Canada’s Heritage Is Bigger Than You Know
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Summary
On this episode of TPLP Media's new podcast, we are talking about our Canadian heritage and how it has been misunderstood and misrepresented in the modern world. Today, we have a special guest on the show, Mr. Brady Wedham, who shares his story of growing up as a child actor in Canada and how he came to learn about his country's history.
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i just think there's so many things about the country and if we i personally like we we have
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to stop listening to a lot of the white noise coming out of washington and what someone calls
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them the mango mussolini and uh that's the term i've heard and start ignoring that and focusing
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on our own focusing on what we can do this has nothing to do with the states though our
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canadian heritage has nothing no no i think sometimes people get too focused on what other
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people are saying yeah i don't care about you no i you and i don't i would just like us collectively
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i love our american brothers and sisters but today i want nothing to do with talking about
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their heritage no but i think we as canadians need to ignore some of the stuff coming out
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of there i agree and focus on what we can do what we do what we've done and what we're about to do
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hello my fellow patriots i am brady wedham welcome back to tpl media thanks for uh subscribing or
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liking or commenting even if you don't do that stuff thank you for being here today we are
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talking about canadian national heritage i was a child actor as a kid i know i don't want to say
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it anymore on this thing i feel like i'm bragging but i was a pretty busy child and growing up as a
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child actor i didn't spend a lot of time in school i'll fully admit it and one of the things that i
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didn't really learn about was canadian national heritage and by the time i became an adult and i
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was removed from that world i i don't know what i felt about canadian heritage i was very proud of
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it at some points and the older i got and the more i paid attention to social media the more
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i realized that a lot of our canadian national heritage is misunderstood so i had to bring in
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the number one canadian the most canadian man i've ever met in my entire life mr jim lang you
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beautiful bastard how you doing i'm good i'm good brady how are you doing not bad my friend i'm sorry
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steal your beautiful bastard no no no hey it's oh it's i don't have copyright it's open to anybody
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we're gonna have to copyright it for you because i feel like that's gonna be a trademark
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you beautiful beast all right um okay what am i getting wrong about canadian national heritage i
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guess the the way to open this up is i'm dumb no no no no no no stop no no i don't know i want to
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tell you something real quick i'm real dumb with this stuff you're you're not dumb think about
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how we grow up how we live we watch tv shows and netflix and there's epic movies about the u.s
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revolution yeah and the signing a declaration of independence and like epic movies academy awards
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the golden globes netflix power series americans feel real proud when they watch that stuff so as
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canadians we don't really have access to that it's one thing to sit there in school and go through
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the curriculum and you're grinding through to get the grade like you may be a math person or an
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english person or arts person or sports so you just want to get through the class pass and move
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on and you don't really think about it that's a young kid you just want to get through the day
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as an adult you learn much more say it's a six part at netflix or amazon prime series or it's a
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movie starring a major hollywood star yeah you're gonna like oh like i watched project hell mary
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with ryan reynolds it's a incredible movie and here's an a-list canadian hollywood a-list
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megastar one of the top five right yeah teaching me more about space and space travel than i ever
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learned in school and that's what i'm talking about so we as canadians are inundated with so
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much content from a british history yep a lot of british the king's speech and all stuff like that
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we hardly have any introduction or any exposure to true canadian history through movies and
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television that we would consume and that's a big part of it brady well i guess just to have this
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this happened just before the pandemic but we started to see a lot of people pushing back on
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our heritage and and things like you know sir john a mcdonald dragged through the mud and and a few
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other well dundas dundas square in toronto dundas square in toronto got renamed yeah right like um
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we've pulled back on that and we've seen that in the states too we've seen a lot of uh a lot of
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former slave owners and things like that then maybe they did some good stuff but they were
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still slave owners and had kind of a negative background they've taken their statues down
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they've taken down the monuments um we've done that a little bit here in canada but i never seen
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anybody you know crap on terry fox right i never seen anybody crap on maple syrup like these are
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the things that people think the canadian heritage is but it's so much more deeper and vaster than
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just these you know surface level things when you think about it in the first canadians were
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first people coming to canada to settle and trade started in the 1600s if anybody's watching and
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they don't know how we actually like became canadian and how this country became canada
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as far as you know i mean the first canadian the first person to come to canada technically
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was the viking leaf erickson okay who landed in part of what is now labrador newfoundland
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and that was the first people actually hit north america long before christopher columbus
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discovered america it was vikings hitting newfoundland and what did they do oh they they
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tried to settle their um do they do their whole viking thing like we're rolling up on shore and
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going to start plundering here's the issue at that time there was only indigenous canadians
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who really wanted no part of them so it was a different dynamic for them so they didn't stay
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that long because of the conflict between the indigenous canadians who didn't want them there
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and the vikings who were a little out of their element and couldn't grow a lot of the crops
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and do a lot of things they're used to doing because of the climate and geography there
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but it wasn't until the 1600s where they took sailing ships down the saint lawrence river
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And into what we know now as Quebec City and Montreal and Ottawa and eastern Ontario.
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Because the whole idea of the fur trade in Canada with the trappers who would work part and parcel with the indigenous Canadians on these huge canoes that would go along the river.
