As per usual, we have some fun topics: immigration, as always, I want to talk a bit about Paul Yev s latest podcast interview, and we need to talk about the trains. I got into a bit of trouble this week talking about my passion for high-speed rail and connecting Canada from coast to coast, and I'll be joined by my close friend and partner, Ken Jones.
00:02:43.800We're back with another great episode ahead of us tonight.
00:02:46.740As per usual, as per usual, we have some fun topics.
00:02:50.280We'll talk a bit about immigration, as always.
00:02:52.560I want to talk a bit about Paul Yev's latest podcast interview.
00:02:57.600and we need to talk about the trains. I got into a bit of trouble this week talking a bit about my
00:03:04.680passion for high-speed rail and trains connecting Canada from coast to coast and I'll be joined a
00:03:11.120bit later by my close friend and partner, not that kind of partner, my colleague Ken Jones,
00:03:19.680my co-founder. He'll be coming on to talk a bit, introduce himself. I don't think you guys know me,
00:03:25.940you guys know Greg but it's time that you guys get to know Ken as well so we'll do a little bit
00:03:30.780of intro on Ken he'll talk about some of his recent efforts his recent activism in his area
00:03:36.840with the Dominion Society he did a great little campaign last weekend something that we want to
00:03:42.200stretch across the country so we'll get into that as well um before we dive right in I do want to
00:03:51.100acknowledge our friends in the chat you guys are having a bit of fun much fun
00:03:55.860razzing me I do have my hair all all set up nice and clean I remembered my pin
00:04:00.720this time I remembered my pin this time we went without the tie though so we're
00:04:06.140more casual casual this week for the long weekend starting the weekend early
00:04:10.600we don't need to be wearing a tie quite yet I'll crack up bad boy I've got to
00:04:19.480keep the throat nice and juicy for you guys. But let's jump right into things. I want to start
00:04:27.540with, as I put in the title card there, I want to talk about railway nationalism in Canada.
00:04:34.900I think railways are an important part of Canadian history, an important part of Canadian
00:04:42.660identity, and they work all the rage this week because of an announcement from our friend Pierre
00:04:51.480Poilievre. You may have seen, and then I got in a little bit of trouble responding to it. You guys
00:04:59.060know me. I like to keep things simple. I like to keep things direct. I like to keep things very
00:05:05.220disciplined, very focused on Canadian identity, remigration, Canadian nationalism, but sometimes
00:05:12.480i just can't help myself sometimes i gotta stray off message a little bit and inject my own thoughts
00:05:19.040on a broader vision of canadian nationalism which i think needs to be set around uh not
00:05:25.760just resource extraction but but infrastructure development that brings our country closer
00:05:30.000together uh so what am i talking about um you may have saw see seen earlier this week
00:05:39.280that Pierre Polyev did a press conference. Let's add this to the stage. He did a press conference
00:05:47.680in which he said he took aim at the Liberal Party's ongoing
00:05:55.440Alto project for a high-speed rail network connecting Quebec City to Toronto.
00:06:04.080so this was announced a few years ago and he came out this week with a strong opposition to it no
00:06:12.300high-speed rail so I tweeted this high-speed rail connecting the Montreal Windsor corridor is the
00:06:19.520most common sense infrastructure investment imaginable if the federal government can't
00:06:24.000build railways in 2026 what's even the point and I got myself in a little bit of hot water I was
00:06:29.280I was almost ratio. We got 62,000 views, 560 comments trying to explain why I'm wrong on this.
00:06:38.100Or, you know, we have a lot of support as always. But we do have a lot of people criticizing from
00:06:46.960a few different angles. We've got some of the libertarians saying if there's a business case
00:06:52.800for it, then the private sector would get it done. We got some Westerners complaining that
00:06:58.560it's not a national project that it's it should be Ontario and Quebec's responsibility since it's a
00:07:04.020it's a more of a provincial matter uh we got people talking about how we should be focused
00:07:09.420on pipelines other things people disappointed that I'm talking about things other than
00:07:13.640remigration uh but I do think that infrastructure investment is important and I do think
00:07:19.780railways are an important part of Canadian identity uh and for this you have to go
00:07:25.240right back to to our roots uh literally canada would not exist um if uh if it weren't for railways
00:07:34.900right uh like the very foundation of canadian confederation was built on a province on a promise
00:07:41.580of a coast-to-coast railway it was contingent for for british columbia to to join the union because
00:07:48.340they were so far away from the the rest of the founding provinces right the the initial union
00:07:53.480Canada was just Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Soon to be added was British
00:08:00.680Columbia and PEI, but it was all around this province of a railway. And you have to understand
00:08:08.040the necessity of these things. You have to understand Canada at a very basic level. Canada,
00:08:15.720one of, if not the foundational problems in Canadian society and Canadian politics is our
00:08:23.480Small population, sparse population spread across a massive landmass.
