00:04:22.340I'll have to hear what my lawyer has to say about that, but we'll get into it in a minute.
00:04:25.500So tonight we have a few topics to talk about.
00:04:28.300I want to talk a bit about the drama surrounding my trip to Aurelia
00:04:32.000and some of our upcoming plans regarding the Champlain Monument in that city.
00:04:37.220i'll talk a bit about the uh the the brewing conservative civil war you know to be to be
00:04:45.860honest i'm finding canadian politics quite boring right now uh but nonetheless we will we'll talk
00:04:51.920a bit about uh what's going on in camda this week and i'll close out the show with uh i need to talk
00:04:59.060about uk politics man i'm so much more entertained by uh politics in great britain and in uh the
00:05:06.820in a kingdom nowadays than I am about what's going on in Canada. So we have to talk about
00:05:12.880Count Binface. Sorry, one second. We have to talk a bit about Count Binface and the remarkable,1.00
00:05:22.220embarrassing, controversial by-election that's coming down the pipe in Clacton-on-the-Sea
00:05:27.880out across the pond in the United Kingdom. As much as I love, I prefer to stay focused on
00:05:35.120on canada canadian politics just so boring right now and european politics uh british politics is
00:05:43.280uh fun interesting amusing so that's what we'll be talking about tonight but how are you all
00:05:50.800doing you beautiful people my favorite my favorite are our starwart viewers of uh canada's most uh
00:05:59.440luminous live stream long live canada how are you guys doing we'll close out the stream with uh
00:06:05.920some some some conversations some chats some some questions as we usually do
00:06:13.040tristan jones says he's good i'm good too tristan it's uh it's busy busy busy but it's good good
00:06:17.600good fire everyone at reform we thought it was a good idea it seemed like a good idea at first
00:06:24.080but it quickly backfired it quickly backfired finished our first reading group on lament for
00:06:30.520a nation good to hear i love to hear that we have little reading clubs popping up across the country
00:06:35.260i know there's one going on in kitchener waterloo as well it's good to hear that you've started one
00:06:39.600up in your area as well aiden i love when the guys start doing the readings we do have that
00:06:45.440reading list if you guys are interested in reading some more uh important books to understand our
00:06:51.440movement to understand what we're doing, please send me an email at info at dominionsociety.ca.
00:06:55.580I'll send you the full reading list and you can do your homework.
00:07:01.060Daniel, more short-form content using the song Memory Reboot vibes. I'm not familiar with the
00:07:05.620song off the top of my head, but I am open to suggestions. I appreciate it.
00:07:11.140Cass Andrew McDonald, do your readings, everyone. Do your readings, everyone. There's so much
00:07:15.600important. We need to be smarter than our opponents. We need to understand the history.
00:07:19.760we need to understand the foundations of our movement, and that's what makes us more effective.
00:07:25.120Amazing. How's the weather in Ontario? It was a dreary, rainy day here in Ottawa,
00:07:30.460but at least it wasn't 35 degrees. Thank you for the super chat already. Superable9. Thank you for
00:07:40.320the $20 super chat. Thank you for the support. We need to reclaim our honor and start booing
00:07:45.060land acknowledgements. Yeah, exactly. Land acknowledgements, they should be disrupted.
00:07:49.080you should boo them you should stand up you should turn around i don't think we should
00:07:53.560put up with with those anymore send the full send me an email megan i'll send you the reading list
00:08:00.120um it's a it's five or six books uh all all crucial
00:08:09.080i love that poster conserve what it's iconic it's iconic who
00:08:13.640who uh who missed uh that big off it's one of our most viral moments
00:08:19.080we can just do things we can just do things
00:08:25.420yeah exactly we need the reverse land acknowledgements when we get in power we're
00:08:30.920not just going to abolish land acknowledgements we're going to acknowledge the real founders of
00:08:34.380canada not the not the first nations people although they did play a role we're going to
00:08:39.220acknowledge the the european settlers that founded and built this country that cleared the trees
00:08:43.980built the schoolhouses, built our institutions, and founded this great country.
