00:08:44.080It doesn't even matter what your video is about.0.92
00:08:46.480Well, it was that, but it was also people were so used to me being silly.
00:08:52.440were so used to not having any kind of um educational uh anything from me that it probably
00:09:00.200blew a lot of people away to see me talk about something passionately that i cared about um
00:09:06.840you know and and they and there's a lot of people that didn't like it you know especially if they
00:09:10.280didn't like what i had to say or they didn't agree with me that's when they threw out you know what0.98
00:09:14.520stick to your dumb videos stick to being silly stick to not knowing anything because that's who0.98
00:09:21.160you really are you know stuff like that because people take what they know of you and they make0.99
00:09:27.640that everything right but it isn't everything a lot of us have stuff that we we do outside of our
00:09:34.040videos well and everybody does right and i and i i don't joke i actually say you got to be careful
00:09:40.840what you get famous for because especially on an app like this um within social media you know
00:09:47.320there's well you know you you stepped into it all of a sudden you get all of the this kind of this
00:09:52.920followership you get all of these accolades you get all of this attention and that that can shift
00:09:58.440very very quickly but funnily enough they really like you people tend to really like you in a in a
00:10:06.680niche and i think that actually goes into a lot of the stuff we're going to talk about in a little bit
00:10:12.760which is the fact that people like to know what to expect that's why people like stereotype you
00:10:19.400know there's one thing that i'll say about it though is that if you are going to stay in one
00:10:25.880small box for the rest of your life you will be very bored and i've never ever been able to stay
00:10:32.600bored and the one thing about me that i've i've i've realized is that if i'm going to grow as a
00:10:40.520person um my channel is gonna grow with me and everyone else that doesn't like it can get
00:10:46.360because i'm gonna do what i want it's my channel and i don't give a whether you liked my niche
00:10:51.560before or now or or whenever it is if you don't like it scroll or block me um but i'm gonna do
00:10:58.120what i want because this is my life absolutely yeah and i think well i mean and you can see by
00:11:05.640the popularity you have still amassed i think people will eventually roll to that what i mean
00:11:11.320by by people people like stereotype and people like boxes because people get complacent in their
00:11:19.880lives and in their world views and they just want to surround themselves with things they know
00:11:25.880and when you enter into when you put something in front of them that they don't know or that
00:11:30.600challenges what they used to think it innately it immediately takes them aback makes them feel
00:11:36.600uncomfortable and that discomfort can be handled either with rage to get rid of it or introspection
00:11:42.920in order to sort of move on with it and i think that's what we're facing right now to be perfectly
00:11:49.080honest that's what this election that's what the election in the united states is about
00:11:53.760and that's what this election is about i don't need to talk about people in positions i don't
00:11:59.540need to talk about Pierre. I don't need to talk about Mark. To talk about the idea that
00:12:04.000there's a group of people who just want things to go back the way they were, like they were in 1982.
00:12:12.480And they have a sense of embedded nostalgia when they rode their bikes until the lights came off
00:12:19.460and just their dad worked. Although all of these things, all of these nostalgic things that they
00:12:28.260think existed, let's be honest, were dangerous, destructive, and for the most part, trauma-ridden
00:12:34.320anyways. But we have a belief system of what it was. And so you have politicians that are going
00:12:41.780to play on that, especially in times of insecurity, especially in times of great change.
00:12:50.340And what the internet has done, what TikTok has done, what social media does,
00:12:53.780it really rattles underpinnings real good. You know what I mean? It really, really shakes
00:12:59.980everybody's stability. And when you shake that stability, some people roll with it and other
00:13:08.040people want a turtle and they want to go back to what was and what was protected. And that's the
00:13:14.080battle we're talking about right now. Why do you think he's talking about tariffs from 1913?
00:13:18.240it doesn't make any sense right the good old days of what segregation it doesn't make sense
00:13:26.180no right and i think honestly that is where he wants to take things i think he wants very much
00:13:32.220to go back to the old ways um but you know the one thing that i i do want to say about
00:13:37.820taking that risk and going outside of your niche because a lot of creators are very scared to do
00:13:42.980that my account while it did have this initial drop immediately it was 12 hours and after that
00:13:52.22012 hours it rose and from one month ago to today my account on tiktok grew a hundred thousand
00:13:59.120followers my account on instagram grew a hundred and sixty thousand followers uh and my account on
00:14:05.680facebook grew i think 40 000 followers so while you will suffer that loss and you will you know
00:14:13.320have that initial pushback when you feel strong about something go with it people will support
00:14:20.420you and it's again that's not just about social media guys these are life lessons let it be known
00:14:28.400this isn't just about how you are on social media this is how you are as a person and if you're not
00:14:34.800willing to grow and expand and do what you're passionate about, right? If you're not willing
00:14:40.200to follow those lines, you're not going to grow the way you're supposed to grow, regardless if
00:14:44.620it's your follower account, in your own personal life, in your own relationships, in your own job,
00:14:50.040all of the places. If you're not willing to roll the dice and expand who you are and open up
00:14:56.440different possibilities of your character, what are we wasting time here for? And this has been
00:15:02.560true again and again in my life every time that i've taken a big risk almost all of my friends
00:15:09.520and all of my family said no don't do it don't do it no that's not what are you doing you know
00:15:14.800it was always that question it was with tick tock it was with my first business and i've turned
00:15:19.440those around and actually made myself quite successful doing them and ignoring those it's
00:15:24.800one thing to listen i always listen and i always hear them out but in the end i do what i want to
00:15:30.320to do. Absolutely. But that's huge. That's massive, right? And I really think the way that
00:15:38.020you're attacking politics now, and we had a time to chat a little bit on a live, but the way that
00:15:45.780you're attacking politics and you're being incredibly open and honest about the fact,
00:15:50.220listen, this isn't my wheelhouse. This isn't my wheelhouse. It wasn't my wheelhouse. It needs to
00:15:56.040be. And this is how I'm going to attack it. And this is what I'm going to learn. And then I'm
00:15:59.440going to share it. I mean, what? And I really want to get at this because probably my biggest
00:16:07.240level of frustration is the 90, it's not the people that voted for Trump. It's not the people
00:16:13.080that maybe voted for Doug Ford. It's the majority who waited and sat at home and didn't vote at all.
