00:12:14.340and people those dollars that they're spending are not there they're not their money they're
00:12:19.440the money that you that people out there paid their in their taxes so I always think like no
00:12:25.300actually you have a huge responsibility and you're right there's cases you hear about where
00:12:29.800some prime ministers and others have received you know you hear like it comes out there was
00:12:35.060an envelope of cash you know I mean it's not like this hasn't ever happened but it is
00:12:40.380truthfully pretty shocking and there are laws that have been passed to prevent this from
00:12:46.880happening and even the government that's elected now the conservatives here in ontario
00:12:50.680before they were elected in 2018 they were accusing the liberals of exactly the same thing
00:12:56.240and actually they were doing very similar things right so you know they they said no we're going
00:13:00.420to clean this up well you know stop complaining about the gravy train and actually do something
00:13:06.340to prevent it from happening well what do you say it's like you say it's moral and it's unethical
00:13:10.540100 that's fine but i would just like to tap into isn't it just bad business yeah isn't it bad
00:13:16.360business to to have somebody in honor general or whoever to go through and they prioritize
00:13:21.660applications and they and they use what i would assume to be a relatively objective system to say
00:13:28.720these are the really good ones all the way down to the ones that aren't so good and if you're
00:13:32.560gonna bypass that it's just bad business you're choosing you're not choosing for the best possible
00:13:40.200thing anymore in this illusion and this is what i think that this government does so incredibly well
00:13:46.420they create a pretense an illusion that they are about the best of the best if i hear the word
00:13:52.520meritocrity one more time meanwhile yeah they're not actually following through on that in order
00:14:00.420to make sure no why are they doing this well they want to stay in power i mean that's well right and
00:14:05.700i mean at the end of the day you know if you look at like the way that politics is done in the
00:14:09.300united states for example there are basically no limits on campaign donations so you know in the
00:14:13.780united states this is why you have like these crazy campaigns where people are basically like
00:14:19.860you have to spend so much money to win and um and and people can donate at these ridiculous
00:14:27.300crazy levels we have laws in place in Canada very strict you know very strict laws that actually
00:14:33.060manage some of those things and there are lots of ways that you can still kind of wiggle around it
00:14:37.140but generally there are laws in place and so in this case the auditor general saying like this
00:14:42.180is wrong I see it as wrong there and you're right it's bad it's bad for business it's bad government
00:14:48.500doesn't make sense you're not getting the best value for your money yeah you're not you're
00:14:52.260absolutely not and I think that's the thing that bugs me the most is it's like so like some of the
00:14:55.780cases we've dug up of like what now some of these programs that are going on or have you know nothing
00:15:00.980wrong with them and the problem with situations like this too is that when you have that kind of
00:15:05.300stuff happening and there's a few bad apples and the government actually lets those bad apples in
00:15:10.660because they're giving them lots of money and stuff then then you end up with a case where
00:15:15.220everybody gets painted with the same brush right and that's also bad right like people need to i
00:15:19.940think that one of the biggest problems we have right now i think you and i have talked about
00:15:23.700this before is that people don't trust government they don't trust politicians they don't trust
00:15:28.180government and you know you're asking them to contribute their hard-earned tax dollars at a
00:15:33.060time when a lot of people are just trying to stretch a dollar right and you're asking them
00:15:37.780to give that that and of course nobody wants to because they think this is what happens every time
00:15:42.260and it and it really doesn't have to and it shouldn't and another good example is advertising
00:15:46.900like think of all those ads you see out there right like if an ad if a government's got an ad
00:15:51.140out there oh this ad is brought to you by the government of montana is it providing a real
00:15:55.860service is it is it giving you information about something that you need to know a government
00:16:00.500service or a program or vaccination or health promotion or something or is it just saying hey
00:16:06.740we are amazing and i know that you're standing there in the food bank lineup or you're waiting
00:16:12.100in the emergency room or your kid is struggling at school but yeah don't worry because actually
