REBEL ROUNDTABLE dissects Pierre Poilievre’s push for "net negative" migration, citing 72% Canadian support and a 2025 Privy Council report warning of gated communities. Nova Scotia’s hiking ban—linked to 2023 arson fires—is called unconstitutional overreach, while Poilievre’s pipeline stance clashes with Liberal "wokeism" and Mark Carney’s outsourced opposition. Youth unemployment hits 53.6%, lowest since 1998, as foreign workers fill jobs, sparking Conservative gains in cities like Windsor. The episode ties economic decline to immigration policies, media censorship, and cultural shifts, framing Poilievre’s approach as a necessary counter to perceived elite sabotage. [Automatically generated summary]
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What a panel we have today.
First of all, we have Wyatt Claypool from the National Telegraph.
He joins us, as does Viva Frye of the Can't Miss podcast of the same name.
So lots to talk about, gentlemen and lady.
Let's first get to, well, do you remember that old song?
Nova Scotia's Forest Fire Fears00:15:23
If you go into the woods today, you're in for a big surprise.
Oh, I'll say, especially if it's Nova Scotia, you're going to get arrested and fined, maybe frog marched out and handcuffed.
Let's go to you first, Viva.
What in the world do you make of this?
This, I mean, I thought we're not supposed to be into profiling when it comes to law enforcement.
Why does it seem that the government in Nova Scotia has this idea that if you're going into the forest, you're obviously there to start a forest fire.
This is kind of like COVID craziness, no?
Well, it is.
It's the what's the successor to COVID craziness because they're COVID.
So why not do it again, declare an emergency and prohibit people from accessing public grounds, outdoor forests?
I mean, I've been covering it from Florida, and it's like the American side of my audience cannot possibly understand how bat crazy Canada has gone.
And so, I mean, the funny thing is, like, I dig into Tim Houston a little bit, and you just put in the word someone, you know, liberal, conservative, politician, whatever, and scandal, and you'll find that it already has a shady past, a shady history, some questionable dealings, some questionable feelings with his neighbors in terms of granting government contracts.
And set all that aside, but it's great that they put the spotlight on themselves.
It's insanity.
It's abject insanity that this guy comes out in his nice, polite Canadian accent.
It's like, ooh, yeah, if you have property, we implore you not to go in on your own property.
It's insanity that could only be tolerated in a country like Canada, maybe Australia, where it seems that people are just content letting the government govern them so hard that they govern them into their houses during the summer.
You know, well said, Viva.
And I think, Wyatt, what I find stunning is that Premier Houston is allegedly a conservative.
He's about as conservative a premier as, oh, I don't know, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, which is to say he's not anywhere near a conservative when it comes to upholding conservative values.
That's one thing I'd like to focus on.
Why is a conservative premier acting, well, like a Marxist, if you will?
And secondly, in the big picture, is this constitutional?
Well, it seems like Tim Houston and Doug Ford are in a running gun battle to see who is the worst conservative in Canada.
They really just need to drop the conservative label from the party.
They are progressive parties.
They basically do the same thing as the liberals they take over for.
They just increase the size of government.
It's the Red Tory way.
Red Tories live to manage a liberal budget a little bit better than the Liberals do.
And that's really it.
You wonder why they even bother getting involved in politics.
But Tim Houston didn't seem satisfied with his housing plan that went up like a lead balloon where he was going to have Nova Scotians live in what looked like theme park concession stands.
And so now you're going to have to go and now you're going to get arrested because you maybe want to get away from Tim Houston, take a short walk through the woods.
You can even go onto your own private land and hike.
You can't even go onto a friend's private land and have a campsite.
That is illegal.
So your own private property rights are not even recognized simply because people in downtown Halifax don't understand how fires work.
Well, and by the way, the fine is nothing to sneeze at, 25,000.
But I got to tell you, we can't be, I don't know, on our high horse in terms of mocking Nova Scotia's housing project.
We're broadcasting from Toronto where Olivia Chow is converting shipping containers into housing for seniors.
So this madness is all over.
But Drea, what do you think?
You know, one of the angles too, especially in the summer, we're advertising for our tourism.
We have a beautiful country.
And especially now, we are telling people it's staycation time in terms of stay in Canada.
Don't go and enrich big bad orange man to the south.
Explore the natural beauty of our land.
And if you do in Nova Scotia, you're going to get a 25,000 ticket potentially.
This is madness.
It absolutely is madness, not to mention how cold it is for much of the year in Nova Scotia.
The people are really looking forward to coming there.
I have tons of family in Nova Scotia.
And so we have family that comes out vacations there.
And now you can't go into the woods and do the normal activities that you do.
And much of my family actually lives in rural areas.
So this is just nuts.
But I want to point out that like it's such an overreach.
This actually happened before in Nova Scotia.
It happened in 2023 when there were fires that were out of control.
However, if you compare that to what's happening now, it's not what's happening now.
There's been 100 wildfires, and we know that most wildfires are human-caused.
And they have been small and they have been immediately put out.
So to go this far is crazy.
And last eye check, there isn't people just combusting inside of the forest because they're on a hike, walking their dog or fishing.
I did do some look into the vehicles.
There are ATV fires that are caused.
If there's a hot engine or something.
So perhaps, maybe if they said that.
But again, even if you compare this year to 2023 or you look at 2024 in Nova Scotia, 2024 was actually their best year in so long for fires.
So why now?
Why is this happening?
And the conspiracy theorists are just right again when we talk about, oh, you know, they're going to find ways to lock us down with climate change.
Well, here's a good example of how that can go down.
No, that's a great point, Drea.
And you know, Viva, how do we fight back?
And certainly the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms is making some noise about this.
But I'll tell you, I have a little bit of a fantasy.
If I lived in Nova Scotia, I would try to get five, six, 10,000 people and leave the ATVs at home to Drea's point.
Don't bring anything in to the woods that might cause a fire in the hot summertime and just go for a peaceful walk, which I think is your constitutional right to do so on crown land.
Would they, they wouldn't even have a chance of arresting 1% of that number.
What say you, my friend?
As far as tactics go for protests, that might be the less good of the tactics: 5,000 people or thousands of people gathering together.
Someone's going to do something stupid if only to the government's position.
No, first of all, I appreciate the insanity that you pay taxes and now they're depriving you from accessing the public lands for which you pay.
They're asking you to not go on private land on which you pay taxes, but they're still going to collect your taxes.
I mean, I don't know.
The protest is go out there and get a ticket, I guess, if you want to do it and contest it.
But the problem is you're going to get stuck with that ticket the way a lot of the COVID protesters are stuck with their tickets now.
