00:03:29.360So today, all about Rachel Gilmore and her excellent little hit piece on myself, on the Dominion Society.
00:03:37.180I also want to talk about John Diefenbaker.
00:03:40.860This isn't exactly news, but there has been a lot of conversation on the good old Bird Box, on X.com, on Twitter, about the legacy of Sir John.
00:03:51.720not Sir John, John Diefenbaker. And I just want to, I want to weigh in. I want to provide my
00:03:57.740perspective because I think the Diefenbaker era of Canadian politics is very important for
00:04:04.060nationalists to understand, but not exactly for the reasons some might expect. And then there's
00:04:12.300a few other things I want to talk about, not touched on in the title there, but I do want
00:04:18.240to talk a bit about the shell and plain statue in in aurelia that was recently removed and i want
00:04:25.420to give you guys a little window into media relations there's a there's yet another hit
00:04:31.020piece coming out on on me on the dominion society uh in the coming days our our our big uh our big
00:04:38.040fans over at the hamilton spectator the one paper in the country that just loves reporting on the
00:04:43.860dominion society is looking to run another piece on us so i'll give you guys a little window
00:04:48.920into into what i have to deal with on a daily basis um but that's everything how's everyone
00:04:55.480doing tonight how's everyone doing tonight it is hot and sweaty and humid in ottawa it is peak
00:05:01.880swamp weather it's kind of miserable but i'm getting out of ottawa this weekend i'm getting
00:05:08.500out of ottawa this weekend i'm heading down to montreal for a couple of days in the in the old
00:05:12.740in the old city gonna gonna do some exploring gonna meet with some dominion society members
00:05:17.000have some important important top secret meetings to be to be had uh a few days in uh montreal
00:05:25.560before coming back uh and sweating away here in ottawa gonna be interesting tomorrow yes it will
00:05:33.140be imperial how much are you paying the spectator it's not me paying the spectator aiden it's the
00:05:39.640government. We know they're government drones, right? They're smear merchants.
00:05:47.700Gilmore is making love letters to Tyree, to Daniel. You guys think she's into me? You guys
00:05:54.040really think she's into me? Taking out Rachel for coffee when? Maybe that's why I'm going to
00:05:57.620Montreal. Maybe that's the top secret meeting, guys. The much anticipated Gilmore x Tyree collab.
00:06:04.760Do you think she'd have me on Bubble Pop? Should I reach out? Should I reach out? See if I can get
00:33:47.860instead of going off and standing on our own two feet,
00:33:50.700we kind of replaced them with uh america and that was very much through the actions of will
00:33:56.580william lyon mckenzie king king spent his career working in the u.s working with elite families in
00:34:03.280the u.s and he brought that experience to canada as he took over as as our prime minister and he
00:34:09.380worked with his minister of everything cd how to to closely integrate our economies with uh with
00:34:16.460the united states and that's had huge impacts on our society that that deep did push back against
00:34:23.440um but we have to understand before this there was there was things like restrictions on board
00:34:28.900of direction directors ownerships over companies to make sure that they were rooted in canada that
00:34:34.000they were manned by canadians uh deep and cd how they they repealed all these restrictions they
00:34:40.920integrated our economy so closely with the United States that it transformed Canada's economy into
00:34:48.520what Grant describes as a branch plant economy. So instead of decisions, economic decisions being
00:34:54.460made in Montreal, in Toronto, in Ottawa, increasingly these decisions were happening in
00:35:00.340Washington and New York because of the ownership of these companies became these multinational
00:35:06.560american-based uh companies which which does benefit the elites which did stimulate the
00:35:12.020canadian economy but it it hurt our autonomy our sovereignty so uh grant writes about this
00:35:20.600his lament for the nation the last canadian nationalist john dieffenbaker because he pushed
00:35:25.280back on the americanization of our society he stood for canadian sovereignty but at the same
00:35:31.800time, Dief was very much informed by his own personal ethnic background. And Dief was, he was
00:35:38.860half Scottish on his mother's side, but on his father's side, he was a German. That's where,
00:35:45.080you know, his name, John Diefenberger comes from. And growing up, he had to deal with
00:35:49.780discrimination and all this stuff because he wasn't seen as true a Canadian. So this really
00:35:55.920informed his his time in office where he he's put forward this this concept of one canada not seeing
00:36:04.200quebec and and english canada as two kind of distinct uh cooperating societies but he wanted
00:36:11.600to put forward one canada not not only to to merge uh english english and french canada but also
00:36:18.620to integrate all the other new European ethnic groups that had been migrated into Canada since
