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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Michael Clogg's. Well, we have recordings today
Speaker 1: from the United Nations and we also have recordings from
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Mark Karney as he is or well, he
Speaker 1: had a meeting in China with President saying and they're
Speaker 1: working out a trade agreement. So uh, and it's threatening
Speaker 1: to be groundbreaking and taking Canada in a new direction
Speaker 1: rather than just simply trading always with the United States.
Speaker 1: So but let's go to the United Nations as they're
Speaker 1: talking about the protests are happening in Iran. Well one
Speaker 1: Iran is blaming the whole thing on of course the
Speaker 1: CIA A bunch of times. It isn't all that far fetched.
Speaker 1: But here's the here's the crux of it all is
Speaker 1: because it is women protesting, they are threatened. In order
Speaker 1: to get women back under control, they are threatening executions
Speaker 1: of those who were caught in the protests. The United
Speaker 1: Nations is urging them to halt executions linked to the
Speaker 1: protests related cases and express an alarm at public statements
Speaker 1: suggesting military strikes on Iran. We, of course, we have
Speaker 1: heard President Trump threatening saying saying to the protesters, America
Speaker 1: is on your side, and threatening with military action to
Speaker 1: be taken against Iran. So uh Poby called for Ron
Speaker 1: to respect due process and fair trials and all rights
Speaker 1: for all detainees of the protests, and for all deaths
Speaker 1: to be promptly, independently and transparently investigated on the military intervention.
Speaker 1: This external dimensions add of validity to an already combustible situation.
Speaker 1: All efforts must be undertaken to prevent any further deterioration. Adding,
Speaker 1: the Secretary General Guerres remains convinced that all concerns regarding Iran,
Speaker 1: including those related to the nuclear based and ongoing protests,
Speaker 1: are best addressed through diplomatic diplomacy and dialogue. The United
Speaker 1: States Ambassador Michael Waltz the people a Ran are demanding
Speaker 1: their freedom like never before in the Islamic Republic brutal history,
Speaker 1: and quoted the US President Donald J. Trump is saying,
Speaker 1: the United States stands by the brave people of uh
Speaker 1: Iran period whilst also denied any allegations put forward by
Speaker 1: the regime that these inspired protests are somehow a farm
Speaker 1: plot to give a precursor to military action. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the protests are still continuing even as I'm recording this
Speaker 1: particular episode, and the people of well, the women of
Speaker 1: our Iran want a equal shake at things like education
Speaker 1: and jobs and things like that, which ironically are the
Speaker 1: same things that protesters are screaming about, similar things that
Speaker 1: protesters are screaming about in the United States because of
Speaker 1: the Trump administration throwing away the idea of diversity and diversity,
Speaker 1: equality and inclusion. I find it ironic that both countries
Speaker 1: are screaming for the same thing. And yet but oh,
Speaker 1: the governments of both countries are ignoring demands for equality.
Speaker 1: It's like we all want let's be honest, as human beings,
Speaker 1: we all do want a fair shake. We don't want
Speaker 1: anything any more privileged in the next guy, and we
Speaker 1: just want to be to the ability to feel welcome
Speaker 1: and wanted and valued within the society that we live.
Speaker 1: So there's more to it if you go to If
Speaker 1: if you go to the show notes that you'll you'll
Speaker 1: see more written there. And also the recording will be
Speaker 1: coming up pretty soon. They will explain more about what
Speaker 1: is going on. Well, this is happening. We have the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Karney, as he was visiting
Speaker 1: Presidencing in China, as they're trying to strike up a
Speaker 1: new trade deal which will cause me nearly three billion
Speaker 1: dollars in export orders for Canadian workers and businesses as
Speaker 1: they realize the full potential of the massive Chinese market
Speaker 1: of one point four billion people. Finally, to build this momentum,
Speaker 1: Canada has set an ambitious goal to increase exports to
Speaker 1: China by fifty percent, with a deadline set at nearly
Speaker 1: twenty thirty. To achieve the outcome, Prime Minister Carney and
Speaker 1: Presencing discuss increasing a two way investment in clean energy
Speaker 1: and technology, agrofoods, wood products, and other sectors. It is
Speaker 1: also said that both China and Canada are relaxing tariffs
Speaker 1: on import and exported goods. So it is quite the
Speaker 1: deal that is being struck and of course we're probably
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing how this actually plays out. With
Speaker 1: the idea of President Trump with his on again, off
Speaker 1: again tariffs, with him terrorizing other countries such as Venezuela,
Speaker 1: and his statements that he is making about things that
Speaker 1: are happening in Iran. We'll see how all this plays out.
