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00:00:00.000 yeah alex so obviously the uh trade frenzy slash free agent signing frenzy and hockey just passed

00:00:06.800 and a lot of people are talking about carter hart to the edmonton oilers which obviously i wanted to

00:00:11.280 get your two cents on given the uh extent you've covered that trial too so so do you know how that

00:00:17.520 works exactly because he cannot be signed to a team right now while he's undergoing these charges

00:00:21.520 that's what people are saying online i guess like is it like the day he's found not guilty or

00:00:27.440 he's charged with whatever he could sign to a team do you know anything about that well i think you

00:00:32.400 can sign a player even if they're charged i just don't think that it's socially acceptable plus it's

00:00:40.160 like hey we just signed this hot goalie and then he's in jail the next day it's like well that doesn't

00:00:43.520 really help us yeah i don't know that yeah that would be interesting in terms of the salary cap

00:00:47.920 implications like it's funny because if you had a player who was incarcerated would it still count

00:00:53.040 against the cap yeah they have to probably negotiate we're signing ever they're paying

00:00:58.160 him five million a year and he's in jail yeah it'd be a great way to clear some cap space too

00:01:04.560 but it's funny we're doing with something similar in basketball this guy malik beasley is caught up in

00:01:08.880 a gambling scandal where he was betting on his own games uh you know i guess he's like hitting the under

00:01:14.720 on his own points or stuff like that and uh yeah like before he was like a very sought after asset and

00:01:20.400 now it's like unemployable you know probably never going to play in the nba again but uh i don't

00:01:25.440 know if they had the balls of these uh hockey gms maybe they'll just sign him irrespective of the

00:01:29.600 gambling accusations you know well didn't evander kane get yeah he did yeah he did and these gambling

00:01:35.840 things are such a problem but we see what these sports are i mean every ad is literally a gambling

00:01:40.080 ad gambling is everywhere with these sports so you you have to imagine that at some point that slips down

00:01:45.280 to not only the players the refs the coaches what what have you because if you can directly alter the

00:01:51.920 outcome of a game and and bet your life savings knowing that you're gonna win i mean it's a pretty

00:01:57.360 compelling gosh we should do a sports podcast we've talked about that we should i i don't know man the

00:02:06.320 sports gambling thing like i have an addictive personality i feel like if i got into that i'd be like

00:02:10.480 norm mcdonald like living yeah i always look at gambling as a losing outcome in the end it's like

00:02:17.920 people i see on these sports i'm like i won 100 today it's like what's your net net net loss what's

00:02:23.280 your net loss like i'm like 20 grand in the hole man it's like yeah that sounds about right anyways my

00:02:28.800 name is ice glamour i'm here with my colleagues alex zoltan and noah jarvis let's hop into this

00:02:32.720 all right guys so to start off the record today i actually wanted to talk about an exclusive i

00:02:42.480 wrote yesterday because interestingly we saw the legacy media essentially saying that guthrie and

00:02:49.360 scott sinclair were starting a new party under the former pc banner which of course governed alberta

00:02:56.560 between 1971 and 2015 until its merger with the wild rose party to form the ucp but true north was

00:03:05.920 questioning that and we're thinking hmm can they actually do this so yeah i reached out to the ucp

00:03:11.120 and basically just asked what's going on with this can can they actually use the the pc name and

00:03:16.560 according to a spokesperson for the ucp they said the name is off limits the spokesperson said quote alberta

00:03:23.440 elections law is clear that new parties may not use the name of the former legacy parties of the ucp

00:03:28.880 this is to this is to avoid confusion for voters we expect that law to be followed and will follow

00:03:34.800 up with elections alberta accordingly so yeah this might not actually be happening despite what the

00:03:40.560 legacy media have been saying and elections alberta also re uh replied to me they said uh quote the

00:03:47.920 only restrictions at this stage are that the desired party name is not in use and the acronym is not

00:03:53.120 the same or similar to an existing registered party because that's the key distinction here the the

00:03:58.800 party is technically registered but they're not an official party so yeah i mean these these two were

00:04:06.560 obviously both expelled from the party in the past uh did you guys see this story do you have anything

00:04:11.840 to say there yeah i think that uh it's pretty interesting that these two mlas they want to form a 0.98

00:04:18.480 party under the former pc branding because as you know the pcs uh they were the government for over

00:04:25.520 like over 40 years in alberta but they were the ones who had deviated away uh from conservative

00:04:30.880 principles and have a lean into the more progressive side of their name hence you know spawning the wild

00:04:37.120 rose party uh but i also think it's quite interesting because uh if everyone uh recalls the old didsbury

00:04:44.160 three hills uh by election happened a couple uh weeks ago and what happened there you had a party

00:04:50.000 named the wild rose loyalty coalition uh running and you know only gaining 189 votes so it's not like

00:04:57.840 they were particularly popular or they were chewing into the ucp's vote share uh very much but at the

00:05:03.760 end of the day wild rose is one of the names of the old uh legacy parties that made up the ucp after they

00:05:09.600 merged with the wild rose and pcs merged together uh after the ndp victory in 2015. so i think it's

00:05:17.200 interesting that elections alberta is allowing the wild rose loyalty coalition to use that name uh and

00:05:23.360 they wouldn't let these uh mlas use the pc name i understand it because there's already a united

00:05:29.280 conservative party in alberta so having a united conservative party and a progressive conservative

00:05:34.560 party on the ballot would likely be uh quite confusing for voters but i'm really uh interested

00:05:41.120 in the sort of motive of uh these mlas and why they want to form another pc party do they want you know

