00:18:27.480See, if government had to exclusively borrow real money from credit markets, then they would drive up interest rates in the immediate term.
00:18:38.720So what they do to try and hide the effect of all their deficit spending on the present economy is they print the cash using the central bank.
00:18:48.300And the bank buys up the government bonds and keeps Canadians from knowing where the money is coming from.
00:18:56.180So then when grocers and home builders and gas stations raise prices, everyone thinks that it's all a bunch of greedy people in the private sector, when in fact all of it is governmental inflation.
00:19:08.040So it's the worst tax. It's a hidden tax. It is the most dishonest and regressive tax it takes from the poorest people for whom consumption and cash holdings are the largest share of their wealth and family budgets.
00:19:23.680It makes a very small group of billionaires and bureaucrats very wealthy because, of course, they get the money before it loses its value and they get to have their assets inflated.
00:19:36.100It is the single biggest reason why we have a growing gap between rich and poor.
00:19:48.760You know what the average inflation rate has been in Switzerland for the last 25 years?
00:19:52.1200.8%. In fact, they had almost no interest right now. Like if you're borrowing in Switzerland,
00:20:00.760you pay almost no interest because they have no inflation. They have like literally no inflation.
00:20:05.500They have the best money in the world, the Swiss franc. It's more valuable than the euro
00:20:10.160and the US dollar. And their people get great purchasing power. And all this BS about how
00:20:17.900inflation is just a global phenomenon. Well, they're a part of the global economy
00:20:21.680and they live right smack in the middle of Europe and somehow the Swiss don't have inflation. Why?
00:20:27.780It's because they have sound money. And by the way, their central bank owns a phenomenal amount
00:20:32.180of gold. They didn't sell their gold like the Liberals and Mark Carney did here in Canada.
00:20:38.840So the Swiss have good, sound, solid money, great purchasing power. That's what we can do in this
00:20:46.660country, stop the deficits, stop money printing, bring back the buying power of our cash.
00:20:53.080I wanted to get to deficits and balanced budgets. I did not have this in my bingo card,
00:20:59.460that the central banker and the dude with a PhD in economics was going to be worse with money
00:21:04.280than the drama teacher. Did not have that in my bingo card. What I'm saying in all seriousness
00:21:09.200is that he's planning on spending more money. If I can interrupt you on that, just keep in mind
00:21:13.440that there's only one, there's one thing that's worse than being uneducated and it's being badly
00:21:17.360educated. And Mr. Carney is very badly educated on economics. And that is why he has been wrong
00:21:23.500on every single economic issue of our time. Every one of them. Net zero, his net zero alliance,
00:21:29.440which was meant to defund our energy sector, that alliance has gone bankrupt. His money printing,
00:21:35.900his support of carbon taxes, his opposition to the pipeline to the Pacific. By the way,
00:21:40.760he's had to publicly reverse himself on all these things. So it's not just that I'm saying he was
00:21:45.460wrong. He's admitting that he was wrong. So it's hard to understand how a guy who claims to be so
00:21:49.540smart can be so wrong for so long. How do we get spending under control? Like the overspending,
00:21:56.580go ahead. You've got to cut bureaucracy. You've got to cut the consulting. They're spending 27
00:22:03.420billion dollars on consultants this year. That's 1,400 bucks for every family in Canada for federal
00:22:09.160government consultants, an amount that has gone up by about 130% in the last decade.
00:22:14.240I would get rid of the corporate welfare. Let's cut back on foreign aid and handouts to fake
00:22:21.520phony refugees. I've also announced I would cut back on the $90 billion Alto Rail Project,0.99
00:22:28.920which is a colossal, colossal waste of money that's only going to take, if it ever happens,
00:22:34.440by the way. It'll happen 12 years from now. Almost 70% of Canadians will never use it,
00:22:40.580but we'll have to spend $8,000 per family on taxes to pay for its construction, after which,
00:22:46.900by the way, it will continue to lose money every year forever by their own admission.
