet subjects, our imbecile of a prime minister and his behavior of late. Well, as always.
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So, I mean, the Trudeau government, though, they've been on the ropes for over a year. Polls have been
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abysmal and it appears nothing's going to turn them around. So changing the leader of their party,
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I mean, it could improve their fortunes. It worked for the Democratic Party south of the border.
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But Trudeau appears to be stubbornly unwilling to step aside, no matter how unpopular he becomes.
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Now, the clock's ticking for the liberals. They've got to be getting stressed. I mean,
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unless Trudeau steps down within the next couple of months, the Liberals won't be able to hold a
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leadership and have a new leader well enough established to head into an election in less
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than a year. They're basically going to have to accept him and get used to it. Aside from the
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usual campaign of trying to label all their opponents as being far right, you know, and scary
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and all that usual garbage, the Liberal tactic of trying to spend their way back into the hearts
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of Canadians has continued. Hardly a day goes by without a new spending announcement. And with
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over a year expected at least to pass before the next general election, the Trudeau government's
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on track to spend Canadians into poverty for generations. The latest announcement comes from
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Napanee, Ontario, where a Goodyear plant is going to be getting 44 million tax dollars for an
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expansion. Goodyear is a large multinational corporation that does not need corporate
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welfare from Canadians. They're not going to say no when Trudeau comes prancing in with a signed
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check from taxpayers in his hand, but they don't need it. The ones who are in need are the desperate
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liberals, and they're praying that somehow through corporate handouts, the potential new jobs they
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might create may reverse the downward spiral in the polls. Hasn't worked yet, but they're still
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doggedly trying, and it's pretty easy to do when you're writing checks with somebody else's
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checkbook. The subsidies are adding up to tens of billions of tax dollars when the mad lust for
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investing in battery plants to service electric vehicles that nobody wants is added up. While
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automakers are backing off from EV targets and cutting production, Canadians are having their
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tax dollars poured into companies with a mandate to supply EV manufacturing. In other words, a
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really stupid business decision and a recipe for financial disaster. Then there's the public
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service. With a decade in power, the Liberal government's managed to bloat the already
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grossly large civil service by 40%. Services haven't gotten any better, though. We just have
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more people underserving us than ever before at a higher cost than we ever possibly could have
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imagined. Many of them went on strike last year and more have since been threatening labor action
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over having to come to the office more than two days a week.
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Job growth in the private sector in Canada remains stagnant.
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So that means we've got a smaller pool of people
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having to work more to pay a larger number of people to work less.
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and as much as Trudeau is trying to change that private-to-public ratio
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to win an election, there won't be enough civil servants hired
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to turn around an election, but they sure will break us.
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Trudeau's partnership with Singh's NDP is costing a fortune too.
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I mean, come on, nationalized dental services, daycare services,
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lunchroom services, pharma care services. They're adding up to more billions of dollars that we
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can ill afford. Clearly, though, the Trudeau government still somehow fears that Singh might
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pull the pin on their government. You know, if he ever found his knackers and some courage,
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Singh's as happy as he's ever going to be. And if he tries to, you know, he tries to talk tough now
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and then, but he's not going to go into an election. He doesn't want to go anywhere than
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Trudeau does. But the liberals are still tossing billions into NDP initiatives to be on the safe
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side. Trudeau's government used to at least pretend they had a plan to reach a balanced
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budget one day, but they've tossed out those pretenses of fiscal responsibility and just now
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plan to increase the national debt indefinitely. You know, Trudeau has realized that budgets don't
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balance themselves finally, but the problem is he doesn't care. Government spending just keeps
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rising with the debt. It's anticipated that the program spending is going to increase by another
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18% by 28-29 if trends continue as they have. That estimate's going to keep growing as the
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announcements keep coming. The cost for servicing the debt's nearing $50 billion a year. Think about
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that. $50 billion a year in interest payments. It's flushing money down the toilet, and it's as
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much as the federal government spends on health care. Worst of all, it's the future generations
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who are going to be left with the bill. Trudeau, he's eventually going to be tossed from office.
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He's never soon enough. He'll retire on some private island, live out his life in luxury.
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Meanwhile, young Canadians are going to have years of austerity when budgets have to be cut and taxes
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have to be risen when the nation hits the inevitable fiscal wall. Trudeau is the most
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irresponsible, selfish prime minister in Canadian history. He has no qualms about
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indebting generations in a desperate attempt to remain in power.
