Canada - Land of MEDIOCRITY - Let me count the ways!
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Summary
Canadians are better than the United States at mediocrity, but do we need to stop accepting it? Or are we better than they are? Happy Victoria Day, everyone! - John
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 545 a.m. It is Victoria Day. Happy Victoria Day,
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the 19th of May. Hope you have the day off today. I've got my big blue mug of coffee
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and you clicked on this video because the title or the thumbnail for the video says something like
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Canada is mediocre or stop accepting mediocrity, Canadians, something like that.
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Haven't decided yet. That comes after I finish the video.
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It's weird where I get inspiration for these videos in the morning.
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I actually thought about getting up and talking about the liberal budget,
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which isn't going to happen until later in the year.
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And I thought that's going to be a pretty short video today.
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And then while I was making coffee for the big blue mug,
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I clicked on a video from the unacceptable fringe who just passed 100,000 subscribers.
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So congratulations. And I agree with the guy in pretty much everything,
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but he said something today I vehemently disagree with because Canada is mediocre.
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You see, I'm an Albertan. I identify as an Albertan, not as a Canadian.
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As an Albertan, I do not want to be mediocre anymore, but Canadians accept mediocrity.
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And I'm going to prove it to you in just a moment,
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but this is what the fringe said on his video that I watched this morning.
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Keep in mind that we're talking about a budgetary deficit that Mark Carney predicted
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before running for prime minister. It was on his election platform,
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that there plans to be another $300 billion deficit in the next four years.
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All of this comes on the surprising loom that, surprise, surprise,
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Mark Carney doesn't want to have a budget this year.
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It's no, just let me spend. It's okay. We don't need a budget, right?
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Because if they were actually to disclose what the budget would be,
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Canadians, as that article warns, would revolt.
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Just before I move on, I just wanted to state I normally don't have glitter all over my face.
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You probably saw it. I watched the first clip back.
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It was my wife's birthday yesterday, and I had to wrap up a present for her with that paper.
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And I've got it all over me. I can't get rid of the stuff.
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So I don't normally put glitter on first thing in the morning.
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So question, do you accept what the fringe said there regarding Canadians
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You may have seen this. This is written back on March 20th.
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Prior to the election, over a month before the election,
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secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are.
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I think a lot of you realize how broke you are, how broke the country is.
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And you didn't accept the mediocrity when you voted on April the 28th.
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But more Canadians did, and you got more mediocrity from the Liberal Party
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And I started thinking about other things where Canadians are mediocre, and we accept it.
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And I've always said this, since the day I started in the radio business,
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the first day I ever put a record on a turntable,
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It's been a long time since I've been a radio disc jockey.
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And CanCon always said this, perpetuates mediocrity.
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Because you didn't have to be good to be on the radio.
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Shania Twain, Bryan Adams, Tragically Hip, Rush, lots of, guess who, lots of different bands.
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Were great, they got played all over the world.
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But a lot of bands could just be mediocre to get on the radio.
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Mandated to have certain amount of Canadian content on stations in Canada.
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Stephen Gilbo is now in charge of the internet.
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Not only that, you're probably going to pay more for it.
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There's a reason why you watch American television programs more than Canadian.
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Weather is better in a lot of the United States.
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You have a right to private property in the United States.
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You accept the fact that gas prices are high here now.
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I remember when gas prices dropped in Calgary a few years ago, below a dollar a liter.
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I said, yeah, don't accept it going back up to $1.20, $1.30.
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You're told that we need immigrants in this country.
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I agree we should have a certain amount of immigrants.
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But the right ones to come here and help the country don't flood the country.
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So it drives up prices, drives up housing prices, eliminates your choice for housing prices, rent prices go up.
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Our healthcare is so much better than the United States.
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If you were able to buy your own healthcare plan, you could get something that was tailor-made for you.
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Best healthcare I ever had in Canada was in Ottawa.
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Far superior to the care I got when I went to the hospital.
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I mentioned just a week ago, had to go to the emergency room with my wife.
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After two hours of waiting in an emergency room, they came out and told us there was a 10-hour wait.
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There were people sitting there that looked like they were having heart attacks.
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They couldn't get in to see a doctor because there were so many people stacked up in the emergency room.
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I think the liberals are going to actually enjoy the food prices going up.
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They don't seem to be thinking too much about doing anything about it.
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Mark Carney is in Rome hanging out with the Pope with a whole bunch of people on your tax dollars.
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You can't afford to buy food and they're going up again.
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But they're going to be happy when the prices go up because they'll probably start coming down again
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and you're going to have to be grateful to Mark Carney and the liberals for bringing the food prices down
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to where they are right now, which is unacceptable, which is mediocre.
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After years of accepting the carbon tax, of accepting mediocrity, of accepting the word of the Liberal Party
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that you were doing something for the environment, they killed the tax.
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And you're supposed to be grateful to the Liberal Party and Mark Carney for getting rid of it
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after causing so much strife and costing you so much money over the years.
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A couple of years ago, didn't have a budget for, I don't know, was it a year and a half during COVID?
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You're going to wait until the end of the year.
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But you're accepting the mediocre from the Liberal Party.
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And the budget is just the latest thing that makes me feel that way.
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And I also, before I move on, I'd like to thank you if you gave me a super chat or whatever.
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Some people have sent me a few bucks here and there.
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It's not something you have to do, but I do appreciate it.
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