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00:00:00.000 You won't catch me going outside on Black Friday for sure.

00:00:02.680 I mean, especially I live in Edmonton.

00:00:04.460 If you go to West Edmonton Mall on Black Friday,

00:00:07.060 you are a special human being that you can deal with that level of busyness.

00:00:12.540 I mean, it is truly shocking.

00:00:14.000 Like you, it's like the best analogy, I guess.

00:00:18.320 It's like you're in traffic and it's bumper to bumper in the mall.

00:00:22.660 Like literally there's lines to get into stores.

00:00:24.860 I mean, who wants to go through that?

00:00:27.020 But I mean, especially in struggling economic times like this,

00:00:30.780 you know, people will go the extra mile for a deal

00:00:34.180 because I don't know if you guys have seen this,

00:00:36.040 but when I drive by gas stations, which have lower price than the median,

00:00:39.560 there's cars lined up in the dozens.

00:00:44.240 Do you guys got any Black Friday plans?

00:00:47.420 No, I also don't like the mall.

00:00:50.720 Like generally speaking, there's been a lot of violence at our mall too,

00:00:55.480 in Metrotown.

00:00:56.400 Like somebody got shot there just like a week ago

00:00:59.300 and some kid got stabbed a couple of weeks before that.

00:01:02.800 Not that I think it's like a particularly dangerous place,

00:01:06.500 just it's not great marketing for the mall.

00:01:10.960 Well, Alex, you're a crime reporter.

00:01:13.320 Yeah, I should just hang out there all day and wait for an exclusive.

00:01:19.260 I was always driving.

00:01:20.860 Yeah, it's funny, Alex.

00:01:21.880 Whenever I drive by crime scene, which seems to be daily now,

00:01:26.000 which might just be because I'm driving to the ledge every day,

00:01:28.720 so I'm actually driving.

00:01:29.720 But I always think of you, I'm like,

00:01:31.780 Alex needs to get on the scene.

00:01:33.800 I wonder what's going down over there.

00:01:34.960 Because there's actually always crazy stuff going down in Edmonton.

00:01:39.240 I don't know why.

00:01:41.040 Yeah, I hear that.

00:01:41.980 I've never actually been to Edmonton as an adult.

00:01:44.300 I went there as a kid once.

00:01:46.720 Did you go to the mall?

00:01:48.400 I think so.

00:01:49.400 I don't remember it.

00:01:51.820 What about you, Waleed?

00:01:52.960 You ever been to West Ed?

00:01:54.700 No, I haven't, but I heard it's definitely a phenomenal venue.

00:01:58.920 I mean, it's a huge mall.

00:02:00.160 I've never been.

00:02:01.140 I've actually never been to Edmonton at all.

00:02:02.620 We were in Calgary recently, and to the point of crime,

00:02:06.520 I couldn't believe how calm and quiet and not crime-y it was.

00:02:13.480 Yeah, welcome to Alberta.

00:02:15.580 You're not in B.C. anymore.

00:02:17.700 No, I mean, I've been to a lot of American cities, too,

00:02:20.060 and I was just shocked.

00:02:21.200 Even American cities have a lot more crime than Calgary.

00:02:24.000 It's really quite a nice place.

00:02:28.120 Speaking of crime, we will get into that for our first story.

00:02:30.680 My name's Isaac Lamoureux.

00:02:31.760 I'm proud to be joined by my colleagues, Alex Zoltan and Waleed Tam-Tam.

00:02:35.340 Let's hop right into things.

00:02:40.660 Yeah, so big crime story this week, Alex,

00:02:43.620 which interests me from a sports perspective,

00:02:46.340 but perhaps you from a crime perspective.

00:02:49.780 What is going on with the Canadian snowboarder and the FBI?

00:02:54.400 I mean, that's crazy.

00:02:55.980 Yeah, I mean, it intrigues me, too, from a sports perspective.

00:02:58.260 Being a B.C. boy, I like snowboarding.

00:03:01.420 So this is kind of an interesting story.

00:03:04.200 Like, it should probably be turned into a Hollywood movie one day.

00:03:07.440 There's this guy, his name is Brian Wedding,

00:03:09.740 and he was a giant slalom snowboarder at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

00:03:14.840 He made the FBI's top ten list back in March.

00:03:18.320 He's considered to be one of the larger cocaine kingpins in the world,

00:03:22.160 according to Pam Bondi and by many other sources as well.

00:03:27.760 The big news this week was that seven Canadians are being extradited to the United States

00:03:32.080 in connection with his cocaine enterprise,

00:03:33.880 which Sam Cooper reported on as well through our partners over at Drudeau News.

00:03:39.540 It's really, really a crazy story in the sense of how many people are being extradited

00:03:44.200 and how they're being taken from different parts of the country as well.

00:03:47.480 So there's a fella in Montreal.

00:03:49.860 There's two arrests in Alberta and several in Ontario, too.

00:03:54.420 So, yeah, it's pretty crazy.

00:03:58.040 Yeah, Alex, is there any information on kind of what led to this guy's downfall

00:04:02.500 from an Olympic snowboarder?

00:04:03.760 And I know, to be fair, most people, you're in the Olympics,

00:04:06.220 you don't really make money per se,

00:04:07.500 but still from that level of notoriety, let's say, to now a drug lord.

00:04:15.700 Yeah, so the story goes that he went down to Mexico,

00:04:18.460 and apparently he met some women. 0.59

00:04:20.520 Apparently he's a bit of a ladies' man.

00:04:23.320 And so he met some women who had some connections with the Mexican cartel, 0.98

00:04:26.440 and that's how he established some of his connections.

00:04:28.820 He also has connections to some of the major, according to the FBI,

00:04:32.400 some of the major trucking and logistics people in Canada.

00:04:35.980 We all know who is involved heavily in that industry.

00:04:41.560 So, yeah, it's just really, really crazy.

00:04:43.980 It reminds me of that movie Blow.

00:04:45.160 Have you ever seen that one with Johnny Depp?

00:04:48.740 It doesn't ring a bell.

00:04:50.700 Yeah, I don't know.

00:04:51.540 It's like behind every great man is a great woman,

00:04:53.560 but I think behind every bad man is a bad woman, too.

00:04:56.440 I think he got kind of corrupted by some chicas down in Mexico. 1.00

00:05:02.800 When spring break goes awry.

00:05:07.020 Yeah, but they increased the reward from $10 million to $15 million for his capture.

00:05:12.780 So he's a wanted fugitive,

00:05:15.960 and if you were to apprehend him and bring him in,

00:05:18.060 you would be rewarded $15 million? 0.54

00:05:21.020 Yeah, you might also get shot, though.

00:05:22.460 I mean, that's how this whole thing happened, right,

00:05:24.040 is that there was a federal witness who was prepared to testify against him in Colombia,

00:05:28.020 and this is what these seven Canadians,

00:05:30.540 including a very notorious criminal defense lawyer in Toronto,

00:05:34.960 they apparently are involved in a conspiracy to commit murder, allegedly.

00:05:38.220 And, yeah, so they merced this guy in Colombia who was set to testify against a wedding.

00:05:44.840 Yeah, that's crazy.

00:05:48.580 I mean, we all, well, many of us know how dangerous the cartels are.

00:05:53.380 It's definitely not something you want to get involved in, right?

00:05:55.520 Yeah, if anybody has any information on his whereabouts,

00:05:59.220 my DMs are open, but no, I'm just kidding.

00:06:03.360 You've got to split the $15 million with Alex.

00:06:06.140 Once Alex gets his $7.5 million from his cut,

00:06:09.680 he will be able to get a better webcam, ladies and gentlemen.

00:06:12.060 I mean, that's right.

00:06:14.880 I can upgrade my equipment finally and stop recording on this potato phone.

00:06:18.760 But, you know, one of the guys that is being extradited,

00:06:21.900 he actually ran his own little crime blog called The Dirty News.

00:06:27.040 So that's really interesting as well.

00:06:30.480 So The Dirty News, what kind of crime was that?

00:06:33.760 Yeah, so The Dirty News is a, they had an Instagram handle.

00:06:38.300 They also have an X account.

00:06:40.040 They were reporting.

00:06:41.840 They actually posted a picture of the victim in Colombia.

00:06:45.640 As the indictment goes,

00:06:47.320 they were paid $10,000 through a proxy,

00:06:52.560 but ultimately from a wedding,

00:06:54.560 to not post about a wedding,

00:06:55.860 but instead to post about this alleged snitch.

00:06:59.180 And then, yeah.

00:07:01.860 But, I mean, that doesn't necessarily mean

00:07:03.600 that they conspired to kill the person or whatever.

00:07:05.840 It's still, you know,

00:07:07.520 people are innocent until proven.

00:07:08.560 It'll be interesting.

00:07:09.280 Yeah, that's the thing.

00:07:09.960 None of these allegations have been proven, right?

00:07:12.500 So they are just wanted,

00:07:14.240 but not necessarily criminals.

00:07:17.320 But the snowboarding element is super interesting.

00:07:19.480 Funnily enough, this is a bit of a,

00:07:20.920 I don't know, a bit of a story.

00:07:25.100 How would you say this?

00:07:25.980 Inside baseball.

00:07:27.720 But when I was writing that story

00:07:29.200 about wedding back in March,

00:07:30.320 at that time, our editor was Andrew Lawton.

00:07:33.200 And I had put in a few too many snowboarding puns

00:07:37.940 in the story.

00:07:39.180 And he said he appreciated the puns, 0.97

00:07:40.840 but this guy's also a murderer.

00:07:42.140 So he's like, when you're dealing with murder,

00:07:43.560 you know, you should probably err on the side of caution

00:07:45.180 in terms of using humor in your Newswire articles.

00:07:48.780 The trick with sports writing, Alex,

00:07:50.420 the puns are just,

00:07:52.500 it's basically like playing T-ball.

00:07:54.520 They're so easy, right?

00:07:56.660 They're just all sitting there, low-hanging fruit.

00:07:59.140 Yeah, I remember I said something like,

00:08:00.300 he slid into the top 10.

00:08:02.220 And, you know, what else?

00:08:03.660 What if there was another one where I was like,

00:08:05.340 he's on a different kind of run now?

00:08:06.920 And it was just chock full of all he's doing.

00:08:10.540 Going downhill very fast.

00:08:12.300 Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:08:14.160 So, yeah, we have to err on the side of caution

00:08:16.380 and be sensitive about these things

00:08:17.760 because, you know, he is involved

00:08:19.040 in some serious stuff, allegedly.

00:08:22.040 Yeah, $15 million bounty on your head.

00:08:24.780 It's no laughing matter.

00:08:27.360 Speaking of money for our next story,

00:08:31.260 this is kind of interesting.

00:08:33.240 And I'll talk to you about it, Waleed.

00:08:36.380 So the Privy Council clerk

00:08:38.160 sold his Brookfield shares

00:08:39.940 to avoid personal conflict issues.

00:08:42.740 But, of course, this is what many Canadians

00:08:45.680 have been calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney

00:08:47.520 to do since before he even got elected,

00:08:49.880 since the Liberal leadership race, to be frank.

00:08:52.820 And, of course, he hasn't.

