In this episode, Action for Canada's Tanya Gaw joins us to talk about her journey to becoming the President of the BC Conservative Party and how she and her team are dedicated to fighting corruption in our political system. She also talks about her experience with the Bank of Canada and why she thinks central bankers make terrible politicians.
00:00:13.380So, you know, I was reading a book about J.P. Morgan because he privately saved the U.S. financial system, you know, previous to World War One.
00:00:25.120And then after he died, the people who wanted to start monkeying with things said, oh, we need to create the Federal Reserve because, you know, just in case we need to do this, we don't want to rely on a guy like J.P. Morgan again.
00:00:38.180We've got to figure this out, you know.
00:00:40.540And so don't don't allow the private market to do that.
00:01:12.980We don't store a lot of them in our own vaults just because, especially with silver, it's too bulky.
00:01:19.740We're not set up properly to be able to do that.
00:01:23.800So that is basically designed to protect the membership of our organization.
00:01:30.220Joining us in just a few moments is Tanya Gaw, the founder and leader of Action for Canada.
00:01:40.220If you're new to the show, Tanya and the Action for Canada team are on the front lines of educating Canadians about current affairs and relevant topics that affect us all.
00:01:50.260If you've missed previous episodes of the Empower Hour, be sure to head over to our website where you can watch all the replays.
00:06:33.300And I just want to let people know if they want to watch those interviews.
00:06:38.640They are on our finance page on our website.
00:06:40.980If you go to Current Issues, you'll see finance and you can see the previous interviews I've had with each of these brilliant men.
00:06:49.380And I believe that, obviously, the financial situation in Canada is looking pretty dire.
00:06:55.520And the CBDCs, the threat of what's looming with these globalist leaders at the helm, we could see a big shift coming.
00:07:04.440But at this time, a lot of Canadians are concerned.
00:07:06.800And I'd like to just always feel that knowledge is power.
00:07:10.680They need to be educated so that they can protect themselves and their finances.
00:07:14.740And so, like I say, it's going to be a bit of a diverse conversation as far as what people could maybe do.
00:07:22.020And, Brett, that's where you come in having all of the banking experience.
00:07:25.740And, Rob, you have this vast amount of knowledge about all the nefarious things that are going on in the background as well.
00:07:32.380CBDCs, we'll talk a little bit maybe as well as regarding what people can do investment-wise.
00:07:38.380But, again, it's not advice that we're providing anybody.
00:07:41.320We're just trying to send you in a direction where you can start looking up some of this information yourself.
00:07:47.780And we just want to see Canadians in the best place and be able to take care of their families and protect their savings.
00:07:57.160Okay, so kind of the question is where to begin.
00:08:01.120You know, Rob, what's first on my mind, I'm going to talk to you because this whole thing about the Liberal government looking for a new leader of the party,
00:08:09.280I think this is where we're going to start because a year and a half ago somebody had whispered in my ear just in a panic that they were going to put Mark Carney as head of the party.
00:08:20.800And so wouldn't you know that he's kind of the cream of the crop that they've chosen at the front of the line and that who they're promoting.
00:08:27.520Can you please tell myself and my viewers, how can they take an unelected official and have him move into the position?
00:08:38.960How can they put him into a position to be head of the Liberal Party?
00:08:42.780So what would happen with that is if he were to win the leadership race, and I mean, the polling indicates that he's 18 points,
00:08:52.720Christian Phelan's at nine, and the rest of the contenders potentially were at single digits.
00:08:56.920I'm very disturbed that you've had a whole bunch of people who were interested in running who have all dropped off dramatically so quickly.
00:09:06.720They've put the bar at a $350,000 deposit.
00:10:30.920But anyhow, so if the Liberals actually elect him in the leadership race, then, yeah, he effectively becomes prime minister.
00:10:40.700He doesn't actually need to immediately have a seat in the House of Commons.
00:10:45.020He can have somebody else answer questions in the House of Commons.
00:10:49.940And then he can, you know, just kind of head to the scrums if he wants to afterwards.
00:10:55.260He's largely avoided a lot of direct media so far.
00:10:59.280However, he's kind of picking and choosing very carefully where he wants to engage.
00:11:03.580Obviously, he did that with, you know, one of the American outlets, Jon Stewart, etc.
00:11:08.940But that's a controlled environment where they were all going to like, you know, like, you know, seals, you know, clap for him because they're all part of that agenda.
00:11:18.960He's the most dangerous by far of any of the contenders.
00:11:22.380Gould, I believe, is the member of Parliament who is trying to do a backdoor private members bill to introduce the worst aspects of the Emergencies Act through a private members bill.
00:11:52.040Well, I was thinking as well, you had just mentioned the Emergency Act and that with Trump making all this threat about, you know, making us the 51st state,
00:11:59.840that I could foresee Trudeau or Mark Carney, whoever it is, I call him Mark Carnage, actually, I think that's more appropriate,
00:12:07.800coming in and declaring an emergency, you know, because of this threat of the United States.
00:12:18.000Most people are saying it doesn't matter who you put as head of the party.
00:12:21.040The majority of Canadians are not going to vote for them.
00:12:24.960And then there was a great deal of concern over the fact that they said 3 million non-citizens, immigrants, migrants, non-Canadians could end up voting.
00:12:37.680Those would be basically bought and paid for votes for the party, for the Liberal Party.
00:12:43.940But I thought I read a headline, was it yesterday, that said they've retracted that.
00:12:50.600Well, OK, so the Liberal Party allows people who are not citizens to vote in nominations and for leadership contests, as does the Conservative Party.
00:13:01.000OK, I fought that when I was with the Reform Party back in the day.
00:13:04.960And people said, oh, you're, you know, extreme.