00:08:28.760This creates all sorts of problems for business, for politics, and so on.
00:08:33.380So we need solutions that bring our society closer together.
00:08:37.740And that's through transportation, whether that's establishing highways across the country,
00:08:42.960whether that's establishing a railway across the country, airplanes, everything.
00:08:48.340We need many solutions to bring our society closer together so we can do commerce, so we can interact, so we can travel for whatever reason.
00:08:58.020So that was the whole notion behind the Canadian Pacific Railway, which is that initial band of steel that brought Canada together.
00:09:06.840Our nation would not be possible without rail.
00:09:10.160And as Canada has developed, as technology has developed, our infrastructure hasn't really kept up.
00:09:16.620um we see you know uh rail high speed rail systems uniting all sorts of countries around the world
00:09:23.560and we have nothing in comparison uh our our rail system is is very simple in Canada and
00:09:29.300and increasingly um falling behind other countries so I I can't say that I'm completely informed on
00:09:38.120the Alto project or if it's the perfect project in general but I was disappointed to see Pierre
00:09:43.140Polyev come out against it so totally, rejecting the project entirely. And honestly, this might
00:09:53.540just be a flaw in this new translational service here from Twitter. If we look at the translation,
00:10:00.620I actually think this new translational feature will be good for Canadian politics in general.
00:10:05.220It'll make communicating between English and French provinces easier and removing those
00:10:12.120communication barriers will be very important to bringing our country closer together but this is a
00:10:17.500bit of a snafu you'll see this it it got translated because uh it's here bilingually
00:10:22.740but if we look at the original it they did tweet no to alto somehow this got translated to no to
00:10:29.900high speed rail for some reason um which made it seem like a much more blanket statement that
00:10:35.240being said he is completely rejecting the the project as it stands um and the project
00:10:42.100is ambitious. Yes, it is expensive. It has a $60 to $90 billion price tag, but this is a necessary
00:10:48.480project. So I want to go through some of the common criticisms and give my responses on how
00:10:53.220we're thinking about this and why these projects are important and why I hope they're just the
00:10:59.340beginning. Because so for one, we had a lot of folks with the kind of libertarian perspective.
00:11:06.340um if if this was if this was necessary if this was a business case then the market would do it
00:11:14.680uh uh for us and i i think this is a very naive way of viewing uh canadian politics and i honestly
00:11:22.640think it's very anti-canadian in general if you view everything purely through a market-focused
00:11:28.180lens canada would not exist we would just be a part of the united states canada is inherently
00:11:34.240a project rejecting liberalism, rejecting complete kind of market totality to preserve
00:11:43.800a common identity and culture within Canada. And as such, we need to have a strong state
00:11:49.140to step in to correct for market inefficiency. So yes, sometimes these things are not going to be
00:11:56.220in the market interest. That doesn't mean that we don't need them in Canada. And
00:12:00.880So I don't like these kind of pure market-focused approaches. Yes, if it was just about markets,
00:12:08.160we would only go north-south between Canada and the United States. That's where the kind
00:12:13.960of market forces are pulling things, be it people, be it resources, and so on. But we've seen that
00:12:19.660that sort of mentality leaves us very vulnerable to the United States. Now they come forward with
00:12:24.700a more nationalistic, mercantilist style of politics under Trump, imposing tariffs. And all
00:12:31.600of a sudden, the economic situation in Canada, which has followed these market forces, allowed
00:12:39.700us to become so entangled with the American economy, has left us so vulnerable to massive
00:12:46.040impacts from a changing administration. So we need to have these projects to link our country
00:12:51.320together east to west to to change how we our economy functions and this corridor uh quebec city
00:12:59.080to to toronto is is a massive space for production uh productivity within tourism information economy
00:13:08.440uh technology this is really the tech sector of of canada really the kind of kitchener waterloo to
00:13:14.360montreal corridor in specific a bit more narrow is is where so much of the uh cutting edge
00:13:20.680technological advantage advancement happens here in canada and bringing these areas closer together
00:13:26.360so it's easier to travel between toronto between kitchener waterloo to montreal and so forth
00:13:31.240is a real a real game changer in the long term um i can say myself like i take the the train
00:13:37.000very regularly from from ottawa to toronto from ottawa to montreal and doing so faster and cheaper
00:13:44.360would be a complete game changer for for myself personally and i'm not the only one
00:13:49.320so the other main criticism was that the federal government should only be doing national projects
00:13:54.600and this isn't national it's provincial now this is also very misguided like anything that crosses
00:14:00.440provincial borders is inherently a federal jurisdiction that's just how the constitution
00:14:05.080works yes this doesn't stretch across the country uh but i think we have to view it as more of a
00:14:09.640starting point um we want to like ideally we would have a high-speed rail network linking the entire
00:14:16.760country but as a starting point this is the most logical place to start um this quebec city to
00:14:23.560toronto this spans while it while it if you look at a map it looks to be a small region this is
00:14:30.440where almost 50 of the canadian population lives if you extend this rail line let's pull up that
00:24:57.040And, you know, it's not only refreshing, but it's fulfilling, right?