00:16:20.700It's the majority who said, this isn't for me. I'm not into it. I don't understand it. I don't like
00:16:27.080it. I don't think I have an impact in it. So I'm not going to worry about it. And I'm going to
00:16:31.480abdicate that responsibility. Those are the people where I'm like, what, what are we doing?
00:16:38.640Why are we doing that? And you did the opposite. Why do you think you did the opposite?
00:16:46.020I mean, honestly, that those people are my entire goal. My goal is to make politics bite-sized,
00:16:53.260to make it easier, to explain it in a way that makes it palatable and entertaining
00:16:58.540for people like me. Because until this year, I have never voted. The first vote that I've ever
00:17:05.580placed was for Mark Carney in the liberal leadership race. And I have never once voted
00:17:11.720in a federal or provincial or municipal election. And it was Trump and Harris? Is that what shook
00:17:18.500you awake what was that was it yeah and it was it was the fear i think you know uh until this
00:17:25.960i have always taken our freedom and our safety for granted and this was the first time that i
00:17:32.560thought oh my god like we're we're literally pedaling backwards and there's no way that i
00:17:39.680am willing to go backwards sitting quiet and the other thing i think that spurred me on was the
00:17:46.180deportations in the U.S. because I have many immigrant friends, many, many that are still
00:17:54.100in the middle of getting their permanent residency. And I just watched all of these0.93
00:17:58.500immigrants in the States be deported and sent to places that aren't even their country to prison
00:18:03.580and they're not criminals. Some are, but there's some that aren't. And I just thought if that
00:18:11.060happened in Canada, I would never be able to look my friends in the eye and say that somebody with
00:18:17.880a voice with my platform just didn't do anything. I just could not. So it was the fear of peddling
00:18:28.500backwards and going back in time to a place that I don't want to be. And then just the fear of
00:18:35.700seen these kind of deportations and horrible things happening to immigrants in Canada?
00:18:42.200I think the moment Roe versus Wade was overturned, I remember when that was going to the Supreme
00:18:47.720Court for the whatever, seventh time or whatever, Anna asked me, she's like, do you really think?
00:18:52.780I'm like, no, there's no way. It's not going to be overturned. It's never going to be. And my
00:18:57.460confidence, my overdeveloped sense of confidence in the judicial system, in the rule of law,
00:19:04.740in precedent was just like, oh, oh no, did they just quote the Bible in order to justify?
00:19:13.580Did they, is that in the ruling? And then I stepped back and went, oh, oh no, that can't happen. So I
00:19:21.060think it was that moment, not Trump's election, not the deportations, but I think it was in that
00:19:26.520moment I realized that nothing is sacrosanct. Nothing can be forever protective if we're not
00:19:33.120willing to protect it no we have to actually stand up first i'm sorry about my sneeze
00:19:37.940oh you didn't oh okay i'm sorry you're gonna have to sneeze again is it one of those weird
00:19:45.600you don't actually sneeze you i i'm sorry i thought you see me
00:19:50.420like what what's your situation yeah that one i don't have a loud sneeze you should let it out
00:19:58.880i don't even i didn't even know you please okay i was walking and i wasn't looking so i didn't see
00:20:03.840you sneeze i'll have to play that back next time i'll try to aim for you know snot all over the
00:20:09.840screen yeah i i have a friend who holds it in like sneezes but i think is gonna have an aneurysm
00:20:17.600i'm like what are we doing here just sneeze oh god yeah you know and i think there was there
00:20:25.040was one friend that actually she had said something to me that was it wasn't actually in relation to
00:20:29.680politics but i relate it so much to you know the fear that women especially go through when they're
00:20:38.080wanting to talk about these things and that is bicycle face bicycle face was um something that
00:20:46.160was invented by men uh back when the bicycle came out in the 1800s and when the bicycle came out it
00:20:53.120was the first time that women could actually leave the house without a man to escort them without them0.98
00:20:58.640to drive them so women could now meet and and have women's suffrage meetings they could meet and
00:21:04.400get together and um do things on their own and it was a first for them and what happened was
00:21:10.080men started to realize that this was very threatening because women could do these things
00:21:15.600and they could go and have these these meetings on their own and so what happened was they invented
00:21:22.400bicycle face and bicycle face was characterized by sweating a hard clenched jaw uh you know
00:21:31.840out of breath right so basically all of the basic um symptoms that happen when you're being
00:21:38.720active and um hard flushed cheeks and they said that this was very unattractive and they posted
00:21:45.760about it in the papers they posted about bicycle face and that women needed to not ride bicycles0.94
00:21:51.280anymore and they needed to get back in the kitchen and um of course women fought back against this
00:21:58.240but the thing is is that now in today's world we often are the ones telling ourselves that we have
00:22:05.280bicycle face we're telling us to sit down we're we're not being strong and we're not fighting
00:22:11.520back against these things um but this is this is what happened this is absolutely true you can go
00:22:18.400go and look it up. Did you do this TikTok already? Did you do it? This is the best thing ever. I've
00:22:24.960never heard of this a day of my life. I'm going to talk about tomorrow at school. Bicycle face.