Speaker 1: Not to mention, so he has also had air strikes
Speaker 1: in northern Nigeria, and the list goes on about things
Speaker 1: that are happening there, And well, why do we move
Speaker 1: forward since we're talking about the United States, And I
Speaker 1: don't have any recordings to actually back some of this up,
Speaker 1: but it is said by by the Department of Homeland
Speaker 1: Security that ICE agents are able to allow operate with
Speaker 1: immunity and impunity against any state or municipal government that
Speaker 1: they can can work around and not and not have
Speaker 1: to worry about any of this. The the state or
Speaker 1: local laws or rules that are in place for law enforcement,
Speaker 1: and that and that any state or local law enforcement
Speaker 1: agency that tries to impede their progress and their and
Speaker 1: the the ICE Mission are to be charge federally with obstruction.
Speaker 1: I had to say this that all that right there
Speaker 1: is a violation of the US Constitution. The US Constitution
Speaker 1: strictly states that the government is to be decentralized and
Speaker 1: that the federal government takes a back seat to all
Speaker 1: state laws, which means that simply put, it's taking Minnesota,
Speaker 1: for example, if they want Ice out of their state,
Speaker 1: Ice must leave. They have no jurisdiction without the permission
Speaker 1: of the state itself. So when is it that the
Speaker 1: maggot people and President Trump, when are they going to
Speaker 1: finally sit down and actually read the Constitution word for
Speaker 1: word and understand what it actually means for the people
Speaker 1: of the United States two hundred and fifty years ago
Speaker 1: when that document was written. Okay, I'm a little off
Speaker 1: by a year or two. The writers and authors of
Speaker 1: that document saw what it looked like to have a
Speaker 1: completely centralized government, and they didn't like what they saw
Speaker 1: that it took too much at the time, it took
Speaker 1: too much power away from the people, and that is
Speaker 1: exactly what they wanted. They wanted the people and the
Speaker 1: citizens of the United States or as it was known
Speaker 1: then as the Union, to be able to make those
Speaker 1: decis visions locally, that the local laws would would preside
Speaker 1: over the federal laws. So in order for the Trump
Speaker 1: administration to come up with what they're doing with Ice,
Speaker 1: they actually are breaking the Constitution. And they will simply put,
Speaker 1: they have no respect for the US Constitution to document
Speaker 1: that has has run that particular country for two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty years, so without any anymore said, why don't
Speaker 1: we move forward and let's listen to what the United
Speaker 1: Nations had to say about Iran and the protesters, and
Speaker 1: then we'll listen to what Mark Karney has to say
Speaker 1: about his deal with his new deal that he has
Speaker 1: with presidency and China.
Speaker 2: I now give the floor to Miss Martha. I'ma Akiopobia,
Speaker 2: mister President.
Speaker 3: For nearly three weeks, popular protests in the Islamic Republic
Speaker 3: of Iran have rapidly evolved into nationwide upheaval, resulting in
Speaker 3: significant loss of life. Demonstrations started on twenty eighth December
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five as a group of shopkeepers in Tehran's
Speaker 3: Grand Bazaar gathered to protest the sharp collapse of the
Speaker 3: currency and soaring inflation amid a wider economic downturn and
Speaker 3: worsening living conditions. In the following day, demonstrations quickly spread
Speaker 3: throughout the country and turned into mass anti government protests,
Speaker 3: the largest since the Woman Life Freedom demonstrations of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. Protesters voiced grievances that went beyond longstanding economic
Speaker 3: and financial hardships. Marchers called for the downfall of the
Speaker 3: government and demanded freedom, dignity, and human rights, with some
Speaker 3: protesters chanting pro monarchy slogans. The protests were initially peaceful,
Speaker 3: with scattered clashes between protesters and security forces, according to
Speaker 3: reports by the media, observations of our United Nations colleagues
Speaker 3: in the country, and accounts by the government of Irre. However,
Speaker 3: on the evening of eighth January, protests spread throughout Tehran
Speaker 3: and major cities. In response, the Iranian authorities imposed a
Speaker 3: near total communications blackout, which remains largely in place today.
