Stand on Guard with David Krayden - January 02, 2024


Universal Basic Income Would Mean Widespread Basic Poverty ｜ Stand on Guard Ep 69


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Unable to figure out what province she s from? Can she be a senator from Ontario? Or is she from the Algonquin Anishinaabek Nation? Or does she even know where she is?

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00:00:00.000 Hi, welcome back to the first episode of Stand on Guard for 2024. I'm your host, David Crayton. Happy New Year. If you didn't hear me say it a couple of days before New Year's Eve, I'm saying it again.
00:00:16.140 And I've got a really interesting topic for you today, and I bet you're going to love this. And what I'm calling this is what Justin Trudeau's political lifeline could turn out to be. So we'll be right back with that momentarily.
00:00:34.860 So we are in a very precarious position in this country. We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
00:00:46.140 We'll be right back.
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00:02:14.500 Very good year in terms of doing this broadcast and reporting the news, but a difficult year. And I've shared that with you before, but personal matters came to the fore.
00:02:26.040 But thank you so much for your comments and for all you've done to make this station successful.
00:02:33.040 I'm going to be talking about universal basic income. Now, what is that? Well, it's a guaranteed annual wage. Guaranteed by whom? Guaranteed by the government.
00:02:43.860 Now, the funny thing about this is that this only came up in December in terms of any real news analysis.
00:02:56.400 However, the real news came in October, mid-October. This is two and a half months ago now, when the Senate of Canada revealed that it had plans for a universal basic income.
00:03:11.000 I'm not going to get into my criticism of it yet, which is quite broad and quite comprehensive.
00:03:17.460 But I just want to discuss how this was unveiled. And it was unveiled at a news conference.
00:03:25.320 We're going to watch, not my God, not the whole news conference, but the most salient points at the very beginning.
00:03:32.440 And I think it'll be self-explanatory. And I'll interrupt a couple of times if you don't mind.
00:03:37.860 My name is Kim Pate. I'm a senator from here in the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabek.
00:03:43.800 I got to stop you there. I'm sorry so soon. But here's a senator who seems to be so vacuous, she's not sure what province she's representing. 0.96
00:03:54.200 I don't even know what she's talking about. Yes. Well, yes, I do.
00:03:57.340 She's talking about indigenous lands that are not on the map.
00:04:03.200 Does she not understand geography? Apparently not.
00:04:06.300 I would like to know why she can't say she's a senator from Ontario. 0.88
00:04:11.520 Is there something wrong with that? But obviously, once again, it's political correctness gone crazy.
00:04:18.280 Woke politics gone madder than it has been.
00:04:22.220 And this is a senator who is once again, and at the beginning of her presentation,
00:04:27.800 she loses my confidence because she can't even say what province she's having.
00:04:34.360 My input will be limited from this point forward.
00:04:38.300 It is my privilege, honor, and responsibility to be the sponsor of Bill S-233,
00:04:43.820 which we've just commenced study of in the Senate Standing Committee on Finance.
00:04:48.980 The bill would introduce a framework to develop a guaranteed livable basic income.
00:04:55.960 And we are very, very, very pleased to be having this press conference today
00:05:01.740 on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
00:05:06.100 Very much in the au courant right now is the fact that we are struggling throughout this country
00:05:12.460 with homelessness, food insecurity, poverty, health, mental health issues.
00:05:16.820 And this is one way that we could start to look at these issues.
00:05:20.660 It's not the only way, but it's certainly a key way.
00:05:23.640 And I am very pleased to be joined today by my colleague,
00:05:27.600 a Member of Parliament from Treaty 1 Territory, Leah Gazan,
00:05:30.980 who has introduced the very...
00:05:32.600 And once again, she can't identify where this Member of Parliament is from.
00:05:38.300 What the hell is Treaty 1 Territory?
00:05:40.860 She's from Winnipeg Centre, and that's in the province of Manitoba, Senator.
00:05:44.800 If you don't know that, maybe you should read up first before you do a news conference.
