Western Standard - January 23, 2025


WATCH： Liberal candidate Michael Clark launches pro-life, anti-globalist campaign


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My name is Michael Clark and I am running to become the next Prime Minister of Canada. I want to apologize to the Liberal Party of Canada for what we ve done to the country to this point and why everyone is jumping ship like rats on a sinking ship.

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00:00:00.000 Good afternoon, fellow Canadians.
00:00:13.840 My name is Michael Clark, and I am today announcing that I am putting in my candidacy to run for
00:00:23.800 the Liberal Party of Canada leadership.
00:00:26.760 I'm very excited for this moment.
00:00:30.600 I wanted to take a chance to share with Canadians a little about myself and a little about what I would do if I did become the Liberal Party leader of Canada and the next Prime Minister.
00:00:43.180 so one of the reasons i put my name in for this is because when i was growing up in canada we
00:00:55.200 were always told that canada is the best country in the world to live in but something's gone
00:01:02.300 wrong and that is just not the case anymore i've seen the polls we've all seen the polls
00:01:11.100 and things are not going very well for the Liberal Party at this moment.
00:01:16.420 And I believe that we need to take drastic measures to restore this amazing brand,
00:01:24.600 to restore the Liberal Party to a respectable place in this country.
00:01:30.360 What I believe is that the adults need to come back to the table
00:01:34.140 in the Liberal Party of Canada and in this country.
00:01:37.360 What I believe needs to happen, first of all, in the Liberal Party, is we need to return to the center.
00:01:46.540 We're supposed to be a centrist party.
00:01:48.960 We've gone alt-left, followed this, as some say, this wacko agenda of wokeism.
00:01:58.560 And I don't believe deep down that is the values of the Liberal Party of Canada or the people of Canada.
00:02:04.640 We need to return to the center.
00:02:07.360 We are seeing all over the world this alt-left agenda being dropped and dismissed.
00:02:15.720 We're seeing companies get rid of their DEI programs and their woke policies.
00:02:23.680 You all witnessed yesterday what happened in the United States of America, and that is happening all over the world.
00:02:30.980 in countries like Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Argentina they're all the people are all realizing
00:02:41.540 the problems with this philosophy and they are shifting back to the center or the right.
00:02:49.700 So what I want to say first of all to the to Canadians is on behalf of the Liberal Party of
00:02:57.220 Canada. On behalf of all of us, we want to apologize. We apologize for what we've done
00:03:07.060 in the country to this point and why everyone is jumping ship like rats on a ship that's on fire.
00:03:19.380 We have the polls show that liberals are leaving to go vote for other parties.
00:03:27.220 Our own MPs are publicly voicing their displeasure,
00:03:32.220 and the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada even left the leadership.
00:03:38.940 So I want to apologize on behalf of all of the Liberal Party
00:03:44.200 for what is going on in our country.
00:03:48.640 That's the step one.
00:03:51.280 Next, I would say that, then what is the Liberal Party supposed to be?
00:03:55.900 We are supposed to be a centrist party.
00:03:58.780 So what is that to people who don't understand political lingo?
00:04:03.740 Well, shouldn't it be a party that takes the best ideas from the left and from the right and from the other parties?
00:04:13.260 If we look at it, let's examine it for a second.
00:04:17.800 You know, we don't need to be at war with all of the other parties.
00:04:22.240 These are our neighbors on our street.
00:04:25.900 There's people in our own families that see things differently on how this country should run.
00:04:31.420 So I propose something better. I propose a way forward where we try to work together more.
00:04:39.020 Let's go through the parties. Look at the Conservative Party. They have great ideas.
00:04:43.340 They are fiscally responsible. They're demanding accountability. That's great.
00:04:49.180 We look at the NDP. They have great ideas. What are they about deep down? They're about
00:04:55.900 taking care of the poor, the marginalized,
00:04:58.940 the oppressed in our society.
00:05:01.760 They're supposed to be for the workers.
00:05:05.320 And they propose great ideas.
00:05:09.220 Let's have a national conversation on
00:05:11.700 what should we do with the elderly? 0.98
00:05:14.740 Should we help them with dental care?