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and huge lakes and then we put them on the ships and send them back to Europe
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with beaver pelts and fox and all the some of the most horrific conditions
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like this is like half the boys didn't make it home so no so that was the
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first the basis of it and then you had settlers who were developing
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relationships and marrying indigenous women creating the Metis community and
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it was the start of something and and it was settlements along the Santa
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lawrence river along lake ontario into what we now know as new brunswick and nova scotia yeah
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because the resources at the time were simply unheard of in a lot of the european countries
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endless acres of forest and fur trade and all this kind of stuff um which just didn't they
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didn't exist so and the americans took advantage of that too right they came up here and did
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trading the hudson's bay trade company like that was a that was a big thing for north america it
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kept the things moving it kept the indigenous people uh in a proper situation where they're
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actually being compensated at the time now it seems we're back in that zone again in 2026
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but originally it felt like they weren't this didn't feel like it was a war like we've been
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told it's felt like a group of various groups it was complex yeah but they were trying to figure
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it out they were definitely trying to figure it out brady and up to each other's benefit and try
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to live together they were the canadian sellers and canadian people by nature were less uh warlike
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and combative than the american settlers who tried to you know fight and take over and claim
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did we have the wars like they did down and down south though like down south you've heard about
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all of these different tribes and not only were these these indigenous tribes warring with each
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other they were also warring with the white man or whoever right the people that were trying to
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colonize the area did we have those kind of issues up here as violently and as bad as the americans
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did with the apache and whatever else right well since the apache was so far away from the canadian
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border and uh they were a unique they were they were through the midwest and the southwest of
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america so tough group the canadians were dealing with the algonquin yeah the cree the mohawk the
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micmac iroquois right yep yeah exactly and the haida out west um but a lot of it was trying to
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live in some sort of harmony but through that canada started to grow you know like and then
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a larger and larger british colony and french colony happened and you had you obviously quebec
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the province was heavy french base and become the french canadian and capital the french-speaking
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basically outside of france the biggest french-speaking country uh area outside of france
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still technically yeah really it's it's huge um you have that now mind you all those people are
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located in one province but we still no no no no no no no no don't forget your acadian history
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right yeah i know so there's pockets in nova scotia in new brunswick northern ontario out west
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in saskatchewan and parts of alberta so there's there are some french canadian pockets that um
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maybe a lot of canadians don't realize but you'll find french canadian named towns out west and in
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different parts of the country including uh new brunswick and nova scotia that you're a lot of
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people are shocked who've not spent a lot of time traveling in canada so if we were so we started
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at like the 1600s here right and in the trade let's move up a little bit because if we don't
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we're going to do a nine hour podcast no no no right so let's go from so the hudson's bay trade
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company things are starting to get themselves sorted out yes there's some conflicts but people
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are starting to develop it we get to the 1800s the gold rush starts gold is people are over gold
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they want to go to gold they came to canada right well now parts of canada yukon and back then the
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railway wasn't start built to the 1800s so actually let's talk about the railway first before we get
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so yeah so they the british north america act in 1867 canada becomes a country and that's
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confederation that's where you know ontario quebec no scotland branswick pei that was the
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original start of canada yep as a country and it wasn't long afterwards that john a mcdonald the
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first prime minister thought we need to go coast to coast we're going to talk about john in detail
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right but towards the end a flawed man but but a visionary like a lot of them there's a pros and
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cons list for sir john and i could do the same thing for andrew jackson and george washington
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and a lot of the founding fathers washington has a very long list right lots of pros lots of cons
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yeah but so in the 1880s they undertake an incredible engineering feat because at the time
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In Ontario, Quebec, a lot of the farmland was spoken for and they wanted to grow Canada.
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So if immigrants are coming to Canada, a lot of the French and Scottish and Irish and English
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and all the type of European immigrants who were settling all throughout those parts of the country
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into the maritimes in Ontario, Quebec, all had the farmland.
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So they had railways across what was then the country, and Johnny McDowell, the Canadian founding father, decided to build it across Lake Superior, northern Ontario, and across the prairies.
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And what they did is they were telling immigrants that come here for next to nothing, here's a bunch of land, come settle in Canada.
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Right. And as the railway was built through northern Ontario, across what we know now as Sault Ste. Marie Thunder Bay, into the west, into Winnipeg.
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The immigrants were getting off the train and like, I'm here now.
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And they'd go, and the railway would go further west into Saskatchewan, and they'd settle there.
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And you're, you're, you, as far as you know, because we didn't have phones and stuff back
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then, it was all like, you know, we were sending letters and, and if you were lucky, you had
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a dove that took your, your, your little letter to the next guy.
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But realistically, we, we had a, we had a very primitive post office system.
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So you, you're under the belief when you're leaving Europe or you're leaving one of these
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countries that you're going to go to Canada and you're going to get off at a train stop.
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And when you get off on that train stop, there's going to be a chunk of land that's already
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Could you imagine that ride getting to that train stop?
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You're like, well, I just got into a port and they're going to, they're going to sell
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me like is this real what's going on here the climate in poland such a cool in sweden and
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germany and all those other european countries coming over is a little different than manitoba
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and saskatchewan in the late 1800s where there's it's the wild west yeah yeah and they're like
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they don't know what you're getting into no they've never seen an indigenous canadian this
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is they've never dealt with winter where it gets minus 40 minus 45 this is survival at its base
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instinct just trying to stay warm and feed yourself and take care of your family like
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did the united states do that because as far as i know i know a little bit more about american
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history than to do canadian history and i hate this there's actually a movie with tom cruise
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and nicole kidman that explains it where he has the worst irish accent in the history of an actor
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what is that uh where it's a ron howard movie and i can't remember the name of the born dick
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far and away thank you that's what it was basically they were told if you go to oklahoma
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you can get a hundred acres of land and it was the great land land rush and so they were these
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immigrants coming off the boat escaping the irish potato famine and going out west on a train and
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getting on a horse and racing to a plot of land and that's my farm i blame the irish potato famine
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on my genetics of why i'm so tight malnourished but no okay so that's the united states was doing
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it as well but it seems like the canada they really did it like this was how we built the
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country see but yeah and because johnny mcdonald he did not want the trains going from windsor
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through the states to go to western canada he was adamant no he can't have any railway
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going through the u.s it has to go through northern ontario to the prairies which is ironic
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because right now our main oil pipeline is going goes through the the place that she didn't want
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to go to right and that's why there's talk we can't do that so at that time but why did john do
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that was it to keep canada sovereign or was he still like hey we just had a war a little while
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ago they were worried about losing british columbia yeah because british they were trying
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to get british columbia into the confederation yeah and they're like how do we i mean once you
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went through the okanagan there i mean you want there was the most the white house got burnt down
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because of that untouched raw rough land in the world yes have you ever been you've been i know
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you have been i've driven out uh in the okanagan in the summer yeah no i've not been in the okanagan
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but i mean talking about i mean so if you were to go into the prairies and i've driven across
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the prairies and this is like in modern times it's rough i can't imagine what it was like in
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the 1800s oh yeah it would be impossible because i was just about to say i've done the okanagan
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and that whole hell we used to call them hell tours on pro wrestling right so you would drive
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across frozen lakes to save time and things like that in the middle of the night with a ring van
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full of guys and a trailer pulling a ring behind you, right? So you had tons and tons of pounds
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driving across these things. And I ran into a bunch of problems out there, but we'll keep that
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for a different day. But going through that in the winter would be, you would die. Well, they did.