00:05:49.360 Because you're not representing Canada or Canadians 0.99
00:05:51.960 when you talk about things that are not on the map like this.
00:05:55.460 And you apparently have no cognizance of where your compatriots are from.
00:06:00.560 And the Member of Parliament, by the way, is a NDP member.
00:06:04.160 The same bill, but numbered C-223 in the House of Commons.
00:06:09.060 And I'll pass over in a moment to Ms. Gazan. 0.86
00:06:14.560 Sorry.
00:06:15.140 I'm also pleased to be joined by screen virtually by the former Premier Kathleen Wynne,
00:06:21.260 who, as many of you will know, was instrumental in introducing the idea of basic income to many people,
00:06:28.040 certainly of the most recent generations in this country when she introduced it as part of her initiative as the leadership in Ontario.
00:06:37.000 And once again, this Senator can't even identify the province that Kathleen Wynne was the Premier of.
00:06:43.900 She was the Premier of Ontario, the same province that you are from and representing, Senator,
00:06:50.480 but you can't seem to get that through your head.
00:06:53.560 But once again, Kathleen Wynne was a disaster as a Premier. 0.86
00:06:57.680 And of course, a former socialist NDPer.
00:07:01.920 Well, actually, she stayed a socialist in the Liberal Party of Ontario
00:07:05.860 and was advocating for universal basic income as Premier.
00:07:09.620 I'm also joined by Dr. Evelyn Forge, who is also from Manitoba, is an economist,
00:07:15.500 and many of you will know of her work, all kinds of work, starting on this issue, I think, with Mincome,
00:07:23.100 but she will correct me if I am incorrect, and certainly continuing on, including working on initiatives in Ontario,
00:07:30.080 as well as Prince Edward Island and other jurisdictions.
00:07:32.380 And then, last but certainly not least, is Dr. Jiaying Zhao, who's from the University of British Columbia,
00:07:39.540 and some of you will know of her work most recently in, all kinds of work,
00:07:44.580 but most recently on this issue with cash transfers to homeless people in Vancouver.
00:07:50.660 And so I want to first turn it over to Leah, and then we'll go to Premier Wynne,
00:07:56.460 and then to Dr. Forge and Dr. Zhao.
00:07:59.680 Well, thank you, Senator Pate, and it's such an honour to be here with you today.
00:08:05.560 As Senator Pate indicated, my name's Leah Gazan,
00:08:08.540 and I'm the very proud Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre,
00:08:12.720 a beautiful community, but also a community riddled with poverty,
00:08:17.440 with some of the highest child poverty rates in the country.
00:08:21.720 And I've often said that one of the most vile human rights violations is keeping people in poverty.
00:08:29.600 It is a choice.
00:08:30.960 It is a political choice to deprive individuals, including children,
00:08:36.980 with their basic human rights, including the right to live in dignity.
00:08:42.540 And it's also beholden of the governments, all levels of government, to uphold these rights.
00:08:47.940 I'm very proud to be here with Senator Pate today to speak in support of Bill S-233.
00:08:57.760 Let's just get one thing straight here.
00:09:00.360 So this Member of Parliament says it's a choice by the government.
00:09:04.560 It's a choice the government makes, and by extension, a choice that all Canadians make to keep people in poverty.
00:09:11.820 It's got nothing to do with personal decisions that people in poverty make.
00:09:15.480 Now granted, some people, yes, have had unfortunate circumstances.
00:09:19.360 But she wants us to believe that everybody who's living in poverty is there because the government and the people of Canada put them there. 0.99
00:09:27.160 This, of course, is utter rubbish.
00:09:29.040 Same bill as my bill on the House side, Bill C-223, to push for a guaranteed livable basic income. 0.92
00:09:38.320 This is something that was called for in the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Call for Justice 4.5 to provide a guaranteed livable basic income for Indigenous peoples and all other Canadians in the country.
