Carney SNUBBED by Trump and Mexican President!
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Wyatt Claypool talks about why Métis, Trump, and Scheinbaum don't want to meet with the PM, and why indigenous groups are also refusing to have a meeting with him. He also discusses the lack of progress on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. We have more issues with Mark Carney and his liberal government's
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pursuit of major projects as well as a trade deal with the United States and Mexico with
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nobody apparently wanting to meet with Mark Carney. He is our Prime Minister and he can't
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seemingly get a phone call or a meeting together whether it's Donald Trump, the President of
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Mexico, or even Métis groups within Canada. So I want to take us through these one at a time.
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We're going to go through the Métis one, Trump, and then Gloria Scheinbaum in Mexico. The whole
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thing's funny. I know that we could end up getting deals done and maybe this is just a temporary
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holdup, but the fact that these holdups are even occurring, the fact that even within our own
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borders Métis groups just don't want to meet with Carney unless he does everything exactly right
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demonstrates the very weak leadership that we have in Canada. It's not even just about Mark Carney.
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It's just the national character in general has placed Canada way down on the pecking order for
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who people have to talk to, including within our own borders. I guarantee Wob Canu could get a meeting
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with the Métis in his province well before Mark Carney could get it and he's the Prime Minister and Wob
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is just the Premier of Manitoba. But anyways, before I get into it, I just want to remind you guys,
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I do appreciate reading people's thoughts on the topics. Anyways, I'm going to start off with this
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post by JJ McCullough. He has a great YouTube channel. You guys should go check it out. But he was
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commenting on this story from the Toronto Sun, which I've read through, that says,
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Manitoba Métis Federation turns down Carney's invitation to talk major projects.
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And their contention is the idea that, well, Carney is meeting with the Métis Federation of Ontario,
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and they do not recognize the Métis Federation of Ontario. And so they don't want to be at a
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meeting with them or Canada's National Métis Federation or whatever it is, the Council of Canadian
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Métis, because they're infighting right now. And apparently the star power of Mark Carney is not
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going to prevent them from denying a meeting if the others are at it. And JJ McCullough here says,
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meanwhile, in other quote unquote, fast tracking news, a Métis group will not meet with the prime
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minister because they are in a feud with a rival Métis group. Repairing that feud is now a national
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infrastructure imperative, apparently. And then JJ McCullough goes on to say,
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of the three major indigenous groups, Carney says he needs buy-in from, he needs buy-in to move forward
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with his fast tracking infrastructure dream. First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, the PM is currently
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zero for three. Carney chose to make this his standard for fast tracking, which is to say he made fast
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tracking subordinate to a process that will never get to yes. I feel the press and the conservatives need
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to make this clear instead of pretending all that's missing is Carney not wanting enough.
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And here we have a comment, the quote from Carney on the floor of the House of Commons. This was not
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during the campaign. It was not during the liberal leadership. It was him post-election saying this is
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his standard. He says, quote, the consensus that's required includes a consensus with the indigenous
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people. We will stand with indigenous Canadians. We will build pipelines and energy infrastructure
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in this great country, Carney said on the floor of the House of Commons. Now, there's actually two
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problems here. Now, I've heard from people around the country, and this has been going around actually
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for a couple of months, that Mark Carney may try and hammer through some sort of energy mine or pipeline
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project in the next few years. The problem, even if he does that, he's going to take off his left flank by
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telling them one thing about wanting consensus with indigenous stakeholders. And then if he does the
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actual pipeline thing, he'll take them off. And then if he doesn't get a pipeline done, because he ends up
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getting clubbed back into position by the left wing activists who want him to make good on his
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consensus promise, then he's going to have no real projects to end, or at least they're going to get done
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so slowly nobody's really going to care, or at least it's just going to be like a little, you know,
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too little, too late kind of reaction. And he will still ticked off the people on the left, because
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they don't even want a project approved at all. They want Mark Carney to say that the oil must stay
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in the ground. They're very, you know, Stephen Gilboa-ish on the left. And so if Mark Carney doesn't
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act enough like Stephen Gilboa, maybe these people go back and vote for the Green Party, or they vote for
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the NDP. And then if he passes a pipeline, maybe in Quebec, where they are fairly anti-pipeline,
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not the majority of the population, but the people in the area of Montreal and the suburbs,
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they may go and start voting for the Bloc Quebecois, who has made it very clear that they
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oppose all pipelines. So Mark Carney, by not picking a lane early and sticking to that lane,
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may be kind of, you know, he's basically between a rock and a hard place. Damned if he does,
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damned if he doesn't. And right now he's, so he's basically set up a promise to both groups.