But it is, it's what's insanity about it is that the fires from 2023, at least the biggest ones in Nova Scotia, were arson.
And what are you thinking arsonists are not going to go out because they have to stay home?
And importantly, if they're going to prevent non-arsonists from going out there, they're actually just sort of making it easier for arsonists to do what they want to do.
So it's illogical.
It's unconstitutional.
They've done it before.
They've got away with it before.
And the judges seem to be ratifying the acts of the government because it's one big club that protects itself.
You know, that is a fantastic point you've just made, Viva, because arsonists, by definition, don't obey the law.
But here's where I'm going with this.
If you had families camping and couples going for a hike and they're doing everything ethically sound, they're not littering.
They're not setting even a campfire.
Wouldn't those act as so many smoky bears looking at the bad actors and going, hey, wait a minute, don't walk away from these burning embers.
Put it out properly.
But those eyes and ears will be gone now.
Obviously, but also, I mean, did you see Roger Roger Cusner's tweet yesterday?
I did not.
He's saying how, you know, he supports the lockdown because he was at a party and someone's wife put out a cigarette in a fire pit and 10 minutes later, the fire pit was on fire.
He didn't specify whether or not they were using the fire pit.
The fire pit was on fire.
Oh, no.
Oh, boy.
At least we can say that Tim Houston is an equal opportunity civil liberties violator.
At least he will put his knee in everyone's back if you try and go hiking, where at least it's not like British Columbia, where depending on your race, you can go into a park or not.
You know, that's a great point, Wyatt.
And, you know, I want to throw off your backs for some feedback in terms of what the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedom said, quote, governments never take away your rights and freedoms without offering a nice sounding pretext.
Safety being the most popular.
And Wyatt, we see the misuse of that word safety endlessly.
Oh, we can't have a Christian musician come into a public park.
There might be some bad people that show up and cause harm.
So for safety, we'll just eclipse your freedom of speech rights.
Is this a really distressing trend we see in our dominion right now?
The use of the word safety.
When I hear of people saying it's unsafe situation, I go, what?
Is there a downed hydro wire?
But no, the way they're using it is to effectively take away our freedoms with a bogus reason.
And also, they're also trying, it's also an excuse to make you less safe because these governments are derelict in actually doing proper forest management.
So rather than doing proper forest management, they're just not going to let anyone go into the forest.
And let's keep a good scorecard going here.
So in Nova Scotia, you can't go on a hike.
You can't have a picnic with pre-made sandwiches.
And in Toronto, they can't get rid of bike lanes because it is a human right to have a bike lane because something could happen.
The thing is that these courts have proven that they can literally justify practically anything because it's just leftist activists.
And this is where conservatives across the country have to stop being scared of being labeled like an American Republican, and they have to take court appointments more seriously.
They're supposedly nonpartisan in Canada.
They are clearly not nonpartisan.
They are as nonpartisan as our Senate independent group.
Oh, Wyatt, please don't trigger me with activist judges.
The idea Toronto bike lanes are constitutionally protected.
That was the most appalling example I've seen this year.
But let's move on from forest fires.
Drea, Mr. Polyev, who is one of, I think, 290,000 people running in Alberta riding advance polls open today.
You got to write in the candidate's name so everybody pay close attention to how you spell Polyev.
But he is on the immigration file.
He's calling it completely out of control.
I think we have a clip, do we, guys?
So let's see what Polyev has to say about something so many Canadians are talking about and getting upset about, including people who have immigrated to Canada in recent years.
Thanks for taking my question, Kien with Juno News.
I'd like to ask about immigration.
Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom has been quite popular recently.
He might even be prime minister if an election was held today with his plan to deport illegal migrants across the Channel.
Donald Trump, same thing.
He just launched a father-son recruitment campaign for ICE.
It seems like the entire Western world, including the Liberals, have realized that out-of-control immigration is a problem.
But Canada is the only country without a solution to fix it.
And you don't have sovereignty without control of the borders.
So I'm wondering what your plan is to fix it and get illegal migrants out of this country.
Thank you.
Well, anyone who has been deemed inadmissible needs to leave and they need to be deported.
Anyone who commits a crime while they're in Canada, they need to be immediately detained.
And when their detention is complete, they need to be deported from the country.
We need to track down the roughly 600 criminals that the Liberals have lost track of.
That means using all our security agencies to find out where they are, to locate them, arrest them, put them on planes, get them out of Canada.
We need to make it clear that anyone who commits a hate crime or an act of violence against an identifiable group that is not a citizen and not a permanent resident needs to be deported from this country.
We need to get rid of the incentives for people to come here that are not real refugees.
So we need a review of all the benefits that go to people who come as asylum claimants to make sure they're not getting more benefits than Canadian taxpayers get.
And those that arrive last should be their cases should be treated first so that they know that they'll be leaving quickly.
That will get the message back to the country of origin that if you come to Canada and you're not a real refugee, your case will be heard in a few weeks and you'll be back in your own country.
That would, right now, there's the opposite incentive.
People who are not real refugees come into Canada and they say, well, even if I'm rejected, I'll have seven or eight years of appeal during which time they get all kinds of benefits.
If we were very clear that the benefits wouldn't be there, that they would be sent back within a couple of weeks, they wouldn't come in the first place.
We need to secure our borders to stop the crossings.
And more broadly on immigration, we need to bring way down the numbers of international students, of temporary foreign workers that are flooding our markets with low-wage labor.
The big corporations love it because they can drive down wages for Canadian youth who are facing unprecedented unemployment.
The temporary foreign worker program was not meant to drive down wages.
It was meant to fill jobs that Canadians could not or would not do, particularly in agriculture.
Now it's just become a full-purpose thing that Starbucks or anyone else can use to drive wages down.
If they're having a hard time getting Canadian youth working, what they need to do is raise wages.
So we need to cut back on the temporary foreign worker program.
And finally, the overall number needs to go down.
Over the next several years, we actually need more people leaving than coming.
That's net negative migration.
And so that's what I've said.
Cut Back on Foreign Workers00:15:07
We've got these millions of people whose visas are going to come up.
When their visas run out, they're not eligible to stay.
They need to be told to leave.
And if they don't leave, then obviously they need to be deported.
And that will allow us our housing, health care, and jobs to catch up with the number of people in our country.
Thank you.
You know, Viva, I like what he's saying.
And I got to tell you, I want to point out one specific example of what I think is the immigration boondoggle.
We ran a story earlier this month.
It was getting a lot of views.
It was about the situation in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Now, Niagara Falls is Canada's number one tourist destination.
