00:37:25.760We're going to have to put up with this for like eight months?
00:37:29.760My lord, I can't even imagine how crazy this is going to be.
00:37:36.560But this is supposed to, according to the party president, the leadership race is an exciting opportunity for our members and for people across the country who share progressive values.
00:37:47.120It will spark important conversations about the kind of future we want to build together rooted in fairness, fairness, justice, and hope.
00:37:54.400I hope, or I know our members are eager to take part in a contest that is democratic, inclusive, I guess, while excluding people, and inspiring for the entire movement.
00:38:06.600What, uh, this, uh, will there be an NDP party left after this?
00:38:15.860Well, here's how, I love that stipulation that you can't have more than 50% cisgendered men.
00:38:22.560Because it demonstrates that they're just how anti-men they are.
00:38:26.340Because they could have just said, you at least need 50% people who identify as women.
00:38:30.600They had to say, you cannot be, you cannot have more than 50% cisgendered men.
00:38:35.140And if you know anything about the NDP, goodness, they do not have a problem with too many men involved in their party activities.
00:38:42.160It's actually a very, uh, female party.
00:38:44.960It's a party of, you know, of nurses and teachers and young progressive activists.
00:38:51.660Effeminate weirdo men and Charlie Angus.
00:38:54.720Yeah, and you have, and you have, like, uh, Yves Angle, Anglers or whatever, who comes off like, like, if, you know, if Pol Pot was also a Nazi or something like that.
00:39:20.160But the party rules about this leadership are actually even worse than what I just said there.
00:39:25.060It said the rules indicate that at least 50% of the total required signatures must be from NDP members who do not identify as cisgender men.
00:39:34.900Meaning a male whose reported gender corresponds to their reported sex at birth.
00:39:42.740The party also requires a minimum of 100 signatures to be from, oh my goodness.
00:39:49.000This is a phrase I would never actually say in real life unless it were written in front of me for me to say.
00:39:53.760Equity-seeking groups such as racialized members, indigenous members, members of the LGBTQ plus community, and persons living with disabilities.
00:40:07.340I have a disability after reading that.
00:43:02.720I'm going back to the rules for a second.
00:43:04.240It just bothers me from like, if you put me in charge of the NDP and you're telling me, okay, Wyatt, how can we get as many seats as possible?
00:43:12.700And I'm like, how about don't restrict how many people you can sign up for the NDP?
00:43:18.180Because what they're effectively saying is that if you happen to be mining a vein as an NDP leadership candidate, and you just happen to be really connecting with blue-collar men in a very effective way, they're saying, stop.
00:43:30.880You now have to go work even harder to sign up an equivalent amount of women so that your men aren't 50%.
00:43:35.800Look, why not have a candidate who has, you know, 70% of his signups are men because he's a union teamster's head or something like that.
00:43:44.860And then you have someone else who's just the wacko progressive from a college town who's running, you know, or someone who thinks they're in Gaza at all times, like Heather McPherson.
00:43:55.360You know, that person can go sign up all of the women and people from the long acronym community.
00:44:04.000But the thing is, here's what Jack Layton understood.
00:44:06.860In 2004, when Paul Martin was in government, the party that was holding them up was the bloc and the NDP, and the NDP tended to be the more reliable partner.
00:44:16.860But when Jack Layton smelled blood in the water, he pulled the plug on the government, and because he could expand the power of his party.
00:44:23.040What Jagmeet Singh did not understand as leader, and what it seems like the current NDP leadership still do not understand, is that your job when running a party is to get as much power for your party, regardless of whatever else happens.
00:44:35.540You are supposed to get more seats, and what Jagmeet Singh did, and of course I'd rather the conservatives be in government right now, but even if I'm an NDP person, I would tell them, who cares if the conservatives get into government?
00:45:08.500The more I talk about Rachel Notley leading the federal NDP, the less likely she is to do it, just to spite me.
00:45:14.340And, you know, we saw with the results of the federal election in Windsor that the NDP have completely abandoned the lunch, the unionized lunch bucket crowd.
00:45:25.960Like, they've just in favor of the gender wang, pro-Hamas, Eve Engler's, Heather McPherson's of the world.
00:45:33.760Um, let's move ahead just for, I'm going to be a little bit out of order, Olivia, but let's go into this Black Locks piece because we talked about just now the unionized lunch bucket crowd and, uh, you know, they have left the NDP.
00:45:50.620And if you would listen to Chrystia Freeland, they ran into her loving bosom because she says that steelworkers are actually personally, personally, very special to her.
