A victory for freedom!
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In this episode, we talk about the Nova Scotia Forest Ban, and the victory for freedom of speech by the Alberta government in allowing a Christian singer and prayer leader to perform in the Alberta capital, Edmonton, Alberta.
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Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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We have a great episode for you today, and today's episode is brought to you by Rocklink,
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So we're going to talk about the Nova Scotia forest ban.
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We're going to talk about the insane, preemptive, soft authoritarianism and government overreach.
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But first, I want to report about a little victory here at Juno News.
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We do have plenty of those, but this is a victory, a small triumph for all Canadians,
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and a testament to the value of independent media and the cause of freedom in Canada,
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not just Juno News, but other independent outlets like the rebel media.
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Okay, so two weeks ago, we reported on a CBC smear campaign against a Christian singer
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The CBC teamed up with a liberal MP to smear him, to demonize him,
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and to pretend that somehow he was a threat to our country.
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Now, as I mentioned on the show, the CBC wrote dozens of articles.
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They wrote dozens of articles smearing him, labeling him MAGA.
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MAGA appears in almost every headline that the CBC wrote about Sean Foyt.
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They're trying to scare people into thinking that he's some kind of a political activist,
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or that he's trying to push a MAGA agenda onto Canada.
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Sean Foyt is a Christian singer and prayer leader.
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He tours Canada every single summer, and he's simply trying to inspire Canadians
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Now, that shouldn't be controversial in a Christian country like Canada.
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and our country was founded on Christian morals and Christian ideals.
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But to the CBC, that is something to be scared of.
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And so they successfully disrupted many of Sean Foyt's appearances and services
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Folks, that is the power of propaganda that the CBC has
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to capture audiences in that part of the country.
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But things are a little bit different out West.
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And Sean Foyt has been given the green light for a concert service in Edmonton,
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thanks to the UCB government and Premier Daniel Smith.
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I'm going to read a little bit from this Juno News article written by Cosmin Georgia,
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breaking Alberta government defies anti-Christian censors
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The government has greenlit a major worship event featuring American Christian rock musician
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Sean Foyt on the Legislative Assembly on Alberta grounds in Edmonton.
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and we were worried that Sean Foyt was going to Alberta
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and that the government was going to cave to the same forces
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and the same hysteria led, again, by CBC and liberal activism.
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But good for the UCP, good for Albertans for standing up for freedom of religion
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You should not censor someone just because you don't like them.
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and Canadians still have the right to their access of prayer services and religious worship.
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So, again, that is a small victory for all Canadians.
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Okay, let's talk about these insane forest bans that are happening in our country, folks.
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So you probably saw the news last week that Nova Scotia has banned hiking in private woods.
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You are not allowed to go into the woods in Nova Scotia right now
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So I'm going to read a little bit from the Juneau News report on this.
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Nova Scotians have been ordered to stay out of the woods in the forest.
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Folks, 75% of the province is made up of forest, but you cannot go into the forest
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Simply stepping into the woods, even on private land,
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is now banned by the provincial government with similar penalties to breaching a fire ban.
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The announcement came from Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston
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concerned activities deemed not necessary, including hiking, camping, fishing, off-road vehicles
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during this dry spell with conditions that could spark a potential
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So this is the announcement made by Premier Tim Houston of Nova Scotia.
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And during the recent federal election, he was openly campaigning for himself
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instead of supporting Pierre Polyev, who was a conservative leader running in the election.
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This guy has serious leadership ambitions, even meaning undermining the leader of his own party,
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And now he's out there telling everybody to get inside and that it's not necessary for you
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to go hiking or camping or fishing in a Canadian summer.
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We're telling Nova Scotians, stay out of the woods.
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We are restricting travel and activities that really aren't necessary for most of us.
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Hiking, camping, fishing, and the use of vehicles in the woods are not permitted.
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But trail systems through woods are off limits.
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Camping is allowed, but only in official campgrounds.
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The fine for violating any of these bans is the same as the fine for the ban on burning $25,000.
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It is our God-given birthright that we have certain inalienable freedoms.
