Glenn Beck analyzes the war in Iran's impact on global supply chains and exposes $233 billion to $521 billion in annual government fraud. He contrasts 1950s housing affordability with today's crisis, blaming zoning laws for price spikes while detailing the Southern Poverty Law Center's federal indictment for secretly funding extremists. Finally, he warns America of Canada's trajectory, citing ten pillars of liberty that Ottawa allegedly violates through bioweapon cover-ups, election interference, and expanded medical assistance in dying, suggesting similar policies could erode American freedom. [Automatically generated summary]
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Deep Rot in the System00:01:52
Okay, there's a lot of stuff going on in today's show.
We talked to you about the SPLC, an update on that.
The rot runs really, really deep.
And if I hear one more person say, Well, the FBI does it, they're not the FBI.
I couldn't get all of that out of my system in the monologue.
You'll hear that.
Also, talk about the housing market.
What is actually happening with the housing market?
What is the problem there?
And some real solutions.
Also, are we turning into Canada?
And what is Canada turning into?
All that and so much more on today's podcast.
So, right now, everybody's watching the war in Iran, hoping that it ends quickly.
But there's something that people are not talking about.
Even if it does end tomorrow, the aftershocks are just getting started because the Strait of Hormuz has been disrupted, and that doesn't just fix itself overnight.
Ships that are arriving today left ports months ago.
And right now, shipments are backed up and supplies are tightening.
And other parts of the world are already feeling the shortages that we haven't fully felt yet, which means what you're seeing now is the beginning.
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Fixing Economic Fraud Now00:02:50
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So, there's a couple of things we have to talk about that have to be done.
If you want to fix our economy, we have to fix the fraud.
The latest now, the latest numbers from the GAO, the Government Accounting Office, is that they estimate that our government loses.
Between $233 billion and $521 billion every year based on fraud.
Between 2018 through 2022.
Can you imagine how bad it is now?
Half a billion dollars.
Sorry, half a trillion dollars.
How many trillions are we in debt?
In two years, just based on fraud, in two years, we will add another trillion dollars to our debt.
And that entire number of trillion.
Will be because of fraud.
I don't know.
Does that sound important?
That's not like cutting pennies here.
That's cutting a trillion dollars every two years.
That seems really important because we're just not going to make it with this kind of spending.
And if this fraud continues like this, we're not going to have a country left to protect.
And I don't mean just because of the fraud, I mean because we're not going to believe anybody.
People are going to start saying, I'm not paying for it.
Anymore.
You're wasting my money.
You're wasting everything that I have worked hard for.
I work four months out of the year just to pay my income tax.
That's not reasonable.
When you're losing half a trillion dollars in fraud, people are just going to have enough of it.
That has to be addressed.
But then we also have to address something that is both partially a lie and partially true.
And because there is a deception that is going on that people are believing.
And here's what it whispers to people every day.
The Broken American Dream00:13:25
You can't afford the life you want.
You can't afford to buy a decent house.
You can't start a family.
Not in this economy.
Not anymore.
I think most Americans buy that now.
And they have every reason to buy it.
The soaring prices, the endless debt, the perfect images online of what everybody else's dream is.
And you look at it and go, that dream is dead.
So we have put off marriage and children.
We put off a home that we can own.
And we get less and less hopeful because we convince ourselves that real happiness is.
And success requires more than we could really ever achieve.
I want to do an experiment with you.
Right now, think about the house that you believe would make you truly happy.
Okay.
I want you to just actually pick a number in your head.
How many square feet, how many bedrooms for you to be like, I'm happy.
I'm living a dream.
I'm living the way my parents would have lived.
Okay.
You know, when the dream was available for everybody.
How many kids are running through those rooms?
What's the square footage of the home?
How many bedrooms?
How many kids?
You have that number?
Keep that number in mind.
Now, let me go back to probably the peak, the golden era of America, back to the 1950s.
And I'm not saying it's a golden era for everybody, blah, blah, blah, stop.
But this was a time when we had a booming economy, jobs everywhere, manufacturing everywhere.