I can tell you, out of the 16,000 room inventory, 2,000 of those rooms are out of commission.
They are putting up about 5,000 migrants.
And there's also, in fairness, some people fleeing northern Manitoba from the forest fires there.
This migrant hotel program has cost more than 1.1 billion Canada-wide.
And in the big question, Viva, here is what I ask.
How are we supposed to end the war on poverty when we keep importing the world's impoverished?
Well, my bigger question is: I don't want to sound like Adam Sandler out of Reading Singer.
Where the hell was the statement two months ago?
These are things that should have been brought to the election campaign two months ago.
Instead, you know, you made the joke about the conservative Tim Houston being a progressive conservative.
First of all, that's an oxymoron.
It's like a flat mount or a plague.
Can't be progressive and conservative at the same time.
They're mutually opposing.
But the Canadian conservatives, they seem to act just slightly less liberal than the liberals.
During the election season, Pierre was basically silent on this, but even less than silence, talking about reducing immigration from half a million to what was 350,000.
It needs to be brought to zero.
And the illegals need to be kicked out of the country.
Nobody was talking about deportation on the conservative side.
What's her name?
Ruby Dahlia.
Ruby, what's the last name I've talked about?
Ruby from the Liberals was the only one talking about deporting illegal immigrants.
And now he finds his courage and he finds political attack after they lose the election.
They should have been talking about this during the election.
Good for him.
It's not too little, too late.
It's like too little after you lose the election on it.
Well, you know what?
Good point.
Let's see if he is still playing this tune when the next federal election is, whenever that may be.
Could be next year, could be in four years.
Who knows?
But what?
Again, I want to throw to something that I consider to be in Canada the most overlooked, under-reported story.
And it came out last April, right during a federal election campaign.
I think Pierre Polyev was the only one with guts to address it.
It was that Privy Council report showing that Canada in 2040, less than 15 years away, there's going to be this disreported story.
It came out last April.
Environment in which you see the rich who have either left Canada or living in gated communities with security guards, the rest of us, we're forced to fish, hunt illegally, and forage just to stay alive.
And again, I ask, if that's what the Privy Council is predicting, and I'll tell you, you go to many cities and towns in Canada, and it looks like 2040 is already here when you look at the homeless encampments.
Where is the logic in importing the world's poor?
And the thing to note about that Privy Council, that Privy Council briefing memo, is that it wasn't, it's not like this was like a bunch of secret crypto conservatives created it to make the liberals look bad.
These are liberals writing a report that was only for the eyes of the prime minister's office and then it got leaked out.
This was them being as honest as possible, assuming nobody was going to read it.
And this really does demonstrate, like, when this stuff is real, this is when the conservatives, and I'm saying this not just because it's the principal thing to do, it's the effective thing to do.
They need to be running on a very big vision on what they're going to do with the country.
Saying they're saying 350,000 immigrant cap a year, I'm saying 250,000.
It has to be saying, I'm going to cut it 80%.
We are going to go as little as possible with some room so that we can bring in engineers and computer scientists and whatnot.
That's okay.
And the thing is, you wonder why the youth vote is actually moving right in Canada as well as a lot of other countries around the Western world.
It's because so many of these policies, when it comes to immigration, have utterly destroyed people's ability to get a job or find decent housing.
And then the liberals ended up getting back in off of the back of people who bought their homes 20 years ago, frankly.
You know, not all of them, but for voters who are above the age of 55, it tends to be more true that you live in the part of town where there's no crime.
You have a nice house.
You have all this stuff already established.
And so the bad TFW program kind of goes unnoticed because you're not competing for those jobs.
And what I've always found kind of startling is how pathetic business has become in Canada.
They don't demand a tax cut.
They don't go into Carney's office and say, what the heck are you doing?
I thought we were part of a crisis.
Cut our taxes so that we can let loose and grow the economy.
They just ask for more TFW workers.
Please just give us some more subsidized workers.
That's all we'll ask for.
They're so cowed and they're so whipped that they don't even advocate in their own interests properly anymore.
It's unbelievable.
And Drea, I'm in the GTA.
You're in Vancouver.
These two markets have the highest priced average housing in all of North America.
Pierre Polyev made mention of that several times during the campaign.
It was always tough to get into the market.
I would argue to Wyatt's point that for young people, the Canadian promise, as Pierre Polyev calls it in certain markets like the places where we live, it's now impossible.
In fact, my sons four years ago moved out of the GTA to Windsor because they saw that there's just no way of getting into this market.
And again, how with the strain on housing, with this bubble that never seems to burst, and in your neck of the woods, you know, in June, I passed by East Hastings Street.
I'm not trying to be funny or, you know, critical, but it looked like the set for a zombie apocalypse film.
So again, not putting any governors on immigration.
And where do most immigrants tend to go?
Well, it's Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.
Where is the sense in this?
There is no sense.
And I agree with what Fry said.
Why didn't we hear this during an election?
This is a winning issue.
One of the polls that came out last year showed that people, around 72%, are saying this is out of hand and they want to see less of it.
So I do like what Polyev said, but I would have liked to hear it before.
In particular, I like what he said about going after the incentives so that people can't just, you know, I don't know, hold a pride flag and then come on over and tackling the newest applicants first.
But a lot has to be done.
Another report that we did, Alexa and Lincoln did a great job exposing what's happening out in Quebec and New York at that border, all the criminal activity of people just smuggling back and forth.
This is by far out of control.
And back to the Privy Council memo, and that touches on your point about the young people leaving.
The liberals predicted that the young people will leave.
We won't be able to take care of our elderly.
That will essentially have to be hunters and gatherers again.
Now we know we might not even be able to hunt in the woods.
So this is the number one issue, in my opinion, affecting Canada.
And it was great to see Polyev see that, but we need someone really strong going after that issue so that more can jump on board.
And you know, Drea, to your point of pride flags and to Polyev's point of people gaming the system, isn't it astonishing that the vast majority of Nigerians coming into Canada are evidently part of the LGBT, et cetera, et cetera, community and saying that if I go back, it's a death sentence.
I mean, it's statistically impossible going by the numbers, but that's what's going on right now.
Of course.
I mean, we're the laughingstock.
Have you seen those pictures of not just one of our former and now current prime minister at Pride parades?
So, of course, that's an easy way to get in.
And how do you prove otherwise, right?
You can just identify as whatever you want.
Yeah, it's unbelievable.
Let's also move on to what Polyev is saying right now regarding pipelines.
I think this is a winning plank for him.
He was on about this in the last election, of course.