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If we have freedom of movement in Canada, it's guaranteed in our charter.
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And besides the charter, it is just a basic right that you could go outside.
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We only have a few short months to enjoy the sunshine and the warmth in Canada.
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And for a premier to preemptively say that you can't go outside, this ban, by the way,
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We're talking about weeks upon weeks, months upon months of not being able to go outside
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I mean, to my ears, this is pure authoritarianism.
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It is unbelievable for a conservative premier to tell you that it's not necessary for you
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Nova Scotia's Department of Natural Resources wrote this on X.
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If you see something that looks like a violation of the burn ban or wood restrictions,
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Please remember that some people will have travel permits to go into the woods primarily
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I understand that there are concerns of forest fires and that you shouldn't be able to set
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fires and have bonfires and all those kind of things.
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Even an ATV ban because, you know, there could be a spark, there could be a motor here.
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And I understand it's quite dry in Nova Scotia right now.
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But the idea that you can't even go for a walk in nature in Canada is patently absurd
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And yet, instead, what we hear, even from the conservative side, is a lot of people making
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excuses and saying, actually, it is correct for the government to ban all people from
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And so here, I'm talking about former conservative strategist turned CBC pundit, Fred Delore.
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I believe he used to be head of the conservative party.
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As a woodlot owner in Nova Scotia, I can tell you firsthand, the forest floor is like
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You can feel the heat rising from it, just waiting for a spark.
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Our province's small communities are tightly woven into the woods.
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One fire doesn't just burn trees, it can burn roads, wipe out homes, and trap people fast.
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We don't have a buffer zone or fire breaks that larger provinces do.
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A short-term ban on recreational access is inconvenient, for sure.
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One careless step could cost millions and devastate lives.
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I do understand that there is concern, which is why you need proper forest management.
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And I would even understand if the government said, look, this one area is problematic,
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But a blanket ban across an entire province, just in case, is patently absurd.
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Okay, next, we have Globe and Mail contributor Stephen Mayer.
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He criticized National Post journalists and many others on social media for even questioning
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How dare you question this wise authoritarian move, says Steve.
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They smell like they are about to burst into flames.
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That is what he said in response to journalist Michael Tobe, who just basically said that this
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is all very excessive, which, of course, it is.
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I'm going to read a little bit from his Twitter thread.
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He says, because the Nova Scotia government has closed the woods, I went for a run by the
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side of the road, said along a trail I usually use.
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It's dumb, obviously, since I would not start a fire by running on a trail, but c'est la vie.
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He says then, the woods are dry, are tinder dry.
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I think the province is right to have ordered the woods closed.
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Most people won't be out there doing irresponsible things like smoking in the woods or starting
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They know that it is dangerous and most people have common sense.
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But instead of trusting people, instead of saying, follow these guidelines, follow these
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rules, no, we have to resort to a blanket rule and then a blanket ban.
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And then you have useful idiots like these saying you have to ban it all.
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Stephen Moore goes on to say, there's a lively debate on this website, talking about X, with
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libertarian minded people from points west, blaming Tim Houston for overreach.
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But I suspect Nova Scotians support the measure.
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Nova Scotians locked down hard and early during the pandemic.
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It looks like the death rate was actually lower than normal.
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And he wrote, some people are having emotional reactions to the forest, Nova Scotia forestry
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Yeah, because in a free society like Canada, you shouldn't just be able to lock it all
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And he even mentions that during COVID, they were somewhat successful because they locked
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We've normalized this idea that the government can just order everybody to stay inside and
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So on Saturday afternoon, we got the announcement from Nova Scotia premier that they will also
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And basically just making kind of the same argument, except for, listen to this folks, because
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speaking at a press conference, New Brunswick premier Susan Holt said that the hiking ban
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isn't actually about preventing fires in New Brunswick, but preventing possible injuries.
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Me going for a walk in the woods is going to cause a fire.
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I can understand why people think that that's ridiculous.
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But the reality is it's not that you might cause a fire.
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It's that if you're out there walking in the woods and you break your leg, we're not going
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to come and get you because we have emergency responders that are out focused on a fire that
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is threatening the lives of New Brunswickers.
