David and Drea discuss National Little Red Wagon Day, the new Corvette Corvettes, Canada's $40B deficit, and more. Subscribe to The Daily Roundup to get notified when we deconstruct the latest news and discuss current events.
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00:00:49.800Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. You have tuned into the Daily Roundup on this, a Wednesday, March 29th, 2023.
00:00:58.300I'm David Menzies and my co-host, well, let me tell you a little bit about my co-host.
00:01:04.320Folks, do you know that today is National Little Red Wagon Day?
00:01:09.440And my co-host owns a Little Red Wagon, but what she really wants to own is a Little Red Corvette.
00:01:15.900She is the she-devil with a spatula. She is the Khaleesi of BC.
00:01:20.900She is Drea Humphrey. How are you doing there, Drea?
00:01:23.460Drea Humphrey. I'm doing good. Good to see you, David. Thanks for everybody who's joining us. Welcome. Welcome.
00:01:30.280A hundred percent. And, you know, I got to say, Drea, the current generation Corvette, I got to give props to General Motors, but I'm also going to condemn them.
00:01:39.160It is the best Corvette ever manufactured. But if ever I came into Lotto Max FU money, I'm not buying it because for the first time in Corvette history, it does not come with a stick shift.
00:01:55.560That is a slap in the face. Oh, yeah. It's unbelievable.
00:02:00.800And now all the automotive gear heads out there, they're going to say, well, you know, current generation automatic transmissions, you can actually have a faster zero to 60 time than a human shifting gears.
00:02:13.100I know. I get it. But it's not about the speed.
00:02:15.540It's about the driving experience and my heart breaks for the stick shift, Drea, which is on the endangered species list these days.
00:02:25.040And it's but when it comes to a sports car, you got to have that option.
00:02:31.560No, no. But I'm so rebellious that every time I hear something is like on its way out or we're not going to have access to it, it makes me want to go learn and drive stick now.
00:02:42.080So that's the way I'm feeling right now. It's like I need a car with stick and learn how to do it just because.
00:02:48.240Oh, 100 percent. And I mean, when the EV revolution takes over, if it happens, you won't find any manual stick shift cars.
00:02:57.000And, you know, I'm going to give props to Car and Driver magazine.
00:02:59.960They have a campaign called Save the Stick Shift and they actually bore fruit from that campaign.
00:03:06.660One man when Toyota introduced the new Supra, which is a gorgeous sports car like the Corvette, only came in automatic for the first two years.
00:03:15.980I can tell you the current year you have the option of going manual.
00:03:20.200So if the Toyota Supra can be put in with a manual stick shift, so can the Chevy Corvette.
00:03:27.580Shame on you, General Motors. But that's enough auto talk.
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00:04:15.740Yeah, and I think what we're going to do, Drea, too, is that when a live chat comes in, we'll read it right away as opposed to leaving it for the end of the program.
00:05:04.260Unlike what Justin Trudeau said back in 2015, the budget did not balance itself for eight years hard running.
00:05:12.920And, you know, what's inexplicable to me, Drea, is that, you know, to use a car analogy again,
00:05:22.360it looks like the government is putting its foot on the gas pedal to spend, to stimulate economic growth.
00:05:30.120And yet that's contrary to the Bank of Canada.
00:05:33.260It's got its foot on the brake pedal because it's raising interest rates to cool down the economy.
00:05:41.360You know, you'd think they would be simpatico, the federal government and the Bank of Canada, but they're going at an economic plan from two very divergent pathways.
00:05:53.360What did you make of this federal budget, Drea?
00:05:58.140You know, it's just really concerning.
00:05:59.760As you mentioned, the budget is not balancing itself, which anybody with, you know, a brain knew would not happen.
00:06:06.900And it just shows what is happening under this leadership and how much longer do Canadians think we can hold on this way with this irresponsible management of the budget.
00:06:18.920And there's some other concerns I think we're going to get to as well with that.
00:06:24.000But, yeah, the interest rates are slapping people really hard as well.
00:06:29.240And I think there's just this whole moment for Canadians where we're just feeling very uncertain with what's going to happen next.
00:06:36.760And so it's, yeah, it's just concerning.
00:06:42.040And, you know, on that topic, Drea, I mean, I look at, for example, they've got this grocery bailout going where you have eligible couples with two children.
00:06:54.840You can receive up to $467 for a single person.
00:07:41.200They are so committed, Drea, to virtue signaling that this is somehow saving the planet that they won't put money back in our pockets by doing something really simple.
00:07:53.080And this is the way they could go about it, I think.
00:08:55.540But they won't go there because I think they realize most bureaucrats vote liberal because they have such a cushy time.