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You would die. I mean, more people die than make it out. Because of the climate and how harsh it
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out there so at the same time and it's all mountains right like it's just it's a lot
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i can only imagine the wildlife would take you out not even the weather which was what they
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were being introduced to wildlife immigrants they had never seen before you never seen a grizzly
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bear you ever seen a big brown bear you know in warsaw well right so that yeah seriously yeah so
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packs of wolves and and so the the railway started going west across the prairies and then they
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started building it from vancouver east and what they did is they brought a lot of chinese labor
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and that was the beginning of the chinese canadian immigration chinese labor and albeit um as pier
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burton rightly says um they were really rough with them and how they treated them and how dangerous
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work they did but these chinese laborers were almost under slave conditions from right so they
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were the reason they were able to build the rail line through the mountains they did the most
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dangerous work to get that rail through the mountains into the passes into the prairies
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and that's how canada was connected so we connect canada and we so we've got the hudson's bay trade
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which even at that time still a couple hundred years later is still thriving it's still absolutely
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booming at that point it's not thriving anymore it's now booming and then we have another boom
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gold well i mean it was a bit of a boom i think the big air boom was the population boom in the
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early 1900s okay so after the railway is built now you could get off a boat in halifax at pier 21
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or in montreal and get on a train and conceivably settle in manitoba or saskatchewan alberta or bc
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and my grandfather came to canada in 1928 and he landed at pier 21 and he come from an impoverished
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little village in southern germany where they were eating potatoes three times a day because
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they couldn't afford to feed each other and the village elders told him you have to leave here
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because it's horrible and this is post-world war one where germany was in a deep deep depression
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and a ukrainian canadian priest had come to europe looking for strong men at the time
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wheat was harvested by these big the size yeah the same and he said you know he's like great
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so he came over with like no money couldn't speak a word of english thinking he was going to get off
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at pier 21 get on the train and go to saskatchewan and harvest wheat and settle there and what
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happened he got off the boat and someone speaking german said does not anyone here know how to cut
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meat as god is my witness so he got he got purged before he got out there so my grandfather ended
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up having a career as a butcher and meat inspector he stayed in that business wow yeah and that's how
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he never made it so he never made it out west and and lucky enough um his lang it was easy to spell
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because what happened was when a lot of the immigrants came in the 20s and 30s and 40s in
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Pier 21 and had really complicated last names a lot of them were anglicized by look it was old
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white guys who were doing the paperwork yeah they were just making up last names for them
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Smith right my mother-in-law coming from Holland they were trying to do family tree work and they're
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like why does it stop and they realized they changed the spelling when they arrived my last
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name actually uh so my the the heritage I guess the bloodline that's still over in Europe it's
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a completely different last name yeah yeah my last name is wetham it's actually over there is
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bottomly wetham oh is that right now how i got my name yeah and how i got my name i could only
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imagine wetting his bottom it sounds like bottomly wetham but um yeah no it's it's this is what they
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did they they took off chunks of names they manipulated the ends of names to sound more
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like they did a bunch of stuff this is why you see smith and smith it's the same probably the
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same bloodline and and greeks macedonians uh all those different cultures yeah and their names are
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like well it's different in the old country because it is different it was manipulated by
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a guy i haven't got here to make things easier for everyone so you don't speak english you land
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in halifax or montreal have a good life what are you going to argue with the guy i don't think it
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was whitewashing you're right there was a bunch of old white guys doing it but i think it was
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actually probably just to make it easier on everyone and spelling and we still see this to
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this day yeah i have indian friends who come over and their names are whatever it is right i got a
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what do you need? Well, that's not his name. That's just the Canadian version of the size
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version. That's the angle size version. Right. But his name is probably whatever it is. So I
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recommend any Canadian go to the pure 21 museum in Halifax, which is still there because millions
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of Canadians came through there from the twenties to the sixties and landed there on the boat and
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then made their way to different parts of Canada. Montreal was also a popular destination. And my
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father law after world war ii came from holland and they still my my wife and her sisters were
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able to look up on the manifest you can see his name and how much money he had he had like 40
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equivalent of canadian and a suitcase and that's how he arrived well i'm i'm heading out there over
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the next uh four weeks so i'll make sure i check in and send you a video yeah and so this changed
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canada okay because not only could you arrive here you didn't have to be stuck in montreal or
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Toronto in a big city if you wanted to set up a farm or be in mining or do whatever you had the
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chance to get on a train and go anywhere in the country so crazy so but listen and this will be
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the third time I brought it up gold what do you know about the gold rush that happened why why
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were the all of the Americans coming up here well because in their lives so um you you know about
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the San Francisco 49ers yes sir that was 1849 the gold rush there yeah and what happened is when
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they tapped out they're all like where do we go now so there was this insatiable need to go to
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different places to search for gold and they risked their life going up to canada absolutely
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so and alaska so they were going to the yukon they were going to alaska anywhere someone said
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i think there's gold there they would go there and be part of the gold rush you know that movie
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the revenant that came out years ago that uh leo won an academy award for tom hardy's and he should
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have won an academy award for world for wall street i feel like that was just the one that
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100 times old they had to give them this one just because they felt bad about that but um the
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revenant that was kind of the the story of it too right traveling down no they weren't coming from
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the yukon down to texas but they were it was the same kind of a thing that's the environment that
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you were in if you were gold mining in alaska in the yukon because by the time the deep freeze came
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you had to get out no it was you gotta go it was inhuman but the reason why i'm saying this is
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because us canadians we never left no we stayed this this in a bigger picture brady when you think
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about canadian heritage people often wonder why there's so many top tier comedians and comedic
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actors from canada tell me a lot of it i believe is the climate we grow up in it's harsh it's cold
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it's winter so it makes them cynical well no okay there's times in the winter you can't go out you're
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going to watch monty python and snl and sctv so you get all these influences and if you can put up
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with living in this country with the winters we have and you have to have a sense of humor
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to survive it. This is a little off topic but it's kind of on topic. I don't think I've ever
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admitted this to anybody before let alone done this on a camera. How I got into child acting
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was because I lived in the country where I had no friends. I had my cousin which would come over on
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the weekends. You had to make your own fun right? I had a antenna so I only had three channels but
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had a vhs player and i had a lot of vhs my uncle used to tape movies for me and i became obsessed
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with the jim carrey's and martin lawrence's and in living color and snl stories that canadians
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are the same thing and that's what i did in auditions as a kid i just i played that role
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so you're right like i got limited so it got me into acting so maybe you're right maybe this is
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the reason why a lot of them do end up getting into entertainment is because that's all they
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know at that age you're stuck in home the nhl is filled with it's different now some of the
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One of the old-time greats who grew up in rural Canada
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Irving was his last name, but it was the same kind of thing.