00:08:51.020You're the man, Tyree. You guys are too kind. You're too kind, too kind. Okay. We'll chat a
00:08:57.700bit at the end, but I do want to dive into our main topics for this evening. Basically,
00:09:04.940let's start with why I was delinquent last week, why I wasn't here streaming, talking with all
00:09:11.860you lovely people, because I was on the road. I spent my Canada Day on a train to Toronto
00:09:19.460before making our way up to Aurelia with my good friends, my co-founders, my colleagues,
00:09:28.020the fellow board members, Greg Wycliffe and Ken Jones. We all descended on the small Ontario
00:09:35.460city of aurelia where which has become the center of an increasingly national controversy around
00:09:44.100the samuel de champlain monument so we've talked about this a bit before
00:09:49.540the statue was taken down back in 2017 for some routine maintenance
00:09:56.180and then it was never put back up it started there started to be a controversy discussion on
00:10:01.220the some of the symbols there in the statue whether it should go back up or not whether
00:10:05.300it should be changed. And then you had the whole Kamloops fiasco, which further delayed its
00:10:11.700restoration. And then most recently, it did go up very briefly. The mayor put it back where it
00:10:19.160belongs on the plinth, and then it was promptly vandalized and taken down again. And now the
00:10:25.000mayor has said that it might never go back up. It might be melted down. It might be destroyed.
00:10:30.260You have private buyers, people in Quebec trying to repatriate the statue back to Quebec.
00:10:35.780But I think, and let me know if you guys agree, I think that the Champlain Monument needs to go back up right where it should be in Aurelia, Ontario.
00:10:46.500For context, Champlain, one of the great heroes of Canadian history, the founder of New France, one of the founders of Canada, the first European to make permanent settlement in what would become Canada is a crucial figure to our history.
00:11:04.600And the reason why the statue stands not just in Quebec, what was New France, Quebec City, why it stands in Aurelia, Ontario, is because Champlain explored all the way to what is now Aurelia while he was establishing the permanent settlement there.
00:11:25.720He met with indigenous tribes in the area, the Huron-Wendat tribe, who was there at the time,
00:11:32.440and built productive, mutually beneficial relationships with the indigenous people
00:11:36.920as part of creating what would become New France. He needed to make this a financially viable
00:11:43.460project in order to achieve his lifelong vision of creating a permanent settlement in North America.
00:11:50.460to do that he needed to create trade relationships to to to create the economic value which really
00:11:58.620came from beaver pelts as most people should know uh so the relationships with the indigenous people
00:12:06.760in the area were crucial and the huron wendat tribe was an important part of the grand coalitions
00:12:13.560that Champlain built. So the monument to Champagne standing in Irelia, Ontario is a beautiful
00:12:21.580symbol of the European exploration into not only Quebec, but as far as Ontario, and it should
00:12:30.420remain and stand here in Ontario. We've seen a lot of, we've seen guys like Nouvelle Alliance,
00:12:35.040we've seen some Quebec politicians call for it to be brought back to Quebec, which is definitely
00:12:41.040preferable to it being destroyed completely but i think it's standing in ontario is much more
00:12:47.360important champlain is a beautiful symbol to canadian unity right it's he he represents the
00:12:56.740unity between english and french canada but the the the partnerships between indigenous uh first
00:13:03.660nations tribes and european settlers and remaining where it is i think is a powerful symbol
00:13:10.300that we can all appreciate and learn from.
00:13:12.960So we've been preparing for a broad campaign
00:13:16.180in order to put pressure on city council
00:13:19.160to restore and protect this beautiful monument
00:13:35.520According to a 2018 poll that was conducted
00:13:37.640by Parts of Canada when it was first torn down,
00:13:39.84070% of Aurelians actually supported restoring the statue, maybe making adjustments to make
00:13:46.560more balanced coverage on things like the plaque describing the monument, but to restore the
00:13:52.680monument in principle. So what we're doing is we want to find all of that support and show it to
00:13:58.300city council. So we will be launching a petition, a simple petition, in order to demonstrate to
00:14:04.620city council that Aurelians and Canadians from coast to coast want to see the petition restored.
00:14:09.040As we prepare to launch this campaign, me and my close friends, me and Greg and Ken, we all went down to Orillia to record a video in order to launch this campaign on a national level.
00:14:23.940And immediately we created controversy.
