Woke TikTok journalist gets FIRED from CTV
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Summary
Mario Zalaya is a political commentator, entrepreneur, and TikTok founder. He's been around for a long time and has been a regular on TikTok and other social media platforms. In this episode, Mario talks about how he became a viral sensation in Canada, why he started TikTok, and why he decided to get into politics.
Transcript
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Mark Carney, Trudeau's money man, globalist, China's pal.
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Weeks in, he jets to Beijing, scores a $250 million loan from their state bank.
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Carney's crew says nothing, selling us out foreign cash.
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Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is the Candice Malcolm Show.
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We have a great show for you today, and you might notice I'm in a different studio than normal.
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Well, my family and I recently purchased an acreage in rural Ontario, and we are here at the farm.
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I'm so excited. I have my four kids out with us.
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We're going to have such an adventure out here.
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And originally, I was going to buy a new studio to match the studio that I have in my other house.
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So I was going to buy the same bookcases and the same plants and the same backdrop.
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But then the original farmhouse here has this beautiful wooden office.
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I kind of feel like I'm at Tucker Carlson's studio, like in the woods in Maine.
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I'm going to be buying better lighting, and I'm going to improve the whole setup in here.
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But I'm super excited, and I hope maybe I'll even start having people in studio and doing interviews in here because it's a really beautiful space.
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I'm joined by a new guest that I've never had on the program before.
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He's a political commentator and a businessman.
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And if you're anything like me, you see Mario's videos all over social media.
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All of a sudden, I just started seeing them pop up on X all the time, going through the news stories, pointing out the facts, giving us a fact-based analysis.
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And so I wanted to have Mario to join us on the show today.
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Yeah, thanks very much for having me on, Candice.
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Like, how did you become this sort of, like, viral political sensation in Canada?
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Yeah, so I started in TikTok about maybe two years ago.
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And funny enough, originally it started in the way my account, my original account, and I'll explain in a second.
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My original account blew up because I had a bad experience with an old Tesla Model S.
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The way it was designed, the AC condensate was leaking water on top of the battery.
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There was literally, so basically water was leaking on top of the battery.
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That basically, that means it couldn't blow up.
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So that went, like, mega viral, like 19 million views plus covered by almost every major news station, I think, in the world.
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And it became a huge thing and my account really exploded.
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And I honestly, I just started posting about business and stuff in general.
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And I started seeing, I started realizing politics was affecting more of my life than I ever thought imaginable.
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And it was literally about a year and a half ago that I really started commenting on it.
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And people are like, you're uncovering a lot of stuff and you're giving us a different perspective.
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And as time went on, you start kind of connecting the dots.
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And that's all I really like to do is I like to really take up, look up news articles and connect a dot with something else that might have happened before, with something else that might have happened before, which something else that maybe wasn't covered.
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And I'm presenting it to people in a way where they can digest it.
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And so, you know, the common feedback I've had from people is they really like that approach.
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And people who don't even care about politics, they never cared about it before.
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Or I've been to, you know, one of my kids plays basketball.
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I've had kids that he plays against with asking me for pictures.
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Like these are, you know, 11-year-old kids who recognize me, who want to take pictures, and they see my videos all the time on TikTok.
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And just because I own a lot of businesses, I'm very busy, I don't really have time to do this.
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Um, and I try doing it as, um, punctually as possible in a, sorry, in a succinct manner, uh, as much as possible.
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And, uh, it was only really until, I think I've only been on X and Instagram for about four months and both accounts are going quite rapidly.
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Um, and I'm, I'm just continuing what I'm doing and a lot of it, a lot of it has to do because my staff member is actually helping me post, um, videos that maybe I posted before that are still relevant today.
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But it was really his idea to say, you know what, Mario, like, like, let me just repost this stuff for you because I told him I just don't have time.
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And so now that I create a video, I have a good system of how to upload it and kind of grow these other accounts and get people more aware of what's happening in our country.
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I think you're so good at getting to the bottom of things and pointing out what the key part of a story is that maybe the media is missing or the political class is missing.
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And sometimes it takes an outsider's perspective.
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Mario, if I could ask, what is it that got you into politics?
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Like what happened a year and a half ago that sort of flipped the switch that made you start thinking about this stuff?