00:05:48.560 the albertan uh ucp to become less conservative would they want them to move to the center like do they

00:05:55.280 believe that that is crucial in order to achieve electoral success i mean that if that's the thesis

00:06:01.760 uh that's competently wrong because the ucp just won the last two elections right so it's not like

00:06:07.120 their need they need to do this to make them more a plat palatable to the general public uh it just

00:06:12.720 really seems that uh they want to use a branding that was previously popular and is still popular

00:06:18.560 in some other parts of the country like ontario and many maritime provinces but ultimately i don't

00:06:24.240 exactly know uh what sort of uh different uh platform and message that they're going to be

00:06:30.160 delivering to voters especially as uh the uh you already had the emergence of as i said the

00:06:35.680 wild rose loyalty coalition but more importantly the republican party of alberta that is actually

00:06:40.080 offering a true alternative to the ucp whether you like it or not you know they are a center-right

00:06:45.840 alternative that is advocating for uh separatism with the pcs just uh run on the same uh platform as

00:06:52.560 the ucp uh but just you know ran by different people i don't really understand it yeah no i can actually

00:06:58.880 answer that question but just first to clarify again uh so yeah the party name is only registered

00:07:06.880 at this point and uh to become a or sorry the name is only reserved but to become a registered party

00:07:13.920 officially that they need to reach one of three requirements firstly hold three seats in the

00:07:19.760 legislative assembly endorse candidates in at least half of alberta's electoral districts or

00:07:25.280 complete a petition containing at least just under 9 000 names of signatures of eligible electors

00:07:31.920 but yeah no so basically guthrie he said that the alberta ndp will win the next provincial election if

00:07:37.600 a conservative alternative is not on the ballot but that claim is uh just not true based on recent

00:07:44.560 polling of course we recently saw smith post the largest approval gain among premiers all across canada

00:07:51.360 and conversely we saw alberta ndp leader naheed nenshi pull very poorly in fact even worse than

00:07:57.440 rachel knotley in her final months when it comes to both electoral support and favorability so the

00:08:03.680 claims that they're making uh that the use the use uh sorry the alberta ndp will win if there's not an

00:08:09.600 alternative is just not true based on polling so i i don't really that's their claim noah but of course

00:08:15.920 it just doesn't seem to be true based on the data we have access to well i'm looking at 338 canada

00:08:21.920 right now the popular vote projection is 56 percent ucp 40 percent ndp with the seat projection being a 61

00:08:29.680 seat majority for the ucp so uh don't really get that one yeah so noah how about what we saw happen

00:08:38.560 in quebec here with a perhaps an erasure of history what what was going on in quebec city

00:08:44.320 yeah so the mayor of quebec city recently decided to remove a mosaic in the city hall's lobby depicting

00:08:53.120 samuel de champlain the founder of quebec city and him meeting some indigenous chiefs and it was deemed

00:09:00.720 that this mosaic was quote-unquote offensive because the mural depicts samuel de champlain talking to

00:09:08.880 and uh i guess indigenous uh activists would argue talking down to uh certain in indigenous chiefs

00:09:16.480 uh really it also shows that uh samuel de champlain's crew is also behind him he's the only one

00:09:22.560 on this sort of elevated platform but uh they said that this mural which was commissioned in 1950 by

00:09:29.680 an artist and a mosaicist i actually didn't know that was a thing but a mosaicist named uh walter

00:09:34.480 del mistro who was um commemorating the founding of quebec city it was it was a it was a mosaic

00:09:40.880 that was created in order to celebrate the city celebrate the history of the city and it was done

00:09:46.720 at a time at which quebecers canadians in general were more comfortable celebrating their own history

00:09:53.440 but in recent years with the rise of the woke movement you've seen that uh canadians have become

00:09:59.520 not only uncomfortable celebrating their own history but actively detest uh many of the important uh

00:10:05.600 figures of history um who have done significant things to build this country johnny mcdonald

00:10:10.640 had been the target of left-wing activists who have starred and feathered him and you know smeared

00:10:16.480 uh red paint on his statues and tore down the statues and he's seen the same things with people like

00:10:21.760 henry dundas and others who have done great things for this country so this is just the latest in the

00:10:27.920 lines samuel de champlain is next on the chopping block because i guess he was uh an explorer he

00:10:33.520 was a colon a colonialist uh who sought to create a colony for the french people uh in the lands that

00:10:40.640 we now call quebec uh now i guess his legacy ought to be uh tarred and feathered as well because he did

00:10:47.600 i guess participate in this you know grand colonial project which the left deems to be evil but i think

00:10:53.040 that a lot of quebecers uh really are not going to be happy with that because chamois de champlain is 1.00

00:10:59.040 someone who founded the city of quebec city quebecers are generally proud of who they are

00:11:03.680 they're proud to be quebecers uh and you know they appreciate many of the uh founding figures of their

00:11:10.160 people and their uh land has i guess been around for over 400 years um and you had the conservative

00:11:17.440 party leader in quebec eric duham he spoke uh about this he said quote wokeness is at its worst

00:11:24.800 erasing history who we are in the name of superficial inclusion and diversity there are all sorts of ways

00:11:31.520 to reconcile with first nations covering our historical mosaic with the sheet is not one of

00:11:36.560 them so you are starting to see some of this push back and low wokeism isn't exactly as popular in

00:11:42.560 quebec as it is in english canada but still it is being uh covered up and is now in the process of

00:11:48.800 being removed what are your guys thoughts on this story yeah no just quickly even from the perspective