00:05:17.040 That's kind of a great, that is a great idea.
00:05:20.700 We look at the Green Party.
00:05:23.620 I like what they stand for.
00:05:25.900 Take good care of the environment. Take good care of the earth.
00:05:30.500 And then we look at the PPC. Thank goodness that they are around.
00:05:34.800 Where would Canada be right now if they weren't fighting for the rights of Canadians?
00:05:40.020 I respect what they've done a lot.
00:05:42.660 And that's what the Liberal Party of Canada is supposed to do.
00:05:46.600 Take the best of all of the parties, all the best values, and be in the middle.
00:05:51.720 Now, let's talk about some of the other leaders that are running in the race.
00:05:59.960 One of the reasons I put my name in is I just don't like the choices that have come forward,
00:06:05.660 and I don't think other Canadians have as well.
00:06:08.760 You have Mr. Kearney, who really is representing the interests of the globalists,
00:06:14.660 And then we have Mrs. Freeland, who really is just going to be following in the same policies that got us into this mess to begin with. 1.00
00:06:28.900 I believe in Canada, we need to re-examine ourselves and re-examine the Liberal Party of Canada's position.
00:06:38.340 And if we go back and try to, if we're trying to recapture our identity and coming up with
00:06:45.240 a new identity, I think it starts by going back to our roots and our heritage.
00:06:50.680 Western civilization in general was founded on Christian principles.
00:06:57.100 And that, we have an amazing heritage in this country of being grounded in biblical principles
00:07:04.260 and Christian principles.
00:07:05.900 When I travel to Ottawa and I see the parliament buildings, in the past, we engraved many scriptures
00:07:15.900 on the walls of this country, and because of that, we have been a prosperous nation,
00:07:22.420 I believe, and the entire Western civilization has prospered because we have put God first
00:07:30.380 in our country. And when I've done some research on, you know, some of the early prime ministers
00:07:38.160 of Canada that were liberals, they said some very strong comments that laid a vision for
00:07:46.760 Canada that was based on righteousness and godly values. And I think deep down Canadians
00:07:55.680 do want that back we've experimented with just dropping all of our heritage and our beliefs
00:08:02.960 and it's time i think for the liberal party of canada to to restore
00:08:09.760 these core beliefs and i want to now that we've that i've apologized on behalf of the liberal
00:08:17.120 party we actually want to invite people back to the liberal party and that's what needs to happen
00:08:23.840 So we invite the people that have left, we invite the right back.
00:08:28.880 One thing I heard from a citizen recently, it was a longtime Liberal Party, lifetime Liberal Party
00:08:38.000 voter. What they said to me was, you know, I've had it. When they implemented the capital gains
00:08:48.720 tax, that was the final straw. I've never voted Conservative before, but now I am.
00:08:56.240 It is time that we invite people back to the Liberal Party.
00:09:02.480 Now, I want to go through a few of the policies that I would institute
00:09:06.960 immediately if I was the next Liberal Party of Canada leader.
00:09:12.880 We've all seen in the news what's happening in the United States and the new president
00:09:19.980 of the United States, his threats to impose tariffs.
00:09:24.420 So I believe that obviously that would be the first thing on the agenda is to meet with
00:09:31.380 President Donald Trump on behalf of Canada and work through the issues that he has addressed.
00:09:40.680 You know, similarly to the president, I don't have a political background.
00:09:45.800 I have an executive master's of business and a project management professional designation.
00:09:51.280 And I believe those skills will help me negotiating with another businessman on what we can do with our countries.
00:10:00.780 I think he's reasonable.
00:10:02.240 And I think we can come to an understanding.
00:10:05.620 Our countries love each other.
00:10:06.920 We have families.
00:10:07.740 You know, all of us have family on both sides of the border.
