00:04:43.800we we survived the 2008 financial shock better than any other g20 country so it's it's a night
00:04:52.920and day difference we did that to ourselves but we have to blame orange man bad you're actually
00:04:59.840tapping on something i talked about on the show yesterday i was going over a news segment i do a
00:05:04.540lot of news critique on the show and on cbc power and politics they were doing that when they were
00:05:10.700presenting the job numbers we lost 42 000 jobs the americans gained 160 000 jobs and then they
00:05:17.320very quickly shift to only talking about this through the context of or through the lens of
00:05:22.980donald trump and tariffs and tariffs are definitely not good for our economy they're not even exactly
00:05:28.500good for the american economy and then but it never gets raised why is it that the american
00:05:34.140economy despite the fact that we keep telling them that tariffs are going to hurt them that
00:05:38.600they're gaining jobs and we're losing jobs during the peak employment month of every single year for
00:05:44.920Canadians. Yeah, exactly. And the other thing is the irony of Trump and some of the stuff he does
00:05:51.760does annoy me. Some of it greatly amuses me, but some of it annoys me. The fact is he's actually
00:05:57.740forcing Canada to grow up as a country like, oh, wait a sec, all our oil and gas pipelines or the
00:06:04.600vast majority flow south through the united states and to the extent we do have east west like the
00:06:09.960pipeline supplying alberto oil to ontario goes through the united states right so it's forcing
00:06:16.580us to actually grow up as a country and be more than the spoiled brat living in the attic above
00:06:21.380the united states and and go well yeah we should have pipeline infrastructure running from coast
00:06:27.760to coast uh you know we bring in middle eastern oil to the to the refineries in atlantic canada
00:06:33.540we don't we don't refine Alberta oil and we and you know we as long as there's an NDP government
00:06:40.080in power in British Columbia Alberta is not going to be able to get a pipeline through to the west
00:06:44.500coast so you know there's all these dysfunctionalities within Canada that we've never
00:06:50.240addressed because we've always been just supplying stuff to the United States and that's allowed us
00:06:55.840to be a prosperous nation and well now that's in jeopardy well maybe we should get our act together
00:07:00.400And yeah, that's always the thing that's quite annoying about all this is that we blame economic problems that we've had for over a decade on things that have only happened in the past year and a half in terms of tariffs.
00:07:14.520We seem completely just, I guess, like just disinterested in analyzing whether it's our regulations or tax rates or the fact that we still have a lot of interprovincial trade barriers that outside of the tariffs from the United States on certain goods, it's still easier most of the time to send the non-tariff goods down the southern border than it is from going to go between Alberta and Quebec or Ontario and Saskatchewan.
00:07:42.200It's completely ridiculous. But the thing I want to go back to is what the first half of the clip was about when you were on CTV News as you dropping the line that a right wing extremist is really just a normal person from 20 years ago.
00:07:57.900So what would you say is like kind of how would you kind of sum up the values of somebody in, let's say, 2006 to today and how that has now shifted into being some sort of like sign of radicalism that needs to be cracked down on in the form of laws like, what is it, Bill C-9?
00:08:16.740Yeah, well, first of all, I mean, privacy was already under attack back in 2006, but there was still a there was still a concept that citizens deserved to have privacy.
00:08:26.760if you're a law-abiding citizen, the government needs to mind its own P's and Q's, right? And the
00:08:32.700only time government should start, you know, checking up on you is if there is a serious
00:08:37.060issue at stake, right? But the other thing was, is that, and I'm an immigrant to Canada. I was
00:08:43.940born in Australia. I grew up in Canada, hence my Canadian accent. But I'm actually an immigrant to
00:08:50.900this country. And so certainly back in 2006 and previously, there was an understanding that
00:08:56.420coming to Canada as an immigrant was a privilege and therefore the people that came here and that
00:09:02.820includes people that came over from India like I spent a lot of years living in Victoria where
00:09:07.700there's a large Sikh population I have Sikh friends I mean they were they were coming here
00:09:13.100because they wanted a better life for themselves and their kids but there was also an understanding
00:09:17.200that they were going to while bringing you know some you know interesting and wonderful aspects
00:09:23.400of their culture to British Columbia and wherever else they settled, but that they were also going
00:09:29.280to, by and large, conform with Canadian values, et cetera, right? And, you know, that's one of
00:09:38.740the problems is that now we've opened up the floodgates, and quite frankly, that's completely
00:09:43.500irresponsible, right? When you are letting people that have been completely unvetted into your
00:09:49.080country. Well, what are some of these countries that they're coming from, Pakistan, for example,1.00
00:09:54.940you have people who are maybe terrorists, you have people who are maybe criminals, you have people
00:10:02.440who are maybe serial rapists, and you're just letting that in into a high trust society,
00:10:08.500and then mayhem ensues. And that to me is not only profoundly stupid, it's profoundly1.00
00:10:16.500irresponsible. And there's certain people who have certain theories as to why this is happening.1.00
00:10:21.820But in terms of just regardless of what the motivation is, it's certainly policies that
00:10:27.640are insane. And the vast majority of people would have regarded them as such 20 years ago.