I mean, we were the envy of the world.
Cheap gas, cheap energy.
The world seemed to be at peace.
America stood at its zenith.
The average home back then was $7,000.
Now, these are $7,000.
$7,000.
How big?
Remember the number that you have on square footage?
How big is that home that you're thinking right now?
Because the average home today is 2,500 square feet.
The average new home in 1950 was 983 square feet.
983 square feet.
The average family was almost four, it was 3.9.
So there were two children, two adults living in 983 square feet.
And that's where the American dreams were built.
That's where families gathered around the table and children played in the yard and people felt their life was full and good.
If I told you you could afford a modest home of that size under a thousand square feet and raise your family in it, would you take it?
Would you live?
Would you mentally?
Trust that you could be genuinely happy with two children and 983 square feet.
Because our parents did and our grandparents did.
Now, that home in 1950 cost about $7,300.
Adjust that for inflation, and you're looking at about $95,000 in today's dollars.
The same average home today, the average home, is over $400,000.
Not double, not even triple.
That's four times higher in real terms.
But that's today's average home because back in 1950, it was 950 square feet.
Small, modest, practical, almost the exact size of what you could get today, but not for $400,000.
Level the playing field, same size, because $400,000 is about a 2,000 square foot home.
Let's adjust this to 1950s inflation.
Back then, home adjusted for inflation ran about $100 per square foot.
Today, the same home, you're looking at $200, $250, maybe at the priciest places around $300 per square foot.
So when you strip away the size inflation from $2,000, To $950, and you compare apples to apples, the home is still about two times more expensive.
So you're talking about from $95, you're talking about $200,000.
So you've doubled the price, bare minimum.
If you're living close to a city, it might be three times.
Same square footage in $1950, top end, 950 square feet, selling for $5,000 to $7,000.
If you look in 1950s numbers, that's $10,000 to $14,000.
So it's double.
Now, we're told a story to try to explain this.
It's inflation.
But it's not.
It's not inflation.
Because if it was all inflation in $1950, it would be $7,000.
But it's not.
If we look at that and we say it's $10,000, it's $10,000 to $14,000.
That's the inflation, okay?
So, what else is costing us this money?
What else is costing this?
Today's dollar should have been $7,000, but it's not.
It's $14,000.
What is causing the double price?
Here's another lie.
Well, the homes are better.
When it's not exactly a lie, it's kind of true.
We have central air, we have advanced electrical systems, we have insulation, appliances, smart tech.
Things that didn't even exist in 1950.
You walk into a 1950s house and you're like, this is a total teardown.
Okay.
Even if it was taken care of perfectly, you don't want to live in that house.
Okay.
But that doesn't explain the two or three or 400% increase.
Dishwasher didn't triple the price of a home.
So what did?
Well, the answer is not in the house, the answer is what's under your feet land.
And if you're a farmer, you know this because you can't afford to buy land.
Land has become the most expensive part of the American home.
Now, why is that?
Did we run out of land?
You drive 30 minutes outside of almost any major city in any county, and you're going to see it.
It's all still sitting there, wide open space, waiting.
So, why is land so expensive?
Because our government made it that way.
You didn't, I didn't, but the government, local, state, and federal government, they all made it that way.
Zoning laws, permits, restrictions, endless layers of EPA approval.
We didn't run out of land.
We restricted the access to the land.
And then something else happened.
We stopped building.
Not completely, but compared to what we used to do, it's not even close.
We also have immigration.
Now that brings in a sudden overwhelming demand for homes.
Millions of people need a home.
So, the question is on that one have we ever been there before?
Huge sudden demand for homes, shortage of homes.
Yeah.
Been in exactly the same position after World War II.
Millions of soldiers came home and they wanted to start a family and they wanted their own home.
So, there was this massive housing shortage far, far worse in many ways than what we're facing today.
Demand exploded overnight.
So, what happened there?
Because I don't remember almost going into revolution in the 1940s, late 1940s, and early 1950s because there were home shortages.
In fact, I don't really remember reading much about the home shortages except for right after the war.