00:09:59.760 And although our bill expands further to that, to include anyone over the age of 18 currently residing in Canada,
00:10:08.600 it's beyond time that we change income programs in this country so that they're livable and expand them out for those who are falling through the cracks,
00:10:18.320 including many individuals with complex mental health and trauma who often find themselves unhoused on the streets.
00:10:29.760 Okay, so there she is, meandering all over the political lane, really not connecting any of the dots, not making any sense,
00:10:38.700 not even building a case for this guaranteed annual income, this basic, universal basic income,
00:10:46.620 which, of course, is sheer Marxism, it's communism, let's put it in the plainest terms possible.
00:10:54.980 You can sit on your duff and do nothing, and want to do nothing, and the government will pay you to do nothing.
00:11:04.300 Now, what makes it even more absurd, if it can be, is that, as in all social programs in Canada, this will be universal.
00:11:12.840 That's why it's called universal at the very beginning, meaning everybody qualifies, everybody over the age of 18,
00:11:18.300 every adult Canadian will qualify.
00:11:21.820 So no matter how much money you're making, the government will be sending you $2,000.
00:11:26.500 How much do you think that's going to cost taxpayers?
00:11:30.260 How much?
00:11:31.180 Trillions of dollars.
00:11:33.500 It will probably double the national debt in a matter of one or two years if this program is unleashed the way it's being imagined right now.
00:11:43.180 It is absolutely insane.
00:11:45.900 Now, what is my point here in terms of what's really wrong with it?
00:11:50.580 Okay, it's inflationary spending, like the government going crazy spending again, as it did during the COVID pandemic,
00:11:59.180 and as it does constantly, as it says it's delivering for Canadians.
00:12:04.920 But think about this for a moment.
00:12:06.820 If everybody gets $2,000 from the government, then $2,000 no longer has any of the inherent worth
00:12:14.440 that it does when you generate that money through work.
00:12:21.120 It becomes worthless because it's being given to you.
00:12:26.080 And if everybody's getting it, then $2,000 is no longer worth $2,000.
00:12:31.160 It is like getting a 1924 salary in 2024.
00:12:37.880 That's how much the worth, the value of the money will go, will plummet.
00:12:43.340 Now, this is basic economics for anybody who can add two and two together.
00:12:49.020 And we really don't need any rocket science economists to tell us that magically this is going to work.
00:12:55.260 Don't worry about the inflationary spending.
00:12:57.440 Don't worry about the fact that if everybody has something, nobody really has anything special.
00:13:03.560 $2,000 won't be anything special.
00:13:05.980 It won't be enough to afford the mortgage.
00:13:10.200 Of course, you won't have a mortgage.
00:13:11.780 It won't be enough to rent an apartment.
00:13:14.900 And that is really the point of the matter here.
00:13:18.120 It is a disaster.
00:13:19.460 This is pushing Canada off the fiscal cliff into economic catastrophe. 0.99
00:13:26.340 Other countries have tried crap like this.
00:13:29.080 And it's usually just summed up as extreme socialism, Marxism, communism, where the government gives you money to do nothing. 0.95
00:13:36.920 But in Canada, yeah, you're all going to get $2,000.
00:13:40.840 That's how it's being envisioned right now.
00:13:43.100 And of course, where is this coming from?
00:13:45.860 This is how we started this discussion today.
00:13:47.980 Where is this coming?
00:13:48.640 Why is it now that we're discussing this?
00:13:52.820 And nobody even noticed.
00:13:55.440 Well, very few media outlets noticed this in October.
00:13:59.480 It was essentially a news conference.
00:14:01.300 It was unattended, unreported.
00:14:04.440 And there are very few consequences about this.
00:14:07.860 So these private members bills have continued to go through the Senate and the House of Commons, which is rather bizarre because usually one goes through the House of Commons and then goes to the Senate.
00:14:17.360 So this is all about optics, isn't it?
00:14:20.260 This is about the liberals floating a trial balloon because they're desperate.
00:14:29.140 Justin Trudeau is desperate to win the next election.
00:14:33.140 He's desperate to stay on until the next election.