00:10:33.020And there's, I think there's something that the left has done in the last 10 years that has been
00:10:38.560really insidious on things like the immigration debate. There's this concept that the American
00:10:44.140economist Thomas Sowell had either come up with or described where he was talking about
00:10:49.520the difference between different types of discrimination. You go back 20 years ago
00:10:55.160when everyone was a right-wing extremist, and people would have agreed that there's a difference
00:11:00.060between being racist, discriminating against someone based solely on their race and all this
00:11:07.360stuff. And then there is another type of discrimination. I believe this is type 1A and
00:11:11.3201B. One of the types is basically saying, hey, I know from this particular country, we are going
00:11:17.840to have to be more careful with who is allowed into the country, just because based on cultural
00:11:23.500differences or based on extremist movements, you have to be far more scrutinizing and making sure
00:11:28.820that individuals are going to be able to be compatible with Canada. So if I say, if an
00:11:34.540immigrant comes here from Denmark, they're probably going to be more likely to be compatible,0.93
00:11:39.520more likely to obey our customs and laws than somebody from Somalia. And saying that for some
00:11:47.080reason has now become something to be regarded as deeply bigoted or discriminatory when we're
00:11:55.060really just talking about individuals and the rate at which individuals may be compatible.
00:12:01.020You can find a great Canadian in any country, but you also cannot be blind to the idea that
00:12:06.200certain countries are just going to have a higher rate of people who you know support Hamas in the0.96
00:12:11.440case of people who come from Gaza yeah exactly we we're we import the third world we become the0.95
00:12:18.600third world is unfortunately a truism because you know we we allowed ourselves in this sort of fit0.99
00:12:24.900of ongoing fit of political correctness um to and and this is because of our education system we've
00:12:33.680had we've had an education system that has failed people because it's failed to teach them basic
00:12:39.240facts and instead it's been a lot of stuff based on feelings right like oh i feel so bad that you
00:12:46.040know european derived society has been so much more successful than most other societies around
00:12:51.060the world we shouldn't feel guilty about that we should feel proud of it and we should analyze why
00:12:55.600that has been the case and it's been things like property laws it's also been uh the the laws that
00:13:02.800have have the inculcated within them are are you know significant christian values so the culture
00:13:08.860matters right and so for people who come here you know if if if they want if they want to have1.00
00:13:17.240values that says well it's okay for me to rape a 12 year old girl because she's not a muslim like0.84
00:13:23.540those people should never have been let in and you know for people like myself it's like those0.95
00:13:30.240people need to hang like we need like the thing the thing that we've lost as well because we were
00:13:36.400such a successful and quite frankly such a soft society is we forgot about the fact that like up
00:13:42.260until recent history people who were really problematic we killed them right like there was
00:13:48.220quite a number of people that were hung or shot or etc because they were hugely problematic they
00:13:54.420were going around raping and killing people right so yay out of the gene pool the problem is is that
00:14:00.100when you're when you're importing from countries where there hasn't been, for lack of a better term,0.91
00:14:04.860that domestication process, you're letting in some people who are some pretty like uncivilized,1.00
00:14:13.420undomesticated human beings, right? We're letting in feral human beings who think it's great to
00:14:19.080gang rape, great to do crimes of extortion where they, you know, terrorize shopkeepers in return0.97
00:14:25.340for money uh you know that kind of thing and and that is a huge huge failure of our federal
00:14:32.020government one of the basic fundamental responsibilities is this is canada we we have
00:14:37.580certain values you need to protect them and we and we haven't done that because we just had this fit
00:14:42.840of political correctness that all cultures are equal well if all cultures are equal then cannibalism
00:14:48.560is just a a culinary decision right it's like no they're not all equal and and then and look
00:14:55.220that goes to what I would probably define as a left-wing extremist. It's oftentimes radical
00:15:01.720openness, not even to get into the socialistic, communistic policies of organizations like the
00:15:07.520DSA, which also have branches in Canada. Radical openness, although it sounds very soft and nice
00:15:14.340because we're being open, we want to be friendly to everybody, it doesn't actually mean that we're
00:15:20.460somehow creating a better society because we want to be softer soft politics soft societies do not
00:15:27.560actually equal good societies you do need a certain amount of toughness in order to be able to
00:15:33.880maintain what you have and the idea that now it's just become the diet of who uh or who of who like
00:15:41.700platforms like uh cbc ctv news global has had on that that's become the normal it's not because
00:15:48.920society has actually shifted that much, really, in a certain sense, a right-wing extremist is
00:15:53.500still a normal person. You just don't get that many normal people being invited on to speak
00:15:58.480on mainstream news services. You get people like Dr. Christopher Wells, who Justin Trudeau ended
00:16:04.140up making a senator, and he's a radical leftist. And genuinely so. He is a radical leftist who
00:16:10.240believes that it's somehow wrong to not prescribe children puberty blockers, which is today an
00:16:17.100incredibly unpopular position but that's normal based on the frame and the scope of who most
00:16:23.260mainstream media platforms let on yeah no it's it is and and you know how much things have shifted
00:16:30.880in the 1990s i was chief of staff to a an ndp cabinet minister in the mike hardcore government
00:16:36.440right so you know yeah you know and so yeah was was i a little more left-wing than i am now
00:16:44.500Yeah, but not very much, right? I still thought it was wrong to let people die on medical waiting lists. And so I didn't have a big objection to there being private sector alternatives if we weren't getting the needful done through the public health care system.
