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Pierre Poilievre

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“Nobody knows exactly what's going to happen. I mean, it was Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist who embarrassingly predicted that the Internet would have no more impact on our lives than the fax machine. And he's a Nobel Prize economist, I think, from Princeton or Yale or something. So nobody's no stradomus on these things. But we have to have guiding principles. And mine are the rules around technology should always be geared towards giving people more agency, more meaning, and more control over their lives, and not less.”
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“More affordable, make our dollars go further, which hasn't happened in generations. Enjoy that benefit rather than having it inflated away.”
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“Giving them a sense of lost meaning and purpose. And so do I think it's great that every minimum wage worker might have a personal assistant and a chauffeur vehicle? I do, because that would make more of their life they could spend on the things that thrill them and make them happy and less of their life would be spent on the drudgery of having to drive in a traffic jam or sweep their floor. At the same time, we have to make sure that people have the ability to work and contribute and give themselves a sense of meaning in their lives. So the other thing I would say is that as these technologies bring down costs, those savings should be passed on to people. They should not be inflated away. The government should not use this as an opportunity to just print more cash to reflate the cost of living. We should actually seek as our goal to lower the cost of living.”
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“I have principles that I would apply as these technologies present themselves. And the principle for me is, how do we make sure that the AI Enables and empowers people to make more decisions for themselves and have more freedom and to pursue their own meaning Rather than replacing and rendering them”
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“While at the same time supplying with us with a lot of our material needs, it could be very positive. If it simply strips away our own utility and leaves lots of people without the ability to work at all, then it could be very, very dangerous to our lives. So I think that the public policy objective is to ensure that it becomes an enabler of humanity, not a replacement for it.”
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“I believe the basic human need is meaning to have. A purpose in life and often the question we have to ask is how can we guide This revolution in technology so that it empowers people to do things that continue to give them meaning. I think it was John Adams who said something to the effect of My father studied. Warfare so that I would have the security to study commerce. I study commerce so that my children will have the prosperity to study arts. If these new systems give us the ability to focus on the things that we love doing, that give us meaning in our lives, and that could be a different thing for each person.”
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“Can I ask you a question? So Throughout history, we've had these scares where new technological developments. Have threatened to replace and in reality have replaced certain human labor. So you had like the during the Industrial Revolution, machines were replacing muscular power, and then you had the Luddites who came and tried to smash those machines to protect their jobs. In the end, they just got different jobs with higher pay because they could do more with these machines and they didn't have to walk behind a mule's ass pushing a plow in the hot sun all day. They had a tractor that would pull the plow and so on and so forth. And then in the dot-com era, we were told again that people are going to lose their jobs to computers. In fact, they were made more productive by computers. Do you think this time is fundamentally different than those prior technological revolutions?”
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“Well, unless they can find more efficient ways to run their systems, more competition in the system will allow the worker to gain more and the consumer to pay less and the entrepreneur in the middle has to find ways to save and operate more efficiently. That's the magic of the market, is that everybody has a vested interest in driving the most value for the lowest cost.”
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“Yes, absolutely. I mean, we have a hundred thousand unemployed construction workers. They could be building the homes that we need built. We have young people coming out of high school without a job. We have a 30-year highs in unemployment among youth. They should be getting those jobs. And, you know, Starbucks says, well, they don't want to take them. Well, maybe you're not paying enough. If you're not paying the right wage, then you're not going to get the right worker, but pay an equivalent wage and you'll attract a worker who will do the job.”
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“We have unemployment. We have people without jobs. But they just, some multinationals don't want to pay full wages. So they think, well, I just undercut the wage by bringing someone in from a very poor country who's willing to work for a lot less and who has fewer rights because they can't leave the job to go to another employer. So it's kind of like Easy Street. And so my view is that when you've got unemployed people and you're trying to fill your workplace, pay higher wages, give people a better return on their work.”
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“Yes, I think, frankly, I think that a lot of multinational corporations have abused the immigration system in order to drive down wages. In Canada, for example, the government massively expanded the international student and temporary foreign worker programs, and that allowed corporations to pay artificially low wages to people who do not have the same mobility rights and opportunities, and that drove down wages, displaced people from their jobs, and ultimately ballooned housing costs. And so my position is that we need to cap numbers and ensure that the economy, healthcare, and housing grows faster than the population at all times.”
