01:09:38.080whereas Greenland and Denmark seem to fold immediately over...
01:09:42.180over you know trump is playing trump but the thing is trump backed off right trump was like
01:09:47.160oh i'm gonna invade i'm gonna take it we're gonna make it the 51st state whatever and then he's like
01:09:51.800well actually we made a deal where we're just gonna have increased military access like you0.90
01:09:56.740retard well here's what they were already offering that's what they said six months ago0.88
01:10:01.780they're like you can't have it but we will let you build more bases and give you exclusive access0.99
01:10:06.360Here's what it actually was from what I saw.
01:10:08.980And people can correct me in the chat.
01:10:11.280So, and this is, people call it his art of the deal.
01:10:15.960But if you can read art of the deal by Trump, and this is just threats, right?
01:10:22.480That's why one of the reasons, maybe not the reason, but one of the reasons he got Maduro from Venezuela is to show the world that he's willing to do something like that.
01:17:58.360but china has actually been a more reliable trade partner than the u.s china china you know there's0.99
01:18:04.260tariffs on our shit but if they're consistent they don't use tariffs as a weapon against us0.95
01:18:08.380they use them the same way everybody else uses them it's like mercantile so we and look regardless0.99
01:18:13.880of whether i like the trading partner we need trading partners our industry is dying on the
01:18:18.380vine as we speak i'm watching it at work every day we need trading partners we need capital0.93
01:18:24.340investment so if it's look if china is going to build fucking chinese factories here the americans0.97
01:18:29.760aren't doing it and the americans and not only the americans not doing it but every time we try0.98
01:18:33.940to build a factory they use patent law and and fucking you know aggressive lawsuits to break0.79
01:18:40.380down our companies and take them away right because they essentially don't want us to win0.94
01:18:44.460so if the chinese are going to either invest in us or build factories here i'm fine with it0.99
01:18:48.480it's better than dying so right and it's the same thing with europe if he pulls back from europe0.98
01:18:53.640and goes to south america you really like you're dreaming if you think europe is going to come back
01:18:58.060begging they're just going to go to russia and china yeah i think the relationship i was trying
01:19:02.920i was looking at omegas here in the chat um saying no we didn't we had them aligned with
01:19:07.900similar interests i wonder if he was talking about europe or or or the or the canadian right that we
01:19:14.340were we all had we all thought we were on the same side until trump actually got elected and
01:19:19.080just went guns out for canada yeah um i might take a different approach because i everything
01:19:26.880you said is true about let's say american business interests in canada we talked about this
01:19:33.020with uh you know the book on corporate canada that we covered a few episodes ago about one of the
01:19:40.280difficulties of defining the canadian business sector is since its inception since confederation
01:19:47.720It's been aligned with American interests and often populated by Americans themselves and then later subverted and bought by American interests as well.
01:19:56.360And they're always trying to sell out the country, sell out the border.
01:20:00.460However, I think if we're talking about who an ally ought to be, I would pick America over China simply because I'm not excited about any hypothetical deals with China,
01:20:17.060which is all this is at this point like we're talking about a deal for electric vehicles who0.84
01:20:22.460gives a fuck basically even when i was on myth of 20th century i think it might have been stormy0.97
01:20:26.760it was stormy or adam what i mean there's only two other fucking people there so it must have0.99
01:20:31.300been one of them but they said that really the problem china's having is they have a surplus0.97
01:20:35.960of evs that are just collecting dust in parking lots like they do with everything like everything0.79
01:20:40.940china's ever done it's it's fucking mothballed in a field somewhere and so they're they're just0.93
01:20:46.220looking at this as a way to dump their surplus into a new market and it's a win-win for them1.00
01:20:51.680um i don't know what we get other than a bunch of like rusted shitty chinese evs uh i think what0.98
01:20:58.760people would like is just a ford hilux you know or not for hilux but you know like the the thing0.98
01:21:04.520with the thing with trade the thing with trade in fairness you you give people you give people
01:21:10.760the opportunity to purchase something they don't want it they're not going to buy it and that's0.91
01:21:13.320chinese's problem right but to the extent that people want to buy these nobody right now can1.00
01:21:17.820actually if you wanted to get an electric car there's no such thing as a cheap electric car0.91
01:21:21.220in canada it doesn't exist so if they're going to come and offer like twelve thousand dollar
01:21:24.480electric cars that does completely change the market so i'm not saying that i would buy that
01:21:29.120i'm not saying that's even a good thing but to be like oh that's just they're just dumping i mean
01:21:32.940i'll take dumping what are you gonna dump dump some aluminum next dude dump some phenolic resin0.85
01:21:37.640dump some fucking polycarbonate here's a man who wants to be dumped on no give me like look i want0.99
01:21:42.640access to that shit we're being cockblocked on both sides both oceans here from everything it's1.00
01:21:47.820part of the reason we don't have any industry left like look what i had said earlier i would0.99
01:21:51.720prefer like the u.s to me is our natural ally all us being equal we should be brothers with the u.s
01:21:57.240but what's actually happening on the ground at least in ontario is american factories and
01:22:01.400american business interests are pulling out at the speed of sound and going south of the border
01:22:05.660and if china is actually and as you said this is all talk right now it hasn't happened but if china
01:22:11.120wants to come in i say let them we have empty factories and we don't have the capex to actually0.84
01:22:16.880stand them back up again so if china's going to come and stand those factories up fucking let0.99
01:22:21.140them because the americans have left the americans are the ones who left the fucking factories so i0.98
01:22:26.580want i just want the factories you know it was so frustrating considering this earlier because um0.99
01:22:32.620just relating to something else i was doing i was thinking about canadian manufacturing
01:22:38.560I was thinking about policy positions that could reinvigorate Canadian manufacturing because everyone says that.