00:14:29.080You guys might have seen some of the media coverage.
00:14:30.700There was a bunch of activists making posts on social media, fear mongering about the terrible Dominion Society being in the area.
00:14:37.360everyone if you're if you're a person of color hide if you're lgbtq hide we're gonna assault0.95
00:14:42.240you in the streets or something crazy like that because you know that's that's what i do right1.00
00:14:47.600guys you guys know me you guys know me i i just go around attacking people in the streets i just go0.97
00:14:53.360hauling people of color and throwing them into vans to be re-migrated that's not exactly how we0.90
00:14:59.200do things we have a we have a bit of we have much more political approach we we are our approach is
00:15:04.960metapolitical we're not we're not violent we're not hateful we love our country we love our people
00:15:11.200and we want to create productive political action civic engagement in order to advance
00:15:15.920our political goals and that's exactly what we're doing here we're petitioning the uh to get support
00:15:20.800in the city we're going to bring that to city council we're going to build a network right
00:15:24.720there in a really in order to put pressure on them electorally because as many of you in ontario will
00:15:30.000know, municipal elections are coming up across the province on October 26. So as we build a
00:15:37.640movement in Orillia, we'll be able to keep the politicians in check because that's what we need
00:15:42.580to be able to do as nationalists. We don't need a political party right now, but we need to be able
00:15:46.400to reward politicians when they do things that are good. And we need to be able to punish politicians
00:15:52.900when they do things that are bad. And that can be on immigration policy, or it can be about
00:15:57.300statues and stuff that are important at the municipal level. So we went out there, we spent
00:16:04.140the day, I spent the day in a suit. It was 40 degrees by the beach. I was looking longingly at
00:16:10.580Lake Kuchiching, wanting to take a dip, stuck in my suit and tie as we recorded the video,
00:16:16.280which will be released, I believe, next week. And we had lots of support throughout the day.
00:16:21.980Lots of people driving by, honking their horns, coming over to talk to us, asking us what we were
00:16:26.720doing agreeing with our position on uh restoring the statue we had an overwhelming amount of
00:16:33.800support but one of the people that showed up apparently apparently she didn't identify
00:16:37.900herself as such but apparently she was a journalist for a really matters the local paper
00:16:43.760so the next day after we leave we see news coverage totally unexpected totally unexpected
00:16:52.880our brief trip to Aurelia generated more media coverage than the PPC has seen all year
00:16:59.200I just show up to a city and people start taking pictures I didn't realize I was this notable
00:17:05.780a character yet in Canadian politics but let's take a look at what the the coverage was the
00:17:11.220disingenuous coverage here we go Aurelia matters far right group members petition return at
00:17:18.240Champlain monument. And she quotes right here from my video script. She didn't ask us any
00:17:22.660questions. All the quotes in this video are just things she eavesdropped. She's taken these sneaky
00:17:28.700pictures of us. Didn't identify herself as a journalist. Didn't ask any direct questions.
00:17:34.760Just kind of spied on us a little bit. Volunteers will be here on the ground going door to door
00:17:38.740demonstrating to city council that Aurelians and Canadians want to see Champlain's legacy preserved.
00:17:43.460I don't know what's radical about that is normal civic engagement um so we'll go through this
00:17:51.080article I think it's pretty funny well most Aurelians at Kuchiching Beach Park were in their0.81
00:17:54.480bathing suits enjoying the heat wave yesterday an out-of-towner stood out in stark contract
00:17:59.180wearing a business suit and tie under the blazing sun so right
00:18:03.780I thought this was incredibly amusing because she flags me as an out-of-towner in a business suit in
00:18:13.080in an effort to delegitimize me right which i think is hilarious because these people are0.95
00:18:19.060trying to vilify me for my politics which is inherently that the the canadian people are a
00:18:24.520unique people who just uh deserve a homeland and uh and to be able to control our political destiny
00:18:33.080so i frequently uh delegitimize the positions of foreigners in our country and these people
00:18:42.180vilify me for that position, yet they clearly understand this kind of nativist sentiment as
00:18:48.060soon as it's convenient to them. He's an out-of-towner. He doesn't deserve to have a
00:18:51.400position on what's going on in Aurelia. So I find that quite amusing, quite hypocritical that these0.87
00:18:57.280people think my positions are unacceptable, but they effectively use the same ideas when it's
00:19:02.300convenient to them. As well, I am the spokesperson for the Dominion Society. We do have members
00:19:09.460across the country, including in Aurelia, who do agree and want to see this monument protected. So
00:19:15.080yes, I am coming from out of town, but I do represent people in the city. I do represent
00:19:20.540a popular opinion within the city, which does not have a voice properly within the city council.