00:10:09.880 and I think I actually do believe we are entering the most prosperous time in human history. This
00:10:15.660 is a great time to be alive. I'm very excited and I wouldn't trade it for anything and I think
00:10:21.120 the future is going to be amazing with our dealings with the United States under this new
00:10:26.980 as the whole world is throwing off this woke alt-left political situation. The adults are
00:10:36.200 coming back to the table all over the world, and we're putting an end to some of the nonsense,
00:10:42.040 and I believe we're going to get along very well together. So that will be the first order
00:10:45.480 of business. Clearly, when you look at the issue of affordability, I have a few points that I would
00:10:56.660 do. First of all, as a citizen, I've been watching, and I love a lot of the things that
00:11:04.280 Pierre Polyev is saying. He said things like, you know, axe the tax. As a citizen, and my friends,
00:11:12.400 as we've been talking, yeah, that's a great idea, but does it go far enough? Axe the tax,
00:11:18.120 how about we go farther? What does it look like to axe maybe part of the income tax?
00:11:24.160 Could we help Canadians? You know, when I was growing up, you know how many times somebody
00:11:29.120 said to me there's no point in me working overtime because they just tax me even more so why bother
00:11:37.440 i don't think that is good for our country we want to incentivize people to work hard so if i
00:11:44.080 was prime minister i would immediately get the accountants of the country you know the accountants
00:11:50.000 in the government and say show me you know just like i would in a business show me what it looks
00:11:53.760 like what if we what if we did shave the income tax by 25 or 50 percent you know there was a time
00:12:00.480 in history when there before i think it was world war ii there was no income tax and we got along
00:12:05.440 just fine so then someone might say well well mike um michael that that's you know if we cut the
00:12:14.080 income tax then how are we gonna have revenue well that's when what do you do in your personal life
00:12:20.000 when you have a money problem. Yes, you can spend less, but the other way is to make more.
00:12:26.320 So I would immediately instruct the accountants of this country and the government,
00:12:31.440 show me a plan. If we were to stop breaking the backs of working Canadians, 0.71
00:12:39.120 how could we raise the revenue? We have one of the most amazing countries from a natural
00:12:45.680 resources point of view in the whole world you know is there a way that we could we could replace
00:12:52.400 that missing revenue by cutting the income tax and uh extract more natural resources i don't know but
00:13:00.080 we we need to have a conversation about this because everyone is suffering and the current
00:13:06.800 administration all they're doing is adding more tax on to burdens on on to onto canadians and i
00:13:14.000 And I just don't understand why that's the only way that this can be done.
00:13:19.800 You know, we all saw the idea of cutting the HST for a couple of months, and I don't think
00:13:28.440 anyone really liked that idea.
00:13:31.120 So it was a good start.
00:13:33.340 What does it look like?
00:13:34.340 Why not cut the whole thing?
00:13:36.060 I don't know.
00:13:37.540 Maybe that's unrealistic, but let's have a conversation about that.
00:13:41.480 Can we cut it in half?
00:13:43.040 Like, clearly, cuts need to come from somewhere because people are demoralized in our country.
00:13:49.560 They can't afford things.
00:13:51.480 I don't need to go into it because you all see it every day on the news, how bad it is and how difficult it is to pay the bills.
00:13:59.780 This needs to be a national emergency.
00:14:02.600 You know, if we're going to impose the Emergencies Act on something, maybe that's what we should be imposing it on.
00:14:10.900 you know treat it very seriously like an emergency you know we we need to we need to come up with
00:14:19.180 new great ideas in this country because whatever we're doing is not working very well so I mean I
00:14:26.120 don't I don't understand every law and the reason we every regulation exists but let's just look at
00:14:30.960 you know okay we have a housing crisis okay you know what if somebody owns a bunch of acres on
00:14:39.100 land and they have some children. Why shouldn't they be able to build multiple houses on their 1.00
00:14:43.900 land? I hear that all the time from Canadians. Some people say, well, I can't build a house for
00:14:49.840 my son or daughter because I'm only allowed to, you know, in my area, only have one house on my
00:14:54.760 property. And I understand maybe in an urban situation that that's reasonable, but when you
00:15:00.360 go into the country, why not? We need to have a conversation about that. The adults need to come
00:15:07.260 back to the table, and we can solve, I believe we, our country's full of amazing, intelligent people.
00:15:14.660 I believe that we can solve some of these problems.
00:15:20.700 Next, I would say, you know, I've heard the term moratoriums, and I think there's a few things that we,
00:15:28.300 which basically, to the average person, you know, it means pausing something for a bit and rethinking it.