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“Well, first of all, I think we have to ask ourselves why has the birth rate gone down? And I would argue that it's economic reasons. If you cannot afford a home, then you have no place to raise children. You know, we have this phenomenon in Canada of 35-year-olds still living in their parents' basements. And how do you even get a date? I mean, how do you bring a date home? It's a challenge if you're 35. And these are great high-achieving people who've got jobs, but they just can't afford a place to live. Or they're stuck in a small apartment because that's all their paycheck will buy them in the way of rent. And so I think for those economic constraints, we have a lot of young people who otherwise would love to have children in their late 20s, early 30s who simply have nowhere to raise them.”
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“Well, the leadership has to have humility because it has to let go of power and turn it back to the people. And that is a very hard thing for politics. I think we'd be better off if more of them did. But I should also say that there is a role for government. I'm not suggesting that there isn't. There should be a basic social safety net that provides the things that people who are less advantaged would not be able to have for themselves to make sure that everyone has health care even if they can't afford to pay for it, that there's basic schooling and roads and infrastructure. But what happens is that once you get beyond providing those basics and government starts to metastasize into all kinds of other things that are not its core responsibility, each dollar spent has less and less return. And then it turns into a negative return where the more they spend, the more damage they do. And I think we're beyond that point on the curve.”
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“Spectacular achievement. I mean, Lee Kwan Liu, who founded the country and created this miracle, should be studied by every leader in the world because I don't think there's anyone who's been able to generate such a massive increase in the quality of life and to do it with literally no resources whatsoever except for geography. And they managed to exploit their geography, as you said, to be kind of like modern-day Nabataeans. They're a trading hub for all of Asia.”
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“Struggling to survive in their homelands, and they came together and created the wealthiest country in the world outside of the Gulf States. Why? They have free enterprise, they have low taxes. It's easy to start a business. You're rewarded for your hard work. This is the kind of thing we could be doing.”
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“Look, there are some policies that we can learn from. It's not just the United States, though. Look at Switzerland, for example. The Swiss are among the wealthiest in the world. They have the best money, the lowest inflation. They have almost no inflation in Switzerland, by the way. They have very strong money. The Swiss franc is the best currency in the world, better than the euro or the American dollar. What do they have? Free enterprise. Small government. The share of the economy consumed by government spending is significantly lower than anywhere else in the Western world outside of Asia. And so they do very well. How is it that the Singaporeans have become one of the wealthiest nations on earth? They have no resources, literally nothing. They have to import their water for God's sakes. They took a swampy mosquito-infested island and three peoples who were”
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“Those people are all rich, and it pays for it by taking from the working class. So my mission in politics is to reverse that entire approach, have a small government with big people, a meritocracy that rewards work, and a free enterprise system that requires businesses compete for workers with higher wages and consumers with lower prices.”
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“Well, I think that it's probably true in the UK and the European Union as well. Well, let's take Germany. They shut down their nuclear sector and they tried to effectively drive oil and gas out of their country. The end result was extremely high energy costs. And this was another intervention that took from working class people and gave to the very rich, those who were able to get the subsidies for windmills and solar panels got fabulously wealthy, all very powerful people. But the workers in the plants and the mines of rural Germany ended up losing their jobs and paying higher prices for electricity, all of which, by the way, has been reversed because now the Germans are back to burning coal. So it did absolutely nothing for the environment. This is another example of government intervention totally screwing over the working class, a phenomenon across the Western world. And this is the big lie. The big lie is that when government gets big, it gives people their fair share. What it does, in fact, is it gives the money and the resources to those who have the most political power.”
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“Because we are not unlocking our resources, our biggest industry is oil and gas, and it's locked behind very aggressive anti-development laws and bureaucracies because we're blocking home building and because we're overtaxing our population, we're punishing initiative with high taxes. The good news is that we can reverse all of these things. If we have the most pro-development and the fastest permits in the world, if we cut taxes on work, investment, home building, and energy, then we can massively increase our output of the things that we need to have a good life and the wages that people earn to buy it.”
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“Your income, really. It's ultimately the GDP, the gross domestic product is the value of all the things that you produce. If you're producing more per person over time, people will see their wages rise, their real wages rise. If you don't produce more per person, then your wages are flat. That is what we've effectively had in Canada over the last 10 years.”
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“That's right. And the result is that we're creating cash faster than we grow food, build homes, or produce energy. And my mission, Stephen, is to flip that. I want us to create more of what cash buys by unblocking food production, energy production, and home building so that we add those things faster than we add the cash to the system”
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“Right, and that's why all govern. It's not just Canada, by the way, it's across the Western world. They're creating cash to fund deficits.”
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“To 2.8 trillion in 10 years. So it is not actually that these things cost more. It's that the money with which we buy them is worth less. We're creating so much of it.”