00:13:07.140No, if you can't vote in the general election, what the hell are you doing voting in the nominations in the general?
00:13:55.420You can't apply for a government job, you know.
00:13:57.820And these totalitarian regimes like China love a central bank digital currency, because if you actually have any type of free exchange of currency, you can go to a cab driver in Shanghai or Hong Kong or maybe even Beijing, and you can exchange it for the real exchange rate, right?
00:14:16.620But if all you have is central banks agreeing with each other over what the fixed exchange rate will be and there is no cash, well, then you have to go with that terrible, you know, totalitarian dictated exchange rate.
00:14:34.360They want to prevent money from fleeing out of China.
00:14:36.400It's the reason why the Vancouver real estate market is so bonkers.
00:14:39.560It's because people in China would rather have a house in Shaughnessy sprout weeds than trust their government with having control over their money, right?
00:14:48.500So, yeah, I mean, China absolutely would love to have somebody like Mark Carney as prime minister of Canada, for sure.
00:14:56.520And I'm sure there's interference and funding and all of that going on.
00:15:00.160But I believe that we can overturn this if we can get, we are the majority still in Canada that are opposed to this, and we just need to put a fire under Canadians' behinds
00:15:09.380to get them out there and understand that they need to get their candidate elected.
00:15:27.000You know, you're just one of those wonderful little Canadian heroes sitting back there having not, you know, shut down anybody's bank accounts,
00:15:36.420having refused to comply with the government tyranny a few years ago in response to the trucker's convoy
00:15:44.660and the fake emergency measures that Trudeau was trying to implement.
00:15:50.740So just appreciative of what you've done.
00:15:54.000Now, with Mark Carney, with the idea of him becoming prime minister, you've done a lot with your bank to, I guess, go in the opposite direction of the Canadian corporate banking system
00:16:11.340as far as the Bow Valley Credit Union is concerned.
00:16:15.500Can you explain that to our viewers and, I guess, how you feel about the CBDCs related to this push by Mark Carney as well?
00:16:29.660Mark Carney is actually one of my favorite people to pick on, on X.
00:16:34.040So if anybody wants to go to my Twitter feed, I just about daily pick on Mark Carney for past things that he's done.
00:16:43.500I think a recent post I put out there in August of 2019, he brought down in a U.S. Fed meeting the concept of central banks around the world coming together
00:17:03.900and basically creating a central bank digital currency.
00:17:07.220So he's been thinking about this for quite some time, as long as at least 2019.
00:17:21.320And effectively, he wants a central bank digital currency so he can pay for this green agenda.
00:17:27.660And the way you do that is debasing the Canadian dollar or debasing the euro or debasing the American dollar.
00:17:37.060And so rather than going to the Canadian taxpayer and saying, hey, do you want to fund all these programs for $100 trillion?
00:17:47.200We're going to increase your taxes that much.
00:17:49.340They do it a very underhanded way and basically just print the currency and then pay for it through debt.
00:17:57.000And so what happens then is anybody that has savings in the Canadian dollar basically get undermined and your dollar just gets worth less and less and less.
00:18:08.740And so if you don't think you have a stake in the game, you definitely do, because if you have any sort of savings out there, it would get debased completely.
00:18:19.200And that's a lot of what we've been seeing these days with inflation.
00:18:24.200Just back to the point about how we're trying to push back, we're regulated differently than bigger financial institutions like your CBE, CIBCs, your BMOs, your Royal Banks and that type thing.
00:18:41.740So thankfully, we have a leader in Alberta that isn't as dystopian as the federal government and seems to be pushing back to some degree.
00:18:51.200So that's probably a big defense that we have.
00:18:56.380The regulators that we do have, the Credit Union Deposit Guarantee Corporation, we work with them quite well.
00:19:03.140And they're definitely more in the freedom, libertarian, free enterprise spirit center of thinking versus the globalist thinking that we seem to be having at the federal level.
00:19:19.240So that's a big distinction and how we're able to push back to some degree.
00:19:24.300And unfortunately, we can only help Albertans or Albertan companies with this.
00:19:29.480But I have a few ideas of how people in other provinces might be able to help.
00:19:35.300Well, I know I'm in British Columbia and we've reached out as well because we'd be interested in doing that.
00:19:40.100I was talking to one of my team members the other day as we're considering, you know, the banking system that Action for Canada is using right now.
00:19:50.740And with BC regulators, is it absolutely essential that the provincial government has to be aligned with?
00:19:59.540Because if I could find, for instance, a credit union in British Columbia that was fully aligned with you, they understand it, they get it.
00:20:06.920They want to provide their clients the same services that you do.
00:20:11.420Would they be able to get in contact with you and do a Bow Valley BC if they were willing and their board was willing?
00:20:20.280Is this something that is actually possible?
00:21:01.580But the thing is, if 200 people show up at a credit union AGM and basically demand change and we're voting in these people to make this happen, you can make some changes.
00:21:13.840I wouldn't say quickly, but the thing is, like with anything, it takes time.
00:21:20.040And just the introductory ad, it's talking about getting involved, getting on your municipal councils, getting on your school boards.
00:21:27.660It's the same idea with a credit union, except you can make impactful change at the credit union level versus good luck at the TD or Royal Bank level.
00:21:38.440Well, this is really encouraging to me because, like I said, there's been a lot of conversation going on and I've been looking for solutions in British Columbia.
00:22:07.780Whereas the bigger banks, like Royal Bank, I think you'll find that a lot of their shareholders are external, even to Canada.
00:22:15.620So your Black Rocks, your state streets, your vanguards, your overseas European investors, basically dictating the direction of these Canadian financial institutions.
00:22:28.440And so, of course, they don't have the best interest of Canadians in mind.
00:22:33.520And they basically go towards their agendas and it's making profitability not only for their shareholders, but potentially at the detriment of Canadians.