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so this all leads into what is a lot of people,
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the seminal moment where canada truly became a nation that's the battle of vimy ridge in world
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war one yeah it's 1917 world war one's going on since 1914 the allies are in trench warfare with
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the germans and they have had the french and the british try to take vimy ridge a key part
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in the battle of world war one and suffer loss after loss and canadians a lot of them who had
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come from different european countries to settle and now our canadian basically may have been born
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there or were their parents came over and were born in canada and now we're part of the canadian
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army pulled off one of the great military feats of the entire world war one in vimy ridge and for
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a lot of people that's when they changed the momentum it changed the momentum changed the
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perception of canada changed how canadians view themselves and uh this this all of a sudden you
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started to see canada really become a nation the cities grew vancouver became a big deal
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uh toronto hamilton montreal was growing at a rally back and shipping so now we have huge
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shipyards in halifax and vancouver and the country population is growing beautiful european
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architecture yeah and those are like because they're bringing over the influence and i just
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said when we're in montreal it's a shame to see how much that the city can't maintain some of
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of those buildings but it may be it looks like a bigger hamilton right i spent a lot of time in
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hamilton ontario and hamilton ontario gets a really bad rap but there's parts of it that are stunning
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so gorgeous downtown out west you should see some of the russian orthodox churches the old ones that
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were built in the early 1900s for the immigrants with the domes and that the so the soviets had
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like we say what you want about them there's nothing really positive to say about that soviet
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union movement but man the architecture oh my goodness they were onto something but you know so
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this is where all of a sudden canada really starts changing they they have manufacturing
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they have factories right that's all of a sudden you have automobile manufacturers growing in
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windsor and oshawa early electronics we started their own early electronics companies we had
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radio shack which was just basically a distribution center for all of our canadian electronics
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In 1922, a couple of research scientists created a thing that changed the world, insulin.
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Up until 1922, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence.
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One of the most overlooked pieces of Canadian history, Alexander Graham Bell.
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If we didn't have a Canadian in Brantford, Ontario, who was so bored that he just didn't start doing this, we would not be taught.
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So you start thinking about, you know, and this is something that Andrew Coyne in the Global Mail talked about this Wednesday when they were taping.
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His concern, Canada as a country, what have we done growth-wise, project-wise in the last 8 to 10 years?
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And he was speaking about it from Toronto FIPA ready, right?
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An historic perspective, because if you go through the decades, Brady, we have Alexander Graham Bell, the discovery of insulin.
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We have this, we have that, we have the Canada arm, we have all these things, you know, the huge Churchill Falls hydroelectric, all these massive things that we did as a country.
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And I think there's a lot of people looking around going, hey, we got to start doing that again.
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We did it for years in the beginning of the country.
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we've got to get back to it and there's a real appetite i believe in the country for big things
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and big projects and this whole um economic reset that carney and champagne had is talking about
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80 to 100 000 trades people basically they're going to hand you the money to get your trade
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because they want to build things i think that's i think that i'm okay with that we're about 20
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years behind yes thank goodness at least it's being done now i can complain all i want until
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blue in the face and say well you know i should have been done 20 years ago but it's happening
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now so who am i to complain we were a country that was built off of traits we were a country
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that was built off of hard work i feel like that's a lot of our heritage things like you said the
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hudson's bay we've got the yukon uh building their little cities and and prospering off of that we
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have things like the railroad going across canada specifically staying in canada exactly then we see
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lot of negativity it started about i think 2012 was the very first time we've really seen this
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switch on on misunderstandings of what our canadian heritage is and a lot of the negatives were
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highlighted all the way up through the pandemic yes people were bored so they highlighted everything
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that was negative um and didn't focus on a lot of the positive but we're now in 2026 and every time
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i type in canada or hashtag canada online i see just as many good things about who we are and i
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And I see just as many bad things and everything from the woke movement, carbon tax, green movement to the past of our heritage that we're very proud of.
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And now I'm learning more just from talking to you.
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But there's a group and there's a vibe out there that wants you to not pay attention to that and only pay attention to the negative.
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So I would be I wouldn't be truthful unless we talk about some of those negatives.