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Some say the bubbles in an aero truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth.
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Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.
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Well, I would say that the major thing that really irritated me to no end, and I don't think I'll still forgive the government, was the vaccines.
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Like, my wife and I were never going to get it.
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Um, and it was this, uh, coercion that was done on people like myself, um, who didn't want it, but we couldn't travel anywhere.
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You couldn't go to a food court and sit down and eat your food with a special class of people.
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So if you didn't have a vaccine and, you know, there wasn't really much to do, we couldn't leave the country.
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And, you know, we're, we're debating, you know, should we, should we not do it?
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And that obviously was more than a year and a half ago.
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So, and, you know, during that time period, I mean, I had a extremely successful business.
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Uh, I think a lot of people would recognize it.
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Like if people know what axe throwing is modern day wise, you probably know because of me.
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If you've ever seen it on TV, that's one of my other companies that I own, which is called the world axe throwing.
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I had to deal with, uh, ESPN, uh, which then televised it on TSN.
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So if you ever see any sort of axe throwing championship competitions, that's one of the other companies that I own.
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Um, while that company, you know, uh, is still doing quite well and bad axe throwing is as well.
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Um, you know, back then we were just crushing it.
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Um, and you know, the, the big comparisons like from the U S to Canada was just completely night and day.
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Um, I got in the U S for, for my U S, uh, operations of the business.
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And I've never said this publicly, but I got nearly a million dollars from the government as a grant.
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Like the, the, the, the, this is, this is to maintain my operations, to keep people, uh, on payroll, to pay for my rent because they, uh, they forced me to shut down.
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Canada gave us a $40,000 loan and my operations weren't that much different in Canada than they were in the U S except we were shut down for two to three times longer in Canada.
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And I know this because I was in the most scrutinized shutdown industry in the world.
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I was an indoor recreation entertainment or, you know, don't go into those indoor places.
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You know, you're, you're going to get COVID or what are the sanitation's limits on it?
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You should only go out in groups with your own family members.
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So we went from a business that you couldn't book with us unless you book like three, four weeks in advance with a minimum of 10 people.
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Our model now is like, you can, you, we had to adjust it to book with as little as four.
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And it just completely decimated the revenue numbers, the booking numbers.
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Then we got hit hard, even harder with inflation and things just got progressively worse.
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And I was like, man, we are just getting kicked in the teeth over and over again.
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And now that I have this audience, people need to know what the government is responsible for.
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Uh, this, it just, what, what is happening makes absolutely no sense.
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And that's when I started really just ramping things up.
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The audience was not, I was never intending to be any sort of a social media, you know,
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It was really just about to get the message out.
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And what I was saying really resonated with a lot of people.
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And so that, that, that's basically where I am today.
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So at the, at the sort of depth of both COVID, the restrictions, I mean, it's, it's incredible.
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The government forced you to shut down your business and yet, you know, all that they
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Um, like just curious, did you consider leaving the country?
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Uh, and, and, and in all, and in all fairness and in full transparency, they gave me 20 grand
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Um, uh, uh, and so I got a $60,000 loan, but if I paid it by this amount, they'd give
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That did nothing that covered rent for maybe like a handful of locations, maybe.
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And it was completely, um, immaterial and inconsequential to the total operations and
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the amount of people that I actually employed, um, and the total overhead that I had.
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And so it was a huge, uh, amount of government overreach and not enough, um, support, uh,
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and not enough, uh, science-based, uh, data at that time, you know, um, we, we didn't
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consider leaving, to be honest, it wasn't a thought that crossed my mind.
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Um, and my wife and I had had that discussion a long time ago and our, our, you know, basically
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where we ended up is our family's here, like we're happy here and we're gonna, we're
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And so we, it was never really something that crossed my mind, to be honest.
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Well, if you can survive as a small business owner under, uh, Justin Trudeau, I suppose
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Uh, Maria, I want to talk about the news, uh, story of another, uh, TikTok influencer,
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although I think that she probably has the exact opposite motives that you do.
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I think all she wants is, um, fame and fortune talking about Rachel Gilmore.
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She got hired by CTV to do a fact second, uh, fact checking segment.