00:25:01.820All the time, I'm, you know, speaking with those of you across the country that are awesome people.
00:25:08.300and it's inspiring as well as you know being able to make a difference in our communities is
00:25:14.340something that um you know we're starting to do now and i look forward to keep doing and that's
00:25:19.880sort of uh where i'm at right now yeah yeah yeah so so ken and i we met back in what i guess 2021
00:25:27.160in in the summer uh through some of the covid stuff uh quickly i i as soon as i met ken i'm
00:25:33.640like this guy's a top guy i've been working for the ppc at the time uh we quickly started talking
00:25:39.060about him trying to to come down and work for us and then i remember it the the election was called
00:25:44.740i think it was the beginning of september it was a month earlier than we were expecting or something
00:25:49.640at the ppc and we were scrambling oh god we have to select hundreds of candidates to get guys in
00:25:55.180the system and i picked up the phone and i'm like ken i know we haven't figured out stuff but i i
00:25:59.680need you here and ken was there by midnight he backed up his whole life threw it in his truck
00:26:07.520and showed up at ppchq at like midnight we were still in the office we were slammed he's like
00:26:12.640let's get to work what could i do uh so plugged right into things right off the bat um so uh we
00:26:18.720had a great uh working relationship uh through the ppc we went through our our challenges together
00:26:24.160there uh you know struggles of of working towards kind of nationalism within the ppc which is always
00:26:30.960a struggle um but that's that's how that's how ken and i uh kind of met and start to started to
00:26:38.320work together in this in this political sphere and and uh as i said uh we were kind of we went
00:26:44.580our own separate ways uh for a couple of years there but uh when when i started working on the
00:26:50.800the the dominion society when it was just a when it was just an idea a twinkle in my eye uh ken's
00:26:57.360the first uh the first guy who who who realized the the potential there and and started doing all
00:27:02.880the work to to get things off the ground yeah it was definitely an exciting time uh you know there's
00:27:11.280lots of uh things we've you know we learned over that experience uh you know fielding uh all those
00:27:17.440candidates and just that scramble to to get that done uh you know was was quite the challenge but
00:27:24.720also quite fun you know we we had uh you know Bernier bringing us uh Saint-Hubert at uh you
00:27:30.800know 10 p.m at night and uh you know cheering us on and whatnot and uh yeah so you know we took a
00:27:37.680lot of those skills and um i think that's sort of why we've been able to uh have such a successful
00:27:44.400launch and uh you know you always gotta learn from your mistakes right and uh making mistakes is fine
00:27:50.080but unless you learn from them you you've lost twice so i think that was definitely a very um
00:27:57.040a very uh you know it is part of the core pillar of uh why we you know were able to work together
00:28:03.600so well and and shout out to greg too at the same time i mean he he wasn't on the admin side but
00:28:08.720as a candidate he was a pleasure to work with and you know just a a great guy uh you know on the team
00:28:15.360yeah yeah and he was a crucial piece to push us to to work together here on the dominion society
00:28:19.920yes yeah yeah just just i've said it a few times but uh there was this this uh time between like
00:28:26.160after my accident and before we started the party and like greg had not been fully involved yet
00:28:32.880where um me and tyree hadn't talked for a year or so after i left and then you know i get a call
00:28:38.320from greg one day and he's like you know ken the the future the or the the the fate of the country
00:28:45.760is in your hands like you you gotta talk to tyree and then uh you know i you know i gave kairi a
00:28:51.920call and uh the rest is history yeah yeah awesome awesome and then uh another thing i know you're
00:28:57.200really passionate about a lot of things uh one thing that i get attacked for all the time is
00:29:01.200for being a single guy for being a for for not having kids not doing my part but you're you're
00:29:08.000a passionate family man again right correct correct you know that's a bit of a tough one
00:29:13.520these days i know a lot of young men um you know are hesitant to have children and you know i
00:29:20.640completely sympathize with the current state of affairs where it's you know it's difficult to have
00:29:25.280a family first off second off you know the the climate of you know uh this this um division
00:29:34.720between men and women and their ideologies is quite tough these days um and you know it's
00:29:41.280definitely not been easy it's uh it's quite the you know it's quite the ordeal to balance your
00:29:46.800time and you know uh on one hand be working hard towards something and then on the other hand try
00:29:52.400and find the balance for your family um but it is you know quite the fulfilling endeavor and you
00:29:58.480know what i what what i kind of try and tell especially the younger guys is uh i think maybe