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so part of the problem is we have to think take a step back i know what it's like in 2026 in
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canada but do you know what it was like in 1866 in canada not a clue not a clue and and so this
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is it there yeah they did bad things yeah they did bad things in europe they did bad things in
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america they did bad things around the world they didn't know any better we know better now now
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Now, maybe I wouldn't take down a statue, but in the statue, you put a new plaque saying
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this is the good things they did, but also acknowledge this is the bad things they did.
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This was one of the founding fathers of Canada who did this, this, and this.
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Ben Franklin did a lot of things that were still, like I said, were reaping the benefits
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of the to to this day but ben franklin was a pretty bad guy sounds like when you start measuring
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these these pros and cons it sounds like there was a really weird past but do we look at it do
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we throw out everything good that he's done and everything good that we're now living with and
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have a benefit from because of some of the negativities from and like you said that was
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the times it doesn't make it right doesn't make it right no no we never want to make it right
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residential schools is a dark stain in history it's bad it is the worst of the worst but they
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at the time they thought they were doing a good thing looking back it was a horrible horrible
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thing horrible what they did and i think this is such a weird one um i think the intent and the
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plan was good like you're saying but some of the people that were executing it and were in charge
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of it were horrible people downright disgusting people man and and again they're thinking let's
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settle canada i mean most of north america if you think canada and the united states what did they
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do they basically went from east settled and went west and what did they do as they went along they
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just started grabbing hundreds of acres of land that had been owned by indigenous people for
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thousands of years yeah and things that this is our land now and thank goodness that canada's
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trying to still to this day trying to make that right right right um we would be a very insensitive
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and very you know very ignorant country if we didn't at least sit down at the table and try
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and discuss this now in 2026 but in 1885 they didn't know any better you're right they don't
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know any better and like you said this is a sign of the times right so sir john a mcdonald he gets
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a lot of slack yeah right he gets a lot of slack and maybe it's deserved well deserved but from
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Well, John A. Macdonald, you had good prime ministers, William Lyon, Mackenzie King, and Lester B. Pearson.
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And Lester B. Pearson, and there's a reason Pearson Airport's called that in Toronto.
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He was a huge reason, a huge voice in the UN during the Suez Crisis in 56.
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He was a huge founding father of the whole UN peacekeeping movement, which Canada was at the forefront.
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And he did a lot of good in the world and he was a proud Canadian and something we can
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So you know, one of the things that Sir John A. Macdonald did was make our federal government
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strong and strengthen it and keep it secure and locked in so that it couldn't be manipulated
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2026, that seems to, ooh, boy, right, but we assume, ooh, boy, so, ooh, but he did, what
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he had built out with the government itself was basically so that the government couldn't
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Yeah, and they acknowledged the monarchy, and the, hey, you know, we, the king and the
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queen and that, but we're Canada, and we have a prime minister, we have members of parliament,
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we have premiers, and we're going to govern ourselves.
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Now, Crownland, I think has been a big, and this is a completely different show.
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We could probably go off on an hour just on Crownland and why we should be utilizing it a little bit more.
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Well, things aren't as good in the monarch as they used to be even just 20 years ago, right?
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The royal family seems to be struggling with some things over there.
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If you listen to the internet, they'll tell you they're broke.
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Well, their version of broke and our version is different.
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Yeah. But Crown land, I think Crown land, you know, when we're talking about things like, well, why don't we take resources out of why aren't we doing more with our resources?
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I think Crown land stopped a bit of that. Right. We knew that there's probably resources in areas.
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Mind you, they do. They do lease out Crown land. Well, I'm just going to push back a little bit. Please do.
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It's it's if you have enough fortitude and wherewithal, you can push through anything.
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If you decide as prime minister with your cabinet ministers and your caucus, look, for the national good of this country, we need to build a bridge.
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And we have a history through this country of like, hey, we need to do this for the betterment of the country.
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And right now we are seeing we are at a tipping point with everything going on with Donald Trump in America and everything going on with Iran that now Shell just spent tens of billions of dollars to invest in a liquid natural gas facility in Alberta and B.C.
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It doesn't matter what side of politics you're on.
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I think we all agree we need to start pulling some of these resources out.
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and then asia is going to be buying our liquid natural gas so they don't have to worry about
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hey we're going to run out because something's going on with donald trump and the persian gulf
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and iran well some of this stuff donald trump's going to be long gone by by the time but the
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persian gulf and iran problem is still going to be there brady it might be it might be we can't
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guarantee that just because he leaves it leaves well i think that's that was a perfect example
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that every country really needs to kind of get themselves figured out here we can't be relying
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on one little patch of land uh for a global trade economy that doesn't work like that and if it can
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be compromised as quick as it was yeah then something else needs to be figured out we cannot
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be relying on other countries resources we need to rely on our own first and then build off of those
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two like we don't have the same resources that africa does right no but we have stuff they don't
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have but we have stuff they don't have so let's just start getting back to the you know i mean
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taking our own stuff and using it as trade again let's start a new hudson's bay company we'll call
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true patriot bay i mean i'm fur trading ain't what it used to be though unfortunately but
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the the the idea the concept is there of a a truly canadian company doing big things in the world
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using what we have our brain power when i say resources i think you and i say resources
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people have to understand it's not just rocks and trees no i mean everything that this country
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offers us it's the scientists it's the brain power it's the the artists start growing hemp
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so that we can get textiles from him what do we need concrete for right like i mean anything and
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everything should be in play here yeah because it just insulates us from uh financial enemies
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and any kind of other enemies what's your understanding of what crown land is
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well i always thought crown land is something that the government owns
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that um the government or the monarch i think it's the federal government that's how i believe
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it is i've always heard it was a retreat the crown land was a retreat see i guess i don't
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know enough about cranberry when i hear the term crown land i assume it's the canadian crown nick
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can you get us a definition of what crown land is producer nick you beautiful creature yeah
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technically what wikipedia or or google what they classify as crown land but i had heard crown land
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for years was always a place where you know if something ever happened over there the one thing
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this is where they relocate the one thing about canada as a nation you know here we are looking
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ahead and a couple months we'll be celebrating another birthday yeah of this great nation yeah
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it's a beautiful country it's a beautiful country we talk a lot of good and a lot of bad about it
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but it's it is amazing we evolve we have evolved as a country to uh the way we did things in the
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1880s to the 20s to the 40s and 50s i mean it changes all the time yeah go ahead nick what
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do you have all right so uh it is public land held by the crown or the state which means it's owned
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by either the federal government or more commonly the provisional or uh territorial governments oh
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thank you so it's got nothing to do with the monarch at all i don't believe so no yeah that's
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what i thought too it's a term crown land we're gonna have a lot of truth seekers and conspiracy
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theorists telling me in the comments section they're like no you're totally right brady
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no because i know that there's like ontario i know for a fact has portions of crown land remember
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what the the opening line i said at the beginning of the show and introduced you i'm dumb no no no
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i'm not saying that as a i'm not putting myself down again okay start thinking about this where
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do where where would you have ever learned about that in school you didn't nick had to look it up
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yeah so there are so many things in can in canadian society read a lot and i've watched a lot of
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documentaries right and i've i've heard the latter like which sounds like i said it's not true was it
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a canadian documentary though i don't know that's the problem so i think as as canadian more anti-royal
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family to be honest well there's there's that but i think for a lot of canadians it's i've i've made
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it my life mission i love history so i've read books and i've studied i've tried to learn what
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i was not taught in school or i didn't know well that's why i begged the guys in in the newsroom
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I'm like, please let me sit with Jim because he is the most Canadian guy ever.