00:17:02.000So even back then, I had views that were definitely not in line with the more mainstream, at the time, NDP views.
00:17:11.140But now, like I say, they've very dramatically marched off to the left.
00:17:16.040And that's reflected in things like there's a former NDP MLA, Gwen O'Mahony.
00:17:22.020She was a Chilliwack MLA for like 13 months.
00:17:25.360And then in the last provincial election, she ran in Nanaimo-Lanceville for the NDP.
00:17:29.000So, I mean, I'm not the only one who's now, oh, you're so conservative.
00:17:34.720It's like, yeah, my views are kind of the same as what they were back in the day.
00:17:37.800It's just that's no longer an NDP view.
00:17:41.440So it's like the political spectrum shifted under my feet.
00:17:44.440I didn't really march off to the right.
00:17:46.480It's more like the political spectrum marched off to the left.
00:17:50.080Well, and to go to federal politics again, the idea that somehow like the conservative
00:17:56.520party has alienated people by being too right-wing or you know somehow they need to move to the
00:18:01.620center if they want to win elections i always find that to be complete nonsense because despite the
00:18:06.640fact that this last election the narrative of the election was perfectly tailor-made for the
00:18:13.280carny liberals the poly of conservatives if you actually add up the margins of victory for the
00:18:19.700liberals in the closest ridings they only won the minority government in 2025 by about 8 000 votes
00:18:26.420which if you're familiar with the size of normal federal ridings many conservatives in like my
00:18:31.500riding of calgary signal hill win with like 36 000 votes so a fraction of that was the margin
00:18:37.860between the liberals losing and winning but the thing is that like we are still we keep talking
00:18:43.120as if the conservatives are deeply unpopular and they're alienating voters and they they got
00:18:47.10041 of the vote which last time i checked was far higher than what they were getting in 2019 and
00:18:53.3202021 and 2015. So obviously, they have been able to win over voters to their cause in the past.
00:19:02.400But the thing is that it's just more so that Carney is in a perfect position to be able to
00:19:07.140keep, you know, using the Trump boogeyman as a reason for people to rally around the flag and
00:19:12.840vote in the incumbent government. Now, this isn't to say that I don't think the poly of conservatives
00:19:17.100need to change. I think they need bolder policies on things like tax reform, regulations,
00:19:22.320immigration all that stuff but the media is always saying because again they represent a very narrow
00:19:28.380band of political thought it's always if you go back to the center you'll somehow win if you
00:19:33.200occupy much of the same territory as mark carney somehow you're going to succeed in an election by
00:19:39.860being diet mark carney well yeah exactly it's like well you know in terms of you know trying
00:19:46.440to convince my children that they were born in the wrong bodies can can you do that a little0.55
00:19:50.320more gently can you trans them a little more slowly like no that's not what people are looking0.95
00:19:55.920for can you end the madness can you get back to teaching people teaching our children like0.94
00:20:02.800things that they need to learn not not mythology or or or you know lgbtq etc etc propaganda right
00:20:13.120like the it's it's like get back to teaching them the things they need in order to succeed
00:20:19.920in in the 21st century right and and again our education system has been thoroughly inculcated
00:20:27.120with you know woolly headed leftists who you know everything is in theory and that's the other thing
00:20:32.240is that in terms of the woke mind virus right you find that it is really infested you know the
00:20:39.600education people the laptop class etc people who spend a lot of time like in theory in theory
00:20:46.640whereas the people who are actually getting their fingernails dirty like it's gone nowhere because
00:20:51.360they are every day day in and out dealing with in reality in reality in reality right and so
00:20:58.800that that and that's why you see a province like alberta has has much better weathered uh this
00:21:05.840this woke madness than you know vancouver has right um and uh so it yes it's very disconcerting
00:21:15.360in terms of looking around and seeing people say absolutely insane things and then of course you
00:21:20.000get into the whole uh you know oh it's so terrible that i'm white it's so terrible that i'm white0.97
00:21:24.880they want to lash themselves in the back it's a it's an arrogant racist form of humble bragging0.99
00:21:29.280oh, I'm sorry, we're so much better than you. I'm so sorry. You know, it's like, screw off, right?