01:22:45.420Everyone says we should, even though, as we discussed in a previous episode, the character of Canadian labor has always tilted more agrarian than entrepreneurial.
01:22:58.380We've seemed to almost be hostile to entrepreneurship up here.
01:23:02.580you know i mean like it's not easy to be an entrepreneur up here whereas in america they
01:23:07.980seem to to glamorize it right i think that's been the case both culturally and financially
01:23:13.780like it's very hard to start a business up here but i was thinking how could you do it
01:23:17.400and i was encountering i won't say their name but i was speaking with a fairly large
01:23:22.200content creator in their space i was getting some merch done uh they're producing flags
01:23:27.140right and of course you want to buy canadian you want to employ canadian skilled tradesmen or
01:23:35.580craftsmen or whatever the fuck is any business you can but just to get you know or you might
01:23:40.800get a print on demand option you might get a flag or a banner or something for an event0.69
01:23:44.760you can go to like uh printify or printful and get that done up but oh you're you're dealing with
01:23:50.420i don't know bangladeshi or chinese or whatever the fuck but let's try and go1.00
01:23:55.260a Vistaprint Vistaprint for example is like the biggest one in Canada and I've dealt with them0.99
01:24:00.620before it's what you can see on the packaging all they're doing is their drop shipping shit from
01:24:04.740India a hundred percent absolutely yes and you're paying your this is what I'm saying about us being0.95
01:24:10.740cockblock at the border like we're paying 10 15 times more than they're paying and that's it it's0.99
01:24:20.160just from India and like when we like we have businesses we just do we honestly we just do0.92
01:24:24.080isn't direct with fucking china now like why why am i going to pay all of that to go through a0.99
01:24:28.140fucking american or canadian intermediary when i have connections in china i can just fucking1.00
01:24:32.200order shit from china so i mean yeah it's it's stupid man uh for sure makes a good point that1.00
01:24:38.620the chinese factories might bring their own workers but um it could be the case that's up1.00
01:24:42.940to us right like the americans didn't do that we wouldn't let them do that we shouldn't let the1.00
01:24:47.480chinese like obviously that would be a deal breaker but if the chinese if it's chinese0.99
01:24:51.540state-owned corporations and they just want to make money i know there for example there were0.64
01:24:54.500mines in the northwest territories where they did actually bring chinese workers in and we have a
01:24:58.100battery factory in ontario opening where they're bringing korean workers in so like if there is a
01:25:01.860precedent for that i don't think we should allow it but if we can have some kind of a similar
01:25:06.260relationship where we just have chinese capex standing up factories and then hiring some
01:25:10.900canadians is better than yeah this is what i was just about to get into where i said okay if you
01:25:17.220want to get some type of merchandise produced right and you want to go canadian you're going
01:25:23.220to be paying more for a worse product yes this content creator was who's a canadian nationalist
01:25:29.700through and through and wants nothing to do with dealing with these other crunches he's like
01:25:35.380but if i want it done within a decent budget and it's actually better and more well made i got to1.00
01:25:41.620go to a chinese factory now that's a shame correct it's a dirty rotten shame but if you look at the1.00
01:25:47.140chinese economy we can talk about it all day but one thing that they're pretty good at is you know1.00
01:25:54.820hyper stimulating factory creation and by factory i mean a factory you could appropriate for
01:26:02.260different means you see videos about these all on tick tock on whatever reels platform you're
01:26:08.500looking at you know where it's like here is a chinese factory and it's got a bunch of machines
01:26:13.220and it's a textile factory but you can do a lot of that textile factory you can kind of make
01:26:17.580anything fabric related you can kind of rejigger it to do all kinds of shit and all you're doing
01:26:22.900is dealing with companies in the west but imagine you're that factory owner and some of these guys0.94
01:26:28.100looking at 30 25 30 how does a fucking 30 year old end up running a factory now they're running0.81
01:26:34.120in a chinese way of course but they are at least working in a system that says okay if you want to0.99
01:26:43.160start a factory just producing merch producing you know the slop for americans but we're going
01:26:51.660to let you do that we'll we'll make loans and financing available to you yeah and you have a
01:26:57.500ready-made workforce you can and we own a lot of these factories if you want to start if you and
01:27:01.980me want to start a factory in ontario or fucking anywhere i mean just say they said we we want to
01:27:08.600attract investment from all over the world and we'll just produce stuff we'll produce whatever0.82
01:27:12.700it is like how many barriers are in your way for just doing that like a mid-size factory you know
01:27:18.220that this is my thing like this is what i what i'm asking genuinely tell me i am i'm actively0.79
01:27:24.100involved in this shit so in canada you know in ontario specifically but i'm assuming from what0.65
01:27:29.600here in the rest of canada it's death by a thousand cuts it's no one specific thing there's0.99
01:27:33.360no one bill that made it impossible but at every every interaction that you make when you're
01:27:40.320selecting a part right to to import maybe there might be taxes on it there might be regulations
01:27:46.000on which like you maybe you can't bring this particular part from vietnam or like you can't
01:27:49.600do this or blah blah blah when you hire employees right the the process because the thing is i have
01:27:54.480now i own an engineering company in canada and i know how labor works here and i've owned a factory
01:27:59.960in china and i know how labor works there the way labor works there is i grab a guy off the street
01:28:04.540and i say hey want to make 30 bucks and he says cool and i check his id to make sure he is actually0.81
01:28:10.400a hong kong person and we're good he fucking works for me now that's it and there's no taxes0.90
01:28:17.100until like i don't my point is when i say new taxes i mean there's no tax paperwork i don't0.97
01:28:21.640even file i don't even fucking register until it hits five million dollars right so like the amount0.93
01:28:27.380of paperwork and bullshit like i i've been doing hst for the company for q4 2025 between my wife0.97
01:28:34.060and i it's 15 fucking hours for hst on a three-man operation like why and that's just the hst that's0.98
01:28:41.700not even income tax and that's not even the payment that's just the time that it takes to do0.97
01:28:45.620the fucking paperwork unless you pay a chartered accountant which is another scam so and this that's0.93
01:28:50.420just one angle of it man it's it's taxes it's regulations it's barriers to trade it's it's a0.99
01:28:55.380million it's a million fucking things you know and that's why like and i say this trying to figure0.83