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“That's right And part of it is food. We have the worst food price inflation in the G7 today. It's due to a lot of hidden taxes that are baked into food production. We have an industrial carbon tax that charges on farm equipment, fertilizer, and food producers. We have a new fuel tax that's just come in, single-use plastic is now banned, which makes it so that food goes bad about five days quicker. So it sounds kind of very virtuous. We're not going to use plastic anymore, but it ultimately means food goes bad and somebody pays for that. So I want to get rid of all of those taxes and fees and unnecessary regulations that do nothing for our health and safety so that we can have more affordable food. But more broadly, we have to get rid of the monetary inflation that I described. As I said, we've doubled our money supply in Canada.”
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“That it bids up the price. Now, you might say, well, if everybody's equally getting their share of that money, then who cares? But they're not. There's something called the Catalan effect, which is that the first people to touch the money in a monetary expansion are those who are already wealthy and already connected to the financial system. So when government creates cash to find its deficits, it doesn't just dump the bills out of an airplane into a suburban neighborhood. It injects it into the banking system by buying government bonds at inflated prices. And those who trade in those bonds are the first to get the cash. Those connected to the financial system are the first to borrow it. They get to deploy it before it loses its value. By the time it trickles down to the working class people, it's lost its value and their wages have been destroyed. And this has been happening on and off throughout all of human history, but it's been particularly bad in the last 55 years.”
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“Like with all the technology, housing should be so much cheaper than it was before. In fact, everything should be so much cheaper, but this is another area where government is redistributing wealth from the working class to the super rich. It's the monetary inflation where we're creating cash at a far faster rate than we're creating the stuff that cash buys. We've in Canada increased the number of homes over the last 10 years by 13%, but we've increased the money supply by a hundred percent. In other words, there is now the growth in the money supply is eight times faster than the growth in the growth in the housing supply.”
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“There isn't one Zero. There is no benefit to having slow permits. They do not Protect the environment. They do not protect public safety. We used to build houses a lot faster and they didn't fall down. After the Second World War, permits were almost instantaneous. We had a massive buildup of homes so that our returning veterans could have a place to live. In many neighborhoods of Canada, those homes are still standing. They have not collapsed. There's no, I'm not saying we get rid of building coats. They should all have to follow standards of environmental responsibility and be fire resistant and safe, but it shouldn't take seven years to approve a subdivision to do that. We know how the developers know how to build according to the rules. They just need quick permits and freed up land to do it.”
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“That's right. And we're building about 240,000 per year. So we need to roughly double our home building to do that. The good news is we have $100,000, well, it's not good news. We have 100,000 unemployed construction workers who'd be happy to pick up a hammer and start building. We have hundreds of billions of dollars of investment that's ready to do it. We have an abundance of land. What we need are fast permits and low taxes so that we can unlock that building.”
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“Because of the bureaucracy has grown like any organism in nature which seeks to survive and multiply. They give us the second slowest building permits of any country in the OECD. They charge enormous development taxes, which started out just to pay for plumbing and roads for the related housing, but now have grown into just a huge cash cow for local governments because sales taxes still apply on most new homes. And all of that gets congunged up by government and means that we have extremely expensive housing. In fact, we are the most expensive in the G7, even though we should be dirt cheap to own a home in Canada because we have the most dirt to build on. And my goal is to remove all of that bureaucracy, have the fastest permits in the world and make it tax-free to build homes. That everyone can afford one.”
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“So Canada is a great example of this because we have ten times as much land per person as the second closest G seven country. And yet we have the fewest homes per capita to live in. And why is that? It's because that the vast majority of the cost that goes into building a new home Is not land, labor, or lumber, its government, its government taxes, fees, charges, bureaucracy, lobbyists, consultants. So if you think of this home here, This home here in Canada, when you buy this house more of the money for your purchase would go to bureaucrats in office buildings than to the carpenter's electricians and plumbers who actually build the home.”
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“Absolutely. And there are countless examples of it. When they block home building with heavy regulations, they limit the supply of homes. Those who have mansions therefore are whit richer because their houses are worth more, but young people, newcomers, working class people can't actually get a home. That is one example of state intervention. Well, we could do maybe do an illustration here.”
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“What we have now is socialism for the very rich. We have governments that are actively redistributing wealth from the working class to the very, very wealthy. And that is why we see record inequality. Government is actively intervening in the economy to forcefully redistribute wealth up the chain.”