00:22:28.540Bicycle face. When in Olympic time, when women wanted to be ski jumpers,1.00
00:22:37.120the doctors told them they couldn't be ski jumpers, you know, like those big, long ski0.63
00:22:40.940jumpers, you know, where they're in the air for however long. Because they said when they landed,
00:22:45.340their uteruses were going to fall out. Oh my God. This is, these kinds of things happen over and1.00
00:22:52.220over again in, in society. And this is why we cannot go back. We cannot go back to days when
00:22:59.540women were supposed to just sit in the kitchen and sit silently and smile with their partner.0.98
00:23:04.200And, um, yeah, yeah, it's, it's wild. The things that used to happen that we don't even know of.
00:23:09.840Well, and I mean, I used to feel as though, you know, when people would talk about, you know, this sort of regression of women's rights and all of this kind of stuff.
00:23:22.640And now you look around at who makes up his cabinet and who has the top podcasts in the conservative world and the kind of ideals that they're promoting and pursuing and saying with their full chest.0.90
00:23:37.320As women, by the way, stand right behind them and clap as they talk louder and louder and louder, it's astounding how quickly things can recede if you allow them. It truly is.0.89
00:23:51.920Yeah. And I'll tell you guys, and this is for your viewers as well, because if anybody's like me and wanted to go and see the breakdown under every different critical area like housing, workers unions, health care, gender, gender rights, LGBTQ rights, reproductive rights, I have done a full breakdown.
00:24:16.600I worked for five, six hours today on breaking everything down into a palatable slide that you
00:24:25.720can go and look at each section of a comparison between the liberals and the conservative
00:24:30.400government and Mark Carney specifically and Pierre Polyev specifically. And the one thing
00:24:36.160that I will say that I had to call a couple friends on that I found very, very interesting
00:24:41.420is that you can go so there is two websites for there's one for mark carney and then there's one
00:24:47.520for the liberal party so if you go to mark carney.ca on his website right on the home page is
00:24:54.100all of his plans it'll say health care plan housing plan all of those and they're all clickable links
00:24:59.080that you can go and see a very detailed description of what his plan is on how he's going to run on
00:25:05.060these things. And then I looked for a website for Pierre
00:25:08.920Polyev, there is not one. So the only website that there is, is
00:25:12.580the conservative website. And then they have a section on
00:25:15.260Pierre Polyev. And, and then I looked everywhere for his plans,
00:25:20.880I could not find any plans, I searched over and over and over
00:25:25.300again. And then finally, I have a discord with a bunch of
00:25:28.800political creators, and I messaged them all. And I said,
00:25:31.140is there plans for Pierre Polyev somewhere on this website, I cannot find anything. And they said,
00:25:37.700no, there is no plans. There is no plans whatsoever from Pierre Polyev. So the only
00:25:43.460thing that I could go on were statements. And there's a section on the conservative website
00:25:48.740that say statements. And these are from his speeches that he's done over the years. And
00:25:55.540in there it's literally and this is no lie it is like a full page of just liber the liberal decade
00:26:04.020the carny trudeau liberals the liberal liberal like and and then like two lines we're gonna ax
00:26:10.900the tax yes and this is not to be hateful towards the conservative uh party this is just the literal
00:26:18.900truth. They do not have any plans put out whatsoever. All they have is one or two line
00:26:25.520statements on stuff they're going to do with very, very little, uh, in the way of details
00:26:30.920on how they're going to do it. And that was very telling for me, but if anybody wants to see those
00:26:37.080slides, they can go to my page on Instagram or on Tik TOK and I've put them all there.
