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Themes and arguments.

The arguments put forward or contested in the videos, grouped by theme and by period. Our local model draws them from a sample of political sentences, then they are checked against the sentences; each quote links back to its video.

The theme

Immigration

Political sentences about immigration, foreigners, immigrants, migrants or asylum.

Reliability of the classifier 0.95F1 0.76checked precision The method
Period
Last 7 days Last 3 months* 2026* 2025* 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2009–2017

The last seven days are read again every day. * provisional, part of the period’s videos are still to be transcribed. Greyed out, reading pending.

148
political sentences on the theme
40
sentences read
Gemma 4 31B
read on 5 October 2026 at 13:12
The theme in a typical video
  1. Far right 4.3% 17 videos
  2. Manosphere 0.0% 1 videos
  3. Conspiracism 1.4% 3 videos
  4. Culture 0.0% 1 videos

Mean share, per video, of the political sentences on the theme; each video counts once, from 20 political sentences.

Where the theme’s sentences come from
  1. Far right 97% 144 sentences
  2. Conspiracism 3% 4 sentences

This split follows the size of each orientation’s corpus. It describes the channel selection, not the weight each side gives the theme.

Arguments come from a sample shared by the territories. Only excerpts from channels in the selected country and their associated arguments are kept here; counts are recalculated.

The arguments

What is put forward, and by whom.

Each card opens on all its sentences; each quote links back to its video.

  1. Carried by Far right 3

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  2. Carried by Far right 2

    « C'est de l'amateurisme. Le Paul-Saint-Pierre-Plamondon propose de réduire le nombre de résidents non permanents au Québec à 200, 250 000. »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  3. Carried by Far right 1

    « Donc, elle s'est faite violer, agressée sexuellement par un migrant tunisien. Et pour avoir parlé de ça et de ça, bien... »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  4. Carried by Far right 1

    « Et on a eu la peur des réfugiés climatiques dès 2014-2015. Il fallait se préparer à accueillir des réfugiés climatiques. »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  5. Carried by Far right 2

    « On est sans bosse avec un taux de chômage inférieur à 2 %. On a besoin de travailleurs étrangers. »

    « Pour monsieur, madame, tout le monde. What about, moi je ne suis même pas citoyen américain, mais what about new rules for HB1 visas? »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

The videos

Where the theme weighs most.

Videos of the last four months, ranked by the share of their political sentences the classifier assigns to the theme; each record opens in a side panel.

  1. FNL ep799 - 2026/09/23 Trump pointe le Canada et son immigration; 100 MILLIONS pour la Palestine! NLB - FreedomNews · 24 September 2026
  2. Extrait ep806 - Les musulmans EUX vont aller voter! Et ils ont préparé 1 guide à ce sujet NLB - FreedomNews · 5 October 2026
  3. Presentation of the Conservative Party of Quebec's justice and security plan Actualité Politique Du Québec · 29 September 2026 · record
  4. 🇶🇶 Fréchette lance une CONSTITUTION du Québec si la CAQ est réélue! Actualité Politique Du Québec · 26 September 2026
  5. 🍼 Duhaime attaque la CAQ sur les garderies : 5 000 places menacées ! Actualité Politique Du Québec · 26 September 2026
  6. FNL ep800 - LA 800ÈME! 2026/09/24 NLB - FreedomNews · 24 September 2026
  7. Analysis of an aerial attack and economic and political situation in Quebec and Canada NLB - FreedomNews · 1 October 2026 · record
  8. Analysis of Quebec Elections, AI Risks, and Security Situation in France NLB - FreedomNews · 3 October 2026 · record
  9. FNL Express 2026/10/05 - Jour d'élections au Québec! Et autres nouvelles rapides NLB - FreedomNews · 5 October 2026
  10. FNL ep801 - Merci! Go vers 1000! Retour sur la semaine NLB - FreedomNews · 25 September 2026

The percentage is the share of the video’s political sentences assigned to the theme (at least 20 political sentences and 5 on the theme).

The periods

The theme, year by year.

Political sentences on the theme by period; click a period to show it. The number also depends on the share of videos transcribed, which varies a lot from year to year.

33 2009–2017 44 2018 38 2019 10 2020 1.5k 2021 673 2022 1.8k 2023 5.6k 2024 2.5k 2025* 589 2026*
How the arguments are drawn

The theme’s political sentences are drawn at random by period, with quotas per orientation and a cap per channel and per video. Our local model reads the sentences without knowing their channel or orientation, groups those making the same argument, separates those reporting it in order to contest it and sets aside those off the theme. Orientation shares and quotes come from the sentences, never from the model. The last seven days are read again every day.

The detail in the method
Project paper