00:08:54.140 And he's used many excuses like,

00:08:56.580 oh, it's in a blind dress

00:08:57.440 as if he doesn't know what the shares were

00:08:59.600 when they went in.

00:09:00.680 But, yeah, what was going on here, Waleed?

00:09:04.060 Yeah, so on Wednesday,

00:09:05.200 there was an Ethics Committee hearing

00:09:07.020 where he was testifying.

00:09:09.000 Of course, this hearing only came about

00:09:10.800 thanks to a vote earlier this fall

00:09:13.140 when the House of Commons had a vote

00:09:16.240 sponsored by Conservative MP Michael Barrett

00:09:19.940 to look into the holdings

00:09:21.600 and stock dealings of Mark Carney.

00:09:24.040 Now, of course, with the Privy Council,

00:09:25.520 Michael Sabia,

00:09:26.400 he himself talked about

00:09:28.360 how he decided to sell his shares of Brookfield

00:09:31.780 because he was an administrator

00:09:33.200 and he thought that it was a more simple

00:09:36.580 and practical move

00:09:38.300 instead of other alternatives

00:09:39.640 like reinvesting

00:09:40.840 or, at the very least,

00:09:42.280 dealing with the perception

00:09:43.680 of a conflict of interest.

00:09:45.280 I think he was very careful

00:09:46.260 with his language

00:09:46.820 during the committee hearing

00:09:47.720 not to indict Mark Carney

00:09:49.320 with any sort of bad dealings

00:09:51.760 because, of course,

00:09:52.520 the steps that he takes

00:09:53.700 may have been, like you said, Isaac,

00:09:55.860 the expectations that Canadians have had.

00:09:57.640 Now, if Michael Sabia is doing it,

00:10:00.320 why isn't Mark Carney doing it?

00:10:01.460 And, of course,

00:10:01.800 that's kind of how Sabia is trying 0.99

00:10:03.380 to separate himself

00:10:05.180 from the Prime Minister

00:10:06.140 and give himself

00:10:06.860 a very different kind of viewpoint.

00:10:10.180 I mean, he's maintained

00:10:11.680 that his decision was

00:10:12.840 primarily a matter of practical optics

00:10:16.440 and public view

00:10:18.040 rather than legal obligation.

00:10:20.740 So he actually denied

00:10:22.140 that this question

00:10:23.020 of conflict of interest

00:10:24.520 as to why he even divested

00:10:26.860 from Brookfield in the first place.

00:10:29.560 So, ultimately,

00:10:31.100 I really think

00:10:31.960 that this is a story

00:10:33.800 that brings us closer

00:10:36.200 to a very important point

00:10:37.720 of understanding

00:10:38.300 that, you know,

00:10:39.400 you have legitimacy

00:10:41.280 behind the narrative

00:10:42.380 of conflict of interest,

00:10:44.800 of, you know,

00:10:46.220 Carney having a load

00:10:47.920 of investment

00:10:48.700 in the United States,

00:10:49.880 a load of investment

00:10:50.640 in specific industries.

00:10:52.140 I mean, take us back

00:10:52.820 to the April election, guys.

00:10:54.140 You guys,

00:10:54.680 I don't know if you watched

00:10:55.520 all the debates,

00:10:56.620 but I remember very specifically

00:10:58.400 during the French leadership debate,

00:11:01.080 I think it was only

00:11:02.040 about a week before the election,

00:11:03.500 actually.

00:11:04.160 It was in April,

00:11:04.860 I'm pretty sure.

00:11:06.220 Mark Carney praised

00:11:07.120 the Westinghouse Electric Company

00:11:08.780 as a viable nuclear option.

00:11:11.460 Now, that company,

00:11:12.220 now, of course,

00:11:12.800 he talked about nuclear energy,

00:11:13.840 he talked about clean energy.

00:11:14.860 That was the topic,

00:11:15.880 but he mentioned that company

00:11:17.100 by name,

00:11:18.180 and that company

00:11:19.300 is actually owned by Brookfield.

00:11:20.740 You know,

00:11:22.700 of course,

00:11:23.500 Brookfield and its public image

00:11:25.320 is under more and more scrutiny

00:11:26.640 thanks to the Prime Minister's role,

00:11:28.720 former role, rather.

00:11:30.380 You know,

00:11:30.600 even last month,

00:11:31.380 there was a committee,

00:11:32.320 or actually it was earlier this month,

00:11:33.640 there was a committee

00:11:34.200 hearing about offshore

00:11:36.000 tax havens,

00:11:37.860 and the chief economist

00:11:39.960 of the Canadian Labour Congress,

00:11:42.260 D.T. Cochran,

00:11:43.580 accused Brookfield,

00:11:44.980 and we know this already,

00:11:46.420 looking into the stories

00:11:47.420 of being a major tax cheater,

00:11:49.700 or a world-class

00:11:50.660 or master class

00:11:51.560 on tax avoidance

00:11:52.960 of a company.

00:11:54.380 So Brookfield's record

00:11:55.620 on taxes,

00:11:58.020 its investments

00:11:58.860 in other countries,

00:12:00.460 that, by the way,

00:12:01.080 includes the UAE.

00:12:02.160 Brookfield has invested

00:12:03.020 in all projects in the UAE.

00:12:04.700 Of course,

00:12:04.980 Mark Carney just departed

00:12:05.860 the UAE yesterday.

00:12:07.860 off to South Africa

00:12:08.560 for the G20 meeting,

00:12:09.620 but his dealings in the UAE

00:12:11.160 could definitely be

00:12:12.000 completely embedded

00:12:14.140 with Brookfield-aligned

00:12:15.780 business interests.

00:12:17.380 So again,

00:12:18.100 I think whether it's

00:12:19.200 the blockchain company

00:12:20.640 he's talking about

00:12:21.400 on a debate stage

00:12:22.460 and giving free advertisements

00:12:24.020 on a national platform,

00:12:26.020 or if it's the tax record

00:12:27.740 that his company has

00:12:29.560 now that he's involved

00:12:30.340 in this policy

00:12:31.060 with the government

00:12:31.720 that he's in charge of,

00:12:33.220 there's a lot of room

00:12:34.320 for conflict of interest,

00:12:35.180 and it goes far beyond

00:12:36.120 just the stock investments.

00:12:37.300 It goes into the decision-making,

00:12:39.260 it goes into the connections,

00:12:40.320 it goes into the geopolitics

00:12:41.660 of how we deal

00:12:42.720 with oil domestically

00:12:43.680 versus in certain countries

00:12:45.000 and certain marketplaces.

00:12:46.520 So, I mean,

00:12:46.940 this story is

00:12:47.580 only one more article

00:12:50.500 in a larger file

00:12:51.920 of stories

00:12:52.380 that we will continue

00:12:53.020 to see in the coming weeks

00:12:54.600 and months

00:12:54.980 as opposition MPs

00:12:56.540 from not only the conservatives,

00:12:57.860 but even the Bloc-Kébagoa,

00:12:59.280 and perhaps even the NDP

00:13:00.700 that can step up

00:13:02.000 and give a fair look

00:13:04.280 at the company

00:13:04.800 and his dealings

00:13:06.040 and the fact

00:13:07.000 that he hasn't really

00:13:07.900 revealed his assets

00:13:09.580 and essentially hasn't

00:13:10.920 cut full ties

00:13:12.080 with his former company.

00:13:14.680 Can I add something

00:13:15.860 not only to what

00:13:17.340 Walid just said,

00:13:18.100 but also to the last story,

00:13:19.420 because this was

00:13:19.900 a talking point

00:13:20.520 that I really wanted

00:13:21.160 to make this morning.

00:13:22.220 I think that

00:13:22.940 one of the most,

00:13:24.260 and I posted about this

00:13:25.180 this morning,

00:13:25.740 one of the most revealing

00:13:26.620 and exposing things

00:13:27.620 about the entire

00:13:28.320 Convoy saga

00:13:29.220 is that when it comes

00:13:31.020 to tax evasion,

00:13:33.600 when it comes

00:13:34.080 to money laundering,

00:13:35.100 when it comes to crime,

00:13:36.780 it's very, very clear

00:13:37.860 the RCMP

00:13:38.600 and the federal government

00:13:39.840 has all the resources

00:13:40.800 it needs

00:13:41.460 to investigate

00:13:42.500 conflicts of interest,

00:13:43.720 to freeze people's

00:13:44.440 bank accounts,

00:13:45.220 to prosecute people,

00:13:46.440 but there's just

00:13:47.180 no political will.

00:13:48.580 It seems like

00:13:49.120 the only time

00:13:49.680 the federal government

00:13:50.340 ever wants to crack down

00:13:51.320 on its citizens

00:13:51.940 is when they're

00:13:52.560 criticizing debt.

00:13:54.800 And I find that

00:13:55.880 really, really

00:13:56.320 outrageous.

00:13:57.000 I mean,

00:13:57.140 I think that's the thing

00:13:57.780 that really upsets me

00:13:58.600 about this wedding story

00:13:59.680 and also about

00:14:00.820 all of these

00:14:01.180 conflicts of interest

00:14:01.960 that the Belit 0.99

00:14:02.620 is exposing as well.

00:14:06.640 Yeah, no,

00:14:07.260 that's a great point,

00:14:08.000 Alex.

00:14:10.260 Well, in my neck

00:14:11.100 of the woods,

00:14:11.560 that is relevant

00:14:12.160 because, of course,

00:14:13.240 Alberta just yesterday

00:14:15.660 passed the Peterson Law,

00:14:17.480 Bill 13,

00:14:18.500 which will

00:14:19.780 essentially prohibit

00:14:23.100 professional regulators

00:14:24.300 from

00:14:24.860 firing their employees

00:14:27.180 or punishing them

00:14:27.840 in any way

00:14:28.300 for personal beliefs

00:14:29.060 they held

00:14:29.480 and expressed

00:14:30.600 outside the workplace.

00:14:31.860 But why that's relevant

00:14:32.620 is because

00:14:33.200 Smith made a similar point

00:14:34.840 in the press conference

00:14:35.840 when reporters

00:14:38.200 were trying to press her

00:14:39.240 and say,

00:14:40.580 oh,

00:14:41.040 what if people

00:14:42.040 are criticizing

00:14:42.860 your government

00:14:44.820 or whatever?

00:14:45.920 And she said,

00:14:46.500 look,

00:14:46.860 it's very simple.

00:14:48.640 As it is right now,

00:14:51.000 look around in Alberta,

00:14:52.740 look at the unions,

00:14:53.420 look at these employees.

00:14:54.700 They're all criticizing us.

00:14:55.880 They don't care.

00:14:56.580 They're not afraid to do it.

00:14:57.620 They are not punished

00:14:58.220 for doing so.

00:14:58.940 And then she gave 0.99

00:14:59.440 a list of examples

00:15:00.200 of people trying

00:15:01.040 to support her government,

00:15:02.540 support their bills

00:15:03.220 and the punishments

00:15:04.000 that they went through

00:15:04.620 from these unions

00:15:05.360 because they're not

00:15:06.500 allowed to do that.