00:36:26.140the early 1900s, you know, the groups like the Germans and the Ukrainians and the Dutch and
00:36:30.040so on, all into this one, this vision of a one Canada. So we also started to repeal
00:36:39.160immigration restrictions based on, that were based on countries, to liberalize the system
00:36:45.520in this post-war period of American liberalism, he's the one that started stripping back these
00:36:53.180immigration policies. He's the one that brought forward the Bill of Rights, this American-style
00:37:01.340document that was the precursor to Trudeau's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. So it was very
00:37:10.260much Diefenbaker this last Canadian nationalist who was stripping who started stripping away
00:37:16.100the things that protected Canada's ethnic identity to to to make this kind of rights-based society
00:37:23.680that transition power away from the parliaments and towards the courts that creates so much
00:37:29.160dysfunction that we have here in in modern society he was also pushed forward uh things like
00:37:35.460women into positions of power. He gave a key ministerial position to Ellen Fairclough,
00:37:44.300who was actually briefly our minister of immigration, who was in charge with this
00:37:51.000liberalization of our society. He very much was putting forward this progressive conservative
00:37:56.720vision that would lay the groundwork for Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. So
00:38:03.600there's so many conservatives, right-wing Canadians that see Deif as a great example
00:38:14.920that will say that he's our greatest prime minister. And I think this is really captured
00:38:18.860in kind of partisanship because he did have electoral successes. There is things to learn
00:38:24.480positively on that side. But at the end of the day, he was not a real nationalist. He was not
00:38:30.720really a conservative he's progressive in a lot of aspects uh but the the most important thing i
00:38:36.960think that we have to learn from from deep is the difficulties that he had and i think grant does a
00:38:43.020great job of laying this out in lament and i would recommend you guys read it it's not very long it's
00:38:49.200not very long this is like half forward it's only like about half this uh this length it's a couple
00:38:54.360hundred it's a hundred plus pages so you have really no excuse not to read this and there's a
00:38:59.520lot of important lessons there because he was elected to a minority government in the 50s and
00:39:07.220then subsequently he was elected to one of the biggest majority governments in Canadian history
00:39:12.460up to that point the largest one to be outdone subsequently by Brian Mulroney and he had this
00:39:19.880massive mandate to really take Canada back in a different direction as I was mentioning earlier
00:39:26.420He followed a long era of liberal reign where their whole kind of project was about integrating Canadian society with the Americans.
00:39:36.460And he had this massive mandate really to push back on this transformation, to offer a different direction for Canada.
00:39:42.620And while he did play a big game, speak a big game about pushing back and protecting Canada's sovereignty, he was ultimately ineffective at actually governing.
00:39:57.680so we have to understand why that is um this often goes back to the kind of fundamental problem with
00:40:03.780conservatives that they're not very good at wielding power that they want to strip back the
00:40:07.520power of the state that they view power as a as a problem as an evil unto itself something that
00:40:13.140needs to be minimized instead of something that needs to be wielded in our best interest so there
00:40:18.620was kind of uh four main i think it's four maybe it's three four main problems that he came up
00:40:24.940against that we will have to pitfalls that we will have to avoid in our eventual nationalist
00:40:31.360government so the first one is he had a very disunited party um while he had a massive mandate
00:40:38.680across the country a massive majority government uh his party was had very little experience in
00:40:46.560governing due to the long time in uh of liberal reign um they were they were disunited on regional
00:40:53.960issues. His team in Quebec was very much loyal to the provincial government of Duplicy.
00:41:02.100They were not all on the same page, which made governing difficult. Despite having a massive
00:41:07.780majority government, if the party is not unified around a central set of issues, a central ideology,
00:41:12.700then it's very difficult to even manage your own caucus. So that's number one, a disunited party.
00:41:17.880We need to have a very strong united party based on a clear moral philosophical foundation. So that's number one. Number two is he went up against a disloyal economic elite who are more interested in short term profits than defending the interests of Canadians.
00:41:34.300These are the type of people that benefited from the integration with the American economy. And as such, as Deef was pushing back on American influence, he had pressure there from the economic elites to not go forward with these reforms. That's number two.
