00:00:00.000So, this isn't shocking at all. It looks like Prime Minister Mark Carney and the federal liberal government is actually going to have to sign a trade deal with the Trump administration.
00:00:10.940Already, we're going to have liberals spinning that it's Carney and the liberals who have forced Trump to the table because of the midterms, but that's not what's going on, and I will be getting into that in just a little bit.
00:00:23.540but first I want to start off with a CTV News segment where they reveal that there's rumors
00:00:29.380floating about that they're preparing to actually sign a trade deal and then the panel on CTV News
00:00:35.220immediately starts talking down the prospects of actually getting something signed. So we're going
00:00:41.360to cut over to here in just a second but I do just want to quickly remind you guys if you like the
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00:01:02.500talk a little bit about the British Columbia provincial election, obviously the disappointing
00:01:07.160result for 1 BC. Naturally, it was an election where people just wanted David Eby and the NDP
00:01:12.520out, and they were willing to vote for whatever the blue option was, didn't even matter who was
00:01:17.560running for them. But now let's jump into the CTV news segment where Scott Reid talks about the
00:01:23.000rumors floating about. And considering that he is a liberal insider, I tend to put a lot of weight
00:01:28.600into what he says here. Since talks broke down at the last moment, the prime minister, not just all
00:01:35.220of us, not just our gut, not just every working person's eyes, but the prime minister has told us
00:01:40.520You can't trust these guys. And so, you know, if it's a full retreat, because Trump has concluded
00:01:48.260that his political self-interest is involved in dismantling the tariffs that he's imposed on
00:01:55.560Canada. So if it's a full retreat, and if there's some kind of binding resolution mechanism so that
00:02:01.020the prime minister can answer the question of how can we possibly count on any of this, how
00:02:04.340can we be sure that he won't just change his mind tomorrow when he wakes up on the wrong side of the
00:02:08.560bed or the wrong side of his phone, then, you know, then we'll see. But I am more optimistic
00:02:15.420than Corey and Nathan for this reason. Political parties do not like to do things that lose them
00:02:23.260seats and votes. And I do think we are watching a proof occur. And the proof is that going to war
00:02:31.520with Canada is not just bad economics for the United States, it's bad politics. And that is a
00:02:36.580lesson, no matter what happens to Trump over the medium term, Republicans, I think, will take away.
00:02:42.140And if they get drugged on the 3rd of November, they are going to take away the lesson that going
00:02:46.900to war with Canada will backfire on them. It is a good way to not get elected. And that is a lesson
00:02:51.700that is in our national self-interest for both political parties in the United States to learn.
00:02:55.940And I'm hopeful whether there's a deal or not between now and the midterms. I do think this is
00:03:00.140our point of maximum leverage because Trump feels scared. But over the longer term, I'm optimistic
00:03:06.240Because I think what we're seeing is voters are telling American leaders, don't do this.
00:03:15.100I know I let that entire thing play out there.
00:03:17.500Usually I'd want to stop him a couple times.
00:03:19.560I just needed you to hear the full take from Scott Reid there.
00:03:24.060I like how, whenever anything happens, it immediately is filtered through this lens of, how is Mark Carney, the genius, schemed his way into a winning position on this one?
00:03:37.120Guys, Canada is not prepared to sign a trade deal with the Americans because Trump suddenly got cold feet about his trade war, and now he wants to sign something with Canada because, you know, better not mess with Canada.
00:03:51.120And no, it actually is more likely to be from the Canadian side that after we just lost a bunch of jobs while the Americans gained jobs and Trump is getting Canadian companies to agree to invest in the United States for tariff relief, that now Carney is realizing, yes, it doesn't really matter what happens in the midterms to the Republicans.
00:04:11.140Trump is still the president, and right now I am going to be at risk of having my own approval ratings dump
00:04:17.740if we have another month of negative job growth if I don't pair it up with the good news that, hey, I finally got a trade deal done.
00:04:28.060But again, we salt in the idea that you can't trust Donald Trump, but maybe Carney can make him trustworthy by signing this.
00:04:35.880And the thing you need to know is don't worry if Carney signs something, it's just because he was super, super strong. Now, I'm not against Carney signing something. Obviously, I'm not. I've wanted him to sign something for quite a while now. Want him to sign a good agreement that's good for Canada. But I've never liked his sort of strategy of engaging in talks very quickly. And after a week and a half, we pull out and walk away from the table for several months, and then we come back and do it all over again.