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And I mean, to me, this is just the most farcical thing imaginable.
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She is always pushing whatever the most extreme version of the narrative is.
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She tries to fact check others while basically all she's doing is pushing her own far left
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And really like, no matter what issue it is, you can count on Rachel Gilmore to take the
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And so it was a little surprising for some of us to see that she'd been brought on by
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CTV, which is, you know, as mainstream media as you can get, especially given that, you
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know, maybe, maybe during election, you might want to have a bit of balance and not bring
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So it didn't really surprise me that she was, um, out of a job.
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Uh, we learned this last night that Rachel Gilmore, her segment was canceled amid backlash.
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Um, here is a video that she uploaded, um, to Tik Tok yesterday, talking about how she
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said that she was bullied out of a job by the far right.
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This is why I get harassed so badly because they know that it'll work.
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If you see someone reporting on far right, on threats to democracy, on the rights of trans
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people, and you bully everyone who gives them a career opportunity anytime they achieve
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anything, and then those career opportunities get taken away, you're going to realize that
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And now because CTV just caved to this pressure for no other reason than the backlash that
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these guys intentionally inflicted on me, they're going to know that they can do it again.
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This is a direct attack on journalism, on the freedom of the press.
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And frankly, it really, really is crushing for me.
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Gosh, you almost feel sorry for her if you forget all of the context about all of the
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nasty things she said about unvaccinated people or people who don't want boys playing in girl
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But, uh, what do you, what do you make of this whole controversy, Mario?
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Yeah, honestly, I, I had no idea who she was a couple of months ago, um, at all.
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And, um, uh, I had been tagged in a video where someone was, and there's always going to be,
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you know, similar, what I believe are far left extremists calling me out for disinformation,
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but they never tell you what the disinformation is or what they'll do is they'll take a small
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clipping of a larger context of what you're talking about.
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And this is the disinformation he's talking about.
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But when it comes to having a direct debate, they could never hold up in having that.
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And they would never actually engage in that kind of a conversation.
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Now she was encouraging people to do that about me.
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I was like, who the heck is this Rachel Gilmore girl?
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When I opened up my ex account, um, I was like, man, a lot of people really don't like
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I honestly can't remember what it was, but I fact checked her.
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And, um, it, the, the, I guess there, you know, there's the whole ratioing, like when
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people really like your comment more than the original post itself, it becomes very, uh, I would
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say emotional for the person who actually posted it.
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And I believe that's how my first engagement started with her.
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And, um, she then decided to make a video, uh, about me and everyone knows anyone who ever
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follows me knows that I was always, um, a Trump fan before the terrorists.
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And that's important to mention because, you know, while I like a lot of his policies and
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I like that he's putting America first, I don't like what he's doing to Canada whatsoever.
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As soon as that happened, any, you know, sort of mentioned, cause I used to say, you know,
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I'm the maple MAGA, this is the, and this was like a common theme that people said before
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And that's a, that's a very important distinction to make because, you know, everyone's very
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sensitive and rightfully so about, you know, being a 50 face free 54 stater and this guy's
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a trader, this, that, and the other, but that wasn't the case at all.
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She weaponized that asked her followers to basically, Hey guys, this is the business he
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owns, but I got to tell you, you know, don't harass his employees and, you know, make sure
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you don't, um, you know, uh, cause we're not that type of people.
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And it's kind of like, you know, she's basically doing enough to send a message to her followers.
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And they did, they left dozens and dozens of negative reviews on bad acts throwing in
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One of those businesses, which is in Windsor isn't owned by me.
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That is owned by a small business owner who French, who basically franchises or licenses
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And they're calling me in a panic email and me being like, Mario, what the heck is going
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Anyways, long story short, all the negative reviews are gone, but someone like Rachel,
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as you mentioned, I truly believe will always take the furthest left extreme of any position.
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She, and I learned this word on an X where people describe her as a cry bully.
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And the clip I believe is very representative of that where, oh, I'm a victim.
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You know, people, you know, this is how you target, you know, this is unfair to women,
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I now understand why there's such a great deal of people who dislike you to the point
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This isn't something coming from Pierre being like, we need to get her off on TV.