Speaker 3: The authorities also ordered university dormitories to be evacuated, erected
Speaker 3: concrete barriers around city centers, and reportedly used excessive force
Speaker 3: against protesters. According to media and human rights groups, security
Speaker 3: forces reportedly killed hundreds or possibly thousands of protesters and
Speaker 3: bystanders between eighth and tenth January. The United Nations is
Speaker 3: unable to verify these figures. The government of Iran has
Speaker 3: stated that it was compelled to act after what it
Speaker 3: deemed organized terrorists and riotus infiltrated the protests and opened
Speaker 3: fire on both security forces and demonstrators, aiming to provoke
Speaker 3: foreign military intervention. It has also blamed these elements for
Speaker 3: the killing of hundreds of civilians and members of the
Speaker 3: security forces. Mister President, the Secretary General has expressed deep
Speaker 3: concern over the reported excessive views of force in Iran
Speaker 3: and stressed the urgent need to prevent further casualties. The
Speaker 3: Secretary General underscored that all Iranians must be able to
Speaker 3: express the agrievances peacefully and without fear. He stressed that
Speaker 3: the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly,
Speaker 3: enshrined in international law, must be fully respected and protected.
Speaker 3: He further urged steps to restore access to information, including
Speaker 3: lifting the communications blackout. Human rights monitors report mass arrests
Speaker 3: in Iran in connection with the current wave of protests,
Speaker 3: with estimates exceeding eighteen thousand detainees as of mid January
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. Although the UN cannot verify these figures.
Speaker 3: We call on the authorities to respect due process and
Speaker 3: fair trial rights for all detainees. All must be treated
Speaker 3: humanly and allowed access and visits by their families. In particular,
Speaker 3: we call on Iran to halt any executions linked to
Speaker 3: protest related cases. All deaths should be promptly, independently and
Speaker 3: transparently investigated. Those responsible for any violations must be held
Speaker 3: to account in line with international norms and standards. Mister President,
Speaker 3: the situation in Iran is fluid and deeply concerning. Protests continue,
Speaker 3: albeit reportedly at a smaller scale than last week. In
Speaker 3: this context, we not with alarm various public statements suggesting
Speaker 3: possible military strikes on Iran. This external dimension adds volatility
Speaker 3: to an already combustible situation. All efforts must be undertaken
Speaker 3: to prevent any further deterioration. The Secretary General remains convinced
Speaker 3: that all concerns regarding Iran, including those related to the
Speaker 3: nuclear issue an ongoing protests, are best addressed through diplomacy
Speaker 3: and dialogue. He urges maximum restraint at this sensitive moment
Speaker 3: and calls on all actors to refrain from many actions
Speaker 3: that could lead to further loss of life or ignite
Speaker 3: a wider regional escalation. Mister President, The Secretary General reaffirms
Speaker 3: the principles of the Charter, including the obligation of member
Speaker 3: states to settle disputes by peaceful means and the prohibition
Speaker 3: of the threat or use of force in international relations.
Speaker 3: These principles are not abstract ideas. They are the bedrock
Speaker 3: of international peace and security. They remain as relevant today
Speaker 3: as they were when the United Nations was founded.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: a historic and productive two days during which myself and
Speaker 4: fellow ministers have had the opportunity to meet with President
Speaker 4: j Premier Lee Gruman Joo, as well as business leaders
Speaker 4: across a number of key sectors, and I am very
Speaker 4: pleased to announce that we have made significant progress in
Speaker 4: a number of key areas. Stepping back, it's been eight
Speaker 4: years since a Canadian Prime minister visited China, and in
Speaker 4: that time the world has changed dramatically. The technological revolution
Speaker 4: and the energy transition are accelerating at an unprecedented pace.
Speaker 4: The global trading system is undergoing a fundamental change, and
Speaker 4: the effectiveness of multilateral institutions on which trading powers such
Speaker 4: as Canada and China have greatly relied that effectiveness has
Speaker 4: been greatly reduced. This is happening fast. It's large, it's
Speaker 4: a rupture, it's not transition. What we do now is Canada.
Speaker 4: How we position ourselves in the world will shape our
Speaker 4: future for decades to come. Canada can thrive in a
Speaker 4: new system, but to do so, we must be ambitious.
Speaker 4: We must work at speed and scale to find new partners,
Speaker 4: to diversify our trade and attract unprecedented levels of investment
Speaker 4: in our country.
Speaker 2: And we must be pragmatic.