01:29:00.160out how to bring manufacturing back and make it less hostile like i bet you you can find a lot of0.98
01:29:07.140young guys who would love to start a factory like that one of these quirky factories where you just
01:29:12.300produce stuff and there's a lot of young guys that work in it and i bet you can do it for a fair
01:29:16.760enough wage and i bet you can make it attractive for them because you know let me let me just say
01:29:21.880this how you make people say how would you make it attractive how would you commit to that cultural
01:29:26.220shift i would say it doesn't take a lot it only takes a couple policies to do this and give it0.86
01:29:31.760five years give me five fucking years and the way you start start like how they got people into0.86
01:29:38.740windmill tech how did people how did windmill tech get inflated and by windmill tech i mean0.96
01:29:44.940people who work on windmills, which was a big thing here in Ontario, what you did was you put
01:29:50.560the word out from the centralized government that filtered all the way down to guidance
01:29:55.640counselors in high school and say, this is the hot new thing. You want a job? You want a job
01:30:00.660out of high school? You want a career path? Get into this. There was all kinds of young guys who
01:30:04.180were told that. And they went to college, not university. University is one thing. Okay,
01:30:09.580college technical colleges we just call them colleges here what they do is they are an
01:30:14.940intermediary between you know the government and the private sector and the high school is saying
01:30:19.300like okay we identified a need in the market we are going to offer training for that for five0.82
01:30:25.660thousand dollars a fucking year so now you have two different tiers of society maybe up to three0.96
01:30:30.980tiers society over the course of two to three years that are now bringing high school young0.99
01:30:37.060people in to prepare them for this emergent manufacturing market if you make the decision
01:30:41.860that we want to start making more factories that are scalable and you know rearrangeable
01:30:49.000to deal with to to basically replace china right and there's an argument argument to be made
01:30:56.900and i'm just gaming this out of course this is all wild speculation but there is an argument to be
01:31:01.640made that based on Canada's history of being less entrepreneurial and more agrarian and labor
01:31:09.640focused, and this was public policy for a long time. And I think we talked about that in a
01:31:13.920previous episode. If not, we'll get to the next one when we cover Maximum Canada, which is a very
01:31:19.840interesting book. But it's saying that we might be set up more culturally to do that. This would
01:31:26.900be a big swing but you would say to mark carney would say to trump they do their fuck yous they0.99
01:31:33.320do their dance that's the posturing it's the peacocking okay do you want to make a deal do0.99
01:31:38.580you want to see the shape of something interesting i'm going to talk to you trump let's get into a
01:31:43.040room okay put all the bluster away here's what you want what you want is a legacy what you want is
01:31:48.480the history books talking about you what you want to do is set up jd vance for success let's be0.99
01:31:53.060honest that's what you want okay i have a pathway where you can cut china out of your world forever0.99
01:32:00.600and it involves bringing a lot of that manufacturing sector to canada and it's not going to compete on0.98
01:32:07.700lowering the human capital we're not going to be doing in a chinese way we're going to be doing it
01:32:12.360in a white way we're not going to have people jumping from scaffoldings because i don't think1.00
01:32:16.320that's necessary to have the price low i just think that's how chinese people deal with their
01:32:21.480you know not having a lunch break okay you see what i'm saying but there's a pathway
01:32:25.580to create a new manufacturing sector to address global a global marketplace and specifically the
01:32:34.440american marketplace because the chinese manufacturing sector largely serves the
01:32:38.200american marketplace and the american entrepreneurship that's whatever might be
01:32:41.540okay i think there's a way to start growing that here is geographically closer and i think the
01:32:47.460population is ready for that and excited for that. And I think you could tap into a certain
01:32:53.780entrepreneurial drive in young, white Canadian men who would want to start these factories
01:32:59.240and a whole class of men that are kind of just desperate to do anything right now for jobs,
01:33:05.060like you said before. That could be something. And I think there could be something in it for
01:33:10.820America if we did that. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's always better. Two trading partners and
01:33:16.320both of them are strong and both of them are you know maybe specialized ideally both of them are
01:33:20.700specialized in different sectors and then they trade and they reinforce each other that almost
01:33:24.620becomes a point where you like that's a true alliance right but um uh like you're saying
01:33:29.740about entrepreneurialism i agree with you that canadian culture culture is more labor focused
01:33:34.680and less entrepreneurial but are the entrepreneurs that we have are massively underutilized so we0.97
01:33:41.660could immediately take up slack on the entrepreneurs who are currently sitting under a fucking bridge
01:33:46.640and put them to work and i also think i'm not denying that there is a precedent in canadian0.85
01:33:52.980history for state-run corporations what you're kind of describing like either state-run programs
01:33:57.900or state-run corporations that would in you know encourage a certain industry but the other part
01:34:02.860of it is like i was mentioning what works in china and what works in hong kong like their success
01:34:07.320has largely been to do with you know you have all of these rules about labor and about unions and
01:34:13.500about taxes and all of this shit they only apply over a certain scale it's a progressive scale
01:34:19.880like the way the canadian system works all of these things apply to everybody and because the0.75
01:34:26.120the marginal cost of doing it is so high small businesses almost can't exist like an sme under
01:34:31.860you know under 50 employees almost can't exist in some sectors because the marginal cost of doing
01:34:36.840business is so fucking high just remove it just say if your net revenue is less than 50 million0.98
01:34:43.000dollars you don't have to pay this shit because we're not you're not help we're not helping0.98
01:34:47.080anybody but not just not having this sector anymore which is what's going on the electronic0.99
01:34:50.340sector is that's where i work is rapidly leaving ontario and this is part of it so like get rid of0.97
01:34:55.960and i know people don't like this this sounds like china but get rid of fucking minimum wages0.82
01:35:00.480get rid of get rid of a lot it sounds libertarian and a lot of people don't like that but but you0.97
01:35:05.360You have to just fucking stand on something.0.82
01:35:08.480Do you want business or do you not?0.99
01:35:09.860Do you want to have a centrally planned socialist economy?