00:11:55.680 of the lens if you see any history as bad from a modern context it's it's almost more important to

00:12:02.400 protect bad history than it is good because well the saying goes history always repeats itself that's

00:12:09.120 certainly the case if you don't have history to teach you lessons that you can learn from i mean

00:12:14.240 it's it's ridiculous of course we should never erase any history because that's how we can build on it

00:12:20.800 and become better as a society as humans etc i mean it's just insane to me what what do you think alex

00:12:26.640 yeah i think it's kind of interesting how this is not really a canadian thing necessarily like if you

00:12:33.040 recall a lot of this cancel culture of history we imported it from the united states a lot of it began

00:12:40.160 with the tearing down of confederate statues in the american south i think that was around 2015

00:12:47.600 kind of that was at the same time donald trump kind of emerged as a major political figure

00:12:53.120 coincided with that and what i find funny about this is that the liberals and the canadian

00:12:58.880 left are all decrying us importing u.s culture wars unless it's from the left like this is a

00:13:06.960 perfect example this is our equivalent to christopher columbus controversy right with samuel de champlain

00:13:13.040 so the left seems to be perfectly fine with us importing u.s politics as long as it benefits their

00:13:17.440 agenda absolutely and it really doesn't make a lot of sense because you know if you recall on the

00:13:23.120 history of the initial colonization of the lands that we now call canada

00:13:26.640 uh uh the french were honestly on pretty good terms with the indigenous peoples uh they engaged

00:13:32.800 in you know the fur trade and in the trades of many other uh goods that indigenous people didn't

00:13:38.240 have on their continent and the europeans didn't have on their continent uh and you know even though

00:13:43.200 there might have been some schisms within their relationship and ultimately uh that sort of

00:13:47.600 relationship was uh broken up after the uh seven years war uh ultimately the french did harbor better

00:13:55.280 relations with the indigenous than many other uh colonialists so i think it's a legacy that they

00:14:00.640 ought to be proud of uh and it's also you know the erasure of many of the virtues uh that make canada

00:14:07.600 you know the the fur traders and many of the initial pioneers of canada ought to be respected for

00:14:14.000 their hard work and their dedication to creating something new the ambitious spirit the explorer uh the

00:14:19.760 exploring uh spirit is something that we ought to honor and i think in the united states at least do

00:14:25.760 a good job of that even though cancel culture and wokeism i tried to erase that you know americans still

00:14:30.880 value uh hard work and uh values sort of the entrepreneurial spirit and that is something that

00:14:36.720 is ingrained in the canadian dna uh you know with the example of people like some of the champlain

00:14:43.120 so with the continued erasure of you know these historical figures it's not just the history that

00:14:48.160 you're erasing and it's the values that have made this country great and when you erase those two

00:14:53.440 things well you're not going to have the same country it's going to be a completely different

00:14:57.840 country so uh people like some of the champlain you know sure they're not perfect but who is perfect

00:15:02.640 right like why are we expecting perfection from these historical figures who believed in different

00:15:07.360 value systems than us uh so yeah i think it's completely awful but you know the fact that you do

00:15:12.960 have the quebec conservative party able to stand up uh on issues like that i think is an encouraging

00:15:19.200 sign uh do you do you guys think that quebecers are really going to stand for this as they are 1.00

00:15:24.960 generally a prouder people than english canadians uh like you said noah i i think quebec is perhaps

00:15:32.080 more anti-woke than most provinces in canada and not just that they're more and

00:15:39.280 i don't know i don't want to say nationalist because it's a province but they're more uh

00:15:46.960 proud of themselves as their own right yeah exactly i guess they're more nationalists so

00:15:52.160 in that sense you'd assume they'd want to protect their province's history

00:15:56.160 being being a national nationalist province i i don't know yeah i think it's interesting too i think

00:16:01.440 bill maher was the first person i heard coin the term but presentism and noah you kind of touched on

00:16:06.000 that the idea of holding people historically speaking you know from 300 years ago to the

00:16:10.720 standards of today it is really a fool's errand and it's quite quite a silly thing to do um nobody

00:16:17.600 is perfect and the past is a foreign country and people do things differently there right 1.00

00:16:23.360 yeah anyways alex uh we're so used to seeing because of the catch and release laws bad bail

00:16:29.600 stories of of murderers etc getting out on bail but maybe we saw a bail story this week that might

00:16:35.760 actually make some people happy because i mean you know better than anyone on the crime beat but

00:16:40.720 most of the the the stories we see regarding paler are not happy stories yeah what happened here yeah

00:16:46.400 we finally got a good one so uh chris carver who was one of the four accused um colloquially known

00:16:53.840 as the coots four uh he was accused of conspiracy to commit murder of rcmp officers in february of 2022

00:17:02.160 it was in relation to a protest that occurred on the coots border which they share with sweetgrass

00:17:08.480 montana it's the largest point of entry for the province of alberta they shut down one lane of

00:17:13.680 traffic for just over a week and he has been languishing in prison now for well over two years

00:17:20.720 along with his co-accused tony olianic even though they were both found not guilty of conspiracy to commit

00:17:25.520 murder of rcmp officers the two other gentlemen who were charged originally had their conspiracy to commit

00:17:30.800 murder charges dropped entirely they pled guilty to really lesser charges i would say very very low

00:17:38.080 level criminal charges for instance chris lizak pled guilty to improper storage of a firearm typically

00:17:44.640 you would be fined for that um chris lizak sorry that was chris lizak jeremy morin or jerry morin

00:17:51.200 excuse me pled guilty to conspiracy to traffic a firearm so basically he made the mistake of saying to

