Juno News - Ford gushes over Carney as pipeline plans crumble

00:00:00.000 Yeah, I did not actually catch the game, Isaac. I love your t-shirt, but this is going to

00:00:06.620 sound ridiculously self-centered and really superstitious. I haven't watched a second

00:00:11.700 of the Oilers' playoffs. I've been abstaining. At first, I was super mad because of how silly

00:00:17.000 and political they were with Mark Carney. Like, don't let somebody suit up for you, 0.95

00:00:21.260 no matter what team they're on during the election, right? Just don't do that. But then

00:00:25.860 I'm like, oh, wait, they're doing well. And I want them to do well. And so out of superstition,

00:00:30.940 I'm like not glancing at a TV screen if the Oilers are on. I know that sounds silly, but

00:00:36.300 knock wood, like they're doing good, right? Like they won in overtime last night, I've been told.

00:00:41.360 Yeah, an amazing goal in overtime. And we all have our superstitions in sports, Chris,

00:00:47.120 especially hockey, like last night, because we're playing in June, by the way. So it's super hot in

00:00:51.360 my room and I have all these things on under my jersey and I'm so hot, but I'm like, I can't take

00:00:55.560 my jersey off middle of the game. Like we're winning. So I was kind of screwed there. Had

00:01:00.140 to, had to keep it on and dive the heat. Cause like I said, it's in June, it's like 30 degrees

00:01:04.540 outside and we're watching hockey, which Hey, can't complain. Cause most teams are already

00:01:08.600 out golfing, but yeah, it sounds like a fun night, but I'm not a hockey man, but I tuned

00:01:12.740 in around the second period and saw the score was three, two. I'm like, oh yeah, just another

00:01:16.920 loss for another Canadian team. But it looks like you guys pulled out. So best of luck to

00:01:22.040 the Oilers, but, uh, all, all the Calgary people in my life, they're, uh, they're definitely

00:01:26.380 mad. I know Liam at the tax rest Federation. He's just pulling his hair out. Cause he's

00:01:30.240 a, he's a flames fan. And, uh, I guess there's no, uh, you know, Alberta sympathy, uh, for

00:01:35.480 the fellow team, even though, uh, you know, you guys are neighbors pretty much.

00:01:39.700 What's your game, Noah. Do you like watching any sports ball entertainment?

00:01:43.940 Basketball is my game. So, you know, the Raptors, they're not doing great right now. Uh, gotta

00:01:47.580 wait a few more years for them to, you know, even get competitive, but we got the championship

00:01:51.560 in 2019. So I'm still living off of that, you know, excitement, uh, happiness.

00:01:56.760 Yeah. That, uh, basket they scored to get into the final. We'll still, uh, I mean, that was

00:02:01.880 historic. I almost felt like we were in a simulation. That was so cool. Okay. This is

00:02:05.440 actually not a simulation. We have a show, so let's get it going.

00:02:12.720 Hey, my name is Chris Sims. I'm the Alberta director for the Canadian taxpayers Federation

00:02:16.900 here on true north. I'm joined now by my friends, Isaac and Noah. We're going to talk about news

00:02:23.620 and politics for the next few minutes on our big show. Um, I wanted to start with,

00:02:30.100 this is one of the weirdest clips I've seen come out of politics in a while, and especially coming

00:02:37.380 from a sitting premier. And I don't even want to chat about it first. Let's all watch it together.

00:02:43.860 And then we can respond to it just to tee it up. This is coming out of the first ministers meeting.

00:02:49.620 That is typically the name of the meeting that is given to when the premiers gather with the prime

00:02:54.660 minister. And this is Ontario premier Doug Ford chatting about the prime minister to his face.

00:03:03.700 Let's watch. Let me tell you this, I'm going to be very blunt here. This has been the best meeting

00:03:09.460 we've had in 10 years, simple, best meeting I've had in seven years. And there was no expectations.

00:03:16.020 The prime minister was going to come out and say, you get that project, you get that project. It was

00:03:20.500 a great discussion. Now we were all talking. Now it's time to put it into action. All of us are

00:03:27.060 responsible. But I thought it was an incredible meeting, great communication, great collaboration.

00:03:33.700 And we all walked out of that room united. And that's the most important thing. Now the prime

00:03:38.340 minister is going to go to work, get the legislation passed, and we'll divvy it up. I described him

00:03:44.820 today as Santa Claus. He's coming. And his sled was full of all sorts of stuff. Now he's taken off back

00:03:52.020 to the North Pole. He's going to sort it out. And then he's going to call us. The only thing short of Santa Claus

00:03:57.780 is my big belly. I got to loan it to him. So who wants to talk about that first? Like it started

00:04:06.180 out as the usual, like lip service, blah, blah, blah. And then it took the weirdest turn, man.

00:04:12.020 Who wants to go first on this? Yeah, I'll say a few things. I just, and obviously there were cameras

00:04:16.900 and all the premiers there, but I just, when he said that exact quote about Santa Claus, I would love to

00:04:22.020 see the shot of Smith and Mo maybe, and just, just see if they're like in any way surprised at that

00:04:28.980 language. I mean, look, I covered this first ministers meeting. I was watching it as the final

00:04:34.660 press conference was happening. And there was undoubtedly a consensus among the premiers,

00:04:40.420 even from Smith and Mo, because Smith was obviously the number one premier I was watching to see if she'd 1.00

00:04:45.300 go against the pack, so to speak, and say, hey, it's not as good as we were pretending that it is.

00:04:51.460 But of course, then we saw the very next day, BC premier David Eby essentially shattered the

00:04:57.780 consensus because they're all like, after the first ministers conference, they're like, oh yeah,

00:05:02.740 it's going to be wonderful. We're all going to do our energy projects. We're all so happy.

00:05:06.980 Carney's supporting us, blah, blah, blah. And then Eby comes out and says, ah, wait a second. You guys

00:05:11.380 aren't building a pipeline in BC. I don't know why you thought you were. And for those who don't know,

00:05:17.140 premier David Eby wasn't actually at the conference. He was the lone premier who wasn't there.

00:05:20.740 Because I guess he had some sort of trip already planned to Japan, I think it were, or somewhere

00:05:25.540 in Asia. So he sent his deputy premier, Nikki Sharma there. But obviously, she didn't portray his

00:05:32.900 thoughts accurately, because I'm guessing she didn't tell Smith, actually, you're not building a

00:05:37.940 pipeline through BC because Smith went as far as to outlining the optimal economic scenario for doing

00:05:45.140 that. She said she was talking about the pathways project and how it could fund itself through

00:05:49.700 essentially increasing their oil exports. So she was just saying this will be a great economic

00:05:56.980 scenario. We get this project going. We'll get an extra million barrels a day, I think she said,

00:06:01.540 through the northwestern coast of BC. She said of BC. So obviously, she thought they were getting a

00:06:06.820 pipeline through BC. And then the very next day, as I said, Eby came out and said, not so fast,

00:06:11.300 Premier Smith. So the consensus, while it might have been rare, was very short lived.