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He's going to get stuff done, but he's also going to, he's going to like, you know, respect
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indigenous consensus and consultation. So yeah, not a very good look there. And so one other thing
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I just kind of also want to mention about this is that now we've had about three instances,
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as alluded by J.J. McCullough, that Carney has met with an indigenous group, an Inuit group,
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and it was like the First Nations convention for all of Canada. He's met with Inuit leaders in the
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North, and now he's attempted or is attempting to meet with Métis, and none of them are actually
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signing on with his agenda. Not one of them has actually said they want major infrastructure.
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They've all basically said, no, let's do it another way, which is the non-oil and gas way,
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which if Mark Carney wants to make gains in the West, he's going to have to do something with that,
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and I'm not so sure if he's actually going to bother with it. But now we need to move on to a
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funny story, and that is Mark Carney not even being able to get a phone call with anyone,
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apparently. Donald Trump or now Gloria Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico. Because for some reason,
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our asinine plan in the liberal government is not to get a new trade deal quickly signed with America
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to avoid the 35% tariff. We're going to try and make as much of our product USMCA compliant as
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possible to avoid the small tariff that was previously in place, but now is the 35%. The
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problem with doing that is it still costs money for products to become USMCA compliant, as I've said.
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But so instead of trying to get a very quick deal done to lower that 35% and try and get down to zero
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tariffs, you know, maybe put supply management on the table, maybe put something else on the table,
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maybe make a threat. We're not doing any of those things. We're trying to renegotiate USMCA. And as
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Kirk Lubomov here says, OMG, that's embarrassing. Mark Carney called Donald Trump went to voicemail.
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Tariff negotiations team that went down to the US essentially just had a coffee in the lobby. Now
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Canada's minister went to Mexico to try and set up a new trade deal, and we're told no thanks. And he is
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citing this article title that says, no need for new bilateral trade deal, says Mexico's president.
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The subheader says, Mexican president Claudia, I think I said Gloria, Claudia Scheinbaum dismissed the
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need for a new bilateral trade agreement with Canada, highlighting the existing trade deal with
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the US, Canada, and Mexico as sufficient. Her remarks followed a meeting with Canadian government
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ministers, which he described as very positive. Well, it's very positive other than we got completely
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rebuffed and the Mexican government doesn't care to try and renegotiate a deal that took well more
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than a year to negotiate in the first place. This was like a signature, like election promise of Donald
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Trump. And it took him till I believe like 2019, 2018, to actually get it across the finish line. He took
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office in 2017. And then two years later, he got the USMCA agreement through. And now Canada,
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rather than just trying to quickly make a couple commitments, maybe make a couple threats,
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get to a state where we basically have no tariffs with the US by making an agreement on the board or
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defense spending or something like that, which we almost are across the finish line on, we just won't
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touch supply management for some reason. But rather than doing that, we're going to try and start a
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two-year process all over again to renegotiate USMCA, or I guess KUSMA. Someone corrected me,
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it's not KUMSA, it's KUSMA. I don't like saying KUSMA. I still like saying USMCA. I don't think it's a
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slap against Canada to have the US at the start of the acronym. Acronyms are meant to sound good,
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and I will say it in the way that sounds the best. But this doesn't really seem like the kind of
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government that we were supposed to get after Carney promised that he was the man who could make
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deals, understands people like Donald Trump and whatnot. We seem to be acting like we're some
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sort of like UN debating club, like we're some high school head in the clouds, like UN, what is it,
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UN General Assembly, some model UN, and we're sitting around making proposals, and we're trying
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to make deals, and we keep saying overly idealistic things. Let's renegotiate this deal to make it work
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with everyone. We're great partners. And then we're not actually engaging in the nitty-gritty
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negotiations. We're just throwing out just blanket statements about how friendly we can be and not
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actually putting anything on the table. And then we go back to our voters, which sadly works in Canada
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at the moment, and just tells people, well, you know, the US is being obstinate, so you better keep
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your elbows up and keep voting for us because we're fighting for you by doing nothing at all,
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entering these meetings, and embarrassingly basically just saying, could you take the
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tear us off? Could you think about it? That's all we're doing right now. There's some other topics
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I want to get to. I'm not sure if I should do another video or now. Let's do one of them now.