00:14:36.400 There's tremendous pressure to get rid of him because his pop, his unpopularity is skyrocketing.
00:14:44.040 And I mean, all we have to do here.
00:14:46.140 Have a look at the polls here.
00:14:50.760 This is just about two weeks ago.
00:14:54.180 And once again, the Conservative Party of Canada is in not just majority territory.
00:15:00.080 That's anything above 35 percent in Canada generally.
00:15:03.040 They're in supermajority territory.
00:15:04.900 And they're continuing to solidify that electoral base.
00:15:12.620 Now, even more interesting in all this is the fact that they're fundraising.
00:15:20.800 They're more than double the liberals in the third quarter.
00:15:24.720 The Liberal Party fundraising is cratering.
00:15:26.920 Now, that's bad news, not just for a party that wants to win re-election, but even wants to run in the next election.
00:15:35.660 Because the way fundraising is established now for political parties is largely based on single donors, not on huge corporate donations anymore.
00:15:44.420 So if they can't attract single donors, if they can't generate enough excitement for people to donate money, they're going to be in a very difficult position for the next federal election.
00:15:57.260 And one that's basically unwinnable.
00:16:01.560 So I think it's very important to realize it.
00:16:04.540 So why is Justin Trudeau reaching for this lifeline, as I call it?
00:16:10.120 Because he is in deep problems with so many issues.
00:16:18.640 He's married to a carbon tax that Canadians increasingly despise.
00:16:25.260 I think the Conservative Party and its leader, Pierre Pauly, have been very effective in demonstrating how the carbon tax is strangling the economic life out of Canadians.
00:16:37.880 And specifically farmers, they did that very effectively throughout the question period in December, highlighting how farmers are paying exorbitant fees, exorbitant taxes because of the carbon footprint.
00:16:56.480 And they're very effective in doing this.
00:16:59.480 And they've been able to show the Trudeau government is completely vanquished.
00:17:06.080 It's empty.
00:17:07.320 There's nothing there.
00:17:08.900 Every query, every question, every challenge to this Trudeau government inevitably goes back to the so-called challenge of climate change, which they call an existential threat, ludicrously.
00:17:25.620 Or it goes back to this glorious war in Ukraine that Canadians must continue to support and contribute billions of dollars to.
00:17:34.360 Every question goes back to those two factors, because the Liberals have no answers.
00:17:39.480 All I can say, and Justin Trudeau said this repeatedly during end-of-year interviews, is that they're delivering for Canadians.
00:17:45.700 What does that mean?
00:17:46.880 Delivering can mean anything.
00:17:48.140 And in the mouth of Justin Trudeau, it usually realistically means bad things.
00:17:56.420 What is Justin Trudeau delivering for you?
00:17:59.600 High mortgage rates, inflationary spending, impoverishment, higher taxes, euthanasia.
00:18:06.380 The list goes on and on and on.
00:18:08.880 And of course, lots of censorship, too.
00:18:11.160 That's been a pinnacle of his policy over the last three years, especially.
00:18:17.720 And that is what Justin Trudeau is delivering for you and I.
00:18:23.860 So he's grabbing on to this.
00:18:26.380 He's grabbing on to this idea that I can bribe Canadians with this guaranteed annual income, with this universal basic income idea.
00:18:38.240 I'm going to bribe them.
00:18:39.920 It worked with pot.
00:18:41.840 I legalized marijuana, he says.
00:18:44.760 And people thought I was just such a great guy trying to bring peace and joy to the nation.
00:18:52.120 And it really hasn't turned out to be a panacea for any of societal ills, has it?
00:18:57.640 In fact, all it's done is made marijuana more expensive for people to use it.
00:19:02.120 So Justin Trudeau is desperate right now to find something he can win on.
00:19:06.660 He said he's going to double down on his policy.
00:19:09.120 So how is he going to win the next election?
00:19:11.020 He thinks he can bribe you in the voting forum.
00:19:13.940 $2,000 a month, that should be enough to win Canadians over.