00:26:41.840You guys can go and screenshot them and look at the differences between them. And I've broke it
00:26:47.060down really like as best I can. Fantastic. I just, yeah, I did a very long podcast today
00:26:54.240with Stacey Green talking about different platforms and what everybody's saying and
00:26:59.900the reality, and this has always been the reality of conservatives and except, I mean,
00:27:06.800Brian Mulroney's, if we're going to go further back, Brian Mulroney's conservatives were very
00:27:10.440different. But I find the conservatives tend to talk specifically about money. That's what they
00:27:17.880talk about. And I was saying this to somebody the other day, I said, there's two kinds of people in
00:27:23.220politics. And I really believe this to be true. You have an individual who thinks a balanced economy
00:27:28.560and a healthy economy is going to eventually produce a just society. And then you have
00:27:33.960individuals who believe you have to have a just society in order to produce a sustainable,
00:27:39.500balanced economy. That has to come first. And those are your two different components, right?
00:27:46.260I would argue, obviously, the left leans to the latter and the conservatives lead to the former.
00:27:52.500Problem is, and I've said this time and time again, running a country isn't running a business.
00:27:58.520It's not the same. The comparison is flawed. You do not run a country. Technically,
00:28:06.740if you were running a country or if running a business like a country, you would try to save
00:28:12.080all the people failing in your company. That would be your primary job. Your primary job would be
00:28:17.720figuring how do you make everybody succeed and how do you take care of people that haven't.
00:28:22.700No company is doing that. The job of a government is to take care of the society, is to have an
00:28:28.520economic plan in order to do so. You're not making widgets. You're not looking for a bottom line.
00:28:35.040you're not looking for a profit margin. To be honest, you're not looking for profits at all
00:28:40.400because it should be at the very least an NGO or at the very best, right? You should be taking
00:28:48.420every dollar that you make and putting it back into the thing to make it greater. Nobody should
00:28:53.460be walking away with a dividend. So the idea of running a country like a business breaks my head,
00:29:02.680First of all, I hate it when people talk like that. I hate it when people make those ridiculous comparisons. And then all you're going to get from that party will be economic platitudes. That's it. They have no social justice, nothing. And if you go on his website, you see nothing.0.98
00:29:21.520yeah and there's a lot of people that will come back and quote well he has this in the policy he
00:29:27.220has this in the policy but that's the one thing that you need to understand the difference between
00:29:31.800because you will find policy declarations on the conservative website but you will also find those
00:29:36.740on the liberal website what you won't find on the conservative website is a plan and that is very
00:29:42.400different from policy because policy is basically something that exactly policy is the values and
00:29:49.220policies that the um the the political party has voted on as a whole but it is not the plans
00:29:57.940that that candidate intends to run on for the next four years and that is your difference
00:30:05.460that's insane can i ask you you've talked a lot about liberals and uh in conservative party
00:30:12.180have you looked into the ndp at all no because i don't think that they're gonna make any uh
00:30:17.380any, any headway. You're just like, listen, I'm looking in the two top front runners and that's
00:30:23.940all I, you're doing five hours a day. So all I have time for. I've, I had quite a few people
00:30:29.640ask me, where's the, where's the NDPs? Where's the, the green party? The truth is they don't
00:30:34.080have a chance. They do not have a chance of becoming prime minister. They, they may gain
00:30:39.460seats, but they will not have any chance unless there is a massive turn of events. They are
00:30:46.420sitting at 6% and 3%. And so why did I not break them down? Because I'm not concerned about them.
00:30:53.300And also, I don't have another five hours to dedicate to going and trying.
00:30:57.160I think what's interesting, and just to talk about it sort of as a reflection on the Canadian
00:31:06.560system, what's interesting about our system that the Americans don't have is because we have a
00:31:10.820multi-party system. In Canada, for those listening who aren't Canadian, we have the Conservative
00:36:59.760So when people start to see like, holy shit, we might actually lose this.
00:37:02.840my god this is you know now they're talking to their friends now they're trying to get their mom0.90
00:37:07.720that doesn't vote now they're trying to get people to vote that actually um want to to keep things to
00:37:15.320the left right so well i can agree with you in some aspect or i don't even know if that's what
00:37:21.320you're you're saying or you're just posing the question um either way yeah yeah i still think
00:37:27.800that everybody still has a choice to make right like whether whether that's being put out there
00:37:34.920or not it does not um it does not take away anyone's uh ability to vote in the way they
00:37:42.040want to vote if they want to be strategic if they want to um vote strategically that does not um
00:37:49.640change their their ability to vote how they want it's it's a choice that they've made which is
00:37:54.440Democratic. I just, I mean, I guess part of me is thinking more of Ontario's election. I don't
00:37:59.920know how much you know about Ontario. We just had our premier reelected. Only 43% voted. And
00:38:07.520the reality was, when you have 57% of the population not voting, yeah, sure, it was
00:38:15.040winter and maybe they didn't want to go out, or they thought, well, he's going to win. So all the
00:38:20.340polls say he's going to win. So I'm not going to bother. And in a same way, it's kind of what
00:38:25.800happens. And you should understand this being in BC, you guys know the elections already been
00:38:31.660called way before it gets out to you guys. And actually those polls close because you've already
00:38:37.940seen the wave. You've already seen what's happened, you know, in earlier polls, in earlier time zones.