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This is actually something I want to highlight from Pierre Polyev that I actually disagree with,
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but it's like an interesting policy to discuss because I get where Pierre Polyev and Conservative MP
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Kyle Seaback are coming from. But this is something that Pierre Polyev posted yesterday. It says,
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flight attendants work long before takeoff and after landing and deserve to be paid for it.
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Shadow Minister of Labor Kyle Seaback and I are calling on the Kearney Liberals to fix this unfair
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system and ensure fair pay for every minute on the job. And effectively, it's saying that with a lot
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of airlines, you have flight attendants who are working well before the actual shift on the flight
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starts and they're not being paid for the time that they're having to come to the airport, go
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through security, go through the rigmarole just to start the shift, do some other stuff beforehand.
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My thing with this and the reason I disagree with it, I understand the sentiment. Should that be how
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it is that you are being paid for every minute that you're in the airport, getting to your job and
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going from your job, having to board shuttles to get to the hotel after a shift because you're not
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in your home city, you know, when you're doing some other work that's not technically part of
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your job description, you should be getting paid for it. Sure. The problem with this, though, is that
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if you know anything about it and I hate airlines, you should come to me and sponsor me. I'm just
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kidding, but you're going to like what I'm going to say. Airlines are actually probably one of the
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most spat on industries in the entire country, if not all of North America and probably the world.
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Airlines make very little money. Each flight that Flair and West Air Canada are putting together
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make very little money. The profit margins in airlines is thin. And when you actually look
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through how many taxes are applied to your airline ticket, to your ticket to go to just like
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on a two-hour flight, it's ridiculous. Flair Airlines actually gives you a printout of every single fee,
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attached to their services, and they will list out all of the taxes, like airport improvement fees,
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security fees, baggage handling fees, ticket fees, and all these extra little fees. It's not going to
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them other than they have to collect it for the government. Flair Airlines and Air Canada and WestJet
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are sometimes making like 7% margins on flights, which, you know, is not a lot considering that they
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are taking you like a 2,000 kilometer trip, and they are making 7% profit margins with a mostly full
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flight. It's insane. And so I don't think that this is necessarily the thing that should be done right
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now. If this was being proposed in conjunction with a special tax break for airlines, I would go for it,
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especially if you actually cut the taxes of airlines. Like I would say it's major, it's
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effectively major transportation. It is kind of like one of those things needed for a major Western
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country. It's like a town providing you roads. I think the airlines should be operating on a much
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smaller corporate tax rate. Provincial and federal corporate tax rates on the airlines should probably
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cap out at a combined 15%, maybe even just 10%. Because it is very difficult to operate an airline.
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That is why they constantly go bankrupt. And the new budget one pops up for a few years before that
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one goes bankrupt as well. So I understand Polly of sentiment here. But I guess it's a good practice
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to have, you know, policies I can bring up on screen that Polly of is proposing that I don't necessarily
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agree with. I get the point. Yes, we want to make sure that people are being paid for the work that
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they are doing. But I think in what needs to coincide with this is also tax relief for an industry who's
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playing fast and loose with paying people because they don't have the money. Because it is actually
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truly a very difficult industry to work with them. But anyways, so that should be it for me today,
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guys. Again, just a reminder to like the video, subscribe to the channel and leave a comment. Do all
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