00:15:07.520 So in Alberta,

00:15:09.040 it was actually

00:15:09.420 the opposite case

00:15:10.100 where she's like,

00:15:10.820 look,

00:15:11.300 Smith said,

00:15:11.780 look,

00:15:11.980 what are you talking about?

00:15:12.720 Like the people

00:15:13.560 criticizing us

00:15:14.180 have a fair,

00:15:16.060 open field to do so.

00:15:17.160 It's actually people

00:15:18.560 supporting our government

00:15:19.580 that need protections. 0.95

00:15:20.460 Well,

00:15:21.660 also in your neck

00:15:22.340 of the woods

00:15:22.700 in Alberta,

00:15:23.300 one of the individuals

00:15:24.540 that was in the indictment,

00:15:25.540 his name is Alistair Chapman.

00:15:27.060 He's a former

00:15:27.600 junior A hockey player.

00:15:28.920 He played for the

00:15:29.420 Drayton Valley Thunder,

00:15:30.400 strangely enough.

00:15:31.620 He ended up being,

00:15:33.860 he was charged

00:15:35.140 with cocaine trafficking,

00:15:36.420 I believe,

00:15:36.920 back in 2018

00:15:37.700 and his charges

00:15:38.500 were dropped

00:15:38.940 on the Jordan rule

00:15:39.660 because the prosecutors

00:15:41.140 could not get him

00:15:42.160 to trial fast enough.

00:15:43.740 He spent too much time

00:15:44.520 in pretrial custody.

00:15:46.000 Having covered

00:15:46.380 the Coutts case,

00:15:47.100 I find that

00:15:47.500 completely outrageous.

00:15:48.320 They spent millions

00:15:49.700 of dollars

00:15:50.260 and spared no expense

00:15:51.580 to prosecute those guys

00:15:52.960 who were engaged

00:15:54.080 in, I would say,

00:15:54.940 mostly peaceful protests.

00:15:56.060 I still don't recommend

00:15:56.800 bringing a gun

00:15:57.320 to anywhere near a protest.

00:15:59.700 But then again,

00:16:00.440 in Alberta,

00:16:00.880 everybody has guns,

00:16:01.740 so it's a bit of an exception

00:16:03.180 to the rule

00:16:03.740 throughout the rest of Canada.

00:16:06.140 But this is exactly

00:16:07.740 what I mean, right?

00:16:08.460 And then another guy

00:16:09.140 in Montreal

00:16:09.540 was also arrested

00:16:10.400 and his charges

00:16:11.340 were dropped

00:16:11.760 on a Section 8

00:16:12.460 charter violation.

00:16:13.380 They said that

00:16:13.800 they broke his right

00:16:15.220 to be free

00:16:16.100 from unwarranted

00:16:16.700 search and seizure.

00:16:17.420 He was a big crack dealer

00:16:18.380 in Montreal.

00:16:20.040 So it's just interesting

00:16:21.420 to see what the government

00:16:22.520 puts their money behind

00:16:23.880 and their energy behind

00:16:24.880 in terms of persecuting

00:16:26.280 or prosecuting Canadians.

00:16:28.920 And going back

00:16:30.000 to the clerk quickly,

00:16:30.980 Waleed,

00:16:31.480 I wanted to ask,

00:16:32.980 you said he was

00:16:33.480 very careful

00:16:34.240 with his language

00:16:35.500 when speaking

00:16:36.120 as to not indict

00:16:37.060 Mark Carney,

00:16:37.960 but was he questioned

00:16:39.540 specifically about Carney?

00:16:41.180 Because I did see

00:16:41.880 something in your article

00:16:42.940 about him saying,

00:16:44.700 which surprised to me,

00:16:45.620 that despite him

00:16:47.200 being the administrator

00:16:48.300 of Carney's review there,

00:16:51.220 he didn't actually know

00:16:52.040 what was in the portfolio,

00:16:53.140 which I don't know

00:16:54.000 how that could be.

00:16:55.240 But yeah,

00:16:55.600 was he questioned

00:16:56.340 directly about Carney?

00:17:00.080 Yeah, I mean,

00:17:00.880 of course,

00:17:01.580 it was a long session

00:17:02.580 and he's testified

00:17:04.300 primarily on matters

00:17:05.680 to do with Carney

00:17:06.440 more than himself,

00:17:07.460 frankly,

00:17:07.780 because I think

00:17:08.240 more Canadians

00:17:08.780 are concerned

00:17:09.280 with the dealings

00:17:09.840 of the prime minister

00:17:10.480 than the Pripy Council

00:17:11.500 that is basically

00:17:13.580 appointed to protect

00:17:14.420 the prime minister

00:17:14.940 as he said himself.

00:17:17.200 So I guess

00:17:18.840 your question

00:17:19.620 is referring to

00:17:20.280 what is he questioned

00:17:21.600 about Carney's

00:17:22.920 business dealings,

00:17:23.780 where he actually

00:17:24.640 has interest?

00:17:25.820 Yeah, no,

00:17:26.160 we can even,

00:17:26.800 I think you answered

00:17:27.500 it fine already,

00:17:28.700 we can even shift.

00:17:29.560 It's like,

00:17:29.940 is there any hope

00:17:32.240 for Canadians

00:17:32.780 that Carney will be

00:17:34.220 held accountable

00:17:35.200 for these conflicts

00:17:36.400 of interest?

00:17:37.200 For example,

00:17:38.140 if he makes billions

00:17:38.880 of dollars

00:17:39.460 through investing

00:17:41.100 taxpayer dollars

00:17:41.840 to help,

00:17:45.820 let's say,

00:17:46.260 his private dealings,

00:17:47.680 things of that nature,

00:17:48.700 do you think

00:17:49.020 there's any chance

00:17:49.760 he could ever

00:17:50.240 be held accountable

00:17:52.300 in any way?

00:17:54.000 I think the best

00:17:54.860 accountability measure

00:17:55.640 that we have today,

00:17:56.680 and I'm saying this

00:17:57.400 after spending

00:17:58.320 10 years

00:17:59.420 under the Liberal government

00:18:00.400 seeing everything

00:18:01.280 from SNC-Lavalin

00:18:02.320 to the Wheat Charity Scandal,

00:18:04.140 the biggest consequences

00:18:05.160 that have happened

00:18:05.860 out of those situations

00:18:06.660 are loss of a few MPs,

00:18:08.780 loss of some seats

00:18:10.320 in the 2019

00:18:11.560 and 2021 elections.

00:18:13.780 So,

00:18:14.080 I guess the best form

00:18:15.600 of accountability

00:18:16.040 is for Canadians

00:18:16.840 to take that into account,

00:18:18.260 even Canadians

00:18:18.900 who are of the

00:18:19.680 progressive

00:18:20.580 or left-leaning

00:18:21.300 inclinations,

00:18:22.160 and be critical

00:18:22.880 about these kinds

00:18:23.500 of business things

00:18:24.040 because whether you're

00:18:24.840 from one side

00:18:25.760 or the other

00:18:26.140 on the ideological spectrum,

00:18:27.700 this is about

00:18:28.320 the kind of ethical behavior

00:18:29.880 that can be replicated

00:18:31.540 in the future

00:18:32.780 by any kind of government

00:18:33.820 regardless of their leanings.

00:18:35.080 I mean,

00:18:35.340 I think conservatives

00:18:36.040 and liberals

00:18:37.000 are equally capable

00:18:38.940 of having a life

00:18:39.880 in their private sector

00:18:40.600 and having interests

00:18:41.440 in the private sector.

00:18:42.380 I think Carney

00:18:42.940 is incredibly invested

00:18:44.640 in that sector

00:18:45.340 because, of course,

00:18:46.160 he's had major roles,

00:18:47.420 major portfolios.

00:18:49.180 Obviously,

00:18:49.760 this is a major

00:18:50.440 sovereign wealth fund

00:18:51.660 in the case of Brookfield,

00:18:53.000 but also his past positions

00:18:55.020 even before then.

00:18:56.340 So, I think,

00:18:56.920 really,

00:18:57.720 it's the battle box

00:18:58.560 that will be able

00:18:59.180 to generate

00:18:59.700 the most accountability

00:19:00.480 because I think

00:19:01.140 every other measure

00:19:01.760 from committees

00:19:02.740 to House Commons votes

00:19:04.140 and everything else

00:19:04.840 have always been barred

00:19:06.300 by the politically established

00:19:08.840 dominant force

00:19:09.920 of the Liberal Party

00:19:10.740 and its puppetry ally

00:19:12.540 in the case of the NDP.

00:19:13.940 In some cases,

00:19:14.680 in some cases,

00:19:15.280 the bloc.

00:19:16.080 In other cases,

00:19:16.940 the fact of the matter

00:19:17.720 is they just have not seen

00:19:19.760 full accountability

00:19:21.060 for a track record

00:19:22.740 of 10 years

00:19:23.660 of major scandals

00:19:25.600 involving tax dollars,

00:19:27.000 involving conflicts

00:19:27.980 of interest,

00:19:28.640 involving interference

00:19:29.980 in areas that are

00:19:31.020 not meant to be political,

00:19:32.500 but under-institutional

00:19:33.300 and impartial.

00:19:35.400 So, I think,

00:19:36.200 in the case of Mark Carney,

00:19:37.480 he's found himself

00:19:38.380 in a situation

00:19:38.860 where, yes,

00:19:39.440 he will receive scrutiny,

00:19:40.680 but that will not

00:19:41.420 account any true

00:19:42.460 accountability

00:19:42.920 until an election

00:19:44.320 of some sort

00:19:45.120 is held

00:19:45.500 or until some sort

00:19:46.840 of consequence

00:19:47.860 adheres to

00:19:50.260 the public's interests

00:19:51.720 and sees him

00:19:52.820 take a loss

00:19:54.080 in a general election

00:19:54.860 or, at the very least,

00:19:56.440 takes him to a very

00:19:57.480 different position

00:19:57.960 than he is today.

00:19:58.640 But for today,

00:19:59.140 I think he's still

00:20:00.380 comfortably protected

00:20:01.140 by his team.

00:20:02.800 And speaking of

00:20:03.980 scrutiny,

00:20:05.260 Waleed,

00:20:05.800 Canada's immigration 0.98

00:20:06.840 regime

00:20:08.420 is under scrutiny

00:20:09.620 by a common,

00:20:12.360 perhaps more common

00:20:13.400 than some would imagine

00:20:14.220 these days,

00:20:14.860 because J.D. Vance

00:20:15.580 is always getting involved,

00:20:16.660 it seems,

00:20:17.460 in Canadian politics.

00:20:18.860 Most recently,

00:20:19.720 of course,

00:20:20.120 he was all over

00:20:20.900 the church burnings file

00:20:22.300 trying to support

00:20:23.700 Christians in Canada,

00:20:24.800 and while our politicians

00:20:26.400 weren't very interested

00:20:27.480 in doing that,

00:20:28.060 but he stood up for them.

00:20:29.420 But now,

00:20:30.400 he's saying

00:20:30.940 that Canada's 0.71

00:20:32.340 embrace of diversity

00:20:34.280 and mass immigration

00:20:35.140 is what is causing

00:20:37.200 their economy,

00:20:38.240 our economy,

00:20:38.980 to stagnate.

