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POILIEVRE Says Canada Needs Common Sense Immigration · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So immigration is a massive issue in Canada right now. Now you wouldn't know
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  that from watching the media, because the media likes immigration. It doesn't seem
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  to matter how much. Apparently there could never be enough. But the majority
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  of Canadians know that something is going wrong, whether or not you want to
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  buy a house or you need to go to the emergency room. Clearly it's
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  been having an impact and the leader of the Conservative Party in Canada, Pierre
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  Poiliev, has not really said anything about it because it's an issue that is
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  fraught with all kinds of accusations, of the usual entisms and fobes. Again,
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  the media likes it, and the media is going to frame any questioning
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  of it in a very negative light. So it's a topic that needs a
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  deft touch for any Conservative leader in Canada. Pierre Poiliev has finally addressed it.
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  Let's hear what he had to say. Good afternoon, mister Polyev.
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  My question is on immigration. As you know, Canada is on track to
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  have about five hundred thousand new immigrants to the country by twenty twenty five.
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  And I'm wondering if you think this is sustainable and if a Conservative government led
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  by you would continue that trend and would be satisfied with that five hundred thousand
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  a year number. Justin Trudeau has broken our immigration system. We see this
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  on the streets of Toronto where refugees are living on the pavement. It wasn't
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  like this eight years ago when refugees came to Canada. We had them sponsored
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  by charities, churches, mosques, synagogues, other nonprofits to give them homes,
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  help them write resumes, and get them fast work permits so that they
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  could get jobs and paychecks. We see it in the new movement online of
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  immigrants who are saying they're going back because they can't afford to live here in
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  Canada. After eight years of Trudeau, many immigrants feel like they're better off
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  where they came from because the costs and the crime that Trudeau's policies have unleashed
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  make this country unlivable for newcomers and for those who have been here a long
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  time. I want to get back to common sense immigration. The numbers should
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  be driven by the number of employers who have job vacancies that they cannot fill
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  with Canadians, by the number of charities that want to sponsor refugees, and
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  by the families that can reunite and support their loved ones here, not by
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  egotistical targets that are designed to give Justin true to a vanity project. We
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  need to get back to competent immigration. By the way, we need to
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  expand housing construction. It's all well and good to think that you can increase
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  the population by a million people in a year, but where are we going
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  to house everybody we now have. Last year, we built fewer homes than
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  we built in nineteen seventy two. Think about that. In nineteen seventy two,
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  our population was twenty two million, and we built two hundred and fifty
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  thousand homes. Last year, our population was forty million, and we built
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  two hundred and nineteen thousand homes. So we have nearly double the population and
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  we're building fewer homes. Is it any wonder why we have a homelessness crisis?
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  Why nine and ten young people believe they'll never be able to afford a
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  home. Why we have seven year seventy year old nurses who are living in
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  vans. After eight years of Justin Trudeau's total incompetence on everything from immigration to
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  housing to healthcare, our country is falling to pieces I will put it back
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  together with common sense immigration, common sense healthcare, common sense housing policies that
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  get things built. Thank you. So he didn't explicitly state that he's going
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  to be cutting immigration, but I think that it's heavily implied. But I
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  think that was a good answer. I mean, he talks about getting back
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  to common sense immigration using metrics like the number of employers that have vacancies for
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  jobs that Canadians can't fail, and of course talking about the problem of housing
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  all these people, because housing prices are out of control, for renting,
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  for buying, it doesn't matter. Among immigrants under thirty five years of age,
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  thirty percent are planning on leaving in the next two years. And I
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  don't blame them. It makes perfect sense because it turns out that Canada is
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  only good for sucking up your life savings to prop up a housing market that's
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  making life unlivable. But it's not just housing. It's the infrastructure in Canada,
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  it's the roads, it's healthcare. Healthcare is a pale shadow of what
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  it used to be in Canada. Millions of Canadians can't get a family doctor,
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  including myself. And I'm telling you right now you don't want to end
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  up at an emergency room in Canada. If you get seen in eight hours,
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  you're lucky. It's just a simple matter of supplying demand. There's just
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  too much demand and not enough supply. The infrastructure wasn't built for this kind
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  of population growth. Now I saw this tweet from Lindsay Shepherd. She said,
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  another cabinet shuffle, another minister of housing who believes that we need to
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  import more immigrants to come build more houses for all the immigrants we're importing.
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  The future is bright. Now there's been a cabinet shuffle in the Trudeau government,
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  which could either be just rats fleeing a sinking ship or Trudeau firing a
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  bunch of people in a desperate attempt to change perception. But here's our new
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  housing minister. He says, closing door on newcomers is no solution to housing
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  crunch. Sean Fraser served previously as Immigration minister. Oh great, But in
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  any case, the Conservative Party of Canada has finally responded to this issue which
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  is very important to many many Canadians. And while Poiliev's statement is not as
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  forthright as I would like to hear, it's at least a good start.
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  I mean, at least there is some actual common sense in what he said.
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  Anyway, That's all I got to say about that. Please subscribe,
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  that. I will see you next time.