00:16:15.860everything's okay like they're gaslighting you right but they're using and this is really important
00:16:20.740your tax dollars yeah well and i often think about advertising i want to get to some other scandals
00:16:25.980because i feel like the green belt thing's gone away nobody's talking about it well that that
00:16:30.480that was insane and there's a couple of other things that are going on that i want to be able
00:16:34.240to speak to as well um but this idea that um advertising is a necessity so so right now he's
00:16:44.140you know the conservatives are in power it doesn't matter what government i'm talking about whoever's
00:16:47.940in power whoever's at the end of the day they can get all the advertising they want they just walk
00:16:52.340outside take a press conference they really do have the capacity to wield media that's true
00:16:57.540quite effectively yeah which is why it does make sense for other um uh political parties to have
00:17:05.300the ability to publicize because if you didn't give them that option now i'm gonna say it really
00:17:11.140really clearly uh the commercials are bad guys they're not no there's also they're not they're
00:17:17.540not enjoyable they're i just don't know if they're necessarily doing what what they need to be doing
00:17:24.260in my opinion i think we should force because what happens i think a lot of people don't actually
00:17:30.660what happens see what happens in the house either no i honestly believe that if we wanted a more
00:17:36.340informed a more educated electorate we would at a 6 30 time slot throw in every single night
00:17:45.860a press conference with the leaders of the parties yeah i mean throw in question period a little bit
00:17:51.620throw in not not allow the the incumbent not allow the party that's in power to wield the media
00:17:58.660but also not waste taxpayers dollars on advertisements and rather force them into
00:18:05.220a situation where they have to have a banter back and forth where they have to speak off the cuff
00:18:10.520where they have to not have i don't know a giant binder in front of them where they get to speak
00:18:15.520from that's what everybody would like to see that yeah right now what's happened with the green
00:18:21.240belt thing has it gone away not not i mean really i mean like you said it seems like nobody's talking
00:18:25.980about it but but what happened is that the rcmp is still apparently investigating so i you know
00:18:32.220really don't know like it's not like the RCMP comes to me and says here's where where this is
00:18:36.020at uh I I would love to know what's going on um but if we checked and they are still that
00:18:41.800investigation is still underway and there's a few other um things that are not related to Greenbelt
00:18:46.040but that are still ongoing around this skills development well around some other grants actually
00:18:50.420um so and then there's other things going on like um integrity commissioner complaints that we've
00:18:55.600put in place there's all kinds of see there's all kinds of checks and balances that are in place
00:19:00.020it's just that and everybody says to me well how you know aren't there laws that enforce some of
00:19:05.540these things better and the problem is that the government makes the laws yeah right and
00:19:09.700they can minimize regulation and when you have a majority government yeah yeah when you have a if
00:19:15.700that cut off right there just understand that i'm a very popular teacher and that was a parent that
00:19:20.340i just um but when the government can manipulate or limit regulation under the guise of making it
00:19:28.980more efficient i mean make no mistake you will have government officials saying well we want to
00:19:34.820ease these regulations because the more red tape we have the hardier it is for us to do what we
00:19:40.340need to do and the more expensive it is which in actuality what they want to do is just grease the
00:19:45.780lining so that they can get done what they want to done for for anybody who doesn't understand
00:19:49.700what the green belt is and i'll i'm gonna i'm gonna five minute it uh an area in ontario an
00:19:56.660area of protected land that's always been protected so that we don't develop it in order to protect
00:20:02.500the environment but also farmland farmland yeah farmland being a part of that now that land's
00:20:08.420worth x amount because it's protected land meaning industrial agents can never come in buy it all up
00:20:15.300and you know uh develop it any way they see fit from what i understand and you can correct me if
00:20:20.580If I'm wrong, from what I understand, Doug Ford, maybe let's say a little, a little before allowing this land to be deregulated, maybe possibly let some people know that you might want to think about purchasing some of this land at a really good rate.
00:20:42.600Because as soon as he deregulates it, this is what's known as insider trading, buy the buy.