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Some people think that Trudeau should remain in power until the next election because his terrible leadership provides
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an advantage to the Conservative Party. This might be true, but the price to keep that fool
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in power any longer than we have to is much too high. Trudeau is clearly never going to
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discover the concepts of personal accountability or empathy for struggling Canadians,
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but perhaps some liberal caucus members will they have to pressure that clown to resign
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as strongly as possible as soon as possible we just can't afford to keep him there any longer
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all right well that's kind of got me going it's just i can't you know opening the news and finding
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more spending more spending we just can't keep doing it guys well we'll see all right let's see
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what the hell else is going on out there we got our news editor dave naylor in studio with us
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today hey dave what's what's topping the scroll today hey it's nice to see you in a tie again
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You probably forgot you were wearing that, didn't you?
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It's just a temporary measure going on right now.
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Well, you know, Premier Smith's been getting a lot of flack over the immigration issue.
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Yeah, I'm interested in hearing what she has to say.
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Leading off today, Corey, with a really disturbing story out of Calgary where a dead kitten was found with its head sort of caved in.
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and zip tied to a fence post in the community of Kingsland.
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So that's prompted a big Calgary Humane Society investigation.
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And it turns out that since May, the end of May 30th,
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they found six kittens in and around that Kingsland sandy beach area
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that have been abused and had their paws tied together
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So there is one really sicko individual out there.
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We've got our columnist, Jaime Rubenstein, expert on Indigenous affairs,
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talking about the trend now to fake your Indigenous identity to get funding,
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federal funding for your business or whatever it may be.
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Big hailstorm is continuing to wreak havoc on WestJet.
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You should see some of the pictures of the wings of the plane just dented.
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And they've had to cancel 600 flights since the storm last week.
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And if you phone the passenger hotline, you're told three days until an agent can get back there.
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And interestingly, during their little strike last month in July, they ranked dead last in North American Airlines for arriving on time.
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So I don't see their August stats picking up any time soon.
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As you know, Corey, Winnipeg, the Canadian capital of Slurpee consumption.
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And they may have to go a bit further to get it.
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Now the corporation has announced they're closing 10 7-Elevens because of crime.
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And they're just in crime-ridden neighborhoods, and it's just not worth their while to stay open anymore.
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You know, it's like shades of San Francisco and stuff like that.
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Algerian boxer Califf was the boxer in the ladies' competition with male chromosomes.
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She is suing everybody and their dog for defamation during the Olympics, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump and Arthur J.K. Rowling.
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So French officials are investigating and we'll have to see what happens there.
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And the Liberals have resorted to their old tactic of blame Stephen Harper.
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This time it's for letting those two ISIS terrorists into the country
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and letting them go live in Toronto where they're planning to kill as many people as they can.
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Coming up this afternoon right now when NASA is holding a press conference
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on those poor stranded astronauts who went up for a weekend
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So our own space geek, Sean Polzer, will be filing a story on that.
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And our opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford, is pecking away on a column on what's happening in Great Britain now.
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Had some bad rioting and now people who are saying things on Facebook are being thrown in jail for more than a year.
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It's kind of what Trudeau's proposing, you know, on these online harms bills.
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So he's taking a look at that, and I'm sure it's going to be interesting.
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Well, I'll let you get back at chasing those reporters around
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and keeping us all up to date on these fantastic happenings.
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As you heard, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.
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Boy, that kitten story, that's the first I'd heard of it, actually.
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there's something extra horrible about animal abusers you know i i think it's part of why we
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get more upset when we hear about you know a senior citizen being attacked or a child or an
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animal is that they're helpless right you know it's one thing if a grown person's assaulting
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another it's still never good violence is never good but kittens good lord you know and these are
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the things that we really need to take seriously i mean with some of the the most horrible killers
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and, you know, sadistic individuals we get out there in the world that we run across,
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almost always they have a history of violence towards animals.
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So let's catch this person in Calgary and any other animal abusers as soon as possible
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So this is the time I'd like to remind you too, as you know, as you can see here,
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there's a dark side to that. It's interesting, you know, the little trivia things you find out.
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So yeah, Winnipeg is the Slurpee capital of Canada. I didn't know that, you know,
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you wouldn't think that. So, okay, it was popular for Slurpees. And now 11, 7-Elevens are being shut
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down within Winnipeg because of the high crime. Something that's making a lot of news lately
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has been the list of the highest crime cities in the country. And people sometimes aren't thinking,
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you know, they're wondering, why isn't it the great big cities? It's smaller cities.
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And you look at who's topping it, and it's like Kamloops, and it's Chilliwack, and it's
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Red Deer, Alberta, it's Lethbridge, it's North Battleford, it's the smaller city, Saskatoon,
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Regina, and Winnipeg. This is, you know, we were talking about immigration, we're talking about
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challenges and things that happen. This has nothing to do with immigration, actually.