00:06:18.260 Yeah, you might have some things to say about the Santa Claus comments.

00:06:22.980 Yeah, you're just for people to know you're in Ontario, correct?

00:06:27.620 Yes, yes, I'm living through the, you know, fortination as we are in this part of the country.

00:06:33.060 But yeah, I just thought it was very sycophantic. It looked like Doug Ford was a lifelong liberal,

00:06:38.820 was a Carney-ite, you know, Rosemary Barton's conscience. You know, it really seemed like he was

00:06:45.620 going all in for the liberals. And it looks like we know how he voted, despite what he might say in

00:06:51.380 front of a camera and a microphone. But yeah, Doug Ford was really excited, even though Carney

00:06:56.580 really hasn't delivered anything tangible. You know, he has made promises to bring down

00:07:02.500 interprovincial trade barriers. But, you know, really, the key drivers of bringing down these

00:07:08.740 trade barriers are the provinces, are the premiers. We've seen Scott Moe in Saskatchewan, for example,

00:07:14.020 pass legislation to bring down trade barriers. And, you know, it's going to require Doug Ford to pass

00:07:20.580 legislation in the OLA. It's going to require Premier Smith and David Eby to really take action on this.

00:07:29.140 It's going to require Quebec to back down on some of their instincts, you know, on this issue and to

00:07:34.980 really open up their market to other provinces. So it's going to take more than words at a little

00:07:42.820 meeting that, you know, is being done in which Carney wants to, you know, concoct a consensus among the

00:07:49.700 premiers, even if, you know, that sort of consensus is going to be really hard to achieve, even possibly

00:07:56.660 impossible. So, you know, as they say, actions speak louder than words. But it looks like Ford was

00:08:03.300 smitten by the game that Carney was spitting at the conference.

00:08:07.300 Speaker 1 Smith with what he was spitting. That was pretty good. All right. A few things going on

00:08:14.100 here. I've been in the game for a while. Number one, when you, when you change the guard, even if

00:08:22.580 the party is the same, if the dude at the head of it, isn't the same person, there's this kind of

00:08:28.980 sense of renewal. Okay. It's like, you know, when you've had to be wearing like dress shoes all day,

00:08:34.340 your feet are killing you. Just taking them off makes a huge difference. It's like, oh,

00:08:40.420 I'm a new person. So this is kind of, I think what's happened here. So former prime minister,

00:08:46.900 Justin Trudeau is no longer there showing off his socks and talking nonsense and, you know,

00:08:54.180 putting up barriers and quoting Stefan Guibo and all these other things. Like, keep in mind some of the

00:08:59.860 stuff that Trudeau said. Okay. Like he's on the record saying that the only people who were noticing

00:09:04.740 the cost of the carbon tax were people who lived in mansions with indoor swimming pools and three

00:09:10.180 big personal cars. Trudeau was on the record after jetting down to Brazil on taxpayers money,

00:09:15.540 saying that paying his carbon tax was more important than paying the rent and feeding your kids.

00:09:22.260 You get rid of that guy. Any change is going to feel like, oh my gosh,

00:09:27.540 you're all singing Kumbaya. It's a miracle. Yeah, not so much. So it was frankly silly

00:09:35.060 to hear Ontario premier Doug Ford talking like that. He's not new to this. He should know better.

00:09:41.220 He should have kept his cards closer to his chest and not lavish so much praise because

00:09:46.500 guess what just happened? US president Donald Trump made good on his threat and has doubled the tariffs

00:09:52.580 on things like aluminum and steel. Folks might remember during the election campaign that the

00:09:58.980 steel workers, the pipe workers around Hamilton were so opposed to Carney's industrial carbon tax,

00:10:06.580 which is coming that they endorsed Pierre Polyev and Ford said nothing, nothing. He did not say one word

00:10:15.780 against Carney or his industrial carbon tax plans. So pitter patter. I don't know why he wasn't bringing

00:10:22.740 this stuff up nowhere. Isaac, I don't know if you guys have been seeing a lot of the news here, but

00:10:27.220 a lot of those steel manufacturers, especially in Ontario, they're just bracing for the worst.

00:10:32.820 Yeah. And I really sympathize for the, you know, those manufacturers who are going to have to,

00:10:37.300 you know, have to deal with the market in which their products are going to cost a lot more

00:10:41.300 to sell to the biggest market. And, you know, if Mark Carney really was, you know, doing such a

00:10:46.900 fantastic job as Doug Ford, you know, had portrayed Mark Carney to have been doing, I think, you know,

00:10:52.900 Mark Carney would have in his trip to Washington told, Hey, Mr. Trump, Hey, let's ease off on raising

00:10:58.740 tariffs, you know, for all the great media coverage that Carney got on his trip to Washington. It didn't

00:11:04.980 really accomplish, didn't really accomplish anything. He didn't lower any tariffs. In fact, you know, as we've

00:11:10.740 seen, Trump has raised tariffs on aluminum and steel. And, you know, what really, what relief had

00:11:17.220 Canadian workers really been granted, you know, it's, we're really going to have to brace for the 0.99

00:11:22.100 worst in our manufacturing industry, you know, at the end of the day, even though tariffs is not a

00:11:27.220 good idea for the United States, since they are in such a much larger economy, they are able to sort of

00:11:33.460 hollow out our manufacturing sector. And I'm not an advocate for reciprocal terrorists. But what I am

00:11:39.300 saying is that, you know, the Carney government, the foreign affairs ministry need to do a better job

00:11:44.660 negotiating with the Trump State Department and ensuring that the United States are granted

00:11:50.100 some of the concessions that they want in order to bring these tariffs down. You know, he said

00:11:55.060 his first priority when forming government were after this election would be to negotiate a new free

00:12:01.540 trade deal. We haven't seen any updates on that in the news. I don't know, maybe if my newsfeed has been

00:12:07.540 broken, but no progress has been made on that front. So definitely looking forward to more progress

00:12:14.100 before we start calling Mr. Carney Santa Claus. Yeah. Oh, God, that was gross. So Isaac, we were

00:12:19.940 chatting, we were all chatting before we started rolling. And Doug Ford in Ontario, like his debt

00:12:26.980 is $443 billion. They're in a huge deficit right now. I checked our debt clock on the taxpayer website.