00:20:48.660As soon as he deregulates it, now it will be available for industrial development.
00:20:54.160So something that was worth $100,000 is now worth a million.
00:21:09.960I mean, at the end of the day, we knew and we could see what was going on because the government board had gotten elected in 2018 and said, don't worry, I'm not going to touch it.
00:21:19.240But behind the scenes, he was telling people, yeah, we're open for business.
00:21:22.780And then even the same minister that I just talked about, who's stuck, you know, caught up in this controversy, David Pacini, he, he, others have, who are tied to the Green Belt have actually said that he, he was giving people the heads up as well.
00:21:36.040So, you know, again, and it's always the same cast of characters, right?
00:21:39.420it's the same people and that's i guess the other thing right it's like who are you are you seeing
00:21:43.580the same names yeah over and over again and that's where i always sort of say that the only job
00:21:47.980creation program the government has is for their own insiders you know it's like it's like who's
00:21:52.700actually getting jobs there's almost 800 000 ontarians right now that are looking for work
00:21:56.860do you think it's a bit of a flaw in the way our democracy is set up that that a good chunk of your
00:22:01.100job is keeping your job yeah you know that is that is that is actually true i mean i think that
00:22:06.860well actually i think a really good way to look at it is i say like government shouldn't be run
00:22:12.220in like four-year cycles so if you think that like it's hard usually get done in four years
00:22:17.180and so you're everything is being run in a certain way and then it's and it's really fast right
00:22:21.900instead of thinking in longer term or better um about passing good laws that are going to actually
00:22:28.860do the right things not have like unintended consequences because sometimes government
00:22:32.780brings forward laws sure and they don't even really they don't they do it so fast you don't
00:22:36.700hear from everybody about how that could go wrong sometimes they put in speed cameras and then um
00:22:43.500take them out and complain that they were a money grab but they're the actual people who brought
00:22:48.300them in yeah that's neither here nor there can we talk about education yeah i know you have a
00:22:53.180limited amount of time no no let's talk about education i always have time to talk about
00:22:56.380might be my least favorite person so so uh eqao um yeah uh results came out these are the
00:23:06.780standardized standardized tests so we have a standardized test in grade three grade six
00:23:11.580grade ten is there a grade nine one no i thought it was i think six and nine oh i don't know math
00:23:17.260is great three as well so all these standardized uh tests um they the results well they didn't
00:23:22.940want to release the results the results and then they finally came out and we realized they were
00:23:27.340better than last time but they're still like nowhere near to be seeing the the increases i
00:23:33.820guess that have been promised um and everybody's real upset about it right and this is amidst
00:23:39.500speaking of another issue of corruption trying to get rid of trustees and installing people
00:23:46.220instead of the trustee installing again partisan officials to go in at insane how do i get one of
00:23:54.020yeah i know 350 000 dollars 350 000 to go do what a trustee is supposed to do and by the way
00:24:02.300trustees are side like they're getting paid like five grand they're not getting paid a lot of money
00:24:06.980350 000 to go what clean up have you ever heard of bad business ideas i know i'm gonna pay
00:24:15.320three hundred fifty thousand dollars for somebody to go save two hundred thousand dollars yeah what
00:24:21.100and they're making giving them like a forty thousand dollars each for expenses which is
00:24:26.000like one of their big issues is like they've been making such a hey about like a trustee who paid a
00:24:31.040lot for a milkshake and there were some trustees who you know i think made bad decisions about
00:24:35.740things they did go to italy one time that was not good to get one time they went to italy good idea
00:24:40.840but that's they paid it back they like what are we doing no and i think like there's there's always
00:24:45.960going to be a few bad apples right but i i do think you're taking away a position that is very
00:24:51.080very low paid you're right like usually it's like five thousand dollars depends on the side because
00:24:54.520it's yeah it's really it's almost doing it as a volunteer or if somebody's on a board and you get
00:24:58.600like a few thousand dollars to cover your time it's like a stipend uh and they have a huge