00:17:57.760 somebody that he would move a fire to be close to the protest site in the exceedingly unlikely event

00:18:04.560 that there was a firefight between protesters and the police so essentially a thought crime

00:18:10.080 carbert has finally been granted beal bail pending his appeal which it should be submitted by july 14th

00:18:16.880 although most people don't expect him to be out until probably september because the wheels of justice grind

00:18:21.120 slowly um but this is a really really great thing um for people who believe that people should not be

00:18:29.360 put in jail for protesting yeah absolutely i mean like you can disagree with the message of the coots

00:18:38.240 blockade or disagree with the way they went about it whatever it doesn't really matter because at the

00:18:43.680 end of the day we live in a free and democratic society and you know you don't do that to protesters you

00:18:48.320 don't try and throw them in prison for you know trying to raise awareness for a given cause and if the

00:18:55.760 if the canadian government really tried to pursue uh to such you know with such stringency the charges

00:19:02.160 that they have against these protesters for say environmental activists or indigenous protesters if

00:19:07.840 you recall when uh indigenous protesters blockaded uh railways uh in order to protest uh pipelines and stuff

00:19:16.080 like that uh it's not like the federal government came in rounded them up and you know tried to

00:19:21.440 you know charge them and put them through a multi-year court process uh instead they you

00:19:27.360 know they cleared the blockade sure and let them go about their day and for people who uh engaged

00:19:33.440 further went beyond protest uh i think you know they did pursue some charges i remember uh elizabeth

00:19:39.520 elizabeth may even got arrested she didn't get charged but uh you know she got arrested at one of these things

00:19:44.480 but yeah that's another thing you could do you just arrest these folks and you don't lay charges

00:19:49.040 because at the end of the day uh when you are going against certain people a certain class of people

00:19:55.040 which is the unvaccinated and they rise up in protest to uh articulate to the government that

00:20:00.880 they are being oppressed and then you come in and you you know you levy that you hit them with uh

00:20:07.440 you know substantive charges it sort of adds to the narrative it adds to the rhetoric that they are

00:20:12.800 uh being oppressed by the government and i think this is a clear example of that so um you know

00:20:18.560 and quite frankly it's very very hypocritical because you see the way that uh the federal government

00:20:23.360 they treat people who commit other crimes uh you know who are you know career criminals uh who are

00:20:29.120 robbing people who are hurting people in the streets you know these are the people that are being

00:20:34.240 being granted bail the next day after uh they commit these crimes and these are the people whose charges

00:20:40.080 are being stayed and these are the people who you know the judges are making arguments of section 8

00:20:45.440 arguments for oh it's cruel unusual punishment that they have to you know do three years in prison

00:20:50.560 uh you know you know stuff like this that you know really highlights the hypocrisy of the in the

00:20:56.080 canadian justice system yeah speaking of hypocrisy i mean we see protests daily nationwide for foreign

00:21:04.240 conflicts but i i don't know alex was this just really a problem because it was against the federal

00:21:08.560 government not some foreign entity well i think the timing is important so this protest was in

00:21:14.640 conjunction and in solidarity with the protest that was going on in ottawa there was no communication

00:21:20.240 between the two protests though they were independent but they were over the same thing which noah

00:21:24.160 noted was vaccine mandates basically what happened in my opinion and there's a little bit of

00:21:30.720 speculation and theorizing that goes into play here is that the federal government needed a

00:21:35.200 boogeyman to invoke the emergencies act the arrests on february 13th and 14th coincided almost exactly

00:21:41.920 with when justin trudeau announced the emergencies act and i was actually in the federal court of

00:21:47.440 appeals recently because the federal government is appealing the justice mosley decision which deemed the

00:21:54.320 invocation of the emergencies act illegal and coots came up repeatedly the the government is still

00:21:59.280 holding the line even though these guys were deemed not guilty of conspiracy to commit murder they're

00:22:04.160 still using this as their justification for invoking the emergencies act so i don't think it's a

00:22:08.640 coincidence i think if you need a boogeyman badly enough you'll just manufacture one well you bring

00:22:14.320 up a great point alex because you know the federal government they did everything in their power to

00:22:19.840 portray the entire freedom convoy as a bunch of extremists you know uh bigoted uh violent people so what

00:22:28.720 they have to do so what they have to do yeah exactly right like literal nazis is how they tried to

00:22:33.920 portray them during the freedom convoy which was utterly ridiculous and we knew it at the time and

00:22:37.920 we know it now but you know what they try to do is they try to take the the most aggressive sort of

00:22:43.600 protest in the country and then they take you know a handful of people who you know may have uh brought

00:22:49.040 weapons close to the protest site may not have uh and then they try to portray the entire freedom

00:22:55.040 freedom movement the entire freedom convoy as being like you know the people who you know are

00:23:01.200 being thrown in prison and and basically to try associate all the people who support the freedom

00:23:05.760 convoy with crime with disorder uh with all these other sort of things that we negatively associate in

00:23:11.520 our heads but it is just not true and the fact that these um that these gentlemen are are being released

00:23:19.280 uh and that they are actually successfully fighting these charges uh really is um is a detriment to

00:23:24.640 the federal government's narrative and i hope that uh you know when the federal government appeals the uh

00:23:30.640 decision the ruling that the emergencies act uh invocation was illegal that you know the judge sees uh the

00:23:37.680 results of um the prosecutions against the these goose protesters and were utterly determined that the federal government

00:23:44.400 they had engaged in a malicious operation to portray a certain group of people in a extremely negative