00:41:55.400Number three is he had he had to deal with a hostile liberal, loyal bureaucracy.
00:42:02.920So over the long reign of King and Louis St. Laurent, the entire civil service was staffed with liberals.
00:42:12.620And when Dief took control, there wasn't a massive purge of the bureaucracy.
00:42:17.260All these people that were reporting to ministers and so on were still liberal era bureaucrats.
00:42:24.460the kind of steady state right this is this is the real deep state right it's not a conspiracy
00:42:29.380theory there is a kind of bureaucracy that is in charge of taking their their orders from
00:42:37.400the ministers and implementing those things and if they're not on side with the government if
00:42:42.800they're not on side with the ministers you get this very dysfunctional relationship where they're
00:42:47.320not actually implementing um the vision of the government where they're they're not doing so
00:42:53.440as effectively as they could be. So this is the third big problem, the disloyal, the incompatible
00:43:01.260bureaucracy. Another thing we'll have to keep in mind, if a true nationalist party were to take
00:43:08.160power, and the last one is foreign influence. So in their case, it was very much the Americans.
00:43:13.820In our case, it'll be much more complicated, because now there's influence from all sorts of
00:43:17.360foreign powers in Canadian politics, the Chinese, the Indians, primarily, but all
00:43:23.160sorts of different diaspora groups that governments abroad use and leverage to influence
00:43:28.060our politics. In Dief's case, he was very much being pressured by the Americans. And ultimately,
00:43:36.140he was basically couped by JFK and the American governments who leveraged American generals in
00:43:42.140NATO, who sent political operatives to help Lester Pearson in order to get him elected.
00:43:49.540And this all kind of culminates in the Beaumont missile crisis, which many people might be familiar with. During the Cold War, we needed a missile defense system to defend against the Russians. People will be familiar that we had our own Avro Aero system, which we wanted to arm with American missile systems in order to protect our airspace.
00:44:10.940The Americans wanted a different thing. They wanted the Beaumont missiles, surface-to-air missile system that would be on Canadian territory but controlled by the Americans. So ultimately, John Diefenbaker turfed the Avro Arrow because they couldn't get the American weapon systems in order to make this project functional.
00:44:33.420the afro arrow was you know a top of the line military product around the world that the
00:44:39.560government sunk a lot of money into they ended up sinking them into to lake ontario um instead of
00:44:46.780going forward with the project which destroyed the uh the the the economy in in brampton actually
00:44:52.880in in in ontario uh and you had a huge flip-flop from lester pearson who was who was anti-war who
00:45:02.660was a who was uh anti-nuclear weapons he flip-flopped to to get the support of the americans
00:45:07.880in order to to take over um and to win the the subsequent election in 1963 um so these are the
00:45:15.540the four main things that nationalists will have to learn from dieffen baker so i do think it's
00:45:22.600very important to understand john dieffen baker in the history of that era not because we need
00:45:28.920to emulate John Diefenbaker although there are some positives we can learn from him as well but
00:45:33.620because of his failures he the the the problems that he faced the pitfalls that he faced have not
00:45:41.660gone away they are something that we will come up against as we get organized as we transition our
00:45:48.340movement from activism from meta politics into politics as we gain power as we take over the
00:45:54.360government. These are still the pitfalls that will be ahead of us. And we need to be prepared. We
00:45:59.940cannot make the same mistakes as John D. Baker and the progressive conservatives. We have to have a
00:46:05.960plan to have a united party all singing from the same song sheet. We have to have a plan to deal
00:46:11.380with our economic elite, to make sure we have a counter elite, a completely autonomous group
00:46:18.860backing our movement so that we have pressure from alternative economic elites that support
00:46:25.880our vision for the future of the country. And yes, patronage, buying this support will be
00:46:31.280necessary in order to achieve this. We have to have plans in order to totally replace the civil
00:46:38.720service or have our guys working through the civil service so when it's time to take power,
00:46:45.400We can put our guys in charge. We can call the bureaucracy of people that are not loyal to our vision. So we have a cohesive unit, a political party, a civil service, an activist circuit that's all working together in tandem in order to achieve our political goals.