02:33:24.160alternative. And that's why it's so difficult
02:33:25.640to rekindle the manufacturing base which is something people talk about all the time sure
02:33:31.420it's a thing you could say but that the circumstances are very very different up here
02:33:36.520but canada's always been on the cutting edge of certain things like it's always been
02:33:39.720it's always prided itself on innovation and engineering innovation um you know the afro
02:33:46.080era was always brought up but like we've got canada has more great universities than it has0.61
02:33:52.020any business having giving its population and given the type of country that it is and how
02:33:56.260dispersed it is but there's so many great universities there are technology and innovation
02:34:00.300hubs up here canada was always about new media and tech development like it prided itself on that
02:34:06.680which is a strange thing um despite its sort of agrarian roots and whatnot so it was always this
02:34:12.180this sort of juxtaposition of things um and then of course that was cratered because of mass
02:34:17.220migration we forgot all that no one cares about all that anymore but i'm like there's there's like
02:34:21.760there's something there there's still a spark there's still an essence that i think can be
02:34:26.160rekindled up here with the founding stock of canadians the old stock as we say well the
02:34:33.520the character of canada actually did some really great quantum research
02:34:37.440uh the university of toronto is actually really really sick yeah like that you hear that in like
02:34:44.560the founding the discovery of like quantum dots largely that came out of university toronto
02:34:51.760yeah and there's a ton of other universities i love them the ones i'm aware of are in ontario
02:34:57.740but the west coast has some i don't know what's going on in saskatchewan no one does but there's
02:35:03.540more than a few i mean there's only what's the population i think it's like 40 million
02:35:07.520close 40 million in canada and you know america it's 400 million and this gets into like another
02:35:13.220topic of the the century initiative which is a plan held by a few of our elites which is to get
02:35:21.580canada to a population of 100 million by i don't know the middle of this century or the end of the
02:35:28.520century that that's the goal um that that specific number 100 million and how are they choosing that
02:35:34.200when you read those white papers do they ever talk about encouraging family birth rates or is
02:35:39.880it always immigration yeah it's always it's always immigration because they want to do it fast they
02:35:45.840want to scale up as fast as they can to them. It's all immigration focused. And of course,
02:35:51.520then they make the argument along with that, that it doesn't matter who it is. All we need
02:35:57.100is human capital. That's how they view it. And human capital is interchangeable. They don't
02:36:02.240really apply any qualitative measures to the human capital. We do, of course, people like us,
02:36:07.240we would understand that white workers are just better. We know what happens when you flood a1.00
02:36:13.260company with indians and i think they're coming to terms with that now but they're still trying1.00
02:36:19.460to suppress that as much as they can but uh you know they might pivot and say oh we'll bring in
02:36:24.220more europeans but i doubt it like it's this this is something that they're trying to push
02:36:29.980and hoping you don't notice it well is that prime minister is uh is it mark carney is that is that
02:36:37.520your that's right yeah ostensible leader um i'm sure he's working for other people that you don't
02:36:43.880elect of course but we have that problem too um what what is his platform like is he sort of anti
02:36:52.040trump anti-america is it sort of this negative identity canada always has or is it something
02:36:57.360unique or what what is his pitch well you know what's interesting it's that when mark carney
02:37:04.160was running and just to back up a bit i don't spend too long boring people with this but
02:37:08.740everyone remembers when justin trudeau was prime minister oh and uh i remember i remember commenting0.79
02:37:14.540at the time that we were somewhat blessed to have someone so obviously inept because he was1.00
02:37:20.960a very stupid man um this was not a machiavellian ploy by him to just appear that way no he was1.00
02:37:28.060very stupid and not taken seriously by anyone i said well we're kind of blessed for that because1.00
02:37:33.820imagine what we what damage could be done with a competent liberal in charge which is what mark1.00
02:37:39.580carney is he's a competent liberal and what he was running he was making appeals softly to
02:37:47.180ethno-nationalists he was talking about canadian sovereignty a lot he was talking about ethnicity
02:37:54.140a lot he's not a white nationalist of course but he was using a language that i'd never seen a
02:37:59.880liberal use and i don't believe him to be secretly harboring these sorts of beliefs like oh this is
02:38:05.340a guy who knows how to play the game now that's dangerous here's a guy who knows what he's doing
02:38:09.420he came and i'm sure stormy's got some opinions on this this was a guy who worked for the bank
02:38:14.360of england for most of his career so people were saying that he was coming over with a lot of
02:38:20.320designs for what he couldn't accomplish over there in the european union bringing them over here he
02:38:26.140will have a relationship across the pond like that but um he i don't think he's even anti-trump
02:38:32.360i don't think he's anti-trump in the sense that some other world leaders are i think he's trying
02:38:36.620to be pragmatic and he's been trying to broker deals with the european union for the past little
02:38:42.120while and just as of i think this week he's talking stronger ties with china which i think
02:38:48.420is a mistake but whatever and that's not unpredictable either so i i think he's a higher
02:38:54.640order political operator than what trudeau was but you know trudeau is kind of easier to manage
