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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #739

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 739 on today, Tuesday the 12th of September 2023.
	I'm your host, Conor, joined by Dan.
	Hi guys.
	And our special guest, Benjamin Dichter.
	Hey everybody.
	Spokesman of the Trucker Convoy.
	The Canadian Trucker Convoy, aka Freedom Convoy.
	Justin Trudeau's favorite event, Trudeau's Truck Stop.
	Well, um... Genuine bloody hero, this man.
	If it wasn't for the truckers' protest, I think those ridiculous mandates would have carried on for an awful lot longer.
	Yeah, well, our coverage got a mention in your book, so we're very, very grateful for the shout-out for the podcast.
	Punkingforfreedom.com, by the way.
	Check it out.
	Yeah, it's fantastic.
	I'd burn through it in a week.
	It's eminently readable.
	It's got a hell of a lot in there, like you smashing your ankle and still carrying on with it.
	So well done for that, mate.
	But truly, and this comes from both myself and Dan, as much as we covered it, you guys were actually out in the streets doing it, and you served as a global example for the pushback against this kind of tyranny.
	Well, we were inspired by platforms like you guys, and people have the courage to speak out and focus their careers.
	On encouraging other people to also speak out.
	So this is a symbiotic relationship.
	We couldn't have done it without the support of Lotus Eaters and other similar podcasts, including the people on the ground.
	So it wasn't us.
	It was all of us together, as the lefties like to say, right?
	Yeah.
	So now we're done kissing each other's backsides.
	Today's topics!
	The UK is introducing energy rationing, so we're all going to be cold and poor, as per usual.
	California's crime wave, which has been sanctioned by a series of bills that you're going to be taking us through.
	Yes, not good.
	And what the F is wrong with Canada?
	We're going to need some time for that one, aren't we?
	Yes, we are.
	Many such cases.
	So, without further ado, let's jump into today's topics.
	Right, so the UK is introducing smart meter energy rationing, and they're going to give the police new powers to raid your home if you aren't complying with their energy efficiency standards.
	Now those energy efficiency standards are according to an energy performance certificate, and that's based on EU law, which I thought we were meant to have left at one point.
	Yeah, I was under that impression.
	Yeah, so they got rid of the EU laws and then they just used the law to write them back into law for Britain.
	Oh God.
	It's almost like they wanted to do it anyway and they're just using that as an excuse.
	That sounds like a conspiracy theory, Dan, and we can't abide by that on this podcast.
	So while we're still allowed to keep the lights on and energy still running, you can go and subscribe to our website for as little as £5 a month and watch great interviews with guests like this.
	And this is my recent interview with author Nina Power, who asked, what do men want?
	I would suggest adding energy security to that list.
	It's going to happen sometime soon.
	Also, Nina was really lovely.
	Very nourishing chat.
	So go and check that out.
	And for the subscription fee, we can keep facilitating bringing in those guests.
	You can keep watching it for free.
	But let's jump to the authoritarian bill in question.
	This is from the Daily Skeptic.
	So this is, and I am not kidding you, this is the full title of the 446-page bill, right?
	It's called the UK Energy Bill, but the full title is a bill to make provisions about energy production and security in the regulation of the energy market, including provision about the licensing of carbon dioxide by transport and storage, about commercial arrangement for industrial carbon capture and storage and for hydrogen production, about new technology and the energy market.
	That's the title.
	carbon heat schemes and hydrogen grid trails, about the independent system operator and planner, about gas and electricity industry codes, about heat networks, about energy smart appliances and load control, about the energy performance of premises, about the resilience of the core fuel sector, about offshore energy production, including the environmental protection, licensing and decommissioning, about offshore energy production, including the environmental protection, licensing and decommissioning, about the civil nuclear sector, including the civil nuclear constabulary and for connected So that's the title.
	That's the title.
	I've read Ayn Rand monologues that are shorter than that. - Yeah, so you know when the Americans call something a port barrel bill with literally everything in it?
	Oh, we're doing that now, are we?
	Well, did they miss anything out?
	I don't know.
	I got bored halfway through, so I stopped listening.
	Yeah, they could have included the Loving Puppies and Kittens Act just to soft sell it, I suppose.
	So, the purpose of the bill is to subsidise the carbon capture industry and talk about onshore wind and things like that.
	We'll get to those, like, subordinate concerns later.
	The most interesting part here is about smart meters and smart appliances.
	So an interconnected web of everything in your home hooked up to an energy efficiency scoring and mediating system.
	So it's meant to be saving you money on your energy bills by making it so that your fridge and your light systems can be turned off when you're not in the room.
	The heating can be controlled properly.
	So when you're not out, it can, this is something you spoke about on Brokernomics before, it can heat your home up to an adequate temperature before you get home and therefore you're not running it all day and you're not losing cash.
	There is a theory element of it that it can be to your advantage.
	Yes, there is.
	But, basically, who really has the control here?
	That's the question.
	Well, we're going to answer that question.
	It turns out that's the point of the bill.
	I think you're going to see some similarities here with the arbitrary confiscation of bank accounts with the trucker protest.
	Yeah, I was actually going to ask, what is a Bitcoin miner considered?
	Is that considered a smart appliance?
	That would be interesting.
	I don't know if that's in the book.
	Is he a miner ticking off?
	Are they going to cut off your power if you're mining Bitcoin?
	That would be an interesting question.
	I wouldn't be shocked actually.
	That's fascinating.
	I hadn't considered that.
	So the bill defines a smart meter as an appliance which is capable of adjusting the immediate or future flow of electricity into or out of itself or another appliance in response to a load control signal and includes any software or other systems which enable or facilitate the adjustment to be made in response to that signal.
	So, who sends a load control signal?
	If the signal is sent to the smart appliance by anything other than the homeowner, that means that the electricity supply from all of your appliances in the household can be manipulated or confiscated.
	And that is the backdoor built into this bill.
	Right.
	So, they're going to look at whether or not you're complying with energy mandates.
	One of those things is, quote, requiring persons to supply evidence of their compliance to enforcement authorities, conferring powers of entry, including by reasonable force.
	Well, they can break down your door.
	Yes.
	Well, at least it's reasonable for us.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Cue the FBI video of them swinging through the window, crashing through the ceiling.
	Yeah, so they can check whether or not you've got your smart meter installed, presumably when they become mandatory, rather than just getting them to sell you it via Albert Einstein on the telly.
	And then, if it's on, if it's working, and if you're complying with those energy certificates that are in EU law.
	Because I've spent the last five years being offered a smart meter, and every time saying, no, stop calling me, go away.
	Same with my household number.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	They're going to kick your door down and force one on you, I suppose.
	I have a question.
	Does the UK not have an equivalent of what we have in North America, common carrier laws?
	You know what common carrier law is?
	What's that?
	It means that you cannot discriminate on the individual, the customer, based on their political perspectives or race, identity, gender, all that sort of stuff.
	So if you're running an airline or you're an energy company, you cannot discriminate based on who is your customer.
	It has to be a common carrier.
	I don't know if we've got laws prohibiting it.
	I just know we are creeping into that space.
	Well, that's exactly my point.
	I think if there is a structure, this seems to be, they're trying to subvert it.
	And I think that would be the way to push back.
	So this would be something you'd be able to cover under the Equality Act because it's not just for hiring, it is also for treatment by public bodies and companies.
	So that would be anti-discrimination law.
	The problem is, as we know every single time, is that the law is not neutral because it's applied by people who have specific biases.
	So if you were a conservative white man and you try and appeal to Equality Act legislation saying, I've been discriminated by this company, good luck.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	We're going to mention him later, trust me, trust me.
	So, they not only require you to submit evidence that you're complying, or the police to keep your door down, right?
	It says, all electricity and gas meters have dates by which they should be replaced.
	So this is going to be a guaranteed mandate.
	And then there's Clause 248.
	And some of the MPs have been raising a stink about this, because this is buried quite deep, right?
	The Secretary of State may make regulations for any of these purposes.
	A. Enabling or requiring the energy usage or energy efficiency of premises to be assessed, certified and publicised.
	So that means at any time he can change the mandate, he can update it, he can make it more restrictive.
	And non-compliance carries fines of £15,000 and 12 months in prison.
	So it's ruled by a diktat of a bureaucrat?
	Yes.
	And so, because of the smart meter being adjustable on the fly, they can change the law tonight, make it so that your smart meter has to meet the new requirements, and if tomorrow you go over your energy use allowance, the police can kick down your door and give you £15,000 and stick you in prison for a year.
	I don't want to get too annoyed, but there is another way of doing this.
	Just produce more bloody energy.
	Yes, but that would imply that they want a functioning energy grid and not just to make you a seller.
	Actually, I'm going to throw in another angle here.
	I've mentioned this on some of my segments, you can look up National Grid Live and you can see where the energy is coming from.
	It is not uncommon, I think it's the case when I looked at it this morning, that 10% is coming from France and quite often that can go up to a quarter of all our energy is coming from France.
	So we are reliant on French nuclear energy.
	What's the other thing that's happening in France at the moment?
	Oh yeah, they've got the Niger thing going on.
	And they were extracting uranium from Niger for less than a euro, and Niger just put the price up to 200 euros.
	So we are basically at the end of the chain of French nuclear power, which is at the end of the chain of the Niger uranium, which has just gone up in price by 200%.
	Well, another great country to secure uranium from would have been that really big one over in Eastern Europe that currently... Oh yes, that one.
	Yeah, so things are about to get really expensive in terms of the raw materials and also if you don't comply with the arbitrarily changing energy use targets that some bureaucrat in Whitehall is going to set.
	But what is the rationale for this?
	Is that there's not enough supply or the planet is dying because carbon is killing it?
	Is that not the rationale?
	It will be both.
	Can they not pick one?
	Just pick one excuse and stick with it.
	The latter excuse is The reason why they don't want to generate abundant energy for the former, because actually the abundant energy is the goal and not saving the planet.
	Because they could just build these nuclear power stations.
	It's like Nick Clegg in 2012 said, oh, they won't come online until 2022, 2023.
	We could have used that, thanks very much.
	But they don't want to.
	Instead, they purposely build temperamental, weather-reliant renewable energy to then manufacture consent to then ration it for you guys.
	But my question is, and again, I'm not familiar with what's going on here.
	Thorium nuclear facilities, which is kind of the newest generation of nuclear waste, nuclear facilities don't generate nuclear waste.
	So what's the problem?
	You don't have meltdown, you don't have nuclear, like all the bad aspects of nuclear energy is gone.
	So why do they want to kill it?
	If you accept the narrative, fine.
	Honk, honk!
	You think I accept narratives?
	No, no, no, I'm saying even if we do accept the narrative, Give us nuclear then.
	That's fine.
	But they won't do that.