00:46:59.320And we need to be wary of the influence of foreign powers, be it the US, be it Israel, be it
00:47:08.300India, be it China. And we must have safeguards against all of these things because at the end
00:47:16.980of the day, we will be challenging the dominance of American liberalism and pushing back on the
00:47:25.780Americanization of the world, that we will be a sort of, we can be conceived as a threat on the
00:47:32.520Americans' doorstep. And I do think that no matter what, some, you know, I'm pretty anti-American
00:47:37.460as they go. I don't want to go too far in the wrong direction. Of course, due to the geography
00:47:43.240of the situation, we will always have an important relationship, close economic ties with the
00:47:47.880Americans. But we need to reset the situation so that our people are put first, that we have
00:47:55.380sovereignty and autonomy within our own borders. Ultimately, we need to distance ourselves a bit
00:48:02.460while still maintaining this relationship. So this is what we have to learn from the
00:48:06.520Diefenbaker era. I do recommend Lament for a Nation. The guys that are doing the readings,
00:48:12.540my favorite guys who are doing their readings, if you're not doing the readings yet, please
00:48:15.960send me an email. Info at dominionsociety.ca. You can request the reading list. I'll send you.
00:48:23.160it's like six or seven books that that i recommend to get up to speed on canadian history
00:48:28.520canadian identity right-wing politics uh political theory and so on for those that are even more
00:48:36.000interested in the the dieffen baker era i have another book here i have another book here that
00:48:41.220i recommend this is a bit longer and it's for the it's for the nerds the big blue machine this
00:48:47.420this is a nice it's a nice big book and it's it it follows some of the Diefenbaker era but through
00:48:53.940the lens of uh Dalton Camp and Norman Atkinson who who built the advertising machine that would
00:49:03.160uh fuel provincial conservative parties around the country and eventually uh John Diefenbaker's
00:49:09.760campaign team. So this is a very cool behind the scenes look into how the people not in the
00:49:19.400spotlight, how the advertisers, the campaigners built a system, built processes, built strategies
00:49:26.200that were able to flip governments around the country and ultimately fuel Diefenbaker's massive
00:49:33.700campaign wins. But also the struggles that happened afterwards when Diefenbaker was refusing
00:49:39.220to step down and and ultimately hurting the party I do want to say a couple positive things about
00:49:44.800Deef because he wasn't all bad he wasn't all bad he did have aura he did have aura he did he was a
00:49:51.300great or order a great speaker he he would uh you know there's there's so many keynote clips out
00:49:58.440there of him he'd have he'd have he'd be in front of the the array of mics with notes all over his
00:50:04.240table. He'd speak off the dome, not having prepared speech, just having an array of notes
00:50:12.360to draw upon. He was a great speaker. He was a great campaigner. A big part of his victory
00:50:17.640was because radio technology, early television technology was starting to take off in the
00:50:23.640admin behind the big blue machine. And John Diefenbaker's charisma was able to take advantage
00:50:30.980of it in a way that Louis St. Laurent, old Uncle Louis, old Grandpa Louis wasn't able to take
00:50:37.220advantage of. So it is a bit of technological change that I think we're already at the cutting
00:50:42.040edge of. We're the ones that are taking advantage of social media. We're the ones that are taking
00:50:45.340advantage of live streaming. We're the ones taking advantage of all this new technology. We're the
00:50:50.120ones at the cutting edge of this. I think we're already living by the example that you can read
00:50:56.120up in in the big blue machine and then finally we have to say that he he was the champion of the
00:51:02.760red ensign he was the one once he once he stepped out of power once uh lester pearson took over and
00:51:09.300started his tirade to to erase and snip away at our roots to replace our flag with the ugly
00:51:15.860soulless maple leaf he was the one to stand up for this uh for the red ensign to to saying
00:51:25.480powerful things that that the flag does not that does not represent our people uh she's no flag
00:51:31.920there's no national flag at all so there is there are there are things to like about D if he was a