Speaker 4: That means we have to understand the differences between Canada
Speaker 4: and other countries and then focus our efforts to work
Speaker 4: together where we're aligned. And it's with this approach that
Speaker 4: Canada is forging a new strategic partnership with China. China
Speaker 4: is the world's second largest economy. It contributes one third
Speaker 4: to global growth. It's our second largest trading partner and
Speaker 4: our third largest investor. U way trade between our country's
Speaker 4: amounts to nearly one hundred and twenty billion dollars a year.
Speaker 4: There are four hundred thousand careers across Canada, farmers in
Speaker 4: the Prairies, manufacturers and engineers in Ontario and Quebec, fish
Speaker 4: harvesters in Atlantic Canada, and British Columbia. They are all
Speaker 4: supported by trade with China. Twenty billion dollars in wages
Speaker 4: are earned each year by Canadians because of our existing
Speaker 4: trade relationship. And this is a relationship that has been
Speaker 4: distant and uncertain for nearly a decade. That is held
Speaker 4: back investment, installed business growth and cost Canadian workers good opportunities.
Speaker 4: And it has had the consequence of leaving us even
Speaker 4: more dependent on our largest trading partner. And that's why
Speaker 4: immediately after the election, Canada's new government began and to
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Speaker 4: Ours is a long standing relationship. Canada was one of
Speaker 4: the first Western nations to recognize China in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 4: Over many decades Chinese Canadians have helped build communities in
Speaker 4: every part of our country, from dynamics small businesses, to
Speaker 4: schools and hospitals, straight through the innovation across advanced technologies.
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Speaker 4: across commerce, technology and culture. Mandarin is Canada's fourth most
Speaker 4: spoken language. There is much to protect in this relationship end,
Speaker 4: much on which to build, and much to be gained.
Speaker 4: So leveraging our strengths and focusing on areas of alignment
Speaker 4: Canada and China can create greater stability, security, and prosperity
Speaker 4: for both our nations. And to that end, President g
Speaker 4: and I are announcing that Canada and China are forging
Speaker 4: a new strategic partnership. It will focus on five key
Speaker 4: areas where both our nations stand to make substantial and
Speaker 4: sustained gains. The first is in clean energy and climate
Speaker 4: competitiveness areas where Canada and China have immense strengths and
Speaker 4: complementary strengths. Second, we're expanding trade, particularly in agriculture and food, where.
Speaker 2: Canada is a reliable partner.
Speaker 4: Third, our commitment to multilateralism and strengthening global governance comes
Speaker 4: at a time when all of this is in flux. Fourth,
Speaker 4: we're deepening engagement in public safety and security to protect
Speaker 4: our peoples, and finally, people to people, ties and culture
Speaker 4: are being enhanced.
Speaker 2: To enrich our lives.
Speaker 4: To begin, we're leveraging our strengths and energy, clean tech
Speaker 4: and climate competitiveness. Canada is an energy superpower in both
Speaker 4: conventional and clean energies. We have an over eighty percent
Speaker 4: clean electricity grid with vast potential to power the clean
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Speaker 4: in electric vehicle sector are undeniable. China produces some of
Speaker 4: the most affordable and efficient energy energy efficient vehicles in
Speaker 4: the world, and in order for Canada to build our
Speaker 4: own competitive VV sector, we need to learn from innovative partners,
Speaker 4: access their supply chains, and increase local demand. And to
Speaker 4: help deliver the full potential of these partnerships and bring
Speaker 4: down costs for Canadians, Canada has agreed to allow up
Speaker 4: to forty nine thousand Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian
Speaker 4: market with the most Favored Nation terra frate of six
Speaker 4: point one percent. This is a return to the levels
Speaker 4: that existed prior to recent trade frictions, but it's a
Speaker 4: return on d'Or an agreement that promises much more for Canadians.
Speaker 4: It's expected that within three years this agreement will drive
Speaker 4: considerable Chinese investment in Canada's auto sector, creating good careers
Speaker 4: in Canada and accelerating our progress towards a net zero
Speaker 4: future and the auto industry of the future. With this agreement,
Speaker 4: it's also anticipated that within five years, more than fifty
Speaker 4: percent of these vehicles will be affordable evs with an
Speaker 4: import price of less than thirty five thousand dollars. Over
Speaker 4: the next fifteen years, Canada intends to double our energy
Speaker 4: grid through major investments in hydro, nuclear, solar and wind power.