02:39:00.740in that sense so i don't know i get the sense mark carney could do more damage but he's taken
02:39:06.680more seriously and i think he's kind of doing what he should ending tall as a leader should even if
02:39:13.640even though canada doesn't have any sort of sovereignty like that he's walking around like
02:39:19.580we should i'm like well okay that's that's the job of a leader and i don't have any complaints
02:39:24.360there anyway i don't particularly like him but you know he he's he's more of a wily and crafty
02:39:31.760politician than we've seen in quite some time well you did a lot of work covering what was the
02:39:39.340title of the book it was uh the claws of the panda something like that how the chinese influence
02:39:44.440today in Canada is quite prevalent. And we can dive into that if we have time. But the takeaway
02:39:52.500I had was that because of frankly, the smaller population of Canada, and the precarity of its
02:40:00.580sort of dependence on the US for trade, I think the I think it was what was it the 86 Expo or
02:40:08.240something where Canada was trying to diversify its its kind of economic base and make relationships
02:40:13.500with other countries like china uh chinese saw that very adroitly and exploited that to0.80
02:40:21.120lever canada away from the united states oh yeah hard on that it was the exact same thing the first
02:40:28.460time as now i believe it was uh former prime minister pierre trudeau justin trudeau's father
02:40:33.980he brokered a deal with mao himself at the time back when america was saying no one deals with
02:40:41.340china don't fucking deal with the chinese communist regime and canada and there's no way to read this
02:40:47.720other than as a slight to america like the first country the first country that had a trade0.96
02:40:55.520agreement with china and that really essentially what's happening now i think it's done as if not0.93
02:41:02.600a slight then a fuck you to america saying well we can do this i'm like you can't but what happened0.92
02:41:08.380the first time? What happened the first time we did this with China was we got flooded with0.99
02:41:13.180Chinese people, which started operating these colonies. And we have a huge issue with Chinese1.00
02:41:19.200subversion here in Canada. So I'm like, well, I've seen this one before. I didn't like where this led.1.00
02:41:26.480Well, there was a pipeline that I think has been proposed to not go north-south, but
02:41:32.740east west to go to the maybe the pacific ports where canada could export some of its oil to
02:41:40.820chinese customers if they could figure that out like good for that like that was the promise of
02:41:47.040canadian confederation that's going back to our first prime minister sir john a mcdonald
02:41:51.800the whole idea of canada was to create east west unity so we didn't just fall to southern unity
02:41:58.520And so that was the promise of the transnational railway. It was like, we need to be very lateral. And I hear from people on the West Coast, people over Canada, that there may complain, especially in Alberta, that we haven't kept up that end of the bargain.
02:42:15.580Like, what is the point of Canada if, as I mean, Peter Zyhan even points this out, that every province individually has a stronger trade relationship south of the border than interprovincially.
02:48:01.460I don't know. I don't know much about it. I know a lot of them fled to South America after. They were relatively small. But I've been trying to contrast that with the IRA. The history of the IRA is so fucking rich and fascinating and full of, I mean, it's inspirational. Well, let's just say that.
02:48:20.680but trying to compare like why was it so weak were they they were not serious about separation
02:48:27.560from the central power the same way the northern irish were serious about it yeah we're in alberta
02:48:34.260though the interesting about that is it actually has local elites behind it right because basically
02:48:39.220correct me if i'm wrong but and this was probably most manifest in the trudeau government imagine
02:48:45.120carney's no fucking different because the thing about carney is yeah he he was head of the bank0.83
02:48:49.260of england but he he was also a major player in like the un agenda 2030 bullshit so a lot of this0.97
02:48:59.760like esg and di stuff like he was one of the framers of that from like the earliest days
02:49:08.340so i i've gotten i have a copy of it because back in like 1991 or whatever
02:49:16.780um you know there wasn't you know tablets and pdfs so like when they had these big meetings
02:49:27.120they would have to get like basically go to a print shop and have workbooks printed out
02:49:32.380And everybody that was in attendance got a workbook that they all worked from.
02:49:36.780So I got a workbook from the original Rio de Janeiro meeting of the UN's basically committee to create.0.99
02:49:52.000And Mark Carney's all through that motherfucker.0.97
02:49:54.500so like he's like one of the original scumbags behind a lot of what we see de-industrializing0.99
02:50:03.020the west today but let's just say justin trudeau's government it was very much like again correct me
02:50:11.420if i'm wrong but like toronto-based financialization capital versus alberton resource capital so like
02:50:21.500the Justin Trudeau government did everything he could
02:50:25.120to put the screws against the rival center of power,
02:50:37.680It's very much like the Texas oil money people in America.1.00
02:50:41.940You can say whatever you want about Jewish power and whatever,
02:50:47.600but texas oil and gas boys put george w for his administration to get hijacked
02:50:57.820like prior to 20 2001 like the end of the year september everything prior to that his first0.74
02:51:07.340whole almost his whole first year was all about doing star wars shit right like actual like you
02:51:14.540You know, Star Wars 2.0, strategic and ballistic missile defense.
02:51:19.640This is why he got out of the SALT treaty, right?
02:51:22.000Just DOD guys and Texas oil and gas money put a president in the White House in the 2000s.
02:51:30.220And the Albertan oil and gas money is similarly localized.