00:15:34.960 So there's three things I would do immediately if I was the Prime Minister of Canada.
00:15:39.960 First of all, you know, I truly believe immigration is amazing.
00:15:45.960 I have friends from all over the world. The whole world has come to Canada. That's great.
00:15:50.960 But it seems like everyone agrees that the rates of immigration have increased so much.
00:15:57.960 And as a project manager, as a PMP, it appears there wasn't a great plan for that.
00:16:03.960 for that. And because of that, we're having a housing crisis. The price of houses and rent
00:16:10.760 have gone through the roof. Economics 101 talks about supply and demand. If you increase the
00:16:17.720 demand by, you know, increasing the immigration by millions and millions of people without thinking
00:16:24.440 through what that means, then you have a problem and the supply goes down and the price goes up.
00:16:31.960 Now, that's why I think we should have this moratorium on immigration, but not forever. 0.62
00:16:39.080 As I fly across the country and you look out your window, you've all done it. Have you noticed how
00:16:44.680 much empty land there is? I don't know the complete stats, but we may have more empty land than any
00:16:52.680 other country, you know, in the Western world. So I think if we paused, made a plan, and then we're
00:17:02.520 a little more strategic about immigration, we probably could reinstate it and it could be good
00:17:08.680 for everybody. The next thing as a Canadian, sorry, as the Prime Minister of Canada that I would do,
00:17:15.800 after speaking with Canadians, what do they want? The second thing is, let's talk about foreign aid.
00:17:22.680 So when we are in, it's probably not, you know, too alarmist to say we have some urgent emergencies going on in our country right now.
00:17:35.500 So why are we sending foreign aid all over the world?
00:17:41.440 I don't think that's necessarily, you know, a conservative idea.
00:17:46.200 It's, you know, the leader of the opposition
00:17:49.320 uses the term common sense conservative.
00:17:53.940 Well, we also need some common sense liberals. 0.53
00:17:57.640 And I think for a season we need to pause foreign aid
00:18:00.920 and look internally at our country.
00:18:04.500 You know, maybe we could shave down the taxes
00:18:06.940 which are astronomically too high
00:18:08.800 if we did stop worrying about things all over the world
00:18:13.980 and worry about Canada first.
00:18:18.120 The next thing I would put a moratorium on immediately
00:18:22.080 is the MAID program.
00:18:25.840 You know, someone showed me a report that said
00:18:29.180 one in 20 deaths last year in Canada
00:18:33.180 was because of the MAID program. 0.99
00:18:37.360 It was initiated by the government.
00:18:40.480 That's a problem.
00:18:41.840 One in 20 Canadians died because of the MAID program.
00:18:45.840 You know, it probably started with somewhat of a compassionate heart behind it.
00:18:54.840 You know, you have someone that's in horrible pain on their deathbed.
00:19:00.840 That was probably the first, you know, domino to fall.
00:19:04.840 But if you see what has happened in Canada, the wheels have fallen off the bus.
00:19:08.840 Other countries are even looking at us going, well, we better pause and walk this back in our country, because look what the Canadians are doing. 0.94
00:19:19.740 You know, when I was growing up, you'd see on bus stops, you'd see on milk cartons, you know, the kids' help phone number.
00:19:28.220 1-800-KIDS-HELP-PHONE or whatever, you know, it was.
00:19:31.940 If you're having problems, you know, and you were having bad thoughts, you could go get help.
00:19:38.840 Look what's happening in Canada right now.
00:19:41.840 If you're that person, they're offering you death.
00:19:47.840 Who thought that was a good idea?
00:19:49.840 The wheels have fallen off the bus and we need to walk it back
00:19:53.840 and put a moratorium immediately on the MAID program. 0.99
00:19:57.840 And the adults need to come back to the table
00:20:00.840 and decide what's going to happen next with that program.
00:20:05.840 Next, I would say, let's talk about some repeals.
00:20:10.640 If I was the next Liberal Party of Canada leader, and the members that are going to
00:20:18.900 vote for this, if they are looking for a new direction, and they are looking to hit the
00:20:25.460 reset button and restore Liberals back to the center, and we can fix the polls and invite
00:20:34.220 Liberal members to come back to our party.