00:38:46.180So when it gets to Alberta and BC, you're like, what's the point? We know which way the wind's blowing now. We have no control over that.
00:38:56.180And I feel as though, and it might be symbolic, but I feel as though that kind of democratic disempowerment or creating quite the real conclusion that your vote doesn't matter at that point has got to pull people out of caring or out of feeling like they have a say or an idea, a game in the, you know, a card in the game at all.
00:39:26.180but i would i would argue that that is a mint that is a mentality because that mentality exists
00:39:33.380regardless of polling regardless of anything else there is people out there like me that truly
00:39:38.820thinks my voice matters my my vote matters and then there's people um that just don't think
00:39:44.740they matter at all which is who i was a year ago and um it it is a mentality and uh on top of that
00:39:53.860i would just say like i i think having an option to look at the situation and look at where we're
00:40:04.660where the left is putting into four baskets and the right is putting to one i would say that's
00:40:10.420undemocratic that is a a situation where we are really um in a position to fail
00:40:18.900and you what would what would your answer be for that um it would be rated ballots
00:40:25.700ranked ranked ballots sorry yeah yeah yeah that's what i want to see that is the one thing that i
00:40:31.480really think um the the trudeau uh government really let us down on we need and he says it's
00:40:39.000his failure he says ranked ballot not changing the electoral system and not putting in elected
00:40:43.540senate he says are his two biggest failures he admits that and i really like justin trudeau
00:40:48.740But that part really, it let us a lot of us down because if we cannot get the party that we want, we should be able to have a say that our vote doesn't go just thrown away.
00:41:03.080We should be able to put our vote to the party that we would prefer next.
00:41:08.460I do think that, yeah, 100%, I think that that kind of rank ballot makes sense for the way that our government is structured.
00:41:18.220for anybody who's listening who doesn't quite understand what we're talking about. So
00:41:22.160obviously in the United States, you have two parties on the ballot. I know occasionally
00:41:26.160you'll have an independent, but for the most part, just two parties. Whereas in Canada,
00:41:30.340like I said, let's say in any given riding, you could have five parties on that particular ballot.
00:41:34.880So rather than just putting who you want to win, putting the X beside, you will rank them. Who do
00:41:39.640you want to come first, second, third, fourth, fifth? So that on average, when that all gets
00:41:44.580played out and when all those numbers get calculated, we're left with a more clear picture
00:41:50.260of what Canada wants as opposed to what they really don't want. So the extremes of the left
00:41:59.380probably, or the extremes of the right, those will never exist and we'll end up with something
00:42:04.640in the middle. I think that's what ranked ballots is trying to get at. And I think it would do,
00:42:10.960in our kind of system, it would do a really good job of. You would just want to sort of limit
00:42:16.700how many parties were eligible parties to be on that ballot in the first place. Because otherwise,
00:42:22.900I mean, you could get into some craziness about how many parties you had to rank.
00:42:27.520Yeah. And then basically what happens when you do that is, so say in your riding,
00:42:32.840you vote on these candidates. If one of those parties does not reach past 50%,
00:42:38.780percent then what happens is they take the party that has the least amount of votes they get rid
00:42:45.100of that off and that all of those votes will then that their second choice will go to the next party
00:42:51.980and if somebody doesn't reach 50 then then they cut off the the next party with the least amount
00:42:57.180of votes and their votes get distributed to their next um favorite uh party so as you guys yeah so
00:43:04.620So as you guys can see, it's kind of like, and again, for the Americans listening, it's
00:43:09.720the difference between the popular vote and the electoral college vote is a similar difference,
00:43:16.600not the same, than between the popular vote in Canada and how many ridings a particular
00:46:12.660the top priority has to be donald trump and our our sovereignty yeah i think that is the number
00:46:20.900one concern amongst canadians it has been pulled that that's the number one concern
00:46:25.780and there's so many other concerns but you only gave me one and so that's what i would have to go
00:46:31.620on yeah i i economy as well we need to figure out how to well the economy is tied with that i think
00:46:37.460that's what i mean yeah those two things go hand in hand so you you would say you would look at
00:46:43.540like somebody's tariff policy with how they're going to deal with the tariffs and how they're
00:46:47.860going to deal with that i'm assuming you also want to look at how they're going to diversify
00:46:51.940other economic revenues from canada let's say in the eu or other countries and something where
00:46:58.740they're really still not talking about it enough in my opinion which is how do we bring down
00:47:04.900interprovincial trade barriers and tariffs between provinces so actually they both put out statements
00:47:12.900about that um and it is in their plan i just don't like their policies they they're not as good for
00:47:17.700me oh okay oh i gotcha okay um oh we want to bring that down whoa whoa whoa what first of all and
00:47:25.060i've been talking politics but what trade barriers what are we doing like there's a lot of trade
00:47:30.740carriers but i mean not facetiously like how in the heck do we have limitations on what we can
00:47:38.820trade with each other that are greater from what we can trade with the united states