02:51:36.220Enough to where the Trudeau government, you know, used every lever he had to basically yank away every bit of power from the Albertan capital on either end of Canada.
02:51:52.460So the Albertan actually has elites behind it, right?
02:51:57.700Like the oil and gas money doesn't much like where things are going.
02:52:02.740Carney is very much, he was also, like I said, he's integral in coming up with like this ESG framework and working with BlackRock to do it.
02:52:14.320And a lot of that is renewables based.
02:52:18.260He is a renewables cuck through and through.
02:52:22.060Forget like whatever he said to get elected, it was whatever he said to get elected.0.89
02:52:25.800But a lot of the same policies you see getting rolled out in the European Union are policies he has already tried or is trying to roll out in Canada.
02:52:38.720Again, none of these friendly to oil and natural gas.0.98
02:52:42.820The idea that this motherfucker is letting Chinese EVs into the car market or into the Canadian car market, which is insane.0.99
02:52:49.880he should like we're gonna get fuck all out of venezuela and we would get far more economic1.00
02:52:58.960benefit from sending delta force to canada and yanking mark carney out of his fucking bed yeah0.99
02:53:05.100in his 90s no no kidding what what's your read on the ev move because i've had a lot of people0.98
02:53:10.240in my community my audience debating what the purpose of that was or the viability of it um0.97
02:53:16.340what is the viability of european evs economically zero they're fucking expensive insanely expensive
02:53:23.460how do you get people to adopt evs make them cheap subsidies yeah norway is the classic example
02:53:30.580where i think it's well it's a it's an oil superpower sort of many ways similar to canada
02:53:35.220but they manage their wealth a little bit differently which i'd like to get into but
02:53:39.820they've got 80 ev penetration now because the government subsidizes them somewhat ironically
02:53:45.860but i don't think they could have done that without the subsidies because i thought1.00
02:53:50.360yeah the problem is the chinese have a humongous ev surplus nobody there wants them anymore right0.81
02:54:00.800everybody that wanted an ev in china has one already right they literally part like a lot0.99
02:54:06.700of hedge fund guys that trade asia and trade china specifically these guys are renting satellites
02:54:12.720to basically track the amount of these ev car stockpiles that they have and have no demand for0.87
02:54:21.000and can't ship out there is like 20 square miles like just in one city this is such a chinese thing0.98
02:54:30.060to do this this is like everything they do they end up with a landfill of something0.94
02:54:34.700byd is planning a 50 square mile factory people oh i'm sure and there'll probably be another 50
02:54:42.620square mile of parking lot to fill up full of all the evs that nobody wants to buy
02:54:46.700you have a massive ev surplus and you want to bring in electrification of automobiles through
02:54:56.560the back door what do you do well people in canada can't afford new houses let alone0.92
02:55:03.280fucking new cars you bring in ten thousand dollar chinese cheap evs which china has a massive0.98
02:55:10.020collecting dust in parking lots that it can't sell to anybody0.99
02:55:15.980and you solve two problems at once that's what's behind the chinese ev thing
02:55:23.680dimes does that make a lot more sense it makes perfect sense do you think there's any play
02:55:28.740to use canada as a springboard to the american market or is that not even on the table
02:55:33.140okay yes that was probably their plan will it work i don't think so because that's what i was
02:55:39.020thinking a lot of people were raised in the point like oh these evs don't do well in canada because
02:55:42.940the temperature alone but then i was thinking like well this it's an easy way just like what
02:55:47.460if they don't do in america yeah those evs are covered in cameras like even the boomer uh one
02:55:54.840of the boomer uh analysts or sorry she's a fund manager i shouldn't call her an analyst but one
02:56:01.680of her analysts picked it up that i was talking to right like these are a huge why do they not
02:56:07.040allow teslas in china to go like there's huge red zones of china where teslas are not allowed0.95
02:56:13.380because teslas are giant fucking basically eyes full of thousands of cameras yeah0.76
02:56:21.340that send every bit of data back their intelligence devices yeah these are intelligence devices we had0.98
02:56:28.560the same problem up here in canada with the y-way phones you know china's fucking like there was0.96
02:56:35.020very serious concern a competent concern that this is just a chinese spy device because it is0.98
02:56:41.540but then people you know the consumer kind of doesn't give a shit because the consumers in0.88
02:56:47.120north america have already been primed to accept this over the course of 15 years of them then oh0.97
02:56:53.260you can have a camera and a microphone in your home they say okay i have nothing to hide so they
02:56:57.720It doesn't it doesn't track for them that they should care if China does it like they can't.
02:57:03.340Edward Snowden was like, hey, the government is spying on you.0.77
02:57:07.300The government is listening to your every move and basically wiretapping your phone.
02:57:12.500And now in 2025, kids are like, hey, wiretap.