00:22:51.560And finally, it will only take people out of airplanes, which is a money-making mode of
00:22:56.900transportation, and put them into trains, which are a money-losing mode of transportation. And
00:23:02.440it will take longer to get from Toronto to Montreal than it does now by plane. So it
00:23:08.220travels slower, costs more, loses money. Why do it? Get rid of it. These are all things
00:23:14.260that I'm proposing to save money. And then finally, it's passed a dollar for dollar law
00:23:18.460that requires any minister that brings forward a new spending initiative to match that spending
00:23:22.140with equal amount of savings. That would cap government while the taxpayer and the economy
00:23:28.720catches up. Before I move on to Rogan and say goodbye, you're in BC. People are really worried
00:23:37.300about their private property. Of course, I'm sure you know all about the Cowichan decision.
00:23:41.780Taxpayers Federation, our first step is saying we need to enshrine private property rights in
00:23:46.940the constitution. Are you hearing a lot of worry coming from homeowners in BC and across Canada?
00:23:52.580Where are you on this stuff? Yeah, there's a lot of worry. Basically,
00:23:57.080the backstory for anybody who doesn't know, there's been a ruling by the British Columbia
00:24:03.460Supreme Court, which says that the Cowichan are entitled to all of the land in an 800 acre radius,
00:24:17.080but a billion dollars worth of real estate because of some hearsay evidence that ancestors one day
00:24:24.740did some seasonal fishing there. It was not the place they resided, but it was where they allegedly
00:24:29.980fished some centuries ago. And the result is that people are worried they're going to lose
00:24:38.120their property. And it's not just Richmond, though. There are claims on almost every square
00:24:43.120inch of British Columbia, and none of those claims are acceded because they're not covered
00:24:50.420by treaties, which typically seed land. Like the prairies don't have to worry because they have
00:24:55.660treaties there where the First Nations seeded the land in exchange for other things. There's no such
00:25:02.160thing in BC. And so right now, all British Columbian private property is at risk. There are
00:25:08.120multi-million dollar investments canceled every day because they can't be secure financing against
00:25:13.500an unsecure collateral. And this could drag on for years. I've presented a four-point plan.
00:25:19.320One is for the Liberal government to reverse its directive to its lawyers.
00:25:24.480Right now, the Liberal government says to the lawyers who are arguing against this ruling in appeal
00:25:29.720that the government should not fight for fee-simple property rights,
00:25:35.480I believe because it's politically incorrect.
00:25:37.740I say to Mark Carney, reverse that directive, fight for fee-simple property rights.
00:25:42.200Two, don't sign any more agreements with any First Nation that does not include an explicit clarification
00:25:48.600that be simple property, your home, your land comes first in any dispute. Three, we want Mark
00:25:55.300Carney to present his plan. It's been almost a year since the ruling in August of last year,
00:26:00.320and we still have no plan for Mark Carney on how he's going to respond to this massive threat to
00:26:04.180private property. And finally, we want a parliamentary committee to immediately begin
00:26:07.600studying options like the one you discussed, the legal, political, and constitutional changes that
00:26:12.640might be necessary in order to protect private property in B.C. and across the land.
00:26:17.100Well, that's a very good start. Thank you for covering that one. And lastly, you and I have talked a lot over the years. And I noticed during one of your rallies that I saw in British Columbia, that there were people waiting. I think this is this before the election. You were just out campaigning and talking to people, connecting with people. And I noticed that people were waiting to talk to you for like three hours. And they were often working people. And we get the same sort of emails.