00:05:02.980Now, that's not saying I like Trump's tariffs. Obviously not. But from the Canadian side of things, I've not been impressed with how our prime minister has been handling this. If Carney was already the prime minister before 2024 and Trump comes back as president and this is how he's been dealing with it, you could at least say he didn't sign up for this and he's just been dealing with it as best as he can.
00:06:00.140Remember back in like June when America lost jobs one month and we gained jobs and we acted like this is Carney-nomics.
00:06:06.620We're doing so, we're doing really great while the Americans are dumping.
00:06:09.860And then the same media and the Liberal Party completely ignored it over the past two months when we lost 110,000 jobs and they gained 975,000 jobs during the same period of time.
00:06:21.600Guys, you actually have to take a bigger look at the bigger picture here.
00:06:26.380The Americans are doing better than us.
00:06:27.940And it's not because tariffs are good policy.
00:06:30.960They just have a more coherent domestic economy than we do because they have lower taxes and lower regulations on average between the American states compared to Canadian provinces.
00:06:42.120Anyways, but now I want to jump over to some other clips that came out of the CTV News segment.
00:06:47.620Although I do want to quickly highlight what Josh Udall from the Elevate report had said, because I thought he had a good way of summing this clip up.
00:06:55.700So Scott Robertson from Midas Media was the one who had first shared that clip of Scott Reid talking.
00:07:01.960And Elevate, Josh Udall here says, I didn't realize Carney calling Trump to start talks again is perceived as the position of strength now.
00:07:13.600They didn't call us when we were trying to pretend to be tough.
00:07:16.900And Carney's like, well, he better take all the memes down and apologize to me, or we're not talking about nothing.
00:07:24.480And then we have a couple bad months of job growth, or anti-growth, and suddenly Carney getting on the phone and potentially signing a deal actually proves Trump's scared.
00:07:34.540Carney has Trump exactly where he wants him.
00:08:07.040But now let's jump into what the other takes were. So let's go into Corey here who always him and Scott Reed always look like they're both impersonating each other at the same time. He here he talks here about how we can't trust Trump and why should we even respect any deal we signed with him.
00:08:23.700I think it's probably a peak vulnerability politically now because he's term limited.
00:08:30.100And so, you know, this is this will be the last race that that he's a, you know, a major participant in.
00:08:38.520And in terms of being a factor on the ballot, I just I think it's going to get worse after the midterms.
00:08:46.300if if uh if the senate and the house go uh for the democrats uh i think he's a you know everything
00:08:52.940agree with every word that nathan said in terms of the the caution that you must exercise around
00:08:58.220this administration they are not uh people who bargain in good faith or uh have demonstrated
00:09:04.540a respect for agreements that they themselves have signed so uh you know in in that context
00:09:09.900there are no deals even if you get a deal um the only other thing i'd say is we've been in this
00:09:14.940point many many times before over the last you know two years almost uh where there's been the
00:09:21.920promise or the prospect of an agreement and then have it uh scuttled at the last minute you know
00:09:26.940we almost had an agreement uh a few months ago and uh uh thanks to uh howard latnik and uh others
00:09:34.180it uh it got sunk no one didn't okay i don't like howard latnik i am definitely not a fan of howard
00:09:42.020Leitnick. I do not like his take when it comes to trade policy and foreign policy. I don't like
00:09:48.480Howard. Saying that he was the one who objectively sunk it is stupid considering Mark Carney was the0.98
00:09:54.640one who had the press conference and put out the letter announcing that he was cutting off trade0.96
00:10:00.400talks with the Americans and he was walking away from the table. Guys, Claudia Scheinbaum, as I keep
00:10:06.580saying, the president of Mexico has been having far better luck getting positive momentum on a
00:10:11.320trade deal for Mexico with the Americans because she doesn't walk away from the table. That doesn't
00:10:16.300mean that she accepts bad deals. That means if she doesn't like the terms, she keeps negotiating
00:10:22.100and she keeps pushing. Carney does this political game where he walks away from the table to boost
00:10:26.920his numbers. And then when all the job numbers start coming in negative again, suddenly he runs
00:10:32.780back to the table to negotiate more because it suddenly gets serious again. Carney, although he
00:10:38.560can put on a very serious figure he's a he's a very aesthetically serious man when it comes to
00:10:44.460how the average voter perceives him but you actually look at his actions he's in a deeply
00:10:48.920unserious person i want to now jump over oh i guess we'll finish up the cory tonight here then