Speaker 4: That creates tremendous opportunities for Chinese partnerships in these investments,
Speaker 4: including in energy storage and offshore wind. On the other hand,
Speaker 4: Canada is developing our oil and natural gas reserves, one
Speaker 4: of the world's largest, to be the lowest risk, lowest cost,
Speaker 4: and lowess carbon. Last June, we exported our first lang's
Speaker 4: shipment to Asia and we're scaling up quickly, making major
Speaker 4: investments in streamlining approvals. By twenty thirty, Canada will produce
Speaker 4: fifty million tons of LNG each year, all.
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Speaker 4: trade directly between Canada and China. Our agricultural cooperation built
Speaker 4: the foundation of our bilateral relationship. For more than six decades,
Speaker 4: Canada has been a reliable partner for China in food exports.
Speaker 4: Canadians export more than seven billion dollars in agricultural products
Speaker 4: to China each year. China used to be the largest
Speaker 4: market for Canadian canola seed. We want to not just
Speaker 4: return to those levels, but to surpass them, and so
Speaker 4: I'm pleased today to announce that Canada and China have
Speaker 4: reached a preliminary butt landmark trade agreement to remove trade
Speaker 4: barriers and reduce tariffs. By March the first, Canada expects
Speaker 4: that China will lower tariffs on Canadian canola seed to
Speaker 4: a combined rate of approximately fifteen percent. China is a
Speaker 4: four billion canola seed market for Canadian producers, and this
Speaker 4: change represents a significant drop from the current combined.
Speaker 2: Tariff levels of eighty four percent.
Speaker 4: Furthermore, Canada expects the Canadian canola meal, as well as
Speaker 4: Canadian lobsters, crabs, and pees, will not be subject to
Speaker 4: relevant anti discrimination tariffs from March first of this year
Speaker 4: until at least the end of this year. Together, these
Speaker 4: results will unlock nearly three billion dollars of export orders
Speaker 4: for Canadian farmers fish harvesters and processors as they realized
Speaker 4: the full potential of this market of one point four
Speaker 4: billion people.
Speaker 2: With this agreement, we.
Speaker 4: Also expect to see a resolution of many long term
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Speaker 4: Canada in major clean energy projects as well as an
Speaker 4: agriculture and consumer projects, and by building this new strategic partnership,
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Speaker 4: appreciates China's support for our bid to host the APEX
Speaker 4: Leader Summit in twenty twenty nine. The fourth pillar of
Speaker 4: our new strategic partnership is public safety and security, and
Speaker 4: this is an area where pragmatic and constructive.
Speaker 2: Engagement with China is crucial.
Speaker 4: Through this pillar, our law enforcement agencies will increase cooperation
Speaker 4: to better combat narcotics, trafficking, transnational crime, cyber crime, synthetic
Speaker 4: drugs and money laundry, and we will create safer communities
Speaker 4: for people in both our countries and Finally, people have
Speaker 4: always been at the core of this relationship, so I said.
Speaker 4: Canada's home to a Chinese diaspora of two million. Over
Speaker 4: three hundred one thousand Chinese visitors came to Canada and
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four, China is Canada's seven largest source
Speaker 4: of tourism. So the fifth pillar of this partnership will
Speaker 4: build on opportunities for cultural exchanges and partnerships that further
Speaker 4: deepen our people to people ties. That means museums, digital
Speaker 4: content creators, visual artists and other creative professionals in our
Speaker 4: respective countries will have new opportunities to collaborate. It also
Speaker 4: means more tourism, including following China's decision in November to
Speaker 4: grant approved destination status for group travelers to Canada, and
Speaker 4: we're building on this progress, looking to increase travel exchange
Speaker 4: and deepen our cultural ties. I'm very pleased to share
Speaker 4: that President g in our meeting today, has committed to
Speaker 4: ensuring visa free access for Canadians traveling to China. Unifezo
Speaker 4: Okun elusion, Elshin, Nissalin Basutu. We're different countries, we have
Speaker 4: different systems, different histories, different perspectives. Yet we have much
Speaker 4: in common, and when we focus on our strengths and
Speaker 4: we focus our ambition towards those areas where we have
Speaker 4: the most in common. Canada and China have done great things.
Speaker 4: In the mid nineteen eighties, our bilateral trade was roughly
Speaker 4: two billion dollars. In just two decades, that increased to
Speaker 4: thirty billion dollars. Through periods of global tension and disruption,
Speaker 4: we've created more opportunities for our workers, businesses and investors
Speaker 4: by working together and with this new strategic partnership, that's
Speaker 4: the opportunity before us now. It's a partnership that reflects
Speaker 4: the world as it is today, with an engagement that's realistic, respectful,
Speaker 4: and interest based. The work in the recent months, the
Speaker 4: discussion and the meetings over the past two days have
Speaker 4: not been a question of putting things back on track.