00:19:26.520And we are coming to help organize the people in the city that agree that the monument should be
00:19:32.640protected. So to try and delegitimize me as an out-of-towner, I think is quite amusing. But I
00:19:38.700can appreciate people getting their backs up to protect their home turf. That is very much what
00:19:44.900I believe in at the end of the day. Standing atop the empty Champlain Monument plinth was Daniel
00:19:50.800Tyree, founder and chairman of the Dominion Society, a far right group which proposes mass
00:19:54.600deportations or remigration of foreigners from Canada. We're making a video. We've been at it
00:20:00.840all day. That's the one question she asked of me. It says, Greg's were there. And then they even
00:20:07.020accuse us of a crime. They say members of the Dominion Society were the ones who removed the
00:20:13.880tarp off the Champlain monument under cover of darkness earlier this summer. They are known to
00:20:19.240be the culprits. They are known to be the culprits because they posted a video of members dressed in
00:20:24.920black uncovering the monument just days before the monument was removed and placed into neutral
00:20:30.380storage. The men posted the insignia of the Dominion Society on the fence surrounding the
00:20:34.780monument. The OPP told Aurelia Matters at the time that they were investigating the incident.
00:20:39.580And I want to be very clear, like this is liable. Our organization did not do that. We did not.
00:20:46.660This was not a Dominion Society event. We didn't even actually post it
00:20:49.700on the internet. Someone else posted it. I think I shared it on Twitter,
00:20:53.100because I believe in protecting and saving the monument to Champlain. So I think I did retweet
00:20:59.180the video that I saw on my newsfeed. But this was not an official Dominion Society operation.
00:21:04.780This is not something that we know anything about. And in fact, the OPP, who may or may not be doing an investigation in this, hasn't even reached out to me or the Dominion Society in any way, which suggests that even they realize that there is no substantive evidence connecting us to this act of vandalism, regardless of what I think about it.
00:21:26.680so to have a really matters who had a reporter show up not identify themselves not uh ask us
00:21:35.160any questions publish an article in which they don't reach out to us for comment and explicitly
00:21:40.720make a very clear accusation that we we committed a crime saying they are known to be the culprits
00:21:47.800which we are not or else the police would be taking action against us is straight unlawful
00:21:53.520defamation. It is liable. And I will be in contact with Aurelia Matters. So very shocking
00:22:01.260reporting there from this small town paper. Tyree is the former executive director of the
00:22:09.640People's Party of Canada, founder of the Dominion Society, yada, yada, yada. Hilarious. They cite
00:22:14.280Wikipedia here. Is this serious journalistic Sanders citing Wikipedia? They quote from my
00:22:21.780video the monument must be restored his legacy must be protected future generations must be
00:22:26.020allowed to learn the history it represents samuel de champlain represents our shared history it
00:22:29.660represents the relationship between english and french canada and then i did tease that our
00:22:35.920volunteers will be in the area in the coming weeks now they then they talk a bit about our 11 step
00:22:43.280remigration plan so not only do they expose that we do have an upcoming volunteer operation which
00:22:49.760we do, and it is going to be excellent. I'm not going to spoil it yet, but we will be rolling out
00:22:54.840things very soon. But they also included this poll at the bottom. Should the city allow Dominion
00:23:01.760Society of Canada volunteers to go door-to-door in Aurelia? And this is absolutely shocking.