00:30:03.360they've romanticized this idea of you know finding the perfect trad wife and and for some of you that
00:30:09.840that may be the the uh reality uh you know depending uh what your situation is but um
00:30:16.480you know on the other hand i think sometimes uh you know i'm a strong proponent of retard maxing
00:30:22.080and uh you just got to do it sometimes so uh you know fortunately i i uh you know i kind of
00:30:28.720took that route and uh i don't regret it so i i'm pretty uh i'm really happy with uh with with my
00:30:34.880decisions there and again it'd be it's been one of the most fulfilling things in my life
00:30:40.320awesome awesome big thanks to to to our friend at cln and saber for the super chat uh i didn't
00:30:48.000even know i had that properly set up this week so so a big hats off to to you thank you for the
00:30:52.560support um as as well ken you were uh uh you were on the ground uh this weekend out in uh
00:31:03.920can you tell us a bit about i think people probably saw the the video that you made and
00:31:08.560then put out there uh can you tell us a bit about what you got up to last weekend yeah yeah so uh
00:31:15.440first off first off i want to say thank you to the guys in the niagara region division over here
00:31:22.800i know it was only uh you know a couple of us out there the other day um but don't get it twisted
00:31:29.040we're not just a couple guys this this was you know honestly a last minute thing i i was up till
00:31:35.520four in the morning uh the day before and you know i had known about it but uh i was like all right
00:31:41.760these guys are gonna drag me along to uh go do the the the needle they're the pickup option today
00:31:48.000and uh you know i um it wouldn't happen without them so you know hats off to you guys and uh a
00:31:56.640lot not just the guys here but a lot of the point people around the country are really um coming
00:32:02.000into their stride and uh really impressing me so you know thanks to all you guys but um yeah
00:32:07.440getting into the the operation i don't even know what to say i mean egregious you know absurd
00:32:19.680when does harm reduction um take more importance over you know children's safety and public safety
00:32:30.800in general right like you know i know that these uh harm reduction and uh you know needle sites or
00:32:36.880whatever are rooted in this, you know, compassionate benevolence to help people.
00:32:44.980And, you know, I'm not against that, but I think we need to look at the bigger picture
00:32:49.140and see that, you know, like many of these, you know, maybe woke or leftist, I don't even
00:32:56.600like using these terms, progressive policies or, you know, programs is, you know, they
00:33:02.580sound good on paper but you know life isn't always about paper in the i the idealists or whatnot you
00:33:11.220know sometimes it it matters what's happening on the ground and how things work out practically so
00:33:16.580you know we went there and to be honest i i was not expecting the result we got i mean we had a
00:33:23.540couple guys scout out the area um you know as you see on the screen now there you know there's
00:33:28.500garbage all over not just you know a little bit of garbage a lot of garbage and um you know besides
00:33:37.620the garbage we have a children's playground with an eye shot of a pile of homeless like you know
00:33:45.540homeless people are living there there's a washroom unit there you know god knows if they're going in
00:33:51.540there or whatnot uh even if they aren't i mean their their crack pipes and needles are on the
00:33:56.260ground right outside uh and you know i i don't have this on video but i was told by uh one of
00:34:03.060our guys in the area that you know they have children and people come through there when he
00:34:07.620was checking on the area to see you know the state of the garbage they had a uh a school was doing a
00:34:13.540tour through the cemetery which i find just absurd like uh you know and and uh without us going out
00:34:21.940and doing this like nobody says anything about this i you know i'm sure there's some people i
00:34:27.780don't want to discredit that but you know it one thing i've noticed whether or not it's this or
00:34:34.340you know some of the city hall meetings i've attended is when you're just one guy they'll
00:34:39.620laugh you out of the room okay uh you know i had a good friend go down to a dei um city hall meeting
00:34:47.220and he he argued his points very eloquently very articulate like he's very articulate and uh you
00:34:53.380know these people are so reprehensible that they will literally laugh you out of the room so
00:35:02.180that ends now okay we now have an organization that cares about our nation our communities
00:35:10.980and our families and we're going out to make a difference and we will be there in these city
00:35:16.980halls meeting city hall meetings you know 10 20 30 or even more guys deep okay with an organization
00:35:26.020behind us with credibility to actually drive this message forward that this is not acceptable and
00:35:33.620we will not accept this in our communities we have today i sent a letter to duodotti and his um
00:35:41.860you know his clerks the city and whatnot we will wait to see what their response is but this does