00:46:04.440Um, she told the transport committee, um, and yet she made no mention of unemploying Canadian steelworkers by giving those steel contracts to, uh, Chinese steelworkers.
00:46:20.480Building ferries for BC ferries in a loan that is backstopped by the feds and also, um, the, uh, Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola.
00:46:32.340She said steel and aluminum, they're foundational to Canada, steel and aluminum.
00:46:36.420And the people who produce steel and aluminum in Canada are actually personally very special to me.
00:46:44.160Steel and aluminum are foundational to Canada.
00:46:47.840Steel and aluminum and the people who produce steel and aluminum and steel and aluminum in Canada are actually personally very special to me.
00:46:59.460My bonding moment was during the first North American free trade agreement and negotiation.
00:47:05.960Steel is about jobs and the people who make the steel.
00:47:10.280You mean the people whose job it is to make the steel?
00:47:12.440Honestly, she's just like filler words.
00:47:14.500It's like listening to Kamala Harris talk where it's 90 seconds later and you're like, what did you say?
00:47:22.120Um, great, great Kamala Harris moment would be something like, don't, isn't there nothing better on God's green earth than a steel girder?
00:47:30.620Don't you go to school or you go, you drive to work and you see a steel girder and it makes you think of America.
00:47:37.960Like, but no doubt though, if I'm looking for Christy Freeland, I first check a steel workers union convention or the boiler maker and pipe fitters.
00:51:00.840So, so you didn't just get passed over.
00:51:04.100Mark Carney says, I hate looking at your face so much.
00:51:07.300I want the most incompetent person instead of you.
00:51:10.280But the thing is that like Justin Trudeau, really what it is, is that the cabinet becomes a friends club that Carney likes talking with his friends and he likes hanging out with people.
00:51:21.460He doesn't actually have business prowess.
00:51:22.960I'm not sure if you guys ended up covering this a week ago, but the green banking lines, the net zero banking lines completely collapsed that Carney put together.
00:51:31.560Because so much of his business acumen has to do with mining subsidies.
00:51:36.900And as soon as Trump was reelected, it fell apart because there's no more free subsidies for battery plants and solar and wind and EV manufacturers.
00:51:45.360And that's, that's the, that's like a good, like majority of the Brookfield assets.
00:51:53.580It's just green stuff that relies on government prop-ups.
00:51:56.780I'm so, I'm so happy you brought up Brookfield, Wyatt, because what I see happening here is Mark Carney installing yes-men into these positions.
00:52:05.660Like whoever the outgoing people are in those ambassadorial, ambassadorial roles, aren't doing what Mark Carney needs them to do on behalf of Brookfield.
00:52:16.660So what he's doing is he's going to install friendly people who are going to toe the line for him.
00:52:22.700And so all of this is just very, very interesting, but it's not without cost to the Canadian taxpayer.
00:52:29.220This is taking the Ralph Goodale track, who's now the high commissioner to the United Kingdom.
00:52:35.020He was a liberal insider for 100 million painful years in Saskatchewan and just managed to fail up and up and up.
00:52:44.020We all see what's happening in the UK.
00:52:46.320We all see what's happening in the UK.
00:52:48.020And Mark Carney has his guy there representing the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:53:13.860Um, but speaking, I just, I know this isn't on the list of things, but Olivia, I put it in the chat, um, just moreover to the point about appointing people to things because they are Brookfield friendly.
00:53:28.220So if you, uh, follow the old progressive conservatives in Alberta of your, the Jim, Jim Denning types, um, and all the, uh, NDP staffers who are gone into other things and the liberals, you would think that this selection of Don Farrell is the best thing ever.
00:53:49.180So she, uh, she is the former head of Trans Mountain, but if you are from Alberta, you know more about Don Farrell, maybe, hopefully, maybe I'm just in the weeds on this stuff, but Don Farrell, um, she's been selected to head the, whatever they call it, the major projects office.
00:54:09.380And that's the, uh, creation under C5, uh, and that, so they're going to, she's going to be the one picking the projects in the national interest, uh, on behalf of Mark Carney.
00:54:22.820And this is, this is why I think it's going to become Green Slush Fund 2.0.
00:55:05.240Then she goes on to Trans Mountain, uh, because she did exactly what the liberals and the NDP wanted her to do with the energies, with the electricity sector.
00:55:14.660She goes over to Trans Mountain, Trans Mountain, 5 billion-ish, 7 billion-ish, uh, 7 billion-ish.