What happened?
Because we had to study it for decades, right?
I mean, we held hearings and we passed rules to slow things down.
Nope, nope.
We did something different back in the 1950s.
We built.
We built entire communities almost overnight.
I don't know if you've ever heard of Levittown, but Levittown is a great example.
Homes were built like cars on an assembly line.
Homes were built in days, not months.
Days.
Can you imagine?
I'm building something now in Florida.
I'm building a new building in Florida.
I'm hoping that I can have just the permitting done by this summer.
And that's Florida, one that is not a problem.
The GI Bill made the financing available.
Millions of veterans, they served their country, they came back.
The interstate highway system opened up the land that had never been reachable before.
And perhaps most importantly, the government got out of the way.
The government made it easy to build.
So what happened?
Prices rose at first because everybody needed a home, and then they stabilized because supply caught up with demand.
That's how markets are supposed to work.
Now, fast forward to today.
We have a shortage again.
But this time, are we unleashing builders?
No, we're restraining them.
Are we expanding supply?
No, we're constraining it.
Instead of saying yes, like Donald Trump just did with the oil, drill, baby, drill, build, baby, build.
Instead of that, we say not here, not here, not here.
And then we act surprised when prices skyrocket.
This is why the most important number is not the price of a home.
It is the ratio between a home price and income.
In 1960, the average cost was two times the average annual income.
Today, it's over five times.
That's the difference between opportunity and exclusion.
That's the difference between a young family starting a life and one stuck renting indefinitely.
So when your kids ask, you know, how did your parents do it?
How do you do it?
The honest answer is this.
We lived in a country that believed in building, a country that saw the problem and solved it with action, not obstruction.
We were actually trying to make people's lives better because we cared about the individual person, not the planet over people.
We cared for the planet, but we also cared for people.
You know, the country believed that growth was good, expansion was good, opportunity was something that you created, not something that you rationed.
And somewhere along the way, that whole mindset of America changed.
We didn't lose the land, we didn't lose the resources, we've lost the will.
And until that changes, this doesn't get fixed.
The American dream is not dead.
We've just been lied about what it actually is.
Some of us are being lied to because they say there's no way out, we're never going to be able to do it.
You're lying because we're Americans.
We solve problems, we build.
That's who we are.
We're builders.
That's the difference between America and the rest of the world.
We build.
We invent our way out of these problems, but that's not what's happening.
And then the other half of the problem is the lie that just keeps continuing that you're not going to be able to live the American dream.
Well, what is the American dream?
Because if you want to live the way your parents did, it's not in a 2,500 square foot house.
That's new.
And that's not even what people are even really hoping for.
They want to live in a 5,000 square foot house or a 10,000 square foot house.
The American dream was never about a mansion.
And so, anybody who is watching life on Facebook or on TikTok or on Instagram, that's not real life.
False Hope and Lies00:14:14
That's not.
The American dream is about freedom and opportunity and hard work and faith and building a life with the people that you love, not in a homeless shelter.
But not necessarily in a home that is built just to impress.
Let's remember what it means to actually be happy.
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Now back to the podcast.
This is the best of the Glenbeck program.
So the Southern Poverty Law Center, the very organization that built a billion dollar empire, labeling mainstream conservatives, Christians, concerned parents as hate groups.
Now, it has been federally indicted on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.
They stand accused of secretly funding over $3 million in donor money to actual Klan members, neo Nazis, and extremist groups that they are apparently opposed to.
Terrifying American citizens into giving, giving, giving while they were allegedly paying the very monsters they said they were fighting.
Now, it seems as though the press is running to.
Protect these hacks.
You know, they're doing everything they can to downplay the indictment.
And why?
Well, I don't need to explain why.
You know why.
But what is it that they are saying?
Well, one of my favorites, let me give you this one kind of a smarty pants reaction to something I said yesterday.
And this is the general attempt to downplay what was exposed.
This is from Mike Young.
The indictment alleges donor disclosure fraud, that the SPLC didn't tell the contributors their money funded informants inside extremist groups.
That's what the 11 counts describe.