	So they're giving us the narrative and they're denying us the solution and they're just doing what Conor says.
	Good solid conservative leadership in this country.
	Just like Canada.
	We'll talk about that.
	Yeah, we'll get to that later.
	I actually predicted this quite a while ago, because funnily enough, when I used to write a column for a climate skeptic mag that was trying to say, can we have sensible solutions to any sort of conservation or energy issue, please?
	Because the entire world isn't burning down.
	You know, typical conspiracy theorist.
	There was a bill, a bit of legislation working its way through government when Grant Shapps was transport secretary, because you know he's big on board with Net Zero, and he's actually good friends with Bill Gates.
	I have that on Word from people that work closely with him.
	He was exploring the ability to turn off smart appliances, and particularly electric car charging ports that we're trying to install in new builds and buildings at peak use hours in order to ration the energy because they knew in advance, and I told them this in my paper, it turns out that if you go fully renewable, you're only going to meet about 27% of energy demand for the entire country.
	So if you're going to press your foot on that particular accelerator, we're going to have to accept a lot lower standard.
	The issue is there, is that the the energy generation is more or less flat.
	I know it fluctuates, but it's more or less flat across the day.
	But energy uses vary significantly between daytime and nighttime.
	And the whole thing with electric cars is, oh, that will work because people will charge their electric cars at night.
	But only if they actually do charge their electric cars at night.
	If they do it during the day when everything else is turned on, the whole thing doesn't work.
	So then you get to the point of what you just said, which is, okay, well, we're now going to need to force these people into electric cars and simultaneously force them not to charge them during the day.
	Yeah.
	So they actually, they, they set it.
	So they said the smart chargers would connect to the smart meters and deactivate automatically according to the presets, limiting the function between 8 and 11 AM and 4 to 10 PM.
	So basically a travel lockdown, because if you wanted to go out at that time, you'd have forgotten to charge it.
	Or you've made a long journey the next day, then you're screwed.
	And then in 2021, September 2021, the Green Party Baroness Natalie Bennett said that she should use electric cars as driveway backup generators for when the grid inevitably fails.
	So she's even admitting, even though she wants 100% renewable and said no nuclear, that the grid won't work.
	Yeah, that's a bad idea.
	It's a horrendous idea.
	I actually modelled that way back when and I was like that's not even going to be a fraction of a percent.
	And then what happens when said generator runs out in a day and you have a 21 day trough and you can't even charge your car and it's also out of battery?
	There is some virtue to encouraging people to take these powerball things and load level with that but you can't incentivise people to do that without massively throwing money at it because people aren't going to do it on their own because there's It does not make individual sense to do it financially.
	Yes.
	And what ended up happening was, the National Grid and Octopus Energy, it turns out, were already looking into this.
	So, they did a pilot scheme that drained the batteries of electric cars during Generation Drop.
	Now, under this new legislation, they wouldn't even have to inform you of that, would they?
	So, they could just decide, oh, you tweeted out the wrong thing, boom, there goes, oh, sorry, there was an energy trough, guys, we just needed, we really need the power from, like, this specific household on the street.
	Bit, bit strange.
	There's another penny in the, I wish I wasn't right, but I suppose I am, jar.
	So, there were a few politicians that spoke up against this, one of them being Jacob Rees-Mogg.
	Turns out that he voted against it, he was one of the few that voted against it, and I thought I'd just play a quick clip of his GB News monologue from the other night.
	Oh, John?
	The Government's Energy Bill is set for its third and final reading tomorrow, before the chance of ping pong with the Lords and the Commons.
	The Bill proposes a number of things.
	It will enable £20 billion of your money to be spent on carbon capture technology that stores carbon dioxide emissions in exhausted gas wells.
	But £20 billion is a lot of your money to be spent on a speculative technology.
	A recent study showed that when carbon capture is used for a given industrial plant, when taking into account the CO2 emissions produced via the process itself, emissions would only be reduced by about 10%.
	The bill also focuses on home insulation, which is a good thing within itself, but has some extreme measures.
	It gives the power to the government to criminalise people in future for not following regulations with minimal parliamentary oversight.
	What do I mean by this?
	Well, when New Labour was at its height, it was creating new criminal offences day after day.
	And the Conservatives at that point, and the House of Lords, argued that it was wrong to create criminal offences without a full parliamentary process.
	Now the energy bill is going to make it possible to create criminal offences by a quick route.
	This is constitutionally wrong.
	It may also make it more difficult for people to sell homes or rent properties which aren't at a high enough insulation standard.
	We have a very old housing stock in this country, lots of listed buildings, buildings in conservation areas, where one side of the government won't give you permission to make them more environmentally friendly, to insulate them more, and the other is saying, well you may not be able to sell them if you haven't insulated them.
	So you'll have knock-on effects on the housing market, and you'll take away people's major assets.
	Your major asset could be a threat.
	bill allows the government to regulate electrical appliances in the way the European Union does.
	You remember all these stories about how powerful a kettle could be or a hoover, a vacuum cleaner.
	This bill will allow us to do the same.
	I found it very interesting in that he spoke about the housing market, because you're getting pressures from all sides, whether that's the inflation of demand via immigration, whether that's the stranglehold placed by a regulation, because 25% of the Conservative Party's donors are property developers and they quite like to keep the prices because 25% of the Conservative Party's donors are property developers and they quite And now, there are certain regulations that would stop you from selling your home, or would significantly devalue it, just as the boomers are about to age out of the market.
	Yeah, I know a guy who lives in a house built in the 1600s.
	Right.
	It cannot be made energy efficient.
	It cannot be done.
	And you know what's very scary about this?
	Maybe a year ago, year and a half ago, if you know George Gammon in the United States, he does, he focuses a lot on a lot of this stuff.
	And he, he had a career developing homes.
	That's how he became, you know, very successful and very concerned about the WF, these sorts of policies at the UN.
	And what he suggested is, I think I know how they're going to take your homes.
	Well, green energy policy.
	And if your home all of a sudden requires several hundreds of thousands of dollars of improvements and you can't get a mortgage for your house against your house to improve it, you don't have the money.
	Well, you'll own nothing, but you'll be happy because we'll gladly buy it from you and you can just rent your own home.
	The other thing that will happen is you'll probably be refused a mortgage slash house insurance as well.
	Because you're racist.
	That as well.
	But you won't be able to buy house insurance or contents insurance if you haven't got these certain retrofits.
	So if you do have a catastrophic issue with your house, then you're not going to be able to claim on insurance.
	You're going to pay a hell of a lot.
	And so you might not be able to make your mortgage repayments and it gets seized.
	And it just funnels straight back.
	Play this out over a long enough time period.
	The first to go will be people like my mate in a very, very old house, which is the nature of this country.
	We have very old buildings all over the place.
	But over the decades, it will just creep and creep and creep until everybody's in the pod, basically.
	Yep, the Renewably Powered pod.
	Great.
	Fantastic.
	Doesn't go far enough, though, apparently, because of course there's that.
	First of all, I just thought we'd look at the exact people who voted for this.
	So, all Ayes from the Conservative Party, right?
	Only 18 No's from the Conservative Party and an independent MP, that would be a friend of the show, Andrew Bridgen.
	Labour Party all abstain.
	So that vote is as good as a yes.
	Because they don't want to be seen to agree with the Conservatives on all of their stuff.
	They don't disagree with a single element.
	They actually objected they would vote no.
	In fact, opposition routinely votes no to everything anyway.
	So it is basically an endorsement.
	Yeah, because they want these powers.
	And speaking of people who think it don't go far enough, Politico!
	People that always come in and fact-check us for misinformation.
	They're complaining that Rishi Sunak has caved on five particular issues here, right?
	It wasn't strong enough.
	So, Alok Sharma, COP26 president, you know, the fellow that got up and cried because, again, things didn't go far enough there.
	He actually introduced a bill to make it easier to get planning permission for onshore wind, and the reason is they did an annual auction for offshore wind planning permission, and none of the companies took part.
	Because it's not viable.
	Yeah.
	So, we're doubling down this point.
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	Energy and security seems deliberate.
	Also, a revenue certainty mechanism, so basically a handout, for Jet Zero, that's sustainable aviation fuels.
	So we're going to be subsidizing the development of, like, vegetable oil in planes.
	Biofuel jets.
	Yeah.
	I wouldn't want to be in the first test flight.
	At least it makes for next time they need to take some buildings down in a major city a little bit less plausible.
	Do we need to clip that bit?
	Moving swiftly on.
	There was originally, as well, £120 per household hydrogen levy.
	So that was going to be folded into household energy bills.
	You know, the things that are really bloody expensive.
	They were going to make them more expensive, so they can try and fuel the development of hydrogen.
	But don't worry, they've now shifted that onto a tax on gas transports.
	Which is going to mean the price is going to go up, so you're going to pay more anyway.
	Thanks for that.
	Okay, alright.
	They're also planning to ban oil boilers by 2026.
	So, the former Environment Secretary, George Eustace, who I have called George Useless before, because he's a diminutive little man, he turned around and said, no, no, no, right?
	That's not fair.
	It's not fair on rural communities that rely on this stuff.
	It's basically a rural ULES.
	So what we need is we need to be allowed to use these boilers if we run them on vegetable oil.
	So if they're rubbish, you can keep them.
	You're staring at me for a very long time, almost like you're very frustrated.
	Just to interject, we've had these policies now in Canada for a number of years.
	Smart meters policies, banning oil heating.
	It's interesting that once again, as we'll be discussing later, you could take all the policies from Canada and lay them right on top of England and you get the solution.
	It's even worse in Canada because you're very rural and you're also very cold.
	We're cold in certain times of the year, definitely.
	We're known for that.
	But it's also quite hot in certain parts of Canada.
	In Vancouver, where I live, it gets to like Miami temperatures.
	So it's a lot more complex than you think.
	We do require lots of energy in the summers for air conditioning.
	You die without air conditioning there, right?
	You don't really have that same issue here.
	Although I have seen on British media The big red map of all... the planet is burning because it was 18 degrees and we're like, wow, shorts!
	I saw a German version of that where they literally had flames coming up at the bottom.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Just to really emphasize the point.
	Those aren't good objects for the Germans.
	No, no, no, no.
	Let's not go back there.
	We're going to need to clip that bit as well.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	YouTube compliant.
	And the last bit was Chris Skidmore now.
	He was a former Net Zero advisor.
	I actually went on a panel debate with him in 2021 at Conservative Party Conference, and he was asked, oh, how did you set the Net Zero target?
	How did you produce it to 2050?
	What was the debate that you had?
	What were the calculations?
	And he went, oh, we just changed the number.
	Right.
	Thanks, Chris.
	Appreciate it.
	He put in an amendment to withdraw the UK from the Energy Charter Treaty, which is like an international treaty set up in the 90s that secures the global energy market.
