Terry Glavin
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167 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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to unite the country, to keep, you know, the role of federal policy has always been to allow Canadians to have a conversation amongst themselves. It's why we fund the CBC and the Canadian Council for the Arts and what have you. And it's a difficult thing to do because we are very, very culturally diverse. I mean, in every traditional sense of the word, the French speaking people of Quebec
the poor land Quebecers, are a nation in every conventional sense of the word. And Canada is, well, yeah, I guess we're kind of a nation, but it's complicated. I mean... It is vastly complicated, and it's a huge landscape. So the function of a prime minister has to be to unite the country.
Something core. Something that when push comes to shove, it's possible that we might be able to muster fire in the belly.
Quite so.
The other thing about Trudeau is that it's a complete rejection of that, a complete reversal of that. It's just like, meh, we're a post-national country. And immigration, fine, you want to come in, yes. You know, Dominic Barton, who ended up being our ambassador to China, the guy who came from China's McKinsey and Associates and who crafted Trudeau's campaign campaign,
at the very, very, very beginning of his rise to politics, says, yeah, we should actually have about a half a million people coming into Canada every year. We should aim for 100 million. We should at least double our population, you know, in the next generation or two.
Yes, we have.
We don't know how many people live in this country, Jordan. Yeah. We know from a recent census it's about 41 million. But on top of that, we have, well, for instance, over the next 12 months, 5 million people who live in Canada on various kinds of temporary permits and so on. So it's one-eighth of the population. Within the next 12 months, those permits expire.
Then there's another between 50 and 500,000, according to the official guess. of the Immigration and Refugees and Citizenship Department, who are what they call out-of-contract workers, which are undocumented workers. Now, for Americans to hear these numbers, you know, America's 10 times as many people, it's 10 times as populous. So, you know, just do the math, right?
If there's 5 million, if there are 50 million Americans or people living in the United States whose temporary permits expire within the next 12 months and who have all given every impression that they do not intend to leave. Yes, why would they leave? So Pierre Polyev's coming along, right? Yeah.
And the interesting thing about Pierre Polyev, this goes back to what we were talking about earlier about language. Is this liberal or what the hell? Pierre Polyev, when he talks about housing, when he talks about employment, when he talks about access to health care, when he talks about wages, he's Bernie Sanders. Americans have to understand this. Try to imagine Bernie Sanders.
I mean, and also the trade union vote has gone to conservatives. This has never happened before. The working class vote has gone to Pierre Polyev. I don't know. I mean, I'm not a partisan conservative. I don't know if I've ever written a conservative sentence in my life, by the way, although most of my friends seem to be conservatives. I don't know how that happens.
So my great fear, and I'll close with this, and you can challenge me. Tell me I'm wrong, or if you like, whatever. You can argue. I think we've got about... year or two before everything starts to come unglued. And I'm very worried about this. I've always been an optimist. I've been an inveterate optimist.
But I actually haven't seen in Polyev a degree of sophistication in comprehending the nature and the scope of what he's going to be facing.
I thought it was Alabama. Is it Mississippi? Same thing.
No, that's never going to happen.
Well, the Liberals might, but it might be some iteration of a Liberal Party that older Canadians are more familiar with.
Well, their history.
Well, here's an interesting story. You find this a lot, this sort of speculation about, well, oh, this Trump thing, you know, could it happen in Canada? Right-wing populism, yada, yada, everyone wets their pants. Oh, my God, not here. Well, it actually did happen here, and it happened back then, and it was the reform part.
Well, one of the things I think Conservatives should remember about the Reform Party is the result of the Reform Party was they reduced the Conservatives to three. And they ushered in a decade of liberal rule. So, good luck to you lads. Canadians, I think, are, you know, this is something I also want to stress. The overwhelming majority of Canadians are not anti-Semites.
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