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It is a social thing, though, and it's a demographic thing. That's one of the things
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we really do need to discuss. It's a sensitive area, very sensitive, but it shows how we,
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it's not a coincidence, excuse me, that every one of the cities that top the crime lists of
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crime crimes are also the cities that top the percentage of having Indigenous populations.
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And see, this is where it gets delicate, because you don't want to label every Indigenous person
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as a criminal. Of course not. I mean, the vast majority of them are not. But they're very,
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very socially troubled, economically troubled. I mean, part of it is they're coming from reserves,
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they're settling in cities, and they're having a very difficult time adapting to city life.
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But we can't dodge and hide from that pattern. We can't ignore the reality that this is, you know,
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among the many measures. They've got shorter life expectancies, bigger health problems,
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lower graduation rates. We have to accept that the system is failing. It's failing everybody,
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but it's failing the Indigenous people the most.
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This two parallel systems, this race-based policy we have.
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The irony is a lot of what messed up the Indigenous population socially
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over the generations was race-based policy to begin with.
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They weren't allowed to leave reserves without talking to an Indian agent first.
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They were treated with a lot of terrible racism from people
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but we're trying to fix it by applying more race-based policy. Guys, what we need to do is
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get race out of policy. We need to have discussions about what's working and what's not working. And
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this is not working for our First Nations in Canada right now and for other people who live
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in areas where the social disorder is spreading. Okay, now another issue. We're going to get into
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that right away here with my guest. As I said, it's recorded. Keep the comments coming, guys.
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I'll read them while the interview is going. I had to record it with Premier Smith.
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but she'd recently, you know, well, not recently, but it recently kind of hit the news about an
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interview she did where she talked about doubling the population of Alberta. A lot of people are
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wondering, what the heck is she talking about? What's she going on about? And Premier Smith
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kindly came on the show and gave us 15 minutes to explain where she's coming from with
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immigration and what Alberta can do about it. So let's run
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that and listen to Premier Smith and we can have a discussion on immigration.
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thank you very much for joining us today premier smith on an issue that's really uh well a sensitive
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one and a big one with a lot of people and that's immigration every level of government's dealing
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with it every citizen's dealing with it uh i i guess you kind of unexpectedly brought it into
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the fore again with an interview you did last january perhaps if we could start there we're
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just kind of clarifying, you'd spoken of aspiring to have Alberta double its population by 2050,
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and it got a lot of people pretty worked up. Can you kind of expand on that a little?
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Well, my thinking about it was that we were already growing at 200,000 a year based on
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those numbers. So if you just do the math, by 25 years, it would be 5 million population.
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And I have often thought that we would have more political clout if we had a higher population
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than Quebec. But what I'm seeing, and I'm doing a lot of roundtables and town halls across the
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province, people are worried. People are very nervous about our ability to be able to keep up
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with that pace of growth. And I think we're beginning to see it. So I'm listening to people,
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I'm having to recalibrate a little bit on what our aspirations should be. I think what we really need
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is a sensible immigration policy, similar to what we had under Stephen Harper, where we had a point
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system for bringing people in. We made sure that newcomers matched the economic needs of our
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economy. We made sure that we had a level of newcomers coming to our country that matched
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our ability to keep up with housing. And I think what we're seeing is that, especially in Alberta,
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we're beginning to feel some of the pressure of that growth. And I think that that's what people
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are responding to. Yeah. And I'd crunch the numbers because I mean, as soon as I first heard
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it, I thought, boy, that's a pretty fast growth. And then I realized, well, actually, with where
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things went in 2023. If we sustain the current growth we're at, we will double by 2050, whether
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we aspire to do so or not. So the discussion has to be, I mean, you can't slow immigration. That's
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a, would be a federal move anyhow, but we really have to better deal with it. I mean, our healthcare
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is having a really hard time keeping up with our existing population. Housing is really pressuring
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people, the education system. So I guess through better targeting, we could better, you know,
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adjust to that and have them contribute to the growth that we need but is that going to be
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enough like the numbers just sound so staggeringly large well i think what we i think 2023 may have
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been an anomaly um i think one of it was that when i got elected we'd started into the alberta is
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calling campaign and there was a good reason for doing that i mean we'd had 13 quarters of out
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migration we knew that we were going to turn around with an oil and gas another building boom and we
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needed to have workers here but i i think that uh it was more successful than than anybody anticipated
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it being in part because we were one of the first provinces to firmly put covet behind us and the
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pandemic behind us so that i think a lot of freedom lovers came to our province knowing that we were
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taking a bit of a different approach i think as well that the housing proposition was such a good