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And as much as I think I know, there's so much I don't know.
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So I'm always trying to experience different things in this country
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One of the most illuminating things I did as a Canadian is a couple of years ago,
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we had to help our daughter move to Edmonton for her master's degree.
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And I did the drive up the 400 to Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay across Lake Superior.
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I was stunned to find out the Trans-Canada Highway in the far north of Ontario is only two lanes.
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After all these years, they still not made it a four-lane highway.
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Yeah, it does. You don't find any trucks on there. It's white-knuckle.
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Have you seen Highway 11 up north in Ontario? There's literally a trucker accident every day.
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And then when you go across the prairies, when you're driving across western Canada,
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it is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful things i've ever experienced beautiful my friend
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wow it was and saskatchewan always gets the rap of being like the most boring no it's stunning
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are you kidding me if your eyes work it is the most amazing place and if you go out there in
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the fall and you see the color changes i don't know if you've had the luxury of being out there
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no i was there it was the end of december oh my goodness so then when you drive you're doing that
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drive you end up from vagina to saskatoon and you cross in lloydminster alberta yeah which is right
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on the border of saskatchewa and alberta then you're driving through ranch land that looks like
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the ranches on yellowstone it looks like north dakota you're like yeah and the horses and the
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cattle and like as far as you can see yeah and then you're into edmonton like it's it's a it's
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an amazing country that so many canadians have never really discovered or taken the time to
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learn that's why i'm always like hey if i ever got a chance to go to this part of the country
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that i've never been i'm going canadian heritage and since you spoke about edmonton the west
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edmonton mall it's still the biggest mall in the world is it not i i don't know if it is anymore
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i think there's one in dubai that's bigger yeah but technically that was a claim to fame for us
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for pretty much the entire 70s up to the top to a couple years ago it has a ferris wheel inside
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the mall it's got a water slide it's got a full rink that the edmonton oilers practice on yeah
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well cambridge ontario has a full rink too oh they do they yeah because cambridge ontario is amazing
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they've got a little rink in their mall but um yes west edmonton mall that is a part of our heritage
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Look at how many people we had brought up just from the cities on the border
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You know, Brady, I know there's a lot of division
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where a lot of people who cry about different parts of the media
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and different reporters and different broadcasters.
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As Canadians, we're doing ourselves a disservice
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Because whether or not you may not like them as a person,
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They may say something that teaches you something about Canada, whether it's the CBC or the Globe and Mail or it's TPL or wherever, whoever it's coming from.
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You're going to learn something about this country and learn something about Canada that makes you a better person.
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I know this hurts your heart every time I say it, but you know my feelings on hockey.
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I don't watch a lot of it, but I used to always watch Don Cherry's speeches.
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But now, fortunately, just a little aside, he was in his mid-80s when he finally left, right?
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The CBC and Hockey Night in Canada really should have been looking at a replacement.
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Who else can we maybe prepare and groom and prep to maybe take his place?