00:12:36.260 It's going up like $1,000 a second. So what is this? They just elect somebody in a blue tie

00:12:42.740 and it's fine. He gets to quote people like Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan or pretend

00:12:47.780 without having the fiscal responsibility to go along with it. So this is where we're getting frustrated as

00:12:53.460 the taxpayer. Like, we're not seeing the actual budget getting balanced. We're not seeing some

00:12:58.660 prudence here. We're just seeing a lot of gushing. I don't know if you're noticing the same thing.

00:13:02.740 Yeah. Gushing more debt onto the, you know, the already extremely large debt. The latest budget

00:13:08.660 that they tabled was $14.7 billion in deficit. And this is, you know, for a bunch of subsidy

00:13:14.740 programs and whatnot. But what taxpayers really do not need right now are big subsidies. The big

00:13:20.020 corporations, what they need is tax relief. What they need is regulatory relief. That's the way that

00:13:24.500 you're going to combat this trade, the trade war that the Trump administration wants to launch. You

00:13:29.940 have to make Canada's economy competitive in spite of the trade restrictions. That means

00:13:35.540 lowering regulations. That means cutting taxes for businesses and cutting taxes for individuals

00:13:41.460 so that we are able to spur the economic activity. But instead of taking that approach, Doug Ford,

00:13:47.380 you know, takes the subsidized and big government approach, the big government approach under a

00:13:52.340 supposedly conservative government. You know, I don't really think that the Kathleen Wynne government,

00:13:56.820 for example, would be taking a much different approach if they had one in 2018 and in subsequent

00:14:03.940 years. So I really, really disappointed. I know a lot of fellow conservatives in Ontario

00:14:08.980 are disappointed with the approach that the PCs have been taking. I mean, look at the Ontario Liberals.

00:14:14.260 I mean, for all the, you know, the weaknesses and, you know, what the wrong that the Ontario Liberals

00:14:19.380 have done when they're in government. But leader Bonnie Crombie at least campaigned on tax cuts. 0.99

00:14:24.340 She at least campaigned on working with municipalities to cut development charges and

00:14:29.140 other ways to reduce the burden on taxpayers. We saw no such promises from Doug Ford, you know,

00:14:35.460 and just look at how we campaigned in 2018. It's really disappointing.

00:14:38.660 Yeah, I'll just say a few things as an outsider to Ontario and what my opinion was when I was looking

00:14:45.620 at the election. Obviously, just looking at the options Ontario had, I do think Doug Ford was the best

00:14:51.380 choice, but he's in no way, shape or form, in my opinion, a conservative, certainly not a big C

00:14:56.900 conservative. And this is coming from an Albertan who I would say most Canadians would probably agree

00:15:02.100 that being conservatives. Daniel Smith is by far the best conservative premier in the country,

00:15:07.220 although I am biased in saying that, of course, as an Albertan. But yeah, I mean, that's the thing.

00:15:11.940 Ontario didn't really have great options. So yeah, to think Ford is, I mean, he's clearly not a

00:15:21.460 conservative fiscally. And I can see how that would be very frustrating for Ontarians. Just quickly,

00:15:28.260 though, when I was watching the first ministers meeting, Ford stood out in the sense that he,

00:15:33.620 more than any other premier and even more than the prime minister, continued in his anti-Trump rhetoric,

00:15:38.180 I think more so than anyone else. He was really against the United States. And I've seen him

00:15:43.300 catch a lot of backlash online for that, specifically when he threatened to cut off

00:15:47.540 their electricity. Some were saying that's literally an act of war. If you think of that in any other

00:15:52.260 context, cutting off someone's electricity, a country's electricity is certainly an act of war.

00:15:55.940 So, I mean, Ford has taken a real hard line against Trump and the tariffs, which that's another

00:16:02.980 approach where a lot of people are going to find disagreement on. But I mean, just, yeah,

00:16:07.700 fiscally, I don't see how any Ontarians could support Ford, especially if you're coming from

00:16:13.140 a conservative mindset. I mean, Chris, what do you think as a taxpayer advocate?

00:16:17.460 Yeah, it's just to dovetail it back into Alberta here. Smith is doing a great job standing up to

00:16:22.100 Ottawa. She's doing a very good job, I think, dealing with US President Donald Trump, because,

00:16:27.780 of course, we got a lower tariff punishment on our energy exports. I've never understood the whole

00:16:34.340 concept of let's scream and shout and call people names and then try to negotiate with them, like,

00:16:39.300 especially if they're an ally. Like, that's a really dumb way to try to win friends and influence 0.81

00:16:43.860 people. Like, maybe don't do that. So she didn't take that route. She was called a trader for it in 0.63

00:16:48.020 the Eastern media, but she took it anyway. So that was really good. She's doing other elements here that

00:16:53.540 are also really good, like standing up for firearms owners, standing up for people's own personal

00:16:57.940 freedoms here in Alberta. However, we are running a deficit right now. Our deficit is about $5 billion.

00:17:05.700 So that's not okay. We also have a provincial industrial carbon tax here still in Alberta.

00:17:11.860 That's also not okay. If we look next door to Premier Scott Moe, they technically have balanced

00:17:17.780 the budget. It's a really tiny little thin surplus. You can almost see through it, but it's a balanced

00:17:23.380 budget as of right now. And he got rid of all carbon taxes in his province and is very vocal

00:17:28.580 about that. So just a little reminder, we, if we want to have Fortress Alberta here, then we have to

00:17:35.220 make sure that we're locked and loaded. I don't know if people, if you guys have watched T2, Terminator 2.

00:17:41.620 So Sarah Connor, super awesome character, right? I've heard people compare Daniel Smith to that.

00:17:46.740 Imagine if it was go time and she goes to that New Mexico, you know, bug out location and she opens up the 0.98

00:17:52.900 cash and there's nothing there. There's no weapons. She hasn't had any prep. So we can't be running a

00:17:59.220 loose ship here fiscally in Alberta. We've got to cut spending at the provincial government level.

00:18:05.300 If we don't balance the budget here, then we're not the example and the beacon for the rest of the

00:18:10.420 country. So just a little Amber light of caution. Speaking of budgets, did we want to move on to this

00:18:16.100 motion federally in the House of Commons? Absolutely. Let's do it. Sure. Yeah. Yeah.

00:18:22.740 Yeah. So a lot was made out of this. I'll even put my glasses on to read it. So as we know, of course,

00:18:27.940 Andrew Scheer is currently the leader of the opposition in the House of Commons,

00:18:31.220 while Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev does a by-election out here in Alberta,

00:18:35.620 running to get a seat back. But what was interesting is that the House actually passed a conservative

00:18:40.900 motion demanding a spring budget from Kearney, spring meaning right now, the minority liberals

00:18:47.060 did suffer that defeat in the House of Commons. And it was because I've been told the whip wasn't

00:18:52.900 doing a good head count. So what has to happen when you're in the House of Commons, okay,

00:18:58.260 you usually have to make sure you have enough people in there to get a motion defeated or a motion passed.