00:23:08.320Should the city allow us to go door-to-door? First of all, the poll should say, should the city
00:23:14.280prevent dominion society from going door to door because we don't need the city's permission to do
00:23:21.260door knocking we don't need the city's permission to put pamphlets in people's mailboxes that's
00:23:28.100completely lawful normal civic engagement we don't need anyone's permission to do that and in fact
00:23:33.740they can't ban us that would be an infringement of our political rights so i don't know what
00:23:38.500really matters is getting at saying should the dominion society be allowed to go door to door
00:23:44.140this is absolutely absurd and these people are like they think they're the good guys right
00:23:48.400should we should we stand up for freedom and protect people from these harmful opinions but
00:23:53.840really what they're advocating for is discrimination based on people's politics you might not agree
00:23:57.800with me on everything but what we're advocating for here is to restore this important monument
00:24:03.500a position that is agreed upon by 70 percent of aurelians and you're saying should i should should
00:24:12.580me and my organization, our volunteers, be prevented from going door to door to find people
00:24:19.260who agree with us in order to bring that to council. This is not radical at all. It's literally
00:24:25.180collecting public opinion in order to put more direct pressure on the city council. How would
00:24:30.380you like nationalists, people that you disagree with, to engage with the political system?
00:24:35.260We're not advocating for violence. We're not advocating for hate. We're not advocating for
00:24:39.740anything. We're going door to door, getting people to sign a petition. It's crazy. But
00:24:45.420people came to our support. 80% of people engaging with the poll said, yes, we should
00:24:53.720absolutely be able to go door to door. So I think the people spoke pretty loudly, pretty clearly
00:24:58.260about what we think about that. So you would think that we would just get one article, right?
00:25:08.000Even one article is a lot for us just going on a day trip to Aurelia.
00:25:13.920But no, but no, it did not stop there.
00:25:18.180It was followed by not only one, but two letters to the editor.
00:43:20.520We have lovely engagement with people.0.97
00:43:22.680It's still very Canadian up there.0.55
00:43:24.480We stopped for some lunch by the beach there
00:43:28.160And the little stall, the little fast food stall, was actually run by young Canadian, two young Canadian girls, little teenagers running their summer jobs.
00:50:46.160There's not a lot of active targeting.
00:50:48.080you make it sound like we're attacking people in the streets absolutely crazy so she says please
00:50:54.920write to the or really email and urge them to denounce this hate group now operating within
00:50:59.120our city they want as a direct result of the mayor's actions and harmful statements about
00:51:05.120the shell plane argument accountability is needed they need to denounce us they haven't denounced
00:51:09.860us so that's good and then she made this bigger post and I actually thought this was interesting
00:51:13.880this is the last thing I'll read on this post I don't want to go all day about crystal
00:51:17.000uh yeah exactly ken and greg have names they're not just my film crew i hate the disrespect
00:51:22.660even the first article it referenced greg as a youtuber he's not just a youtuber he's a co-founder
00:51:28.100of the dominion society these guys like that's that's how much your research goes you can just
00:51:32.960go on our website we have a whole about page that introduces myself greg and ken sure i'm the only
00:51:38.060one with a wikipedia page and that and that that's clearly all the research that they've done
00:51:42.460but greg and ken they're not just a film crew they're the co-founders of the dominion society
00:51:46.800come on so she puts this other post with a picture an old picture of me guys look at look
00:51:52.100at old baby daniel old baby daniel before before i got all nice and chiseled guys
00:51:57.040embarrassing old days thank you for the super chat saskatchewan guy h2g seven dollars any
00:52:03.740members in the prairies yeah we have like 200 members or something in saskatchewan alone we
00:52:07.900have lots of members across the country you have to get involved lots of members thank you for the
00:52:13.300super chat um so this old old fixture of daniel pre pre-dominion society pre-dominion society
00:52:21.240daniel we try and forget those days uh so she says the people's party of candidates and pretty
00:52:26.300simple pretty significant internal issues happening after the 2021 election so much
00:52:30.980face with was placed in their leader maxim bernier he did not live up to many's expectation
00:52:35.420in the election following the 2020 uh following one in 2025 the party made significant gains
00:52:40.480in the polls in 2021 when i was in charge by the way uh but never won a seat in parliament they
00:52:45.560were only able to get five percent of the popular vote pretty good actually in the federal election
