00:00:00.000Noah, it's a high of 30 today, man. I'm telling you. I'm in my house. I'm dying. I haven't connected the AC unit yet because, you know, I got the portable one. You got to put it through the window. It's a whole thing.
00:00:10.600That's the thing in Alberta. You guys are living in the third world. Barely any AC over there. You guys got to step your game up.
00:00:17.640Yeah, and Alex is on the other side of things. It looks like he's bundled right up for winter, so I don't know what it's called.
00:00:22.720It's very bipolar here in Vancouver. It's beautiful sun one day. It's like the Bahamas one day, and then, well, I guess, I don't know. Have you guys ever been to the Bahamas?
00:00:32.720I haven't been to the Bahamas, but I've been to Vancouver, and that's my one problem with Vancouver. It's always raining, so.
00:00:42.780Always raining, and there's always homeless, so there's that.
00:00:45.780Yeah, it depends where you are. All right, let's hop into things.
00:00:49.200So, yeah, just starting off, guys, I mean, we saw, it seems like we see these land acknowledgments every day, but, yeah, there was a specific land acknowledgment that caught your eye and your neck of the woods there, Alex.
00:01:04.360Did you want to talk to us about that?
00:01:06.620Oh, yeah, this is an old one. It's just the funniest land acknowledgment I've ever seen because it looks like it's, like, straight out of a scene from Reno 911.
00:01:13.160So, this guy just has this ridiculous mustache. The story itself is already ridiculous. So, what had happened was a fella who runs a food van versus a food truck, he sells ice cream out of his van.
00:01:26.500He decided to load it up full of explosives and then, like, use it to block the only major bridge in Kelowna. It's a vital choke point between West Kelowna and regular Kelowna.
00:01:37.340And, yeah, he threatened to blow up the bridge. It basically shut the entire region down for an entire day, and the RCMP thought it was more important to do a land acknowledgment than to address the fact that there's a crazy person threatening to blow up the bridge.
00:01:51.840Good morning. My name is Corporal Michael Gauthier, Media Relations Officer with the Kelowna Central Okanagan RCMP Detachment.
00:01:59.780Firstly, we acknowledge and respect that this land is the traditional and unceded territory of the Sox Okanagan people, who have resided here since time immemorial, and will continue to be here for many generations to come.
00:02:10.340What made that land acknowledgment stand out to you there, Alex? I mean, they all seem the same to me. Like, it's just like, oh, we're doing this again?
00:02:16.440Yeah, I mean, it's just like any other land acknowledgment. What is the point of this exactly? Like, I understand that virtue is good, but virtue signaling, what is the point of this?
00:02:28.720Yeah, you had this guy just fiddling around, reaching for a document in his back pocket, like, oh my god, like, you know, let's get this over with. You've got serious issues to deal with it. I mean, you know, this is a serious story. This guy tried to blow up a bridge. That's like on some, you know, super villain type deal. So, you know, the fact that you're starting off this very serious press conference with the land acknowledgment kind of makes the whole ordeal look a little goofy.
00:02:55.800Yeah, and we also saw the king deliver the throne speech, and I always thought to myself that land acknowledgments don't really stretch outside of Canada, because surely no other countries are doing this. I mean, why would they?
00:03:11.720But then we saw the king deliver the throne speech, and he delivered a land acknowledgment as well, which left me scratching my head because I was like, oh, I guess in a way it does stretch outside of Canada. Do we have that clip?
00:03:26.560I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin and Nishinaabeg people.
00:03:35.480This land acknowledgment is a recognition of shared history as a nation. While continuing to deepen my own understanding, it is my great hope that in each of your communities and collectively as a country, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation in both word and deed.
00:03:59.720Yeah, it looked like he was reading his notes pretty closely there. So I don't think he had the land acknowledgment memorized per se. But yeah, what did you guys think of the king delivering the land acknowledgment there?
