True Patriot Love - Canada’s Heritage Is Bigger Than You Know

00:00:00.000 i just think there's so many things about the country and if we i personally like we we have

00:00:05.200 to stop listening to a lot of the white noise coming out of washington and what someone calls

00:00:11.600 them the mango mussolini and uh that's the term i've heard and start ignoring that and focusing

00:00:17.280 on our own focusing on what we can do this has nothing to do with the states though our

00:00:21.040 canadian heritage has nothing no no i think sometimes people get too focused on what other

00:00:25.680 people are saying yeah i don't care about you no i you and i don't i would just like us collectively

00:00:30.240 i love our american brothers and sisters but today i want nothing to do with talking about

00:00:34.320 their heritage no but i think we as canadians need to ignore some of the stuff coming out

00:00:38.960 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

00:00:48.240 hello my fellow patriots i am brady wedham welcome back to tpl media thanks for uh subscribing or

00:00:54.880 liking or commenting even if you don't do that stuff thank you for being here today we are

00:00:59.420 talking about canadian national heritage i was a child actor as a kid i know i don't want to say

00:01:05.560 it anymore on this thing i feel like i'm bragging but i was a pretty busy child and growing up as a

00:01:11.180 child actor i didn't spend a lot of time in school i'll fully admit it and one of the things that i

00:01:16.040 didn't really learn about was canadian national heritage and by the time i became an adult and i

00:01:20.760 was removed from that world i i don't know what i felt about canadian heritage i was very proud of

00:01:26.160 it at some points and the older i got and the more i paid attention to social media the more

00:01:31.280 i realized that a lot of our canadian national heritage is misunderstood so i had to bring in

00:01:37.340 the number one canadian the most canadian man i've ever met in my entire life mr jim lang you

00:01:45.260 beautiful bastard how you doing i'm good i'm good brady how are you doing not bad my friend i'm sorry 0.98

00:01:49.500 steal your beautiful bastard no no no hey it's oh it's i don't have copyright it's open to anybody 0.99

00:01:54.460 we're gonna have to copyright it for you because i feel like that's gonna be a trademark 0.99

00:01:57.260 you beautiful beast all right um okay what am i getting wrong about canadian national heritage i

00:02:02.420 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 0.99

00:02:10.560 tell you something real quick i'm real dumb with this stuff you're you're not dumb think about 0.97

00:02:14.600 how we grow up how we live we watch tv shows and netflix and there's epic movies about the u.s 0.97

00:02:24.960 revolution yeah and the signing a declaration of independence and like epic movies academy awards

00:02:33.740 the golden globes netflix power series americans feel real proud when they watch that stuff so as

00:02:39.000 canadians we don't really have access to that it's one thing to sit there in school and go through

00:02:45.360 the curriculum and you're grinding through to get the grade like you may be a math person or an

00:02:50.140 english person or arts person or sports so you just want to get through the class pass and move

00:02:55.580 on and you don't really think about it that's a young kid you just want to get through the day

00:02:59.420 as an adult you learn much more say it's a six part at netflix or amazon prime series or it's a

00:03:06.180 movie starring a major hollywood star yeah you're gonna like oh like i watched project hell mary

00:03:11.600 with ryan reynolds it's a incredible movie and here's an a-list canadian hollywood a-list

00:03:18.860 megastar one of the top five right yeah teaching me more about space and space travel than i ever

00:03:24.400 learned in school and that's what i'm talking about so we as canadians are inundated with so

00:03:31.320 much content from a british history yep a lot of british the king's speech and all stuff like that

00:03:38.120 we hardly have any introduction or any exposure to true canadian history through movies and

00:03:46.040 television that we would consume and that's a big part of it brady well i guess just to have this

00:03:51.800 this happened just before the pandemic but we started to see a lot of people pushing back on

00:03:58.040 our heritage and and things like you know sir john a mcdonald dragged through the mud and and a few

00:04:03.560 other well dundas dundas square in toronto dundas square in toronto got renamed yeah right like um

00:04:09.000 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

00:04:12.840 former slave owners and things like that then maybe they did some good stuff but they were

00:04:16.760 still slave owners and had kind of a negative background they've taken their statues down

00:04:20.280 they've taken down the monuments um we've done that a little bit here in canada but i never seen 0.96

00:04:25.480 anybody you know crap on terry fox right i never seen anybody crap on maple syrup like these are

00:04:30.920 the things that people think the canadian heritage is but it's so much more deeper and vaster than 0.96

00:04:35.480 just these you know surface level things when you think about it in the first canadians were

00:04:41.000 first people coming to canada to settle and trade started in the 1600s if anybody's watching and

00:04:46.440 they don't know how we actually like became canadian and how this country became canada

00:04:51.000 as far as you know i mean the first canadian the first person to come to canada technically

00:04:57.080 was the viking leaf erickson okay who landed in part of what is now labrador newfoundland

00:05:03.220 and that was the first people actually hit north america long before christopher columbus

00:05:08.800 discovered america it was vikings hitting newfoundland and what did they do oh they they

00:05:13.340 tried to settle their um do they do their whole viking thing like we're rolling up on shore and

00:05:18.240 going to start plundering here's the issue at that time there was only indigenous canadians 0.96

00:05:23.680 who really wanted no part of them so it was a different dynamic for them so they didn't stay

00:05:28.320 that long because of the conflict between the indigenous canadians who didn't want them there

00:05:32.800 and the vikings who were a little out of their element and couldn't grow a lot of the crops

00:05:37.040 and do a lot of things they're used to doing because of the climate and geography there

00:05:40.800 but it wasn't until the 1600s where they took sailing ships down the saint lawrence river

00:05:46.160 And into what we know now as Quebec City and Montreal and Ottawa and eastern Ontario.

00:05:52.980 Excuse me.

00:05:53.840 And started settling.

00:05:55.040 And the fur trade.

00:05:56.680 Yes.

00:05:56.840 And that was the Hudson Bay company.

00:05:58.260 I was just about to say.

00:05:59.500 That was the big thing.

00:06:00.700 We just watched the Hudson's Bay closes.

00:06:03.360 Which broke my heart.

00:06:04.420 It broke my heart too.

00:06:05.280 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.

00:06:16.160 and huge lakes and then we put them on the ships and send them back to Europe

00:06:20.120 with beaver pelts and fox and all the some of the most horrific conditions

00:06:24.500 like this is like half the boys didn't make it home so no so that was the

00:06:31.000 first the basis of it and then you had settlers who were developing

00:06:36.380 relationships and marrying indigenous women creating the Metis community and

00:06:40.640 it was the start of something and and it was settlements along the Santa

00:06:45.920 lawrence river along lake ontario into what we now know as new brunswick and nova scotia yeah

00:06:51.860 because the resources at the time were simply unheard of in a lot of the european countries

00:06:56.880 endless acres of forest and fur trade and all this kind of stuff um which just didn't they

00:07:05.120 didn't exist so and the americans took advantage of that too right they came up here and did

00:07:09.760 trading the hudson's bay trade company like that was a that was a big thing for north america it

00:07:14.740 kept the things moving it kept the indigenous people uh in a proper situation where they're 0.93

00:07:18.920 actually being compensated at the time now it seems we're back in that zone again in 2026

00:07:23.820 but originally it felt like they weren't this didn't feel like it was a war like we've been

00:07:28.380 told it's felt like a group of various groups it was complex yeah but they were trying to figure

00:07:33.140 it out they were definitely trying to figure it out brady and up to each other's benefit and try

00:07:37.860 to live together they were the canadian sellers and canadian people by nature were less uh warlike

00:07:44.460 and combative than the american settlers who tried to you know fight and take over and claim

00:07:50.540 did we have the wars like they did down and down south though like down south you've heard about

00:07:55.420 all of these different tribes and not only were these these indigenous tribes warring with each

00:07:59.340 other they were also warring with the white man or whoever right the people that were trying to

00:08:03.180 colonize the area did we have those kind of issues up here as violently and as bad as the americans