00:52:50.200which was disappointing for many ppc members the ppc was as a whole only received less than one
00:52:54.900percent of the popular vote in 2025 after i left the worst result ever following the drop in
00:53:00.180national support bernier finished fourth in his own writing in bose quebec which added to the
00:53:05.320overall feelings of disappointment excuse me which added to the overall feelings of disappointment
00:53:09.680into the party's membership. There was lots of frustration being expressed with disregard
00:53:14.020to the district pointing poll numbers as well as the direction of the party leadership. Bernier
00:53:18.340began pivoting from the initial libertarian approach to politics that received internal
00:53:23.060backlash from some of his members to denounce racism. Other actually thought he was being too
00:53:29.960nice at times. He still maintained a 79% vote in the PBC leadership review, but only 32% of the
00:53:35.580membership actually voted in the review. Had it not been for the fact that the party began bleeding
00:53:39.360out members prior to the leadership review it's very possible that he would not have survived the
00:53:43.940voting process many members including daniel tyree had already left the party which begs the question
00:53:48.540why would someone like daniel tyree who has who does not denounce racism and holds very similar
00:53:54.420viewpoints to vernier actually we have very different viewpoints our philosophical priors
00:53:58.560are very different um uh who does not who holds very similar viewpoints decide to abandon the
00:54:05.800PPC when he's held such a significant role in the party. While Bernier regularly advocates for
00:54:11.860heavier restrictions on immigration laws, he does not advocate for an end immigration altogether.
00:54:15.260This is one of the reasons he has been losing a certain faction of the PPC membership over the
00:54:19.020course of the last two elections. This is actually very astute analysis from Crystal. I'm impressed.
00:54:24.280Daniel Tari, once executive director of the PPC, advocates for what he calls re-migration. This is0.99
00:54:28.300defined as the forced or state-incentivized mass deportation or in repatriation of immigrants,
00:54:33.080specifically targeting those who are not of European descent. A decent definition, although
00:54:39.900our plan is not ethnically based. Max and Bernier and the People's Party of Canada are far-right
00:54:44.980extremists, but they are not at that end of the spectrum by any means. I'm not even certain Daniel
00:54:50.000Tyree and the Dominion Society are at that end of the spectrum. They are very close though,
00:54:53.840and they have the potential to evolve and escalate. Second Sons is another hate group in Canada,
00:54:58.900and they're recognized as such, but they are also recognized as a terrorist organization. That's
00:55:03.440just not true. Second Sons are not terrorists. That's just a blatant smear. This is important
00:55:09.480because a lot of members did not want to be considered terrorists. So they moved over to
00:55:13.720the Dominion Society. This is just fake. I found it very interesting to see how many current members
00:55:18.560of the Dominion Society consistently hate on Second Sons. We don't hate Second Sons. They're
00:55:22.620all right. They're all right. There's always infighting in these groups as with any other
00:55:26.240organizations. So I imagine there's a story there. In this group, the Dominion Society is a bit of a
00:55:30.460mix between multiple different hate groups happening here. What the heck is she talking0.82
00:55:34.540about? What makes the Dominion Society unique is that they operate primarily within the political
00:55:40.120system. Yes, not in the way that Maxim Bernier and the PPC do, because they are not a political
00:55:45.060party affiliated. They are able to target and recruit supporters from across the political
00:55:49.880spectrum. There are no party lines that they have to really navigate. This means that their members
00:55:55.420can be anyone from any political party. The PPC can't lobby for the support of all political
00:56:00.700parties in the same way that the Dominion Society can. Again, very astute analysis from Crystal
00:56:06.180about the beautiful value of the Dominion Society and our strategy for advancing our political
00:56:11.580views. A key part of their message is creating space and firmly holding that space for all people
00:56:16.180of European descent while inflicting any irrational fear on marginalized people,
00:56:20.660the plate displacing them yeah it's not irrational they are being replaced but this is exactly the
00:56:27.320strategy this gives them broader reach because it's targeting eurocentrism not specific political
00:56:32.820parties politicians and political parties members from all sides are able to lobby for
00:56:37.820re-migration policies whether that that is in a blatant way like we see from the conservative
00:56:42.660politicians or in a subtle way like we see from liberal politicians it's an effective strategy
00:56:46.860Actually, Daniel Tyree has a deep understanding of political strategies and politicians, and it's obvious he's methodical, planning, playing the long game here.