00:19:17.640 That should be enough to bribe.
00:19:18.840 He's that crass a politician. 0.99
00:19:21.940 He's that much of a political clown. 0.99
00:19:24.380 He's an actor playing prime minister. 0.99
00:19:27.200 And he figures, hey, this would be great for the next act.
00:19:31.340 Offer some free cash.
00:19:33.080 But think about this.
00:19:35.440 Think about how well your free Medicare works in this country.
00:19:39.680 You're diagnosed with cancer.
00:19:41.340 You better go to the states for treatment or for an operation,
00:19:44.740 because you'll probably die in Canada by the time they get around to operating on you.
00:19:50.840 You need emergency heart surgery once again.
00:19:55.020 Better go south of the border,
00:19:56.540 because by the time they get to you in Canada's health care system,
00:20:00.520 you'll be dead. 0.92
00:20:02.500 Over 65,000 Canadians leave Canada every year to seek medical attention, 0.95
00:20:08.260 from the smallest procedures to the most important every year.
00:20:13.200 Usually they go to the United States.
00:20:16.500 The average family pays over $12,000.
00:20:20.720 It's probably over $15,000 since the Fraser Institute did their last study.
00:20:26.540 $12,000 to $15,000 per family to pay for your free Medicare.
00:20:34.060 And that's paid in taxes every year.
00:20:36.700 So what makes you think it's going to be better
00:20:38.860 if the government gives you a free $2,000 paycheck?
00:20:43.760 You think it's going to work for you?
00:20:45.680 You think it's going to make the cost of living any less?
00:20:47.960 It's going to drive the cost of living so high that that $2,000
00:20:51.160 is not going to be worth very much after all is said and done.
00:20:56.540 Now, I think the Conservative Party needs to latch on to this and say,
00:21:01.600 it's another example,
00:21:03.400 not of how generous the Liberal Party is
00:21:06.200 and how wonderful Justin Trudeau is.
00:21:08.660 It's another example of how he wants the government
00:21:10.880 to be in your lives, controlling you.
00:21:13.320 There's a high price to pay for that $2,000,
00:21:15.500 not just in an increased cost of living
00:21:18.140 and real impoverishment and a devalued Canadian dollar.
00:21:25.000 But you're going to continue to lose your basic freedoms in this country
00:21:29.500 as he tries to buy you off.
00:21:31.900 So the Conservative Party needs to latch on to the opposition to this
00:21:36.420 and say,
00:21:36.880 we need the government to get out of our lives,
00:21:39.420 not to continue to spend money on us,
00:21:41.480 not to continue to deliver their services,
00:21:45.700 which ultimately do nothing but enslave us
00:21:48.820 and cost more money.
00:21:52.820 And I'm very concerned that the deputy leader
00:21:56.120 of the Conservative Party,
00:21:57.400 Melissa Lantzman,
00:21:59.600 who I recently criticized over her incredibly 1.00
00:22:03.700 euphoric defense of Ukraine
00:22:08.160 and her insistence that the Conservative Party
00:22:11.780 and a Conservative government
00:22:13.040 would do even more for Ukraine
00:22:16.860 in terms of spending our money
00:22:19.280 on this lost cause.
00:22:22.300 But before she became a member of Parliament
00:22:24.840 and she was a staffer 0.98
00:22:27.560 in the Ontario government of Doug Ford,
00:22:31.300 she talked very favorably
00:22:33.660 about universal income.
00:22:39.940 Let's listen to this.
00:22:40.720 Some political parties now saying, Melissa,
00:22:42.460 that they want to have this as a steady thing,
00:22:44.960 the minimum income.
00:22:46.120 Well, you know what?
00:22:46.940 I actually do somewhat agree with that.
00:22:49.900 And there's a Conservative position on this.
00:22:52.060 The universal income benefit,
00:22:53.740 the thing that you're talking about
00:22:54.960 where you're giving people a living wage,
00:22:57.080 that's going to come.
00:22:58.960 And it could be that by a different name.