00:08:08.940 did with the apache and whatever else right well since the apache was so far away from the canadian

00:08:13.740 border and uh they were a unique they were they were through the midwest and the southwest of

00:08:19.260 america so tough group the canadians were dealing with the algonquin yeah the cree the mohawk the

00:08:25.580 micmac iroquois right yep yeah exactly and the haida out west um but a lot of it was trying to

00:08:33.020 live in some sort of harmony but through that canada started to grow you know like and then

00:08:38.220 a larger and larger british colony and french colony happened and you had you obviously quebec

00:08:45.980 the province was heavy french base and become the french canadian and capital the french-speaking

00:08:51.820 basically outside of france the biggest french-speaking country uh area outside of france

00:08:57.020 still technically yeah really it's it's huge um you have that now mind you all those people are

00:09:01.900 located in one province but we still no no no no no no no no don't forget your acadian history

00:09:07.180 right yeah i know so there's pockets in nova scotia in new brunswick northern ontario out west

00:09:13.700 in saskatchewan and parts of alberta so there's there are some french canadian pockets that um

00:09:19.280 maybe a lot of canadians don't realize but you'll find french canadian named towns out west and in

00:09:26.800 different parts of the country including uh new brunswick and nova scotia that you're a lot of

00:09:31.900 people are shocked who've not spent a lot of time traveling in canada so if we were so we started

00:09:36.120 at like the 1600s here right and in the trade let's move up a little bit because if we don't

00:09:40.540 we're going to do a nine hour podcast no no no right so let's go from so the hudson's bay trade

00:09:44.780 company things are starting to get themselves sorted out yes there's some conflicts but people

00:09:48.800 are starting to develop it we get to the 1800s the gold rush starts gold is people are over gold

00:09:54.020 they want to go to gold they came to canada right well now parts of canada yukon and back then the

00:10:02.100 railway wasn't start built to the 1800s so actually let's talk about the railway first before we get

00:10:06.820 so yeah so they the british north america act in 1867 canada becomes a country and that's

00:10:14.320 confederation that's where you know ontario quebec no scotland branswick pei that was the

00:10:19.100 original start of canada yep as a country and it wasn't long afterwards that john a mcdonald the

00:10:25.940 first prime minister thought we need to go coast to coast we're going to talk about john in detail

00:10:31.600 right but towards the end a flawed man but but a visionary like a lot of them there's a pros and

00:10:37.040 cons list for sir john and i could do the same thing for andrew jackson and george washington

00:10:42.640 and a lot of the founding fathers washington has a very long list right lots of pros lots of cons

00:10:48.880 yeah but so in the 1880s they undertake an incredible engineering feat because at the time

00:10:55.920 In Ontario, Quebec, a lot of the farmland was spoken for and they wanted to grow Canada.

00:11:03.280 So if immigrants are coming to Canada, a lot of the French and Scottish and Irish and English

00:11:10.940 and all the type of European immigrants who were settling all throughout those parts of the country

00:11:15.620 into the maritimes in Ontario, Quebec, all had the farmland. 0.99

00:11:19.320 So they had to go somewhere.

00:11:20.460 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. 0.93

00:11:32.920 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. 0.53

00:11:42.180 And be part of this trade system.

00:11:43.760 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.

00:11:54.520 Still there, to the bay, right?

00:11:55.920 Yeah. 1.00

00:11:56.260 The immigrants were getting off the train and like, I'm here now. 0.95

00:11:59.780 And they'd go, and the railway would go further west into Saskatchewan, and they'd settle there. 1.00

00:12:04.880 Okay, slow down for a second.

00:12:06.380 Look, let's actually paint that picture.

00:12:08.240 So you leave Europe.

00:12:09.800 Yes.

00:12:10.040 And you're, you're, you, as far as you know, because we didn't have phones and stuff back

00:12:13.840 then, it was all like, you know, we were sending letters and, and if you were lucky, you had

00:12:17.040 a dove that took your, your, your little letter to the next guy.

00:12:19.740 But realistically, we, we had a, we had a very primitive post office system.

00:12:23.360 So you, you're under the belief when you're leaving Europe or you're leaving one of these

00:12:26.360 countries that you're going to go to Canada and you're going to get off at a train stop.

00:12:29.140 And when you get off on that train stop, there's going to be a chunk of land that's already

00:12:31.820 dedicated towards you.

00:12:32.960 Yes.

00:12:33.360 Could you imagine that ride getting to that train stop?

00:12:35.720 You're like, well, I just got into a port and they're going to, they're going to sell

00:12:39.520 me like is this real what's going on here the climate in poland such a cool in sweden and

00:12:45.900 germany and all those other european countries coming over is a little different than manitoba

00:12:51.400 and saskatchewan in the late 1800s where there's it's the wild west yeah yeah and they're like

00:12:57.320 they don't know what you're getting into no they've never seen an indigenous canadian this

00:13:00.980 is they've never dealt with winter where it gets minus 40 minus 45 this is survival at its base

00:13:07.160 instinct just trying to stay warm and feed yourself and take care of your family like

00:13:13.280 did the united states do that because as far as i know i know a little bit more about american

00:13:18.260 history than to do canadian history and i hate this there's actually a movie with tom cruise

00:13:22.340 and nicole kidman that explains it where he has the worst irish accent in the history of an actor 0.96

00:13:27.040 what is that uh where it's a ron howard movie and i can't remember the name of the born dick

00:13:31.580 far and away thank you that's what it was basically they were told if you go to oklahoma

00:13:37.140 you can get a hundred acres of land and it was the great land land rush and so they were these

00:13:42.920 immigrants coming off the boat escaping the irish potato famine and going out west on a train and 0.96

00:13:50.100 getting on a horse and racing to a plot of land and that's my farm i blame the irish potato famine 0.57

00:13:55.520 on my genetics of why i'm so tight malnourished but no okay so that's the united states was doing

00:14:02.660 it as well but it seems like the canada they really did it like this was how we built the

00:14:07.060 country see but yeah and because johnny mcdonald he did not want the trains going from windsor

00:14:13.260 through the states to go to western canada he was adamant no he can't have any railway

00:14:18.780 going through the u.s it has to go through northern ontario to the prairies which is ironic

00:14:24.040 because right now our main oil pipeline is going goes through the the place that she didn't want

00:14:30.540 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

00:14:35.600 that was it to keep canada sovereign or was he still like hey we just had a war a little while

00:14:40.460 ago they were worried about losing british columbia yeah because british they were trying

00:14:44.080 to get british columbia into the confederation yeah and they're like how do we i mean once you

00:14:50.460 went through the okanagan there i mean you want there was the most the white house got burnt down

00:14:56.800 because of that untouched raw rough land in the world yes have you ever been you've been i know

00:15:02.940 you have been i've driven out uh in the okanagan in the summer yeah no i've not been in the okanagan

00:15:07.880 but i mean talking about i mean so if you were to go into the prairies and i've driven across

00:15:12.260 the prairies and this is like in modern times it's rough i can't imagine what it was like in

00:15:17.440 the 1800s oh yeah it would be impossible because i was just about to say i've done the okanagan

00:15:21.620 and that whole hell we used to call them hell tours on pro wrestling right so you would drive

00:15:25.520 across frozen lakes to save time and things like that in the middle of the night with a ring van

00:15:28.740 full of guys and a trailer pulling a ring behind you, right? So you had tons and tons of pounds

00:15:35.060 driving across these things. And I ran into a bunch of problems out there, but we'll keep that

00:15:38.720 for a different day. But going through that in the winter would be, you would die. Well, they did.