	And the complaint was that it still considers fossil fuel part of the global energy market.
	So, just a complete phase out of anything that works.
	Great.
	So, I wanted to finish this off with just asking why we're doing this, right?
	So, there's multiple reasons why we're doing this, of course.
	To be UN compliant, to be WEF compliant, to immiserate people, to control people.
	Event seeking.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But there's also the appeasement of India.
	Now that is not something that's on a lot of people's radar.
	Our Prime Minister would never stand for that.
	Definitely not.
	Well, you wouldn't know if he was standing because he's five foot nothing.
	But point being, he was over at the G20 recently and he gave some remarks on this bill and all the net zero stuff because he pledged 1.62 billion to the Green Climate Fund at the request of Modi in India.
	Modi, despite India having a space program, despite them getting really cheap oil from BRICS, despite them having a net zero target 20 years later than ours, and they're not really keeping to it, let's be honest, still burning cow dung over there, they get money from the Green Climate Fund as a developing nation.
	So we've basically just pledged 1.62 billion to the Indians.
	Right.
	So speaking at the G20 Summit in New Delhi, Rishi Sunak rejected the suggestion that the speed of India's growth relative to the UK was aided by its refusal to meet the 2050 target for net zero.
	Sunak said, the lesson from India's growth is not that net zero done the right way can be beneficial for jobs.
	The net zero story for me shouldn't be a hair shirt story of giving everything up and your bills going up.
	That's not the vision of net zero that I think is the right one for the UK.
	This is just absurd, isn't it?
	This is clearly a game that everybody's playing.
	And look, the UK is like 4% of carbon emissions or something, or 1%.
	Okay, so let's say we take it to zero.
	So what?
	Yeah, the Indians are only going to increase.
	The Chinese are increasing theirs by 16% by 2030, because in 2021 they reopened 252 coal power plants.
	So, single-handedly, they're upping it by 16%.
	But we're really making a difference.
	We're being cost-effective, guys.
	We're leading the world!
	Also, it's just a lie, because it turns out that households are going to get bills of £2,300, thanks to net zero.
	This has been modelled by the National Infrastructure Commission.
	The cost of decommissioning the grid to take it off of carbon could cost £65 billion.
	So that's a bit hefty, and it's all because Rishi says Brexit means Britain can attach itself to India's booming economy.
	So they're admitting that we're in managed decline and because India has booming demographics, even though they just hit sub-replacement, because they've got upgraded infrastructure, they're developing their space program, they've got quite a lot of people flying into Silicon Valley because they've got some intelligent people over there.
	Rishi Sunak, who obviously has no conflict of interest personally, not like he's married to an Indian billionaire, thinks we can just be an Indian vassal state and invert the old imperial relationship.
	Surely you're not suggesting that the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, is putting the Indian interests ahead of his own country?
	No, I wouldn't suggest that Rishi Sunak has any international allegiances to either the WEF or the UN or India and is purposefully... Apart from the numerous ones that have of course been disclosed.
	Yes, apart from those, because otherwise it would be a... Shirking our journalistic duties to suggest that he's strategically demolishing the UK energy grid and locking you up for going over your daily energy targets to appease the Indians.
	That would be a conspiracy theory, wouldn't it?
	Right, shall we do a segment that brings us all together?
	Something that we could all agree on, something that cheers us up.
	Let's make fun of California!
	That's what we need to do.
	I want to do the Wile E. Coyote thing of, you know, the dotted line and just soar and watch it float off into the ocean.
	That would be good.
	Because, look, obviously it's falling apart.
	What's the absolute base tier of a civilization?
	It's basically property rights and law and order.
	You know, basic fundamental things from which then all else can flourish.
	California isn't really doing that particularly well.
	And they're actually kind of doing it through legislation, a bit like in the last segment.
	They have basically decided to try and institute a sort of utopian vision, and they're going to bring in laws that are going to change everything.
	It turns out it screws everything up.
	You say utopia.
	Me?
	Conspiracy theorist and joyer.
	Thinks this is just deliberate anarcho-tyranny, so it keeps... Well, that's what it achieves.
	Well, yeah.
	But it's strategic, because it keeps the law-abiding people on the ground constantly confused and looking to government and law enforcement at all times, because they're not allowed to own a gun, not allowed to defend themselves.
	And so the oligarchy, the permanently entrenched Nancy Pelosi-style class, are never politically challenged, and they're just perpetually voted in by the dependent class that either need free handouts, or the ones that are so worried that they think they're ever going to have a crackdown on the drug addicts and random people looting their shops.
	Yes, that sounds about right.
	I actually didn't want to make this segment about Prop 47, but we've got to cover that.
	We've got to start with that one before we go on to the next one.
	Are you familiar with Prop 47?
	Yes, I am.
	You heard that one.
	That's one where basically you can shoplift up to 950 pounds.
	Free stuff, man.
	Free stuff.
	What could go wrong?
	I thought, you know, maybe I would point out its disadvantages.
	But actually, it might be more fun to find somebody who is a proponent of it and let them make the case as to why it's actually a really good thing.
	So I managed to find a chump called John Legend.
	Now that's a good name.
	Oh!
	Do you know him?
	No, I don't know who he is.
	He's the singer.
	He's a pianist, multi-millionaire, he's married to Chrissy Teigen.
	Is he?
	Yeah, they brought a camera crew to their abortion.
	They're really weird people.
	Okay.
	I just found that he was a musician, artist and activist, is what he describes himself as.
	And he makes the case for why Prop 47 is a really good idea.
	John, let's roll this.
	Or how about a world where we're able to keep our communities safe by preventing harm, instead of packing millions of people into our jails and prisons.
	Now before you say this sounds impossible, you should know we have already started to do this in some places.
	Take California.
	For decades, California's prisons have been in crisis.
	In response, California's voters passed Proposition 47, a groundbreaking new policy to send fewer people to prison for low-level crimes and invest that money saved back into our communities.
	So the question is, is Prop 47 working?
	The answer is yes.
	Since it passed, Prop 47 has reduced incarceration in the nation's most populous state by more than 20,000 people annually, without making crime go up.
	It's also reallocated more than $600 million from the state prison's budget into community safety solutions like preventing violence, providing mental health support, and treating addiction.
	In short, California invested in public safety by reimagining what public safety actually means.
	Being unsafe.
	And you know what I thought when I saw that?
	The first thing that popped in my head?
	What?
	Parody or reality?
	You can't tell the difference.
	Because 20 years ago, that would have been a skit on The Onion.
	I think he's being sincere.
	No, I know.
	That's the world we live in now.
	You can't tell the difference.
	It's almost like the inverse of the Chris Rock bit of how to not get your ass kicked by the police.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I just love the idea of, we didn't make crime go up.
	How did you do that?
	We just stopped counting it as crime.
	That's right.
	It's no longer fair.
	Yes, this is the interesting thing.
	I'll quickly pull apart a couple of the arguments.
	First of all, it works because the prison population has gone down by 20,000.
	If that's the only metric you're considering.
	Because the prisoners are busy carjacking people, right?
	Quite.
	He also talks about, and this is going to come up a lot, 600 million saved.
	That didn't actually happen.
	The budgets did get reallocated, but there wasn't actually a net saving.
	The fiscal position of California has gone into a complete nosedive.
	Wait, are you implying that Democrat governments don't spend money wisely?
	No, well, and also because of the crime, their revenues, their tax base is just plummeting.
	Oh, because people are leaving?
	Because they don't want their cars broken?
	Yeah, and economic activity and all the rest of it, the whole thing.
	So the economic arguments and all the rest of it is gone completely sideways.
	But of course, he's not the only one who's a fan of Prop 47.
	We've also got the psychopath himself.
	American Psycho!
	American Psycho, let's play what he says.
	Hey, Patrick Bateman's at least cool.
	2014, everyone's pointing to Prop 47.
	If Prop 47 is responsible for flash mobs stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars, if that's the case, then I ask, was it responsible for property crime and shoplifting, property crime and violent crime dropping in 2015, in 16, in 17, in 18, in 19?
	Doesn't he look a little bit like old Josh?
	Yeah, he does!
	He does!
	You should clip that bit.
	There we go.
	I've ruined Josh for all the femcells in the audience.
	So basically the argument is, is that after they redefined crime, crime dropped for several years.
	Yes.
	Yes it did.
	Right.
	And then the criminal class internalized the incentives had fundamentally changed to such a significant extent that even on the redefined level of crime, crime went like straight through it.
	Now, if we had more time in this segment, I've got an image of Yvette Ingram.
	Now, Yvette is, and I put this in a reading link, she did a documentary where she talked about the effect of crime on herself.
	I would love to play loads of clips from this, but I'm just going to tell you basically the key points from this.
	She's a sole business person.
	Put her own blood and sweat and tears into starting various stores.
	And what she does is medical wigs for people who are going through cancer.
	So they can look whole.
	I think if it happened to me, I'd probably just embrace the bold.
	But obviously for women, it is a very different thing.
	So she's providing medical wigs.
	And as anybody who's ever started a small business knows, you throw your soul into that thing.
	If you've got a job, you go home.
	You stop thinking about work.
	If you're a small business person, you go home.
	Christmas day, evenings, weekends, it is always on your mind and there's nothing that is beyond you.
	People who do this are, you know, they're proper people.
	They're people who really contribute to stuff.
	So anyway, so she describes what has been happening to her.
	She's now getting shoplifted on a daily basis.
	And bear in mind, these are medical wigs.
	Yeah, but what population's doing all the shoplifting?
	Well, there are some CCTV footage in the documentary if you wanted to test any theories on that one.
	I imagine they're not being used by cancer patients, they're probably being used for very stylish weaves.
	Yeah, that is a definite possibility.
	So shoplifting is now a daily basis and burglaries, as in somebody turning up at night, smashing the windows, running in, is now down to a monthly basis.
	So her last burglary cost her $25,000 in stock.
	Um, she's been hit by $150,000 in total in, in burglaries.
	And, and basically it's got to the point where she just can't do anymore.
	So she's had to close her stores.
	And, and this is, this is one example, but this is happening all of the time in California.
	Bear in mind, these are medical weeks.
	So you imagine what it is for something that the criminal class really want.
	Same thing happened with the BLM riots.
	There was the, there was the guy, I think there's a blackfella as well.
	He started a sports bar.
	He poured all his money into it.
	Um, and then.
	A couple of days after it opened, you're incinerated.
	Many, many such cases all across Canada.
	That's, what, $2 billion worth of damage?
	Yeah.
	Let's throw out the Sheriff, because the Sheriff is also on this documentary, like I say, which is linked in the reading notes if you wanted to go and watch the whole thing.
	The Sheriff points the finger at Proposition 47.