00:04:10.500Yeah, just before, I just want to preface this whole thing by saying he's the king of Canada. So it kind of makes sense that in the woke Canada that we exist in today, that our king is sort of reflecting back what this country has become over, especially these past 10 years of liberal rule, where the land acknowledgments have sort of become normalized in Canadian society, even if it is for an event that is completely unrelated to indigenous issues.
00:04:37.620But the throne speech really highlighted exactly what the Carney government has been campaigning on and really, you know, highlighted some of the worst fears that some conservatives had.
00:04:50.180For example, the land acknowledgment, it really shows that the Carney government is not moving away from the woke ism that Justin Trudeau had brought in during his time as prime minister.
00:05:00.800And that really, I think, is a major concern for a lot of conservatives who've seen the wokeification of Canada as one of the big demerits of the past 10 years of governance, along with the economic issues, along with the immigration issues.
00:05:14.640And, you know, the list goes on, let's say, but definitely the pervasiveness of wokeism is one of the things that a lot of Canadians were hoping Mark Carney might turn around on.
00:05:26.280We saw before Election Day, he said that he would respect, you know, the heritage of our English, French and indigenous people, sort of hearkening back to a sort of nationalistic sense of self and of our nation.
00:05:41.940Definitely not the post national vision that Trudeau had articulated, but the land acknowledgment concedes a point to the left that the Canada is in some sense illegitimate, that this land was seized illegitimately.
00:05:56.300And, you know, I think we can acknowledge that, you know, the seizure of the land definitely didn't work out for the original inhabitants in the way that they probably had hoped.
00:06:07.000That's largely because of disease killed off about 90 percent of the indigenous population.
00:06:10.980It wasn't you didn't see the sort of violent conquests as you did in the United States in Canada.
00:06:16.800And I think that, you know, history has shown that the British crown has tried to treat the indigenous peoples, at least fairly in the sort of historical context,
00:06:27.120even if that didn't manifest itself in the most, let's say, beneficial policies for those peoples.
00:06:33.940But, again, this land acknowledgment really is something to behold.
00:06:38.840I mean, you can definitely tell that the Carney government, they wrote this part of the throne speech.
00:06:45.780I mean, they probably write the entire thing.
00:06:48.220I at least like to think that Mr. King Charles had not written or had written himself.
00:06:55.060The last section of the throne speech was actually pretty good, talking about Canada and our sort of nationhood.
00:07:02.220But it was definitely disappointing to see and surprising to see the king make this land acknowledgment and basically say that we're on this unceded territory.
00:07:12.860And, you know, he said, quote, while continuing to deepen my own understanding, this was great.
00:07:16.380With a great hope, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation in both word and deed, definitely repeating a lot of the center-left language on this issue for over a decade now.
00:07:28.980Have you guys ever noticed that these land acknowledgments always say it's the unceded territory of more than one tribe?
00:07:51.540Like, there's something kind of, kind of, in a sense, kind of nice about that in terms of, you know, like, fighting.
00:07:57.420It actually swims upstream from white guilt because it's, yeah, I mean, it's themselves.
00:08:02.280I mean, I'm not really sure, like, what the sort of territorial geographic sort of makeup of the different nations were.
00:08:08.800But at the end of the day, you do bring up a good point in that, you know, these are nations who were fighting over the land long before Europeans came to Canada and just to North America in general.
00:08:19.760So, this was not, like, land that had not been, you know, stained with bloodshed through warfare.
00:08:28.420And if you look at some of the ceremonies that some of the indigenous tribes had, they're quite violent and not merciful to their opponents.
00:08:39.700Yeah, they didn't even have written maps.
00:08:41.900Right, so, I think this whole, like, you know, song and dance of, you know, doing the land acknowledgments is stupid.
00:08:50.120But the throne speech did have, like, some more substance just beyond the land acknowledgment.
00:08:55.720Carney, or through the king, Carney talked about some of his priorities, many of which he highlighted throughout the campaign trail.