00:22:46.140And I know that I was putting in an application to make a change and it was a credit union and they have this new risk assessment that they do.
00:22:58.420And I didn't pass the risk assessment because I'm a freedom-loving Canadian with an organization that doesn't support the federal government dictatorship.
00:23:08.700So it would be really important for people who do have memberships in these banks to encourage others to join.
00:23:16.760And, of course, we've been encouraging Canadians to get all of their savings and finances out of the big banks anyways, because of the bank bail-in that's in the budget, which means they're going to come into the account and rob Canadians blind.
00:23:31.920And, Rob, I'll come back to you on this one.
00:23:33.660You're already shaking your head in agreement.
00:23:36.060And one of the notes here I had is, well, people will automatically think, oh, no, the Canadian Deposit Insurance Corporation will cover my investment.
00:23:46.940And if the whole banking system goes belly up, like, you know, this has been this looming threat, there is no way the CDIC has enough money in the coffer to cover every Canadian for the substantial amount of money that they would need.
00:24:02.600And so, Rob, would you agree with that and, you know, explain anything further you would like either about the bank bail-ins, the risks that people have, even with their safety deposit holdings, of being in one of the big banks right now?
00:24:34.540So, you know, I was reading a book about J.P. Morgan because he privately saved the U.S. financial system, you know, previous to World War I.
00:24:46.180And then after he died, the people who wanted to start monkeying with things said, oh, we need to create the Federal Reserve because, you know, just in case we need to do this, we don't want to rely on a guy like J.P. Morgan again.
00:24:59.260We've got to figure this out, you know.
00:25:01.620And so don't allow the private market to do that.
00:25:04.740We'll have the government, you know, do this, right?
00:25:06.380And in Canada now, you've got Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which was set up to, you know, basically help people get into their mortgages.
00:25:15.100The government of Canada now owns like 50% of those mortgages.
00:25:19.680So if you default, I mean, you could actually have the government own your house, right?
00:25:23.120Like, there's a lot of stuff that's going on that's very nefarious.
00:25:26.780And so I'm just going to talk about gold for a second because, you know, Canada used to have 2,500 tons of gold back in the 1960s.
00:25:39.680We used to, like, my offices that I used to have in East Block, okay, we had actual gold reserves in those bank vaults.
00:25:47.760Beautiful vault doors, the brass doors are still there.
00:25:50.040But now that's gone, right, and those doors are there, and we just go and eat poached eggs, right, in the East Block cafeteria.
00:25:56.860It's all been turned into a cafeteria.
00:25:58.320But then when the Bank of Canada was created, okay, they had these huge cavernous vaults that were built underneath Spark Street in Ottawa.
00:26:06.780Well, back in the 1960s, those things actually had 2,500 tons of gold.
00:26:10.980If Canada had not even added an ounce, not one single ounce to the amount of gold that we had in the 1960s, okay,
00:26:18.600Canada would right now be behind the United States and Germany is third in the world in terms of having gold bullion to back our currency.
00:26:44.440Well, can I ask you, when you say there's nothing backing it, I heard recently, you know, we've got our oil and natural resources.
00:26:53.720Is that anything that we can rely on when they say, oh, we're backed by our resources?
00:26:58.500It's like there's nothing that compares to gold and silver, precious metals.
00:27:03.080So what do you have to say to that statement?
00:27:05.060Well, you know, both Brett and I agree that one of the things Alberta could do, and we encourage other provinces, please, please, please, please, smarten up.
00:27:12.840But we could have, say, for example, in Alberta, 1%, okay, you know, of the assets, you know, held in, say, for example, gold, silver.
00:27:24.000I would even say you could go copper, you know, oil.
00:27:38.460But, you know, that's not the same as having gold bullions, you know, bars, you know, coins, you know, et cetera, that's readily accessible.
00:27:46.160I mean, part of this whole thing, like, you can't trust the Russians and the Chinese, for example, when they say, oh, yeah, we've got 2,000 tons of gold.
00:27:56.280Like, you're not going to allow an acid test to go in there to check that stuff.
00:27:59.540Like, what, you're going to believe that of Vladimir Putin, who's, you know, selling the gold en masse to be able to fight Ukraine type of thing?
00:28:05.780You're going to trust China, who lies about how many hundreds of millions of people they've got, or that, you know, the virus didn't start in Wuhan?
00:28:15.960And, you know, Canada, I just want to say, you know, from 1817 until 1914 had the longest running free banking system in the world, where we had a couple dozen banks, like the CIBC and Toronto Dominion and Bank of Montreal, et cetera, that if they had enough gold and silver, they could issue currency.
00:28:37.960And that currency was respected all the way from the Caribbean through the United States into Canada and obviously over to Great Britain.
00:28:44.580And that was a beautiful, the longest running 97-year run of free banking in the world, where you basically had the banks themselves say, oh, okay, we're all going to agree to what the percentage is.
00:28:53.980You know, it was regulated, you know, by a bank act type of thing, but from 1871 onwards.
00:29:28.600They were talking about the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and designating them last year as a terrorist organization.
00:29:34.700And Trudeau literally said, that'll hurt our economy because of the money that, you know, the Iranians are flooding through here via terrorism.
00:29:46.200And I'm just like, when we talk about, like you say, politicians and finances, you're right.
00:29:51.000They're not the ones that we should, that should be discussing it.
00:29:53.900And this actually segues nice over to you, Brett.
00:29:57.400What are you doing different with the Bow Valley Credit Union in reference to buying gold and backing the dollar with gold?
00:30:38.940We don't store a lot of them in our own vaults just because, especially with silver, it's too bulky.
00:30:46.940We're not set up properly to be able to do that.