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“So, my ideology is that we should disperse power, that it should be a bottom-up system with as much freedom and agency as humanly possible, that people should be free to choose for themselves, and that the purpose of the government is to do only those things people cannot do for themselves.”
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“I have found that Those who push a socialist ideology have a gross contradiction in their view of human nature. They say that human beings are wretched, self-interested, greedy when they're in the private voluntary economy, but they're angels when they're in the governmental economy. And therefore they argue that the government should just control everything because then we have all these angels that will decide for us, decide what we get to how our money is spent, what we're supposed to believe in the modernist day, what kind of vehicles we drive, what we should think. But that is a huge contradiction. If man is not capable of deciding for himself, surely he's not capable of deciding for others. And I think the worst vices in human nature come out when there is too much power concentrated in their hands. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
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“Called sentiments because you feel these things. I saw this in my own son. For the first time, he got a little toy and he gave it to his sister. It was the first gift he'd ever given in his life. And he was so happy, like he literally ran in a big circle around the foyer of our residence and just laughing and screaming. It just made him so happy, happier than she was to even receive it. And this is the best of human nature, that his interest, his happiness was served by seeing his sister better off. And this is really laid out in some detail in the theory of moral sentiments. And it for me, it's like, it like brings together all of human nature in one place. Now, he's not naive. He does accept that there are bad dark angels in our nature, but he gives the only plausible explanation that I have seen about how you intersect self-interest with altruism.”
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“That's what they took from the statement in the Wealth of Nations, that it is not from the benevolence of the brewer, the baker, or the butcher that we get our meal, but from his own self interest. But that was only half the story. The other half was in this book called The Theory of Moral Sentiments, in which he explains how self interest overlaps with virtue. So what he said is that We have something called fellow feeling, which is to say we feel for the other person. And we feel good when someone else does good. It's why we explain that people donate to charity or they leave the door open for a stranger or they might help an injured person on the street because they feel bad when they see someone else, their fellow suffering, and they feel good when they see him succeeding. And that's why.”
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“Sudden, what do you know? The workers arrive. And this system is absolutely ingenious. Like it's why when you go into a coffee shop and you buy your coffee, you say thank you. They don't say you're welcome. They say thank you because they have something worth more to them than they had before, the money, and you have something worth more to you than you had before. And this voluntary exchange puts everyone on an equal scale, even if you're a massive corporation, you want to sell something to a 15-year-old kid, you have to convince him it's worth more than the cost. So everybody has to be better off in the exchange for it to occur. And that was how free enterprise formed. And it has led to a spectacular increase in the quality of living and the economic growth 200-fold increase in economic growth in the free enterprise era versus the feudal era. So a lot of people thought Adam Smith is only interested in a system where people are outserving themselves, their self-interest.”
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“Where a small group of lords and knights and aristocrats control all the land and the great masses do all the work. And so you called them serfs. They would do all the heavy labor, and then the lords of the manor would take all of the benefit. Along came this system of free enterprise that Adam Smith describes, which is basically, it has a very simple premise, voluntary exchange, of work for wages, product for payment, and investment for interest, and that the economy, rather than being guided by the iron fist of the king or the state, is guided by the invisible hand of the free market. And this had been thought that this was crazy. How could the economy just sort of run itself? And the answer is through price signals, if the price of something goes up, people just automatically start making more of it. And if you need more workers to make that thing, well, you raise the wages.”
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“Yes. So this really, this book has to be accompanied by its more famous sister book, which is The Wealth of Nations, which that's the book that most people know Adam Smith for. They think of him as kind of the father of capitalism, because in 1776 he wrote this book which described what we now call the free market system. And this was a really revolutionary idea because up until then, we basically had various forms of feudalism.”
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“I would have been kind of in my mid-teens. Well, I got into football, hurt my back in football, so I couldn't stay on the team. My mother had always gone to these sort of local conservative meetings, sometimes just bringing baked goods or attending a volunteer meeting. And I said, well, why don't you bring me to one of those? Because I'm bored out of my skull. And she did. This gives me meaning. This gives me purpose. I want to go and pursue this. So I started getting more and more involved. I got an internship making almost no money and dressing up in a U suit and really threw myself fully into this mission.”
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“Feisty little lady, very short and She taught me a lot about being pugnacious and fighting for what you want and what you need in life. And we argued a lot when I was a kid. And I think that maybe forged some of my current political argumentation as well. My wife is a big part of it as well. She's a very strong, feisty, intelligent lady with an incredible upbringing as well. She's a refugee from Venezuela and came with really nothing. And so she has this sort of MacGyver-like skill set to get anything done, no matter how difficult the logistics. So I've been very, very blessed with strong women around me.”