00:09:04.940But what was noticeable, I think, in the speech was the lack of the condemnation of the United States and the lack of condemnation of U.S. President Donald Trump, definitely in stark contrast from what the rhetoric we heard from Carney on the campaign trail.
00:09:22.220Now, there was a story that came out a few days before the throne speech that claimed that British ministers were trying to convince the Carney government to tone down the language, tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the United States.
00:09:34.060So, it's a bit concerning that another country is trying to tell the Carney government how to write the throne speech and what the sovereign can and cannot say on behalf of his own country.
00:09:44.040But it definitely took a much more moderate tone on Donald Trump, not really calling him out by name, not really talking about the tariffs, and really when trying to hint about those U.S.-Canada issues, really addressing it in a more indirect way.
00:10:01.120So, like, what did you guys make of the sort of shift in tone that the Carney government has taken over the past few weeks on the Trump issue and how that was reflected in the throne speech?
00:10:11.920Yeah, well, obviously, we've seen a strong shift in stance of Carney's government from essentially the election until directly after the election.
00:10:22.860The tone changed almost immediately because, of course, Carney arguably based his whole electoral campaign on dealing with the United States.
00:10:34.980But then, of course, we saw that maybe that wasn't the reality after the election.
00:10:40.200And then we even later found out that, in fact, Carney had canceled most of the tariffs during the election process secretly.
00:10:47.340Secretly. He didn't tell anyone because he's like, oh, we'll stand up to Trump.
00:10:50.500But in the end, that wasn't the case at all.
00:10:53.220And then we've seen Carney meeting with Trump.
00:10:55.980And it's definitely not as combative as he might have suggested during the election campaign.
00:11:01.820Which, hey, I mean, call it what you will, misleading, lying, whatever.
00:11:07.900At the end of the day, the United States are our most important ally.
00:11:11.340And we would much rather be an ally to them than an enemy because we need them for so many things.
00:12:16.160When has the United States ever even offered to defend Canada?
00:12:21.100Well, I think a lack of stomach in carrying out wars is not necessarily, it doesn't remove the fact that they have the most powerful military in the entire world.
00:12:31.200And, you know, at the end of the day, if we piss off our continental ally, that's not doing us, it's better if they're on our side in the case of, say, a Russian invasion from the north.
00:12:42.800We know that Russia, they want to really codify their position in the Arctic and potentially even encroach on Canadian territory in their efforts to solidify their control over the Arctic.
00:12:55.080And certainly Canada needs to build up our own military, which has been massively gutted under, you know, the Trudeau government and even before.
00:13:04.020But if we don't have the United States, you know, being an ally, providing intelligence at the very least, providing some material support, providing naval support, support from the air,
00:13:16.740that would make our ability to counter those Russian threats in the north, it would make it a lot tougher, especially when the Russians, you know, they feel a bit more emboldened with their looking like a successful conquest of eastern Ukraine.
00:13:36.480So, you know, it's definitely important that in a time when Russia is looking a bit more emboldened that we build up our military, but we also don't piss off our greatest military asset, who's also an Arctic country because of Alaska.
00:13:49.020If I maybe flesh out my point very quickly, I'll just land my plane here, is the idea that I hear from a lot of the, again, I'm going to quote this, I'm going to use the term again, I don't care how much hate mail we get, Trump savior syndrome.
00:13:59.540So these people who have Trump savior syndrome, who think that Donald Trump is somehow going to magically save Canada, they make two points.
00:14:06.840The first point is, is that we need the United States because they protect us.
00:14:10.420And then the second point they make is we need the United States because we've been invaded by China.
00:14:15.760How can both of those things be true at once?
00:14:20.600If the United States is protecting us, how did we get invaded by China?
00:14:23.440All right. Firstly, you asked when the last time, this was before, when the last time the United States said they'd defend us or something along those lines, it was actually when Carney and Trump recently met in the White House.
00:14:32.800That was one of my key takeaways from the meeting because it was mostly fluff, but Trump did say clearly, we are your ally, we will defend you.