00:23:51.600 light and that it was completely unfair and they have to reconcile uh for you know we need some truth

00:23:58.560 and reconciliation for everything that they had done over the past years yeah i would like to see that as

00:24:03.680 well knowing you i like to look at things fairly holistically and i think you made a good point if these

00:24:07.920 were left-wing protesters if these were environmental protesters or let's say radical trans protesters a bunch of men

00:24:13.280 wearing sun dresses blocking the border i think we would all be in favor of them getting some mischief

00:24:18.240 charges and a slap on the wrist i mean if you if you block a border you should expect mischief charges

00:24:25.520 like let's be honest here uh but where the government i think went way too far was the conspiracy to

00:24:30.320 commit murder charge i think it was just a logical leap there was no evidence presented in court no

00:24:35.280 substantive evidence proving that any conspiracy existed these four men had never met each other

00:24:40.480 and they would they just brushed shoulders at the protest two of them had known each other from

00:24:44.560 school but i mean i talked to one of them personally i actually went over to jerry's house and i talked

00:24:50.400 to him personally he says i couldn't tell you tony from adam if i were walking down the street he passed

00:24:55.600 me on the street i wouldn't even recognize it so the idea that this is some kind of gang of you know

00:25:01.760 right roving raving right-wing lunatics who are looking to take over the country and split the crown

00:25:07.760 land between them is just utterly absurd yeah i don't know anything about uh them committing

00:25:12.960 conspiracy conspiracy to commit murder but uh you know i guess the government believes that they're

00:25:16.960 conspiracy theorists so they meet half the criteria like oh speaking of oh go ahead no you could say

00:25:23.920 it alex because i was going to move on if you got something else yeah just something very quickly so

00:25:27.360 the cbc also put out a documentary on this case called conspiracy and coots the name is absolutely

00:25:33.120 hilarious in and of itself because they named it conspiracy even though the conspiracy charge

00:25:38.080 they were found not guilty on so the cbc has been drawing this narrative from the very beginning that

00:25:43.920 these guys were influenced by a right-wing organization if you want to call them that

00:25:50.080 called diagonal which is really just like three guys that do a podcast from their trailers in nova scotia

00:25:56.480 and some of their views are in my opinion completely unacceptable but the cbc has been driving this

00:26:01.920 narrative for the better part of two years again even though nothing in the court transcripts shows

00:26:06.400 that there's any connection between diagonal and these guys whatsoever so i submitted a freedom of

00:26:11.040 information request to the cbc to figure out why are they driving this narrative even though there's

00:26:15.520 nothing to corroborate it in the court records and they presented me with a 262 page document that

00:26:22.000 is 99 redacted so nobody there wants to take ownership of this i don't blame them i think that that's

00:26:28.240 probably a cya legal procedure um because they really did i in my opinion hurt these men's right

00:26:34.080 to a fair trial and even though they hurt these men's right to a fair trial they were still deemed

00:26:38.560 not guilty on the conspiracy charge which just shows you that it was fabricated at a whole cloth yeah if

00:26:44.240 everything's working against you and you're still found not guilty i i'd say i'd say you're pretty

00:26:48.400 you're probably not guilty yeah you're probably not yeah but speaking of the federal government and

00:26:54.080 national pride uh just wanted to cover a quick poll here which might come as a surprise to absolutely

00:26:59.680 nobody that canadian national pride is split clearly by a generational gap so this was an angus

00:27:06.400 reed institute survey that did find that 72 percent of canadians say the country has a good quality of

00:27:12.400 life but that figure fell drastically for youth which they classified as those under 35 years old

00:27:18.800 so uh uh between uh among 18 to 34 year olds nearly one in three that being 27 percent say that canada

00:27:26.320 is no longer a good place to start a family i mean one in three canadians saying that i mean that's crazy

00:27:31.360 and but this contrasted sharply with uh retirement age canadians almost eight and ten of whom said that

00:27:37.520 the country remains an ideal place to raise children so we're really seeing a gap between the young

00:27:43.680 adults up and coming in life versus the older canadians who feel that the country is still a

00:27:47.920 good thing i mean there's so many variables here i i i often think of it as people who work from home

00:27:54.160 versus people who who who work outside there's there's obviously a gap there because i obviously

00:27:59.840 so i don't see the issues every day but then i go outside sometimes and i'm like man it's it's far worse

00:28:04.160 than i thought like just one example being an easy example traffic it's like this is crazy that i've i i was

00:28:11.120 born and raised here i know i know what i have experienced throughout my life and this is unlike

00:28:15.760 anything i've ever seen especially being in alberta as you guys know with interprovincial migration uh

00:28:21.520 highest among across the country we of course have a lot of people coming here so just seeing that uh

00:28:27.760 if you if you for example drove to work every day you're going to have a different opinion than

00:28:30.880 someone who works from home but so it's not just an age gap but also a a life gap if you if you would

00:28:36.640 but yeah anyways the new findings also suggested that younger canadians are obviously struggling

00:28:41.600 with economic uncertainty while older canadians who many of whom rallied behind prime minister mark

00:28:47.520 carney say that they're they were more likely to find donald trump as a threat right whereas

00:28:54.960 canadians i think younger canadians have bigger concerns they they don't know how they're going to

00:28:58.720 pay for that and ask me to buy a home get a car get a job the list goes on and it seems almost

00:29:04.480 never-ending another interesting thing from this study which i'll just mention quick because i am

00:29:08.960 an albertan obviously uh albertans were i think the most pessimistic among all the provinces regarding