00:30:49.740So that is basically designed to protect the membership of our organization from exactly what Rob was mentioning there around the free banking system.
00:31:01.640And we want to get to a certain percentage, and we're not quite there yet, but we want to get to back up the equity of the balance sheet of our organization.
00:31:11.740So now, recognizing that does help the membership, we do want to do more than that.
00:31:20.200We've recently launched what's called an e-metals account.
00:31:25.220A lot of people have trouble purchasing gold and silver.
00:31:30.380They don't know what to do with it after they hold it, that type of thing.
00:31:33.340And we're trying to simplify that for people.
00:31:35.980So when you're a Bow Valley Credit Union member, you can sign up for an e-metals account.
00:31:41.680And basically, this is the best of both worlds between the cryptocurrency as well as actual physical metals.
00:31:50.580So you can actually buy a portion of a 1,000-ounce bar of gold or silver through this account.
00:31:57.660And it's really accessible for people because most people can't afford an ounce of gold, which is around $3,800 Canadian dollars as of today.
00:32:11.400You can buy as little as like $0.45 worth of silver or $36 worth of gold and basically protect yourself and your family from what we see as an inevitable inflation or potential fallout in the finance.
00:32:31.760Yeah, and this is why we want more Bow Valley Credit Unions and provinces across the nation to go old school.
00:32:36.860Because my understanding is like with the Bank of Canada, the IMF, International Monetary Fund, the World Banks, this is the greatest heist in the history of not only Canada, but the world as this wealth transfer takes place.
00:32:51.740And you had mentioned earlier, or it was mentioned about this trillion-dollar deal that Mike Carnage wants to do for the Green Deal.
00:33:00.500But I don't think it's for the Green Deal.
00:33:02.140I think it's just to have an excuse to transfer the funds so that these globalist leaders really become the richie rich.
00:33:09.540Because there's so many of the little critical thinking issues.
00:33:13.340It's like Trudeau wants to ban straws, but he doesn't mind all of these 100-foot-high Santa Clauses coming from China in everybody's yards come Christmas that end up in, you know, the dump come January.
00:33:25.720You know, there's just no sense to how deeply and dearly they really love our landfills and care about going green.
00:33:51.180Action for Canada has really been promoting that people look at buying precious metals.
00:33:56.660I always heard, you know, you could buy a carriage and horse, you know, back 100 years ago, and you could buy a nice car today, whether it was with an ounce of gold, maybe a couple ounces of gold, back then compared to now.
00:34:10.820And, you know, you could buy a nice suit back in that era, and you could buy a nice suit today with one ounce of silver.
00:34:16.960And so it holds its value, although the price of silver has been reported to be throttled.
00:34:24.100JP Morgan, Rob, had a big part to play in the manufacturing of the cost of silver right now.
00:34:30.540And so it is due to increase substantially.
00:34:34.800And a lot of people have been going in that direction.
00:34:37.240But with the crypto and Bitcoin, anything that's online, you know, they want to say for the digital currency, the CBDCs, you know, they're selling it and marketing it as this will be safer for you, right?
00:37:27.260Bitcoin, consider that as your store of value.
00:37:30.320And that's why Trump maybe has his ears perked up about it.
00:37:35.580So he's basically thinking about it for backing the U.S. system as a store of value, like gold and silver would be.
00:37:43.260Now, Tether is the really interesting part.
00:37:45.660Because Tether is basically another medium of exchange, except it's what's considered a stable coin.
00:37:53.980And so as a stable coin, it's supposed to be pegged one for one to the U.S. dollar.
00:37:59.820And so basically, they have to move up and down with Tether based on the buys and sells of Tether.
00:38:06.500And what they do to back up Tether is buy U.S. Treasuries.
00:38:11.420So if you string out the dots on that, the higher the Bitcoin price goes, which is linked to Tether, the more Tether actually has to buy the U.S. Treasuries.
00:38:24.260So if the debt of the U.S. goes from $37 trillion to $50 trillion, then they need somebody to buy that debt.
00:38:33.260The Chinese have stopped buying the debt.
00:38:35.260The Saudis have stopped buying the debt.
00:38:37.100The Russians sure aren't buying the debt.
00:38:39.940Other people, typically, the Japanese aren't buying the debt.
00:38:45.260So they need somebody to actually buy this debt so that the cost, basically, the floor doesn't fall out on these bonds that are around the world.
00:38:55.760So if they stipulate in the U.S. government that Tether needs to be backed up by U.S. Treasuries, all of a sudden, Trump has a solution to his problem of backing up and people buying this debt.
00:39:08.260So now this is all just speculation, but I think it's important for people to keep an eye on these things just because it is going to be important going forward.
00:39:18.600Wow. And do you think, okay, so Rob, you're a good history buff.
00:39:24.760You're so knowledgeable in not only what's going on in Canada, but around the world as far as banking systems are concerned and where they're all currently at.
00:39:34.300I mean, most Western nations are on the verge of collapse.
00:39:38.140We've seen a few of them have to, was it France or Germany that had to call a re-election as well over budgets?
00:39:47.080I mean, these are affecting a lot of things.
00:39:49.740So with the history of the Bank of Canada being created, is there a way to collapse that system to get back to what we had formerly, what you were just talking about?
00:40:02.800Because wasn't it the day the Bank of Canada was created, that is also the day our debt started to accumulate as well?
00:40:10.860Because our banking system used to include that I thought it was interest-free loans, borrowing money like from within.
00:40:21.020So what do you foresee would be a really good solution?
00:40:25.280Is there a way to go back and recreate a system that was working for us?
00:40:30.320Well, I personally love the free banking system that we had from 1817 to 1914, because that way you get it out of the hands of the politicians.
00:40:41.100And bankers care more about the solidity of their banks and their ratios and being able to keep their banks solvent than politicians do.