00:19:05.060 So you have to do your own, but that's why they call it a whip. You have to whip them into shape,

00:19:08.980 make sure that they're there on time. It's an old term from the British Parliament.

00:19:12.340 You have to make sure there's enough, you know, backsides and seats. And if you've got a minority, 0.87

00:19:17.300 you have to make sure that you've done enough negotiating as House leader with other parties

00:19:22.820 to make sure that you've got enough people on your side, either from the block or the NDP,

00:19:27.140 whatever has to happen in that situation. So what happened is the Conservatives have this motion

00:19:32.420 on the floor of the House and it passed. And the motion basically called for a budget right now.

00:19:38.900 Few things there. Number one, yes, they could. So the finance department, the permanent government,

00:19:45.380 the bureaucrats in the department, they've got all these numbers. Like they've got constant

00:19:49.860 supercomputers that are turning around. They could have this thing printed up quickly,

00:19:54.500 especially if they kept out all the like political language and just stuck to dollars and cents.

00:19:59.380 Two, this doesn't actually force them to do it. Motions coming from the opposition in this manner,

00:20:05.380 if they're really symbolic, and in this case, they're embarrassing, but it doesn't force them

00:20:08.980 to do it. But I still found it interesting that it passed. Guys, what did you guys think about this?

00:20:13.700 Yeah, you know, as you mentioned, this motion has no force of law. So unfortunately,

00:20:19.060 it doesn't force the government to table a budget in the spring. However, you know, as you said,

00:20:24.420 you know, it is an important symbolic gesture, you know, in that it shows that parliament's will is

00:20:30.580 for the government to table this, you know, this budget, and they're just not going to comply.

00:20:36.580 They said they're going to table a budget in the fall. That's not good enough. You know,

00:20:39.620 Canadians, you know, at least twice a year, you know, that's the sort of convention that we've

00:20:44.420 developed in the fall, in the spring, we learn about the nation's finances. And, you know, we're being

00:20:49.540 stripped of the opportunity to learn about the nation's finance. What is the government spending

00:20:54.660 look like? What is our, what is our projected deficit? You know, what are the projected deficits

00:20:59.060 in the years going forward? This is really important information for Canadians to know,

00:21:03.940 you know, we got our last update in the fall, you know, I think it's about, it's about time that we

00:21:10.100 know what the government has been getting up to in recent years, especially since when Trudeau was in

00:21:16.420 in his last days in government, he spent billions of dollars, authorized billions of dollars in

00:21:21.780 programs and in spending. So it is pertinent that we understand what the government is doing,

00:21:26.660 how the nation's finances are looking and, you know, for the government to really put forward a plan

00:21:32.980 on how they plan on managing the nation's finances going forward, what this, you know,

00:21:38.420 Carney government's sort of split between the operational budget and the capital budget will look like,

00:21:43.860 even though, you know, if you just smush it all together and you get the total deficit,

00:21:47.780 that's, you know, all you really need to do. But at the end of the day, it's very important that we

00:21:54.260 receive a budget annually and, you know, receive those mini budgets alongside to, you know, really

00:21:59.300 fill up the knowledge gap. And it's quite disappointing that they're not going to be delivering on this.

00:22:03.940 Isaac? Yeah, I got a bunch to add. First of all, I think the bill failed by two votes. And when I

00:22:13.780 last checked, I believe that four liberals were absent the vote. So I don't know what they were

00:22:18.500 doing. Okay, five. I don't know what those five liberal MPs were doing. But obviously, they lost

00:22:23.460 their party to vote by not being there. Because if they were there and voted liberal, which you would

00:22:27.300 assume they would, the motion would have passed. Next thing. Yeah, obviously, this wasn't a

00:22:34.820 confidence motion, like a budget would be and like, I think the upcoming, they're voting on the throne

00:22:39.700 speech, which will be a confidence motion from what I've seen. So that could, if it didn't pass,

00:22:45.620 it would, of course, throw us into a general election. And just getting into that, the throne

00:22:50.260 speech vote, from what I've seen, the NDP leader, Don Davies, the interim leader, he's been saying they

00:22:55.460 might vote against it. So just as a symbolic gesture, that may be suggestive that he might

00:23:00.820 have more of a spine than Jagmeet Singh, because he's actually going to vote against the liberals.

00:23:05.220 Although, of course, the bloc would be enough to pass the bill if the liberals can work with them.

00:23:10.900 And just speaking to conservative voters quickly, this might be good news, because it shows how close

00:23:18.740 it is. The government lost their first vote, even though it's not a binding motion. It is symbolic in

00:23:24.500 that sense. And then just quickly touching on one last thing, Chris, we talked about this in the

00:23:28.100 pre-show. Just Franco Terrizano of the taxpayers federation, he's been citing some good examples

00:23:34.580 of times when we got a budget. World War II, the Great Depression. I mean, other examples,

00:23:38.740 this is ridiculous. How are we getting budgets during World War II, the Great Depression? These are

00:23:45.620 historic times of uncertainty. And now we're not getting a budget for an inexplicable reason,

00:23:52.100 obviously, when compared to these monumental events. It's like, you know, IDK, right? Who cares?

00:23:58.660 It's the clown car. I will remind people, remember when things were getting really gnarly in 2020,

00:24:05.780 and we were slowly being crushed and locked down? Remember when the federal government tried saying,

00:24:11.380 yeah, no budget, and no plans on ever tabling a budget, maybe ever again. We're just going to keep on

00:24:17.620 spending. That's fine, right? Just get past this motion so we can just spend with absolutely no

00:24:23.620 oversight. They tried doing that in the middle of even before we knew what this thing was.

00:24:29.940 And everybody was still a little bit freaked out. This is early 2020. Yeah. So do not let governments

00:24:36.420 tell you, oh, it's an emergency. Therefore, hand me your wallet. Because your rights and your ability to

00:24:43.860 hold government to account will evaporate, like gone. And so this is why, frankly, it's important

00:24:51.620 to insist and tap the desk and say, no, you guys have the math. Show us. Because it's our money.

00:24:59.700 The government isn't generating its own wealth and figuring out where to throw money. No, these are

00:25:06.020 our tax dollars. And when they blow their budget, and they throw another deficit on top of our federal

00:25:12.500 debt, we're the ones that have to pay the interest charges. I have to stress this. What we're paying

00:25:18.820 in interest on the debt is more than what we spend on the Department of National Defense.