00:14:41.680But just to touch on your point quickly regarding China and Russia invading Canada, I do have to say that I think their invasion, if it were to occur, would be much more tactful and secretive than actually invading us with an army.
00:14:56.200It would be like through, I don't know, technological espionage, spy, spy warfare, you name it.
00:15:02.860But let's just call it more secretive than a million Chinese troops coming in like through planes or something.
00:15:10.200I don't think that would work out for them because, I mean, there are better ways to do things, right?
00:15:17.060But moving on from that, we could talk more about the throne speech, especially the, we saw how conservative leaders,
00:15:26.200across the country reacted to it, notably Pierre Polyev and Daniel Smith.
00:15:31.560For example, Polyev was talking about how, what I took away from what he said was that talk is cheap.
00:15:38.280Look, he said the speech was full of slogans and nice words, but lacked the action behind the words.
00:15:45.020So they're talking about making Canada an energy superpower, but at the same time won't repeal Bill C-69, the No More Pipelines Act.
00:15:51.420So it's kind of a contradiction there.
00:15:53.600And I mean, there's an endless list that Pierre went through.
00:15:56.360But yeah, what did you guys think about the conservative leaders' reaction to the throne speech?
00:16:25.460But, you know, what has Carney really committed to when it comes to, say, the energy file, right?
00:16:30.640He goes to a Quebec audience and says, we won't build pipelines.
00:16:39.700And then, you know, he goes to Alberta, talks to Daniel Smith and says, oh, yeah, you know, drill, baby, drill.
00:16:46.680So, like, you know, unclear when it comes to the carbon tax.
00:16:51.980Sure, he was able to bring the consumer carbon tax down to zero with a government directive.
00:16:57.860But he still has not just said that he would bring down the industrial carbon tax.
00:17:03.380He actually has promised to escalate that.
00:17:05.600So that's something that's going to be challenging affordability.
00:17:08.820And on housing, we still don't really have concrete action beyond, say, the Housing Accelerator Fund that Justin Trudeau brought in and is not reaping results.
00:17:18.840He says he's going to build this government department, build Canada homes.
00:17:22.840But, you know, in my experience, crown corporations aren't necessarily the biggest driver of economic growth and development.
00:17:32.800It's the builders who are actually the ones who are going to get houses built, not government departments, not government bureaus.
00:17:38.820They're really good at spending money.
00:17:41.480They're not really good at creating value.
00:17:44.820And, you know, like, if you just go down the list of the things that he talked about in the throne speech, these are all things that he has not really made a lot of strides on.
00:17:55.680Sure, certainly that's going to get some legislative approval on certain matters.
00:18:00.420But on a lot of these issues, he hasn't proven himself to be credible.
00:18:06.500And especially on the energy file when Albertans see that Stephen Gugbeau is still in cabinet, when they see that Melanie Jolie is still in cabinet, when they see that Anita Anand is still in cabinet.
00:18:18.940You know, people get the idea that this is still the status quo.
00:18:22.400So they really have a lot to prove in order to show that they're a change.
00:18:26.640And I think voters are going to start to sour on them within six months if they don't start to show that change.
00:18:35.520You said six months there, Noah, because, of course, Alberta Premier Daniel Smith previously gave Carney six months to do an official reset with Alberta, she said.
00:18:45.480But then after the throne speech, she tightened that timeline.
00:18:50.680She said she needs to see meaningful action within weeks, not months.
00:18:54.580And what's most interesting to me is the most recent Leger poll I've seen was on Alberta separation showed that 41% of respondents would vote yes in a referendum compared to only 44% voting no.
00:19:09.420Of course, the remaining percentage was I don't know or not applicable or whatever.
00:19:13.160But, I mean, that's how close we're talking about.
00:19:16.460And, of course, the Alberta Prosperity Project has submitted their petition question.
00:19:20.320So a referendum vote on Alberta separation could be close.
00:19:24.420And if Carney really doesn't show up for Albertans in any way, I think he's just going to push more and more Albertans away.