00:47:43.060why on earth are our energy resources going north south what are we doing what have we ever been
00:47:48.980doing i mean so i did look into this and i do understand why some of them exist like they they
00:47:55.860need to get rid of them i'm not uh for keeping all of these things but the reason why a lot of
00:48:01.060these trade barriers exist is because a lot of these provinces are trying to protect their local
00:48:08.420companies they're small you know local companies that cannot survive um when they are uh having
00:48:16.340huge competition from massive companies it's the same way as when you know uh canadian tire comes
00:48:23.380to town or or walmart comes to town and these small mom and pop shops go out of business that
00:48:29.540is you know what they're fighting against in some cases and then in other cases it's just
00:48:34.500the differences between our laws between our driving laws between our you know alcohol uh
00:48:41.460different civil laws yeah see i i would argue that we need to have more national laws in order to
00:48:47.940protect specifically protect within canada small mom and pop stores so that those big companies
00:48:54.820can't come in including by the way because if we don't have these universally accepted laws
00:49:00.260you can pretend as though you're going to protect a big against canadian tire but guess
00:49:03.620you're not protecting against walmart what you've done is you've insulated yourself against canadian
00:49:10.660tire, but not Home Depot. You're going to get picked off one by one. I guess that's my bigger
00:49:19.560statement. My bigger statement is, as soon as the country was opened up to free trade,
00:49:23.900as soon as free trade was on the table in any way, shape, or form, and we started talking about
00:49:28.800North American free trade agreements and all of this stuff changing, all of that should have been
00:49:34.140gone because they are going to get bought out. They are going to get usurped, and they're going
00:49:40.280to get it done by these big companies coming from the United States. You see what I'm saying? It's
00:49:47.040like, who are you going to sell out to? Yeah, this is true. I think it's definitely a big
00:49:53.340barrier and it needs to go away. It needs to be removed. We need to make some huge changes in the
00:50:00.620economy. And for me, I think this is why I'm voting for Mark Carney is because, I mean,
00:50:07.120not only is he a globally recognized banker and economist, he is world renowned. There's really
00:50:15.240very few in the world that could possibly be better than he is. He knows what he's doing.
00:50:21.680And the way that he approached Donald Trump is something that took me a long time to learn
00:50:26.020dealing with narcissists, is that if you don't put those boundaries in place and demand respect
00:50:32.260at minimum, they will take everything they can, and they will never respect you unless you demand
00:50:41.080that they do in order to have access to you. And what did we see? It was two or three weeks
00:50:45.880and Donald Trump was calling. And all of a sudden he called him Prime Minister Carney.
00:50:51.800Oh, and I think this is where Mark Carney has more than called his number. You know, as a banker,
00:50:57.660as a businessman, I think he's looked at him and he's like, no, this is the only way that I will
00:51:03.500gain any kind of respect from this person and be able to have any kind of seat at the table
00:51:10.980when it comes to negotiating. And I don't think Pierre would have done this. I think Pierre would
00:51:16.260have absolutely sucked up to him. No, no, no, no, no. He would have lost all of his credibility.0.90
00:51:22.060Yeah, absolutely. But on the Mark Carney front, what do you think about him eliminating those
00:51:26.980uh i don't know if you've looked into this but he's eliminated cabinet positions i did that are
00:51:31.220primarily focused on women and indigenous you know so i actually wouldn't say that that's um
00:51:38.100necessarily true from what i looked into and maybe i'm missing something but i looked into
00:51:43.060it quite extensively because i was very frustrated about that and on the outside it looks like okay
00:51:48.340what the hell is he doing so number one because he didn't make his cabinet smaller for those yeah
00:51:53.380So he took his cabinet and he made it very small. And this doesn't surprise me that he made it small and that he put these positions. So he didn't really just eliminate these positions. He put two or three positions into one to make it a smaller cabinet.
00:52:12.140And then really, for the same reason that I said Donald Trump and our sovereignty, is because those are the things that are really coming first right now. Canadians want to feel safe. Canadians want to know that our country is safe and that we're not going to be invaded by America, that we're not going to become America.
00:52:34.660and so I think Mark Carney is looking at the things that are priorities for Canadians right
00:52:39.880now but I'm not concerned about uh he's he's taken a strong sense on reproductive rights he um
00:52:48.580is all for abortion he has a daughter which I don't want to speak about too much that is trans
00:52:54.380and he supported her changing you know changing that um and then also he is actually a very huge
00:53:01.360women's advocate. So if you look at his work in the private sector, he has advocated for women's
00:53:06.780rights again and again and again. And I laid this out in those slides that I told you about that are
00:53:11.600on my account. So if anybody wants to go and look at those, he has been a strong women's advocate.
00:53:17.700I think right now he's just very practical and he's saying this is what's important.
00:53:22.240And so I'm narrowing down these positions into just a few and we're going to focus on what's
00:53:28.960important. And when we get that done, then we can talk about other things.