Beck reads it as proof that the right wing extremist movements were manufactured.
The indictment doesn't say that.
Paying informants inside the KKK does not make the KKK fictional.
I never said that.
I never said the KKK was fictional.
I never said neo Nazis don't exist.
I said the money that they were paying was amplifying it, making it bigger.
The organization exists.
Absolutely.
The violence was real.
Yep.
Let's see.
Beck appears on the SPLC list 157 times.
That's a legitimate grievance about overbroad listing.
You think?
It's not evidence that white supremacist violence is a color revolution operation.
I didn't say that either.
Look, this exists.
Hatred exists.
Racism exists.
Nazis exist.
Radicals exist.
Anarchists exist.
People who want to kill you.
People who just want to watch the world burn for some unknown reason.
All of that exists.
The question here on the SPLC is were they aiding and abetting that so they could grow and do the bidding of their Marxist or their leftist progressive leaders?
Were they part of a system to tear America apart?
Yeah, they were.
They were.
But that's not even what the legal question is.
Remember, let me just go back to what I just read at the beginning.
They are indicted on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.
Now, the other thing that the left is saying is that they are claiming that, well, the FBI does that.
And, let me figure that one out.
Yes, the FBI does that.
Is the.
SPLC, the FBI.
I know they all have letters in their names, but the SPLC is not the FBI.
Different letters, which means they can't do what the FBI does.
They're doing the same thing.
They were just paying for informants.
Were they?
Were they?
Well, let's just go into this here for a second.
Did you read the indictment?
Because what they said, what the indictment says they did, and this is all alleged.
But what the indictment says they did was they opened up bank accounts under false pretenses and false names.
Well, yeah, but they were doing undercover work.
Wait, wait, wait.
Can we please just stop and think for a second, please?
For the love of Pete, can we stop?
Let me just, if I opened up a bank account or you opened up a bank account today under a false name and then you made wire transfers under other false names.
Would you expect anyone to go, yeah, but I was doing it to, you know, help children with cancer?
No.
Well, I was doing it, you know, to get the bad guys from stopping hurting good guys.
Nope.
Well, the FBI does it and it doesn't work that way.
It doesn't work that way.
Opening an account, I just want to give this so the media, because they apparently just don't have Google.
Or ChatGPT or anything.
They can't look this stuff up, so I'm going to help them.
When you open up a bank account in the United States under the Customer Identification Program, that's in the Patriot Act.
Oh, I don't like the Patriot Act.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
It doesn't matter if you like it or not, it's the law.
This was implemented via FinCEN and banking regs.
If you provide false identification to a bank, it can be treated as bank fraud under USC section 18, USC section 1344.
Also, as identity related offenses under 18 USC. 1028 or aggravated identity theft in section 1028A.
Okay, so you can't open, you've got three codes, three U.S. codes that you violated here just by opening up a bank account with a fake name.
You violated three federal laws wiring money to fake names.
Wire transfers must include accurate originator and beneficiary information.
Under anti money laundering rules.
Supplying a fictitious name or structuring transactions to avoid detection can trigger money laundering statutes like 18 U.S.C. 1956 and 18 U.S.C. 1957.
Banks are required to monitor and report suspicious activity.
Mismatched or fabricated identities are a classic red flag.
So, you can't do the things even though the FBI does it.
Why?
The FBI does it because they have special exemption.
They have lawful structures.
They have to report, they have to log, they have to follow certain laws themselves, but they get special dispensation because they're a law enforcement agency.
You know what?
I arrested somebody.
I tried them, and I'm keeping them in jail in my basement.
What?
The police do it?
You can't do it.
You're not the police.
I cannot take.
These people who say they are so highly educated who cannot think these things through logically, I just don't believe they're that stupid.
There's no way.
There is no legal carve out for private citizens to impersonate people, to send fake wires to fake people, or to open up fraudulent bank accounts that breaks all kinds of laws.
So, how exactly are you justifying this?
Well, the FBI does it.
Oh, God.
America, I just would like to come to you today and just say there is no hope.