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That is the perfect example of who she is and what she represents when she twists the
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And I mean, I'm not going to disclose some of the other messages I've gotten from other
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people that have accused her of much worse things, much, much worse things of people
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And so, you know, I can't verify, I can't validate it.
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I'm not going to get involved in it, but I mean, it's not very good.
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I mean, my experiences with her are sort of similar.
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Like, it's funny that she wraps herself in a cloak of defending the marginalized and women
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and things like that, because her favorite line of attack against me, Mario, has nothing
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She likes to go after my husband who has a successful career in tech.
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And she's decided that him and his colleagues are like the Canadian version of Elon Musk.
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And so when she's talking about me, she did like a 12-part TikTok series about me.
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And it's like, she doesn't even refer to me as me.
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She just calls me my husband's wife, like so-and-so's wife, like treating me like I'm
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just, you know, some bored housewife who's dirty on social media and that I don't really
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have like a career unto myself or an identity unto myself, which I always found was a little
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But in her defense, I almost think that she's an example of somebody who just believes the
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Like, when I hear Justin Trudeau speak, I think he is just so full of BS and so full
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And I think that probably most people watching the show right now have a similar view of Trudeau
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and the liberals and everything they've been saying, even pre-COVID, but let's just start
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during COVID, like the total nonsensical, like panic that they set that we were all going
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to die and that if you left your home, you were going to kill grandma and all that kind
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of stuff, right through to the COVID vaccine, right through to the trucker convoy.
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Those people are Nazis and they're funded by Trump and they're funded by Russians.
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Like, every nonsensical, insane story that Justin Trudeau would push, it's like Rachel
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And then she becomes the enforcer and saying, anyone who disagrees with me, I'm going to go
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after and I'm going to expose just how insane and radical they are.
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And then she gets to sort of have this valor, like she's the good guy and she's on a crusade
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against misinformation and disinformation, which is why it was just so interesting.
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I think ironic that CTV hired her for this role because she's become so notorious and
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Anytime she's posting on social media, the comments are just absolutely pillying her and
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And so the fact that CTV brought her on, it just shows it total out of touch.
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Like they actually think that she's good at what she does.
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And it wasn't until they put her on this platform and got all the feedback.
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And I don't think it was, I think you're right.
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I don't think Pierre Polyev even knows who she is.
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Like, I don't think it was, it was feedback from the top.
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It was just the Canadian public are like, stop.
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And then CTV realized like, oh, okay, maybe it's us that's out of touch.
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Maybe we're the ones that are too extreme on the left and all these people that we like
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Those are actually just normal everyday Canadians.
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And it's our views, my views and your views, Mario.
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Like we're just sort of like normal suburban parents trying to get by in Canada and they
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paint us as if we're some kind of like a nefarious force.
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Well, and sorry, I was just going to actually quickly add to your point.
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Like my understanding, and again, I didn't know this until I joined X, but my understanding
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is she got sued and so did CBC because I believe she mislabeled someone as a white supremacist.
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I think his last name is something Abbott, who is, I think a protest or something, but apparently
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And so, you know, when, and when those facts are there and how can you have, you know,
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and the question has to be, is how can you have someone like that as a fact checker,
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um, who has basically, um, been in a position with a large broadcaster, uh, mainstream media
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And so, you know, you have, you know, situations like this, that just kind of just, that doesn't
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And so I, I really do believe that CTV, uh, listened to people.
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And I think the approach that she took, she couldn't have gone about it in a much worse
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And, you know, for someone, I just want to jump in there.
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Sorry to interrupt there, Mario, but she did share an audio recording.
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So I guess she recorded the conversation where she got fired.
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And of course, because everything she does, she does it for clicks.
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So she uploaded this, uh, let's play this clip and hear what that sounded like.
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But I have to say, I, I knew that, that you had that troll base and I knew that we would
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get, you know, some sort of reaction, but I really did not realize the extent of the
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My goal as the EP for the show is I just want to do election coverage.
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Just, you know, it's a critical election for Canadians.
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We've got Trump, we've got tariffs, we've got crazy amounts of information coming in and
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we just want to be able to get back to people, but the, who we're talking to is kind of drowning
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Um, and I don't feel like we have the bandwidth to deal with it.