	He says that, you know, theft under $950 is now a misdemeanor, so basically all that happens if you get caught is you get a citation, the property is returned, there's no threat of jail, you can turn up again half an hour later and steal the same item again.
	Also, it removed other things.
	So it used to be the case, even before, if you were stealing under the threshold, whatever it was then, you did it three times.
	You then got petty theft with a prior.
	That then took you up to a more serious level of charge and you went off to county jail.
	So it was exactly what John Legend was talking about.
	People were ending up in jail for committing crime.
	So what you're saying is the sheriff is racist?
	Uh, that is, that is, uh, how the narrative might come at that one.
	Absolutely.
	So, I mean, and he also makes another series of points, which is, which is, which is excellent as well.
	It's, it's basically the, because of the insurance angle, um, businesses are being put in a, put in a bind.
	They can either report the crime to their insurance and claim the stock back.
	Stay alive that way.
	Yeah.
	But the premiums go through the roof and they're unable to afford insurance and they might not get it.
	Now actually a lot of cases in California, that decision has been taken away from them because the whole insurance conglomerates are pulling out of California and they're just not providing insurance.
	I did see one ingenious but ridiculous that he had to go to this extent method of getting around this where one guy's store everything is priced $950 and when you bring it to the till you get a coupon to reduce the price.
	But he just has to set it de facto to listed at $950.
	The only issue you've got is that now because the incentive structures have changed and crime has become so rampant that he's basically assuming that the the old mechanisms of the police turning up and doing their job still function.
	And of course, because crime is now rampant, even if he's going around it on that technicality, it's not going to work because police aren't going to show up.
	In fact, the Ingram woman that I showed a couple of minutes ago, she was saying that actually, towards the end, before she had to shut down, is most of the time the police, if they did show up, and they often didn't show up, but even if they did show up for a major thing, they wouldn't even get out the car.
	They basically wind down the window, hand her a crime number for the burglary and then drive off again.
	That's basically over here as well.
	Burglaries just don't get investigated.
	So we all have to finance our own criminal gangs to steal our stuff back.
	Well, you know what?
	Funnily enough, you should have plugged that in this segment.
	Dan and I did a discussion with Josh, young Gavin Newsom recently, about the economics of organized crime.
	And we said, frankly, at this stage, if the police are unwilling to enforce the law, you probably will get mafias opening up in California.
	Oh, for sure you will.
	Paying protection money for a fraction of the cost that insurance would cost.
	This was the original justification for the Salvadorian gangs.
	They were protecting members of their community.
	Exactly.
	So we're going full circle.
	It's just, all the white people are going to be doing that now.
	Yeah, exactly, because if basically all the legal routes have been shut off, because it used to be law enforcement and insurance, that was your mechanism.
	If that's gone, basically what you need is a bunch of shop owners getting together to have a mafioso with a baseball bat wandering up and down the street ready to crack heads.
	There it is, economics of organised crime, £5 a month.
	There we go.
	That's what I'm going to plug.
	Scrap the other one, but that one, yeah.
	Well, it's a perfect discussion, because we did actually say what's going to happen as well is it's going to deteriorate into ethnic preferentialism.
	And if you want to avoid that, then you do have a colourblind application of the law.
	But the Democrats are so determined not to do so because, unfortunately, the crime statistics aren't really there.
	That brings me on to the actual point of this segment.
	So if you've basically taken away all the legal roots from people, people take the law into their own hands, and then you get comedy moments like this where a shop worker chases down a shoplifter themselves.
	Let's play this clip.
	So for those of you listening, um, a, um, a vibrant member of the community is cycling down the street with his stolen goods and the shop worker basically plows into him with her car.
	Had to chuckle at that one.
	But, but, but that, that's basically where you've got to in California.
	It's, it's either you, you just take the loss on the nose.
	And she's going to get prosecuted, isn't she?
	This is the thing.
	So because you've made it basically impossible for any legal mechanisms to work, you have to take the law into your own hands or basically go out of business.
	So what do the Californians do?
	They bring in Prop 3, no, hang on, 535.
	553.
	553, yes, 553.
	And in fact, we've got, yep, here we go, we've got the link there.
	So this is an article that talks about it.
	And basically what they do is they say, okay, it is now a $20,000 fine Or attempting to intercept theft.
	So they're literally criminalizing the law-abiding people?
	Yes.
	While decriminalizing the criminals.
	Well, at least they know their voter base.
	Let me guess, they're doing it for their safety.
	The sheer insanity of this.
	You choose this image for a reason, Dan.
	the bill did get toned down a little bit because originally it would have prohibited loss prevention officers as well.
	So loss prevention officers, next link, John.
	These guys have techniques that they can deploy to impact on crime.
	Did you choose this image for a reason, Dan?
	Do you recognize this one?
	No, but it's a woman getting patted down.
	Oh, I just typed in shoplifter into Google Images Are you seeing something?
	Well, you know why this is very good?
	I have some friends that worked in loss prevention for many, many years.
	Yes.
	This dispels a lot of the preconceived ideas of what a shoplifter looks like.
	That's what they look like.
	Quite right, quite right.
	Yes, so... Saved him, didn't I?
	The problem you've got, right, the problem you've got is smaller stores, they can't afford security guards.
	So basically, the only thing that's going to work is the mafiosos like we talked about, or it basically becomes a hole-in-the-wall shop where everything is locked away and you pay first and then you get handed a bag of goods.
	Like with the metal grates that are over most pawn shops?
	Yes.
	Yeah, but it would be like, if you've ever been to a petrol station in the middle of the night, they basically shut down the shop and it's just like a hole in the wall and you pay and then you Yeah.
	Oh yeah, there's one Indian man who's risking his life talking to the little... Yeah, yeah.
	But it'll be like that, but for grocery goods as well.
	Now, in my household, that would be a bloody nightmare.
	The reason being is I've got a daughter who is allergic to dairy, and milk powder gets put in bloody everything.
	I literally do need to read the back of the packet before I buy stuff, because otherwise I'm creating a big problem for myself.
	But that can't happen in California.
	Everything's either going to have to go online, behind a barrier, or mafiosos.
	Have you been to the States recently?
	No.
	In Democrat states, I went to two.
	I mean, it's just a regular CVS pharmacy in a fairly affluent area.
	And they lock everything up in the aisles behind plastic screens.
	Even things like disposable razors.
	You'd think, who's nicking those?
	But it turns out, plenty of people.
	Well, the logical progression would be, why have a shop that you can walk around at all?
	Just a whole series of windows you go to.
	Yeah, we'll live in the pod and just order it to you via drone.
	It's another step towards that, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	So what I wanted to then get to is why is California doing this?
	And I did lots of research on this and to see the arguments for it.
	There are loads and loads of videos, and I watched loads of this stuff, right?
	And basically, I've narrowed it down to the key bit that explains the thinking.
	This won't take very long.
	I've really condensed it.
	Let's watch this.
	The studies clearly show.
	That's it.
	That's the key point.
	The reason California is falling apart is because reality is not performing in line with the theory.
	So experts.
	Yes.
	The experts are at it again.
	They've done their studies, they've figured out what should happen, and then for some reason reality isn't complying, but it doesn't matter because the theory is good.
	Right.
	That's ultimately what it comes to.
	So, I then thought a bit more about this and I thought, right, well, basically it just shows that democracy cannot work in California.
	You could have just ended it before in California.
	Because it's devolving into a narco-tyranny where the criminal receives full legal protection and the law-abiding are basically tyrannized.
	Right.
	So, how do we solve California?
	You saw it off from the rest of the continent?
	That is one good solution.
	The solution that I came up with, and I'm very proud of this... That was Superman 1, by the way, right?
	Yes!
	Yes, in which Lex Luthor was the hero and Superman was the villain.
	Yes.
	My solution is this.
	Of tribal elders.
	No, I agree with this.
	Yeah, it's the only thing- I agree with this.
	We should go back to this.
	So basically, apparently California is made of 58 counties, so you basically select a group of tribal elders in each county, and you have a man with a machete, and that's your legal system.
	Okay, well not man with a machete, I think public caning would work a lot better, like the Singaporeans do.
	Yeah, possibly.
	The only hole in this plan, only hole, you're gonna need men on the council, And the absence of fathers is behind a lot of this.
	So you might be short staffed for a bit.
	You're going to end up with a long house.
	Well, well, the thing is each county can have their own, their own set of tribal elders who did do it.
	So for Orange County, I'm imagining that, that bloke with a mustache who did the motorbikes.
	I can't remember his name.
	Right.
	I want him to be one of the tribal elders for Orange County.
	And then a whole bunch of guys like that.
	And then Orange County would be quite sensible, presumably.
	And then you'll get other areas, which will be, you know, John Legend and a whole bunch of, you know, the floaties.
	And then basically, you get to see what happens when people enforce things properly and people go down the theory route.
	I think it's brilliant.
	So to support your thesis, but also to show a point, a little hole in that, I'll give Canada as an example.
	You are right in the fact that that will work because that's what happens in Canada.
	That's why the natives and indigenous have so much political power.
	Yes.
	In a previous life, I used to be a gemologist and I worked for a big diamond conglomerate.
	We were part of the lobby that was negotiating on the Akati diamond mine, which is in Northwest Territories.
	And one of the big problems we had was Canada had surrendered all the water rights to the local native tribes.
	So doing any development there took decades because they could block absolutely anything.
	However, however, the problem becomes when those tribal elders decide they want a brand new Mercedes convertible.
	They want to build a mansion on the reserve.
	So they keep all the money for themselves and everybody else is drinking paint thinner.
	I appreciate it's not the ideal solution.
	The ideal solution is to live in a modern Western democracy.
	Well, I'm just saying it can't work in California, so we're going to have to go to this instead.
	They're already drinking paint thinner in California as it is, so they're already well on their way, right?
	So you might be on to something.
	I think I can get on board with this.
	It's got to be the solution.
	California, give up democracy.
	Either that or mafioso.
	Mafioso sounds good.
	Organized crime or tribal elders.
	Take your pick.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sounds great.
	Let's talk about Canada, shall we?
	All right.
	How many days do you have?
	Do you want to talk about what the F or what is wrong with Canada?
	Because it is a very, very long list.
	How many days does Canada have left?
	Well, this is true.
	Who's to say it has any days left?
	It already hasn't passed.
	So what I've done is coming in here, I tried to prepare a list of, I got it down to 21 things just to give you a sense of the cultural zeitgeist of what goes on in Canada.
	And share it with you guys and I want to see your reaction and how far, how much you're laughing on the floor or crying or saying, wow, that sounds exactly like the United Kingdom.
	So I think there's going to be some similarities here.
	Okay.
	I'm going to start with, I'm going to go through these points.
	There's a couple of videos around them.
	And why don't, why didn't you do a bit of plugging for yourself as well?