00:20:38.420 And here's some ideas I have that we should all be talking about.
00:20:41.920 We should be having a national conversation on these repeals.
00:20:45.420 So the first one is,
00:20:48.120 I can't even believe, it seems very ridiculous that we are not allowed to share news
00:20:54.120 on our social media.
00:20:56.420 This is not the Soviet Union.
00:20:59.420 That's what it feels like and that's what my friends feel like it is.
00:21:02.120 And I have friends from every political background and every party.
00:21:06.820 Nobody thinks that was a good idea.
00:21:08.360 I'm not sure what the government was trying to do by blocking news being shared,
00:21:17.000 but it's absolutely ridiculous and it needs to end immediately.
00:21:21.580 The next thing I would repeal is I would take Bill C-4.
00:21:27.940 And we need to repeal.
00:21:29.800 I haven't read the whole thing.
00:21:30.740 But there's aspects of it that should never have happened.
00:21:34.760 For example, I am a person of faith, and I have many friends that are Christian leaders across the country,
00:21:44.420 and are pastors and counselors and leaders of ministries.
00:21:50.180 And they're telling me that whether, I haven't read the whole bill,
00:21:53.800 But whether or not it says this directly, there's a perception of what Bill C-4 means.
00:22:01.640 And what they believe is they are not allowed to counsel people.
00:22:05.440 They're afraid to, if someone comes in their office and is struggling with their identity,
00:22:10.940 not sure about who they are or what they believe, and they want to have a conversation,
00:22:18.680 these counselors and pastors are petrified to bring it up because they think they're going to go to jail.
00:22:23.800 In fact, I know many people, and some of us, some of you may know also, people that have left the country because of the direction that Canada is going in.
00:22:34.160 That's unacceptable.
00:22:35.700 And I would, under my leadership, I would invite them back, too.
00:22:39.960 If a pastor wants to give counseling on someone that's confused and struggling with who they are or what they are or how they feel about themselves, they should be protected and given free reign to counsel as they see fit.
00:22:59.720 If they want to counsel from a biblical perspective or some other perspective, they should be encouraged to do that and allowed.
00:23:07.900 You know, the government should really be suggesting things, not telling us how to micromanage every aspect of our lives.
00:23:20.020 The next thing I would immediately repeal is, well, most of the globalist ties that we have.
00:23:29.020 So I love what Donald Trump did yesterday in the United States, removing America from the WHO.
00:23:34.920 show, I would immediately remove us, remove Canada from these affiliations where we're 0.90
00:23:44.820 sending millions of dollars and they're telling us what to do and how to do things in our
00:23:49.920 country. We are a very proud people. I grew up in the public school system and I heard
00:23:56.760 about what we did in the different wars. I think we're the best country in the world.
00:24:04.920 And I think we can be restored to that, but we don't need people all over the world. 0.96
00:24:10.540 We don't need to give our sovereignty away to people in Europe or people in the WEF
00:24:16.300 or people on non-elected boards all over the world.
00:24:21.640 I don't know who these people are, and as a citizen, I can't stand it.
00:24:28.440 So I would just revoke, repeal, whatever word you want to use.
00:24:33.460 Let's examine them.
00:24:34.640 You know, if there's an organization that, maybe something like the Red Cross, I don't know much about them, but maybe they are doing some great disaster relief work.
00:24:44.780 I like the work that organizations like the Samaritan's Purse are doing.
00:24:49.860 I had a tour of their facility.
00:24:52.980 They mobilize and deploy hospitals all over the world in disaster zones.
00:25:00.020 Now, that's the kind of things Canada should be getting involved with.
00:25:04.640 But as far as all these organizations and these foreign leaders telling us what we're
00:25:13.760 going to do in our country, that's going to end immediately.
00:25:19.020 The next thing I would repeal and end immediately is any kind of woke funding and any DEI funding.
00:25:32.300 will return to a merit-based system. And I'm not saying this because Donald Trump
00:25:41.360 said this yesterday. These are things I've been thinking for a long time. And no, he's
00:25:46.540 just representing what most people think anyways. This was a very big mistake. And I believe
00:25:56.740 Yes, it definitely should return to a merit-based system.