00:20:41.140 And he was all over

00:20:43.140 attacking leftist ideology

00:20:44.600 as root causes.

00:20:45.880 Waleed,

00:20:46.320 what was he saying?

00:20:50.800 Yeah,

00:20:51.560 so basically,

00:20:52.340 the thread of the tweet

00:20:53.700 that we saw,

00:20:54.700 it started off

00:20:55.540 with a graph

00:20:56.320 showing the stagnation

00:20:57.420 of the UK,

00:20:58.660 Canada,

00:20:59.300 and even partially

00:21:00.440 the US,

00:21:01.540 much less the case,

00:21:03.340 of the quality

00:21:03.980 of living standards.

00:21:05.040 And I think you can

00:21:05.700 kind of tell

00:21:06.260 the graph covers

00:21:07.820 a lot of the COVID period

00:21:09.380 and the post-COVID period,

00:21:10.820 and you kind of see

00:21:11.480 how the US

00:21:12.100 eventually kind of

00:21:13.540 escaped that situation,

00:21:14.820 while the UK

00:21:15.940 and Canada,

00:21:16.760 Canada being the worst,

00:21:18.920 have, you know,

00:21:19.640 very, very slow growth

00:21:20.960 or even decline

00:21:22.400 of the quality

00:21:23.600 of living standards.

00:21:24.320 So he talked about,

00:21:26.540 he highlighted that

00:21:27.320 Canada has this,

00:21:29.120 you know,

00:21:29.360 diversity regime

00:21:30.360 and narrative

00:21:30.900 of which many

00:21:32.280 of the people,

00:21:32.960 most people

00:21:33.500 in some of the key areas

00:21:34.600 like Toronto,

00:21:35.020 we covered this recently

00:21:35.760 with a story

00:21:36.180 on McCartney,

00:21:36.840 celebrating how Toronto

00:21:37.640 is majority

00:21:38.720 immigrant population

00:21:39.640 or a majority

00:21:40.240 foreign-born

00:21:40.860 immigrant population.

00:21:42.000 And ultimately,

00:21:43.480 they have J.D. Vance,

00:21:44.340 the vice president,

00:21:45.040 who spends a lot of time

00:21:45.780 on social media

00:21:46.320 criticizing different ideas,

00:21:48.520 having these ideological

00:21:49.440 public policy discussions

00:21:50.660 without any concern

00:21:52.000 for frontier or diplomacy

00:21:53.340 because I actually

00:21:54.420 kind of appreciate that

00:21:55.260 because I wish

00:21:56.700 other leaders

00:21:57.300 of the countries

00:21:57.740 could do that more often.

00:21:58.680 But frankly,

00:22:00.040 Vance looked at Canada

00:22:01.100 on the graph

00:22:01.860 and specifically mentioned

00:22:03.040 how this situation

00:22:04.860 is not because of Trump

00:22:05.920 or terrorists

00:22:06.720 or any foreign boogeyman.

00:22:08.060 It's about Canada's 0.98

00:22:08.720 own leadership

00:22:09.120 and decisions.

00:22:10.160 Specifically referring

00:22:10.860 to Canada's regime

00:22:12.040 and its enforcement

00:22:12.820 of its diversity,

00:22:15.480 last migration policy

00:22:17.460 that we've had

00:22:18.060 over a long period of time

00:22:19.620 where you have

00:22:20.020 more people coming in

00:22:20.960 than what our services

00:22:22.240 and our economy

00:22:23.140 can actually support

00:22:24.140 and therefore more people

00:22:25.600 taking smaller and smaller

00:22:27.000 pieces of the pie,

00:22:28.420 you have this situation

00:22:29.260 where Canadians

00:22:29.740 are falling behind.

00:22:30.980 I can give you

00:22:31.660 a few examples

00:22:32.220 that I've been very concerned

00:22:33.300 about myself

00:22:33.980 as a young person

00:22:34.780 and as I've been covering

00:22:36.220 as a journalist

00:22:36.760 is the question of jobs

00:22:38.600 for youth.

00:22:39.540 The record high

00:22:40.460 youth unemployment

00:22:41.380 in the last 30 years

00:22:42.380 is happening

00:22:43.020 as we speak right now

00:22:44.380 even as youth

00:22:45.920 are doing more

00:22:46.900 and more education,

00:22:47.900 taking more

00:22:48.360 and more opportunities

00:22:49.080 to inform

00:22:50.180 and engage themselves

00:22:51.180 in their communities.

00:22:52.300 They find it hard

00:22:52.900 to come by basic jobs

00:22:54.400 like working

00:22:55.240 at Tim Hortons

00:22:56.020 for example

00:22:56.480 where those restaurants

00:22:57.680 are taking foreign workers,

00:22:59.200 literally taking foreign workers

00:23:00.300 by the thousands

00:23:02.240 into the country

00:23:03.060 giving them visas,

00:23:04.300 giving them sponsorship

00:23:05.000 to cover these jobs

00:23:06.600 that high school graduates

00:23:07.860 or high school students

00:23:08.860 frankly could be covering

00:23:09.660 from as young as age 14

00:23:11.420 frankly according

00:23:12.060 to our laws in Ontario.

00:23:13.780 So it's definitely

00:23:15.920 very much the truth

00:23:16.940 that we have a lot

00:23:17.780 of responsibility

00:23:18.520 here at home

00:23:19.200 for why things

00:23:19.980 are going the way they are

00:23:20.840 unfortunately.

00:23:22.060 Of course the tariff situation

00:23:23.240 isn't helping

00:23:23.760 you could say as well

00:23:24.600 from the counter argument

00:23:25.440 but I definitely think

00:23:26.260 it's been more of a distraction

00:23:28.140 than it's been an actual

00:23:29.860 focal point

00:23:31.100 of how we can take on

00:23:32.460 the quality of living in Canada.

00:23:34.180 I mean I don't disagree

00:23:34.920 with Mark Carney

00:23:35.380 when he says

00:23:35.860 we can give to ourselves

00:23:37.200 more than anyone

00:23:37.960 can take away from us.

00:23:39.200 He's referring to specifically

00:23:40.300 changing the dynamic

00:23:41.620 of inter-provincial change

00:23:43.000 sorry inter-provincial trade,

00:23:45.520 changing the dynamic

00:23:46.320 about our economic trade

00:23:48.520 around the world

00:23:49.180 and our domestic production

00:23:50.320 and oil and energy.

00:23:51.920 I mean this is all good

00:23:52.740 but for now

00:23:53.500 I don't think Mark Carney

00:23:54.320 is really deliberate

00:23:54.920 on the message enough

00:23:55.720 and a lot of his supporters

00:23:57.080 and his loyalists

00:23:57.940 people that are defending him

00:23:59.000 you know day after day after day

00:24:00.800 almost now

00:24:01.900 I guess eight months

00:24:03.320 of Carney we've had right

00:24:04.280 so those kinds of people

00:24:06.180 are really much

00:24:06.800 turning their eyes more

00:24:07.740 and too much

00:24:08.880 to Washington

00:24:09.580 too little to Ottawa.

00:24:10.740 Yeah Alex

00:24:12.440 do you think

00:24:13.200 not just Vance

00:24:16.100 but people of that nature

00:24:17.260 speaking out

00:24:18.360 against Canada's flaws

00:24:20.240 and showing the data

00:24:22.620 you want to blame Trump

00:24:23.920 I mean look at the graph

00:24:24.760 how is that possible

00:24:25.560 that's just not

00:24:26.100 what the numbers support

00:24:26.920 do you think

00:24:27.720 do you think it has any

00:24:28.860 effect I guess

00:24:31.560 on just general

00:24:34.180 Canadian populace

00:24:35.080 and how they think

00:24:36.340 about the issue?