00:25:27.380 Those guys and gals that we want to see, you know, protecting our borders and stopping terrorism,

00:25:32.020 and maybe flying fighter jets and stuff. Yeah, that, that line item, we're spending more than that

00:25:38.740 on interest on the debt. Like this is a serious crisis. Some of the numbers of Franco was pulling

00:25:44.100 out was really important. And this is just one. Carney, okay, the former central banker, governor

00:25:49.940 of the Bank of Canada, governor of the Bank of England, probably knows some math. He's going to add

00:25:55.540 225 billion dollars onto our debt over the next four years. Ridiculous. 0.86

00:26:02.820 Worse than what Trudeau was planning to do. So the central banker is now worse with money than the 0.98

00:26:10.100 drama teacher. Like, what gives? This guy has a PhD from Oxford in economics. Like, pull your suit

00:26:18.420 socks up there, man. All right. So that was important, I think, at least symbolically,

00:26:23.140 that they said we expect a budget. And I encourage everybody, including folks, frankly, who support the

00:26:28.740 NDP who are watching the show. Good on you. Stay on Don Davies. Tell him, yeah, we want to see stuff

00:26:34.900 like this. Keep standing up for people. Stand up for your constituents. That's the only way we hold

00:26:39.540 government to account, folks. All right. This one, I saw this. There's no taxpayer element here,

00:26:45.380 but I wanted to throw it to you guys. There's something going up. I actually don't know. There's

00:26:50.020 an airline. I can't remember which one it was. They had some sort of like celebration. The pride

00:26:54.580 celebration was this during work or what is going on here? Who wants to take this? Yeah,

00:26:58.580 I'll get into this. So Air Canada on X essentially was celebrating their first ever LGBTQ flight. And I

00:27:10.820 can't, I don't know what all the letters are. And it's funny in saying that one of the pilots in the

00:27:15.780 video, because there was a video of this, he actually even, he had a quote saying like, I might mess up the

00:27:23.620 letters because he, he's like, because there's so many getting added and he, this was in the video.

00:27:27.300 He was probably around my age, I'm guessing. Anyways. Yeah. Air Canada was celebrating their

00:27:32.820 first ever LGBTQ flight. And it seems that they were the only ones celebrating that because within a 0.74

00:27:38.420 few hours, five or six, maybe they had to turn off the comments on their ex post because at the,

00:27:43.540 at the time there was like four times the amount of comments as the word likes, like 800 comments and

00:27:47.540 200 likes, something like that. And I'll tell you, I went through every comment, Chris, there were,

00:27:51.460 there were none positive. It was all just blasting the airline saying, look, this is the, the important

00:27:57.460 factor for flying on an airplane is safety. We don't care who's flying the plane and, and pushing

00:28:04.100 identity politics is not going to help us get there more safely. So that, that was crazy. Everyone is

00:28:10.420 essentially calling on them to abandon identity politics. And at True North, we've done reporting on

00:28:16.980 DEI in airlines in the past, uh, air Canada being one of them. They, so they mandated employee training

00:28:23.220 on microaggressions, allyship and unconscious bias. They also have a, um, dedicated DEI sourcing manager

00:28:31.620 and they require recruitment from designated groups. So you can imagine what those are, but of course,

00:28:36.980 they're not the only airline in Canada with these identity politics. WestJet recently implemented,

00:28:42.340 uh, genderless uniforms and they also had fully, uh, female crew flights. So kind of similar to what 0.87

00:28:48.500 Air Canada is doing here. I mean, the list goes on, but what this post showed and what Canadians'

00:28:53.940 reaction to it showed is that people really don't want identity politics in, in airlines. What they

00:28:59.700 want is qualified individuals where merit reigns supreme over, uh, yeah, DEI.

00:29:06.340 Yeah, that's exactly it. Like we don't, we don't care. You're crashing out there, Noah. Are you all

00:29:10.820 right? Yeah, no, I was kind of sleeping. I'm like, oh my God, here's another slew of DEI initiatives.

00:29:17.220 And you know, that, that, that the Air Canada DEI office is pushing out like it, like nobody cares

00:29:22.340 at this point. Yeah. And I think, you know, we've really seen this in the decline of, uh, DEI in

00:29:27.620 corporate America, uh, especially after Trump got elected, you really, really seen, uh, corporations,

00:29:33.700 uh, closing down their DEI offices, uh, firing their chief diversity officers and, uh, whatnot.

00:29:39.700 And, you know, it seems like this, uh, you know, transition is happening in Canada, but it's

00:29:44.900 happening a little slower. Uh, if you do recall, Air Canada used to be a, uh, used to be owned by the

00:29:50.340 government of Canada. Uh, it is not anymore. It's publicly traded. And, uh, if you have Air Canada

00:29:55.540 stock, I mean, you're probably like not a happy camper right now. You know, it's not exactly doing, uh,

00:30:01.860 well, uh, and feel for good reason. Air Canada service is, uh, not as great as a lot of people

00:30:06.820 remember it being, uh, before. So maybe they should, uh, you know, focus on, uh, delivering

00:30:12.020 quality service to their clients instead of, uh, focusing on, you know, having a bunch of, uh,

00:30:17.860 2SLGBTQI people, uh, flying the plane. Honestly, I don't care, uh, what, who you're, you know, going home 1.00

00:30:26.420 with, uh, uh, you know, if you're the pilot, uh, or if you're the person, you know, um, who

00:30:33.140 is the copilot, I really don't care. Uh, all I care is that you're competent at your job, uh, that

00:30:38.500 the plane is flown well, uh, and that I got my, uh, cup of water, my, uh, 200 milliliter cup of water,

00:30:44.420 you know, halfway through the flight. Like that's, that's really all I care about. You know, I, I just

00:30:48.340 want that done well. Uh, and you know, the fact that they're, you know, sort of celebrating this in the

00:30:54.260 video at the sort of celebrating this on, uh, like on the flight, you know, to telling, uh,

00:30:59.460 all the client, uh, all the people on the plane, like, yeah, you know, this is a, a full LG. Like,

00:31:04.020 I don't care. Like, I just want to like read or listen to my audio book or read my physical book

00:31:07.940 or, or whatever. I don't want to, you know, deal with that. I don't want to like celebrate that.

00:31:12.580 And I'm not, I think, I feel like a lot of people feel the same way. They're just being, uh, having

00:31:16.340 this pushed down their throats. Um, just a little personal anecdote. Uh, a couple of days ago,

00:31:21.620 one of my, uh, one of the people close to me said, uh, that, you know, they had to go to work

00:31:26.500 and they were expected to put on like a pride shirt and, uh, or a pride pin. Uh, and my, and, uh,

00:31:32.020 this person said, well, you know, I kind of don't want to do that. Like, you know, it doesn't

00:31:35.780 accord with my values. And, uh, they basically threatened, uh, you know, uh, this person with,

00:31:40.740 uh, being fired saying, you know, this is not, you know, you have to, you have to do this, uh,

00:31:45.060 you have to align with our corporate values. And, you know, usually I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm afraid,

00:31:49.940 you know, that company in specific is not moving away from, uh, the excessive, uh, emphasis on DEI.