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“And as I got to my adolescence, I said to my dad, did it ever bother you when you started dating her that she had this injury? And he said, no, because it didn't bother her. She was totally at peace and she never hid it. It wasn't long after we met that I forgot it was even there. And the message that I took from that is be yourself, don't try to hide the scars. Scars are the trophies of survival. So those are some of the lessons that my mother and father taught me. And my dad was the same about who he was. He just lived his life unapologetically and openly, and he never apologized for who he was. And that has stayed with me.”
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“I think that if everything just been white picket fences and totally predictable, then I wouldn't be the kind of person I am today. I think it's also, you know, it's like you, would you have been as successful as you are if you had had a very easy childhood? I doubt it. I bet all the hardships that you had and the twists and turns that took you from Botswana to the United Kingdom and then onward probably gave you some superpower. And so this, I think it gave me the chance to understand that you don't judge people. You love them for who they are. My parents also taught me an important lesson that Shakespeare says to thine own self be true. My mother had, when she was a small baby, she was in a car accident and her fingers were burned off and she had horrible scars, horrible burns on her hand at the time.”
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“He had been raised in a very devotedly French Catholic household, and that's why we have a French name. And before he got married, he'd even consider going into the priesthood, and he was, so he was a very devoutly Catholic person. He genuinely loved my mother, but obviously he wasn't programmed that way. He has a wonderful partner and we're friends with very close with him and his partner, Ross, right now.”
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“We were, my dad told me, and he wanted to tell me alone, so we got into the car. He said he wanted to take me for a drive, and we drove to the local corner store, and we parked in the car and he told me that there. But it is very traumatizing. But at the same time, like they were very, very good parents. I don't judge them for how they ended up apart. We were very blessed. They gave me a great start in life, even though they weren't together. They loved us very much and they gave us all they could.”
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“Yes, yeah, he works at a concrete plant in British Columbia. And so I went and met him. He's a great father with children that he subsequently had and raised. And so he's a very good man as well. And my adoptive father is a teacher, and he gave me a lot of wonderful lessons and I think is responsible for my way with words”
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“I'm trying to remember we went on a bit of a road trip from Ottawa to Montreal and we just got to know each other. She had a lot of questions about how my life had been. And I had a lot of questions about our biological family, about her father, who was a really great man. I would go on to meet a great Irishman. the circumstances that led to my conception and birth. And I really came to understand her decision to put me up for adoption. And I've never been resentful for it at all. She was 16. She just lost her mother to a heart attack. She didn't have a lot of means and she just made a selfless decision that we would have more opportunity if we were raised by someone else.”
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“twenty one twenty two My adopted mother was very gracious because I said I won't meet my biological mother without the permission of my adopted mother. She did all the work of raising me, all the hardships, all of my, she put up with all of my rambunctiousness and teenagers and drove me to hockey practice and emptied her bank account to pay for our food and stuff. So I did not want her to feel like she was going to be left behind or forgotten about or replaced. And I asked her, you know, would you be okay if I met her? And she said, yes, of course, because I won't always be here and I always want you to have a mother. And I thought that was a really incredible thing to do because it's so big part, it's such a big part of a mother's identity is that they are the mother of that child. But to have a love that's so much deeper than that personal identity or in”
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“To do, and believing that they were generally taken advantage of by government, never listened to and definitely and kept on the outside of decision making. And my mission has been to bring back what I call the promise of Canada, that anyone can achieve anything. It doesn't matter if you start off as an adopted kid raised by school teachers or an immigrant from Botswana who grows up really poor if you work at it, you should be able to buy a house, launch a business, become a famous global podcaster, or maybe cure a disease. And that was what Canada was all about. And that is what I'm trying to reinstate.”
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“And we walked past them, and then they said, that's him right there. And that was when I met my brother. We picked him up. That's why I thought that's where babies came from. There was a store. You know, we go to a store and get your groceries. There's a store where you can go and get a baby. That's what I thought, because that was my first experience with it. And we brought him home. And we grew up in working class neighborhoods. When I was about three, four-ish, we lost everything. We got smashed by high interest rates. My mother had saved up enough to buy too little rental properties. We lost those and our home and had to borrow from our grandfather to get a down payment so we'd have a place to live. My dad was driving this oldsmobile that was falling apart and our neighbors were working class folks. They were just electricians, oil workers, police officers. So those are the people I grew up with. And I always grew up admiring those people, admiring what they were able.”
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