00:15:46.140 You would die. I mean, more people die than make it out. Because of the climate and how harsh it

00:15:51.700 out there so at the same time and it's all mountains right like it's just it's a lot

00:15:56.500 i can only imagine the wildlife would take you out not even the weather which was what they

00:16:00.080 were being introduced to wildlife immigrants they had never seen before you never seen a grizzly

00:16:04.240 bear you ever seen a big brown bear you know in warsaw well right so that yeah seriously yeah so 0.96

00:16:10.860 packs of wolves and and so the the railway started going west across the prairies and then they 1.00

00:16:18.540 started building it from vancouver east and what they did is they brought a lot of chinese labor

00:16:24.940 and that was the beginning of the chinese canadian immigration chinese labor and albeit um as pier 0.90

00:16:31.600 burton rightly says um they were really rough with them and how they treated them and how dangerous

00:16:36.840 work they did but these chinese laborers were almost under slave conditions from right so they 0.99

00:16:41.220 were the reason they were able to build the rail line through the mountains they did the most 1.00

00:16:47.120 dangerous work to get that rail through the mountains into the passes into the prairies

00:16:52.760 and that's how canada was connected so we connect canada and we so we've got the hudson's bay trade

00:16:58.960 which even at that time still a couple hundred years later is still thriving it's still absolutely

00:17:03.140 booming at that point it's not thriving anymore it's now booming and then we have another boom

00:17:07.520 gold well i mean it was a bit of a boom i think the big air boom was the population boom in the

00:17:15.140 early 1900s okay so after the railway is built now you could get off a boat in halifax at pier 21

00:17:22.340 or in montreal and get on a train and conceivably settle in manitoba or saskatchewan alberta or bc

00:17:29.980 and my grandfather came to canada in 1928 and he landed at pier 21 and he come from an impoverished

00:17:39.260 little village in southern germany where they were eating potatoes three times a day because

00:17:44.980 they couldn't afford to feed each other and the village elders told him you have to leave here

00:17:50.120 because it's horrible and this is post-world war one where germany was in a deep deep depression

00:17:55.740 and a ukrainian canadian priest had come to europe looking for strong men at the time

00:18:03.340 wheat was harvested by these big the size yeah the same and he said you know he's like great

00:18:10.520 so he came over with like no money couldn't speak a word of english thinking he was going to get off

00:18:17.740 at pier 21 get on the train and go to saskatchewan and harvest wheat and settle there and what

00:18:24.380 happened he got off the boat and someone speaking german said does not anyone here know how to cut

00:18:29.080 meat as god is my witness so he got he got purged before he got out there so my grandfather ended

00:18:36.280 up having a career as a butcher and meat inspector he stayed in that business wow yeah and that's how

00:18:42.860 he never made it so he never made it out west and and lucky enough um his lang it was easy to spell 0.98

00:18:51.020 because what happened was when a lot of the immigrants came in the 20s and 30s and 40s in

00:18:56.880 Pier 21 and had really complicated last names a lot of them were anglicized by look it was old

00:19:04.200 white guys who were doing the paperwork yeah they were just making up last names for them

00:19:07.840 Smith right my mother-in-law coming from Holland they were trying to do family tree work and they're

00:19:14.160 like why does it stop and they realized they changed the spelling when they arrived my last

00:19:18.840 name actually uh so my the the heritage I guess the bloodline that's still over in Europe it's

00:19:25.400 a completely different last name yeah yeah my last name is wetham it's actually over there is

00:19:30.340 bottomly wetham oh is that right now how i got my name yeah and how i got my name i could only

00:19:35.840 imagine wetting his bottom it sounds like bottomly wetham but um yeah no it's it's this is what they

00:19:42.120 did they they took off chunks of names they manipulated the ends of names to sound more

00:19:47.620 like they did a bunch of stuff this is why you see smith and smith it's the same probably the

00:19:52.020 same bloodline and and greeks macedonians uh all those different cultures yeah and their names are

00:19:58.120 like well it's different in the old country because it is different it was manipulated by

00:20:01.660 a guy i haven't got here to make things easier for everyone so you don't speak english you land

00:20:05.540 in halifax or montreal have a good life what are you going to argue with the guy i don't think it

00:20:09.780 was whitewashing you're right there was a bunch of old white guys doing it but i think it was

00:20:13.120 actually probably just to make it easier on everyone and spelling and we still see this to

00:20:16.960 this day yeah i have indian friends who come over and their names are whatever it is right i got a

00:20:21.360 what do you need? Well, that's not his name. That's just the Canadian version of the size

00:20:26.540 version. That's the angle size version. Right. But his name is probably whatever it is. So I

00:20:30.920 recommend any Canadian go to the pure 21 museum in Halifax, which is still there because millions

00:20:37.140 of Canadians came through there from the twenties to the sixties and landed there on the boat and

00:20:43.200 then made their way to different parts of Canada. Montreal was also a popular destination. And my

00:20:47.740 father law after world war ii came from holland and they still my my wife and her sisters were

00:20:53.240 able to look up on the manifest you can see his name and how much money he had he had like 40

00:20:58.140 equivalent of canadian and a suitcase and that's how he arrived well i'm i'm heading out there over

00:21:04.840 the next uh four weeks so i'll make sure i check in and send you a video yeah and so this changed

00:21:10.560 canada okay because not only could you arrive here you didn't have to be stuck in montreal or

00:21:15.500 Toronto in a big city if you wanted to set up a farm or be in mining or do whatever you had the

00:21:22.560 chance to get on a train and go anywhere in the country so crazy so but listen and this will be

00:21:28.500 the third time I brought it up gold what do you know about the gold rush that happened why why

00:21:32.480 were the all of the Americans coming up here well because in their lives so um you you know about

00:21:38.260 the San Francisco 49ers yes sir that was 1849 the gold rush there yeah and what happened is when

00:21:44.180 they tapped out they're all like where do we go now so there was this insatiable need to go to

00:21:50.240 different places to search for gold and they risked their life going up to canada absolutely

00:21:54.900 so and alaska so they were going to the yukon they were going to alaska anywhere someone said

00:22:00.400 i think there's gold there they would go there and be part of the gold rush you know that movie

00:22:05.720 the revenant that came out years ago that uh leo won an academy award for tom hardy's and he should

00:22:10.160 have won an academy award for world for wall street i feel like that was just the one that

00:22:13.140 100 times old they had to give them this one just because they felt bad about that but um the

00:22:17.160 revenant that was kind of the the story of it too right traveling down no they weren't coming from

00:22:21.360 the yukon down to texas but they were it was the same kind of a thing that's the environment that

00:22:25.080 you were in if you were gold mining in alaska in the yukon because by the time the deep freeze came

00:22:30.000 you had to get out no it was you gotta go it was inhuman but the reason why i'm saying this is

00:22:35.820 because us canadians we never left no we stayed this this in a bigger picture brady when you think

00:22:42.520 about canadian heritage people often wonder why there's so many top tier comedians and comedic

00:22:47.960 actors from canada tell me a lot of it i believe is the climate we grow up in it's harsh it's cold

00:22:55.220 it's winter so it makes them cynical well no okay there's times in the winter you can't go out you're

00:23:01.080 going to watch monty python and snl and sctv so you get all these influences and if you can put up

00:23:08.860 with living in this country with the winters we have and you have to have a sense of humor

00:23:14.160 to survive it. This is a little off topic but it's kind of on topic. I don't think I've ever

00:23:18.320 admitted this to anybody before let alone done this on a camera. How I got into child acting

00:23:22.960 was because I lived in the country where I had no friends. I had my cousin which would come over on

00:23:27.440 the weekends. You had to make your own fun right? I had a antenna so I only had three channels but

00:23:34.060 had a vhs player and i had a lot of vhs my uncle used to tape movies for me and i became obsessed

00:23:39.740 with the jim carrey's and martin lawrence's and in living color and snl stories that canadians

00:23:45.100 are the same thing and that's what i did in auditions as a kid i just i played that role

00:23:49.260 so you're right like i got limited so it got me into acting so maybe you're right maybe this is

00:23:54.060 the reason why a lot of them do end up getting into entertainment is because that's all they

00:23:57.580 know at that age you're stuck in home the nhl is filled with it's different now some of the

00:24:01.820 One of the old-time greats who grew up in rural Canada

00:24:04.420 with nothing to do but play hockey or...

00:24:08.460 Who was Jericho's father, Chris Irving?

00:24:10.720 His father was a famous player.