00:21:36.540The fact is, is that when they, you know, try and make white people feel guilty for X, Y, and Z,1.00
00:21:42.920yeah, there were some shitty things that Europeans did. But on the other hand, the things that never0.94
00:21:47.960got taught were like, yeah, at considerable cost of both money and lives, the British brought an
00:21:55.460end to the slave trade and who were the big drivers of the slave trade the muslims in the
00:22:00.640middle east right you know and and etc etc and and those basic historic facts as well as the fact
00:22:08.700the united states fought a civil war to end slavery there i mean kind of swept under the
00:22:14.040carpet and it's like oh we were so bad we were so terrible and little facts like well there were
00:22:18.780actually more christians who were grabbed and put into slavery by muslim raiders from like uh0.85
00:22:26.580libya present-day libya etc then there were blacks brought over to north america i mean that all got
00:22:32.240lost that never got taught and so there's this huge guilt complex and it's now led to a situation0.98
00:22:38.540where you have these insane people uh predominantly a lot of liberal women who are like welcoming the
00:22:44.900destruction of western civilization and it and it's just like what are you doing like this is as0.99
00:22:51.340bad as things are this is the best most humane most decent society that has ever existed on this
00:22:58.220planet as far as we know right like certainly going back you know 12,800 years to the to the
00:23:04.520to the younger dry ass or whatever ever since then this is certainly the best society that's
00:23:08.740ever existed we that should be celebrated that is something that should be emulated that is not0.96
00:23:14.680something to be say oh but we were perfect you know it's like no when people break up the kind
00:23:21.600of uh problems of federal politics or the dynamics of federal politics i find people oftentimes
00:23:27.120talk about the age gap or the demography gap between young people voting conservative and
00:23:33.460older people voting liberal i i almost think that that's too simplistic i think that what your
00:23:38.880explanation there was probably better that in a lot of ways it's like the laptop class versus
00:23:44.400those who again work with their hands or even people who just work in much more serious white
00:23:50.860collar fields and it's not that the laptop class jobs are things that you can just completely do
00:23:55.760away with it's just people who are not the ones actually you know looking managing the company's
00:24:02.520bottom line or they're not the ones fixing you know somebody's plumbing or you know having to
00:24:08.640replace some drywall. But the thing is that the liberals are thriving on voters who do not work0.78
00:24:14.720because they're retired, people who work for the government, or people who work in positions where
00:24:19.800their actual scope of how the world works is fairly narrow. Everyone needs HR. There's a lot
00:24:26.260of jobs that would be in that laptop class category that are required. But probably somebody
00:24:34.060in that position might want to be a little bit more humble and believing that they know how
00:24:38.580the world works. And you're right, so many of these people are part of the departments of
00:24:42.420different companies that theorize and come up with grand plans and ideas when they're so often not
00:24:48.340actually the people who know how implementation works, who actually know the dynamics of the
00:24:53.840market. And so right now, it feels like it's not really like a young versus old thing. It's just
00:24:58.380that younger people happen to be oftentimes more employed than people in their 60s and 70s. And
00:25:04.440that it's a big fight between those who work in the most practical fields, the most hands-on fields,
00:25:10.260and those who benefit from those who work hands-on. Yeah, exactly. And certainly we've seen
00:25:17.240companies take huge hits when they've hired as their advertising agency or their CEO,
00:25:25.200someone who is coming in from La La Land, right? Look at how Jaguar destroyed their brand with
00:25:32.560with that bizarre advertising campaign um you're an electric car that also nobody wanted so
00:25:39.960obviously the infection ran deeper than just the advertising brand but exactly uh yes that was the
00:25:47.000cake but the icing was the advertising campaign like just how to destroy the cachet of a brand
00:25:52.120which is pretty much all it was all it was down to right um and and there's been and then of course
00:25:57.800hollywood with you know their movies with the message and it's like yes there's this mythical
00:26:03.320audience of super woke people who are just going to flood to the movie theaters to to see the
00:26:09.100message and it's like no people want good writing they want to be entertained they want to be
00:26:13.700excited they want to be scared they want this they want that they want to be entertained right so
00:26:17.520that and they and that's been lost as well so you don't like you look at i'm an economist look at
00:26:24.780the look at the money if if your movie's tanking if your company's tanking you might want to change
00:26:29.920the messaging and i like that you brought up movies because i i don't obviously it's a political
00:26:34.440channel so i don't usually get an excuse to bring it up but it's like the thing that constantly
00:26:38.680happens is that they think that you can turn a predominantly male product into a female product
00:26:46.420and it doesn't work that way all of these people who have never actually created anything on their
00:26:52.640own they've never marketed something that was successful but they're going to come into giant
00:26:58.560properties giant intellectual properties and say you know what this property now needs to try and