	Because we've got you here and I think, I think you've got some great stuff going on.
	Do it, do it, do it a bit of plugging.
	All right, well, plugging is, I am Benjamin Victor.
	I wrote this book, Honking for Freedom, the story about the Canadian trucker convoy, and I'll read the very quick endorsement on the back that was a highlight for me.
	The Canadian trucker protest in Ottawa attracted tremendous national and international attention and was simultaneously demonized by then Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cronies in the legacy media.
	The minions in the CBC first and foremost among them.
	What really happened?
	Benjamin J. Dictor, integrally involved from the beginning, lets his readers in on the story, one that all Canadians should know.
	Jordan B. Peterson.
	So thank you, Jordan.
	It's not just Canadians.
	Everybody should know this story.
	And by the way, Conor and I have both read this book.
	It's very good.
	It gets to the point.
	It's not a cumbersome read.
	It's a breezy read.
	Yeah.
	And what I did is, I mean, we did a Brokenomics yesterday that I think was record length where we got into the entire story and a lot of the aftermath of what we're dealing with right now.
	That'll be out in about a week's time.
	A week's time from now.
	I encourage people to watch it.
	That'll fill in a lot of gaps.
	But this story itself, this is all the positive stories, how we brought everybody together and what was happening when we were the biggest news story on the planet.
	And it was absolutely crazy.
	So that and, you know, my other stuff, my sub stack, pjdictor.substack.com.
	I continue on some of this stuff and I expand upon it, what's happening in government, what's happening in Canada.
	And also I'm live streaming now.
	So you can follow me on Locals, Rumble, YouTube, wherever.
	Reach out to me on Twitter.
	And I do a lot of Bitcoin Twitter spaces.
	As you know, I have a lot of friends in the Bitcoin space because I do believe freedom money is very important.
	And to tack on to that, at Bitcoin Miami 2023, Uh, it was amazing.
	In this book, I have the two stories about Bitcoin, two chapters about Bitcoin story here.
	And I was walking into the main hall.
	There were 10,000 people in that room.
	You could hear a pin drop.
	And what I heard was the person on the stage saying, and the Canadian trucker convoy.
	What they did to those truckers taught me why we need to have freedom money, a separation from government and money.
	And that was Robert F. Kennedy.
	I couldn't believe it.
	He was talking about us for the first five minutes of his speech.
	So one of the things we covered in the Brokernomics is that you had the GoFundMe raised over $100 million.
	No, no, 100 million would be great, but no, 10 million.
	10 million, 10 million.
	Not a single penny of that went to the truckers.
	You then have the gifts then go, that raised even more, didn't it?
	12 or 13 million.
	12 or 13 million.
	Not a penny went to the truckers.
	That's right, it's all in this.
	The only money that actually went through to the truckers that kept some of their businesses alive was the Bitcoin money.
	It was the only thing the government couldn't censor.
	That's right.
	We talk about this stuff for a reason.
	Handing that out with envelopes through the truck windows as well.
	That's right.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It was great.
	It's a great moment in Bitcoin history and I encourage everybody to find out more about it.
	All right, let's talk about Canada.
	You ready for some fun?
	I'm going to go through this list.
	I tried to make it so that a UK audience not familiar with Canada at least will understand a lot of this stuff.
	So first, the oil sands.
	This started when Justin Trudeau came into office.
	He essentially banned oil.
	Our number one, one of our number one exports, oil, lumber, are two major exports from Canada.
	So basically made it illegal to extract oil.
	And, but it was okay to go to Saudi Arabia for oil.
	That's great.
	But we can't be, we would have been self-sustaining at that point.
	Canada is basically a big area of permafrost with vast commodities under it.
	That's right.
	That's kind of the level one of your economy.
	That's right.
	You know, my best friend's a Brit, so we always talk about the difference between England and Canada.
	I mean, to drive across the country, you're looking at seven days if you're doing it straight the entire time.
	It's big.
	In my province alone, I can drive north 48 hours.
	Right?
	And it's all trees.
	Yet we are hyper-focused about a small forest around the city of Toronto.
	Okay, we can't build houses there, but we'll get to that.
	It's the same with the states.
	I mean, the first thing that Biden did when he came in was block fracking for a moratorium on federal lands for a certain amount of days, and he extended it indefinitely.
	And then he made it so that the energy companies were discouraged from investing.
	So he took it from President Trump making America energy independent the first time since Richard Nixon set the target, also being the world's leader per country for three years in reducing environmental pollution, despite withdrawing from the Paris Accords.
	He went from that to, yeah, we're increasing our imports from Russia because we're no longer making energy, and we're going to make the global gas market way more expensive.
	And remember he blocked the Keystone Pipeline project after Trudeau first tried to block it, couldn't, so he bought the company that controlled it, nationalized it, and then did nothing with it.
	Hugo Chavez, sounds familiar to that?
	Or Fidel Castro, but there's no connection there.
	No connection whatsoever.
	They do call him, in South America, they now call him Kata Negative Fidelito, which is Blackface Little Fidel.
	All right.
	So, we have bankrupted our health care system.
	So the solution, since we can't afford health care anymore, is made.
	Medical assistance in dying.
	A.K.A.
	killing people.
	Was it the third leading cause of death?
	Yes, it is.
	And very quickly.
	Very, very quickly.
	Wow.
	We got rid of racist bigoted words from our parliamentary process on the provincial level, certain provinces, which is mother and father are banned in provincial parliaments.
	It's parent or co-parent as far as the government is concerned.
	That was something I was really worried about, right?
	And the government considers itself the co-parent in that relationship.
	Clearly, yes.
	The Red-Green Alliance, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Chinese Communist Party have used political entryism to capture and dominate all our political parties, Conservative Party included.
	I've talked about that on stage before.
	Everybody's constantly butthurt about it.
	They won't stop talking about it, but I'm sorry.
	It's the truth.
	That's what's going on.
	On one hand, I'm thinking that's bad.
	On the other hand, maybe they do a better job.
	Well, that's happening here, so they aren't doing a better job.
	That's right.
	Cameron, as soon as he left government, went to work for a firm that has loads of Chinese money in it.
	Loads of his cabinet did.
	Jeremy Hunt's wife used to work for Chinese state-funded media.
	They met because she was recruiting Chinese students for universities.
	There's just a recent Conservative Party staffer that was a Chinese spy.
	And then the BBC brought on Barry Gardner from the Labour Party to criticise that.
	Barry Gardner has also taken money from the Chinese as well.
	Maybe we just need to pick one because I just note that, you know, Callum's got over to Afghanistan and noted that now the Taliban are in charge, that he's actually sort of running basically effectively.
	Maybe we should just go that route.
	Yeah, but I don't like child brides and goat bumming, so I'm kind of... Yeah, I mean, none of these are optimal, to be fair.
	Call me crazy.
	I'm a Jew.
	I'm not sure going to Afghanistan is going to be my best long-term play, unfortunately.
	Fair point.
	By the way, a little asterisk on the Red-Green Alliance, that's how they took Iran, that's how they took Bosnia, and now the big fish is the Western world.
	So yes, they might have certain principles that you agree with, but who do you think is financing all this woke nonsense?
	Right?
	Because the goal is the destruction of the economy of the West.
	Yep.
	All right.
	Or their competitors.
	Eighty-three churches have been burned, last I checked, over the past two and a half years.
	Nobody cares.
	The French in the audience are saying those are rookie numbers, but the trajectory is certainly climbing, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	I remember a year and a half ago when this first came up, we were at about 55 churches were burned at that point.
	And it's not just Antifa, it's a whole bunch of different groups, all aligned, but that are funded by foreign interests that have no love for the West.
	Well, I've been reliably informed that it's because of all of those native children mass graves that The fake one didn't exist.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's very funny about that.
	I was listening to, and a shout out to Matt Christensen.
	I was listening to Matt and Blonde on their podcast almost two years ago when the first report came out that it was fake, completely fake.
	Yet I was in my truck that same day crossing Niagara Falls.
	And what do I see?
	A Canadian flag at half mass.
	Yes.
	And that flag stayed at half mass for eight or nine months.
	All fake.
	Which is why I banned the fake news from all of our press conferences.
	And the legacy media went crazy.
	We talked about it.
	One of the best things you did on that.
	It was great.
	I was trying to show the world you don't need them.
	Yeah.
	And they wouldn't have lied anyway.
	Yeah.
	Okay, let's get into the political stuff.
	This is kind of your area of expertise and it's been a pleasure talking to you about this sort of stuff.
	The Conservative Party deputy leader, for those who are in the United States, your equivalent of the assistant or VP or whatever, of the Conservative Party, is a former lobbyist for a firm that was co-founded by the Chief of Staff of Justin Trudeau.
	So I think the conservative deputy has close ties with Trudeau's chief of staff.
	That's right.
	And who did she lobby for?
	Well, her last big client was Walmart to ensure during COVID that Walmart would stay open, but small businesses would be closed, enforcing all the COVID lockdown mandates.
	Uniparty.
	That's right.
	Now, I clipped out this section.
	This is Diverge Media, independent journalist, working class.
	They're actually quite good, aren't they, Diverge?
	Very good.
	He's been combing through the Public Order Emergency Commission.
	That is the commission that followed, that resulted from the trucker convoy.
	And what I clipped out here, this is a section where he's showing the communication between Justin Trudeau, in email form it was submitted, and the then interim leader of the Conservative Party, just so you can all see how they actually communicate with each other behind the scenes, that they are working co-in-step with one another.
	Now in a phone call on February 3rd that happened between Candace Bergen and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it was released to the Public Order Emergency Commission.
	We see that Candace Bergen, the interim leader of the Conservative Party, and Justin Trudeau both agree on one thing.
	That the truckers need to go home.
	The Prime Minister had said to Candace that, that hopefully we're going to be able to make sure Canada's democracy continues to run and our institutions remain strong.
	And quite frankly, the citizens of Ottawa get back to their regular lives.
	Candice Bergen responded.
	Absolutely.
	I agree.
	Absolutely.
	I'm sure you weren't following question period today, but that's what I'd like to see some resolution.
	You're right.
	We disagree on some things, but I would agree with you.
	The goal is to find a way for people to head back home and clear things up in Ottawa.
	We do want the same things.
	If you have some ideas or some things that could be done, extending an olive branch is one way of putting it.
	We'd love to be able to even work together and make that happen.
	Yeah, what's very interesting, and this is a comparison I made off air, is that this has been happening in Britain for such a long time.
	It's been cementing the Blairite paradigm.
	We can go all the way back to Blair and William Hague.
	And before you continue, just asterisks, that's the Conservative Party that's trying to take credit for supporting the Trucker Convoy.
	Yes, as you pointed out in your book as well, there were very few people that would come down as well.