00:24:38.740 Well

00:24:39.220 on a surface level

00:24:40.940 I find this story

00:24:41.840 kind of hilarious

00:24:42.700 because it reminds me

00:24:43.900 of when like your ex

00:24:45.240 sends you a text

00:24:46.080 and it's like

00:24:46.400 stop obsessing over me

00:24:47.880 and it's like

00:24:48.400 what you texted me

00:24:49.740 we weren't even

00:24:52.440 talking about you

00:24:53.200 like what's going on here

00:24:54.680 like there's a little bit

00:24:55.920 of admission by projection there

00:24:57.380 I actually agree

00:24:59.160 with most of the spirit

00:25:00.300 of what he said

00:25:01.720 but I don't necessarily

00:25:03.280 agree that Canada

00:25:05.020 is alone

00:25:06.100 in this

00:25:06.900 I will call it

00:25:08.500 a bad habit

00:25:09.120 of blaming Americans

00:25:10.160 for Canada's problems

00:25:11.700 Americans do the same thing 0.71

00:25:12.860 I mean

00:25:13.160 we just spent

00:25:13.780 the better part

00:25:14.260 of a year

00:25:14.960 of Donald Trump

00:25:16.160 blaming Canada

00:25:16.900 for the US opioid crisis

00:25:18.320 despite the fact

00:25:18.940 that there's no evidence

00:25:19.680 to support that

00:25:20.520 at all

00:25:20.980 there hasn't been

00:25:22.360 a single substantive

00:25:23.240 seizure of

00:25:24.220 South Van Fentanyl

00:25:25.320 going into the United States

00:25:26.840 despite Trump's claims

00:25:27.820 that it's pouring

00:25:28.480 over the border

00:25:29.100 and killing hundreds

00:25:29.800 of thousands

00:25:30.280 of Americans

00:25:30.900 so

00:25:32.020 I'm sorry

00:25:33.700 I'm not saying

00:25:34.420 I don't want to fall

00:25:35.320 into the trap

00:25:35.880 of this binary thinking

00:25:36.900 where if I say

00:25:37.500 US bad

00:25:38.080 I mean Canada good

00:25:38.980 I think that both

00:25:39.660 governments are actually

00:25:40.500 doing a pretty terrible

00:25:41.400 job all around

00:25:42.140 right now

00:25:42.600 and yeah

00:25:45.120 I just find it

00:25:45.660 it's kind of ironic

00:25:47.220 right

00:25:47.680 like

00:25:47.960 you guys are obsessing

00:25:49.320 with us

00:25:49.560 but you're talking

00:25:50.100 about us

00:25:50.560 like we didn't

00:25:51.540 you called me

00:25:52.180 I didn't call you

00:25:53.040 that's a fair point

00:25:55.540 that's a fair point

00:25:55.560 I suspect

00:25:56.580 that Vance himself

00:25:57.460 is someone

00:25:57.840 that reads comments

00:25:58.680 that engages

00:25:59.360 with social media

00:26:00.300 influencers

00:26:00.760 and political commentators

00:26:01.700 again it's not

00:26:02.640 very much

00:26:03.000 the ethic

00:26:03.640 of a vice president

00:26:05.300 but like I said

00:26:06.580 earlier

00:26:06.860 he is active

00:26:07.660 on social media

00:26:08.160 he is active

00:26:08.760 quite active

00:26:09.300 on X

00:26:09.720 on all kinds of topics

00:26:11.140 offensive issues

00:26:11.760 and probably

00:26:12.200 unnecessarily so

00:26:13.180 so definitely

00:26:14.100 like you mentioned

00:26:15.080 that whole metaphor

00:26:15.700 in the X situation

00:26:16.540 is you know

00:26:17.420 who the hell

00:26:18.340 mentioned Canada

00:26:18.960 out loud

00:26:19.400 until he did

00:26:20.200 and I definitely

00:26:21.880 think that

00:26:22.480 the tactic

00:26:23.300 and this by the way

00:26:24.640 is nothing unique

00:26:25.160 to the Trump

00:26:25.660 admin right now

00:26:26.580 it's a tactic

00:26:27.780 of any government

00:26:28.960 under scrutiny

00:26:29.540 to create

00:26:30.480 a boogeyman

00:26:32.260 or especially

00:26:33.040 specifically

00:26:33.520 a boogeyman

00:26:34.160 that is across

00:26:35.380 an internationally

00:26:36.260 recognized border

00:26:37.200 which means

00:26:38.180 that they cannot

00:26:39.160 control the situation

00:26:40.420 but they can blame

00:26:41.880 and pin the situation

00:26:42.620 as responsibility

00:26:43.260 on that entity

00:26:44.300 on that government

00:26:45.000 a foreign government

00:26:45.900 in this case

00:26:46.500 and that essentially

00:26:48.000 delegates responsibility

00:26:49.660 off away from them

00:26:50.640 outside of their own

00:26:51.820 of their own influence

00:26:52.820 and their own control

00:26:53.700 which then means

00:26:54.620 the frustration

00:26:55.200 that generated

00:26:55.780 from that issue

00:26:56.800 can no longer

00:26:58.140 be attributed to them

00:26:59.340 and I think

00:27:00.100 it's probably the sign

00:27:01.060 of the weakest

00:27:01.600 regimes in the world

00:27:02.580 I mean whether

00:27:03.060 you're looking at

00:27:03.600 a country like Iran 0.96

00:27:04.320 or a country like

00:27:05.640 Venezuela

00:27:06.080 India and Pakistan

00:27:07.340 do that all the time

00:27:08.400 right

00:27:08.760 yeah

00:27:09.040 and it's a very

00:27:11.560 very helpful

00:27:12.160 political trick

00:27:12.940 because you know

00:27:13.780 sometimes

00:27:14.140 maybe not in the case

00:27:15.120 of J.D. Vance

00:27:15.700 in the U.S.

00:27:16.280 but you know

00:27:16.980 typically

00:27:17.260 international countries

00:27:18.080 you can

00:27:18.520 galvanize

00:27:19.100 your own nationalism

00:27:19.800 and double down 0.58

00:27:21.860 on your own credibility

00:27:23.020 while you know

00:27:23.880 crapping on an enemy

00:27:24.960 or a rival

00:27:26.320 you could say

00:27:26.840 in this case

00:27:27.380 without any consequence

00:27:29.340 to your own right

00:27:29.980 well you're saying

00:27:30.720 basically the U.S.

00:27:31.780 is using the liberals

00:27:32.620 own tricks against them

00:27:34.240 because that is

00:27:35.000 the single-handed reason

00:27:35.900 how the liberals

00:27:36.640 won the election

00:27:37.360 by painting Trump

00:27:38.320 as the boogeyman

00:27:39.060 even though

00:27:39.660 well he painted himself

00:27:40.800 as the boogeyman

00:27:41.580 I mean he joked

00:27:42.600 repeatedly about

00:27:43.480 annexing Canada

00:27:44.360 and turning it

00:27:44.940 into a 51st state

00:27:46.060 that was exactly

00:27:46.760 the kook bait

00:27:47.340 that the CBC

00:27:48.060 and the liberal party

00:27:48.940 needed to get re-elected

00:27:50.200 sure

00:27:51.040 I think with Trump

00:27:52.480 specifically

00:27:53.100 I think he used

00:27:54.180 multiple countries

00:27:55.420 and multiple relationships

00:27:56.680 both with Europe

00:27:57.860 specifically

00:27:58.360 a long time

00:27:59.100 with Europe

00:27:59.520 the EU

00:28:00.100 entirely

00:28:00.640 and NATO

00:28:01.180 along with Canada

00:28:02.720 and a number of other countries

00:28:03.960 as kind of

00:28:04.660 you know

00:28:04.840 we're all just

00:28:05.360 exploding the U.S. 0.63

00:28:06.160 for our benefit

00:28:06.860 I mean the fact of the matter

00:28:08.240 is look

00:28:08.560 there is room

00:28:09.620 to change

00:28:10.100 the trade relationship

00:28:10.860 and the U.S.