Speaker 4: It's been more a question of designing new tracks that
Speaker 4: will benefit the people of both our countries. PASCO, the
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Speaker 4: of increasing uncertainty, Canada is building with speed, confidence and determination.
Speaker 4: We're forging new partnerships around the world. We're diversifying trade
Speaker 4: over a dozen new agreements across four country continents in
Speaker 4: recent months. We're attracting record levels of new investment in
Speaker 4: order to unleash one trillion dollars of investment in the
Speaker 4: Canadian economy over the.
Speaker 2: Next five years.
Speaker 4: We're building a web of new connections with China to
Speaker 4: create transformative opportunities for Canadian workers, build more stability, more
Speaker 4: certainty and prosperity on both sides of the Pacific. And
Speaker 4: with that I very much look forward to your questions.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, missus, Thank you Prime Minister Melci.
Speaker 4: First question, Tonda will do one.
Speaker 5: Marked by several crises that are rapidly destroying Canada's one
Speaker 5: strong immigration consensus. If Canada is to have any hope
Speaker 5: of continuing to be a welcoming country, it's incumbent upon
Speaker 5: the federal Liberal government to take swift, decisive action to
Speaker 5: address several problems which are largely attributable to a decade
Speaker 5: of liberal policy failures. And so today, in my role
Speaker 5: as Shadow Minister for immigration. Ahead of the resumption of
Speaker 5: the House of Commons, I'm calling upon the Liberals to
Speaker 5: undertake a series of swift policy actions to address three
Speaker 5: looming crises to restore order, fairness, and compassion to Canada's
Speaker 5: immigration system. These actions build upon the comprehensive suite of
Speaker 5: policy proposals that Conservatives announced last fall. The first crisis,
Speaker 5: millions of people in Canada are currently on expired or
Speaker 5: soon to expire temporary visas. The Liberals have no credible
Speaker 5: plan to remove them, while simultaneously inviting hundreds of thousands
Speaker 5: more temporary residents into the country. Millions of people are
Speaker 5: now residing in Canada with temporary permits that have expired
Speaker 5: or will expired this year, and many are unwilling to leave.
Speaker 5: This incredible circumstance is a direct result of the Liberals
Speaker 5: issuing massive, unsustainable numbers of temporary resident permits in a
Speaker 5: very short period of time. Adding to the severity of
Speaker 5: this crisis are five hundred thousand undocumented persons in the country.
Speaker 5: Compounding this issue is last year's immigration levels plan, where
Speaker 5: the Liberals announced that they are going to issue hundreds
Speaker 5: of thousands more temporary permits in twenty twenty six. The
Speaker 5: Liberals predicated these levels on the assumption that millions of
Speaker 5: people with expired or expiring visas will leave. This isn't
Speaker 5: fair to anyone. Undocumented persons are forced to work on
Speaker 5: a black market for labour while Canadians are facing an
Speaker 5: acute housing shortage, a healthcare system failure, and youth jobs crisis.
Speaker 5: If the Liberals bring in hundreds of thousands of more
Speaker 5: temporary residents without a credible plan to remove millions of
Speaker 5: people who no longer have a legal reason to be
Speaker 5: in the country, these problems will only worsen. That the
Speaker 5: Liberals are ignoring this reality through their policy choices is
Speaker 5: both uncompassionate and disturbing, making the challenge of resolving this
Speaker 5: crisis worse. The Liberals did not implement an exit tracking
Speaker 5: system prior to inviting millions of temporary residents to the country,
Speaker 5: nor did they reform the asylum system to reduce the
Speaker 5: incentives for people with expiring visas to abuse the system
Speaker 5: in order to stay in Canada. On this matter, our
Speaker 5: call to action is this, order for Canada to rebuild
Speaker 5: its consensus for immigration, law must be enforced. Temporary has
Speaker 5: to mean temporary, so Conservatives call upon the Liberal government
Speaker 5: to table a plan by the end of this month
Speaker 5: to tell Canadians how they plan to enforce existing Canadian
Speaker 5: law and get millions of people with expiring or expiring
Speaker 5: visas to leave Canada. This year crisis number two. Tens
Speaker 5: of thousands of new illegal border crossers are making asylum claims,
Speaker 5: while truly persecuted persons in Canada are being left in limbo.