00:51:38.240passionate speaker in effective order a champion of the red ensign but ultimately it's more important
00:51:43.500that we understand the the struggles and the pitfalls of John Diefenbaker than it is that we
00:51:49.280that we emulate and try and copy him so that's what I have to say about John Diefenbaker it looks
00:51:55.320like i have a super chat here lots of super chats whoa i'm behind uh asian asian sensation 9917 for
00:52:02.880ten dollars if remigration was successful successfully implemented in the near future
00:52:07.080how would canada negotiate large care returns with countries like india and china without
00:52:10.660triggering diplomatic retaliation and trade no this is a huge part of it this is a great question
00:52:15.500um maintaining trade relations uh leveraging trade relations maintaining diplomacy will be
00:52:22.720a crucial aspect of remigration we have to keep everything on the table it's not about worrying
00:52:28.220about triggering diplomatic uh retaliation it's about instigating diplomatic uh uh and trade
00:52:36.120negotiations leveraging our resources leveraging everything we have and working with like-minded
00:52:41.560countries that are going through the same thing to to increase our leverage we're going to be
00:52:46.380going through an era where remigration is not just a canadian movement right it's going to be
00:52:50.560happening in the United Kingdom. It's going to be happening in the US. It's going to be happening
00:52:53.720in Australia. It's going to be happening across Europe. And we need to be forming unions with
00:52:58.460these countries in order to exert even more leverage, even more pressure on countries like
00:53:04.880China and India. Ultimately, I think these people are going to respect that Canada is waking up,
00:53:11.240that the West is waking up, that we're not going to be taken advantage of anymore. They will take
00:53:15.420back their people. They are their people at the end of the day, even if a piece of paper says
00:53:20.280they are or they're not. So diplomacy, trade relations, it's all going to be wrapped up
00:53:26.300in the re-migration scheme. It's not about saying, take back these people and then seeing what they
00:53:33.700do. It's about saying, we're shutting down all trade. We're cutting you off from critical
00:53:37.680minerals. We're cutting you off from critical resources. We're not going to do trade with you
00:53:42.820anymore if you're not going to take back these people. They're going to take them back whether
00:53:47.380they like them or not we're going to send them on the the komagata maru v2 uh that they can deal
00:53:52.900with a bunch of you know starving people on on their shores if they're not going to if they're
00:53:58.060not going to play ball it's not our problem it's theirs it's their people not ours uh trouble 820
00:54:04.820for ten dollars says way to represent oh i already said this one um uh volandir five dollars long
00:54:11.860live canada long live the dominion society beautiful hat beautiful picture thank you for
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00:54:22.240I'm a fan of those like old, so I'm not a big car guy. I'll be totally honest. I can't name
00:54:27.920you car brands. I can't name you anything. I don't even have a car right now, but I am a big fan
00:54:33.920of these old style pickup trucks. That's my dream car. I'd love to have, I can't name you the year.
00:54:40.180I can't name you the brand, but I'd love to have an old style, very inefficient gas wise pickup
00:54:45.680truck. I think that's a great aesthetic, but not a big car guy. I won't lie to you. And another
00:54:51.820super chat here for $13.99 from CLNN Sabre. Long live the Dominion Society. And shut up, Rachel.
00:54:58.520Well said. Well said. Thank you for the super chats, everyone. Thank you for the super chats.
00:55:06.640Wow. The chat moves fast when I'm not looking at it.
00:55:09.180okay okay now i want to talk to you uh about another great historic canadian figure
00:55:19.640everyone's whining in the chat about someone i i'm funded by the indian government
00:55:26.640that's bizarre um so another another uh big story i want to talk about
00:55:39.720is uh this happened in aurelia this week so champlain monument quietly removed
00:55:49.560from storage locations. So there was a great statue here in Aurelia out in central Ontario
00:55:59.640of a great man of Canadian history, Samuel de Champlain. And Champlain has been removed.