00:19:30.240So this really could have long-lasting, meaningful consequences for the whole country, right?
00:20:04.760But he doesn't really have representation in Calgary.
00:20:07.060Correct me if I'm wrong, Isaac, but he only won – the Liberals only won one seat in Alberta.
00:20:11.340So it's not like Albertans really even gave the Liberals, you know, any sort of real support.
00:20:21.500So, you know, Carney's really going to have to understand what Albertans want when he doesn't have any Albertans in his caucus except for one person.
00:20:29.660And then he's going to have to try and come up with solutions that also satisfy his Liberal base.
00:20:35.760Like, you know, again, the reason why in Quebec he says,
00:20:38.900Pas des audios duques, is because that sort of politics is really popular in Quebec.
00:20:45.340But, you know, how is he going to, you know, satisfy the needs and desires of Westerners and Albertans when he has to also satisfy Quebecers?
00:20:55.560How is he going to move on the energy file when it comes to getting projects reviewed quicker?
00:21:02.180He said he wants one review to only be completed in two years instead of five.
00:21:10.400Okay, I mean, how are you going to do that with Bill C-69?
00:21:13.720And what is Stephen Guibault going to say if you try to, you know, repeal or amend Bill C-69?
00:21:19.800Are you going to get, you know, certain defections?
00:21:21.560Like, he's really balancing, you know, a high, this is a high wire act.
00:21:26.220And, you know, he's going to have to show some political competence in this role.
00:21:30.420Let's see, he's a, he's a bureaucrat by trade, not a politician.
00:21:34.080But, you know, if he doesn't move on to these issues, he's going to have a real, real big national unity problem out West.
00:21:41.500I think the parallels that we're drawing between Quebec separatism and Alberta separatism are really interesting and really insightful.
00:21:48.020Because when I think back to the convoy protest in Ottawa, I think the most terrifying thing about that for the Liberal Party, and by extension, the Laurentian elite, was when you had Quebecois, the fleur-de-lis and the Alberta flag flying side by side.
00:22:06.960So they, they basically live on us disliking each other.
00:22:12.260And when we come together, that's, that's the worst thing possible for them, because they, their political lives depend on these wedge issues.
00:22:20.220Yeah, and just to, sorry, to correct you quick there, Noah, I think the Liberals actually have two seats in Alberta.
00:22:27.380And if I'm correct, one seat in Saskatchewan.
00:22:28.820It's a small miracle for them, really.
00:23:23.540Yeah, I think you bring up a good point, Alex.
00:23:25.680I think the fact that the NDP, their internal cohesion is weak, I think that will lead to them showing more deference to the Liberals.
00:23:34.280Because, well, they have internal party matters to deal with.
00:23:37.720They can't afford going to an election.
00:23:39.420Imagine they go to an election with an interim leader and the MPs don't like each other.
00:23:44.580I mean, they already suffered a monumental disaster a few months ago.
00:23:49.780The disaster is going to, you know, get worse, if that's the case.
00:23:54.300If they can't even, you know, get together and stay on a certain message, you know, you're going to have Leah Gauzen campaigning on basically a communist party platform.
00:24:03.460And then, you know, you're going to have Don Davies trying to bring it back to the Jack O'Layton days.
00:24:08.020And you're going to see, like, this huge contrast between the different candidates running.
00:24:12.040It would be a crappy situation for the NDP if, you know, Parliament dissolved and an election was foisted upon them.
00:24:19.960So, I think they're going to be deferential to the Liberals, at least until they get a new leader.
00:24:24.580But even after they get a new leader, you know, they're not going to have a lot of money to work with.
00:24:29.400You know, their fundraising is in the gutter.
00:24:31.920They're not receiving funds because they have no official party status.
00:24:36.080I think they're going to be really loathe to go to an election.
00:27:00.680But then we do see celebrities that are kind of irrelevant, I guess, trying to take their spot back in the spotlight by talking about Canada for some unknown reason.