Speaker 5: In December of twenty twenty five, Canada's pending asylum claims
Speaker 5: reached an unprecedented three hundred thousand cases, many from illegal
Speaker 5: border crossers entering Canada from the United States. This is
Speaker 5: up from less than ten thousand in twenty twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: To put that in perspective, under the Liberal government, Canada's
Speaker 5: asylum backlog now exceeds the population of a city like Windsor, Ontario.
Speaker 5: Most people who make up claim can now expect to
Speaker 5: remain in Canada for many years prior to their claim
Speaker 5: being examined, and are eligible for generous social benefits while
Speaker 5: their claim is pending. This failure is the result of
Speaker 5: a decade of Liberal policies that have encouraged the abuse
Speaker 5: of our system straining housing, healthcare, and the job market,
Speaker 5: while eroding public support for controlled immigration. And this backlog
Speaker 5: is about to get a lot worse. Up to three
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty thousand Haitian nationals currently in the United
Speaker 5: States face termination of their Temporary Protected status effective February third,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty six. Temporary Protected Status is an American program
Speaker 5: that temporarily prevents people without legal status in the United
Speaker 5: States from deportation during crises in their home country. Said differently,
Speaker 5: the United States has ordered that about three hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty thousand Haitian nationals without legal status must now return home.
Speaker 5: This matters to Canada because many will attempt to enter
Speaker 5: our country illegally in order to avoid removal. Xury shows
Speaker 5: that this is a pattern. When Haitians in the United
Speaker 5: States first faced Temporary Protected Status revocation nearly a decade ago,
Speaker 5: Canada experienced a major increase in illegal crossings and asylum claims.
Speaker 5: Canadian government data confirms this trend in recent months, despite
Speaker 5: the Safe Third Country Agreement, the formal arrangements where refugees
Speaker 5: can only make a claim in the first country they
Speaker 5: arrive in, thousands of Haitians have crossed illegally into Canada
Speaker 5: and filed asylum claims after having been found to have
Speaker 5: no legal reason to be in the United States. From
Speaker 5: twenty seventeen to twenty twenty four, about forty thousand Haitians
Speaker 5: made such claims in Canada, and in last year alone,
Speaker 5: nearly twelve thousand did so. This number is likely to
Speaker 5: further surge after February third, precisely at a time when
Speaker 5: Canada has extremely limited capacity or frankly social willingness to
Speaker 5: process and provide support to tens of thousands of new
Speaker 5: asylum claimants who have likely already had their claims rejected
Speaker 5: in the US. This wave of potential new arrivals raises humanitarian,
Speaker 5: security and infrastructure concerns. Many are attempting to enter Canada
Speaker 5: during frigid winter weather. Without strong deterrence, there'll be more
Speaker 5: dangerous winter crossings attempted, as well as human trafficking, as
Speaker 5: seen in recent RCMP arrests and the interception of a
Speaker 5: U haul with forty four suspected Haitian trafficking victims. The
Speaker 5: Liberal government has deemed the United States a safe third country.
Speaker 5: That is, if someone reaches the United States, they are
Speaker 5: obligated to make an asylum claim there and are subsequently
Speaker 5: ineligible to file a claim in Canada. However, the Liberal
Speaker 5: government has failed to close a major loophole in the
Speaker 5: Safe Third Country Agreement. An overly broad definition of family
Speaker 5: allows illegal crossers to claim asylum if they have relatives
Speaker 5: in Canada, and this includes spouses, common law partners, children
Speaker 5: of any age, parents, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces,
Speaker 5: and nephews, even if those family members only have pending
Speaker 5: asylum claims themselves. This enables chains of potentially bogus asylum
Speaker 5: claims amid prolonged processing and rare removals. Furthermore, the Liberal
Speaker 5: government has shown reluctance to crack down on human traffickers
Speaker 5: who profit off of illegally transporting people across the border,
Speaker 5: or to adopt conservative proposals that would reform social benefits
Speaker 5: that may incentivize bogus asylum claimants when combined and prolonged
Speaker 5: processing delays. When combined with prolonged processing delays, these benefits
Speaker 5: serve as incentives to make bogus applications. The existing backlog,
Speaker 5: already enormous, will only grow larger, further straining Canada's welfare resources, housing,
Speaker 5: and healthcare systems that should prioritize Canadians and genuine refugees.
