Western Standard - August 18, 2026


Why won’t Canada deport high-risk non-citizen criminals？


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00:00:00.000 an issue actually he has kind of done a little bit on a segue in maybe you know it's the mass
00:00:04.660 migration issue though it's a big one uh he did actually scale back the amount of uh refugee
00:00:10.640 claimants are being accepted and some of the temporary foreign workers but it's still a
00:00:15.020 concern it's still a pressure and there's still i think part of the problem is the one that the
00:00:20.240 people who are already here who should be moved out yeah there is expired and they won't yeah
00:00:25.120 yeah uh but the conservatives are terrified of that it's similar to the indigenous issue i think
00:00:29.460 politicians don't be touching it but they're gonna have to step in won't they i would assume so yeah
00:00:33.440 but i mean the question again is when because i mean if you want to talk about mass migration
00:00:37.860 whatnot is i mean obviously paulie i've talked about just like opening the floodgates and trying
00:00:41.080 to curb that but at the end of the day this just goes back to the old thing i don't think the
00:00:46.960 conservatives want to touch it because of pandering to votes ethnic vote i mean that's every party now
00:00:52.420 doesn't really want to touch this because they're pandering to votes that's what it really comes
00:00:56.500 down to they don't want to be called racist or something that's really what it comes down to at
00:00:59.900 the end of the day I think and I don't know when it's gonna end really because there seems to be
00:01:04.100 no end in sight really even when they talk about curbing immigration like you said all the ones
00:01:07.280 that are here if there are visas up or whatnot are they going to be booted out no so what do you do
00:01:14.380 same with criminals like all like these judges in that are trying to always like make sure these
00:01:18.120 criminals don't get deported and give them lesser sentences it's absurd yeah I was speaking on my
00:01:24.120 show about one of those incidents today earlier with this gentleman. I want to call him that.
00:01:29.180 I'm just trying to find the name. Medhani Johans. He's a not Canadian refugee. He's had two
00:01:36.160 convictions for sexual assaults on strangers. So he's a rapist. Repeated breaches of court orders
00:01:43.380 described by police as a high risk. Won't deport him. He's not a citizen. Why on? If we can't even
00:01:50.460 get rid of him but why isn't polyev standing on the rooftop screaming about this one because
00:01:56.460 actually he's not that's another one of these symptoms of this mass immigration he's scared to
00:01:59.980 touch okay so there's a couple of things going on here so i share your dismay that we can't deport
00:02:07.020 a non-citizen double rapist i mean with the same thing happens in great britain again there is a
00:02:14.380 fear of actually coming down hard on people who commit crimes who aren't citizens but who aren't
00:02:22.940 white, you know. I'd almost like to see somebody try just to see what happens, frankly, because I
00:02:29.340 don't think the reaction would be near. I don't think there is an ethnic community that is going
00:02:37.100 to be so offended at the deportation of one of its members after that member has brought shame
00:02:43.100 on the community you know i mean i think somebody needs to grow grow a pair as they say i'm sure i
00:02:51.660 heard you say that once um the but the other thing is that we always assume that um ethnic
00:02:59.660 immigrants are as opposed to white immigrants are sort of natural liberal voters well some are but
00:03:09.020 but not all are. Some immigrants come here from conservatively minded countries and are
00:03:16.780 appalled at what they find here in Canada in terms of our looseness. And some actually
00:03:22.260 turn around and go back home again. So my plea to the conservatives would be recognize
00:03:28.740 that not everybody who comes from another country is a natural liberal, and they might
00:03:37.980 actually appreciate your support and sticking up for the values that they hold which are not shared
00:03:43.180 by this liberal government i think that you hit the nail on the head there is that's exactly it
00:03:46.780 is if you can if you speak to a lot of like uh i say newer immigrants who came here pre-2015
00:03:53.420 they'll speak to the fact that the immigration immigration levels that are happening now they
00:03:57.100 they're the most like outwardly spoken against that kind of thing and like he's talking about
00:04:01.580 they wouldn't be against deporting somebody who is a double rapist like who most of these people
00:04:06.540 coming from like non-white immigrant countries are quite socially conservative and would see that
00:04:10.540 as a good thing as you know fair justice in action so again i think like exactly what you said like
00:04:16.300 it's it's a they're pandering to a base that they're pairing to a group of voters that doesn't
00:04:20.860 really exist which is which is liberal generation immigration presumptions yeah you know aren't
00:04:27.340 fair i mean i i can't remember who it was there was an indian gentleman i don't know if it was
00:04:30.780 comedian or politician or media member who said something along the lines of i came all the way
00:04:34.700 here to get away from india and then the rest of india followed me uh but i mean you know it's
00:04:39.580 problem with indians just the the amount the volume the environment the econ economics i mean
00:04:45.580 you know immigrants of any color they're not another species they have the same concerns
00:04:49.900 they're worried about dying on a waiting list to get into a hospital they want their kids to be
00:04:53.660 able to afford to get a home they're tired of hearing their sons coming home saying dad i'm
00:04:58.140 a woman this week because my teacher told me so these are communities that conservatives can
00:05:02.780 resonated to that point let me tell you a little story here this was about a year ago
00:05:07.340 true story um friend of mine has this friend uh petroleum engineer hails from pakistan
00:05:17.660 moved here with his wife had children and one day his nine-year-old daughter comes home and starts
00:05:25.100 talking to mom and tells mom that the teacher said it would be okay if she were to kiss a girl
00:05:35.740 nine years old first of all i don't know why they're talking about that in class at that age
00:05:40.860 but they are getting they were getting the blessing of the teaching establishment
00:05:48.700 that those kinds of relationships would be acceptable that man heard that and set the
00:05:55.020 wheels in motion and has now returned to pakistan because that's not the culture that he wants his
00:06:00.060 children to be brought up in now we don't necessarily want the whole culture of that
00:06:09.740 this was a this was a educated hard-working productive member of our key and of our
00:06:18.700 of our industry, you know, and they find that the laxness
00:06:22.900 and the looseness of the morals in Canada are not acceptable
00:06:25.600 to them.
00:06:26.800 So in his case, he went back.
00:06:29.100 Now, why can a conservative not capitalize
00:06:33.300 on that sentiment rather than saying we're going
00:06:36.000 to send people back and it's going to get us
00:06:37.600 into trouble, especially if it's the right people
00:06:40.100 that get sent back?
00:06:42.000 Well, key point.
00:06:44.000 Well, ironically, if we talk about immigration voting kind of drives or whatever, I'd find white immigrants from Europe are honestly more liberally minded than a lot of the ethnic ones from Middle East or, you know, eating some content.
00:07:00.300 So, again, going back to what we were saying, like, why the Conservative Party still feels the need to play so soft-handedly with minority groups is bizarre to me.
00:07:13.420 Like, I don't understand what the end goal is.
00:07:16.220 So isn't that part of it?
00:07:17.540 I mean, Pauliot hasn't been able to find a chip in the armor of the liberals somehow, no matter what he's tried.
00:07:24.480 But part of it is he's been scared to take solid stances on some of these things, too.
00:07:28.580 I mean, would this be one of you?
00:07:30.060 You'd have to carefully consider how you approach it.
00:07:32.420 It would have to be strategic.
00:07:33.460 But, you know, we think the environment's there among the immigrant community and non-immigrant, if he could phrase it right.
00:07:41.360 He doesn't have much less to lose anymore.
00:07:43.420 Well, certainly, as we ended the discussion, we said most immigrant communities would be quite happy
00:07:50.340 if you sent back the bad people from among their communities.
00:07:53.800 Start with the low-hanging fruit.
00:07:55.880 Yes, exactly.