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one we still have several markets in alberta that are are the cheapest in north america i think
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think Edmonton and Red Deer in particular. And of course, it coincided with Ukrainian evacuees as
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well, 70,000 of whom came to Alberta during that period of time. And the remarkable thing is almost
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all of them got jobs. We just did a recent assessment of how many are on social supports,
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and it was only about 1,700. So I think those factors were part of what led to the surge and
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grow. So part of what we've done is we've really scaled back that Alberta's Calling campaign just
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to target the skilled workers that we need we're trying to get another an additional 2 000 skilled
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workers to come here to be so that we can keep up with the building growth of homes keep up with the
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major industrial projects that we have in the industrial heartland and in the agri-food
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processing area and in the forestry sector so that's that's part of of how we have responded
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to that but but i do think that the the federal government has um they've clearly led all of the
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different streams of uh of immigration get beyond the ability of the canadian governments and
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provincial governments to be able to to to properly support and you're seeing it i mean at the halifax
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conference every single premier was raising the concern about the increase in housing prices
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increase in rents the number of people using food bank the number of people who are newcomers who
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are using shelters the impact on education system the difficulty finding a family doctor
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I think Albertans want to be able to embrace newcomers who are going to participate in our
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economy, but we have to do so at a rate that allows us to keep up with home construction,
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as well as keeping up with being able to provide all of those services.
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And right now, there is just way too much pressure on each of those.
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We're feeling it in government. I think regular Albertans are feeling it as well,
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and that's why we need to return to a more sensible kind of immigration policy like we used to have.
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so another area it's a more sensitive one but people really need to address it particularly
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when we see what's going on in the uk is is people culturally integrating i mean some cultures have
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an easier time adapting i mean ukraine's got a similar climate it's uh there's a lot of ukrainian
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people who'd settled in alberta previously so they could quickly adapt to being here uh from some of
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the countries and their countries that need i mean they have refugees that are coming they're
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fleeing some terrible situations, but they can have a hard time integrating with the existing
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population. And people fear it might lead to the sorts of clashes and events that we're seeing in
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Europe right now. What could we do to, I guess, calm people and prevent that sort of cultural
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clash from happening here over time? Yeah, I think you've identified another reason for unease.
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People are looking around the world and they're seeing that these disputes are spilling over
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I mean, we value family and faith and community
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And there's so many, many cultures around the world
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in peace and harmony and have religious freedom
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and that's what we want to keep on doing that's why having an economic focus on immigration makes
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so much sense it assists with integration and it and it assists with making sure that those um those
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international disputes don't spill over into alberta so we have to be uh very mindful of the
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the nervousness people have when they look around the world and make sure that we're doing everything
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we can because if if we don't have the ability to provide the supports the english language learning
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that first job the ability to have wraparound supports to to get a person into a community
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to be able to support them long term that's when you end up with people feeling disenfranchised
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that's when you end up with uh with having some of some of some of that anger uh spill over and
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we i think we've done a great job of being able to avoid that and so i'm i'm not um as concerned
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about where we find ourselves now but i i am mindful that um the the this level of of uh
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continued pressure in Alberta is something that is going to be something we have to address. We
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don't want for it to spill over into people feeling like there are too many newcomers
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coming to our province. We want to make sure people will continue as they always have to
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embrace newcomers. But I think that the problem that we've seen is that everybody is feeling the
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increase in the cost of housing, increase in cost of living, and the fact that we have a federal
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government who's essentially thrown out the immigration rules of the of the past and that
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is what's creating pressure not only here but through to quebec and every other province as
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well it was part of the reason it was such a major topic of conversation when the premiers got together
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at the last round in halifax well and some of the issue is just sheer volume i mean you know
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some fantastic people coming but you can just you can only accommodate so many at so much of a speed
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quebec has always been outspoken and at least you know controls as much as they can provincially
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in immigration even though the at the base of it it is a federal thing are there more policies we
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can look forward to from alberta to try and take more control at least of our own destiny as to
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controlling immigration for for ourselves well let me let me tell you the way i'm looking at
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this so we're about 12 of the population and yet we ended up with 22 of the the newcomers in the
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22 23 or 23 calendar year that that's gives you an idea of of just how much additional pressure
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it is that we've been bearing. The other thing I would say is that our home builders have been
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amazing because they've seen the extra pressure. So they've massively wrapped up their construction.
