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MUST WATCH： Montrealers support communism, anti-Trump party outside French leaders' debate

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In this episode, we talk to people on the street about the French election debate and what they expect to happen in the upcoming election. We also talk about what they would like to see happen during the debate, and how they feel about the current state of the country.

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00:00:00.000 Alex Zoltan reporting from True North. Today is Wednesday, April 16th. We are covering the
00:00:06.860 French election leaders debate from the heart of darkness, the CBC radio building. We're going to
00:00:14.120 be talking to people on the street, asking them what are the most important issues in the upcoming
00:00:18.560 election, as well as the debate today, and what they anticipate will happen during the French
00:00:23.000 debate. The system is outdated. The ideology of the liberal and conservative, I think the people
00:00:34.240 don't want that at all. They want to change another philosophy of administration. What about the
00:00:42.060 communism party? I noticed that they have a sign up there. Will you be voting for the communist party?
00:00:47.020 Communism is more of a deeper understanding of things, okay? The Russian communism, the past,
00:00:57.860 they didn't use it properly. It wasn't the right, the right communism, okay? China, same thing, 0.82
00:01:07.880 borrow. But Karl Marx and his writings, he explained exactly what it should be. But it will take time
00:01:19.900 before the general public rise and become more intelligent and understand things. Education
00:01:26.940 is very important. Is there anything that you would like to see be asked during the debate?
00:01:31.780 I prefer to be with the people and tell the people to wake up. They don't want to make decisions
00:01:39.520 in their private lives, okay? Give you an example. Like the city of Montreal, I never bought a car
00:01:46.820 because I don't need it, because I'm probably, which is excellent. So what is all these things doing
00:01:54.260 in the streets? Well, that's the people. The people have to wake up. Trump is excellent to get the people
00:02:03.900 to wake up. Carney, I like Carney. He's bringing Canada kind of in the right direction. He's putting
00:02:11.340 his eggs in more baskets, except in one basket. I like that. That's good for Canada. 0.99
00:02:17.520 What's the most important thing in this election to you? I'd say housing and not becoming,
00:02:27.360 not electing another Trump. Personally, I think that, you know, corporations shouldn't be allowed to
00:02:33.840 own like housing, like single family houses, houses especially. But I even think in general, like,
00:02:42.160 you know, housing units, if they were only allowed to be owned by the people who lived in them, that
00:02:50.240 would make a huge difference, obviously. Maybe that's dramatic for our capitalist world, but
00:02:56.640 yeah, I mean, you know, the rents are just out of control. And like, I just think that at some point,
00:03:08.640 that's hurting our society in a way that I don't hear talked about. I mean, yeah, I guess it's talked
00:03:16.640 about, but like, you know, if my rent doubles, I'm not going to have any time to try and start a business
00:03:23.520 business or, or, or go to the restaurant or anything really. So I think the housing and
00:03:29.760 even commercial rent, you know, crisis adds up to just like stalling society, basically,
00:03:38.320 you know, I see the street in my neighborhood, like, go from, you know, having lots of like,
00:03:46.000 like, like mom and pop shops and stuff like that to
00:03:49.040 Now a lot of the spaces are emptying out because I think they're just asking for
00:03:56.800 for too high of rents. And actually, I think commercial property should have more regulations.
00:04:05.840 I have a recording studio and you just never know every year, like, is the landlord just going to
00:04:12.080 decide I'm going to double your rent and you're out of luck. So like you're investing into a business.
00:04:17.600 I've seen it with restaurants, you know, people going in, starting a business, having a successful
00:04:22.400 cafe or whatever it is. And then two years later, they're told, Oh, we're going to double your rent.
00:04:26.880 So the, what, you know, $100,000 they invested into their kitchen and their decor is just like
00:04:32.640 out the window, you know, not even that long ago, people were like, Montreal is awesome. Quebec's
00:04:37.920 awesome. Cause we don't have that problem. Like, you know, we used, I used to be like,
00:04:41.760 you know, my partner is from the U S I was like, let's just go live in, in Montreal. Cause it's,
00:04:50.080 you know, it's cheap. It's great. Uh, and then that kind of just switched so fast. I mean,
00:04:56.400 obviously if you buy a building today, you're going to have to rent for a lot because it's so expensive.