	William Hague, Tory safe seat in North Yorkshire for ages, was meant to be the leader of the opposition during the time that Tony Blair had his decisive Labour victory.
	As soon as they're both out of government, William Hague decides to jump on the Tony Blair Institute bandwagon, pushing digital IDs around the world, also pushing gender self-ID in interviews and The Times.
	And who takes over his seat?
	Rishi Sunak, who is parachuted in, despite being from Southampton, I believe, in the south, having absolutely nothing to do with the people of North Yorkshire, then goes into the Treasury Department as a junior minister, then becomes chancellor, fails during COVID, then fails in the leadership bid, and is yet pushed into government.
	It was a very rapid shove into Parliament and up through the ranks.
	Yes, absolutely.
	So we can see that there are interests working behind the scenes that mean that the parties share the same agenda and that very powerful people are maneuvering their preferred candidates into place.
	You think it's a problem that one lobby firm controls all the political parties?
	What could go wrong?
	Oh, I suppose I'm just a far-right conspiracy theorist.
	Exactly!
	All right, next, I have a term that I want to bring back, illegal aliens.
	Oh, shock!
	Anyways, 500,000 economic migrants a year that we're getting into Canada.
	Oh, wait, it's actually 1 million.
	Oh, that sounds very familiar.
	Yeah.
	You know, they're living in hotels just like the hotel down the street.
	It's amazing.
	They live better than I do.
	It's amazing.
	Oh, I'm sure you're very culturally enriched.
	How's the food over in Canada?
	Exactly.
	Well, that's the important part, right?
	Yes, exactly.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Next thing we have, there's a contentious issue in my neck of the woods right now called the Greenbelt.
	Canadians in urban cities, I'm sure it's the same way here.
	They seem to think all of Canada's greenery, this is the people who live in downtown Toronto, they think of all of Canada's greenery is between their home and their cottage.
	They don't understand there's a big country that has trees, so one tree gets chopped down in their neighborhood or they can see it, they lose their minds.
	Um, what we've decided is we're not going to build any homes.
	So we're going to bring these 1 million people here.
	We're not going to build homes.
	We're not going to build condos.
	We're going to put all these regulations that disincentivizes any developers from developing to the point where just last week, 33 major projects, major commercial projects were stopped.
	by these conglomerates of developers who said, you know what, because we just introduced another layer of regulations, they said, we're not building anymore.
	So you can make to some degree of legitimacy the argument in this country that we have a shortage of land.
	Agreed.
	You can't do that in Canada.
	Just look at a sodding map.
	It's huge.
	But it's also the things that they're building in this country are building vertically and they're increasing the urban sprawl I mean, if you go out to West London anytime, anyone who gets the train through to Paddington like I do, it's just moving outwards and the human battery farms are going up.
	And this is in the majority minority areas where people are moving to and obviously not integrating.
	So you're manufacturing the demand for housing.
	And then also keeping the supply low so that the people who have money invested in the housing market that are also investing in the Uniparty have their pockets lined.
	And then the only responses ever voiced on mainstream media are the Tom Harwood types that take a photo of the British countryside and go, oh, we're obviously fool guys.
	It's like, well, Tom, that's someone's land.
	Someone's been a custodian of that beautiful countryside for years.
	Otherwise it wouldn't look like that.
	And you want to concrete over it.
	So what?
	We house the entire third world like a dumping ground.
	No thanks.
	Either way, the answer is always import more people and build more ugly things.
	That's right.
	And like I try to tell people, the reason you can't afford a house is because your leaders are making sure you can't afford a house.
	And if you have a house, they're going to take it.
	Yes.
	That's what's ultimately where we're going.
	Okay.
	So the next, you know, a little bit of politics again.
	This is amazing, and you guys have a parliamentary system like we do, so the Americans don't really get this, but you guys will get this too.
	The Attorney General is also somehow, simultaneously, the Finance Minister at the same time.
	And that would be Christa Freeland.
	Oh!
	Convenient, yes.
	Yes, that's her.
	The most ironically named person ever.
	Wasn't, like, her grandad or something involved in the Nazi Party?
	Her father, you know, we did a thing on one of my podcasts.
	Her father was a Nazi collaborator.
	He wasn't forced in.
	He ran to them.
	He was in the Ukraine.
	Let me help.
	I'm going to set up the best Nazi propaganda platform for you.
	The daughter ran to the modern day version of the WEF and said, please sign me up and is a big noise in the WEF.
	Well, because she is also on the board, the advisory board of the World Economic Forum.
	But what's interesting is we have somebody who is somehow simultaneously the Attorney General and the Minister of Finance, and she has zero experience in either discipline.
	So both of those are really big jobs in themselves.
	You mean you need to know something about numbers and math?
	Yeah.
	But coincidentally, laws and finance are the things that the WEF is most interested in.
	The first time I met her, it was at a community political event in downtown Toronto, and it was held at a Jewish community center for whatever reason, one of the big ones.
	Anyways, so she was speaking, some of us managed to sneak in, and there was a younger lad by the name of Liam And Liam is, I think he's half Jewish, but he lives in a neighborhood where there was a diversity cultural center that was built near him.
	And he was referred to as Jew number three in the community by, I think by the imam, if I'm not mistaken, was regularly mocked for being Jewish and spit on and all that sort of stuff.
	So this was during the Syrian refugee crisis and she was giving a speech on the importance of the Syrian refugees and he stands up and he says, uh, and he was quite, I don't know, aggressive, but assertive.
	And he said, I'm Jewish.
	I live in X neighborhood where they're calling for the death of all Jews every day under prayer.
	What about my security as a Canadian?
	I'm a Canadian first.
	You're bringing in people who want my death.
	96% of these people, polled, want Jews to be killed.
	And you could, she did, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, we got it.
	We got to help the Syrians.
	That was her response.
	We just got to help the Syrians.
	She is an airhead would be a compliment.
	No, it would be an insult to air.
	Really?
	She's that dumb, but, but she is on the, uh, WF advisory board.
	So she, uh, she has some use for them, I guess.
	All right, the next.
	I hope I've angered a few people with this.
	You think I have?
	Oh, I think the YouTube comments would be very complimentary.
	All right.
	So, during the Canadian Trucker Convoy, when AFER said Airhead froze our bank accounts, and just to make this very clear, we discussed this yesterday.
	It wasn't just my bank accounts.
	It was my bank accounts, my credit cards, my lines of credit, my corporate accounts, corporate lines of credit, everything.
	I logged on to my bank account and my entire history had been scrubbed with a message, when you start to use your bank account, your transactions will appear here.
	Like I was wiped off from the planet financially, which is why I thank God for Bitcoin.
	Yes.
	But during that week, there was between a 1.2 and 1.4 trillion dollar bank run, which is significant for Canada, that nobody in the media or the government wants to talk about, but everybody in government knows it happens.
	Why?
	Because I, like you, have many friends and supporters who are trying to work behind the scenes to fix that, who leaked that information to me.
	And I was staying in a particular part of Ottawa that had a lot of elderly people in that community, and they were all going to the bank every day, withdrawing as much money as they legally could every day.
	Because they don't know anything about politics, they don't want to protest, they're retired, they're in their 70s, but you know, he harkens back as well.
	And those are just the ones you see, there would have been plenty of people who thought, uh-oh, and they would have been moving money on their apps and all the rest of it.
	And I know of at least three very high-profile, very wealthy people in Canada that moved all their business, everything out of Canada.
	They still live there, but everything they hold is now out in the US or in other countries.
	Thank you for Prime Minister Blackface and the little troll.
	Next, Bill C-18.
	Did you hear about this?
	News is now illegal in Canada, unless it comes from the CBC.
	You can't have any news.
	It was the New Zealand last question, Jacinda Ardern.
	We will be your single source of truth.
	Is that thinking applied?
	Basically, yeah.
	So is this going to shut down, but diverge media and all the rest of them?
	Yeah.
	So these platforms had been utilizing all these independent media platforms, utilize social media to promote their platforms.
	You know, they don't have a marketing budget, so they do whatever they can.
	And now if you are within Canada, you are logging onto the internet from a Canadian IP.
	You go to, if it's Facebook or Google or whatever, you can't see any of their platforms anymore.
	Ah, so that sounds very similar to the online harm slash safety bill that's coming down.
	Well, it's all for safety, right?
	Oh yeah, it's all to stop misinformation, of course.
	That's right.
	You know what else was for safety?
	The Berlin Wall to protect people from those evil capitalists.
	Yes.
	That's for safety too.
	Yeah, so over here we have a governing body called Ofcom which Which regulates the impartiality of TV broadcast stations.
	And what that ends up being is when the BBC lies, they get no fines.
	When GB News says anything remotely to the right of centre, their presenters get re-education training and possibly cancelled from their job.
	And what they want is to roll out Ofcom across the entire internet.
	So shows like ours will either have to have some leftist imbecile sitting on the corner or someone at least playing.
	Well that's not hard to find.
	Have fun with that!
	But we don't want to have to pay them.
	And also it derails the conversation.
	I mean, this has been very healthy.
	Why would I need to qualify all of my statements to some moron and people just don't want to watch that?
	Or we just don't go on air because we're constantly hit by fines.
	The interesting thing that I find from all of this, we're halfway through this list and basically everything you've described is happening here as well.
	Exactly.
	And we keep doing segments where this agenda is being pushed and actually when you stand back at it and you look at it alongside a Brit and a Canadian, These agendas have been rolled out simultaneously everywhere, everywhere that the WEF has got their fingers into, their tentacles into, same policies.
	It's because it seems to be the exact same strategy that's being used and copied and pasted in the parliamentary system.
	I want to go back to that video of our beloved Attorney General and Finance Minister, which you have up, and I want you to watch two things.
	First, I mean her general competency level is quite funny.
	It's really authoritarian and quite spooky what she's getting at.
	At the same time, look at the dummy on the left who's looking around and just thinking about who's looking at me and when can I go back and watch my cartoons.
	So, play the clip.
	What do we want to play from?
	Is it the timestamp you put in?
	Yeah, the timestamp that's there.
	- It should be, there it is. - As of today, a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an In doing so, they will be protected against civil liability for actions taken in good faith.
	Federal government institutions will have a new broad authority to share relevant information with banks and other financial service providers to ensure that we can all work together to put a stop to the funding of these illegal blockades.
	This is about following the money.
	This is about stopping the fight.
	And also you'll notice the gentleman on the right, that is the former, as of recently, Attorney General, who made statements that if you are identified as a Canadian, as a Trump supporter, you should possibly be arrested and incarcerated just for that.
	So yeah, welcome to Canada.
	These are some crazy people that we're dealing with.
	All right, next, and this is what I try to talk about a lot on my streams, to try to educate people on how things work.