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And now we're building 56% more houses this year than we did last year, which would allow for us
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to build about 40,000 homes this year, which they tell me can accommodate about 100,000 people. So
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that is going flat out. So I hope that that gives you some idea of what I've seen our housing
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capability is, as well as what I'm seeing in the social services area. We know that we're seeing
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an increased pressure in shelter on food banks, and we want to make sure that that doesn't
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continue. So part of the approach that I've always taken is that I've watched what Quebec has done.
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Quebec has the ability to choose about 55% of the newcomers that come to Quebec because they're
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choosing on the basis of language. I just saw recently that Quebec wants to take over their
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entire immigration choices. And whereas in Alberta, we only get the ability to choose about 9,500 of
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the newcomers through our provincial nominee program. It seems to me that having more ability
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for us to use that program so that we can attach workers to the jobs that are available and make
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sure that we have the supports of the communities around them, that would make a lot of sense. So
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I have been advocating for that, that we should be able to much more like Quebec have greater
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ability to have the selection over those who do come to Alberta so that we can make sure
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that they're going to be a good fit and also be able to seamlessly integrate and be able to have
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the jobs and the social supports to support them. Then I'll continue advocating for that. But the
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general issue is that we simply as a country cannot bring in 1.2 million people. That is,
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I believe, through all the different streams, the family stream, the refugee stream, the student
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stream, the temporary foreign worker stream, and the regular integration, immigration stream that
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came in in 2023. And I think we've just seen, whether it's in Alberta or Quebec or elsewhere,
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that there just isn't the ability for the provinces to keep up and it just isn't the
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ability for the housing market to keep up. Back in Mulroney's day, I think Mulroney had 250,000
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newcomers that was his immigration target it advanced more under harper i don't know quite
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know what the numbers are but but going back to something uh that is based on what is our ability
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to be able to effectively build houses and support newcomers that's got to be the number it can't
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just be an open borders policy without limit it's just creating way too much pressure on every
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province's social programs and it's also putting a lot of pressure on on people being able to
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aspire to ultimately have a home one day or ultimately be able to have an affordable rental
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suite those things are all connected and we have to to make sure that we're taking care of albertans
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yeah and then so before i let you go i mean there's some reactionary people who say we
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shouldn't have any immigration that's unreasonable immigration is a net benefit to us we do do well
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with immigration and it's important but as you said that the 1.2 million a year is unsustainable
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as well do you have a sort of number you think that maybe unified premiers could be asking the
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federal government to just tap the brakes on and bring us to that's sustainable well you know i i
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guess is there like a one percent kind of target if you look at we have 40 million people in canada
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right now if it was one percent that would be about 400 000 when i look at at whether or not
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um our share would be able to accommodate that i think we probably could if you look at our
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historical growth before we ended up with a major downturn in our economy that lasted for so many
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years so maybe that's the right number i mean there's probably there's probably smarter people
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than me who can figure that out but i can just tell you from what i have now observed about uh
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trying to provide the services to accommodate uh folks who who came here through 2023 i think we
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had the ability to do some of that more effectively because we had had so many years of decline and
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we had some housing uh projects that had um uh had started up and so we were able to to uh to i think
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do a pretty good job of being able to match that that growth pressure but now i'm looking at the
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the fact that we've got you know 22 500 additional students that came into school that we weren't
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anticipating and it takes three or four years to build a school we would probably need to build
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uh 30 or more schools a year for the next uh number of years in order to be able to keep up
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with that growth that's the kind of practical reality that i'm talking about is that um if
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we're if we're going to to be welcoming newcomers we've got to have a place for them to live and a
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place for their kids to go to school and we've got to make sure everybody has a family doctor
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so i think that there is a very pragmatic and practical approach that we can take
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that allows us to continue to to keep up with growth continue to welcome newcomers without
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creating the kind of tensions that are are beginning to emerge because uh because people
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are beginning to feel disenfranchised great well i appreciate you coming on to clarify that for us
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today is there anything else you'd like to add before i let you go no thanks so much for the
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for the conversation cory i know that you guys said um do a lot of work on covering these and
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and other issues i mean the other thing i might say is uh one of the things i was just on a northern
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tour and it's very interesting to see the difference between north and south because
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north keeps telling me we need more people but one of the things that they're doing up north is
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they're trying to grow their own uh their own skilled labor they're offering more trades programs
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to to kids or having larger families and we are also a party that supports families we're doing
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what we can to to be able to make it easier for families to be able to have kids for moms and dads
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And so we've got a higher workforce participation rate.
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and that allows for all of us to pay lower taxes.