00:40:51.960I mean, unless you're a really, really bad banker.
00:40:53.940But they should care more about that, certainly, than politicians do.
00:40:56.880Now, I'm going to give credit to some governments.
00:41:00.060Italy, India, Germany have been buying up gold, because I think they realize the storm's coming.
00:41:06.400So I have to give somebody some credit on that, that they're trying to do something about it.
00:41:11.300Anyhow, a little lesson for Mr. Trudeau.
00:41:14.320If I have to choose between the Iranians and the Saudi Arabians, the Saudi Arabians have like $20 trillion.
00:41:20.620You know, I'd rather, way rather bet on those guys, in terms of that battle in the Middle East, in terms of who's got, you know, the money.
00:41:31.100I want to, I really want to see us go back to something that I know works, you know, and gold, silver, you know, one might argue copper, because, you know, the old Roman system was based on that, the Denarius, etc.
00:41:44.240You know, that was, you know, we think about that, that was a stable currency of sorts for about 800 years, the Pax Romana.
00:41:50.900I mean, yeah, there was a problem with them shaving coins toward the end, and, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:41:55.580But most countries have had issues with that.
00:41:58.300That's why they have the little serrated edges and whatever to tell whether or not the coin's been shaved, you know.
00:42:06.660You just got thousands of years of history to prove that that has something of value to it.
00:42:11.580So I don't know of a better way to do that.
00:42:18.820You know, I think it would be hard to say that we're going to go to a system where all there is is silver or gold or copper coinage, because people would say, well, there's not enough of that.
00:42:28.040So then you think, okay, well, let's look at the fractional reserve.
00:42:30.580And then if you're going to do a fractional reserve, you know, with gold and silver, for example, or maybe tossing in copper, etc., whatever, it's hard to beat that.
00:42:40.460It's such a resilient, time-tested thing.
00:42:44.440And when it comes to, say, for example, the cryptos, listen, if, you know, if you want to sock away your money in private cryptos, go at it, right?
00:42:54.840I mean, you could see, you know, historically, people would do barley or they would do seashells or tulips or whatever.
00:43:02.060Like, I mean, yeah, it's your business what you do with that.
00:43:04.460But I think the idea is I want to maintain a bunch of different private cryptos, because I think the more that we get toward just one form of crypto, the more that becomes like a central bank digital currency and allows the tracking ability and everything else,
00:43:21.360particularly government agencies and everything else that ordering people around, you know, like in China, like here, if you have $100,000 in the account, right now, people have a hard time in visiting, you know, the federal government saying, oh, well, hey, Tonya, you know, six months from now, we want you to buy an electric vehicle.
00:43:37.840And if you don't, your money's going to disappear, it's just going to expire, like that, you know, but in China, that's a reality, right?
00:43:45.080And if people want to understand where the central bank digital currency stuff's going, all you got to do is look at China right now, and you'll understand the digital you want.
00:43:53.800Yeah, I provided a brief video in the email that I sent out Sunday night, and I've had it on our webpage, on our finance page for quite a while, and it's on the social credit system.
00:44:04.740And the problem, one of the problems as well is with allowing people to immigrate from China, is that they've been so conditioned already and brainwashed into accepting government tyranny.
00:44:17.860And I say that not with criticism towards them, it could have been any of us, oh, but by the grace of God, go us, having been raised in Canada under a different system where we had all of these freedoms, and it's definitely going to be something worth fighting for.
00:44:32.040But, you know, they were like, oh, you know, having a bazillion cameras everywhere, this is keeping us safer.
00:44:39.260And you actually got extra points if you report your neighbor for littering, for not being kind, and you lost points.
00:44:48.380There was one gentleman in the interview who couldn't travel and had lost these privileges from the government.
00:44:55.020And it's a complete and utter tyranny, and one of the most serious things that people need to press in, if Pierre Polyev is going to be the next leader, then we need millions of Canadians making this an election issue to say, as they're doing in the United States, there's states that are abolishing so many different things like DEI, the CBDCs, etc.
00:45:17.260Right? Power to the people. And so we need to see that happen.
00:45:24.700Okay, so yeah, that's excellent, as I'm hoping that people will hear very much so that mobilizing citizens is very, very important.
00:45:35.760One person, Melanie, has asked, what happens to Bitcoin if the internet goes down?
00:45:41.860Yeah, no, that's a good point, Melanie. And that's the thing. I'm a proponent of both. I'm a proponent of owning physical gold and silver as well as Bitcoin, because I think it's naive to think that anybody knows what's going to happen next.
00:45:59.060So on the plus side, yeah, gold and silver are physical. You can hold it in your hand. But also, Bitcoin travels a lot better. So if you need to go through a bunch of borders and things like that, you remember 12 words with Bitcoin, and you can get it through borders and things like that.
00:46:17.380So there are pluses and minuses to both. And I think it's just important to think about the different asset classes that potentially could protect you financially for a number of different things.
00:46:33.700For example, people think, well, my bank account's safe. I know it's there, and nobody's going to garnish my bank account. Well, it almost happened. And as well as, don't forget about inflation. So it's constantly in the background devaluing your currency happening in there.
00:46:53.620And it's like, well, okay, well, I've got my house. I've got my house and my land, and I should be safe there financially. There are risks to that as well. They could jack up your property taxes. It sits in one place. You can't bring your land with you.
00:47:09.360And so you sort of have to weigh the pros and cons of every single asset class that you have. Stocks, bonds, gold, silver, Bitcoin, real estate, and businesses. What are the pros and cons of each? And just think about these things.
00:47:27.280Okay, what happens if I have to get up and move? What happens if I need to pass this on to my kids? And so all these implications that, unfortunately, we need to be aware of today are important to think about.