00:10:54.300we're going to jump to the ndp guy on the panel uh nathan cullen it's crazy that cory tonight here
00:11:00.820is supposed to be the conservative on the panel scott reed to his right is supposed to be the
00:11:05.680liberal and then Nathan Collins was the NDP guy. Corey tonight is just a pure poly of hater,
00:11:10.700which is why when it comes to trade stuff, he makes every excuse for Mark Carney. Again,
00:11:16.160that's not saying the Trump administration is always reasonable. Obviously not. I could point
00:11:21.780out 10,000 ways they've been unreasonable in the trade conflict. But what's our own side doing to
00:11:27.940solve the problem? And I'm not saying we have to bend over backwards to please them. I'm saying
00:11:31.780what's our actual strategy here because we've never seemingly gotten an answer on what can does
00:11:38.140actual coherent trade strategy is not that you had to spill all the beans and tell everyone what
00:11:43.360your strategy is in detail but we've never even gotten like carne's philosophy for how he's going
00:11:49.360about these talks he simply negotiates a little bit almost signs a bad deal walks away at the
00:11:55.480last minute and then the cycle repeats itself. But you know I guess we'll see what happens with
00:12:01.780it. There's definitely maximum political pressure I think on the administration around tariffs and
00:12:06.620cost of living and so that should push them towards a more equitable deal with Canada but
00:12:13.080this is not an administration that's demonstrated an ability to act in its own self-interest.
00:12:19.540okay i guess here's the problem too in a lot of ways the tariffs are popular and if you get rid
00:12:27.020of them in certain states you'll actually lose seats because these are areas that rely on steel
00:12:32.340and aluminum jobs and they don't want competition from canada just as there are regions of canada
00:12:38.840that don't want competition from the americans or other parts of canada this is sort of like
00:12:43.460their supply management thing that in certain congressional districts along the border in the
00:12:48.200steel industry, they're actually very happy with the tariffs because it artificially increases
00:12:53.000wages and jobs and makes sure that they get a lot more business simply because
00:12:57.640they don't have Canadian competition over the border anymore. But now let's jump over to Nathan
00:13:02.120Cullen also joining the choir of people saying, can't trust the Americans. Regardless, is the
00:13:08.820context in which anything is signed with somebody who doesn't respect agreements, who is a weather
00:13:14.460vein in the middle of a tornado in terms of his opinions and decisions around tariffs
00:13:18.380keep laser focused on the canadian economy i suppose if there's something on offer
00:13:24.140that is binding and i say that with some caution given the character in the white house
00:13:29.600and will truly help canadian workers and businesses then of course the government has to
00:13:34.560look at it i love the idea that mr trump is in a position of weakness because he has scored so many
00:13:41.240own goals that the democrats have a chance of taking both house and senate um i you can hear
00:13:47.280all of my skepticism and caution though vashi because i just don't trust the administration
00:13:53.140and if they're being dragged and forced into making concessions great he's making them already
00:13:58.080so i hate this win-win the media is trying to manufacture for mark carney if nothing to sign
00:14:04.420it's because trump is very you can't rely on him and he's erratic but if we do sign something it's
00:14:09.580Because Carney has played this game of trade chess so well, he's backed Trump into the corner, and now he can take his pound of flesh and sign a good agreement.
00:14:27.780Is that affecting Carney's psychology at all?
00:14:30.080He's the one wanting to get back to talks.
00:14:32.700So is it just demonstrating Carney's strength that he's now going to Trump, realizing he has him right where he wants him?
00:14:39.580No. And I need to pull up this now. I was talking about it on the show yesterday, but I just need to show you the actual post from Kirk Lubomov here. He's always really great when it comes to these specific economic stats or pieces of information from behind the scenes. Not like behind the scenes, like it's not public information, but, you know, lesser known things that people probably didn't read in the mainstream media.
00:15:02.740So Kirk Lubomov here says, Donald Trump walks back his threat against Canada's Bombardier, and Bombardier announces an expansion in the U.S. with a plan to invest $270 million and hire an additional 800 workers.
00:15:21.580So yeah, that's not great, says right here.
00:15:24.860Trump drops threats against Canadian jet maker Bombardier, citing U.S. jobs.
00:15:29.080Trump is negotiating directly with Canadian companies these days because if Carney's not going to negotiate with him, then he's going to turn up the temperature by saying, huh, steel manufacturers, if you propose to us how you're going to move jobs down to the United States, we'll exempt your Canadian products from U.S. tariffs.