00:35:48.580not end here we will be there uh well we will be around the niagara region we will be around
00:35:54.900uh you know southern ontario uh you know all of ontario uh alberta you know i'm getting calls
00:36:00.420from guys all over that are already within the organization that are gearing up to go
00:36:05.540and go out and do this as well as the inbox in general uh is just a tidal wave of people saying
00:36:12.980you know i want to get out and do this so very inspiring to say the least yeah yeah it was a
00:36:19.340great piece of work this is exactly what we want to see from our kind of local organization as we
00:36:24.380continue to build that foundation across the country we don't want to just be out there
00:36:28.140promoting ourselves promoting our brand promoting our political ideas we want to be out there
00:36:32.880actually making our communities better um and it's not just uh one cemetery in in in niagara
00:36:38.980falls like i'm sure everyone can relate to this i'm sure everyone has seen this in their own
00:36:43.560communities regardless of where they are in this country litter needles crack pipes all this stuff
00:36:49.820just making our communities disgusting and unsafe uh and we can actually we're actually more and more
00:36:55.780a position to actually do something about it so it as as has been the case in a couple of times
00:37:01.220since we launched the organization we have been using this our our team in niagara that that ken's
00:37:06.740built uh around candidate to to test out some of these campaigns and some of these plans um to just
00:37:14.500kind of stress test them and come up with systems that we can then share with the rest of the
00:37:18.980country and and yeah since we since we posted that video uh uh on monday or whatever uh we've seen a
00:37:25.860huge uptake in interest um people that want to get involved in the organization to to help specifically
00:37:31.460with this sort of stuff as well as people already in our kind of local groups that are very much
00:37:36.500inspired by by ken and the work that you guys did in niagara and looking to pick up the the mantle
00:37:42.020so i think we're going to stretch this out and make it into a bit more of a big spring cleaning
00:37:45.780campaign uh we have teams in uh in uh calgary and in edmonton and uh in halifax and some other
00:37:53.700areas of ontario uh that are already uh ready connected raring to go um and and now they're
00:38:01.460interested in uh doing exactly this so we're gonna we're gonna make canada a bit more beautiful a bit
00:38:06.180more livable one step at a time even if we can't kind of implement our political ideas quite yet
00:38:10.840that doesn't stop us from from making our communities better absolutely awesome awesome
00:38:18.240uh so this is the the first of many campaigns uh do you have anything else you want to mention about
00:38:25.060uh upcoming ideas for activism how we can give you yeah any message for our supporters here
00:38:30.400Well, I don't mean to be too cryptic. And, you know, what I'll say is, we have quite the amount of things coming up. It's, it's overwhelming, it's exciting. And, you know, I think the thing that I like to tell people is, you know, watch what happens next, because we are just getting started.
00:38:55.400awesome awesome uh do you have anything else you want to add or should i should i
00:39:05.160i think we can move on to the next topic sure sure sure uh we'll take a few questions in a bit so if
00:39:13.800you guys have any questions you can start dropping them to chat and i will take a keep an eye on
00:39:42.820I think you might be a train respecter.
00:39:47.680have a train respecter over here but um i uh to be honest with you like you know i'm definitely
00:39:54.240uh fond of uh creating um you know rail systems that connect our country east to west uh you know
00:40:01.760obviously there's the the pedestrian aspect i think that you know maybe if we were able to connect
00:40:07.520eastern and western canada this this would uh potentially help with this schism that we're
00:40:12.720seeing where um it's like we're out of touch with each other and you know like there's such a big
00:40:18.880land mass between us that um that might that might act as maybe a little bit of a good faith uh you
00:40:25.120know uh you know infrastructure bringing us together uh i'm a little bit more focused on
00:40:30.960the northwest passage um you know the the the trains are important but uh i mean come on guys
00:40:39.040we have a gold mine sitting in our backyard we have a huge mass like a massive global trade
00:40:47.040route that's opening up in our backyard russia is eyeing it out america donald trump i mean look at
00:40:54.000what he's doing with greenland look at what's you know the the moves he's making i you know i don't
00:40:58.800want to get into what you know trump good or trump bad but um i'm a canadian nationalist okay uh i
00:41:06.480care about canada and canadians so you know i want to see a huge push to revitalize our infrastructure
00:41:14.720of course we're not gonna give money to carney and these uh you know snc lavalin uh type you
00:41:22.240know public bids on these projects look at what's going on in toronto with uh what is it the eglinton