There is no hope.
None.
Zero.
We're all doomed.
If this is the level of argument that we have in this nation, where our press and we buy this, that we can go online and just go, the FBI does it.
There's no hope.
You cannot be entrusted with your republic.
You cannot be entrusted with your government.
The American experiment is over if we're this stupid.
If we actually entertain that argument.
Somebody says that to you, just go, you're not the FBI.
You watch their heads explode.
They'll have no place to go, they won't even understand it.
They're not the FBI.
They don't have legal authority to do that.
That's in violation of all kinds of federal code.
That's jail time if you do it.
What part of this don't you understand?
So, anyway, the rot's pretty deep.
It's deeper than just the SPLC.
This is what happens when power and money and self righteousness replaces truth.
They lied to their donors.
Oh, well.
They profited from the fear that they helped create.
Oh, well, they're proven liars.
These are the ones who said that our border guards were whipping Haitian migrants.
Do you remember that?
Oh, well, they violated banking laws.
Do you not care about that?
Are you okay with anybody just making up?
Because If you're okay with that, are you okay with the drug cartels doing it?
Are you okay with Hezbollah doing it?
Are you okay with the Chinese government opening up bank accounts in the United States with false names?
Well, no, but they don't have the heart.
The court system doesn't judge your heart, it judges your actions.
Oh my gosh.
The people who gave, I hope you wake up because you're not evil.
You were most likely, I mean, not everybody, but a lot of people were just scared.
They believed that somebody was out there on their side fighting real hate.
And the desire for justice is good.
But when you outsource your moral discernment to institutions instead of anchoring it in eternal truth, You're easy to manipulate.
You're really easy to manipulate if you're like, yeah, I can do it.
Why can't I?
Oh my gosh.
Are you a second grader?
If you want accountability, then we have to have radical honesty.
We have to have personal responsibility.
We have to be able to refuse the lies, even on our own side.
Even when it hurts us, refuse to live the lie.
Stop funding the machine.
Demand transparency.
Demand justice, equal justice, all sides.
If I were opening up bank accounts under false names and I was wire transferring to fictitious people and I wasn't telling anyone about it and I'm not the FBI and that was happening in my charity, do you think I would go to jail?
Yes, and I should go to jail if that's what I was doing.
Because it's against the law.
These organizations, they've got to be rooted in truth, rooted in truth, not in outrage.
Violating Rule of Law00:10:35
But here's the good news.
The same God who sees every hidden fraud also sees every honest heart.
There's such a loss of hope right now.
Feed your hope, grow your gratitude.
Grow your gratitude in just this the light is exposing those things hidden in darkness.
Choose every day to live with integrity that these institutions have abandoned, that the press people have abandoned.
That so many people online have abandoned.
Just live your life with integrity.
Accountability is coming.
It is coming.
But the real revolution, the only one that will save the Republic, that revolution has to begin in us.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
So let's look at what a free nation is.
Before I get into this and I look at Canada, let's describe what a free nation really is.
Democracies and free nations can exist, but it's rare and historically very fragile.
So, here are the core hallmarks and pillars that actually determine whether a nation will remain free.
Rule of law is number one.
Rule of law, not rule of man.
A free nation, the law applies equally to everyone, citizens, leaders, and institutions alike.
Okay?
No one is above it, nobody's beneath it.
Rule of law is number one.
Keep that.
Two, free, fair, and regular elections.
Democracy requires that citizens can choose their leaders through elections that are transparent, competitive, peacefully conducted, and regularly scheduled.
Power must also transfer peacefully when people decide.
Without that, voting becomes theater.
Okay, number three, protection of individual rights.
This is the dividing line between pure democracy and a free society.
In a truly free nation, certain rights can be.
not ever be voted away, even by a majority.
That's freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and due process.
Documents like the Constitution and Bill of Rights exist for this reason.
Number four, separation of powers.
Powers are divided so no single person or group can dominate.
Legislative, they make the laws.
Executive, they enforce the laws.
Judicial interprets the laws.
This is a That's a free society.