00:29:15.200 canada and its quality of life uh yeah i'm sure this these studies findings come come as a surprise

00:29:22.320 to neither of you guys what do you think well there's a few threads to pull on there so one uh young

00:29:27.920 people are a lot more uh pessimistic compared to their older compatriots and alberta happens to be

00:29:34.800 the youngest province uh out of uh in the entire confederation so uh it makes a lot of sense that

00:29:41.120 albertans would be the most pessimistic out of everyone uh and then you just add on top of the

00:29:46.880 fact that the federal government for decades have been trying to you know uh you know ex use exploit

00:29:54.880 exploitative here uh you know they've been trying to uh mess with albertans they've been trying to steal

00:30:00.080 their wealth uh through the you know the equalization program and other transfers and ultimately albertans

00:30:05.360 have a right to be upset that the federal government not only is taking their money but also regulating

00:30:10.560 their industries out of business uh so it seems as if albertans are sort of aware of this and canadians

00:30:17.680 uh new canadians are aware of this i mean i mean if you think about it right like if you're someone who

00:30:23.200 grew up in say not the best circumstances and you know you went to school and you grew up in an

00:30:29.520 environment in which you know you have wokeism running amok and you have the teachers unable to

00:30:35.600 sort of controls uh some of a lot of the negative influences in in the school this makes it harder

00:30:40.960 to get a solid education uh and then you go out into the street and there's more crime uh you know if

00:30:46.800 you're in toronto you walk by nathan phillips square uh you might be accosted by by people and then when

00:30:52.480 you try to get a job as a youth you're not able to get a job because all the uh the the small businesses

00:30:58.160 and all the uh people who are hiring low-wage workers are using temporary foreign workers right

00:31:03.360 so it's just like a vicious cycle that young canadians are kept in and sure maybe you can still have pride

00:31:10.400 for your country even if you know your personal circumstances uh are not the greatest but you have to be

00:31:16.080 able to understand when people are actually struggling in this country that they feel

00:31:21.760 like this country isn't uh working for them and that like why should i have pride in the country

00:31:26.720 if the country hasn't done anything for me and it's it's a totally sort of understandable uh thing

00:31:32.400 i saw this uh like a similar phenomenon in another poll uh where it was boomers it was people canadians 60

00:31:39.760 years old plus who uh were the greatest you know sort of canadian nationalists uh but you know

00:31:45.760 what did these people do they voted for the continuation of another government uh who had

00:31:51.760 prioritized their um you know priorities inflating asset values through inflation uh and you know

00:31:58.080 giving continuous benefits uh to the elderly and to seniors uh while uh young canadians suffered and

00:32:04.160 young canadians they voted against the liberal government and older canadians they en masse went toward

00:32:10.080 uh the liberals there are more older people who vote in elections than younger people hence why the

00:32:14.400 liberals won right so uh it's all a part it's all confirming uh a lot of what we've learned about

00:32:21.120 the country in the past few years and uh you know i think it's really a shame that it's not the young

00:32:27.040 people who have the passion for the country it's the old people who are not gonna be here in like 20 30 1.00

00:32:31.920 years yeah before you go alex i just wanted to say something quickly that might not first come to mind

00:32:37.600 when you read this poll and what what the underlying issue actually results in because

00:32:43.680 of course we see that young canadians are the most pessimistic in the country and we already know our

00:32:49.040 birth rate is among the lowest in the world it's like 1.3 or something this is abysmal i've heard

00:32:54.240 people say like there's never been a country that recovered once you get below like 1.7 i mean we're way

00:32:59.360 way below that and of course just for listeners you need a birth rate of 2.1 to maintain your population

00:33:05.520 maintain so at this point canadian populace is is going to be erased of course our population can 0.71

00:33:12.480 only grow through immigration when our birth rate is at 1.3 and when canadians are saying

00:33:16.880 that it's not a good place to raise a family canada the economics uh uncertainty i mean the

00:33:22.400 birth rates only ever going to get worse if that's the uh overlying uh sentiment that young canadians

00:33:29.360 feel i mean it's just a terrible situation that we find ourselves in from that perspective yeah

00:33:33.840 so sorry to cut you off there alex but no no um yeah at the risk of departing too far from the

00:33:40.640 story itself i think that you bring up a really interesting point um i was just looking it up

00:33:45.120 recently so 96 a staggering 96 of canada's population growth is just due to immigration

00:33:51.840 so to your point we're not having enough kids however i also want to avoid falling into the crab trap

00:33:58.560 of thinking just reducing or putting a moratorium on immigration is going to magically solve all of

00:34:04.720 our problems including our birth rate if you look back historically countries that have had similar

00:34:09.520 population crises look at japan for instance they had very low levels of immigration and virtually zero

00:34:16.160 immigration and people did not have more children to fill in the gap so to speak so i'm not necessarily

00:34:22.880 certain that if we stop bringing in immigrants that canadians would just start by osmosis magically 1.00

00:34:28.560 popping out children you know by the dozens i think that it's also just a law of history that when

00:34:34.160 people reach a certain level of comfortability with industrialization and with modernization people

00:34:39.920 just start having less children one of the reasons for that is that kids go from being an asset to a

00:34:44.000 liability very quickly if you're in central africa right now for instance one of the reasons they're having

00:34:48.720 so many children is if you need to go 15 kilometer on a 15 kilometer hike to get water from a well

00:34:54.800 children are an asset they they're they're labor assets right whereas in canada i mean all they want

00:35:00.800 is toys exactly more or less like a liability so um i'm not really sure that that this is something