00:27:04.980cater towards women in their 20s and it's like women in their 20s don't watch star wars if they
00:27:10.580do it's because they're following their boyfriend of the theater they don't care but the thing is
00:27:14.180like that is like a microcosm to so many problems in society is that we take one thing and saying
00:27:19.580this needs to be a young person thing it's like it's not it's not well this needs to be a male
00:27:23.780thing it's not this needs to be a female this thing needs to be more politically woke and aware
00:27:29.580it's like it doesn't it's an action movie it's like what are we talking well you know and then0.64
00:27:34.260of course you've got that series uh reacher right and uh as one of my uh female friends said she
00:27:40.360said yeah it's wine mom porn right uh because the lead actor you know he's like buff to the nth
00:27:45.760degree right but for guys it's like hey we're gonna see some you know uh simulated fights and
00:27:51.860shootouts and exciting stuff like that right whereas you know for women there's other things
00:27:56.660that going on right but but the point is is that even in the action genre you can do stuff that
00:28:02.780will attract some women to watching it right at the end of the day you just need to make good
00:28:09.520products that yes one person a small collection of people not this giant writer's room but a small
00:28:15.720group maybe just one to three people have a vision and they want it to be as high quality as possible
00:28:21.100they want it to be the thing it should be like you don't get a lot of lawrence of arabia type
00:28:26.140movies anymore if you ever tried to make something like that they would load it up with just a bunch
00:28:31.740of stuff you do not need it would not focus on on on its great cinematography and its great
00:28:38.660historical storytelling and its historical accuracy and all that other stuff it wouldn't
00:28:44.520care about the same it would just focus too much on everything other than that because and someone
00:28:49.740made a point that this has happened with movies it's happened with video games this happened with
00:28:53.800other products every product is trying to be made for everybody right now and that is a lesson to
00:28:59.380the conservative party you are a party that was only ever going to win people who would consider
00:29:04.920voting for the Conservative Party. You're not going to get people to consider it who would
00:29:09.060have never thought about it before. There is a band of about half the country who will do it.
00:29:13.920If you start trying to win voters out of the Liberal pool, you will start failing because
00:29:18.500you are a product meant for certain people, just as the Liberal Party is. But the Conservative
00:29:22.960Party bends over backwards to try and please the median voter in Quebec, which was as ridiculous0.94
00:29:28.940as the Liberal Party trying to please farmers in Saskatchewan. They are not part of your demographic.0.92
00:29:34.920No. And like I said, people don't want like a slightly less extreme version of the very left wing government we have in British Columbia or the federal government in Ottawa that's ramping up trade wars with the United States while cozying up to China and somehow wanting to tie us into Europe, even though Europe looks like, based on the latest German election results, is getting ready for a big swing.
00:30:03.860and what do we see in europe we don't see milk toast uh you know center very center slightly
00:30:10.740right political parties coming to the fore we're seeing very serious right-wing parties coming to
00:30:16.100the fore because europe is in a serious mess uh and there needs to be serious changes right it's
00:30:22.580not fine-tuning it's like stop the madness we need to go back to what we were and worked successfully
00:30:29.620for many many decades right and and so these different political parties which the the left
00:30:36.580that's been in power has actively tried to ban right and and and and and and prevent people from
00:30:42.660having that democratic choice um they're rising to the fore and i and i hope they do uh so carnian is
00:30:49.300like you know uh muslim values or canadian values and we should be closer to uh europe and and we0.97
00:30:55.300we should do we should get in bed with china like all that insanity like needs to go away for the0.99
00:31:01.460sake of canada because that is what is seriously undermining canadian sovereignty canada could be1.00
00:31:06.960a very prosperous country the problem is in the last federal election we basically had an election
00:31:12.100between the makers and the takers and the takers won and right now we have 10 000 canadians a month
00:31:18.160leaving this country and they're by and large the people who are the entrepreneurs the high
00:31:23.220income earners etc and they're going you know what i'm out i can't i can't deal with this you can't
00:31:28.660replace those people with warm bodies from other countries the funny thing is that people in india
00:31:34.100think canada's insane or the type of people that we bring in india has incredibly high rates of
00:31:41.460english fluency so when you bring in people from india who cannot speak english that's terrifying0.99
00:31:48.580because that's somebody that's somebody who could not uh basically could they couldn't make it in1.00
00:31:54.980india and so they're coming here because they think hey at least minimum wage is a lot of
00:31:59.540money compared to back at home even though it doesn't really buy much here hey well there's a
00:32:03.860you know a welfare state in canada you get you can get onto some social benefits you can bring your
00:32:08.420family over here and it's free health care that's why people are showing up but india who most0.88