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uh-huh but so they but they kept making all this money and everyone's watching hockey night canada
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and eventually they're like oh we got to get rid of him and now i used to laugh at the crazy
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of course you know like the ties the jacket how is it but even when he the line he got in trouble
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for but we also you know what of course he's gonna say he's an 80 year old white guy like
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come on guys brady how many people got choked up when he'd start crying about a kid that died from
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cancer who was a little girl that fell and he would like he wore his heart in a sleeve as a
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Canadian and I have French Canadian relatives who would turn off the French language broadcast to
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turn him on you see what I've done here the reason why I use Don we got a lot of positive
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things to say about Don a lot of this is misunderstood and if you look at Don Cherry
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right now let's say a young Canadian was to google Don Cherry right now 16 year old never
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even heard of him before the very first thing he's going to see is that don cherry was fired
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for saying something nasty on tv right so they don't know the real they have no idea about how
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beautiful of a soul he is when a young girl passes away and he takes the only five minutes that he's
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got of his time and does a tribute to that girl we don't talk about that you know what else you
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don't talk about the fact that don over his career for no money did thousands of hockey banquets
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across the country but yet we paint the picture that he said something stupid online that was
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supposed to be so i don't think it was a joke but he was he was passionate about what he said
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we don't give him the credit we bury him like i said i don't think you should be able to do a
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bunch of good stuff in your life and then go in a public forum and say something insensitive and
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not have repercussions from it but this is what we've done with almost everything in canada right
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now is that yes that we have sir john a mcdonald but let's only highlight the negatives let's only
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tell these young kids okay you can be negative about sir john a mcdonald all you want but you
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can't deny the fact he was the driving force behind a national railroad that changed canada
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i keep hijacking the show with sir john a mcdonald but i was doing research for this and i was putting
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this together over four or five days the thing that just kept coming back up when you look into
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canadian national heritage is what john a mcdonald built he built this well this is it so what he
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built is the foundation that it sits on yeah he paved the way and then and then through subsequent
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prime ministers and leaders uh they did things a little bit differently and tweaked it and improved
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it and changed it and it grew and grew you think not that long ago canada was about 28 30 million
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people we're now over 40 million there's a reason people come from around the world trying to get
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into this country if you think about the situations i one of the hockey books i wrote i talked about
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a woman who's a teacher in ottawa and she's a hockey coach and on her team was one of the first
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syrian immigrants that came from the war that canada brought in and now you think about that
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this was a family living in a refugee tent city to escape carnage and destruction from a war
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and now they're living in ottawa and playing hockey and the kid ended up being their leading
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scorer oh wow and because they loved hockey so much and loved canada so much like they they went
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in and put the chips and all in so there are people coming from situations that we can't even
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imagine brady to come here and live the canadian dream and give back to the country and there's
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millions of examples of that and that's that's why that's why when we talk about infrastructure
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we have to keep spending the money and building it because people still want to come here
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but why wouldn't you though right yeah we've got a lot of problems and it's a very expensive place
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i i kind of consider canada right now the you know the ritz carlton you get what you pay for
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right yeah you want to stay in a really nice five-star hotel it's gonna cost a fortune see
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i like the motel six kind of guy right i do too but i'm not gonna live in you know
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So what is your favorite thing about being Canadian, Jim?
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Like if you were just, because we have all these commercials
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and they don't play them anymore, but they used to be on TV,
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And you'd see things like the national anthem being made
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and you'd see things like basketball being created here in Canada, right?
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People forget too, things like this was the end of the Underground Railroad.
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In Windsor, Chatham, in North Scotia, in Agra Falls.
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Probably wouldn't be because we figured ourselves out
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and evolved, but slavery could still be going
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if it wasn't things for having an end to the railroad,
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a place for people to go and restart their lives.
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When I watched Jurassic Park in a Raptors game,
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that's the Maple Leaf Square outside of Scotiabank Arena
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and their fans are so fanatic about the Raptors.
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that they can't get tickets but they'll stand outside in the freezing cold and watching with
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a hoodie on and cheering the raptors and you see every nationality every language every color of
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the rainbow there that's canada oh yeah nobody cares they're all like you know can i get you
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something you want something and i'm i'm so sick of that argument anyway against it why do people
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still think that that exists here it's ridiculous get the hell out of here that's not a thing and
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it's simple things like that and united by you know a basketball game or the world cup coming up
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or or um you know being proud and cheering on a canadian musician yeah when you see drake the
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weekend and justin bieber are three of the top 10 most dream artists you don't gotta love him to be
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proud of him like right that's like three of the top 10 of the world are canadian yeah right and
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And then I just saw Ryan Reynolds in the Hail Mary Project.
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Here's a kid from London, Ontario, spent some time in Cornwall,
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and, like, he's probably going to get nominated for Academy Award.
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I always used to use Jim Carrey as a measuring stick.
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I don't know if I can anymore after that speech in France,
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Jim Carrey was a perfect example of just having too much talent.
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And probably, like, his English teacher was one of my substitute teachers, right?
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actually a school called because i know he moved around a bit a school called dr john seaton he
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didn't go to that school but the teacher his english teacher was over there doing substitute
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and uh i've said this before i think on the show where she was just like she goes i'm like was i
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even half as talented as jim and she's like no jim had jim actually had talent get back to work
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brady like but she said he was always uh he was always very reserved yeah like he wasn't he was
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a class clown but he wasn't like he wasn't a lunatic yeah he was just had a lot of energy
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And eventually he found the stage to do it, right?
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He met Rodney Dangerfield and, you know, history does it.
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You see old photos of her with the feathered haircut
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and sort of the plaid shirt like she's a lumberjack
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and then all of a sudden like she's an international superstar.
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Even in the outskirts of Calgary with the Hart family, right?
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So you have the hearts and that was people think because if you go to the
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people don't realize that's the first family of wrestling in the world.
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I think of when you think about wrestling families,
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I think Bret Hart's the best wrestler ever in the world.
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There's never been a better worker than Bret Hart.
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I'm not saying that we're not talking about drawing.
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Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, and either a toss-up between The Rock, Macho Man, and Ric Flair
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when in terms of drawing power, money, tickets in the building,
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which is as the overall business itself, that's what's considered the best wrestler.
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When it comes to technical wrestling, being in there, working it, having ring awareness,
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being in general, knowing where you are, calling matches on the fly,
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Maybe his brother comes close, Owen, but Bret was the best, in my opinion.
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No, but what I was going to say about Bret Hart, if you go to the Hart House in Calgary and you look at how big that house was, you'd think that, oh, my goodness, these were like a rich family.
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The father would, there's stories of the kids talking about how the father would be cooking bacon or flipping sausages, and he'd go and take the poop out of the litter box with the same thing and then go back to, so this was some, like, hillbilly stuff.
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It was called Ted the Wrestling Bear, and they used to take Ted out to these shows, and the kids would get in there wrestling.
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him he had no teeth his claws taken out but the what they would do on the during the day is the
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kids would all get ice cream and they'd let it drip off of their feet and the bear would lick
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their feet these were some redneck kids right they came from crap yeah but they turned it around
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like i said they ended up becoming one of the most notable families in the world of professional
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wrestling and bret hart is considered a canadian hero well i mean i mean there's so many examples
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i mean but they come from like it almost seems like you're right the more the more canadian
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life that you live, the better chance you're going to have to be a superstar because these
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small little towns, these little winter environments, the being bored, the having to create your
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own, build your own snowmobiles and all this stuff.