I mean, Mark Carney, talk about buyers' remorse.
This was supposed to be a new age Captain Canuck.
This was him wrapped in the flag.
He was going to go after the big orange man.
You need an experienced banker.
Remember, elbows up, which, by the way, guys, is the most stupid phrase I've ever heard because that's a penalty in hockey.
You can't go into the board's elbows up.
You're going to be in the sin bin.
And yet, if Carney wanted to do something in his power to get Canada rolling again, he could repeal Bill C-69, the anti-pipeline legislation.
And I think it's Bill C-48 that would allow BC to export liquefied natural gas and oil.
But no, but let's see in Polyev's own words what he has to say here.
And I'd like to hear your reaction.
Let's start with the chicken and egg problem.
So this is the opponents of pipelines are using this very cleverly.
They're saying, well, we can't change the rules to allow a pipeline because there's no pipeline proposed.
That's because the rules don't allow pipelines to get built.
So you have, for example, C-69 that, according to the Pipeline Association, means you'll never get one approved.
Then you have the energy cap, which means that Alberta will never be able to produce enough oil to put in a new pipeline.
And then you have the shipping ban that prevents that oil from going anywhere.
And then, you know, the NDP and liberals say, well, nobody wants to build a pipeline, so we can't approve one.
Well, of course, nobody wants to build anything in Canada because the law makes it impossible.
So that's why the Canadian Sovereignty Act will legalize building pipelines, producing energy, and putting it on ships.
And when you do that, you will have pipeline construction like you do all around the world.
You know, I'm just looking at these incredible projects that have been done in other countries around the world.
You've got the Eamshaven LNG terminal, Netherlands.
It went from plan to completion in six months.
The gas grid LNG terminal in Finland.
Agreement signed in May of 2022, started construction in August of 2022.
That's two months later.
The Wilhelm Schaeven Germany project that was announced.
This is an import terminal for LNG, announced in March 2022, completed in December 2022.
This is how things get done everywhere else in the world.
Here in Canada, nothing gets done because liberals ban things from getting done.
We're proposing to legalize fast energy production, construction, and exportation.
And that is why we need this bill.
So we can do it.
Let's get rid of this chicken and egg distraction that the Liberals have imposed.
As for Mr. Eby opposing him, with the greatest respect, I have nothing against him personally.
I think he's a nice guy, but one man can't block a project.
British Columbians want a pipeline.
Albertans want a pipeline.
Canadians want a pipeline.
We can't wait till everybody's on side.
I mean, you know, there's some people out there who don't think Elvis is dead.
We can't get everybody to agree on any basic fact, even the basic fact that we need a pipeline.
So you're going to need national leadership.
And yeah, that means that some people are going to protest, maybe chain themselves to a tree, but we have to push through that if we're ever going to get anything done.
What?
Elvis is dead?
I thought, according to the Weekly World News back in the day, he was working at a Burger King drive-through in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
But anyway, let's get serious.
Viva, I want to go back to April.
I went to a presser Pierre Polyev had in St. John, New Brunswick.
It was actually situated at the port of St. John, this humongous port there.
And he talked about how if Energy East had been greenlit and built, this was the final destination for that oil.
So it was a win-win-win situation.
The first win, a Canadian pipeline made with Canadian materials.
The second win, 1.2 million barrels of oil coming into the port of St. John every day, okay, for export.
And the third win, where was that oil going to be exported to?
Not the USA.
Nope.
To Europe.
Remember, we're all supposed to be looking for new markets.
What is it about this liberal government that has this fetish about being so anti-pipeline when the benefits are enormous?
We know what their issue is.
They have always been ones to punish the by way of energy policy, the Alberta, while stealing their resources to redistribute among the other provinces.
What drives me nuts about listening to this now is it sounds like a more polite Canadian version of drill, baby, drill.
Where the heck was it during the election?
And I'm going to harp on this because I took a lot of black for making constructive criticisms throughout the election.
These were election issues, energy independence, especially for Alberta.
But it's only after the election now that Pierre is finding his Canadian version of Trump-ish policies, which were logical policies to begin with.
Secure the border, kick out illegal aliens, tighten up on the fentanyl, and become energy independent.
Good Policy, Trapped Resources00:06:38
It's good policy.
It's always been good policy.
Where the heck was the last during the election?
Viva, with all due respect, I'll challenge you on the pipeline point.
I covered so many rallies, so many pressers during the election campaign, and I thought Mr. Polyev was very loud and clear where he stood on pipelines, avoiding the phrase drill, baby, drill, because you can't use that kind of language in Canada.
He was a true champion for the oil sands, I think.
I'll just push back a bit on that.
I know that he said certain things, and that was the report that I got.
No, Viva, he said this here and he said this there.
On election, you got to get everywhere and say it and put it on blast, not just nationally, but international.
And these are policies that ought to have been known, put on blast, and make their way past the soft censorship of centralized media that the CBC is not going to put these things on blast and not to find ways of getting around that.
But no, it was definitely not vocal enough, even on the things he did say.
But the past is the past.
It's good policy.
Everybody knew it was good policy and it would be good for Alberta.
Okay.
What about yourself?
I think the tragedy of Canada the past decade has been we literally have trillions of dollars of mineral wealth trapped underground that we cannot or actually will not bring to market.
I can't think of any other resource-rich jurisdiction in the entire world that operates by this standard.
And it seems to be for the sake of wokeism.
It's about our carbon footprint and saving the planet and climate change.
Am I right about this?
The problem with Canada is that despite being the second largest country on the planet by land mass, we're an extremely urban country.
And you start to have that mentality develop that, you know, food comes from the grocery store.
That, you know, we don't, we don't, it's not the oil and gas industry that is generating the economic prosperity for the country.
It's people working in office buildings in downtown Toronto, which they're probably doing good work, but that work does not actually exist if we are not pulling things out of the ground, growing things or manufacturing.
But people can very easily divorce themselves from economic realities and then they wonder why the economy is slowing down after they keep voting for politicians who end up holding up natural resource development.
A couple of things on what Polyev and the Conservatives are doing.
One, I just want to take it from the perspective of what Carney's doing and then what the Conservatives are doing.
I'll actually start with the Conservatives.
There is a rumor going around insider circles right now that in the fall, despite what Carney has been doing with flip-flopping with pipelines, they are at least going to try and push one through.
Whether they just do it by word and they don't end up getting started on three years, they at least want to rhetorically look like they're not against pipelines.
And so what Polyev and the Conservatives are doing is trying to preempt them, say, no, no, don't just build up pipeline.