00:56:10.180It's been a source of controversy. The city council there has been going back and forth on
00:56:14.900this for a long time. It was put in storage. It was taken out of storage. Now it's
00:56:19.540been put back in storage um for a while there it was tarped up uh and defaced uh i saw i saw a great
00:56:26.700uh edit this week of some young activists who went down to to orillia who who who got under
00:56:34.500the fence there who removed the tarps from champlain who freed champlain um but subsequently
00:56:40.720the the the municipal government has stepped in and removed uh champlain again and this this is
00:56:47.800all based on these narratives that um champlain was somehow an oppressive figure to indigenous
00:56:54.760people and this couldn't be further from the truth like the are there's this systemic
00:57:03.620pressure to tear down our statues remove these statues all over the country and this is this
00:57:10.960has really been on our radar since we did the bring back mac demonstration in hamilton on victoria
00:57:15.940today we've had people from all over our membership uh and on social media reaching out to us to
00:57:20.940inform us of more and more statues being removed there's there's the one in uh toronto of uh king
00:57:26.820edward vii that's uh that the council there is is looking to relocate you might have seen one of our
00:57:33.600one of our brave members there matthew baker in in toronto shout out to matthew uh he stood up
00:57:39.940ahead of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee this week to speak on behalf of our
00:57:46.540heritage, our identity, defending the statue and saying that it should not be removed. Now we have
00:57:53.500this situation in Aurelia with Samuel Champlain. And the whole thing is so strange to me because
00:57:59.600these people are so historically illiterate. They target these people who are great champions
00:58:05.180of Canadian history. And I think Ryerson's another great example of it. They remove him because he's
00:58:10.800like the father of residential schools or something when really he played a very limited
00:58:15.460role in residential schools and actually was quite a progressive man for his time, a champion
00:58:22.220of public education, which is something that I think most leftists agree with, a service that's
00:58:28.680become standard in Canada that's his real legacy so to tear down Ryerson statues uh because of
00:58:35.800residential schools it's so historically mal-informed and I think it's even worse
00:58:42.080in the case of Champlain Samuel de Champlain for those who don't know is is one of the closest
00:58:48.640things I could say I can think of when it comes to like a mythological hero of Canadian history
00:58:54.260and that's because uh we're not even quite sure what he looks like there's only this one
00:58:58.460small drawing of him let me see if i can pull it up quickly um there's no actual historic um
00:59:06.060so so if you if you if you look into champlain you'll find many pictures like this of him like
00:59:14.020this and like this and so on um but really we don't know what he looks like this is the only
00:59:19.340real drawing here um that we have of champlain
00:59:23.180this this one drawing and we have this whole mythology around him based on based off of this
00:59:30.960one image and it's so strange to want to tear down um his statue due to his um role in colonialism
00:59:42.000or whatnot uh for those who don't know champlain was the father of new france he's one of the
00:59:46.340earliest explorers and settlers of Canada. He was the man that dedicated his life to creating
00:59:54.600a permanent settlement for France in the New World, in North America.
01:00:02.020A great hero of Canadian society who explored and mapped, who created some of the earliest maps of
01:00:11.100what would become Canada, establishing the permanent settlement of New France, which would
01:00:16.380become Quebec City. A great man who suffered, who epitomizes so many important Canadian values of
01:00:23.960communication, of leadership, of compromise, of noblesse oblige, suffering alongside of his men,
01:00:29.360going through the harsh winters, developing the processes that made permanent settlement in
01:00:35.740in north america and canada possible but a big part in what sets champlain apart from different
01:00:43.920european settlers at the time was how he dealt with the indigenous people with the the first
01:00:49.440nations people at the time because people will be familiar with the history of america the very
01:00:55.200bloody history of the settlement of of uh the united states champlain very uniquely for the
01:01:01.460time took a very different approach he didn't he didn't seek conflict with the indigenous people
01:01:07.580in fact he worked collaboratively with first nations people he would he would he made important
01:01:15.060trade relationships with with with them which made uh settlement in the new world a viable
01:01:21.740financial project in order to attract more investors to support his passion for establishment
01:01:28.440of a permanent settlement of new france he he worked with them and fought alongside them against
01:01:35.660other violent tribes who were who were who would torture their their victims who would who would
01:01:42.720who were cannibals who were who were who um they didn't just step in and use their superior
01:01:49.440technological might in order to erase these people they worked collaboratively they they
01:01:54.080would settle with them. In fact, they would trade, they would send some of their fellow
01:02:00.960Frenchmen to live and learn the language of these different indigenous groups. They would take in
01:02:05.320the children of these different groups. Samuel Champlain himself adopted multiple First Nations
01:02:13.280daughters. He never had children of his own, but he raised some young indigenous girls as if they
01:02:21.480were his own so so champlain the memory of champlain represents the very unique history of
01:02:28.200canada this this this alternative to uh different styles of colonial settlement that embraced that
01:02:37.120worked with that learned from the first nations people like i think he is a very beautiful
01:02:43.760representative representative of canada that that that symbolizes uh collaboration communication
01:02:52.100leadership and all these values that are still important to us and to just to tear down his
01:02:58.020statue like not enough people know who sean plain is not enough people know his his story
01:03:05.400his unique perspective on how settlement should have happened his his important role in the
01:03:11.640creation of canada and now we have radical activists tearing down his statue and making
01:03:16.840recognition of him more difficult it's it's so backwards it's what what was he perfect no of
01:03:25.180course not no no man is no historical figure is but he was representative of the a lot of good
01:03:32.620that people should be proud of in canada and to tear down his statue because of colonialism because
01:03:38.920uh because he might have had poor relationships with one uh tribe while he had good relations
01:03:46.920with others like it's it's so short-sighted it's so un-canadian really i think again that
01:03:54.740champlain is a very progressive figure for his time um his willingness to collaborate instead of
01:04:01.720uh instead of conflict is something that's truly beautiful and truly unique about canada's
01:04:07.640identity. So it's very disappointing to see the Aurelia City Council tearing down this monument
01:04:13.960instead of protecting it, instead of defending it. This is not something we should take sitting down.
