Government Groceries - Now with more SOCIALISM and less EVERYTHING
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Summary
I m sick and tired of the liberal government in Canada. I ve got my big blue mug of coffee and I m going a different direction than the other channels today. I m talking about something totally out of left field, inspired by a tweet and a tweet, and someone running to be the next leader of the New Democrat Party.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 547 a.m. Friday, October the 10th. I hope you're
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having a great start to your Friday as we go into Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada. I hope you
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have a big dinner planned with family and friends. Certainly are doing that here at
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the Bolton household on Monday. I've got my big blue mug of coffee today and I'm going in a
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different direction than the other channels today. That's why you come here. If you want to go hear
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the natterings from question period, if you want to hear the natterings of a dysfunctional government,
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if you want to see a smug, arrogant, liberal look at you and tell you your life is absolutely perfect
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in this country, go to the other channels. And I appreciate what they're doing, but I'm sick and
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tired of it. I can't stand it anymore. So what am I going to talk about here today? Something way out
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left field. And it's inspired by a tweet I saw this morning and another tweet I saw of something
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totally insane by somebody who is running to be the leader of the new Democrat party here in Canada.
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Now they don't have a leader right now. The liberals are desperate for support from one of the other
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parties. They've got a budget coming up in November. If they don't get the support of the NDP and the
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Bloc Québécois, the government will fall. So they need the support of one of the parties and the one
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party that's most likely to do that, Jagmeet Singh's party, the NDP. There's only seven of them folks
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and they're desperate right now. They don't have a leader. They won't get one until March.
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So they're likely to support the government. And what is the liberal party and Mark Carney going to
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give the NDP for their support in November? Who knows? It could be this idea. And this idea is insane.
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Now Thomas Sowell, brilliant man in politics. He said, in politics, never assume that because
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something is insane, it will not be done. Will the liberals do what I'm talking about today?
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I think it's insane, but never assume it will not be done. These people are going to take away your
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free speech rights. These people are leaving trillions of dollars in natural resources in the
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ground. That's insane too. So what did I see this morning that got me on this path? Okay. I saw
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this tweet right here. And you can see my response below it. This woman, Megan, this is a Canadian.
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We pay taxes so that the government can do things for us cheaper than we can do it ourselves.
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Now she was talking about private schools here. Leave that out of it.
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It's the top of this that I saw and I went, oh my God, this is the mentality of people who live and walk
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the streets and I interact with on a regular basis here in Alberta. This is the type of person that
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says healthcare is free. And here's my response. You really think government can do things cheaper
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than you? Canada is more broken than I thought. And there's a lot of people who followed up this
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tweet by Megan with exactly the same thing. So it gives me some hope, but there's a lot of people who
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think this. Now I'm going to use a couple of quotes here. I've just used a Thomas Sowell quote.
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Here's a Reagan quote. Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
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Now, how does this get me to the leader of, or a person who's running to be the leader of the NDP?
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Well, I saw this this morning. Here's Abby Lewis. Now, just to give you an idea of what's going on
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here, these are the people right now that are running. Let me move this up so you can see a little bit.
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They're running to be the leader of the NDP. They're going to choose this person on March 29th.
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So the NDP does not want an election right now. They've got no leader. They've got no money. I
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don't think any of the parties want. I don't think the liberals want. I don't think the liberals want
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to go to an election until they can get a majority. And right now the conservatives are rising in the
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polls. So they need the support of these people. There's only seven people who are currently in
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government for the NDP and they need those people or the government will fall. So you've got these
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four people. Here's Abby Lewis, total socialist nutcase, absolute far left as you can get.
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So here's the tweet I saw this morning from Abby Lewis, and he's referring to this video. I'm going
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to show you a short little bit of this video in just a moment from a group called The Breach,
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where they talk about public grocery stores. No, Abby Lewis is running to be the leader. He could win.
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He could win. He's that far left. I think Heather McPherson is more likely to win, but Abby Lewis
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could win because people are desperate in this country and they're looking for somebody to bail
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them out. Government to bail them out when it comes to grocery prices, which is a huge issue.
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So what does Abby Lewis say about public grocery stores? This excellent video builds out both the
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case and the vision for public grocery stores. This idea is landing incredibly well with Canadians
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who are tired of trading their paychecks for overpriced food just so greedy corporations can
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line their pockets. It's the kind of fresh, ambitious, and populist offer the NDP can win with.
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Let's fight for it together. So Abby Lewis here, and I'm going to play a little clip of him in just a
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moment, and it's vomit-inducing. Please watch because I'm going to show you some video from John Stossel on
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exactly this in just a moment, and it's fantastic. You're going to love it. And then I'm going to show you
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the hope that you've got with a lot of Canadians who saw this as well and have followed up, and the
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absolute truth on why this kind of shit is happening in our country right now. Okay?
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So Lewis goes to the greedy corporations because the problem you're having right now isn't because
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of the government. It's because of the greedy corporations. So let's see a little bit of this
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video. Just a little bit. I'll put a link in the description. I'm not hiding anything here.
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You can watch the whole thing, but it's cringe-inducing. Let's watch it.
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Picture this. Walking down the aisle of a store where basic staples like bread, butter, and meat are
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affordable. Where there are healthy pre-made meals, the food labeling is accurate, and much of the produce
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is locally grown. Where you don't need to collect coupons because, you know, everything's already on
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sale. That's because it's a public grocery store owned by all of us. Sound and plausible? We already
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have publicly run schools, hospitals, libraries, community centers, and buses. Why shouldn't food
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be provided in the same way? Instead of president's choice, imagine if we had the people's choice.
