00:09:19.000I think, but I can't just say this and attribute it to myself because I'm supposed to be impartial.
00:09:23.780So when they defer to experts or people that are unnamed, that are unsighted, they're trying to kind of hide their own perception of a person.
00:09:33.500I mean, if the reporter in this case had just come out and said, listen, when you do this and this and this, it looks to me like you are doing X.
00:09:53.320But that's not what happened. Instead, we defer to experts who are supposedly authorities on what the conservative leader stands for and says. And Pierre Polyev's response to this was that I'm not playing that game. And I think it was, if you look at the reaction on Twitter, he seems to be winning that exchange very much.
00:10:12.640We'll get back to this in a little bit of time, but I want to draw our attention to this story.
00:10:17.800Very fun story in some ways because it just speaks to what a lot of people kind of feel is the inevitable outcome of this rapid and extreme pivot to electric vehicles.
00:10:30.020But we're all told electric vehicles are the future.
00:10:32.620It's the way we do something for the planet.
00:10:34.740We're told electric vehicles are just as good as gas-powered vehicles or diesel-powered vehicles.
00:10:39.920you'll save money and more importantly you won't have any issues getting around the country you
00:10:45.100won't have any issues because we've got all these charging networks uh you've done it you do your
00:10:49.500part for the planet well delbir singh bala thought he was doing exactly that he spent over a hundred
00:10:56.180thousand dollars to buy a ford pickup truck that was electric you can even get an electric pickup
00:11:02.200truck so it's not even like you're stuck with this little you know crappy prius you can actually get
00:11:06.720a big manly electric truck and he did that and took his family on a vacation to chicago uh they
00:11:14.060were able to get there but on the way back they ran into problem after problem delbir singh bala
00:11:20.340joins me now uh delbir it's good to talk to you thanks very much for coming on today
00:11:24.940oh thanks for having me so first off why did you decide to get an electric truck
00:11:30.680okay so uh first of all uh for newer technology cleaner energy so i bought that idea
00:11:40.140and i'm in trucking so we and i use my truck for going out to do recreational work so i need to
00:11:50.680haul something trailers rv boat so and i change my truck every four years so it's just okay this
00:11:57.880thing comes out let's try this one so it's a ford f-150 lightning you you paid 115 000 for it you
00:12:06.080did the thing we're all told we're supposed to do here uh you had to spend more money on that as i
00:12:11.000understand it your own house to uh get like the you know the charger put in place uh but what
00:12:16.780happened when you were trying to drive home from chicago oh actually you don't have to correct you
00:12:22.360uh the problem happens on the way to chicago not coming back on the way to chicago on the way okay
00:12:28.680yeah we started our trip on july 27th on thursday morning 5 p.m we were like three families like
00:12:36.840old friends with our kids and uh so it's a first stop for hours was wisconsin delts we have to stay
00:12:44.520there for three days for you know water parks and so we figured out this it was around 1050 kilometers
00:12:51.240to wisconsin tells and to my experience driving this truck i was driving doing around 450 kilometers
00:12:59.560in city range so we decided to okay we can charge the couple times 350 kilometers and then another
00:13:08.520after 350 kilometers and we'll get to wisconsin tells and we have a charger at our resort over
00:13:14.760there and at our first stop in fargo we already researched before we were going to charge and
00:13:24.440range was like actual advertised range on this clock is around 515 kilometers but to my experience
00:13:33.080it was going 450 so okay that's why we plan to charge for three after 350 kilometers when we
00:13:39.240When we got to Fargo, that level 3 charger, which was available, that was at their West
00:13:45.280Acres mall parking lot, it took 2 hours and 5 minutes to charge it.