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So I kind of like that as part of our model as well.
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Great. Well, thank you very much for coming on today.
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So that was 15 minutes of Premier Smith talking about immigration.
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It's a huge issue, but we got to clarify a few things.
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No matter what the Premier may say or may try or may do,
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all she can do as far as it comes to the volume
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So the volume coming in, the 1.2 million, which, you know, she did say is not sustainable, that is in Trudeau's lap.
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Then they land in Canada, and Alberta's growth, it's been showing, our growth is mostly interprovincial.
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They land in Toronto, they land in Vancouver, but they do come to Alberta eventually, and we have to deal with the immigration.
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It's not going to go down no matter what we do provincially.
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Now, Nadia pointing out in Quebec, it's provincial.
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So what happens in Quebec is they have a larger say on where the immigrants will first land
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And there's nothing that Quebec can do, say, for a liberal that moves,
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or liberal, an immigrant that moves to Toronto and decides to move to Quebec.
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There's nothing the province can do to stop that.
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some people saying no immigration, no immigration. I'll be blunt. That's stupid. It's stupid. Okay,
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guys, we need immigration. What we need to do, though, is do it better. We need to figure out
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how to manage it. You know, I did a lot of touring talking about the Alberta pension plan,
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a big thing I've been a proponent of for a long time. And one of the reasons Alberta is much more
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strongly placed with a pension plan of its own rather than being in the federal one is the
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demographics. Because Alberta has a younger working population. Because Alberta has a higher
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earning population, we're putting much more into that plan than we're taking out. But the reason
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we have that balance is a lot because of immigration, because the immigrants are working
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and they're feeding that system. That's the way the pension plans work. And if we stopped
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immigration, if we could, if we could wave a magic wand and stop immigration, that's fine. But we're
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going to have a terrible imbalance with things like our pension plan and developing areas and
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moving further. We're getting too many. That's a given. You know, Premier Smith said as much as
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well. We're taking in way more than we can accommodate. But the solutions aren't as simple
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as some people might think. And we have to think harder on this. We can't, as Albertans do much,
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well, hey, I wrote a book on what I think Albertans should do about dealing with Ottawa
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in the long game, you know, with the Sovereignty's Handbook. But in the immediate term, there's only
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so much a premier can do to adapt to these things. She did say, interestingly, and that was back in
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January, that she was looking at doubling Alberta's population by 2050. The funny thing is, as I
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looked into it, she wouldn't have to do anything. She'd just have to leave it alone, because at the
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rate that it's increasing, that is what would happen by 2050. We do need to scale that back.
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We need to lessen it. But there's other points, like foreign students. Paradox, he brought that
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up said no more foreign students fair enough but again you see people forget how that's integrated
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foreign students going to post-secondary schools pay a massive premium they pay far far more for
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tuition and all the rest than Canadian citizens who are attending the post-secondary the colleges
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and universities do they subsidize the education for the other Canadians because they pay so much
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extra so if we did end all of the foreign students I think again I agree we're taking in too many
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but if we ended it all okay but the tuition costs for the remaining canadians are going to go up
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that's just the way it's going to go and uh you know we have to work on screening
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they say we talked about that uh are we bringing in immigrants who best can integrate with us i
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think absolutely not we we look at the integration issues going on in the uk and europe we talked
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about that. No, it is not going well at all. They're insular communities, they're fighting
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with each other, and it's becoming bad. So we've got to work on tempering and controlling those
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numbers. Again, that's completely out of provincial jurisdiction. There's nothing we can do about that
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as a province, except really push the federal government as much as we can. And Trudeau,
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Trudeau is trying to pour the immigrants into Canada as hard as he can. There's a reason for
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that. Because when you bring the immigrants in, it holds up the one and only data point he has
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as a positive economic indicator. You see, immigrants bring in, they add to the GDP as a
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whole for the country, the gross domestic product. So they come in, they work, some bring funds with
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them, resources with them, it raises that number. So he can point and say, see, see, Canada's growing,
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he's doing well, it's doing well. What he overlooks, of course, is the GDP per capita
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goes down, because we're splitting it among a much larger population of people.
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See here, you know, I've got a commenter, I'm not going to fully quote him, it's RASO 5000.
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And he's a fool, you know, zero immigration. Okay, sure. Why don't we wave a wand and make
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everybody rich too? Let's have a realistic conversation on this, because it's a real
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problem. We've got a real issue with getting a manageable number of immigrants coming in
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and accommodating the people who are already here. And of course, accommodating the immigrants when
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they get here as well. Hey, it's not all sunshine and happiness for immigrants who get here and
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find out how expensive rents are and how difficult it might be to find a decent job in some areas and
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sectors and things like that. Again, that's a symptom of us taking in more than we can manage.