00:26:46.780I read the same sort of letters to the editor that everybody else does. And so I would argue
00:26:51.540that those are the typical working taxpaying people here in Canada. Then they listen to
00:26:58.540things like Joe Rogan. They listen to those big podcasts. Is that why you went on Rogan? Did you
00:27:04.680want to feel better connected to those people again? Were you missing the rallies? What was
00:27:10.040that like? Just talk to me about that. Well, it was great. Joe Rogan is a great man. He's
00:27:15.980look, he's the greatest podcaster in the world. And there's a reason for that. I mean, there's
00:27:22.400like, you know, there's literally hundreds of thousands of people who flip open their computer
00:27:27.560and make their own little podcast. But why is Joe Rogan special? I think it's because one,
00:27:33.540he is constantly searching for the truth. And he admits he doesn't have all the answers. He's
00:27:39.120genuinely open-minded so he brings guests on he asks them deep profound questions he challenges
00:27:47.280them respectfully and if he learns something new he might change his mind right in front of the
00:27:53.380camera unapologetically he just says well listen I learned something new and like Churchill would
00:27:57.980say it proves that I'm smarter today than I was yesterday I also found interpersonally something
00:28:05.380and I noticed him when, when I was in the room with him is he's very focused. He looks very
00:28:10.520relaxed. Like you say, you know, he's, he's, he's, he looks chill, right? He's got a, he's got a
00:28:14.720t-shirt on and he's got tattoos and he, he speaks very colloquially, but you can tell that he,
00:28:21.680when he's in a conversation, his mind is in the present, which sounds like no big deal,
00:28:28.200but it's two and a half hours. Very easy to, for your mind, your mind to wander. I noticed that
00:28:32.620didn't happen with him. And so I think the reason why so many people connect with him is because
00:28:39.480they see him as very authentic. I was talking to a guy the other day and he said, yeah, Joe told me
00:28:45.860something. I said, Joe who? He said, oh, Joe Rogan. And I said, he told you? What did he call you?
00:28:50.200And he went, oh, no, no, sorry. I mean, I just saw it on his show. But his mind had processed it as
00:28:55.140though Joe and him were talking. A lot of people think when they listen to Rogan, they feel like
00:28:59.500they're talking with the guy they feel like they know him I felt that too when I walked into the
00:29:02.920studio I was like I know this guy like he's been in my house every day he's on my phone and so I
00:29:11.500admire him I think he's done an incredible job of giving a voice to people of asking questions of
00:29:18.780pursuing stories and and discussions that don't normally get a lot of attention and so I wish him
00:29:26.980well and enjoyed my experience a lot of people who listen to him i would argue uh are in a small
00:29:32.820government boat here in canada and i would yeah and i would say that a lot of those folks how do
00:29:40.340i put this they're fighting to not black pill themselves they're fighting to keep hope going
00:29:44.800for regardless honestly regardless of party for smaller government more accountable government
00:29:50.040you know less spending less waste like getting their lives back together so that they can afford
00:29:55.460things which is what the taxpayers federation is always fighting for are you still feeling that
00:30:00.480connection with people even though you aren't doing like the massive rallies anymore like are
00:30:04.740you able to keep in touch with people in that way directly yeah look i i do a lot of different
00:30:11.380things to keep in touch like i was at a a plumbing industrial and uh commercial plumbing business
00:30:18.260today and spoke to about, I don't know, 90 workers. And I did a lineup with them so I could
00:30:25.880talk to them all one by one, uh, out at restaurants and coffee shops. I spent a lot of time talking
00:30:31.320to, you know, uh, soldiers, uh, um, small business owners, uh, single mothers, just good
00:30:40.460common sense people. Um, and that's what takes up a lot of my time. And I want to do more of that.
00:30:46.600we'll get back into the rallies at the right time. And I think we want to bring people out and give
00:30:51.260them hope because you can't give up. You have to fight through these hardships. People have been
00:30:55.320down before. They've had bad governments in many places before. And I think it's by persevering
00:31:02.400and not giving up that you overcome these hardships. And that's why I am so determined
00:31:07.100to fight on. You know, people say, why, you know, why would you want to do this job? Well, I believe
00:31:12.360in it. I genuinely believe in what I'm fighting for. And I'm not going to give up because I don't
00:31:16.500believe that there's anyone else who will do what needs to be done for this country. We need someone
00:31:23.100who can and will win, but also after they win, who will follow through and do it, actually do it.
00:31:31.240And that's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to relent until the job is done.
00:31:36.200Pierre Polyev, I've kept you over time. You've been very gracious with your time. Thank you so
00:31:40.800much for joining us. Great to be with you, Chris. Many blessings. Likewise. Once again, that is of
00:31:45.740course, Pierre Polyev. He is the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of
00:31:51.220His Majesty's official royal opposition in the House of Commons in Ottawa. Well, folks, what did
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