Pierre Poilievre
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Yes.
So there's significantly less people getting married.
There's significantly less people being born.
So how does one run their economy when you're not having new children being born without bringing in lots of immigrants to help support that economy?
Am I right in thinking that a lot of these Western economies have allowed a lot of people into their countries to make up for...
the willingness or desire or the availability of people to do the sort of low wage jobs?
Is this what's happened globally?
Because it's what people tell me in the UK.
If you cap numbers, does that mean that these corporations, these entrepreneurs, these companies don't have enough people to fill the roles in their companies and therefore have to move somewhere else?
What does it mean?
You've got unemployment.
Are those people trained and skilled and willing to do the jobs that Canada needs them to do?
Again, I'm trying to play devil's advocate here.
So Starbucks increased wages, which means that Starbucks then will increase the cost of a cup of coffee, presumably.
One of the interesting ways lots of employers are finding ways to drive efficiencies is this new technology called AI.
Right.
And again, maybe somewhat ironically here, Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI companies, released a report two weeks ago.
I'll throw the graph up on the screen, but it shows where job disruption will take place based on how people are currently using their tools.
And one of the things they noticed is that there's been a
increase by, I think, roughly 14% in youth unemployment because entry-level jobs are the ones often in white-collar industries that are being taken out first.