00:15:50.960Oh, if you're a Bombardier, and you, like, obviously do a lot of business with the United States,
00:15:56.340well, I'll put a tariff on your jet parts, on your company,
00:16:01.280unless you start, you make your next expansion down here.
00:16:04.480And they didn't, now he's not doing the tariffs.
00:16:08.340I'm not saying whether it's right or wrong, it's just good strategy.
00:16:11.940This is stuff Carney could have been doing if he wanted to, but he never thought about it.
00:16:16.360I now want to highlight Laura Babcock here, who I mentioned the other day.
00:16:19.440Okay, just swimming in the lukewarm suit of just Carney cheerleading.
00:16:27.160Laura Babcock here reacting to this Washington Post headline that says,
00:16:30.680Just 11 days before the midterm election, the Trump administration is rolling back a slate of tariffs on Canadian products that disproportionately hurt residents in Maine and similar states.
00:16:40.260Okay, and Laura Babcock says Trump is buckling under pressure.
00:16:46.240It's like, no, those tariff rollbacks were like the Bombardier ones where they were getting,
00:16:52.200either they were giving some targeted relief, fair enough, maybe he felt pressure on those,
00:16:56.000but in other cases, they're getting something in return from Canadian companies in order to duck the tariffs.
00:17:02.160Guys, he's not doing this exactly for the midterms.
00:17:05.080Yes, the Washington Post connected those two things together,
00:17:08.040but tariff relief 11 days before the midterm isn't going to matter at all.
00:17:13.140I don't think these two stories are exactly connected here.
00:17:17.440Anyways, so will we have a Trump deal before the new year?
00:17:21.840I don't know, but once again, Carney at least feels incentivized to go back to the table and negotiate once again.
00:17:29.060Wouldn't it have been great if we could have been doing this in mid-2025 rather than late-2026?
00:17:35.860And it may not even be done by then because these things tend to take a long time to put together.
00:17:40.100It would have been great if we had a prime minister who actually stuck to what he said and was actually focused on achieving his one big promise from the election, a U.S. trade deal, but that's not the world we live in.
00:17:51.480Anyways, I want to talk a little bit about the British Columbia provincial election.
00:17:55.440So David Eby got absolutely wiped out.
00:17:59.680I have no clue why he did what he did.
00:18:02.040Honestly, it hurt both 1BC and center BC, which is a more center-left party.
00:18:07.980Of course, one BC being a more orthodox conservative party.
00:18:12.360The BC conservatives cleaned up on the NDP, not because the BC conservatives exactly are doing the right things or running on the right ideas or definitely not picking the right candidates.
00:18:23.760It was an election where David Eby metaphorically took a gasoline can, dumped it all over himself and his party, lit a match, and then told everyone to vote BC conservative if they really hate his guts.
00:18:35.480Because nobody liked the snap election.
00:18:37.980Doug Ford got away with a snap election back in early 25 because the Trump anger was really bad back then,
00:18:45.260and he only had about a year left in his term.
00:18:48.620That allowed him a sufficient reason to go to the polls.
00:18:52.740Plus, his own opponents were just really not well liked.
00:18:56.540There was not enough support consolidating behind the Liberals or the NDP to beat Doug Ford,
00:19:02.760and even then, he still ended up losing some seats.
00:19:05.620So it did actually damage him because many people didn't want to go to the polls at that point.
00:19:10.420It was just that his opponents were not actually, I guess, interesting enough and the news cycle around Trump was strong enough that he was able to propel himself into another term.
00:19:20.140David Eby doing an election two years early when he has a majority government was just ballot box poison for the NDP.
00:19:29.940And again, it created an election where the only issue at the ballot box was, do you hate David Eby, yes or no?
00:19:38.480And most people, even some of the NDP voters from 2024, after a snap election call and his bad performance in office,
00:19:45.340it was everyone was pretty much, yes, we hate David Eby, plus turnout was only 48% of all voters voting.
00:19:51.520And so people were voting for whatever the option was that would get them out of office the fastest, which were the BC Conservatives.
00:19:59.760Everything else basically does not matter.