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And if you take your boat out fishing in a pond in Crown Land and you capsize, we're not
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going to be able to come and help you out because our first responders are focused on an
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So it's not even that they don't trust you not to start a fire, but that they can't
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get to you to save you because they're so busy.
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So now, folks, we have politicians justifying lockdowns because they're overworked.
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And so they just can't, they just can't help you if you get hurt.
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You're just not allowed outside in Canada because you might get hurt and our first responders
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And Canadians deserve to be mocked rightily.
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I want to point to a social media post by Shopify CEO, Toby Lutke, mocking government
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He writes, true north, strong and free with a little Canadian maple leaf.
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Little asterix there, except you're not allowed to go in the woods.
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It is so absurd that we have this entire elbows up movement that we, people on the political
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left, liberals, CDC crowd love to talk about waving the Canadian flag, love to talk about
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elbows up, love to champion the charter of rights and freedom, except for then they can
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also sit there and ban you from going in the woods, not because you could start a fire in
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a very dry season, but because you could fall and get hurt and that you might have to wait
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Or heaven forbid, you might have to get help from someone in your own community.
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You might have to make a phone call and get someone in your family or someone else to
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We're just going to ban everybody from going in the woods.
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CTV contributor, Sharon Khan, mocked Toby Lutke of Shopify for opposing the force ban.
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Being Canadian isn't about whining that you can't stroll in the woods during a fire ban.
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It's about knowing when to shut it down for the greater good.
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The real danger is leaders like Toby who worship freedom at all costs, even if it means watching
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We have a map of Nova Scotia so that viewers can see the actual forest fires that are happening
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And there are currently two active forest fires.
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There are two small and contained forest fires, as you can see.
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No, there aren't massive wildfire raging across the province right now, just like what we saw
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in France earlier this summer, what we've seen in California or Hawaii over recent years,
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And yes, in large part, that was because they didn't evacuate fast enough.
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This isn't, we're not talking about evacuating from a live fire here, right?
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We're talking about banning people from staying inside lest they start a fire or even lest they
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So just totally over the top from the legacy media and social media commentators.
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I have one more, Laura Babcock, who is just like your traditional, typical CBC lib, Trudeau
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People who are complaining that they can't go into the woods during fire season remind
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me of the same people who were complaining they couldn't go to parties during the pandemic.
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Selfish and small-minded, they never care about the greater good.
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No, you can't live in freedom, even though it's your birthright in Canada, because we've
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just decided that for the greater good, you just can't do that anymore.
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We're just going to take away your rights for the greater good and you go along with
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And if you don't, we will ridicule you and call you out.
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And yes, we have already had our first fine handed out from the Nova Scotia government.
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So this isn't just a scare tactic, they're actually out there handing out these fines.
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A veteran has been fined $28,000 for the crime of walking in the woods in Canada.
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In a video shared on X, retired Canadian veteran Jeff Evely walked into the woods and
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opened the fines of Nova Scotia's ban moments before being fined nearly $29,000 by provincial
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There are environmental officers out there patrolling the forest, monitoring them, making
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And if you do, you will get punished with the full extent of a fine handed out by the
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This is a longer clip, but I'm going to play it 65 seconds so that you can see the absolute
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This is the DNR office on Mountain Road in Coxete, Nova Scotia.
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And this is not the woods, but back here, this is the woods.
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I have a couple of conservation officers with me right now who are not on camera, but have
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advised me that if I go into the woods, if I defy their orders to go into the woods, then
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And they also said that they would double my fine to $50,000.
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I don't know that there's a good spot to do this, but I'm just going to make this as painless
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as I can for those guys and go in here and they have me on camera.
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I have a ticket here for, let's see if you can see that, $28,870.50 for victimizing somebody.
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So in a country where thieves break into homes, break into cars, where you have heinous crimes
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happening almost every day, judges giving shortened sentences for immigrants so lest
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they don't get deported, here we have a veteran in defiance of the law, doing it intentionally
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just to basically see if they're being sincere with these fines.