00:35:08.560 that we're going to fix just by reducing immigration on the issue of the poll itself um i think that it

00:35:14.000 would probably correlate very heavily based off of home ownership people who own their own homes

00:35:19.440 generally feel more economically secure they're also more receptive to immigration because it

00:35:25.600 increases their net worth uh increases demand for their properties and so on and so forth so i'm not

00:35:31.040 actually terribly surprised by the polling results either yeah another study that i i read probably

00:35:38.080 months ago i think it was done by cardis she's not having a baby it was called and it talked about

00:35:43.120 why women this i don't think it was just canada it was uh maybe all north america i don't remember

00:35:47.600 the exact geographic but why women were not having a baby and in short there was many reasons career 0.98

00:35:52.800 etc they just wanted to focus on themselves but in the end once they reached a certain age they were all

00:35:59.840 there was there was a uh conclusion of regret that that these women did not have babies because 0.92

00:36:04.800 they prioritized other things so so obviously there are bigger issues than just economic but at the same

00:36:10.240 time if people were more economically secure they're going to be more lax with having a child because 1.00

00:36:17.280 if you can't afford to pay your own bills then obviously a child's going to make that worse not

00:36:21.920 better no you were going to say something on this subject tonight yeah i like yeah i like uh not to

00:36:30.000 like try and deviate too far but you know like the poll shows that you know young canadians they're like

00:36:36.560 the country's not working for them i kind of don't like when politicians say like you know

00:36:40.160 the economy is just not working for xyz people but if you look at the way the canadian economy

00:36:45.920 is structured i mean with the declining birth rate uh with you know home ownership being placed out of

00:36:52.560 reach uh for many younger canadians and younger adults uh with the fact that you know government um

00:37:00.160 subsidies uh like uh for uh the elderly quite frankly um they're all increasing uh the canadian

00:37:07.360 economy is increasingly structured to provide for those who are older you know as also you see on

00:37:12.560 a provincial level where uh the share of spending on health care continues to increase and health care

00:37:18.240 spending is by and large used by old people yeah sure maybe you're younger uh you gotta you know

00:37:23.920 you broke your arm you know play uh riding your bike or whatever and then you know you need to get

00:37:28.240 your arm fixed but you know you might not go to the hospital for another five years right uh but

00:37:32.560 for older people healthcare so the canadian economy is increasingly structured to benefit older people

00:37:37.760 at the expense of young people and there needs to be a fundamental shift um in that sort of way that

00:37:43.280 we run the economy and it's going to take a lot of political capital to do so uh it's good you know

00:37:49.840 gonna mean politicians are gonna have to take some unpopular opinions uh unpopular positions for the

00:37:55.120 good of the country but ultimately you know if you want the young people to stay in this country and 1.00

00:38:00.240 not just move the united states for the hopes of a better wage uh if you want to be able to provide

00:38:06.800 for the benefits that old people continue to receive in health care and in the oas uh you have to make 0.99

00:38:14.960 sure that the canadian uh youth are invigorated uh economically and psychically in order to produce

00:38:22.640 you know those continued uh good results and just to be clear i'm not defending the liberal immigration

00:38:28.640 policies i i want to be very clear about that no i think you just bring a good point though yeah i think

00:38:35.520 that at one point we were bringing in five people for every new housing star which includes single

00:38:40.160 individual dwellings right so i don't think it's any coincidence that we see all of these 10 cities

00:38:46.400 in exactly the same time in conjunction with this mass immigration i i think that it's way over the speed limit

00:38:52.400 but i also don't think that if we just reduced it to zero that all of canada's problems would magically

00:38:57.120 disappear yeah alex so you you're saying stopping immigration altogether might not solve canada's

00:39:04.160 problems how about stopping the immigration of foreign criminals because of course we saw this week 0.97

00:39:09.920 that immigration canada welcomed over 17 000 foreign criminals some of whom had very serious convictions

00:39:16.560 so yeah what what did we we think about that story coming out i mean this is crazy is canada

00:39:21.360 becoming a safe haven for criminals well you know what's funny about this is i actually attended

00:39:26.160 recently i think it was peel regional police did a press conference on a major drug bust that they

00:39:31.600 did it was a cocaine bust and the leader the regional director for the cbsa when he was asked if

00:39:38.320 we're deporting these foreign nationals who are committing crimes i believe he said something along 0.65

00:39:42.800 the lines of over the last three years they've deported 18 000 so when i saw this number i thought oh

00:39:47.760 that's so funny like it's not really funny but we're essentially like netting zero at this point

00:39:53.760 because we're bringing in criminals as we're kicking them out at almost the exact same rate

00:39:58.480 and these are also just the criminals we know about right i know that there's also some really really

00:40:02.400 dysfunctional information sharing between countries like canada and india specifically

00:40:06.640 so i bet you there's a lot more that we just don't even know about frankly

00:40:09.600 yeah my thing is like why do we need to import anyone who is a foreign criminal i mean it's not 1.00

00:40:16.400 like uh it's not like these people are going to be contributing to canada because uh you know their

00:40:22.480 past then uh i'm not saying you know the past determines their future but uh you could get a good

00:40:27.760 idea of a person based on their criminal record i think you know uh but yeah it deserves canada's

00:40:34.160 interest in no way shape or form and quite frankly it makes the country more dangerous and if you

00:40:40.160 recall you know we've been talking about the fact that crime has been rising naturally over the past

00:40:45.520 several years uh but it goes further i mean you've seen the uh instant the love the number of terrorist

00:40:51.600 incidents uh go up in uh the recent years and months uh i i if you recall in toronto like i think last