01:04:20.240Unfortunately, we weren't able to stop them from tearing it down. But none of these decisions are
01:04:25.060final. And in fact, I think we should be working actively towards people in Ontario will know that
01:04:31.200later this year, there's going to be municipal elections across Ontario. And I think that's a
01:04:35.080huge opportunity for us to hold some of these councillors, some of these mayors, some of these
01:04:39.980city councils to account for their un-Canadian, for their anti-Canadian actions, for their actions
01:04:46.120tearing down our history, our heritage, hiding the great heroes of Canada's past, great legacies.
01:04:55.100So while the statue has been removed, I think there will still be opportunities for us to
01:05:00.240pressure city council to do better and to to increase our leverage especially as we approach
01:05:05.160the municipal elections this year when they're most vulnerable when they're most worried for
01:05:09.080their jobs when they're when their jobs are literally on the line this is when we can create
01:05:13.360pressure and controversy and and really force them to to show their hands to show to reveal how
01:05:20.140anti-canadian hateful these people are intolerant for our past our history um and make them do better
01:05:27.720so uh if you're interested in champlain i i would recommend i read a great book on him it's called
01:05:37.120champlain's dream it's a kind of biographical uh story following champlain throughout his life
01:05:43.160his the the his exploration of canada and north america the roles he played in in getting the
01:05:50.500necessary financial support to to build a permanent settlement here his his struggles
01:05:55.020to survive in the new world. The conflicts between English and French before Canada was
01:06:04.700established through the 1600s. It's a beautiful window into pre-confederation history because a
01:06:10.020lot of people, they only think about our roots going back to 1867 when really our roots go
01:06:15.100all the way back to the 1600s. Myself, I'm a 12th generation Canadian. My ancestors arrived
01:06:21.840in in the south shores of montreal in 1649 jean brodeur um so our roots go much deeper so
01:06:29.560understanding our whole history not just not just going back to confederation but going back to
01:06:34.040the earliest settlers and and the struggles and trials that they went to to establish canada i
01:06:39.320think that's all very important to really understand who we are and where we came from
01:06:43.380so i really recommend that book uh sean plain's dream it's another big fat book uh it takes a
01:06:51.620while to go through but it's a really cool case study on canada's history pre-confederation
01:06:56.740okay i forgot to have myself a glass of water a sparkling water here
01:07:03.980uh my voice is getting kind of dry i might not be able to go so long guys i might not be able
01:07:10.500to go so long um i will start taking some questions briefly i want to talk to you guys
01:07:18.600about one other thing again it relates to dom con i i will start uh tracking your questions if
01:07:29.240you guys want to send them in um which one is this okay so uh the another incoming hit piece
01:07:39.000another incoming hit piece from our friends at the spectator for the hamilton spectator
01:07:44.380uh here's here's here i received this very bizarre email today from them
01:07:50.380uh and i want to give you guys a window into the into what i have to deal with
01:12:26.040enabled and encouraged by biased reporting from outlets such as the spec we reject your framing
01:12:31.160that protecting canada's historic continuity and cultural and culture through immigration policy
01:12:35.840is somehow hateful or intolerant a simple message to the loser activists trying to cancel our event
01:12:41.220do your worst you incompetent jobless morons so i tried playing nice with the spec guys we've been
01:12:49.020back and forth a few times they keep writing articles about us they keep uh smearing our
01:12:54.340organization, defaming our organization, printing falsities about us. I tried playing nice with
01:13:01.780them. I tried collaborating with them. I'm done with that. These people are incompetent,
01:13:08.240disingenuous, anti-Canadian. They're working actively with activists that hate me, that hate
01:13:16.400our organization, that hate Canada, that hate our identity. We're done playing nice. And that's
01:13:21.480exactly what they're doing. They're trying to enable, they're trying to encourage, they're
01:13:24.980trying to foster a hostile environment. This is jeopardizing the safety of nationalists in the