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But we can't go to zero. It's not much of an option. Ariel Sky saying, go look at the homeless. What do you see? I see actually a massive addiction issue going on with the homeless. And most of the people I see on the street actually are First Nations or white.
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I don't see a lot of Middle Eastern or Indian or Asian people actually on the street with the homeless.
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That's a whole separate discussion as well, actually.
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I think a lot of immigrant communities are a lot better at supporting family and so on,
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Helen Moe is saying, is the Western standard sort of biased?
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I share it on here. But, you know, that's the way it goes. The news, no, the news is unbiased.
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But the opinion writers and people like me, yeah, I've got my biases. But I just, we have to get our
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things in order. And we have to have a rational conversation about it. Some people are getting
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really upset with Smith. Oh, I'm going to go to the AGM. I'm going to vote against her. I'm going
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about a gay story. Okay, it's fine. Just remember that Ninchy is in the background and waiting for
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the UCP to rip itself apart. And if you think things are bad with Smith, just imagine Ninchy
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as a premier. John Smith, wow, what a boomer windbag. I love some of these commenters here.
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I'm glad you were honest enough to put a fake name, you know, as John Smith to put it in the
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beginning with. For now, I'm no spring chicken, but I'm actually Gen X. I'm not a boomer. Well,
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I am a windbag, and that's what I'm about. I'm not here to tell you what you want to hear. I'm
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telling you what you need to hear, and that is that we need realistic immigration policies,
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but we can't realistically get rid of all immigrants or stop it. L says, Smith is finished.
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we got options okay name them i mean i i i was i've spent years in in politics in alberta a lot
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of them very involved in the party executives on uh uh you know a political organization managing
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campaigns and i tell you what we we love ripping ourselves apart politically don't we infighting
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going at it ripping out our leaders and how well did that work when we got premier notley for four
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years. What does somebody see? Yes, I think people should go to the AGM of the party that's
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in power. I think they should speak their minds. They should communicate it to the party. The UCP
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isn't perfect by a long shot. But Smith's only been in for, you know, less than a couple of
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years. Do you really think tearing her out is going to help at this point? And where are the
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alternatives? What's out there? What do you see? One of the other fringe parties out there, the
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Alberta Advantage Party, I think they got a couple hundred votes the last time around. One
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of the four or five independence parties we got running around these days? I don't know.
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But, you know, again, we need to be realistic about some of these things and talk about it. I
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mean, hey, we have a premier who came, whether people don't trust her or agree with her, but
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she came and gave 15 minutes to explain what, you know, what her stance was and where these things
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are. Yeah, I'm just reading some of these, Paul, you know, comments. Man, some of you guys are
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crackpots. But that's fine. That's fine. I'm not fully sane myself. You know, Tommy Gunn,
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how about closing the door on immigration? Well, how about getting realistic? Let's get on with
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things, guys. Let's talk seriously about it. Not all this reactionary crap, you're not going to
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get anywhere. And, you know, we've got work to do. But we need to be smart about it. And, you know,
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let's talk about some of the other things. I'll start turning a little, because this is some of
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the news coming up. This is some of the problems we have due to having way more immigration than
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we can manage. It's a federal thing. We can't do much about it provincially, but it is a federal
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thing and it is a problem. And here's something that Trudeau talked about using federal property
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for more housing, you know, and it's military property and things such as that. And it's showing
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now that a quarter of the national defense buildings he was talking about, they date from
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the 1970s or even earlier, they're inappropriate. They're full of asbestos. They're out of date.
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They're small. They're nasty. You know, Trudeau and his foolishness, it just never stops.
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The bottom line is we have more demand than we have supply. And again, that comes to having way
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too many people coming in and we can't accommodate them fast enough. We can't build the houses fast
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enough. As Premier Smith said, we would need to build 30 new schools a year in Alberta just to
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keep up with the schools, for the children, for the ones coming in. We've got to scale things back
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and get realistic with it. And unfortunately, we're not getting federal help. I mean, this is
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bad frigging news. This is another one. The Commons Public Safety Committee agreed to summon
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cabinet ministers over suspected failures in immigration security checks. You think? I mean,
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And yes, we brought in this fella who thankfully, and it turns out it was from French intelligence, from France, not Canadian intelligence, realized that this father and son team were going to pull off a terrorist act in Canada.
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They were going to do some horrible, horrible stuff.
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And it turns out that the father had been on video with ISIS dissecting a man hanging from ropes before.
