00:12:59.560There are certain activities we could have with China.
00:13:01.980We obviously do have a large amount of trade with them, but we have to be very careful, very deliberate, and they need to meet Canadian standards.
00:13:10.040Here is Pierre, sorry, Mark Carney being grilled by Pierre Polyev at committee over Zoom, of course, because, you know, it was COVID times back in May of 2021 when he was still the chair of Brookfield Asset Management.
00:13:27.200Your CEO says that a third of Brookfield's business will be in China within 25 years.
00:13:33.000China is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
00:13:37.560Why are you moving your resources and your capital to a country that has such intense emissions of greenhouse gases when that's the opposite of what you state is your purpose?
00:13:46.780Well, to be clear on the specific, my role at Brookfield, which is to develop a strategy, which we are developing, which is to invest in companies, remove and eliminate greenhouse gases.
00:14:02.040So that's the impact, that's the transition approach.
00:14:05.160So what one does in that situation, if you may follow, is you go to where the emissions are and you convert dirty activities to green activities.
00:14:16.040And, in fact, this is the, I believed, when I accepted the invitation, was the focus of this committee, is how we could do it for Canada.
00:14:34.440Can I please go on to my next question?
00:14:36.320Actually, I wouldn't mind, rather than having your characterization of what I do, being allowed to do what I do, the facts of what I do and what my responsibilities are.
00:14:47.380And my responsibilities at Brookfield are developing a transition fund, which we think will be world-leading, which is to help companies around the world to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
00:15:02.960final final question a final question an ethical way thank you do you believe that the chinese
00:15:09.460government is perpetrating a genocide on the uyghur people okay here watch uh
00:15:15.660we're gonna go back an ethical way thank you like carney's looking at him saying why did you
00:15:25.000ask me that you know i can't answer that and you asked me anyway that's exactly what his face says
00:15:31.080there and polyev absolutely knew he was going to catch him and carney was woefully unprepared
00:15:38.040and he gives that face watch again do you believe that the chinese government is perfect
00:15:44.280perpetrating a genocide on the uyghur people uh
00:15:52.360put shareholder profits aside and just focus on humanity he can't answer it i can't answer
00:16:01.080or no uh i'm deeply concerned by the situation you're concerned yes or no thank you very much
00:16:07.240mr paliev unfortunately shareholders first protecting the profits thank you very much
00:16:12.040mr paliev he wouldn't call it a genocide even though that's the textbook definition of what it
00:16:21.320is all right does mark carney pose a threat to national unity the left-wing corporate media on
00:16:29.880x today we're all over this op-ed by preston manning which was published in the globe and mail
00:16:35.840uh who said this one of the guys from the toronto star i think said oh right so if you don't get
00:16:42.700your way you're just going to take your ball and go home and not play anymore right my response
00:16:47.260was simply this the west has been playing a rigged game for decades and it's time to step out if the
00:16:56.200refs are all against you and the other team is winning by eight touchdowns and you have absolutely
00:17:01.620no chance because whenever you do complete a pass it gets called back because illegal procedure or0.93
00:17:08.400some other ridiculous stupid penalty it's time to go it's time to go but the question is does
00:17:18.340alberta have the support to pull that off that is the question there's a lot of assumptions going on0.97
00:17:23.580right now about alberta independence and i think it's a great idea especially if the liberals win
00:17:29.920this election but does alberta have that support to make it happen 37 in the latest poll and i
00:17:39.020believe that that support is going to go up but will it touch 50 what they need is 50.1 percent
00:18:14.180National unity will be a perpetual challenge for whomever we choose to form our national government.
00:18:22.560Recent pollings by Polaris Strategic Insights show a temporary decline in support for secession in Quebec,
00:18:28.220but paradoxically, support for the separatist party Quebecois remains high.
00:18:34.480Were the PQ to win the next provincial election in Quebec is predicted,
00:18:38.120it has promised to hold another referendum on secession.
00:18:41.300And so the next federal government, no matter who forms it, will be faced yet again with a challenge to national unity on the Quebec front.
00:18:49.420But whether politicians, the media, or voters in central Canada, and that would be Ontario and Quebec.
00:18:56.740Not the whole provinces, just the areas around the Great Lakes.
00:19:01.180That is central Canada, or that's how it's recognized in central Canada.
00:19:06.980We Manitobans like to think we're central Canada, like right in the middle of the country.
00:19:11.300Anyway, whether these people realize it or not, the greatest future threat to national unity is emerging not from Quebec but on the Western Front, again revealed by the recent Polaris survey.
00:19:23.320On account of the mismanagement of national affairs for the past decade by the Liberal government and its consistent failure to address those issues of greatest concern to Western Canadians,
00:19:33.040large numbers of Westerners simply will not stand for another four years of Liberal government, no matter who leads it.
00:19:39.700The support for Western secession is therefore growing, unabated, and even fueled by liberal promises to reverse many of their previous positions.
00:19:49.120Such promises of expediency simply don't ring true in the West.
00:19:53.760Who, except the most politically naive, would believe Mark Carney's promise is to reverse the liberal positions on everything from East-West pipelines to identity politics and climate change?
00:20:05.340when standing behind him is a cabinet of 23 MPs
00:20:09.320who just a month ago were advocating for the very opposite