00:28:11.560 has a lot of leverage

00:28:12.280 on their end

00:28:12.820 the kind of

00:28:14.220 you know

00:28:14.400 terrifying the auto sector

00:28:15.600 to bring jobs back

00:28:16.620 I mean

00:28:17.040 heck it's working

00:28:17.720 to some favor

00:28:18.360 is only temporary

00:28:19.400 perhaps so

00:28:20.280 so I think

00:28:21.680 definitely

00:28:22.440 Trump has already

00:28:23.340 done that before

00:28:24.580 but

00:28:24.940 in the case

00:28:25.960 of reaping

00:28:26.400 the political benefit

00:28:27.020 I think

00:28:27.500 the Canadian side

00:28:28.420 is reaping the benefit

00:28:29.280 more

00:28:29.660 I mean

00:28:30.040 I don't think

00:28:30.460 Trump won the election

00:28:31.200 just because

00:28:31.820 he hated on Mexico

00:28:32.580 there's a lot

00:28:33.260 of more domestic policy

00:28:34.460 at play there

00:28:35.560 I think

00:28:36.140 the Canadian liberals

00:28:37.080 completely

00:28:38.240 resurrected themselves

00:28:39.400 from third

00:28:39.920 or fourth place

00:28:40.700 to first

00:28:41.940 and you know

00:28:42.560 even now

00:28:43.000 borderline majority

00:28:43.780 territory of election

00:28:44.600 was held today

00:28:45.240 because of that situation

00:28:46.760 so

00:28:47.040 liberal HQ

00:28:48.620 is evil

00:28:50.000 but clever

00:28:50.460 you can say

00:28:51.140 for conservatives

00:28:52.320 to look at

00:28:53.020 yeah

00:28:53.780 clever

00:28:54.240 but also

00:28:54.820 you know

00:28:55.200 timing really worked out

00:28:56.480 in their favor

00:28:56.940 because of

00:28:57.680 the tariff situation

00:28:58.820 and everything

00:28:59.200 I mean

00:28:59.520 there was a lot

00:29:01.120 of timing involved

00:29:01.760 I guess there always is

00:29:02.700 and I think

00:29:03.480 that like

00:29:03.800 as well

00:29:04.260 just in forgiveness

00:29:05.300 to J.D. Vance

00:29:06.280 I think that

00:29:06.700 the spirit again

00:29:07.300 of his tweet

00:29:07.720 is mostly accurate

00:29:08.620 I think that

00:29:09.440 it doesn't tell

00:29:10.500 the full picture

00:29:11.120 though

00:29:11.420 because it's

00:29:12.540 GDP per person

00:29:13.740 relative to inflation

00:29:14.800 so the immigration issue

00:29:16.700 is a huge component

00:29:17.940 of the reason

00:29:18.600 why things are going

00:29:19.200 so poorly in Canada

00:29:20.180 specifically when it

00:29:20.980 comes to things

00:29:21.500 like the cost of living

00:29:22.340 crisis

00:29:22.740 because if you have

00:29:23.560 more people

00:29:23.960 you have more demand

00:29:24.760 things

00:29:25.980 the prices go up

00:29:26.900 but the other part

00:29:28.280 of that component

00:29:28.880 is that our government

00:29:29.820 much like their government

00:29:30.860 during COVID

00:29:31.520 spent an enormous

00:29:33.260 amount of money

00:29:34.020 and that's really

00:29:35.260 the main driver

00:29:36.080 of inflation

00:29:36.720 right

00:29:37.300 is the money printing

00:29:38.260 and so

00:29:39.320 I don't know

00:29:40.940 I would say

00:29:41.540 that it's mostly

00:29:42.660 accurate

00:29:43.060 but somewhat misleading

00:29:43.940 and not entirely

00:29:44.780 doesn't capture

00:29:45.600 the whole picture

00:29:46.220 of what's going on

00:29:47.080 yeah it's hard

00:29:48.840 to capture

00:29:49.180 the whole picture

00:29:49.760 with one graph

00:29:50.420 but I mean

00:29:50.940 it tells the story

00:29:51.980 well enough

00:29:53.280 as for our

00:29:55.400 next story

00:29:56.360 we'll lead this again

00:29:57.280 definitely related

00:29:58.780 to you

00:29:59.100 because it's funny

00:29:59.960 I was watching

00:30:00.500 the video

00:30:01.020 which we'll start

00:30:02.500 with soon

00:30:03.220 and I was like

00:30:04.500 I'm pretty sure

00:30:05.340 I've seen

00:30:05.960 we'll lead filming

00:30:06.540 like right there

00:30:07.140 because it looked

00:30:07.980 like the more

00:30:08.940 or less the same

00:30:09.520 environment

00:30:09.920 in the backgrounds

00:30:10.600 in the videos

00:30:11.100 that you had

00:30:11.560 but yeah

00:30:12.060 can we just run

00:30:12.680 that video

00:30:13.080 right away

00:30:13.520 get out

00:30:23.400 get out

00:30:26.140 yeah

00:30:31.280 so basically

00:30:32.160 the climate conference

00:30:34.920 which is wildfire related

00:30:37.120 and they're trying

00:30:37.940 to bring them down

00:30:39.060 lit on fire 0.53

00:30:40.320 I mean

00:30:40.640 this is absolute

00:30:41.980 pandemonium

00:30:42.800 what was going on here

00:30:44.380 this is great

00:30:45.180 it seems like a crazy

00:30:46.480 irony or hypocrisy

00:30:48.000 or just

00:30:48.540 I don't know

00:30:49.520 the proper word

00:30:50.460 but this is crazy

00:30:51.660 yeah

00:30:51.900 I think it's metaphorical

00:30:53.900 frankly

00:30:54.200 but first of all

00:30:55.100 I want to start off

00:30:55.620 by saying that

00:30:56.320 I'm glad that no one

00:30:57.580 was seriously injured

00:30:58.360 I heard

00:30:59.200 the team

00:31:01.680 that were giving me updates

00:31:02.920 the media team

00:31:03.580 on the ground

00:31:04.020 as a member of the press

00:31:05.600 accredited by the UN

00:31:06.920 and of course

00:31:07.860 by the Brazilian government

00:31:08.640 as well

00:31:09.060 received regular updates

00:31:10.420 about the closure

00:31:11.020 about the emergency

00:31:12.060 dispatch team

00:31:13.820 and everything else

00:31:14.500 so for now

00:31:14.980 I heard only of

00:31:16.180 a few instances

00:31:17.200 of people

00:31:17.740 inhaling some smoke

00:31:18.840 from the fire

00:31:19.420 who were probably

00:31:19.940 in close proximity

00:31:20.780 to the fire

00:31:21.440 and the flames

00:31:22.600 and so

00:31:23.100 they were probably

00:31:23.940 getting some treatment

00:31:24.660 on site

00:31:25.160 but no

00:31:26.260 no serious injuries

00:31:27.160 or burns

00:31:27.740 yeah rest assured guys

00:31:28.660 I wouldn't have been laughing

00:31:29.520 if there were serious injuries

00:31:30.620 I was

00:31:31.200 I knew that there wasn't

00:31:33.240 so

00:31:33.520 absolutely

00:31:35.380 I think we're all

00:31:37.860 we're all well informed

00:31:39.060 of the situation right now

00:31:40.040 but just in hindsight

00:31:41.260 like thinking about

00:31:42.420 the environment

00:31:42.860 I was going through

00:31:43.560 in Berlin

00:31:43.920 when I was at the

00:31:44.500 conference

00:31:44.800 you have to remember

00:31:45.760 this is

00:31:46.260 not inside the Amazon rainforest

00:31:48.320 but on the border

00:31:49.140 of the rainforest

00:31:49.900 in the Amazonian region

00:31:51.160 it's an indoor event

00:31:53.020 regardless if you have

00:31:54.260 the scene of the forest

00:31:55.180 or not

00:31:55.560 like the most of the day

00:31:56.740 all the delegates

00:31:57.560 all the visitors

00:31:58.280 all the press

00:31:58.980 or spending time indoors

00:32:00.520 in an environment

00:32:01.660 which I criticized

00:32:02.620 for not even having

00:32:03.640 proper air conditioning

00:32:04.620 for the first couple days

00:32:05.920 we didn't even have AC

00:32:07.000 in 75% of the entire venue

00:32:09.340 and I knew that

00:32:10.340 because I was sweating

00:32:11.100 my behind off

00:32:13.280 all day 0.95

00:32:13.760 I had to wear

00:32:14.220 nothing more than

00:32:15.120 a polo shirt

00:32:15.760 until after

00:32:16.380 the COP30 event

00:32:17.400 I started on the 10th

00:32:18.980 and 11th and 12th

00:32:19.900 so I had to start

00:32:20.580 putting on some suits

00:32:21.300 to try to really

00:32:22.080 beef up my game

00:32:23.140 and hopefully flirt

00:32:23.960 with Stephen Galbo

00:32:25.380 and other Canadian delegates

00:32:27.160 available there

00:32:28.240 so you have this backdrop

00:32:30.840 of a very warm environment

00:32:32.260 because it's

00:32:32.800 in the north side

00:32:33.420 of Brazil

00:32:33.880 in a very small

00:32:35.080 probably moderate city

00:32:36.660 which probably can't even

00:32:37.700 take on this kind of

00:32:38.620 international event

00:32:39.280 in the first place

00:32:40.000 hence why the president

00:32:41.360 and the government

00:32:42.220 hired three cruise ships

00:32:44.400 to dock

00:32:44.920 and burn 135 litres

00:32:46.880 of diesel fuel

00:32:48.000 per hour

00:32:48.600 to house more delegates

00:32:50.440 from abroad

00:32:51.020 in these very fancy hotels

00:32:52.420 on board these ships

00:32:53.920 then you had this

00:32:55.880 air conditioning situation

00:32:56.760 you have warm weather

00:32:57.860 every day

00:32:58.340 probably 35 degrees

00:32:59.620 right now

00:33:00.020 as you speak

00:33:00.460 over there

00:33:00.860 26 degrees

00:33:01.820 again with lack

00:33:03.260 of proper air conditioning

00:33:04.040 so it gives you

00:33:05.160 this backdrop

00:33:05.640 that I'm thinking to myself

00:33:06.460 you know maybe

00:33:07.240 they're doing this

00:33:07.740 on purpose

00:33:08.380 excuse my language

00:33:09.180 maybe they're doing

00:33:09.740 this stuff on purpose

00:33:10.560 maybe they're trying

00:33:11.020 to really give us

00:33:11.600 this environment

00:33:12.140 where you know

00:33:13.040 we're sweating

00:33:13.540 our behinds off

00:33:15.060 and like we're just

00:33:15.640 thinking about

00:33:16.080 you know how imminent

00:33:16.860 the global warming

00:33:17.540 crisis is

00:33:18.220 and how that 1.5%

00:33:19.320 might actually be

00:33:20.500 irreversible damage

00:33:21.780 and turn the whole

00:33:23.220 world to the ground

00:33:24.540 so I guess

00:33:25.920 before that happens

00:33:26.760 the COP30 event

00:33:27.800 was almost burned

00:33:28.580 to the ground itself

00:33:29.380 so I feel like

00:33:30.900 there's a bit