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Not only do you have to pay the $25,000 fine, you also have to pay taxes on that fine and
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something called a victim fee, which I have no idea what that is about.
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But this is absurd, folks, and I'm proud to report, happy to report that the Canadian
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Centre for Constitutional Freedoms will be working with Jeff Evely to challenge this
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OK, I want to share some of my thoughts as to why I think that this is such a big deal.
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So as usual, as typical, the CBC lib crowd are intentionally misreading the negative reaction,
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They're pretending that people who are criticizing this are just libertarians, they're Westerners,
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they don't understand Nova Scotia, they don't understand the threat that is happening,
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maybe they don't understand the collectivism of a place like Nova Scotia.
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And really, this is just about the government acting in the greater good.
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Now, let me just tell you, if this was actually the government acting in the greater good, if
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there was a clear and imminent danger, an evacuation order would be necessary, it would be reasonable,
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and no one would be questioning it, right? If folks from Los Angeles or Maui or even the town
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of Jasper had been evacuated, people wouldn't question that, right? For their safety, that is
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what the greater good is for, that is what a responsible government would do. If there's
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eminent danger, evacuate. Nobody would question that. In fact, they would applaud it. It happens
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all the time during floods, during hurricanes and other natural disasters, including forest fires.
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But what we oppose is governments ordering people to stop healthy outdoor activities just in case,
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and a permanent ban, an indefinite ban until the end of summer, until it starts snowing,
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basically. A government saying that you can just shelter in place, we now have that power to force
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you inside. During the dark ages of COVID, the government created this power. Well, they didn't
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actually create it, they borrowed it from communist China. This is a power that the communists use in
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places like China. They can just ban you from going outside and order you to shelter in place.
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And folks have no choice but to go along with that. But that is not a welcome public policy development
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in a free and democratic society. Governments should not have this power. Now, let me just tell you,
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folks, we should have fought harder against these restrictions during COVID. Yes, in the very early
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days, we were all concerned. We didn't know what was going to happen. And so maybe we could be forgiven
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for going along with it for the first two weeks. Remember that two weeks to flatten the curve?
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But the extended, over and over, overly used orders to stay inside, to remain indoors, to shelter in
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place, to work from home, etc, etc, should have never been allowed in the first place. Thankfully,
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we finally did have an uprising against it was called the Trekker Convoy. We all know how that ended
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with government propaganda units and former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, absolutely inexplicably
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demonizing these people in horrendous ways. Don't get me started on that. But we should have not allowed
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to do it because now governments have that as part of their arsenal. It's just another tool in the
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toolkit. We can just order people to shelter in place, order everyone to stay inside, say no forest,
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you're going to ban you $25,000 for going into the forest. Folks, this is the road to serfdom. We are
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on the road to serfdom. We are well along this road. And that is why this needs to stop. Do not allow
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them to normalize this. Fight back with every ounce that you can. Good for that individual for defying the
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rule. Hopefully that forest ban will get overturned. You won't actually have to pay that fine. But if you
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don't, if we just go along with it, like the CBC journalists and the Globe and Mail journalists are
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all telling you that you have to, every year, every year during the summer, rather than clearing out the
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forest and having responsible forest management, rather than just being concerned with specific
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areas that could be at risk, the governments will use this every time they can. They will just say,
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you know what, time to shelter in place. Forest fire season's coming. We don't want anyone to get
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hurt. Everyone just be good little, good little people and go into your house, go along with what
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we are saying. And we cannot allow that. That is not something that we should go along with,
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which again, is why we need to fight back against this. All right, folks, I am very pleased today now
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Jonathan, thank you so much for joining the Candice Malcolm Show. How are you?
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I'm doing very well, enjoying a lovely summer here in Toronto, and the stock market's been
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pretty good too, so no complaints when you're in the investment industry.
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Well, there you go. And in Ontario, we're still allowed to go in the forest. We're still
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allowed outside, unlike our brothers and sisters out east. You had an op-ed here at Juno News
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called The Moral Decline, The Path to Currency Collapse in Canada. So why don't you walk us through that?