00:26:01.160 You know, when I was growing up, we've all heard the speech from Martin Luther King Jr.
00:26:08.420 that people should be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
00:26:14.220 I thought that's where we had kind of moved to in Western civilization.
00:26:18.880 but we've sort of forgotten that speech
00:26:23.980 and are implementing all of these DEI initiatives
00:26:28.640 and it's not working.
00:26:30.120 Companies are rejecting it.
00:26:32.920 No, we've all seen stories.
00:26:36.380 I think Facebook, Meta is rejecting it.
00:26:40.180 Countries are rejecting it all over the world.
00:26:43.580 It was a bad idea.
00:26:45.820 It was a mistake.
00:26:47.160 And I apologize.
00:26:48.880 On behalf of the Liberal Party of Canada, as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and as a person that wants to be, as a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada, I just want, again, I want to apologize.
00:27:06.100 Sometimes, you know, things, things sometimes start as a good idea, and then it just takes a life of its own.
00:27:13.020 The next thing that I would address, especially, this is more specifically to the Liberal Party
00:27:23.580 of Canada, is I would repeal the restrictions on having pro-life candidates in the Liberal Party.
00:27:34.140 That's not one of the things that started as a good idea. That's a very bad idea.
00:27:38.300 We've forgotten our identity of what the Liberal Party of Canada is supposed to be.
00:27:47.300 We are great, we have an amazing background historically, and we forgot what this great
00:27:58.840 institution is about.
00:28:03.160 And if you want to be a centrist party, why would you put barriers to entry from people
00:28:11.340 on the right?
00:28:12.400 This is not a fringe belief, this isn't something crazy like many Canadians would consider themselves
00:28:22.800 pro-life.
00:28:25.560 Drive through any city in Canada, it's filled with churches.
00:28:32.240 are probably, I don't know the stats, but we
00:28:34.180 may be the largest people group in the country.
00:28:36.600 People that believe in God.
00:28:40.760 And why on earth
00:28:42.000 would the Liberal Party of Canada think it's a good idea
00:28:44.220 to
00:28:44.540 not want them in our party?
00:28:48.060 We're a centrist party. And I want to invite the
00:28:50.100 right back.
00:28:51.920 I want to
00:28:52.220 know something? When people found out that
00:28:56.080 I was running for the Liberal Party
00:28:57.720 leadership, somebody
00:28:59.840 said in one of my
00:29:01.800 groups. They said, I do believe in miracles. I'm now a member of the Liberal Party so that they
00:29:09.400 can help vote for me to get in and contribute. Is that what we really want to, is that what we
00:29:17.780 want to be as a Liberal Party? A group that anyone that has these other beliefs that they don't want
00:29:26.420 anything to do with us and they think it's a miracle. No, that's not what the Liberal Party
00:29:31.660 supposed to be. And it doesn't represent the majority of Canadians. And if you want proof,
00:29:38.060 go look at the Nanos polls. Lifetime liberals are jumping ship, like I said before, like a ship on
00:29:47.020 fire rats jumping off a ship. It doesn't need to be that way. And we're sorry, we're going to fix
00:29:52.540 it. I think everybody in the liberal leadership knows we're in big trouble. I just don't think
00:29:57.900 they know how to shift gears and juke. So I hope I can bring that to them. You know, in the business
00:30:06.380 world, when things aren't going well, in a project, if I'm managing a project as a project manager,
00:30:13.180 if it's not going well, you re-examine it and you make a change. It's okay.
00:30:20.060 It's okay for the liberals to realize what they've done wrong, apologize to the nation,
00:30:24.380 and collect themselves and get back on track.
00:30:30.760 And you know what? Historically, we have seen that happen.
00:30:34.460 Forgive me if I, you know, get a wrong fact at some point, you know, during this.
00:30:39.200 But, you know, I believe it was Kim Campbell's administration that,
00:30:43.120 I think it was the Conservative Party or the PCs,
00:30:46.120 they dropped something like two seats.
00:30:48.640 They bounced back. You regroup. You realize what you did wrong.
00:30:52.000 You admit it, you collect yourselves, and you regroup.
00:30:55.660 And I want to bring that to Canada.