00:09:03.360And you look at the lay of the land, even though COVID is in the rearview mirror, I think, what is it, 40%, 50% of bureaucrats are still working from home,
00:09:12.280even those in service positions where they have to deal with the public.
00:09:17.860So that suggests to me that we have more blubber in the federal bureaucracy than a blue whale.
00:09:56.880And if you shop at a grocery store that will price match, you can literally look up every single thing and get the cheapest price around on it.
00:10:06.660And it's really cut back on our grocery costs tremendously.
00:10:10.960Because every time there's a sale on a product, you get it at this one grocery store if they honor it.
00:10:22.440I thought for a second there, Drea, you were encouraging people to get involved in a slip and fall accident and sue the grocery store for millions.
00:10:30.880If things keep up, we might see more and more of that.
00:10:37.680Well, you know, also talk about mixed messages.
00:10:41.880I thought this was one of the most perverse line items in the budget.
00:10:47.080$158 million going to fund the 988 suicide prevention line.
00:10:53.380But, Drea, for this government, I would say pick a lane.
00:10:58.040They're promoting medical-assisted suicide and dying programs.
00:11:03.660They're telling veterans that, you know what, maybe it'd be best for everybody if you offload the cost of us contributing to your medical bills by just, you know, terminating yourself.
00:11:16.480And here they are throwing $158 million at a suicide prevention line.
00:12:20.840I like the idea of someone in crisis having a, you know, much like 911, this is going to be 988.
00:12:27.260Someone to talk them down off the ledge, if you will, because maybe it's just a bad period of their life that they're going through, especially if you're young.
00:12:36.680But I'd also like to see, if you're going to go into the suicide prevention business, I think get out of the suicide advocacy business.
00:13:35.080And it will be located right beside, you know, one of China's police stations in Canada, too, working hand in hand, I'm sure.
00:13:42.320And, you know, that's a very important point because the next line item, 48.5 million over three years to the RCMP to protect diaspora communities from harassment and intimidation.
00:13:57.160Well, Drea, forget about throwing almost 50 million at the RCMP.
00:14:01.320You want to protect people from harassment and intimidation?
00:14:05.860Then shut down those damn Chinese police stations.
00:14:08.700We've got at least three in the greater Toronto area that we know of.
00:14:12.680I think there's one out in your neck of the woods.
00:14:15.720I mean, the way that works, I mean, they don't wear uniforms.
00:14:23.700But they just go knocking on doors of those who have made, well, you know, impolite postings on social media.
00:14:30.780And they say, you know, we think you ought to get on a plane at the end of the week and go back to China because we don't like what you've been posting.
00:14:40.280And by the way, if you refuse to, well, we know who your family members and friends are back in, say, Beijing.
00:14:47.180So I'm sure you don't want anything harmful to happen to them.
00:14:52.000And that's convinced worldwide about 230,000, you know, dual citizens or foreign nationals to actually return to China.
00:15:32.260So, yeah, I wouldn't, I can imagine that the Chinese Canadian community, especially those who fled communist China for a reason, to get away from the regime, they must be living in fear of that.
00:15:46.720Yeah, you know, that's a good point, too.
00:15:49.240These are not like official Chinese police stations, either.
00:15:55.260Well, and when we went looking in the greater Toronto area, well, the two in Markham, one was out of a operating out of a single family dwelling suburban house that blended in with all the other houses in the suburb.
00:16:07.820The other one was at something called, I think it was the Canada Chinese Fuking Business Association.
00:16:15.340I have to be very careful how I pronounce that word.
00:16:18.500And the third one, this was the killer.
00:16:22.180It was in Scarborough in the east end of Toronto.
00:18:06.740I just think Pierre Polyev ran an incredible campaign and he won on the first ballot, quite the contrast to 2018 when it took Andrew Scheer 13 ballots to defeat Maxime Bernier by a margin of less than 1%.
00:18:26.780I mean, it wasn't, I mean, that's a photo finish in horse racing terms.
00:18:31.720But have you heard any kind of allegations of chicanery in the conservative leadership campaign, Dre?
00:18:38.940Well, Billy's talking about the 2020 elections.
00:18:42.060That was when MP Lewis, she had more of the popular vote over O'Toole.
00:18:48.720And I don't know, I think she would have done a better job than O'Toole, maybe stood on certain issues that Canadians were wanting her to stand on.
00:18:57.300I don't think that there was anything, you know, that was awry in that situation.
00:19:02.860I do remember, though, there was a ballot issue, if you remember.
00:19:06.000There was something about ballots being chewed up or whatnot, but everybody had their own scrutineers and was looking over everything and making sure that got sorted out.
00:19:14.100So, yeah, I do think that she would have been better than O'Toole.