00:25:02.680responsibility but most importantly like their job is like because they're debt they're democratically
00:25:07.880elected in their communities they're supposed to be the person who's like keeping an eye on like
00:25:12.720what the community thinks and feels um they're a person that the parent can go to you know if
00:25:17.120you're really running into like you can't get answers about something or you see an ongoing
00:25:21.180issue in in your school or in your board and so they're shutting all that down and they're
00:25:25.600replacing them with these people who are not education education experts they have no connection
00:25:30.620they're almost all people who are connected again to the conservative party like failed candidates
00:25:35.180and they're paying them a heap of money and then yeah that's what they're doing it's wild
00:25:41.520and then they come out with the eqao results so all of this is on the heels of that they haven't
00:25:46.560actually these people haven't actually gone in and the results are horrible and paul calandra who is
00:25:51.400the minister of education is real confused yeah real dumbfounded about what could possibly be
00:25:58.900going on in education that could lead to poorer results. And what baffles me is that it doesn't
00:26:09.240seem like a single person in the media is holding his feet to the fire. It's wild. You know, when he
00:26:15.340said he was going to hold off releasing those results, we all knew right away that meant they
00:26:18.960were bad. But we could have told them they were bad anyways, because kids are struggling. And if
00:26:22.700you've got a kid in the school system, or you're a parent or a grandparent, or you're
00:26:28.460a teacher or work in the system like you know you know already what's going on in there and the kids
00:26:33.780are struggling and they're not getting the support they need and I could have told him that but he
00:26:37.680didn't need to go study it now he wants to go and study it again he's paying some more of his
00:26:41.080insider friends to help him study it I told him how to fix it any teacher that's been teaching
00:26:46.660more than five minutes could tell him how to fix it here's the bottom line it's going to cost money
00:26:50.820yeah that's it it's going to cost money and this is what nobody's willing to say because they're
00:26:55.860going to pretend as though and this is what this government does horrifically well but in all
00:27:00.640fairness voters out there pull it together because if you're going to keep falling for it i don't
00:27:04.840know what to tell you they can't charge you less they can't take fewer tax dollars and give you
00:27:12.500more yeah period yeah that's right everything is inflated down to the paper that schools are buying
00:27:20.320obviously wages because they they need to be because they're trying to keep up with
00:27:25.480inflation out there down to how much school buses have to charge because of gas down to uniform
00:27:31.940costs for kids playing sports a basketball everything costs more yet you seem to and i'm
00:27:39.220saying you as in some people i don't know how many are listening to me keep voting in people
00:27:44.740that say well don't worry we're never going to charge you anymore that price bracket is never
00:27:51.120going to go up we're going to keep putting the same money into education or if we're going to
00:27:55.140put more money into education. It's going to be for $350,000 surveyors of knowledge that actually
00:28:02.420have no experience whatsoever. And they're not going to change the real issues, which are
00:28:06.920classroom size, which are complexities of the classroom. To be honest, if Paul was worth
00:28:13.480anything at all, he would have come out and said, you know what? The complexities in the
00:28:17.780classroom are really, really difficult. Our teachers are doing amazing jobs. We need to
00:28:21.580figure out how to he could have spun it yeah he doesn't even care to spin it that's how much
00:28:27.420you know i i mean you're you're like the educator i what i hear from uh educators like teachers
00:28:36.500education workers educational assistants all of that principals is uh and what we we know because
00:28:42.560if you're close to kids at all and you see it like they are struggling and the complexities are
00:28:47.260are massive um kids are still dealing with the fallout from covid yeah 100 and and the government
00:28:53.100has been in power for eight years so anything that's not happening is on them and actually
00:28:58.300you're right like that cost increasing like if you do the math and lots of people have already
00:29:01.740done this work and they say you know really they say they've increased funding but really they
00:29:06.300haven't because it's actually a six billion dollar cut it's fifteen hundred dollars per student so