00:31:55.940 But, uh, I think more and more Canadians as they speak out on this, as air Canada sees the negative

00:32:01.940 replies on the, on this, uh, social media posts, uh, they're going to start moving away from this.

00:32:06.420 You just need to, uh, keep, you know, saying what you, uh, think, uh, and don't let the woke mob

00:32:12.020 sort of try to cancel you for, uh, you know, having a perfectly reasonable views.

00:32:16.100 Yeah. Just touching on something quick, Noah, on your personal anecdote there, I do think that

00:32:20.900 the change starts with the people in that sense, that, that being, I was, I was curious when

00:32:24.100 watching the video because assuming the passengers were all randomized and this just was some random

00:32:28.100 flight, like you could have booked it and you're little, do you know, you're on the first LGBTQ, 1.00

00:32:32.660 all LGBTQ flight. I was wondering, I was like, man, I wonder if anyone got up and walked off the

00:32:37.140 plane and said, I'm not participating in this nonsense. I'm just, I'm not participating. Of course,

00:32:42.180 you, you, you understand the backlash. I mean, you paid for the flight. You're probably not getting

00:32:46.180 refunded. Yeah. Air Canada is going to tell you, uh, that's not how it works and you're going to

00:32:51.700 have to find a new flight. So obviously there's a lot of backlash that standing up for your,

00:32:55.540 your morals isn't, isn't as easy as it seems compared to writing a comment on X. But yeah,

00:33:00.580 I mean, I do think that it, it might have to get to that level for this to be completely abolished,

00:33:06.580 but we'll see. We're definitely trending towards that. My things have changed. When I was a little

00:33:12.740 kid, we had to fly me and my family from BC out to Nova Scotia for a family event, which, you know,

00:33:19.060 we probably needed a second mortgage on the house to be able to do that. Um, they had smoking on the

00:33:23.220 plane then, and there were stairs on the plane and it was just a completely night and day situation.

00:33:30.020 Now I find people are flying a lot more often and they're speaking up a lot more often. So,

00:33:35.620 Hey, if folks have a problem with it, take it up with the company. I will say, I'm so glad

00:33:41.460 the state doesn't own this thing. So this isn't a, a government circus that we have to deal with.

00:33:46.580 Um, speaking of family, um, thank you for letting me say that word. I just slipped it out there for a

00:33:51.940 second. Sorry about that. True north. Yeah. You have to censor yourself going forward. Yeah. Um,

00:33:56.660 my point is, is that, okay, this is in Ontario, correct me if I'm wrong. No. Okay. So something,

00:34:02.740 okay. In Ontario, they were making, this is a true north exclusive. As far as I understand,

00:34:08.500 um, in Ontario, they were handing out this stuff in the school talking about what family means,

00:34:16.020 who wants to take this one away. I was, I was quite surprised by the language that were in,

00:34:21.620 that was in some of the documents here. How old were the kids and where did this happen?

00:34:25.140 Yeah. So, uh, at the water, Waterloo region, uh, district school board, uh, staff were basically

00:34:31.140 being briefed. Uh, this is a staff at a high school. They're being briefed on, uh, uh, what is, uh,

00:34:36.500 whiteness. It's basically, uh, sensitivity training, uh, for these, uh, teachers, DEI,

00:34:41.060 sensitive, uh, sensitivity training. And, uh, they were being taught what whiteness is and how to not, 0.63

00:34:46.740 uh, offend, uh, their students of minority, uh, descend, you know, black, they're black students or, 0.84

00:34:51.620 or, or, or whoever. And, uh, in this unpacking whiteness seminar, uh, one, the, the, uh, 0.64

00:34:59.220 what, one of, one of the materials they quoted from, uh, someone named Laura May Lindo. Now,

00:35:04.180 Laura May Lindo used to be an MPP in the Ontario legislature for the NDP from 2018 to 2023, before 0.76

00:35:11.380 she resigned to take up a spot at the University of Waterloo. But, uh, in a material from Laura May

00:35:17.460 Lindo, they basically state that, quote, uh, biases are the socialized teachings of, uh, white culture.

00:35:23.380 And one of these, uh, sort of biases is the assumption that people have families and, uh,

00:35:28.260 instead of, you know, assuming that people have families and saying the word family, uh,

00:35:32.580 you should, you shouldn't assume that. In fact, saying the word family is identified as harmful,

00:35:37.380 uh, by our racialized students and quote, uh, you know, apparently, uh, family implies values,

00:35:45.060 uh, positions of male authority and hierarchy, a nuclear family structure, not the same for

00:35:50.180 everyone. Uh, you know, so apparently saying family is offensive, uh, to, uh, black people.

00:35:56.260 And, you know, this is something I take personal offense to because, you know, I, I'm half Jamaican,

00:36:00.580 half Guyanese, you know, uh, I don't view myself as an, uh, being oppressed in Canada. Canada

00:36:05.620 has afforded me and my family, uh, my friends, uh, very great opportunities. And I wouldn't want to

00:36:10.820 have been, uh, born in any other country. And I wouldn't say that, you know, I, I have a family,

00:36:15.380 I have a mom and my dad and, uh, three other siblings, uh, you know, it's not like the concept

00:36:20.660 of family is foreign to myself and, uh, my friends and my family. Uh, so for, uh, these, you know,

00:36:27.700 DEI activists, these radical critical race theorists to basically assert that, uh, you know,

00:36:33.300 black people are sort of unfamiliar or even offended by the concept of family is, you know,

00:36:36.980 quite offensive. It's quite racist. It's sort of, you know, holding, you know, black people to like 0.92

00:36:41.540 a very low, uh, sort of infantile, not even it's below infantile standard. It's, it's absolutely,

00:36:48.260 it's actually kind of cruel, uh, you know, to really assume that about black people and to,

00:36:52.820 you know, think that we're so sensitive, you know, to assume that, you know, someone who maybe doesn't

00:36:57.060 have, you know, both parents in the household is going to be offended by the world word family. It's

00:37:01.620 utterly, uh, ridiculous. And, and, you know, there's more and more slides, uh, to this sort 0.84

00:37:06.020 of effect, but, uh, the idea that whiteness could sort of be identified by a certain positive

00:37:11.780 characteristics and to assume that black people are not supposed to exhibit these positive

00:37:16.660 characteristics is quite frankly racist. I don't know. How do you guys, uh, view this?