00:24:14.680 Irving was his last name, but it was the same kind of thing.

00:24:16.940 He came from a rural place in Winnipeg.

00:24:19.020 What else are you going to do? 1.00

00:24:20.700 The interesting thing about the immigration

00:24:23.140 and the growth of Canada and the railway,

00:24:26.120 so this all leads into what is a lot of people,

00:24:29.280 the seminal moment where canada truly became a nation that's the battle of vimy ridge in world

00:24:34.600 war one yeah it's 1917 world war one's going on since 1914 the allies are in trench warfare with

00:24:42.380 the germans and they have had the french and the british try to take vimy ridge a key part

00:24:48.620 in the battle of world war one and suffer loss after loss and canadians a lot of them who had

00:24:56.520 come from different european countries to settle and now our canadian basically may have been born

00:25:02.220 there or were their parents came over and were born in canada and now we're part of the canadian

00:25:07.440 army pulled off one of the great military feats of the entire world war one in vimy ridge and for

00:25:14.280 a lot of people that's when they changed the momentum it changed the momentum changed the

00:25:17.660 perception of canada changed how canadians view themselves and uh this this all of a sudden you

00:25:24.900 started to see canada really become a nation the cities grew vancouver became a big deal

00:25:30.580 uh toronto hamilton montreal was growing at a rally back and shipping so now we have huge

00:25:38.260 shipyards in halifax and vancouver and the country population is growing beautiful european

00:25:44.180 architecture yeah and those are like because they're bringing over the influence and i just

00:25:47.140 said when we're in montreal it's a shame to see how much that the city can't maintain some of

00:25:51.380 of those buildings but it may be it looks like a bigger hamilton right i spent a lot of time in

00:25:56.060 hamilton ontario and hamilton ontario gets a really bad rap but there's parts of it that are stunning

00:25:59.740 so gorgeous downtown out west you should see some of the russian orthodox churches the old ones that

00:26:06.940 were built in the early 1900s for the immigrants with the domes and that the so the soviets had

00:26:12.660 like we say what you want about them there's nothing really positive to say about that soviet

00:26:16.020 union movement but man the architecture oh my goodness they were onto something but you know so

00:26:23.780 this is where all of a sudden canada really starts changing they they have manufacturing

00:26:28.580 they have factories right that's all of a sudden you have automobile manufacturers growing in

00:26:33.460 windsor and oshawa early electronics we started their own early electronics companies we had

00:26:37.940 radio shack which was just basically a distribution center for all of our canadian electronics

00:26:42.420 In 1922, a couple of research scientists created a thing that changed the world, insulin.

00:26:48.300 Insulin, yeah.

00:26:49.760 Banting and best, right?

00:26:50.880 Yeah.

00:26:51.380 That saved tens of millions of lives.

00:26:55.840 Up until 1922, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence.

00:27:00.540 You could not survive it.

00:27:02.080 One of the most overlooked pieces of Canadian history, Alexander Graham Bell.

00:27:09.640 Right, the telephone.

00:27:10.480 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. 0.78

00:27:19.940 This wouldn't be a thing.

00:27:21.400 No.

00:27:21.800 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.

00:27:31.060 His concern, Canada as a country, what have we done growth-wise, project-wise in the last 8 to 10 years?

00:27:39.340 Very little.

00:27:40.140 And he was speaking about it from Toronto FIPA ready, right?

00:27:43.540 An historic perspective, because if you go through the decades, Brady, we have Alexander Graham Bell, the discovery of insulin.

00:27:50.400 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.

00:28:01.760 And I think there's a lot of people looking around going, hey, we got to start doing that again.

00:28:06.160 We did it for years in the beginning of the country.

00:28:08.760 we've got to get back to it and there's a real appetite i believe in the country for big things

00:28:14.460 and big projects and this whole um economic reset that carney and champagne had is talking about

00:28:22.180 80 to 100 000 trades people basically they're going to hand you the money to get your trade

00:28:27.800 because they want to build things i think that's i think that i'm okay with that we're about 20

00:28:32.460 years behind yes thank goodness at least it's being done now i can complain all i want until

00:28:36.980 blue in the face and say well you know i should have been done 20 years ago but it's happening

00:28:40.040 now so who am i to complain we were a country that was built off of traits we were a country

00:28:46.180 that was built off of hard work i feel like that's a lot of our heritage things like you said the

00:28:51.340 hudson's bay we've got the yukon uh building their little cities and and prospering off of that we

00:28:57.440 have things like the railroad going across canada specifically staying in canada exactly then we see

00:29:03.880 lot of negativity it started about i think 2012 was the very first time we've really seen this

00:29:09.240 switch on on misunderstandings of what our canadian heritage is and a lot of the negatives were

00:29:14.760 highlighted all the way up through the pandemic yes people were bored so they highlighted everything

00:29:18.600 that was negative um and didn't focus on a lot of the positive but we're now in 2026 and every time

00:29:24.280 i type in canada or hashtag canada online i see just as many good things about who we are and i

00:29:29.640 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.

00:29:37.800 And now I'm learning more just from talking to you.

00:29:40.500 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.

00:29:46.300 So I would be I wouldn't be truthful unless we talk about some of those negatives.

00:29:51.360 OK, so let's talk about that.

00:29:52.820 Yeah.

00:29:53.920 Crown land is where I want to start.

00:29:55.660 Right.

00:29:56.060 so part of the problem is we have to think take a step back i know what it's like in 2026 in

00:30:02.400 canada but do you know what it was like in 1866 in canada not a clue not a clue and and so this

00:30:11.340 is it there yeah they did bad things yeah they did bad things in europe they did bad things in

00:30:16.200 america they did bad things around the world they didn't know any better we know better now now

00:30:22.060 Now, maybe I wouldn't take down a statue, but in the statue, you put a new plaque saying 0.87

00:30:28.220 this is the good things they did, but also acknowledge this is the bad things they did.

00:30:33.560 So you make up your mind.

00:30:35.540 This was one of the founding fathers of Canada who did this, this, and this.

00:30:40.060 However, they also did this, this, and this.

00:30:42.800 And I'll use an American example.

00:30:44.280 We used George Washington, but Ben Franklin.

00:30:46.600 Ben Franklin, right?

00:30:47.540 Ben Franklin did a lot of things that were still, like I said, were reaping the benefits

00:30:51.600 of the to to this day but ben franklin was a pretty bad guy sounds like when you start measuring

00:30:56.720 these these pros and cons it sounds like there was a really weird past but do we look at it do

00:31:01.360 we throw out everything good that he's done and everything good that we're now living with and

00:31:06.160 have a benefit from because of some of the negativities from and like you said that was

00:31:11.040 the times it doesn't make it right doesn't make it right no no we never want to make it right 0.96

00:31:15.760 residential schools is a dark stain in history it's bad it is the worst of the worst but they 1.00

00:31:22.240 at the time they thought they were doing a good thing looking back it was a horrible horrible

00:31:26.640 thing horrible what they did and i think this is such a weird one um i think the intent and the

00:31:35.360 plan was good like you're saying but some of the people that were executing it and were in charge

00:31:39.520 of it were horrible people downright disgusting people man and and again they're thinking let's

00:31:46.320 settle canada i mean most of north america if you think canada and the united states what did they 0.79

00:31:51.200 do they basically went from east settled and went west and what did they do as they went along they

00:31:56.560 just started grabbing hundreds of acres of land that had been owned by indigenous people for

00:32:02.000 thousands of years yeah and things that this is our land now and thank goodness that canada's

00:32:06.800 trying to still to this day trying to make that right right right um we would be a very insensitive 0.79

00:32:12.780 and very you know very ignorant country if we didn't at least sit down at the table and try

00:32:17.640 and discuss this now in 2026 but in 1885 they didn't know any better you're right they don't 0.70

00:32:22.620 know any better and like you said this is a sign of the times right so sir john a mcdonald he gets

00:32:28.080 a lot of slack yeah right he gets a lot of slack and maybe it's deserved well deserved but from

00:32:33.260 Well, John A. Macdonald, you had good prime ministers, William Lyon, Mackenzie King, and Lester B. Pearson.