00:41:28.000line i i'm not familiar with the there's one of the one of the you know big lines in toronto is
00:41:34.480uh you know it's just like when is this getting done and how much is being spent on this so
00:41:39.760you know let's not prop up a failing system but uh you know when the time is right i think that
00:41:45.440canada is ripe to uh really revolutionize the global trade and resource trade uh for far too
00:41:54.240long we've been set on this um framework of reducing carbon carbon carbon carbon um you know
00:42:02.000when what people care about is environmental stewardship you know i'm not a an eco you know
00:42:08.080an eco greta tunberg nut job but uh i care about my backyard and we have a beautiful country right
00:42:15.040so what people want to see is garbage not in pollution and you know toxic sludge going into
00:42:21.200our waterways there is no reason why canada cannot simultaneously extract resources and
00:42:29.120develop leading cutting-edge industry to do so in a responsible way i mean look at us we used to be
00:42:37.200great okay we we built what the space arm we built the space arm okay we we built so many things so
00:42:44.880so many good inventions have come out of uh canada or you know just as a byproduct of our people you
00:42:51.280know brits and and scottish people i mean like you know we were quite capable of inventing these
00:42:57.120things so i would argue that by um building this infrastructure ironically it would actually have
00:43:06.000a net negative effect or you know positive reduction reduction effect on carbon emissions
00:43:14.480not that that matters because when the world starts trading with us and our industry is at
00:43:20.640the peak and china is getting mogdon and india you know people are telling to go kick rocks because
00:43:28.400you know canada is leading the way all of these third world countries that are dumping sludge
00:43:34.160and you know doing all these things will have less of a market share in the trade economy
00:43:40.560this is a huge plan i understand that but you know we have to try you know we've we've essentially
00:43:48.000um you know what's what's the meme of like you know the the uh doge where you know we used to
00:43:53.440be based doge and now we're just oh you know my carbon rebates and all that so you know that needs
00:43:59.360to stop that's that's where i'm at awesome awesome we do have some questions here in the chat that
00:44:08.080we'll get to um the one for you here ken what are the books on the shelf behind you ken
00:44:17.280That would be Canada in Decay, the Ricardo Duchesne classic, and Regime Change from the
00:44:24.880Right from our good friend Martin Selman. Two very important works there, both on my book list.
00:44:34.120As always, I'm encouraging everyone to read. You guys got to know all the arguments if we're
00:44:38.960going to advance our cause. I can't think of two better books. If you're going to read two books
00:44:45.000uh this year it should be those two books uh so ricardo duchene's uh can then decay it lays out
00:44:53.360the kind of entire story on immigration from pre-confederation from the earliest days
00:44:58.100right up until uh the most recent uh developments every single policy that was changed and their
00:45:05.420consequences the the ethnic makeup of canada throughout the uh our history a very important
00:45:11.960work in the regime change from the right a more recent piece released by martin sellner uh just
00:45:16.920at the end of last year that kind of explains the concept of meta politics and how we can use
00:45:23.000peaceful activism to advance the conversation and normalize and achieve re-migration within
00:45:29.160our lifetime so those two books very important works would would recommend uh to everyone you
00:45:34.680have anything else to add on those ken no no you covered it awesome awesome we have
00:45:41.320thoughts on bill c12 i don't know if you're familiar with this one ken it's the it's
00:45:45.320it's carney's new border security bill um i talked a bit about this last week but it's actually a
00:45:51.960pretty strong bill as for as far as legislation coming out of the liberal government uh the most
00:45:58.680interesting thing being it allows the government to uh to to revoke temporary visas uh asylum
00:46:07.080claims on mass if it's deemed in the national interest. So this is actually a good piece of
00:46:13.420legislation. Like I would, if I was in Carney's shoes, I would put forward this piece of
00:46:17.900legislation. I would probably wield it a bit more aggressively than I think we're expecting him to
00:46:23.680do so. But hypothetically, you could see, you know, all 400 plus thousand people sitting in
00:46:30.560the asylum system, see their statuses revoked and sent back to their own country. So an
00:46:37.020interesting piece of legislation coming down the pipe. Yeah, no, that definitely sounds
00:46:41.100interesting. I'll be completely honest with you. You know, I will never speak on something
00:46:46.020out of my butt. But I think that that does seem good. And I, you know, just as for a little while
00:46:54.820there, I said 1BC was doing good things. And so, you know, that whole thing blew up. You know,