00:27:12.180So, I mean, I don't know why anyone would do that, but...
00:27:16.900Yeah, like, people like Bono, like, I hate when they do this, because they try and, like, reinforce this idea that Canada is, like, this inherently progressive country.
00:27:28.200From 1867 to 1891, some of our most formative years, the conservatives governed the country for all but four years.
00:27:36.680You know, like, this is a country founded by a conservative, or by conservatives, and it is a country that, sure, you know, for the past 75 years hasn't been great for the conservatives electorally.
00:27:48.800But at the end of the day, Canadians do have some deep-rooted Canadian instincts, even if it is not reflected in our governance from our federal politicians in Ottawa.
00:27:58.680But, you know, Bono doing this, you know, sort of just, like, reinforces this, like, progressive view of Canada that is actually just a bit of a myth.
00:28:06.800I mean, you know, if you look at the polling just in December 2024, the liberals were doing great, you know.
00:28:12.540We were going to have that conservative populist scary man that Bono was so fretting about.
00:28:18.780But, and I think he's going to be disappointed in the next election results, you know.
00:28:23.780I'd be very surprised if the liberals win five elections in a row.
00:28:28.040But, you know, like, Bono's, like, comments here, he's, like, I'll just quote him, I'm so happy to be speaking to you Canadians at the time in your political life, coming together, showing the world how to do it.
00:28:39.520I was always a fan of your mosaic, your culture, your reason, and never more so than now.
00:28:44.140I mean, like, repeating, like, the whole mosaic line and saying, like, how our, like, our culture, our reason, we're just, like, smarter than Americans.
00:28:51.560Like, it's, like, this very arrogant, sort of, like, self-conscious view that Canadians have of Americans.
00:28:58.840And, like, sure, maybe President Trump does some stupid stuff with the tariffs.
00:29:02.440But at the end of the day, you know, Americans are generally good people.
00:31:07.600And, you know, YouTube said that the channel was terminated based on their policy on spam, scams, and deceptive practices.
00:31:15.240I mean, if, you know, criticizing the liberal government is a scam or, you know, deceptive, I think that's, you know, that reflects really, really poorly on, you know, how we are valuing free speech in our civil society.
00:31:31.500I think that the CBC, like, the only audience for a piece like this, you know, taking down this right-wing YouTube channel, like, that's the only audience for that piece is liberals.
00:31:45.360You know, this is something that Press Progress would do.
00:31:48.100You know, like, Press Progress, they would, like, send out, like, you know, request for comment to a conservative channel and then just, like, make up some fake story.
00:31:57.720Like, that's basically what the CBC did, except it's a lot worse.
00:32:01.300They actually just got, like, a channel completely taken down.
00:32:04.940I thought YouTube, they have a three strikes policy.
00:32:07.620I don't know, maybe if they're at, like, two and then they went over.
00:32:10.700But, like, this completely banned the channel for, you know, making, sure, maybe some of it's AI generated, but content criticizing the government, definitely, definitely not a good look.
00:32:21.560I am interested just to get the opinion of the room here, and I'm not playing devil's advocate on behalf of the CBC, but I think one of the issues was the AI, right?
00:32:31.440Because they did that AI video of Ronald Reagan.
00:32:33.620And I do have concerns about that technology, right?
00:32:37.040Because as it becomes better and better, we do run the risk of entering into a misinformation crisis, right?
00:32:45.440I'm just curious, like, what you guys think about that.
00:32:49.920If I recall from the article, the channel owner said they had found the AI elsewhere on the platform on YouTube, and that's how they got it.
00:33:00.520And I don't know if they thought it was real or whatever, but just based on fair use alone, if it's somewhere else and you use it in a different way, you can easily legally use that.
00:33:09.360I don't know how that would violate their policy, especially with the fair use deal.
00:33:14.160But another thing, just touching on the CBC, I was looking at their financial report from last year, $1.4 billion in government funding, $1.9 billion in expenses, and about $500 million in revenue to just break even.