00:20:24.520Someone signs who lives in the riding, but their registration election in BC says something
00:20:28.680else because they only moved there two years ago, that can screw you over. And so 1BC, we got 33
00:20:34.520candidates on the ballot. We had one guy pulled out because he had a death in the family. And then
00:20:39.040five other people were on the ballot as unaffiliated because election BC is like sticklers
00:20:44.560about the rules, even though all the paperwork is being sent in from an at1bc.ca email. That's not
00:20:52.420good enough. You didn't sign the paperwork correctly. And the deadline is passed. We will
00:20:56.420not let you alter anything. And it's like so maddening the way that they were behaving around
00:21:01.420the election and all the rules that go into it. And so basically, it was a perfect storm in order
00:21:07.660to hurt 1BC and center BC. I don't agree on politics at all with Eleanor Sturko, but I felt
00:21:14.000bad for her and her party. Same with us. Because again, David Eby basically made the election just
00:21:19.840an anti-orange election where nobody was going to vote for anything. That wasn't the easiest way of
00:21:25.600getting rid of them the conservators were running candidates i'm not even kidding connected to the1.00
00:21:32.120ccp one of their guys i think it's gordon zhang in in richmond steveston founded a policy institute
00:21:41.420that promotes beijang's belt and road initiative you know that thing that they use in order to
00:21:46.680gain leverage over central asian and african countries will build up a lot of your local
00:21:51.160infrastructure, but you're going to owe us a lot in return. It's a powerful propaganda and sort of
00:21:57.400economic domination tool by the CCP. He was promoting it. We have other candidates with
00:22:03.380sketchy pasts who are obviously very liberal, people who believe in SOGI, people who are pro-DEI
00:22:09.000running, people who were pro-DRIPA, people who were pro-Cowichan decision, people who had run
00:22:14.240for the BC Greens and the Trudeau liberals in the past. They were all proud conservative MLA
00:22:20.060candidates. And they all got across the finish line because the election wasn't really about
00:22:23.480who the Conservatives are. It was, do you hate the NDP? The NDP had cabinet ministers losing
00:22:30.660two random Conservative staff members. And by the way, usually the random Conservative staff
00:22:35.000members were actually the better candidates. But that's just how it worked out. We were in a race
00:22:40.900where David Eby, for some reason, thought that this was going to be the way of tying his caucus
00:22:46.840back together because the rumor was that it was going to be turning into the assassination of
00:22:53.040Julius Caesar inside the NDP. Everyone hated David Eby. They wanted him out. And so in order to keep
00:23:00.240the family together, David Eby pulled the election fire alarm so that everyone would have to unify
00:23:05.100around him. And that's why on day one of the election, the NDP, I think, ended up losing like
00:23:09.420four or five of their own sitting MLAs, most of them cabinet ministers, to saying, I'm not running
00:23:14.940for re-election like Ravi Parmar and Brenda Bailey they all wanted out because they knew
00:23:20.480what David Eby was doing they probably wanted to have a palace coup and get rid of him and as soon
00:23:25.400as he did that they were out because they knew that this was going to just be a massive loss
00:23:30.300for their party they lost ridings where they had never lost it probably in like two decades like
00:23:36.780Sir like Saanich South they were losing Burnaby ridings Tri-City ridings that last time they had
00:23:42.360won by like 1820 points and then 1bc ends up not doing very well because one there's vote splitting
00:23:48.940fears and then two it's just wasn't even part of the conversation because all the media coverage
00:23:55.120was david eby sucks for the snap election and lauren dirksen the conservatives are are steady
00:24:00.980and mild-mannered which of course the media tends to like them these days because they're not all0.82
00:24:05.760that conservative and so they're not scared of them but man that was one of the hardest things
00:24:11.020I've ever gone through. I'm not even kidding. During the 30-day campaign, I lost about 20 pounds
00:24:17.400because of the stress, getting all the stuff done. We wanted to have two more years, obviously,
00:24:23.820before the next election, where for the next year, you get all your time to organize your local
00:24:29.300constituency association boards so that every riding has its own organizing committee. And then
00:24:34.980the next year after that would be getting election ready, having your local CAs pick their candidates,
00:24:40.400Pick your volunteer coordinators, your campaign managers, your social media guys, and have a properly built-out campaign and be able to be in the conversation.
00:24:49.600But David Eby decided to execute himself and his party on live television, which meant that nobody really cared about anything past blue team defeats orange team.
00:25:01.180But anyways, so I'll probably talk more about that election as time goes on.
00:25:05.900But that was a, you know, personally tragic moment for me and whatnot in Dallas.