00:37:21.140 Yeah. Yeah. I always thought family was like the most important thing in my life, but little did I

00:37:27.940 know that just because I'm white, uh, I thought it was just cause how I rate, how I was raised,

00:37:31.620 how, how I came up the values that my family instilled in me, but no, it's just cause I'm

00:37:36.820 white. So that's my bad. Uh, but I mean, this is ridiculous. This is exactly the opposite of what 1.00

00:37:41.940 we should be doing as a society. It's insane. Look, there, there are clear data on this, having a

00:37:48.500 close family, having supports you can lean on, like this is going to reduce crime, going to reduce drug

00:37:52.820 use, going to reduce all the bad things you want to take away in society through a strong family.

00:37:57.300 And, and also, uh, in a more holistic perspective, we are straying away from family. Uh, we look at

00:38:03.700 the birth rates in Canada, one of the lowest in the world. I mean, this is, as I said, the exact

00:38:08.180 opposite of what we should be doing. We should be emphasizing the importance of family talk,

00:38:11.940 talking about how, how to, how to build a family, not how to, to stray away from a family. I mean,

00:38:16.340 I, I can't believe this is what, what, what, what we've become as a society. This is again,

00:38:20.740 the exact opposite of what reality should be. And in my opinion, I mean, did you agree, Chris?

00:38:26.100 Yeah, a few things here. I'm going to keep my taxpayers federation hat on for the first part,

00:38:30.980 and then I'll just give you my opinion on the second part. Uh, first off, um, I just want to

00:38:35.940 let people know in Ontario that you guys should be pushing for the ability to recall a school board.

00:38:43.060 So this doesn't work all the time. And I know it's not a panacea, but here in Alberta, we have recall

00:38:49.460 legislation at the provincial level. So at our legislature. So if an MLA is totally screwing

00:38:55.700 up his or her job, we can fire them in between elections. They don't get to just sit there until 0.99

00:39:01.860 the next election. Okay. The same thing exists at the municipal level. Now, again, really high

00:39:08.260 threshold. Premier Daniel Smith just lowered the threshold, which is good, right? But the mechanism

00:39:14.180 is there so that if something totally outrageous is happening, you can be like, yeah, no, you're out

00:39:20.180 of here. We also have it at the school board level. Okay. And the reason why this matters is because

00:39:27.380 a our kids are going to these government institutions. They're our kids. Okay. Not the government's kids.

00:39:35.540 And our taxes are paying for this. So taxes are paying for that school. Taxes are paying for the

00:39:43.940 school board. Taxes are taken by force from the families in that area. So if the families in that

00:39:53.540 area, whatever construction that happens to be, have a problem with this, they should have the ability

00:40:00.500 to fire people who are in charge of making decisions like this. So then ultimately it does come back to

00:40:08.180 the family. It does come back to the individual. This leads me to my second point within the taxpayer

00:40:13.460 federation frame. One of the things that fans of big government and more government and more control

00:40:22.660 and more socialism and more taxes. One of the things those folks like to do is to attack institutions

00:40:30.500 that make people independent and strong that are apart from government. They want mommy government

00:40:37.140 and daddy government, them to be in charge of you. They want to make the decisions. They want to take 0.75

00:40:44.260 your money. They want to decide where your kid goes to school, what your kid learns at school,

00:40:48.420 what kind of car you can drive, name it. And one of the reasons why they do this and how they do this

00:40:53.780 is they go after things like family, which of course, anyone with a shred of common sense knows

00:41:00.340 can be any construction of people who are related to each other and or love each other and support each

00:41:06.340 other financially, emotionally, spiritually, what have you within a form of household. Like people refer

00:41:13.140 to their close, tight knit friends as family. In some cases, it can be your grandma raising you.

00:41:19.380 Frankly, it's none of the government's business what form of family you have. So that's the taxpayer

00:41:26.820 federation element here of if you want lower taxes, less waste and accountable government. There are

00:41:32.900 fights here where you have to really keep an eye on this and ask yourself questions like, why is this

00:41:38.420 person doing this? To what end? What is their ultimate goal? It's not just to make people angry.

00:41:45.380 It's to actually have a purpose here. And so I would encourage people to keep that in mind that you

00:41:50.740 guys should have control, more control over your school boards in Ontario. I would push for that.

00:41:56.260 Push for school choice so that the funding follows the kid and you guys can get charter schools going on

00:42:01.780 there in Ontario. Okay. In a bigger way and push for the ability to recall people at school boards. Now

00:42:08.260 is just kind of a little story that I have. And it's from a Gen X perspective. I grew up in the 80s.

00:42:16.740 I would encourage people who really truly value diversity. Okay. Go back and watch TV shows from the

00:42:24.740 80s. Seriously. Watch Different Strokes. Watch Family Ties. Watch Full House. Watch Star Trek The

00:42:32.900 Next Generation. You will see everyone represented there all the time, including combinations of

00:42:39.860 family. Watch Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Watch all of these shows. Thank you. The Cosby Show. Okay. Watch these

00:42:46.820 shows because there's sometimes I'll have some of my kids friends over and I'll have something like this

00:42:52.420 playing and they'll, they'll be, they're shocked at the diversity and the love and understanding

00:42:58.820 and the, you know, responsibility and we're all going to help each other out. All of those narratives

00:43:03.540 which were there and people weren't freaking out about them back then. I don't know why it seems to be,

00:43:10.420 again, getting back to government and it's interesting she's a former provincial parliament, uh,

00:43:14.740 parliamentarian, why it is now that some of these folks are just constantly trying to stoke division.

00:43:20.740 My spidey sense tells me because they want the ability to have more tax and control over you

00:43:25.140 guys. Am I just drinking the Kool-Aid here guys? No, I think you're absolutely right. I think,

00:43:30.420 you know, look during the 1960s, uh, there was extremely, extremely valid reasons for black people

00:43:38.180 to rise up and, you know, state the injustices that were happening, but there was a sort of

00:43:42.980 establishment that was created in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and it sort of lived on and sort of passed

00:43:49.620 its usefulness and they sort of pivoted, uh, to a new fight. It isn't a fight for, uh, legal equality.

00:43:56.340 It isn't a fight against racism. It's a fight for anti-racism. It's a fight for, uh, legal preferences,

00:44:02.980 uh, for minorities. It's really, uh, turned into sort of a perversive, uh, you know, a group of people who, 1.00

00:44:09.700 you know, really don't care about, uh, you know, anti-discrimination. They really care about,

00:44:14.980 you know, getting one sort of racial group ahead of another and sort of, uh, you know,

00:44:20.100 looking at some of the problems of these racial groups and pawning off responsibility from these 1.00

00:44:24.900 individuals and from these families and towards the government. At the end of the day, uh, having

00:44:29.620 a free society where the individual, uh, is, you know, emphasized also does mean that the individual

00:44:35.380 has to bear that responsibility. And instead of, uh, that sort of vision for society,

00:44:40.100 they want one where the government has a lot more control over the lives of certain individuals

00:44:44.740 so that they can get sort of certain, uh, racial outcomes. And this results in sort of looking at,

00:44:50.820 uh, data, uh, for family formation on different races and seeing that black people have a problem 1.00

00:44:57.140 when it comes to, uh, uh, multi-parent, uh, households. Uh, a lot of black people are raised 1.00

00:45:02.580 in single parent households. And instead of trying to communicate some sort of strategies,

00:45:07.460 uh, that black people can, uh, utilize to, uh, have more sustainable family structures to

00:45:12.580 have both parents in the household, uh, which does lead to many outcomes. It leads to

00:45:17.140 a lower rate of incarceration for children. Uh, it leads to higher, a better economic outcomes for

00:45:22.100 children. It leads to children to actually be, uh, you know, uh, scoring higher in intelligence metrics.