00:05:01.360 You know, having, it used to not even be a thing to get a con like constant, uh, like a raise,
00:05:08.800 like a price price hike or whatever, like each year, you know, like now landlords have started
00:05:13.360 sending a letter every year and bringing up the price as much as they possibly can. And that used
00:05:18.400 to not even really be like that much of a thing. I remember renting for many years and not having
00:05:25.760 my price ever go up, you know, and it just seems to have become a trend wherever all the,
00:05:32.320 the landlords just think, Oh, like it's fine. I can now I can just make as much as I possibly
00:05:37.440 can out of this, you know, cause if you're, if you own the place and you're renting upstairs,
00:05:41.920 you know, you're going to try and treat your, your tenant well, but when it's like anonymous
00:05:48.320 corporate landlords or whatever, they don't, they don't care. I think that the problem is just,
00:05:52.720 there's just greed, you know, and like uncontrolled capitalism. It's not like,
00:05:57.840 it's not like this thing that just can't not like, can't or, you know, can't not happen.
00:06:05.040 You know, like, I guess the NDP would be who, who aligns the most with my values, but yeah.
00:06:12.480 Who do you think is doing the best job of going against Donald Trump? And who do you think would
00:06:16.240 be best prepared to lead the country in negotiations with the orange man? 0.94
00:06:20.320 The one that has the most knowledge about, uh, you know, economy, not the one that has the most
00:06:25.120 knowledge about politics. We could see that politics is just beside now the other, the, uh,
00:06:30.720 Canadian. The Canadians are at six o'clock. So they move the Canadian a little bit lower 0.93
00:06:36.560 to make it sure that everybody will look at it. So, and Trump is not that nice for nothing Canada.
00:06:42.480 So I would say, you know, we have to think about that, but even if it's Trump goes to Canada,
00:06:48.000 they won't win in Canada because we don't like him. So we'll throw them away.
00:06:52.080 So that's the case. You know, we're a little bit like California. California is,
00:06:56.400 is the one that likes the most to be, you know, on our side. So let's see what's going on.
00:07:02.800 We have been talking to people on the street, in the Metro, all around this neighborhood about
00:07:06.880 what are the top issues for them during this election. Top of mind for most people, Donald Trump.
00:07:12.240 Second biggest issue I would say is probably housing or more broadly affordability.
00:07:17.120 The third biggest issue is the environment. I would say it would be a fair summary of the
00:07:22.320 people that we've spoken to. And the fourth biggest issue, surprisingly, Marxism. I believe
00:07:27.200 that I actually spoke to a reincarnated version of Karl Marx earlier today, just outside the Metro
00:07:32.160 station. Nice enough fella. And yeah, we're just going to see if we can get some more,
00:07:36.960 more opinions from this neighborhood. Just asking people on the street today,
00:07:40.320 what is the most important issue in this election to you?
00:07:43.440 I think it would be like, who can kind of stand up for Canada's sovereignty.
00:07:50.080 I sort of feel bad for the parties that I like to vote for, which would be like typically the NDP.
00:07:58.480 And I will probably vote for them again because I'm in a neighborhood that's going to go liberal
00:08:04.560 anyways. I haven't really listened to a lot of Polyev's talk during the campaign, but I am curious
00:08:12.320 how he separates himself from the kind of like right wing Trump ideology. You know, I think
00:08:20.400 he's in trouble because he linked himself to that a while ago and now Canadians are really pushing back
00:08:27.840 against it and he's stuck. I think it's like part of his brand. The election debate is coming up in just
00:08:34.720 a few hours. What are the most important issues to you for this election? Well, probably like almost
00:08:41.680 every other Canadian, just to make sure that our values are preserved in this time of great uncertainty.
00:08:49.680 I'm going to watch it just to see if somebody slips, but otherwise my opinion is already made.
00:08:55.520 Your opinion is already made. You know who you're voting for.
00:08:58.480 I'm between NPD and liberal because in my conscription, NPD has a chance to get a seat
00:09:06.720 and I don't think it's going to affect the whole outcome of the thing. So I might go that way.
00:09:11.040 But if I see that things are a bit too much heated, then I'm going to go liberal.
00:09:17.760 It's been an eventful day here in Montreal. We have been walking around the neighborhood,
00:09:22.480 asking people questions, what's important to them about this election. Ironically,
00:09:26.480 most of the people that we asked happened to be journalists themselves, many of them working for
00:09:30.320 the CBC. Several others that we talked to were communists, some of them both. We are now in the
00:09:36.800 election center or the election debate center, I should say, the media center for the election.
00:09:43.440 And we are waiting for things to begin. We are going to try to ask some of our own questions of the
00:09:48.320 major party leaders. From True North, this is Alex Zoltan.