00:25:11.020Dallas was great. I always really loved working with Dallas Brody.
00:25:14.680I thought that she added so much to the B.C. legislature, and it's sad that she's not going to be in there anymore
00:25:20.380because she was helping crack through so many controversial and taboo issues that people needed to talk about.
00:25:27.020People can say, well, what is Kamloops 215 really matter?
00:25:30.440Why do we need to really look in deeply to what reconciliation really means and toxic elements of it to basically purge out? Why do we need to do those things? And it's because it's guiding massive policy decisions.
00:25:46.440It was an internal memo in the government that after the Kamloops 215 grave hoax, that departments in the Trudeau government were saying we basically cannot deny any funding for anything because it's going to look really bad in the aftermath of this genocide claim.
00:26:03.580And that's the problem with the BC conservatives right now is that they think, well, we'll just go back to the Christy Clark Free Enterprise Coalition and everyone's going to sing kumbaya and we're just going to run a better quality government.
00:26:16.080We're just going to stick down the middle of the road and be the kind of, I guess, flavorless paste that nobody would spit out.
00:26:25.080And it's like, okay, that might work for a bit.
00:26:28.020But be cautious that you don't end up with a government like the Ontario PCs under Doug Ford.
00:26:36.260He's a winner. He wins elections. Everyone hated Kathleen Wynne.
00:26:42.480Because when you win promising nothing, and the conservatives ran on basically nothing, when you win running on nothing with a caucus full of people who are frankly opportunists, not all of them, there's some really good MLAs still in that party, but the ratio is becoming really bad these days between good MLAs and bad MLAs.
00:27:01.060when the ratio was off in your caucus and you didn't run on anything substantial,
00:27:05.780don't be shocked that in a year or two, it's a bit of an I told you so moment where I'm not saying
00:27:10.960if you guys voted conservative, I understand why you did. It was just the zeitgeist of the election
00:27:14.480was to get rid of the NDP. So I'm not coming down on anyone, obviously, here. I'm in no position to
00:27:20.200feel prideful and arrogant today, obviously. But don't be shocked that in a few years people are
00:27:26.320going to be like what did what really changed now there will be some improvements obviously going
00:27:31.500from even like David Evie to Christy Clark if she was the premier right now you'd see improvements
00:27:35.680if you went from David Evie to Justin Trudeau as the premier you would see improvements just
00:27:40.060because of how bad David Evie was but in a few years when many problems really haven't been
00:27:45.200solved or it's been put on the back burner and they haven't been wanting to deal with things
00:27:48.920because it's controversial well it's because winning became everything rather than winning
00:27:54.820for the right reasons. And I'm not some political hipster who only supports small parties. I support
00:28:00.300small parties where I just cannot trust the bigger parties. In Manitoba, I probably couldn't vote for
00:28:06.420the PCs right now. If they reform themselves, maybe. And that's the case everywhere. BC
00:28:12.340conservatives reform themselves. Maybe I could say to people, absolutely donate and support them. But
00:28:17.220right now, they have to actually demonstrate they can be conservative rather than just pragmatic
00:28:21.960all the time. Ontario, they have overdosed on pragmatism inside the progressive conservative
00:28:28.000party of Ontario. The Doug Ford conservatives are effectively federal liberals. That's why
00:28:33.400the provincial liberals don't do very well right now. It's because if you're a provincial liberal,
00:28:38.280why not just vote for Doug Ford? Because he's basically the same and he's already in government
00:28:41.540and the incumbent. Why even bother with the change when he's already doing all the same things that
00:28:45.580you want? And so we got to be very careful that we don't let our major parties, under the just
00:28:51.760justification of winning, win for nothing in return. Because conservatism is not winning in
00:28:57.920Ontario, despite the fact that a PC government has won three terms now. It just hasn't really
00:29:04.020mattered. I've also had to do a bit of an I told you so thing with Calgary Mayor Jeremy Farkas. I
00:29:10.320was helping Sonia Sharp, and I almost helped get her across the finish line. And again, I'm not
00:29:15.160trying to brag or anything here I probably helped deliver for her at least 10,000 votes and it's
00:29:23.580because in that city I could tell you exactly how many people from Calgary IP addresses unique
00:29:28.500viewers have been watching my municipal election coverage and it's not because I'm just such a
00:29:34.440brilliant orator or something like that but I was one of the only people actually giving information
00:29:37.780on the candidates whereas most newspapers end up giving such boring details over what people are
00:29:42.920running on that people don't know who to vote for. And I find a lot of other independent media
00:29:46.680doesn't really follow the campaigns too closely. And I was warning that Jeremy Farkas is a hack,
00:29:52.640and he's surrounding himself with liberals, and that if he gets in, there's actually a chance
00:29:56.260that you're not going to see big improvements when it comes to taxes and allocation of spending.