Build two pipelines, get rid of C48, get rid of C69, and clear the way so that we can have full energy independence, basically upping the ante to show that if the liberals pretend that they're in favor of a pipeline, this is the actual standard of what being in favor of pipelines and oil and gas development is.
And this is where they're probably going to come in at.
But what Carney's been doing, and it's extremely cynical, is he has been outsourcing saying no.
He doesn't actually want to say no to a pipeline.
He'll just keep saying yes.
Even David Eby, even Wab Canoe, who Wab Canu reminds me so much of who was that governor of Louisiana in the 30s.
I feel like you would know based on how you're dressed, David.
How dare you?
No, it's a good.
He's a good person.
At least he's dressed.
The guy they would call the guy they called the kingfish governor.
I always think of Wab Canu as chief salmon now.
But the thing is that these guys all outsource saying no.
They say, of course, I'm in favor of a pipeline.
But if an indigenous man says no, I guess we can't do it.
Or if a premier says no, or if I run a focus group and anyone sneezes, I can't do it.
They'll always say yes, but they'll just say, well, but these people are saying no.
And so I can't do it, even though there's nothing in law requiring you to listen to people trying to hold up energy projects.
No, you know what?
That is a brilliant point.
It's kind of like the philosophy a bartender will use with a drunk that's surly, and he's got to cut him off because he doesn't want to lose his liquor license if things go sideways.
And it's along the lines of, look, if it was up to me, I'd keep pouring you drinks all night long.
But I think there's a liquor inspector in the room, so you don't want me to go out of business.
So you make somebody else the heavy is what I'm saying.
Drea, I want to get to your point of view, but before I do, because we're at the halfway mark, I have to, you know, with a broken heart, say goodbye to our panelists.
But before I do, Wyatt, I'll start with you.
How can our viewers access your content?
Well, they can just look it up on the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
I also am the policy and communications advisor for the 1BC party in the legislature in British Columbia.
And I finally remembered the name.
It was Governor Huey Long in Louisiana.
So there you go.
I feel like I've finished this up properly now.
Well, it was one out of three.
It was either Huey Louie or Dewey, I suppose.
Viva Fry, where can our viewers see your superb podcasting?
Daily on Rumble at three o'clock Sunday night at six o'clock with Robert Barnes.
And if you put in Viva Fry in any search engine, you'll get a slew of results.
Some funny, some less funny.
But yeah, I'm all over.
There you go.
As the late, great Billy Red Lines used to say, folks, don't you dare miss it.
Wyatt, Viva, thank you so much for your time.
It was wonderful having you here.
I hope you come back in the near future.
Absolutely.
All right.
You have a great weekend, guys.
So, Drea, what great feedback from our guests?
That might have been one of our best panels yet.
And before we hit an ad break, I don't want to leave you out of the picture in terms of Canada and our pipeline production, or rather, lack thereof.
Well, I love that he called out EB, of course, because I'm trapped in this province.
So, any opportunity to shine the spotlight on us, please do.
But this is an issue of red tape and barriers up the wazoo, and EB is the king of that.
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I think when it came to blocking or preventing the Alberta pipeline to Prince Rupert, you know, Evie said, I'm not blocking it.
I'm not making that happen.
There's no viable projects out there, something like that.
But there is so much red tape.
We even have our own emissions cap out here in BC.
Why?
Nothing can get done.
Even when it comes to mining, the same thing is happening.
Then you sprinkle a little bit of our DRIPA policies or UNDRIP policies that say we have to have the First Nations come into agreement.
That's becoming more and more of an issue because the First Nations can't agree with each other.
And hey, 95% of the population doesn't even elect their government.
So we are a mess and there are a lot of things slowing down, preventing or making it unfeasible for pipelines, and that needs to change.
You know, Drea, to be fair to BC, and you tell me if I'm right or wrong, because you've forgotten more about British Columbia than I'm ever going to learn.
But you take Vancouver and Victoria out of the mix.
When we look at the hinterland of BC, we see a lot of people espousing conservative values.
Maybe that is a conservative province without those two municipalities.
Kind of like California.
You take San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco out of the mix.
There are a lot of conservatives, believe it or not, in the state of California.
Do I have this right?
Absolutely.
Well, again, our last election, which was October of last year, it was almost, it was a tie for a bit until they did all of those recounts.
So we saw a rise in conservative voters.
People have had enough in many different sectors, whether it's the landowners, whether it's the renters, whether it's people in the energy sector.
There's just a lot of people switching over.
And of course, our drug issue out here is huge and not cracking down on crime.
So people are becoming more conservative.
The left UGs are politically aligning with more conservative views as common sense goes out of the window.
Incredible.
Drea, why don't we throw to Annette?
And on the other side, why don't we come back to there are U.S. Congress Republicans saying, here's a major threat to trade.
It is our online streaming act, which I think an American would define as the anti-First Amendment.
More on that when we get back, folks.
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You know, Drea, I just wish way, way back in 1984, when I graduated at the Ryerson School of Journalism, there was such a thing as the student journalism conference that our company was putting on.
I remember it was back in the old days, pre-internet, me putting clippings and resumes via snail mail to every small town weekly imaginable.
I think the most jarring rejection was from the newspaper that was in Tutayatuck Northwest Territories.
Basically the letter saying, sorry, kid, you're just not tut-tay-at-tuck material.
Thank God St. Paul, Alberta finally came through for me.
But such is the case.
And wow, flight accommodation meals.
I thought Sheila looked like a game show hostess there for a second.
It's such a good opportunity.
Honestly, if you guys know anybody interested in that, that's at a young age.
And so I'm hearing there's a lot of people like ourselves saying, hey, what about us?
Can we go to this?
No, this is for the young people.
We need a young generation of, you know, fearless journalists.
So get them out there and everything is covered.
Speaking of meals and exciting things happening, it's also our Rebel News birthday bash coming up.
And we have two events.
Rebel is 10 years old, you guys.
10 years old, a whole decade somehow with our backs against the wall.
Here we still are.
And all of that is thanks to you guys.
We are nothing without you.
So this is the perfect time to come join us and celebrate our birthday.
So the first one is happening in Calgary.
I believe it's September 18th.
All of this information is at happybirthdayrebel.com.
So there you have the first one, Calgary.
Yes, September 18th.
And we added on a second event, a second birthday party bash, which is in October, October 16th in Ontario.
So no excuses.
Find your way to one or the other.
And you can see David will be there.
I'll be there.
They don't even tell me these things.
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I just, all of a sudden, I see my face.
I'm like, okay, I'm there.
Let's do it.
I guess I'm there.
So it's going to be so much fun.