00:32:13.220people in india when they watch the news tonight it's in english unless you're hindi because there's
00:32:17.220a sizable hindi population so they can get news in their own language most people in india consume
00:32:22.660everything in english pretty much outside of some very local content but the fact that we keep
00:32:28.580bringing in people without even testing if they can speak english and we think they're going to
00:32:33.140replace the tens of thousands of people with high with highly technical skills or with an
00:32:38.820entrepreneurial spirit you're insane most of our graduates from waterloo are are heading down to
00:32:44.980the state so even the ones we're training at taxpayer expense i mean i know there's tuition
00:32:49.860fees as well and and costs like that but still a significant chunk of that is subsidized by the
00:32:54.580canadian taxpayer they're most of them are heading south after they graduate um and that's a terrible
00:33:00.820thing we need to have a much more competitive tax structure in this country right i saw i saw a meme
00:33:06.500where where it's like a battered highway sign and it says canada leaving so soon was it something we
00:33:12.740taxed because they tax everything right it's like it's it's we we need to um we need to have a much
00:33:20.260more competitive tax system we need to recognize that the strength of this country is for the time
00:33:26.180being at least built on the oil and gas sector and we need to have the necessary infrastructure
00:33:31.860in place right assuming we hang together as one country we need to have pipelines transmission
00:33:37.140lines uh going east west not just everything going north south uh we and we need to get
00:33:43.700serious about reducing interprovincial trade barriers because as you pointed out there's a
00:33:47.540wine manufacturer where they had them on cbc and oh what do you think about these new tariffs by
00:33:52.180trump and he said yeah they're they're bad but it's still less than when i try and ship my wine
00:33:56.820to ontario you know so he was reacting to that ridiculous thing because they weren't actually
00:34:01.940going to get rid of the trade barriers so carney came up with this thing where we're going to allow
00:34:05.700you to sell direct consumers in other provinces it's like what what winery that isn't what winery
00:34:13.140of any size is going to bother with direct to customer sales imagine the logistics that's going
00:34:19.060to be required to do that where you're going to buy a semi-truck and ship wine yourself from bc
00:34:24.820to like random restaurants in calgary you're not going to bother with it but that was just such a
00:34:28.900dumb band-aid solution uh and this is why i keep pitching to the conservative party of canada run
00:34:34.900on a 20% across the board income tax cut, corporate tax cut, and take a point off the GST.0.81
00:34:41.580Why? Because it's fun. Let's just take a point off. But stop doing this. Well, liberals are
00:34:46.540running on a 1% rate cut for everyone under $50,000, everything under $50,000, which you
00:34:54.700don't even pay anything on the first $18,000 anyways. And then the conservatives ran on
00:34:58.640two and a quarter, which, yes, it's bigger, but it's under $50,000. That is not the bulk of
00:35:04.120people's affordability problems. People's affordability problems are not a thousand
00:35:07.660bucks. People's affordability problems are like $5,500 a year. Yeah. And the fact that we are
00:35:14.960now at a point where we are literally taxing food out of children's mouths, right? Because you have
00:35:19.640a single mom or, you know, that's making, let's say they're making $80,000 a year.
00:35:27.640they're going to be struggling to i mean even a single person is at the poverty line in a place
00:35:34.640like vancouver or most other large metropolitan areas of canada at eighty thousand dollars now
00:35:40.560add a couple kids into the mix and meanwhile there's the government going oh and both federally
00:35:45.500and provincially like oh yeah you owe us income tax you owe us income tax oh i guess i got less
00:35:49.680money they have a school food program which is always the biggest insult we could actually just
00:35:54.820let parents pay for their own kids' food by not taxing them so much. But no, Trudeau and now
00:36:00.220Carney wanted to come out and be at the ribbon cutting for telling you that they're giving your
00:36:03.300kid a ham sandwich. Yeah, exactly. And it's like, we don't need a plethora of government programs
00:36:09.940where most of the money goes to administration. We need a lot less government, right? And we need
00:36:15.660to have the tax system back where we have a tax system and a government that lives within the
00:36:22.680means of the taxpayers because we don't have that now we have both the feds and provincially in
00:36:28.120british columbia running massive deficits right uh and as and as a result that's also driving up
00:36:35.700inflation then you've got all these you know gas taxes and carbon taxes which again drives up
00:36:41.580drives drives up inflation especially when it comes to food in the grocery stores uh the
00:36:47.060manufacturing of it the the packaging of it the transportation of it all those costs go up when
00:36:51.740government gets its greedy little mitts in there and is taking taking thing at every transaction
00:36:56.100every transaction is being taxed it needs to stop we need to greatly reduce the size of government
00:37:02.820that will also significantly reduce the size of the laptop class which i think would also help us
00:37:08.420get over the hump of this of this bizarre dysfunctional uh clown world that we live in
00:37:16.320and get back to a thing where we have modest government, modest taxes, and people who are
00:37:22.980able to earn a decent living and, and, and have a middle-class lifestyle based on that.