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Well, one of the things that we've been observing the last couple of years, of course, is the high
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price of gold, silver, some of the commodities going up. And I was quite intrigued by a lot of
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articles that I was reading that suggested that when the currency starts to weaken, that that's
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when it leads to moral problems and moral issues, social issues, and so forth. And I thought, well,
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this is actually very untrue. I mean, yes, as currency weakens, it's going to lead to further
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problems. But why do we experience currency declines in the first place? And so you go
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back and, of course, you look at history. I started in that op-ed, even going back to the
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Old Testament, back to the prophet Isaiah speaking about the corruption in the societies back then.
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And one of the indications that you know a society is quite evil and corrupt is it dilutes its
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currency. It waters it down. And back then, of course, they had silver coins, and so they would
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water it down with dross or non-silver metals. And so when you look at our own situation in Canada,
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I think people don't fully realize. We're starting to see some of the impact in our economy and the
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standards of living, which have collapsed for our young people over the last couple of decades.
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But they don't realize how much our currency has lost value over the last 50, 54 years. And so if
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you go back to what I did in the articles, I went back to 1971 when Richard Nixon, the President of the
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United States took the U.S. off of the final remnants of a gold standard. Gold was $35. Today,
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it's $33,000, $3,400. So it's up 95 times. And then if you look at the debt, if you look at the
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debt of the United States, similar to Canada, the debt level has increased by 92 times. And then the
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money supply is up by about 82 times. And so what you've seen here is you've seen largesse, governments
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getting larger and larger, promising more and more taxes going up, regulations going up.
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You've seen deficits increase, accumulated debts go right off the charts. And what, of course,
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what happens eventually is you crowd out private money, you crowd out productivity, you start to
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become a redistribution economy, and you don't make things anymore, and you don't produce things
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anymore, and you don't dig holes and develop your resources like we're seeing in Canada.
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And what happens? You lose purchasing power and wealth levels start to decline. And so that was
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really the purpose of the article that, you know, what's led to that, you know, lack of hard work,
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virtue, standards, breakdown in the homes and the families in our country and so forth. And so
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you've had a lot of moral and ethical issues, which have gotten us to the place where we're at now.
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And so our issue is, if we're going to fix these things, we have to acknowledge the foundation
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has been really broken. And, and when you look at your currency, and you look at the loss of your
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purchasing power, that's one of the best indications that something has really gone wrong in your
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Well, it really is a stealth tax on middle class and on people who save and it's punishing people
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who save. Your article does a great job of going through the history of it. And to me, Jonathan,
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it's so frustrating, because it seems to me that every time governments do this and print massive amounts
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money, the same thing happens, we deal with sky high inflation, right, you drown out the money
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supply. And so you know, you walk us through what happened in the Roman Empire, it happened in the
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French Revolution, it happened in obviously, Zimbabwe and places like Argentina. And yet,
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post COVID, you know, I could have told you that this was going to happen, they told us it was
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something new called modern monetary theory, and that all you had to do is just print money. And it was
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like magic, that that wasn't going to happen. And then we all went through inflation,
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then they tried to gaslight us and say, Oh, no, the inflation had nothing to do with
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our spending, it was transitory, or it was just because of supply chains. And it was because of
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COVID. No, it wasn't. It was because of the printing of money. And I feel like we're having
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similar, we're similarly being gaslit, because every, every, every problem in Canada, it's easy,
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there's a scapegoat, they just blame it on President Trump and say, this is all because of the
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tariffs. There's a report last week that Canada lost over 40,000 jobs, which is the most since the
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pandemic jobs lost 40,000 positions in July, it's pretty scary. And yet the liberals and the media
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and the CBC kind of just shrug it off, and pretend that it's about President Trump. But it isn't
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right, the Canadian economy is in trouble independent of what's happening.