Yeah, we'll be at both, folks.
And we can't wait to see you, as Dre alluded to.
Without you, we're nothing.
And we love you.
And we love your support.
So please.
We love hanging out with you.
Yeah.
You know, and you know, Dre, it's one thing to make a donation.
It's another thing to put the face to the donation and meet all these incredible people that are part of our audience.
That's what I love about these Rebel News live events.
And in this case, the birthday bashes.
Me too.
All right.
So as I alluded to, U.S. Congress Republicans calling for Canada to rescind the Online Streaming Act, calling it a major threat to trade.
Do you know, Dre, I might be reading too much into this, but what we saw a week and a bit ago with the disgraceful way Sean Foyt, the Christian rocker, was treated in Canada, all six venues canceling him.
It was Sean Foyt versus the world, wasn't it?
It was government, mainstream media, Antifa, even the Islamists coming out, shutting him down, even using violence.
And you don't think that got the attention of President Donald Trump, you know, on the eve of the August 1st trade deadline?
And now we hear this chatter that this kind of crap is happening because of things like the Online Streaming Act indirectly.
Is this going to go anywhere?
Is Kearney, who's supposed to be our, you know, top gun negotiator, is he going to listen to these congressional Republicans and say, okay, if it means getting the trade talks back on the table, we'll get rid of this legislation.
Or out of wokeness, out of political correctness, out of his ideology, is he going to stick to his guns with this act?
Well, to answer your first question, Foyt did say publicly, he did claim, you know, when all of this is happening, several governments canceling a worship concert.
He did say that he was in discussions with, you know, basically the White House about it, like that they're paying attention to it.
It is so embarrassing what's happening in Canada.
You know, I see a lot of people from the United States on my comments about the climate lockdowns in Nova Scotia.
But will Kearney back down on this?
I'm going to go with no, I don't think so.
There's been a lot of pushback on this from a non-partisan pushback already in Canada, and they haven't gone back on it.
And they seem to be, when it comes to our relationship with the U.S., doing everything that they shouldn't be doing, or at least delaying how long it takes to do it.
So I don't think they're going to jump on this right away, but they definitely should.
But you know what, Drea?
I would argue if he doesn't back down on this, it's for the wrong reasons.
I think with Mark Carney, there is a hidden agenda here.
And if my critics want to call me a conspiracy theorist, so be it.
But I go back to eight days ago, just a little over eight days ago, before the August 1st tariff trade deadline.
And you saw Carney announcing, and he knew full well this would enrage U.S. President Donald Trump, that Canada would push for Palestinian recognition of a full state.
And people were saying, oh my God, what horrible timing.
Really?
You don't think Mark Carney knew what the timing was like?
I think personally, he wanted to absolutely scuttle any kind of trade deal, Dre.
And I say this because I truly believe the real entity running this country right now is Brookfield Asset Management.
And Mark Carney himself, all his assets, the line share, are U.S. based.
Why does he want Canada to succeed at the expense of the U.S.?
A strong U.S. is very good for Mark Carney and very good for Mark Carney's bank account.
And for that matter, Brookfield Asset Management's bottom line.
So I think on this basis, Carney is conning us.
I mean, what a great name, Carney.
Think of that guy in the midway screwing you out of your money with a game you can't win.
That's my theory, Drea, because I will.
One thing I will never say about Mark Carney is that he's stupid.
He's not stupid.
He's razor sharp.
He's not like Blackface.
Blackface just wants to smoke a bong and go to Vancouver, go to Tofino Beach rather, and go surfing.
Carney is a workaholic.
But here's the deal, Drea.
He ain't working for us.
No, according to my calculations, you got about three months until your conspiracy theory comes true.
But look no further to his values book, which I'm about halfway through.
And when you read that, the values do not align with the country he's prime minister for.
So it is an absolute dead giveaway.
There is no conspiracy here.
When you look at what this man believes, where he thinks we as a world should go, it's not compatible with Canada.
And it doesn't surprise me that he will benefit, unfortunately, from our demise.
Yeah, and you know, the other day I was walking through Indigo, the bookstore at Hillcrest Mall, and Heather's picks.
Heather Reisman is the CEO of Indigo.
And her bookstores have been targeted by the Hamasholes.
They throw red paint on the windows and cause other kinds of vandalism.
Oh, yeah.
And which, and what did I happen to see?
Heather's picks.
And one of Heather's picks is Mark Carney's values.
Yeah.
You know what, Heather?
This is the guy that wants to reward the terrorism that happened on October 7th, 2023.
This is the guy that has no problem with the Hamasholes making a mockery of our law in terms of the hate being spewed.
And this is one of your picks.
I mean, give your head a shake, but I don't know.
That's why I went to, I had to call different libraries to get it because I will not pay.
I will not even Facebook market that thing, man.
Yeah, you know what?
It's kind of funny.
Things I don't like, but I have to read.
I won't buy it new, Drea, but there's some fantastic used bookstores in Toronto.
I'll buy it used because I figure it's already been sold.
The author already got the royalty.
I mean, the idea that two bucks of that book is going right into Mark Cari's wallet, I can't do it.
And yet I can't shoplift either.
So it's a real dilemma, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
It is.
Andrea, I believe we have some super chats.
Am I correct?
We do.
We've got a couple here, starting with B.S. Caulfield 10 donates $5.
Thank you very much.
And says, I wonder if one of the reasons many Canadian politicians are so willing to get into the grill of their citizenry is the lack of potential deterrent implied in the states in the Second Amendment.
Well, thank you so much for that contribution.
I would refer you to an excellent book by John Lott, simply titled, and the title says all: More guns, less crime.
And using statistics, not ideology, not politics, you look at the most gun-controlled blue states in the union.
Guess what?
Gun crime is off the charts.
The flip side is true of those with the most liberal gun laws.
And when I say liberal, I mean in terms of gun ownership, conceal and carry, et cetera.
And Drea, it's simply put that if the bad guy breaking into your house kind of has in the back of his head, what if this guy has a handgun in his night table and it's loaded and he's going to ask, he's going to shoot first, ask questions later.
Maybe that's a governor on your bad behavior.
It's common sense.
I mean, we can't even, if someone breaks in here, you're pretty much, you're in trouble if you do kill them even by your hands or something like that.
It's ridiculous.
It's appalling.
So anyone out there that hasn't read More Guns, Less Crime, must read material.
Do we have some other feedback, Drea?
We do.
Carol Lyons donates $5 as well.
Thank you very much.
And asks us, will Rebel be doing a petition against the loonies, keeping Canadians out of the woods in Nova Scotia?