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So, uh, I, I feel terrible about doing this, but I'm just gonna call down the segment that
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Cause I just don't think we have the bandwidth to be able to keep the focus where we need
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I don't know if you've ever been fired from a job, but I don't understand the impulse to
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record like probably a personally devastating conversation and then instantly put it out,
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I don't quite understand why, maybe this is like a trend, uh, online that people like to
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record themselves getting fired and then share it to get sympathy.
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Honestly, when you're trying to make your career as a social media person, you're trying
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to be this credible person as a journalist, you, um, have been given this opportunity.
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And this, I believe is the absolute worst thing you could possibly do.
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Like, I don't understand how it makes any sort of sense.
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It's imagine, and it's no different than an NBA player.
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If an NBA player says, you know, uh, F this team, F the coach, F these people, and you're
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It doesn't like your talent level is not going to matter.
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And so imagine when that talent level just isn't even there.
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Like, what do you think is then going to happen to you?
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Like you think other NBA teams are going to come pick you up that this is no different.
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You have CTV, you have CBC, you have a very few handful of media companies and you just
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And I, I truly believe it's exactly what you mentioned.
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It's about, and I don't know, I just, the views, I, I, I can't make any sense of it.
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I would never in a million years do anything like this.
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And to me, this just makes absolutely no sense.
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And it was honestly, it was just for lack of a, I thought it was pathetic.
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This is a show with a theme of the show here is people getting fired because, um, yesterday
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we learned that Paul Cheung, the controversial liberal MP had decided to bow out of the race.
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Now this was after Mark Carney originally said that he had accepted his apology and that we're
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I think this was one of the biggest mistakes that Mark Carney has made so far because it
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allowed this to be a story for an entire weekend.
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Uh, you know, it's been five or six days now since news came out.
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Well, you did some digging, Mario, and you shared the recently uncovered video of Paul
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Cheung saying the thing that we knew that he says.
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So here he is encouraging his supporters to find conservative candidate, Joe Tay, and turn
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him over basically to the Chinese gulags, um, in order to receive a $1 million reward.
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Uh, most probably is, you know, the Chinese community knows Joe Tay.
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Right now he's wanted by the Chinese government and there's a $1 million reward on his head.
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So they want, if you guys want to, uh, pick him up and, and take him to the Chinese consulate,
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But there is a arrest warrant out for him from the government of China and, and, uh, there
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Uh, at least it was to the liberals in attendance there.
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Mario, what do you, what do you make of this controversy?
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I thought it was maybe a conversation that was had, he was being interviewed by some sort
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I totally misunderstood the whole thing until I saw that video.
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At that point, you, you just have direct evidence that there is a criminal code, uh,
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four, six, four, and I can't remember it verbatim, obviously, but it basically talks
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about, um, you, um, counseling someone to commit an offense, even though they didn't
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commit the offense, you could still be liable as though they committed it.
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And so it's important for Canadians to understand that concept.
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I cannot say, Hey guys, um, let's kidnap Candace.
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And whether bounty or not me saying that and stating that it would violate section
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And I think that is just, just fundamentally at its base.
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Let's just look at it at the most basic form you're breaking the law.
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And, you know, I've had several, uh, former RCMP officers.
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I've had several police officers comment on it.
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And because people are saying, Oh no, you know, this is BS.
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And, and, and it's, it's one of those things you just simply cannot argue.
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Now, what blew my mind about the whole thing more than anything is the person he was talking
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about, Joe Tay, he's wanted for criticizing the Hong Kong government in his YouTube channel
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And so you have these two choices you can choose from as a liberal.
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Do I speak to Hong Kong and say, Hey, are you guys able to reconsider this?
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Like we need to, we have diplomatic relationships with you guys.
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This is someone who's, you know, uh, not only like a radio host and in the media, but he's
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And instead he says, there's a bounty and go turn him in, kidnap him.
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And then Carney to make things worse says it was a mistake and he apologized for it.
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And I think that was the most, I think probably one of the biggest mistakes he has done since
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No, I was just saying like to me that that's something that is unforgivable.
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Like you're, you're supporting someone who, um, encouraged the crime and ultimately may
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I mean, like you said, this is, this is evidence, evidence of him breaking the law.