00:47:46.240One thing I warned people about at a town hall that I did was, you know, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, back in the Great Depression in the 1930s, made it illegal to own gold.
00:47:58.020You know, he said you have to turn it in because the federal government wanted to have it and not have to pay more for it and et cetera.
00:48:04.000So, like, you know, think about it. The United States is like supposed to be a beacon of freedom.
00:48:08.660And for a long time, citizens were not technically allowed to own gold.
00:48:12.440Now, nobody actually went to jail over it, thank goodness. But, you know, you can sometimes have these people with tremendous overreach.
00:48:20.760And one of the things I warned people about, for example, was, you know, if you owned, you know, Canadian, say, for example, coins, right, you could imagine a scenario where Justin Trudeau or Mark Carney, you know, says,
00:48:35.960hey, you know, the government wants those and all we're going to give you face value rather than the actual, you know, market value.
00:48:45.360And that's total BS. Right. But like, I don't put those guys past that. Right.
00:48:50.200Like there there's some evil stuff going on. So, yeah, you have to consider all these different things.
00:48:57.040And I, some of these guys are just frankly scary.
00:49:01.000Right. Right. And I just want to touch on inflation for a moment and the reality that the the of course, the liberals always are forming their spinning their little webs of lies, you know, during covid two weeks, you know, just to flatten the curve.
00:49:17.960And then all these businesses were shut down. And then when the businesses of whatever were left could reopen, they were like, oh, you know, isn't the Liberal Party just so fantastic?
00:49:28.060We're improving the economy and so many people, you know, are working.
00:49:32.060And it's always from a point that's going to be advantageous to the liberals as they're taking us out at the knees.
00:49:41.340So could one of you please tell us what is the reality of inflation right now?
00:49:46.340We know what we're experiencing when we go to the grocery store and when we pay our hydro bill.
00:49:52.360But, yeah, just over to one of you to comment on that.
00:49:57.380Sure. I can start on Rob and please add on.
00:51:09.040As well as, don't forget that there's a number of different programs in place that are in the best interest for the government not to show consumer price inflation to be much higher.
00:51:27.120And so if their inflation is 2% versus 18%, then all of a sudden they don't have to pay out those entitlements that they normally would, right?
00:51:38.620As well as think about the tax brackets.
00:51:43.060So they'll inflation adjust those tax brackets.
00:51:46.120But if you think that they're saying it's 2% when inflation is actually 18%, the tax brackets are actually getting smaller and smaller and smaller when you do your tax returns.
00:51:58.280So I think one of the lowest tax brackets is around $20,000.
00:52:02.980Well, $20,000 was worth a whole lot more 20 years ago than it is today.
00:52:08.840And I think it's important for people to take a step back and a long-term view, especially on inflation.
00:54:13.360Yeah, and you know, it's just, it's just so sad to see.
00:54:19.060But I think a mass exodus, the deportations that Pierre Polyev is promising with 4.6 non-Canadians will help level out our market a little as far as housing is concerned and make things more available.
00:54:37.540I'm hoping that all these developers who literally got on board and took advantage of getting their palms greased and those at the city level for all these townhomes, these seas of miles and miles of townhomes that are going up in all of our cities is, you know, I kind of want to see it crash.
00:54:59.280Crash and burn. Let's get back to leveling things out where it's reasonable for Canadians to be able to invest, buy a home, raise their children and be able to manage and have a life again.
00:55:14.140So the other thing, you know, that has been coming up, I saw somebody from, is it, what's the gun control CF, Canadian Federation of, is it CFRC, Registered Firearms?
00:55:29.340And so they were on there today comparing the Canada to the...
00:55:35.380Yeah, so they did this incredible video and he was comparing to the Second Amendment in the United States and to what Canadians would need to push for as far as legal gun ownership is concerned and maintaining that.
00:55:51.060Because the reason that Trudeau has been so fixated on removing our guns was for such a time as this, any socialist government needs to remove, you know, the citizens' legal-owned guns and in order to do this final takeover and then flood us with all of these immigrants.
00:56:10.640And the reason this was going through my mind is we were talking about investing in silver and gold because people are thinking, well, how, where, where do I put this investment?
00:56:20.340And we know that there's companies that will store it.
00:56:24.880Brett, you had mentioned that you don't store your own, that you have a facility where they do that and that this could become the Wild West again and that Canadians' gun ownership may be, you know, very important.
00:56:39.380And when I was talking to a lawyer, they had said, for protection, I'm talking about protection on multiple grounds right now, as far as the violence from certain immigrants that have entered the nation, as well as what could be coming forward with some of the increase in home invasions.
00:56:56.380And, and, and the lawyer that I spoke to said very clearly within our founding documents, you have 100% guaranteed right to protect your property and to protect your family.
00:57:09.940And that's one of the things that Action for Canada will be addressing and providing as a resource in the near future.
00:57:15.560So on that, that might've been a little more lengthy than I wanted, but how do people secure these investments?
00:57:25.220And when Rob just said that it was possible once upon a time that a government said, you're not allowed to own silver and gold, what would prohibit them potentially from going into these facilities that are currently holding people's investments and doing that?
00:57:39.960If, if, if, if you don't mind, I'm just going to go down that rabbit hole for a second.
00:57:44.880So let's say, for example, in Argentina, which has gone through bank crises, you know, in, in living memory several times, um, you know, what happens is, uh, you're not allowed to take out as much as you would like because they want to prevent a run on banks.
00:58:03.280You know, they want to present, prevent a, a total credit crash.
00:58:07.020Um, and so sometimes that, that can be a difficulty.
00:58:10.240Um, I also just wanted to, you know, talk about inflation just for a second as you were both bouncing that back and forth.