I'd sign that.
Very good idea.
You know, maybe we should get on it.
I think the Canadian Constitution Foundation, they do have a petition up as well.
The more the merrier.
But yeah, we should.
I've been trying to sort of keep track on sort of Facebook to find Nova Scotians because I must admit, even though I have family there, they're not outspoken politically.
You know, find some people.
So also, if you see some people that seem to be very passionate about this issue, feel free to forward their posts to me so I can speak to some Nova Scotians who are, you know, maybe unhappy and wanting to shed light on that.
You know, Adrea, maybe we have to do something more than just a petition.
Maybe we have to get out there on the ground, find out what Nova Scotians think about this.
Maybe is there any impending civil disobedience brewing out in the hinterland there?
You know, unfortunately, because Atlantic Canada is not huge, but sometimes there are very significant stories that happen in that neck of the woods.
Maybe one of these days, maybe through the journalism conference, we're going to find some reporter based out there that can cover that neck of the woods.
I'd like to see that happen.
I did see this.
I just shared it.
I don't know if we have, it's parody, but, you know, this would be something that would probably be allowed in the woods.
Oh, are you kidding?
Allowed in the woods.
The police are going to set up stations for Timbits and coffee, you know, just in case, you know, you get a little exhausted out there.
You know, speak of the double standard and the two-tier law enforcement we have in Canada.
Oh, absolutely.
Like I said, it is parody, but the burning flags would even be allowed, I'm sure, in the forest there too.
So boy.
But yeah, that's the funniest meme I've seen this month.
Well done, whoever did that.
We have another super chat.
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And again, if you're on YouTube, you can leave us a super chat or if you're on Rumble, a Rumble rant.
Lautor, hopefully I said your first name right, donates $5.
Thank you so much again.
Hey, Menzoid, are you a comic book collector?
Do you own any great books?
Well, you know what?
I'll try to make this question as brief as possible.
The biggest financial disaster of my life was actually selling my comic book collection in 1980 to buy a used 1974 Camaro.
That was for me to try to secure a date in high school.
The Camaro failed to do so.
Or maybe I had something to do with it.
Anyways, the point is, given the values of comics today, I could now buy a new Lamborghini off the lot if I held on to that collection.
But I think you've got to be very selective in the comic book world these days.
So many comics have gone woke and they're even, you know, transforming the characters.
You know, Thor is a gal now.
And it's not Lady Thor, it's Thor Thor.
I guess I missed the issue where he had transgender sex reassignment, Drea.
But I would say there are gems out there.
And unfortunately, the one that springs to mind, and we're going back to 1987, and you can get it as a graphic novel.
And I know it's one of the few graphic novels that makes the book 1,000 books you must read before you die.
And that is Watchmen by Alan Moore.
Absolutely outstanding, both the story and the art.
So that's what I got.
But I would love to see a resurgence of the comic book medium.
The problem is, Drea, is that the corporate owners of these properties now, they're just concerned about the blockbuster movies.
And I'm talking whether it's Marvel owned by Disney or DC owned by Time Warner, I guess.
And all the ancillary products, you know, the swag, the t-shirts, the video games.
And I just don't see the commitment to making good comics.
But it's been a while since I've been by my friendly neighbor, neighborhood comic store in Richmond Hill, that being Chaos Comics.
I'll drop in and see what Jimmy has to recommend.
But what about you, Drea?
Well, I must admit my eyes glazed over a little bit.
I tuned out.
It just automatically happened.
You know, I have three brothers and growing out, growing up, that's what it was like.
It was just like, I just sit there with glazed eyes in some world while they're watching or whatever.
I didn't really get into it.
I do know that Snow White was not white in the last No White movie.
So we've got issues.
Well, that indeed is what happens.
And you know what?
Maybe, Drea, maybe you have answered my eternal question by you saying I made your eyes glazed over.
Maybe if I could go back in time to 1980, it wasn't about not having a vehicle.
It was about maybe talking about things like chicks like the hair.
You know, not, hey, did you get the latest issue of Amazing Spider-Man number 129?
Oh, man.
Yikes.
That's so funny.
Oh, man.
And more than a lady menzoid.
Yes.
Cicely Bardole.
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Oh, Cicely, thanks so much.
Always supporting us.
Donates $10.
The conversations today are very awesome.
Many opinions and good dialogue.
This is democracy.
You know, I really appreciated that there was some little bit of dissenting opinions there.
I love that.
You don't get to see that on the mainstream media, which unfortunately I have to consume in order to do my job.
So that was fun too.
Well, thank you, Cecily.
And thank you so much for the $10 donation.
Greatly appreciated.
We're running out of racetrack here.
I know we flagged in the banner one topic, and we should very briefly.
Well, let me just finish this one more chat.
Sorry, no worries.
Jay Peterson, thank you very much, donates $50.
Oh, my goodness.
Wow.
Thank you so much.
Is this Jordan Peterson?
Could be.
Joking.
In the 90s, I worked for a company that had two classifications of labor: productive and non-productive.
Productive category were those that hands-on built something.
Everyone else included the president was non-productive and a leak in the payroll.
You know what?
This is a very important super chat, and I want to thank Mr. Peterson for it and the amount, $50.
That's very generous.
You know what, folks?
Whether you're a young person or whether you're the parent of a young person, you want to protect that person from being outsourced to AI.
Here's where you put them in the trades.
You know, read the book Blue Collar and Proud of It.
The electricians and the carpenters and the plumbers, Drea, I think in the near future, they're going to be, if they're not already there, your next multi-millionaire class.
They cannot be outsourced.
These are people that are skilled, that work with their hands.
They do incredible work and crucial work.
Don't send your kid into gender studies.
There's only one job for gender studies graduates.
That's to be a teacher of gender studies.
I think that might be where that super chat was going to.
What say you, Drea?
Would you have any problem with any of your kids embracing blue-collar trade work?
No, absolutely not.
And in fact, I have this like looming fear of AI.
So I'm always like on my spare time learning about it and where it's going to take us.
So I can, I don't know, not be surprised.
And trades is the way to go.
So they say trades and also sort of building yourself, I guess, maybe content creation, things like that, where people want to actually know you for the skills that you have and things like that.
Those that seems to be the two paths to go.
I think we're going to see some radical changes within the next decade or so.
Oh, 100%.
And you know what, Drea?
I used to think too, well, they can't outsource me, the lovable menzoid.
And then a few months ago, I came into the office and our vice president attended said, Hey, Dave, I hate to break it to you.
We don't need you anymore.
I went, what?
I thought he was serious.