02:57:27.720uh i don't know actually i know i've said it before but i don't know if i've gotten it well
02:57:32.600i'm crediting it to you that's very funny but it took it by my recollection one year maybe two
02:57:39.040years for people to get used to the idea of having microphones i talk to these people all the time
02:57:43.640where they were giving me like one of those alexa boxes for a presently i don't i don't want this
02:57:48.460they're like oh what do you got to hide do you think you're so important that they're spying
02:57:52.200on you i'm like well first of all they are spying on me but i'm like whether or not i think i'm
02:57:56.840important is not but they they this is a conversation they've already got their script
02:58:01.360for to make you feel foolish for not getting the microphone in your house anybody that like if you0.98
02:58:07.800have anyone that like hit two with that shit check out the episode i did with quinones on0.99
02:58:12.980nato's cognitive warfare doctrine like they'll be like oh you don't have anything to hide0.99
02:58:17.400be like that's not the fucking point it's not about whether you have something to hide or not0.99
02:58:20.840like your fucking phone has got a bunch of infrared cameras on the front of it and a lidar0.99
02:58:25.740camera and the only reason your touchscreen works is because it's reading your bioelectronics1.00
02:58:30.900right so not only has your heartbeat and your eye movement right it has your fucking thermal1.00
02:58:36.460imaging of your fucking face right with a very dumb bit of ai not even very fucking1.00
02:58:42.540not even very complicated ai not even very savvy ai it's able to get with like a 95 accuracy1.00
02:58:50.920basically a simulated EEG not EKG EEG EEG is your brain waves right like the state of mind you are
02:59:00.780in so it knows what it's putting on your screen and it knows how you're reacting inside your0.98
02:59:11.080fucking head so it doesn't take long for it to build deep psychological profiles of you0.99
02:59:17.180oh of course it's not actually like showing you ads it's physically psychologically priming you1.00
02:59:24.040and then showing you things it has just psychologically primed you to buy it is a
02:59:28.900money sucking machine of such sophistication like it's hard for regular people to grok like yeah
02:59:35.880it's not about spying it just means they're going to steal all your money they're going to
02:59:38.500psychologically program you just to give your money away adam i apologize because i think we've0.86
02:59:44.260cut you off on no less than two occasions on your own damn show but i just wanted to build on0.93
02:59:49.940stormy said we'll get right back to you just want to build on this on our show we cover this really0.99
02:59:54.860fascinating book the exact name escapes me but it was on uh neurotechnology and sort of
03:00:01.340neurochemical warfare as a collection of essays from these various professors and experts and
03:00:07.140whatnot about i don't know what do you call it like six fifth generational warfare but it's the
03:00:12.500idea of using the human mind as part of the warfare suite of america now what does that mean
03:00:20.260exactly well it means introducing neurochemicals into the water supply to make people a bit more
03:00:27.140cognitively deficient it's media it's basically something you can do to either increase the
03:00:34.080cognitive abilities of a user soldier whoever analyst sort of like the um from dune the the
03:00:43.780people that their job is to basically be the ai um that or in cognitive functions of the target
03:00:52.760through a mass array of nine people think i'm saying disinformation i'm thinking it's more
03:00:58.440literal than that it's like actual chemicals it's waves it's weaponry that you can use to
03:01:04.340not even just make people brain dead but just if you can this is kind of the idea behind covid too
03:01:09.200you guys have fluoride in canada for example i mean i i think there there was a actual plan
03:01:14.620at foot there to dumb people down with that stuff there's really no the best part is basis for you
03:01:20.500they pretty much admit to it they admit to it but they won't say that was the intention it's just an
03:01:26.000unintended unintended consequence that just so happens to mean that people are more docile and
03:01:31.340what do you complain about that that's how they get you with all this stuff it's like no that was
03:01:35.840the goal but you know hey murderers are down suicides are up and murders are down you know0.98
03:01:40.580shit like that the sperm counts down so we don't have fluoride in the water where i live but they0.97
03:01:45.960do have it in major cities you're not even allowed to rain also just showing you just showing you0.99
03:01:51.640traumas this gets images right like showing you traumatic images rapidly not even rapidly but
03:01:58.460right so like just scrolling your your feed like if you ever see if there are accounts that you0.91
03:02:04.660follow that are constantly showing like this palestine child gore shit block them or mute0.94
03:02:10.420them all right anybody that posts like gore and basically psychologically harmful stuff you need0.72
03:02:19.720mute them because these guys have figured out half a decade ago that these small images
03:02:29.560right cause basically micro traumas in the brain and block off neural pathways
03:02:37.720so by showing you them again and again and again they can physically cognitively impair you0.99
03:02:43.640and the damage is often permanent so it literally is making you fucking dumber actually causing0.99
03:02:52.220permanent brain damage yeah just fyi one of my most controversial takes and i say this to you0.99
03:02:57.600because you're on the same wavelength as i am about sort of trippy cognitive shit uh the line
03:03:03.120i had was all ideas are traumatic and by trauma i mean something that creates a lasting impression
03:03:09.420Not just PTSD, that would be the extreme end, but every idea you entertain in your mind, even as a devil's advocate, that has a lasting effect in the sense that revolutionary ideas are kind of permanently traumatic to society.
03:03:24.160So you must be very careful about what ideas you even entertain.
03:03:28.800And so if you're just bombarding yourself with information, whether by choice or by not, but it's like that all has a lasting impression.
03:03:37.320I think it also desensitizes you to the subtler aspects that are also important.0.80
03:03:42.300I mean, if you're constantly looking for explosions and girls with big tits, you know, how do you actually focus on anything that day to day actually matters, like paying your bills and whatnot?
03:03:53.480I think that's a big problem for people who are glued to screens.0.90
03:03:56.440And I have, you know, I have issues with it when I'm sitting in front of my computer.
03:04:00.600it's very tempting to to scroll but it is an addiction in the sense that it causes
03:04:07.400negative consequences if you take it too far um and it politically neutralizes you right and this
03:04:13.760is one thing that i hate that like because so many things have rapidly developed let's say like
03:04:20.620you know i don't think anybody here would disagree that we've seen more political change0.96
03:04:25.780and just straight up change in the fucking, you know,0.96
03:04:30.680geography of power in the last year0.98
03:16:16.680Yeah, those, everybody forget, everybody was like hardcore on the first three or four slides.
03:16:21.240But the last two were the most interesting.
03:16:25.040All right. So basically, the other NATO countries and the financial powers behind those countries, and you could see this like in the Biden administration, right?