Anytime there's friction in that, it's usually, you know, people bring that friction in on purpose.
Five, independent judiciary.
Courts have to be able to rule against the government without any fear.
If judges serve political power instead of the law, then the rights exist only on paper.
Justice has to be blind, not obedient.
Six, free press and open information.
Free nation requires a press that can question authority, investigate wrongdoing, inform the public without censorship.
Seven, civilian control of the military.
Eight, protection of minority rights.
Nine, economic freedom and property rights.
And 10, a culture that values freedom.
Okay, that's what I'm looking for.
Now let's look, see if we can, let's look at Canada and see are they a free nation anymore?
Because show me your friends and I will show you your future.
Okay.
Let's start with the basics of any real democracy, and that's accountability.
In 2021, Parliament discovered that a scientist in Canada's highest security lab had shipped live Ebola to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and collaborated with the Chinese military on bioweapons research.
Kind of a big deal, right?
Do we have anything like that?
Uh huh.
So, what happened in Canada?
The House ordered the documents four times.
The Liberal Party blocked it every single time.
They sued, they stonewalled, they even called for a snap election to kill the investigation.
So, what is that?
That's rule of law being violated and separation of powers being violated.
Remember, those are two out of the 10 things that you have to have if you're going to be a free nation.
Three years later, the Auditor General exposed the almost $400 million in.
Outright corruption, but again, Parliament, the Liberals, shut it down.
Accountability, independent oversight violated.
Then Trudeau resigned, and one third of 1% of Canadians, the elite inner circle, handed the Prime Minister's office to Mark Carney.
They tried to do that here when they tried to hand the nomination and did hand the nomination to Kamala Harris.
While this was happening, the House of Commons stopped sitting for eight months.
So Canada was governed by executive decree.
No oversight, no debate, no votes.
Where's your representation?
Separation of powers.
Okay, that's not a democracy that's ruled by fiat.
They weren't even in session.
The elections, are they free and fair?
CSIS confirmed China interfered in both 2019 and 2021, funding 11 candidates.
Trudeau was briefed for this.
On this, and he did nothing.
That's free and fair elections out the window.
Liberal MP openly told people to collect a Chinese Communist Party bounty on a conservative candidate.
No charges.
Equal application of the law violated.
The next election, 121 mail in ballots went uncounted.
In one, the vote was decided by a single vote.
Elections Canada printed the wrong postal codes on the envelopes in another data entry errors, and that delivered a 327 vote swing to the Liberals.
Trust in the election?
Then five MPs flipped into the Liberal Party in five months, and convenient that it handed the elections to the now majority, a two seat majority to the Liberals.
Democracy by design?
Or is it democracy by manipulation?
Do we see any of this happening here?
Because, see, people blame this on the Republicans, but where are the Republicans in Canada?
Why is this happening with progressive leadership all over the West?
Once in power, they moved to control what you see, what you say, and how you live in Canada.
They invoked the Emergencies Act against the 2022 Freedom Convoy.
They froze the bank accounts of protesters, their supporters, all across the country.
That's a silencing of free speech and assembly and property rights.
Two federal courts, including the Court of Appeal, ruled unanimously.
Unreasonable, unlawful, and a violation of charter rights to expression, assembly, and protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
No national emergency existed.
The government is still appealing to the Supreme Court, but the courts have already spoken.
They acted without justification and then they got away with it.
That's judicial authority and rule of law.
They passed a bill called C 18, the Online News Act, that forced Google and Meta to pay Canadian outlets for links.
Meta blocked all news on Facebook and Instagram for Canadians.
Google paid up instead of blocking, but the precedent was set.
Government decides what information flows.
Free press, information flow controlled.
That's not part of a free nation.
Bill C 11, the Online Streaming Act, does the same thing to Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, forcing them under the thumb of Canada and their DEI quotas and Canadian content.
Mandates.
That's speech.
That's cultural expression influenced by the state.
That's not a free nation.
They kept the carbon tax despite two thirds of Canadians opposing the increases.
Two thirds.
Is that a democratic republic?