00:23:00.920 Doesn't sound very Conservative to me, Melissa.
00:23:02.760 I actually think Conservatives can own this
00:23:04.220 because you know what it does do?
00:23:05.680 It does take government out of the mix
00:23:08.400 of a bunch of means-tested programs
00:23:11.020 thrown out of Ottawa by a bunch of bureaucrats
00:23:14.680 and gives everybody that thing that they need
00:23:18.260 to get back to work.
00:23:19.500 And we put that onto people
00:23:22.820 and we believe in them
00:23:24.660 and we try to get them out of poverty.
00:23:26.740 How are future governments going to pay for that?
00:23:29.420 Well, I think that any government
00:23:32.460 that wants to bring this forward
00:23:34.060 is a government that's going to need
00:23:35.600 a mandate from the people
00:23:36.560 because I don't think the Liberals
00:23:37.780 have the mandate to do that in Ottawa right now.
00:23:40.120 I don't think that any party necessarily
00:23:42.440 has a mandate to spend into the future
00:23:45.040 the way that they've been spending
00:23:46.180 during this pandemic.
00:23:46.960 All right, there's Melissa Lansman
00:23:49.960 from 2023 on the cusp of the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:23:54.560 Incredibly inarticulate speaker.
00:23:57.840 Incredibly unable to establish
00:24:00.560 a very basic point here
00:24:02.180 about why this is a good idea.
00:24:04.040 And it's completely inaccurate
00:24:05.840 about this somehow replacing
00:24:07.420 all of the other social programs.
00:24:09.860 How in the hell would she know that?
00:24:12.720 How can she make that comment, 0.52
00:24:14.300 that assumption based on what?
00:24:18.520 There's been no intensive research
00:24:21.160 into how this would be implemented.
00:24:23.640 You really think we add
00:24:25.020 one more government program,
00:24:26.400 it's going to mean we're going to
00:24:27.440 subtract other government programs
00:24:31.120 in the process?
00:24:32.140 No, never happens.
00:24:33.560 Certainly not in Canada.
00:24:35.100 It's just going to enlarge the state
00:24:36.780 as it engorges on our money.
00:24:41.780 And it gets bigger and bigger.
00:24:44.660 So this is very important
00:24:46.660 to realize this,
00:24:48.160 that the conservative party
00:24:50.160 needs to say no
00:24:52.120 to universal basic income
00:24:53.660 and to say yes to freedom.
00:24:55.500 Because I believe Pierre Paliyev
00:24:57.280 really struck a chord
00:24:59.380 in his year-end interview
00:25:00.960 with Rex Murphy,
00:25:02.440 where he said he believes
00:25:04.540 in a mind-your-own-business party.
00:25:06.700 Not just a party,
00:25:08.120 not just a government
00:25:08.960 that stays out of your personal life,
00:25:11.940 that doesn't tell you
00:25:13.380 what to believe,
00:25:14.440 that doesn't tell you
00:25:15.200 what religion to adopt,
00:25:16.620 that doesn't tell you
00:25:17.360 what philosophy
00:25:18.120 you should believe in,
00:25:20.920 but also a government
00:25:22.200 that does not insist
00:25:23.780 upon buying you
00:25:27.020 or owning you
00:25:28.280 with your own taxpayer dollars.
00:25:30.500 And that, I think,
00:25:32.420 is what Pierre Paliyev
00:25:33.540 is doing so effectively right now.
00:25:37.040 He needs to keep that up
00:25:38.560 and he needs to absolutely condemn
00:25:40.620 universal basic income
00:25:42.460 as not just something
00:25:43.980 that's anti-large-C conservatives,
00:25:47.820 but goes against
00:25:49.140 small-C conservatives,
00:25:51.200 libertarians,
00:25:52.200 and even some liberals,
00:25:53.860 believe it or not,
00:25:55.280 who don't want the state
00:25:56.520 getting that close,
00:25:58.340 who don't want the state
00:25:59.380 encroaching that much more
00:26:00.800 on the economy.