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The fact that it even took three months for the media to find that clip.
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I assumed that he was speaking in Cantonese and that the reason that took so long is because
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these things circulate like in signal groups and, you know, in Chinese ethnic media.
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But the fact that he said it in English that someone recorded, it's been floating around
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I did a radio interview the other day on iHeartRadio with Richard Surrett.
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And he said, you know, what do you think that this points to about Mark Carney himself?
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I'll just leave it that speculation that maybe he himself has some untoward ties towards China.
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Like, why wouldn't he just come out and say, this guy has to go?
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And when you leave a communist country and you come to Canada, you get all of the same
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You have this adversarial regime in China saying that they can just put people on a wanted
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list and collect a bounty and that you can send them to the consulate and the Chinese
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I mean, this is in light of four Canadians recently getting executed in China on trumped
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And then even just the arrogance of Mark Carney.
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Here he is in Winnipeg, basically just telling reporters that it's a teachable moment.
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Remember, Justin Trudeau used to always say this.
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Anytime he'd get busted with a scandal, he would turn it around back on Canadians.
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This is a learnable, teachable moment for all of us, right?
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Or like, yes, I groped that woman, but she experienced it differently.
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And this is a learnable moment about consent that we're all learning together.
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But anyway, here's Mark Carney telling the press to just move on.
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It appears the involvement of the RCMP forced candidate Paul Chang to bow out of the race.
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Meanwhile, the Conservatives just removed their problematic candidate in Windsor within an
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Mr. Chang made his resignation, offered his resignation last night.
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As I said yesterday, his comments were deeply, deeply troubling and regrettable.
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We will move on with looking for a new candidate for a markup.
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OK, just just to pick up on something she mentioned, she talked about how a conservative
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candidate got ousted an hour after the scandal broke.
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I want to show the CTV headline conservative candidate boosted booted after CTV news uncovered
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audio of joke about Justin Trudeau and the death penalty.
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So CTV is just kind of like openly going after conservative candidates.
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And it's like, you know, they're boasting about it.
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You know, the candidate himself, I think he was on a comedy podcast and he was joking
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about, as you can see there, obviously totally unacceptable in political in the political
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world and probably not suitable to be a candidate.
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We're talking about Mark McKenzie, who was the conservative candidate for Windsor to come
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But the context is that it was a comedy show and he was making an untowards joke.
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Compare that to the liberal MP who was actually telling people, I mean, maybe he was kind
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of joking, but the topic itself is really serious because the Chinese government actually
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does have a bounty on this conservative candidate's head.
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This is some reporting from Juneau News, my colleague, Kian Bexty, Thomas Keeper, who was
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the liberal candidate for Calgary Confederation.
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He has also stepped down and is no longer running after an explosive Juneau News investigation
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where Kian exposed all kinds of insane allegations, like just totally disturbing things about this
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And within about, I would say about 48 hours later, he was no longer the candidate.
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So I think that's three candidates that have been removed.
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But interestingly, for both the liberals, it took a couple of days for them to eventually
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do the right thing, whereas the conservatives, to their credit, cut ties with this candidate
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I mean, to me, I thought that we had kind of moved away from cancel culture and that
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it wasn't going to be the main story of this election.
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And yet every single topic that we've discussed on the show so far today, Mario, has been
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So do you think this is just sort of accountability in the modern age and we're never going to
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Or is this sort of like an example of cancel culture run amok?
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I think there is hypersensitivity in some regards and in others there aren't.
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So, you know, if we look at Paul Chiang, he was doing, it looked to be some sort of oppressor.
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It doesn't look like he's on a comedy stage telling jokes to people.
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Like this bounty exists, you know, we're going to basically, you could turn this person
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Yet the conservatives, as you said, I didn't know he was on a comedy like podcast.
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And he had made that joke as distasteful as it is, as I personally don't like it myself
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And that to me just shows the differences in leadership.
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And even just the way in that clip where he showed how Mark Carney answered the question
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He's not really answering or taking ownership at all.
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He, and this is typical, this is media training.
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And what I'll say is liberal training one-on-one.
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Um, yes, as you recall yesterday, I said, those comments were deplorable and you know,
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But like, we literally like, why didn't you let him go immediately?