00:47:00.760if Kearney or anyone's going to do anything that is pro-Canadian or whatnot, you know,
00:47:06.020I'll get behind that but yeah I think that you know our good friend Greg or
00:47:11.060yourself is definitely the guy to go to on this I've been so busy that all these
00:47:16.220bills and whatnot you know I'm trying to keep up with them but you know not
00:47:21.200familiar with that one yeah we all have to specialize in our own stuff a good
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00:47:39.840on this, which is the goal at the end of the day. We have some more questions here. Do you guys
00:47:48.120believe it's possible to build one large high-speed train in between each other? So I did touch on
00:47:53.780this earlier. This first high-speed rail network between Quebec City and Toronto, I would hope,
00:48:00.200is just the start. I'd like to see many more projects like this connecting different cities,
00:48:04.200edmonton and calgary is another great example ultimately there should be a plan to link our
00:48:09.120entire country through rail if we could build a rail line in the late 1800s early 1900s we should
00:48:18.540be able to do it so i i you know i'm skeptical of what the current government can do but i think as
00:48:27.360canadians we should expect this of our government and as canadians we are capable of this sort of
00:48:32.700uh, uh, infrastructure development. So yes, Canada is historic. You know, we, we have,
00:48:38.800we, we have the engineers. Okay. We have the engineers, maybe not some of the new ones,
00:48:43.740but, uh, we've definitely got some, some old stock engineers that are still around and capable
00:48:49.120of undertaking these projects. Let's just, we need to cut the red tape and get rid of
00:48:54.940incompetent administration. And then these projects can begin. Yeah. Yeah. We have the,
00:49:00.760we have all the people we have the talent we have the knowledge we should be able to do this
00:49:04.200daniel are you concerned with the war in iran is going to dawn a whole new movement of muslim
00:49:11.580asylum seekers i i think that's my main concern when it comes to the war in iran i i you guys
00:49:16.340know me i'm not a big geopolitics guy i'm not super plugged in to what's going on around the
00:49:21.200world my only interest is that we're not involved in this war it has nothing to do with us we should
00:49:26.340not be sending money or troops or any sort of uh weaponry or anything like this we certainly should
00:49:32.100not be accepting any sort of asylum claimants refugees or anything like that this war has
00:49:37.080nothing to do with us and we have our own problems here what do you think yeah absolutely i mean
00:49:42.480everything you just said and not to mention i'm a strong proponent and um you know let's stop
00:49:49.080sending our men and women to go die in a sand dune somewhere for foreign interests the battleground
00:49:58.680is here in our own backyard i mean we have a lot of uh swamp to drain all right we're gonna need
00:50:05.480everyone we can get here at home and uh you know i respect our men and women that are out there
00:50:11.640doing this i know that you know people uh that are even out there have these views and it's it's a
00:50:17.800a bit of a you know tricky situation but uh it really it breaks my heart to see uh not only our
00:50:23.980people but just you know people in general you know the the ukraine russia thing it's it's terrible
00:50:30.200to see and you know i i'm a i'm a big no more brother wars type guy like you know i don't want
00:50:35.720to see another war in europe um you know or let alone in the middle east so that's that's sort of
00:50:41.000my stance yeah yeah um thoughts on secularism laws in quebec uh i i think they're a positive
00:50:49.400development overall uh i we've adopted a lot of those ideas for for our remigration plan um to to
00:50:56.760to as sort of push factors to encourage people to either assimilate or or get out um so i think that
00:51:04.040these secularism laws while people christians have been kind of apprehensive of some of them
00:51:09.560I think they're largely targeted at maintaining Canadian kind of society in the face of kind of more and more of these foreign religions that don't really have a place within our government or within our schooling system and stuff like this.
00:51:25.080So I think that there is a lot that the rest of Canada can take out of Quebec's book in terms of these laws.
00:51:33.060we should be banning kosher and halal slaughter we should be restricting um uh these kind of
00:51:38.500foreign political symbols within the public service and stuff like this we should be imposing stricter
00:51:43.620language laws i want to talk about a bit about that on a on a recent uh story here in a little
00:51:48.740bit um but yeah yeah what do you what do you think uh ken i know you're a little bit uh
00:51:54.580more religious than i am i'm i'm a pretty secular myself but what do you think about
00:51:58.980these kind of secularism laws out of Quebec. Notwithstanding clause.
00:52:05.940Like Giga Chad, notwithstanding clause. Is Ken going to Portugal? Of course Ken's going to
00:52:11.380Portugal. We're doing a big trip out there at the end of next month for the Remigration Summit.