Speaker 5: This is not compassionate or fair to anyone. I realize
Speaker 5: that this is a difficult topic, but it is an
Speaker 5: urgent matter that the government must address. For example, the
Speaker 5: Liberals have broken promises to persecuted groups are already in Canada,
Speaker 5: such as those from Ukraine, Hong Kong and Sudan, leaving
Speaker 5: them in limbo while prioritizing resources for illegal crossers who
Speaker 5: may have questionable claims. This is wrong. Canada has a
Speaker 5: finite capacity to provide support, shelter and protection to vulnerable persons.
Speaker 5: The Liberals should be prioritizing truly protected persons as opposed
Speaker 5: to making space for bogus asylum claimants. So our call
Speaker 5: to action on this issue is as follows. Conservatives will
Speaker 5: use the upcoming parliamentary session to restore order in fairness
Speaker 5: to Canada's broken asylum system by continuing to champion the
Speaker 5: suite of asylum system reforms we introduced as amendments to
Speaker 5: Bill C twelve, and if illegal border crossers numbers continues
Speaker 5: to surge, call on the Liberals to examine the potential
Speaker 5: preemptive use of Section twenty point one of the Immigration
Speaker 5: and Refugee Protection app to uphold the spirit of the
Speaker 5: Safe Third Country Agreement and designate certain nationals crossing illegally
Speaker 5: from the US as in a regular group arrival, triggering
Speaker 5: measures that would deter mass winter crossings and human trafficking
Speaker 5: and potentially save lives. Push for the Liberals to rigorously
Speaker 5: enforced sections one seventeen through one twenty one of the
Speaker 5: Immigration Refugee Protection Acts, which impose penalties severe penalties on traffickers,
Speaker 5: including fines, imprisonment, and deportation. Bands calling on the Liberals
Speaker 5: to seek urgent cooperation with the United States to close
Speaker 5: the family loophole in the Safe Third Country Agreement by
Speaker 5: narrowing the definition to match Canada's definition, which is standard
Speaker 5: for family class, which is spouses, common law or conjugal partners,
Speaker 5: dependent children generally under the age of twenty two, parents,
Speaker 5: and grandparents. We will also call for the Liberals importantly
Speaker 5: to honour commitments to persecuted groups already in Canada by
Speaker 5: pausing the acceptance of new government assisted refugees and reallocating
Speaker 5: those spots to eligible individuals already in Canada from Ukraine,
Speaker 5: Hong Kong and Sudan and the last crisis. Non citizens
Speaker 5: convicted of serious crimes are being given lenient sentences in
Speaker 5: order to allow them to avoid deportation. Almost every week,
Speaker 5: another high profile incident comes to like of a non
Speaker 5: citizen convicted of serious crimes getting a lenient sentence and
Speaker 5: avoiding deportation. In the last two months of loan, we've
Speaker 5: seen stories about a truck driver who recklessly killed a
Speaker 5: twenty three year old Kaladon woman who got fifty five
Speaker 5: days in jail. A man convicted of child porn possession
Speaker 5: a child sexual abuse material who knew it was a
Speaker 5: crime when he watched it, was given leniency as the
Speaker 5: judge gave him six months less a day, which the
Speaker 5: judge explicitly said was to avoid immigration consequences. A man
Speaker 5: who pleaded guilty to abducting a nine year old boy
Speaker 5: he didn't know awaighs sentencing after asking for six months
Speaker 5: less a day to avoid immigration consequences. This situation is
Speaker 5: perpetuating a two tier justice system in Canada where and
Speaker 5: non citizens are treated differently than Canadian citizens. This is
Speaker 5: causing the rapid erosion of Canada's consensus on immigration as
Speaker 5: well as it is unfair to Canadian victims of crime. Therefore,
Speaker 5: we call upon the Liberals to rapidly pass Bill C twenty,
Speaker 5: my bill to end the practice of giving non citizens
Speaker 5: convicted of serious crimes leniency and sentencing in order to
Speaker 5: help them avoid deportation. And the upcoming session, Conservatives will
Speaker 5: continue to pass the Liberals to pass, pressure the Liberals
Speaker 5: to pass common sense policies we proposed last fall, as
Speaker 5: well as to take the action that we've outlined today.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Wow.
Speaker 6: But I convinced my son that there were colors in
Speaker 6: the world back when I was young, and though everything
Speaker 6: wasn't black and white, wrong was wrong and right was right.
Speaker 6: It was about that time I finally realized maybe my
Speaker 6: son was wrapped though, oh damn time most of us
Speaker 6: were on in a clearer time. Yeah, things were black
Speaker 6: and white and black and white days.
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