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There's no, and this is exactly the difference in leadership where I think one is, and here,
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here's, here's, I think the difference, I actually had this conversation with someone
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this morning that with, uh, Justin Trudeau, he lies to you in such a nice, likable manner.
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Hey guys, you know, he will put on this show as his drama teacher and he gets very animated
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and he talks to you, but we know he's lying, but he's a likable liar.
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And it's almost as though there's certain Canadians that would prefer to be lied to with
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And, you know, this is such a teachable moment and we're going to find someone where Pierre
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And, you know, he probably would have been like, I made a mistake yesterday and you move
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That's a huge difference in leadership because I, I truly believe Canadians and myself,
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And I would prefer to have it given it to me straight without any sort of like, you know,
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Don't try to just tell it to me like a straight shooter.
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And that's how I, I approach myself as well on social media.
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How I would talk to the King of England or how I would talk to anyone else in Canada.
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Like no one gets any sort of special privileges.
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And I think that is very important from a leader where I think with Mark Carney, can
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And to me, the answer that I keep going back to is no, because if you, in a perfect example,
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and you brought up China and I want to go back to this real quickly.
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If you look at his ex post account, do a search for China, not one tweet, not one word, not
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one criticism, not nothing about the Canadians that were killed in China with their
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death penalties, whatever the charges are, whatever they were, whatever they were, it
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The a hundred percent tariff comes in on canola oil.
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Like there's just no comment, no comment, no comment about anything related to China.
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And you start looking in deeper and he's talking about, you know, in the past, he's
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actually talked about, you know, moving away from the U S dollar and, you know, maybe having
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some sort of a hybrid system where the Chinese, uh, you are, you are, you are, you are
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is basically the main currency that we should probably be looking towards.
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And so economically speaking, he is already looking at that and he wants to do as little
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And he clearly wants to make a very, very close connection with China.
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If he hasn't already, if you look at the Chinese election interference that has happened
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and even the report, the, the, you know, the, the reports that came out, the majority of
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the names in there, if not all are liberal people, and it's all coming from the same state.
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Um, you look at the, the donations that Justin Trudeau, even when he won his riding in 2015,
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I think it was people were bust into his riding.
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It's all Chinese, uh, descendants or Chinese, uh, um, uh, based, um, uh, or Chinese descendants
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And so, but there's, there's just a lot of really unusual red flags there.
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And so I really, I really, yeah, I I'm just, I'm really not a fan, uh, when I connect all
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Well, it's so interesting because the main question of this election seems to be like,
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who's going to stand up for Canada in the, the wake of Donald Trump, President Trump and
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Like, you know, in, in, in what world is our closest friend and ally, the country that
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shares the most in terms of values out of any country in the world that we've had this
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historic relationship with, in what world are they a bigger threat than the actual nefarious
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aggressive regime that allegedly runs secret police stations in Canada?
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I played that clip of you last week talking about how Mark Carney wants the yuan to be the
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Um, there was footage that emerged of Mark Carney saying that, actually trying to sell
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investors on China, saying that they have done an amazing job basically with their green
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He's an ideologue when it comes to net zero and the climate.
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I mean, the big news story today is that they've gotten rid of the carbon tax, but they haven't
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And then, whoops, Mark Carney let it slip that he wouldn't overturn Bill C-69, the new pipelines
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So, really, like, what's the difference between him and Trudeau?
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And I think that these ties and these connections to China are just so worrying and so concerning.
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I worry that Canadians don't really understand the issue or don't really care.
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Like, when it comes to anything with China, they just don't really engage and they don't
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As you know, Donald Trump is like the perfect villain.
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He's this animated character that the media has spent a decade demonizing.
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And I think to so many Canadians, they just, he lives rent-free in their minds and they're
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constantly worried that he's going to destroy our country.
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And here, we actually have evidence of him saying these kinds of things and he wants Canada
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You know, you were talking about how Canadians would prefer to be lied to by someone with a
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One of the things about Mark Carney is that he's almost like straight from central casting.
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Polls show that Canadians say he is their preferred prime minister.
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And it's almost like he's a Manchurian candidate.