00:52:18.660We need some Canadian representative. We missed out last year. We're going to make sure Canada
00:52:23.380has a strong presence at the Remigration Summit this year. Absolutely. Very exciting,
00:52:28.500very exciting I'm looking forward to it I know uh what is his name I'm gonna butcher it I think
00:52:35.080it's not Alfonso Alfonso is it Alfonso yeah yeah you know I keep up with uh some of the stuff he's
00:52:42.200doing uh you know looking forward to meeting him and Selner and some of these other guys and
00:52:46.820I imagine the Rupert Lowe squad is gonna be there that would be cool I have no idea uh yeah so I
00:52:56.080mean whatever the case lots of cool people uh in the space are going to be there and i think it's
00:53:00.840going to be a fun time uh i don't i don't know if it's like doxing or whatever but you know i think
00:53:07.400it might be a little bit of a special time for for you as well when we're out there so um i look
00:53:13.940forward i look forward to the uh the time for sure it'll be a fun trip have you been to europe
00:53:18.480before is that is this going to be a first trip for you oh yeah good question so i've i've actually
00:53:24.720never been on vacation in my life uh you know i kind of you know grew up in in a situation that
00:53:30.480didn't uh allow for that so uh it no it's gonna be the first time ever going to europe ever really
00:53:36.320going out of the country i i was in niagara falls new york once when i was like 10 years old
00:53:43.600for my dad to go to home depot and buy a box of coil nails that they didn't sell in canada and
00:53:50.960we came we came right back and that's my extent of uh global travel so uh i mean i'm a little bit of
00:53:59.920a uh neophyte or you know new guy to uh doing that so uh you know it's definitely gonna be
00:54:06.960pretty exciting for me looking forward to that i think i think you'll appreciate this one i think
00:54:13.600it's more a bit more up your alley i've been talking about data centers in chat what do you
00:54:17.840you think about canada using its massive water and uranium supply to support data centers where
00:54:23.420we could rent and compute to other countries what do you think oh i mean this is it goes hand in
00:54:29.400hand uh without getting into a tangent about nuclear energy or uh for all you engineers out
00:54:35.900there nuclear fusion not just nuclear fission um you know nuclear energy uh is totally viable i
00:54:45.500think that they did a entire scare tactic and campaign on that uh you know over the the past
00:54:51.980three four decades or you know chernobyl this that and the other um but you know let's be real
00:54:58.220you know they've been handicapping our nations for energy for a while now and all of a sudden
00:55:05.260now that uh ai in these data centers are so power hungry like that you know now we have uh you know
00:55:13.740a huge interest in revitalizing the nuclear fission energy sector and ironically again like
00:55:22.220if they want to put a electric charger you know across the country to actually build the
00:55:29.340infrastructure for electric cars you're going to need an energy source that's adequate to power
00:55:34.620that whether it's you know daylight night time rain snow i think that if done correctly and this
00:55:42.780is what i'm getting into with our ability as canadians to lead the way on this is that we
00:55:50.860build proper infrastructure you know don't quote me on this but i i'm fairly certain that the
00:55:59.420uh incidents in like say north american uh nuclear reactors compared to that in other places
00:56:06.700of the world is by a large margin uh much safer and we can continue to to build uh these plants
00:56:15.020uh even better i think that again i'm speaking extemporaneously but a lot of the plants in
00:56:21.020america are a bit dated right now i think there's generations of type of plant and uh you know who
00:56:27.420there's nothing stopping us from creating awesome nuclear fission plants that are completely safe
00:56:34.380and responsible for the environment yeah yeah i totally agree a lot of the a lot of the anti
00:56:41.100nuclear hype is just that it's uh based on a few niche cases we can do that very safely
00:56:46.460very productively here in canada we have to be leveraging our resources be that uranium be that
00:56:50.780water uh just be that cold weather there is a certain practicality to having uh data centers
00:56:56.860here in canada and we should be on the cutting edge of industry artificial intelligence i think
00:57:03.980I think that would be a great way to develop talent
00:57:28.180Absolutely, we deserve to be a superpower, okay?
00:57:33.180None of this middle power crap. Do you know where we came from? Do you know who we were? Okay? Our people were some of the most industrious, intelligent minds. I mean, I'm preaching to the choir here, but what I see is the revitalization of the Canadian spirit, which has been criminally undermined by contemporary philosophy around this nice guy crap.
00:58:02.920okay i'm not saying we're bad people but uh you know go look at history okay go look at world war
00:58:09.640ii world war one and look at the fabric that made up heritage canadians and what you'll see is some
00:58:17.640of the most strong-willed courageous intelligent and you know just awesome capable people and and
00:58:25.160i want to see that back as part of our national ethos yeah yeah well said well said a big shout
00:58:31.000out for Northwest Manny. I don't know if you can see his profile picture, but it's pretty hilarious.
01:24:26.340We've declined the amount of houses that we built despite an expanding population.
01:24:30.420But the most important thing is to just get rid of people that are here that shouldn't be.
01:24:34.720That'll create increased supply in available housing very quick.
01:24:39.300And, you know, it will reduce the demand for housing, which will reduce the cost of housing, both rent and housing prices themselves.
01:24:48.480So the most important thing is just reducing the amount of people that we have here in Canada because there's a bunch of people that just shouldn't be here.