00:45:28.100 Uh, there's all these, uh, benefits to having both parents in the household. And instead of

00:45:32.260 trying to, you know, communicate those strategies, they instead say, well, actually, uh, you know,

00:45:37.140 having, uh, you know, one parent in the household is actually, you know, a good thing, you know,

00:45:41.380 or actually, you know, we should, uh, you know, condemn people who suggest that having, uh,

00:45:46.340 two parents in the household is a good thing. It's absolutely, uh, ridiculous. Uh, it is 0.95

00:45:51.140 counterproductive. Uh, I, I think it is, uh, insidious, uh, in some respect, and it's something that

00:45:56.980 I'm always going to fight against, then, uh, I think a lot of people are always going to fight

00:46:00.020 against, uh, uh, you know, these absolutely, uh, radical, uh, anti-racist activists that still

00:46:06.260 have a lot of power in Canadian society, even though, uh, their power looks to be diminishing.

00:46:11.780 Isaac?

00:46:13.460 Yeah. Uh, I guess I can just taking it to the government, uh, perspective. I, I said family

00:46:19.300 was the most important thing to me, which may have been slightly incorrect because I think

00:46:23.380 what even eclipses that is freedom. And what I've seen in the other over the last few years here is

00:46:30.580 there really seems to be two groups of people, those who value freedom and those who want the

00:46:35.300 government to control their lives, which to me is just shocking. How could, and maybe it's not as

00:46:40.740 conscious as that. It's just some sort of subconscious thing where, where it comes down to work or whatever,

00:46:46.580 but I just don't understand how, how you could reach that conclusion that really you want the

00:46:50.900 government to have more control of your lives. You don't want, you don't want freedom over,

00:46:55.940 over everything. Like it just, I I've never been able to wrap my head around that and maybe some

00:47:00.660 people can, but certainly I can't. And, and yeah, I, everything I do in my life is to gain more

00:47:07.060 freedom, not, not less. So I re I really don't understand that, that ideology.

00:47:11.860 I'll finish off with this exact point and you're both right. And I sincerely appreciate your input on

00:47:16.900 this because it's just one of those things that really gets to people and it can kind of erode

00:47:21.700 your confidence in things like family and things like having your own independence and your own

00:47:25.780 freedom. And I just want to encourage people a bit of a blue pill here. Um, just make sure that you

00:47:31.220 defend your freedom. Okay. And if you don't have it, demand it. And in the case of Ontario, if you guys

00:47:36.660 don't like what school boards are doing and what they're teaching your kid insist, call up premier Doug Ford

00:47:43.860 and say, we need to change how we function as a government here with schools. We want recall

00:47:49.380 legislation at the school board level in this case. So parents, people who have kids, adults,

00:47:56.180 responsible adults and guardians can make choices for their own kid and have the freedom to do that.

00:48:03.140 To your point exactly, Isaac, I will point this out. Some folks, I don't know, for whatever reason,

00:48:09.620 do prefer more control. They prefer kind of group control. All of that understood.

00:48:17.220 They're free. I'm not kidding to join a collective. Like seriously, they, there are, there are little

00:48:24.100 towns across Canada where they kind of work in co-op. It's more of a collective, you know, village

00:48:30.340 council decides on things. Okay. Like what they're going to grow for a crop this year. Like you can choose

00:48:36.740 to go live your life that way. If they want to rule that only e-bikes are allowed downtown and

00:48:41.940 they're going to ban gas, they, they can do stuff like that. Go figure it out. Go live that way.

00:48:47.780 If you choose to stop inflicting it on other people. Why would you inflict your choices on other people

00:48:54.580 in this manner? And so I, again, because it winds up taking away your freedom and your money,

00:49:00.820 getting it back quickly to taxpayers to sign off here. About half of our incomes. Now folks are

00:49:07.220 going to various levels of government, including school boards like this one in Ontario. Okay.

00:49:13.460 About half do this project. Imagine yourself. Okay. If it's safe to do so, you're not driving,

00:49:19.220 close your eyes, picture what lands in your bank account. If you're on salary every two weeks.

00:49:24.340 Okay. People would say a paycheck, but most of it's electronic. Now every two weeks, double it,

00:49:31.620 what could you do with that money? Could you afford more nutritious food? Could you afford to maybe

00:49:36.900 send your kid to a private school? Could you get them those lessons they've always wanted? Could you

00:49:41.300 save up for a house? Double that money that lands into your account every two weeks.

00:49:46.100 That's how much the government is taking from you in taxes. Okay. And doing stuff like this with it.

00:49:52.100 So this is why we fight here at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Guys, I sincerely appreciate your

00:49:57.300 contributions today to the show. It's been a really good show. Folks, thank you so much for

00:50:01.380 listening and for watching. If you have any comments, please leave them underneath this video.

00:50:07.220 And remember, everything is off the record.

00:50:09.860 Chris, I was just featuring someone calling Ford and saying, Hey Ford, I saw what you said about

00:50:19.300 Carney being Santa Claus. Maybe you could be Santa Claus too. Recall legislation for municipalities,

00:50:23.940 recall legislation for the province, recall legislation for the school boards. Everyone

00:50:28.100 gets recall legislation. Yeah, I think instead of governing during the November and December months,

00:50:34.980 he should just do a cross a province tour of him as Santa Claus, go to all the significant

00:50:40.260 shopping malls in the in the province and just, you know, have to have the kids come up on his lap.

00:50:45.140 He must. I think he'd be really good at that. I don't know about the whole pre wearing thing, 0.85

00:50:49.940 but Santa Claus. Yeah, I definitely see that in his career prospects. He can deliver freedom to the

00:50:55.860 good boys and girls. Oh, well, no, it actually will say each box, each president will say $10,000

00:51:02.260 of debt. Here you go, child. Here, you want another? Here, here, I'll give you another $10,000. There,

00:51:08.340 there you go. It's $28,000, but yeah. All right, that was really good, you guys.

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