00:37:28.620And unfortunately, because of the mess that's going to be created, we also need to get aggressive
00:37:33.920about all the, uh, I, I don't have any problem with people who come over here and, uh, you know,
00:37:41.160our respect our values and, and our law abiding, all that. I don't care. I don't want to live
00:37:46.240in an all-white society because that's like being trapped on the lawrence welk show in the 1960s1.00
00:37:50.740like it's it gets a little creepy so i don't mind there being people from around the world0.90
00:37:55.940as long as they have canadian values right as long as they they they they you know they're not
00:38:01.560they're not doing extortion schemes they're not raping little girls they're not doing all
00:38:05.300other horrific things start an enclave so you don't have to talk to anybody else
00:38:09.580yeah exactly that's always a big litmus test are you going to move here and then immediately find
00:38:14.580part of town where everyone like you lives and then you're only so you don't even have yes you
00:38:19.060don't even have to learn the language right and so and so for for all that i mean we are going to0.90
00:38:23.940have to deal with the criminal element that that they've irresponsibly let let into this country0.58
00:38:29.940and yes that means we're going to have to deport if we're going to fix the problem
00:38:34.340uh and also we're going to have to we're going to have to seriously revisit what we're doing
00:38:38.580in terms of our our legal system because you know we also have a problem where we have judges who0.90
00:38:44.340are following the example of britain and uh oh an immigrant did something bad uh or terrible uh well0.93
00:38:50.260you know we don't want them deported so we'll give them a slap on the wrist right and you know it's0.98
00:38:56.900justice requires is enforcing the basic law like i would change some laws saying hey if you're a0.86
00:39:02.260non-citizen and you take government benefits you are going to be deported because if you've taken
00:39:08.020more if let's say you're you're permanent resident here and you've been on ei after working four
00:39:13.380years straight, you lost your job, you're on EI for a couple months, so you got a job, that's fine,
00:39:17.180whatever. Refugees, quote unquote, people who are here as TFWs, students, permanent residents,0.99
00:39:25.700if you're living on social benefits, the last social benefit you will get is a free plane ticket0.99
00:39:31.740home. That is it. Because the thing is, you obviously can't survive here. I'm sorry, but
00:39:37.440Canada is not the country where the kindness of strangers allows people who are hard cases to
00:39:42.800just sit around. That's not our position. If I went to Luxembourg right now, I'd probably be
00:39:48.740pretty broke in that society. I shouldn't go to Luxembourg. And it would be pretty messed up if
00:39:53.640I showed up to Luxembourg or Liechtenstein or some other very high net worth country. And I
00:39:58.860demanded that they actually owe me $20,000 extra a year so I can live comfortably.
00:40:06.380Yeah, no. And that's the thing is, is that, I mean, immigration built this country. Let's not forget that. But it wasn't, it was a situation where we, there was some careful screening of who we let in. And I think we had the right balance. We got to the right balance in the 1960s, the 1970s and 1980s.
00:40:26.880but then then it just sort of became this la la land well you know let's just have open borders
00:40:33.120and all cultures are equal and blah blah blah blah and it's like no all cultures aren't equal
00:40:38.740some societies are better than others right like you know it's it's like take an island put a bunch
00:40:44.380of europeans on it it's going to be a successful it's going to be a successful society or put a0.98
00:40:49.140bunch of japanese on it it's going to be a successful society put a bunch of somalis on it
00:40:53.400it's going to be the same kind of society that you have in somalia there is no magic soil
00:40:59.280it's just it's what it's it's based on the people that you have there
00:41:03.580what look at minnesota with all the fraud cases there are just some cultures where it's so much
00:41:09.600more socially acceptable to basically cheat and steal the whole idea is that you're a champion
00:41:15.300in that society certain cultures you're the champion you're the hero if you're getting
00:41:19.440money and you're bringing it back to your household it doesn't matter how you got it
00:41:22.460Why do you think Somalia has a pirate problem? It's because if you get the money, you're a good person. You are, ergo, the champion if you have money. If you're running a big scam that's making you hundreds of thousands, if not millions a year, ergo, you're doing the right thing because you got the money.