00:32:41.020 Lester B. Pearson, man.

00:32:42.420 And Lester B. Pearson, and there's a reason Pearson Airport's called that in Toronto.

00:32:47.000 He was a huge reason, a huge voice in the UN during the Suez Crisis in 56.

00:32:53.960 He was a huge founding father of the whole UN peacekeeping movement, which Canada was at the forefront.

00:32:59.520 And he did a lot of good in the world and he was a proud Canadian and something we can

00:33:03.000 look at.

00:33:04.000 So you know, one of the things that Sir John A. Macdonald did was make our federal government

00:33:09.420 strong and strengthen it and keep it secure and locked in so that it couldn't be manipulated

00:33:14.040 for gain.

00:33:15.040 2026, that seems to, ooh, boy, right, but we assume, ooh, boy, so, ooh, but he did, what

00:33:28.340 he had built out with the government itself was basically so that the government couldn't

00:33:31.540 be compromised from within.

00:33:32.660 Yeah, and they acknowledged the monarchy, and the, hey, you know, we, the king and the

00:33:37.220 queen and that, but we're Canada, and we have a prime minister, we have members of parliament,

00:33:41.760 we have premiers, and we're going to govern ourselves.

00:33:44.240 Now, Crownland, I think has been a big, and this is a completely different show.

00:33:49.260 We could probably go off on an hour just on Crownland and why we should be utilizing it a little bit more.

00:33:53.500 And I think they're trying to.

00:33:54.660 They are.

00:33:55.020 They're starting.

00:33:55.520 They're starting to now.

00:33:56.680 Well, things aren't as good in the monarch as they used to be even just 20 years ago, right?

00:34:01.220 The royal family seems to be struggling with some things over there.

00:34:04.560 If you listen to the internet, they'll tell you they're broke.

00:34:07.200 I don't ever think that's going to be a thing.

00:34:09.280 Well, their version of broke and our version is different.

00:34:11.260 It's completely different, right?

00:34:11.960 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?

00:34:19.440 I think Crown land stopped a bit of that. Right. We knew that there's probably resources in areas.

00:34:24.500 Mind you, they do. They do lease out Crown land. Well, I'm just going to push back a little bit. Please do.

00:34:30.100 It's it's if you have enough fortitude and wherewithal, you can push through anything.

00:34:36.140 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.

00:34:44.940 We need to build a hydroelectric dam.

00:34:47.280 We need a nuclear power plant.

00:34:49.040 We need to build a pipeline.

00:34:50.580 It gets done.

00:34:51.540 Yeah.

00:34:51.940 It gets done.

00:34:52.720 And it gets done on the ground land.

00:34:54.140 Yeah.

00:34:54.380 Right.

00:34:54.680 And we have a history through this country of like, hey, we need to do this for the betterment of the country.

00:34:59.820 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.

00:35:15.520 Which we need.

00:35:16.280 Which we need.

00:35:17.060 It's good for the country.

00:35:18.080 It doesn't matter what side of politics you're on.

00:35:19.760 I think we all agree we need to start pulling some of these resources out. 0.99

00:35:22.740 and then asia is going to be buying our liquid natural gas so they don't have to worry about

00:35:27.780 hey we're going to run out because something's going on with donald trump and the persian gulf

00:35:31.940 and iran well some of this stuff donald trump's going to be long gone by by the time but the

00:35:37.380 persian gulf and iran problem is still going to be there brady it might be it might be we can't

00:35:42.100 guarantee that just because he leaves it leaves well i think that's that was a perfect example

00:35:46.020 that every country really needs to kind of get themselves figured out here we can't be relying

00:35:49.620 on one little patch of land uh for a global trade economy that doesn't work like that and if it can

00:35:54.900 be compromised as quick as it was yeah then something else needs to be figured out we cannot

00:35:59.460 be relying on other countries resources we need to rely on our own first and then build off of those

00:36:03.700 two like we don't have the same resources that africa does right no but we have stuff they don't

00:36:08.500 have but we have stuff they don't have so let's just start getting back to the you know i mean

00:36:11.620 taking our own stuff and using it as trade again let's start a new hudson's bay company we'll call

00:36:15.540 true patriot bay i mean i'm fur trading ain't what it used to be though unfortunately but

00:36:21.080 the the the idea the concept is there of a a truly canadian company doing big things in the world

00:36:28.060 using what we have our brain power when i say resources i think you and i say resources

00:36:33.360 people have to understand it's not just rocks and trees no i mean everything that this country

00:36:38.520 offers us it's the scientists it's the brain power it's the the artists start growing hemp

00:36:43.560 so that we can get textiles from him what do we need concrete for right like i mean anything and

00:36:48.600 everything should be in play here yeah because it just insulates us from uh financial enemies

00:36:55.640 and any kind of other enemies what's your understanding of what crown land is

00:36:59.560 well i always thought crown land is something that the government owns

00:37:02.920 that um the government or the monarch i think it's the federal government that's how i believe

00:37:08.200 it is i've always heard it was a retreat the crown land was a retreat see i guess i don't

00:37:14.520 know enough about cranberry when i hear the term crown land i assume it's the canadian crown nick

00:37:19.960 can you get us a definition of what crown land is producer nick you beautiful creature yeah

00:37:25.080 technically what wikipedia or or google what they classify as crown land but i had heard crown land

00:37:30.520 for years was always a place where you know if something ever happened over there the one thing

00:37:34.600 this is where they relocate the one thing about canada as a nation you know here we are looking

00:37:39.320 ahead and a couple months we'll be celebrating another birthday yeah of this great nation yeah

00:37:43.400 it's a beautiful country it's a beautiful country we talk a lot of good and a lot of bad about it

00:37:47.160 but it's it is amazing we evolve we have evolved as a country to uh the way we did things in the

00:37:53.480 1880s to the 20s to the 40s and 50s i mean it changes all the time yeah go ahead nick what

00:38:00.680 do you have all right so uh it is public land held by the crown or the state which means it's owned

00:38:06.440 by either the federal government or more commonly the provisional or uh territorial governments oh

00:38:12.120 thank you so it's got nothing to do with the monarch at all i don't believe so no yeah that's

00:38:16.680 what i thought too it's a term crown land we're gonna have a lot of truth seekers and conspiracy

00:38:21.400 theorists telling me in the comments section they're like no you're totally right brady

00:38:25.240 no because i know that there's like ontario i know for a fact has portions of crown land remember 0.72

00:38:30.920 what the the opening line i said at the beginning of the show and introduced you i'm dumb no no no

00:38:37.320 i'm not saying that as a i'm not putting myself down again okay start thinking about this where

00:38:42.200 do where where would you have ever learned about that in school you didn't nick had to look it up

00:38:47.640 yeah so there are so many things in can in canadian society read a lot and i've watched a lot of

00:38:53.080 documentaries right and i've i've heard the latter like which sounds like i said it's not true was it

00:38:59.400 a canadian documentary though i don't know that's the problem so i think as as canadian more anti-royal

00:39:05.560 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

00:39:11.320 it my life mission i love history so i've read books and i've studied i've tried to learn what

00:39:17.080 i was not taught in school or i didn't know well that's why i begged the guys in in the newsroom

00:39:21.960 I'm like, please let me sit with Jim because he is the most Canadian guy ever.

00:39:25.160 He knows this country in front and back.

00:39:27.080 And as much as I think I know, there's so much I don't know.

00:39:29.480 So I'm always trying to learn.

00:39:30.840 So I'm always trying to experience different things in this country

00:39:33.720 and travel to different areas of the country.

00:39:36.200 One of the most illuminating things I did as a Canadian is a couple of years ago,

00:39:40.520 we had to help our daughter move to Edmonton for her master's degree.

00:39:44.920 So I had never done it.

00:39:46.440 And I did the drive up the 400 to Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay across Lake Superior.