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There's hundreds of world-class Canadians in science and technology, in medicine, in
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We created Ozempic, which is turning everybody into dust.
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Like something like that, as a matter of fact, I mean, Ozembic has been a life-changing drug
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for a lot of people, for millions of people who struggled with type 2 diabetes, struggled
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with their weight, had so many issues, it's changed everything.
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So the point that basically every pharmaceutical company in the world is trying to find their
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They're either, because they're making their own compound, or they're trying to figure
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And like anything, it can be abused, right?
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like I said, it just turns your bones to dust. And yes, it may do it, but also it's abuse too,
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right? Abuse issues with that. That seems to be, but I just don't, I have a neighbor who struggled
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with type two diabetes and had a lot of health issues and he's living a better life because of
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it. Well, and you just did a great show on peptides, right? And it seems to be that in Russia
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and Canada seem to be one of the leaders in terms of peptides and the research and what actually,
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how to distribute this properly and not leave it for the gray markets and things like that.
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When it comes to pharmaceuticals and it comes to medical research, we're pretty innovative.
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Well, there's pockets in Markham, Unionville, and then the Ottawa region.
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And Richmond Hill, he's got a bit of a boom there.
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So I just think there's so many things about the country.
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and if we personally like we we have to stop listening to a lot of the white noise coming out
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of washington and what someone calls them the mango mussolini and uh that's a term i've heard
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and start ignoring that and focusing on our own focusing on what we can do this has nothing to
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do with the states though our canadian heritage has nothing no no i think sometimes people get
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too focused on what other people are saying yeah i don't care about no i you and i don't i would
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just like us collectively i love our american brothers and sisters but to the i want nothing
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to do with talking about their heritage no but i think we as canadians need to ignore some of the
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stuff coming out of there i agree and focus on what we can do what we do what we've done and
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what we're about to do so i'll go back to the question because i cut you off and we segwayed
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off of it what's your favorite part of canadian heritage if you can only pick one thing and say
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this is what represents our country and this is what represents canada as a whole and jim's
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beliefs and where we're where we've been and where we're going what would be that one thing to me i
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have to go back to it this other john a mcdonald and people are going to give me a lot of crap for
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that well i'm going to say terry fox terry fox thank you so terry that was my second what the
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the marathon of hope and what he did was one thing the legacy were millions of people in the country
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around the world run to this day for cancer research because of this humble middle class
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kid from vancouver lost his leg to cancer and try and watch one interview where you don't get a tear
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in your oh my god so the most amazing the legacy of terry fox and how he's brought canadians of
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all cultures and all backgrounds together for one unified thing i mean it's it's terry fox his
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legacy and how it endures terry fox is a perfect representation of what canadians are and this
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whole conversation talking about going through tribulation and going through uh the unsureties
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of coming to a new country and not knowing what to expect but just coming here with the the intent
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to work and be better and better your family and be part of it terry fox is a perfect example of
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what a canadian actually is yeah right um struggle uh had everything built up a wall built against
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him and somehow broke that down and just kept going right to the end he inspires people to this
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day yeah he inspires me every day like any day i think about terry fox in my head it makes me
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straighten up a little bit more it makes my my body hurt a little bit less and it gives my
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determination a little bit more of a kick that it needs to get through the day and and it's it's not
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just physical it's mental it's you know what's your excuse like let's get on what's your excuse
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yeah what's your excuse it i did the show about uh what is a man right and the one thing that i
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said in that was man up i'm constantly telling myself to man up and maybe i should just be like
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be more terry instead of man up people use it as a negative right i still like the term man up like
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Whatever works for you is what you should be utilizing in life
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You have to just forget about everything and just get on with it.
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Maybe I'm alone in thinking that, but I truly believe we as a country have a limited potential.
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But like the weather we get through every winter, spring arrives and we, you know, we've survived winter.
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We all look like those bears when they come out of the hole.
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And we just keep grinding and keep going and keep building and keep doing things.
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Well, because my mind is like a pinball machine,
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do you think that you missed anything that you wanted to get out
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Like, if there's anything else you want to kind of bring up here, let me know.
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No, I mean, I just think there's so much about the country to be proud of.
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We're more than just, I mean, I know there's the cliches
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where they have the Mounties and the Beaver and the Maples here,
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but that's just what they sell at the tourist shops.
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And you drive around any Canadian city from coast to coast and see what's being done and what they're accomplishing, what they're building, what they're creating, what they're trying to invent.
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And I know that you may hate your premier or your MP or your prime minister for a variety of reasons.
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but don't hate their desire to try to make things better and try to build things and try to improve
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things. They might make a mistake, but they're trying to do something. The government, we can
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always throw stones at the government. But no matter who's in power. It doesn't matter who's
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in power. And you can, even when you like the person in power, you can still use the government
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as like a way to get out of that. Oh, it's the government as a whole. And he's not really in
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power. He's a puppet. I hear that crap all the time. Look at the intent for the government is
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to try and do good that's what it's for it's to try and keep composure it's trying to keep a bit
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of like civility between us um make sure the roads are working make sure our schools are working make
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sure the health care system is going they're not always perfect at it but at least they're still
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working at it like de haviland is now based in calgary yeah and they're the world leader in
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water bombers and people don't realize that till they saw the pacific palisades fire and you see
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one after another scooping the water from the pacific and flying a treetop level and then you
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realize oh wow we did we built that we did yeah we did that you know brian our military expert
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former caf he says all the time you'll never find a tougher soldier than a canadian soldier no and
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i've heard him say it and explain why and i think he's right we are the most determined people ever
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stop whining canadians go back to work fox it up fox it up yeah jimmy thank you so much