00:13:53.740And more than that, to my surprise, I never expected that it would be that expensive,
00:16:14.440i returned the rental and you know minnesota right beside elk river picked up the you know
00:16:21.240truck and came back i know you've had a huge amount of interest in your story from canada
00:16:26.680and from the us here and i'm curious and people that have reached out to you were you just really
00:16:31.880really unlucky or is this a common problem for electric vehicle owners uh you know what i've
00:16:39.320been receiving a lot of messages and phone calls it is very very common problem and especially with
00:16:47.160the pickup truck i can say like why we need a pickup trucks i'm not talking about small cars
00:16:54.120why we need a pickup trucks we have it because it has a more use to it right we have to haul
00:17:01.160rv boat you know all the like that we're trucking we have to hold the parts tires so we have the
00:17:09.000pickup trucks have the more use to it that's why we need them right but it doesn't solve
00:17:16.040all any problem like purpose of a pickup truck and now lack of infrastructure even the
00:17:22.680infrastructure is built if you go on a trip who would be who want to charge every three hours
00:17:31.160Who want to wait every two hours for charging every three hours?
00:17:35.960Well, I mean, that's the most incredible part of this is that even when it worked, when the charger worked, it took you over two hours.
00:17:43.300Whereas, you know, I had to, you know, fill up my gas can or fill up my gas tank the other day.
00:17:48.360And I was at the gas station for, I think, you know, 90 seconds filling it up and then, you know, a minute to pay for it.
00:17:54.120And then I was on the road in two and a half minutes, whereas you were there for over two hours.
00:17:58.480And that was when it worked the way it was supposed to work.
00:18:01.160Oh, yeah, because, you know, I've been driving on the road, and I love to travel. My in-laws are in Edmonton. I've been driving there last 18 years. Every year, we go there once or twice. So that's around 1400 kilometers, and we are able to make it in a day over there. But I can't imagine to get there in a day over there with this one.
00:18:23.300yeah and i'm not even confident a lot of people have raised is that you know electric vehicles
00:18:29.420maybe are fine for driving around the city but for people like you that are driving for longer
00:18:34.480distances it wasn't working and now this this truck that you spend 115 000 on you're only
00:18:40.540using to basically go to work and back in in your own city right yeah wow so do you think the
00:18:49.000problem then is that we need to just spend more money and invest more in building more chargers
00:18:55.060because that's what electric vehicle fans have said in response to your story is that well this
00:18:59.360just means we need to put more work into it and we need to you know make more of an effort
00:19:04.580to my understanding with my little experience and a little time but i got
00:19:11.600like i live in winnipeg and uh there's a lot of rural spaces we go out for camp and go hunting
00:19:20.540and that area so like every two hours if you're hauling something because this if this truck goes
00:19:27.320350 kilometers on a highway if you're driving on a highway we don't know how much it will go
00:19:34.660if you have a board behind it then I couldn't find any data because they said
00:19:41.340it's been affected by the you know now it's a how many places you will create
00:19:47.380that infrastructure like every every two hours in every direction and somebody
00:19:55.000who will drive it I my understanding would be super organized to plan it
00:21:27.380but I'm glad he salvaged that very much. One thing I want to say is that when you talk about
00:21:33.600environmental initiatives and green initiatives, it is amazing how virtue signaling triumphs over
00:21:39.820facts and triumphs over science. And this story I found to be somewhat delightful. Do you remember
00:21:45.340back in the 2019 election, Justin Trudeau made this very audacious pledge to plant two billion
00:21:52.540trees. This was the tweet that he put out. It was a 2 billion tree promise. We'll plant 2 billion
00:21:59.440trees over the next 10 years. That's it. That's the tweet. Now that was in September of 2019,
00:22:06.480which means by September 27th of 2029, we are supposed to have 2 billion new trees that have
00:22:13.060been planted by the federal government. Now, if you work that out, that's about 200 million a year.
00:22:19.140Now, for the first couple of years, the government hadn't really gotten around to planting any, and then they were supposed to plant 60 million, but only planted 22 million.
00:22:28.180And it's a little bit odd that all of this really bold planning on tree planting has not come to roost.
00:22:36.280Now, this is not just something that Justin Trudeau tweeted about once and forgot about.
00:22:40.980This is something that he has pledged time and time again.