00:53:32.980And I think, well, I mean, he's also a fiscal conservative. I mean, he's very
00:53:35.760conservative. There's no question about it. Just so everybody understands, cabinet post gets paid
00:53:40.120more. So we all understand, like if you have a cabinet position, the money goes up. So there's
00:53:47.140that in and of itself, right? Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I don't think, look, I think
00:53:54.460there could have been a way, because I think we're battling a bit of a cultural war here too.
00:53:58.960So I would have preferred a bit more of a statement, not, you know, getting rid of all of them off the hop.
00:54:06.540If you're going to amalgamate some, that's great.
00:54:08.620You should have kept at least one, in my opinion, because it's when we talk about our culture and our identity and keeping, we're not just talking about physically being invaded here.0.59
00:54:18.520We're talking about the gradual insinuation of, you know, 1957 culture seeping into our very existence. And the way we're going to stop that isn't just by a few key statements and past behaviors. It's by making clear statements that this is something that is vital to who we are as a people. And I just, I would have preferred that a little bit.
00:54:44.940But I do know that he's a right wing liberal and in a different circumstance, he'd be sitting on the other side of the fence.
00:54:52.620Not to mean, by the way, again, there's lots of socially, sorry, fiscally conservative, socially liberal leaders who balance the two quite well, as we've already spoken about Brian Mulroney.
00:55:06.960Not his son, obviously, but Brian Mulroney.
00:55:09.760i will say though this man uh and i think you can tell from his speeches because i don't know if
00:55:15.600you've ever seen anybody say uh more than mark carney it's so much he's not he's he's not he's
00:55:22.320not a great speaker but here's what i'll say about him i'm giving better but it's hard i am giving
00:55:28.800mark carney uh a minute this man has just came into being in the public eye 24 7 and even just
00:55:38.960being a content creator the tiny amount that i have that and i live in a small town like i don't
00:55:45.040i don't get like noticed often the tiny amount that i have that cannot be overwhelming sometimes
00:55:51.520and uh and for him it's a very new position so i'm gonna try to give him the benefit of the
00:55:56.800doubt because that's who i am that he just isn't used to having to explain everything that he does
00:56:04.960And I think he's maybe doing things without realizing that people need to know why we need to know why you're doing these things.
00:56:13.840And I think he's expected, you know, we expect from intelligent men and women who run this country to explain it well and clearly and and sort of on a basic level.
00:56:26.740And I don't think he's had to speak about economics on a basic level in a very long time, if ever.
00:56:33.280I think he's always been surrounded by people who are in that discipline, who are in that, you know, who have, who have grown in that academic arena. So to be able to explain, and I don't think he's doing a bad job.
00:56:45.940My only bottom line a little bit is I am looking to be inspired. And I think when I think about
00:56:55.220why 90 million people stayed at home and 57% of Ontario stayed at home, I think it's part
00:57:02.980and parcel because of, you know, they feel ineffectual, they feel marginalized, they feel
00:57:09.000unheard. All of those things are true. But I still think there's a minute, there's a part of us
00:57:15.580that wants to be inspired, that is looking to our political leaders to lead.
00:57:21.840You know, when you hear as many mistakes as I can point out that Obama made, when that man spoke,
00:57:29.260you were all in, right? You were all in.
00:57:34.180That is a great speech maker, though. I got to say, though, like the ability to give a fantastic
00:57:39.480speech doesn't necessarily equate to a prime minister that is the best. In Barack Obama's
00:57:46.160case, I would say it did. It's true. In this era, I would have agreed with you when Lincoln was
00:57:53.120president. I would have agreed with you when Diefenbaker was president. I don't necessarily
00:57:58.500agree now because inspiring and leading and how much access we have to these leaders,
00:58:07.680you're gonna have to figure it out i think i agree with that though i do agree with that i just think
00:58:13.020he needs a minute i think he needs a minute i do i you know everybody's gotta like shake off those
00:58:20.480uh you know the dust and get into it uh i'm i'm a pollen farm i'd prefer all politicians to stop
00:58:28.760reading from speeches stop it i prefer the teleprompter to go away i prefer every politician
00:58:37.640who is going to run to actually face intelligent media questions and be forced to answer them
00:58:44.500before they get down and not not deflect that's what i want to see that at the debate and i just0.83
00:58:50.980want someone i'll fucking do i'll say this to you guys right now i'll come to that debate0.92
00:58:55.960in montreal and i'll just point out every time they don't fucking answer the question answer0.98
00:59:02.760the question. And we don't have, we no longer have, we no longer have an empowered, fully0.96
00:59:11.000functional media that's capable of doing that. Instead, we have potential prime ministerial
00:59:16.800candidates kicking reporters off the bus because he doesn't want to have to answer any questions
00:59:21.920at all. And by the way, they weren't answering it anyway. You know, everybody's worried about
00:59:30.660the AP getting kicked out of what? The White House? Who cares? What do they say anywhere?