00:30:57.860 And we'll find great leaders all across the country.
00:30:59.980 You know, when I was just a citizen and I wasn't thinking about running,
00:31:03.660 I always wonder to myself, do we really have to pick,
00:31:07.420 do we have to settle for bad leaders?
00:31:09.800 Sometimes you look at the leaders and you go, is that the best we can do?
00:31:14.860 And, you know, to be honest, I didn't vote for 15 years.
00:31:20.420 I was kind of like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. Why bother? What's the point? It's too corrupt.
00:31:26.180 One person can't really make a difference. These are the things I used to believe.
00:31:30.100 I think God changed my heart and said, no, stop whining about all the problems in your country.
00:31:35.540 Why don't you try to fix it? So I changed everything that I was doing, and now I'm
00:31:41.940 getting involved. And what if good people did get involved? You know, some people are like,
00:31:47.860 what you're doing is a little crazy.
00:31:49.200 Yeah, well, what if all the good guys
00:31:50.600 did something crazy this year
00:31:53.340 and tried?
00:31:57.500 So,
00:31:58.140 that's what I'm doing.
00:32:03.420 There's a few new policies I want to talk about
00:32:05.700 that I would institute
00:32:07.880 or at least start the conversation
00:32:10.100 as the Prime Minister.
00:32:11.320 And I don't know, based on what's happening in the
00:32:13.260 current events, is that going to be three weeks?
00:32:15.380 Is that going to be three months?
00:32:17.960 Is that going to be, you know, till October?
00:32:19.500 I don't know. None of us know.
00:32:21.840 So with the time I would have as the
00:32:23.580 Prime Minister
00:32:24.200 until the next election,
00:32:27.760 here are some things I would want to start
00:32:29.680 the conversation on.
00:32:34.160 Charter schools.
00:32:36.920 You know,
00:32:37.820 the big idea there is
00:32:39.460 some people
00:32:41.920 don't like the current system.
00:32:43.240 You know, you have
00:32:44.400 you have you know there's some young men I know that they can't stand sitting in a in a school
00:32:48.960 all day why shouldn't they be allowed to go to you know a construction high school where yeah
00:32:54.320 they're doing some of the reading writing and math but you know maybe 70% of the day they're
00:32:59.040 actually working on the trade that they their father has and they they want to follow up with
00:33:05.360 in their career what if you have an athlete what if you have a young lady that's you know the 1.00
00:33:11.840 fastest sprinter in Canada. And what if she wants to go to more of an athletic high school?
00:33:18.080 There's so many restrictions right now on, you know, there's no choices. There's no innovative
00:33:26.780 spirit in the educational system. So imagine it was an open market. Why does the government need
00:33:36.100 to be, you know, telling everyone what they're going to do.
00:33:40.240 You know, if you want to send your kid to a certain school, you should be allowed to
00:33:44.140 do that and get the funding.
00:33:46.480 And that makes a competitive situation, right?
00:33:49.500 If a group of people, a group of entrepreneurs want to create an amazing school with amazing
00:33:54.820 ideas, maybe this is what the conversation needs to be.
00:33:58.900 Maybe, yeah, 30% needs to be reading, writing, and arithmetic, and then 70% they can focus
00:34:03.580 on their trade at a young age.
00:34:06.100 The next thing I would institute immediately is I would institute weekly leader meetings
00:34:13.620 in parliament, meaning I would be the first one to do it.
00:34:17.820 I would sit down once a week with the leaders of the other parties.
00:34:23.620 These are not our enemies.
00:34:25.580 Things have gone wrong.
00:34:26.580 Growing up, one of the reasons I didn't vote, to be honest, was because I saw how people
00:34:34.900 acted in the house of commons how am i supposed to teach my children
00:34:42.020 how to behave and respect people and love your neighbor as yourself when i watch the leaders
00:34:53.780 treat each other so disrespectfully you know it's okay to disagree on ideas
00:34:59.220 but you can you can do it in a reasonable respectable dignified way and i just didn't
00:35:05.300 see that happening so i didn't really want anything to do with politicians you know they
00:35:12.660 say that if you see a problem in the world you you should be the one to fix it so that's what
00:35:17.460 i would do i would i would open the door if i was the prime minister and meet with all the other
00:35:22.340 leaders once a week what are your what do you guys want to do what are your good ideas
00:35:26.100 Is there something you'd like the government to do? Can we work together?