00:22:44.080in October of 2019, we're going to plant two billion trees in the next decade so we can leave
00:22:49.920them a cleaner, greener planet. January 11th, 2021, we're planting two billion trees. April 22nd,
00:22:57.2002021, we are banning harmful single-use plastics and we're planting two billion trees. What do we
00:23:05.540have here? June 5th, 2021, we're planting two billion trees, hashtag World Environment Day,
00:23:10.820because it's not a real environmental pledge
00:23:59.080Well, then we look at this headline in CBC.
00:24:01.580Ottawa using creative accounting on its two billion tree pledge, environmental watchdog says.
00:24:07.500As you see, if you read the fine print of it, it's not the government actually planting 2 billion trees.
00:24:12.100They're trying to take credit for trees that are already being planted by other organizations, other divisions and existing government programs and say that those all fall under the banner of the 2 billion tree pledge.
00:24:26.200For example, in August, Natural Resources Canada has revised its numbers.
00:24:30.980They were supposed to have planted 90 million trees by 2022, and now they say they've planted
00:24:37.280110 million trees. But initially, they had said they'd only planted 29 million trees in 2021.
00:24:46.000When you look at the way they've done this, they've actually added millions of trees that
00:24:51.280were planted through other programs, through other departments, and they've decided to say
00:24:56.400that these are now trees that they're going to claim under the 2 billion. So it's like basically
00:25:03.300COVID numbers where they just like look and find anything they can to just say, oh, this is a COVID
00:25:08.200case. So if you've planted a tree in your backyard, let the government know because they're going to
00:25:13.320just include that in their numbers, even though they didn't do it. So essentially their argument
00:25:18.700here is that, oh, when we said we were going to plant 2 billion trees, we really, really,
00:25:23.440really didn't want you to take it literally.
00:25:53.440Anyway, just as we wind things down here, I want to go back to the discussion I had at the outset about Pierre Polyev and his far right criticism that he was getting from the media.
00:26:06.100And I've had a number of people on Twitter that have pointed out to me over the course of the last little while that this has been going around that the reporter herself actually outed herself.
00:26:16.080She tweeted about not getting a question from Pierre Polyev on this or not getting an answer from Pierre Polyev.
00:26:23.900And oddly, I was trying to look her up on Twitter, and I don't know if they weren't loading up for me a second ago, but I pulled them up again.
00:26:32.120And then she was also lamenting that she didn't get a chance to ask him about giving the wrong name of PEI in French.
00:26:40.740I missed this part of it, but apparently Prince Edward Island in French, he called it the island of St. Edward instead of the island of Prince Edward.
00:26:49.380And this was pointed out by a reporter.
00:26:51.900And then Teresa Wright said, I was going to ask him about this, but I wasn't having much luck with my attempts to ask questions.
00:26:58.400So we were back to just trying to get an answer on whether he's courting the far right vote.
00:27:03.580And this is an interesting question that I feel no one is asking but the media.
00:27:09.920And it really says a lot more about the people who bring it up than it does about Pierre Polyev, when he's accused of really taking very reasonable arguments about whether it's the WEF or housing or inflation.
00:27:23.760And this is something that we then shoehorn into this narrative of being far right.
00:27:28.320When I hear about Pierre Polyev from normies, from people that aren't like me, from people that don't live and breathe politics, it's actually not the mainstream medias and liberals framing of him that they're getting.
00:27:41.120It's the videos on housing that they saw on Instagram that someone they know shared that are getting through to them.
00:27:48.220And this is, I think, if you're following Canadian politics really, really closely, you'll see probably all sides of it. But if you're not, stuff that's breaking through is not, oh, he's scary and he's talking about defunding the CBC and, oh, he's talking about the World Economic Forum and all of that.
00:28:03.380The stuff that's breaking through from the conservatives right now on their campaign strategy is the stuff that really resonates with people.
00:28:11.460And right now we have a housing crisis.
00:28:16.240When you look at that clip, I don't know if we can put up, Sean, a still of the Pierre Polyev clip we played earlier without playing the clip.
00:28:24.580I don't know if that's something we're technically able to do.