00:33:26.100So, I mean, imagine you're getting $1.9 billion in government funding and you can barely break even.
00:33:34.960I don't know how any Canadian taxpayer could be happy with the CBC in its current form, but especially, essentially, acting as a tool of the government and how could they operate any differently when they're getting that much money?
00:33:51.420It's an inevitable consequence, right?
00:33:54.000Yeah, getting all that money for content like this, it's kind of pathetic.
00:33:56.840You know, I think, like, you know, there has to be some regulation when it comes to, you know, trying to make AI content that, like, looks like someone and sounds like someone and trying to, like, push a false narrative.
00:34:09.580But, you know, this person, as you mentioned, found the video secondhand and then just, like, reposted it.
00:34:15.260And, you know, I don't know if this was supposed to be, like, a video that looks like a real Reagan speech or something like that, and it's not.
00:34:23.840But, you know, a lot of AI videos are just, like, made for fun or made to, you know, like, prove a point or, you know, a message.
00:34:31.340So, I wouldn't, like, you know, be too strict on that.
00:34:35.040I think there should still be allowed to be AI content on YouTube, even if, you know, people like me don't really like it.
00:34:42.060You know, if people like it and advertisers are willing to put their ads in front of those videos, then I'll go for it.
00:34:49.920You know, I think that should be fair.
00:34:52.360I think, you know, the way that the CBC conducted this hit on this channel, it was really unfair.
00:34:58.100Yeah, and I guess now the more that I think about it, the more I realize we're putting the onus on the user of the platform rather than the platform itself, right?
00:35:04.840YouTube already employs a lot of AI technology.
00:35:07.940For instance, if you put, like, a copyrighted song on YouTube, it'll flag it right away because its AI technology is so good.
00:35:14.580So, they should really be using their AI technology to flag AI as AI rather than, you know, beating up the user for not being smart enough to do that themselves, if that makes any sense.
00:35:29.920Just put a little message at the bottom of the video.
00:35:31.440Yeah, and I've talked to a few lawyers just historically when writing the odd articles about AI and the laws surrounding it, and it's not clear.
00:35:39.440So, I do agree with you, Noah, that maybe some clarification around what's acceptable on YouTube with AI and just in general would be nice.
00:35:47.200But, I mean, attacking and taking down independent journalists for something like this, and as you said, one-sided example, isn't there a three-strikes rule?
00:35:54.660Or maybe, hey, hey, you can't do this.
00:35:56.520We're taking that video down, not your whole channel.
00:35:59.080I mean, it does seem like an overreach to me, and I would consider it personally as political censorship.
00:36:07.080I don't know how else you could look at it.
00:36:09.920Like, this is the top conservative channel during the election, and you take it down for questionable reasons at best.
00:36:15.400I mean, yeah, just definitely not a good look for the CBC and not a good look for YouTube either.
00:36:21.480But, I mean, when you're a media conglomerate the size of YouTube, I guess you can really do whatever you want with no consequences because there are no better.
00:36:30.300Well, you're essentially a monopoly, right?
00:36:44.440That's how the CBC wishes it was with them compared to other news channels, and while it might be that way in funding, it definitely isn't in reach or viewership.
00:36:52.320The state of our country would be shocking if that was the case.
00:36:55.500Well, I think CBC has a reason to feel insecure, right?
00:36:59.060I mean, again, I hate to take everything back to COVID and the convoy, but the mainstream media, not just the CBC, we're also talking about Chorus News, you know, CTV, Global.
00:37:09.160They lost so much credibility, right, that people just stopped watching, and now they're basically dependent on government subsidies, and they're realizing that that isn't even sufficient, as you had pointed out, Isaac.
00:37:22.200And so now what they're looking to do is just remove the competition as opposed to improving their own coverage.
00:37:28.500If I'm not mistaken, Chorus has become a penny stock, and I remember there was some talk about Elon maybe buying it.