00:35:30.340 As crazy as it sounds, imagine we came out of that agreeing on something all together,
00:35:34.340 for the good of Canadians, and that's what's missing, and Canadians can't stand. 0.93
00:35:38.740 Why is the voting rate so low? I think municipally it's 20%.
00:35:44.020 I'm not sure totally what the federal rate is, but many people just have thrown the towel in.
00:35:48.900 I don't think it needs to be that way.
00:35:52.620 I want to offer a different path forward, not using terms like unity that don't actually, you know, doesn't mean anything.
00:36:00.320 No, this is what it actually looks like.
00:36:02.740 When the rubber meets the road, this is what it could look like.
00:36:06.920 So I'd invite the other leaders once a week.
00:36:09.440 We could sit down, sit down with our cabinet.
00:36:11.600 Bring in your cabinet, your shadow cabinets.
00:36:14.460 Let's talk together because it is about Canadians.
00:36:16.740 It's about my neighbors and my family members that don't agree with me on politics.
00:36:21.220 Okay, we still have to live together and work together.
00:36:24.320 We can still argue in the House of Commons, but we should be able to have some meetings.
00:36:29.260 I would encourage, also, my cabinet to be meeting.
00:36:34.460 I'm setting the example.
00:36:35.720 Now I expect them to do the same thing.
00:36:37.860 I want you guys to meet with your counterparts.
00:36:40.560 If you're the Minister of Finance, go meet with the Opposition Minister of Finance.
00:36:45.080 Go meet with the other shadow cabinet members, if that's the right term.
00:36:49.720 And then come back with a report and a plan.
00:36:53.520 I would be expecting my cabinet to have these meetings.
00:36:59.280 I would immediately also, as prime minister, launch a few investigations into the homelessness problem.
00:37:07.560 I don't believe it needs to be as bad as it is.
00:37:10.220 I think the strong people of this country, we can come together and help these people
00:37:18.780 that are struggling. Everyone should have a warm place to sleep at night. And I'm sure if we put
00:37:23.820 the best people in the country together on it, we can solve this problem or help or just help make
00:37:30.700 it better. I would investigate the housing crisis and what's going on and what we can do as a
00:37:36.780 government obviously crime is a major problem that we need to investigate we need to get the
00:37:42.860 leaders of the country together at all levels had the chiefs of all the police let's have a
00:37:48.940 meeting in ottawa with everyone and figure out we'll get the lawyers in we'll get everyone in
00:37:53.580 to decide what are some things we can immediately do to reduce the crime
00:37:57.660 There's a few long-term things I would put into place. I would expect immediately a revenue study
00:38:09.660 of how we could use our resources strategically so we don't have to break the backs of the
00:38:14.860 taxpayers anymore under my leadership. I think we need a national conversation on technology.
00:38:21.340 We just saw what happened yesterday in America. I think it was 500 billion dollar commitment to an
00:38:26.540 AI facility or something we could be that we could lead the world in technology
00:38:32.940 we would I would have a national conversation on the pre-born I would open up the dialogue
00:38:39.260 we would talk about this again reasonable Canadians want to have a conversation on this nobody would
00:38:47.500 be allowed to kill a one day old and I don't actually even amongst the pro-choice people I
00:38:53.980 talked to, none of the reasonable ones want to think it's okay to end the life of a minus one 1.00
00:39:02.460 day old baby. We need to have a, we need to look at what that means for Canada after the adults
00:39:09.460 come back to the table. Finally, if you want to help with my bid to run for the next leader of
00:39:16.420 liberal party of canada you can go to my website vote for michaelclark.ca
00:39:26.020 there you can sign up to be a member and support my initiative and you can make donations there
00:39:34.500 finally you can pray for me because what i'm going up against there's a lot of people that
00:39:41.940 that don't like these ideas,
00:39:43.620 but I think they are based in righteousness.
00:39:47.700 Thank you very much for listening to this speech.
00:39:52.980 God bless Canada.