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Absolutely. These trends have been in place now for 10 years plus. And I would argue even there
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were some of these trends that started going back a couple of decades, they certainly were
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exacerbated and made much worse from the days when Justin Trudeau took over, and the liberal
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policies, which are basically socialist left-wing policies. And so if you crowd out the private
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sector, and you don't make things and produce and you grow your economy, then of course prices are
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going to go up if you flood more currency into the system. It's impossible not to. And when you look
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at President Malay down in Argentina, what he's doing is trying to reverse everything that we're
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actually doing. What is Trump doing in the United States right now? He's unleashing capital. He's
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lowering the cost of capital. Money's coming into the country. You get productive businesses to expand.
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And that's the way you're going to deal with inflation. We're doing the exact opposite. So it
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shouldn't surprise us. Our standard of living in Canada cannot increase. It has to go down if we
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continue on the policies in which we are the road that we've been on now for the last 10 years plus.
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And Prime Minister Carney is not making any changes. His ideology is the same as we've seen the last
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10 years. And you can see him basically slow-walking everything. And what we need to do is unleash
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capital, get capital back in this country, start to develop the oil sands, further pipelines,
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develop our uranium more, all of our resources, the developments of our energy, lower our cost of
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energy, get off these crazy EV mandates, let the market determine where our energy should be
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developed. That's what will lower inflation and drive up our wealth. And we're starting to see
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what's happening in the US. And it's going to be a major contrast between Canada and the United States
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because of policies, not because of tariffs. I mean, tariffs, you know, can make things a little
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bit more, put a little more pressure on us. But that is not the underlying reason at all.
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Well, so it feels like a bit of a contradiction then that the stock market is doing so well. You
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mentioned the top stock market is doing quite well. I noticed last week that the TSX, the Toronto
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Stock Exchange hit an all time high. I think that was in large part because of Shopify. Shopify has
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become the number one stock, the highest valued company in Canada. Full disclosure to the audience,
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my husband is an executive at that company. And so I'm obviously cheering on Shopify. I think it's a
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great success story for Canadians. It's a company that enables small businesses to move their
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business online and helps people connect with customers. It's a great Canadian success story.
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So walk us through a little bit about the stock market, why it's doing so well, and how it can
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do so well, even when we are governed in a way that's been sort of driving middle class prosperity
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down, making the cost of living so expensive, and just making it really unaffordable for young
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Canadians. Yeah, one must remember that the TSX or the Toronto Stock Market, which you're referring to,
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still have very large corporations. And many of these companies have expansive operations south
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of the border and around the world. And so they are actually profiting from some of the developments
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in the United States and some of the opportunities down there. We also have a large materials or
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commodity sector. And that also has been going up quite a bit because people are concerned about
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the drop of their currency values. Going back to the currency issue again, if fiat currency is going
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down in value, then commodities typically will go up to protect you in value. So gold has been going
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up, some of the precious metals. Canada's got some great companies in that space. And so those
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companies have been doing well. But I think if you look at even some of our big infrastructure
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companies, the Brookfield companies, which have been really topical, of course, because
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Mark Carney, they're doing very well. But I mean, they're expanding all around the world, but they trade in
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the Toronto stock market. So I think it's the smaller businesses, the really Canadian-centric
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companies that are under more pressure, they're under the radar screen and not necessarily reflected
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within the TSX itself. But boy, if we had proper governance and policy out of Ottawa and across most
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of our provincial governments, because we have very poor leadership at the provincial level, too, in many
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of our provinces. Speaking from Ontario, I'm horrified with Doug Ford's policies as a business person.
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And if we had better policies, we would unleash amazing growth in this country, the wealth in this
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country is almost unprecedented around the world. But you have to develop it, and you have to want
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to develop it, and you have to bring the capital in, and you have to lower the cost. So we would
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have a much higher TSX if we had proper policies.
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MS. Well, I think that Argentina's President, Mele, is providing a great example of what
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policy changes and free markets can do. This is Jonathan Wellam, who is the President and CEO of
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thank you so much for joining the show, and thank you for sponsoring Juneau News and this episode.
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MR. Thank you very much, Candice. Love the program and the work that you're doing.
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MS. All right, folks, that's all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for tuning
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in. We'll be back again tomorrow with all the news. I'm Candice Malcolm. This is Candice Malcolm Show.