00:58:17.400You know, when I first became a member of parliament, I wondered whether or not if in my time as a member, part of my lifetime, we would cross a trillion dollars worth of debt.
00:58:26.840And of course, Mr. Trudeau has added a trillion dollars worth of debt just by him, just by himself there.
00:58:32.660Um, and I want to give credit to Scott Reed, one of my colleagues in the house of commons, who's a member of parliament for Lenark.
00:58:41.020Um, and he single-handedly made sure that Trudeau didn't get unanimous consent because Trudeau was looking for a blank check for the two years around COVID.
00:58:52.240And if you think he, like, he spent a trillion dollars as it was, not having the blank check with a parliamentary oversight, had he received a blank check, like, I can't even fathom how much, you know, he would have added to the debt.
00:59:04.220And, and I want to do a shout out to Scott Reed, who deprived unanimous consent.
00:59:08.320I've done that before and it's not fun because a lot of your colleagues can't call you and don't like, you're not playing, you know, ball with the rest of the world.
00:59:14.600But, you know, uh, he prevented Trudeau from just really running him up.
00:59:27.160And, and I'm going to just give a shout out to Scott.
00:59:29.300I don't know you, but thank you, Scott.
00:59:30.820I know that all, as all of that was going down, you know, we were all writing letters and extremely concerned about the possibilities.
00:59:37.460And, um, in case our viewers don't know, and somebody is new to this freedom movement and just waking up, but Trudeau never actually invoked the emergency act in response to COVID-19.
00:59:48.940He had done backroom deals with the premiers so that they pass provincial policies in order to do it.
00:59:55.140He only attempted to invoke it, um, in response to the truckers.
00:59:59.920And he did that, I guess, because he wanted to be the big man and the banks weren't ready to implement the CBDCs and all of this tyranny.
01:00:10.940And so it was before the Senate, the decision, and so many Canadians did a mad dash to the bank and started emptying out all of their savings.
01:00:20.260And the banks, just correct me if I'm wrong, gentlemen, but this is what I feel I was witnessing as this was going on.
01:00:26.400And the banks probably were panicking a bit and, and saying, you can't do this.
01:00:31.720And so I believe they appeal to the Senate as well.
01:00:37.780I want to, I want to praise Brett, uh, for being one of those institutions that, that really stood up, uh, in this circumstance, because, uh, you're right.
01:00:47.700Trudeau didn't get the emergencies act passed.
01:00:50.880Uh, and I think there were a lot of Kretzian senators who, uh, basically told him he wasn't going to get his way.
01:01:08.940And we also had some provincially regulated banks that handed over information, even though they weren't covered under the legislation because it was federal.
01:01:17.220And so people wonder sometimes they say, Oh, well, you know, can it really go as bad as, as you, you know, think, or, you know, where, well, he didn't even have the emergencies act passed.
01:01:27.820And he had federally chartered banks that coughed up the information about who donated to the trackers.
01:01:32.540And there were provincially regulated banks who did it, not Brett, not, not Bo Valley, but there were other provincial banks who weren't covered by that legislation.
01:01:40.000Even if it had passed, who did that voluntarily.
01:01:43.520So you've got a bunch of these cats that have, have played along with this concept, if you will, of central bank digital currency and tracking, you know, to, to give her that information to the government.
01:01:54.500You just mentioned something, you said tracking, and I know, uh, there's different, there's different things going on in the background that people don't understand.
01:02:03.540I mean, they're grooming you to, you know, have your, uh, swipe card ready, your, your debit card ready, your visa card ready, anything to automatically do it.
01:02:16.460And, and then they're also putting the self checkouts out.
01:02:20.440People are losing jobs, but they're automating it pretty soon so that if you don't comply with the social credit system and you haven't got your VACs, your, your card now that they're going to designate to you from the government or the chip, however, you know, it's been reported that it will come down.
01:02:37.620You won't even be able to go through self checkout to buy those groceries.
01:02:42.020You won't access the banks, et cetera.
01:02:43.880Um, maybe Brett, um, is it yourself or Rob, uh, to talk about FinTrack for a moment and how they are trying to use that system based on, on trying to, uh, address terrorism?
01:02:58.080Is it really to address terrorism or are they moving that over to us terrorists who like to speak truth?
01:03:05.120Well, that's, I think you're speaking on a pretty, pretty sensitive point for me first, because if there was an Achilles heel, uh, that's it.
01:03:13.880Um, for those that aren't familiar with FinTrack, it, it was first implemented after the twin powers went down in the, in the U S and, and, uh, these powers are always implemented to make us safer and, uh, we're protecting you.
01:03:34.600And so any, any time those words come up when, when they're passing anything, um, it's to make you safer and more protected.
01:03:42.520I, I get my, my ears up, um, because in generally it, it, it does the opposite.
01:03:48.340And so that's, that's where it started, uh, back about 23 years ago, FinTrack, uh, in infancy basically was to protect us against the terrorists to, to prevent, uh, another terror activity from happening.
01:04:03.120So now it, I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of, of whether 9-11 was, uh, uh, uh, uh, a made up event or what, whatever it was, or is implemented.
01:04:13.380But the thing is it, no, don't ever let a good emergency go to waste is, is usually what, uh, the motto of, of tyranny governments do anyway.
01:04:22.660So over the years, FinTrack has gotten more and more powerful, um, to the point where in the 2023 March budget for the federal government, they threw tens of millions of dollars towards FinTrack to improve AI, artificial intelligence, uh, a better connection between, um, police services, the RCMP and government.
01:04:48.860So it, it, it turned from a, a, a, a fairly blunt instrument where the financial institutions had to ask a bunch of questions of people into, uh, they're, they're turning it into a bit of a scalpel-like tool to, and, and like you say, uh, uh, can carve people out of society if they want to, if they're not playing ball.