00:39:53.260 I was stunned to find out the Trans-Canada Highway in the far north of Ontario is only two lanes.

00:39:58.200 After all these years, they still not made it a four-lane highway.

00:40:01.340 I don't know if it needs to be, though.

00:40:02.440 Yeah, it does. You don't find any trucks on there. It's white-knuckle.

00:40:05.380 Have you seen Highway 11 up north in Ontario? There's literally a trucker accident every day.

00:40:10.060 And then when you go across the prairies, when you're driving across western Canada,

00:40:14.800 it is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful things i've ever experienced beautiful my friend

00:40:19.880 wow it was and saskatchewan always gets the rap of being like the most boring no it's stunning

00:40:25.480 are you kidding me if your eyes work it is the most amazing place and if you go out there in

00:40:30.180 the fall and you see the color changes i don't know if you've had the luxury of being out there

00:40:33.060 no i was there it was the end of december oh my goodness so then when you drive you're doing that

00:40:36.880 drive you end up from vagina to saskatoon and you cross in lloydminster alberta yeah which is right

00:40:43.620 on the border of saskatchewa and alberta then you're driving through ranch land that looks like

00:40:47.600 the ranches on yellowstone it looks like north dakota you're like yeah and the horses and the

00:40:52.760 cattle and like as far as you can see yeah and then you're into edmonton like it's it's a it's

00:40:58.300 an amazing country that so many canadians have never really discovered or taken the time to

00:41:02.420 learn that's why i'm always like hey if i ever got a chance to go to this part of the country

00:41:07.300 that i've never been i'm going canadian heritage and since you spoke about edmonton the west

00:41:11.940 edmonton mall it's still the biggest mall in the world is it not i i don't know if it is anymore

00:41:17.140 i think there's one in dubai that's bigger yeah but technically that was a claim to fame for us

00:41:21.940 for pretty much the entire 70s up to the top to a couple years ago it has a ferris wheel inside

00:41:26.660 the mall it's got a water slide it's got a full rink that the edmonton oilers practice on yeah

00:41:31.300 well cambridge ontario has a full rink too oh they do they yeah because cambridge ontario is amazing

00:41:35.780 they've got a little rink in their mall but um yes west edmonton mall that is a part of our heritage

00:41:41.140 Look at how many people we had brought up just from the cities on the border

00:41:46.080 just to go see the West Edmonton Mall.

00:41:47.940 Absolutely.

00:41:48.540 It's an amazing thing.

00:41:49.900 You know, Brady, I know there's a lot of division

00:41:52.880 where a lot of people who cry about different parts of the media

00:41:56.480 and different reporters and different broadcasters.

00:41:59.080 As Canadians, we're doing ourselves a disservice

00:42:02.640 if we don't listen to or watch everyone.

00:42:05.980 Because whether or not you may not like them as a person,

00:42:08.860 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.

00:42:19.960 You're going to learn something about this country and learn something about Canada that makes you a better person.

00:42:25.040 I know this hurts your heart every time I say it, but you know my feelings on hockey.

00:42:28.200 I'm not a big hockey guy.

00:42:29.100 Yeah.

00:42:29.280 I don't watch a lot of it, but I used to always watch Don Cherry's speeches.

00:42:33.680 Absolutely.

00:42:34.920 I mean, look, I'm.

00:42:36.100 Whether I agree with Don or not.

00:42:37.700 Hockey's in my DNA.

00:42:38.720 What do we do?

00:42:39.420 What are we doing?

00:42:40.680 Hockey misses Don Cherry.

00:42:43.860 He's part of our heritage, guys.

00:42:46.200 But now, fortunately, just a little aside, he was in his mid-80s when he finally left, right?

00:42:53.480 The CBC and Hockey Night in Canada really should have been looking at a replacement.

00:43:00.680 Who else can we maybe prepare and groom and prep to maybe take his place?

00:43:06.760 Jim Lang?

00:43:07.540 No.

00:43:07.980 uh-huh but so they but they kept making all this money and everyone's watching hockey night canada

00:43:13.420 and eventually they're like oh we got to get rid of him and now i used to laugh at the crazy

00:43:18.120 of course you know like the ties the jacket how is it but even when he the line he got in trouble

00:43:23.200 for but we also you know what of course he's gonna say he's an 80 year old white guy like

00:43:28.720 come on guys brady how many people got choked up when he'd start crying about a kid that died from

00:43:34.520 cancer who was a little girl that fell and he would like he wore his heart in a sleeve as a

00:43:39.780 Canadian and I have French Canadian relatives who would turn off the French language broadcast to

00:43:45.760 turn him on you see what I've done here the reason why I use Don we got a lot of positive

00:43:53.160 things to say about Don a lot of this is misunderstood and if you look at Don Cherry

00:43:57.440 right now let's say a young Canadian was to google Don Cherry right now 16 year old never

00:44:03.000 even heard of him before the very first thing he's going to see is that don cherry was fired

00:44:07.140 for saying something nasty on tv right so they don't know the real they have no idea about how

00:44:11.280 beautiful of a soul he is when a young girl passes away and he takes the only five minutes that he's

00:44:16.360 got of his time and does a tribute to that girl we don't talk about that you know what else you

00:44:21.140 don't talk about the fact that don over his career for no money did thousands of hockey banquets 0.99

00:44:28.240 across the country but yet we paint the picture that he said something stupid online that was 0.95

00:44:34.080 supposed to be so i don't think it was a joke but he was he was passionate about what he said 0.74

00:44:38.240 we don't give him the credit we bury him like i said i don't think you should be able to do a

00:44:42.880 bunch of good stuff in your life and then go in a public forum and say something insensitive and

00:44:46.360 not have repercussions from it but this is what we've done with almost everything in canada right

00:44:51.320 now is that yes that we have sir john a mcdonald but let's only highlight the negatives let's only

00:44:56.400 tell these young kids okay you can be negative about sir john a mcdonald all you want but you

00:45:01.580 can't deny the fact he was the driving force behind a national railroad that changed canada

00:45:07.620 i keep hijacking the show with sir john a mcdonald but i was doing research for this and i was putting

00:45:11.980 this together over four or five days the thing that just kept coming back up when you look into

00:45:17.820 canadian national heritage is what john a mcdonald built he built this well this is it so what he

00:45:27.420 built is the foundation that it sits on yeah he paved the way and then and then through subsequent

00:45:34.060 prime ministers and leaders uh they did things a little bit differently and tweaked it and improved

00:45:39.180 it and changed it and it grew and grew you think not that long ago canada was about 28 30 million

00:45:46.220 people we're now over 40 million there's a reason people come from around the world trying to get 0.89

00:45:52.380 into this country if you think about the situations i one of the hockey books i wrote i talked about

00:46:00.140 a woman who's a teacher in ottawa and she's a hockey coach and on her team was one of the first

00:46:05.900 syrian immigrants that came from the war that canada brought in and now you think about that

00:46:12.620 this was a family living in a refugee tent city to escape carnage and destruction from a war

00:46:19.420 and now they're living in ottawa and playing hockey and the kid ended up being their leading

00:46:23.380 scorer oh wow and because they loved hockey so much and loved canada so much like they they went

00:46:30.380 in and put the chips and all in so there are people coming from situations that we can't even

00:46:35.900 imagine brady to come here and live the canadian dream and give back to the country and there's

00:46:41.400 millions of examples of that and that's that's why that's why when we talk about infrastructure

00:46:46.920 we have to keep spending the money and building it because people still want to come here

00:46:50.700 but why wouldn't you though right yeah we've got a lot of problems and it's a very expensive place

00:46:55.460 i i kind of consider canada right now the you know the ritz carlton you get what you pay for

00:47:00.520 right yeah you want to stay in a really nice five-star hotel it's gonna cost a fortune see

00:47:05.420 i like the motel six kind of guy right i do too but i'm not gonna live in you know 0.72

00:47:10.260 Gaza right now.

00:47:11.220 So what is your favorite thing about being Canadian, Jim?