03:16:39.740The Biden administration was like the, you know, Euro fag NATO administration when it came to everything in Ukraine.0.98
03:16:47.780Ukraine doesn't matter fuck all for us.0.98
03:16:50.460Ukraine, the Ukraine war is a war to determine whether Europe is in Russia's sphere of influence0.97
03:16:58.060or Russia is in Europe's sphere of influence.
03:17:38.460But anyways, basically fucking, basically getting the U.S. into a war that it would lose or getting it into a war that it would be weakened enough to a point where the power of it would be up for grabs.0.97
03:17:55.420Being a world superpower means you have no friends.0.98
03:17:58.380It means that everybody wants you to see, wants to see you take an L, right?
03:18:02.960And NATO literally started this war to get the U.S. and Russia into a fight.
03:18:12.140If you are your, I've talked about this at length, all right, the European countries are literally on the verge of economic collapse.0.99
03:18:22.460And unless the U.S. is just as fucked up,0.98
03:18:28.340all of the capital will flee Europe0.99
03:18:50.560No, it's not them controlling the American military, but NATO is separate from the American military. We have obligations to it, but it has its own command and control.
03:19:00.800In the Davos thing, it said the American military will not be the main superpower. It will be controlled by a league of nations of sorts. So is that kind of what they're saying?
03:19:10.220that was their plan 100 they literally came out and said it and this is when you basically saw
03:19:16.780the ukraine war get instigated by the west the goal is to get russia and the us into a fight
03:19:25.820and this is why the only people that are continuing to instigate now is the uk and the eu
03:19:33.180like at the same time trump is trying to ratchet down the heat
03:19:35.820it is the uk and the eu that are sabotaging every peace attempt that are ratcheting up saying oh
03:19:44.180now france is gonna is gonna put troops in ukraine or the u.s sorry the uk is gonna
03:19:50.840send more storm shadow like it's kind of obvious to everyone that it's the eurozone that's ramping
03:19:59.200this up so but not not to the point where there's a victory it's just more of like they want to
03:20:04.460grind down u.s and russian power just to bleed the u.s i guess yeah i think also russia and this
03:20:10.900is why as soon as you had to sacrifice russian gas cheap gas and they've they've had to buy this0.97
03:20:17.180stupid lng stuff from uh america which is much more expensive did they though bro okay0.97
03:20:24.680what happened the day the nordstrom pipeline blew up1.00
03:20:29.520well another pipeline opened up and didn't land in the news because you guys probably never heard
03:20:38.620of it the day the nordstrom pipeline blew up another pipeline went online right from norway
04:21:25.160I'm talking about, like, the real, like, The Exorcist or something that's kind of very deep, you know, that has significance to it.0.99
04:21:33.760and there's been more of that type of movie i think in the past 15 years people make fun of0.79
04:21:40.160us movie buffs for being so into like a24 type shit but there's a lot of slow burn a lot of0.66
04:21:46.260really strange horror like there's this movie that everyone hates that i love called skin0.95
04:21:52.660and i understand why they don't like it but i can't imagine that movie being made any other
04:21:59.620time than now it is too fucking weird and challenging but it's not just gory it's not
04:22:06.380just that eli roth sort of thing that can be enjoyable but i never liked it that much
04:22:10.640um but sort of like high but here's what i don't like though there's a trend people are a lot more
04:22:15.900sensitive now i mean that very specifically like people in i notice it a lot with our guys
04:22:23.120but i've talked to like normal people about this that like and only a couple only a handful of them
04:22:31.840i'd say like maybe like it comes up like every two or three and ten but demarcated like three or
04:22:39.960three years ago right so all of a sudden a certain subset of the population
04:22:50.620got basically menopause level i guess you could say like um emotional perception
04:23:02.960right to where like it's a really interesting analogy but i think it's good yeah i don't know
04:23:10.200how else to describe i don't know i i've tried various ways of describing it to people when i'm
04:23:14.240asking like hey is this kind of something that you think you felt that like you know you've been
04:23:19.220going through to where right they'll just get random waves of emotion right so like it's almost0.91
04:23:28.460like the you know people will choke up with something as dumb as commercials or like a little0.67
04:23:34.900tiny scene in something or reading like i don't know like two sentences about something it just0.82
04:23:40.280hits them a certain way where they're basically all of a sudden much more open and raw
04:23:46.140and you have to explain it to people very deliberately because like they're like yeah
04:23:52.600you know it makes me almost like want to cry i'm like but you don't you don't actually like cry
04:23:58.480because it's not being sad right it's all of the feeling of emotion without any of the
04:24:07.980specific contextual dynamics so like right it's the feeling of like being overwhelmed emotionally
04:24:16.880but without the sadness or without the anger right there there isn't a
04:24:23.620there isn't a a factor that kind of you know flavors it it's just the feeling
04:24:33.460and a lot of people have kind of become almost more open to where like they're having
04:24:43.360it in a noticeable way where a lot of people that are going to be listening to this goes0.96
04:24:48.020i know exactly what the fuck you're talking about and there's like a i don't want to say0.95
04:24:53.760like a very clear dividing line but one enough to where if i say it people will recognize it0.99
04:25:01.820Like this was a phase change that happened to them.
04:25:05.400That isn't like they are very different to where they were like four years ago or five years ago.
04:25:11.940Like it was a noticeable change in their, you know, day-to-day mental state to where they're much more sensitive than they used to be to a thing that they can't really point to.
04:25:26.120I mean, they can't say what it is or why it is, but it just is happening to them and is clearly demarcated as different to how they were before.
04:25:41.380So you all of a sudden liking spiritual-flavored horror movies isn't really a big surprise to me.
04:25:51.840What do you think is causing this? Do you have a lead?