01:05:09.960Um, so that's, that's always been, uh, a big concern of mine is, uh, FinTrack and its, and its compliance.
01:05:18.860Complete, uh, dystopian overreach, uh, on, on things.
01:05:24.200Because if, if, if you have something like, uh, FinTrack monitoring people's transactions, you don't need a central bank digital currency.
01:05:33.820You, you actually have that already implemented already and, and basically can dictate, uh, social norms and, and cutting you out of society.
01:05:42.560So, it, it's something I think that we need to push back on as Canadians.
01:05:47.100Well, it's funny you, yeah, it's funny you say that because I was thinking what this is moving towards is actually, uh, removing the banking system altogether and it's just going to be government operated, uh, a government operated system.
01:06:02.080You either are complying and so, like Rob said, you have a hundred thousand dollars and if you don't go buy that electric car or you haven't taken your jab, they can instantly remove that money.
01:06:13.220And there's testimonies of that happening in China.
01:06:16.160And, and so it's really quite frustrating and concerning to me that the more things go online, the more likely it is that our, our securities, our investments and our freedoms are going out the door with it.
01:06:30.160And, and, and so I have that vision of growing up and $5 used to fill up my little Volkswagen and, you know, I'd be off and I could go to the bank.
01:06:46.980And Michael, I see in the, uh, Q and a, and I'm sorry, I try to get to those, but I'm, I want to pay, pay special attention to the guests and what they're saying, but he did say, who knows that there's an emergency act in place where it can prevent, uh, from bank depositors making a run on their deposits where maximum withdrawal limit for the depositors to $25 a day.
01:07:07.580And there's so many different ways that this could all turn on us.
01:07:12.600And that's why we have encouraged people to do a bank run, get their investments out of the banks, find a different, um, way of, um, you know, securing your cash and your investments.
01:07:24.440Is there anything either of you want to, uh, add to that?
01:07:29.980I want to give, uh, Brett, uh, credit here because I know it was at one of his presentations that he did, um, at an event in Cochrane.
01:07:37.920And I, when I heard him mention gauze bank, I thought, okay, this guy gets it because, uh, that was what the Soviet union created in, in 1917.
01:07:45.920They nationalized the banks, uh, and created this gauze bank, which basically controlled all transactions and everything else.
01:07:52.820And one has to remember that, you know, this Russia in 1917, and let's say in September had more banks, big banks than Canada does.
01:08:13.740So, you know, if, if, uh, if they don't like oil and gas because they think that it's a carbon industry, you know, then, uh, they can, they can raise it.
01:08:22.800They can raise the threshold such that they, they shut, uh, those oil and gas companies out of getting access to some of the capital that they would need, et cetera.
01:08:30.600Uh, further, you know, kind of, uh, penalizing the Alberta economy, for example.
01:08:35.060Uh, I remember when I was first elected, uh, we had a bureaucrat, a federal bureaucrat who dropped by my office and is my first term as a member of parliament back in the late nineties.
01:08:44.740And she was asking us at the office, whether or not we knew of any complaints about businesses, uh, you know, in our riding that didn't have enough, uh, minorities or enough women or what have you, you know, and we asked, we said, well, what's that all about?
01:09:01.240What do you, what do you, why are you asking that?
01:09:02.540And they said, well, you know, if you know of, uh, an automotive shop, for example, it doesn't have enough female mechanics to match the percentage in the population of women.
01:09:11.120Of course, most mechanic shops have guys and there's a few girls, but not 50%, for example.
01:09:17.200Uh, and I said, well, what would happen?
01:09:19.040You know, if, if, if we had a complaint about that, what would you do?
01:09:21.940And she said, well, we go and meet with the owner.
01:09:24.040And then we tell him that he has to comply.
01:09:26.480And I'm like, well, what if, what if he told you to go and pound sand?
01:09:29.120And he said, well, you know, I can't find enough, you know, interested female mechanics who want to pull wrenches, you know, so what would you do then?
01:09:35.800And, and she would say, well, then, you know, we can tell him, you can lay a plan that he's got to follow.
01:09:40.180And if he doesn't follow it, you know, then we can find him, you know?
01:09:43.220And I thought, wow, like, and that's, this was back in the late nineties.
01:09:49.860But, but now with central bank digital currency, for example, or something akin to that or Fintrack, you know, they can penalize all these things and say, well, you've got to do this and you've got to jump through that hoop and, you know, meet this regulation and blah, blah, blah.
01:10:01.160And, you know, shut down the oil and gas sector or what have you, or you can't use fertilizer in your farm because, you know, we don't like that.
01:10:08.300So this, this stuff is, is, is, it's bad news and, and people, you know, cash, use it or lose it.
01:10:15.800You know, people need to embrace these things and understand it, go down the rabbit hole and support institutions like Brett who are standing up against it.
01:10:26.160And, you know, the DEI, the diversity, equity, inclusion has become a big incentive along with the CBDCs for business owners.
01:10:33.160They've been marketing and pursuing business owners across Canada.
01:10:37.580The government has with these lucrative little incentives, financial incentives on the side.
01:10:42.800We know that, um, I sure hope everybody in here has boycotted, uh, I can't remember the name of it.
01:10:50.300Tim Hortons, for instance, I, I boycotted them a long time ago because we know that they took the government incentives to, uh, to, um, employ foreigners.
01:11:02.020And so Canadian kids couldn't find jobs all summer.
01:11:05.820We know Marksworth Warehouse is doing that.
01:11:08.220We can name all kinds of companies are doing this and that's falling flat.
01:11:11.940It's falling flat in the United States and in Canada.
01:11:14.440And it's because people spoke up against it.
01:11:18.280They spoke up against the corporations.
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