00:41:39.000It's like, that's a problem. And so like, I would say if I was ever analyzing certain countries and like Somalia, like Palestine, like Gaza, you know, what the West Bank, I would say like my threshold for how many people probably qualify to ever become good Canadians from those countries, probably less than 5%, probably less than 5% of people you could actually trust you're not basically taking in as charity cases, you know, like the kind of rogue Christians still in those countries who haven't been found and shot yet.0.99
00:42:08.580those people could probably end up coming to canada and even then is it even exactly the best
00:42:14.080place for them to first go to if they don't have the skill and ability to actually live in this0.98
00:42:18.740country comfortably should they you know this is where this uh when it comes to refugees we should0.93
00:42:23.040be enforcing a safe first country or safe third country policy where you don't immediately come
00:42:28.060to canada you know i can understand if you have the skills to live here and you're a refugee from
00:42:32.520ukraine who was an engineer okay you can come to canada uh for the course of the war that's fine
00:42:37.780but like if you're from a country where you are like a subsistence farmer and you think you're
00:42:43.720going to live in winnipeg it's just not going to work no and the other thing is speaking of
00:42:49.040minnesota you've had this other thing or okay they come they come over uh and then they've
00:42:54.240they've meshed with a very corrupt political culture that has that has developed um it's
00:43:01.280developed in the united states and it's increasingly developing here in canada like
00:43:05.400We had the Clinton Foundation. The Clintons left politics with literally hundreds of millions of dollars through a foundation structure. What did Justin Trudeau set up? He set up the Trudeau Foundation. What happened to his net worth when he left politics? He went from being worth $10 million because of his inheritance to hundreds of millions of dollars again.
00:43:26.760So we have this increasingly corrupt political culture. And that's the other thing that we've seen. And it's had real effects of politics. Like part of the turmoil that the BC conservatives have experienced is because the liberals and the looters, and if you did a Venn diagram of that, there would be a big overlap between the two.
00:43:48.940the liberals and the looters are no longer running the show right uh in terms of the bc conservatives
00:43:54.560and that is causing a lot of hurt feelings and some of these people um that are that are working
00:44:00.600assiduously to try and get klf out and carrie lynn finley out and and get back in charge
00:44:06.960that's also because they want to line their own pockets they're not here to save western
00:44:10.920civilization they're just here to you know uh get while the getting's good right uh and that's and
00:44:18.660And so that's another mixture that we've had in terms of in terms of our society.
00:44:24.040There's a level of corruption. And what's really coming home to roost is the fact that in Canada, accountability is like a dirty word.
00:44:31.860Right. You know, the federal government breaks the law. Oh, well, no consequences.
00:44:37.300Right. Oh, there was all this money embezzled by, you know, a liberal cabinet minister feeding contracts to a family member.
00:44:43.980oh well no consequences right and and that is also coming home to roost in terms of the rot
00:44:50.620in our society so there's there's a lot of different things going on it isn't just immigration0.65
00:44:55.340it's also the systemic rot and that we have an rcmp which has also been corrupt they've they've
00:45:00.700raided their own pension piggy piggy bank and whatever but there seems to be this quid pro quo
00:45:06.540where they'll turn a blind eye to the criminal activities of the federal liberal government
00:45:10.860Meanwhile, the federal government turns a blind eye to stuff they are doing. But, you know, but then meanwhile, there is scrutiny of the conservatives when it's politically convenient.
00:45:22.180And to circle all the way back to the beginning of our discussion, that was an extremely annoying media narrative that went around when Pierre Polyev went on the Northern Perspective podcast on YouTube, and he had said about how, you know, the RCMP is, I think he had said something about the RCMP being corrupt or whatever, and the media ran with it as, oh my goodness, he's attacking the RCMP officers.
00:45:44.880it's like how are you guys not understanding his point or how are you are you this willing to
00:45:51.580misunderstand what he's saying he's talking about how the rcmp and the snc lavalin situation
00:45:56.840basically just barely did anything they deliberately slow walked any investigation
00:46:03.680or they didn't go down certain obvious rabbit holes that were full of information and they
00:46:09.140let the whole thing go but the media then covers it from the angle of oh my goodness
00:46:13.000peer police disrespecting police officers how do we know well here's a pundit who's saying he did
00:46:19.560yeah well here's you know and the fact is is you know i have friends who are retired rcmp officers
00:46:24.600uh and they're disgusted uh by by the the corruption that that they they've seen uh and
00:46:32.680they're disgusted by the fact that um yeah the obviously obvious uh scandals like snc lavalin
00:46:40.600uh basically got swept under the rug nothing to see here folks um and as a result every time that
00:46:46.440happens that just emboldens the next prime minister in this case carney to go even further
00:46:52.440be even more outrageous in terms of their conduct i mean you know it's when you have a country when
00:46:58.760we're the only g20 country going into a recession but meanwhile brookfield shares are up 54
00:47:04.440like hello is anyone paying attention in the united states so that's where they're they're
00:47:08.440insulated well yeah and that's the other irony you know he's he's setting up this trade war with the
00:47:13.320united states uh and meanwhile 95 of his assets are in the united states he has a house in the
00:47:18.920united states it's it's just it's just you shake your head at at you know like i say the people who
00:47:25.320are who are watching cbc and just you know every minute they're just oh i guess this is the way
00:47:31.320things are and it's like no it's not yeah anyways well thank you for coming on to the show michael
00:47:37.080I'll definitely try and have you back at some point here.
00:47:40.080But yeah, so yeah, the media is still being the media,
00:47:44.160but it's good that people like you can sometimes make it through the filter