	And those political proxy organizations and fixers, left and right, are both running cover for this.
	This is the permanent NGO bureaucracy.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And you know, sometimes what they'll do is they'll build really elaborate schemes to really distract or break off a percentage, or sorry, a small segment of the vote that they don't want to capture, in the case of conservatives, so they can appeal to liberal voters because they're trying to be liberals.
	Because again, It's a liberal lobby firm that runs all the parties.
	We have the same thing, we have a conservative party who only want to reach out to Guardian voters.
	So there you go.
	So in this particular tweet that I put up, it's about how one of the many strategies, the cringe moment strategy, this is very important.
	I'm sure you have this too, where you have a movement that gets co-opted, in this case it was the Freedom Convoy, They create a tangentially related, um, in this case, it was this cross country vaccine investigation thing from citizens.
	Oh, we're going to get down to the bottom of this.
	All financed by conservative party, uh, loyalists and donors.
	They funnel as much money through that because there's a maximum what you can give to a political party, but you can give unlimited funds to any sort of proxy organization.
	Then what do they do with this?
	The cringe moment.
	They create, they sabotage the credibility with some insane comment.
	And by the way, this is something that they had Jordan Peterson endorse.
	And I looked at him like, stay away from these people.
	Click on the first image on the left there and you can open it up.
	This is from their official account after they have been doing this for months.
	They're going to get down to the bottom of it.
	What do they have?
	They have a doctor here, and I'm going to read it out for people who are listening.
	And this is what it says.
	These are the people who created the National Citizens Inquiry into Vaccines.
	Why does the correlation between COVID-19 infections And the presence of Wi-Fi hotspots and 5G deployment appear to be stronger with population density.
	Is there a possibility that electromagnetic interference, EMI, from radiation As suggested by Dr. Magda Havis, plays a role in the illness given significant overlap symptoms between EMI and COVID-19.
	So right there they just nuked their own credibility to any normal average voter and this is why liberals call conservatives crazy.
	Take legitimate concerns, isolate it, give it energy, put a wall around it and then discredit it.
	Yeah, and this is what I was fighting during the Freedom Convoy when they realized, oh yeah, this guy Dictor has a little bit of experience with politics.
	I knew exactly what they were doing in terms of trying to defame and ruin the reputation of the freedom.
	So I was stopping them at every turn.
	So what do they do?
	They get some mouthy YouTube characters to start spreading rumors and defame me to turn everybody away from it.
	These were our conservative supporters, remember.
	They're big, big supporters of Trek and Combat.
	Okay, let's get next to... Okay, this is very interesting.
	This comes from a podcast that I produce, a legal podcast.
	So the first point is, have you ever heard of this tradition called preliminary hearings?
	I've heard of the term, but... Okay, so a preliminary hearing is a 300-year-old tradition in British common law.
	Reasonably common, actually, yeah.
	It's used frequently in Me Too allegations.
	Why?
	Because it allows a judge to review the evidence with both sides in the courtroom and determine, okay, this is just nonsense, this is somebody who's just making it up, right?
	Well, there is somebody by the name of, she's no longer in the Liberal Party, by the name of Jody Wilson-Raybould.
	The Conservatives celebrated her because she broke away from Trudeau and made him look bad, which we won't get into the details of it.
	But she herself, when she was the Attorney General, ended the 300-year tradition in British common law, which our legal system is based on.
	That's kind of one of the examples where you need it the most.
	Because otherwise you just open people up to massive reputational destruction with no credible evidence.
	And it also dramatically inflates wrongful convictions in MeToo allegations.
	So you're putting innocent people behind bars and that's what they felt was the problem.
	We don't have enough innocent people behind bars.
	Let's up that number.
	Crazy.
	Uh, and the other thing that's something nobody talks about in Canada, conservatives, nobody talks, but they don't know.
	That's why we try to put it on people's radar, which is with, uh, you, your audience might know Diana Davison, a former men's rights activist.
	Uh, she's the other person on this podcast who this is how she's fighting me too right now.
	That's, you know, within the legal framework.
	Um, the next thing is no more, this was a problem screening for germs.
	So you go to court, you have a jury, you gotta screen them.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Just the first 12.
	That's it.
	And it's to the point that even the crown attorneys are getting frustrated with it.
	So they're getting lunatics as jurors.
	You gotta screen, make sure there's no bias and all that stuff.
	No, no, no.
	The Trudeau government and the conservative governments that go along with it, they think it's fine.
	Just 12 first random 12.
	We were already there, but if you do this in a city where people are ideologically swayed, Exactly.
	That is a disaster.
	That's right.
	And who, who, who dominates the cities, right?
	That's this urban urban, urban rural divide where the urban centers are becoming predominantly liberal for whatever they, they have the brain cancer or as Gad says, the parasitic mind.
	And in the rural communities, they're still traditional.
	But all the, all the political prosecutions will be taking place in cities.
	So that's right.
	They're basically pre-decided.
	That's right, exactly.
	So I clipped this thing where Joseph explains this.
	In the United States, you'll try anything in front of a jury, including impaired driving.
	And to have what they call a bench trial in the United States is insane to them.
	But they have robust abilities to actually pick a f***ing jury, where in Canada, we just look at somebody and go...
	Okay, first 12 is fine.
	Whatever.
	You could be biased.
	We don't know.
	Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister.
	We can't challenge anybody.
	They're going to be challenged for cause, but we can't pick a jury here properly.
	Again, the rule for peremptory challenges was abolished.
	And I don't expect any better from a conservative government with all due respect.
	Because of one, you know, one case of an acquittal in Saskatchewan.
	Right?
	We've said this before.
	It's f***ing mind-blowing how in Canada, because one case which led to an acquittal with the death of an indigenous young man, which clearly was There were complicating circumstances which made it so concerning why the Justice Minister at the time went to Twitter to say that she was disappointed in the verdict, having not actually been at the trial.
	Alright, we're good.
	Predetermined outcomes.
	Yeah, very, very scary, isn't it?
	Okay, and they wonder why Canadians are losing faith in the judicial system.
	It's because of things like that.
	And then people may not know the specific policy changes, but they know something's wrong and they're seeing the outcomes and that's part of the outcomes that we're seeing, right?
	Next thing, this reminds me of, you know, when I was speaking to her with a former podcaster of mine and he was an intelligence expert.
	And I remember we were in one hall and somebody asked, why are the, let's say, foreign entities that are getting involved through political entries in Canada, why are they so successful?
	Whether they're Islamist organizations, whether they're CCP or whatever.
	And it was very interesting.
	His response was, oh, it's pretty simple.
	Because they share the same ideological worldview, so they don't really need to communicate.
	They're all going in the same direction.
	They're focused.
	They're targeted.
	They're singularly motivated.
	They're not distracted by things in life that become irrelevant.
	They're just really hyper-focused on one trajectory.
	Your kids can't tell the difference between a boy and a girl.
	That's why, right?
	Yes.
	That parasitic mind again that my friend Gad said.
	Civilizational level assumptions.
	Yeah, so we're now at a point where approximately 50% of the country are so ideologically brainwashed they can't tell the difference between a boy and a girl.
	But the solution, and props to you my friend because you bring this up frequently, they also simultaneously believe that the solution is to chop off the genitals of children.
	Right?
	That is a certain level of brainwashing that I am just in awe.
	Yuri Beslamov would be in awe of how brainwashed we are.
	We need more eunuchs.
	I do know that WPATH, the world's transgender health body, has set eunuchs as a gender now, yes?
	Oh god.
	And in the guidance for that, the justification, they linked to a website that had questionable age erotica fanfic.
	We need, we need to round all these people up and make them eunuchs and put them on an island.
	There is already an island at spare.
	Yes.
	Good point.
	All right.
	We're getting close.
	We've got another four things and then we'll get to the last post.
	Um, the problem also is the general public.
	They fear the reprisal from woke supremacists, right?
	Cause they're very aggressive.
	They have the support of the legal system.
	They have the support of the lobbyists and that are foreign funded.
	And everybody's afraid to talk.
	People know this is going on.
	Even the normies are now starting to wake up, because it's now starting to affect their children in school.
	But they don't know what to say.
	That's why, with that trucker convoy, this thing, you know why they were so fearful of it?
	Because I was talking to everybody from working-class blue-collar construction workers to the wealthiest billionaire hedge fund managers in the country.
	We had everybody, to teachers, professionals.
	It was too organic and it was too quick, but if you had a bit more time, you could have flipped that into a major political party and it would have disrupted everything.
	Which is what they were trying to prevent us from doing, which is why the Conservatives and Liberals together colluded to co-opt it, because they knew we were the opposition.
	Let's hope the Dutch can put it off though.
	That's right.
	Yeah, for sure.
	The next thing, policing.
	So we have what's called Police Services Board.
	Police services boards are the ones who hire the chiefs of police and the deputy chiefs.
	Well, guess who runs the police services board?
	Woke supremacists.
	Or people with foreign entities that are backing them.
	Or those Afra said Islamists, CCP loyalists, all that sort of stuff.
	So they're the ones who are hiring the top tier in policing, whereas everybody else from Pretty much inspector down.
	They're in a different union.
	They have a different set of rules.
	So they're all like you and I. They know what's going on.
	But that will be captured in time as well.
	Which is what they're trying to do.
	So in policing, I don't have any pictures of it here.
	I know what they're trying to do is they're trying to introduce what's it called?
	communities within policing so identity politics based community groups in policing so oh you're the black police officers of metro or the asian officers of peel or that sort of thing they're trying to introduce that into policing and I could tell you so many stories about this.
	The people that they're hiring as police officers, what's the best qualification to be a police officer?
	You tell me, what do you think?
	Strength, competence, and partiality, but I'm guessing they're just picking small, scrawny women and new immigrants.
	You wouldn't think a gender studies degree?
	No, I wouldn't.
	If I were an evil dictator like Justin Trudeau, I would pick idiots who are going to be the most compliant in enforcing whatever diktat I dole out at the time.
	And that's the thing, even if the top brass are the ideologically captured ones and some from the inspectors and below are just average joes keeping their heads down, too many of them in the process of keeping their heads down want to enforce the lockdown laws.
	So they're just as complicit.
	Yes, it's complex.
	It's more complex than that.
	I mean, one of the things that happened during the convoys, the government's probably frustrated about it, is I was talking to a lot of cops because I have a brother who's a sergeant, I have two nephews that are cops, and I have a lot of friends that are cops.
	So we're kind of laughing back and forth in our communications.
	And they kept saying to me, now you know what we're dealing with in policing, right?
	And there was a time where a number of police officers would get on the social media and they would say, OK, you know what?
	I can't do this anymore.
	I'm a police officer in Niagara.
	I'm quitting.
	I'm retiring.
	And they would be celebrated.