00:33:31.820 of a hidden message

00:33:32.440 there that

00:33:33.080 you know

00:33:33.720 I think really

00:33:35.080 really guys

00:33:36.520 is

00:33:36.900 our environment

00:33:38.100 was

00:33:38.880 super

00:33:40.060 if you think about it

00:33:40.800 was just a super

00:33:41.620 flammable environment

00:33:42.620 everything was compostable

00:33:44.340 everything was made

00:33:45.320 out of paper

00:33:45.760 the forks

00:33:46.500 the spoons

00:33:47.040 the straws

00:33:48.260 the warm weather

00:33:49.400 lack air conditioning

00:33:50.560 you know

00:33:51.760 a lot of

00:33:52.080 actually

00:33:52.960 another story

00:33:54.040 to tie into this

00:33:54.820 is

00:33:55.080 the bathrooms

00:33:56.140 didn't have running water

00:33:57.640 the first week and a half

00:33:59.440 the bathrooms

00:34:00.100 what

00:34:00.640 did not have running water

00:34:02.700 you had toilet

00:34:03.480 with no water

00:34:04.560 like basically

00:34:05.740 as

00:34:06.620 it would be

00:34:07.540 as

00:34:07.800 like an outhouse

00:34:09.080 right

00:34:09.400 no

00:34:10.380 not even

00:34:10.840 no no no

00:34:11.600 this is like

00:34:12.440 if I went into

00:34:13.280 Home Depot

00:34:13.780 in the section

00:34:15.000 of models

00:34:15.600 of toilets

00:34:16.320 and took a dump

00:34:17.060 there

00:34:17.340 it's so funny

00:34:20.580 Willie

00:34:21.220 what's so funny

00:34:21.880 to me about that

00:34:22.580 is I don't know

00:34:23.040 if you remember

00:34:23.440 well I'm sure you do

00:34:24.120 last week

00:34:24.680 we were talking

00:34:25.160 about this

00:34:25.720 and I described

00:34:26.480 this whole COP30

00:34:27.320 conference

00:34:27.780 as the globalist

00:34:28.860 version of Woodstock 99

00:34:30.300 and like the only

00:34:31.740 thing that it was

00:34:32.360 missing was fire

00:34:33.300 and then we got it

00:34:35.160 yeah Willie

00:34:37.180 do they have any idea

00:34:38.080 how the fire

00:34:38.700 started

00:34:39.300 because I know

00:34:40.580 it's a flammable

00:34:41.280 environment

00:34:41.720 but you still need

00:34:42.660 like an ignition

00:34:44.000 source to start

00:34:44.800 the fire

00:34:45.120 so how did it

00:34:46.180 happen

00:34:46.680 do we know

00:34:47.160 climate change

00:34:48.300 now I'm just kidding

00:34:48.840 fires are just

00:34:50.760 starting combusting

00:34:51.500 everywhere

00:34:51.980 oh my

00:34:52.440 and this is the thing

00:34:54.100 see this is the narrative

00:34:55.580 that we have to get

00:34:56.120 to the bottom to

00:34:56.740 on this story

00:34:57.320 because this is

00:34:57.840 what happened

00:34:58.280 in Canada

00:34:58.640 effectively

00:34:59.040 remember the

00:34:59.580 2023 forest fires

00:35:00.780 we're having

00:35:01.200 and then like

00:35:02.520 you know

00:35:02.860 oh this is happening

00:35:03.680 because in the world

00:35:04.540 it was all man made

00:35:05.620 yeah

00:35:06.760 yeah I mean

00:35:07.560 man caused fires

00:35:08.940 you know

00:35:10.100 who did this

00:35:10.920 like who was the person

00:35:12.620 that you know

00:35:13.360 put a fork in the microwave

00:35:14.740 or the person

00:35:16.280 that just left

00:35:17.000 something unattended

00:35:17.920 or a person

00:35:18.920 that was probably

00:35:19.620 Catherine McKenna

00:35:20.580 oh yeah

00:35:21.980 the paper forks

00:35:23.040 man of course

00:35:23.760 I was like wait

00:35:24.320 paper

00:35:24.720 I didn't put a fork

00:35:25.520 in the microwave

00:35:26.140 but then they're paper

00:35:26.980 so yeah

00:35:27.520 I mean

00:35:28.320 microwaves

00:35:29.400 I'm just

00:35:30.600 look

00:35:31.140 Isaac

00:35:31.860 I'm just

00:35:32.620 I'm someone

00:35:34.200 with a lot of

00:35:35.620 not in terms of

00:35:36.720 the events agenda

00:35:37.340 but in terms of

00:35:38.020 logistics

00:35:38.640 like having COP30

00:35:39.820 in Brazil

00:35:40.220 like having

00:35:41.140 something themed

00:35:42.360 around the Amazon

00:35:42.880 rainforest

00:35:43.240 for me

00:35:43.920 like I can get

00:35:44.840 behind that

00:35:45.240 personally

00:35:45.660 I think it is

00:35:47.440 a noteworthy goal

00:35:48.420 to protect

00:35:49.280 nature

00:35:50.200 didn't they chop

00:35:51.600 down a bunch

00:35:52.140 of the rainforest

00:35:52.640 for the conference

00:35:53.480 I mean

00:35:53.860 come on

00:35:54.300 13 kilometers

00:35:55.020 to be exact

00:35:55.560 but protected

00:35:56.880 by the own

00:35:58.120 government

00:35:58.440 and then had

00:35:59.000 decided to chop

00:35:59.760 it down

00:36:00.100 so again

00:36:00.660 it really

00:36:01.560 brings a lot

00:36:02.340 of hypocrisy

00:36:02.820 there

00:36:03.020 so this event

00:36:04.600 has marred

00:36:05.680 the credibility

00:36:06.240 of the Brazilian

00:36:06.940 government

00:36:07.360 of the entire

00:36:08.520 COP agenda

00:36:09.420 and the UN

00:36:10.420 and its efforts

00:36:11.520 to try to combat

00:36:12.360 whatever

00:36:12.900 and whatever

00:36:13.280 because at the

00:36:14.300 end of the day

00:36:14.660 they've contributed

00:36:15.520 a lot to it

00:36:16.080 with this event

00:36:16.820 alone

00:36:17.140 and just from

00:36:17.960 the logistics

00:36:18.380 end

00:36:18.660 like you know

00:36:19.420 in Canada

00:36:19.800 when we host

00:36:20.340 like you know

00:36:20.860 the Olympics

00:36:21.280 or the World Cup

00:36:22.000 next year

00:36:22.500 for example

00:36:23.020 Alex and I

00:36:23.520 will be covering

00:36:24.060 World Cup related

00:36:25.080 content for

00:36:25.680 True North

00:36:26.040 in the next

00:36:26.580 coming months

00:36:27.160 you know

00:36:28.500 I care

00:36:29.720 how well

00:36:30.380 it's run

00:36:30.680 I care that

00:36:31.440 you know

00:36:31.740 public safety

00:36:32.540 is in check

00:36:33.080 that hotel

00:36:33.760 accommodations

00:36:34.240 are well

00:36:34.760 managed

00:36:35.460 for the influx

00:36:36.380 of people

00:36:36.780 coming up

00:36:37.140 from abroad

00:36:37.560 you know

00:36:38.020 Canada is my country

00:36:39.940 I love Canada

00:36:40.800 to be well

00:36:41.240 represented

00:36:41.560 on the world

00:36:41.960 stage

00:36:42.360 and specifically

00:36:43.840 when people

00:36:44.280 are coming

00:36:44.560 to Canada

00:36:44.900 to visit

00:36:45.400 and you know

00:36:46.600 looking at it

00:36:47.020 from the Brazilian

00:36:47.460 having many friends

00:36:48.460 over here

00:36:48.900 having many colleagues

00:36:49.660 in media

00:36:50.040 that are here

00:36:50.700 in Brazil

00:36:51.060 they've all

00:36:51.940 I mean

00:36:52.320 from left

00:36:52.880 and right

00:36:53.200 they've all

00:36:53.520 come to the

00:36:53.980 conclusion

00:36:54.300 that this event

00:36:55.780 has put Brazil

00:36:56.680 under a bad light

00:36:57.820 you know

00:36:58.100 it's thrown Brazil 0.96

00:36:58.960 to be a country

00:36:59.740 that cannot

00:37:00.260 handle this kind

00:37:01.280 of event

00:37:01.580 or at least

00:37:02.120 the city

00:37:02.640 of Belém

00:37:03.220 incapable

00:37:04.580 and I think

00:37:05.120 that's definitely

00:37:05.640 a fair assessment

00:37:06.220 to make

00:37:06.580 is you know

00:37:07.280 no running water

00:37:08.320 in the bathrooms

00:37:09.480 food is expensive

00:37:11.200 and limited

00:37:11.680 and most of it

00:37:12.360 isn't even Brazilian 0.57

00:37:13.020 they were selling

00:37:13.460 croissants

00:37:14.060 they were selling croissants

00:37:14.980 for $10 each

00:37:16.640 Canadian dollars

00:37:17.540 that is

00:37:17.900 exactly

00:37:18.520 I mean

00:37:19.080 I didn't even have

00:37:19.800 the guts

00:37:20.100 to expensify this

00:37:20.980 to the boss

00:37:21.480 because I'm like

00:37:21.840 what the hell

00:37:22.260 I was just

00:37:24.560 starving in there

00:37:25.200 so and there's

00:37:25.820 a lot of food

00:37:26.360 options outside

00:37:27.140 and nearby

00:37:27.780 and I had to be

00:37:28.520 there on the ground

00:37:28.960 to catch all these

00:37:29.660 people you know

00:37:30.540 from hour to hour

00:37:31.460 and minute to minute

00:37:32.060 you had this

00:37:33.700 you know

00:37:34.140 lack of air conditioning

00:37:34.900 super hot

00:37:35.580 and warm environment

00:37:36.300 it was all indoors

00:37:37.080 all these pavillains

00:37:38.240 have been you know

00:37:38.840 built up

00:37:39.300 you know

00:37:39.720 all wood

00:37:40.200 all paper

00:37:40.760 all you know

00:37:42.040 so it was

00:37:43.360 again it was

00:37:44.040 the optimal

00:37:44.580 environment for

00:37:45.540 a disaster

00:37:47.280 frankly

00:37:47.700 and thankfully

00:37:48.620 the fire was

00:37:49.660 contained quickly

00:37:50.320 yeah

00:37:50.760 I'm just glad

00:37:51.320 you're okay

00:37:51.800 when I saw

00:37:52.600 it come on

00:37:53.260 my x feed

00:37:53.820 I was

00:37:54.240 I felt like

00:37:55.060 calling

00:37:55.320 he'd be like

00:37:55.660 will you get

00:37:56.120 out of there

00:37:56.520 there's a fire

00:37:57.160 so I see it

00:37:59.100 man I see it

00:37:59.860 you saw like

00:38:00.360 20 minutes later

00:38:01.040 you know

00:38:01.360 I'm like

00:38:02.680 I'm all good

00:38:03.340 I'm on the outside

00:38:04.100 now

00:38:04.420 oh my god

00:38:05.860 as for the actual

00:38:07.040 event will lead

00:38:07.580 will it have to be

00:38:08.320 extended

00:38:08.780 because it like

00:38:09.360 got stalled

00:38:10.040 or what's going

00:38:10.780 on with the

00:38:11.200 timeline

00:38:11.600 well apparently

00:38:13.080 they opened up

00:38:13.960 the event area

00:38:14.940 where the fire

00:38:15.540 happened

00:38:15.980 pretty much

00:38:16.920 all the event

00:38:17.560 area back

00:38:18.160 at 8.48

00:38:19.340 p.m.