00:47:16.380 Like if you were just, because we have all these commercials

00:47:18.600 and they don't play them anymore, but they used to be on TV,

00:47:20.560 CBC specifically, Our Canadian Heritage.

00:47:23.020 And you'd see things like the national anthem being made

00:47:25.540 and you'd see things like basketball being created here in Canada, right?

00:47:28.860 People forget too, things like this was the end of the Underground Railroad.

00:47:32.800 Absolutely.

00:47:33.440 Right?

00:47:33.640 In Windsor, Chatham, in North Scotia, in Agra Falls.

00:47:37.160 Yeah.

00:47:37.540 Yeah, so we have a lot of good heritage.

00:47:39.820 We can focus on the negatives all we want,

00:47:41.440 but slavery might still be going.

00:47:43.860 Probably wouldn't be because we figured ourselves out

00:47:45.420 and evolved, but slavery could still be going 0.99

00:47:47.060 if it wasn't things for having an end to the railroad, 0.98

00:47:49.540 a place for people to go and restart their lives.

00:47:52.080 Canada gave that opportunity. 0.76

00:47:54.280 I know you're going to think it's silly.

00:47:55.740 When I watched Jurassic Park in a Raptors game,

00:47:58.180 and for people who don't know,

00:47:59.540 that's the Maple Leaf Square outside of Scotiabank Arena

00:48:02.280 when the Raptors are playing,

00:48:04.320 and their fans are so fanatic about the Raptors.

00:48:06.760 that they can't get tickets but they'll stand outside in the freezing cold and watching with

00:48:10.960 a hoodie on and cheering the raptors and you see every nationality every language every color of

00:48:17.640 the rainbow there that's canada oh yeah nobody cares they're all like you know can i get you

00:48:23.560 something you want something and i'm i'm so sick of that argument anyway against it why do people 0.80

00:48:27.980 still think that that exists here it's ridiculous get the hell out of here that's not a thing and 0.61

00:48:34.460 it's simple things like that and united by you know a basketball game or the world cup coming up

00:48:40.140 or or um you know being proud and cheering on a canadian musician yeah when you see drake the

00:48:49.180 weekend and justin bieber are three of the top 10 most dream artists you don't gotta love him to be

00:48:53.420 proud of him like right that's like three of the top 10 of the world are canadian yeah right and

00:48:59.820 And then I just saw Ryan Reynolds in the Hail Mary Project.

00:49:03.640 Here's a kid from London, Ontario, spent some time in Cornwall,

00:49:06.900 and, like, he's probably going to get nominated for Academy Award.

00:49:09.780 It's that good.

00:49:10.500 I always used to use Jim Carrey as a measuring stick.

00:49:12.740 Absolutely.

00:49:13.280 I don't know if I can anymore after that speech in France,

00:49:15.640 but up until the speech in France,

00:49:17.620 Jim Carrey was a perfect example of just having too much talent.

00:49:20.360 And probably, like, his English teacher was one of my substitute teachers, right?

00:49:24.160 I went to school.

00:49:24.660 In Burlington?

00:49:25.240 In the outskirts of Cambridge, Ontario.

00:49:27.640 Okay.

00:49:27.880 actually a school called because i know he moved around a bit a school called dr john seaton he

00:49:32.040 didn't go to that school but the teacher his english teacher was over there doing substitute

00:49:36.040 and uh i've said this before i think on the show where she was just like she goes i'm like was i

00:49:40.760 even half as talented as jim and she's like no jim had jim actually had talent get back to work

00:49:45.720 brady like but she said he was always uh he was always very reserved yeah like he wasn't he was

00:49:51.800 a class clown but he wasn't like he wasn't a lunatic yeah he was just had a lot of energy

00:49:55.800 from coming from a small town

00:49:57.160 and he just wanted to get out his song.

00:49:59.580 And eventually he found the stage to do it, right?

00:50:01.260 He met Rodney Dangerfield and, you know, history does it.

00:50:03.800 He's shy of twain.

00:50:05.000 Yeah, shy of twain, yeah.

00:50:06.260 Like next to nothing in Timmins, Ontario

00:50:08.180 with like nothing to her name.

00:50:10.660 You see old photos of her with the feathered haircut 1.00

00:50:13.980 and sort of the plaid shirt like she's a lumberjack

00:50:19.060 and then all of a sudden like she's an international superstar. 0.91

00:50:21.760 There's so many examples like that.

00:50:23.300 Even in the outskirts of Calgary with the Hart family, right?

00:50:25.800 So you have the hearts and that was people think because if you go to the

00:50:28.880 Hart house now and you see it,

00:50:30.120 people don't realize that's the first family of wrestling in the world.

00:50:34.100 No,

00:50:34.780 uh,

00:50:35.420 but we'll run with it.

00:50:36.720 The first Canadian family.

00:50:37.960 But you think the Von Erics are better. 0.52

00:50:40.580 Oh,

00:50:40.960 I thought you meant,

00:50:41.580 was it the first,

00:50:42.280 like,

00:50:42.400 no,

00:50:42.500 no,

00:50:42.680 no.

00:50:42.800 I think of when you think about wrestling families,

00:50:44.880 I think Bret Hart's the best wrestler ever in the world.

00:50:47.420 There's never been a better worker than Bret Hart.

00:50:49.640 I'm not saying that we're not talking about drawing.

00:50:51.760 Oh,

00:50:51.860 I'm going to sell a segue here.

00:50:52.940 Hulk Hogan is the number one.

00:50:54.220 Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, and either a toss-up between The Rock, Macho Man, and Ric Flair

00:50:59.480 when in terms of drawing power, money, tickets in the building,

00:51:02.060 which is as the overall business itself, that's what's considered the best wrestler.

00:51:05.820 When it comes to technical wrestling, being in there, working it, having ring awareness,

00:51:10.240 being in general, knowing where you are, calling matches on the fly,

00:51:13.000 there's nobody better than Bret Hart.

00:51:14.200 Maybe his brother comes close, Owen, but Bret was the best, in my opinion.

00:51:18.160 Not a lot of people would argue with me.

00:51:20.000 Okay.

00:51:20.580 Yeah.

00:51:21.160 Now, Bret Hart's the best.

00:51:22.140 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.

00:51:29.440 No, they were not.

00:51:31.340 They were extremely poor.

00:51:32.780 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.

00:51:45.500 They had a bear that lived under their deck.

00:51:47.340 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.

00:51:52.140 him he had no teeth his claws taken out but the what they would do on the during the day is the

00:51:57.020 kids would all get ice cream and they'd let it drip off of their feet and the bear would lick 0.99

00:52:00.540 their feet these were some redneck kids right they came from crap yeah but they turned it around 0.86

00:52:05.960 like i said they ended up becoming one of the most notable families in the world of professional 0.92

00:52:10.120 wrestling and bret hart is considered a canadian hero well i mean i mean there's so many examples

00:52:15.620 i mean but they come from like it almost seems like you're right the more the more canadian

00:52:21.460 life that you live, the better chance you're going to have to be a superstar because these

00:52:25.060 small little towns, these little winter environments, the being bored, the having to create your

00:52:29.160 own, build your own snowmobiles and all this stuff.

00:52:32.820 These are human people.

00:52:34.420 There's hundreds of world-class Canadians in science and technology, in medicine, in

00:52:42.760 art, in research.

00:52:45.600 We created Ozempic, which is turning everybody into dust.

00:52:48.560 But yeah, I guess that was.

00:52:50.040 No, on and on.

00:52:51.320 Like something like that, as a matter of fact, I mean, Ozembic has been a life-changing drug

00:52:58.400 for a lot of people, for millions of people who struggled with type 2 diabetes, struggled

00:53:03.460 with their weight, had so many issues, it's changed everything.

00:53:07.300 So the point that basically every pharmaceutical company in the world is trying to find their

00:53:12.340 own version of it.

00:53:13.220 They're either, because they're making their own compound, or they're trying to figure

00:53:16.160 out how...

00:53:16.520 Or another version of it.