	And a friend of mine who's a police officer who's from Eastern Europe, he's as concerned about, you know, encroaching communism, authoritarian as we are, because he experienced it.
	He said to me, no, we can't have that.
	He's like, do you know how many things I block every day just for being a pain in the rear end?
	And if I wasn't there, it would go through.
	He said, it might look like we're supportive of stuff, but he said, I can tell you right now, I have friends in Ottawa police force.
	They hate Trudeau.
	They love what you're doing.
	And that's why it's important.
	You need to focus on positivity, that your mood and behavior is positive, which I knew.
	And that's why the conservative, uh, activists that latched on tried to invert that entirely.
	You were a massive threat to them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, we still are.
	That threat hasn't gone away.
	And guess what?
	It's not going to go away.
	Alright, next thing.
	The lobbyists, which we discussed and we discussed privately, the lobbyists control the countries at this point.
	They control the nominations.
	Again, with the parliamentary system.
	So, Americans, it's not for you.
	They rig the nominations so they don't have to rig a general election.
	They line up somebody like Richie Sunak with a rigged nomination or an acclamation and they know when he eventually comes down the pipeline that's going to be the guy.
	Exactly the same thing.
	Exactly.
	So whatever.
	And then the other thing is the political proxy attack.
	Anybody who speaks out and is not doing so, within the framing of a political party, they get defamed and attacked through social media.
	Discredited.
	They get articles like, during the convoy I found out apparently I am both gay and straight and married with two kids simultaneously.
	It's amazing!
	And my mother called me and she said, I can't believe all this time you've been married with children.
	You never told me.
	Right.
	And we laughed about it.
	Nothing.
	And by the way, I just, Scott Adams talks about this and I connected him with you guys.
	So that's going to be great.
	Uh, he, he repeats this regularly.
	It's so important.
	Nothing you ever read about a public public figure is remotely accurate, especially if it's political.
	Right.
	All right, so I thought, what is the solution?
	Well, why don't we look at some of the leaders in Canada?
	Let's look at a few examples.
	Let's start with Justin Trudeau.
	This was yesterday or today.
	He was asked a question at the G20 Summit.
	And I thought, you know, he has such a gift with words, Justin.
	And let's hear his question and comment.
	What did Canada contribute?
	As always, Canada is a strong voice for inclusion of gender language, inclusion of Indigenous reflections.
	There you go.
	So I guess we're going back to gendered language, which, OK, great.
	Sounds a little racist to me, but whatever.
	Next, we'll click on, which is Omar Algebra.
	And I thought this is important.
	So Omar Algebra, that was the, until recently, the former transportation minister.
	He's the guy who locked down the Canadian border for truckers and everybody else.
	Oh, right.
	He was also denied entry into the United States.
	I don't remember the exact year, 2000s, early 2000s.
	He was denied entry into the United States because of terrorism concerns, because he was head of the Canadian Arab Federation and was a big supporter of Hamas.
	So there you go.
	Let's put a big charge to the border then.
	Of course!
	What could go wrong, right?
	All right, next let's go on to this gentleman here.
	His comment is, Trudeau is deserving of criticism, blah blah blah.
	What's important about this is, that is Jack Mead saying he is the leader of the other, even more left-wing party.
	And I had another tweet, I don't know where it is, where he talks about India.
	It's okay.
	He criticizes India and the problem is he can't go to India.
	Do you know why?
	Terrorism concerns.
	Oh really?
	They banned him from it.
	He's the only politician in the Western Hemisphere that's been banned from entering India.
	Sorry, I don't want to say terrorism, sorry.
	Let's make security concerns.
	What was the security over?
	Was it religious nationalism?
	Was it being a comedy?
	Have you ever heard of the Khalistani movement?
	Air India bombing?
	I'm not saying he's involved in any way shape or form, that's not what I'm saying, but there were security concerns about certain relationships that may or may not be there.
	Who knows?
	I don't know, right?
	Probably just a conspiracy theory, right?
	Uh, next, let's go, uh, next one.
	Let's skip over this one.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So, uh, you'll enjoy this.
	This is serves for me as an example of, and she talks about it, but in a very Canadian frame.
	So I got to give context.
	This is former member of provincial parliament, Belinda Karahalios.
	Her husband was in line to be the leader of the Conservative Party.
	There is a problem though, he's Conservative and he wouldn't go along with this sort of deal that she mentions there.
	And she was the only member of Provincial Parliament, a Conservative, that voted against The expansion of emergency powers so they can continue lockdowns.
	So how do you think they rewarded her?
	That's right.
	They kicked her out of the party.
	So this is when she was operating as an independent after having been freshly removed from the party.
	Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.
	Good morning.
	You know, Mr. Speaker, there's a ruling class in this country and they are all quote unquote family.
	No, that's not a quote from the 1800s when Upper Canada was ruled by a small group of men known as the family compact.
	That's a quote said on March 9th by a lobbyist from Crestview Strategy to Cambridge resident Jim Caraglios, informing Jim that he had to support Erin O'Toole to remain in the Conservative Party of Leadership race.
	Party brass preferred this candidate.
	After my family didn't take the deal, Jim was removed from the race twice.
	But stealing the election wasn't enough for Mr. Rogers, O'Toole, Senator Don Plett, Lisa Raitt, Don Nolan and Derek Vanstone.
	We needed a court victory to repay campaign debts.
	A few weeks later, 19 volunteers on the local PC Riding Association were expelled without cause by a fellow member of the supposed ruling Conservative family, Brian Patterson.
	Mr. Speaker, I don't serve this made-up ruling Conservative family.
	I already have a family.
	And I serve my constituents.
	Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for the support of my family and from Canadians across the country and would like to specifically say thank you to the support of the 19 people expelled from the Cambridge PC board who chose to stand up for democratic principles rather than trying to gain the acceptance of some made-up ruling conservative family.
	Thank you.
	Connor, does that sound familiar?
	Yeah, not to take up too much of the time, but it sounds almost identical to Andrew Bridgen's case where he spoke out against the Conservative Party's Kabbalistic-style funding of vaccine procurement and said, well, this doesn't seem on the up-and-up, cited a Jewish doctor who said that this would be crime against humanity akin to something that happened in the 1930s and 40s, and he was kicked out of the party by none other than Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, who broke his own lockdown laws to play grab-ass.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, can we finish off with the gentleman who apparently people believe is going to save Canada on a video he just posted earlier today.
	Can you click on the video, John?
	Hello, everyone.
	This is Pierre Pauly.
	I'm happy to join you for a wonderful WestJet flight back from my hometown of Calgary.
	Who's ready for a home you can afford?
	Who's ready for some common sense?
	- Welcome to the Colossance.
	Who's ready to give a big thank you to the WestJet pilots and crew?
	This is your captain warning.
	A little bit of turbulence, but it will only last about two years.
	The wind chime will have a totally new crew and pilot in charge of the plane.
	We'll pierce through the storm, safely land in our home, the country we know and love, your home, my home, our home, So how inspiring is that?
	The solution is not the Conservatives.
	Big Mitt Romney energy.
	That's what I'm going to say there.
	Very similar.
	The political establishment, much like Ron DeSantis, they take people who have potential and they turn them into cardboard cutouts of themselves.
	And if we don't acknowledge this in your country and my country and criticize our own side as well as the other side, it's never going to change.
	Fantastic.
	Brilliant.
	Right, okay, last, we'll spend five or so minutes on the video comments and a couple of website comments then.
	I think in right-wing talk there's often a gap between seeing modern soy boys and thugs and single moms.
	I didn't have a father, and so a link of generational skill was lost, so I've been working hard to learn for myself.
	That's not really common, and I'm unusual and fortunate.
	I do think more sympathy is owed to those who, like I once was, didn't know what to do, and no one would help, even when asked.
	All they want is to be appreciated for existing and something to be good at and praised for, not the opposite like it is.
	Yeah.
	I think particularly young men are in need of cultural guidance, not just having your dad still in the home where most of them, well, half of them don't these days, but it's the role that Jordan Peterson served, not just in Canada, but around the world for a very, very significant amount of time.
	I will say that sometimes, um, particularly on the internet.
	Young men who are frustrated with the state of things may come across a little bit like a dog eager to bite because it's been kicked one too many times.
	So it has to be reciprocal, lads.
	You've got to be open to people trying to give you strong advice and also not just bite the hand that feeds.
	Second video comment.
	Alright, love suitors.
	I may think that I might be in the minority in this one or maybe the only one who thinks this way, but I think the attacks on Trump to get rid of him I'm not quite sure if it's really an act of desperation.
	I would think it's probably more like an act of confidence because they locked down the whole world.
	No one's been fired yet.
	The correct people were not being prosecuted either in a lot.
	I mean, what makes you think that they can't take up their political points either?
	I mean, they've crossed over many times over and nothing of value has really happened to them.
	Remember, I mean, they're not losing until they're losing.
	I mean, I think they see the vengefulness that they've instilled in Trump as a kind of American Caesar figure, and his taking it as a personal slight is probably the greatest strength of him at this point, as the opportunity for them to have to answer for the fact that they locked us down.
	And if you want to see people get fired, you have to push back, and you have to push back hard.
	The conservative party leader, he was gone.
	A number of somebody on city council, he was gone.
	The police services board person, they were gone.
	Like it was a mass exodus behind the scenes and people, the chief of police, he was told specifically he's going to be resigning.
	So if you push back and you stand your ground and you be kind, don't be, you know, don't start being overly aggressive in a way that it's rude, but you understand that, you know, you want to be kind to people's emotions, but you just stand, push back.
	You'll start to see resignations or people getting fired.
	So there were people fired around the Freedom Convoy.
	I think we're out of time, but I'm going to try and slip in one last question.
	Sorry, one last comment from the comments coming from the website.
	No one else has.
	Thanks very much for having Ben on.
	Great guest.
	Question for Ben.
	Did the people who had their bank account seized let you get their money back?
	Yes, so some people had to go longer, certain corporations, trucking companies, but the vast majority of us got our banking accounts back in eight days, the day after the Emergency Measures Act was lifted.
	But the damage has been done and the reputation of Canada's finance industry is done.
	And thanks again for everything you did and everyone else who was involved in that.
	Thank you for supporting us, man.
	We needed you.
	We needed you behind us and you came through, so I really thank you for it.
	Well, go and buy Ben's book, most definitely.
	Honkingforfreedom.com.
	Yes, you also mentioned the Open College in here.
	Yes, I also produce a podcast for Professor Stephen Hicks, and we're going to be releasing Season 2 in the next month or so.
	So if you know people don't understand postmodern theory and which is very important a lot of these wealthy people don't understand what it is I am a big supporter and fan and become friends with Steven.
	So check him out.
	Okay, fantastic And with that, thanks very much ladies and gentlemen.

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