00:30:00.700And now we're about to have massive tax increases in Calgary, because people decided that Jeremy
00:30:05.800Farkas was the more familiar, safer, pragmatic face, and they didn't want to go with Sonia Sharp
00:30:11.440in the community's first party. It just happens this way. I always hate being the guy who
00:30:16.420eventually can say, hey, I was kind of right about that, but nobody really cares because,
00:30:21.300you know, who cares that somebody was right about an election two years ago? They just
00:30:24.660care that things are bad now. And so, like, yeah, federally, I'm a federal conservative. I think
00:30:29.500that Polyev's conservatives generally do the right things. I think that Daniel Smith and the UCP are
00:30:33.900doing a good job. I think that in New Brunswick, I would be a PC voter because they generally
00:30:39.520focus on the right things and do a good job. I thought Blaine Higgs was an extremely underrated
00:30:45.120premier in New Brunswick. He got New Brunswick having a balanced surplus budget for three years
00:30:50.700in a row. That was really impressive. He was the pioneer of the parental rights movement across
00:30:56.900Canada. And then Daniel Smith picked it up and ran with it in Alberta. And other premiers like
00:31:02.100in Scott Moe in Saskatchewan also did it. If I was in Saskatchewan, I'd be a Saskatchewan party guy.
00:31:06.520I don't need perfection. I'm not somebody who purity tests. I just want basic standards enforced. I just want the basics done right. And in the BC Conservatives, when AGMs are rigged, when consultant buddies are all paying each other up massive bonuses with party donor money, and you have the candidate selection this scuffed, they're going around taking out their leaders like Carrie Lynn Finley and replacing them with random guys who didn't run for anything.
00:31:34.460and they're bringing back all of the liberal saboteurs,
00:31:37.700eventually I throw up my hands and I say,
00:31:39.540I can't be part of this anymore for dignity reasons, for just ethical reasons.
00:31:45.040At the end of the day, I'm a born-again Christian,
00:31:47.940and I have to serve God first in terms of what I morally am willing to do in politics
00:31:53.580and what I'm willing to sweep under the rug.
00:31:59.700She's saying the right things, and she's been deeply mistreated.
00:32:02.340I'm not going to be the guy to say, well, I want to be part of the winning team, so I'm going to walk out and go cross the street. That's not right. And I think a lot more people need to hold their governments accountable.
00:32:13.960And if you're in the BC Conservative Party, I'm not saying you have to leave or anything like that, but be a critic of your own people to try and push them in the right direction.
00:32:24.240Because there were so many people out there who basically did this sort of like, nah, nah, nah, nah, thing after the BC Conservatives won, as if they had like defeated me.
00:32:32.760It's like, dude, I wasn't going to win. I knew we weren't going to win.
00:32:37.140We were trying to put in a loud voice, basically telling the Conservative Party what direction they should be going in as a measuring stick after they get into office that we can hold them to what we were saying during the election.
00:32:49.800But people are making this like an ego thing, like, Wyatt has now been defeated, and now he shall go out to the place where there shall be, you know, crying and gnashing of teeth.
00:32:59.420It's like, what is this? It was just really immature, the kind of behavior right after the vote, because I wasn't really going after anyone in this election outside of ideological reasons and around issues around ethics. It was never, I'm trying to get into a personality conflict with other people, but whatever, you can't make everyone happy.
00:33:19.480And, you know, on a positive note, again, I lost 20 pounds during the election.
00:33:37.760Consider hitting the join button and becoming a monthly contributing member of the channel.
00:33:42.240And I will be back in Calgary in a couple of days from now.
00:33:45.980And I will be back in the normal studio, which will be a nice mental vacation.
00:33:50.300I always hate when I'm away for so long and I'm always constantly filming in these hotel rooms and the lighting and the wallpaper makes the screen slightly green that you guys are looking at.
00:34:03.040It's just one of those things I have to deal with while I'm traveling because at the same time I talk about politics on my show, I also try and do politics in real life.
00:34:11.260Anyways, so with that being said, see you guys all later.