00:53:17.680 And like anything, it can be abused, right? 1.00

00:53:19.580 Everybody likes to make fun of Ozembic. 0.69

00:53:21.040 like I said, it just turns your bones to dust. And yes, it may do it, but also it's abuse too,

00:53:25.600 right? Abuse issues with that. That seems to be, but I just don't, I have a neighbor who struggled

00:53:30.540 with type two diabetes and had a lot of health issues and he's living a better life because of

00:53:35.600 it. Well, and you just did a great show on peptides, right? And it seems to be that in Russia

00:53:39.900 and Canada seem to be one of the leaders in terms of peptides and the research and what actually,

00:53:44.980 how to distribute this properly and not leave it for the gray markets and things like that.

00:53:48.900 So Canada, you're right.

00:53:49.840 When it comes to pharmaceuticals and it comes to medical research, we're pretty innovative.

00:53:54.440 We always have been.

00:53:55.360 Yeah.

00:53:55.660 And we have our own Silicon Valley.

00:53:57.740 Yeah.

00:53:58.140 And we have our old Meadowvale.

00:54:00.220 Yeah.

00:54:00.620 Well, there's pockets in Markham, Unionville, and then the Ottawa region.

00:54:04.500 Yep.

00:54:05.020 And Richmond Hill, he's got a bit of a boom there.

00:54:07.780 Yep.

00:54:07.960 And Vancouver in the Lower Mainland.

00:54:09.880 So I just think there's so many things about the country. 0.57

00:54:12.580 and if we personally like we we have to stop listening to a lot of the white noise coming out

00:54:18.620 of washington and what someone calls them the mango mussolini and uh that's a term i've heard

00:54:25.240 and start ignoring that and focusing on our own focusing on what we can do this has nothing to

00:54:30.260 do with the states though our canadian heritage has nothing no no i think sometimes people get

00:54:34.860 too focused on what other people are saying yeah i don't care about no i you and i don't i would

00:54:39.380 just like us collectively i love our american brothers and sisters but to the i want nothing

00:54:43.760 to do with talking about their heritage no but i think we as canadians need to ignore some of the

00:54:48.720 stuff coming out of there i agree and focus on what we can do what we do what we've done and

00:54:53.280 what we're about to do so i'll go back to the question because i cut you off and we segwayed

00:54:56.700 off of it what's your favorite part of canadian heritage if you can only pick one thing and say

00:55:00.440 this is what represents our country and this is what represents canada as a whole and jim's

00:55:04.840 beliefs and where we're where we've been and where we're going what would be that one thing to me i

00:55:10.300 have to go back to it this other john a mcdonald and people are going to give me a lot of crap for

00:55:14.820 that well i'm going to say terry fox terry fox thank you so terry that was my second what the

00:55:21.140 the marathon of hope and what he did was one thing the legacy were millions of people in the country

00:55:28.220 around the world run to this day for cancer research because of this humble middle class

00:55:33.780 kid from vancouver lost his leg to cancer and try and watch one interview where you don't get a tear

00:55:38.020 in your oh my god so the most amazing the legacy of terry fox and how he's brought canadians of

00:55:43.140 all cultures and all backgrounds together for one unified thing i mean it's it's terry fox his

00:55:50.420 legacy and how it endures terry fox is a perfect representation of what canadians are and this

00:55:56.420 whole conversation talking about going through tribulation and going through uh the unsureties

00:56:02.740 of coming to a new country and not knowing what to expect but just coming here with the the intent

00:56:06.740 to work and be better and better your family and be part of it terry fox is a perfect example of

00:56:12.660 what a canadian actually is yeah right um struggle uh had everything built up a wall built against

00:56:19.700 him and somehow broke that down and just kept going right to the end he inspires people to this

00:56:24.820 day yeah he inspires me every day like any day i think about terry fox in my head it makes me

00:56:29.700 straighten up a little bit more it makes my my body hurt a little bit less and it gives my

00:56:33.780 determination a little bit more of a kick that it needs to get through the day and and it's it's not

00:56:37.860 just physical it's mental it's you know what's your excuse like let's get on what's your excuse

00:56:42.900 yeah what's your excuse it i did the show about uh what is a man right and the one thing that i

00:56:47.220 said in that was man up i'm constantly telling myself to man up and maybe i should just be like

00:56:51.620 be more terry instead of man up people use it as a negative right i still like the term man up like

00:56:56.340 It works for me.

00:56:58.460 Whatever works for you is what you should be utilizing in life

00:57:01.060 to keep you positive and on the right path.

00:57:03.240 But Terry Fox, you're right.

00:57:04.180 Maybe you should just fox it up.

00:57:05.340 Because sometimes in life...

00:57:07.220 Just fox it up.

00:57:08.240 Fox it up.

00:57:08.840 You have to just forget about everything and just get on with it.

00:57:11.740 And just fox it up.

00:57:12.700 And fox it up. 0.82

00:57:13.600 And fox you and fox me.

00:57:15.780 Fox everyone watching, but no.

00:57:17.480 No, and so I...

00:57:19.480 You know, like...

00:57:21.480 Canada has got unlimited potential.

00:57:24.560 Maybe I'm alone in thinking that, but I truly believe we as a country have a limited potential.

00:57:30.620 We have problems.

00:57:31.720 We fall on our face.

00:57:32.640 But like the weather we get through every winter, spring arrives and we, you know, we've survived winter.

00:57:39.520 Spring's here.

00:57:40.140 We all look like those bears when they come out of the hole.

00:57:42.340 A little confused.

00:57:44.340 And then away we go.

00:57:45.540 And we just keep grinding and keep going and keep building and keep doing things.

00:57:49.320 Well, because my mind is like a pinball machine,

00:57:51.700 do you think that you missed anything that you wanted to get out

00:57:53.820 in terms of talking about Canadian heritage?

00:57:55.900 Did I segue you off too far?

00:57:57.540 Like, if there's anything else you want to kind of bring up here, let me know.

00:58:00.380 No, I mean, I just think there's so much about the country to be proud of.

00:58:05.200 We're more than just, I mean, I know there's the cliches

00:58:07.860 where they have the Mounties and the Beaver and the Maples here,

00:58:10.560 but that's just what they sell at the tourist shops.

00:58:12.880 Canada is so much more than that.

00:58:14.680 And what we are as a people and what we do,

00:58:17.440 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.

00:58:29.820 It's pretty exciting.

00:58:31.300 And I know that you may hate your premier or your MP or your prime minister for a variety of reasons.

00:58:40.020 And that's your right as a Canadian.

00:58:41.360 but don't hate their desire to try to make things better and try to build things and try to improve

00:58:48.760 things. They might make a mistake, but they're trying to do something. The government, we can

00:58:54.560 always throw stones at the government. But no matter who's in power. It doesn't matter who's

00:58:58.080 in power. And you can, even when you like the person in power, you can still use the government

00:59:01.300 as like a way to get out of that. Oh, it's the government as a whole. And he's not really in

00:59:06.040 power. He's a puppet. I hear that crap all the time. Look at the intent for the government is 0.93

00:59:09.900 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

00:59:16.200 of like civility between us um make sure the roads are working make sure our schools are working make

00:59:21.880 sure the health care system is going they're not always perfect at it but at least they're still

00:59:25.460 working at it like de haviland is now based in calgary yeah and they're the world leader in

00:59:30.640 water bombers and people don't realize that till they saw the pacific palisades fire and you see

00:59:37.000 one after another scooping the water from the pacific and flying a treetop level and then you

00:59:42.300 realize oh wow we did we built that we did yeah we did that you know brian our military expert

00:59:48.600 former caf he says all the time you'll never find a tougher soldier than a canadian soldier no and

00:59:54.740 i've heard him say it and explain why and i think he's right we are the most determined people ever

01:00:00.220 stop whining canadians go back to work fox it up fox it up yeah jimmy thank you so much

01:00:06.780 for teaching me a little bit

01:00:07.720 about the Canadian heritage.

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True Patriot Love - May 16, 2026

Canada’s Heritage Is Bigger Than You Know

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