They ended the visible consumer tax only to keep the hidden clean fuel regulations and industrial carbon tax quietly raising your fuel cost if you happen to be in Canada.
Transparency.
There's none there.
They tried to mandate 100% EV sales by 2035, then replaced it with emission rules that achieve the same thing except through the back door.
That's regulatory overreach.
Property rights, optional.
In Ontario, Bill 212 lets the province ram through highway projects, override municipal bylaws, and force property owners out faster.
No property rights.
In Waterloo, the government secretly used NDAs and expert.
Expropriation threats to grab 770 acres of prime farmland for a mega site.
Maybe a data center, don't know.
Farmers found out only after the fact.
Where's your property rights?
New Brunswick, a judge reduced a convicted man's sentence specifically so he wouldn't be deported because his skills mattered more than enforcing the law.
Where's equal justice?
In Toronto, city council voted to open government run grocery stores.
That waive their own taxes to undercut private business.
Fair market violation.
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In rural New Brunswick, they saw forced municipal mergers and tax hikes of 50 and 60 percent on homeowners.
British Columbia moving now from rural property rights into a permission based system, applying to the government for everything from selling eggs to giving riding lessons or face a $50,000 a day fine.
Economic freedom gone.
Guns, they banned 2,500 assault style firearms.
Called the buyback voluntary and then warned that keeping your legally purchased property after the deadline means jail.
Is there any property rights?
Then there's the darkest chapter made medical assistance in dying, legalized in 2016 for those with reasonably foreseeable deaths.
In 2021, they dropped that safeguard.
2024 alone, 22,535 Canadians requested it.
16,409 Received it.
5.1% of all deaths in the country are now medical assisted suicide.
From 2016 to 2024, over 76,000 killed by their own government's health care.
It's now the fourth leading cause of death in adults.
They have killed more people medically than they have euthanized pets in Canada.
Meanwhile, socialized medicine.
Patients are averaging 28 weeks for treatment, three times longer than in 1993.
Some doctors are offering made for back pain, curable conditions, mental health.
When the state controls your health care and offers death as a solution to its own failures, you're no longer a citizen, you're a cost center.
And now they want more.
The Combating Hate Bill, C9, moving through Parliament up in Canada, new criminal offenses for hate.
Codified definition that would criminalize religious belief, peaceful protest, dissent.
There's no freedom of speech there.
Former Google executive pitched a $500,000 exit tax on educated Canadians.
If you dare to leave, they're going to charge you half a million dollars.
So, you know, I mean, isn't that a Berlin Wall of sorts?
You owe the state for the privilege of being born there, stay and serve, or pay to escape.
Oh my gosh, that's not a democracy.
It's not.
Democracy is not when parliament sidelined for eight months.
Democracy is not when foreign interference is ignored and elections are gamed.
Democracy is not when the courts rule the government, broke the law, and then nothing changes.
Democracy is not when the state controls your speech, your property, your health care, your energy, your news, your guns, and then offers you assisted suicide.
Because the wait times for their medicine is too long.
Canada has become something else.
It's a managed oligarchy with democratic trappings.
The forums remain the elections, the parliament building, the maple leaf flag but the substance of what Canada has always been is gone.
Power is consolidated now, dissent is managed.
The individual exists to serve the state and not the other way around.
Look how far Canada has fallen.
Now recognize, America, this is your future.
We are already letting unelected bureaucrats and activists and judges rewrite the rules.
If we allow and tolerate foreign interference and media capture, if we accept that the government can freeze your bank account for protesting, seize your farm for progress, if we trade liberty for equity, safety, And Canadian content, we're going to wake up in the morning in exactly the same place.
I wanted to show you what was happening in Canada.
The slide is gradual, the language is polite, the slogans might even make people feel good until one day you realize the cage was built around you and you're not, you're free to walk around but not out.
It's going to be a little harder to do because we have the Constitution.
But if you listen to, I'm going to play this when we come back.
If you listen to what people are saying right now, senators are saying right now about what is coming, what they're planning on doing, packing the court, everything, we will be Canada overnight.