00:40:59.440 year there was a man and a son who attempted to commit a terrorist attack and they were uh stopped

00:41:05.680 by the police at the last minute there was a few other uh instances like this and you see these types

00:41:10.800 of stories uh happening more and more often uh they're more they're more happening more frequently

00:41:16.000 in this country and i don't think it's a coincidence that you know canada is importing 17 000 criminals 0.65

00:41:22.880 over the past 11 years that we are seeing an increase in these incidents a lot of these times these

00:41:27.760 people are coming from say islamist countries or they subscribe to an islamist ideology and you know

00:41:35.360 then they you know go and join isis or they watch a bunch of their content and they get inspired by this

00:41:41.840 stuff and they believe in the global jihad or you know it's even uh you know like looking at the

00:41:46.800 calistani uh you know population right like uh sure perhaps the indian government should not have murdered

00:41:52.960 uh uh nijjar uh hardeep singh nijjar but at the same time there's a good argument to be made that

00:41:59.840 hardeep singh nijjar should not have even been letting canada in the first place because of the

00:42:04.800 accusations uh against them his uh alleged involvement in a certain calistani uh nefarious calistani

00:42:12.400 organizations uh if you just see the calistani movement writ large you know there are a lot of

00:42:18.240 sort of nefarious figures within the movement who have been accused of committing certain crimes in

00:42:23.280 india and abroad so uh these people aren't adding to the cultural mosaic the cultural tapestry of the

00:42:29.840 country you know i don't think uh you know gangland shootings or terrorist attacks you know is adding

00:42:36.080 to canadian culture in any way uh it's it's certainly not something that young people are looking at

00:42:41.760 and saying wow this makes my this makes me feel proud of my country right uh but uh you know the fact

00:42:46.960 that the canadian government thought it was acceptable to let in all these uh criminals just 0.93

00:42:51.440 shows a level of incompetence and the disconnect that the auto washed bureaucrats have yeah just 1.00

00:42:58.320 taking it more broadly i think just generally as a country with a strong immigration policy you should

00:43:05.920 the first thing you should be asking someone is how are you going to make the country better

00:43:09.520 and i feel the many canadians issues with with so many immigrants we've seen coming in recently are 0.56

00:43:15.280 they might be a net negative on the country meaning they take more than they give and in no way shape

00:43:20.560 or form should should that be an immigration policy you you should have to come and prove how are you

00:43:24.560 going to make canada a better place if you're not then you're not allowed in it's it's really that

00:43:28.000 simple for example when i think of some european countries with very strong immigration policies

00:43:33.600 and if i wanted to immigrate there for example it'd be like well there's no way they'd take me what

00:43:37.360 what am i going to do for their country right like i mean that that's how really it should be like

00:43:41.920 if you're not going to be a net positive on the country then you should not be able to come as an

00:43:46.160 immigrant of course there are anomalies you know uh refugees etc but we've seen lots of corruption 1.00

00:43:51.040 there but a legitimate refugee who's fleeing war i mean yeah without getting too deep into the weeds

00:43:58.000 maybe we should wrap this up just remember everything you heard today has been off the record

00:44:02.800 that was i felt like we could have talked all day i know i didn't want to get myself into too much

00:44:15.440 trouble and i've got the uh i just got the call in details for this um bail hearing oh so i gotta jump

00:44:23.200 into that which one is that that one is for the fentanyl guy um fentanyl guy uh that should be like

00:44:33.200 the the title of the article you know fentanyl guy you know whatever update that it is it's a weird

00:44:38.880 case so like so chris carbet spent two and a half years in prison for a crime he was found not guilty

00:44:43.520 of and now he's getting bail and this guy probably super guilty of of uh trafficking fentanyl and he'll be

00:44:48.320 out in bail the next day right the most amount of fentanyl in canadian history and yeah lethal doses to

00:44:52.560 kill every canadian almost how is there even a bail hearing for that like really i'm just surprised

00:44:57.840 they're even letting me in because this one has been a tough one they've been trying to block me

00:45:01.760 out and i think it's because there's a lot of information related to an ongoing investigation

00:45:06.320 like this guy definitely didn't do this on his own i need to ask grok or one of these other chat

00:45:13.120 box the created image of fentanyl guy to me you know in a super i have a picture of him yeah alex's

00:45:19.600 header for the next for that story when you guys see it'll be a grok created image of fentanyl guy

00:45:23.600 take take that picture of him and tell the chat gpt or whatever to generate a picture to me uh of

00:45:29.200 this guy being fentanyl man you know the the super villain who goes around uh giving a little kid

00:45:34.800 bags of fentanyl you know that to be fair chat gpt's image creation used to be pretty weak but these days

00:45:40.720 it's very good like it can be getting better complex images fast yeah it used to suck honestly

00:45:45.520 but these days i'm so surprised i'm like wow this is improving it's such a unbelievable rate like all

00:45:50.960 technology i guess well i remember like playing around with the image generation tools when it

00:45:55.440 first came out and i asked the ai i don't know if it's grok or chat gpt to generate a picture of john

00:46:01.840 and mcdonald shaking donald trump's hand my gosh like john and mcdonald look like uh yeah he looked like

00:46:08.240 dick cheney not john mcdonald i was like who is this guy what like what are you doing what are

00:46:14.480 you doing here you know it doesn't do a good job at all with like canadian politicians former or

00:46:19.680 current you know like a generated picture of uh peer polio have it looked like tucker carlson i'm

00:46:24.000 like who is this yeah it's come a long way unlike canada's catch and release system

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