Bill Maher warns Americans 'extreme wokeness' will result in adopting Canada's progressive immigration, economic problems

Bill Maher warned his audience that delving too far into "extreme wokeness" will result in Americans facing the same problems that progressive nations have run into.

Maher explained on "Real Time with Bill Maher" that along with woke ideology and legislation comes a whole host of problems and said that the United States is creeping closer to having the same issues as Canada.

Maher pointed to Canada's unemployment rate of 6.1%, as opposed to the United States' 3.8%.

He also noted that Canada has 14 of the top North American cities with the worst air pollution, while the U.S. has just one.

"Canada was where all the treasured goals of liberalism worked perfectly," Maher sarcastically explained.

"It was like NPR come to life but with poutine. Canada was the Statue of Liberty with a low-maintenance haircut and cross-country skis. A giant idealized blue state with single-payer health care, gun control, and abortion on polite demand. Canada was where every woke white college kid wearing pajama pants outdoors who'd had it up to here with America's racist patriarchy dreamed of living someday," he added.

In terms of immigration, the comedian warned that Canada added 1.3 million immigrants in 2023, the equivalent of 11 million in the United States for a single calendar year.

This has resulted in a "housing crisis even worse than ours."

Maher cited a Fraser Institute study that showed median value of a home in the United States is around $346,000 USD. The price of a house in Canada is $487,540 USD.

Another comparable statistic the late-night host pointed to was Canada having the highest household debt as a share of the GDP.
He also stated that Canada's health care is the worst among high-income countries and ranked last in the ability to get a same-day or next-day appointment. This, despite the country being the "highest spender on health care as a share of its economy (13.3%)."

The problems in the Great White North culminated for Maher in the woke acceptance of the teacher known as Kayla Lemieux, the alleged transgender-identifying male adult who wore gigantic, prosthetic fake breasts while teaching children.

"This is why people vote for Trump. They say in politics liberals are the gas pedal and conservatives are the brakes," Maher theorized. "I'm generally with the gas pedal, but not if we're driving off a cliff," he added.

Maher touched on transgender surgeries and hormones for children and stated that the U.S. was now an "outlier" on the issue since the U.K. and most European countries that progressives point to for their policies have changed their positions.

"The far left always like to use 'well, Europe does it.' Yeah, no that doesn't work on this one any more, or on immigration," the comedian warned. "Calling it racist doesn't solve the problem; it hands future elections to someone who will solve the problem and who I promise you're not going to like."

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