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How is it our immigration can't catch even the most horrific of psychopaths coming from other areas?
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I mean, we're talking some people who slipped through if they had no record, no history, no things going on.
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And as Dave said in the story as well, you know, when he was in talking, giving the updates,
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the liberals are trying to blame Harper somehow.
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but they're trying to blame Harper for this guy and this mess. But then we got to look at where
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we're putting our money with some of this other idiocy. This is another interesting one that
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popped up. People familiar with crazy left-wing tax-funded groups, the Anti-Hate Network. You
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know, these are one of the things that drives me nuts at Quell's discussion, because if they
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cloak themselves in a name like Anti-Hate Network, well, we must be doing something good, right?
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Not necessarily. It's just like Antifa says, do, you know, well, we oppose fascism. So if you don't
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like us. Does that mean you like fascism? No, actually it doesn't. It just means I think you're
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a nutcase. And I don't like fascism. In fact, I don't have to like either of you. But we've had
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the tax dollars go towards this anti-hate network. And this anti-hate network is nuts. These guys are
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more hateful than most others. And it turns out that the guy heading it is this anarchist. And
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he deleted his Twitter account records recently, but it's too late. It's out there. He was putting
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out insane stuff. And this is the anti-hate network. I mean, he was talking about, you know,
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he was demonstrating outside cracker barrels and things like that. This is where your tax dollars
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go. This is the other end of the coin. This is, you know, going from kooks who think that we can
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stop immigration altogether to kooks like this guy, who with the anti-hate network, that just
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doesn't quite get it. I think it's getting into human rights. You know, the head of the Human
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Rights Commission, that hit recently, Burju Dutani, who was appointed to the head of the
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hate network, or hate network, human rights, Canadian Human Rights Commission. See, it's hard
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to keep up with all these things, all your tax dollars and all this stupidity. And yeah, all they
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had to do was Google and have a look, and hey, this crackpot basically said terrorism is a valid,
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good way to make change. This guy was literally pro-terrorist, and he gets appointed as the head
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of the Human Rights Commission. No wonder we're having problems with, you know, people are having
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problems with integration and so on. When these are the people fostering division, they're getting
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us fighting with each other even more. And they're supporting insane, insane things. Well, you know,
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again, if everybody wants to scream and blame immigrants for everything, but we've got other
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issues. The RCMP, another big federal organization that's not serving as well, I certainly ripped
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into them hard enough the other week. Alberta had that recent murder of an innocent young man who
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was just working for the county so they could steal his vehicle. They did catch one of them.
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He's in jail. They're seeking out the other one, Elijah Strawberry. They're trying to find him.
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But the RCMP still isn't sharing much information with us. This is where it gets maddening. This is
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one of our systems falling apart, where they don't realize they serve us. Not the other way around.
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they should be giving us pretty much all the information they can because that's their job
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and it's sharing it with us this is again how we keep ourselves safe how we know what's going on
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out there and it's like pulling teeth with these guys getting back to things we can do provincially
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we can do a provincial police force we should we can do a provincial pension plan i talked about
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that earlier but we need that demographic to make it a good advantage and hey hate to say guys but
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we needed immigration for that. It's funny. I, you know, I had a bunch of people all worked up
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because I put a picture out a while back of a woman with like, I don't know what it was, 12
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kids lined up next to her and everything else. And I said something about her not using her
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reproductive organs as a PEZ dispenser or something like that. People go, you're anti-white
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breeding. You want to see the white wipe out, these white families annoy you and they get on,
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holy cow, you hypersensitive wimps. You hypersensitive wimps. You know what? I'm not
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worried about the white race being wiped out. If you're that worried, get better in bed because
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you're not keeping up. You know, stoop better. You're not, the average family is only producing
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what 1.3 kids or something nowadays. It's not enough. So unless we want the population to go
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down, we need to bring people in. And if you really think it's up to everybody to reproduce
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naturally more that's fine well you get started and you get on it but in the meantime if you look
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at an economics book we need to bring folks in either way i'm glad we could have a rational
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calm discussion i i see you know well over a thousand some people uh viewing this live as
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we're talking and of course uh i see uh the crackpots like at the end saying hey this guy's
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another racist who hates the european race no i hate morons like you but i appreciate you tuning
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in and be sure to visit our advertisers all right that's all i got today guys it was fun
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i'll be back next week with a bunch more be sure to tune into the pipeline tonight
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and we'll be talking about a bunch more and hey i'm sorry you white guys are scared
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i'm not and i'm white i got over it talk to you next week guys