00:38:20.540 local time

00:38:21.220 this fire

00:38:21.860 happened around

00:38:22.380 2.30

00:38:23.000 local time

00:38:23.800 so it took

00:38:24.380 about six hours

00:38:25.320 out of the event

00:38:26.100 but even from

00:38:27.240 the days prior

00:38:27.840 they've been

00:38:28.240 extending the

00:38:28.740 negotiation hours

00:38:29.640 and extending

00:38:30.160 the venue

00:38:30.700 opening hours

00:38:31.440 longer

00:38:31.880 until almost

00:38:33.120 midnight

00:38:33.720 because delegates

00:38:35.200 have required

00:38:35.860 more time to

00:38:36.480 engage

00:38:36.860 and to dish out

00:38:38.300 taxpayer dollars

00:38:38.960 for god knows

00:38:39.640 what

00:38:39.920 from every

00:38:41.060 respective country

00:38:41.760 involved in

00:38:42.260 this whole

00:38:42.900 fiasco

00:38:43.400 so I think

00:38:44.020 they might be

00:38:44.780 fine with the

00:38:45.300 time

00:38:45.520 I don't know

00:38:45.820 I don't think

00:38:46.580 they have to

00:38:47.020 add a whole

00:38:47.960 day

00:38:48.280 but if they

00:38:49.260 do I'll let

00:38:49.660 you know

00:38:49.900 because again

00:38:50.580 today is supposed

00:38:51.700 to be the

00:38:52.000 last day

00:38:52.480 so we'll know

00:38:53.680 if there will

00:38:54.020 be anything

00:38:54.400 happening after

00:38:55.180 but again

00:38:55.660 I think

00:38:56.040 that for

00:38:57.180 the main

00:38:57.540 venue

00:38:57.880 for the

00:38:58.280 main events

00:38:58.800 main speeches

00:38:59.460 world leaders

00:39:00.160 delegates

00:39:00.660 ministers

00:39:01.200 I think

00:39:02.020 they're all

00:39:02.320 starting to head

00:39:02.840 home now

00:39:03.500 unless they're

00:39:04.880 trying to tour

00:39:05.460 the rest of the

00:39:05.980 country

00:39:06.180 and have a

00:39:07.160 little fun

00:39:08.040 trip to Rio

00:39:08.660 on the

00:39:08.900 taxpayer dime

00:39:09.480 I think

00:39:09.920 I can suspect

00:39:11.200 a few

00:39:11.600 officials doing

00:39:12.300 that for sure

00:39:12.900 yeah well

00:39:15.700 speaking of

00:39:16.240 heading home

00:39:16.820 that wraps up

00:39:17.940 this week's

00:39:18.420 show

00:39:18.660 it's been a

00:39:19.600 pleasure

00:39:19.800 but remember

00:39:20.600 everything you

00:39:21.160 heard today

00:39:21.620 was off the

00:39:22.140 record

00:39:22.460 it's good

00:39:27.600 wrap

00:39:27.940 except

00:39:28.840 it's like

00:39:30.480 winter here

00:39:32.360 and I'm like

00:39:32.720 ugh

00:39:33.020 but then

00:39:33.740 if you don't

00:39:34.640 have running

00:39:34.940 water

00:39:35.240 it's like

00:39:35.640 I'd rather

00:39:36.320 be in

00:39:36.600 mine

00:39:36.740 today

00:39:37.160 actually

00:39:37.520 I'm in

00:39:37.840 Sao Paulo

00:39:38.260 it's like

00:39:38.580 30 degrees

00:39:39.100 I'm looking

00:39:39.380 at my

00:39:39.580 MacBook

00:39:39.860 30 degrees

00:39:40.500 Celsius

00:39:40.800 today

00:39:41.240 it's

00:39:42.200 it's

00:39:42.580 nice

00:39:42.840 here

00:39:43.320 yeah

00:39:45.000 it's nice

00:39:45.400 here too

00:39:45.700 it's two

00:39:46.020 degrees

00:39:46.400 and I

00:39:47.480 keep

00:39:47.800 waiting

00:39:48.400 for it

00:39:48.700 to get

00:39:48.940 cold

00:39:49.220 and snow

00:39:49.660 but it

00:39:50.040 doesn't

00:39:50.420 and it's

00:39:50.720 annoying

00:39:51.040 I don't

00:39:52.120 know if

00:39:53.300 you guys

00:39:53.520 watch

00:39:53.740 soccer

00:39:54.060 but like

00:39:54.460 there was

00:39:54.680 like

00:39:54.840 the

00:39:55.120 Premier League

00:39:55.500 final

00:39:55.840 and it

00:39:56.820 was

00:39:56.920 happening

00:39:57.160 in Ottawa

00:39:57.520 I don't think

00:39:58.400 on November

00:39:58.680 4th

00:39:59.200 on Sunday

00:39:59.820 or Monday

00:40:00.720 and there

00:40:01.700 was like

00:40:01.900 a blizzard

00:40:02.280 there

00:40:02.600 and they

00:40:02.800 were playing

00:40:03.240 like

00:40:03.640 they had

00:40:04.880 to get

00:40:05.180 these

00:40:05.840 leaf blowers

00:40:06.580 just to

00:40:06.980 blow out

00:40:07.420 oh yeah

00:40:07.740 the game

00:40:08.020 in Ottawa

00:40:08.400 or whatever

00:40:08.900 yeah

00:40:09.600 it was

00:40:10.100 hilarious

00:40:10.500 you couldn't

00:40:10.940 see the

00:40:11.260 ball

00:40:11.580 you couldn't

00:40:12.620 even see

00:40:13.060 the outline

00:40:13.860 the outline

00:40:14.400 the touchline

00:40:15.000 you could not

00:40:15.660 know

00:40:15.940 there was that

00:40:16.700 much snow

00:40:17.140 yeah

00:40:17.880 yeah

00:40:18.500 you can tell

00:40:20.000 that like

00:40:20.360 soccer is not

00:40:21.060 meant to be

00:40:21.540 played in the

00:40:22.140 snow because

00:40:22.680 the ball

00:40:23.060 is white

00:40:23.580 yeah no

00:40:24.740 that's like

00:40:25.200 that's like

00:40:25.620 the Grey

00:40:25.960 Cup

00:40:26.300 like it's

00:40:26.820 always

00:40:27.100 or it's

00:40:27.820 often in

00:40:28.240 the snow

00:40:28.580 because of

00:40:29.100 when it

00:40:29.420 is held

00:40:30.020 but it

00:40:30.600 wasn't this

00:40:31.020 year

00:40:31.140 but at

00:40:31.760 least you

00:40:32.160 can like 0.99

00:40:32.600 the balls

00:40:33.440 in the air

00:40:34.360 you can see

00:40:34.860 it just

00:40:35.140 fine

00:40:35.400 right

00:40:35.620 but soccer

00:40:36.960 yeah that's

00:40:37.480 tough

00:40:37.700 because I

00:40:38.000 remember

00:40:38.260 when they

00:40:39.860 played in

00:40:40.320 Edmonton

00:40:40.760 like two

00:40:41.140 years ago

00:40:41.640 it was

00:40:42.420 freezing

00:40:42.760 and I

00:40:44.420 mean same

00:40:45.280 kind of

00:40:45.580 issues right

00:40:46.180 they need

00:40:47.700 indoor

00:40:48.480 outdoor

00:40:49.220 indoor

00:40:49.580 stadiums

00:40:50.120 like what

00:40:50.880 do you

00:40:51.060 call them

00:40:51.420 the stadiums

00:40:52.140 that can

00:40:52.400 close

00:40:52.720 like baseball

00:40:53.780 has that

00:40:54.300 the domes

00:40:55.240 yeah the

00:40:55.980 domes

00:40:56.260 yeah

00:40:56.440 do you guys

00:40:57.380 know why

00:40:57.680 American

00:40:58.040 football was

00:40:58.640 invented

00:40:59.040 it's actually

00:41:02.260 a really

00:41:02.560 interesting

00:41:02.940 thing

00:41:03.240 yeah

00:41:03.520 yeah I

00:41:05.500 should know

00:41:05.920 I feel like

00:41:06.700 I've heard

00:41:07.000 it before

00:41:07.340 but

00:41:07.580 so it

00:41:08.400 was during

00:41:08.820 a time

00:41:09.220 between the

00:41:09.740 American Civil

00:41:10.360 War and

00:41:10.760 the First

00:41:11.100 World War

00:41:11.580 and after

00:41:12.100 the American

00:41:12.580 Indian War

00:41:13.120 so there

00:41:13.480 was all

00:41:13.780 this concern

00:41:14.360 at the

00:41:14.660 Ivy League

00:41:15.100 universities

00:41:15.640 that men

00:41:16.200 were becoming

00:41:16.720 too effeminate

00:41:17.520 because there

00:41:18.480 weren't enough

00:41:18.960 wars

00:41:19.300 so they

00:41:20.200 wanted to

00:41:20.620 create a

00:41:21.040 game that

00:41:21.400 simulated

00:41:21.860 the trench

00:41:22.360 warfare

00:41:22.720 they saw

00:41:23.160 during the

00:41:23.500 American Civil

00:41:24.120 War

00:41:24.380 where men

00:41:24.760 fought to

00:41:25.200 the death

00:41:25.560 for inches

00:41:26.260 wow

00:41:28.840 wow

00:41:30.060 I'll take

00:41:31.020 your word

00:41:31.300 for it

00:41:31.660 we need

00:41:32.260 we need

00:41:32.600 something like

00:41:33.040 that in

00:41:33.980 the 21st

00:41:35.200 century here

00:41:37.160 because men

00:41:38.260 getting too

00:41:38.620 effeminate is

00:41:39.220 an issue

00:41:40.080 I guess

00:41:40.420 as old

00:41:40.740 as time

00:41:41.180 well and

00:41:42.060 in the

00:41:42.260 first few

00:41:42.640 years they

00:41:42.960 didn't wear

00:41:43.340 helmets and

00:41:43.860 people did

00:41:44.300 die

00:41:44.600 yeah

00:41:45.320 well even

00:41:46.680 still Alex

00:41:47.240 the brain

00:41:47.840 damage these

00:41:48.340 guys have

00:41:48.740 I mean

00:41:48.980 you've seen

00:41:49.340 the movies

00:41:49.960 and the

00:41:50.240 data

00:41:50.460 it's terrible

00:41:51.060 like their

00:41:51.860 average rate

00:41:54.040 of mortality

00:41:54.500 is like 20

00:41:55.160 years younger

00:41:55.780 or something

00:41:56.220 than a normal

00:41:56.740 man

00:41:57.000 it is very

00:41:58.280 very sad

00:41:59.500 when you think

00:42:00.000 about it

00:42:00.360 because

00:42:00.800 and you can't

00:42:01.520 really remove

00:42:02.100 that from

00:42:02.540 the game

00:42:02.900 when you

00:42:03.160 once you

00:42:03.500 realize why

00:42:04.080 it was invented

00:42:04.680 right

00:42:05.000 like the

00:42:05.340 raison d'etre

00:42:05.880 of football

00:42:06.640 is to

00:42:07.340 make men

00:42:08.400 tough

00:42:08.780 by putting

00:42:09.620 them in

00:42:09.900 a warlike

00:42:10.480 environment

00:42:10.840 yeah no

00:42:11.260 it's funny

00:42:11.740 you mention

00:42:12.120 that actually

00:42:12.580 because when

00:42:13.060 we were

00:42:13.180 watching the

00:42:13.560 Grey Cup

00:42:13.940 this one

00:42:14.340 Alouette's

00:42:14.800 player was

00:42:15.200 wearing this

00:42:15.720 crazy thing

00:42:16.460 on his head

00:42:17.040 and it

00:42:17.420 looked like

00:42:17.740 a beanie

00:42:18.120 and my mom

00:42:18.560 just kept

00:42:19.400 complaining about

00:42:20.000 it so I

00:42:20.340 looked it up

00:42:20.700 and I was like

00:42:21.200 eventually I was

00:42:22.040 like yeah

00:42:22.340 it's probably

00:42:22.660 to protect

00:42:23.080 his head

00:42:23.400 I'm guessing

00:42:23.700 get a concussion

00:42:24.180 that's exactly

00:42:24.720 what it was

00:42:25.180 like it's a

00:42:25.720 something you put

00:42:32.540 you're right

00:42:35.100 Alex it's

00:42:35.620 about being a

00:42:36.120 man you know

00:42:36.640 so you're not

00:42:37.480 going to add

00:42:37.860 these soft

00:42:38.360 things into

00:42:39.280 the sport

00:42:39.820 but you will

00:42:41.100 pay the

00:42:41.440 consequences 1.00

00:42:41.880 and die 0.89

00:42:42.640 at 60

00:42:43.040 years old

00:42:43.500 you know

00:42:45.140 what I've

00:42:45.360 always wondered

00:42:45.800 about helmets

00:42:46.380 why aren't

00:42:46.860 you required

00:42:47.400 to wear a

00:42:47.900 helmet when

00:42:48.300 you're driving

00:42:48.720 a car

00:42:49.220 well would

00:42:52.000 that really

00:42:52.340 help you

00:42:52.700 like does

00:42:53.320 the airbag

00:42:53.700 not accomplish

00:42:54.280 that goal

00:42:55.280 well I assume

00:42:56.560 it does

00:42:56.960 but like what

00:42:57.400 happens if the

00:42:57.900 airbag doesn't 1.00

00:42:58.780 deploy or you

00:42:59.800 know like

00:43:00.380 you know I

00:43:01.100 think

00:43:01.400 airbags

00:43:03.580 generally

00:43:04.020 there's got to

00:43:05.620 be some kind

00:43:06.140 of science

00:43:06.540 behind it

00:43:07.000 but like

00:43:07.340 in this era

00:43:08.240 of the nanny

00:43:08.840 state it's

00:43:09.320 just like one

00:43:09.720 of these weird

00:43:10.160 random things

00:43:10.740 I think about

00:43:11.300 sometimes like

00:43:12.160 Alex I already

00:43:12.900 see people

00:43:13.360 driving in their

00:43:13.940 cars alone

00:43:14.860 with masks

00:43:15.580 on and it

00:43:16.540 just makes me

00:43:17.080 sick last thing

00:43:17.800 we need is

00:43:18.220 people driving

00:43:18.840 alone with 0.97

00:43:19.300 freaking helmets 0.94

00:43:20.020 on man

00:43:20.580 this is real

00:43:21.200 so during

00:43:21.720 COVID I was

00:43:22.560 walking through

00:43:23.220 a parking lot

00:43:24.260 and I looked

00:43:24.700 into somebody's

00:43:25.320 car I don't

00:43:25.680 know why I

00:43:26.080 did it but

00:43:26.620 they had the

00:43:27.260 COVID masks

00:43:28.100 over the

00:43:29.240 air filter

00:43:29.780 thing

00:43:30.180 they had

00:43:31.860 they had

00:43:32.200 stretched the

00:43:32.720 COVID masks

00:43:33.460 like I guess

00:43:34.220 it can't be

00:43:34.920 safe practice

00:43:35.860 that cannot be

00:43:36.480 safe practice

00:43:37.120 dude it was

00:43:38.100 bizarre I was

00:43:39.020 like do they

00:43:39.520 think that like

00:43:40.100 the COVID is

00:43:40.720 going to come

00:43:41.160 in through the

00:43:42.020 air vent

00:43:42.580 in their car

00:43:44.220 yeah the vaccine

00:43:46.000 can't protect you

00:43:46.700 from contracting

00:43:47.300 COVID but putting

00:43:48.240 a mask over your

00:43:49.420 air filter in your

00:43:50.200 car now that's

00:43:50.960 how you avoid

00:43:52.020 it

00:43:52.380 yeah crazy

00:43:53.860 times man it

00:43:54.740 was like mass

00:43:55.300 mass formation

00:43:56.320 psychosis or

00:43:57.160 whatever yeah

00:43:59.660 that's insane

00:44:01.060 it's hard to

00:44:06.860 believe that we

00:44:07.300 lived through

00:44:07.760 that no man

00:44:08.840 like I'm just

00:44:09.440 picturing that

00:44:09.960 now it's it's

00:44:10.760 insane like it's

00:44:11.620 oh yeah like

00:44:12.360 like we all took

00:44:13.220 pictures of it I

00:44:13.980 ran into my work

00:44:14.800 and I was like

00:44:15.180 guys you gotta

00:44:15.640 come out and

00:44:16.060 see this and

00:44:16.760 like a big

00:44:17.880 laugh over it

00:44:18.800 that's crazy

00:44:20.560 it's your boss

00:44:22.960 and he's like

00:44:23.400 you're fired

00:44:23.800 no no no we

00:44:26.080 were all pretty

00:44:26.620 fed up with it

00:44:27.480 already at that

00:44:28.220 point

Juno News - November 24, 2025

Fire at the COP30 Climate Conference

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