He says, we went to an AI program and we said, here's the subject.
Write the monologue in the parlance of David Menzies.
And what was scary, Drea, is that you couldn't tell if it was me or the AI program.
But also, there was a pop culture reference, which I'm always doing.
There was a Star Trek reference.
Wow.
And worst of all, this is what made my little neck hair stand up on the back of my neck.
There was a risque comment followed by the expression, anyway.
And I went, No way.
Oh, no way.
Oh my gosh.
You know what?
We might be looking at our extinction event, you know, AI scripts and I guess CGI animation to make it look like we're actually broadcasting, Drea.
So I wish I knew how to sling a hammer.
Let me put it that way.
Oh, my gosh.
I know.
Me too.
No muscles at all.
Well, listen, before we wrap up, this is very dire news.
Canada's economy shed more than 40,000 jobs in July, partly offsetting earlier growth.
Drea, can you explain to me, again, going back to January, as a matter of fact, once the tariff talk became all the rage and Justin Trudeau stepped down and Mark Carney was new and improved.
He was Captain Canuck.
He was going to save us.
And yet here we are, eight months later, going into nine months, no trade deal, no economic prosperity.
And the statistics show it.
And Dre, I want to point out one thing when it comes to this.
If our economy is so dependent on the U.S., which it is, people go, but how can you deal with somebody like Donald Trump?
He's too unpredictable.
He's too rash, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Well, Drea, last I looked, dozens of other countries have notched a trade deal with the U.S. Where's Captain Canuck?
You're absolutely.
Yeah, it is dozens, and it's no deal.
I mean, like, part of it is the other thing that I just learned is that Trump isn't even really taking a call from Carney on this issue anymore.
Like it's gotten so bad.
And when we sort of mimicked what the EU was doing with threatening the online tax, at that point, they just said no negotiations at all.
I mean, they've come back from that a little bit, but like we are so it's like you said, this almost seems like it's done on purpose.
It's like, how do I appear like I have my elbows up, but not really?
You know what?
Great point, Drea.
They're not even talking.
Trump's not even taking calls from Mark Carney.
Again, you're giving me more flashback nightmares to high school.
Hey, Drean, it's Dave here.
Just wondering, I want to go to a movie on Friday.
Hello.
Hello.
Disconnected.
Do we have free counseling benefits?
I think we do in our employee package.
I think you need some healing from your high school trauma.
But I want to point out one very sad part in this article towards the middle about the young people.
It says the declines were largely driven by job losses among young people aged 15 to 24, a core that has struggled to find work in the current economic climate.
Their employment rate dropped to 53.6%, the lowest since November 1998.
That is so sad.
I mean, it already appears like that sort of generation maybe isn't like the hardest working.
Like that's the appearance I get.
So now you have the ones that want to get out there or need to get out there and try to find a job and they're not able to.
And I don't know about where you live, but out here, it is very clear that pretty much 90% of the people working the jobs that a teenager would usually have are foreigners.
That's how it is in our Walmarts, that it how it is in all of our fast food places.
That's how it is in a lot of our grocery stores.
So that's a big problem there, isn't it?
100%.
Andrea, I hearken back to June, the National Post.
I think it was the cover story, as a matter of fact, the death of the summer job.
It doesn't exist anymore for so many young people.
But I want to say on that point, that 15 to 24 demographic, they're getting it.
They know that liberal and NDP policies ain't floating the boat for them anymore.
And I'll tell you, after going to so many Pierre Polyav rallies, even in blue-collar cities like Windsor back in April, Drea, the number of young people out there, it was off the charts.
And Windsor, great example, even though the Conservatives did not win the election, but I'll tell you something for the first time in a long time: two out of the three seats in a city that is either a red or orange stronghold, election after election after election, two of the three seats went conservative.
And the number of young people that I saw at these rallies that know that the crap they're being fed by the liberals and the NDP, especially pertaining to what we talked about earlier, Drea, shutting down pipeline production, for example.
So hurting those jobs, hurting the steel mills and the aluminum factories to make the infrastructure for pipelines.
They realize that the NDP and the liberals with their climate change fetish, they're not friends of theirs anymore.
So the tide is turning.
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It's really, if you look at the core liberal voter, the core demographic, it is female, university educated, and typically 55 plus.
And if someone can explain why the liberals appeal to these ladies so much, there's a steak dinner in it for you, my friend.
Yeah, absolutely.
So we better end soon, but just a couple of more chats.
Thank you guys so much for the generosity.
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What was that, God?
Politicians never lie.
Oh, it just felt really interesting.
Okay.
Politicians never lie.
Okay.
Thank you so much, Olivia.
Let Lena Dayab know.
We, oh, it's going to do, we are against the Indian invasion.
Okay.
Well, we'll leave it at that.
And Carl, I'm really, Carl Rick donates $2 as well, says Thor was always a woman inside.
Now she is out.
Born that way.
Thor was born that way.
And Jay Peters donates $2 and says, great job, David Andrea.
Stay true.
Thank you very much to all three of you.
Well, thank you very much.
And by the way, regarding that comment, Indian invasion, in case you think this is some kind of, you know, far-right criticism, I'll tell you, Andrea, one of our sources in the Indian community, we don't use his real name.
We call him Ted Smith and we always digitize his face.
Here is somebody originally from India, and there's many like him that are saying, stop it.
You can't bring in the people at the number you are.
And so these aren't white born and bred Canadians.
These are immigrants from India who came here legally.
Hardworking.
Yeah.
$2 in their pocket and businesses and all.
Yes.
It's a different wave coming in now.
Yeah.
And this is an important point.
This isn't racism-driven, is what I'm saying, Drea.
Right.
No.
And whose idea was it to name our whistleblower from the Indian community Tim Smith?
It was his idea.
I know it's the most munga cake name you could possibly come up with, but yeah, we do protect our sources.
And what a shame, isn't it, Drea?
That we have to give him a fake name.
We have to digitize his image.
We have to sonically disrupt his voice because there are people in the community that would do him harm or try to cancel culture.
Welcome to Canada of 2025.
Absolutely.
All right.
Well, if that's the last chat, Drea, I want to thank our lovely audience.
A lot of you are very generous today.
Thank you so much.
Greatly appreciated.
I want to thank our guests, Wyatt Claypool and Viva Frye earlier.
I thought they were fantastic.
And thank you, Drea.
Always a pleasure.
And I will be back here on Monday, one o'clock Eastern Standard Time, I believe with Sheila the She-Devil Gun Reid.
As for the rest of the meantime, I suppose, well, thank God it's TGIF.