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The fact that he refused to fire this candidate shows that he has some kind of a commitment or loyalty
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And, you know, maybe the media allows him to get away with it.
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I'm glad that there's citizen reporters out there like you, Mario, that is really connecting
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And I think that there's definitely something else going on.
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And I think Canadians really need to start asking themselves that question.
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Um, I, I don't have all the answers, but I do know what I know.
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And there are a lot of things that are very unusual, especially from a prime minister, especially
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And you, you can only come to some sort of a conclusion that there is some sort of a tie
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And, and I think disclosure has always been a major problem with Mark Carney because people
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have to keep in mind, he was never an elected official.
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Like he is not, um, he doesn't, he's not a member of parliament.
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And when you're not a member of parliament, you do not have the same disclosure requirements.
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And that's why he was able to get away with some of the non-disclosures that he did not
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do that Pierre Polyev wants to close that loop because it makes absolutely zero sense.
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And I just actually, um, released a video this morning that talked about how, um, you know,
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Mark Carney promised to build half a million homes a year and the government's getting in the
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business of building homes, but, uh, I've never heard of a G7 country getting into that
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I mean, it's, it's, it's flat up, like straight up, like in what world do we believe a bureaucracy
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and government workers are going to be able to build homes in this country?
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The fact that Canadians might fall for it is outrageous.
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And the thing is, is like, and so I started thinking and I was like, how, like Canada can't
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And it'd be Brookfield and Brookfield would make the most sense to do it because they
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And if you dig in deeper, um, there are, you know, conflicts that exist.
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And the fact that Mark Carney did not disclose exactly what went into the blind trust before
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he put in the blind trust is the biggest red flag to me because he very well knows he
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probably has $6 million plus in stock options alone in Brookfield.
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Like, how do I know, uh, he didn't have stocks or stock in Telsat or Telesat before they got
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The week he gets announced as the, uh, lead economic advisor to baby, basically babysit
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Chrystia Freeland, um, uh, and oversee the economic, they get the $2.4 billion and you
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know, their stock, um, uh, at that point had been up almost a hundred, it went up almost
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a hundred percent for, I think the year 2024, it doubled in price.
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You're telling me that this guy that you're close friends with, that you definitely have
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some sort of an inside knowledge because you're now the economic advisor of this task force
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that you don't have oversight to the budget that is going to, or to the government, that's
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basically going to give 2 point something billion dollars to your buddy.
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So he doesn't have to disclose that conflicts of interest does not affect them.
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So in his case, and he, he, he will make the case of I've done nothing wrong.
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I don't have to disclose anything and he never did.
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And so what he did now is he pro so he doesn't have to disclose his assets.
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He preemptively put it into a blind trust that way.
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He never has to tell you what he had in the first place.
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So when he makes these decisions and truthfully, like, and I think people should understand,
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like I have a very, very strong business background, like, uh, and I mean, international,
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international management, corporate strategy, like you name it.
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Like I know how to set up, you know, basically if I wanted to, I wouldn't touch it because
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it's not worth it for me, but yet setting up a tax haven is not hard.
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Setting up transfer pricing, the way Brookfield does it is not, I know how to do these things.
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And, and, you know, when you understand international and corporate finance at the
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level that I do, you know how he's going to do it and you know how he's able to get away
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with it and you know how the tax evasion system can legally work, but when the average person
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When a large corporation and someone like Mark Carney does it at best, you will get a slap
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in the wrist, but on average, you just, you turn the other way.
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And, and, and, and, and I think that that's probably the biggest, um, issue, um, that, that
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I think also exists with him is the lack of transparency.
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So I just really don't understand how he can get past, uh, uh, the point to get Canadians
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trust when he's been so opaque about, um, his holdings, his dealings with China and, and
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And it's so, it's so terrifying the fact that someone could be stepping in as prime
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minister, totally unelected, selected by maybe a hundred thousand liberal insiders.
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So, so we're told, and the entire ruse of being prime minister could just be like a
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Like, like all of the policies he's introducing for all we know could just be to line the coffers
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of his, you know, the companies that he owns shares in that are in a blind trust that he
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I don't think we've ever faced a situation like this and it really is terrifying.
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Very knowledgeable as you could just tell from this interview.
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