00:26:02.020 And I think he needs
00:26:03.140 to enunciate those values
00:26:05.320 as clearly as he's been doing
00:26:07.540 in end-of-the-year interviews,
00:26:09.460 and he needs to continue with that
00:26:11.180 and reject
00:26:12.260 what Melissa Lansman said here.
00:26:16.240 The conservatives
00:26:16.640 don't want to own this.
00:26:17.660 They want to own freedom.
00:26:19.400 Ronald Reagan in 1981
00:26:20.960 said,
00:26:22.900 government is the problem.
00:26:25.460 Government is not the solution.
00:26:27.640 Government is the problem.
00:26:29.000 The Trudeau government
00:26:31.220 is the problem.
00:26:33.220 Adding more government programs,
00:26:35.280 adding more taxation,
00:26:37.440 adding more government spending
00:26:39.120 is not a solution.
00:26:41.600 It's more of the problem.
00:26:44.480 And Pierre Pauly
00:26:45.160 and the conservatives
00:26:45.760 need to preach
00:26:46.640 and teach
00:26:48.000 individual liberty
00:26:50.740 versus collectivism
00:26:52.460 and to stand tall
00:26:54.140 on freedom in this country.
00:26:56.100 Because if we don't stand tall
00:26:57.460 and freedom,
00:26:58.620 we are going to fall
00:27:00.400 for every liberal policy
00:27:02.680 that comes our way
00:27:03.580 and that increasingly
00:27:04.820 takes away our ability
00:27:06.140 to be free people.
00:27:08.340 And Canada needs to stand tall
00:27:10.460 and continue to say,
00:27:12.180 and government is the enemy,
00:27:14.020 and that government is best
00:27:15.760 which governs least.
00:27:17.100 So that's how we're starting
00:27:19.980 the year.
00:27:20.580 I told you 2024
00:27:21.580 is going to be
00:27:23.120 a huge juncture
00:27:24.720 in Canadian
00:27:25.500 and world history.
00:27:26.920 And it will be.
00:27:28.180 We have a decision
00:27:29.420 to make this year
00:27:30.440 between individual liberty
00:27:32.580 and collectivism,
00:27:34.100 between freedom
00:27:35.440 and serfdom. 0.99
00:27:37.040 And we have to continue
00:27:38.400 to resolve
00:27:39.180 to resist
00:27:39.800 the overreach
00:27:40.980 of government
00:27:41.540 in our lives,
00:27:42.860 be it
00:27:43.380 through censorship
00:27:44.760 or be it
00:27:46.160 through taxation
00:27:47.520 or be it
00:27:48.980 through government spending
00:27:50.240 that will just
00:27:51.540 make us poorer
00:27:52.440 in the end.
00:27:53.980 That's the decision
00:27:55.060 we have to make.
00:27:55.840 We have to fight back
00:27:57.040 on the Trudeau government's
00:27:59.240 plans
00:27:59.620 to further enslave us
00:28:01.080 and to further tax us
00:28:03.080 and to further make
00:28:04.620 this country
00:28:05.200 and ourselves poorer.
00:28:06.660 So let's fight
00:28:07.900 universal basic income
00:28:10.040 and let's get together
00:28:11.740 and applaud
00:28:13.500 any initiative
00:28:14.660 that says
00:28:17.100 I'm a free Canadian
00:28:18.580 and I don't need
00:28:20.640 the Trudeau government
00:28:21.980 to deliver
00:28:22.860 any more programs
00:28:24.220 to me.
00:28:25.480 Get out of my life.
00:28:27.760 Mind your own business
00:28:28.940 because I
00:28:30.500 want to control
00:28:31.840 my destiny.
00:28:33.300 I don't want the government
00:28:34.040 doing that for me.
00:28:36.080 Thanks for watching today
00:28:37.580 and we'll be back again
00:28:39.780 in a day or so
00:28:40.980 with another episode
00:28:41.980 of Stand on Guard.
00:28:43.980 I'm your host
00:28:44.640 David Creighton.