01:13:31.500area. That is jeopardizing, they're trying to dehumanize and normalize attacks on us in order
01:13:39.600to push forward unfair narratives, to have their people harass private venues in order to pressure
01:13:47.260them to to to get us cancelled they can do their worst everything they try is going to backfire
01:13:55.120i don't care maybe they get our our venue cancelled maybe they do we'll find another venue
01:14:01.460everything they do all the reporting all the persecution that they do is just going to
01:14:06.000backfire on them bring it on this is the role of the dominion society we're making canadian
01:14:11.800nationalism uncancellable the more that these people treat us unfairly the more that they try
01:14:17.460and persecute us discriminate against us for our legitimate political views the bigger that will
01:14:23.100grow the bigger the bigger dom con will be the more stories you write about this the more tickets
01:14:28.420will sell the larger venue sure one might cancel us we'll find another one we'll find a bigger one
01:14:34.340we'll find someone that's on side with us we'll find someone that says what they're doing is wrong
01:14:39.140You guys should have your event. We're going to make this event go through no matter what. So bring your worst. You guys, your time is done. We know that you are weak. We know that you are incompetent. We are building a stronger organization. We are bringing together the brightest minds, the best activists.
01:14:58.220we have we have larger and larger backers we're getting stronger and stronger by the day
01:15:05.100and the reality is we have nothing left to lose you have stolen our past from us you have stolen
01:15:12.700our future from us you have destroyed our hope we are restoring pride in our society we burnt the
01:15:20.580boats we have nothing else to lose you can't take anything more from us so yeah try and shut down
01:15:25.540our venue. Try and get our event cancelled. It's only going to blow up in your face. It's only
01:15:30.780going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. We will not be deterred. We are fighting for something
01:15:35.780larger than us. We have a cause that transcends the individual. We are fighting not only for our
01:15:41.580ancestors, but for our descendants. We're done. We are unshackled from our earthly tethers.
01:15:49.700you cannot you cannot discriminate against us we will not be canceled do your worst
01:15:56.760we're ready for anything dom con will go on so that's uh that's all i have to say about that
01:16:05.600so watch out for another um another uh another hit piece there in the spectator we're not going
01:16:12.580to tolerate this kind of left-wing terrorism and that's exactly what the the media is working in
01:16:17.540collaboration with these activists to try um and to try and facilitate absolutely unacceptable
01:16:23.680but they can try they can try that's only gonna as as governments persecute dissidents dissidents
01:16:31.940just get more popular it reminds me i'm gonna nerd out guys i'm gonna nerd out you guys know
01:16:40.280i'm a harry potter fan and it reminds me of harry potter and for those that that that know the
01:16:46.180prophecy of of the boy who lived it could have been it could have been neville longbottom it
01:16:53.060could have been harry potter it was it was the actions of voldemort that marked harry as his
01:17:00.440equal that locked them in in in perpetual combat well because not what neither could live while
01:17:07.380the other survived and that's exactly what the government does they by attacking us by persecuting
01:17:13.100us, by discriminating against us. They give us the power to defeat them. They label us as the
01:17:20.120rebels, the dissidents. They give us the power, the notoriety in order to push back on their
01:17:26.920devious, un-Canadian vision for the future. So yes, I welcome it. I welcome it. I welcome
01:17:34.320attacks from the media. I welcome attacks from municipal governments. I welcome attacks from
01:17:38.360these radical activists, the more they attack us, the more they empower us to destroy them.
01:17:44.440And that's exactly what we're going to do. We are going to bring our movement straight into
01:17:48.500the halls of power. We are going to learn from the mistakes of the past. We are going to use
01:17:53.060their persecution to topple them, to take back power, to take back our countries. So
01:18:00.520that's the story. That's what's going on. I'll answer some questions. We'll wrap up.
01:18:07.380I don't know if I'll do a rant at the end.