00:59:36.560What do they say there? What are you reporting on? Does she say anything but just parroting
00:59:42.160what Trump just said? No. But it's, you know what? It is reporters' questions that make people think
00:59:47.340twice. So whether they respond well or not, whether they deflect or not, it now puts that
00:59:52.780question in people's heads. So it is very important what a reporter does. And Pierre
00:59:58.280polyev is now from what i've heard i haven't confirmed this he is vetting their questions so
01:00:04.040not only is he picking the reporters that can come he's vetting their questions but i i will
01:00:11.480also say to be fair mark carney has kicked a few reporters out of his conferences as well
01:00:17.480and some of them were very rude so i kind of don't blame him but he is as well to be fair
01:00:21.640Well, it's interesting. We've really created a breadth of what a reporter is too, right? We've
01:00:29.460created a wide range of what a reporter is, what an investigative journalist is, what, you know,
01:00:36.800there's a big difference between somebody finding conspiracy theories online and asking that
01:00:40.840question. That's not necessarily, but I still need, here's what I need out of my leaders.
01:00:47.200I need my leader to be able to handle them the way I would handle a little kid in class that was doing it for jokes.0.91
01:00:54.140You have to figure if you can't handle that little kid in that media outlet from the stupid question they're asking, you don't know how to quickly put them in their place and then focus on somebody else.0.98
01:01:35.300He has promised that he would defund the CBC.
01:01:38.240And if Mark Carney wins, he's actually going to boost the CBC with $150 million funding for them. So this is a huge statement that are both on opposite sides of the spectrum. And I mean, for me, I love the CBC. And I know it is probably more left leaning, but also it's, I think that it is very factual as well.
01:02:05.960I'm also and I know I've taken up like an hour of your time so I do want to wrap up but I also
01:02:12.900want to point this out I am exhausted at trying to be balanced rather than objectively true in
01:02:21.380reporting I am not giving equal time to the guy who thinks the earth is flat than I am giving to
01:02:29.500Neil deGrasse Tyson. That's not objective journalism. That's not even journalism at all.
01:02:37.620Fair and balanced journalism doesn't mean equal time for stupid ideas. Fair and balanced journalism1.00
01:02:43.900means allowing intelligent, articulate, backed up points to be debated in a healthy way.
01:02:51.940If you want to talk that, you know, the vaccine gave your kid autism, you're going to have to go
01:02:58.940somewhere else. We don't have time for that. That has been debunked and disproven. All ideas are
01:03:06.280not equal. They don't get equal playtime, period. And the reason why the CBC is left-leaning
01:03:12.240is because conservatives have been blaming hurricanes on gay people. So guess what?0.98
01:03:18.280We don't get to talk about that. We're not talking about stupid here. Stupid doesn't get0.99
01:03:25.920equal balance. All I'm saying. You're killing me over here. That is the truth. They can talk1.00
01:03:34.360about that on Matt Walsh meets Ben Shapiro meets Andrew Tate. That's where you can talk about.
01:03:41.660I'm so glad we didn't go into Danielle Smith because I just, I could rant for days.
01:03:46.520There's no point. She's just trying to make, look, she's the product of a system where we've0.97
01:03:52.700developed all of our north-south dependencies, right? We've embedded them, and whether I like
01:04:02.980her politics or not, that's the system she's working with. She's working with that system,
01:04:08.440and half the political parties are saying we will never have an east-west line. We won't.
01:04:14.800So if we don't, she's trying to figure out how her province survives. As much as I disagree with
01:04:20.260every word that woman says, we've created infrastructure that makes it easy for her0.99
01:04:26.120to discuss and debate and forge alliances southward. That's the way the pipeline rides.1.00
01:04:35.720I mean, that's a very interesting point. We did that. Now we did that under the
01:04:41.300auspice. We never thought we were going to get screwed by it. I get it. And the United States0.81
01:04:47.540is still making so much more money off us by taking our crude oil refining it and then reselling
01:04:53.540it to us they're making bank off that but the minute they're going to try to squeeze that
01:04:57.940manipulate that we really are in a bad spot because we have nothing going east west yeah
01:05:05.300and i mean on on the plus side both parties have committed to doing an east west pipeline
01:05:10.340so that's good has the i i don't think so i don't think that conservatives have
01:05:17.300the ndp everybody's saying no because quebec says no the so far mark carney and both both
01:05:24.100mark carney and pierre have committed to doing an east-west pipeline he's not an east-west pipeline
01:05:29.380east-west electrical grid from what i understand an east-west pipeline would die in quebec because
01:05:35.140Quebec says it's not going through our province. An east-west electrical grid is different because
01:05:44.980right now, again, a lot of that's going north-south, right? An east-west electrical grid is different
01:05:50.500than an oil pipeline. Sorry, I thought we were talking about pipelines.
01:05:55.220Well, that's what I'm saying. I think what they've said yes to is an east-west power grid,
01:06:00.180an east-west electrical line, electrical grid in order to give power across, but not an east-west
01:06:07.760oil pipeline. I'm pretty sure they said an east-west pipeline, but I guess we will have to
01:06:13.820look it up. Yeah. That's good for part two. There you go. Well, thank you so much, Elle. Where can
01:06:20.960everybody find you before we head off for the evening? I'm on everything. I'm on YouTube. I'm