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Here's what public grocery stores could look like. They would be operated by provinces or
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municipalities and initially be funded by tax revenue or municipal bonds. Once they start
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generating revenue, the profits would not line the pockets of wealthy CEOs. Instead, they'd go toward
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ensuring quality and affordable food. And the popularity of the idea is clear. After New York
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mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani proposed public grocery stores in every city borough.
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I'm Zoran Mamdani, and as mayor, I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores.
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Polls showed two-thirds of New York are supported it. And nationwide in the U.S.,
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Don't think because an idea is insane that it won't be done. So he brings up Mandani here,
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and of course, the evil corporations. Now, John Stossel, I saw a video John Stossel did on this not too long
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ago, and he brings up Mandani as well, who is a nutcase socialist like Abby Lewis.
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So stick with me here, because this is great. You're going to love this. Here's John Stossel
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Everywhere it's been tried, government ownership wrecks lives. Here's what grocery stores sometimes
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look like in socialist Venezuela. Yet, Mamdani says,
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I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging.
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These stores will operate without a profit motive and will pass on those savings to you.
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No profit motive. That appeals to people. But the profit motive is exactly what keeps stores stocked.
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And why we spend much less on food than we did a hundred years ago. And why we have more options.
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We have choices because capitalists must compete to get your dollars. Compare your experience at your
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People say hours-long waits have been greeting them at the door.
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Shelves are empty at an East Kansas City grocery store that's gotten millions of dollars from taxpayers.
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Cities have tried subsidizing groceries, but the results aren't pretty.
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A rotten smell comes through the door. And anywhere you turn,
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City-owned grocery stores with guaranteed lower prices.
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Even if Mamdani's stores work better, they'll cost tax dollars and take customers from businesses that pay taxes.
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How are you going to try to come in and disrupt our livelihood?
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Mamdani doesn't discuss how subsidies destroy private tax-paying competition.
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He just says socialism helps everyone by taking from the ultra-rich.
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It always works out that way where they blame somebody, Bernie Sanders, you know.
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It's the millionaires and the billionaires that are the problem in the world.
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And this plays very well on people who are desperate. And I think people in Canada are desperate right now.
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And he talks there about going to government services. And I've had something like this happen recently.
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I wanted to get my passport online. And there's only a certain amount of
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time you can do that in the day with the government website. You run out of time.
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I had to sign in at 5 o'clock in the morning here in Alberta because it's 7 o'clock a.m. Eastern when
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you have to get online immediately because they'll only take so many passports per day.
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This is a government website. If a business ran this way, it would go out of business.
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And think about the people in BC. They've got to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning
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to beat all the other people online here in Canada to get a passport.
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And we had passport issues up the yin-yang with the Liberal government.
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We've heard a lot about that. Now, who is Abby Lewis? Now again,
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don't think because this idea is insane, it won't be done. But people, as I said in here,
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51% of Americans think this is a good idea. And Canada, we're more left-wing than the Americans are.
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Here's Abby Lewis. Listen to this guy. Now, he's right in a number of ways here. Things are too expensive
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here. But the answer for Abby Lewis isn't getting government out of the way. Here is this nutcase,
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who could be the next leader of the NDP. And the Liberals might depend on this party in order to
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stay in power. Working hard doesn't earn you a living. A hundred bucks for a cell phone plan?
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Three hundred bucks for a cart of groceries? Several thousand a month for rent or a mortgage
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payment? These days, every politician claims to be shocked by the costs. What they don't talk about
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is why? The billions in profits for the tiny group of corporations that control every part of our
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economy. Three phone providers, three grocery giants, five oil companies, and the five big banks
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that fund them. Lewis is right that prices are too expensive here in Canada. I agree with him.
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But having the government take over these things, taking over the means of production,
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is not the answer. It's more competition. That brings prices down for people, not more government.
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What did Ronald Reagan say about this? Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.
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God, I love Ronald Reagan. They're a great communicator, right? But there's hope out there.
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For every person that tweets out something that the government keeps prices low, or that we have free
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healthcare, there's some rational people out there who are fighting back against the stupidity of people
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like Abby Lewis, who could be leading the NDP and have the balance of power in his hands very soon
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in this country. There's people like this. Funny that he references Canada Post, the guy who was
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talking about public grocery stores, schools, hospitals, libraries, buses. Every one of these
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is subsidized. Canada Post, schools, hospitals, libraries, and buses are all suffering from a lack
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of revenue and are rationalizing services. I think he means rationing.
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There's this. The people's choice? Is this a parody piece? Or have you enlightened people,
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enlightened people, not studied history? The people's choice has been tried.
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Guess in which economies? It did not lead to lower price. It instead created a severe lack of choice,
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like John Stossel said. The last thing Canadians need is more government interference. We need less
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government, not more. No, absolutely not. Everything the government takes over from the
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private sector goes down in quality and up in price. This would end up exactly the same way.
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And then there's this. And this sums it all up in a couple of lines. And this is exactly what I was
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thinking this morning when I saw the tweet from Abby Lewis. This idea is not the result of increasing
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general prosperity across Canada. This is a cope for a systematically degrading economy and country.
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The dumpster fire that I've been talking about. What did Pierre Polyev say about this?
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Canada is broken. Canada is broken. Everything in Canada is broken. Canada
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is broken. Everything is broken. In Canada, everything is broken. Everything is broken. Everything is broken.
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I saw another tweet this morning, somebody complaining about Polyev, complaining about the
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government and complaining about the country and complaining about the Liberals and complaining
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about Mark Carney? Why is he complaining all the time? Why is he so mad about everything? He's mad
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because people like myself are mad about things because things are not getting better in this
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country. The answer is not more government. It's less government. You're not going to get that if
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you keep voting for liberal in this country either. Thanks for watching. I know this is
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